Palin: The Hypocrisy Clock Goes Tic-Tock

Now this is embarrassing. It seems that John McCain's soulmate has also made his anti-earmark "pork list".

Three times in recent years, McCain's catalogs of "objectionable" spending have included earmarks for this small Alaska town, requested by its mayor at the time -- Sarah Palin.

Oops. But hey, it's not like Palin was the first Wasilla mayor to go after federal money, right?

Wasilla had received few if any earmarks before Palin became mayor. She actively sought federal funds -- a campaign that began to pay off only after she hired a lobbyist with close ties to Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who long controlled federal spending as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He made funneling money to Alaska his hallmark.

Yeah, she's quite the anti-pork, anti-lobbyist maverick. It's too bad the McCain campaign is now refusing to answer questions about the vetting process because it would be nice to know if they knew about this.

Via Kos

Another Smear Debunked

More bullshit from the right has surfaced this week as small minded conservative blowhards have been blowing up the blogosphere with some bullshit about how Obama removed the flag from the tail of the plane he is leasing for his campaign. Why did he have such a thing get done? Is it because he is dangerous and not patriotic and not in love with his country?

NOPE! THATS NOT WHY!!!!! BUT THOSE ARE THE REASONS THE RIGHT WING JACKASSES WANT YOU TO BELIEVE!!!!!!


THE REAL REASON:
The plane is being leased from a company called "North American Airlines" and the "flag" on the tail of the plane that was removed is THE COMPANY'S REGISTERED TRADEMARK. So, the reason the "flag" design was removed is because it is THE REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF NORTH AMERICAN AIRLINES! The flag next to the plane's tail number is still there in plain sight....

So all you close minded small thinking conservative assholes can shut the fuck up!!

Oh, speaking of campaign aircraft, I don't even see a flag or anything resembling a flag or the colors that are on the U.S. Flag ANYWHERE on McCain's plane!!!???
And since when are an aqua-ish blue, gold, and white patriotic colors? Ah... McCain must be colorblind in his old age.

Obama's Private Prayer 'Leaked'

Senator Barack Obama probably thought that the prayer he penned in the solitude of his King David hotel room in Jerusalem would remain between him and the Almighty. But an Orthodox Jewish student had other ideas.

Following Jewish tradition, Obama donned a yarmulke and went to the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, where shortly before dawn on Thursday he stuffed his prayer into a crevass between the giant white stones, hewn over 2,000 years ago. Traditionally such prayers, and there are over a million every year, some arriving by fax and email, are collected twice a year and buried on the Mount of Olives. It is considered taboo to read the prayers.

But after Obama and his entourage left the sacred site, an orthodox seminary student went to the Wall, fished out Obama's personal note and delivered it to Maariv newspaper, which duly printed the senator's prayer.

The newspaper's decision to publish Obama's private words was "an outrage", said Rabbbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, supervisor of the Western Wall. "It damages the personal, deep part of every one of us that we keep to ourselves," the rabbi told Army Radio. "The note placed between the stones of the Western Wall are between a person and his maker. It is forbidden to read them or make use of them."

Obama didn't pray for an election victory, a lottery win to help pay for his campaign, or for his Republican rival Senator John McCain to be felled by lightning or a pecadillo. On the contrary; his prayer hints at the struggle within, how Obama is seeking divine guidance to surmount the obstacles that lie ahead of him in his lonely, awesome challenge to become the next president of the United States. On hotel stationary, he penned the following prayer, according to Maariv, which ran a photo of the note:

"Lord, protect my family and me," Obama wrote. "Forgive me my sins and help me guard against pride and despair. Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just. And make me an instrument of your will."

Obama, now finishing up the European leg of his tour, has not commented on his private prayer being made public in Jerusalem.

CNN