Biden gets a big topic wrong

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL-AID TABLE   TONIGHT THE DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE TOOK PLACE AS GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN AND SENATOR JOE BIDEN SQUARED OFF.   LOOKING TIRED AND FREQUENTLY COMING OFF GRUMPY AS HE WAS FORCED TO DEFEND BARACK OBAMA, SENATOR BIDEN WAS FORCED TO DEFEND BARACK OBAMA'S HUMAN-RIGHTS-KILLING PROPOSAL TO MEET "WITHOUT PRECONDITIONS" WHICH IS WHY HIS VOICE STRAINED AS HE DECLARED, "CAN I CLARIFY THIS? THIS IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE ABOUT BARACK OBAMA.  HE DID NOT SAY SIT DOWN WITH AHMADINEJAD."   IN FACT, HE SAID IT IN SEPTEMBER 2007 IN NYC.  HE WAS ASKED IF HE WOULD "MEET WITH PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD" AND HE RESPONDED, "YEAH, NOTHING'S CHANGED WITH RESPECT TO MY BELIEF THAT STRONG COUNTRIES AND STRONG PRESIDENT'S TALK TO THEIR ENEMIES AND TALK TO THEIR ADVERSARIES."   IT WAS A VERY SAD MOMENT.    REACHED FOR COMMENT AFTER, SENATOR SWEETIE BARACK OBAMA INFORMED THESE REPORTERS, "DID YOU SEE IT!  I NEVER GOT CHOKED UP IN A DEBATE AND ALMOST CRIED! HA HA!"   WHEN THESE REPORTERS REMINDED HIM THAT THE PERSON WHO DID, JOE BIDEN, IS HIS RUNNING MATE, BARACK REPLIED, "REALLY?  OH YEAH, I DON'T PICK CHICKS.  YEAH.  SO THE CRY BABY'S ON MY TEAM?  HOLY S**T!"     FROM THE TCI WIRE:     Turning to the US presidential race.  Robin Morgan has a column at Women's Media Center.  Violet Socks (Reclusive Leftist) has a response.  You can also see Marcia's "" and "."  I'll address in part tonight in "I Hate The War."  Robin's column is a very bad column.  It will be addressed in part tonight because Jim's asked me to save a topic (as Kat noted Monday) for Third this weekend.  After that goes up, Robin's column will appear even more uninformed.  For now, you can read Marcia's "When feminist 'leaders' lie" and "Ralph Nader, HB Melissa, and more"  Robin is a strong voice and real feminist leader (not a 'leader') so it's a damn shame she chose to publish that column.  Again, we'll address tonight.  For now, she's elected to play a round of "Bash the Bitch."  It's not pretty.  It is embarrassing and it is deeply harmful to feminism.  And let's be really clear, no one would mistake Robin's column for a "catfight."  It is "Bash the Bitch."  Which is worse? "Bash the Bitch" is how you get women burned at the stake in earlier times.  Today, you burn them with lies, half-truths and a double standard.  My opinion, "Bash the Bitch" is much worse than a "catfight."  Robin should have known better.  Violet Socks also points out that while Governor Palin proudly defines herself as a feminist, Michelle Obama replied when asked that question, "You know, I'm not that into labels.  So probably, if you laid out a feminist agenda, I would probably agree with a large portion of it.  I wouldn't identify as a feminist just like I probably wouldn't identify as a liberal or a progressive."  Well of course she wouldn't.  Sexism is the theme of the Obama household.  Many a foolish woman has said "well he has two daughters!"  That has to be the most insane and ahistorical remark made yet.  Are we supposed to believe that women just emerged in the last few decades?  Men have always had daughters and sons.  And sexism has always thrived.  Get a grip. Your first clue was his insistence upon going along with Michelle to a job interview (Michelle's job interview).  That tells you his actual opinion of women -- their abilities and their intellect.  It would appear Robin's been bitten by the Sour Grape Girl syndrome.  Hopefully, it's a 24-hour viral sort of illness.  Semi-related, garychappelhill (The Confluence) has a post.  It has nothing to do with this topic but a comment garychappelhill left on Riverdaughter's post resulted in a number of e-mails here.  While the sour grape girls can't bring themselves to call out homophobia, a lot of people are suffering.  Gary is a gay man and wrote of the damage done to the LGBT community in Barack's campaign.  That topic will be brought up tonight but I probably won't have time to link to him and will probably focus more on lesbians than gay males so we're including a link to his post.  A number of community members e-mailed afraid that he would stop writing.  He's already written a post today.  That's an understandable fear.  Team Obama has run an ugly, disgusting campaign and the 'progressives' have refused to call it out thereby sending the message to so many people that they are unwanted.  PUMA is only one response to the ugly campaign.  There are a number of people who've been made to feel they do not fit in with the 'grand vision.'  Sadly, Robin's very bad column will only further that impression.    Tonight Governor Sarah Palin debates Senator Joe Biden in the 'vice presidential' 'debates.'  Palin is the v.p. nominee of the Republican Party, Biden of the Democratic Party.  Today, the McCain-Palin ticket picked up an endorsement from the Lowell Sun which notes Senator John McCain's work with Senator Ted Kennedy on immigration and with Senator Russ Feingold on campaign-finance reform and calls McCain "America's true-blue, principled maverick."   Cynthia McKinney is the Green Party presidential candidate and Monet Drake (Howard University's The Hilltop) weighs in on her candidacy: History is certain to be made this election, but not by Sen. Obama and Gov. Palin, but rather by the Green Party's Presidential nominee, Cynthia McKinney - a black woman.          Cynthia McKinney, who was previously a Democrat, expanded her political views and won over the Green Party as the nominee for the presidential candidacy. She is a firm believer in the 2008 Green Party's Platform and a strong advocate for her "Power to the People" campaign.           In a press release, her running mate, Rosa Clemente said, "Cynthia McKinney is a hero to me and many others across this country and around the world." McKinney has been actively involved in politics since 1986. She was born the daughter of Georgia state representative Billy McKinney. Previously a resident of Jamaica, she ran and won a seat in the House of Representatives representing Georgia along side her father, in 1988. She was elected the first African-American woman to Congress in 1992, however, just 10 years later, she lost her seat. Congresswoman McKinney has since been able to move forward and attempt to promote a new health care plan and eliminate weapons of mass destruction, key values set forth by the Green Party. In an International Tribunal Press Release, McKinney expressed her concern for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.         "I am pleased to be among this tested and true group of activists who are committed to Katrina justice," McKinney said to dozens of supporters in the press release.       Meanwhile the US Senate passed a bail out measure late yesterday.  Voting in favor of it were Senators Joe Biden, John McCain and Barack Obama.  While they were all in agreement on the need or 'need' for the measure, many other Americans were not.  Ralph Nader is the independent presidential candidate and Team Nader issued this today:   NADER STATEMENT ON BAILOUT  Ralph Nader and Matt Gonzalez vigorously oppose Bush's $700++ billion taxpayer bailout of Wall Street.   "This is not just a bailout of Wall Street" says Nader, "It's a bailing out of the bankrupt Republican and Democratic policies that have led us to where we are today with Senators John "Deregulation" McCain and Joe "MBNA" Biden leading the way.   Full Statement from Ralph Nader and Matt Gonzalez:  "The revised bailout legislation is the same $700 billion piece of burnt toast, with some window dressing, sugar coating, and $150 billion of pork tax cuts covering everything from casinos to coal.  But this isn't even the main course that Senate is serving up for Congress on Friday. The main course is on page 92 of the 451 page document:  BORROWING LIMITS TEMPORARILY LIFTED. - During the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending on December 31, 2009, the Board of Directors of the Corporation may request from the Secretary, and the Secretary shall approve, a loan or loans in an amount or amounts necessary to carry out this subsection, without regard to the limitations on such borrowing under section 14(a) and 15(c) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1824(a), 1825(c)).  Translation: Bush, McCain, and Obama want Congress to co-sign off on the mother of all blank checks, paving the way for a sinking dollar and higher interest rates.  By bumping the FDIC's line of credit at the Treasury from $30 billion to infinity, the FDIC assumes fiat powers to bailout to its heart content, leaving the taxpayer to pay the bill. This unacceptable unlimited right to ransack taxpayers would last until 2010.   "The bailout ignores the needs of millions of swindled families facing foreclosure, and it squanders an opportunity to bring about real regulatory change, decisive shareholder power over their companies' bosses, and authentic taxpayer equity that would prevent economic crises like this from happening again. Wall Street's wildly overpaid bosses are addicted to speculative gambling with other people's money. When a drug addict is facing overdose, you don't give them more needles.   According to Richard W. Fisher, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas: "The seizures and convulsions we have experienced in the debt and equity markets have been the consequences of a sustained orgy of excess and reckless behavior, not a too-tight monetary policy. In the end, we're going to have to deal with the underlying stock of housing."  "We need to protect homeowners and our neighborhoods first. That's why Nader/Gonzalez support introducing a law with a 5-year sunset clause that would provide homeowners facing foreclosure the right to rent to own their homes at fair market value.   "Wall Street is out of control. We need to bring some sense of accountability, transparency, and law and order back to Wall Street's crooks and speculators, or they will desperately seek socialism to bail out their criminal corporate capitalism, going again and again to the taxpayer trough in Washington DC each time. That's why Nader/Gonzalez support a Wall Street speculation tax, starting on derivatives, which would make Wall Street less like Las Vegas, and generate enough funds to more than eliminate the federal tax burden on the first $50,000 of income for every working American.   Click here for Nader's Ten Point Plan     RECOMMENDED: "Iraq snapshot" "The 'handover'" "Iraq" "gas bag gwen" "Tomorrow's debate" "Gwen needs to go" "Ralph Nader, HB Melissa, and more" "Talking post" "Robin and Melanie" "Who's leading in the gaffes?" "THIS JUST IN! AND THE MOST REPEATED GAFFES GOES TO..."