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Compiled by Steve Jalsevac – September 9, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com)

OBAMA SMEARS MCCAIN-PALIN AS LIPSTICK ON A PIG – Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPd4yk0x-eg

UPCOMING LENGTHY INTERVIEW OF PALIN ON ABC – No topics are off-limits
“Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will spend two days with ABC News crews later this week as part of a McCain campaign plan to increase Americans’ comfort with her as a leader. The anchorman will get extensive, repeated access to Palin throughout her first trip home since becoming the nominee. No topics are off-limits – there are no ground rules.”
  https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13264.html

MCCAIN CAMPAIGN CROWDS GROW EXPONENTIALLY – ABC News
“The ‘Palin Factor’ Bringing Excitement and Bigger Crowds to McCain Event – These numbers seemed unfathomable to the campaign just last month. So what happened? Two words: Sarah Palin.”
  https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=5755471&page=1

MCCAIN NOW WINNING MAJORITY OF INDEPENDENTS
  https://www.gallup.com/poll/110137/McCain-Now-Winning-Majority-Independents.aspx

THE MATRIARCHY IS AGHAST – George Jonas, National Post
“The U. S. election of 2008 is shaping up as a contest about a vice-president—possibly a first in America. In the space of one weekend, Gov. Palin caused the sisterhood to metamorphose into veritable replicas of Boticelli’s Madonna. The wounded cry, “But what about the children?” echoed all over the land. The feminist housefrau emerged like a butterfly from the caterpillar of the professional woman. Overnight, a trickle of motherhood in feminism’s mainstream turned into a torrent. It isn’t known exactly when the feminist vanguard made this momentous discovery, but they came out with it last week. Their conclusion wasn’t wrong; it was only slightly suspect that the revelation should strike them just as the rifle-toting hockey mom, Senator John McCain’s beauty-contestant running mate of a float-plane-piloting moose-burger-chef, got on the Republican ticket.”

“Sadly, this election has become all about the rights of the unborn, and not about the rights of the born,” a correspondent wrote to me. Well, I don’t know: The born can at least vote and write letters to the editor. The unborn can only kick, squirm, and wonder whether Mommy grants them vacuum suction or life. As an ex-fetus, in this predicament I’d like a pitbull on my side.”
  https://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=774368&p=2

SARAH PALIN GETS THE SPITEFUL MARGARET THATCHER TREATMENT – Janet Daly in the London Telegraph
“It took about 20 minutes after John McCain announced her as his running mate for the attack machine to mobilise: woman candidate (bleep, bleep), no previous warning (nee-naw, nee-naw), exterminate, exterminate.”

“Like Margaret Thatcher before her, Mrs Palin is coming in for both barrels of Left-wing contempt: misogyny and snobbery. Where Lady Thatcher was dismissed as a “grocer’s daughter” by people who called themselves egalitarian, Mrs Palin is regarded as a small-town nobody by those who claim to represent “ordinary people”.
    
“What the metropolitan sophisticates failed to understand in the 1980s when Thatcher won election after election is even more the case in the US: most (and I do mean most) ordinary people actually believe in the basic decencies, the “small-town values”, of family, marital fidelity, and personal responsibility. They believe in and honour them – even if they do not manage to uphold them.”
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/09/04/do0404.xml

AMERICA’S MOMENT OF TRUTH – Conrad Black in the National Post
“‘This is the most important election in the world since the rise of Ronald Reagan in 1980’ The vice-presidential candidacy of Sarah Palin is, in part, an effort to wrest the leadership of the feminist movement from the elite and militant left, and to put it in the hands of a silent majority of relatively traditional but ambitious women. It is a bold move to try to separate abortion from other issues generally associated with women’s rights.”
  https://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=da2921a0-dd98-473b-8391-af9a39b4bb2d&p=3

WHY THEY HATE HER
“Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left” by Jeffrey Bell, The Weekly Standard
“The rollout of the Sarah Palin vice presidential candidacy may be regarded decades from now as a nationally shared Rorschach test of enormous cultural significance.”

“From the instant of Palin’s designation on Friday, August 29, the American left went into a collective mass seizure from which it shows no sign of emerging.”

“The most important thing to know about the left today is that it is centered on social issues. At root, it always has been, ever since the movement took form and received its name in the revolutionary Paris of the 1790s. In order to drive toward a vision of true human liberation, all the institutions and moral codes we associate with civilization had to be torn down.”

“The simple fact of her being a pro-life married mother of five with a thriving political career was—before anything else about her was known—enough for the left and its outliers to target her for destruction.”

“The simple fact of her being a pro-life married mother of five with a thriving political career was—before anything else about her was known—enough for the left and its outliers to target her for destruction.”
  https://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/534rlysq.asp

LIBERAL MELTDOWN – Canada Free Press
“In a delicious stroke of cosmic justice, it seems that the left, not the earth, is in meltdown stage. The sacred pillars of liberal orthodoxy are in the process of losing their underpinnings and it is not a pretty sight.”

“With the nomination of Barack and Sarah, three major industries and shibboleths of the left, feminism, racism and the media are losing their clout, big time. The presidential race of 2008 will go down in history as a turning point – as the pivotal event that exposed the shallowness of liberal policies, institutions and people.”
  https://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/4871

AS PUBLIC SERVANT, PALIN ALSO TRIES TO SERVE GOD
“The churches that Sarah has attended all believe in a literal translation of the Bible.” “Her principal ethical and moral beliefs stem from this.” “In the address at the Assembly of God Church in Wasilla, Palin’s ease in talking about the intersection of faith and public life was clear.” She also told the group that her eldest child, Track, would soon be deployed by the U.S. Army to Iraq and that they should pray “that our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God – that’s what we have to make sure we are praying for, that there is a plan, and that plan is God’s plan.”
  https://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/07/america/church.php?pass=true

SARAH PALIN’S SPEAKS AT HER CHURCH IN WASILLA – Videos
  Bible is Palin’s professional guide, friends and pastors say “The churches that Sarah has attended all believe in a literal translation of the Bible.” Her principal ethical and moral beliefs stem from this.” she suggested her work as governor would be hampered “if the people of Alaska’s heart isn’t right with God.”
  https://abovemypaygrade.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/sarah-palins-church-in-wasilla-videos/

PALIN’S PASTOR URGES FLOCK TO PRAY FOR THE PRESS
  https://www.christianpost.com/article/20080908/palin-s-pastor-urges-flock-to-pray-for-the-press.htm

STOP THE PRESSES: PALIN’S CHURCH HOLDS TO BIBLE’S TEACHING ON HOMOSEXUALITY!
  https://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2008/09/08/stop-presses-palins-church-holds-bibles-teaching-homosexuality

PALIN’S CHURCH IN ALASKA BELIEVES THAT JESUS CHRIST IS GOD, CREATED THE WORLD AND – GASP—HELPS GAY SINNERS OVERCOME HOMOSEXUALITY
  https://www.christiannewswire.com/news/480477813.html

MEDIA POUNCE ON PALIN OVER FOCUS ON THE FAMILY CONFERENCE
  https://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000008124.cfm

VATICAN OFFICIAL: PALIN ‘DREAM’ FOR PRO-LIFERS – Newsmax.com
“I couldn’t be more happy,” a U.S. church official at the Vatican told Newsmax on the condition of anonymity. “She is, in many ways, a dream candidate, at least among Americans here.”
  https://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/palin/2008/09/08/128840.html

PALIN BASHING PRESS KEEPS SWINGING AND MISSING –  Jonah Goldberg, National Review
“One good barometer of conservative support: Rush Limbaugh, who is rumored to kick his cat across the room in rage when he hears the name “McCain,” now calls the Arizona senator “John McBrilliant.”

“One partial explanation for the feeding frenzy is the bowel-stewing fear among an Obamaphilic press corps that Palin might actually help McCain win. But another part of the answer is that the press was simply surprised. Cockroaches scatter when shocked by a flipped light switch. Grizzly bears attack when startled. And when caught napping by big news, the press corps floods the zone. Editors scream at underlings who missed the story. Many of those who expected Palin to withdraw see her values and her choices as proof of a mental problem. If you’re pro-life, or even just a Republican, you’re not a real woman, you’re suffering from some sort of pernicious gender confusion.”
  https://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MzcwNmQ4MTczNzBkN2NjNTdhMWQ3MjY2Nzc3NzZhODI=

SLIMING PALIN
“False Internet claims and rumors fly about McCain’s running mate. Claims thoroughly refuted by factcheck.org.”
  https://www.newsweek.com/id/157986

THE SWIFT-SKIRTING OF SARAH PALIN – 11 false charges answered
  From unproven claims of infidelity, to claims she is a book banner and a negligent Mother, the media have been smearing this woman daily since she stepped out onto the national stage.
  https://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/09/06/swift-skirting-sarah-palin

NETROOTS LIES ABOUT PALIN STIR MEDIA FEEDING FRENZY IN ALASKA
  Media hordes unable to substantiate claim of Palin marital infidelity
  https://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/09/06/netroots-lies-about-palin-stir-media-feeding-frenzy-alaska

ARE COMPLAINTS ABOUT US LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS WORKING?
“There’s no question that anger at the press can be effective. Yet, it remains to be seen how long-lasting this response will be.”
  https://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/09/08/are-complaints-about-liberal-media-bias-working

BAY BUCHANAN TO CAMPBELL BROWN: THIS HOUR SHOULD BE CALLED ‘THE ANTI-SARAH SHOW’
  https://newsbusters.org/blogs/kerry-picket/2008/09/07/bay-buchanan-campbell-brown-hour-should-be-called-anti-sarah-show

RUMOR THAT PALIN CALLED OBAMA ‘SAMBO’ SPREADING ACROSS INTERNET
  https://newsbusters.org/blogs/terry-trippany/2008/09/06/rumor-palin-called-obama-sambo-spreading-across-internet

HILLARY TO HELP OBAMA BY ATTACKING PALIN, HOW WILL MEDIA REPORT IT?
  https://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/09/07/hillary-attack-palin-help-obama-how-will-media-report-it

MCCAIN DOUBLES WOMEN VOLUNTEERS; ABC NEWS’ QUOTES FAVOR OBAMA FIVE TO ONE
  https://newsbusters.org/blogs/vivian-lee/2008/09/08/mccain-doubles-women-volunteers-abc-news-quotes-favor-obama-five-one

MCCAIN, PALIN PUSH BIOGRAPHY, NOT ISSUES CLAIMS LIBERAL POLITICO WEBSITE (of course there has not been any excessive Obama image emphasis by the Democrats)
  https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13275.html

FUSING POLITICS AND MOTHERHOOD IN A NEW WAY
“Palin’s youngest son has had an unexpected effect on her political fortunes”
  https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26602065/

PALIN A ‘PRAGMATIST’ ON SCHOOL CHOICE
  https://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=240330

MCCAIN DOESN’T GET IT: WOMEN ARE NOT THAT STUPID, says Barbara Streisand”
“I believe John McCain chose Gov. Palin because he truly believes that women who supported Hillary—an experienced, brilliant, life-long public servant—would vote for him because his Vice President has two x chromosomes.”
  https://www.barbrastreisand.com/index.php?page=statements&n_id=828

YES! THE BARBRA STREISAND KISS OF DEATH By Michelle Malkin 
  https://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/09/yes-the-barbra-streisand-kiss-of-death/

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