Team Player:
Of course you have no proof that you knew anybody in the WTC, do you, particularly someone close? It’s like there are several million people now who claim they were there in the stadium when MacGuire hit #62. Right.
In any case, do you propose that any administration (even a possible Obama one) should take a couple days to get warrants when a known terrorist is on the phone right now, and he’s talking to someone in this country who was not known as a terrorist? Oops. Didn’t get the warrant in time and now your town is poisoned? Too bad.
How about this then? They can have a list of terrorists or terrorist suspects, for which they must show some probable cause to put on the list (and not an extremely high burden of proof required), and from that day forward, they can monitor any calls to or from anyone on that list, which can be updated with new names and some probable cause at any time. And it is OK if 98.99% of the list is Muslim, even if that looks like profiling?
Oh, and locking up protestors deemed to be terrorists, do you really wish to open up the rap sheet of a guy named Ayers, who founded an organization with avowedly communist principles, and his bizarre wife, who spoke lovingly of Manson’s disciples “sticking a fork” in Sharon Tate’s pregnant belly? His life is far more intertwined in your hero’s background than has been exposed so far.
Back to Palin – did you read the statement of the hacker? They read every one of the emails, seeking specifically to discredit Palin, and found “NOTHING”? I know you can read (well, at least I know you can type, and seem pretty intelligent).
I’m all for a spirited campaign, and a tough inspection of the issues, but I expect it to be at least somewhat even handed. We have Fox (which only leans center-right but is certainly not in the tank for McCain) and talk radio (which your team is trying to destroy with the so-called Fairness Doctrine). And talk radio hosts at least admit, proudly I might add, to being conservative and that what they say is opinion. They do not simply spread rumors like this tripe against Palin on the internet, but will generally name their sources.
You have, let’s see, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, PBS, NYT, WaPost, LAT, Time, Newsweek, CSpan, most other major newpapers and news magazines, all of which insist that they are totally objective, when every (and I mean EVERY) honest survey done of their “professionals” at all levels consistently finds that they have voted for democrats over 90% of the time in every election since the 1960s, are 9 to 1 registered democrats, and contribute to democrats over republicans by 8 to 1. (Although now many have gone to registering as “independents” who just happen to always back the leftists after a thorough examination of the issues. And if you believe that, I have a bridge somewhere in the planning stages in our largest state I’d like to sell you.) Every survey of content bias shows at least 5 to 1 or higher bias for lefties.
If you’re so proud of being a liberal, if liberal ideas and philosophies are so hot, why don’t all you leftwingers just call yourselves, well, maybe, like, liberals or something? Perhaps you don’t say so because then you might have to admit that you are in Obama’s tank up to your hairline. And/or maybe if you have to spell out exactly what liberal policies are and what they mean for this country, you know that the American citizenry might go running for the hills, or maybe even start cleaning all those guns we’re clinging to?
And then in addition to those “objective” media listed above, you control the schools at every level where the indocrination, not education, of our children occurs, and every entertainment outlet, where every leftwing movie and TV script and all the songs about hos and bitches are shoved in our faces daily. You’ve got the American Bar Association and the Trial Lawyer’s Association in your pocket, 4.5 Supreme Court Justices and half the federal and state judges as well.
It must drive the left absolutely nuts that with virtual monopolistic control over the opinion shaping institutions of the entire country, that the American public still has self-labelled itself 60% moderately to very conservative for decades. That’s because humans instinctively run when someone says “I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.” We know better.
And the more I think about it, I still believe that we should force Palin to open up every email account she’s ever owned to public scrutiny. There is probably something buried in there somewhere that could be distorted into the appearance of not being kosher, as there is everyone’s life, and she could be out of the race.
But if we did that to Obama as well, I guarantee you that that empty-suited phony would never be elected Junior Assistant Doggie-Poo Sweeper Upper, anywhere except in South Chicago, ever again. There is so much major heavy duty smoke (as opposed to whether Palin’s definition of “is” on every minutiae of her life is satifactory to you or not) in his totally unvetted past I’m surprised he has not self-immolated yet.
