Some of his comments that he’s made about the war, that I think, in my world disqualify someone from consideration for the next commander-in-chief. Some of the comments he’s made about Afghanistan, what we are doing there, ‘just air raiding villages and killing civilians.’ That’s reckless.
What Sen. Obama actually said:
Now you have narco drug lords who are helping to finance the Taliban, so we’ve got to get the job done there [in Afghanistan], and that requires us to have enough troops that we are not just air raiding villages, and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there.
Afghan elders said Saturday that 108 civilians were killed this week in a bombing campaign in western Afghanistan, and villagers in the northeast said 25 Afghans died in airstrikes.
In what has become a dolefully familiar episode, local Afghan officials reported Saturday that dozens of civilians, and perhaps a great many more, were killed during United States-led coalition airstrikes, this time in the Grishk district of the southern province of Helmand, where dozens of civilians died under similar circumstances last week.
Air strikes by foreign forces in Afghanistan have recently killed more civilians than the Taliban and the U.S.-led operation should cut them back, an Afghan rights group said on Monday.
Instead, NATO and U.S.-led coalition troops battling the Taliban and other insurgents should boost the number of their foot soldiers — already numbering nearly 50,000, Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission said.
In the latest incident involving civilian fatalities, Afghan officials said on the weekend that 45 civilians were killed in an air strike in the south of the country.
Karzai, who was handpicked by Western powers after the Taliban’s removal and was elected in 2004, has repeatedly urged foreign forces to better coordinate operations with his government.
He has warned that civilian deaths would have bad consequences for his government.
A senior British commander in southern Afghanistan said in recent weeks that he had asked that American Special Forces leave his area of operations because the high level of civilian casualties they had caused was making it difficult to win over local people.
Other British officers here in Helmand Province, speaking on condition of anonymity, criticized American Special Forces for causing most of the civilian deaths and injuries in their area. They also expressed concerns that the Americans’ extensive use of air power was turning the people against the foreign presence as British forces were trying to solidify recent gains against the Taliban.
So, you tell me, who should we believe in this? Senator Obama, Hamid Karzai, Rueters, The Washington Post, a senior British NATO commander, or Sarah Palin?
On June 8, 2008, this is what Sarah Palin had to say about the wars:
I’d rather have a President that was concerned about the horrific casualties of war than a Vice President who thinks that war is part of god’s plan.
I’m not the biggest hip hop fan. Scratch that, I’m not a hip hop fan in the least. But I may buy a few of P Diddy’s productions now–the guy is a funny bastard. His video explaining why he doesn’t fly in his own jet anymore was amusing, but this is downright hilarious.
Thanks to The Takeover where I saw this first. I got lost in that blog, tons of great graphic design posts, and really neat art. Big fan.
Yes, that amazing star, the unbelievable person, that person that gets to cut in line at the coffee shop (Too Tall Jones used to cut me in line at the coffee shop, the bastard).
Famous Person!!! Wow! Now I’m convinced that Sarah Palin is now the celebrity candidate, especially now that Famous Person worships her.
Who could it be? A famous person…hmmm…
Here’s a list of possibilities:
Margaret Thatcher Thomas Edison Mother Teresa Helen Keller Madonna Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis Tom Brokaw James Taylor Mr. Rogers Isaac Newton Lewis Carrol Andy Rooney General Norman Schwarzkopf Norman Rockwell Pablo Piccaso Paul McCartney Plato Edgar Allen Poe Elvis Mae West Ernest Hemingway Vincent Van Gogh W.C.Fields Robin Williams Walt Disney Walter Cronkite Shakespeare Frank Lloyd Wright Julia Roberts John F. Kennedy, Jr. Terry Bradshaw Gloria Steinem Charles Dickens Thomas Edison Whoopi Goldberg Sigourney Weaver Bill Clinton Dave Letterman Newt Gingrich Jim Carrey Mary Tyler Moore Danny Glover Carol Burnett Paul Harvey Alicia Silverstone Neil Diamond Julia Child George Carlin Valerie Harper John Candy Weird Al Yankovick Marilyn Vos Savant Tom Hanks C. G. Jung William James Henri Mancini Bob Newhart Meryl Streep Benny Goodman Harrison Ford Steve Martin Ronald Regan Dan Aykroyd Susan B. Anthony Arthur Ashe Augustus Caesar Jane Austen William F. Buckley, Jr. Chevy Chase Phil Donahue Peter Jennings Charles Everett Koop C. S. Lewis Roy Rogers Chuck Yeager Jack Nicholson Charlie Brown Oprah Winfrey Paul Newman Pelé Fred Astaire Eddie Murphy Jimmy Conners Michael J. Fox Ross Perot Sean Connery Elizabeth Dole Dick Van Dyke Andy Griffith Peyton Manning Nathaniel Hawthorne Shirley MacLaine Michael Landon John Katz Billy Crystal Carrie Fisher Darth Vader Bill Cosby Bill Gates Bob Dylan Carl Sagan Charles Yeager Colin L. Powell Diana, Princess of Wales Henry A. Kissinger Elvis Presley Madonna Mahatma Gandhi Michael J. Jordan Michele Pfeiffer Doris Day Liberace Elizabeth Taylor Yogi Berra Dan Rather Ervin “Magic” Johnson Michael Jackson John Travolta Tom Cruise Spider Man James Dean Clint Eastwood Ray Charles Jesse Jackson Thomas Jefferson Hank Aaron Mohammad Ali Aristotle Neil Armstrong Lucille Ball Hank Aaron Beethoven Alexander Graham Bell Napoleon George Washington Cleopatra Columbus Dr. Seuss Albert Einstein Eisenhower F Lee Bailey Ben Franklin Sigmund Freud Gandhi Alfred Hitchcock Bob Hope Harry Houdini Martin Luther King John Lennon Leonardo Da Vinci Lewis And Clark Abraham Lincoln Louis Pasteur Marilyn Monroe Mark Twain Willey Mays Michelangelo Miles Davis Mozart
I think it was Darth Vader.
She Killed. It was her evening. She was the star!
Darth Vader, 10/2/08
They didn’t want to cite the person who said it, yet they wanted to use the quote. In fact, it was Peggy Noonan who said it. Peggy Noonan, Famous Person! No, more like Peggy Noonan, speech writer to Republicans. The writer who coined ‘A thousand points of light’, ‘Read my lips, no new taxes’, and ‘A kinder, gentler nation.’
What exactly does he do for BP? BP won’t comment on that.
Per AP
Todd Palin is still a BP employee. Company spokesman Steve Rinehart declined to describe Palin’s status beyond confirming his employment. Palin’s schedule is one week on, one week off, Palin said in a recent television interview.
Some say he’s a part time Production Operator, which is odd that they’d allow one to be part time, and not full time. Those jobs are very, very competitive, and considered hard to obtain. It seems he made $46,790 last year from this part time work that he started some time earlier in 2007. I thought he left BP and was working as a steel worker in a union job, wasn’t that what I heard?
I don’t know, but Todd Palin working for BP, and Gov. Palin working on securing an oil pipeline for heavy usage by BP seems a little untoward. Considering that he seems to have sat in on the majority of meetings of individuals and legislators with the Governor (which, anyone would admit, is odd), Todd Palin being in the employ of an entity with massive amounts of money at stake from the decisions passed down by the Governor’s office really is a conflict of interest.
He flew around on missions scoping out the proposed pipeline, supposedly representing the Governor, but one has to wonder if he were representing another entity as well. If any information from his missions as a surrogate for the Governor were to be passed into the hands of BP under the auspices of his job, that would border on some serious legal issues.
I have no problems with him being employed by BP, but any raise, favoritism, or conflicting interests need to be avoided, and it really doesn’t look like they were, to me.
Fox News and the GOP claim that ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is a radical group. Really? 400,000 members of ACORN are ‘radicals’?
Do they (or you!) know what ACORN fights for? Nothing ‘radical’ at all.
These are their issues:
Each ACORN office carries out multiple issue campaigns. ACORN members across the country work to raise the minimum wage or enact living wage policies; eliminate predatory financial practices by mortgage lenders, payday lenders, and tax preparation companies; win the development of affordable housing and community benefits agreements; improve the quality of and funding for urban public schools; rebuild New Orleans; and pass a federal and state ACORN Working Families Agenda, including paid sick leave for all full time workers.
Wow! Them is rad-eeeee-cals! Damn hippie bastards fightin’ fer increased minimum wage an’ against pred-ah-tory lendin’.
Anytime someone fights for the working class they get called radicals. I guess that’s what the upper class thinks of working class people that actually fight against the tendency of those with to deny more to those without.
The only radicals in the ACORN-Fox News-John McCain dynamic are the ones that push the agenda of war, class disparity, deregulation, repealing Roe v. Wade, and capping damages from corporate negligence at ridiculously low figures. That’s a radical agenda.
Don’t let them define who a radical is, and who a radical isn’t. Define radicalism yourself. Get the facts, then decide.
I saw that the @UN took my advice and started following @SamGrittner -- why haven't you? Yes, they followed him because of me. You shut up. 6 hours ago
When I say that I want a chick's body, I mean I actually want it to be my body because I already sold a kidney, and i bet they have both. 6 hours ago
8th winner for the Follow Friday contest is Brooklyn comedian @SamGrittner who is so thin designers use him when they can't afford Kate Moss 6 hours ago
@SamGrittner Absolutely! I already wrapped it up, but I kind of want to see what you'd write, and would FF you any day anyway. Bring it on! 6 hours ago
@abqryan Yeah, it probably doesn't show, but some of my jokes go through a few rewrites before I post them. That was version 3 or 4.0. 8 hours ago
