HAWAII DEBATING THE DEBATES

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PUNAHOU SCHOOL ON TRIAL: WAS LITTLE BARRY PROPERLY PREPARED FOR DEBATING IN THE BIG-TIME?

HAWAIIANS, ER, LOCAL PEOPLE, UH, KAMA'AINA, MM, EVERYBODY HERE IGNORES DEBATES

YOUTUBE: CSPAN: OBAMA VS. MCCAIN
"First 2008 Presidential Debate (Full Video)"



Eh, Brah, Aloha Fridays, Da Kine, Yeah?

Most people were still at work when the debates went off at 3pm Hawaii Standard Time, GMT-10. By nine o'clock Friday night, most of us were just wrapping our shopping or dining out, or just beginning our celebration of another week survived in "Paradise."

Only a few of us were paying attention to the lackluster, already-been-chewed gabfest on all the major 'Nets. At least, we taped or TiVoed it, with the intention of paying attention at some future date when there is absolutely nothing else to do, like alphabetise our DVDs, or look up MILF on the Internets.

I watched PBS on tape, hoping for less graphics, no scrolling, and no reminders of what a great service some corporation was doing me, the buying public, by dedicating two hours of their free public airwave time to public service once every four years. Besides, PBS is more boring, and this is a boring landmark. Or landfill.

From a Hawaii point of view, local boy Obama showed aloha, humility, honesty and respect for our kapuna, all important ohana values here in the Asian-Pacific region. Plus, he wasn't all white.

McCain was extremely white. He acted like a stereotypical big dumb f*cking haole: He showed no aloha, no humility, no honesty and no respect. He refused to even look at Obama, and kept saying that the Harvard grad "didn't understand" what were, to McCain at least, important points.

The fact that all of his "important points" were tired old Bush lies and Republican campaign misrepresentations became way obvious after McSame repeated them all about a hundred times each. He also seemed to have an unhealthy affection for General Betrayus, and kept mooning over him, seemingly upset that Obama didn't share his puppy love for the commander of the debacle in Iraq.

Barack failed to deliver a knock-out punch. He didn't really need to, after McCain's last two weeks of gaffes and goofs, and Republican disasters at home and abroad. McCain didn't punch well, either, unless you call constant rude interruptions, a snide, hostile, arrogant demeanor, and bald-faced lying a punch. Only the hard-core delusional Repukelickin's will have been won over, and they were already on the McKoolaid.

I'd say Obama won with undecided Independents and wavering Democrats and Republicans. He made the most and the best valid points. More importantly, he seemed like a guy you could trust with his finger on the twin triggers of War and Depression.

John Sydney McBush III just seemed like more of the same old sh*t, only crustier: An arrogant, nasty old fool you just couldn't do business with, and wouldn't want to. He lost.
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PALINOGRAPHY: A VIEW OF ALASKA FROM HAWAII

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EXACTLY HOW IGNORANT IS OUR SARAH?

IT COULD BE WORSE. SHE COULD HAVE DOWNS SYNDROME

YOUTUBE: ABC NEWS
"Palin ABC interview - Part 1 -- September 11, 2008 -- Sarah Palin interviewed by ABC's Charles Gibson"


"Palin ABC interview - Part 2 -- September 11, 2008 -- Sarah Palin interviewed by ABC's Charles Gibson"


YOUTUBE: NBC
"Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina answers a question"




As It Is, She Merely Carries The Gene

Unfortunately, she's about to carry it right on into the White House. McCain will be almost certainly be dead within a year: Look what the job did to far younger men. He seems to be relieved that he doesn't have to really run or prepare or pretend to be the President now that Governor Barracuda has stepped into his tired old shoes. All she had to say was: "WOW! WHAT AN OPPORTUNITY!"

Unfortunately, the bitch just ain't up to the job. (She couldn't even handle college on the Big Island of Hawaii, at lame-o rich kid tanning university HPU.) Being Commander in Chief of the planet's most deadly military machine, and enforcer for its' increasingly monstrous economy, the job of President of the United States of America, the richest and most powerful country in the history of the world, is a teeny bit more complicated than following orders from the oil companies and the Alaska Republican Party (population 100,000) while skinning a moose.

Unfortunately, the job requires that you take an interest in economic, trade, diplomatic and military strategy and tactics. It's not enough to be able to say, like a precocious five year old, "Oh, Russia, I know where that country is! It's right over there!" You have to know what it means to be playing chicken with them in the Black Sea, and now the Caribbean. It's not enough to be able to parrot the notions, "Bush good," and "terrorism bad."

Unfortunately for Sarah, and the nation, you have to actually know what the so-called Bush Doctrine (more like a cocktail napkin) did to warp and wreck our military and foreign policy in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel and Turkey, Poland and Georgia, North Korea and Burma. You have to read a few headlines, and maybe even a couple of paragraphs of the news stories that they put under them sometimes. You know, the wordy things next to the pictures? Or maybe you could even read one of those book thingies they used to have in the lieberry before you closed it down and burned all the books, in your dreams.

Unfortunately, this will all come out when Joe Biden debates Sarah Palin on national TV. Unless, as usual, they have one of those softball not-hardly-in-the-same-room affairs where no one actually says anything for a whole hour or more. If they did get to exchange ideas, once she ran out of "zingers" and pat phrases, Palin would be easy pickins for Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Biden. She could barely handle herself with warm and fuzzy Good Morning America eunuch Charlie Gibson. She kept calling him "CHAR-lie," like a first-year kindergarten teacher trying to control her class, and her anger at her class.

Unfortunately, the Repukelickin's have run raw rank incompetents and arrant fools for high office before. In fact, that's what they usually run. And they win. Stupid people love 'em, smart people get too disgusted to vote. But this time, the even lamer half of the ticket has the background of a bowling champion, and she WILL have to do the Biggest Job In The World for real in a matter of months. She crows arrogantly that she's ready for it. "Never batted an eye" when McCain asked her to run with him. That's her idea of wise consideration of complex problems fraught with danger: Never bat an eye. What's the female equivalent of ignorant macho bravado. Macho bitcho? Chuchita estupidita?

Unfortunately, we may be about to find out. The illiterate beauty queen's "moose in the headlights" act may not play so well when she tries it on Hu or Putin, Kim or Khamenei. And they will come a-knockin' soon as McCain croaks. They're right next door, dontchya know?


THE NATION
"Palin Channels Cheney's 9/11-Iraq Falsehoods"

' When everyone's attention was focusing on Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's less-than-reassuring interview about foreign policy with ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson, the Republican nominee for vice president was off delivering a speech in which she suggested a dramatically greater ignorance of recent history and international affairs than was on display in the interview. Speaking at Alaska's Fort Wainwright on Thursday, where she hailed the combat deployment of her son's Army unit to Iraq as a "righteous cause," Palin explicitly and repeatedly renewed the discredited claim that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was initiated as a necessary and credible response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. '

YOUTUBE: ABC NEWS
"Sarah Palin 20/20 ABC Interview II September 12, 2008 With Charlie Gibson Part 1/4"




YOUTUBE: ABC NEWS
"Sarah Palin 20/20 ABC Interview II September 12, 2008 With Charlie Gibson Part 2/4"




YOUTUBE: ABC NEWS
"Sarah Palin 20/20 ABC Interview II September 12, 2008 With Charlie Gibson Part 3/4"




YOUTUBE: ABC NEWS
Sarah Palin 20/20 ABC Interview II September 12, 2008 With Charlie Gibson Part 4/4




MORE TAGS: corporatist, Bush-clone, bumbling, inexperienced, yokel, radical extremist, fundamentalist, anti-choice, anti-gun-control, pro-war, anti-stem-cell-research


[Cross-posted at Out Of Iraq Bloggers' Caucus.]
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KNOCKED UP, THE CONVENTION

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MCCAIN's VP, UNFIT MOTHER OF UNDERAGE MOM, TO ADDRESS GOP GATHERING

PREGGERS TEEN & DROP-OUT BOYFRIEND SHOWCASED BY "MORAL MAJORITY"

Is This Any Way To Run A Family? A Campaign? A Country?

What a fine moral example Sarah Palin sets. Too busy pursuing her extreme right-wing evangelical political agenda to raise her own children (or even feed & rest her unborn child, who ended up being born retarded), her ambition has now trumped her own daughter's health and welfare. In fact, her daughter may end up on welfare, like many single Moms. She comes from a State where every last citizen is effectively on U.S. Government support already(paid for by the taxpayers of the "Lower 48"), so no biggie for the Palin's, I guess. The proud papa & grand-dad, in the same year, was jobless himself when his last kid "happened." So much for responsibility.

Palin's slutty daughter and the rubberless teen father "planned" the pregnancy, rather than leave it to "God's will," like the elder Palins, who recently gave birth to a child with Down Syndrome. And by plan, I assume the kid meant he decided not to pull out at the last minute. Unfortunately, the horny little hockey puck did not "plan" to graduate high school at all, or get married before fornicating and forcing a child into another child's womb. Where I come from, this is called "statutory rape." You'd think the State's Governor would want to prosecute that. I guess she's too busy trying to look Presidential on national TV. After all, her running mate could drop dead any second. Gotta keep up appearances.

According to the Repukelickin's themselves, Palin only came clean about the bastard birth to be because the blogosphere was belaboring the rumors that Palin's own recent child-birth was just a cover-up for her preggers daughter. Actually, Palin only came clean on her pregnancy in the first place because she thought she'd been caught out by the media. Anyone seeing a pattern of deception and then hasty, pretended openness, here? Palin, the "open-government champion," has also cloaked official proceedings in her attempt to keep Alaska's favorite bear off the endangered species list, even though its' entire habitat is disappearing due to oil-fueled global warming.

Even the Nazi media are uneasy about this consistent strain of poor judgement, irresponsibility and lack of concern for traditional American values. Corporate puppet-heads who usually clack their wooden jaws in artificial delight over the Republicans' every move are having qualms about this latest sequence of events. A Vice-Presidential running mate chosen by the man himself, Dick Cheney, has led his foolish "boss" into war and recession. Now an unwise choice made on the basis of no facts will put an inexperienced and unwise VP in charge of the mightiest military and the largest economy in the history of the world, the first time old McSame falls down and can't get up. Nervous, anyone?

To top it all off, the arrogant, power-mad one-year Governor of America's smallest State, if you count people, will now parade her knocked-up unwed high-school-aged daughter, and the high school drop-out who raped her, onto the stage at the Republican National Convention. Can't wait for the thunderous scripted applause for this one from the hall packed with crazed right-wing fundamentalists and oil company executives. Sarah Palin is their dream come true: Someone with no personal morals or political scruples, who will do anything to get their support and further their anti-American agenda. So what if her family is a fucking mess? She's a fundie and an oil-whore, and she's desperately, blindly ambitious. That's good enough for the Republicans. And the DEVIL!!!



ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS
"Bristol Palin's boyfriend heads to convention"

' The boyfriend of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's unwed, pregnant daughter will join the family of the Republican vice presidential candidate at the GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn. Levi Johnston's mother said her 18-year-old son left Alaska this morning to join the Palin family at the convention where Sen. John McCain will officially receive the Republican nomination for president. The boy's mother, Sherry Johnston, said there had been no pressure put on her son to marry 17-year-old Bristol Palin and the two teens had made plans to wed before it was known she was pregnant. "This is just a bonus," Johnston said. On Monday, Palin and her husband, Todd, said Bristol planned to have the baby and asked the media to respect the couple's privacy as has been the tradition with children of candidates. Sarah Palin is scheduled to address the convention Wednesday night, and traditionally her family would join her at the conclusion of her speech. Levi Johnston, a hockey player for Wasilla High School, is not listed on the team roster for 2008-09, and his mother wouldn't say if he graduated. She said simply he's no longer a student and any further information would have to come from him. '

ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS
"Secret's out: Palin pregnant"

' Gov. Sarah Palin shocked and awed just about everybody around the Capitol on Wednesday when she announced she's expecting her fifth child. That the pregnancy is so advanced astonished all who heard the news. The governor, a runner who's always been trim, simply doesn't look pregnant. But people just couldn't believe the news. "Really? No!" said Bethel state Rep. Mary Nelson, who is close to giving birth herself. "It's wonderful. She's very well-disguised," said Senate President Lyda Green, a mother of three who has sometimes sparred with Palin politically. "When I was five months pregnant, there was absolutely no question that I was with child." Palin beamed as lawmakers, Cabinet members and others came by to congratulate her at the Baranof reception, a legislative event Kodiak officials sponsor annually. Her husband, Todd, was there holding the couple's sleepy 6-year-old daughter Piper in his arms. Palin said she's not aiming to take any time off from her job as governor, assuming all goes well with the pregnancy. She said when she had Piper -- Palin was mayor of Wasilla at the time -- the baby was born on a Monday and she returned to the office on Tuesday. "I've always been a believer that God's not going to give us anything that we cannot handle," Palin said. Todd Palin, a BP oil field worker currently on leave from his job, said he's thrilled to be headed toward five-time fatherhood. "I'm really excited," he said. "Every child you get from God. The more the merrier." Aside from Piper, the Palins have three other children: Track, 18, serving in the U.S. Army at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks; Bristol, 17, a high school junior; and Willow, 13. Palin, a Republican, was elected as Alaska's first female governor in 2006 and took office in December of that year. She's kept a hectic schedule in recent days, traveling last week to the National Governors Association conference in Washington, D.C., followed by a trip to Los Angeles on Monday for a Newsweek magazine conference also featuring Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano. The magazine profiled the two in its Oct. 15 "Women & Power" issue. With Palin riding extraordinarily high popularity ratings, pundits have mentioned her as a potential vice presidential candidate. But she said Wednesday night she's "not pursuing or perpetuating it," adding, "I have no desire to leave my job at all as governor." Palin said she decided to reveal the pregnancy after she felt the signs were giving her away, like doing less running this winter and being "ravenously hungry." She's known as a fashion plate, but said she hasn't been dressing differently to cover her barely perceptible bulge. '

POLITICO
"Noonan, Murphy trash Palin on hot mike: 'It's over'"

' After a segment with NBC's Chuck Todd ended today, Republican consultant Mike Murphy and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan were caught on a live mike ridiculing the choice of Sarah Palin. "It's over," said Noonan, who then responded to a question of whether Palin is the most qualified Republican woman McCain could have chosen. "The most qualified? No. I think they went for this — excuse me — political bullshit about narratives," she said. "Every time the Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at, they blow it." Murphy chimed in: "The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical." '

LONDON TELEGRAPH
"Republicans rebut claims they failed to vet Sarah Palin"

' "There was a vetting team on the ground before she was named," a senior McCain adviser told The Daily Telegraph. "These were people who know how to do it so they can get in and out quietly. "Nobody noticed them when they were here. There is nothing that we have encountered about Sarah Palin that we didn't already know about." Republican officials concede, however, that the decision to select Mrs Palin was made very late and some parts of the normal vetting process were dispensed with in order to preserve the element of surprise. Mr McCain did not find out about the pregnancy of Mrs Palin's daughter Bristol, 17, until last Wednesday, two days before he announced she was his running mate. It had not been planned to reveal the pregnancy until after this week's Republican convention in St Paul, Minnesota. "There were all of these blogs stating that Sarah's son Trig (her four-month-old son, who has Down syndrome) was actually Bristol's baby," said the McCain adviser. "Of course, that was not true." "Then there were rumours starting to emerge about Bristol being pregnant. So we decided to go ahead and be open and clear about the facts and also lay down a marker about protecting the privacy of the children." Bristol Palin and her fiancée Levi Johnston, 18, who are due to be married early next year after the birth of their baby in December, arrived at Minneapolis airport to attend the convention in nearby St Paul. '

[Crossposted at Democracy For California.]
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JOHN MCCAIN, GODLESS FORNICATOR, BIGAMIST

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UNFAITHFUL MCSAME: BETRAYER OF GOD & COUNTRY, WIFE & CHILDREN

IMMORAL JOHN DUBYA MCBUSH SLEPT WITH RICH BIMBO DURING MARRIAGE TO POOR CRIPPLE


Character? McNuts Was Still Married To His First Wife When He Took Out A Marriage License With His NEXT Wife

The rich and the powerful are different from us. They dispose of entire families like so much used toilet paper. FLUSH, and unattractive, impecunious, inconvenient wives and children are gone like so much embarrassing malodorous waste. At least, that's how John McCain sees it. "NEXT!" [flush!]

The George Bush wannabee dumped his damaged wife like old garbage as soon as he layed, er, laid eyes on flashy billionaire booze heiress & drug-addict Cindy McSame. She told Jay Leno that that the 42-year old Senate aide chased her 24-year-old heiney around a fancy Honolulu hors-d'oeuvre table while on a free government junket to Hawaii (how's THAT for elitism?), and she thought he was weird (creepy, old and inappropriate?).

And married. To a cripple. With children. Who'd remained faithful to him during the 5.5 years of his captivity in Vietnam. But who's counting? Not John. Not on his family. Not Cindy: She wanted a Senator in her bed, so she bought and made one.

So, you know you can count on McCain, America. Until he sees a younger, prettier, richer country he "loves" better.


LA TIMES
"McCain's broken marriage and fractured Reagan friendship"

' The nature and timing of his divorce from Carol Shepp alienated key friends -- and his version doesn't always match that in court documents. Outside her Bel-Air home, Nancy Reagan stood arm in arm with John McCain and offered a significant -- but less than exuberant -- endorsement. "Ronnie and I always waited until everything was decided, and then we endorsed," the Republican matriarch said in March. "Well, obviously this is the nominee of the party." They were the only words she would speak during the five-minute photo op. In a written statement, she described McCain as "a good friend for over 30 years." But that friendship was strained in the late 1970s by McCain's decision to divorce his first wife, Carol, who was particularly close to the Reagans, and within weeks marry Cindy Hensley, the young heiress to a lucrative Arizona beer distributorship. The Reagans rushed to help Carol, finding her a new home in Southern California with the family of Reagan aide Edwin Meese III and a series of political and White House jobs to ease her through that difficult time. McCain, who is about to become the GOP nominee, has made several statements about how he divorced Carol and married Hensley that conflict with the public record. In his 2002 memoir, "Worth the Fighting For," McCain wrote that he had separated from Carol before he began dating Hensley. "I spent as much time with Cindy in Washington and Arizona as our jobs would allow," McCain wrote. "I was separated from Carol, but our divorce would not become final until February of 1980." An examination of court documents tells a different story. McCain did not sue his wife for divorce until Feb. 19, 1980, and he wrote in his court petition that he and his wife had "cohabited" until Jan. 7 of that year -- or for the first nine months of his relationship with Hensley. Although McCain suggested in his autobiography that months passed between his divorce and remarriage, the divorce was granted April 2, 1980, and he wed Hensley in a private ceremony five weeks later. McCain obtained an Arizona marriage license on March 6, 1980, while still legally married to his first wife. Until McCain filed for divorce, the Reagans and their inner circle assumed he was happily married, and they were stunned to learn otherwise, according to several close aides. "Everybody was upset with him," recalled Nancy Reynolds, a top aide to the former president who introduced him to McCain. By contrast, some of McCain's friends, including the Senate aide who was at the reception where McCain first met Hensley, believed he was separated at that time. Albert "Pete" Lakeland, the aide who was with McCain at the reception in Hawaii in April 1979, said of the introduction to Hensley: "It was like he was struck by Cupid's arrow. He was just enormously smitten." As the pair began dating, Lakeland allowed them to spend a weekend together at his summer home in Maryland, he said. "They were just an attractive couple," Reynolds said. "The Reagans had great admiration and respect for John." In 1974, Reagan invited McCain to speak at a governor's prayer breakfast in Sacramento. The former prisoner of war told the story of a fellow captive who had scratched a prayer on a cell wall. Ronald and Nancy Reagan were reduced to tears. It was "the most moving speech I had ever heard," Reynolds said. In the next few years, family and friends said, there was no sign that McCain was unhappy in his marriage. Fitzwater recalled visiting the family on Thanksgivings, and McCain seemed content barbecuing a turkey on his outdoor grill near Jacksonville, Fla. Navy officers in the squadron McCain commanded in 1977 said they did not know anything was wrong. "When I went to parties at their home, everything seemed fine," said Mike Akin, a naval flying instructor. "They seemed to be a happily married couple." But two years later, while on a trip as a Navy liaison with the Senate, McCain spied Hensley at the Honolulu reception. In a recent television interview with Jay Leno on the "Tonight Show," Cindy McCain joked about how the Navy captain had pursued her. "He kind of chased me around . . . the hors d'oeuvre table," she said. "I was trying to get something to eat and I thought, 'This guy's kind of weird.' I was kind of trying to get away from him." John McCain was 42; she was 24. During the next nine months, he would fly to Arizona or she would come to the Washington area, where McCain and Carol had a home. Carol McCain later told friends, including Reynolds and Fitzwater, that she did not know he was seeing anyone else. His wife did not contest the divorce, and Day said that the couple had reached an agreement in advance on support and division of property. By then she was living in La Mesa, in San Diego County, with the family of Meese, a close Reagan aide and future attorney general. "We knew John and Carol both since he came back from Hanoi in 1973," Meese said recently. "They have been friends of ours ever since. "She was with us for maybe four or five months. Their daughter and our daughter were friends, and they went to school together." Carol McCain was distraught at being blindsided by her husband's intention to end their marriage, said her friends in the Reagan circle. "They [the Reagans] weren't happy with him," Fitzwater said. Carol McCain "was this little, frail person. . . . She was brokenhearted." By that time, Nancy Reagan had come to Carol McCain's aid, hiring her as a press assistant in the 1980 presidential campaign. When the Reagans moved to Washington, she was named director of the White House Visitors Office. "Nancy Reagan was crazy about her," Reynolds said. "But everybody was crazy about Carol McCain. . . . And the Meeses were very generous and helpful and comforting to her." '

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