Palin Options

[Robert]

Just wanted to point out I called Palin as VP over 4 months ago, for all the same reasons the decision was made now.
If McCain wins, I honestly believe this will be what puts him over the top.

Also you couldn't ask for better timing to make this announcement.
The DNC convention ended last night with a huge bang an there's not a single leading news story about it.
The news is 100% about Palin as VP.
Talk about stealing someones thunder.

I hope they win an McCain dies the next day.

[Hellfighter]

I bear good tidings for you Robert....

Actually I am not sure if you've seen this; a slanderous anti-Palin piece of journalism by Canuck ranter/writer for CBC Heather Mallick
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/20...d=commentisfree
Its making some stir. Mallick has cut off comments to the piece and at her website - She is no doubt getting what he deserves -Disassociation by her fellow professional journalists would be better.
Hypocritically Canada has anti-hate laws to which Mallick comes very close to approaching.
It's a Palin bash but like many Canadians I find it divisive and repulsive in its racial/prejudice overtones and elitist snootyness....
It also sickens me that many Canadians liken this to freedom of speech satire rather than a ranty piece of crap. Normally it'd be easy to overlook, but its done by someone working for the CBC -using taxpayers money- its like a CNN reporter bringing up similar garbage.
In forum discussions sprouting up over it, these same Canadiana aldo babble idiocy about Canada having more freedom of speech in the press rather than most journalists in the USA -and Canada- use their power/freedom responsibly and write in such fashion.

So Robert [and other chums here perhaps] added to my own commentary denouncing the writing is cheap, lying+ prejudiced in various forum debates on the piece, I hope you'll show up in this particular forum to lay some smackdown on some anti-US pompous, fellow-Canadians.... ps. Canada's CBC are all snooty eggheads that have no visible minority representation in their staff at all and on the airwaves - so I find it funny they+ their supporters take the high road about others being prejudiced.

Go crazy chum;
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/09/05/...#socialcomments


This post has been edited by Hellfighter: 09/21/08 7:46am

[HammaTime]

It seems to be an amateurish hit piece that isn't even worth consideration. My guess was that the real intention behind the piece was clearly to give the writer some publicity.

Don't get me wrong, I think there is a lot to be critical of Palin, but this kind of slam isn't worth the time it took you to link to it. I tried scanning the comments, looking for the HF sig, but there were so many replies, it amounted to searching for the elusive needle in the haystack.

[HammaTime]

Where have the fiscal conservatives gone? When I was young, we had a movement of like-minded folks who felt the key to sound fiscal policy was a conservative approach. Who couldn't support that? All of us certainly want leaders who guard our financial well being with the same vigilance that the military employs as they guard our shores.

As I look back over the past 8 years of this presidency, I'm stunned to count up all the financial disasters that have befallen our nation. No matter where you stand on the Iraq war, there is no denying that it has been a fiscal disaster for the United States on the highest order. It seems that at every turn, folks have been caught with their hands in the till, whether it was people like Chalabi, or our very own contractors, there were hundreds of documented cases where our hard-earned money was stolen from us. War profiteering suddenly seemed to be just one more line item in the budget, something we were forced to write-off.

I had family and friends who lived through the California Electricity Crisis, I watched in amazement as the very first electricity producers to face bankruptcy just happened to be all green power companies. It seemed as if someone was gaming the system and forcing alternative energy companies to go belly up. We now know that that someone was Enron, and their target wasn't just the alternative energy producers. Their true target was all of our wallets.

We all groan about $4 gas and $5 diesel, but have any of you heard a reasonable explanation as to why we are faced with these outrageous prices? Again, when I was a younger man, the mantra we heard about diesel costing less was because it required less refining. Today, diesel still takes less refining, but mysteriously it costs much more than gas. Why?? We are told that gas prices are a result of the free market system, that demand has been driving prices up. Yet, Hurricane Ike plows through the Texas refineries and takes major refineries off-line, demand spikes and somehow prices mysteriously GO DOWN. Why? Last summer, as demand allegedly soared, it was reported that U.S. refineries were experiencing an historical high level of idle time. They weren't working anywhere near capacity!

I'm starting to think that those of us who consider ourselves fiscal conservatives are simply chumps who are being played by the system.

I received a link to an article titled "Three Times is Enemy Action." Normally, I wouldn't share a link from the DailyKos, but I found this article to be an excellent summation of our current fiscal crisis. I post it here in the hopes that we can open up an indepth discussion over the major points of the article.

Robert, you rightly noted in a previous post that the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act was passed by a majority in Congress. To me, this illustrates the very problem that faces us all. We have a government that is no longer a government of the people, by the people, for the people. Instead, we have allowed leaders who claim to honor the fiscal conservative banner to work the back rooms of our governmental and fiscal institutions to line their own pockets. Whether it is Enron, Halliburton, Exxon or the banking industry, the equation seems to be the same, extract as much money from Americans as possible.

This article has left me feeling that we need substantive change in our country. I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

This post has been edited by HammaTime: 09/21/08 11:05am