On Sunday Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton campaigned for Obama with Joe Biden in Pennsylvania battleground although Clintons had some disagreements with Obama in the past. Bill Clinton campaigned in Florida last week for Obama. Both Clintons vowed to help Obama get elected to the White House despite their differences and disagreements from the past during the primary season. The democrats are so excited and delighted to see both Clinton's supporting Obama and campaigning for Obama. It seems to me that the democrats are coming back to their senses and putting their party first besides their differences from the past.
Bidens, Clintons campaign together in Pennsylvania For Obama
A little more than three weeks before the fall election, Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton joined together for the first time in this critical Pennsylvania battleground to campaign for their once bitter rival, Barack Obama, at a rally with vice presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden Jr.
If you blinked, you might have missed the former president sharing a stage with his wife, and Biden and his wife, Jill. After a brief speech before an adoring crowd of about 2,000 at the Riverfront Sports Complex, Bill Clinton said he had to dash off to a campaign event in Virginia.
But before he left, he gave Biden a rousing endorsement, saying that "Barack Obama could not have made a better choice" for vice president, even though he promoted his wife for the job last spring when it appeared obvious she wouldn't get the Democratic nomination for president.
Both Clintons vowed to help Obama get elected to the White House, seeming to bury the hatchet with Hillary Clinton's former rival.
"This election is too important to sit on the sidelines of history," she said.
"I haven't spent 35 years in the trenches fighting for universal health care, for children, for families, for women, for middle-class people to see another Republican in the White House squander the promise of our nation and the hopes of our people," she said.
Hillary Clinton and Obama have apparently made peace since the primary, and she has thrown her support behind him, appearing at 50 campaign events, "more than all the other runner-ups combined," Bill Clinton noted.
Biden, a son of Scranton who has campaigned in the area three times since his nomination, hammered home his message that the Democratic ticket was better on the economy and health care and was going to end the war.
"To paraphrase George Bush Sr., read my lips. We will end this war," he said to thunderous applause.
He also strongly criticized the divisive and angry tone in GOP rival John McCain's recent campaign rallies, noting that none of the audience members in the most recent presidential debate asked about "ugly inferences."
He devoted much of his speech to the faltering economy, saying Obama had the leadership skills and had assembled the best economic team to steer the country, if not the world, out of the crisis.
"Barack will be the president with the strength and ideas that the world is anxiously willing to follow," he said.
Biden recalled how his father told him that when he got knocked down he had to get right back up. It was time, he said, for America to get up.
His voice rising, he yelled out: "Get up, get up, get up!"
The visit came as several new polls suggest Obama may be opening up a significant lead in Pennsylvania, a battleground state with 21 electoral votes. With voter concern about the economy on the rise, Obama had a lead of 13.8 percentage points in the RealClearPolitics average of state polls as of Friday, up from 2 points in mid-September.
The Obama campaign strived to do two things in Pennsylvania this weekend: rally voter support and boost turnout in overwhelmingly Democratic Philadelphia - where Obama held four boisterous neighborhood rallies Saturday - and also win over voters in blue-collar swaths of the state that went heavily for Clinton in April's primary and where some still harbor doubts about the Illinois senator. Clinton defeated Obama with 74 percent of the vote in Lackawanna County, which includes Scranton, a region that Democrats believe is critical for victory in November.
Today, Hillary Clinton will campaign in the Philadelphia suburbs, with a public rally at Graeme Park Historic Site in Horsham at 12:30 p.m.
Biden, who was born in Scranton's Green Ridge section, and the Clintons are the Obama camp's not-so-secret weapons for wooing the blue-collar voters.
Hillary Clinton has strong ties to the Scranton area as well, which was a critical reason behind her success here in the primary. The senator's father, Hugh Rodham, was raised in Scranton; he moved to the Chicago area to find work during the Depression, but the Rodham family has retained close links to the area. The family returned to vacation in the family's simple cabin on nearby Lake Winola each summer during Hillary Clinton's youth, and has maintained a tradition of baptizing new arrivals at the Court Street United Methodist Church.
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Who is sarah Palin ? According to a state investigator's report
Sarah Palin abused her power to fire her brother in law from the state police and violated state ethics law . Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan's refusal to fire State Trooper Mike Wooten from the state police force was "likely a contributing factor" to Monegan's July dismissal. Investigator Stephen Branchflower, in a report to a bipartisan panel that looked into the matter, found Palin in violation of a state ethics law that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain.
Despite the finding of a legislative report that she had broken the state's ethics law in the scandal dubbed Troopergate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said Saturday that the report actually cleared her of any "legal wrongdoing or unethical activity."
The report, which was released by Alaska lawmakers Friday, examined whether Palin abused the powers of her office by exerting pressure to have her ex-brother-in-law, an Alaska State Trooper engaged in a bitter divorce and child custody fight with her sister, fired. After the state's public safety commissioner Walter Monegan rebuffed pressure to fire him, Monegan was fired by Palin.
The report affirmed that, as governor, she had the constitutional right to hire and fire at will, and therefore her termination of Monegan was lawful.
However, the report found that Palin, her husband Todd, and her subordinates used pressure and intimidation to try to force the firing of Michael Wooten, beginning before her swearing-in ceremony took place, and therefore broke the law.
The investigation said she violated Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act, which states, "... each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust."
Palin said she's happy the report affirmed her right to fire Monegan. But she said she still doesn't think she abused her power like the report says she did. In fact, she said she considered herself vindicated.
In a brief conference call with press reported by the Anchorage Daily News, Palin said, "I’m very, very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing ... any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that."
Palin said that her husband Todd was justified in complaining about Trooper Wooten (which the report finds he did for months on end), and said there was "nothing to apologize [for] there with Todd’s actions, and again very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing."
When reminded that the report's first finding was that she had broken the state's ethics law in pressuring for Wooten's dismissal, Palin responded that she felt she had done nothing wrong at all, and directed her response to the firing of Monegan, which the report said she had the authority to do:
"I think that you’re always going to ruffle feathers as you do what you believe is in the best interest of the people whom you are serving. In this case I knew that I had to have the right people in the right position at the right time in this cabinet to best serve Alaskans, and Walt Monegan was not the right person at the right time to meet the goals that we had set out in our administration.
"So no, not having done anything wrong, and again very much appreciating being cleared of any legal wrongdoing or unethical activity at all."
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Sarah Palin 's Connection with Alaska Indepence Party
Sarah Palin 's connection with the radical Alaskan Independence Party was very deeper than the media actually reported in the past. Sarah Palin attended many of their conventions and Todd Palin, Palin 's husband, was a member of the Alaskan Independence Party . Even this year Palin sent them a video taped message congratulating their operation and she said "Keep up the good work". Alaska Independence Party , secessionist, is seeking for political autonomy and want to be separated from United States of America. In the 3 rd world countries they are called terrorists, who seeks independence from their own country.Therfore Sarah Palin is a terrorist who approved and supported the Alaska Independence Party , secessionist , in the past.
On the afternoon of Sept. 24 in downtown Palmer, Alaska, as the sun began to sink behind the snowcapped mountains that flank the picturesque Mat-Su Valley, 51-year-old Mark Chryson sat for an hour on a park bench, reveling in tales of his days as chairman of the Alaska Independence Party. The stocky, gray-haired computer technician waxed nostalgic about quixotic battles to eliminate taxes, support the "traditional family" and secede from the United States.
So long as Alaska remained under the boot of the federal government, said Chryson, the AIP had to stand on guard to stymie a New World Order. He invited a Salon reporter to see a few items inside his pickup truck that were intended for his personal protection. "This here is my attack dog," he said with a chuckle, handing the reporter an exuberant 8-pound papillon from his passenger seat. "Her name is Suzy." Then he pulled a 9-millimeter Makarov PM pistol — once the standard-issue sidearm for Soviet cops — out of his glove compartment. "I’ve got enough weaponry to raise a small army in my basement," he said, clutching the gun in his palm. "Then again, so do most Alaskans." But Chryson added a message of reassurance to residents of that faraway place some Alaskans call "the 48." "We want to go our separate ways," he said, "but we are not going to kill you."
Though Chryson belongs to a fringe political party, one that advocates the secession of Alaska from the Union, and that organizes with other like-minded secessionist movements from Canada to the Deep South, he is not without peculiar influence in state politics, especially the rise of Sarah Palin. An obscure figure outside of Alaska, Chryson has been a political fixture in the hometown of the Republican vice-presidential nominee for over a decade. During the 1990s, when Chryson directed the AIP, he and another radical right-winger, Steve Stoll, played a quiet but pivotal role in electing Palin as mayor of Wasilla and shaping her political agenda afterward. Both Stoll and Chryson not only contributed to Palin’s campaign financially, they played major behind-the-scenes roles in the Palin camp before, during and after her victory.
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Sarah Palin will be nominated as the Republican Party's choice for vice president of the United States.
But back home, she has cheered the work of a tiny party that long has pushed for a statewide vote on whether Alaska should secede from those same United States. And her husband, Todd, was a member of the party for seven years.
"Keep up the good work," Sarah Palin told members of the Alaskan Independence Party in a videotaped speech to their convention six months ago in Fairbanks. She wished the party luck on what she called its "inspiring convention."
The Alaskan Independence Party, founded in 1978, initially promoted "the Alaskan independence movement." But now, according to its website, "its primary goal is merely a vote on secession."
McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds said Tuesday that Palin did not support splitting Alaska off from the rest of the country. He sidestepped the question of whether she favored a statewide vote on secession.
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In the mid-1990s, the Alaskan Independence Party was experiencing a boom of sorts. A governor had been elected on its ticket in 1990, when the party was not even a decade old. And membership was swelling.
Among the new recruits was Todd Palin, whose wife, Sarah, would later become governor of Alaska. The Palins attended the party’s convention in their hometown, Wasilla, in 1994, according to party officials, where the party called for a revote on statehood and a draft constitution for an independent Republic of Alaska. Mr. Palin joined the party.
Ms. Palin remained a Republican and never joined the Alaskan Independence Party, but returned to its convention in 2006 to speak as candidate for governor. After she had been elected, she recorded a video greeting that was played at the party convention this year. "Good luck on a successful and inspiring convention," she said. "Keep up the good work, and God bless you."
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Is Sara Palin a true Christian? A true christian neither takes part in witchcraft activities nor a cult which condones witchcraft.
Sarah Palin has said many lies about her experience whatever she accomplished when she was governor, "Bridge to No where", selling her plane on Ebay and many more.
I would say the American people deserve someone better than a liar, terrorist, secessionist, unintelligent, ignorant Hockey mom.
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Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's boast to have opposed the infamous "bridge to nowhere" is a staple of the Alaska governor's stump speech, but her record is more complicated than the one-liner.
She repeated the line Tuesday in Lebanon, Ohio, telling supporters, "I told Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks' for that bridge to nowhere up in Alaska. If our state wanted a bridge, we were going to build it ourselves."
But Palin originally supported construction of the bridge, which would have linked the city of Ketchikan with its airport on sparsely populated Gravina Island.
"I'm not going to stand in the way of progress that our congressional delegation -- in the position of strength that they have right now -- they're making those efforts for the state of Alaska to build up our infrastructure," Palin said during a debate shortly before her 2006 election as governor. "I would not get in the way of progress of this project or other projects they're working so hard on."
Her office canceled work on the span in 2007 after it became a symbol of congressional "pork-barrel" excess, but kept money that Congress had appropriated for the project, using the funds instead for state transportation projects.
Palin hasn't faced reporters since Sen. John McCain tapped her as his running mate. A former aide said Palin turned against the $223 million Gravina Island bridge when the original price nearly doubled. Watch an ex-aide defend Palin's position on the bridge »
"It was a different bridge when she was a candidate than the bridge when she became governor," Meg Stapleton said.
Stapleton said Palin "knows that we can do it for far less, and she knows the state can handle it."
In a statement announcing the cancellation of the Gravina Island project, Palin complained that public opposition to the bridge "is based on inaccurate portrayals of the projects here."
"But we need to focus on what we can do, rather than fight over what has happened," she said in the statement.
Campaign aides also have had to explain the fine print on another applause line from Palin's stump speech -- that she put the luxury jet her predecessor purchased for state travel up for sale on eBay.
Although the jet was for sale on the online auction site, it failed to draw sufficient bids and was later sold at a loss through an ordinary aircraft brokerage.
Democrats also are trying to exploit a gap between McCain's famous opposition to congressional earmarks and Palin's efforts to obtain those appropriations for Alaska during her time as governor and as mayor of the Alaskan town of Wasilla. Palin has sought about $450 million in earmarks from the state's congressional delegation since becoming governor, and about $27 million for Wasilla during her second term as mayor from 1998 to 2002, according to state records and documents from the Washington-based watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense.
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