The Puppeteering of Palin: All Hat, No Cattle

by Dyan Kane


I saw alot of Texas style last night. Lots of 9 gallon hats - an emblem of Palin's speech and the GOP as a whole: all hat, no cattle.

I wasn't planning on writing about last night so soon. I'd made the mistake of eating dinner during the speech, and am still recovering from throwing up.

But if you saw what I saw from the Republican convention, you know that it demands a response.

Lately, the 2008 Presidential Campaign feels like a horse race, a very looooooong horse race that never ends.

We saw and heard alot of attacks and insults. Yet, we still haven't gotten a single idea during the entire Republican convention about the economy and how to lift a middle class so harmed by the Bush-McCain policies!

I saw John McCain's attack squad of negative, cynical politicians. They lied about Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and they attacked us, the people of the United States, for being a part of this campaign.

But worst of all -- and this deserves to be noted -- they insulted the very idea that ordinary people have a role to play in our political process.

You know that despite what John McCain and his attack squad say, everyday people have the power to build something extraordinary when we come together.

Both Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin specifically mocked Barack's experience as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago more than two decades ago, where he worked with people who had lost jobs and been left behind when the local steel plants closed.

Let's clarify something for them right now.

Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies.

And it's no surprise that, after eight years of George Bush, millions of people have found that by coming together in their local communities they can change the course of history. That promise is what our campaign has been about from the beginning.

Throughout our history, ordinary people have made good on America's promise by organizing for change from the bottom up. Community organizing is the foundation of the civil rights movement, the women's suffrage movement, labor rights, and the 40-hour workweek. And it's happening today in church basements and community centers and living rooms across America.

If we the people don't go out with Habitat for Humanity, for example, and build houses for the fallen percent of our population, who will? Did John McCain and his wife, Cindy, ever go out an build a house for anyone during all the time McCain's been in office?

If you watch closely, McCain's "shock and awe" strategies are, in fact, DIRECT REACTIONS to the momentum Barack keeps building! Why is he copping Barack's thunder, then manipulating it to make it look like it's been his all along? Because he's bluffing. He has nothing. All hat and no cattle.

How can Palin paint McCain as a maverick, when he's voted WITH GEORGE BUSH 95% of the time???

How can Palin say McCain is the real HOPE and CHANGE America has been waiting for? (In all due respect, Ms. Clinton did the same). They say imitation is the highest form of flattery.

Meanwhile, and again I reiterate: we still haven't gotten a single idea during the entire Republican convention about the economy and how to lift a middle class so harmed by the Bush-McCain policies!!

It's now clear that John McCain's campaign has decided that desperate lies and personal attacks -- on Barack Obama and on you and me -- are the only way they can earn a third term for the Bush policies that McCain has supported more than 90 percent of the time.

But you can send a crystal clear message.

Enough is enough.

https://donate.barackobama.com/fightback

Thank you for joining more than 2 million ordinary Americans who refuse to be silenced.