Yes, I'm sure there was divine intervention involved.

Yay, so you got Mama Grizzly's endorsement. "Say Your Prayers" indeed.

So many troubles in the world, problems to solve, people without jobs, hungry people, wars, illness and O'Donnell is praying for Palin's endorsement. Hope I read this thread wrong.

oh brother

STS. Nothing to see here.

Sarah Palin is a private citizen, yet her endorsements have been influential in a number of republican primary contests this season.

President Obama is the PRESIDENT and his endorsements have been influential in a number of democratic primaries.

Which of the two endorsers do you think has been more successful in influencing the electorate thus far, the private citizen with the facebook page or the PRESIDENT with his "bully Pulpit"?

It SHOULD be the president, right?

Slant head Sean Hannity and Your Royal Highness , the Frozen Tundra Queen, Sarah Palin are not representative of Christian values. Methinks Christine O'Donnell is welcoming evil spirits.

And you and your ilk represent Christian values with your name calling?

This report may shed some light on what is going on with the dopes of nope and the half term Gov.

Myths and misconceptions of the GOBP Exposed

Misconceptions about REPUBLICANS go back many years. In the 1830s, the geographer Zeigler of Strasbourg proposed the theory that the republicans fell out of the sky during stormy weather (also featured in the folklore of the Inupiat/Yupik at Norton Sound), and then died suddenly after the November elections.^[5] This myth was refuted by the natural historian Ole Worm, who accepted that the republicans could fall out of the sky but that they had been brought over by the wind rather than created by generation during the spring primary. It was Worm who first published dissections of a republican, which showed that they are anatomically similar to most other rodents, and the work of Carl Linnaeus proved that they had a natural origin.^[6][7]

Republicans became notorious in popular culture because of a myth that they commit mass suicide when they loose elections. Driven by strong biological urges, some species of republicans may migrate in large groups when democratic voter density becomes too great. Republicans can swim and may choose to cross a body of water in search of a new precinct/district. In such cases, many may drown if the body of water is so wide as to stretch their physical/mental capability to the limit. This fact combined with the unexplained fluctuations in the population of Southern republicans gave rise to the development of the myth. ^[8]

The myth of republican "mass suicide" is long-standing and has been popularized by a number of factors. In 1955, Disney Studio illustrator Carl Barks drew an Uncle Scrooge adventure comic with the title "The Republicans with the Locket". This comic, which was inspired by a 1954 American Mercury article, showed massive numbers of republicans jumping over Hudson river cliffs.^[9][10] Even more influential was the 1958 Disney film White Wilderness, which won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature, in which staged footage was shown with republicans jumping into sure death after faked scenes of mass election losses.^[11] A Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary, Cruel Camera, found that the republicans used for White Wilderness were flown from the west coast to the east coast, where they did not jump off the cliff, but in fact were launched off the cliff using a turntable by other tea party republicans.^[12]

Because of their association with this odd behavior, republican election losses are frequently used metaphor in reference to people who go along unquestioningly with unpopular opinion, with potentially dangerous or fatal election consequences.

See wikipedia for some source/research material

Any one this hillbilly weirdo endorses you know will be just as weird as she is !

I don't consider Sarah Palin a whore or a hillbilly. I realize her knowledge is lacking and don't give her much thought. Unfortunately many people do. People like Sarah light fires like the mosque controversy and then we have a preacher threatening to burn qurans. Our words have consequences. Sarah Palin lives to create controversy and for this I dislike her as a human being. She has nothing of value to offer society.

From MMFA, These are some real Americans, when will people spit the hooks out?

Beck, Palin to restore honor to 9/11 by cashing in with $225 "meet and greet"

September 08, 2010 2:33 pm ET by Will Bunch

September 11 is a very important day for Glenn Beck. For one thing, the king of all right-wing media talks about it all the time -- more on that in a second. What's more, the horrors of Sept. 11, 2001, are pretty much what made the Fox News Channel host into the national lightning rod that he is today. It was the vehicle that caused him to complete his journey from a Morning Zoo "rodeo clown" to a political guy who suddenly was replacing the so-9/10 Laura Schlessinger on radio outlets coast to coast and then leading a series of transparently self-serving honoring-the-troops rallies for Clear Channel.

But Beck has talked a lot about 9/11 over nine years -- and with the highly notable exception of https://staging.mematt.org/mmtv/200509090003">his bizarre September 2005 attack on the family members of victims of the terrorist attack, the emphasis has been on extreme reverence for that day in American history. When he was getting off the ground on FNC, he used the images of 9/11 to launch project he claimed would bring Americans back together.

As recounted in my new book https://staging.mematt.org/rd?to=http://www.amazon.com/Backlash-Right-Wing-Radicals-High-Def-Hucksters/dp/0061991716/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280840717&sr=8-1">The Backlash, he said of the attacks on his now infamous March 13, 2009, "We Surround Them" program:

"[t]he skies were filled with black clouds and our hearts were full of terror and fear. We realized -- for the first time -- how fragile we really were." As Beck addressed his coast-to-coast audience, viewers saw images of anguished, tearful women, head in hands, mouths agape, staring at the hellish fires of the World Trade Center, then a mother racing down a Manhattan byway pushing two children in a stroller, away from the deadly dust.

https://staging.mematt.org/rd?to=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/will-bunch/glenn-becks-warped-hikack_b_217294.html">The 9/12 Project, which devolved in a matter of days into an anti-Barack Obama backlash movement, was described by Beck as aimed:

to bring us all back to the place we were on September 12, 2001. The day after America was attacked we were not obsessed with Red States, Blue States or political parties. We were united as Americans, standing together to protect the values and the principles of the greatest nation ever created.

In fact, Beck even told his much ballyhooed Restoring Honor rally in D.C. last month that https://staging.mematt.org/mmtv/201008280017">9/11 was a sign from the Almighty, presumably to turn Americans away from things like greed and back to the things that really matter:

BECK: He has been sending us wake-up calls, and you can send two kinds of wake-up calls. One through fear, like 9/11. Nine-eleven woke us up, and we stood shoulder-to-shoulder for a very short period of time. Politics didn't matter. Color didn't matter. It didn't matter if you were poor or if you were rich. We were Americans together. Beyond that, we were God's human creation standing together.

So, with that all as a backdrop, what matters the most to Glenn Beck on September 11, 2010, the ninth anniversary of the day that terrorists slaughtered nearly 3,000 innocent Americans and ripped apart the lives of their families and friends?

Cashing in, apparently.

In Palinland, of all places.

The spiritual guru of the 9-12 Project http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20015814-503544.html">will be marking the anniversay of 9-11 along with his new best friend Sarah Palin with a high-priced (and as far as the actual program goes, somewhat mysterious) event at the Dena'ina Center in Anchorage, Alaska. The potential event has been rumored and discussed under the radar for days, possibly even as the launch of a Palin 2012 presidential bid.

But apparently, in the immortal words of Steve Martin in "The Jerk," it's yet another "profit deal" for the two leading high-def hucksters of the right wing. According to https://staging.mematt.org/rd?to=http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0F0044E6DDB96945?majorcatid=10005&artistid=967718&minorcatid=104&tm_link=tm_notix_Change_Search_Request">the Ticketmaster page, tickets for this solemn 9-11 commemoration run from a low of $73 to a top price of $130, and that's not all. There's also $225 for a special meet-and-greet with Beck (and possibly with Palin), so that die-hard (and not economically struggling) Beck fans can wish him a happy 9-11 in person.

If there's a contradiction or some sort of irony in cashing in over 9-11, that seems to have eluded the hosts. http://www.facebook.com/notes/sarah-palin/glenn-beck-visits-alaska-on-911/427473918434">Palin wrote this week on her Facebook page: "We can count on Glenn to make the night interesting and inspiring, and I can think of no better way to commemorate 9/11 than to gather with patriots who will 'never forget.' "

Visa and MasterCard accepted.

Truth be told, outrageous as Beck's latest scheme is, it's almost hard to work up the outrage at this point because to those of us who aren't drinking the David Barton-fueled Kool-Aid, this is simply who Beck is: One of the most shameless businesspeople in America, who happens to be in the business of entertainment and warping some minds politically in the process. Beck has millions of fans -- and to him they are all walking ATM machines. He thinks nothing of selling the people who admire him https://staging.mematt.org/rd?to=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/19/anthony-weiner-glenn-beck_n_581563.html">overpriced gold coins or https://staging.mematt.org/blog/201009010011">surivial seed banks and "Food Insurance" kits, none of which they need, and almost every Beck event not named "Restoring Honor" is designed around maximizing ticket prices.

That's why Glenn Beck made $32 million last year and Sarah Palin made $12 million in a matter of months.

The only difference is that this time it's 9/11.

And Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin are open for business 365 days a year.

The burning is off. Here's to Americans all across our nation for not looking the other way. And here's to President Obama and Hillary Clinton for speaking up. What a shame it would have been if no one said anything and just let this pastor have "his" freedom, while trying to take away someone else's.

I'm sure religions from all across the world were looking to President Obama to speak about this. Imagine if he hadn't said anything and this burning occurred? What would the world think of us then? We had to make it perfectly clear that this pastor did not represent us as a country, whether he went through with it or not. President Obama is attempting to build bridges in real life. Most of the pundits are just trying to make a buck.

Whoever advised the president was correct. 100% correct. It's time to stop looking the other way. We did that prior to 9/11 and we did it prior to the economic crash.

OneNation.

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

Hi Fiesty, Bev, Da Noid, KeepN it Real, you to dangerfield thanx for "keeping it real" until faced with the adverse. Then you respond. I like that. I am the Watcher and from what I've observed over the last year or so the ones you make effort to educate can never be. I wonder sometimes why you make effort. Then I understand that it is about responsibility. Then I'm baffled as to why the uneducated won't make effort to educate themselves. Again I'm reminded of hetrosuggestion. That is if you keep reminding them, keep planting the subliminal seed, maybe they will eventually get it. But sometimes you must also relent because in a collective, resistense is futile.

Think Progress
Former Bush Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell gave a strong endorsement of the proposed Islamic community center near Ground Zero in New York City today, saying, “If you believe in our system…then you can’t make a distinction between two, three, five, and ten block” away from the site of the 9/11 terror attacks. Appearing on ABC’s The View, Powll said “politicians” have stoked the emotional debate, and noted that the opposition to the mosque is part of a wave of “Islamophobia across the country,” citing the opposition to proposed mosques in Tennessee and California--

POWELL: I think eventually it will. … And I’m saying to myself, what is wrong with this? and does it make a difference whether it’s two, three, four, five or 10 blocks away? And the answer is, if you believe in our system and if you understand why we can do it at the Pentagon and Walter Reed, then you can’t make a distinction between two, three, five and 10 blocks. I think it should go forward. [...]

General Petraeus is right. There are a billion Muslims who are watching this mosque issue and they’re watching what’s going on in Florida and they’re wondering, has America changed? Is America different? … So I think we’ve got a problem. We’ve got to take a deep breath. And politicians are using this for all kinds of purposes.

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Muslims are in difficult position. They are being made to convince us that they do not share the beliefs of the 9/11 terrorists. Seems like we may have the same problem. We as a nation do not share the same beliefs as this pastor and every other hateful bigot in this country. And we have to keep saying it. Over and over and over.

dangerfield

I am the guy who came here and called for common courtesy. You won't find much in the way of overheated rhetoric from me about republicans or democrats. The battle cry "your side is worse, or your side is just as bad" still doesn't justify the almost comically nasty stuff you write.

Forgive me i didn't know you had been appointed moderator for First Read or the "ONE" who decides how the law of "cause and effect" is distributed through out the universe.

Why would you expect anyone here to show respect for the president (as to him being the most maligned, have you ever taken political science? George Washington, the "Father of our Country" was hung in effigy outside his window and quit what would have been a position for life because he didn't think any mortal man should be subjected to more than 8 years of the abuse) when you show such malignant contempt for your opponents in your rhetoric?

Dangerfield,

I said in "my lifetime" of the United States; not from millenniums ago of America's colonial history way, way, way, before my time.

Bev never attacks any poster and feisty disdains "shooting the "messenger"...I hope that's clear now to everyone.

Have a great night!

September 9, 2010 posted from Political Animal site, this is in regards to our favorite Mourn.Joe political idiot. Thought some of you might enjoy, I did. Goodnight Danger

HALPERIN'S DEEPLY FLAWED ADVICE....Mark Halperin latest item in Time starts off pretty well. He notes that White House officials, including President Obama, "have betrayed visible annoyance" at the Republican response to their latest tax proposals, including "tax incentives for companies to make capital expenditures and do more R&D."

Halperin doesn't blame the president and his team for being annoyed, since Obama "is calling for some of the same provisions that the GOP and its business-lobby allies have touted for years." Halperin even acknowledges that Republicans are only fighting the administration's ideas because they want to deny the president a pre-election victory -- putting political considerations ahead of the economy.

So, what's the problem? Halperin's suggestion to Obama about the road ahead.

What most ails the economy right now is the uncertainty in the business sector about what Washington will do next. Wariness and doubt inhibit investment and hiring. The President's new proposals address those obstacles head-on. But sooner or later the President is going to need Republican votes and the backing of business to get this and other measures passed. Treating his opponents as unprincipled chuckleheads makes it less likely that Obama will get what he wants and more likely that voters will be turned off by contemptuous rhetoric.

That sort of gambit is likely to prove unhelpful for either the long-term good of the economy or the President.

Two things. First, uncertainty is not what ails the economy most right now. Republicans say this every day, and they're wrong.

Second, Halperin's advice is badly flawed. Halperin concedes Republicans are opposing ideas they should support, concedes Republicans aren't approaching the debate in good faith, and concedes that their position is entirely unprincipled. But he nevertheless concludes that the president shouldn't show any public frustration about this -- or, heaven forbid, actually call out the GOP for their indefensible antics -- because it might hurt Republicans' feelings, making bipartisan cooperation less likely.

This is pretty astounding for a media figure who helps dictate the conventional wisdom -- Republicans are misbehaving, but if Obama acknowledges their misbehavior, Republicans are likely to keep misbehaving.

How, then, does Halperin suggest the president, who's already prepared to endorse policies the GOP says they want, move the policy forward? Send Republicans flowers? Invite them to the movies? Praise them for their obstinacy? Keep repeating "thank you, sir, may I have another" until Republicans are prepared to let the political system function?

As for Halperin's concern about "contemptuous rhetoric," I think Republicans characterizing the president as an illegitimate, authoritarian Communist with Hitler-like tendencies and no birth certificate have cornered the market on this front.

I understand you see Palin as a diamond in the rough ....i see her as a turd in the punch bowl !

From Crooks and Liars(not you Dangerfield) It looks like the dopes of nope GOBP armour may have a chink Begining..lol.

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September 09, 2010 03:00 PM

Voinovich Breaks Ranks, Says Small Biz Bill Must Pass

By karoli

Retiring Ohio Senator George Voinovich has given a strong signal to the White House that he will play ball with them on the Small Business bill as well as the $50 billion infrastructure stimulus spending bill. It appears that he will want to add an amendment pulling the 1099 reporting requirement that was included in the Affordable Care Act as his only quid pro quo.

Voinovich's support for the measures really exposes the bankruptcy of the current Republican strategy, otherwise known as "No."

Via Washington Post:

In an interview, Voinovich said he could no longer support efforts by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to delay the measure in hopes of winning the right to offer additional GOP amendments. Most of the proposed amendments "didn't have anything to do with the bill" anyway, Voinovich said, and amounted merely to partisan "messaging."

"We don't have time for messaging. We don't have time anymore. This country is really hurting," Voinovich said.

Voinovich highlighted the difficulties small business owners face:

The package of tax breaks and other incentives includes a new loan fund that would encourage community banks to provide up to $30 billion to small businesses, improving access to credit - a problem hurting small businesses in Ohio, Voinovich said. He cited the case of a constituent whose business was turned down for a loan by 42 banks.

"We don't have time anymore to play games," Voinovich said. "I happen to believe these small-business people can't get money to save their souls."

Voinovich was also a no-show for the Affordable Care Act vote on the first round, an absence I viewed at the time as his way of not opposing the bill while not overtly challenging party leadership. Now that he's close to retirement, it seems he's willing to put the good of his constituents ahead of party loyalty. It's good to see, and gives political cover to the Maine twins and Scott Brown to follow suit.

President Obama and former President Bill Clinton are capable of making the November election a huge victory

for the Democrats. So far, President Obama is really doing a good job in the campaign trail and

just need to be joined by Bill Clinton who is a very good campaigner.

Dangerfield, et al:

I would be the first person to advocate elevation of the political discourse on this blog and elsewhere. But far too often the dialog gets hijacked by inanity, misinformation, outright lies and demagoguery by the GOP and their Bagger Klan. An agreement to commence the dialog with facts has proved challenging for them in this environment but it would be a great start. Otherwise, in order to win this war, the rest of us have had to adopt Agent Anderson's approach in Mississippi Burning: "these people are crawling out of the sewer! Maybe the gutter's where we outta be!"

Beverly, you seem to know a lot about where Palin got here support from. Which I think is a lot of baloney. But tell me where did Zerobama got his trillions from to run and support his campaign? Don't tell me you don't know where you Annointed One got his. Let me give you a hint. Saudi Arabia? Possibly from........ Be careful what you say or it might come back and haunt you. But after he leaves the presidency the American people will eventually know everything.

Everybody is running from Zerobama. Millions of Americans are turning to Palin and the Tea Party.

Quotables of the day........Palin endorses candidate without telling her...LOL.

"Thanks @SarahPalinUSA for the last minute call in. Endorsement of Christine O'Donnell was an exclusive. Said she hadn't told Christine yet." Sean Hannity from Sarah Palin

"I am just a man who is trying to do what God has told us to do." Rev. Terry Jones

"Just drink the Kool Aid." Rev. Jim Jones

"Burn the Qurans and all the books of God, including the Bible. You Right Wing Conservative bigots don't listen to me anyway." Jesus

Next, Sarah Palin will probably admit that endorsed Levi Johnson wearing a condom while sleeping with her daughter in the Alaska governor's mansion. She just forgot to tell him......

And, if she becomes our next President, she can endorse tax cuts for the wealthy, more corporate bailouts and corporate welfare, and more attacks on third world countries....as long as she forgets to tell someone...