Via that elitist New Yorker magazine that only fake Americans read:

For her part, Sarah Palin, who has lately taken to calling Obama “Barack the Wealth Spreader,” seems to be something of a suspect character herself. She is, at the very least, a fellow-traveller of what might be called socialism with an Alaskan face. The state that she governs has no income or sales tax. Instead, it imposes huge levies on the oil companies that lease its oil fields. The proceeds finance the government’s activities and enable it to issue a four-figure annual check to every man, woman, and child in the state. One of the reasons Palin has been a popular governor is that she added an extra twelve hundred dollars to this year’s check, bringing the per-person total to $3,269. A few weeks before she was nominated for Vice-President, she told a visiting journalist—Philip Gourevitch, of this magazine—that “we’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.” Perhaps there is some meaningful distinction between spreading the wealth and sharing it (“collectively,” no less), but finding it would require the analytic skills of Karl the Marxist.

Collectively owning the resources? Sharing the wealth? WTF? The state of California has a lot of resources, like oil and gold and lumber and bottled water and Arnold Schwarzenegger films, but I don’t feel entitled to an annual check because of that. Perhaps that is because I believe in freedom, and am not a Communist like Sarah Palin, who probably pals around with Hugo Chavez and Norwegians.

(I have no idea who made this, as I received it in an e-mail, but props to whoever did)

Damn, these McCain campaign spokesmen just keep getting dumber and dumber, don’t they? In this clip, Mike Goldfarb is totally owned by Rick Sanchez:

Obviously. I mean, there’s no way a well-respected, “classic liberal” publication would endorse Communist Barack Obama, right?

“…this cannot be another election where the choice is based merely on fear. In terms of painting a brighter future for America and the world, Mr Obama has produced the more compelling and detailed portrait. He has campaigned with more style, intelligence and discipline than his opponent. Whether he can fulfil his immense potential remains to be seen. But Mr Obama deserves the presidency.”

Dude, this is THE MOST HILARIOUS VIDEO I HAVE SEEN THIS WEEK! I really hope Prop. 8 is defeated so I can watch as all of the carpetbaggers’ heads explode from sheer frustration!

OMG! Why are all these business executives supporting Obama?! Has no one told them that Obama is the Manchurian Candidate who is going to take seize the means of production and exile all capitalists to gulags in Siberia (or the American equivalent of Siberia, which would be, I guess, Alaska)?!?!

Bob Clark of Missouri and Victor Hammel of Pennsylvania are CEOs of large businesses who tend to back Democrats but also donate to Republicans. Clark runs Clayco, a St. Louis real estate development firm. Hammel leads J.C. Ehrlich, a pest-control company based in Reading, Pa..

They are the types McCain had hoped to attract. Instead, Clark, who raised thousands for Bush in 2000, has raised more than $500,000 for Obama. And Hammel, who regularly gives money to Republican Sen. Arlen Specter, has donated $2,300 to Obama.

“Barack is definitely more liberal than I am,” Clark said. “But I’m willing to compromise on some of those issues for what I think is the greater good.”

Hammel said, “I would rather pay a little higher tax on a higher profit than a lower tax rate on lower profits.”

Obviously, this man is a Communist.

Diana sent this to me a few days ago. Don’t worry, I am actually going to vote. Probably at 6am or something, in my pajamas.

Sometimes, I really love Christopher Hitchens (yeah, I said it):

This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just “people of faith” but theocratic bullies. On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and stupidity.

Congratulations, George Washington University! We’re no longer the most expensive university in the United States! At a cost of $53,166, Sarah Lawrence College (uh, wherever that is?) has knocked GWU ($50,312) down to the #2 spot.

And Jesus, over $50k a year to go to GWU? That makes the $36k rate from a few years ago seem like a bargain!

I’m no longer registered to vote in my home state of California (voting in Virginia FTW!) but I implore my fellow Californians to vote “no” on Proposition 8 because I love watching the religious right freak out!

Kinda like this!

“This vote on whether we stop the gay-marriage juggernaut in California is Armageddon,” said Charles W. Colson, the founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries and an eminent evangelical voice, speaking to pastors in a video promoting Proposition 8. “We lose this, we are going to lose in a lot of other ways, including freedom of religion.”

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian lobby based in Washington, said in an interview, “It’s more important than the presidential election.”
“We’ve picked bad presidents before, and we’ve survived as a nation,” said Mr. Perkins, who has made two trips to California in the last six weeks. “But we will not survive if we lose the institution of marriage.”

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Preachers from other parts of the country have dropped everything and moved to California in recent months. Lou Engle, who leads TheCall, a charismatic prayer ministry in Washington and Kansas City, Mo., with a large following among youth, moved with his seven children to California in September. He is holding large prayer rallies up and down the state, urging people to pray and fast for the 40 days leading up to the election. Some people are giving up solid foods; others are giving up clothes shopping or their favorite television shows.

Dude! Giving up your favorite TV show? I’m sure Jesus is totally impressed with your sacrifice!

GO HOME CARPETBAGGERS! If our gay friends want to get married, then we’re gonna let ‘em!