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(CNN) -- As Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Sen. John McCain's pick for vice president, makes her case to the convention Wednesday night, Republicans hope she will sway Democratic women toward their ticket.

Jesus. Exposes the sexist thinking of the McCain campaign just a bit. They obviously presume women will vote only by the dictates of genitalia.

It doesn't matter that Sarah Palin is a governor of a state, a beautiful, working mother of five. I'm glad she lives in a society that accepts that she can do it all, that women have a voice and representation in government, and it's guaranteed she will receive equal pay for equal work.

The reason why women won't automatically 'flock' to her support is that: she's an extremist Republican. She's a fundamentalist Christian who as mayor tried to censor books in the library, threatened people to sign loyalty oaths, silenced their right to talk to the press, tried to bring religion into schools. As governor she tried to use her office to fire an ex-brother-in-law and is now trying to block the investigation. She's against abortion. She's massively inexperienced.

The article goes on to say:

A recent Rutgers University study said historically, women don't vote for a candidate because a woman is on the ticket. They tend to vote Democratic.

I wonder why that is... hmmm. Maybe it's because Democrats tend to be more supportive of families as opposed to Republicans who are forever declaring themselves the party of family values and continually proving that they don't give a fuck about families, women's rights, equality, freedom of choice, freedom from and of religion, freedom of the press, freedom from corporate greed....

But look! She's a sparkly, pretty woman! Ignore the content! Vote for her form!

The question needs to be asked

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Was the cleanup immediately privatized and which one of the Bush cronies got the job? And will he delegate it to a smaller unheard-of corporation who will hire a band of illegals to scoop the crude into boxes and sell it as fuel oil to poor people?

First of all, you let citizens get involved. Article found via Libby of The Newshoggers who also pointed out the sentence below in bold.

Emergency officials more than doubled the number of ships and cleanup workers attacking the massive oil spill throughout the Bay Area - while hundreds of frustrated citizens who tried to help were turned away from contaminated beaches and so-called training sessions.

"We're going at the problem with everything we can, and making some good headway," said Sheri Eng, petty officer with the Coast Guard, which is helping lead the cleanup effort. "There's a lot of oil out there."

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By the end of today, the National Transportation Safety Board is expected to take over the lead of the investigation, since the primary responsibility for the spill will apparently lie with the staff of the ship that caused it. U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein is due to arrive Sunday to tour the catastrophe by air and confer with disaster officials.

The Coast Guard has been the lead agency until now, and is the lead agency for the initial response to all big oil spills in the bay. It has been taking heat from officials from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., for both the cleanup effort and for its slowness in getting word of the huge size of the spill out to the public after it happened.

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At the volunteer meeting, everyone at the gathering was given an official-looking state volunteer application to fill out, complete with a loyalty oath. The fish and game people said volunteers might be contacted later, for non-hazardous duties.

"It's frustrating" said Ryan Gross of San Francisco. "I want to help, I don't want to sit home and do nothing. But that's what they told us to do."

Addassi assured the crowd that dozens of official beach cleaners were at work around the Bay Area, but many people at the meeting reported going to oily beaches and seeing little or no official cleanup taking place.

Some of the people at the meeting said they had already tried to do their own, unofficial cleanups and been ordered off the beaches by cops and threatened with citations or worse.

Beth Brown of San Francisco said she and her boyfriend spent about 15 minutes cleaning Baker Beach on Saturday morning, filling a couple of plastic bags with oily clumps. Then a park ranger and a cop appeared, told her the beach was closed and threatened them with arrest.

"I want to do what they want us to do but, right now, they want us to do nothing," Brown said. "And I can't do nothing."

Loyalty oath? From concerned and involved citizens who are volunteering their time? Who the hell thought that up? LOYALTY OATH??

Shades of FEMA!