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Regardless of who you are planning to vote for, please read this email I received from a good friend. Please share this with as many people as possible.

Although our mandate to elect Barack Obama was clear before, it is now vital! Thanks, Irene.


This is from a Bryn Mawr college grad to her fellow alums
Dear classmates -

As an Alaskan, I am writing to give all of you some information on Sarah Palin, Senator McCain's choice for VP. As an Alaska voter, I know more than most of you about her and, frankly, I am horrified that he picked her.
The most accurate description of her is red neck. Her husband works in the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay and races snow mobiles. She is a life time member of the NRA and has worked tirelessly to allow indiscriminate hunting of wildlife in Alaska, particularly wolves and bears. She has spent millions of Alaska state dollars on aerial hunting of these predators from helicopters and airplanes, dollars that should have been spent, for example, on Alaska's failing school system.We have the lowest rate of high school graduation in the country.

Not all of you may think aerial predator hunting is so bad, but how anyone (other than Alaska wolf-haters, of which there are many, most without teeth), could think this use of funds is appropriate is beyond me. If you want to know more about the aerialhunting travesty, let me know and I will send some links to informative web sites.
She has been a strong supporter of increased use of fossil fuels, yet the McCain campaign has the nerve to say she has "green" policies. The only thing green about Sarah Palin is her lack of experience. She has consistently supported drilling in ANWR, use of coal-burning power plants (as I write this, a new coal plant is being built in her home town of Wasilla), strip mining, and almost anything else that will unnecessarily exploit the diminishing resources of Alaska and destroy its environment.
Prior to her one year as governor of Alaska, she was mayor of Wasilla, a small red neck town outside Anchorage.The average maximum education level of parents of junior high school kids in Wasilla is 10th grade.

Unfortunately, I have to go to Wasilla every week to get groceries and other supplies, so I have continual contact with the people who put Palin in office in the first place. I know what I'm talking about.

These people don't have a concept of the world around them or of the serious issues facing the US. Furthermore, they don't care. So long as they can go out and hunt their moose every fall, kill wolves and bears and drive their snow mobiles and ATVs through every corner of the wilderness, they're happy. I wish I were exaggerating.

Sarah Palin is currently involved in a political corruption scandal. She fired an individual in law enforcement here because she didn't like how he treated one of her relatives during a divorce. The man's performance and ability weren't considered; it was a totally personal firing and is currently under investigation. While the issue isn't close to the scandal of Ted Steven's corruption, it shows that Palin isn't "squeaky clean" and causes me to think there may be more issues that could come to light. Clearly McCain doesn't care.

When you line Palin up with Biden, the comparison would be laughable if it weren't so serious. Sarah Palin knows nothing of economics (admittedly a weak area for McCain), or of international affairs, knows nothing of national government, Social Security, unemployment, health care systems - you name it. The idea of her meeting with heads of foreign governments around the world truly frightens me.

In an increasingly dangerous world, with the economy in shambles in the US, Sarah Palin is uniquely UNqualified to be vice president. John McCain is not a young man. Should something happen to him such that the vice president had to step in, it would destroy our country and possibly the world to have someone as inexperienced and inappropriate as Sarah Palin.

The choice of Palin is a cheap shot by McCain to try
to get Hillary supporters to vote for him. When McCain introduced her today, Palin had the nerve to compare herself with Hillary and Geraldine Ferraro. Sarah Palin, you are no Hillary Clinton.

To those of you who, like me, supported Hillary and were upset that she did not get the nomination, please don't think that Sarah Palin is a worthy substitute. If you supported Hillary, regardless of what you think the media and the democratic party may have done to undermine her campaign, the person to support now is Obama, not Sarah Palin.

To those of you who are independent or undecided, don't let the choice of Palin sway you in favor of McCain. Choosing her shows how unqualified McCain is to be president.

To those of you who are conservative, I guess you have no choice for president. But please try to see how the poor choice of Palin tells us a great deal about McCain's judgment. While the political posturing inherent in the choice of Palin is obvious, the more serious issue is the fact that the VP is, literally, a heartbeat away from the presidency. Sarah Palin is totally and unequivocally unqualified to be vice president, let alone president.

I know this is a lengthy and emotional email, but the stakes are high. I thought it might help for all of you, regardless of political affiliation, to know something about Palin from someone who has to live with her administration in Alaska on a daily basis.

Here's some basic background from MoveOn.org:
She was elected Alaska's governor a little over a year and a half ago. Her previous office was mayor of Wasilla, a small town outside Anchorage.1
Palin is strongly anti-choice, opposing abortion even in the case of rape or incest.2
She supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000. 3
Palin thinks creationism should be taught in public schools.4
She's doesn't think humans are the cause of climate change.5
She's solidly in line with John McCain's "Big Oil first" energy policy. She's pushed hard for more oil drilling and says ren ewables won't be ready for years. She also sued the Bush administration for listing polar bears as an endangered speciesshe was worried it would interfere with more oil drilling in Alaska.6
Here's a sample of Alaskan's responses:
She is really just a mayor from a small town outside Anchorage who has been a governor for only 1.5 years, and has ZERO national and international experience. I shudder to think that she could be the person taking that 3AM call on the White House hotline, and the one who could potentially be charged with leading the US in the volatile international scene that exists today. Rose M., Fairbanks, AK
She is VERY, VERY conservative, and far from perfect. She's a hunter and fisherwoman, but votes against the environment again and again. She ran on ethics reform, but is currently under investigation for several charges involving hiring and firing of state officials. She has NO experience beyond Alaska. Christine B., Denali Park, AK
As an Alaskan and a feminist, I am beyond words at this announcement. Palin is not a feminist, and she is not the ref ormer she claims to be. Karen L., Anchorage, AK
Alaskans, collectively, are just as stunned as the rest of the nation. She is doing well running our State, but is totally inexperienced on the national level, and very much unequipped=2 0to run the nation, if it came to that. She is as far right as one can get, which has already been communicated on the news. In our office of thirty employees (dems, republicans, and nonpartisans), not one person feels she is ready for the V.P. position.Sherry C., Anchorage, AK
She's vehemently anti-choice and doesn't care about protecting our natural resources, even though she has worked as a fisherman. McCain chose her to pick up the Hillary voters, but Palin is no Hillary. Marina L., Juneau, AK
I think she's far too inexperienced to be in this position. I'm all for a woman in the White House, but not one who hasn't done anything to deserve it. There are far many other women who have worked their way up and have much more experience that would have been better choices. This is a patronizing decision on John McCain's part- and insulting to females everywhere that he would assume he'll get our vote by putting "A Woman" in that position.8 0Jennifer M., Anchorage, AK
Please forward this to everyone you know!
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well, after losing the battle on not having political information on hoseheads...this just popped up on Yahoo News... I think the key thing to analyze with all of these posts is the bias of the articles, the Obama posting in the other thread I think has a pro-Republican theme, I think this article has a pro-Democrat theme...

it's kind of funny though... They did the same thing after Obama's speech and I can't find it, maybe someone more computer savy can find it and post it here too...

By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer Wed Sep 3, 11:48 PM ET

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_fact_check

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.

Some examples:

PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere."

THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."

PALIN: "There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate."

THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.

PALIN: "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."

THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.

Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.

He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.

MCCAIN: "She's been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply ... She's responsible for 20 percent of the nation's energy supply. I'm entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America," he said in an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson.

THE FACTS: McCain's phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she's no more "responsible" for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.

MCCAIN: "She's the commander of the Alaska National Guard. ... She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities," he said on ABC.

THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under "federal status," which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska's national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.

FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."

THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.

FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: "We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin."

THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.

I hate most Donny Schatz fans...i.e. all the ones who 
started rooting for him within the last 3 years...  
i.e. 90% of them.

Thanks for all the info. Instead of walking, I am going to run to vote for her now. Snowmobile racer, hunter, totally against killing little precious helpless beautiful babies. Sounds great!

The hopeless desire to outrun Bud Grimm's Fords is 
why central PA became the toughest place to race on 
the planet. Even the KING couldn't run with Casey 
Luna's Fords on a tacky track. It's a crying shame 
that current car owners failed to notice.

LOL I was going to say the same. That fits right in with most race fans.

She has my vote....

nearly all of the moveon.orgs "facts" would rate as reasons for me to vote for her.

Please feel free to tell us about the administrative experence the either of of the Democrats have.

So far all I see is that Obumba is nothing but a friggin coward.

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The Democrats are running scared now...

Gotta love how these "high minded" liberals are so protective of those of us who lack their social conscienceness. You know...those poor souls who live in small towns and "cling to their religion and guns"...who have that archaic view of the sanctimony of human life and main street values (how dare they oppose a "woman's right to choose" or think they are better able to decide where to spend their money than big government). In other words, the people who do most of the living and dying and working and building of this country. Just think where this country would be if it weren't for the small towns and their citizens in the "fly over" zone of America. You know, the people who supply the vast majority of common sense thinking in our culture.

I find it ironic that the writer of the above essay is a graduate of a "prestigious" college but uses her education to live in the backwoods of Alaska, having to go to a "redneck" town to buy supplies and groceries. What would she do if those adults with a tenth-grade education didn't run the stores where she could conveniently purchase the goods she needs to survive?

You know, I used to think to myself "Reagan would have a field day with these idiots". Now, finally, we have somebody who can carry on the Reagan tradition. Don't mess with Sarah Barracuda unless you can pay the price. Seems she's not someone with whom to trifle. Get ready for the McCain/Palin revolution and the return of common sense.

Jeff Kristensen
www.racewayvideo.com 

The Libs are still cleaning out their crap filled shots from last night... Since the king and all the kings men are working soooooooooooo hard to destroy Gov Palin it's a sign that they are scared to death of her.. As well they should be.......I'll bet that O bambi is right now trying to figure out how to get Hillary on the ticket and Biden off........ That was a totally stupid rookie move, they fell for the trap and not they are paying the price...Freedom may still have a chance over the pro socialist likes of the the Dims..............

One of the larger industries in my home town is Fisher Controls.

The sign of the edge of town says "If it flows through a pipe, chances are it is controlled by Fisher"

Fisher is also very active in the Nuclear Power industry, does it surprise anyone why I like Republicans?

Swift and Company hires Mexicans, I like cheap Pork, any reason I should vote Democrat?

I really think if Obumba had of chosen his bitch, they could have beaten anything the Republicans could come up with, but now, it looks like the Dems are running scared, and with damn good reason!

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cheroger,you sabotage your own party ,if your a dem.,your statements simply help the rep.are you stupid?

The liberals try to sell the idea of Something for Nothing,thankfully most Americans realize after childhood the real world doesn't work that way.

Democrats or Republicans it don't mater that usac/cra non-winged race at calistoga last weekend was frig-en awesome absolutely blew away any WoO race ever held there ------lol

I'm voting for McCain/Palin!!!

Smile more.

Not only that cheroger, you slam about 90% of us race fans!!

"As an Alaskan, I am writing to give all of you some information on Sarah Palin, Senator McCain's choice for VP. As an Alaska voter, I know more than most of you about her and, frankly, I am horrified that he picked her.
The most accurate description of her is red neck. Her husband works in the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay and races snow mobiles. She is a life time member of the NRA and has worked tirelessly to allow indiscriminate hunting of wildlife in Alaska, particularly wolves and bears"

That is a direct quote from your post. I hope there are more like you out there in middle America, you will do McCain/Palin a ton of GOOD!!

Now, lets race!!

Sean, Tucson.

Smile more.

 http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086

It's pretty damn sad when the clearest view of politics in this nation is given by a parady show on a comedy based network.

I am on neither side. Had the Reeper party did it's job in the last 8 years I would vote for McCain. Fact of the matter, call the liberals rats all you want, the last 8 years under Reeper control have totally messed up this country. Millions of houses forclosed. Jobs being lost. A stock market hurt. U.S. Dollar going down. Gasoline going up 300%. Bin Laden still running around. and the good one. I hear the word liberal used repeatedly to describe Democrates, yet it was a Repulican President who has been pretty liberal with spending hundreds of Billions of our earned money a country most of us could really careless about. I would have rather just gave Canada a birthday present of 80 billion and a nice card.

All this political crap doesn't mean anyting to me at all. The past 8 years has been a political campaign in my eyes and nothing McCain can will delete what his party has done to this country. Maybe if Obama screws up worse (doubtful worse) then I will vote for a Republican in 2012. But to vote for a Republican in 2008 is not a vote for conservative it is a vote for very liberal.

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Why is it that everyone thinks we only have TWO choices in this (and every other) election?

Sorry about you luck the Righties...

BTW, these polls are updated daily, or multiple times a day.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

http://www.electoral-vote.com/

http://news.yahoo.com/election/2008/dashboard

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html#polls