This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
Besides insulting Obama with a Step-N’-Fetch-It, “darkie musical” swipe, people who know her say she refers regularly to Alaska’s Aboriginal people as “Arctic Arabs” – how efficient, lumping two apparently undesirable groups into one ugly description – as well as the more colourful “mukluks” along with the totally unimaginative “fucking Eskimo’s,” according to a number of Alaskans and Wasillians interviewed for this article.
Funny how the mainstream media dispatched dozens of journalists to find anything on Sarah Palin, but the only people making sensational accusations are liberal bloggers (and their record to date is poor). The author of this "piece" Charley James considers Media Matters a valued link on his blog, so you know where he's coming from and what his word is worth.
But it's obvious how this is going down. Liberal blogs make charges, and the above-it-all media performs the public service of discussing the matter ad nauseum until they can create reasonable doubt and clear the way for their chosen candidate, Barack Obama.
The campaign to push Sarah Palin to drop out is in full swing.
Chris Rock described a situation where a woman caught her man doing wrong. Her response was, "I know you did it; just admit it."
Tossing the flags in the trash at Invesco Field was careless. The excuse issued is really lame.
"We distributed more than 125,000 American-made flags at the convention — the flags removed from Invesco Field were intended for other events and taken without permission," the committee said in a statement. "It's disappointing that someone would take American flags without authorization and then falsely describe how they were being used."
"… take American flags without authorization"? Remember, I linked to an eyewitness who reported that flags were in the trash.
The committee said Democrats "have the utmost respect for the American flag, and it's sad to see them being used for a cheap political stunt."
What's really sad is that the DNC pays big bucks to advisers who can't just come out and say there was so much going on with the logistics and security, we screwed up. That would have made this a one-day story.
Now, we'll see how long this controversy continues and what more comes out.
It seems only yesterday that Hillary Clinton was battling against Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination. But when she hits the campaign trail in Florida tomorrow Clinton’s target will be Sarah Palin, a new threat to her ambition to be the first woman elected to the White House.
Clinton lost no time, attacking Palin moments after John McCain delivered his presidential acceptance speech in St Paul, Minnesota, last week. Reporters’ BlackBerrys buzzed with her verdict. “No way, no how, no McCain-Palin,” she said.
Does Hillary really want Obama to win or can she delicately torpedo him? Remember, an Obama victory means the next Hillary presidential run won't be until 2016.
And despite the estrogen-flexing, Palin could clock Hillary in a head-to-head match-up. Remember those polls where half of America said there's no way they'd vote for Clinton? See any similar poll for Sarah?
Barack Obama, the man who would be president, is asking a woman to do his job for him. (Yes, that's technically a sexist statement, but you know what I mean.) Not very reassuring when it comes to his ability to take on a foreign enemy.
When Tiffany Dickerson's kids came home from school at Oak Park Middle School, they told her they had seen a Barack Obama campaign ad and not one of John McCain.
"If they're going to talk about Obama, they need to say something about McCain," Dickerson said. "It just seemed a little odd."
But teachers are not required to show both sides of a political contest or issue. It is assumed that instructors will use good judgment when using the channel, Superintendent Anna Cowin said.
Risky assumption.
Any wonder now why "the youth" are all blind followers of Barack Obama?
Now that the American people have been awakened to the concept of media bias, maybe the liberals will push their arrogant hands and spawn another backlash against their partisan, cowardly domination of academia.
Have liberals not learned the harsh lessons of the backlash this week?
For Ann and Nancy Wilson of the rock band Heart, there's nothing fitting about the Republican National Convention's use of their 1977 hit "Barracuda."
That much became clear after the sisters issued a cease-and-desist order to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign. The order seeks to bar the McCain campaign from using the song as an anthem to underscore images and appearances of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
The song was used as a musical backdrop during Palin's convention debut this week to capitalize on Palin's nickname of "Sarah Barracuda," a moniker she earned during intense basketball play in high school in Wasilla, Alaska.
Across the United States, there are probably hundreds of Baracuda songs being written as we speak.
Cincinnati Bengal Chad Johnson has now legally changed his name to Ocho Cinco after his uniform number. While his change is purely cosmetic, some people's change was quite understandable.
While amusing, the 30-year-old athlete's legal application was hardly as pressing (or warranted) as some other name change filings TSG has gathered. As seen in these additional documents, prior petitioners were born with such unfortunate names like Fuk King, Dick, Doody, Schmuck, Queer, Suckey, Pinas, Porn, Fukova, and Ralph Lifshitz (who changed his name to Ralph Lauren). Yes, that Ralph Lauren.
