More on Target

I just posted an article from ALIPAC about Target removing a "politically incorrect" costume. Yep, they caved.

However, the store doesn't seem to have a problem in the world trashing President Bush or Hillary Clinton.

I was shopping in Target Friday and happened to walk by our local store's Halloween card section. A card with a mask of Obama on the cover caught my attention and I had to read. You'd think that since it was Halloween the card would have been scary, but nope, it had some mushy love Obama message.

No biggie, no problem with that. He's the Prez and it's OK to have a nice Halloween card about him.

But then I looked up at the cards above.

One was a card with President Bush saying something about having a third term... open it up and it's a message about scaring you to death.

There was another trashing Hillary Clinton... two women yakking about going as a bitch for Halloween...

Another that trashed George Bush and Dick Cheney.

I was disgusted. There was not one negative, scary Obama card... not like past Halloween holidays where Target had some for both sides of the aisle, poking fun equally.

So what's going on with Target? Scared to step on Obama's toes? Scared they'll be called racist? Scared that someone will picket or come after then because they dared to be fair? Why not just have the nice card about Obama and not carry the ones trashing Bush, Cheney or Clinton?

I plan to take another trip back to the local Target and check out the cards a bit more closely. I'm also going to take a look at the Halloween costumes. If after double checking I confirm my "findings" then yours truly will not be shopping at Target, and I'll certainly be encouraging others to do the same.

If you're looking for signs our country is undergoing a sea change, that's a small one in some ways, but it's a big one in others. It seems that every day I see more and more signs that things they be a changin' in our once-great-country. It's subtle in many cases, but when you stack 'em all together, we're in HUGE trouble. We can't afford to just write off these seemingly small things, we have to stand up, make noise... peacefully, but loudly and with clarity.

P.U.M.A.

Hi ya'll (my southern roots are shinin' through tonight)... During the election there were a LOT of Hillary supporters who moved over and worked their tale ends off for McCain. Some for Sarah, some for McCain, but all against Obama. Quite a few different reasons, but all told I understand that roughly 20% of those who voted for Hillary switched their vote to McCain. Could be higher than that percentage, but that's what was reported. How they figure that one out I'll never know given the varying ways that states keep up with Dem and Rep voters.

P.U.M.A. (Party Unity My Ass ;-) was one of the groups that was really out there in this election and they're still going strong.

I signed up for updates from P.U.M.A. I'm going to share some of the topics I rec'd in my update this evening so you can check it out, see if you're interested in signing up. Always interesting, always informative.

If Only Barack Obama Inspired Hope In People Who Actually Have A Financial Stake in The Economy…
Posted: 15 Nov 2008 08:08 PM CST
Maybe Barack Obama needs to send another request for funds to his database of 10 million addresses. Only thing is this time he should ask them to go buy some stocks, instead of selling the little they have, if any...

Feds To Investigate “Hang Obama” Display…
Posted: 15 Nov 2008 05:12 PM CST
Personally, my fervent prayer is that no harm comes to Barack Obama or any member of his family. Despite my lack of respect for the process that brought him into the White House, he is still our President and if he is removed from office before his term is over, it should be through constitutional means, and constitutional means only...

Army’s First Female 4 Star General: “Behind every successful woman there is an astonished man.”
Posted: 15 Nov 2008 04:28 PM CST
Congratulations to General Ann E. Dunwoody! She is the first woman to attain the rank of a 4 star general in the US Military. From AP:

As Barack Obama gives his campaign staff huge bonuses… Hillary’s Campaign still in the red by $21 million…
Posted: 15 Nov 2008 05:44 PM CST
When you consider the fact that Hillary Clinton chose to put personal ambition aside and support Barack Obama’s quest for the presidency, Obama’s latest decision to give his campaign staff humongous bonuses while not lifting a finger to help Hillary retire her debt is just shameful. Then again, Obama has never been a person with whose name virtue is associated....

Hamas attacks Israel…
Posted: 15 Nov 2008 05:58 PM CST
It was President-elect Barack Obama who said Hamas has “legitimate claims”, well now that their sympathizer has been elected President, I guess they figure it’s ok to have the audacity to hope that their claims can be pursued:...

Pelosi’s Auto Industry Bail-Out Bill… Congressional Insanity…
Posted: 15 Nov 2008 07:30 PM CST
Wait, maybe I am missing something here, but why are tax-payer dollars being used to engage in a hostile take-over of the US auto industry? In an AP article posted on Yahoo News, here is what we are told:...

So Long, Democrats by Wendy Button, Democratic Speechwrier

I highly encourage you to read the entire article rather than the excerpts I've included. Wendy Button is not alone, there are many, many Democrats and former Democrats who are supporting Sarah Palin and John McCain. Read this article, then do a search on topics like Democrats for John McCain, Hillary Supporters 4 McCain, Wake Up America Movement and PUMA. There are more and more across the country who are putting principles before party on both sides of the political divide.

So Long Obama
October 28, 2008 6:55am
A speechwriter for Obama, Edwards, and Clinton on why she’s voting McCain.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-28/so-long-obama/1/

Since I started writing speeches more than ten years ago, I have always believed in the Democratic Party. Not anymore. Not after the election of 2008. This transformation has been swift and complete and since I’m a woman writing in the election of 2008, “very emotional.”

... This is what the Democratic Party has been for me; it’s family. Now, it doesn’t even feel like a distant cousin.

This drift started on a personal level with the fall of former Senator John Edwards. It got stronger during the Democratic National Convention when I counted the substantive mentions of poverty on one hand and a whole bunch of bad canned partisan lines against Senator John McCain. Some faith was lifted after Senator Hillary Clinton’s grace during a difficult hour. But that faith was dashed when I saw that someone had raided the Caligula set and planted the old columns at Invesco Field.

The final straw came the other week when Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (a.k.a Joe the Plumber) asked a question about higher taxes for small businesses. Instead of celebrating his aspirations, they were mocked. He wasn’t “a real plumber,” and “They’re fighting for Joe the Hedge-Fund manager,” and the patronizing, “I’ve got nothing but love for Joe the Plumber.”

Having worked in politics, I know that absolutely none of this is on the level. This back and forth is posturing, a charade, and a political game. These lines are what I refer to as “hooker lines”—a sure thing to get applause and the press to scribble as if they’re reporting meaningful news.

As the nation slouches toward disaster, the level of political discourse is unworthy of this moment in history. We have Republicans raising Ayers and Democrats fostering ageism with “erratic” and jokes about Depends. Sexism. Racism. Ageism and maybe some Socialism have all made their ugly cameos in election 2008. It’s not inspiring. Perhaps this is why I found the initial mocking of Joe so offensive and I realized an old line applied: “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party; the Democratic Party left me.”

The party I believed in wouldn’t look down on working people under any circumstance. And Joe the Plumber is right. This is the absolutely worst time to raise taxes on anyone: the rich, the middle class, the poor, small businesses and corporations.

...That’s not exactly the philosophy of a Democrat. Not only has this party belittled working people in this campaign from Joe the Plumber to the bitter comments, it has also been part of tearing down two female candidates. At first, certain Democrats and the press called Senator Clinton “dishonest.” They went after her cleavage. They said her experience as First Lady consisted of having tea parties. There was no outrage over “Bros before Hoes” or “Iron My Shirt.” Did Senator Clinton make mistakes? Of course. She’s human.

But here we are about a week out and it’s déjà vu all over again. Really, front-page news is how the Republican National Committee paid for Governor Sarah Palin’s wardrobe? Where’s the op-ed about how Obama tucks in his shirt when he plays basketball or how Senator Biden buttons the top button on his golf shirt?

Oh right, this story goes to the sincerity of her Hockey Mom persona. What planet am I living on? Everyone knows that when it comes to appearance, there’s a double standard for women politicians. Remember the speech Speaker Pelosi gave on the floor the day of the bailout vote? Check out how many stories commented on her hair that day and how many mentioned Congressman Barney Frank’s.

Here we are discussing Governor Palin’s clothes—oh wait, now we’re on to the make-up—not what either man is going to do to save our economy. This isn’t an accident. It is part of a manufactured narrative that she is stupid.

Governor Palin and I don’t agree on a lot of things, mostly social issues. But I have grown to appreciate the Governor. I was one of those initial skeptics and would laugh at the pictures. Not anymore. When someone takes on a corrupt political machine and a sitting governor, that is not done by someone with a low I.Q. or a moral core made of tissue paper. When someone fights her way to get scholarships and work her way through college even in a jagged line, that shows determination and humility you can’t learn from reading Reinhold Niebuhr. When a mother brings her son with special needs onto the national stage with love, honesty, and pride, that gives hope to families like mine as my older brother lives with a mental disability. And when someone can sit on a stage during the Sarah Palin rap on Saturday Night Live, put her hands in the air and watch someone in a moose costume get shot—that’s a sign of both humor and humanity.

Has she made mistakes? Of course, she’s human too. But the attention paid to her mistakes has been unprecedented compared to Senator Obama’s “57 states” remarks or Senator Biden using a version of the Samuel Johnson quote, “There’s nothing like a hanging in the morning to focus a man’s thoughts.”

....I can no longer justify what this party has done and can’t dismiss the treatment of women and working people as just part of the new kind of politics. It’s wrong and someone has to say that. And also say that the Democratic Party’s talking points—that Senator John McCain is just four more years of the same and that he’s President Bush—are now just hooker lines that fit a very effective and perhaps wave-winning political argument…doesn’t mean they’re true. After all, he is the only one who’s worked in a bipartisan way on big challenges.

Before I cast my vote, I will correct my party affiliation and change it to No Party or Independent. Then, in the spirit of election 2008, I’ll get a manicure, pedicure, and my hair done. Might as well look pretty when I am unemployed in a city swimming with “D’s.”...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-28/so-long-obama/1/

No Deal.

Go check out this site, think about adding the ACORN or other info to your blog (especially if you're a Democrat voting for McCain, or a P.U.M.A. , or an Independent).

http://www.justsaynodeal.com/acorn.html

The site is a little difficult to maneuver around and figure out where you're going next (and then get back to a page using links once you're a few pages beyond) but it is chocked full of good info and I love the idea, the direction and enthusiasm.

Feel free to copy this and post on your blogs! CNN, Bill Ayers, Barack Obama

CNN Reports That Obama's Relationship With Ayers Is "Much Deeper Than Obama Said"

CNN Report
CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360"
October 6, 2008

CNN's Drew Griffin: "Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, in the 1960s and '70s, were radical, members of the Weather Underground, an anti-Vietnam war group that bombed federal buildings including the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon.

"On the run for years, the case against them was thrown out due to illegal wiretaps and prosecutor misconduct. Ayers has never repented and has said as late as 2001, he wished he had done more to stop the war. Barack Obama confirmed during a primary debate that he knew Ayers and when pressed, said they served on a charitable foundation board together. And Obama condemned Ayers support of violence. But the relationship between Obama and Ayers went much deeper, ran much longer, and was much more political than Obama said."

Obama Senior Adviser Anita Dunn: "What they are arguing is that somehow the fact that these two people who served both educational reformers in Chicago, both of whom did have their paths cross professionally as well as neighbors occasionally. But somehow this association is a problem for Barack Obama because of Bill Ayers past and things that happened in the 1960s when Barack Obama was 7 years old.

"And that's just wrong and, frankly, it's quite unfair."

Griffin: "One place their paths repeatedly crossed, according to a CNN review of board minutes and other records, was Chicago's Annenberg Challenge project where a $50 million grant from the Annenberg Foundation matched locally raised funds to improve schools.

"According to participants and project records, Bill Ayers fought to bring the Annenberg grant to Chicago, Barack Obama was recruited as its chair. For seven years, Bill Ayers and Obama among many others, worked on funding for education projects, including some experiments supported by Ayers.

"Stanley Kurtz, a conservative researcher for the Ethics and Public Policy Center has also been reviewing the recently released records of Chicago's Annenberg's challenge."

National Review Online's Stanley Kurtz: "Instead of giving money directly to schools, they gave money to what they called external partners, and these external partners were often pretty radical community organizer groups."

Griffin: "And the board gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to Bill Ayers' small schools project promoting alternative education like 'The Peace School,' where the curriculum centered around a United Nations theme, and another school where the focus was, African- American studies.
"And this was directly funded by Annenberg?"

Kurtz: "Oh, yes."

Griffin: "Under Obama's chairmanship?"

Kurtz: "Oh yes and the specific job of the board of directors was to give out the money."

Griffin: "While continuing work on the Annenberg Challenge, Barack Obama and Bill Ayers also served together on a second charitable foundation, the Woods Fund. Among its recipients, Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church where Obama attended and a Children and Family Justice Center, where Ayers' wife worked. Ayers has strong defenders in Chicago, among them Richard Daly, the mayor, who called Ayers a valued member of the Chicago community. The city gave Ayers its Citizen of the Year award in 1997 for his work on the Annenberg project.

"For Obama, the chairmanship of the $100 million Annenberg board, helped vault him from Southside Chicago lawyer to political player. And that, too, has another connection to Bill Ayers.
"In 1995, months after the little known Barack Obama became Annenberg project chair, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced the young Obama as her political heir apparent.

"Where was that introduction made? At the home of the '60s radicals, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. The Obama campaign again says it is just a coincidence."

Dunn: "A Democratic state senator organizes a meeting of her supporters at the house of another one of her supporters. What is the problem here, Drew? It is the worst kind of inference and the worst kind of politics to say that somehow that says something about Barack Obama."

Griffin: "Anderson, this meeting at Bill Ayers home has been classified in many different ways. What I can tell you from the two people who were actually there, is number one, former Senator Alice Palmer says she, in no way organized this meeting and she was invited and attended it briefly. And Doctor Quentin Young, a retired doctor, told us this indeed was Barack Obama's political coming out party and it was hosted by Bill Ayers."

Cooper: "So Drew, I mean bottom line, if Obama and Ayers worked together with others to -- I guess improve schools, what exactly is the McCain-Palin camp saying is wrong with this relationship or this working relationship? Or however you want to characterize it?"

Griffin: "Well Anderson, I haven't contacted the campaign on this issue. What they're saying on the stump is the same thing that Hillary Clinton brought up during the primary campaign is the issue of trust.

"By raising this issue of Bill Ayers, and whether or not Barack Obama was hanging around him, palling around with him, or just working with him, Bill Ayers in the '60s had a very, very different view of the United States that many Americans did. A lot of Americans were against the Vietnam War but not a lot of Americans formed a group and started bombing things because of it.

"Now, they're trying to say that that raises judgment issues on Barack Obama. Which has been the tag other campaigns and now McCain's have been trying to peg on him ever since he started running for president."

Cooper: "But Barack Obama has publicly stated he does not agree with this guy?"

Griffin: "Correct. Well, he has said that he does -- I forget his exact words but he's certainly deplores the violence in the past."

Cooper: "Right."

Griffin: "I haven't been able to ask him directly about the relationship he has or had with Bill Ayers."

Watch The CNN Report

I'm searching the blogs and Internet for the Democrat

I'm dying of curiosity so I've been out searching for who it might be. My husband speculated that it might be Geraldine Ferraro. She has been fairly supportive of Sarah Palin and said at one point she wasn't sure who she was voting for or that she was considering who to vote for or something like that. Later she said she was voting for Obama so I can't see her switching.

Who could it be? Any ideas?

I have found a few stories on Democrats supporting John McCain.

Trio of Hillary Clinton supporters endorse John McCain
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/mccain/1125715,trio082508.article
August 25, 2008
FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER — As Democrats try to mollify disappointed supporters of Hillary Clinton, Republicans pushed the theme Monday that Democrats are divided and open to voting for John McCain.
To try to cement the point, the Republican National Committee’s Denver ‘‘war room’’ presented a trio of Clinton supporters and a former Democratic congressman, each of whom is supporting McCain.
‘‘He is a true statesman who will always put the country first,’’ said Tim Penney a former Democratic congressman from Minnesota, now an independent. ‘‘With Obama, we have words; with McCain, we have deeds. With Obama, we have rhetoric; with McCain, we have a record.’’

---

Top Hillary Clinton Supporter Endorses McCain; Says "A Lot" More Democrats Will Follow - Video 9/1/08
http://blogsforjohnmccain.com/top-hillary-clinton-supporter-endorses-mccain-says-lot-more-democrats-will-follow-video-9108

---

NEW HAMPSHIRE DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATOR ENDORSES JOHN MCCAIN
For Immediate Release
Contact: Press Office
Friday, September 12, 2008
603-369-8744
MANCHESTER, NH -- The McCain-Palin campaign today announced that New Hampshire State Representative Doreen Howard, a Democratic legislator from Newmarket, has endorsed John McCain for president. Representative Howard previously supported Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's candidacy.

"As a lifelong Democrat who enthusiastically backed Hillary Clinton in the primaries, I am now supporting John McCain. Like Senator Clinton, McCain values the importance of public service. Both Clinton and McCain put country first and that's critically important," said Howard. "John McCain and Sarah Palin are mavericks who have proven they can deliver real reform. As our nation faces challenges at home and abroad, Americans will benefit from their experience, judgment and strong leadership."

Elected in 2006, Representative Howard is a member of the State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs Committee. She represents Newmarket and Newfields.
Representative Howard supported John Kerry in 2004 and Al Gore in 2000.

---

Prominent Democrats and Independents Join "Citizens for McCain"
June 14, 2008
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/PressReleases/Read.aspx?Guid=241fb6c6-83a5-4f29-80bc-26ee9e277a94
ARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator John McCain's campaign today announced a group of prominent Democratic and unaffiliated leaders and activists who have joined "Citizens for McCain," a new grassroots effort headed by Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) to rally Americans of all political parties to support John McCain's candidacy.
"Citizens for McCain is an organization within the McCain campaign for people who put country before political party and support the presidential candidate who has a proven record of bipartisanship," said Senator Joe Lieberman.

It just keeps getting better!

Tomorrow a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter (a member of the Democratic National Committee's Platform Committee!) is going to endorse McCain-Palin! I haven't a clue who it is, but this is a trend that I hope to see continue.

The polls are awesome right now.

Barack Obama is struggling and it shows. Take away his tele-prompter, unplug the thing, see if he can do what Sarah Palin did on her first big night at the Republican Convention! I was awed at her performance, especially knowing the prompter messed up. I can't imagine standing in front of all those people and managing to string a coherent sentence together with a tele-prompter.

Barack Obama's claim to fame is being able to give a great speech (so they say) when reading from a tele-prompter.

Did any of you see the bit where he said everyone in the United States would get a tax cut? Not just the 95% he's been saying would get a tax cut? What is the percentage of people who don't pay any tax at all? Something like 40% if I remember correctly. Does that mean people who don't pay taxes are going to get a check, too? It's not a tax cut from what I've heard discussed, it's a rebate check. Which to my way of thinking is simply another welfare program, except it goes to everyone regardless of need (unless you're in the "wealthy" 5% and you have to pay the tab for the rest of the country!).

Remember Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged? It's a must-read.

Can't wait to see who's jumping aboard from the Dems tomorrow! You know they wouldn't let the Democrat woman who made the commercial for McCain into the Democratic Convention even though she was an official delegate? I had mixed feelings about that one. I imagine the Republicans would do the same thing if the situation were reversed. I'm sure glad she's supporting John McCain though. I wonder if she has a blog?

Sarah Palin and the Media

Just read on a blog (not on the news) that Sarah Palin is slated to do her first TV talk with Charles Gibson, ABC News. I was rather hoping it would be Fox News, but I certainly understand the strategy. The way Fox News is portrayed by the Dems would give them fodder for more talk of protecting her and all the same old drivel we're hearing.

I was rather pleased that she hadn't made the talk show rounds. I love the freshness, the shock it has caused the media. "What, WE don't know her?" "WE haven't vetted her?" "She has NEVER been on Meet the Press?" Sure, that's the criteria I use for selecting who I'm going to vote for... I use the press (cough, cough, sarcasm to the nth degree).

Tonight on Fox News at 8 p.m. there will be a repeat of last night's special on Sarah Palin. I missed last night but I will definitely be watching tonight!

Setting another rumor to rest, possibly: I had heard that Hillary Clinton was refusing to go after Sarah Palin because she (Hillary) didn't want to hurt her chances with potential future women voters. According to Axelrod and / or Biden on this morning's talk shows (think it was Biden), Hillary is going to be out campaigning and hitting Sarah. I really don't have a problem with that as long as she sticks to issues. It's the trash that is being spread by Democratic surrogates on the blogs that bothers me. Who knew the so-called party of peace could be so combative and downright nasty? It's "give peace a chance" unless you don't happen to agree with what THEY believe in I gather.

Sarah Palin continues to be the talk of the town and the world. Unfortunately I've noticed that Google is being biased in the news they're picking up. I did a search on Sarah Palin blogs on Google and couldn't find any that were positive. I know there are some out there that are positive when it comes to Sarah Palin and the Republicans in general. Unfortunately you wouldn't think so if you searched on Google blogs. I did manage to find a few by typing in various titles & have listed then on the sidebar.

If you have a pro-McCain, pro-Palin, pro-Republican blog, add a comment with a link and we'll take a look and possibly add it to the list.