Day: August 19, 2010

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Buck Banks

I’m stunned — couldn’t the Republican Party find one competent female with adult children to run for Vice President with McCain? I realize his advisors probably didn’t want a “mature” woman, as the Democrats keep harping on his age. But really, what kind of role model is a woman whose fifth child was recently born with a serious issue, Down Syndrome, and then goes back to the job of Governor within days of the birth?

— Dr. Laura Schlessinger in 2008, in response to Sarah Palin being chosen to be John McCain’s vice-presidential running mate.

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Buck Banks

Steps aside bc her 1st amend.rights ceased 2exist thx2activists trying 2silence”isn’t American, not fair”

— Sarah Palin, posting on Twitter and playing the old “not fair” card in defense of Dr. Laura Schlessinger who is quitting her radio talk show after catching well-deserved flack for using a racial epithet 11 times in five minutes on the radio.

Most Americans Who Believe Obama is a Muslim Got It from the Media

Trish

6 in 10

— Number of Americans who mistakenly believe Pres. Obama is a Muslim who also report they were told this by the media, with 16 percent (the largest segment) attributing it to television. Another 11 percent say they figured it out themselves from the president’s “behavior and words.”

More Americans Believe Obama is a Muslim

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1 in 5

–The number of Americans (18 percent) who mistakenly think Pres. Obama is a Muslim, according to a Pew Research poll conducted before his comments on the Islamic community center in downtown Manhattan. A Time Magazine poll taken after his comments showed 25 percent of Americans now think Obama is a Muslim.

Bolton Pushing Israel to Bomb Iran Nuclear Plant

Buck Banks

Remember former interim U.N. Ambassador John Bolton? You know, the guy with the bad mustache and worse attitude.
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According to the Jerusalem Post, it appears that Bolton is encouraging Israel to blow up Iran’s Bushehr nuclear facility before the Russians install the nuclear fuel:

Israel has only mere days to launch an attack on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor if Russia makes good on its plan to deliver fuel there this weekend, former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton warned Tuesday.

He said that once Russia has loaded the fuel into the reactor — slated for Saturday — Israel would no longer be willing to strike for fear of triggering widespread radiation in an attack.

“This is a very, very big victory for Iran,” Bolton told The Jerusalem Post. “This is a huge threshold.”

Bolton, who also once oversaw US non-proliferation policy, said that when Russia announced the plans to load the fuel last Friday, “the element of surprise was essentially taken away” from Israeli calculations.

Bolton noted that he doesn’t “have a clue” as to whether Israel would actually attack, but he said, “If Israel was right to destroy the Osiraq reactor, is it right to allow this one to continue? You can’t have it both ways.”

It’s pretty clear now why Bolton was never confirmed as our ambassador to the United Nations.

Verbatim

Buck Banks

It’s the Monica Lewinsky ploy.

— Grover Norquist, quoted by Time, arguing that the Ground Zero mosque controversy is distracting from the core Republican message in the same way that the Monica Lewinsky scandal distracted Republicans in 1998.