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Enjoy this telling cartoon by Tom Toles:

The brave Senator Obama dove right into the belly of the beast and appeared on The O'Reilly Factor last night! This was an interesting move since O'Reilly, and all of FOX news, for that matter, continues to smear Obama, encouraging viewers to vote Republican -- a tactic they've used for years. In fact, 88% of Fox news regular viewers tend to vote Republican. So much for the "liberal bias" of the media. Doesn't Rupert Murdock own most of the media? See what I mean:

Is the way the are treating Sarah Palin sexist? Should teen pregnancy be a personal and private issue? Who is to blame? Is a Governor and former mayor of a small town qualified for the vice presidency? Watch and see:

Was McCain the quintessential POW that the media and his party are making him out to be? In this video, a fellow POW and a fellow from the Naval Academy speaks about McCain's ability to be president:

I caught Fred Thompson speaking at the Republican National Convention tonight. He spoke in length about John McCain's service to this country, the discipline he showed and hope he held as he was a captive in a POW camp. While the story is a powerful one, it does not qualify one to be president. (Perhaps it just shows how emotionally unstable he might be.) This story came right after Thompson joked about McCain's discipline problems in the US Naval Academy. And his womanizing. So much for family values.

He also spoke of Sarah Palin, and bragged that she has run a municipality and a state, and that she can properly dress a freshly killed moose. Lovely. He assured the crowd that Palin and McCain, if they are elected, "they're not going to care if the alligators get upset -- they're going to drain that swamp!" I believe it. This judgment is reflected in their record of consistently voting against the environment.

Thompson went on to knock Obama for his lack of experience, but with his vice-presidential candidate a heartbeat away from the presidency has far less experience.

Even though Palin has no idea what she would do if elected:

At least she lives in Alaska, which is "right up there next to Russia", so she knows what's going on with foreign policy, right?

OK, now I get it. I was so curious as to why on Earth John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate, but perhaps he is misunderstanding the term mate here. McCain is a known adulterer, and can't seem to keep his eyes off of Palin. Watch his wandering eyes and other body language in this video:

Of course, his creepiness goes beyond womanizing. Apparently, he wants to ship "bottled hot water" to "dehydrated babies". Opps.

Finally, if you are not convinced that McCain/Palin is a bad idea, check out these 45+ reasons not to vote for them!

On John McCain's 72nd birthday, he declared Gov. Sarah Palin (R - AK) to be his running mate. While some claim that this was expected, or a good move, many of us were shocked and a bit disturbed. If McCain is elected, he would be the oldest person to ever be inaugurated as president of the US. Couple that with his recent health problems, and you must realize that whoever he chooses as a running mate must be ready and able to take the highest seat of the nation. While Barack Obama chose a running mate that was a presedential candidate in the democratic primaries earlier this year, McCain has choosen someone with absolutely no national or international experience. In fact, two years ago, she was just the mayor of a small town in Alaska, population 9,000. This comes after McCain has repeatedly criticized Obama for not having enough experience to lead our country.

So who is this Sarah Palin?

• She is a right-wing religious conservative with no foreign policy experience.¹
• She was became governor of Alaska a little over a year and ahalf ago.
• Before that, she was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, a small town outside Anchorage.
• She is adamantly anti-choice, opposing abortion even in the case of rape or incest.²
• She supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000.³
• She holds that creationism should be taught in public schools.⁴
• She still claims that humans are not the cause of climate change.⁵
• She's solidly in line with John McCain's "Big Oil first" energy policy. She's pushed hard for more oil drilling and says renewables won't be ready for years.
• She sued the Bush administration for listing polar bears as an endangered species —- she was worried their endangered status would interfere with more oil drilling in Alaska.⁶

John McCain must have considered his choice very carefully. Right?

Apparently, McCain met Sarah Palin once at a meeting. They spoke a second time, last Sunday, when he called her to offer her the position of Vice President.⁷

What do folks from Alaska think about this news? According to MoveOn:

She is really just a mayor from a small town outside Anchorage who has been a governor for only 1.5 years, and has ZERO national and international experience. I shudder to think that she could be the person taking that 3AM call on the White House hotline, and the one who could potentially be charged with leading the US in the volatile international scene that exists today. —Rose M., Fairbanks, AK

She is VERY, VERY conservative, and far from perfect. She's a hunter and fisherwoman, but votes against the environment again and again. She ran on ethics reform, but is currently under investigation for several charges involving hiring and firing of state officials. She has NO experience beyond Alaska. —Christine B., Denali Park, AK

As an Alaskan and a feminist, I am beyond words at this announcement. Palin is not a feminist, and she is not the reformer she claims to be. —Karen L., Anchorage, AK

Alaskans, collectively, are just as stunned as the rest of the nation. She is doing well running our State, but is totally inexperienced on the national level, and very much unequipped to run the nation, if it came to that. She is as far right as one can get, which has already been communicated on the news. In our office of thirty employees (dems, republicans, and nonpartisans), not one person feels she is ready for the V.P. position.—Sherry C., Anchorage, AK

She's vehemently anti-choice and doesn't care about protecting our natural resources, even though she has worked as a fisherman. McCain chose her to pick up the Hillary voters, but Palin is no Hillary. —Marina L., Juneau, AK

I think she's far too inexperienced to be in this position. I'm all for a woman in the White House, but not one who hasn't done anything to deserve it. There are far many other women who have worked their way up and have much more experience that would have been better choices. This is a patronizing decision on John McCain's part- and insulting to females everywhere that he would assume he'll get our vote by putting "A Woman" in that position.—Jennifer M., Anchorage, AK

Sarah Palin is a staunch anti-choice religious conservative global warming denier who shares John McCain's commitment to Big Oil and is woefully inexperienced. While this decision might have made religious right happy, McCain has made a dangerous choice for our country.

Sources:

Ilyse, Noah, Justin, Karin and the rest of the MoveOn team.

¹ "Sarah Palin," Wikipedia, Accessed August 29, 2008.

² "McCain Selects Anti-Choice Sarah Palin as Running Mate," NARAL Pro-Choice America, August 29, 2008.

³ "Sarah Palin, Buchananite," The Nation, August 29, 2008.

⁴ "'Creation science' enters the race," Anchorage Daily News, October 27, 2006.

⁵ "Palin buys climate denial PR spin—ignores science," Huffington Post, August 29, 2008.

⁶ "McCain VP Pick Completes Shift to Bush Energy Policy," Sierra Club, August 29, 2008.

"Choice of Palin Promises Failed Energy Policies of the Past," League of Conservation Voters, August 29, 2008.

"Protecting polar bears gets in way of drilling for oil, says governor," The Times of London, May 23, 2008.

⁷ "McCain met Palin once before yesterday," MSNBC, August 29, 2008.

Please take a moment to see who John McCain turns to for spiritual guidance.

It looks like I'm making news and threatening both candidates in the polls: