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Sarah Palin's UnAmerican Activities

One thing you may know about felines is that we are not capable of hypocrisy. Since that's the case, we don't tolerate it well either.  It turns out, if the Republicans believe in guilt by association, they have a much bigger problem than the Democrats this year.

As the ugliness of this presidential election increases, Sarah Palin started making more and more pointed comments about Barack Obama's connection to William Ayers.  This is a connection that has been well and thoroughly refuted in the past as having no substance.

But what about Palin's actual involvement in an organization which is so unAmerican it wants Alaska to secede from the United States and become its own country?  The Alaska Independence Party (AIP) is Alaska's largest political party after Republican and Democratic parties.  Todd Palin was a registered member of the AIP from 1995 to 2002 at which point he re-registered as an Independent.  In addition to her husband's membership in this group, Sarah Palin has spoken at several of their conventions - even one earlier this year where she told the AIP membership, "Keep up the good work...."

Why is a strong connection to AIP something that actually should matter in this election?  In a Salon.com article this week, author David Talbot, states the Alaska Independence Party founder, the "raging anti-American" Joe Vogler,:

... wasn’t just a blowhard either. He put his secessionist ideas into action, working to build AIP membership to 20,000 — an impressive figure by Alaska standards — and to elect party member Walter Hickel as governor in 1990.

Vogler’s greatest moment of glory was to be his 1993 appearance before the United Nations to denounce United States “tyranny” before the entire world and to demand Alaska’s freedom. The Alaska secessionist had persuaded the government of Iran to sponsor his anti-American harangue.

So Sarah Palin and her husband have a strong connection to an organization which was actively working with Iran to forward their secessionist agenda!  In this video, the founder of the AIP speaks about his views on the USA and Sarah Palin addresses the AIP convention.

- Apollo
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Lipstick on a Pig?

What a terrible idea!  Who would put lipstick on a pig?  If we start putting lipstick on livestock, will cats and dogs be far behind?  Look at what my brother Apollo would look like with lipstick!  Not such a pretty picture! (although he's still a darn cute cat)  Maybe that's the point of the old joke... Oh yeah, now I get it!  New words don't make a bad policy good (and lipstick doesn't make a cat ugly).... 

If you take a minute to listen to what Barack Obama was saying right before he used the lipstick on a pig joke, you would find that he was making a point about how McCain's economic plan would not create real change from what George Bush's policies have been.  We cats think moving attention away from issues like the economy means people don't talk about who has the best ideas!

As the investigative cat of the group, I took a few minutes to look up the recent history of this joke about lipstick on a pig.

• Last October, when asked about Hillary Clinton's health care plan, John McCain said Clinton's proposal was "eerily" similar to the plan she proposed in 1993.  "I think they put some lipstick on a pig," he said, "but it's still a pig."
• McCain's former press secretary, Torie Clarke, wrote a book called "Lipstick on a Pig: Winning in the No-Spin Era."
• Vice President Cheney used the expression at a campaign stop in Hawaii in 2004 when talking about John Kerry's proposals.

In my research on Google and in Youtube I was able to quickly locate lots of videos of the McCain comments about Hillary Clinton's health care plan and I saw it this morning on The Today Show while I was sitting with my humans.  Here's a video that doesn't give any commentary but just shows the 2 comments back to back.

- Starbuck
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