How bad are things with Team McCain? It appears that Sarah Palin is "going rogue," trying to break free of her handlers and do her own thing. It seems that she's more looking out for herself than her running mate at this point. Check this out:
Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, creating occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them. Those Palin supporters, inside the campaign and out, said Palin blames her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image -- even as others in McCain's camp blame the pick of the relatively inexperienced Alaska governor, and her public performance, for McCain's decline."She's lost confidence in most of the people on the plane," said a senior Republican who speaks to Palin, referring to her campaign jet. He said Palin had begun to "go rogue" in some of her public pronouncements and decisions.
"I think she'd like to go more rogue," he said.
The emergence of a Palin faction comes as Republicans gird for a battle over the future of their party: Some see her as a charismatic, hawkish conservative leader with the potential, still unrealized, to cross over to attract moderate voters. Anger among Republicans who see Palin as a star and as a potential future leader has boiled over because, they say, they see other senior McCain aides preparing to blame her in the event he is defeated.
Go rogue, baby, go rogue. Who can blame her? John McCain is going to lose, and lose badly. He's got no future in the party. She does. If she can do what she can to repair damage to her political reputation while she's still in the spotlight, she ought to. But oh, oh, oh, just wait till the day after the election. The GOP is going to be like Crips vs. Bloods gang warfare. You can see it coming.
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Obama's into redistribution? Darn right.
His own words.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck
Basically, he says that "civil rights" are incomplete without redistribution of wealth.
Nightstalker:
I offer a list of irrefutable facts about the abuses and excesses of the Bush administration, the same ones you fear Obama will implement. They exist now. Illegal wiretapping of citizens. Loss of habeas corpus. Stifling of political dissent. Neutering the MSM until they are little more than a press release operation for the RNC. On and on. And all you can do is babble about how I live in a world devoid of reality -- rabid babble lacking a single fact.
Yes, I know that the collision of the right-wing fantasy bubble and the real world of facts is jarring, but over the next 4-8 years of an Obama presidency and dominant Democratic leadership of Congress, you may try introducing yourself to facts. But take it slowly, it will be disorienting at first.
Try reading this in small doses:
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/10/hbc-90003761
Thankfully, your radical view is in a vanishing minority. The great moderate middle of America has woken up, and it's really pissed at views like yours.
Getting back to this rather late after a full weekend, but....
Eddie in CA, I said those were the things that concerned me about OBAMA, not the sum total of things that concern me. Of course I'm concerned about the other things you mentioned, but so far as I can see there is no particular difference in how Obama versus McCain plan to handle the economic issues mentioned.
Also, to the poster who scoffed at prosecution for public disagreement with homosexuality in Canada, see this citation:
http://jonathanturley.org/2008/06/09/oh-canada-alberta-human-rights-commission-punishes-and-censures-anti-gay-speech/
I don't know the blogger above, but he summarizes the issue well.
Also, I don't agree with the original statements made by the pastor prosecuted in Canada, but rather the point is that free speech is not a Canadian right; however it is definitely and American one. To become more like socialist countries in many ways (health care, nationalization of banks and so on) worries me that we will become like them in other ways. That is the point.
I must say when the "Palin Goes Rogue" story first hit I got excited. In my heart I always knew this conservative believer in faith, family, and independence, could not be pigeon-holed into the neo-con agenda.
I cannot believe she supports American wars in far-away places. But how can she say it? After McCain loses, she will have a brief moment to seize the future of America's pragmatic conservative base - before the neo-cons kick her down the stairs. If she's one of us - we will need to support her.
Strongly suggest you read this article http://www.amconmag.com/article/2008/oct/06/00008/
in this periodical: http://www.amconmag.com/issue/2008/oct/06/
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