I'm done with her

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I'm done with her
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Wed, 10-08-2008 - 2:01pm

Well, I am not defending Sarah Palin anymore.  I have tried to be neutral.  I have suggested that if she did a good job the next 4 years in Alaska, that she might be a great Republican candidate.  But after her attacks this week, I am done.  When I hear interviews with people leaving her rallies saying they are "afraid" of Barack Obama, saying they were on the fence before, but now they are "terrified" if Obama elected.  More and more people are calling him a terrorist.  We've seen these changes on this board this week.

She's either an idiot, or she is content to lead with fear and further fracture our country.  If she believes that for a second that Obama has a terrorist agenda, she's a dummy.  I don't think she believes it, however.  I think she is just throwing out the insinuations, letting people connect the dots, and come to the most vicious of conclusions.   I've heard her lastest battle cry referred to as "red meat" speeches, where she is throwing raw meat to the savage dogs to work them into a frenzy, throwing chum in the water to stir up the sharks. 

I can take this kinda crap from Hannity or Rush or Savage or any of the others.  But she is trying to be the VP - NOTHING about her this week has been either Presidential or remotely classy.   Will she use this same language about world leaders?  Will she say the same about our Secretary of State when they meet with "unfriendly" leaders?  Did Colin Powell or Condy Rice "pal around with terrorists"?  They have certainly met with some of the most controversial leaders in the world. 

I won't defend her any more.  I will not, as a Republican woman myself, support her if chooses to run on '12.  I will leave her to the dogs and let them attack.  I am ready for REAL change, and this type of race baiting, this type of insulting, unpatriotic dialogue about a STANDING US SENATOR, is beyond insulting.  I'm disappointed in her, in myself for supporting her, and this morning, as I listened to part of her speech, I actually threw up in my mouth a little.  Her words, her tone, and the response she created was disgusting.  I am done with her.




Edited 10/9/2008 4:00 am ET by lj_jacieb

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Registered: 10-26-2003
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 10:36am

In 2001, Ayers published a book -Fugitive Days: A Memoir. He gave an interview to The New York Times when it was published and was quoted as saying "I don't regret setting bombs" and "I feel we didn't do enough", and, when asked if he would "do it all again" as saying "I don't want to discount the possibility."

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

as it has been discussed her AT LENGTH, the media can edit and spin information. Ayers did not deny the quotes, but did write a Letter to the Editor of the New York Time (9/15/01) denouncing the "angle" of the report.

http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/clarifying-the-facts-a-letter-to-the-new-york-times-9-15-2001/

"I never said I had any love for explosives, and anyone who knows me found that headline sensationalistic nonsense. I said I had a thousand regrets, but no regrets for opposing the war with every ounce of my strength. I told her that in light of the indiscriminate murder of millions of Vietnamese, we showed remarkable restraint, and that while we tried to sound a piercing alarm in those years, in fact we didn’t do enough to stop the war.

I wrote about Vietnamese lives as a personal American responsibility, then, and the hypocrisy of claiming an American innocence as we constructed and stoked an intricate and hideous chamber of death in Asia. Clearly I wrote and spoke about the export of violence and the government’s love affair with bombs. Just as clearly Dinitia Smith was interested in her journalistic angle and not the truth. This is not a question of being misunderstood or “taken out of context,�� but of deliberate distortion."

when you say he is unrepentant, you ignore his own words in favor of Dinitia Smith's words. you should read his own words to determine his feelings about the actions of the 1960's.

http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/episodic-notoriety-fact-and-fantasy/
http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/im-sorry-i-think/
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/in-a-not-remote.html

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Registered: 09-09-2008
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 10:48am

"no regrets for opposing the war with every ounce of my strength. I told her that in light of the indiscriminate murder of millions of Vietnamese, we showed remarkable restraint, and that while we tried to sound a piercing alarm in those years, in fact we didn’t do enough to stop the war."

I guess that's him saying he's sorry, he should never have set bombs. He's a terrorist. People died, lives were ruined, property was damaged but he showed remarkable restraint. Ah, that's sweet, now I want to be his friend too. NOT!

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Thu, 10-09-2008 - 10:50am

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Thu, 10-09-2008 - 11:15am

"I think it is foolish to think that a person's associates have no influence on his him."


Which is exactly why I think McCain's loyal freindship with Keating is much more disturbing than Obama's casual aquaintence of Ayers.

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Registered: 09-11-2007
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 11:29am

Oh Yes.....someone asked for proof that McCain suports domestic terorists...or is friends with them. I am not sure about he friends part...but he supported legislation that would protect abortion clinic bombers and pro-life terrorists. ( please note..not al pro-lifers are terrorists)



– Voting against making anti-choice violence a federal crime. As the Jed Report notes, McCain voted in 1993 and 1994 against making “bombings, arson and blockades at abortion clinics, and shootings and threats of violence against doctors and nurses who perform abortions” federal crimes.


– Opposing Colorado’s “Bubble Law.” McCain said he opposed Colorado’s “Bubble Law,” which prohibited abortion protesters from getting within 8 feet of women entering clinics . The law was later upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.


Voting to allow those fined for violence at clinics to avoid penalties by declaring bankruptcy. NARAL Pro-Chioce America notes that McCain “voted to allow perpetrators of violence or harassment at reproductive-health clinics to avoid paying the fines assessed against them for their illegal acts by declaring bankruptcy.”


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/06/mccain-abotion-bombers/


This voting record only goes back to 1995....unfortunatly


http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=53270&type=category&category=2&go.x=14&go.y=16

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Registered: 10-09-2008
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 11:37am

You've already judge and convicted Obama so why pretend to be objective?

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Registered: 10-09-2008
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 11:43am
I am a lot different then I as 30 years ago. To say that Ayers still believes a certain way is just silly. I find it equally offensive that Obama's integrity is being questioned because he sat on a board with Ayers. When I was little my grandma always said, "When you have nothing positive to add to a
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Registered: 05-06-2007
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 11:48am

Hi Kristen, I just wanted to try and answer your question about whether or not Obama and Ayers were actually "friends". Here's some information from PolitiFact that addresses their relationship. Btw, they're rating (on the "truth-o-meter")

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Registered: 10-02-2008
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 11:50am

"When I hear interviews with people leaving her rallies saying they are "afraid" of Barack Obama, saying they were on the fence before, but now they are "terrified" if Obama elected.

KAREN

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Registered: 10-09-2008
Thu, 10-09-2008 - 11:56am
It sounds to me like you already have your mind made up. You don't plan to vote for him and appear to have your mind made up so what does it matter to you??

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