Sarah’s Resignation Talking Points

In light of the announcement over this July 4th holiday by Sarah Palin of her decision to resign from her elected post as Governor of Alaska, I have decided that I can no longer keep quite on the Palin daughter / Letterman controversy.

On October 28, 2008 Sarah Palin said, “Yes, use me as the example of why you should, even more admittedly,  my daughter, of course she is 18 years old, but has really been forced to grow up very quickly now and starting her own family and you know, life has changed so quickly for her. But if we can use this, and if my daughter Bristol can use her story as a kind of teaching tool for others, then so be it. Let us do that.”  Read this quote in context here.

 

Sarah, you drew the national spotlight to your daughter when you said this.  Using your daughter Bristol as a pawn in the 2008 election inevitably opened all of your children to scrutiny, comment, debate, banter, jokes and possible disgrace.  You, Sarah, intentionally placed your daughters into both the election and the abortion rings.  No one leave these “rings,” Sarah without bruises.  That’s why running for office is so often compared to a boxing match, Sarah.  If you really thought Bristol or your other children would emerge from that ring unscathed, your decision to leave public office is most welcome.

 

Sarah, you owe your entire family an apology for putting them in the position to be ridiculed.  You also, Sarah, owe David Letterman an apology.  Taking your children into the ring with you gave the entire world license to discuss and use them as we see fit.  Note, Sarah, that I am quoting you with my use of the word “use”.  You offered your daughter up to be “used” in the 2008 election as well as the abortion debate.  Sarah, you could have (yes you should have) kept your daughter and the rest of your children off the stage.  You might have told reports that your daughter is not running for public office.  You might have told the world that you are still so very proud of Bristol and the decisions she’s made since becoming pregnant. You could then have politely changed the subject and told errant reports to leave your family alone. 

 

You didn’t do this Sarah.  In offering one of your children as a “tool” for public learning on a hotly debated topic, you Sarah, violated the rules of decency and good parenting.

 

Leave David Letterman alone. Stop projecting your guilt onto others.  Apologize, Sarah, to your family, to David Letterman, to America.  Once you’ve offered this apology, Sarah, I will then attack the Republican National Committee for seeking these inordinate sacrifices from you and your family.  The Republican party came to you and your daughter Bristol in its time of need.  I am truly ashamed of the party and it’s continued abuses of the American conscience.  Take this step, Sarah, apologize, then the onus will fall back on the party that asked you to subject your daughter to such extreme posturing.

Republican Party’s Road to Perdition

In light of the announcement over this July 4th holiday by Sarah Palin of her decision to resign from her elected post as Governor of Alaska, I have decided that I can no longer keep quite on the Palin daughter / Letterman controversy.

On October 28, 2008 Sarah Palin said, “Yes, use me as the example of why you should, even more admittedly,  my daughter, of course she is 18 years old, but has really been forced to grow up very quickly now and starting her own family and you know, life has changed so quickly for her. But if we can use this, and if my daughter Bristol can use her story as a kind of teaching tool for others, then so be it. Let us do that.”  Read this quote in context here.

 

Sarah, you drew the national spotlight to your daughter when you said this.  Using your daughter Bristol as a pawn in the 2008 election inevitably opened all of your children to scrutiny, comment, debate, banter, jokes and possible disgrace.  You, Sarah, intentionally placed your daughters into both the election and the abortion rings.  No one leave these “rings,” Sarah without bruises.  That’s why running for office is so often compared to a boxing match, Sarah.  If you really thought Bristol or your other children would emerge from that ring unscathed, your decision to leave public office is most welcome.

 

Sarah, you owe your entire family an apology for putting them in the position to be ridiculed.  You also, Sarah, owe David Letterman an apology.  Taking your children into the ring with you gave the entire world license to discuss and use them as we see fit.  Note, Sarah, that I am quoting you with my use of the word “use”.  You offered your daughter up to be “used” in the 2008 election as well as the abortion debate.  Sarah, you could have (yes you should have) kept your daughter and the rest of your children off the stage.  You might have told reports that your daughter is not running for public office.  You might have told the world that you are still so very proud of Bristol and the decisions she’s made since becoming pregnant. You could then have politely changed the subject and told errant reports to leave your family alone. 

 

You didn’t do this Sarah.  In offering one of your children as a “tool” for public learning on a hotly debated topic, you Sarah, violated the rules of decency and good parenting.

 

Leave David Letterman alone. Stop projecting your guilt onto others.  Apologize, Sarah, to your family, to David Letterman, to America.  Once you’ve offered this apology, Sarah, I will then attack the Republican National Committee for seeking these inordinate sacrifices from you and your family.  The Republican party came to you and your daughter Bristol in its time of need.  I am truly ashamed of the party and it’s continued abuses of the American conscience.  Take this step, Sarah, apologize, then the onus will fall back on the party that asked you to subject your daughter to such extreme posturing.

Welcome to podium, Mr. President, welcome!

My brothers disagree with many of my life choices yet we get along and show genuine love and respect for each other’s passions and accomplishments. Isn’t it time that we transcend the call to judgement that tells us to be offended by what’s going to happen in South Bend this weekend? Let’s find the courage to respect and honor this one leader of this one movement in spite of our disagreements with him. If we can’t as a people of conservative values find it in our hearts to welcome President Obama onto the Notre Dame commencement stage, won’t we be forced to accept as inevitable the confrontations we saw in the Middle East this week when a leader of Palestine interrupted the Pope mid-sentence? When we the Catholic people condemn the President this way, don’t we lose the moral footing that might allow us to pass judgement on that one short-sighted man who disrespected the Pope during an international dialogue? Where does this hostility come from? No one is asking us to become pro-choice. Let’s ask ourselves why we believe our condemnation of the President’s views on abortion entitles us to keep him off the podium of one of the greatest institutions of higher learning on the planet. We fancy ourselves peacemakers of the Middle East yet we can’t nod graciously to the freely elected leader of our country who has accepted the invitation of speaking at the Notre Dame commencement ceremony? If we can’t let President Obama speak in peace at Notre Dame, aren’t we saying phooey to respectable international dialogue within our lifetimes? Chill out America. It is time to agree to respectfully disagree. Militant Catholicism is not effective.

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Ayn Rand’s Batman Sequel

Quickly!  Wake up Ayn Rand, quickly now!  You have a sequel to write.  Text me Ayn.  Text me!

Where was Ms. Rand?  Was her ghost sitting on Mr. Limbaugh’s lap petting his generous forehead purring good boys like some strange new Batman character?  Or was she, rather, too preoccupied with her own infinity to notice that her movement has been hijacked, through popular reference, by its conservative champions?  

Yes, here in real-time, the story is inverted.   Redistribution upward toward the mighty and the successful has lead us now to redistribution in all directions from an unknown middle that is neither John Galt nor Mao. 

Maybe I’ve taken her message too literally.  Or, John, maybe is an alias for Mao?

Head Fake – the week in review

I’ve decided to bring the weeks posts together in one central location to help our readers keep up.  Here they are.

Why didn’t we see this coming?

Tax cuts in real time?

Republican Anger?

Conflict of interest at the microphone?

Yes, I’m talking to YOU Mr. Limbaugh

You should find this weeks post to be interesting.

Link for Rush Limbaugh Listeners

If you are a Rush Limbaugh listener, please click on the link below then scan the titles on the page that you’ve landed on.  You’ll see that the present economic turmoil was very much forseen and predicted by many many people in the know. 

Rush Limbaugh listeners must ask themselves why Rush chose not to tell them about the mounting dangers.   He and John McCain, you will recall, were prophets of growth and prosperity up through the week that Lehman Brothers went bankrupt in the Fall of 2008.   I pulled my 401K money out of the markets over a year ago.  I rode to the top and am now investing at the bottom.   There can be little doubt  that Rush did the same.  Why didn’t he warn you?  

Old Articles on the Banking Crisis

More Old Articles on the Banking & Mortgage Crisis

The real reason Limbaugh is attacking Obama

Obama: “Dropping out of high school is no longer an option. It’s not just quitting on yourself, it’s quitting on your country – and this country needs and values the talents of every American.”

You just read the real reason Limbaugh is attacking President Obama  in big bold letters as presented in Obama’s speech to Congress last week.   Mr. Obama is challenging every American to stand up, tuck in his or her shirt and begin at once to improve his or her own life.    President Obama is effectively, fluently, graciously saying many of the pro-American ideologies that Limbaugh has championed for 20 or more years. 

Mr. Limbaugh is defending his turf.  Mr. Limbaugh is jealous.  Mr. Limbaugh knows that Mr. Obama intends to hold blacks and whites, rich and poor equallly accountable for their own success. 

This scares Mr. Limbaugh so much that he has resorted to branding President Obama with the mistakes made by previous administrations.