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Re: Masako; Sir, what you are seeing played out here is the ultimate result of denying people political power. This was done in our constitution because those with the greater share of the country feared the unwashed masses. Since they were uneducated, it was right to fear them and deny them political power; but without political power they could then be denied education. So we are uneducated, and undereducated in a world that increasingly demands well educated workers. Do you think Mrs. Palin is educated? If she may enforce the law, does she know the law? The political process is being pushed by ideologies, what Mccain calls Ideals because there are no rational arguments being made in support of his election. Rationally, neither party is answering the needs of the people for consensus, and responsive government. No one is getting what they need from the relationship called America. We elect idealist because there are no rational and pragmatic candidates running. Mrs. Palin may be a bone thrown to the most parochial of the idealists pushing the reaction. They are also the most dangerous, and those who would most easily revert to violence, and as you say: witchburning..... We don't have to force our ideals. We don't have to form movements around them to win elections. We do need to think our ideals out to their logical conclusions. And we should start with this ideal called America. We have let the right control our education process for far too long, and the whole of society has been injured, and the political process has been injured. It is time for us to agree on what can be taught, and what every person should know, free of ideology, and religious dogma. We have to get non sense and propaganda out of our schools, and not into them more securely. Mrs. Palin is not the best reason to vote against Mr. Mccain. She is the best reason to see him defeated. ...Thanks.... Sweeney

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No Pat, you are intentionally missing the boat again! Maybe the disdain that met the choice of Sarah Palin initially was due to the obvious politically motivated selection on the part of John McCain and his handlers. After weeks of buying time to run ads targetting women who supported Hillary Clinton they went off and got them their "Hillary Lite" For some of us that actually follow politics we saw this for the ploy that it was.... Lets see Alaska, the first socialist state in the USA. Gets the most federal funds of any state in the nation then pays relatively average federal income taxes BUT these are off set by the taxes the state receives from oil drilling which give the citizens a subsidy every year...which the rest of us pay for at the pump. When you net federal and state income taxes Alaskans are at the bottom of the list.... Then the bridge to nowhere....she was for it and then against it....but it doesn't matter she kept the money anyway....just used it where she wanted to. If she was against earmarks she should have returned the funds. Oh, and if you track her expense reimbursements and those of her husband and kids...she is a typical politican. As far as the media goes...it wasn't the media that dragged her kids across the convention floor stage numeorus times nor was it the media that flew her future son in law to the convention and met him at the airport. If she didn't want her family involved in the political debate then leave them at home.... No 17 year old pregnant girl needs to be dragged across a convention floor stage nor does her boyfriend. That is not a family value. If you wave a story in front of the media then they are going to take it and run with it....and that is exactly what occured in St. Paul last week. My rage and bile was directed at John McCain and his handlers....they are using Sarah Palin and her family. Just like the republicans use the issue of abortion and gay marriage when they need to to keep their fans in line. After 8 years of controlling the white house and controlling congress for the last 10 of 14 years AND picking the last 7 of 7 justices....abortion is still legal.... So what are the values and priorities of the Republcian party? As a side note, what I find hilarious is that Todd Palin once belonged to a political party that wants Alaska to succeed from the Union....gee, and give up the welfare benefits of almost $14,000 a year per citizen? That shows me his intelligence.....

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I have seen more criticism of the media about the pregnancy story than articles on the story. Had a member of Obama's family been pregnant I know the right wing media would have been all over it 24/7 until election day. I generally agree with Pat on foreign affairs. In this matter Republicans are being hypocritical in the extreme.

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I've been following Pat Buchanan for years out of a morbid curiosity. He is a crazed religious fantaci who is openly anti-semitic and racist. It amazes me that he has been a regular in the mainstream media for almost thirty years. He is the right wing equivalent of Lois Farrakhan. Come to think of it, he is worse. He calls Michelle and Barack Obama affirmative action candidates even though each of them graduated from their Ivy League colleges and Harvard Law School with honors. There is simply nothing that a black person can do in Buchanan's mind, to be considered equal. Even people as accomplished as Barack and Michelle Obama are reduced to affirmative action babies, simply because Buchanan hates black people. Sarah Palin is by all accounts an incredible mother and an impressive person who rose from obscurity to the governorship of the 47th largest state in America. (Pat is pretending that his readers are stupid when he says that Alaska is twice the size of Texas.) But the notion that Palin is somehow more talented or more intelligent than either of the Obamas is insulting. No, Buchanan is enthralled that another avowed anti-semitic religious fanatic has a chance of occupying the Old Executive Office Building.

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Re: Spectator, Sir. Absolutly right on Sarah Plain being a fanatic. Anyone who would bring children into this world when they can't take care of the ones they got because Jesus, the Pope, or their preacher told them to, doesn't need to be anywhere around Nuclear Weapons. She's a nut, and every man here who would vote for their mother or some other guys mother so they can listen to her tell them to put down the seat and wash their hands for four going on eight years is a nut too. She will talk about oil. How much has she changed?.... Here is what is happening. Creme doesn't float to the top because it loves the bottom. She is trying to escape her society, but she will ride it as far as it will go. To me, I just see one more mom who can't get her life together wanting to tell everyone else how to live. She may not want to admit it, but that illegitimate child is hers too. It is the child of her ambition, and the child of her neglect, and the child of her cupidice. Does she love us so much she will devote her self to us? I think she is over sold. I think she has already made a bunch of commitments that she can't manage. Now we want to hand her the goverment? Well Aah don't think so....Thanks ... Sweeney

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PAT YOU AS ALWAYS ARE RIGHT ON. I WAS A STRONG HILLARY SUPPORTER AND WILL VOTE M/P. ALSO BEING FROM MICHIGAN I WAS THROWN UNDER THE BUS BY THE 30 DNC DECIDERS, WHO CHOSE PARTY OVER COUNTRY. UNTIL THE DEMS HONOR ONE PERSON ONE VOTE NOTHING WILL BE FAIR. I LOVE SARAH AND THINK EVERYONE UNDERESTIMATED JOHN MC CAIN AND HIS WILL TO SURVIVE. HE WILL DO GOOD THINGS FOR OUR COUNTRY. I'VE ALWAYS CALLED MYSELF A MODERATE SO I WILL BE VERY COMFORTABLE WITH MY VOTE. OH BY YHE WAY THERE ARE ABOUT 7 MILLION IN MY GROUP AND OBAMA IS GOING TO HAVE A RUDE AWAKENING.

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Sir; doesn't the fact that she would sacrifice all, have a child she did not need at an age where birth defects become common, and that she would throw the rest of her family on the altar of her political ambition make you in the least doubt the character and kindness of this pit bull in lipstick? She could have been watching her children at a critical age, and instead let one become delinquent, and pregnant at seventeen. Didn't she send one to the military to fight God's war? It was by choice, when many a poor mother has no choice but to let the television raise their children while they go off to a job that does not pay the way. Honest to God, Mr. B. ... She insults every single woman in America pushing their budgets and driving themselves to distraction to have their children get a sports experience and some physical exercise; and you don't notice? Is that what hockey moms are, really, and soccer moms, and wrestling moms? Those are women that are hard pressed. Where was the press in her life? I mean, some one put those words in her mouth or she is stupid enough to say them without a prompt. Is that what our wives are out of choice: Pit bulls. Look at all the mothers who cannot even afford Y-camp for their kids? Are they not doing God's will having children? The Hockey Moms are the lucky ones, but I doubt that many of them feel lucky because it is crazy when the health of the nation is made an individual's problem. Wouldn't you agree that she is just a stalking horse meant to bring out an attack, and deliver attacks, which if unanswered are seen as true, and if answered are more ammunition. Give me a break. She is just a ideologue; and I am sorry you can't see it... You better hope those mothers don't turn on you and the republicans. In Revolution it is the women who are hellfire... Thanks .... . Sweeney

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Dont you feel just a little hypocritical ?? Did you defend the Spears family from the castigations of the 'media' when their pregnancies were denounced across the board ?? Where was the indignation at the excorciation those 2 young women were and are subjected to?? I know i know, they werent of any use to you politically. It was easier for you, politically, to use their pregnancies to advance your line of reasoning just like you are using Bristol's pregnancy to advance your line now. That Palin chose to follow her political life at the expense of her family reflects on her and any 'abuse' suffered by that poor girl from the media is ul;timately Palin's responsibilty.

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So, Pat, how about a cut of the oil profits for the rest of the 49 states? Come on, advocate that. And by the way, how about taking a look at all of her charging personal expenses to the Alaska taxpayers? Willing to overlook whatever you must in order to win after being such a loser for so long?

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"Why did The New York Times and The Washington Post splash this "news" on page one above the fold? How does Bristol Palin's pregnancy disqualify Sarah Palin to be vice president? Why is it even relevant? They did it because they thought it would damage Sarah Palin in the eyes of a Christian community they do not comprehend." No, Pat, they put this "news" above the fold because she is a proponent of abstinence-only education, and its obvious failure in her own home makes her a hypocrite.

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I was considering voting for John until he picked Sarah. She is way too far right and so far I have found nothing on which I agree with her. And yes, I am a Christian also.

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Pat, you tell it accurately and your choice of words does my heart good!

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Pat...I really appreciate your comments about this election. I think you are right on! However....all these polls that are being taken...seems to me, you are missing a big chunk of society. Isn't it true that these polls are being conducted with people that have land lines?? Most young people have only cell phones, and who is polling them?

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Re: Sam Sharp; Sir, that is just the thing. They are not in the majority now and they have no respect for law and rights, but only their own doctrine and dogma, and what violence it justifies. Making them a smaller minority is not going to make them respect democracy any more than they do, which is about not. If you put them in a Colloseum now they will not submit to being cat food. Those days of passive Christianity are gone for good. And that is the danger of an ideologue. Who really wants someone who believes in the last days with their finger on the trigger. I mean, honest to God, These evengelicals don't believe like others, and they do not accept any notion of justice on earth. They are happy with law only so long as they are the sheriff. The very reason we have government they deny. So, I will not submit to it. I resist this government, and will resist their government if elected. I hope the people of this country have better sense. ... Thanks.... Sweeney

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Hello Pat, I read your articles and have read one of your books and I quite agree with your foreign policy. In particular your comments on the border between north and south Korea come to mind often. However, I have to strongly disagree with some of your positions here at home. Namely it is obvious to me that you are wacko pro-life to the point that you can't see the forest for the trees when that subject is remotely involved, as in the Sarah Palin issue. You didn't mention that she may or may not speak in tongues (what ridiculous bullshit) along with her friends in her Pentecostal church or that she is way against science as in stem-cell research (the pro-life agenda again) or the teaching of creationism alongside evolution. Here's an idea, why not teach evolution alongside all the "poof, you're here" stories in private religious schools. Isn't it only fair or do you suppose that those good "holier than thou" christians are just a little one sided. Kinda like Islam. I am becoming a strong believer in immigration from anywhere and everywhere because as they and their offspring become citizens and can vote they may water down the percentage of evangelicals in our populace and thereby reduce their power. The separation of church and state, the bill of rights, personal freedoms, are all being attacked by the religious right. It is more than appalling. The rest of the world strongly and it appears very strongly supports Obama. I believe the world really wants America to be America and not the theocratic monster it is starting to resemble. Someday, mankind will come out of the caves and cast off these superstitions but for now we are mired in the most primitive beliefs. Very depressing. Bibles, guns, prejudice, and of course southern accents plague us.

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Oh Sam Sharp. What an elitist you are. It is true that the farther away from Pat's personal reality the issue gets the more perceptive he becomes. I've written him before that he should stick to talking about things happening on the other side of the planet so he can maintain his rationality. But how dare you bash the poor guy for sticking with the mob on popular superstition? ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. And boy, did you pick the right word. Superstition, that is. The one bit of progress we might be said to have made is that we don't burn witches on the stake any more. Unfortunately, the virus grows on, in less obvious forms. We've exported that little bit of violent striking out against the night to Iraq. I wonder if replacing violence in service of superstition with premeditated slaughter in service of profit isn't a greater curse. ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Not that there is any less superstition running around these days. It's everywhere in the increasingly uneducated American masses. And let's celebrate by trashing liberal conspiracies like the theory of evolution. We can emulate the Nazis, who tried to trash Einstein for coming up with the Jewish "hoax" of relativity. And then we can get ready for the Chinese and other "godless" Asians, who are finished with superstition, to overrun us with the achievements that come from real science.

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This from the same person who spoke out forcefully against her nomination. Nice try Pat, but we're not suckers. Watch Buchanan Flip Flop over Palin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZU9GGBI2jM