Sarah Palin is beginning to show the credentials of Vice Presidents J. Danforth Quayle (knowledge) and Richard Cheney (firearms and retribution).

McCain is showing the credentials of Presidents William Clinton (marital fidelity), George W. Bush (wisdom) and Ronald Reagan (senility).

I wanted to vote for Kucinich, but that boat sailed before the Illinois primary. Obama/Biden is not my dream ticket, but at least I'll be able to sleep at night, rather than being kept awake by the nightmare the GOP created.

Now now, Serena.

Had the pump been on he other foot, you would have been imploring an angry yellow dog Democrat (moi) and a bitterly disappointed African-American community to vote for the Hillary/ fill in the blank ticket.

This is a no-brainer election. The choices haven't been this crystal clear. It's either vote for Obama or painfully watch the decline and fall of the United States towards right-wing authoritarian banana republic status.

We have a chance to reverse the last 8 years of failed policies, and most importantly, regain majority control of the Supreme Court.

So, would you like sugar or Splenda in your Obama blue kool-aid?

Let's recap, shall we.

- In just four words, Palin showed she is not only a racist but a sexist, yet, let someone put the word "lipstick" in a sentence and she goes balistic.

- Her husband is a member of a political party that advocates Alaska becoming an independent country. So much for patrotism.

- She lets her daughter get knocked up by a self-professed redneck that has the brains of a caribou, yet if an African-American family had an unwedded daughter, she would say they are bad parents. White privalage. So much for family values.

- She was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it, and she only withdrew her support after Congress stopped it. Alaska did get to keep the money and she is spending it on a similar project.

- She can see Russia from Alaska, so that gives her National Security experience and can be VP. I can see Atlanta from where I work, so I guess it qualifies me to be mayor of Marietta, where I live.

- She misused her authority as Gov, but sees no problem with that.

- She wanted to ban some books in the Wasilla Library and fired the librarian when she wouldn't comply, AND gave some flimsy excuse why. The Librarian got her job back but left in two years because she couldn't stand Palin.

- She belives in saving fetuses, but kills animals from a helicopter.

- She doesn't think global warming is accerlerated by humans.

- She says she went to Iraq, but only went a few feet into it from Kuwait.

- She said she was in Ireland, but it was because her plane stopped there to refuel.

- She has only had her passport for 2 years.

- She's never met a head of state. Has she even met Bush? Every VP since Pearl Harbor - except Agnew - had extensive foriegn policy experience while a VP candidate.

- She says that Alaska makes 20% of American's energy, but it is just over 3% and just over 7% of oil.

- She thinks the world is 6000 years old and doesn't believe in dinosausr, yet she touts her "energy experience" from dealing with a fossil fuel. (?)

- Her support of gay issues is somewhere right of Atilla then Hun.

- She wants creationism taught in school.

- She doesn't know what the Bush Doctrine is.

- She said she sold the Governor's plane on E-bay, and McLiar said she made a profit. The plane was sold at a loss by a broker.

- She sent her son off to fight in a "Holy War," but dodged the question in an interview.

- Wasilla has the population of some of the dinky towns in America and the population of Alaska would barely make a decent city, yet she touts her governmental experience as being something to brag about. McHyprocrate stated the Gulianni didn't have the experience in National security because he was just a mayor and Romnie didn't either for being just a governor. (?)

- She would rather rapists go free then allow a woman to have an abortion. And, she charged rape victims for the rape kit test.

I know I may have left a few things out. We should start a hyprocrate watch and add things to the list as they crop up.

I'm actually kind of surprised by this. Not that Sarah Palin is racist (already assumed that), but that she would be so open about it. I thought she was more mediagenic, but I guess not.

Sambo beat the bitch?

Honestly, if the republicans win, I don't think I can live through another four years of this crap.

I'm hoping that the last few days of financial instability help to give Obama the lead he deserves to have in the polls.But one must never underestimate what Republicans are willing to do especially concerning lying and cheating to win.

So let's see...

If a rabid right-wing "journalist" who operates under a variety of pseudonyms got a "hot tip" from a member of Focus on the Family to contact an anonymous source known only as "Lucille", who claims to be a waitress at an unknown diner, and she allegedly claims she heard Obama say "They're expendable - who are the Faggots going to vote for, the Pit Bull?", then you'd give it the same credence?

Seriously, when a guy claims to be a journrlist (sic) who is operating "from the safety of Canada", and has only had a blog for 5 months, well, I don't exactly call him the most credible source.

Even Daily Kos isn't buying this any more.

I have no doubt Palin’s a racist. Most Euro-American politicians are even if they're in denial, like the Clintons. Palin deserves to be bashed at least as much as Biden, just as Obama deserves criticism as much as McCain.

Palin’s a Quayleclone just as Biden's a hustler bought and paid for by the credit card industry. Obama based his electoral strategy on ignoring us, going so far as to refuse any mention of our names in his platform so he can continue to pander to the bigots. McCain is just as bad.

What will destroy the winner though is not their record but the fact that the economy is teetering on the edge and the war will continue. It’s possible but unlikely that the economy can be saved like it was in 20 years ago when Democrats and Republicans voted 1.4 trillion dollars to bail out the rich during the Savings and Loan scandal. Now they’re voting more trillions to pay the debts of mortgage companies and banks. And the credit card crisis hasn’t even hit yet. A trillion here and a trillion there and pretty soon we're talking real money.

Mortgage holders are up shit creek without a paddle and losing their homes by the tens of thousands thanks to the greed and stupidity of hustlers like Obama, Bush, Clinton and McCain.

Those same Democrats and Republicans voted for the deregulation of corporate predators egged on by Carter, Reagan, the Bushes and Clinton. They encouraged the export of union jobs and supported NAFTA, a union busting bill. Unions are the only guarantee we have for economic stability. They also voted with Biden, another ‘friend’ of labor to strip us of our bankruptcy rights because Biden represents a state where some of the biggest banks and credit card companies are headquartered. Biden and his son made a fortune off that deal.

The corporate owners of the US don‘t care who wins, just who’s for sale. The Democrats and Republicans don't win the rich do. We lose. Which is why a Wall Street pet named Barak Obama is about to become President of the United States. No one who supports union busting laws like NAFTA, wants to extend the war or habitually panders to bigots is worth voting for.

That explains the Niagra of manufactured hysteria about Palin and McCain. It's a rehash of the failed policy that claimed that "Only Hindenburg can save us from Hitler". As it turned out it was Hindenburg who appointed Hitler Chancellor of Germany. Don’t be bamboozled by campaign hysteria.

Vote for the union led and financed US Labor Party. And if you can’t then vote for socialist or communist candidates as a protest or join the scores of millions who sit it out because they’re smart enough to refuse to vote for the lesser bigot, the lesser warmonger or the lesser evil. In any case don’t forget to vote against the anti-GLBT referenda and initiatives in California, Arizona and Florida.

Serena, I am so glad you are now considering exercising your franchise. It is a rare and precious gift (hardly to be wasted) that brave people like Monica have sought to preserve. I want America back in the ultimate hands of the people. I want to see an inclusive country where GLBT rights are protected under law and where we get back our Bill of Rights as a protection to the individual against the excesses of government "to create a more perfect union." Just as enshrined in our constitution is the right to "pursue happiness" we are not guaranteed happiness as a function of government nor is our "union" ever perfect, but can become more perfect. I strongly agree with the sentiment of Mr. Perdue above expressed by him previously as a fundamental right: "Don't Tread on Me." If we want this independence we also have to accept the responsibility that goes with it.

It is not voting to protest, or hiding in a closet on election day. It can be about voting for the perceived lesser evil, but it should be about voting for the best in ourselves. Now, after we have voted we go to the next part in communicating with our elected officials. It is not perfect, it never was, and it gets corrupted by the weak, powerful and heartless. However my country did not stand in the way of my starting my own business at twenty six with a background of growing up poor, working on a RR track crew while I worked my way through school. I was able to "pursue happiness" while delaying short term gratification.

I would go to the polls just for the issue of health care, but if it is anti racism for you that is frosting on the cake. America is light years better in providing opportunities to excel than anywhere else on earth.