From the Suffragettes!

As I always say--ladies rule!

Pal-in' around with Dogs

My bud in PA, Khyra, sent me this article about how if Sarah Palin wants to talk about Obama "palin' around with terrorists," perhaps we should talk about how she's palin' around with traitors, including her husband who was a member in the Alaska Independence Party. They advocate secession.

Charming. Khyra and I are good pals because we support the same teams, Obama and the Phillies, cruising to victory! So here's to WOO, Khyra!

My granny also sent me this post about how the McCain campaign is attacking MICHELLE Obama and, I have to say guys, if you go after Ike's love I have to warn you--it is ON. I wouldn't mess with Ike.

And also, don't mess with my future ma ape. You know, when her daughters adopt me and make me the future First Dog.

ETA: I stand corrected. According to this video, Obama HAS been consorting with some shady characters:

ZING!

Here's what ol' Delaware Joe is good for (other than foreign policy experience and legislative mojo):

Speaking in Missouri Thursday, the VP candidate responds to Gov. Palin’s dig that he’s been in the Senate since she was in second grade:

“That’s true, but she was in sixth grade the last time John had a new idea.”

Get off my GraNE's Lawn!

Yesterday Sarah Palin was in Nebraska which is funny because it is usually a totally red state but her visit, many speculated, was prompted by fears that the Second District could be up for grabs and the Husker state divvies up its electoral votes. The stories of concern were in part due to the fact that the Obama campaign just opened up a second field office in Omaha which means they think they have a shot. But here's what Governor Golly had to say:

“The pundits today on TV—one of them was saying, check out the vice president’s schedule, check out where she’s going — she’s going to Nebraska,” Palin said. “But the pundit was saying the only reason she’d be going there is ‘cause they’re scared, so they gotta go there and shore up votes. And I so wanted to reach into that TV and say no, I’m going to Nebraska because I want to go to Nebraska.

But here's the thing. OK, two things. First, you are not vice president! Second, I know me some Nebraska and I know there's only two reasons to go there.

1. Cornhusker football.
2. GRAN-NE!

#1 is out because the Huskers played Saturday night and let's not talk about that. And #2 is out because I'm fairly certain my GranNE would rather clean the Cornhusker locker room with a toothbrush than see Governor Gosh Golly Gee.

Can I call ya Joe?

Thank you Gus for making my ma ape fall off the couch laughing with this wonderful clip from SNL:



And thank you, Tina Fey, for perfectly capturing the most absurd persona in American politics ever.

Sarah Palin for Chief Justice!

So apparently Sarah Palin is not only a master of foreign policy, living in proximity to Russia and having met a couple of world leaders, but she is also a prominent legal scholar! Leaked reports of the yet unreleased CBS interview say:

The Palin aide, after first noting how "infuriating" it was for CBS to purportedly leak word about the gaffe, revealed that it came in response to a question about Supreme Court decisions.

After noting Roe vs. Wade, Palin was apparently unable to discuss any major court cases.

There was no verbal fumbling with this particular question as there was with some others, the aide said, but rather silence.

P.S. Sadly, the video is a parody. The text is not. Truth, scarier than fiction!

Alaskans for Obama!

Thanks to my GranNE and the Newfs of Hazard who told me about the rally against Palin in Anchorage where several thousand people showed up to show their support for Obama.

MORE Friday Funnies!

It is FUN to laugh at the McSame campaign!

This Dog Won't Hunt

My fellow barkers Sam and Leah have sent me this link to a video from the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund on Palin's record on aerial hunting of bears and wolves. I am embedding this video even though I had to turn away from it after seeing what was happening to my fellow canines.




They have a page listing her record on the environment. She loves her some drilling, still questions whether humans contribute to global warming, and has used state funds to oppose measures against aerial hunting.

That's NOT the change we need.

And, frankly, a polar bear would make a better Vice President.

We Interrupt this Blog...

On Wednesday night in her speech Governor Palin got some (GOP) laughs with the line "What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick." Here with a response is my friend Big Red, an inmate at the SPCA.


Dear Governor Palin,

I know pit bulls. Some of my best friends (me) are pit bulls. You, my friend, are no pit bull.

Sincerely,

Big Red
President and Vice President
Pitty Anti-Defamation Society (PADS)

P.S. I do look darn fetching in lipstick.
P.P.S. Please stop smearing pit bulls. We have it tough enough without being compared to Republicans.

Palin Hates Polar Bears, Rove Hates You.

Thanks to my main squeeze Sam who sent me this link that details some of Palin's greatest hits on the environment (she's not a fan of it, apparently). She is perhaps best known for suing the federal government to have the polar bear to be removed from the Endangered Species list so they could be hunted. Fortunately, that bid failed.

The link also includes lovely photos of Palin posing with and wearing animal pelts like this:

Interestingly, this photo used to be on her Wikipedia page. Eagle eyes might have realized Palin was the pick Thursday night because NPR reported that someone was furiously editing her page, removing things that might be considered un-Vice Presidential. Like photos of her wearing dead animals?

Also thanks to my granNE who sent me this link with quotes from Karl Rove. Ironic, eh?

"I think he's going to make an intensely political choice, not a governing choice," Rove said. "He's going to view this through the prism of a candidate, not through the prism of president; that is to say, he's going to pick somebody that he thinks will on the margin help him in a state like Indiana or Missouri or Virginia. He's not going to be thinking big and broad about the responsibilities of president." Rove singled out Virginia governor Tim Kaine, also a Face The Nation guest, as an example of such a pick. "With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he's been a governor for three years, he's been able but undistinguished," Rove said. "I don't think people could really name a big, important thing that he's done. He was mayor of the 105th largest city in America."