Yes, you are right, the MCCain team is destroying Palin and her normally down to earth response. I can only hope that they are learning as we are and “Please…let her be herself”…

I also want the hockey mom with liptick!

Question: Why do our Republican leaders want a public that is uneducated?

Fact:       “No child left behind” reduced funding to public schools, put no money into early childhood education and the Republicans believe, if you want a college education, you need to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps and pay for it yourself.  

Question:   Why do our Republican leaders want a public that is                 unhealthy?

Fact:       Republicans, that means McCain and Bush, have made it clear, through their actions and words, they do not care that over 50 million people can’t get or can’t afford Health Insurance.  They don’t care that countless others with health insurance can’t afford the high deductibles and co-pays that have pushed millions into bankruptcy.  The Republican philosophy is ‘if you want health insurance and good health, pay for it yourself.  They’ve made it clear that if the insurance companies won’t insure you…  Too bad.  You’re on your own.  As a result, based on their actions, our Republican leaders believe there is no benefit to having a healthy nation.

Question:   Why do people vote against their self-interests?

Fact:       If you’re not making over $250,000 a year or you can’t afford to pay $20,000 per year for private school for your kids, than the Republicans don’t represent your interests and therefore you are voting against your self-interest.

These questions and facts may seem unrelated, but they have the same answer.  Unfortunately, the answer cannot be explained in a Carl Rove, one-line talking point.  Also, to truly understand the answer one must look closer at these questions.
You would think with all the things the Republicans have screwed up no one would trust them with another four years.  You would think everyone, who wasn’t insane or with severe Down Syndrome, would want to see most of the Republicans in office and working in the White House put in prison…  On death row…  Right after reminding the public in court of all the crimes and treason they’ve committed.

Just in case anyone’s forgotten the crimes committed by our Republican leaders, here’s a quick recap of a few of their crimes (or you can just skip ahead to the next paragraph):

An unlawful preemptive strike against Iraq – War Crimes, Malfeasance
Publishing the identity of an active CIA operative – Treason
The firing of both Republican and Democrat State Attorneys who were investigating Bush, Cheney and Rove for election fraud – Abuse of power
Throwing out many necessary regulations that would have prevented the September 16, 2008 Stock Market crash – Negligent incompetence
Depriving U.S. soldiers of the proper equipment needed for combat conditions and depriving generals of the appropriate number of soldiers to complete the mission they were entrusted – Treason
Giving no-bid contracts to companies (like Halliburton) who continue to give our elected representatives (like Cheney) a salary – War profiteering, Treason, Embezzlement
Helping the people hiding Osama Bin Laden. Specifically; Pakistan leaders are currently hiding and protecting Osama Bin Laden. Not to mention, Bush flew the entire Bin Laden family out of the United States right after 9/11, before the FBI could question them and before everyone else in the United States was allowed to fly. You remember the Bin Laden family? They’re the royal family that runs Saudi Arabia and OPEC. They’re also the ones stealing Iraq’s oil that was supposed to go to us to pay for a war costing us $120 billion per year. And, if McCain wins the election, they are also the ones who will be getting us to get rid of their biggest competition in the Middle East… The Iranians. – Treason
Braking constitutional law, particularly habeas corpus, due process and warrantless wiretapping
Purposefully ignoring intelligence that would have prevented 9/11 – Treason, Incompetence
I could go on…. And on!

So how is it with all the facts out on the news and C-span, newspapers and the Internet people still want to suffer under four more years of Republican blunders?

The Answers:
If the Republicans can get you exhausted working three minimum-wage jobs and/or working 70 hour weeks (for less money), they can keep you in an exhausted stressed-out state. When you are exhausted and working 70 hour weeks, you don’t have time to keep yourself well-informed as to what’s going on in the world and what malfeasance your political leaders are up to. You barely have the energy to process the Republican one-line talking-points answers let alone finding out if what they’re saying is the truth. If the Republicans can keep you exhausted with a short attention span, they know they can manipulate you into thinking what ever they want.
Now add to that the level of education you have. The more educated you are, the easier it is for you to understand complicated issues. However, if you barely made it through high school and/or you don’t have the time or energy to read up on both sides of various issues, you have turned yourself into Karl Rove’s best friend.
Now add bad health to the Carl Rove formula. Too many people can’t afford to take time off from work to see a doctor, or can’t afford to go to the doctor without insurance, or can’t afford the ridiculous co-pays, deductibles and high prices of medicines. I don’t know about you, but when I’m feeling really sick or exhausted you could tell me the location of $1 billion and I’d be like “What?” “Hah?” And if I had the energy to watch the news I would more likely digest the information I heard on an emotional level than on a common sense logical level.

Question: So today, we have a nation full of broke, tired, stressed-out, uneducated and/or unhealthy people. How does this work to the advantage of our Republican leaders? How do these people choose who they‘re going to vote for?

Answer: With their emotions. The feelings they get from listening to each candidate. Which is why so many Republicans go to FOX News for information. Bill O’Reily and Sean Hannity are perfect examples of how to manipulate people on the most basic emotional level, fear and anger. Their job is to make you hate Democrats and keep you thinking Liberal is a dirty word. They can say the most outrageous lies without consequence as long as they deliver the lie with the line “People say-.” FOX News also constantly lies by leaving out key facts in their news reports, by telling only one side of an argument and by delivering selective truths.

Question: Why would FOX News want to manipulate you into voting Republican? Why would FOX News care whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat?

Answer: Everything you see, read and/or hear is owned by less than eleven men. One of them is Rupert Murdock, a Lord in England who owns FOX News, FOX Television, 20th Century Fox Studios, etc. Besides being a fan of the old Class System of England (everything to the Lords and Kings, nothing to the peasants) he happens to really enjoy the power from the monopoly he holds on most of the information going out to the public all around the world. Rupert Murdoch will do everything he can to keep the Republicans in office for as long as possible. He wants to keep his Monopoly on information. Remember. The Republicans are into deregulation. Especially for their rich and powerful friends that help them get re-elected. Rupert Murdoch has gained enormous power with the help of Bush, Cheney and the Republicans. Soon he’ll gain even more power and control with the help of McCain after he’s elected.
All the other news stations, like those conglomerates owned by Ted Turner (Time Warner) and Sumner Redstone (CBS, Viacon), use to be in the same boat. They use to manipulate the news in Bush and Cheney’s favor. Adjusting the news in favor of the Republicans so they too could reek the benefits of Republican deregulation of their information monopolies. However, they started to change after Katrina. They began to worry about the effects of the devastation left in the wake of Republican incompetence and greed.
Remember, Rupert Murdoch may have a bunch of houses in the States, but he doesn’t live here. So why should he care if America turns into a third-world country. That would just make his country, England, stronger.

If listening to the candidates and FOX News is too much information to process, sick/exhausted/uneducated people vote the same way as the people they trust, like their parents, grandparents, church, neighbors, etc.  They vote the way Karl Rove wants them to vote.   Without common sense or logic, but most importantly, without voting in their own self-interest.
Rove narrows everything down to single talking points.  Nothing complicated.  So dumbed down you could be practically comatose and understand Rove’s one-line answers.  It doesn’t matter if it’s the truth or a lie.  It just matters that the material was delivered in a plausible way on an emotional level.
Karl Rove knows ‘if you get enough people to say the same lie over and over, eventually everyone will think it’s the truth.  Rove got this trick from the Nazis.   This is how Hitler got Europe to participate in the genocide of gypsies,  Jews, gays, and anyone that disagreed with them.

Obama was accused of being “Uppity” (a quote from a congressman from Georgia).  Why?  When Obama is asked a question that has more than one answer depending on the situation, he answers the question thoroughly, truthfully and accurately.  He gives a real answer to a real question.  However, if your health is bad, and/or your exhausted from working too many hours and/or you had a crappy education and was never able to go to a good college, you’re going to blank out during Obama’s answers.  Obama may even come across to you as a (dare I say it) “Intellect!”  “Intelligence.”  “Qualified.”  And everyone knows we don’t want someone smarter than us running our country, our military, our international peace talks and trade negotiations, our etc.  We want someone who’s dumb enough to have a beer with us.
Then you have the Karl Rove-trained McCain.  He’s asked a question and gives a one-line talking-point, then turns the question into a personal experience; like his Hanoi prison experience because we all know being in prison and getting tortured makes you qualified to be president. After which, he repeats the talking point and he’s finished.
Hillary was a disaster in answering questions.  One of her major mistakes was sticking to the truth.  If that wasn’t bad enough she would explain what the problem is, what it needs to be changed to, how to change it and how were going to pay for it.  That was way too much information to process if you are an overworked/underpaid/unhealthy/uneducated Republican.
The worst part about Hillary?  She’s a woman?!  We all know, for a woman to be a good Christian with family values, she has to be  uneducated/dumb, barefoot and pregnant with lots of kids to keep her too busy to get any of those uppity ideas you get from that devil‘s place.  Oh, what do you call them?  Universities?  Or actually, in Palin’s case, dumb, Minola Blanc footed and pregnant with so many kids she never had the time to get a good college education or read up on what‘s really going on in the world today.
Palin would make a great vice-president.  She’s not upetty.  No pantsuits for her.  Pants are for men only.  Her job is to do exactly what men (McCain and Karl Rove) want her to do.  A perfect example of this was Palin’s interviews with Caty Couric.  It didn’t matter what Couric asked her.  Her job was to state the Rove/McCain one-line talking-point closest to the question Couric was asking.  Followed by a personal experience, then followed by the repeat of that Rove talking-point.  She would have done great too if only she understood the questions Couric was asking her.  However, she did the right thing at the time.  When in doubt, throw in as many one-line talking points as possible in as many subjects as possible and hope one of them will have something to do with the question the reporter is asking.
Obama knew more than Hillary.  Until he won the primary, Obama stuck to dealing with the masses on an emotional level.  He stuck to “Hope and Change.”  Obama offered the same level of information as Hillary mistakenly put in her speeches, but he only offered this information on-line.  I guess if you’re intelligent enough to want a real answer from your political leaders than you’re intelligent enough to figure out how to use the Internet.
Since winning the primary, Obama has given very informed answers.  Unfortunately, when he does, he gets into trouble with half the Americans in this country.  In order for Obama to get the votes of people who don’t have the health, time, energy or intelligence to process the facts (and vote in their own self-Interest) Obama must dumb down himself to the most simplest answers.  Take a plan from Karl Rove’s playbook.  Stick to very, very, very simplistic one-line answers then tell some short emotional story, then repeat the one-line answer.  Even if it has nothing to do with the question asked.
Apparently, half the public would rather believe a very simple one-line lie, then the complicated truth about a complicated world.
So.  Here you are, a Republican.  Do you vote Republican like your parents, your grandparents and your great-great-great all the way back to Lincoln did?  Because we all know the Republican philosophy hasn’t changed since Lincoln.  After all it’s only been 150 years and that’s not enough time to change anything.  Or do you vote for (G-d forbid) that uppity black guy.
Let me help you out with this.  Don’t vote for the black guy!  You don’t want to get stuck with healthcare that won’t drive you into bankruptcy.
Don’t vote for the black guy!  You don’t want “socialized!”  Schools…  You know, public grammar schools and high schools.  You don’t want the government to pay for nursery schools, a.k.a. early childhood education.   And you certainly don’t want your kids to be able to afford to go to College.  Remember, you’re Republican.  College should only be for the children of the rich.
You want McCain.  You don’t want to waste your taxes on schools that any kid can go to no matter how little money their parents make.  You want to pay over $5,000 in taxes so you can get back a $5,000 credit so you can put your child into a private school that will probably cost you around $20,000 per year.
You don’t want the black guy for president.  He’s going to lower your taxes and raise the taxes on the people who make more than $250,000 per year.  We’ve got to stop Barak Obama from making millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share in taxes!
We can’t allow Obama to stop giving welfare to those big conglomerates and to big oil companies. (Fact:  In spite of windfall profits Bush gave over $40 billion to oil companies to build more oil refineries… Which they didn’t do.   McCain wants to bail-out the CEOs of big businesses who are helping him get elected, and not bail-out Americans who have lost money investing in their companies.)
Vote for McCain because if Obama wins he’s going to bring back all those Wall Street regulations McCain, Bush and Cheney worked so hard to get rid of.
A vote for McCain means we don’t have to waste our time trying to understand how the Stock Market works.  We only need to work hard our whole lives to give all our money to those big executives of those big corporations so they can get their big golden parachutes of over $20 million when they run their big conglomerates into the ground taking all of us with them. Because when McCain, Bush and Cheney deregulated Wall Street it was because we trust big executives and billionaires to do the right thing when it comes to other people’s money.  We trust the Reagan Trickle Down Economic religion that  believes ‘by letting the rich have all the money, eventually their scraps will trickle down to us Peasants.

Michelle Linder