Tumesikia habari kidogo tu kuhusu hao akina mama wanaompinga Palin huko Alaska. Yaani Republicans wanajitahidi kweli kuzima habari mbaya dhidi ya Sarah Palin ambaye ni makamu wa John McCain anayegombea kiti cha rais wa Marekani kupitia chama cha Republican. Sarah Palin ni mbumbumbu na ndo maana walimficha jana wakati akiongea na maraisi wa nchi za nje. Alisoma Community colleges na vyuo vikuu tano katika kipindi cha miaka sita.
Sarah Palin hajui mambo ya nchi za nje (foreign affairs), na navyomwona hajui hata mambo ya hapa Marekani na states 49 zaidi ya Alaska. Alipata passport yake ya kwanza mwaka jana tu. Alilazimishwa wanawake waliobakwa kulipia exams (testi za kuhakikisha ubakaji) zao huko hospitalini! Na ni ajabu, tangu ateuliwe hajafanya Press Conference (kuongea na waandishi wa habari) na hajibu maswali akiwa safarini lakini wanarushusiwa kumpiga picha. Khaa! Wanaficha nini?
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[The] Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was to be held outside on the lawn in front of the Loussac Library in midtown Anchorage. Home made signs were encouraged, and the idea was to make a statement that Sarah Palin does not speak for all Alaska women, or men. I had no idea what to expect.
The rally was organized by a small group of women, talking over coffee. It made me wonder what other things have started with small groups of women talking over coffee. It's probably an impressive list. These women hatched the plan, printed up flyers, posted them around town, and sent notices to local media outlets. One of those media outlets was KBYR radio, home of Eddie Burke, a long-time uber-conservative Anchorage talk show host. Turns out that Eddie Burke not only announced the rally, but called the people who planned to attend the rally "a bunch of socialist baby-killing maggots," and read the home phone numbers of the organizers aloud over the air, urging listeners to call and tell them what they thought. The women, of course, received some nasty, harassing and threatening messages.
I felt a bit apprehensive. I'd been disappointed before by the turnout at other rallies. Basically, in Anchorage, if you can get 25 people to show up at an event, it's a success. So, I thought to myself, if we can actually get 100 people there that aren't sent by Eddie Burke, we'll be doing good. A real statement will have been made. I confess, I still had a mental image of 15 demonstrators surrounded by hundreds of menacing "socialist baby-killing maggot" haters.
It's a good thing I wasn't tailgating when I saw the crowd in front of the library or I would have ended up in somebody's trunk. When I got there, about 20 minutes early, the line of sign wavers stretched the full length of the library grounds, along the edge of the road, 6 or 7 people deep! I could hardly find a place to park. I nabbed one of the last spots in the library lot, and as I got out of the car and started walking, people seemed to join in from every direction, carrying signs.
Never, have I seen anything like it in my 17 and a half years living in Anchorage. The organizers had someone walk the rally with a counter, and they clicked off well over 1400 people (not including the 90 counter-demonstrators). This was the biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state. I was absolutely stunned. The second most amazing thing is how many people honked and gave the thumbs up as they drove by. And even those that didn't honk looked wide-eyed and awe-struck at the huge crowd that was growing by the minute. This just doesn't happen here.
Then, the infamous Eddie Burke showed up. He tried to talk to the media, and was instantly surrounded by a group of 20 people who started shouting O-BA-MA so loud he couldn't be heard. Then passing cars started honking in a rhythmic pattern of 3, like the Obama chant, while the crowd cheered, hooted and waved their signs high.
So, if you've been doing the math Yes. The Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was significantly bigger than Palin's rally that got all the national media coverage! So take heart, sit back, and enjoy the photo gallery. Feel free to spread the pictures around to anyone who needs to know that Sarah Palin most definitely does not speak for all Alaskans. The citizens of Alaska, who know her best, have things to say.
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Psssst...pass it on!
[The] Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was to be held outside on the lawn in front of the Loussac Library in midtown Anchorage. Home made signs were encouraged, and the idea was to make a statement that Sarah Palin does not speak for all Alaska women, or men. I had no idea what to expect.
The rally was organized by a small group of women, talking over coffee. It made me wonder what other things have started with small groups of women talking over coffee. It's probably an impressive list. These women hatched the plan, printed up flyers, posted them around town, and sent notices to local media outlets. One of those media outlets was KBYR radio, home of Eddie Burke, a long-time uber-conservative Anchorage talk show host. Turns out that Eddie Burke not only announced the rally, but called the people who planned to attend the rally "a bunch of socialist baby-killing maggots," and read the home phone numbers of the organizers aloud over the air, urging listeners to call and tell them what they thought. The women, of course, received some nasty, harassing and threatening messages.
I felt a bit apprehensive. I'd been disappointed before by the turnout at other rallies. Basically, in Anchorage, if you can get 25 people to show up at an event, it's a success. So, I thought to myself, if we can actually get 100 people there that aren't sent by Eddie Burke, we'll be doing good. A real statement will have been made. I confess, I still had a mental image of 15 demonstrators surrounded by hundreds of menacing "socialist baby-killing maggot" haters.
It's a good thing I wasn't tailgating when I saw the crowd in front of the library or I would have ended up in somebody's trunk. When I got there, about 20 minutes early, the line of sign wavers stretched the full length of the library grounds, along the edge of the road, 6 or 7 people deep! I could hardly find a place to park. I nabbed one of the last spots in the library lot, and as I got out of the car and started walking, people seemed to join in from every direction, carrying signs.
Never, have I seen anything like it in my 17 and a half years living in Anchorage. The organizers had someone walk the rally with a counter, and they clicked off well over 1400 people (not including the 90 counter-demonstrators). This was the biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state. I was absolutely stunned. The second most amazing thing is how many people honked and gave the thumbs up as they drove by. And even those that didn't honk looked wide-eyed and awe-struck at the huge crowd that was growing by the minute. This just doesn't happen here.
Then, the infamous Eddie Burke showed up. He tried to talk to the media, and was instantly surrounded by a group of 20 people who started shouting O-BA-MA so loud he couldn't be heard. Then passing cars started honking in a rhythmic pattern of 3, like the Obama chant, while the crowd cheered, hooted and waved their signs high.
So, if you've been doing the math Yes. The Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was significantly bigger than Palin's rally that got all the national media coverage! So take heart, sit back, and enjoy the photo gallery. Feel free to spread the pictures around to anyone who needs to know that Sarah Palin most definitely does not speak for all Alaskans. The citizens of Alaska, who know her best, have things to say.
McCain only chose Palin to attract women voters, which has failed because it was sexist and insulting towards women. The McCain campaign believed that women only vote for other women based on gender and are too stupid to care about the issues. The truth is that women do care about the issues. They are not going to vote for Palin because she is a woman. They vote for candidates that best represent their views on the issues.
ReplyDeleteJoe Biden best represents them. He wrote and past the Violence Against Women Act, while Sarah Palin required rape victims to pay for forensic evidence just so their rapists could get caught. And of course women did not always have the money to pay for that evidence and rapists went free.
Sarah Palin is no great leader. She is a disgusting human being. McCain's choice of Palin was only meant to serve his own best interests and not the interests of the American people. He didn't choose her to help America. He chose her so that he could be president.
America has been screwed over by these little rich boys for far to long, there needs to be a change. Even michelle obama is awseome. She aint some stuck up rich bytch like Mccains wife who most likely sits on her Channel coated arse all day while watching yacht races!
ReplyDeleteHello America. With my recent plunge in the National Polls and this Economic Crisis that I am partially to blame for, I have decided to suspend my campaign and hide out in Washington for awhile until my advisors can figure out what they want me to do next! I have also decided that Barack Obama is way too smart for me to debate and doing so would be a no win situation for me so I am cancelling our debate. Apparently you have figured me out, therefore I have decided to run FROM President. See you all on November 4th. I am John McCain and I approved this message!
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