Manic Monday News Links

Good Morning Conflucians! Here is my frantically rushed summary of the latest news. I may add a few more odds and ends.
Politics and Politicians
Paterson Says He Will Run Despite White House Pressure
At a parade in Harlem, the governor refused to discuss his conversations with President Obama’s political team, which has made clear [...]

Has an Obama speech ever changed anything?

We all know that Barack Obama is famous for speechifying.  Until he was elected to be Reader of the  TOTUS it was the first and foremost item on his skimpy resume.  But for all the swooning of the fanboiz in the media and blogosphere have any of his speeches made a difference?
Obama’s first great speech [...]

Stupid should hurt

The Palin haters are at it again.  From Business Insider:
Hong Kong Broker Pulling A “Borat” On Sarah Palin
Hopefully Sarah Palin realizes she’s been invited to Hong Kong as a practical joke.
CLSA, the Asia-focused broker who invited Mrs. Palin as keynote speaker for an Asian investment conference, is well known for their cheeky takes on investment [...]

Tabloid PDS blogging

Okay, this is truly bizarre.  First we have CNN stringer Dennis Zaki pushing the story that Sarah and Todd Palin are divorcing. His sources include a notorious PDS blog, multiple anonymous informants and the National Enquirer.
Zaki claims Sarah bought property in Montana and is going to move there with the kids.  There is lots [...]

A Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

I’m liberal. I’m not ashamed to say it. In fact, I’m proud of it.
Wikipedia defines liberalism as:
Liberalism is a broad class of political philosophies that considers individual liberty and equality to be the most important political goals.[1]
Liberalism emphasizes individual rights and equality of opportunity. Within liberalism, there are various streams of thought which compete over [...]

Why It Will Never End (Part 1)

Sarah Palin is not qualified to be the President of the United States. She is dreadfully inexperienced. She is a Fundie. That alone is normally a disqualify, but let’s continue. When it comes to women’s reproductive freedoms and choices, she disappoints. Her energy policies are mediocre at best, and her obsession with drilling in ANWR [...]

Catch-23

This is insane:
An independent investigator has found evidence that Gov. Sarah Palin may have violated ethics laws by trading on her position in seeking money for legal fees, in the latest legal distraction for the former vice presidential candidate as she prepares to leave office this week.
The report obtained by The Associated Press says Palin [...]

What does Sarah really think?

I was reading the comments to Peter Daou’s article “Palin-Mania: How Goldman Sachs Robbed Us While We Obsessed About Sarah Palin” at Huff&Puff an I saw this comment from HuffPo blogger K. J. Dwyer:
Hillary was pilloried by the Right as a means of diverting attention from her seriousness as a stateswoman, because they could not [...]

Who sez?

So I’m reading this Huff&Puff piece by Peter Daou about Sarah Palin and I see this line:
More recently, she had the audacity to allow her camp to take on a teenage boy while decrying attacks against her own family.
That sentence links to this piece by Greg Sargent:
You may have heard that Sarah Palin’s spokesperson [...]

Is Sarah Palin a feminist?

My mom dropped by to visit this afternoon and the subject of Sarah Palin came up. I mentioned to her that a number of people in the blogosphere have been arguing that Sarah Palin is not a feminist because she is pro-life. My mom looked at me like I was crazy.
That’s not unusual, [...]