***So, the SJ-R does its level best to act like NYT or WaPo this morning in its editorial lambasting of Governor Palin from Alaska.  They clearly didn't like her speech or her accent or her belittling of The Obama.  Of course, the SJ-R didn't do such a ticky-tacky disassebling of The Obama's speech last week.  A couple of things:

Palin must have forgotten to mention that she thinks global warming is a hoax and that all abortions, including those resulting from rape or incest, should be banned.  Has the SJ-R ever questioned climate change?  Have they not seen any of the reports about the cooling we've experienced over the last decade?  How about publishing one story about Obama's abortion record?  About how he voted against the Infant Born Alive Act and spoke out against the Act on the IL Senate floor?  Where are those questions?

Palin and McCain also crassly served up Palin’s pregnant 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, and her boyfriend, Levi Johnston, as an offering to the religious right.  Families should be off limits in a political campaign, and after the announcement that Bristol Palin was pregnant, Palin begged for their privacy.  Wait a minute.  Doesn't the SJ-R keep up on the Left's daily rumor about the Palins?  The Daily Kos and other liberal blogs spent a great deal of time last Sat smearing the Palin's with the fabricated story that Gov. Palin's youngest was really the child of her 17-year old daughter.  In order to put this vicious rumor to rest, the McCain campaign was forced to publish the truth about a minor child.  The SJ-R says families should be 'off limits' but conveniently left out the facts of this 'story'.

Let's not even go the 'families are off limits' argument when the SJ-R and mainstream media could not bring themselves to actually investigating or writing about John Edwards' affair last year.  The affair of an aspiring presidential candidate with a wife dying of cancer.  No.  That'd be off limits.  How many off limits articles did the SJ-R publish about Palin's daughter this week? 

ALSO NOTICE the differences between Palin’s much-vaunted national debut and that of Barack Obama four years ago.  Obama sought to unite the nation. Palin belittled Obama’s experience as a community organizer and resorted to the tired old tactic of portraying Democrats as people who cannot relate to small-town America. Nobody should buy that argument a third time.  Huh?  The Obama's speech four years ago was not as the VP candidate, it was as a keynote speaker.  This is comparing apples to oranges.  The VP is supposed to take on the opposition and is supposed to be an 'attack dog'.  Wasn't that what Biden was called two weeks ago?  Wasn't that the role Biden played last week in Denver?  Where was the SJ-R's outrage at Biden's speech deriding the GOP?  Also, The Obama has belittled small-town America with the fact that we cling to our Bibles and guns.  And, his time spent as a community organizer, as we've shown on this blog, was considered a failure by the guy who hired him.  His boss said that he had a talent for inspiring people, but he didn't get a lot done.

The SJ-R is blinded by The Obama's celebrity and has bought the Left's constant spin against the McCain-Palin ticket.  So sad.

***SPD had to shoot a pit bull last night while trying to apprehend an alleged drug dealer.  The crowd that gathered blamed the cops, became unrule and then was uncooperative.  Why do people like drug dealers in their neighborhood?

***McCain's speech was fine for the most part, delivering far more specifics than The Obama last week.  But it was sort of like a State of the Union speech with its list of things to do.  However, when he spoke of his experiences in Vietnam and then asked people to stand up and fight with him for a better American, clearly the place went up for grabs and the GOP soldiers were ready to go!

***Paul Krugman and NYT still don't get it.  The GOP and conservative leaning Americans don't like the liberal coastal media.  Hell, they're not even sure about their hometown media (see above).  But, Krugman goes on and on oblivious to the reality:  Some of it, of course, is driven by cultural and religious conflict: fundamentalist Christians are sincerely dismayed by Roe v. Wade and evolution in the curriculum. What struck me as I watched the convention speeches, however, is how much of the anger on the right is based not on the claim that Democrats have done bad things, but on the perception — generally based on no evidence whatsoever — that Democrats look down their noses at regular people.

The lib media is comforted to think that everyone who is conservative or lives in fly-over territory is a clueless 'fundamentalist Christian'.  But being referred to as such by Krugman and The Obama certainly gets people moving to vote against both.

***Why doesn't The Obama ever talk about fixing things in the state he represents?  How about fixing things in the city which houses his mansion and family? 

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