Saturday, October 4, 2008
Palin says it’s time to ‘take off the gloves’
The GOP vice presidential candidate takes a few swings at Obama, but also quotes a Democratic line she recently read on a Starbucks cup.
By MARTIN WISCKOL
The Orange County Register
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With a month to go until Election Day, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin told an enthusiastic crowd Saturday afternoon that it was time to “put on the heels and take off the gloves.”

And while she credited the line to a campaign worker, it and the rest of her 24-minute speech at the Home Depot Center rally was delivered with her trademark panache. The Republican hit the familiar topics of the economy, energy and defense, but offered a few surprises as well.

The first one came with the woman who introduced Palin, lifelong Democrat and president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization For Women, Shelly Mandell. While NOW has endorsed Democrat Barack Obama as best representing women’s interests in the race, Mandell has taken a different view.

“This is what a feminist looks like,” Mandell told the crowd. “Like Gov. Sarah Palin.”

Palin picked up from there, saying, “We’re going to shatter the highest glass ceiling in America.” etc.

As for it being sinful, I have met a few Catholics who personally believe it is, but the official position of the Church is that refraining from sex is not sinful. The act of sex must be open to new life, but it the couple cannot afford another child, for example, they can make the sacrifice of waiting for sex until another day. Basically, sex is seen as good, but not necessary. Interfering with the life-giving aspect of sex is seen as selfish. Agreeing to forgo sex is a discipline that couples can do to manage their families.

Another problem that the Church has about contraception is that many methods do not prevent fertilization of the egg, but do keep it from implanting in the uterus. Thus the fertilized egg is rejected, and that life is destroyed.

Hillary Clinton is backing Obama because she has stated that she is a loyal member of the Democratic Party and will back whomever is the candidate. She says she wants to show party unity. Whether she agrees with Obama on all the issues doesn’t matter because regardless she and Bill will back him because of their party loyalty.

I think Mandel’s endorsement is puzzling. Hillary shares more with Obama on the issues then McCain/Palin do. And yet she has decided to back the Republican candidates ticket? Very odd. Yet it’s her choice. I don’t think it’s that newsworthy though because Mandel is only the head of the Los Angeles N.O.W. NOT the National one. Her words really don’t carry that much weight.

I ATTENDED CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOR 13 YEARS…..BUT I WOULD NEVER
PRESUME TO INFLICT WHAT I HAVE BEEN TAUGHT ON OTHERS…..
THAT IS WHAT THE CRUSADERS DID AND LOOK WHAT IT GOT US…

SOME PEOPLE DON’T HAVE ENOGH TO DO….AGAIN HOW PATHETIC!!…

Sarah Palin falls smack dab in the middle of typical pro-lifers.

Not if you poll the Mennonites, Baptists, and Roman Catholics who I know. But I come from a very conservative, yet somewhat progressive, portion of mostly farmland Indiana.

….in regards to Onan, it can be argued that Onan’s sin was in not following God’s instructions, not the specific way he choose not to follow them.

I was simply giving you the Roman Catholic party line. In disobeying the god, all Onan did was disobey the Israelite law to provide an heir for his brother. The law had a specific punishment, public humiliation. Thus the god must have killed Onan for something further, ergo coitus interruptus.

Lynn David is typical of O trolls. When a notable woman throws her support behind Palin, they try to smear her. Start digging up her past. This is the old politics where the messenger is shot.

This is really funny. As I remember what happened with Foat and Mandell from the 1980s I simply thought it might bear repeating that Mandell has a record of back-stabbing. Her record as a lawyer bore looking into also. Unfortunately, most people who go to such sites always have bad news to relate. But the money-grubbing Mandell who wasn’t prepared in court and brought somewhat frivolous suits seemed to be a common theme. And I deliberately chose one from prior this election cycle to portray.

Name one (that is ONE) time Obama has worked with a conservative republican to pass anything of substance. No, something non-controversial like a postage stamp for the great Rosa Parks doesn’t count.

He worked with Richard Lugar of Indiana, a man who has always had my vote, to create a bill to keep Russian nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists. I guess you don’t really study a man, his character, and his work beyond the hype you want to believe.

I, too, am a Hillary supporter now supporting McCain/Palin.

I just happen to have received today a letter from Hillary Clinton, in it she said:

I haven’t spent the last 35 years in the trenches advocating for children, campaigning for universal health care, helping parents balance work and family, and figting for women’s rights at home and around the world to see another Republican in the White House squander the promise of our country and the hope of our people.

No way. No how. No McCain. No Palin.

Barack Obama is my candidate. And he must be our president.

Barack will renew the promise of America. To rebuild the middle class and sustain the American Dream, to provide the opportunity to work hard and have that work rewarded, to save for college, a home and retirement, to afford the gas and groceries and stil have a little left over each month. We need to do everything possible to help elect Barack as our next president.

While Barack has been working to elevate the tone of this campaign and appeal to Americans’ hopes and aspiratios, John McCain, Sarah Palin, the Republican Party, and their conservative allies have been doing everything in their power to drag it into the gutter.

It’s not a matter of disagreeing on the issues or challenging Barack and the Democratic party for our stands on health care, thee war in Iraq or the economy.

In a sorry replay of past elections, the conservative noise machine is attacking Barackand engaging in a despicable whisper campaign that brrings out the worst of our political process. As someone who understands what he is going through, I know that Barack has what it takes to stand up to thee GOP bullies dragging his name through the mud.

There is only one path to the peace, prosperity and progress we seek. It can only be achieved by ensuring that Barack Obama walks through thee doors of the Oval Office on January 20,2009….

Sincerely… Hillary Rodham Clinton

I guess you’ve never really been a supporter of Ms Clinton if you do not support her now. It seems you are only interested in the cult of personality and not for the issues for which she stands. That’s what is wrong with this country.

THE OBSESSION WITH RELIGION, CONTRACEPTION BELONGS ON DR. PHIL NOT IN POLITICS……
I AM
A HILLARY SUPPORTER WHO SUPPORTS PALIN….I WAS A WOMAN
BEFORE I WAS A DEMOCRAT!
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