Starbuck wrote on Nov 6^th, 2008 at 10:30pm:


I wonder if she knows that jobs is a three letter word?


Riffy

Accepting that this is nothing more than a hit piece, which I'd wager it is, the fact remains that whatever Sarah Palin does or doesn't know frightens me much less than what Obama thinks he knows.


Riffy

From The TimesNovember 7, 2008
Timesonline.co.uk

My No 1 job as First Lady is to be First Mom

Helping working women and families is dear to the heart of the President-elect's wife. But so are sleepover strategies..

Michelle Obama

A few weeks ago at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, I shared with the nation some of the many reasons why I believed my husband would be an extraordinary president. It was the biggest speech I'd ever given. When I was finished, I headed backstage with my daughters. They turned to me, breathless with excitement.

“Mom,” Malia, our ten-year-old, said. “We have something important to tell you. We need to have a sleepover!”

That snapped me out of speech mode, with the bright lights and applause, and back into the role I love: Mom. The next night, 15 giggling girls - my daughters, the Biden granddaughters, and friends - took over our hotel room.

Now that Barack has been elected president, it will be an honour to be First Lady. I will work daily on the issues closest to my heart: helping working women and families, particularly military families. But, as my girls reminded me in Denver, even as First Lady, my No 1 job is still to be Mom. At 7 and 10, our daughters are young. My first priority will be to ensure they stay grounded and healthy, with normal childhoods - including homework, chores, dance, and the real football.

Our girls are the centre of Barack's and my world. They're the reason he ran for president - to make the world a better place for them and for all children. For us, and for millions of Americans, that's what this election has been about - making sure that America remains a country where everyone can fulfil their God-given potential.

Barack and I have travelled to every corner of the country, talking to people about their lives and dreams. Their stories have touched our hearts and strengthened our resolve. They've made us more certain than ever that, despite any differences we may have, there is so much that unites us as Americans. But times are tough. Parents are working harder than ever to raise their kids, pay bills, help out their parents and keep up with the rising cost of living. Caring for their families is their greatest joy - but it's harder to make ends meet.

We've talked to mothers whose salaries can't cover the cost of groceries - but if they take a second job, they can't afford childcare. More than 22 million working women don't have paid sick days. Millions of women are doing the same jobs as men but they're earning less.

It's even harder for military spouses. Their husbands and wives are away serving our nation for months at a time. So they have to be Mom and Dad. They're working, checking in on their in-laws, helping with homework, and doling out discipline - and every night, they're praying with all their hearts for their loved ones' safe return. These families aren't asking the Government to fix their problems. They're asking for it to understand what's happening to their families and to find ways to help.

As First Lady, I will continue these conversations with working women and military spouses, and I'll take their stories back to Washington to make sure that the people who run our country know how their policies touch their constituents' lives.

The struggles of America's families aren't new to Barack. He was raised by a single mom who put herself through school and built a career that she loved while still finding time to read to him each morning. So, he knows how heroic America's parents can be. That's why he is committed to restoring the middle class, cutting taxes for 95 per cent of all working Americans, establishing pay equity for women, and expanding family leave. He also knows that when our military goes to war, their families go with them. He's a strong advocate for predictable deployments and better healthcare - including mental health - for returning service people.

These issues are my passions. Now that the election is won, I'll keep working to find solutions that make a real difference in people's lives. With Barack serving as President, we will fill our home with talk of how to serve our nation's families better.

And occasionally, when our daughters insist, we'll host sleepovers, too.

Riffhard wrote on Nov 6^th, 2008 at 10:57pm:



Is that anything like a "sound byte"?   Something taken out of context and exploited? Or is Palin just empty headed?

Ginda wrote on Nov 6^th, 2008 at 7:44pm:

He makes more money than me & yet he's not outraged by Pres. Douchebag ripping us off. He's stupider than I first thought.

On a related note, a tractor trailer drove onto a parkway that tehy're not allowed on because teh bridges are too low. As he was stuck there, I rolled down my window & shouted. "You MUST be an Obama voter!" LOL It's the little things that will get me through the interregnum.

Gerard Baker of the London Times. He concludes thus:

    Most remarkably, for all the transformation in US politics wrought by the past four years, Americans themselves do not seem to have undergone any great ideological conversion. In 2004 exit pollsters asked voters how they would identify their politics. The answers were 21 per cent liberal (Left), 45 per cent moderate, 34 per cent conservative. On Tuesday, the same question elicited these responses: 22 per cent liberal, 44 per cent moderate, 34 per cent conservative. President Obama and his jubilant supporters in Congress will surely not need reminding that this is still a centre-right country.

BTW The would-be censor needn't bother answering. At this point I don't give a shit what he writes, thinks, pukes up.

Glenny, it's obvious you are venomously opposed to the policies of our new president-elect, which is your God-given right as an American. 

But how does that make the guy an "asshole" and a "douchebag"?  Those are attacks on his character, not his politics.  What did he do, as a person, besides beat the pants off your candidate, to warrant such personal attacks.

Zack wrote on Nov 7^th, 2008 at 7:18am:

Those are just flip names for him. I do think he's a piece of shit. He didn't just beat the pants off McCain; he ran ads calling him an angry, erratic old man. Why is it when the Dems run ads calling GOPers old, the MSM never takes them to task?


BTW If it makes you happy, I'll drop the harsher names for him. I do want to try to NOT be like the Dems/Socs who hounded Bush from Day One.

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What is less than accurate about that?  He IS.  He showed anger in the debates, he announced suspending his campaign for a day without thinking it through, and he made old-man gaffes like reuniting Czechoslovakia and placing Iraq next to Pakistan. 

Reagan, at 74, used his age for one of the best one-liners in presidential debate history.  McCain was genuinely funny on SNL, but he didn't have any charisma on the stump, far as I could see.

I think many of us appreciate you setting aside the personal insults on Obama, who for better or worse is our new leader and as such deserves some degree of respect. 

Rahm's Dad's a real charmer. He might actually need a censor!

It includes this nugget from the paper's interview of Emanuel's father in Israel, which I imagine we'll be hearing more about — or, at least, we would be if a similar thing had been said by, say, Sarah Palin's father:

In an interview with Ma'ariv, Emanuel's father, Dr. Benjamin Emanuel, said he was convinced that his son's appointment would be good for Israel. "Obviously he will influence the president to be pro-Israel," he was quoted as saying. "Why wouldn't he be? What is he, an Arab? He's not going to clean the floors of the White House."

No argument there, kemo sabe.