From: TS

To: 'Bellringer'

Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 6:38 AM

Subject: Let's be Fair, Please

Hi Anne and Patrick (Anne, I hope you're doing well),

I just read the recent article that you published entitled "PALIN'S SPEECH TO NOWHERE" and, as an Alaskan citizen and personal acquaintance of Governor Sarah Palin, I am somewhat insulted by the obviously negative, undeserving slant of that article. The difference between the empty 'talk the talk' of Barack Obama vs. the tested and proven 'walk the talk' of Sarah Palin, is that Sarah Palin's public approval rating as the Governor of Alaska has consistently been higher than 80% for years now, meaning she delivers what she promises AND THE PUBLIC FULLY APPROVES AND ENDORSES HER ACTIONS, except for the few predictable 'bad apples' who are the sore losers. Why bother to side with the sore losers?

Check out this website:

http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-vs-barack-obama/

Sarah Palin vs. Barack Obama

Credit goes to Jeff Emanuel, (original author) at Redstate.com for this work.

 

	Sarah Palin	Barack Obama
Office being sought	Vice President	President of the United States and Leader of the Free World
Full name	Sarah Louise Heath Palin	Barack Hussein Obama II
Nickname	Sarah Barracuda	Barry Obama; “The One”
Public opinion	Smoking hot in a “naughty librarian” sort of way	May be The Messiah
Age	44	48
Children	5: two sons, three daughters	2: two daughters
Religion/Church attendance	Evangelical Christian;attends Juneau Christian Center when in Juneau and grew up attending Wasilla Assembly of God	Attended Trinity United Church of Christ for 20 years, a “black liberation theology” church formerly led by Rev. Jeremiah Wright and governed according to the Black Value System
Current Job	Governor of Alaska	Junior Senator from Illinois
Previous Public Jobs	Mayor of Wasilla, AK (1996-2002); President of Alaska Conference of Mayors;City Council member (1992-1996)	State Senator (1997-2004);Community Organizer
Executive Experience	Governor for 2 years;Mayor for 10 years	None
Foreign Relations experience	Governor of state that borders two foreign countries (Canada and Russia)	Chaired Senate subcommittee on Europe but never called it into session;once gave a speech to 200,000 screaming Germans
Military Affairs experience	Commander in Chief of Alaska National Guard;Son is enlisted Infantryman in U.S. Army	None
Private Sector Experience	Sports reporter;Salmon fisherman	Associate at civil rights law firm
Speaking ability	Beautifully executed initial stump speech in Dayton, OH hockey arena without a teleprompter	An enter…wait–did you say without a teleprompter??
Spouse’s name	Todd Mitchell Palin	Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama
Spouse’s occupation	Salmon fisherman;Former North Slope production supervisor for BP Oil	Vice President for Community and External Affairs at University of Chicago Hospitals;former Associate Dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago;former Executive Director for the Chicago office of Public Allies; former Assistant to the Mayor of Chicago; former associate at Sidley Austin law firm
Reaction to spouse’s political success	Quit 17-year BP oil job when BP became involved in natural gas pipeline negotiations with wife’s administration	Promoted and given 160% pay raise by UofC hospitals within months of husband’s election to U.S. Senate;Employer received $1,000,000.00 federal earmark, requested by husband, after her promotion
Coolest thing about Spouse	Tesoro Iron Dog Snowmobile race champion (longest snowmobile race in the world);In 2008, while defending his championship, was injured when he was thrown 70 feet from his machine. He was sent to the hospital but still finished in fourth place	Sister of Oregon State University head basketball coach Craig Robinson
Most Courageous Moment in Public Service	Resigned in protest from position of Ethics Commissioner of Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission in order to expose legal violations and conflicts of interest of Alaska Republican leaders, including the former state Attorney General and the State GOP Chairman (who was also an Oil & Gas Commissioner), who was doing work for the party on public time and supplying a lobbyist with a sensitive e-mail.	Gave an anti-Iraq war speech to a crowd of anti-Iraq war demonstrators in Hyde Park in 2002
In Current Office Because…	Upset sitting Governor in GOP primary due to public support for her efforts to clean up corrupt government establishment	Republican opponent, who was leading in the polls, was forced to leave race after unsealing of divorce records exposed a sex scandal
Theme:	Change and Clean Government	Hope and Change;”Bringing Change from Outside Washington”
What they’ve done to live that theme:	Replaced entire Board of Agriculture and Conservation because of conflict of interest;Resigned from position of Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission in order to expose corruption among members of own party	Selected 36-year incumbent Senator as running mate
Family Affairs	May have removed State Public Safety Commissioner as part of effort to protect sister in messy divorce and child custody battle	Often says, “I am my brother’s keeper”;Brother lives in a hut in Nairobi on $12 per year
Union affiliation	Union member, married to Union member	Endorsed by a union
Iraq and Troop Support	Formerly (pre-surge) critical of apparent lack of long-term strategy for Iraq;Visited wounded U.S. soldiers in Germany;visited AK National Guard soldiers deployed to Kuwait; Son deploying to Iraq on 9/11/08 as Army infantryman	Gave an anti-Iraq war speech to a crowd of anti-Iraq war demonstrators;almost visited wounded troops in Germany, but decided to go shopping in Berlin instead
Bipartisan/”maverick” credentials	Married to a non-Republican;Exposed corruption within own party;Campaigned for Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell against corrupt GOP congressman Don Young; Called out Sen Ted Stevens (R-AK) to “come clean” about financial dealings that are under fed investigation	Talks about bipartisanship
Legislative Record	Passed a landmark ethics reform bill;Used veto to cut budgetary spending;Prevented “bridge to nowhere” that would have cost taxpayers $400 million dollars.	Voted “present” over 100 times as IL state senator
How they dealt with corrupt individuals in home city/state	Exposed legal violations and conflicts of interest of Alaska Republican leaders;Campaigned against corrupt GOP Representative;Ran against and defeated corrupt incumbent governor in GOP primary	Launched political career in home of unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers (and still refers to him as a part of “mainstream Democratic Chicago”;Purchased home with help of convicted felon Tony Rezko
Guns	Lifetime member of NRA and avid hunter;video can be found on YouTube of Palin firing an M4 at a military firing range	Worked to pass legislation in Illinois that would prevent all law-abiding citizens from owning firearms
Earmarks	Opposed “Bridge to Nowhere” project;Said Alaska should avoid relying on federal money for projects;Campaigned against porker Don Young (R-AK) in 2008 primary	Secured federal earmarks for wife’s employer and for campaign bundlers
Abortion	Pro life;gave birth to 5th child knowing that he would have Down’s syndrome	Pro-choice;only IL state sen. to speak against the Born Alive Infant’s Protection Act, which required medical care to be given to live infants who survived abortions
Energy	Believes energy independence is a matter of national security;For drilling in ANWR, which is in her state	Says Americans should “get tune-ups” and “check tire pressure”;Says “we can’t expect the world to be okay with” our use of heating and air conditioning
Environment	Chair of Alaska Conservation Commission (2003-4);Announced plans to create sub-cabinet group of advisors to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in AK	Talks about the environment a lot
Athletic prowess	Runs marathons	Has reporters tailing him to the gym

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When all is said and done, public approval IS the final test, isn't it? If the information from Truthout.org WAS the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, then the public approval rating of Sarah's leadership would be expected to be down around 20%. But, since her current approval is over 80%, Truthout.org is obviously using slander and libel to further their own agenda. The liberals appear to be terrified -- and justifiably so! -- that they won't be able to shoot Sarah Palin down before she starts getting an 80% approval rating across the entire USA. She can do it, too.

The Palin's are honest, decent people who don't deserve this. Really. That great family has received more rotten, lying trash dumped on them in the past week, than anyone on either side of the campaign has received in a 6-month period.

While I might or might not endorse or approve of the Republican McCain/Bush connection, Sarah Palin is a breath of fresh air that we might be in dire need of in Washington, over the next few years. Don't attack our friends, please.

The Democrats obviously want to shoot Sarah down as soon as possible, but please don't also shoot yourself in the foot by so blindly endorsing Obama and Biden. Evidently George Soros gave Obama an initial boost with his blessing and support several years ago, and that influence could be a real can of worms that could help to sink the US Ship of State. (Unless you have info showing that Soros is one of the White Hats, that is.) Keep that in mind, along with Casper's recent revelation of Obama's $$ connection with terrorist Ayers.

My personal opinion is that nobody in the entire Democrat camp is honorable enough to lick the driveway in front of Sarah Palin's house.

Truthout.org seems to be getting their instructions from the Daily KOS. To make it 'fair and balanced', could you please post the following Daily KOS article on your website?

Thanks a lot,

TS

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Daily KOS

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/20/1312/62286/423/571133

Let's Be Completely Honest ... Lie

by sn00t

Wed Aug 20, 2008 at 10:26:32 AM PDT

It occurs to me as I watch the nonstop cable coverage that as smart as we all are, we are still so dumb. Why do we do this to ourselves, election after election? The tactics of Rove, as deplorable as they are, work because they have no morality to them.

How do you fight lies? We try with truth, but a lie accepted as truth cannot be battled with a "different" truth in the mind of many. This is especially true when you consider, alas, the mass public is not reading KOS, Politico, The Page, and Huff Po. What we are all missing is the truth about elections. The truth is that you lie. You lie and keep lying and when you get accused of lying you lie even more.

Look at McCain's campaign for evidence of this. In the same paragraph of a press release it will both question Obama's patriotism, and then deny questioning his patriotism. It will say how good the economy is and then how terrible it is. It will deny the truth of huge budget deficits and then go on to call for more tax cuts. You see, we progressives believe that information, and more accurately, factual evidence, will set you free. We are devotees of finding and consuming ideas, perspectives, and information in all formats. And in that, we sow our own fate.

The problem is that we believe that if we can only talk to someone, and present the "facts", or provide "evidence" to the contrary, we can sway people to our line of thinking. The problem is obvious: people who don't already think like you most likely don't consume and derive perspective in the manner you do, yielding all of our work, all of our effort, and all of our faith in the facts - worthless.

If you want to convert someone to your position, lie to them.

If you want to support Obama, lie about John McCain.Tell the truth about John McCain - but add on any other thing you can think of that is outrageous. If you are talking about the election to an NRA member, tell them John McCain hates guns. If you are talking to a religious figure, tell them that John McCain is an atheist (this pains me to say as an atheist, as it infers something wrong with atheism, but we all must sacrifice here!). Lie. Lie with abandon. Lie without regret.

The republicans understand that facts are meaningless. Why do we fall prey to this year after year? How could we lose 2000, and 2004? The facts were on OUR SIDE, and yet, we lose. If you want to help Obama, stop spending all your time reading sites with your own point of view. Post in the comment sections at ABCNEWS, at CNN, at MSNBC, at Fox .... anywhere where there are people no of your own idealogical persuasion - FLOOD THEM WITH LIES.

I hate to say it, but like a TV commercial jingle, that gets caught in your head for a day, the republicans are landing their lies in the ears of the public every second. And you can't fight it with truth - you can only hope to beat them to the punch with a lie. A scandalous or hard hitting comment or statement that causes that person to say - "oh wow - really?"

This election is of paramount importance, with McCain trying to reignite the cold war, an Iranian War, and more love to corporations like Exxon ... morality is not a luxury we have available to us.

So let's be completely honest.... LIE.