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John McCain is making his place in history and this ad has to be at the top.  Look at the scary dark skinned men, listen to the scary eerie Arabic music, and hear the very hard to pronounce names and you will know . . .

Who Is The Real John McCain? Five Myths About John McCain – Rolling Stone Answers the Question of How a Man Once So Honorable Can Do Such Dishonorable Things

Rolling Stone has a must-read on John McCain and there is a companion video below. It is truly fascinating and goes right to the question that many of us are asking, “How can a once horable man be doing such dishonorable things in this election?”

Read the entire story and watch a companion video at Two Lesbos Goin At It – the new site for our blog. 

CNN’s Campbell Brown is calling it what it is – chauvinistic treatment of Sarah Palin.   Yes, the old boys want Sarah Palin, gun totin’ flower that she is, to play by the easier girls’ debate and media rules.   Yeah, that’s right, just like we did years ago in basketball.

Anyway, we thought about the assumptions behind these rules. One: most girls shouldn’t run that much; couldn’t run that much; it was immodest and unfeminine to sweat too much (my mom was told that often in her day). Two: girls weren’t skilled enough to have all five players in the same end at once, and so to spread things out the half-court game was turned into four-on-four. Three: dribbling only three times simplified things for the less-skilled, and prevented the few more-skilled girls from completely dominating.

Well, Campbell Brown is not having any of it and calls out the McCain campaign.

 “Tonight I call on the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower that will wilt at any moment,” said Brown. “This woman is from Alaska for crying out loud. She is strong. She is tough. She is confident. And you claim she is ready to be one heart beat away form the presidency. If that is the case, then end this chauvinistic treatment of her now. Allow her to show her stuff. Allow her to face down those pesky reporters… Let her have a real news conference with real questions. By treating Sarah Palin different from the other candidates in this race, you are not showing her the respect she deserves. Free Sarah Palin. Free her from the chauvinistic chain you are binding her with. Sexism in this campaign must come to an end. Sarah Palin has just as much a right to be a real candidate in this race as the men do. So let her act like one.”

Please invest 12 minutes of your time to watch this video about the national and global farce of Sarah Palin as VP. 

In response to Palin’s supporters’ claim that Palin’s experience is similar to other VPs here is an exhaustive comparison of Governor Palin’s experience as compared with every other Vice President in U.S. history.

Pass it on to your conservative friends to drive them crazy.

Palin’s Experience in Just 12 Minutes

Andrew Sullivan sums it up this way:

The Palin nomination is without historical precedent for her total lack of any alient qualifications as well as her refusal to engage the press in any meaningful way in a national election campaign. Truly surreal and utterly without precedent. Just listen to Lessig go through the history of the vice-presidents. Palin’s candidacy is a national and global farce.

 

Scott Richter divorce file shows NOTHING to suggest an affair but the National Enquirer has now named Brad Hanson as the secret love of Sarah Palin.  The Enquirer story is after the jump.    You can read more about Hanson here:  Brad Hanson New Character onon “As the Palins Turn”

The  98-page divorce file shows that the Palins are only mentioned in Richter’s motion to seal the records.  (Also, see a copy of the motion after the jump.)

According to the motion, Richter wanted the documents deemed confidential to keep reporters/media/press from obtaining details about his address, workplace, and phone numbers because “reporters and news agencies” were using that information to contact him. 

Richter, a 39-year-old contractor, noted that he is “friends and land owners in a remote cabin” with the Palins and, as a result, journalists were intruding on the “cabin life and private life” of him and his 11-year-old son. The petition to dissolve the marriage was filed jointly last July by Richter and his ex-wife, who were not represented by lawyers. A judge granted the dissolution less than two months after the couple filed to end their marriage.

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Debbie Richter says that it wasn’t her ex that had an affair with VP Barbie, Sarah Palin. The ex-wife of a man some have suggested may have had an affair with Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin says it’s “absolutely, completely false” that her ex had an affair with Ms. Sarah.

What's the Difference? Close Enough

“I can tell you this with 1,000 percent certainty, Sarah Palin never had an affair,” said Debbie Richter when reached on Friday afternoon.

The rumor that her now ex-husband, Scott Richter, had an affair with Sarah Palin gained momentum after the National Enquirer reported she had been romantically involved with one of Todd Palin’s former business associates.

The John McCain-Sarah Palin campaign threatened to sue over the story.

The National Enquirer has at least hinted that Palin had an affair with a former business associate of Todd Palin.

It would be easy to dismiss as pure tabloid trash, but this next piece of information makes the latest Palin scandal at least a little intriguing.As we posted yesterday, Debbie’s ex filed an emergency motion on Wed. to have their divorce records sealed. 

“As soon as he realized that there was going to be a barrage of media inquiries, he went to the court house in his little town and requested that our divorce information be sealed,” she told Us.

“The reason he did that is he just doesn’t want his financial information hanging around out there in the wind,” she said. “It caused some speculation that he had something to hide and he doesn’t really have anything to hide except that he’s just a private person.”

When asked how she would describe Palin, Debbie responded by saying she is “driven, committed to public service, determined and not easily swayed from her goal.”

“If she wants something her way and she has an opinion about it, that’s the way it’s going to be for her,” Debbie added.

The Palins and Richters own property on Safari Lake together, according to Matanuska-Susitna Borough property records that we linked to in earlier posts.

Meanwhile, other sources are saying that Palmer High School Hockey Coach and Hockey Mom Lover Brad Hanson is the man who the National Enquirer is going to break as Sarah’s “secret affair” partner.   You can see his photo and infor in our posts from late yesterday evening.

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We snagged this ditty with thanks from “Vantwerp Calling.”

The www.washingtonindependent.com posted a verified reader letter/comment from Anne Kilkenny, a Wasilla, Alaska, woman who has known the honorable governor personally since 1992.

Quote from http://www.washingtonindependent.com/3671/the-reform-candidate#comment-1994895:

I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992. Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her father was my child’s favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the residents of the city.

MORE AFTER THE JUMP  (PS – Yes, that’s Tina Faye but what’s the difference?)

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Transcript provided – “She should have Henry Kissinger babysitting her.”

BEN STEIN, AUTHOR, FMR. NIXON SPEECHWRITER: Thank you so much.
O’BRIEN: My pleasure.
You have been a speech writer and a lawyer for President Nixon. Let’s talk first about Governor Palin’s speech. What do you think she needs to get across? And as a speech writer yourself, how do you navigate some of those tricky things, the controversy, with specifics that some people said they want to hear?
STEIN: I don’t think she has to do much. I think as one of your previous guests said, expectations are so low, if she basically can put one word in front of the other, people will be impressed. I don’t think anybody is going to be picking on her about her daughter, I don’t think anybody is going to be picking on her about a 22-year-old DUI for her husband. People want to know if she is a down to earth, pro-family, pro-life conservative. And I’m sure she’ll hit that one right out of the park.