Anyway, even though the mainstream press is too chicken to report on this, MediaTakeOut.com has learned that The National Enquirer is all over this one. Expect the scandal to get bigger (if it is true) in coming weeks…
August 2008
Now, this is the shit I’ve been waiting for.
I know that many of the things I’ve posted this weekend have to do with the Palin decision. But every time I think I’ve read the best take so far on the situation, I find another fascinating take that I just have to share.
My official thoughts on Palin currently stand at the following:
1) If anything was going to drive Hillary Clinton to campaign long and hard for Barack Obama this is it (Bill Clinton too). I certainly think she was going to anyway, but this Palin lady trying to steal her thunder? Yeah, I do believe that’s going to piss her off.
2) I don’t think this is going to attract holdout Hillary supporters that were undecided. I certainly think there are Clinton holdouts who, let’s face it, were NEVER going to vote for Obama anyway. But smart supporters will have been swayed by last week’s convention, and possibly Palin’s stance on abortion among other things.
3) Something the media at large seems to be missing thus far, in my opinion, is the feelings of super conservative EVANGELICALS. Or the ‘fundies’ as they are sometimes referred. This is a large Republican base, that from my initial readings is rather upset with the idea of a woman VP, no matter how conservative she is. After all, there are still people who believe a woman’s place is at home where she should bare children and submit to her husband. This base is confused by the 4 month old down’s syndrome child on the campaign trail—-thing.
4) Biden vs. Palin. Hello! I cannot wait to see Biden debate Palin on foreign policy. So far the only Republican case I’ve seen made for Palin’s foreign policy experience is ‘hey, Alaska is near Russia’. Umm. Yeah.
5) Experience is off the table. Thank you John McCain!
Bonus Take: She wears the same hairstyle all of the time, all pulled back with a BUTTERFLY CLIP. And she wears awful shoes. Hey, somebody has to point this out…might as well be me.
…if the hope for John McCain is to get women to vote for him who otherwise supported Hillary Clinton - if anything could get Hillary Clinton campaigning in full force and fury…this is it. She likely would have campaigned hard, but it’s in Hillary Clinton’s best interest to be the leading voice for women, and the leading woman candidate for president in the future, so having another woman as the potential Vice President (and potential President) is a significant challenge to that. The Republicans just opened Pandora’s Box and brought Hillary Clinton roaring to Barack Obama’s side on the Democratic train. And Bill Clinton, too.
If McCain wins, he will be the oldest person ever inaugurated for a first term at 72. He has a history of health problems that include bouts of melanoma, a potentially deadly form of skin cancer. It is reasonable to consider that McCain’s running mate could be called upon to be our president.
Meanwhile, some may see this as a move for McCain to attract disaffected women who voted for Hillary Clinton and aren’t yet behind Obama. But that might not work for a few reasons: Palin, like McCain, is pro-life. Also, she might be a woman, but she’s no Hillary Clinton – when it comes to her experience or her ideology.
At some point, voters will have to ask themselves who they would want running the country if it ever became necessary: Joe Biden or Sarah Palin.
” —Jack Cafferty, Cafferty File: CNNI just want to know what the conservative evangelicals who told me this country isn’t ready for a woman to be President are saying now? Interestingly enough, it’s VERY quiet.
“It’s also a slap in the face of Democratic women voters. They don’t get Hillary but they get Sarah as the first potential woman President? In fact, I can just hear Biden saying, “Sarah Palin, you are NO Hillary Clinton!” I would imagine that the few remaining Clinton supporters who are wondering if they should support John McCain are even more leery now. There is absolutely no overlap between the positions Hillary Clinton has fought her entire life for and Sarah Palin. The two women are not remotely substitutable. They are as different as they can be.
How will this cynicism play with American voters? It is insulting to women to suggest that just “any” woman will do!”
I think (her selection) would be something similar to Dan Quayle — Dan Quayle proved to be sort of an embarrassment as a campaigner, being thrust on a national stage like that could be very tough.
Now Mondale tried to shake things up by going with Geraldine Ferraro, she proved to be a disaster as a running mate. And as a campaigner, she was absolutely awful.
And so I just think that it is very risky for McCain to do this, but it may be all he has left.
” —House Majority Whip Jim ClyburnMy mother, the uber Hillary supporter.
(Granted, she’s not the PUMA some women are. But those women are just nuts.)
You know, this country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that’s not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that’s not what makes us strong. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that’s not what keeps the world coming to our shores.
Instead, it is that American spirit — that American promise — that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend.
That promise is our greatest inheritance. It’s a promise I make to my daughters when I tuck them in at night, and a promise that you make to yours — a promise that has led immigrants to cross oceans and pioneers to travel west; a promise that led workers to picket lines, and women to reach for the ballot.
And it is that promise that 45 years ago today, brought Americans from every corner of this land to stand together on a Mall in Washington, before Lincoln’s Memorial, and hear a young preacher from Georgia speak of his dream.
The men and women who gathered there could’ve heard many things. They could’ve heard words of anger and discord. They could’ve been told to succumb to the fear and frustration of so many dreams deferred.
But what the people heard instead — people of every creed and color, from every walk of life — is that in America, our destiny is inextricably linked. That together, our dreams can be one.
“We cannot walk alone,” the preacher cried. “And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.”
America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for. Not with an economy to fix and cities to rebuild and farms to save. Not with so many families to protect and so many lives to mend. America, we cannot turn back. We cannot walk alone. At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future. Let us keep that promise — that American promise — and in the words of Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess.
” —Barack Obama, acceptance speech at Invesco FieldMy fellow Democrats, 16 years ago, you gave me the profound honor to lead our party to victory and to lead our nation to a new era of peace and broadly shared prosperity.
Together, we prevailed in a hard campaign in which Republicans said I was too young and too inexperienced to be commander-in-chief.
Sound familiar?
It didn’t work in 1992, because we were on the right side of history. And it will not work in 2008, because Barack Obama is on the right side of history.
Now, Senator Obama’s life is a 21st-century incarnation of the old-fashioned American dream. His achievements are proof of our continuing progress toward the more perfect union of our founders’ dreams.
The values of freedom and equal opportunity, which have given him his historic chance, will drive him as president to give all Americans — regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability — their chance to build a decent life and to show our humanity, as well as our strengths, to the world.
We see that humanity, that strength, and our nation’s future in Barack and Michelle Obama and their beautiful children.
We see them reinforced by the partnership with Joe Biden, his fabulous wife, Jill, a wonderful teacher, and their family.
Barack Obama will lead us away from the division and fear of the last eight years back to unity and hope.
So if, like me, you believe America must always be a place called Hope, then join Hillary and Chelsea and me in making Barack Obama the next president of the United States.
” —Bill Clinton, address to the DNCUnnaturally excited about this idea. Like….for real.
Yes, do the math, I was watching 90210 with my Mom when I was like 6. And Knots Landing, we were big Knots Landing fans. haha
I love reading Prince William engagement speculation. Only because I totally want to throw a Royal Wedding Watch Party. And it will be fabulous.