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[petelargo]

Incredible. Last nite conservative Kathleen Parker was on Colbert Report. She
has not publicly endorsed Obama, but she received over 12,000 e-mails with
many death threats for her article saying that palin should be immediately
dropped from the GOP ticket.  


Benjamin Cittadino wrote:
> 
> More news:
> 
> "CNN-
> MChristopher Buckley, the son of conservative icon William F. Buckley,
> said Tuesday he's resigned from the conservative National Review days
> after endorsing Barack Obama's White House bid, among the most powerful
> symbols yet of the conservative discontent expressed this election cycle.
> 
> In an online column, Buckley said he had decided to offer his resignation
> from the magazine his father founded after hundreds of readers and some
> National Review colleagues expressed outrage he was backing the Illinois
> senator.
> 
> "While I regret this development, I am not in mourning, for I no longer
> have any clear idea what, exactly, the modern conservative movement stands
> for," Buckley wrote.
> 
> "Eight years of 'conservative' government has brought us a doubled
> national debt, ruinous expansion of entitlement programs, bridges to
> nowhere, poster boy Jack Abramoff and an ill-premised, ill-waged war
> conducted by politicians of breathtaking arrogance. As a sideshow, it
> brought us a truly obscene attempt at federal intervention in the Terry
> Schiavo case," he also wrote.
> 
> The resignation comes four days after Buckley formally endorsed Obama on
> the Web site The Daily Beast, writing the presidential campaign had made
> John McCain "inauthentic," and Obama appeared to have a "first-class
> temperament and first-class intellect."
> 
> In a statement posted on the publication's Web site Tuesday, National
> Review editor Rich Lowry noted Buckley was writing for the magazine on a
> trial basis, and took his offer to resign with the "warmest regards and
> understanding" sincerely. Lowry also took issue with Buckley's contention
> the magazine had been flooded with angry mail over Buckley's endorsement,
> saying it had received a relatively small 100 e-mails expressing
> disapproval.
> 
> "It's an intense election season and emotions are running high," Lowry
> said."
> 
> Emotions running high?  I'll say.  
> 
> Ben C.
> 
> 
> hparsons wrote:
>> 
>> Ben,
>> 
>> Are you aware of what some Bible passages have to say about doing away 
>> with other races, certain races being God's chosen, what should be done 
>> with people that commit certain acts, etc? Is it your assertion that we 
>> shouldn't use the Bible because of those passages?
>> 
>> Are you aware of what some of our founding fathers said and did during 
>> their times?  Is it your assertion that their quotes should not be used 
>> as well?
>> 
>> Are you aware that Obama freely quoted in his memiors from a man who 
>> said that God should damn America? Are you going to judge Obama, at the 
>> top of the Democratic ticket, by the same standard you are now trying 
>> judge the VP candidate on the Republican side?
>> 
>> I somehow doubt it... But I AM eagerly awaiting your response...
>> 
>> 
>> Ben Cittadino wrote:
>>> Pete;
>>>
>>> Speaking of Gov. Palin, Frank Rich (of the NYTimes) had a reference in
>>> his
>>> excellent column this past Sunday about her quote from Westbrook Pegler:
>>>
>>> No less disconcerting was a still-unexplained passage of Palin’s
>>> convention
>>> speech: Her use of an unattributed quote praising small-town America (as
>>> opposed to, say, Chicago and its community organizers) from Westbrook
>>> Pegler, the mid-century Hearst columnist famous for his anti-Semitism,
>>> racism and violent rhetorical excess. After an assassin tried to kill
>>> F.D.R.
>>> at a Florida rally and murdered Chicago’s mayor instead in 1933, Pegler
>>> wrote that it was “regrettable that Giuseppe Zangara shot the wrong
>>> man.” In
>>> the ’60s, Pegler had a wish for Bobby Kennedy: “Some white patriot of
>>> the
>>> Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises
>>> before
>>> the snow falls.”
>>>
>>> I don't believe it is possible to justify any use of Pegler's words in
>>> any
>>> context in this day and age.  Either she (or her speech-writer) are
>>> Pegler
>>> disciples, or guilty of appallingly bad judgment. Westbrook Pegler was a
>>> very bad guy.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Ben C. 
>>>
>>> P.S.- Ed- Let me get this straight; You don't listen to Limbaugh, except
>>> when you do?  Is that it? Anyway, 
>>> WFAN(660 AM) is the place for sports talk up this way.  Give it a listen
>>> next time you're up this way to take in a Broadway Show.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Tootle wrote:
>>>   
>>>> Peter,
>>>>
>>>> Here is the second paragraph of that report which you failed to
>>>> mention,
>>>> "Was the refusal to fire Mike Wooten the reason Palin fired
>>>> Commissioner
>>>> of Public Safety Walt Monegan? Not exclusively, and it was within her
>>>> rights as the states' chief executive to fire him for just about any
>>>> reason, even without cause."
>>>>
>>>> Peter are you being paid by the Obama Campaign for your posts?  Are you
>>>> familiar with the term 'cherry picking'?
>>>>
>>>> Ben C. asked, " Do you think Rush Limbaugh has actually read Sowell's
>>>> stuff, or just pretends?"  I do not listen to Limbaugh except when I am
>>>> driving and that is usually less than an hour, so I have no idea of the
>>>> answer to your question. I guess you must listen more than me.  Why
>>>> don't
>>>> you call in and ask him?  Let us all know what you find out.
>>>>
>>>> As for talk radio, we have a couple of good sports talk shows here on
>>>> Wcpi.  One is called 'Road Rage' with Walt Deptula.  He is quite
>>>> knowledgeable and very critical.  His program may have helped get the
>>>> Clemson football coach, Tommy Bowdin fired.
>>>>
>>>> Ed K
>>>> Greenville, SC, USA
>>>>  http://www.nabble.com/file/p19981887/Obama%2Band%2BAyers.jpg
>>>> Obama+and+Ayers.jpg 
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>> petelargo wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>> ....except that's not what the bi-partisan investigation committee of
>>>>> 10
>>>>> repubs and 4 demos found.  she clearly abused her power. now they are
>>>>> looking into the sports complex that paid for their personal house
>>>>> with
>>>>> government money. no small town washington reformer here.  just
>>>>> another
>>>>> 'whats in it for me' politician. 
>>>>>
>>>>> from the time magazine article linked below: " ......the Branchflower
>>>>> report still makes for good reading, if only because it convincingly
>>>>> answers a question nobody had even thought to ask: Is the Palin
>>>>> administration shockingly amateurish? Yes, it is. Disturbingly so." 
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1849399,00.html?xid=site-cnn-partner
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>>  http://www.nabble.com/file/p19981887/Obama%2Band%2BAyers.jpg
>>>> Obama+and+Ayers.jpg 
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>
>>>   
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