Debunking Anti-Palin Smears

You can read an article in Newsweek (certainly not a Republican tool) debunking these smears at http://www.newsweek .com/id/157986. Here are some of the smears debunked:

1)Sarah Palin Cut Special Needs Education

Palin did not cut funding for special needs education http://www.newsweek .com/related. aspx?subject= Alaska by 62 percent. She didn't cut it at all. In fact, she tripled per-pupil funding over just three years.

2) Sarah Palin Tried to Ban Books

She did not demand that books be banned from thehttp://www.newsweek .com/related. aspx?subject= WasillaWasilla library. Some of the books on a widely circulated list were not even in print at the time (the list is actually one of all the books banned in the US for the past 100 years). The librarian has said Palin asked a "What if?" question, but the librarian continued in her job through most of Palin's first term.

3)Sarah Palin was a member of the Alaskan Independence Party

She was never a member of thehttp://www.newsweek .com/related. aspx?subject= Alaskan+Independ ence+PartyAlaskan Independence Party, a group that wants Alaskans to vote on whether they wish to secede from the United States. She's been registered as a Republican since May 1982.

4)Palin never endorsed or supported Buchannan
Palin never supported http://www.newsweek .com/related. aspx?subject= Patrick+BuchananPat Buchanan for president. She once wore a Buchanan button as a "courtesy" when he visited Wasilla, but shortly afterward she was appointed to co-chair of the campaign of Steve Forbes in the state.

5)Palin never endorsed Creationsm
Palin has not pushed for teaching Creationsm http://www.newsweek .com/related. aspx?subject= Creationism in Alaska's schools. She has said that students should be allowed to "debate both sides" of the evolution question, but she also said creationism "doesn't have to be part of the curriculum."

Quote Of The Day

"I’m starting to wonder: is the Barack Obama campaign grossly mishandling the Sarah Palin vice presidential nomination? Suddenly, it seems like Obama is running against Palin. Shouldn’t Obama be focused on John McCain? I mean, I know the guy’s old but, as long as he’s healthy, Palin will likely be no more than a glorified goodwill ambassador, just like most VPs before her. Is it worth taking the heat off of McCain in order to delegitimize someone who will likely have very little power? When you think about it, Obama isn’t well served by running against Palin. Anytime the experience issue is brought up when comparing the two politicians, McCain wins. Why? Because voters are going to be much more willing to accept inexperience from a vice president than they are from the president. Highlighting Palin’s inexperience just serves to call into question Obama’s own experience. Plus, there is nothing 'presidential' about a presidential nominee going after the other party’s vice presidential nominee. I think it makes Obama look a little petty and ill-focused. Joe Biden is supposed to be Obama’s attack dog. Not the other way around. If the strategy of attacking Palin early and often was working, then I’d understand why Obama’s campaign has focused so much attention on her. But it’s not working. McCain/Palin are in the lead. I fully understand the desire and need to vet Palin and counter the misstatements about her record. That’s fine. But I’m noticing Obama and his legion of supporters (notably on the blogs) taking their eye off the ball. Palin is not the story. McCain is the story. No matter how many compelling reasons there may be not to vote for Palin, no one will actually vote for her. They’ll vote for McCain. This is one of the big reasons why McCain gambled on his VP choice. To mix things up and throw Obama off his game. So far, it seems to be working." — Alan Stewart Carl, moderate blogger and undecided voter, on Donklephant blog

Presidential Nerve

by Lenny Mcallister

While some people think that Sarah Palin has some nerve with her campaign rhetoric, it is clear that her candidacy has struck an unspoken nerve in some segments in America.

I remember sitting there with Claudio Simpkins (the Republicans’ future Barack Obama) during the Republican National Convention when these infamous words came from the mouth of Governor Sarah Palin: “And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities.”

As the crowd in St. Paul reacted to the comment directed toward presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), Claudio turned to me as we both shared the same thought: the political jab will not be taken lightly by others post-convention. We agreed that, further still, there would be a backlash within America – particularly Black America – for the comment. “You’re going to hear about this,” I told him. “Sooner than later.”

Unfortunately, no less than 12 hours later, our theory would come to pass as fact. During a radio interview that Mr. Simpkins did for an African-American morning show on XM Radio, callers expressed their vehement dissatisfaction towards Palin’s chiding of Obama’s community organizer days and, on a larger scale, of his mettle to garner the presidency in 2008. More regrettably, as I heard of the types of comments (and verbiage) used to express their disapproval, I knew that our country stood at the crossroads of two paths along the journey of equal rights in America.

A few weeks ago, I talked about how America could take personal stock in the successes of Senator Obama and Governor Palin after their acceptance speeches at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, respectively (http://www.lennymcallister.com/editorials.php?item=71).

I noted that we had a chance to witness history as both candidates spoke to record numbers of supporters that cheered them on in primetime. They were the harvest of the hard work of civil rights advocates that fought for equal treatment for African-Americans and women, particularly those that have lived long enough to witness the progressive changes in attitudes and accomplishments for Black people and women of all ethnicities in this country. Despite the history-making speeches and subsequent pride that we felt from smashing the proverbial glass ceiling, there was something on the horizon that we failed to see before us:

The next barrier for us to overcome - the monstrous combination of perception, prejudice, and the past.

Tucked away in the all-American stories of a Black kid from Hawaii and the PTA mom from Wasilla is the ugly truth that some within America hold a bit of resentment towards White women and the progress they have made over the past 40 years. Those that hold this position feel that as Black people have begun to feel a backlash against them over the past 15 years (pointing to increasing incidents of police brutality, African-American prisoners, and Black student failure in schools as examples), White women have continued to gain equality within the corporate and social worlds that we live in. Further still, there are those that would argue that White women – in the quest to eliminate sexism – leveraged the momentum of the civil rights movement for personal gain, only to leave aside the movement for Black equality once women’s rights issues were addressed. Of course, there are those that would challenge this theory and disagree.

One thing is clear, however: perception, in this case, is reality, especially since this is an issue that may involve more emotion than facts and figures.

Another point of tension in this dynamic of race relations this year is the traditional uneasiness of Black man/White woman interactions over the course of American history. I will not go into the viewpoints and stereotypes that permeated from the 18th and 19th centuries, mostly because some of those stereotypes do not have the same weight for Generation X’ers and Baby Boomers as it did for their parents and grandparents. However, for the generations of Black women that increasingly live their adult lives without a male partner, there is the “dirty-little-secret” of resentment towards White women, particularly those White women that find themselves partnered with or married to Black men. Just having a White female candidate juxtaposed with the first African-American man to garner a major-party presidential nomination touches a raw nerve that many in the media may not talk about but most in the barber shops, beauty shops, and dining rooms of America – particularly in Black America - know is real.


Coupling all of this underlying tension with the role that Governor Sarah Palin must play in the presidential election as we tick down the final 4 weeks of the campaign brings about nastiness from voters that we have not seen in decades.

As the vice presidential candidate, Governor Palin is in the position where she has to take on the role as attack dog, voicing the harsh criticism of the Obama-Biden ticket that Senator John McCain should not voice himself lest he risk a severe backlash. This is a traditional role for the vice presidential candidate on a ticket, but this year brings about a unique dilemma that the McCain-Palin ticket must not overlook. It is challenging enough for many to see a Black man – one that has garnered a historical victory as the Democratic nominee and, at this time, is leading in the race for the presidency – attacked at all. Just the historical significance of Barack Obama will make some hyper-protective, even to the point of disapproving of legitimate criticism of his policies or campaign. It is harder still for them to witness him come under verbal attack from a White woman. The oft-shared opinion that Sarah Palin is not qualified or prepared to be vice president only adds fuel to the fire, for critics that take issue to Palin’s attacks on Obama are offended that an unqualified candidate (in their view) is capable of regularly bashing the junior senator from Illinois. To some, it only reinforces a racial hierarchy that may or may not play out in the socioeconomic structures of America today.

Of course, it doesn’t help when her verbal jabs have included digs at Senator Obama’s work as a community organizer, a vital role of leadership within urban communities – the same communities that would be more likely to hold this racial sensitivity.
It makes it worse when the GOP vice presidential candidate rehashes a story about Obama “paling around with a terrorist” and “not (being a) man who sees America like you and I see America... We see America as a force of good...”

One action took the appearance of trivializing work that much of urban Black America counts on for social and political support.

The other conjured up past “whisper campaign” rumors of Senator Obama’s supposed Muslim faith and ties with Islamic radicals.

Neither gives the impression that Governor Palin is playing above the board and, thus, only adds fuel to a fire burning due to the emotional firewood sitting around from the past 50 years of race relations, particularly the unspoken intersection of sex and race.

What is ironic, when taking a deeper look, is the fact that those that find themselves sensitive to Palin attacks on Obama due to the scars outlined in this article must somehow overlook the fact that the very type of woman that they despise in 2008 would, in all likelihood, be akin to Senator Obama’s late mother just a few generations ago. As we approach Election Day, we learn more about American race perceptions throughout our country everyday.

For example:

• those that thought that we were not fair enough to be in this position with the make-up of our presidential tickets were wrong – we are capable of having a woman and a Black man on general election tickets and have them galvanize the parties’ bases;
  


• those that thought that race and gender matter to everyone in America to a point to impact how we will select a president are wrong – there are those within each generation that truly do see content of character and do not fixate on the color of one’s skin or the gender of a candidate;
  


• those that thought that race is a non-issue in the 21st century are also wrong – we have not graduated to a point where gender and race can differentiate without being divisive or, in some cases, inflammatory; and those that thought that we are at a point of time where our racial dirty laundry can be addressed in civil discussions and therapeutic behavior are also wrong – we are learning that, with every “Obama is a Muslim” or “Caribou Barbie” comment, when we are good when dealing with diversity, we are very good, but when we are bad...

• Even though there is reason to be mindful of racism and sexism in this election season, it is clear that when the two collide (as with the case of Obama and Palin), there is a presidential nerve that exposes a still-existent sore spot with many.
  
  ~Lenny McAllister is a contributor to HHR he is also a young African American Republican with a mission to make changes to the status quo in politics, social issues and other issues that hamper our American way of life. He is presntely a political contributor with AOL Black Voices.

The Irrational Hatred of Sarah Palin: Leette Eaton- White

Few things that come out of the ideological crazed super far left (not your average everyday liberals, but the real coo coo coco puffs) has anything to do with reason. But it is one thing to be irrational about issues, and quite another to be irrational about a person. Public figures have always been the butt of jokes, especially those who put themselves out there seeking attention. Politicians are no exception. Neither is Sarah Palin.

The media is free to make fun of her, by all means do so. But the media is unfortunately a part of the same crazed far left that I mentioned before. And instead of making fun of Sarah within reason, they bring her family into it. Not her husband, a grown man who could certainly handle a pun, but her kids. Her children who, some of which are just learning how to be adults; her kids who did not desire to be the items of ridicule on late night TV. But not only did they go after her kids, as it has always been from her initial entrance onto the national stage, it has become only increasingly cruel and incredibly unfunny.

Just the other evening David Letterman decided tact was of course not needed. It was a long night of dumping on Sarah but then he took it to a new low by saying this …. “One awkward moment though during the game, maybe you heard about it, maybe you saw it on one of the highlight reels. One awkward moment for Sarah Palin at the Yankee game, during the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked-up by Alex Rodriguez.”

Wow, Letterman is one classy guy.

The Palin Camp then released these two statements.

“Any ‘jokes’ about raping my 14-year-old are despicable. Alaskans know it and I believe the rest of the world knows it, too.”

- Todd Palin

“Concerning Letterman’s comments about my young daughter (and I doubt he’d ever dare make such comments about anyone else’s daughter): ‘Laughter incited by sexually-perverted comments made by a 62-year-old male celebrity aimed at a 14-year-old girl is not only disgusting, but it reminds us some Hollywood/NY entertainers have a long way to go in understanding what the rest of America understands - that acceptance of inappropriate sexual comments about an underage girl, who could be anyone’s daughter, contributes to the atrociously high rate of sexual exploitation of minors by older men who use and abuse others.’”

- Governor Sarah Palin

Letterman released a half assed apology this morning.

I don’t need to tell you whose side I am on. But I do need to tell you why I am siding with the Palins. The rule of decency has always been to leave the children of politicians (especially non- adult children) out of the jokes and any disparaging remarks concerning their parents. But Letterman not only violated that, he reached a new low by making it sexual. Let me be clear on this point. That was a sick, perverse, cruel, unwarranted, illogical, vitriolic remark; and there is nothing that can defend it, not even for sake of comedy because guess what… it wasn’t even funny. It was just wrong.

The constant need by the public left to attack Sarah Palin and her family won’t help them make Republican’s look bad. It won’t help liberals win elections, and it won’t help change the social makeup of this country. This is just one example of the hypocrisy of the left. I mentioned their inherent racism in my last article, and now their sexism is exposed yet again. Still they say Conservatives and Republicans are the sexist and racist ones!

Just a tip for those of you just starting to wet your feet in the political world there is a saying you should know. If ever you want to know what the left is doing, check out what they accuse the right of. It never fails.

Leette Eaton- White is a native New Yorker and a full time student studying Forensic Psychology. She has been a Conservative Republican since 2002, finding her Republican roots at the age of 15. HipHopRepublican opened the gateway for her to start her political activism in urban areas and across the net.

Leette4hhr@gmail.com

The Debates Tonight

Hey folks HipHopRepublican.com was invited to watch the VP Debates with The staff at The Village Voice and to provide commentary afterwards. Tiffany Shorter and Brandon Bryce will be representing HHR at The Village Voices Debate Party tonight.They will of course the only two Republicans in the house (The Village Voice is very liberal)but we want to thank The Village Voice for extending the invitation. The debate will be with Gov. Sarah Palin and Senator Joe Biden and is the only Vice Presidential Debate!


Also...From Karol over at Alarming News Blog-Racism today

by Karol

Checking in to the Chelsea in Atlantic City on Friday, I looked over at a baggage cart and saw a bag with a McCain/Palin button. I turned around to see who it might belong to and behind us in line were two black girls. One saw the button at the same time I did. The conversation:

Girl 1: Is that your bag?
Girl 2: Yep.
Girl 1: Is that a Obama/Biden button?
Girl 2: Uh, no, it's a McCain/Palin button.
Girl 1: What??! How can you support them? You're a person of color! I know you don't really mean it, tell me that button is just for show!
Girl 2: I like Palin! She's a working mother!
Girl 1: Oh no, no no no, I know this is just for show, ain't no way you're supporting them. You're black!
Girl 2: Don't make this into a racial thing!

~At this point, against my better judgement and against the IC's very loud wishing that I don't turn around, I turned around and said "I should've brought my Palin t-shirt."

Girl 1: Look, she doesn't really support them. She's just doing that for show.

Girl 2: No I'm not! I love Palin!

I turned back around to IC's pleading eyes saying "please don't get involved". They continued to argue. Girl 2 lost her footing a little bit when she said "tell me you're not better off than you were 8 years ago" (sort of a bad argument to make at this moment of financial collapse even though it has near zero to do with Bush) and Girl 1 said "I'm also better off than I was 50 years ago, and even better off than when we were slaves, what's your point."

It degenerated from there but I can't even imagine the pressure black people must feel to support Barack Obama based strictly on his race. It's completely acceptable for Girl 1 to say "you're a person of color, how can you not support the black man?" in a lobby full of people. Imagine the flip side, a white person chastising another white person for daring to support the black guy. Racism may still exist, but it's not the kind we're used to. This kind is considered ok. That's a problem.

UPDATE

by James Davermann

I met with the Village Voice reporter last night. We ended up at some bar that was smack in the middle of a PRO OBAMA rally so that was very interesting. It was a roundtable discussion of 4 black conservatives, one of whom I was acquainted with.

She asked questions about why we chose to become republicans, what our views were on certain issues, how our families and friends responded, etc. After the debate she had us sit there and dissect McCain and Obama, and the discourse flowed pretty naturally. I also mentioned the Black Elephants during my initial interview. I showed up early so she got alot of questions out of the way for me. I let her know about the initiative we show in recruiting and cultivating young minority Republican talent.

Black Republican Remakes Song For Sarah Palin

Ya know what...before you "GOP HATER'S" go knocking this poor guy you have to admit the brotha knows how to sing... all politics aside...give the man a break!!!

From Bookerising -The Obama campaign has will.i.am of Black-Eyed Peas, the McCain campaign now has Lloyd Marcus of Deltona, Florida. Mr. Marcus is part of the Our Country Deserves Better tour, which is holding 35 rallies in key states and an accompanying television campaign in favor of the McCain-Palin ticket.Mr. Marcus has done a remake of Hall & Oates' 1976 hit, "Sara Smile".

His version, "Sarah Smile", changes the lyrics to tout vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin and is making the rounds in the center-right blogosphere:

~Also if you are a women and support Sarah Palin please sign the petition over at Women4Sarah

Chgo Sun-Times: 'Sarah Palin Makes Me Sick'

By Michael M. Bates

"Palin should be laughingstock to all feminists" is the title of Mary Mitchell's column in today's Chicago Sun-Times. In that calm, detached tone readers have come to expect, Mitchell begins: Sarah Palin makes me sick. I hate that she was able to steal Barack Obama's mojo just by showing up wearing rimless glasses and a skirt.

~What's funny is, if she stole his mojo, just by wearing rimless classes and a skirt, he must not have had much in the first place . Anyway there is a new group formed formed by women all over this nation supporting Sarah Palin.

http://womenforsarahpalin.typepad.com/

Going Rogue: A “Palin”tologist’s Review

By: Leette Eaton-White

Sarah Palin the ever controversial political super star released her best seller auto-biography Going Rogue last week. Already a selling success the book details her life, and the failed 2008 Vice Presidential Campaign. Though the campaign to make John McCain POTUS failed, Sarah has been a wild success amongst conservatives and fair minded politicos.

Her down to earth demeanor and straight forward speaking style captivated the core of the GOP and infuriated the Left Wing and its Hollywood babysitters. Striking fear into the hearts of her critics Palin’s book comes out swinging at those who unfairly criticized her, but unlike most politicians she takes plenty of time to acknowledge her own, and many mistakes.

Detailing life and Alaska the book begins with a gorgeous rich description. As a matter fact some of the description was so exact I thought The Joy of Painting’s Bob Ross hijacked Sarah’s book and I could swear I began to hear “Wonderful, Wonderful Day” playing in my head followed by “The Sound of Music”, and I swear to you that is not an exaggeration… I had a very goofy smile on my face while reading such descriptions… as if people on the NYC subway didn’t already think I was crazy by actually reading Going Rogue in the first place.

Sarah discusses her average family and average life growing up in Wasilla and her unique love of sports and her dedication to teamwork. She talks about her children, and labor, fishing and even lets us in on her relationship with Todd. Then she starts in on politics. There is no denying Sarah on what she is politically. She is everything she ever presented herself as. She is a passionate social and fiscal conservative. No surprises there. She recounts in great detail her early days at City Hall fighting the status quo and former allies.

She repeats her political views throughout her story with relevant consistency. She also talks McCain, the Campaign and the staffers who went from helpful to her to hurting the campaign within a matter of weeks. The book has a surprising free flowing and natural eloquence that most would not expect of Sarah and clarity that makes you feel as though you were watching the events described unfold. Bottom line: It’s worth the read no matter what, if you like Sarah even a little bit, it’s worth the buy.

About the Author: Leette Eaton- White is a native New Yorker and a full time student studying Forensic Psychology. She has been a Conservative Republican since 2002, finding her Republican roots at the age of 15. HipHopRepublican opened the gateway for her to start her political activism in urban areas and across the net.Contact - Leette4hhr@gmail.com

Quote Of The Day

"You know the savaging of Gov. Sarah Palin is really starting to tick me off....Fair is fair and folks this ain't fair! If Senator Obama was being scrutinized like this, attacked like this, taken apart like this -- the Civil Rights organizations would rightly be incensed.

Does 'NOW' stand for the National Organization of Women -- or for the 'National Organization of women who support abortion rights, support sex ed, support, gay marriage, support civil unions, support partial birth abortion, support tax increases, etc.'??? I mean somebody help me. Now they are accusing the Gov. of having had an extra-marital affair, as well as maybe even having had an abortion herself -- Good Goodness folks! What ever happened to 'sisterhood' -- where are the feminists who are supposed to stand up for the rights of all women??

Let me state this again -- I am a moderate -- 'soft [R]epublican' and I do not agree with Gov. Palin on many of her social positions. However, I agree with her on many of her reform minded, pro--energy policies for America. I like her youth (she is 3 years older than me). I like that she is a mom. I like that she is a GenXer. I like this she is from outside of Washingon, D.C. I like that she is commander-in-chief-of the Alaska National Guard. I like that she has style. I like that she is attractive and fiesty.

I like that she took on the proverbial 'boys club' and beat them back!! We need more folks like Sarah Palin in Washington, D.C. Respectfully, and for the record, what is it that John McCain, Barack Obama, or Joe Biden currently command?? Hmmmmmmmmmm...??? Which of the three has ever had executive level experience as an elected official??"

~ Sophia Nelson, moderate Republican and editor Political Intersection Blog

Angela Winters on TrooperGate

The moderate blogger writes about a news event: "The Alaskan legislature concluded that Sarah Palin did abuse her power when she fired a trooper for not firing her brother-in-law. I'm not condoning any abuse of power or misconduct on the part of an official, but seriously, what would you do? The man, who has a history of violence including tasering his own 10-year old stepson, was trying to take her sister's babies away from her? I'd do it. I'd do it for my sister and the safety of my nieces and nephews. He won't get far in a custody battle if he doesn't have any income. Alaska is an at-will state, so all she had to do was wait until he did something wrong and he's toast. The question now is will she still come out with the attacks on Obama's honesty and character? No matter who the red team spins it, this is not a good time for this type of thing."


HHR-Sarah Palin was found to have acted lawfully in this action. The "abuse her power" phrase is an opnion that has been headlined and given more importance than it should. It is not part of the "official" ruling.The report states clearly:Governor Palin’s firing of Commissioner Monegan was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority to hire and fire executive branch department heads.

Sarah's Got PAC: The latest on Sarah Palin

Well, folks it would seem that Sarah Palin has decided she is not going anywhere and has decided to create a Political Action Committee.

According to the blog RedState.com Gov. Sarah Palin now has a political action committee. It’s called, naturally enough, SarahPAC.

The PAC’s website, SarahPAC.com, just went up on the web. It would seem that Sarah is building an army to run for President.

http://www.sarahpac.com/

Margret Cho is a Retard

Margaret Cho Yeah ..that "comedienne-who-was-never-funny-to-begin-with" has decided to join the non-stop laugh fest against Sara Palin…

I am not voting for McCain. I hope that is obvious. I am sick of everyone saying – "He was a good soldier. He was a good soldier."
Um yeah. He was captured.
So he was not that good.
And now with Sarah Palin at his side, they have actually become the worst ticket imaginable. The only way it could be worse would be if Satan were running with Chuck Norris as his VP. Actually, Lucifer-Norris sounds better than McCain-Palin.

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Go Tzipi!!!

by Richie

The newspapers are reporting that today Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has beaten her opponent and is on her way to victory.The selection of Livini will signal to Iran and the world that Israel is tired of the threats by Iran and her neighbors and means business. Next week in my city of New York City the president of Iran Ahmadinejad will be in NYC, I hope everyone will be here to join the thousands to protest his arrival. A few papers including the New York Times are reporting that Sarah Palin will be in attendance and that Hillary Clinton has dropped out calling Palin's appearance political...ummm and what exactly would her appearance be???

Below is information relating to the time and place of the event.

RALLY TO STOP IRAN. NOW!

Iran’s President Ahmadinejad is coming to the U.N.

He supports terror networks around the world.
He calls for the destruction of the US and Israel.
He is developing nuclear weapons in defiance of the U.N.
He jails and executes women’s rights activists,
religious minorities and others in Iran.
Stand together and speak out against terror.

Join the Rally to Stop Iran. Now!

Dag Hammarskjold Plaza (across from the United Nations)

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

11:45 am, rain or shine, 2nd Avenue at 47th Street
(Subways: 4, 5, 6, or 7 to Grand Central Station)

Sponsored by the -National Coalition to Stop Iran Now, with the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, United Jewish Communities, UJA-Federation of New York, Jewish Council for Public Affairs

The Face Of The Hacker

Hatip Black&Right....Like we didn't know it would be a Democrat punk kid.

David Kernell, son of Tennessee DEMOCRAT State Senator Mike Kernell, did it. He hacked away persistently over and over again until he could get into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email, believing that he would find data destructive to her personal character and the campaign.

However it didn't appear Sarah Palin had as much to hide as he'd hoped.

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Matt Damon on Sarah Palin

"CBS News RAW": Actor Matt Damon criticizes Alaska governor Sarah Palin, citing her inexperience in national politics and comparing her candidacy to "a bad Disney movie....

BEST RESPONCE: I Matt Damon, I know politics, I want cookie now.........What a dumbass!!!!!However just to be fair Matt Damon does makes a compelling argument, but before we all make up my mind we should at least hear what Paris Hilton thinks

“Urban Conservatism”: The New Agenda for the Republican Party

By Brandon Brice

In my recent article, “Jobs, Baby, Jobs”, the idea of job creation and common sense dominated the main theme. As conservatives, libertarians or moderates we realize that now President Barack H. Obama is our new Commander and Chief, but we can always look towards the future. Vice Presidential candidate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, during the debates, once suggested that America return back to basics. Gov. Palin was absolutely correct, but the audience she missed are the millions of low income families nationwide. In the next three to four years, the GOP should adopt the agenda of “urban conservatism”, a movement that targets low income families and stresses common sense, towards financial literacy, education enhancement and self sufficiency. Skeptics suggest that urban areas do not usually vote conservative, but they’re wrong.

Imagine a Republican Party that stresses common sense and educates people on credit, financial literacy and the importance of investments. Let’s think for a moment, as our grandmothers and grandfathers once said, if we can’t afford it then we simply don’t need it. The common practices of our relative’s years ago to spend frugally and save for a rainy day are essential to our own personal economic development. This agenda concentrates of helping people to help themselves, via self sufficiency. Republicans in the past have told people not to depend on the federal government, yet haven’t showed people how to get off of federal programs. Urban Conservatism does just that, it targets low income neighborhoods and helps people understand how to start a business or the tools and skills needed to interview, hence getting people off of welfare. The agenda translates into action, social action that reflects showing folks how to refrain from the government. GOP leaders and politicians have a history of telling and talking about self sufficiency, but the party until now hasn’t given any solutions. For example, former President George W. Bush was on target with the No Child Left Behind Act, which sought out the real problems in education, corruption, unqualified teachers.

A Responce to Jeremy

~This is a written response from a prominent African American Republican to an African American liberal who questioned her "blackness" for supporting Sen. John McCain. This is her response to a guy we will here at HipHopRepublican call Jeremy.

First…Here’s what Jeremy wrote.

Jeremy wrote at 3:36pm (Tuesday, Sept. 30)

“Black Republican!!!! what a shame.... Whats so weird about a kid, a white kid especially singing about her future president and the changes he will make to better her education and her future? Are you that out of touch with whats happening these days or just stupid like your good ole friend John? Who would ever want to take a backseat in having a part of making history? When your kids grow up and read about it in their history books, please let them know what side you were playing on. Ya digg? O yeah, dis is real life, not a publicity stunt. So tell Sara Palin, that chick who can see Russia from her backyard, to sit her dumb ass down...”

A Response to Jeremy

I’m thankful for all who came to my defense, but there is a bigger issue here that some people have already pointed out. Besides the fact that Jeremy unnecessarily picked a public fight with me; besides the fact that he called me stupid yet used horrible grammar in his answer; besides the fact that he used the term “chick” as a derogatory term towards Gov. Palin; besides the fact that it is indeed creepy to have children singing about another man—not religion but another man when they aren’t even old enough to vote; besides all of that…He accused me of taking a backseat in making history.

So, now I have a question for Jeremy. How am I taking a backseat to history when I am indeed helping to MAKE history?! What is Jeremy doing to affect this election? Where is his volunteer work? What issues has he spoken out on? Is he registering people to vote? If he is, that’s great, but I have spent my entire college career, professional career, and even part of my high school career devoted to these public services, and no matter what side of the political spectrum, I’m fighting on, it is indeed making history—Republican or Democrat just as many others citizens in America are.

I won’t attack Jeremy for being a Democrat or for voting for Barack Obama because the beauty of America is that we can vote as we choose, but how can he as an African-American attack another African-American for having the audacity to think for herself? The notion that I am stupid because I don’t follow “lock and step” in-line with Obama simply because we have similar levels of pigment and melanin in our skin is outrageous. Jeremy assumes that all African-Americans are supposed to not only support one party but that we are all supposed to blindly support one man, and he calls ME STUPID?? Jeremy has not given thought to the fact that just like Whites, Hispanics, Asians, and other minority groups, African-Americans are all born in to different environments. We are raised in various ways and by different people. We have various religious affiliations. We have various influences on life. We pursue various professional careers. With all these various backgrounds, how can Jeremy think that we would not have various approaches to politics as well? Jeremy, you’ve assumed otherwise, so not only is your assumption racist, chauvinistic, and prejudiced, but it is STUPID.

Furthermore, I don’t attack you for supporting Obama, but I DARE you to give me 10 good reasons for supporting him for which I can’t find 10 or 20 more for supporting McCain. I KNOW why I’m a Republican, and it’s NOT based on my gender or race. It’s based on the issues. You seem to only know you’re a Democrat because of the color of skin you were born with. You support a man for the most powerful position in the world who hasn’t even served a full U.S. Senate term, and in the few years that he HAS served, has spent the time running for President or campaigning in the ‘06 mid-term elections, BUT I’M STUPID? You support a man whose record is so short that we have to go back to his days in the Illinois State Senate where he voted “present” instead of “yes” or “no” on key issues because he didn’t want to be controversial, BUT I’M STUPID? You support a man who thinks that inflating your tires will solve the energy crisis, BUT I’M STUPID? You support a man who thinks it’s okay to sit down and chat with the President of Iran who won’t even acknowledge that the Holocaust happened, BUT I’M STUPID? You support a man who was perfectly fine to allow partial birth abortion and is pro-choice , yet the majority of babies who are aborted are African-American, BUT I’M STUPID? You might want to get some more talking points. Again, you have the right to vote for whom you wish, but you need more of a reason than: “He’s black, and I’m black, too."

You attacked my “blackness” without regard to my fights for civil rights of blacks and of women. You attacked my “blackness” without regard to the fact that I helped put on the first black history program in the history of Wynne High School and was threatened by the Ku Klux Klan for doing so. You attacked my “blackness” without regard to my fight for scholarships for underprivileged African-American students in AR. You attacked my “blackness” without regard to the fact that each and every day I am the only African-American representing my company whether in the office, on a speaking engagement or in the media. I fight stereotypes EVERY SINGLE DAY OF MY LIFE, and do it with a smile: hoping that if I can do my best, not only will I make it, but other young African-Americans, women, and young people from all backgrounds can have the hope of making it, too. I wasn’t given anything. I earned what I have from a humble background in rural AR, so the next time you want to challenge my “blackness” and my intelligence, I suggest you take your cowardly finger and point it back at your tired, weak, chest.

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Hey everyone I forgot to mention that Ali Akbar one of the blogs new editors and political contributor was on NPR discussing the role of sexism as it relates to the media and Sarah Palin.


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News & Notes , October 22, 2008 · Television personalities like Jon Stewart, Bill Maher and Keith Olbermann have made no secret of their disdain for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. But when does the criticism go too far?

On today's bloggers' roundtable, Farai Chideya takes a closer look at the relationship between the media and the presidential campaigns. She talks with Carmen Dixon of All About Race, Rob Redding of Redding News Review, and Ali Akbar of Hip Hop Republican.

Steele’s Victory Was a Victory for All Urban Conservatives

By Darvio Morrow

As I sit and write this article while listening to the 2Pac song, “Never Had a Friend Like Me” in an Ecko sweatshirt and baggy black jeans, I feel a little different about the Republican Party. I’ve been a conservative for pretty much all of my life, but I never quite felt like the brass of the party was accepting to people like me. It has always seemed like some of us were a little too “urban” for many of their tastes. But in a strange way, it doesn’t feel like that anymore.

I feel that we urban conservative “Hip-Hop Republicans” finally have a place at the grown-ups table. It doesn’t seem like this is the same party that it was before the election of Lt. Governor Michael Steele to the Chairmanship of the RNC. Many people who are young rap-loving conservatives have been made to feel like they do not belong in the GOP by not only our numerous Democrat peers but also by some even in our own party. Many Urban Conservatives were seen as “too moderate” because many of them don’t tow the line on every single issue. Urban Conservatives have fought with many in their state and county GOP chapters, demanding that they pay more attention to their community, to no avail. But now, all of that appears to be on its way to the graveyard.

Michael Steele’s election was a victory on many grounds. First, it was a historic moment for the GOP. With the combination of Steele, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Louisiana Congressman Joseph Cao and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the image of the GOP as a “white men only” country club is beginning to die a slow death. Regardless of how “post-racial” many of us conservatives attempt to be, no one can deny that having an African-American in charge of the RNC is a tremendous accomplishment and it does wonders for creating good will in the minority community. Plus, anyone that can make David Duke angry is a winner in my book.

More important than the boost to the GOP’s racial imaging is the philosophy of the man himself. Michael Steele is a conservative but it would be fair to say that he is more moderate leaning than many of our former leaders. He is conservative enough to keep most hard-liners happy but is moderate enough to lure the Northeast back to the GOP. Chairman Steele can make the GOP a “big tent” again.

But above all else, Michael Steele’s background, experiences and political positions on certain issues make him a clear Urban Conservative. Michael Steele’s example exemplifies the fact that being authentically “black” and unwaveringly conservative are not mutually exclusive. Chairman Steele is a great example of how to be a conservative and simultaneously maintain your street credibility. For many years the prototype of an African-American Republican was the character of Carlton Banks from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, a corny, out of touch, money-loving conservative with “no hood in him”. Now the Black Conservative prototype is Chairman Steele. He is intelligent, articulate and if you doubt his “blackness”, I dare you to test him and you’ll see how “black” he is.

Chairman Steele’s victory was not only a victory for the GOP, but it was a victory for people like me. As Chairman Steele forms his transition team and signifies drastic changes that are in store for the Republican Party, I finally feel like I belong here. Today is a new day and now I won’t feel so strange writing conservative articles in urban clothes while listening to Hip-Hop music.

~Darvio Morrow is a student at the University of Phoenix and the founder/President of First Class Broadcasting. He has written articles for Associated Content, Back Talk Magazine and SexyWithin.com

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Vote However You Like," a parody to TI's "Whatever You Like". Atlanta Georgia Ron Clark Academy.




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Lyrics:

Obama on the left
McCain on the right
We can talk politics all night
And you can vote however you like
You can vote however you like, yeah

Democratic left
Republican right
November 4th we decide
And you can vote however you like
You can vote however you like, yeah

(McCain supporters)
McCain is the man
Fought for us in Vietnam
You know if anyone can
Help our country he can
Taxes droppin low
Dont you know oils gonna flow
Drill it low
I'll show our economy will grow

McCain's the best candidate
With Palin as his running mate
They'll fight for gun rights, pro life,
The conservative right
Our future is bright
Better economy in site
And all the world will feel our military might

(Obama supporters)
But McCain and Bush are real close right
They vote alike and keep it tight
Obama's new, he's younger too
The Middle Class he will help you
He'll bring a change, he's got the brains
McCain and Bush are just the same
You are to blame, Iraq's a shame
Four more years would be insane

Lower your Taxes - you know Obama Won't
PROTECT THE LOWER CLASS - You know McCain won't!
Have enough experience - you know that they don't
STOP GLOBAL WARMING - you know that you won't

I want Obama
FORGET OBAMA
Stick with McCain and you're going to have some drama
We need it
HE'LL BRING IT
He'll be it
YOU'LL SEE IT
We'll do it
GET TO IT
Let's move it
DO IT!

Obama on the left
McCain on the right
We can talk politics all night
And you can vote however you like
You can vote however you like, yeah

Democratic left
Republican right
November 4th we decide
And you can vote however you like, I said
You can vote however you like, yeah

I'm talking big pipe lines, and low gas prices
Below $2.00 that would be nice

But to do it right we gotta start today
Finding renewable ways that are here to stay

I want Obama
FORGET OBAMA,
Stick wit McCain you gone have some drama
MORE WAR IN IRAQ
Iran he will attack
CAN'T BRING OUR TROOPS BACK
We gotta vote Barack!

Obama on the left
McCain on the right
We can talk politics all night
And you can vote however you like, I said
You can vote however you like, yeah

Democratic left
Republican right
November 4th we decide
And you can vote however you like, I said
You can vote however you like, yeah
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