I am a proud liberal and a “Social Democrat”. I have no problem with the phrase “European Socialism”. Well the only problem I have with it is that we don’t have enough of it here in the United States. With that said let me state that I am glad that the Supreme Court has ruled against Judge Sotomoyer and has ended the reverse discrimination against the White and Latino fire fighters.
One of those fire fighters is dyslectic and he even hired someone to read to him so he could score high on the test. I have no problem with fining and jailing those who practice racial discrimination. But I do not believe the answer is to discriminate against innocent Whites. Yes I am a liberal! The time has come for my fellow liberals to act from positive compassion not from a masochistic “GUILT TRIP”!
Thank God the Supreme Court has ruled this way else the Republicans would have one more weapon to add to their arsenal of fear! It is bad enough that the Republicans are smearing President Obama by saying he is not tough enough on Iran! These are the same people who said that our differences end at the shore line and that we should “support our President and stand as one people in the area of foreign affairs”. I guess that only applies when we have a Republican as President.
None the less we liberals must learn not to play “masochist”. By practicing “reverse discrimination” we would not only undermine our party’s future but the first African – American President’s re-election prospects! Over the last few years I have noticed more and more of my fellow liberal Democrats not falling for the old Republican tricks.
Our nation needs to follow a new agenda:
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Repeal of the Bush and hopefully even Reagan Tax Cuts that favored the wealthy.
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Universal Health Care.
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Fighing the influence of K-Street in our Government.
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The “Greening of America” with less emphasis on fossil fuels and less dependance on oil.
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Forcing the CORPORATE COLLECTIVES (corporations) to humanize in this 21st Century.
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Extend annual vacations, as in Germany, to 11 weeks per year!
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Ending the nonsense that someone is entitled to earn millions per year while the middle class must scrape for an existence!
To achieve these ends we must not fall into the masochistic traps that liberals have been baited into before by Republicans. The stakes are just to high!
Well today we heard that Republican South Carolina Governor Sanford apparently had his own “stimulus package” to deliver to Argentina! Ah yes the party of “family values”, the party that says “No” to Gay marriage because marriage is a sacred institution. Damn dem Gays are breaking up to many marriages right Gov. Sanford?
Well now you Republicans say what about John Edwards? Well that is up to John Edwards wife but politically that he is not in the same ball park as Governor Sanford because John Edwards did not point the finger at other people and preach this self righteous krap from the religious right!
Remember the self righteous pomposity of the Republicans when our President wanted to have just a small amount of money in the budget for the distribution of Trojans to high school kids? Oh they whined and wailed. Then when the final cost of the package came out the Republicans complained that our kids would be paying the price for the stimulus package! Well maybe we should put Trojans back into the budget because our nation doesn’t need any more unwed mothers on welfare and fatherless teenage boys running around in criminal gangs. Yet this is the price that our society is going to pay for the Republicans following the Christian Right!
Hell if the Republican Governor cannot keep his zipper shut how can you expect a teenage boy?
I was on lunch break and saw Gov. Sanford’s speech. He went on an on before finally getting to the point. Folks is it only me? But since this guy was the Chairman of the Republican Governors caucus you would think he would have his apologies “after” he first told us the main event of the speech. That is to say he cheated on his wife! The reason?
Well for God’s sake this guy went on and on and I wanted to get back to work! But never mind me! Being the good family value oriented Republican Gov. Sanford is did he not have any consideration for CORPORATE AMERICA! That’s right! What about all the advertising revenue that was being lost due to his speech? If he said what he had to say upfront then the media could break away for their ads. Hell a good Republican would have consideration for CORPORATE AMERCIA!
Well what is really funny is that he mentioned that he meet his girl friend at a Bible Study! Well instead of outlawing Gay Marriage maybe we should out law Bible Study Classes as a means to preserve marriage!
No doubt at Bible Study they were discussing those awful pinko liberal Democratic Party Gay Marriage advocates! Oh yes the Republican Party – The FAMILY VALUES supporters!
I remember the Republicans used to say that foreign policy differences ended at our shore line! I guess that does not apply when they want to criticize President Obama and his handling of the Iranian Crises! Yet the Republicans and their fellow travelers in Halliburton had no problem doing business with the terrorist nation of Iran’s Mullahs! (See Video below)
These CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS who want to be the pals of terrorists not only Iran but China also. Isn’t it amazing how the Republicans criticize our President in these difficult times yet I did not see them attempting to place a hold on American companies doing a “CUT AND RUN” to China after Tiananmen Square to make a buck! What is even worse is that brave students are using the internet as a means of communication in both the current Iranian and Tiananmen Square revolt. Yet American Corporations in their pursuit of profit before people have even assisted the Chinese Government in policing their internet and capturing dissidents! (See video below).
We live in an era of licentious permissiveness where “Individual Freedom” is subjugated to needs of the CORPORATE COLLECTIVISTS of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others. Did they care about the freedom loving students of China? Yet these same pompous asses preach “individual freedom” and the danger of big government! What about the effects of the CORPORATE COLLECTIVISTS with their usage of K Street on the American body politic?
The Republicans say President Obama is timid and weak in dealing with Iran and they mock him for his past desire to talk to the Iranian leadership about their nuclear program. Yet they have no problem talking to China and shipping American jobs, technology and wealth to China as long as they profit from such transactions. We in the Middle Class have seen these CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS conduct a massive wealth redistribution program from the middle class to their own pockets while our national security suffers from such transactions!
President Obama realizes that both candidates in the recent Iranian Presidential elections were similar. However the followers of Mir Hossein Mousavi are evolving. First they opposed Ahmadinejad but now they are moving against their Supreme Leader and this could place them in opposition to the entire concept of the “Islamic Republic”! The crucial factor is not only their leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi, but the educated classes of the cities! By being placed in this evolving situation they are becoming outcasts of the Islamic Republic and ripe for conversion to real change! Hopefully as I mentioned in my prior post, to restoring some sort of Constitutional Pahlavi Monarchy!
Understand this crucial factor:
Change of that nature comes when anchors are cut. That is the reason for Obama’s reaction. Not simply that the Fundamentalists will crack down if we speak up. That is not the issue. The issue is the attitudes of the Iranian middle class in the cities. If the masses feel America is threatening them then the fundamentalists will succeed in their propaganda. Remember the VIETNAM WAR when blue collar workers where recruited by Republicans to fight the college students? The fundamentalists in Iran are attempting a “Richard Nixon” on the Iranian Silent Majority! They are claiming to be the advocates of “law and order” and defending the nation. Richard Nixon made the middle believe communists where behind the peace movement. The Islamic Fundamentalists are saying it is “the great Satan America”.
Yes the time is coming when Obama can come out of the closet and attack the fundamentalists.
But in social psychology when you wage psychological operations you change attitudes when the individual comes to the conclusion on his own. The young of Iran are now coming to that conclusion and most importantly “owning that conclusion”! As that occurs then we must overtly support them. Till then we must twitter away the time while using covert operations!
Let us just hope that American Multinational Corporations don’t sell their internet expertise to the current Iranian government! The time has come for all Americans to rally around our President!
Yes I am a Social Democrat and voted for Jimmy Carter. I believed the Shah had to go at the time. Now I feel the opposite. Partially because I believe both Liberals and Persian Monarchists have both matured.
While our direct support could hurt the forces of “Change” in Iran, I do believe in the Audacity of Change and that the vehicle for such change is the restoration of the Pahlavi Monarchy in a Western Constitutional framework! While the Shah has passed on, his son the Crown Prince, is alive and capable of becoming the new Shah. (See the video of him below) History has given the Crown Prince the opportunity to serve his nation by becoming a Constitutional Monarch whose future, like the restored Spanish Monarchy is to serve his nation as a respected “Referee” and Constitutional Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.
Above the Crown Prince addresses an audience at an American University. Despite the fact that his father had some flaws, under the Shah, Iran advanced in Western Liberal values. I believe his son has learned from the mistakes of the past. I believe we western Liberals have also learned and matured.
Under the Shah there was religious tolerance. The older religion of Iran “Zoroastrianism” has suffered under the mullahs. This heritage of Persia must not be snuffed out by extremists!
If we who label ourselves as “Liberals” decry religious fundamentalism and the Christian Right then we should also decry Islamic Fundamentalism. Just as we should denounce “atheistic fundamentalism” of communist states. All of the above have their rational tolerant advocates. The two films above show the pride that many Iranian “Persians” take in the monarchy and their history.
When a monarchy acts like the British and now Spanish Monarchies they insure the survival of Western values and freedom by placing their future not as “rulers” but as respected “referees” who enable “Parliamentary Democracies” to flourish without fear of a military takeover or one party rule. The forces who are fighting Ahmadinejad are slowly realizing that the so called “Islamic Republic” is as dangerous as we view a Christian theocracy. By the way I am an Episcopalian not an atheist.
While a Constitutional Monarchy is not for us in America, I strongly support the restoration of the Pahlavi Monarchy in Iran in a Constitutional framework!
The reason that President Obama is facing the end of his Presidential honeymoon is because Democrats have not been aggressive in fighting the Class Warfare being waged against the Middle Class by the efite snobs of privilege. George Bush and his fellow travelers have waged a Social Engineering Experiment against the American Middle Class. They are the cause for the budget deficit.
Democrats are falling for the Republican trap. We Democrats are now taking the blame for the budget deficits and the impending inflation. Make no mistake about it the economy had to be massively stimulated due to the policies of George Bush. Making such a stimulation usually involves an inflation afterward but that is the price for the recovery.
Democrats could not say this up front! For PATRIOTIC reasons Democrats could not level with the American people that we risk a temporary “swing back” Inflation due to the necessity of saving the economy from depression!
Why couldn’t Obama say that?
Well to do so would then jeopardize the very recovery from an impending DEPRESSION that George Bush gave us! Republicans are being UNPATRIOTIC by not supporting our President in this. True even I had some doubts about the “mixture” of the money utilized in the Stimulus Package. But they did not limit their attack to the “mixture” but the very concept of the program itself!
Democrats are failing to point out that when President Bill Clinton left office we actually had a BUDGET SURPLUS! - Wow what a concept. I can understand President Obama desiring to appeal “Presidential” and be a sort of Liberal version of Ronald Reagan. But he needs to do more to be the Liberal version of “The Great Communicator”! Also he should allow Vice President Biden to go out on the road and show that Liberal Democrats can be more of a Pit Bull than a hockey mom! Remember Spiro Agnew? We need Obama to let Vice President Biden play “bad cop” while Obama plays “good cop”. Americans love ass kickers! As we have seen with Sarah Palin it can even be a substitute for substance!
Understand this my fellow Middle Class Americans! We will NEVER have substantial change while we allow the issue to remain “should Government allow Execs of failed companies to take large bonuses!
No the issue is not that! The issue is:
So what even if a company makes a good profit and is doing well, WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE TO MAKE MILLIONS PER YEAR IN SALARIES WHILE THE PRODUCERS IN THIS NATION – OUR GREAT MIDDLE CLASS HAVE TO STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE!
Oh the bleeding hearts for the supper rich! The President of The United States be he Republican or Democrat makes only $400K per year. Yet he has the responsibility of the world on his shoulders!
If you are Middle Class and have SELF RESPECT then you must demand that no one earn more than three or four times your salary! What are these parasites contributing to our society? If they found a cure for cancer or HIV I would gladly pay them millions in bonuses! Heck I would even make an exception and allow them to pass on their wealth to their next two generations tax free!
But we Democrats do not have the guts to confront this issue head on! Oh dear we might be called “Socialists”. Well I look at Western Europe and I still see millionaires and even billionaires. No one wants to stop “incentives”. I am not against people “saving” to become millionaires. Well except for being a parasite on the “producers” in this society. I just question what is the contribution to society of one who is paid more than our President and is paid millions in just one year!
Isn’t it amazing in the last election that these effete snobs of privilege would label Barrack Obama as an “elitist” yet now they label themselves as the “Producers” in our society!
The time has come for the great SILENT MAJORITY - America’s great MIDDLE CLASS, to take back this nation from these effete snobs of privilege! After all it is we who are the “PRODUCERS”!
Tonight I had the sickening experience of listening to Sean Hannity argue that water boarding is fine and that the President has the right to order it to protect America. His guest made a statement that Sean Hannity vigorously agreed with. The guest said. “There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents the President from doing this”. Oh gee I guess that is what you call a “non-activist” approach to the Constitution! Yet Hannity and his fellow travelers will preach to us about the value of a “Strict Constructionist interpretation” of the Constitution! Then they will preach “the lessons of history” as if we Democrats don’t know how freedom can be lost to the feels good solution to problems!
Well the video below shows the reason why you don’t torture! President Obama said it in his speech today! We want enemy troops to surrender to ours! They will do so if they can expect good treatment. Giving them good treatment SAVES AMERICAN TROOPS! Remember the video below how the Iraqi troops could not wait to surrender and were happy to do so! Would they be so enthusiastic after hearing Cheney?
The video above shows the good that can happen when we follow our American ideals and values! If enemy troops were to fear being water boarded or mistreated they would hold out longer thus more American lives would be lost! If they were higher ups they might even commit suicide and then we would never get the information we needed by traditional methods of interrogation! We must follow the Geneva Convention as President Obama has advocated.
Dick Cheney has criticized our President for trying to appeal to allies with his approach. Well listen to Dick Cheney in the video below when questioned in 1994 about the first Iraqi War. Note that he wanted to have allies join with us. He did not consider it wrong to appeal to allies.
The problem is that we all know that America will be attacked again and the Republicans want to set the Democrats up. Rudy Giuliani, if he were President would most likely do what he attempted as mayor and want to extend his term! Yes the lessons of history are something that Republicans preach but never learn. Our nation survived a Civil War and still had elections.
Now here is a scenario for Republicans to consider! If we allow water boarding to be defined as not constituting torture then what is to stop “enhanced interrogation techniques” from coming to a police station near you? If we allow the smirking George Bush to get away with his statement, “this is America and we don’t torture” and his definition to enter our legal code then a future President could do the same to his opponents! Am I being paranoid?
Well now what if we had a President who was “a pal of terrorists”! What if this same President wasn’t a “real American” and wanted to water board his opponents during some trumped up crises! Now you Republicans do believe President Barrack Hussein Obama is not a real American and a “pal of terrorists” don’t you? This just shows how opportunistic and shabby the Republicans are in their arguments! Republicans should be the first to make sure “water boarding” is defined as torture and illegal. But then again they lied about Obama being a pal of terrorists, because if he were Anti-American they should be the first to out law him having the authority to use it.
As I have mentioned in prior posts I would accept a limited, open and transparent “Allan Dorchowitz Court Torture Warrant” in the event of a terrorist nuclear bomb. But then again I would not desire to turn the operation of America’s ports over to the Dubai. You know the country that Halliburton has moved their corporate headquarters to. Yes Dubai that allowed covert shipments to Pakistan of materials needed by them to make nuclear weapons!
Dick Cheney is wrong that he and his fellow traveler George Bush protected us from a second attack! The first WTC attack happened in 1993! The second in 2001. It takes them a while to set up a new attack! The Republicans did not do anything spectacular. Yet the NEWS MEDIA never challenge them on this! This constitutes ANTI-LIBERAL NEWS MEDIA BIASES!
We live in a dangerous world but we must still balance security with the rule of law! The President swears to defend the Constitution of the United States not to follow the “feels good solution”! Time to learn the lessons of history else we will suffer in America our own “Reichstag Fire”!
Nancy Pelosi has been a first rate wimp over the last two years as Speaker of The House. She did not want to pursue the impeachment of Bush or Cheney! Despite all the lies about the facts leading up to the war she did nothing to pursue a rigorous investigation of intelligence gathering.
Now over the last week surprise! Nancy Pelosi is waking up! She is also appearing just as wimpy and flip flopping as before! If she had lead the charge against Bush and Cheney the focus would be now on them rather than her!
A key strategy of the Republicans is to appear decisive and attack flip flopping! She has fallen into their trap and may hurt the Democratic Party because she was not decisive over the last two years in going after former President Bush and Cheney! Republicans know that Americans like ACTION FIGURES! Bush was an action figure by kicking Iraqi butt and initially Americans liked him for that. President Obama got elected because when the issue turned to the economy he was perceived as an ACTION FIGURE while McCain was an advocate of Laissez-faire capitalism!
Republicans know that Americans hate the image of a indecisive person! They cannot hang that on Obama but they can on Pelosi. They have successfully reversed the investigation from Bush, Cheney and the CIA to focusing on her instead. Many Democrats, like myself, felt she was indecisive but now are protecting one of our own. I question if that is right! (See the video below)
The time has come to take FORCEFULL DYNAMIC ACTION to:
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Investigate Cheney and his fellow travelers as they steered from a “STRICT CONSTRUCTIONALIST” interpretation of the Constitution that they swore to defend!
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Bring to America’s attention how the Republicans are not bothered by Insurance Companies standing between doctor and patient while they profit from it and attempt to side track the issue by saying we Democrats want the government in between the Doctor and Patient!
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Challenge the vast salary and compensation gaps between the top 5% and the Silent Majority while the President, with much higher responsibility earns only 400K
We Democrats have been keeping our gloves on far to long. Let Obama play “good Democrat” but we need some nasty boys like Vice President Biden to sock it to them! Did the Republicans care when they made a big stink over Bill Clinton’s sexual problems? No they tied our nation down. We must have the same guts else we will not be perceived as “action figures”. We must be like a broken record, yes even attacking the news media! Hell we allowed the Republicans to get away with making the news media seem they favored us when they did not!
Time to stand up for the Silent Majority!
Well today our President got a harsh reception from some at Notre Dame University because he supports a woman’s right to choose. Remember folks just a few months ago when the right wing made a big stink about free Trojans being in the stimulus package! Well not every teenage girl has a mummy who is the Governor of Alaska! These are the same right wingers who wale and whine about how “our children” are going to be stuck with paying off the debt from the stimulus package!
Forget the fact that abstinence does not work let’s look at this from a purely market approach:
- With no free Trojans we will see a rise in teen pregnancy and who is going to foot the bill for the future welfare mothers of America?
- Who is going to have to deal with the gangs of fatherless boys who will roam our streets, many joining criminal gangs? Great work Republicans! (Have a laugh at their program in the video below).
I also find it amazing that Archbishop Burke who severely criticized our President is a judge on a Vatican Court. Strange isn’t it that he is still an American citizen! I thought our Constitution forbids an American holding foreign office! I find it also strange that a country that is smaller than a park and is really a religious organization should have an Ambassador from the United States! Oh but I guess I am just a “strict constructionalist”!
But back to the nice Republicans who want to block stem cell research that would increase the quality of human life while preaching that they are indeed “pro-life”! I am so happy that President Obama has cut funding for “abstinence education”! Why should the American Tax Payer be straddled with this cost when free Trojans and sex education are fought against! Make no mistake about it the Republicans are not worried that Middle Class Tax Payers will be stuck with higher taxes in the future!
NO what they fear is that they will “only” be allowed to pass on a mere million or two to their children due to an increase in the inheritance taxes on the upper 5%. If Archbishop Burke is so concerned about quality of life issues perhaps he and the Pope would do well to allow Roman Catholic clergy to marry so that the wrong types don’t go for ordination and altar boys can go to church in peace! No I am not disrespecting the Roman Catholic Church. They do a lot of good work running charities and hospitals! I also would like to see abortions greatly reduced by eliminating the need for them by giving free Trojans and sex education.
We can reduce the need for abortions by reinstating FREE TROJANS as part of the stimulus package and making adaption easier, even financially helping those who adapt. Yes sex would be better if people waited until they married but we need to be realistic else our society pays the price with welfare mothers and teenage gangs of fatherless boys roaming our streets!
Remember the days of Nixon when the Republicans whined about “Law and Order”! Oh the Republicans whine about a “strict constructionalist” interpretation of the the Constitution! Today on CBS’s show “Face The Nation”, former Vice President made the mistake in saying his oath was to defend the United States. While that is implied in the oath the actual literal requirement is to “preserve, protect and defend THE CONSTITUTION of the United States…”! (See Video Below).
As I mentioned in a prior post these are Republicans, you know the folks who think that having a nice semi-automatic weapon in your living room is as American as apple pie. It must be remembered that the reason they believe they need to have such powerful weapons is that these weapons are the last line of defense against our own government! Well maybe we should have weapons at home since Blackwater is being used to replace our armed forces in many instances!
The real issue is not if three terrorists were tortured but what is to protect us from future Presidents of the United States (Republican or Democrat) from isolating Americans from the courts and then torturing those they do not like. Well if I am an alarmist then why do right wingers need assault weapons in their homes? I grew up in the Vietnam era and I do fear the loss of civil liberties!
What I really find laughable about the Republicans is that they are the ones who lecture us Democrats about the evils of “ethical relativism” and the “feels good solution”! I would distinquish between the three who were tortured vs. the the majority of captured Al Qaeda prisoners. I would accept the Alan Dorchowitz solution for a public “Torture Warrant”! What can I say I am a liberal and do believe in ethical relativism and the “feels good solution” sometimes!
However when I hear former VP Dick Cheney saying that the Justice Dept. lawyers should not be prosecuted “simply because they gave bad advice” then perphaps we should subject Cheney to waterboarding! I am sick of the “newspeak” being practiced. OK I would under some situations, such as the threat of a dirty nuclear weapon, use TORTURE! But we need to have a LEGAL method that is such as proposed by Alan Dorchowitz! The real issue with torture is what has happened in Iraq! There our use of torture actually served to recruit young men into Al Qaeda!
Has anyone noticed that the Republicans continue to say that they protected the United States from further attacks? Excuse me but the first World Trade Center attack occured on February 26, 1993! The second did not occur till September 11, 2001. That is a long space between attacks without any military intervention! Yet no Democrat ever seems to challenge this Republican assertion that they protected our nation. Actually with the Republican SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT in Iraq we wasted valuable time and resources, not to mention lives, when we should have been hitting the Al Qaeda heartland in Afganistan and Pakistan!
We Democrats need to be more aggressive in our attacks on the Republcians!
Well before we all start laughing at Joe Biden and his comments about swine flue, does anyone remember the TB scare we had two years ago! Remember the scare about being in the same plane with someone who had TB? In the current crises concerning the swine flu virus we have been told that airplanes have special “air filters” that can screen out bacteria and viruses! Well a virus is extremely small in comparison to a TB bacteria. Yet there were concerns about people flying in a plane where the issue was not the tiny virus but the much larger bacteria! This does not add up. Below is a clip from the Rachel Maddow Show concerning the then crisis about the passenger on the plane who had TB.
I am a Liberal Democrat but not an PC Orthodox one. I wonder if Rachel Maddow (a fellow liberal) has as much zeal now to attack the CBC now that we have a Democratic Administration. You will note her strong advocacy for defending America from allowing diseases to cross our open borders! In the above case it was a returning American from Italy. I wonder why that isn’t Anti-Italian? Oh dear I am not being politically correct! Yes dear viewer I am a rabid anti-corporate leftie liberal but I am also for the pursuit of TRUTH no matter where that takes me. Just view some of my posts with my raging attacks against the corporations and the stupidity of George Bush. But I also have posts (hold your breath now) in support of Star Wars at least for the possible defense of the United States.
While the consensus is that the TB scare may have been overblown that would be based on the assumption that corporate America has the American Middle Class best interests at heart! Yeah Right sure! So let’s not go overboard on criticizing Vice President Biden as depected in the humorous, I admit, video below).
Well to end this on a humorous note I know why we have the “swine flu”. This is the judgement of a rightous God against a decadent neo-Socialist America!
Doen’t any one see the connection with God’s punishment of America due to our election of Barrack Obama?
“Pork Barrel Spending” and Democrats “Bringing home the bacon” THEN we get SWINE FLU! Yes indeed the judgment of a “Righteous God”!
The last line actually must be from Sarah Palin’s inner thoughts!
