Dab At Your Eyes - Hillary Cries Again

Poor Hillary - "it's tough being a woman out there." (Dab at eyes)

Clinton: Playing Field for Her as Candidate Not Even Because of Her Gender

February 28, 2008 8:44
by Jake Tapper
ABC News' Senior National Correspondent

In an interview with ABC News' Cynthia McFadden to air on this evening's "Nightline," Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., says it's tougher for her to run as a woman than it is for her male opponent.
Asked why she thinks so many women may be feeling sorry for her, Clinton said, "I think a lot of women project their own feelings and their lives onto me, and they see how hard this is. It's hard. It's hard being a woman out there. It is obviously challenging with some of the things that are said that are not even personal to me so much as they are about women.

"And I think women just sort of shake their head," Clinton continued. "My friends do. They say, 'Oh, my gosh, this is so hard.' Well, it's supposed to be hard. I'm running for the hardest job in the world. No one has ever done this. No woman has ever won a presidential primary before I won New Hampshire. This is hard. And I don't expect any sympathy, I don't expect any kind of, you know, allowances or special privileges, because I knew what I was getting myself into.

"Every so often I just wish that it were a little more of an even playing field," she said, "but, you know, I play on whatever field is out there."

Of course, it might be observed that it likely hasn't exactly been a complete walk in the park for an African-American to run for president, either.

But apparently Clinton thinks -- based on this comment -- that the "playing field" is easier for a black man than a white woman.

I also wonder if former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C. -- and all the other men vanquished by Clinton (and Obama) so handily -- think that they had an easy go of it.

What do you think?

- jpt
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What do I think? How about what I know. Grandma used to say that if you can't stand the heat, then get out of the kitchen. Perhaps Hillary should reacquaint herself with her kitchen, and whip up a humble pie, and some thick-skin a la mode.

She clearly can't take the heat without using the female drama card. Can you imagine Condi Rice crying after a tough meeting with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? "Boo hoo. He won't denounce terrorism... boo hoo. It's so hard being a woman in a terrorist's world. Boo hoo."

It's not hard being a woman out there, it's lonely. Hillary does not speak for women, and she doesn't represent the American woman. We have more grit than Hillary will ever know. While she plotted and strategized, connived and schemed for most of her adult life, the rest of us women worked hard everyday at our jobs, our families, at our marriages and friendships. Hillary Clinton's only reference point on groups of women is from her days at Wellesley... a sad commentary and pathetic example. And because she doesn't have a husband she can cry to in the privacy of their home, she uses the cameras.

What Hillary needs is a public redressing by another woman - one who does not parade with the feminists, one who has been in healthy relationships with men, whose femininity is intact, and is strong enough NOT to cry in public. When adult women cry out of frustration, it is a manipulation.

Hillary is an embarassment to the millions of women who work everyday without crying. What she's really upset about is that her coronation looks like it's in jeopardy, and she thought it was in the bag. She's just like a murderer crying on the stand for the jury - they think he's crying with remorse and for the victim, but what he's really crying about is the life sentence facing him. She's crying because her life sentence is back in New york with Bill.

The Ugly Face of Code Pink

Have you ever seen a good-looking Code Pink member? Alone, each Code Pink member can make even Rosie O'Donnell look handsome. Together as a group, the bitchiness, the shrill voices all talking at one time, the shrews cackling at passers by... but the faces of Code Pink can melt the chrome off a '59 Cadillac.


Look who’s calling for the Marines now on Michelle Malkin's blog - the head shrew Medea Benjamin. The Code Pinko's are a deranged bunch of women. Maybe it's true that when you get a bunch of women together for any length of time, they all PMS simultaneously. Oh, but wait. I think these women are all in menopause...

Start with this: Some College Republicans from San Francisco State filmed this video of one of the city-of-Berzerkeley-approved protests at the USMC recruiting center.

Then, watch a brief video of a Code Pink meeting with The Washington Times: breitbart.tv ...

Here is a listing of many of Michelle Malkin's Code Pink posts:

Talking back to Code Pink


Howard Dean’s true colors


Code Pink is Code Blue…


A challenge to Code Pink


Dems gave Code Pink disrupters tickets


Code Pink on the “other side”


Code Pink slips through?


A closer look at Code Pink


and of course, a follow up to the diabolical and anti-America Berkeley protests:


The Berkeley after-action report


and I could not leave this out: Berkeley Code Pink Protests Bring Vietnam Vet to Tears

These women are hysterical shrews with Jello for brains, and obviously have nothing better to do with their time. They support everything that's Anti-American. Speak out against them every chance you get. Let's silence the shrews.

What the #@!! Is Going On at Regional Transit?

The den of thieves that we call Regional Transit in Sacramento, is working a pretty big cover up these days - internal criminal behavior as well as internal irresponsible and criminal spending that rivals the DMV and Congress.

There are problems other than who is running the show and taking big contract payouts.

Light rails guards are at war with RT management. Over what? I have word from an insider that one female guard has been repeatedly harassed and stalked by a convicted felon. But her management won't do a thing about it. In fact, they have told her to keep her mouth shut, and instructed her NOT to go to the police.

This convicted felon apparently has a well-connected mother who has been accused of buying her son's freedom - everyone from the parole officer to the Judge is suspect in this case. Meanwhile, the female guard works in fear.

And it seems that this particular female light rail guard is beloved by the high school students who frequent her station. When she is not there, all hell breaks loose, the kids riot, fight, gang behavior, etc... but when she is there, they all get along... for her.

And now that they know she is being harassed, apparently some of these kids are reportedly looking for the convicted felon...

But this is all in addition to the rumor that the Federal Government will be taking over Regional Transit... and that the line to Natomas and the airport is just a bunch of hyperbole for the press.

And the "new" RT director, 30 year RT employee Mike Wiley, is only in the position so the Board doesn't get slammed again for bringing in another big-name, high-priced director, who leaves before the contract is over and still collects. Wiley will be the sacrificial lamb.

From my source: "I understand the security office has their Corporate personnel in town. So far, they have found:

A) Numerous sexual harassment's allegations against a supv have NOT been filed properly nor in accordance with the laws;

B) That same supervisor was allowed to stay on site and keep his job, even though, the security management knew that this person sold narcotics to minors on site, had/engaged in sexual activities on site and assisted in the Park/Ride thefts that had been previously reported;

C) said supv is supposedly on 30 days leave;

D) Manager Jacob was found to NOT be in his office, nor working for up too 8 hours a day, however he still received his paycheck FOR 8 hour days;

E) Pay raises for officers working on RT did NOT receive them, instead that money found it's way into the Whackenhut office and was paid to Office personnel and Managers....they have since been informed to REPAY that/those monies back to the Corporation;

F) RT is near the point of having Drivers and/or Mechanics go on Strike, which would cripple RT;

G) Police are swarming onto the 4th Light Rail site, in response to the parent of the ' stalker ' trying to apprehend the teenagers who've assaulted him.......however, they are NOT getting the people they are looking for;

H) Teenagers are now becoming more hostile towards RT and afraid of Police overreactions, and are taking it upon themselves to protect ' their officer, since the Cops and Law won't ';

I) ALL problems dealing with the Lt Rail system, are NOT to be reported via Radio communications, as RT has those calls instantly logged, and they ARE reviewed by the Federal Authorities....RT is engaged in suppressing problems by NOT reporting issues on radios;

J) RT wants NO problems to exist on the 4th Light Rail station, and since this guard has worked there, they have NO newspapers reporting the problems that previously existed, and therefore, they want this officer to stand her post....however they DO NOT want media involved in any way or wanting them to KNOW the problems that still exists;

K) RT does NOT want to involve itself with passengers who are NOT on platforms/RT property, if they walk off the site and are struck by cars?? That's NOT an RT problem...see previous comments about Blind people nearly being struck by vehicles."

Well, well, well. It looks like the Regional Transit Board is shirking their responsibility again. Because if I am hearing this, they know about all of it.

And the Board of Directors is made up of the same old names and faces: Roger Dickinson, Steve Cohn, Roberta MacGlashan, Bonnie Pannel, Ray Trethaway, Don Notolli... all city council members or county supervisors. here's the link to the Board: http://www.sacrt.com/rtboard.stm ...the same old incompetent do nothings, found on every other board in Sacramento.

who else could approve a budget of $45, 595,248 million in revenue and $147,659,037 million in operating expenses for a negative of ($106,063,789) million
Labor and Fringe benefits are $90,542,717 ! They must rely on "grant revenues" ($150 million)to make ends meet.
- here's the link: http://www.sacrt.com/documents/financialdocs/Budget2007-08.pdf page 44 is the actual budget

here's the link to the Executive managers at RT: http://www.sacrt.com/biopage.stm
Send your thoughts to Mike Wiley. Tell him why you won't let your wife or kids ride the train or bus.

This is making me crazy. must go back to work....

Too Pretty To Fly

Oh my GOD - like we were soooo discriminated against cause we're sooooo pretty...
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from the airlinebiz blog: It all started on Valentine's Day when two Florida teenagers were escorted off a Tampa-Los Angeles flight and met by authorities. That's about all that the teens and the airline can agree on.

The two 18-year-old girls, Nisreen Swedberg and Sarah Williams, have suggested they were too pretty and that the Southwest flight attendants didn't like them. They said they had been banned for life from Southwest flights.

""I think they were just discriminating against us because we were young, decent-looking girls. I mean, nobody else really on the plane looked like us except us," Ms. Williams told a Tampa TV station.

Mindful of the Kyla Ebbert debacle of last summer, Southwest struck back Tuesday with a written statement and a YouTube.com video statement denying that the two young ladies were targeted for anything but bad behavior.

Southwest spokeswoman Brandy King says in the YouTube video that the airline couldn't ban someone for life "even if we wanted to." The claim that the airline kicked them off for being too pretty is "simply not true," Ms. King said.

"We would be out of business if we banned pretty people from flying Southwest Airlines," Ms. King said.

The two girls "were using vulgar language, aggressive behavior and threatening gestures at 30,000 feet," she alleged.

Pretty is fine. "Just leave your bad behavior at home," Ms. King concluded.

In the Tampa Channel 10 story, Ms. Swedberg complained that she had asked for a bottle of water when she boarded and was told she'd be served after the other passengers, and then was passed over when flight attendants served beverages.

She acknowledged that Ms. Williams and another passenger exchanged profanities in an argument over a restroom, but that Ms. Swedberg and Ms. Williams were the only passengers targeted.

When the flight arrived in Los Angeles, four uniformed police officers boarded the plane and escorted the two girls off, Ms. Swedberg said, and held them for nearly two hours before releasing them.

"I don't know what happened on this flight. I didn't do anything wrong, and I feel like I was just discriminated against based upon my looks." Ms. Swedburg told the TV station.
Here's Southwest's written statement:

Southwest Airlines Responds to Customers' Unruly Behavior
Customers Questioned Due to Behavior, not Appearance, and Not Banned for Life
DALLAS, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Southwest Airlines would like to set the record straight regarding a situation involving two female Customers, Ms. Sarah Williams and Ms. Nisreen Swedberg, on Flight #3600 from Tampa Bay to Los Angeles on February 14, 2008. During this flight, the Flight Crew and several witnesses confirm that Ms. Williams and Ms. Swedberg's unruly behavior was touched off by an occupied lavatory. After banging on the door, Ms. Williams and Ms. Swedberg became verbally abusive and threatening toward the Customer who had been using the lavatory.
When Our Flight Crew addressed the situation with Ms. Williams and Ms. Swedberg, the two Customers continued their threatening behavior and abusive language. At this time, the Flight Crew requested that local police meet the flight upon its arrival in Los Angeles. The police questioned several witnesses, as well as Ms. Williams and Ms. Swedberg, who were later released. Contrary to reports, we did not ban these Customers from flying Southwest Airlines.
Our Employees must maintain a Safe and comfortable environment onboard the aircraft at all times. Despite some news reports, this story has nothing to do with Ms. Swedberg and Ms. Williams' appearance, but rather, their use of what other Passengers tell us was profanity and threatening behavior onboard one of our flights. Finally, we would have gone out of business a long time ago if we discriminated against beautiful women -- or anyone else for that matter. We carry almost 100 million Customers a year, and they are all beautiful in our eyes.

Like, they haved the video here... http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/02/too-pretty-to-fly-southwest-sa.html

No, these girls aren't self-absorbed - are they?

I've been reluctant to acknowledge this stunt, but now that it has reached epidemic proportions, and Barack Obama uses the same scripted words and phrases everytime... well, it's pretty obvious how staged these stunts are. Spare me. The fainting women are always in the front row and Obama always saves the day by asking for a medic, and tossing a bottle of water into the audience for the poor girl.
This kind of stupid campaign trickery is offensive and condescending. I'd be critical of any candidate who pulled this.

(freerepublic)
Is Barack Obama Orchestrating Fake Fainting Spells At Campaign Stops? (yes)KXMC ^ 2/15/08 staff
Posted on 02/16/2008 7:34:49 AM PST by pissant
It certainly seems like that could be the case. At five different campaign stops on five different dates someone near the stage at an Obama rally faints, and Obama notices each time and reacts in basically the same way. Here’s some audio/video proof:
Feb. 24th, 2007-Sen. Obama in Los Angeles, CA:
(Excerpt) Read more at kxmc.com ...

More Clintongate

The The Capitalist Conservative Republican Homepage brings us this comprehensive list of Clinton scandals:

The Scandals:
Whitewater
Cattlegate
Nannygate
Helicoptergate
Travelgate
Gennifer Flowersgate
Filegate
Vince Fostergate
I wonder where those Whitewater billing records came fromgate
Paula Jonesgate
Federal Building campaign phone callgate
Lincoln bedroomgate
White House coffeegate
Donations from convicted drug and weapons dealersgate
Buddhist Templegate
Web Hubbell hush moneygate
Lippogate
Chinese commiegate - Clinton was practically endorsed by red China Update!
Let's blame Kenneth Starrgate
Zippergate/interngate - the Lewinsky affair itself
Perjury and jobs for Lewinskygate - the aftermath
Willeygate
Web Hubbell prison phone callgate
Selling Military Technology to the Chinese Commiesgate
Coverup for our Russian Comrades as Wellgate
Wag-the-Dog-gate
Jaunita Broaddrick gate
PBS-gate
Email-gate
Vandalgate
Lootergate
Pardongate

Bonus: Humorgate: some mishaps and mysteries around the Clintons. This is just humor in a serious scandal page.
Haircutgate
Hillary talks with Eleanor Rooseveltgate
Burgergate
Joycelyn Elders Is this Administration Shameless?
The Bill Clinton Tiananmen Peace Tour Vacation
The Lewinsky Speech

Clintons' Scandalgate

This is probably the best summary of the Clinton's scandalous reign.


Whitewater: Years of Legal Trouble
By PETE YOST
Feb 24, 11:17 AM (ET)By PETE YOST

WASHINGTON (AP) - Whitewater. The word symbolizes years of legal troubles for Hillary Rodham Clinton during her husband's presidency. The scandal stoked a $52 million criminal investigation and offered moments of extraordinary spectacle, including the unprecedented grand jury appearance by a first lady.
"It's not a first that I'm particularly pleased about," she acknowledged at the time.
Today, Clinton factors the lessons of Whitewater into her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. "For 15 years, I have been the object of the Republican attack machine," she says. "And I'm still here."
What became the Whitewater saga grew out of a long-ago Arkansas land deal in which the Clintons said they lost money.
Rising political stars often find themselves standing at the intersection of business opportunities and friendship. Bill and Hillary Clinton were no exceptions.
When Bill Clinton was running for Arkansas governor in the late 1970s, they became partners with businessman Jim McDougal and his wife, Susan, in a planned vacation home development on the White River in the Ozarks.
The Clintons' Whitewater investment never would have created a stir if not for reports of fraud at the McDougals' savings and loan and a New York Times article about the Clintons and the McDougals during the 1992 presidential campaign.
That and the legal work Hillary Clinton did for the McDougals' financial institution were enough to send federal regulators scurrying to Little Rock, Ark.
Investigators began taking another look at the warehoused records of the McDougals' old S&L. Questions lingered:
_Had the McDougals taken money from their savings and loan to pay down the bank loans on Whitewater?
_In doing so, had they lightened the financial load on their partners, the Clintons?
A Hollywood producer would be hard-pressed to find a more colorful cast of characters than those mixing it up with the Clintons in the Whitewater deal.
Jim McDougal, in failing health and living in a trailer after regulators took away his S&L, remained the bombastic personality he had been in the days when he had money to burn. All he needed was an audience.
There always was one - the press, prosecutors, political pundits - during Whitewater. Not to mention Republicans feasting on the Clintons' legal problems.
Whitewater investigators are "going to hang" the Clintons, McDougal proclaimed from prison in 1997.
Prosecutors never nailed the Clintons, but they tried, from late 1993 to 2000. First the Justice Department. Then a specially appointed outside prosecutor. Then court-appointed Independent Counsel Ken Starr.
An assortment of controversies were tacked on, one by one, to the initial probe by Starr, a prominent Washington lawyer and a conservative. His conservative credentials were seized on by Clinton loyalists who decried Starr's inquiry as politically motivated.
Hillary Clinton's role in firing employees in the White House travel office also came under scrutiny. So did the gathering by some low-level White House aides of FBI background files on prominent Republicans.
Bill Clinton's alleged perjury and obstruction regarding his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky was added to the list. The Clinton-Lewinsky sex scandal captured the nation's attention for a year and led to his impeachment. The Senate acquitted him.
In the end, Jim McDougal died in prison. His ex-wife, imprisoned after refusing to testify against the Clintons, was pardoned by President Clinton on his last day in office in 2001.
The years of investigations left the Clintons with legal bills running into the millions.
Two years before the Lewinksy affair, prosecutors and a Republican-controlled Congress focused on the suicide of deputy White House counsel Vince Foster, a longtime law firm partner of Hillary Clinton.
Documents pertaining to Whitewater had been moved out of Foster's office by White House aides after his death. Were the records of Hillary Clinton's work for the McDougals' failing savings and loan among them? And where were the records now?
Her legal work for the S&L seemed minimal. But prosecutors could not be sure because they never could seem to find her time sheets documenting what services she had provided to McDougal.
The missing billing records became the Rosetta Stone of Whitewater. Congress wanted them, as did Starr's office.
Then one day in early January 1996, out popped the records from the White House family residence. The pile of computer printouts detailed her work for the McDougals' failing S&L in the mid-1980s. A Clinton staffer said she had found the printouts stashed in a box in a storage room.
Prosecutors were furious. They had issued a subpoena for the billing records 18 months earlier. The prosecutors summoned Hillary Clinton, making her the only first lady to appear before a federal grand jury.
The billing records did not present a pretty picture regarding Hillary Clinton. They showed that she drafted a real estate document regulators later said had misled bank examiners. Prosecutors concluded that McDougal and others had used her legal work to conceal unlawful activity.
Had she obstructed the investigation by hiding the billing records? Had the records been removed from Foster's office after his suicide? Neither prosecutors nor Congress were able to answer the questions.
She said she did not know where the billing records had been and that she could not recall the work she had done for the S&L 10 years earlier.
Prosecutors concluded they did not have enough to prove that she was a knowing participant in the criminal conduct by McDougal or others.
Starr's probe left a legacy of anger among congressional Democrats who saw Whitewater as an example of an out-of-control criminal investigation. Republicans, too, had endured a prolonged independent counsel investigation - Lawrence Walsh's probe into the Iran-Contra scandal. Congress put its foot down, declaring there would be no more independent counsels. So lawmakers allowed the law that authorized court-appointed prosecutors to lapse.
By the end of 2006, their legal bills paid off, the former president and his presidency-seeking wife had assets of at least $10 million and possibly as much as $50 million with no liabilities.
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On the Web:
Independent counsel's report: http://icreport.access.gpo.gov/final/

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How'd they pull that off? hmmmm

Calif Republicans in Sanctuary City

Why is the California Republican party in San Francisco for the convention?

They should have boycotted that city - the Sanctuary City, and instead held the convention is a small, conservative California city... but I guess they are showing their true colors, again. A convention could have been a financial boon for a smaller valley city. Instead they gave the revenue to a biggest hypocrisy in California.

Great idea Ron Nehring.... who? Yeah, he's the head of the California Republican Party. 

Conservatives Acting Like Liberals

Voting is a privilege.

I have been highly criticized by fellow Conservatives and Republicans when I say it's time to go for the win in an election. I've been called everything from RINO to turncoat, as well as some very unlady-like names. And this from Conservatives who say they will not vote because their candidate did not win the primary. 

When Arnold Schwarzenegger ran for Governor after the recall election of Gray Davis, I was a big advocate - primarily because he was the only Republican candidate who could win. I am a big Tom McClintock fan, but there was no way he had enough steam to win.

My point then, as it still is, is that after the primary is over, once in the general election, we must vote for the BEST available candidate in the race. And that usually means compromise.

Fellow conservative are acting like liberals when they say they will not vote in the upcoming Presidential election. If I can't have my candidate and my way, I won't vote. This is the behavior of a 4-year old, or a liberal.

We have a responsibility to vote, living in a democracy. 

Voting is a privilege and don't ever forget it.

You must vote, even if you have to hold your nose. Just think about the Iraqi citizens who so proudly held up their purple fingers after voting in a Democratic election for the first time. They know it's a privilege.

Conservatives, you have a responsibility, as do all Americans, to vote. And if you don't like the choices, the day after the election, get to work on a better candidate for 2012.

Conservatives Acting Like Liberals

Voting is a privilege.

I have been highly criticized by fellow Conservatives and Republicans when I say it's time to go for the win in an election. I've been called everything from RINO to turncoat, as well as some very unlady-like names. And this from Conservatives who say they will not vote because their candidate did not win the primary. 

When Arnold Schwarzenegger ran for Governor after the recall election of Gray Davis, I was a big advocate - primarily because he was the only Republican candidate who could win. I am a big Tom McClintock fan, but there was no way he had enough steam to win.

My point then, as it still is, is that after the primary is over, once in the general election, we must vote for the BEST available candidate in the race. And that usually means compromise.

Fellow conservative are acting like liberals when they say they will not vote in the upcoming Presidential election. If I can't have my candidate and my way, I won't vote. This is the behavior of a 4-year old, or a liberal.

We have a responsibility to vote living in a democracy. 

Voting is a privilege and don't ever forget it.

You must vote, even if you have to hold your nose. Just think about the Iraqi citizens who so proudly held up their purple fingers after voting in a Democratic election for the first time. They know it's a privilege.

Conservatives, you have a responsibility, as do all Americans, to vote. And if you don't like the choices, the day after the election, get to work on a better candidate for 2012.

Stand By Your Man

Cindy McCain is demonstrating that she is a woman of substance... as if anyone doubted this (Daily Kos...).

From townhall.com: Cindy McCain did not hesitate as she stepped toward the microphone, taking her place in the history of political wives who stood by their men in the face of rumored or alleged marital infidelity.
"Well, obviously, I'm disappointed," she said, her voice low but clear and self-assured. "More importantly, my children and I not only trust my husband, but know that he would never do anything to not only disappoint our family, but disappoint the people of America. He's a man of great character." Cindy McCain, Like Others, Stands by Man

A New Low For the New York Times

The New York Times sinks to a new low... still trying to throw Presidential elections. Didn't they learn anything in 2004? perhaps they will need to lay off another 100 employees after this fiasco.

Talk show host and columnist Mike Gallagher had this to say about the New york Times' latest slimy stunt: I have two sources, both of whom wish to remain anonymous, that report to me that New York Times Editor Bill Keller was spotted in a dumpster last weekend in the Hamptons snorting crack cocaine and smothering a pair of cocker spaniel puppies with a pair of sweat socks.
So now I’m reporting it to you. (Mike Gallagher: The New York Slimes)

read the whole ugly story here: NY Times reports on McCain link with lobbyist Politics Reuters
and then:
McCain turns tables on NYT...
and:
White House slams TIMES...
as if this will make the mess go away...
Paper Buries McCain Denial to Front Page Accusation in Back of Paper...

I am almost embarassed to be a columnist for a newspaper... almost. No one I work with would ever sink so low.

Be above it is a strong motto to live by. And if in doubt, take the high road.

Daily Kos Hate-Speech - The "Tolerance" Crowd

A friendly sparring blogger shared this post with me today from the Daily Kos. Beware: It is hate-filled, cruel, liberal attack garbage.

Skinny, Rich, Blond, White Chick

by Granny Doc
Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 12:57:20 PM PST

Cindy McCain has just responded to Michelle Obama's comment that, "for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country", by saying, "I'm always proud of my country".
Yeah, right.
A Caucasian woman, given every opportunity to make choices freely, without any constraints on her decisions based on centuries of racism, thinks everything is just hunky-dory.
The media is, of course, playing this like just another cat fight, oohing and ahhing that Cindy never injects herself into politics.
Granny Doc's diary :: ::
Is the McCain campaign totally tone deaf? Do they want to completely destroy any outreach to people of color - people that still don't quite fit the Republican model of worthy, and good Americans? WTF?
I'm with Michelle, on this one.
The Democratic Party, and the voters of America, have made me prouder of America than I have ever been, in my adult life.
We have an African American candidate. We have a woman candidate. We have thrown over the centuries of domination by rich white men, and kicked the can WAAAAY down the road.
You carry on, Cindy Lou...
Go on and make it completely clear that you don't have a clue. Just like the Flocks of Heathers everywhere, go on pretending that the charmed existence you lead is representative of the real world. That it's those "other people", who don't think your priviledged, cosseted isolation from gender and racial bias, represents reality, truth, and the American way. And when they point out the progress this election cycle is pushing into the consciousness of every man, woman, and child in this country, you act offended that they are stating the truth.
Brilliant women like Michelle and Hillary just don't appreciate what a nice little sinecure you have, and dare to challenge the assumption that there are no cracks in the world that surrounds you.
Republican Women Strike Again. Doesn't anyone else see how very WRONG this argument is?
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And for some of the comments from Daily Kos readers:

John McCain is the Republican dream candidate- he has it all:
cheating wife
scandal in the past- Keating Five
RWCM calls him a "maverick"
pretends to be against torture, but of course he doesn't vote against torture- he already did that once, evidently there is a limit to how many times he can vote against torture!
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I spent several year in the beer business (0 / 0)
and Cindy McCain is what we would have call the "golden sperm", titular head of the company because it was founded by daddy. It is very common at beer distributors across the country. Not calling names, just providing commentary...
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Is it just me (1+ / 0-)
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Dem in the heart of Texas
Or does Cindy McCain look very similar to Katherine Harris? The wrinkly angry eyes look - I have 2000 deja vu!
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McCain was married to someone else when Ms. Cindy Lou Who started a relationship with him. The tramp stamp fits...
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McCain's a tramp (0+ / 0-)
One of hundreds of Republican stepford wives that live in their own little bubbles of "perfect living" according to "traditional values."
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dating McCain when he was married (1+ / 0-)
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Granny Doc
Just one more in the long line of Republican tramps, check out the Gingrichs, Doles, etc. Not a faithful bone in their bodies, but of course IOKIYAR.
And why does MAD MAX McCain get a free pass on his "Keating Five" bank fraud?
McCain is slime, so it is no surprise that he married a silver spoon richie-rich.
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finally some sense:
What about John Kerry's wife? Isn't she a richie-rich? But it's different because she's a Democrat, right?
Because our richie-riches are all pure and saintly and their richie-riches are all privileged snobs?
Because our richie-riches do charity work because they truly care for the less privileged and their richie-riches just do it for show?
Give me a break. Wallow in the sewers all you like, but don't expect me to join you.
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see it for yourself: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/19/153532/129/891/459820

I am disgusted at the "tolerance" crowd.

Short-Run "Stimulus" Will Be Long-Run Problem

The latest economic stimulus package is nothing more than political rhetoric that will ultimately coswt taxpayers a great deal of money for a long time. And buyer beware anytime both sides of congress support an issue - it's usually an empty package wrapped to look as if they are giving the taxpayers a present. Bipartisan support means trouble.

John Stossel wrote in Stimulating Nonsense "The federal government is in the red. Bush's new budget has a $400 billion deficit. There's no lockbox with $100 billion in it. So to give everyone a tax rebate, the government will have to borrow more money. But that only moves the cash from one part of the economy to another. As Roberts says, "It's like taking a bucket of water from the deep end of a pool and dumping it into the shallow end."
Unless the government cuts spending, which the theory says would neutralize the stimulus, the only other way to get the money will be to raise taxes or to have the Fed create money -- inflation -- which would raise the price of everything."

Thomas Sowell wrote A "Stimulus Package"? "Those on the left love to believe that the stock market crash of 1929 showed the failure of the free market and that the New Deal interventions in the 1930s saved the day.
But the stock market crash of 1987 was just as big and Ronald Reagan resisted loud calls for him to intervene. The result was not another Great Depression but the beginning of a decades-long period of prosperity.
Before Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt came along, there was no expectation that the federal government would intervene when the stock market crashed or when there was a downturn in the economy." Take the time to read the entire column A "Stimulus Package"? I always learn something from Sowell.

He also has a quick economics lesson, listing some of the fallacies examined in various chapters of his book "Economic Facts and Fallacies" include the following:

1. Government programs are needed to create "affordable housing." (Actually, government intervention is what has made housing so unaffordable in places where even hovels are expensive.)

2. Employer discrimination is the main reason for differences in income between women and men. (Tons of evidence point in other directions.)

3. College tuition is going up so fast because of rising costs. (Only if you call voluntary increases in spending "rising costs.")

4. Foreign aid helps poor countries become more prosperous. (Only if you don't look at the evidence.)

5. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. (It all depends on whether you are talking about flesh and blood human beings or statistical brackets.)

"Economic Facts and Fallacies" is not just a demolition derby. It also brings out some facts that seldom get much attention in the media.

1. The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits since 1994.

2. The average income of the elderly is several times their earnings, and their wealth is far higher than among younger people.

3. Just as blacks are turned down for mortgage loans more often than whites, so whites are turned down more often than Asian Americans. (What does that do to racism as an all-purpose explanation?)
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Pay for it now and let the market correct itself. It's too bad that so many greedily bought into houses they could ill afford, and then used them as a checking account for their bad habbits. These people will whine and cry about only wanting the American Dream, but it was nothing of the sort - it was greed. The government has no business bailing these folks out of trouble. They should be turning their attention toward the Mortgage companies and the regulations that went ignored for a couple of years.

But it's an election year and politicians need votes right now. Doing the right thing is the last thing they care about.

Kamikaze Republicans

“Kamikaze Republicans—those who say they’ll never vote for John McCain because he isn’t conservative enough—may get what they deserve. The Clintons... It isn’t necessary to love everything McCain has done to vote for him should he be the nominee. But it isn’t possible to argue that there’s no difference between McCain and Clinton (or Barack Obama), as some Republicans insist.” —Kathleen Parker

I'm no McCain fan. But a protest vote is only a vote for Hillary or Obama.

Stand on your conservative principals? Don't waiver? If you think McCain is a liberal, you haven't seen anything yet with Hillary or Obama.

Grow up Conservatives. We have a job to do and work isn't always fun, or something we agree with.

Vote for McCain, and as soon as he's inaugurated, start campaigning for Romey for 2012. that's the way it works.

But if Kamikaze Republicans stay home, you have only yourselves to blame when Hillary or Obama decimates the military, liberal judges infiltrate more federal courts as well as the Supreme Court, government welfare is doubled, national healthcare is created, and the moral decay of the country becomes more evident.

Remember Schwarzenegger vs. Bustamante? We had the same problem then. But Bustamante in the state capitol would have made him the Governor of Mexifornia. Schwarzenegger is no conservative, not by a longshot, but he's still better than having Bustamante or Angelides as Governor.

Did I already say grow up? You're acting like the liberals who are used to taking their ball and going home when the game gets tough or distasteful.

Free Speech Rights Smacked Down

Take a look at this:

Read his story, watch the video clips and send your comments. I want to know what you think about this.

Ezra Levant, former publisher of Canada's Western Standard.

NO on Nunez & Perata!

from No on Prop 93:

Latest Information on Proposition 93: By the Numbers The latest numbers from the Secretary of State's office show a decisive 7.2% win for No on Proposition 93. This margin is expected to increase further as the remaining votes cast on Election Day are tabulated. With 98.5% of the vote counted as of 2:30pm today,

No on Prop. 93 had a victory margin of over 476,000 votes.

What's more, No on Prop. 93 carried 51 out of 58 California counties including Alameda and Los Angeles - the homes, respectively, of Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata and Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez.

The only counties that voted in favor of Proposition 93 were the tiny counties of Lassen, Alpine and Mono along with San Francisco and the smaller counties of Imperial, Santa Cruz and Monterey.

The strong victory for the No on Proposition 93 campaign is all the more remarkable given that proponents outspent opponents by a two-and-a-half to one margin or almost $10 million.

No on 93 spent approximately $7.2 million while Yes on 93 raised and spent almost $17 million between its two main committees.

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Bye bye Fabian.

Nunez to Collect Unemployment Insurance?

I admit I am doing a bit of daydreaming... wondering what Fabian Nunez will do when he's lost his bid for the bogus Proposition 93 and is forced to leave the state capitol.

hmmmmm.

Will he stand in line at the EDD waiting to fill out his unemployment insurance forms with the other unemployable soles?

What will the "reason for separation" be listed as on the EDD application form? Termed out of office is not the usual and customary response the EDD is used to dealing with. Maybe he could he say "layed off" so his employer won't fight the claim...

Will his claim be investigated?

The weekly maximum allowable will not pay for his lunches or fine wine.

Fabian should polish up the old resume and brush up on his computer skills.

Chances are, we won't see Fabian for a while, and then he'll pop up as a very highly compensated union thug/lobbyist somewhere, haunting the hallowed halls of the state capitol. Or he could always do volunteer work for MEChA and La Raza.

Will he keep his Sacramento house or rent it to another legislator for an exhorbanant price?

hmmmm. All of these things to think about when losing your annointed place in office...

No more walking into fancy restaurant and screaming , "Do you know who I am," to the new manager.

But probably more than Fabian Nunez losing his job, his staff will be impacted. Like rats jumping off a sinking ship, they have their deals cut for the next gig. I would love to hear their phone conversations and see their text messages.

Such is politics. But it couldn't happen to a nicer guy.