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Here we are 6 weeks from the presidential election and all we are really hearing  about is Sarah Palin and things about Sarah Palin.  I have been looking and listening to the news on  the networks and cable television, and was perlexed that the only political coverage was about Sarah Palin.  It was not about John McCain or Barack Obama or even the Vice-Presidential Demorcratic candidate Joe Biden[REMEMBER HIM?].  What is happening is the same thing that happenesd before and during the Irag War.  The press who are supposedly our third estate???, are not really being heard.  It is  hard to distinguish the press from the media personalities who are really political operatives turned supposedly news analyst.  Is Patrick Buchanon a politician[given an unsuccessful politician] or is he a member of the press?  News has become a commodity that needs to make a profit.  The days of Edward R. Morrow when facts and investigative reporting to find the truth were considered news are gone.  The press said they were remiss in not exposing the Bush/Chaney fabrications [LIES] about the Irag War.  Well that might have come from fear of reprisal against them and their television stations after 9/11.  People were afraid and also wanted a military response against those responsible.  They did not want to hear reason;they had been hurt literally and spiritualy.  They wanted our government to go after someone,[anyone who could be held resposible because someone had to be responsible for that horrendous act].  Here we are again with the press acting like they are a television show worried about their ratings  but not because of an attack on America and the public response.  Now the press has become Media with a capital M.  They only report what sells not what people need to know to be informed.  A perfect example is the so called press that is biased against Sarah Palin  being shanghied into only talking about Sarah Palin.  They do not show what Biden is doing on the campaqighn trail or Obama or for that matter what the presidential candidate for the Republicans is doing [besides being the companion of Sarah Palin].  I heard many pundits say, “oh the democrats are running scared and are off their game.  The Democrats are not talking about the issues anymore they are playing the republican game and are only  defending themselves against Palin.  That is not true; but how would anyone know that?  Issues don’t sell, lipstick and pigs sell viewership.  Also remember the cable personalities like Chris Matthews saying they wanted the  “Red Meat” and some annimosity to make it interesting[Translated; ratings, drama, Hollywood]  The media put people who are really political people on the same show with press people to legitamize their shows as being journalistic.  ”Good Night /Good Luck showed that the news could not survive on tlevision without it becoming Media ,Fluff, to hold the publics interest.  Have we really become a nation of Hollywood only people?  Everything has to be scripted and be visually appealing.  Where Americans can be considered “STUPID” by the republican opertaives like Karl Rove; who believe if you pit one group of Americans against another group and tell them who to be afraid of and who or what is the cause of their negative situations in their every day lives [even when they, the Republicans are resopnsible for the situations everyday average Americans are experiencing]  they will believe them.  Even if it is against their own self interest.  It is us against them psychology.  To reach for the divisive issues that the republicans believe separate Americans.

It is about time that we think as one Nation and not as a Nation with many components.  The people who pass themselves off as journalistic analyst on these television shows are not press.  They are media personalities and politaical operatives with biase on both sides of the political spectrum, attempting to influence without facts and entertain you.  This not the time or topic we as Americans can afford not to have a serious third estate of the press.  We need to be informed and not become a nation run by Facists.  This is AMERICA!  We are AMERICANS!  We deserve to not be distracted by trite things and the personalities of these candidates but to have exposed the expertise, policy and insight as to where and how they are going to Bring America back to a powerful productive country.  Also to bringing America back to a country that values ALL it’s citizens lives,especially those who sign up for military service.  Their lives are not expendable and are our greatest srenghth not to be squandered because of Bush/Chaney’sselfish view of the world.  As Dick Chaney said in an interview with Martha Raddich; when asked, “what about the service people and the cost to them”, He said SO! They signed up to be in the Military,thats what they are suppose to do.  So I ask  you, just use the COMMON SENSE that the media and the political operatives don’t think you have, and demand to have the real Press be held responsible for what they report and have them report the facts.  We need the correct facts to be able to make an informed decision when we go to the polls in November.  It Is a decision that will determine the rest of our lives in the U.S.A.

Did Palin Really Fight The “Bridge To Nowhere”?

 Palin in Governor Debate Supports the Bridge to Nowhere

A few days ago the National Enquirer alleged an affair between Republican Presidential Nominee John McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin and her husband’s business partner, Scott Richter. We covered it here at the BTW too. A report then emerged that Brad Hanson was actually the man with the adulterous relationship with Palin.

What’s going on in America?  Are we going to allow ourselves to be fooled again with gimmicks.  Every recent presidential election cycle brings out the Karl Rove Types.  They muddy the waters so people are not paying attention to what needs to be done to keep America from going  down the economic and world tube.  What the media is focusing your attention on is do you like John McCain and Palin as opposed to, do you like Obama and Biden.  The media is not focusing your attention on the issues that effect your lives.  In the primaries issues were all important but since then they are not interesting and do not make for good ratings.  We need to wake up and not allow issues that don’t apply to all Americans to be the issues.  George Bush told you about Gays, Abortion, and guns.  What does that have to do with anyone who is not gay, is not interested in getting an abortion, or does not carry guns.  These things are the rights of people that America offers it’s citizens.  It is not for one group religous or not to tell Americans what they should think or feel.  America is not a country of one religion.  It affords people choice of faith or not.  We must not surrender to facist beliefs that one group is right on social issues while the other groups of people are wrong.  The key word from the beginning of the nation of America has been CHOICE!  Let us not fall for the old republican gimmicks used to distract. They have pulled these tactics so often that we should all be ready for the same old rhetoric.  They really work on the premise that Americans are STUPID.  They know that people have died for a lie in a war of choice but do not talk about the war.  So they talk about what they think middle Americans who are not very educated think about; small mind thoughts about if someone might be gay somewhere in the United States, [probably not anyone they know] but wanting to impose their right to choose on others.  Thus only certain people would have choice but we do not know how we choose who has choice or not.  Is it only people who are evangelicals? [because they are right]. 

So let’s maybe try something different and surprise the republicans and consevatives [who have nothing in common with middle America] and be true Americans.  Let us exercise our God given RIGHT Of FREEDOM OF CHOICE, and let us think as Americans and vote on what will make our lives better than the last 8yrs.  Let us decide that Health care, Jobs, Energy Reform and defending the country against terrorsim in the right places, will make a difference for everyone.  This is not a beauty/movie contest.  This is about the SURVIVAL of our nation.

KISSIMMEE, Fla. - Anyone wanting a Hillary vs. Sarah smackdown might be in for a letdown. First, Sarah Palin launched her Republican vice presidential campaign with praise for the strides Hillary Rodham Clinton made in her quest for the Democratic presidential nomination. On Monday, Clinton spoke in kind.

“It is a great accomplishment,” Clinton said of Palin’s selection as the GOP’s first female running mate. Clinton told a rally of 500 that the election will be decided on issues, not the historical significance of the candidates, and Democrat Barack Obama and his running mate Joe Biden bring more to the table than the Republican ticket.

“Women as well as men make their decisions after they weigh the evidence,” Clinton said. “As Americans go into that voting booth, what they have to ask themselves is not so much who am I for, as who is for me? And I don’t think it’s an even close question that we have the ticket that is going to do the best job in restoring the American promise.”

About the most she’d say about Palin is that she and Republican presidential candidate John McCain “are not the change that we need.”

Former Clinton adviser Howard Wolfson is dismissing any notion the Obama campaign would dispatch Clinton to take on Palin, as much as he thinks some people would revel in seeing the two strong women butt heads.

“Don’t hold your breath,” he wrote in his New Republic blog. “Clinton-Palin might drive ratings and sell magazines, but it wouldn’t be good for the Democratic Party, or the cause of women’s rights. Some might enjoy the spectacle, but don’t expect Hillary Clinton to play along.”

Clinton said: “I didn’t run because I was a woman but I was very conscious of the fact that my campaign meant a lot to so many, and I appreciate that. But this election is about the two parties, and the two presidential nominees, where they stand, what they would do, what our country needs right now.”

And she said the Democratic ticket is the one that “will fight to revitalize the economy and create jobs and make college affordable and enable hardworking Americans to be able to afford both a gallon of gas and a gallon of milk.”

It was Clinton’s second campaign swing through Florida since she conceded the Democratic primary to Obama. She told supporters it will be a critical state in November, and one that has been harder hit than most by unemployment and home foreclosures.

She later addressed nearly 1,600 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which endorsed her last year. Clinton asked them to help Obama now.

So far polls have found few signs that women who backed Clinton in the primary would cross over to vote Republican in large numbers. Even so, Palin has been the talk of the presidential campaign for a week and the Obama campaign has seemed unsure what to do about her.

Now commenting from the sidelines, Wolfson said each day the Democrats focus on Palin is a day they are not driving home the message that McCain just represents four more years of President Bush.

He warned against giving in to “an obsession in our popular culture with the ‘cat fight,’ an offensive term that describes the spectacle of two well-known women fighting with one another.”

At least one Clinton supporter tried instigating that fight during a Tampa rally later Monday, interrupting her speech with a shout of “Tell us about Palin!”

Clinton didn’t take the bait.

“You know what? I don’t think that’s what this election is about. This election is about the differences between us and the Republican Party,” she said to cheers from the crowd of more than 1,000. “Anybody who believes that the Republicans, whoever they are, can fix the mess they created probably believes that the iceberg could have saved the Titanic.”

At a news conference afterward, she took a slight jab at Republicans for not putting a woman on the ticket sooner.

“The Democrats did it in 1984,” she said, referring to Geraldine Ferraro, Walter Mondale’s running mate. “It took a while, but the Republicans got around to doing it this year. And I think that’s a great milestone for us as a nation, but that’s not the determinant as to who should be our president.”