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I’ve been bookmarking what I haven’t been getting to with the fantasy that I’ll get to certain items eventually, but who am I kidding? Here’s what I didn’t get to write about but you should read about today:
1. James Fallows on Steve Schmidt who was on NPR this morning. I heard it. I scribbled it down, and then I saw it tweeted and blogged about all day. There’s going to be a study done on the role of cognitive dissonance in politics and it’s going to use the McCain-Palin campaign as the case in point.
2. CNN reports on Sarah Palin’s assertion in an e-mail blast that:
“The truth is that far-left groups in this country will do anything to help the Obama-Biden Democrats win the White House and maintain their majorities in Congress,” Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin writes in a fund-raising e-mail sent out Monday afternoon. “And last week, we found out they’re going even further to win.”
Note the win win win meme I alluded to earlier today as the prime focus, as opposed to what’s in the best interest of anyone. But more obvious is that Palin is so far to the right, what point on the political spectrum, exactly, would she identify as the start of the far left?
3. Well, to answer that, you can keep reading that CNN piece, but be careful. She and many others want to point their finger at ACORN, much like anti-Hillary folks wanted to point the finger at Women’s Voices Women Vote. But the fact is, these are voter registration groups, not specific advocacy organizations. Palin can call voter registration a far-left activity, but that sounds pretty unpatriotic to me, as such things go.
Worse, however, is the fact that John McCain, as recently as 2006, headlined an ACORN event, according to this piece by Ben Smith in Politico. Specifically:
The immigration event, which other photos show was packed with red-shirted Acorn member, was co-sponsored by the local Catholic Archdiocese, the SEIU, and other groups.
McCain, still spiting much of his party on immigration at the time, was the headliner.
Bertha Lewis, Acorn’s chief organizer, said in a statement that came with the photo, “It has deeply saddened us to see Senator McCain abandon his historic support for ACORN and our efforts to support the goals of low-income Americans.”
”We are sure that the extremists he is trying to get into a froth will be even more excited to learn that John McCain stood shoulder to shoulder with ACORN, at an ACORN co-sponsored event, to promote immigration reform,” she said.
Yah, uh huh. Looks like the original moderate maverick himself is “far-left.”
4. I was surprised to see this analytical story about Sarah Palin’s envelope pushing when it comes to matters of church and state in the Washington Times, but hey, there are just so many stories and too few newspapers, maybe. Intro:
An Associated Press review of the Republican vice presidential candidate’s record as mayor and governor reveals her use of elected office to promote religious causes, sometimes at taxpayer expense and in ways that blur the line between church and state.
Since she took state office in late 2006, the governor and her family have spent more than $13,000 in taxpayer funds to attend at least 10 religious events and meetings with Christian pastors, including Franklin Graham, the son of evangelical preacher Billy Graham, records show.
Sarah, we hardly know ye.
5. Last but by no means least, Jake Tapper with a thorough rundown of how Palin is, as he says, “flatly” lying about the findings in the Troopergate report released at the end of the day on Friday. Let me just repeat for the record and anyone who hasn’t been reading Writes Like She Talks for too long: Sarah Palin does not understand why her assertions and responses and attempts at justifying anything fail to satisfy because she does not understand that her statements are all conclusory. Of course, she doesn’t understand what it means to say that a response is conclusory, but again, Tapper’s piece shows us exactly how conclusory Palin’s responses are: she takes the conclusion of the report and uses to say that that is in fact the sum and substance of the findings.
No, Governor Palin. That is incorrect. The conclusion is just that. The sum and substance? That’s what’s between page 1 and page 236 or whatever the next to last page number is, you know – that part where they talk about how you did abuse your authority and you did break an Alaska ethics law. Repeating the conclusion of the report, as though that’s all that matters is, just like all the other issues about which you provide only the conclusion and never the substance, is just as unsatisfactory as all the other conclusory answers you’ve given since August 29.
Harsh, harsh, harsh, I know. But when you’ve nearly flunked even one law school class because the professor tells you that your responses were conclusory, you don’t forget exactly what that means – and how to avoid ever doing it again.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:07 pm October 13th, 2008 in Barack Obama, John McCain, Politics, Remains of the Day, Sarah Palin, WH2008
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You said:
If ACORN isn’t an advocacy group, how do you explain this?
Alo – why do conservatives play-act these concrete brain people? I’ll get you started:
Advocacy leads to advocating leads to support.
Oh yeah – that word Sarah Palin substituted for Madeleine Albright’s original word, which was “help” when Palin wanted to tell female voters they’d go to hell if they didn’t vote for other women.
What do would you call it when you, say that a person will do anything to win?
If it is something that you say with such conviction and assertion… is that because you really understand that way of being?
All caught up in it, oh the tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive.
If a person says something to you, and you misunderstand them, take it the wrong way, then it takes some effort to undo that. Part of you still asserts the misconception, to much nonsense being thrown around.
Are we collectively misguided in some respect to our sense of social justice?
I got some good ideas lately out of all this, love to have a televisions show about linguistics having callers comment on issues and then go back and forth on matters linguistically, revisiting until a higher degrees of consensus is formed. That would be the real Wide Open, that being the subject never closed and the so called experts can be pulled out on the rug.
I heard a talks show the other day, it made reference to the amount that people lie. That being in their daily lives, it claimed that people lie on average twice a day. I thought I don’t, I avoid untruths. I dislike lies they serve no purpose for me, it’s all about me and my soul, a lie puts to much emphasis on what others are thinking.
It’s more about perception and less about judging. If I perceive and you fully agree or fully disagree then you are judging my perception, and that is valid but it is also very offensive.
I abstain, I am the conscientious objector.
Jill,
Your allegedly “advocacy-free™” friends at ACORN have long been advocating Obama’s election.