Archive for August 30th, 2008
Maybe I’ve Lost My Sense Of Humor But I Find Nothing Funny About This (Updated)
August 30th, 2008
All you folks living the path of the latest potentially dangerous hurricane, listen up. It is really nothing more than an omen (and funny to boot)..one which means the Democrats will win in November.
From an email related to this story:
Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Don Fowler, on an airplane back to South Carolina, is caught laughing that Hurricane Gustav is going to hit New Orleans at the start of the GOP Convention and therefore God must be with the Democrats.
“Everything is cool,” he tells Congressman John Spratt (D-SC), seated next to him. They both laugh it up.
A RedState contributor just happened to be behind them and caught it all on tape.
Here’s the accompanying video:
This only once again serves to remind me why I have been so turned off by this election.
We are talking about the possibility of another hurricane having a devastating effect on the lives of our citizens and these jokers find it funny?
It must be nice to live in such an insulated world..oh, and I almost forgot.. more importantly,it serves their politics too.
Absolutely, disgraceful.
*Update: It is to early to know what the GOP will do in regards to their convention but should this hurricane make landfall with ferocity, perhaps this plan will be instituted.
Pittsburgh, Pa. – John McCain and the GOP are considering scrapping political speeches and turning their St. Paul/Minneapolis convention into a “service” program to help victims of Storm Gustav, The Post has learned.
Sources told The Post that McCain himself might visit the Gulf Coast during the week of the Republican National Convention, which begins Monday. McCain is not scheduled to make his nomination speech until Thursday.
The contingency plan – a worst case scenario if the storm devastates coastal areas – would turn Republicans into Red Cross-type volunteers who would help collect donations, food and goods to help storm victims.
McCain – whose campaign motto is “Country First” – said helping people during an emergency will take precedence over accepting his GOP nomination for president.
[emphasis mine]
Darn right!
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Let’s talk Energy (Updated)
August 30th, 2008
Earlier in the year, Sarah Palin speaks on topic of energy independence:
Is this part of the reason some in the Washington establishment may be a little fearful of the Governor?
Would she push Congress with the facts at her side to come up with a better argument than they have offered (in rejection) to tap the natural resources we have available in our own country?
And yes, I know, she said she would stay in Alaska rather than come to Washington but I consider that no different than Joe Biden’s “I’m not the guy” a mere few days prior to being selected. Guess you could say it’s the nature of the beast of politics.
I discovered this video in following the links available in this post at RedState. Lot’s more there.
*Update: More from Sarah Palin on Domestic Energy Recovery. The VP debate should be very interesting:
Todd Palin
August 30th, 2008
While reading some of the comments on Politico last night I noticed someone referred to Todd Palin, husband of Republican VP nominee-in-waiting, as being an oil company executive. This immediately struck me because I remembered Sarah Palin stating both she and her husband were union members. She said he was a member of the United Steel Workers union.
Having been a union member and officer once myself I know management is not qualified to be members of the union.
So, this morning, after reading the negative story in Politico that the Palin pick was an act of desperation, I clicked over to a Yahoo News story that tells us Todd Palin is
a veteran oil-field worker and commercial fisherman affectionately dubbed Alaska’s “first dude.” He’s a man who took college courses but does not have a degree, yet can hold his own in sophisticated circles, even hosting a reception for five former Alaska first ladies earlier this month.
The article goes on to say he is an ardent snowmobile racer and commercial fisherman. He’s also part Yup’kik Eskimo.
In addition to his work duties he has taken on extra responsibilities of caring for the children when needed and caring for the family finances.
If you’ve ever watched the “Deadliest Catch”, a show about commercial crab fisherman, you realize what a hard job being a commercial fisherman can be. These guys pull their weight or they’re gone.
It’s beginning already to look like, just as the media were unfair to Hillary Clinton once the Obama was deemed to be the One, it’s going to be just as rough on this governor from Alaska.
She has cleaned up corruption in her own party in Alaska. She is under investigation for firing the head of the transportation department, supposedly because he wouldn’t fire her ex-brother in law, a state trooper who reportedly tasered his step-son. I can’t remember where I read that but if I run across it again I’ll provide the link.
Palin’s husband did speak to the man from the transportation department but says he did not ask for anyone to be fired.
Mrs. Palin welcomes the investigation because she says she was not aware of what was happening behind the scenes and is not guilty of anything.
We hear of her inexperience, but must remember that unless John McCain drops dead the first couple of months of his presidency, should he be elected, she will have plenty of time to learn the ropes. After all, the vice president only presides over the Senate and waits for the president to become incapacited or dead. Otherwise, they attend funerals of important figures. Hopefully, if he wins, McCain will give her more responsibility and the opportunity to learn should she ever have to take over from him.
On the other hand, a senator who has spent a total of 143 days in the Senate since his election is hardly qualified to be president and I worry about the top of the ticket more than the bottom of the ticket.
As my philosophy has always been with everyone, I will trust her until or unless she proves to be not worthy of that trust.
In the meantime, let’s all stop the mud-slinging and hope for a clean election this fall. I know that’s a tall order, but it’s time to put the adults in charge.
*Update (Sue): ~J~: Sorry for the intrusion on your post but as you addressed the media problem, thought I would add this video of Palin addressing the issue:
