SARAH PALIN IS A MARKETING STRATEGY. SHE IS LIKE THE MOOD RING AND THE PET ROCK OF THE 1970'S. IT'S SOMETHING YOU CAN'T WAIT TO GET THEN TWO DAYS AFTER YOU GET IT, YOU WISH YOU HADN'T SPENT YOUR MONEY.

IT'S WHAT IS KNOWN IN MARKETING AS A FAD. SOMETHING WITH A SHORT SHELF LIFE BUT IF MARKETED CORRECTLY CAN BE PROFITABLE IN THE SHORT RUN. THE PROBLEM FOR THE DEMOCTRATIC PARTY IS, IT A SHORT RUN TIL THE ELCTION. THIS COULD BE A WINNER FOR THE REPUBLICANS.

HERE'S WHAT I THINK THE OBAMA CAMPAIGHN SHOULD DO.
LIKE EVERY GOOD POLITICAL STRATEGY, YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO PUT IT ON A BUMPER STICKER,
IF YOU CAN'T, IT NOT A GOOD MARKETING STRATEGY.
HERE'S THE BUMPER STICKER:

McPalin = Change
ROE-V-WADE

THEN OBAMA NEEDS TO HIT THE NEWS CYCLE BY DECLARING THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW WHAT THEY WILL BE GETTING WITH HIMSELF VRS. McCain. HE THEN SHOULD ANNOUNCE WHO HIS SUPREME COURT NOMINEE WOULD BE. THEN LET THE DEBATE BEGIN. HE SHOULD CHALENGE McCain TO DO THE SAME. IF McCain IS SMART HE WONT. BUT THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT WILL HAVE THEIR HANDS TO THEIR EARS WITH EYES WIDE OPEN AND HE WILL HAVE TO RESPOND. I THINK THAT THIS IS A DEBATE THAT THE DEMS CAN WIN. OBAMA SHOULD REPEAT THIS IDEA WITH HIS ECONOMIC ADVISER AND HIS ENERY SECRETARY.

PEOPLE OFTEN SAY THAT DEMS HAVE TO GET AS NASTY AS THE REPUBLICANS IN ORDER TO WIN. I DON'T THINK THEY WIN THAT WAY. AFTER ALL YOU CAN'T OUT SLITHER A SNAKE IF YOU’RE NOT A SNAKE.

RICK FROM SAVANNAH GA.

As funny as the SNL skit. Check this video out starring Gina Gershon

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/61410aa4ff

Thanks

Nancy

Hi,
For anyone is not aware, Air America's Ed Schultz was in Anchorage yesterday, doing a Town Hall on Sarah Palin. It will air that on the Ed Schultz Show tomorrow, 9/15/08. In Oregon, that's noon - 3 on KPOJ. Check your local schedule. This should be very interesting.

Palin looked liked a school girl trying to fake her way through an oral exam during the Charlie Gibson interview. Short short skirt first time, pants the second interview.

She and McCain have troubling character defects: impulsive, don't think things through, lie, bluster, bully and will do anything to win and are being programmed by Karl Rove and company who will run their administration. McCain has a hot temper with his finger on the red button possibly?!!!

McCain looked really angry and perturbed when he was called out for his sleasy lying campaign on the View.

It scares me to death these two clowns might be running our country!

David Bender has just made some misleading statements that do not advance his cause.

Palin did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by 62 percent. She didn’t cut it at all. In fact, she tripled per-pupil funding over just three years.

Fact-checking the Palin rumors: Many are false Factcheck.org has done some legwork on the Palin rumors flying around the Internet. Here's the start of their report, with a link to their analysis: We’ve been flooded for the past few days with queries about dubious Internet postings and mass e-mail messages making claims about McCain’s running mate, Gov. Palin. We find that many are completely false, or misleading.

She did not demand that books be banned from the Wasilla library. Some of the books on a widely circulated list were not even in print at the time. The librarian has said Palin asked a "What if?" question, but the librarian continued in her job through most of Palin's first term.
She was never a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a group that wants Alaskans to vote on whether they wish to secede from the United States. She’s been registered as a Republican since May 1982.

Palin never endorsed or supported Pat Buchanan for president. She once wore a Buchanan button as a "courtesty" when he visited Wasilla, but shortly afterward she was appointed to co-chair of the campaign of Steve Forbes in the state.

Palin has not pushed for teaching creationism in Alaska's schools. She has said that students should be allowed to "debate both sides" of the evolution question, but she also said creationism "doesn't have to be part of the curriculum."

A few of these claims were included in a chain e-mail by a woman named Anne Kilkenny.

Good show today, a lot to UN-Cover from the barage of lies coming out of the GOP Lie Machine. Their bald faced lies is one important trait we should expose. The outright lies are barely confronted. ArGGGGGGGGGGGGGGggggggg!!!
We need to be the media this time around, share info with those who will listen ( I know many are utterly brainwashed and won't listen to reason).
There needs to be an outpouring of new voters to keep the GOP from stealing yet another election. I'm doing some limited animation you-tube spots right now just to help reaching potential voters that will watch a cartoon but not much else.

here's a link to my Toon about the McSame & Palin liar's club.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQI6H6MSaXw

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Alaska is like... soooooo... close to Russia... LOL :-D

I've very much wanted to hear David Bender, Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher, Ron Reagan, Robet Kennedy jr or Arianna Huffington speak about this secret organization. It is clear that this group set the GOP agenda years ago and that they are systematically and methodically executing their plans. In this country if you talk about a group having secret evil plans and conspiracy theories you get that "Liberal" kick me sign slapped on your back, and are then dismissed as a paranoid nut case. Bare with me as I wear my sign for a moment...

This is my theory on why things that seem kooky and outrageous somehow make sense if you keep this group in mind. Within hours after 9-11 McCain was eagerly voicing his notion that this meant we had to go to war with Iraq. He spoke with an assurance that is eery in retrospect. How did he know? Maybe because he had the inside track on the agenda that the rest of us are not privy to. Most of the stuff that has gone on during the Bush administration has been completely baffling, unless you step back and consider that perhaps it has never really been about governing. Maybe it's been about amassing power and money. The choice of Sarah Palin makes no sense. But if you can conceive of the idea that the agenda of the CNP has always been about oil, and you realize that Alaska is rich in oil, the choice makes perfect sense. I believe that Palin could have been tapped as a tool for the CNP long before McCain had a choice to make. I also believe that he may have had to sell his soul to this devil because they are his only shot at the white house.

Is this too paranoid or does it have some merit? Because the list of CNP members are kept secret we just don't know who these people are and in what way they contribute to this group's vision for themselves. When I hear people like Guilani or Leiberman saying the most ridiculous things I just think "Oh, they must be a member."

So I'll put it to you Air America community: Should we be afraid of what we don't know?

Here's the wikipedia on the organization for anyone who doesn't know:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_for_National_Policy

"Daddy, does 'thanks, but no thanks' really mean 'gimme da money!!' ???"

I guess he's been listening to Palin

A year ago, I still had enough respect for McCain to hope for him to win the Republican primary... I have lost all of that respect since then... he is pathetic, He is a pathetic old man, who has lost it, he is tired. His judgment is horrid, and he is consumed by him ambition. At 72 this is clearly his last shot, and he is biting and clawing, soon he'll be doing a striptease just to get people at his rallies... he regularly speaks to crowds of under 100 people. He is desperate. At least Bob Dole maintained his dignity, but choosing PitBull Palin who is scared shitless of journalist, has no knowledge of anything, let's her First-Dude husband run the show... McCain met Caribou Barbie once and shook her hand... they became "soulmates" that day I guess... Nobody would go to a movie like this, they would all say it is absurd and nothing like this ever happens in reality...

Let's sing... "bomb bomb bomb... bomb bomb Iran..."

Sorry 'bout the strong language. I meant to say "Fraidy-Cat Barbie" not "Poultry-Excrement Palin"

Yesterday I made the largest campaign contribution of my life. ... Palin has really energized me.

It is, kids, quite possible that the next president will nominate 3 supreme courts justices... McCain is too old and too weary [during this campaign 47-year-old Obama has gone grey]... at 72 McCain will be dead very soon... campaigning is too hard.

We must think and discuss these things as if Palin will be the next president.
Forget Roe v Wade for a minute... and think about election chaos.... Dubya needed Florida, so some Republican officials in Florida created enough confusion, then refused to do a recount, then went to court to sue to stop a recount... and the US Supreme court in the end said "Well, there ain't enough time fer a recount anyway, the principle of the Electoral College meeting on Wednesday is much more important than some stupid old 'count every vote' ".... What is to stop that same scenario happening in every election for the next 20 or 30 years??? Democrats on the Supreme Court. and we will never get them with a President and First Dude Palin.

Loved hearing Hal Sparks again - please have him on more often - I really enjoy his smarts & funny = )