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Alaska Independence Party and McCain-Palin

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Jul 022009

CBS News has an interesting back story today.

Exclusive: Spat Over Todd Palin’s Membership In Secessionist Party Was Major Distraction On Critical Day In ’08 Campaign

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The episode in question began when an investigative report published on the left-leaning Web site Salon.com raised questions about Palin’s relationship with members of the Alaska Independence Party (AIP) when she was mayor of Wasilla. The AIP’s platform calls for a vote giving Alaskans the option to secede from the United States. It had already been widely known that Todd Palin was a registered member of the AIP from 1995 to 2002 and that Governor Palin had taped a recorded greeting at the party’s 2008 convention.

Palin wanted the campaign to issue a statement fudging her husband’s party membership. The incident shows the type of soft dishonesty she routinely engages in. Steve Schmidt let her have it pretty good, though.

“That’s not part of their platform and he was only a ‘member’ bc independent alaskans too often check that ‘Alaska Independent’ box on voter registrations thinking it just means non partisan,” Palin wrote. “He caught his error when changing our address and checked the right box. I still want it fixed.”

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“When your political enemies are making fools of themselves, why stop them?”

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Jul 022009

John Hawkins at Town Hall tried to make some basic sense to Birthers (don’t miss the comments to see how he did).

Of course, if Barack Obama was born in Hawaii as he says, you might have some very basic questions. For example, why hasn’t he bent over backwards to dispel the notion that he may have been born elsewhere? Well, why would he at this point? He has a significant number of conservatives wasting enormous amounts of time on a side issue that can never bear any fruit and, as an added bonus, it makes them look somewhat unhinged to many Americans. When your political enemies are making fools of themselves, why stop them?

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Quite frankly, this evidence is as definitive as it gets. Obama has a legitimate birth certificate on file, he released a copy of it to the public, and there is a news clipping that confirms he was born in Hawaii in 1961.

The latest tactic of the Birthers is to demand that the Supreme Court rule on this issue, but I would suggest to you that if the evidence that has already been made publicly available on this issue hasn’t changed someone’s mind, then having the Supreme Court rule that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii wouldn’t do it either.

So true, conspiracy theorists always move on to some other point that keeps the conspiracy theory going.
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Michele Bachmann—Illogical?

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Jul 022009

They’re only finding out now?

Three House Republicans on the subcommittee overseeing the 2010 Census are asking Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) to reverse her decision to boycott the national population count, fearing others will follow her lead.

“Boycotting the constitutionally mandated Census is illogical, illegal and not in the best interest of our country,” Reps. Patrick McHenry (N.C.), Lynn Westmoreland (Ga.) and John Mica (Fla.), members of the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census and National Achieves, said in a statement Wednesday.

Conservatives and right wing media outside the mainstream on Iran

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Jul 022009

From Joe Gandelman at The Moderate Voice

A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll provides yet another example of how the talk radio political culture is outside the country’s emerging political center: it basically finds strong support for the Obama administration’s non-intervention stand in the Iranian election as well as President Barack Obama’s comments that have been soundly blasted by conservatives and on radio and cable talk radio:

A new national poll suggests that that nearly three out of four Americans don’t want the U.S. directly intervene in the election crisis in Iran even though most Americans are upset by how the Iranian government has dealt with protests over controversial election results.

More than eight in ten questioned in the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, released Monday, think the election results released by the Iranian government were a fraud, with just one in ten believing the results were accurate. But only three in ten respondents say they are personally outraged by the results, with another 55 percent upset by not outraged.

Most Americans approve of how President Obama’s handled the situation. And 74 percent think the U.S. government should not directly intervene in the post-election crisis, with one out of four feeling that Washington should openly support the demonstrators who are protesting the election results.

This underscores a fact of the modern media, if you including within that definition the old mainstream media (newspapers, traditional broadcast, news magazines) and new media (cable and talk radio, blogs, etc.): anger and outrage are at a premium and it gets readerships and viewership.

I learned something today about my favorite wingnut ever: Michele Bachmann

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Jul 012009

Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, who have five children and have opened their home to 23 foster children, live in Stillwater, Minn., and own a mental health care practice.

Now, that is truly horrifying.

Sometimes I think the worst thing about Michele Bachmann is that she makes Sarah Palin, my second favorite wingnut of all time, look good.

The McCain 2008 Campaign Battle of the Staffers over the honor of La Palin continues.

The problem with the McCain-McCain feud is that it lacks a good Birther who is a self-described “tough Sicilian” and “Internet Powerhouse.” You know, just to liven things up.
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“My fax Sucessful 14 page fax to judge”

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Jul 012009

This little blog was originally intended to highlight ridiculousness exhibited by both right and left in the course of the Obama presidency. As it is turning out, though, once you turn your eye on the Birther movement, it becomes almost impossible to look away.

The other day World Nut Daily told its readers:

A judge hearing one of the cases challenging Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president has taken the unusual step of describing the dispute as a serious constitutional issue and further has begun adding letters of comment from the public to the court record.

Word of the action by U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel Schneider in Camden, N.J., comes from attorney Mario Apuzzo, who is handling the Kerchner vs. Obama case.

Other right wing sites carried on the letter-writing campaign to influence the judge in the Kerchner case.

Here is a sample on Plains Radio Network.
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Scary Black Man Alert

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Jun 302009

Why do they always come out in summer?

As the summer begins, White House watchers have spotted a new look by President Obama: The Evil Eye!

Staffers have joked about the menacing glance, which comes when the president meets with world leaders who are not aligned with his progressive view.

White House photographers have captured the “evil eye” in recent weeks, during sessions with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Colombia’s Alvaro Uribev.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi got hit with the commander’s malocchio last week in the Oval office.

And at least one White House reporter has been on the receiving end of the daggers during a press conference.

Developing…

Vo doe de o vo doe doe de o doe

Sarah Palin in 2012!

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Jun 302009

Please, please, pick her for your presidential nominee in 2012, Goopers. What an election season it would be!

Slipperiness

At one point, trying out a debating point that she believed showed she could empathize with uninsured Americans, Palin told McCain aides that she and Todd in the early years of their marriage had been unable to afford health insurance of any kind, and had gone without it until he got his union card and went to work for British Petroleum on the North Slope of Alaska. Checking with Todd Palin himself revealed that, no, they had had catastrophic coverage all along. She insisted that catastrophic insurance didn’t really count and need not be revealed. This sort of slipperiness—about both what the truth was and whether the truth even mattered—persisted on questions great and small.

Huh?

In a June interview with Sean Hannity, she sounded like a New Dealer when she proudly proclaimed that “a share of our oil-resource revenue goes back to the people who own the resources—imagine that.” In the next breath, sounding like a “starve the beast” conservative, she said she hoped the price of oil, the principal variable of state revenue, would not rise too much. “The fewer dollars that the state of Alaska government has, the fewer dollars we spend, and that’s good for our families and the private sector.”

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