How many children can a woman have before the expectation of her is to actually take care of them? This woman seems to be more about blind ambition rather than taking care of her responsibilities and real family values. If this sounds sexist, oh well, no one held a gun to her head to have five children!

Palin, in a way, reminds me of a person everyone has at
work who is passive-aggressive, always in your face, and rises to the top over the corpses of people she has back-stabbed to get there.

Now that was the best true to life decsription of Obama and his jerk running mate i have ever heard. You go for it Palin, you have got my vote.

Sarah Palin's shameful record on the animal rights in Alaska makes me sick. The whole agenda is about oil at the expense of the animals and enviroment. She is sueing to get Polar Bears off the endangered species lists and the extermination of the wolves. Check out the video
I would like her answers to this.
http://actionfund.defenders.org/palinvideo

my comment is on Sarah Palin about this double standard and what I don't understand is why she's allowed to attack and dared and suggested by the RNC and media that tooks swings against Michele Obama any every nasty way but this woman is off limits to being attacked! bull i say if she is going to be the vice president she needs to be vetted and I mean there are naked pictures out there of Sarah Palin that are circulating on the net sooner better than later the american people need to know why anyone with such a job should be vetted properly Sarah Palin stand does not in my view express what concerns the little guys in this country they stand for more money for the real elites the wealthy that own 7 or more homes she has children so does most wealthy people who never have to worry when they get sick about getting the same kind of care and what about those military men who come home from being physically and mentally out of bounds I can tell you first hand as I have a son who served in the gulf war 4 years came back disabled and after now 14 years still fighting to get help to live as the RNC doesn't care about him now they just threw him away after using him and soon these men who are damaged when the election is all over and the RNC gets back in they will be too forgotten about John McCain is no longer in the military is has long forgotten about who has money to live on he's been getting a free pass and so have the rest of the RNC and the big companies that ship our jobs to . Again back to Sarah Palin she's naked showing only what a spouse should see this will soon surface and that is the reason why the RNC is trying very hard to attack the media and trying to keep them from getting a hold to this information at least till they have played the people stupid to get in again keep your eyes open I seen it and it is her!

At a very young age when most adults wallow in self indulgence and live for the moment, Obama decided to serve poor people and his country. After affording himself a stellar education, he elected to forego huge pay checks and an easy life for the danger and near squalor of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods. That is tough decision making, that is character, that is service and, YES, that is COMMUNITY ACTIVIST. Obama understands the human condition. If he had done nothing else besides being a community activist for the last 20 years, he would still qualify to be President.

The Republican disconnect is real and it is a chasm. Negative attacks will not save their day in this election because the ladder of fear mongering is not high enough. Attacking the press will not help either. Bombastic rhetoric is good for the Republican soul but it does not protect families in Middle America from misguided economic policies, inept governance and home foreclosures.

Palin is no leader she is a cheerleader that should be trying to get into Hustler!

The bottom line is that when a person CHOOSES to accept a VP nomincation then they choose to put country first. If any women out there (working or not) thinks that the job of a President or VP is 9-5 then they need to better educate themselves. This is a 24X7 job where every action you do, word you speak and facial expression you make will be shown and discussed on a global basis.

When it comes to children, both parents play a key role. However in 99% of most circumstances, it is the mother that plays the key role in the caring of the children when they are at least very small. As they get older, the gender parent is most critical.

I think we need to get away from the male/female argument and start looking at the experience. The argument that she has been the Govenor of a state and a Mayor of a city outweighs the experience against the other candidates is a crock. If she was the Govenor of California and the Mayor of New York...now we are talking about experience.

The bottom line question: If something were to happen and John McCain could not be Pres. would you want her representing us around the Globe? Standing up to Russia? Korea? Iran?

I watched Sarah Palin speak last night and was not impressed. Although I do admire her for her accomplishments, she was a dissapoitment. All I came away with from that speech is that she can deliver a speech very well but it absolutely had no substance. She did not address the target issues - the economy healthcare and foreign affairs. I still don't know who Sara Palin really is, only that she is the pitbull she compares herself to and as we all know pitbulls attack for no reason. It was demeaning to critize Obama for his work in organizing communities . He took on that responsibility and put people back to work.
She needs to get her facts straight and be truthful to the people. Does she and the republican party really think that we, the people, believe that she is the best choice for VP with her very limited if not zero qualificatins for this job? What kind of air were they pumping into that convention?

If McCain gets elected President and if he only serves the one term he promised I believe you may be looking at the women that will be the first President of the United States.

This from a Democrat who is voting for Obama....

Move over Billary...

If Sarah Palin runs for President in 2012 than I believe I will be voting for her.

She is the most dynamic candidate I have seen in a very long time! I believe she will be a great President if elected.

I would have to agree with you mikeroc. I didn't like the fact that she had to read so much of what she was saying. That to me was very unimpressive. McCain picked her just to try and get the voters that Clinton whould have gotten. (WOMEN)

I like the way that everyone thinks that Palin's speech was a home-run. However, did anyone really get the message that went out to the everyday people that work in the home-town USA? What her and the Mr. G from NY said is that if you are not working in top Government, you are invisible to us and we don care about your efforts to change the lives of people who need help inding a jod or ideas on how to improve communities. And the only thing that people at the RNC could do was chuckle. Is that how they see the everyday working American?

Are you kidding me? Dynamic? Why is it when the right gives a good confident well written speach, it's dynamic and when Obama delivers one he is arrogant and empty full of flair. Let me tell you I didn't hear anything at all new from the right side infact it was more about Obama than what they'll do for me. The speaches and audience were mean spirited, no substance. I mean if selling a jet and leaving her little town in debt and making shady deals is what you call "duties" or the outright lies about Obama and his tax code, read it for yourself. Also, if she wants to be vp and raise kids cudos!!!!! But I think why people question this (and the most negative comments are comming from their own party) is because if say Chelsea Clinton were to get premaritally pregnant oh!!!! the scandal.

And by the way did you hear any BOOOOs at he DNC, I don't think so. Who has the integrity here?

Look, is anyone comfortable with a woman possibly stepping into the role of President that just got her first passport last year? She has traveled to only ONE country in her entire life and only a few states outside of Alaska. She won by getting 665 votes and ran a small budget of 8MM for most of her tenure in politics. She dressed up and read a speech and used her little old family/mother/wife schtick to try to connect to women voters and the working class. Heck, I've run an 8MM budget and traveled to many more countries. She has no clue! The Repubilcans have nothing to run on except bashing their opponents and using the Rove playbook to get terms that aren't even accurate like "the angry left" to try to stick with people who don't know any better. This is not even a contest! What a moral compass we have on the Republican side - we have someone who cheated on their first wife with his second, the second wife who has a drug abuser history, a woman who belives in ignorance vs sex ed for children and preaches values like abstinence that her own family cannot uphold and now, the glamorization of teen pregnancy and some hick model from Alaska. Where is the focus on issues that are affecting us every day?

I watched Sarah Palins speech last night and came away
with a feeling of sadness.Our country is so divided now and she just threw gas on the fire. She is really pretty
and reads a speech well but that is not going to help me
afford gas in my truck.I feel we are doomed if McCain wins
this election.

CNN, MSNBC and the rest of the media is totally biased. You can tell just by how the headlines and articles are completely slanted to share all the positive aspects/opinions about the Republicans and bury any negative lower down in the article or on the web property. Check out the home page cnn.com for an example.

Has anyone seen the pics of Palin and her kids partying? are they real?

All I can think about the GOP picks for pres and vp is what a load of misfits! Obama has been president since super Tuesday. Everyone knows that. The numbers of any other canidate can not even compare. (who does the media think their fooling?)The GOP has taken their most strongest candidates (Romney, Huckabee) off of the ballot, and replaced them with jokes of the century! If they really thought they could win surley one of them would have been on the ballot. They dare not let their best be embarrassed, disgraced, or even demoralized by the first president of color. But put up puppets to characterize, distract, and humorize the situation. They have opened a stage in which to parade insults against one of the greatest men (mind) of all time. Face it.

Sarah Palin is like a breath of fresh air to all politics! I have never heard a policitican talk more eloquently in "real speak" in my entire life of 57 years. I get so tired of the same political talk over and over again, promising all, and delivering little, and yet she seems like a real person who can actually get in there with McCain and be a team that will actually bring about much needed change in Washington, DC. Kudos to her!!! I was so glad to hear her knock the socks off the democrats and the liberal news media. I just hope she can withstand the onslaught of negatives that will now be coming her way since the democrats along with the liberal news media are now on the defensive. It was really amusing to me this morning to watch CNN & MSNBC and hear them defending their "unbiased" position. Keep 'em on their toes, Sarah!

I watched Palin's speech, as I'm sure many did, out of sheer curiosity. It was fluff and sarcastic jabs at Obama. I thought it had no substance. And while I'm on the subject of Palin---I find it a double standard when told HER daughter's pregnancy is a private personal family matter. She is against aboration in every case for all American women, even women of rape and incest. Isn't that a private personal matter for ME to decide? Who is she or the government to pry into my personal life and tell me what I can or cannot do with my body? I think each pregnancy is a private personal matter with unique circumstances and no government should force a woman to carry a pregnancy to term, that pregnancy could have lasting physical, and or mental consequences on the woman and the child.

After years of enduring George's arrogance, biting sarcasm and lies ("mission completed, we are winning the war, the economy is growing") I now change the channel or put the television on "mute" when he has anything to say. I was extrememly disappointed to see that, based on her speech at the RNC, Palin intends to carry on George's tradition of character assisination as opposed to dealing with actual issues.

Our country has many IMPORTANT issues that must be addressed (health care, Katrina victims who are still homeless 3 years later, wounded war veterans not receiving adequate health care when they come home, the foreclosure crisis, fuel prices, and the environment just to name a few). I was very disappointed that Palin chose to spend her time attacking Obama instead of telling me what she intends to do to save this country and improve this the lives of the disappearing middle class. There is also the issue of how the rest of the world views the U.S. We don't have a lot of friends out there.

She claims that Obama wants to increase taxes. Well, how exactly shall we pay off our national debt, repair our bridges, provide medical care to our veterans, provide health care for our citizens if we don't raise taxes? I'm sorry, but everyone, including the United States, must eventually pay their debts. Where does Palin expect to get the money to keep the country running without raising taxes? She didn't bother to say. Perhaps because she doesn't have a plan? Or did she just run out of time because she was so busy attacking Obama?

Additionally, her sarcasm was completely inappropriate. I do not want to hear that garbage on television anymore. Eight years of listening to the self-righteous Taliban-type "Christians" that have unfortunately been "running" this county talk that type of trash is enough for me. Before George was elected I considered myself a Christian. I no longer do. I do not want to be associated with those kind of people. And I hear that Palin is even more Evangelical and even more to the right in her viewpoints than George. That is truly frightening.

That was certainly not behavior worthy of the Vice-President of the United States of America. Such a pity.

I have been very impressed, however, with the way Obama has been conducting himself. His poise and refusal to lower himself to Palin's level are truly majestic to watch. It's been a long time since I have seen a politician conduct himself in a manner that is worthy of respect. Obama has done that over and over again.

In case anyone is wondering, I am female and would have voted for Hillary Clinton had she been the Democratic candidate. I would have been happy with either Clinton or Obama. My low opinion of Palin is due to her behavior, not due to her gender. She's off to a very bad start. I've only known of her for a very short period of time, and I watched with an open mind. Her behavior was horrible and she should be ashamed of herself. I hope she takes the time to watch that speech. I would like her to see with her own eyes the person she showed herself to be.

COMMUNITY ORGANIZER
"im sorry to say but F off REP what the hell is so hilarious about a man partcipating in his community to make it better. I guess if everyone was rich and well off as REP it wouldve have been funny but its not just like McCain dosnt even know the number of houses he owns. The only community service PALIN has done is be the pin up on calendars in the mens restroom.

Lincoln freed the Blacks and women have had to fight for their freedom ever since. Your party wants to take away our freedoms that we've faught so hard for because you don't agree with some of our issues primarily (ABORTION)It is an abortion to take away some of our rights as women as well! You are taking 10 steps backwards and more women will die from it. Not everyone lives in an American dream in America. 1 in 6 women are raped in the United States every day! That is almost the same rate as Breast Cancer, yet you would make a women carry a child from such a violent crime, even if she were a child. You must live in a glass house because you have no idea what the real America is suffering

2BanAmerican // 6 hours ago
I wish to educate the women out there that think it's Ok to make laws against themselves.

In 2006, there were 272,350 victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault. (These figures do not include victims 12 years old or younger.)

Every 2 minutes, someone in the U.S. is sexually assaulted.
Here's the math. According to the U.S. Department of Justice's National Crime Victimization Survey - the country's largest a...
more I wish to educate the women out there that think it's Ok to make laws against themselves.

In 2006, there were 272,350 victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault. (These

AND THE MAYHEM CONTINUES…

Another political year! Another year for banters and acting! Another year for the annoying face of politics. In plain and simple terms we've narrowed our options down to two candidates: One black, young, man and one white, old man; both running for the position of commander in chief of these United States. Then we have an old, white, man and a white, young, woman, running as their second in command (or vice president). The dilemma is who to vote for? Is race a factor in people's decision making process? Whether we like to face up to this sad point or not, the truth is that race is indeed a big factor, and to some people, it might be their only deciding factor. It's down to the wire. The media is crazy; stories are coming out everywhere. We have constant badmouthing of families, teens getting pregnant, and so on… To all this, I say give it a rest. When making a decision about who to vote for in November, just think and consider where you are and where you see yourself in the next four years. Then, pick the candidate you see that adheres to your principles, values and lifestyle. I try not to watch the news too much, and I try not to let the personal lives of the candidates sway my decision. In a way, and in my opinion, running a country is like running an established old business. You love it because of the time and effort you put into it, it has become part and parcel of the individual that shares this relationship with it. But always remember, that at the end of the day, it's still what it is: an established old business. In November, pick a candidate that has a platform to make the business grow and not one that leaves our beautiful country in utter distress.

Rapepublicans Educate Yourselves!
Here is the link to the Alaska Wild life consevation. These too are God's creatures.
http://awcc.org/home.html
please read and research
Two days before she was picked as John McCain's running mate last week, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska presided over what she called "one of the most historic and exciting events" in Alaska since statehood when she signed a bill that could clear the way for a massive natural gas pipeline. Standing in a hotel ballroom in Anchorage, flanked by labor leaders, nurses, electricians, and other union members, Palin inked legislation to spur what analysts say could be the largest private capital project in U.S. history-the construction of a new pipeline to carry natural gas from Alaska's resource-rich North Slope to the rest of the country.
It's an ambitious project. The price tag for the planned 1,715-mile pipeline is an estimated $26 billion-and it's been a long time in the making. Alaskans have been eyeing their vast natural gas resources and attempting to sell them to buyers for decades.
McCain's campaign team, along with Alaskan Republicans, has been quick to credit Palin for overcoming past obstacles and pushing the project through. But with support for the proposed pipeline cutting across party lines, she was in part the beneficiary of lucky timing, with high energy prices driving demand for some kind of a deal. Indeed, the pipeline's promise has even been trumpeted by Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, who, in a speech this summer (given well in advance of Palin's selection), praised the project's potential for "delivering clean natural gas and creating good jobs in the process."
The pipeline will take at least a decade to build, so it will be years before the project can be judged a success or failure. But by almost any measure, its potential energy contribution is large. Alaska's North Slope contains about 35 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas reserves, most of it in Prudhoe Bay. The pipeline, which is scheduled to be completed by 2018, is expected to carry about 4.5 billion cubic feet a day-the equivalent of about 8 percent of the country's current natural gas production. (Today, in fact, the eight largest natural gas-producing shale fields in the U.S. yield a combined 6.6 billion cubic feet a day, according to a recent private report.)
On top of that, Alaska officials say an additional 220 trillion to 230 trillion cubic feet may be recoverable with further exploration. "Alaska has tremendous reserves and resources," says Marty Rutherford, Palin's chief adviser for the pipeline. "We've always wanted to move this gas to market." At least one oil exploration company, Anadarko, was exploring for untapped natural gas in Alaska last winter.
The timing couldn't be better. As gas prices have climbed and energy independence has become a chief concern, natural gas is being billed as a promising domestic alternative, both for electricity and for fuel. Today, it already provides about 23 percent of the country's energy (mainly as electricity), and recent technological advances have led to a production boom of a scale not seen in several decades. Though natural gas is still a fossil fuel, it burns much cleaner than coal or oil, and everyone from Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Texas oilman T. Boone Picken's has suggested it as a transition fuel to allow other technologies, like wind and solar, to come up to scale.
Alaska, officials there say, has been pushing to sell its natural gas since the 1970s, but it's taken a number of complementary factors-Palin being just one of them-to ignite the necessary effort to build a pipeline. Three well-known oil and natural gas companies-BP, ConocoPhillips, and ExxonMobil-control most of the North Slope's natural gas, and they've long used it to boost their own oil production, reinjecting it down into oil-and-gas wells to force out any remaining oil. Without the gas, their oil recovery would have been abysmal, says Cathy Foerster, the engineering commissioner at the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
But in recent years, production in Alaska's aging oil fields has dropped off. The value of natural gas, meanwhile, has increased, and state officials have been increasingly eager to find a way to sell it to the lower 48 states.
Politics, however, has frequently gotten in the way. Palin's predecessor, Gov. Frank Murkowski, tried to get the legislature to sign off on a gas pipeline plan that he had hammered out with the big oil companies, but the deal quickly unraveled. "The gives [to oil companies] were way in excess of what the economics required," says Alaska's Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Tom Irwin. (Irwin, who held the natural resources post under Murkowski as well, was fired at the time for opposing the deal, and six other top state officials resigned in protest.) less

Go to Wikpidia and do your Research on your Candidates
just type in their names then make your choice. Be SMART America!
Obama has sponsored "131 bills since Jan 4, 2005.[2] This figure does not include bills to which Obama contributed very substantially as cosponsor, such as the Coburn-Obama Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 or the Lugar-Obama Cooperative Proliferation Detection, Interdiction Assistance, and Conventional Threat Reduction Act of 2006, which were formally sponsored by Senators Coburn and Lugar, respectively. They also exclude amendments to other bills, although these in the Senate are not required to be germane to the parent bill and can therefore effectively be bills in their own right.[3] Obama has co-sponsored 619 bills during the same time period.
State legislator, 1997-2004
Main article: Illinois Senate career of Barack Obama
Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, succeeding State Senator Alice Palmer as Senator from the 13th District, which then spanned Chicago South Side neighborhoods from Hyde Park-Kenwood south to South Shore and west to Chicago Lawn.[27] Once elected, Obama gained bipartisan support for legislation reforming ethics and health care laws.[28] He sponsored a law increasing tax credits for low-income workers, negotiated welfare reform, and promoted increased subsidies for childcare.[29] In 2001, as co-chairman of the bipartisan Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, Obama supported Republican Governor Ryan's payday loan regulations and predatory mortgage lending regulations aimed at averting home foreclosures,[30] and in 2003, Obama sponsored and led unanimous, bipartisan passage of legislation to monitor racial profiling by requiring police to record the race of drivers they detained and legislation making Illinois the first state to mandate videotaping of homicide interrogations.[29][31]

In January 2003, Obama became chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee when Democrats, after a decade in the minority, regained a majority.[35] During his 2004 general election campaign for U.S. Senate, police representatives credited Obama for his active engagement with police organizations in enacting death penalty reforms.[36] Obama resigned from the Illinois Senate in November 2004 following his election to the US Senate.[37]

In July 2004, Obama wrote and delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.[43] After describing his maternal grandfather's experiences as a World War II veteran and a beneficiary of the New Deal's FHA and G.I. Bill programs, Obama spoke about changing the U.S. government's economic and social priorities. He questioned the Bush administration's management of the Iraq War and highlighted America's obligations to its soldiers. Drawing examples from U.S. history, he criticized heavily partisan views of the electorate and asked Americans to find unity in diversity, saying, "There is not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the United States of America."[d-142742] Broadcasts of the speech by major news organizations launched Obama's status as a national political figure and boosted his campaign for U.S. Senate.[45] less

Compaare to my last post please!
Sarah Louise Heath Palin (pronounced /ˈpeɪlɪn/; born February 11, 1964) is the governor of Alaska and the Republican vice presidential nominee in the 2008 United States presidential election.

Palin served two terms on the Wasilla, Alaska, city council from 1992 to 1996, then won two terms as mayor of Wasilla from 1996 to 2002. After an unsuccessful campaign for lieutenant governor of Alaska in 2002, she chaired the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from 2003 to 2004 while also serving as Ethics Supervisor of the commission.

In November 2006, Palin was elected the governor of Alaska, becoming the first woman and youngest person to hold the office. She defeated incumbent Republican governor Frank Murkowski in the Republican primary and former Democratic governor Tony Knowles in the general election, garnering 48.3% of the vote.

On August 29, 2008, Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain announced that he had chosen Palin as his running mate. She was nominated at the 2008 Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Palin is the second woman to run for vice president on a major-party ticket and the first Republican woman to do so.[5] less

2 Ban America your blogs are too long u have a lot of important stuff to say but dam its like reading a newspaper front to back.

Remember me

It is hard for me as an American to think that there are truly some of us who would condone the killing of human beings simply because of their sexual prefferences. They use the Bible as their shield for their actions and for their discriminating and hateful minds. WE THE PEOPLE ARE SCREAMLING FOR CHANGE!
The Democratic-controlled State Assembly has repeatedly passed bills that would outlaw anti-gay crimes, but the Republican-controlled State Senate has failed to act on them!
New York City, there were 82 anti-gay bias crimes reported this year through Oct. 4, compared with 46 during the same period last year, representing a 78 percent jump, said Deputy Inspector Barbara A. Sicilia, the commander of the Bias Unit. Overall bias crimes rose by 2 percent, to 384 from 374.

Although the most incidents were reported in lower Manhattan, where they usually occur, more incidents were also reported in Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island.

In the latest attack, two men shouted anti-gay remarks at a 31-year-old man on the streets of the Dyker Heights section of Brooklyn yesterday evening, then hit him in the head with an unspecified object, the police said. The man was not seriously injured.

Carl Locke, the director of client services at the Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, a nonprofit organization that helps victims of bias crimes, said the spread of bias crimes across the city shows the extent to which gay people are becoming more visible outside their usual neighborhoods, Greenwich Village and Chelsea in Manhattan and Park Slope in Brooklyn.

''Most gay-related crimes have people come to your neighborhood and seek you out to hurt you,'' he said. ''Now people don't have to come downtown. As we are more visible outside of Manhattan, we have also seen an increase in crimes in those neighborhoods.''

While many activists believe that anti-gay crimes are on the rise across the country, statistics are difficult to come by. The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Projects, which collects data from 14 organizations across the country, reported that violent crimes against gay people rose 2 percent, to 2,445 incidents, in 1997, the last year for which statistics are available. In 1996, the report said, anti-gay crimes rose by 6 percent.

But those figures reflect incidents labeled bias crimes by local organizations, which often use different standards than the police when determining motivation.

Jack Levin, a professor of sociology and criminology at Northeastern University and an author of ''Hate Crimes: The Rising Tide of Bigotry and Bloodshed'' (Plenum Press, 1993), said it was not unusual for anti-gay crimes to buck the trends of other bias crimes.

''Most hate crimes respond to economic factors like the unemployment rate, but not gay-bashing,'' he said. ''Gay-bashing has nothing to do with money, with economic survival. That's why so many perpetrators are teen-agers and come from every point among the economic continuum. It is typically done by young people, with their hormones raging, feeling confusion about sexual identity. Young guys in denial about their own homosexual feelings who see the very presence of a gay person as a threat.''

Nineteen states, including New York, do not have legislation that specifically prohibits anti-gay hate crimes. In these states, someone who assaults a gay man or a lesbian can be convicted of assault, but not a bias-related assault. New York does have a law, aggravated harassment in the first degree, that outlaws harassing people because of ''the race, color, religion or national origin of such person,'' but it makes no reference to sexual orientation.

The Democratic-controlled State Assembly has repeatedly passed bills that would outlaw anti-gay crimes, but the Republican-controlled State Senate has failed to act on them. This year, Gov. George E. Pataki, a Republican, renewed his call to pass the bill, saying that ''passing the bias-crime legislation, including a provision protecting those who would be discriminated against based on sexual orientation, is very important.''

Mr. Allis, the magazine editor, said that Mr. Shepard's killing put recent history into a new light.

''There was that sense of connecting the dots,'' he said. ''Between the well-publicized murders, the less-publicized hate crimes that we hear about across the country, Trent Lott's words calling homosexuality a disease, and small acts of intolerance, there were all sorts of indications. But the murder of Matthew Shepard brought the picture into relief.''

Forget the fact that her speech was the most sarcastic given at the convention. Forget the fact that it was writtem by a Bush speechwriter. But how can you forget that a 17 year old is 5 months pregnant.

Alaska Statutory Rape Laws say

Statutory rape is defined as sexual activity - without the use of force or violence - with anyone defined as a minor. The thought behind these laws is that a minor is unable to legally consent to sexual activity. Statutory rape is so common in the United States that the federal government's Department of Health and Human Services commissioned a report on this type of crime in 2004.

State laws vary slightly in terms of defining the term "minor" and in the criminal and financial penalties that can be applied to statutory rape cases. At this time I'd like to discuss Alaska statutory rape laws with you for a few minutes.

The age of consent is defined as 16 years old, according to Alaska statutory rape laws. If a person who is at least 18 years old engages in sexual activity with a person who is 16 years old or younger, he or she will be charged with sexual abuse of a minor in the first degree. This charge is a felony in Alaska. And remember, it does not matter if you did not force or threaten the other person into performing this sexual act with you. It is still a crime under Alaska statutory rape laws.

Any person who is 16 years old or older who has sexual intercourse with a minor who is 13-, 14-, or 15-years-old will be charged with sexual abuse of a minor in the second degree. Again, this charge is also a felony.

You can also be charged with a felony - sexual abuse in the third degree - if you are at least 16 years old and you have sex with anyone who is age 13-15, or if the person is a minor at least three years younger than you. In addition, Alaska statutory rape laws declare that anyone who is 18 years old or older who has sex with a person who is 16 or 17, or who is at least three years younger than the offender, can be charged with sexual abuse in the third degree. This is also a felony.

Alaska statutory rape laws carry punishments that include imprisonment and fines.

So if Ms Palin's case fit these circumstances, should not Alaska be prosecuting the young man involved, or is this just another example of the hypocrisy that exist in this country

Be Smart,Educate Yourselves then VOTE
Equality!

On any given night in America, anywhere from 700,000 to 2 million people are homeless, according to estimates of the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty.
According to a December, 2000 report of the US Conference of Mayors:

single men comprise 44 percent of the homeless, single women 13 percent, families with children 36 percent, and unaccompanied minors seven percent.
the homeless population is about 50 percent African-American, 35 percent white, 12 percent Hispanic, 2 percent Native American and 1 percent Asian.
According to the 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients (NSHAPC):

single homeless individuals in 1996 reported an average income of $348 during the last 30 days, about 51 percent of the 1996 federal poverty level of $680/month for one person.
28 percent said they sometimes or often do not get enough to eat, compared with 12 percent of poor American adults.
44 percent did paid work during the past month.
21 percent received income from family members or friends.
66 percent of the homeless have problems with alcohol, drug abuse, or mental illness.
22 percent have been physically assaulted.
7 percent have been sexually assaulted.
38 percent say someone stole money or things directly from them.
30 percent have been homeless for more than two years.

stop cutting and pasting

It seems here that SHE is the one that keeps palying the "Hockey Mom" card...so of course people are going to keep thinking of her as a Mom with little children - something the men (referring to the doulble standard) hjaven't done, I haven't heard any of the other canidates for either party during the primaries or now do. I guess she keeps saying that & bashing Obama because she doesn't know what McCain's plan is...I'm not sure any of the other speakers do either, since they never mentioned it. This is typical Republican bashing they just keep skirting the REAL issues. How about their buttons "Hottest VP from the Coolest State"? Not sexist? Or is this a double standard. it's time to move past her and get the focus back on Mccain.

Last night after watching the debate,i think she was condesending,and very rude, also disrespectful. Just to let her know the race is not for the swift but who can endure it. Just think if it was the Democratic that came out last night and did that to her , she would be the victim, all i can hear is praises from most women. Thats aload of bull. I am still waiting to hear her views on how my house will be safe ,my health,and my children education etc,will be taken care of. Yes she will connect to alot of women but those women dont have to work a twelve hour shift,the people she was talking to last night they all are millionaires.

How can we in good concience vote for the same rederick and the same politics as the last 8 years. Our country is the laughing stock of the world and is in an astronimical amount of debt as well as looked upon as Hitlers of the modern world. We have our own people who are suffering, who are loosing there homes, who are starving, who are sick, who have lost their jobs and all we can do is talk about how the institution of marriage is in jeopardy, or that a woman doesn't have the right to her own body. I honestly don't feel jeopardized in my marriage of 26 years by Homosexualilty. I have no fears of turning gay nor does my husband. I can't in good concience look at a 13 year old who has been gang raped and tell her she has to go to full term when it just happened 2 weeks ago. I don't know how you can. I can't stand by and see my fellow Americans loose their jobs one right after the other to out sourcing or see them loose their homes and have no where to go. I have to vote for CHANGE and that is the Obama-Biden ticket. Our veterans and our elderly and our sick deserve more than what has been taken from them these last 8 years! America is a melting pot and the America know cares and helps one another, even if it means cleaning up someone elses mistakes and paying more taxes for it. I can't stand by and see the victims of Katrina have no recourse for years on end and I can't stand by and see our young men come home with limbs missing and their families suffering all for the sake of OIL! We have alternative solutions to our Energy Crises and instead of putting our money into that we put into fighting a war for Oil so that the rich could get richer. I won't vote for four more years of that! WE need to bring our men home and we need to mend our own Country which has suffered enough in the name of FEAR and OIL! Where is the America I know and love? Bring our brave young men and women home where they belong. WE are no longer the peace keepers of the World, we are hated and laughed at. We need to heal and we need to becvome the Nation we once were of Honor and Dignety and earn the worlds trust again. We don't even have anything made in America anymore it is all made in China, we have aloud ourselves to be invaded by other Nations through trade. America we need CHANGE! We need it now!

whats funny about participating in your community?

I was sorely disappointed in Palin's attack of others! We don't need that. We need to hear her plans, her ides her goals etc.
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They are making her look so qualify, I think she would be running in McCain spot. To me she has more experience that McCain himself.

Palin's speech was so shallow that she couldn't even sell it on e-bay. If she is elected maybe she could get rid of all our troubles by selling them on e-bay. Any bidders?

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Sorry I do get carried away. I love my country soo much and it pains me to see so many suffering. I appreciate your critic and will keep it shorter. However, please take the time to read some of these facts, and in the future I will put up links. I truly hope that we can Unite as a Country not just as 2 seperate Party's

As I had said in one of my long comments being a Community Organizer is the foundation for change within the community and that is where it all starts. With the PEOPLE, by The People and For the People. Hmmm sounds familiar. Look up Barack Obama on Wikpedia and see his accomplishments, it's easy to do, type it in your search bar. I just don't understand how Rapepublicans can stand in front of truth and facts and deny them. It's crazy, it's as though they go threw life with blinders on and all they see is money. Palin we are looking straight into your eyes and we truly see who you are. Someone who definetely can not be trusted!

I am not impressed with Mrs. Palin at all or her attitude. She already shows by her remarks about Joe Biden and Obama how insensitive to other peoples losses or tragedies in comparison to Mr. McCain. My dad was in World War2 and was shot down twice behind enemy lines. Mr. McCain finally has someone who really knows how to lash out for him. She has no idea what it is like to lose everything you have worked for, a home to a major flood in your town is devastated and under water for three days. You put everything you have out on the street to be picked up and put in dump trucks. Our family does. Them when you lose the new home built with disaster loan money is destroyed by fire caused by a bad oil change to a nearly car. There was not doubt it was an oil fire caused by the oil change. The major retailer in this country who was responsible for that was found guilty but appealed. Our story goes on and on. A second trial and the company my husband worked for 44 years filed bankruptcy in November 2000, put a whole plant, and allot of people out of work and no insurance. Another appeal. Major Injustice and major health changes for me, no home but thankful to have a roof over our head. My husband is 70 years old and we do not know how we will be able to start over again. We have to move from the place we live and do not know how we will do it. Our faith is what is keeping going. This happened in 1995, the flood in March 17, 1990. The new house was on four years old. We moved into it in March of 1991 and we lived with my husband's mother for a year while we built the house. I know how to identify with the kind of losses I see people have all the time and the injustice in our system. I also know what it is like to deal with developmental disabilities within a family. I have a brother who is fifty five years old, has all learning disabilities, Mental Retardation, and is very Autistic. I have been his legal guardian since 2001. Getting help for him is almost impossible with all that has happened with cuts in programs in mental health and developmental disabilities. I could go on and on about the injustice, I know first hand and what I see in our country. No illegal aliens do not need to get Social Security Benefits when my brother cannot get help and only $10.00 a month in food stamps and he has worked in supported job programs but is not going to work any longer due to the worsening of his condition. He gets $877.00 a month in Social Security and you tell me how anyone can live on that. You can barely eat on it.

I noticed the crowd in the Republican Convention and the people in that crowd. My vote will be Democratic, our judicial system is so political, and the unjustice it is unreal. I am not impressed with Mrs. Palin at all.
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goofygram I wouldn't buy the Bridge to Nowhere from her.lol

HAS ANYONE LOOKED AT THE ALASKAN ECONOMIC REPORT FOR 2006 (PAGE 20)? PALIN RAISED THE TAXES ON OIL BY ABOUT 30% IN ONE YEAR. 84% OF THE STATE REVENUE COMES FROM OIL AND GAS TAX. SHE INSTITUTED A NEW PPT-BASED PRODUCTION TAX THAT WILL INCREASE TAXES STARTING IN 09 UP ABOUT 30%. AM I THE ONLY ONE SEEING THIS. SHE IS HUGELY RAISING TAXES!!!!! AND THEY SAY THE DEMOCRATS ARE?? I DON'T THINK THE DEMS CAN TOP THAT!! REPORT THIS PLEASE.

Well, I call her Pistol Packin Palin and here's my Cheer for her
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