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Politics Is Hawt!

August 10th 2008 12:03
See You At The Debates Bitches
I've never been a Paris Hilton fan, which probably isn't all the shocking. But her response to the McCain ad featuring her and Britney Spears has certainly won a special place in my heart. Funny, smart, and a nice play on her stereotypical image. If anything it shows that she has a great sense of humor. Stopping to flip through th magazine before getting to her energy plan? I love when people can laugh at themselves rather than get offended at stuff like that.


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P.S. You can buy the shirt at Cute As A Bug in the Politics section.
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Female Political Bloggers

August 8th 2008 16:48
women bloggers
How many political bloggers out there are women? Give it a good guess. 100? 200? 300? Would you believe more than 500 women are blogging politics? The Political Voices of Women is celebrating this week that their list finally topped the 500 mark. Visit the site to catch a glimpse at some of those amazing women who are proving politics is certainly not a men's game. And if you're not added to the list be sure to speak up and get yourself on board.

I can't wait to pass the 1000 mark!
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Hillary McCain
It seems the old "Hillary supporters are turning to McCain" story is still alive and well. It's one that, frankly, I cannot understand.

An article on Winning Women over at BlogHer discussed how some women are not happy with Obama and many of the sexist tactics that the media played during the campaign. And so the story goes that feeling snubbed and upset these women are turning to Mccain for presidential comfort. Which is a pretty classic example of cutting off your nose to spite your face.

One quote that is picked out for the article attempts to show just that.

I think we also have a great discomfort with the misogyny that was expressed by the media during the entire election and the deafening silence by the DNC and the Barack campaign in the face of such denigration of women generally.

And so the alternative is supposed to be McCain? Discomfort with the misogyny in one campaign means handing over your vote to the guy who outright hates women and wants to suppress their rights? Wha? What do you think he's going to do, other than say 'There, there honey. Now you just sit back and let us menfolk take care of things for you now." I'm sorry, but voting McCain is a slap to the face of Hillary and everything her platform stood for.

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Up until a certain age you often cannot expect young children to easily accept fault for things they have done. Most parents know how easily kids will blame someone else, or simply deny that whatever happened actually did happen. For young children often they fully believe that if they just swear it didn't happen then it really will become as if it never existed. It's not that they are being willfully wrong, it's just that they are not yet mature enough to step up. One of the things my oldest son does is focus on one little detail of what I am saying, ignoring everything else, in hopes that if one little thing is wrong then the entire thing must be wrong. A lecture on not jumping on the bed because it will break the bed blows past him with only that I said his sheets were red instead of blue being held. It's not that he don't understand that his jumping will break the bed, it's just that he's not yet mature enough to handle the criticism.

Obama tire gauge
So imagine my shock when I learned that McCain is actually one of my kids. No, really, I think he might be my long lost son. Why? Well even after Obama's speech in Michigan on the energy crisis McCain decided to keep his fingers in his ears, ignoring all the valid points and ideas that Obama has. Instead focusing on a small quote of a speech in Missouri. Never mind that this one suggestion is actually a good one, McCain and his staff have chosen to pick on Obama about tire gauges as being the whole of Obama's plan. Tire gages? John, were you even listening


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Sellin' The Wife For Votes

August 5th 2008 19:50
Cindy McCain Sturgis
I'm not a biker but even I know about Sturgis and the sort of things that can go on there. If you're not familiar Sturgis is a huge biker rally that happens once a year where bikers from all over the country get together, show off their bikes, socialize, and do a few things that bikers have a bad reputation for doing. Such as the Buffalo Chip "beauty" contest. A contest McCain joked about encouraging his wife to enter.

Because flashing her tits and bouncing around on stage is what the First lady should have on her resume


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Is He The One?

August 3rd 2008 13:51
McCain confused
What was McCain thinking? No, seriously, I'm confused as to what could have been going through his mind when he OKed this ad. I mean, what in the world is he trying to say here?


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McCain
The newest McCain ad has been stirring up a lot of discussion lately. Mostly with it's interesting naming of Obama as a celebrity while photos of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton appear on the screen. The connection between Obama and these two particular celebs has been drawing a lot of discussion online. and none of it looks favorable for McCain.

The choice of images is shocking on many levels. First there is the not-so-silent dog whistle to the racists out there of "Look at this black man mingling with these pretty, blonde white women!" I'm sure that McCain's camp will deny they meant that particular aspect, yet the images are hard to miss


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How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America
With the news getting grimmer and grimmer for women I decided I needed a little friendly reading to lift my moral. Luckily I found just the thing I needed, wrapped in a pretty pink cover, shouting at me from the shelf at my local book store. How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics, and the War On Sex

Do I even need to say how much you should buy this book and read it? Already a couple years old I feel like I have a lot of catching up to do. Why I didn't read a copy as soon as it was out is fuzzy to me. But now that I've gotten my hands on it I'm absorbing every page. Last night I took it with me grocery shopping and poured through the pages while my partner put whatever he wanted in the cart. I was too busy to worry abut food


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Where Is The Liberal Bias?

July 28th 2008 10:50
news
I love to watch as reality comes in to bite conservatives in the ass.

There's been a long known whining about "Liberal bias!" that conservatives like to toss around. While they conveniently ignore the reality of media outlets being big businesses and therefore would be shooting themselves in the foot if they held a liberal biases, the constant whining often does a great job of boosting moral. What they are really do is binding together those who think that if they do not have the power to tell everyone else what to do and say then they are somehow being trampled on


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McCain on Timetables For the War

July 26th 2008 02:36
confused McCain
McCain was CNN's Situation Room talking about the war in Iraq. And as predicted he went on to say 16 months is a pretty good time table to get out of Iraq.

Wait


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Oh Noes! Teh Gays In Military!

July 25th 2008 10:18
 Elaine Donnelly
Everyone has been talking about the hilarious video of Congressman Patrick Murphy questioning Elaine Donnelly on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". You can see Murphy and others both fighting back laughter and anger at this woman trying to make her insane point.

To Donnelly every homosexual person is a sexual predator waiting to strike, an idea that is absurd to those of us living in the real world. However, I've come to conclude that most conservatives do not live in the real world so it shouldn't be a surprise that they are unfamiliar with how it works here


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More McCain Foolery

July 24th 2008 18:21
McCain
I love when McCain suporters get upset that the press is supposedly giving Obama more love than they are to him. Only in crazy land could that be true. Case in point, McCain says something stupid and CBS edits his own words to make him sound smarter. Straight talk? Watch the video and tell me.


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News From Around The Web

July 22nd 2008 14:54
screaming
Why is it that reading the news sometimes makes me feel a little stabbity? I don't know what it is, but often I just have to put down the paper or turn off the computer and walk away. Luckily I know several deep breathing exercises. Today is one of those days when scrolling through my news updates I can feel my blood pressure going up. So rather than risk a heart attack trying to explain the painfully bad in the news, I'm just going to share a quick run down of the articles that are not helping to ease the headache in the back of my head. Warning, be sure to take a couple aspirin before attempting to read this.

Female soldiers raise alarm on sexual assaults - "It took Diane Pickel Plappert six months to tell a counselor that she had been raped while on duty in Iraq. While time passed, the former Navy nurse disconnected from her children and her life slowly unraveled


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McCain Verses The New York Times

July 22nd 2008 10:05
Mccain
What if the press stopped giving McCain a break? What if when he made stupid comments, flub ups, or flat out lies the news media actually called him on it? Why, it might look a little bit like this

Thank you for sending me Senator McCain’s essay.

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