[Rhodes22-list] More News.

Wed Oct 15 22:50:11 EDT 2008

   If Palin is as bad for McCain and you and yours claim, maybe those
   threats were from the libs that don't want her to go away.
   Nahhh, couldn't be. You folks are too perfect, right?
   petelargo wrote:

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
 [1]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."

[2]http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1849399,00.html?xid=site-cn
n-partner

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Obama+and+Ayers.jpg

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