Republicans

Surprise, Surprise: Palin Caught in Another Lie

by Cara September 14, 2008

You’ve probably read just about everywhere by now that while Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, the city billed rape victims the $1200 fee for their rape kits. Of course, Palin has tried to sidestep the question and insinuate that she had nothing, nothing at all, to do with this mess. This was clearly bullshit [...]

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Chill.

by Cara September 11, 2008

I’m with Tim Fernholz. (h/t) It’s not that it’s wrong to criticize a campaign, or that some criticisms don’t ring true. The Obama campaign and its surrogates need to stop saying that McCain is such a great man before they tear him apart. (Joe Biden, for one, has already gotten the message.) They could be [...]

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Jon Stewart Writes Barack Obama’s Campaign Ads For Him

by Cara September 8, 2008

The whole video is funny, but the relevant bit starts at about 4:20. I hope Barack at least made a token thank you phone call to Jon . . .

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Republican Congressman Calls Barack and Michelle Obama “Uppity”

by Cara September 4, 2008

Republican Congressman Lynn Westmoreland was asked (in an already sexist question) to compare Michelle Obama to Sarah Palin. In doing so, he decided to call Michelle “uppity” — and made sure to let everyone know that he feels the same way about Barack. Westmoreland was discussing vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s speech with reporters outside [...]

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Thoughts on Palin Speech

by Cara September 4, 2008

Apparently the Obama campaign was just as pissed off about the repeated RNC attacks on community organizing as I was. From the email I got this morning, which I thought was actually pretty good: [T]hey insulted the very idea that ordinary people have a role to play in our political process. [. . .] Both [...]

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Turning Attention to Pregnancy Prevention

by Cara September 2, 2008

After so much bullshit regarding Sarah Palin’s child and her daughter’s pregnancy, including smear tactics that I think would only serve to undermine the left in the end, I have to say that I’m absolutely thrilled that a major media organization is writing about McCain and Palin’s record on sexual and reproductive health. Republican John [...]

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“It’s Not a Choice, It’s a Child” — Except When It’s Beneficial To Say It’s a Choice

by Cara August 30, 2008

Here’s something — one of many things — that bothers me about the Sarah Palin coverage.  (Maybe I’ll get to the others in the near future; not sure.) Right here, the NY Times says it — and they’re right, and far from the only ones who are noting it: Ms. Palin is known to conservatives [...]

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Palin

by Cara August 29, 2008

Oh my god I hate John McCain so much I think my head just might explode. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. Fuck. And where the fuck does Captain Misogyny, opposes access to birth control, thinks Roe should be overturned, opposes equal pay for equal work, calls his wife a cunt in public and laughs when [...]

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Phill Kline Loses Reelection Bid

by Cara August 6, 2008

You know that asshole DA from Kansas, Phill Kline? When he was Attorney General of the state, he brought a lot of random bullshit charges against late-term abortion provider Dr. Tiller. Then, when he was booted out of office and became DA of Johnson County in Kansas, he used it as an opportunity to baselessly [...]

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Ah, the good ol’ “race card”

by Cara August 5, 2008

Well to be entirely honest, this took longer than I expected. Of course, by claiming that Obama is playing the “race card” (I can’t take that phrase seriously), McCain is in no way playing the “race card” himself. You see, McCain is white, and everyone knows that white people don’t have a race, and definitely [...]

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