September 11, 2008

Obama Dog Talks About Pigs And Lipstick

McCain/Palin - Using The Same (Bush) People

It is well documented that McCain is really no maverick and no different than Bush or any other Republican. Despite his lips saying he's not at all like Bush, McCain is tightly intertwined with George Bush.

According to several news reports, McCain has hired several veterans from President Bush’s campaigns, making them part of a team dedicated to defending Ms. Palin from Internet reports, Democratic attacks and potentially damaging news reports about her record produced by the investigative journalists now in Alaska.

McCain’s campaign has dispatched another team to Alaska to respond more rapidly to such reports. It is headed by Taylor Griffin, who had worked for President Bush’s 2004 campaign. Another former Bush campaign aide, Tracey Schmitt, is now Ms. Palin’s traveling press secretary.

Tucker Eskew, a veteran of Mr. Bush’s primary season campaign against Mr. McCain, has been advising Ms. Palin this week while reading briefing materials or receiving tutorials from policy advisers.

On Wednesday night, three of them were on the plane to Alaska with Palin: Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Mr. McCain’s economic adviser; Steve Biegun, a former staff member of Mr. Bush’s National Security Council who has taken leave from his Ford Motors job to advise Palin; and Randy Scheunemann, Mr. McCain’s senior foreign policy adviser.

Also accompanying Palin to Alaska as she prepared for her interview was Nicolle Wallace, a communications director for Mr. Bush’s 2004 campaign and, later, his White House. Ms. Wallace’s husband, Mark Wallace, Mr. Bush’s deputy campaign manager in 2004, is helping prepare Palin for the debates.

McCain advisors have developed a set of presumed questions and answers that they are walking Palin through. Aides traveling with Palin have said she is a fast study — asking few questions of her policy briefers but quickly regurgitating their main points.

A former aide in Alaska who had helped prepare Palin for her campaign debates in Alaska said she had a talent for distilling information into digestible sound bites.

Just what America needs most!

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A Question About Qualifications For VP

The McCain braintrust said that it sequestered Palin and spent several days preparing her for the interview with ABC's Charles Gibson.

I wonder if Joe Biden would have to be prepared by Obama's advisors in the same way?

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Palin - Gibson Interview - Very Scary

I just listened to a preview of just two questions from tonight's Gibson/Palin interview and came away even more frightened for America's future if McCain/Palin get elected.

Who knew a lipsticked, bitch pitbull could be so scary!

A master of double-speak, and avoiding direct answers to direct questions, she did boxer Muhammad Ali proud by dancing and dodging like a butterfly.

Believe in the separation of church and state? Forget it. Lots of religion mixed into the answers I heard.

Listen. Listen very carefully to what she is really saying.

Let the truth seeking and vetting begin though don't have much confidence that the media will dig deeply nor quickly enough.

Certainly, McCain and his people won't let the truth surface...dodging, hiding, scripting Palin while twisting and lying about Obama and Biden!

Vote Obama for:

> hope
> decency
> intelligence
> integrity
> accomplishment
> ideas
> honor
> respectful conduct
> respect for all Americans
> positive change
> clear thinking and speaking
> concensus building skills

America, push the RED STOP button!
No way, no how, no McCain/Palin!

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Walking A Mile (or 26.2) In My Shoes

Don't know that I can accomplish it, but this Saturday I'm setting off at 4:30 a.m. to see how far I can quick walk.

I've gone as far as 15 miles non-stop. But, I feel I need to try to go further. Though I've been doing 30 miles on the exercycle and/or walking 5-8 miles daily, I just feel my walking stamina has diminished a bit in the last couple of months. I don't want to take any steps back toward where I've come.

And so, I've mapped out a route from my house to Santa Monica that totals 27 miles. I need to walk at least 16 and hope to go further, 10.2 miles further.

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