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This came to me from a friend with whom I used to work in Politics, with a Capital P. I'm tellin' ya, yer really gonna like this singing Hockey Mom. Honest to goodness, I think she's just cute as a button.
Philly is a city of serious sports fans with seriously strong feelings. A lot of the city's residents are Black. A lot of them --especially Flyers fans--are blue collar Plumbers and Hockey Moms.
Most of them booed Sarah Palin when she dropped by Philly to "drop the puck" to start the Philadelphia Flyers hockey game against the New York Rangers.
I hope that's a sign.
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Rodger Schlickeisen, president of Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, says:
“Senator McCain’s choice for a running mate is beyond belief. By choosing Sarah Palin, McCain has clearly made a decision to continue the Bush legacy of destructive environmental policies.
“Sarah Palin, whose husband works for BP (formerly British Petroleum), has repeatedly put special interests first when it comes to the environment. In her scant two years as governor, she has lobbied aggressively to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, pushed for more drilling off of Alaska’s coasts, and put special interests above science. Ms. Palin has made it clear through her actions that she is unwilling to do even as much as the Bush administration to address the impacts of global warming. Her most recent effort has been to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove the polar bear from the endangered species list, putting Big Oil before sound science. As unbelievable as this may sound, this actually puts her to the right of the Bush administration.
“This is Senator McCain’s first significant choice in building his executive team and it’s a bad one. It has to raise serious doubts in the minds of voters about John McCain’s commitment to conservation, to addressing the impacts of global warming and to ensuring our country ends its dependency on oil.”
Back in the early '90s, George Bush Sr. referred to environmentalists as "the spotted owl crowd," thus indirectly making it clear that Republicans don't understand environmentalism. "And (yet) they call themselves 'pro-life'," mused Fox News' token liberal commentator Alan Colmes a few years ago.
I am disheartened by Sarah Palin's record on the environment, endangered species, and ties to Big Oil, but not surprised. She is, after all, a conservative Republican, running for VP on a Republican ticket.
To her credit, Sarah Palin is a member of Feminists For Life, an organization that is both pro-woman AND pro-life. Feminists For Life was founded in 1972, when the National Organization for Women (NOW) expelled all its pro-life members, in order to stifle dissent on the abortion issue.
I wish we pro-life Dems (a political minority) had the kind of visibility within our own Party that pro-choice Republicans (also a political minority) have in theirs.
Here's hoping for a GREAT Obama future!!
I like the subtlety of the "Blues" jersey.
I don't need to analyze is.
I just want to ENJOY it.
She shoots!!
She scores!!
Thank you, Sining Hockey Mom for a really neat video.
We WILL knock mcinsane/failin out of the playoffs!!
It S/B SINGING, not sining.
It was not Freudian, it was merely a typo so, don't bother to anal~yze it.lol
Vasu, though I don't agree with some of your personal views, I respect your right to state them... but perhaps your comment went on too long? You have a lot to say, maybe more valuable as a post of your own. Plus, this is a YouTube satirical video, not a Broadway production, and I was impressed with the range of her untrained but sweet voice.
Derek, oh please, I don't want to go back to the whole New Yorker cover debate, I didn't even blink at the Al Qaeda line precisely because it was so preposterous, isn't that the point of satire?
Bill, thanks a lot for the reminder re Rangers/Flyers. Flyers won last week and the PHILLIES WON THE WORLD SERIES. Oh, sorry, we can't seem to stop saying that here.
Ron, her Hockey Jersey bears quite a resemblance to the Phila Flyers logo. And btw, we don't "anal~yze" you here on OS -- we pick your carcass to pieces! ;)
Sylvia, I'm not totally clear on what point you're trying to make, but I think you're a McCain/Palin supporter, did I get that part right?
Marvelous throughout. The song was excellent, NOT too long, beautifully done.
Thumbified with smiles.
Sarah Palin only speaks for a very small number of women in the US, women who are rigid, close-minded and too afraid to think outside the very very closed box of zealotry, bigotry and/or fear.
(um, Philadelphia Phillies won the Series. The West won't root for them, generally speaking)
Also, comparing this to the Puff the Magic Negro, the gaping chasm between what passes for wit on the right and what is genuine wit on the left is once more made manifest.