Hint: People running for the Vice President of the United States are supposed to possess more than “general knowledge.” In fact, governors are supposed to possess more than “general knowledge.” Unless, of course, you prefer to have dummies running the gummint.

That goes for the president as well but look how well that worked out. Republicans tend to scorn education because it tends to contradict the fantasies they prefer to believe.

http://progressiveworldreview.com

Fer chrissakes. By any measure bar land area, Rhode Island is a bigger state than Alaska. But no-one back home would make the claim that RI was a “big state”.

Can someone on the Obama side please get out the memo that there’s pretty much nothing in Alaska to govern? Yep, that will rile the natives and perhaps cost the Dems those big 3 EC votes, but it has to be narrative. Palin is a glorified moose-counter, and that’s who McCain wants as his #2.

And what executive experience does McCain have, nitwit? Keep comparing Obama and Ms. Naughty Librarian. It only shows how completely unprepared your standard-bearer McCain is to lead.

“I pledge allegiance to the Republican Flag of the Republican States of America, and the Republican Fascism for which it stands, one nation under Republican Fascism, with liberty and justice only for card-carrying Republican Fascists…amen.”

Er, or something like that.

I sense many a costume this Halloween to spoof Palin…
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…the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them,…

Christians do not connect nature and God. God is the maker of nature. Therefore, to Christians, the “Laws of Nature” are not separate from God; and God is not “Nature’s God”.

The non-Christian construct of God is further demonstrated in the Declaration in its reference to all men being “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”. Use of the terminology “by their maker” instead of being ‘endowed by God’ is additional clear intent NOT to invoke the Christian God.

So no, there is literally no reference to to “God” as todays rightwing Christian nut-job understands God in either the Constitution of the Declaration of Independence. The Founding Fathers clearly had no use, and no intent for the Christian God to play any role whatsoever in the US government and the laws of the land. Only when the fruitcakes and crackpots started gaining control of the government apparatus in the 1950’s did the Founding Father’s clear intent to keep religion out of government start to be thwarted.

Pardon me, but it does. Ya see, it was a political maneuver to get another piece of legislation passed. The christies of the 50’s were fearful that we needed to proclaim our allegiance to God cause the Ruskies were anti-God. It was thought, by those who should have known better, that inserting a simple two words into the pledge was a small price to pay. So a simple legislative maneuver to get another bill passed has caused tremendous amount of political strife ever since.

I believe they did make an offer and her refusal was posted on the web.

You are flat out wrong and not very bright first you said DOCUMENTS. Even if I give you the Declaration which is a HUUUGE stretch as it only disolved our bonds with England and said NOTHING about how we would be founded you said documents that is plural and would necessarily include the Constitution which does NOT mention God nor religion in ANY way except to say there would be no religious test for office. It is clear that the founding fathers didnt want religion within a country MILE of government or visa versa actually. Both those terms by the way Natures God and creater are very Deist and broad for that very reason. Not the Christian God nor Allah nor Bhudda nor the noodly appendeges of the flying spaghetti monster. Ya got no point the pledge was written in the late 1800s by a socialist baptist minister who did NOT put the words under god in it.

Amy Goodman and Two Democracy Now! Producers
Unlawfully Arrested At the RNC

ST. PAUL, MN—Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman was unlawfully arrested in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota at approximately 5 p.m. local time. Police violently manhandled Goodman, yanking her arm, as they arrested her. Video of her arrest can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjyvkR0bGQ

Goodman was arrested while attempting to free two Democracy Now! producers who were being unlawfuly detained. They are Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar. Kouddous and Salazar were arrested while they carried out their journalistic duties in covering street demonstrations at the Republican National Convention. Goodman’s crime appears to have been defending her colleagues and the freedom of the press.

Ramsey County Sherrif Bob Fletcher told Democracy Now! that Kouddous and Salazar were being arrested on suspicion of rioting. They are currently being held at the Ramsey County jail in St. Paul.

Democracy Now! is calling on all journalists and concerned citizens to call the office of Mayor Chris Coleman and the Ramsey County Jail and demand the immediate release of Goodman, Kouddous and Salazar. These calls can be directed to: Chris Rider from Mayor Coleman’s office at 651-266-8535 and the Ramsey County Jail at 651-266-9350 (press extension 0).

Democracy Now! stands by Goodman, Kouddous and Salazar and condemns this action by Twin Cities law enforcement as a clear violation of the freedom of the press and the First Amenmdent rights of these journalists.

During the demonstration in which they were arrested law enforcement officers used pepper spray, rubber bullets, concussion grenades and excessive force. Several dozen others were also arrested during this action.

Amy Goodman is one of the most well-known and well-respected journalists in the United States. She has received journalism’s top honors for her reporting and has a distinguished reputation of bravery and courage. The arrest of Goodman, Kouddous and Salazar is a transparent attempt to intimidate journalists from the nation’s leading independent news outlet.

Democracy Now! is a nationally-syndicated public TV and radio program that airs on over 700 radio and TV stations across the US and the globe.

Video of Amy Goodman’s Arrest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjyvkR0bGQ

Never mind Gi_Gi. She’s a member of “THE FAMILY”

When Senator Sam Brownback ran for president during the recent primary season few people knew that he’s a member of an elite fundamentalist group that’s waging spiritual war in the halls of American power and around the globe. It’s called The Family. It counts not just conservatives but also liberals like Hillary Clinton among its intimates and fellow travelers. When the National Prayer Breakfast is held each year–it’s organized by the Family. When we say “our nation, under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, or we read “In God we Trust” on our greenbacks–that’s because of the Family. Founded during the Great Depression in 1933, the Family preaches a gospel of “biblical capitalism,” military might, and American empire. It’s played a crucial role in the unraveling of the New Deal, the waging of the Cold War, and the harsh economics of globalization. That’s what journalist Jeff Sharlet says in his new book, THE FAMILY: THE ELITE FUNDAMENTALISM AT THE HEART OF AMERICAN POWER.

And that “God” the Founders refer to, is the “Creator”. A far cry from the Christofascist belief system America now adheres to.

“Creator” is recognized in all the world’s religions, not just the interpretation Gi_Gi prays to. O.K. Gi_Gi? Or am I not American enough if I don’t believe in your god?

Well, Mrs. Palin, then you must give up your right to vote—–because that did not come in until 1920!