Hillary Rosen-CNN- NAILS some good points re: McCain/Palin and POLICY/ISSUES

[Triana]

THIS is the red meat, folks:


http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/03/rosen.palin/index.html
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There is a really strong case to be made against the McCain/Palin ticket and Democrats need to make it the right way, right away.

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I don't care about how Sarah Palin or John McCain take care of their families. I care about how their policy choices affect my family and millions of other Americans.

McCain and Palin get their health insurance paid for by the government (hers in Alaska and his in Washington). Yet they oppose giving the nearly 46 million uninsured Americans the same access to affordable health care.

John McCain's kids don't have to worry about paying for college. Yet he has opposed every single education support program to help others.

McCain and Palin say they will stand up to oil companies. Yet the only energy policy they support gives millions of dollars in tax breaks to oil companies to do more drilling and he has opposed every piece of federal legislation to explore alternative fuel sources.

McCain and Palin say they will revamp how Washington does business. Yet his campaign is filled with lobbyists and she has cooperated with Sen. Ted Stevens in funneling federal money for useless projects in Alaska for years. And McCain and Palin have no solutions for Americans worrying about their jobs in a fragile economy. iReport.com: Is Palin the right choice for you?

McCain and Palin want us to leave their families alone. Yet they want to make rules for our families by eliminating our right to make our own choices over abortion, eliminate our access to family planning education or domestic partner benefits, and our freedom from discrimination.

They want to control what our kids learn in school about sex and about science. In short, through the policies they promote and the judges they support, they want the government to have more control over our private lives than at any time in history.

McCain and Palin now say their campaign is about change, too. Yet the only real change they have proposed is a change from a suit to a skirt in the vice president's office and one man fighting a misplaced war for another in the Oval Office.

[redqueen]

1. Wow... you're not kidding.

K&R!

[wicket]

2. Love it!

Give 'em hell Hillary!

:kick:

[williesgirl]

3. This should be on our front page and sent to KO and others. rec'd

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

4. K&Ring this baby!

[BigAnth]

5. Nice summary!

[myrna minx]

6. K&R n/t

[Cha]

7. Excellent, Hilary Rosen!

The facts will be heard and we will not permit liars into the White HOuse.. NOT THIS TIME

[Kdillard]

8. Bullseye.

[redqueen]

9. ...

:kick:

[livetohike]

10. Perfect. I think the floodgates are going to open next week

with Hillary and others on the campaign trail.

[senseandsensibility]

11. Let's not just rec this

but kick it too!:kick:

[Pavlovs DiOgie]

12. Woohoo!

Can the Obama camp make that into a commercial?

[Triana]

13. kick

:kick:

Just because it's important.

[No Elephants]

14. Sarah hired a lobbying firm to represent Alaska. So cooperating with Unca Ted is secondary.