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All Spin Zone <http://allspinzone.com/wp> John McCain, "Appallingly Bad Judgement"<http://allspinzone.com/wp/2008/10/03/john-mccain-appallingly-bad-judgement/> Posted: 03 Oct 2008 06:47 AM CDT That's the New York Times this morning, one of those myriad of papers Sarah Palin claims to read. One wonders what she would think of reading this editorial this morning. Here's the last three paragraphs, from the NYTimes<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/opinion/03fri1.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin> : Ms. Palin's primary tactic was simply to repeat the same thing over and over: John McCain is a maverick. So is she. To stay on that course, she had to indulge in some wildly circular logic: America does not want another Washington insider. They want Mr. McCain (who has been in Congress for nearly 26 years). Ms. Palin condemned Wall Street greed and said she and Mr. McCain would "demand" strict oversight. In virtually the next breath, she said government should "get out of the way" of American business. There were occasional, disturbing flashes of the old, pre-campaign Sarah Palin. Asked about the causes of global warming, Ms. Palin suggested that man had some role — but she wasn't saying how much. In the end, the debate did not change the essential truth of Ms. Palin's candidacy: *Mr. McCain made a wildly irresponsible choice that shattered the image he created for himself as the honest, seasoned, experienced man of principle and judgment. It was either an act of incredible cynicism or appallingly bad judgment*. This depicts Sarah Palin as confused, and that's what she was in the content of her debate last night, if not in her forceful delivery. I kept looking at my wife during the debate, wondering why Palin was talking about topics that weren't asked about, wondering what particular sentences meant, wondering if there would be any content to her words, marvelling over the contradictions. But the debate was not about Sarah Palin, really. The debate was a stinging commentary on John McCain's errant judgement, his irresponsible approach to governance. <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Ea/allspinzone/jHgW?a=rUQ3zX> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Ef/allspinzone/jHgW?a=LU82M> Palin Treads on the Third Rail of Middle East Politics<http://allspinzone.com/wp/2008/10/02/palin-treads-on-the-third-rail-of-middle-east-politics/> Posted: 02 Oct 2008 10:46 PM CDT There's no doubt that the problems in the Middle East center on Israel. Terrorism, for instance, is a problem in the Middle East because of long-standing Arab/Muslim animosity towards Israel. We now support a two state solution in that region, and one of the symbols that could set back the notion of a two state solution is the movement of the US Embassy to what is now an undivided and Israeli Jerusalem. That move is symbolic of our recognition that Israel is sovereign over all of Jerusalem, a symbol that would say to all Palestinian hopes and dreams for their own state that they have no claim, under any circumstances, ever, to Jerusalem. That symbol would lead to more terrorism and more violence in Israel, and would shut down any attempts at peace. Nothing on earth would inflame the Palestinians more than that their hope of oneday having a share of Jerusalem is gone forever. Indeed, if there is any way Muslims in Arab countries would be persuaded to more fully support Palestinian terror attacks, it is if we relocate our embassy to Jerusalem. That symbol Sarah Palin advocated in the debate tonight is the third rail of Middle East politics, is a wrong stance politically for the Middle East, and is so dangerous that it could in itself cause a wave of violence and terrorism among Palestinians to rival the Infitada. Of course, Sarah Palin was merely echoing John McCain's promise to relocate the US Embassy to Jerusalem "immediately." McCain made that false promise in July <http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/990903.html>. It was pandering, pure and simple. As Aaron Kayek noted in his July article in Huffington Post, John McCain knows he was pandering to get the Jewish vote in this country in making his promise to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem. John McCain also knows it is a promise he will not keep, that it is the same false promise made by Republicans for the last twenty years, by Bob Dole and by George Bush. John McCain is not stupid, though. He knows Israel is such a touchy issue in American politics that nobody will call him on his pandering. And John McCain knows he will never fulfill the promise he is making in this regard. Just ask Douglas Bloomfield of the Jerusalem Post<http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331137954&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull> : John McCain should know better, and so should pro-Israel voters. The GOP nominee-to-be must think we're a pretty gullible bunch of nudniks if he expects us to believe that he will move the US embassy to Jerusalem "right away" if he is elected president. It won't happen, and he knows it. But that's what he said when CNN's Wolf Blitzer last week asked if as president he would move the embassy. "Yes," he answered. "Right Away. I've been committed to that proposition for years." Who does he think he is, George W. Bush? Candidate Bush made the same pledge eight years ago. He promised to move the embassy on his first day in office, but backtracked to say he'd "begin the process" on the first day. We're still waiting. Like his predecessor, Bush has signed waivers every six months delaying the 1995 congressional mandate to move the embassy. McCain voted for that law, but hasn't pressed the issue except on the campaign trail, and he hasn't objected once to Bush's waivers of his own 2000 campaign promise. Bloomfield goes on to ask John McCain who he thinks he is fooling. Does he think Israelis and American Jews are so stupid to think he will carry through on this dangerous promise? As Bloonfield notes, moving the US Embassy is an issue the Israelis avoid, because they know the subject is a powder keg. I suspect they would even lobby against the move if any President were ever to try to act on it. John McCain knows it is a cynical promise he made to Jews here in the Us, hoping to get their votes, but does Sarah Palin understand any of this? No. Sarah Palin probably thinks that helping Israel is important because that's where the Rapture is going to occur, and that Israel must be in Jewish hands when the Rapture does come. Sarah Palin likely understands none of the real politics of the Middle East, what the Israeli government understands, that they must walk carefully in order to maintain the peace they have fought for, such precious little that there is of it. They know not to step on the third rail of Mideast politcs. Sarah Palin knows no such thing. She's reckless and waht's worse is that she doesn't understand her recklessness. She's like a two year old who thinks the bee is pretty and reaches out for it. Heaven save us from Sarah Palin. That debate scared me in many more ways than on this issue. Mainly it scared me because she didn't wet herself, which is the standard she had to achieve to gain the endorsement of people like Pat Robertson. So the Newsies are going to say she won, when to me and many, many others it became clear this was one long Couric interview, where the incoherency and wandering, Sarah Palin chasing rhetorical butterflies, was laughable. At least until she hit on some dangerous ideas, like asking our country to step on the Third Rail of Mideast politics. I'll let someone else discuss Palin's infatuation with the power Dick Cheney grabbede these past eight years. I'll let someone else count the times she used the word "Maverick," so often my wife wondered if she were talking adoringly of Tom Cruise and not John McCain. I'll let someone else trace some of Sarah Palin's rhetorical wanderings, and hope they don't get lost down that path. For me, this debate was about a woman advocating a dangerous position she knew so little about that it was like a child playing with fire. That part of the debate sent chills up my spine. <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Ea/allspinzone/jHgW?a=QkDKmJ> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Ef/allspinzone/jHgW?a=UzFeM> McCain Campaign Dropping Michigan, Birthplace to the Republican Party<http://allspinzone.com/wp/2008/10/02/mccain-campaign-dropping-michigan-birthplace-to-the-republican-party/> Posted: 02 Oct 2008 03:32 PM CDT The Republican Party was first established in Jackson Michigan. There on Second Street is a plaque celebrating the fact of the meeting "under the oaks" where the name "Republican" was first coined. Here's the link to the site where they describe the founding of the Republican Party<http://www.jacksonmich.com/markers/mark1.htm> : On July 6, 1854, a state convention of anti-slavery men was held in Jackson to found a new political party. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" had been published two years earlier, causing increased resentment against slavery, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of May, 1854, threatened to make slave states out of previously free territories. Since the convention day was hot and the huge crowd could not be accommodated in the hall, the meeting adjourned to an oak grove on "Morgan's Forty" on the outskirts of town. Here a state-wide slate of candidates was selected and the Republican Party was born. Winning an overwhelming victory in the elections of 1854, the Republican party went on to dominate national parties throughout the nineteenth century. This year, the Republicans, at least the McCain/Palin campaign, are giving up on Michigan<http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081002/pl_politico/22895;_ylt=AqO0K6eClU1BeD8JnFvhTMjCw5R4>. Here's an excerpt from the Politco article: McCain will go off TV in Michigan, stop dropping mail there and send most of his staff to more competitive states, including Wisconsin, Ohio and Florida. Wisconsin went for Kerry in 2004, Ohio and Florida for Bush. McCain's campaign didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Republicans had been bullish on Michigan, hopeful that McCain's past success in the state in the 2000 primary combined with voter dissatisfaction with Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm and skepticism among blue-collar voters about Barack Obama could make it competitive. Jackson is a town that might be the test case for why the Republicans are doing so poorly in Michigan that they are giving up. Jackson, Michigan has long fought unemployment and falling home values. I was last there 17 months ago for my mother's funeral. The situation is so bad that a house there which won't sell for $300,000 now, could sell for well over a million in the Philly suburbs. Yes, even the best neighborhoods in Jackson are going under. It feels like a ghost town. McCain is losing there because of economics, despite strong Republican leanings in most of the state, and a Governor in Michigan who is woefuly unpopular. Heck, Grand Rapids is the heart of the Republican stronghold in Michigan, and Barack Obama gathered a crowd of 16,000 there today<http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/7513/>. That's an astounding crowd for a Democrat in Grand Rapids, but it is because of the miserable failure of Republicans to steer an economy that even recognizes the troubles of Michigan, much less sets out for a cure for those troubles. Michigan has been doing so badly over the last 15 to 20 years that they don't give a damn about party anymore, much less their beloved Republican Party. Whoever is in office is going down. McCain is rightfully seen as being the Bush legacy. This is big news. The only question here concerns which is the next state the Republicans give up on. <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Ea/allspinzone/jHgW?a=cvm3js> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Ef/allspinzone/jHgW?a=diNsM> Bat Boy Meets With Paulson, Ed Anger Endorses McCain<http://allspinzone.com/wp/2008/10/02/bat-boy-meets-with-paulson-ed-anger-endorses-mccain/> Posted: 02 Oct 2008 09:31 AM CDT Bat Boy meeting with Treasury Secretary Paulson is a sure sign the bailout bill will pass the house. It says so right there in Weekly World News<http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/celebs/bailoutboy/>, with a picture of them shaking hands, no less. I'm sure, since this is one of the publications Sarah Palin reads, that she'll be bringing up this fact in the debate. We are doomed. Worse still, Ed Anger is endorsing John McCain. Here's the scoop direct from his endorsement in that fine publication<http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/opinion/ed-anger-endorses-angry-john-mccain-for-president-4/> : I'm madder than A-Rod's wife at a day-long Madonna concert. Can someone please explain to me why a Barack Obama presidency would be good for you and me? Me? I don't get it. I realize that Mr. McCain may not be the perfect candidate. Hell, I don't agree with Angry John on many issues. But Mr. McCain has my vote and by the time you finish reading this, I expect he will have yours. McCain locks up the anger vote and the Bat Boy vote all at once! Amazing. Yes, we are doomed. In other news, Sarah Palin has bagged a Bigfoot<http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/celebs/palin-bags-a-bigfoot/>, but no word on whether she dressed it out in the field. <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Ea/allspinzone/jHgW?a=eTMBzP> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Ef/allspinzone/jHgW?a=AxoGM> The Boss Schedules More Free Obama Concerts<http://allspinzone.com/wp/2008/10/02/the-boss-schedules-more-free-obama-concerts/> Posted: 02 Oct 2008 09:06 AM CDT We mentioned the other day<http://allspinzone.com/wp/2008/10/01/baby-we-were-born-to-volunteer/>that Bruce Springsteen would be playing a free acoustic concert here in Philadelphia to recruit volunteers for the Obama campaign. FoxNews is now reporting<http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/02/springsteen-announces-more-concert-dates-obama/>that Springsteen is practically touring in support of Obama, scheduling concerts at Ohio State University and Eastern Michigan University the following two days. Get young people excited in the swing states where the polling is already trending towards Obama? That sounds like a very good strategy to me. How long until the McCain campaign starts to whine about this? Two days? After all, they are busy whining about the press coverage of Sarah Palin right now, so maybe they'll focus on Springsteen soon. Will they call him an elitist? Surely Springsteen is rich, but given his bio and the raw "everyman" appeal of his music, the Repubs couldn't possibly pretend Bruce Springsteen is elitist. But here's betting they will do so. <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Ea/allspinzone/jHgW?a=NA4PkA> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Ef/allspinzone/jHgW?a=imPHM> Compare Yourself to Palin: Which Newspapers do You Read?<http://allspinzone.com/wp/2008/10/02/compare-yourself-to-palin-which-newspapers-do-you-read/> Posted: 02 Oct 2008 08:33 AM CDT I'm sure our readers here are far, far more informed about the economy, world events, the workings of governemtn and Supreme Court decisions as Sarah Palin. She reads all the newspapers and magazines, though, or so she said to Katie Couric. Here's Howard Kurtz with the transcripts of the Couric interview of Palin<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100103038.html>: COURIC: What newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this — to stay informed and to understand the world? COURIC: But what ones specifically? I'm curious. PALIN: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years. COURIC: Can you name any of them? PALIN: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news. "All" and "a variety of sources" might mean this<http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/>, where they have an article about Palin's belief that men and dinosaurs were on this earth at the same time<http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/palintology-revealed/#more-3066>, and this <http://www.people.com/people/>, and this<http://www.amsnow.com/sno/>. But seriously, we all read more than Sarah Palin. I have read the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington Post, DailyKos, Eschatonblog, NPR, the New Tork Times, the Anchorage Daily News, MSNBC and CNN this morning, mostly online. It's not even 10:00. Sarah Palin has likely read and not understood her umpteenth debate prep briefing document. Which brings us to the notion of what her answers in the debate will be. Surely Governor Palin will have canned answers she can just spit out when needed, whether to answer the question posed, or more likely, to change the subject. Roger Simon, not exactly a rabid liberal, has a few guesses at what those canned answers might be. He writes at Politico<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14189.html> : Still, I suspect Palin's debate preppers have provided her with some all-purpose answers for Thursday night just in case. These could include: 1. "Bounces off rubber and sticks to glue." 2. "I know you are, but what am I?" 3. "OK, so I may not know where Waziristan is, but I can see Russia from my roof." 4. "Drill! Drill! Drill!" 5. "I don't know the answer to that, but if you give me your address, I'll have my husband snow machine over to your house and punch you in the nose." 6. "How those hair plugs working out for you, Joe?" 7. "How should I know? I am not Sarah Palin, I am really Tina Fey." 8. "Sure, I said, 'Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States,' but at least I didn't plagiarize it." 9. "The square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides. Oh, sorry. Wrong cheat sheet." 10. "How much do you really have to know for a do-nothing job?" Oddly, I have to agree with Simon when he notes that it just might be good for her if she uses these lines. It'd be an example of Sarah Palin imitating Tina Fey, hitching herself to someone with vastly more popularity than she enjoys. To be serious, list those news sources that are indispensible to knowing about our country, the ones that if Sarah Palin were to focus on just them, rather than on "all" sources, she could save herself some labor. Let's give her some help. While you're at it, you can suggest more answers as Roger Simon has done — it is your choice whether to mangle the syntax or give her pointers on that. 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