Sarah Palin has democrats foaming at the mouth. Her surprise appointment last week and the breath of fresh air that she added to the McCain campaign has got the bloggers blogging their heads off. They can’t think of what to attack first. Her appearance is tough because she appears to be a very attractive woman. The feminists don’t like this (after all, they wanted “Butch” Clinton for the job) but there have been a few attacks on her hair. Yes, her hair. The feminists who are all about the issues have ignored the hair plug king and attacked the hair of Sarah Palin.

Then some of the bloggers, who can’t seem to write anything without lacing it with profanity, grabbed on to the “trooper gate” scandal. Apparently, Sarah Palin told the commissioner to fire a state trooper who tasered her nephew. I’ve only read about the tasering issue once. But the state trooper had been married to her sister and she wanted him fired. Well, I’m all for getting rid of a cop who steps over bounds on his authority, but that entire story has been buried and the “ethics” of Sarah Palin has been questioned.

Not content with that, but Sarah Palin’s church is now on fire as are her kids. Her daughter is pregnant - not anything really to raise an eyebrow at during this day and age - but the liberals are having a field day with it. They have been tossing that back and forth with Sarah Palin’s “Down” syndrome baby (it is “DOWN’S SYNDROME “- ASSOCIATED PRESS!)

What, oh what, could Sarah Palin do to make those lovable libs like her?

She could do the following:

The Democrats are running scared. The top news on Yahoo is how British bookies are making book that McCain will dump Sarah Palin and how McCain didn’t do a proper job vetting Sarah Palin. Both goofy - but what do you expect from Yahoo?

Obviously, McCain made the right choice. Sarah Palin actually seems like a real person. One thing that the libs don’t have running for them this term. Despite Obama’s different look (by the way, he’s black but no one can mention it) he is just another Chicago machine politician being pulled by Kennedy strings. And Biden? At least he doesn’t pretend - we know exactly what he is. A liberal who wants big, big government.

While Obama is talking about “change” McCain and Sarah Palin are actually walking the walk.

Sarah Palin is not the type of politician that is well liked or wanted in Washington. Her inexperience and youth have been compared to Barack Obama, the celebrated contender for the White House running on the Democrat ticket. The Democrats are furious at McCain’s choice for a Vice Presidential candidate that has so little…experience. They have stopped short of calling her a “nobody.”

Democrats have criticized Palin because she has an infant with Down’s Syndrome and, really, is someone with a special needs child really going to have the time to run the country?

Radical feminists have, while sputtering and foaming at the mouth, have criticized everything about Palin, right down to her hairstyle and glasses.

The Democrats will have you believe that they are angry and shocked that McCain has put someone with “so little experience” within a “heartbeat from the presidency,” in reference to McCain’s age.

What really irks them is that McCain actually found a real woman to run with him. A real woman who happens to be governor of that “nothing” state of Alaska. She does not have the “charm” of Hillary. Or the pantsuits. She seems like someone who actually wanted to have children and a family, not someone who just procreated so it looked good for her political career.

The comments about her special needs child is amazing. First of all, the AP called it “Down Syndrome” which has been picked up all over the internet. Someone please tell them that it is called “DOWN’S SYNDROME.“ I know they think people should kill babies with this syndrome, but Palin is one politician that actually seems to like kids and practices what she preaches. A shocker for Washington, I know, but there you are.

At the same time, it is safe to say that feminists would be outraged like Joan Crawford on steroids if someone said that about a woman running in on “their side.” That means, one who embraces their ideology (higher taxes and bigger government). They are curiously silent when it comes to this attack. Apparently, they are only for women getting ahead if they have the right ideas. Or should I say the left? No one would criticize a man who was running for office who had a special needs child…would they?

When Hillary “Butch” Clinton was running, feminists criticized the media that mocked her for not doing something with her appearance. Hillary, who had one goal and one goal only (to be president) couldn’t understand it. After all, no one would criticize a man like this.

But the very feminists that were outraged that Hillary lose the headband so many years ago and start to look like a woman are criticizing Palin, a former beauty queen, because of a hairclip. Yet no one seems to mention the fact the ridiculous hair plugs sported by Biden.

Those who would have you believe that they “understand’ the problems of the working man and woman in this country that old man McCain is so out of touch with are criticizing the “small town governor” and her lack of prestigious degrees. They’ve made snide comments about her working class husband and his snowmobile racing. Gee….sounds sort of elitist.

The truth of the matter is that Palin got into politics for the right reasons. She started at a local level out of concern for her children. And instead of being run by the Daley-Kennedy Machine (oops, did I say that) she has pretty much done her own thing politically.

She actually does have experience. She has experience at running a state on an executive level. Even if that state is the “nobody” state of Alaska. (I guess the Eskimos have not become a celebrated minority yet in the US. They should start demanding more attention so they can feel the love from Big Brother).

She has more experience in than Obama. Because she actually shows up for work. Obama has an 80 percent no-show rating for his Senate stint in Illinois. He did manage to vote in favor of partial birth abortions after a nurse at Christ Hospital blew the whistle on a late term abortion in which the baby, with Down’s Syndrome, was born alive and then stuffed into a closet. She held the baby until it died and then went to the press. This was big news at the time but has subsequently buried since Obama has become the darling of the press.

Obama’s US Senate record is among the most liberal in Washington. Remember when Nancy Pelosi defended Berkeley from not flying the flag on their fire trucks right after 9/11 so they didn’t “offend” anyone? Well, he’s right with her.

If you want more taxes (anyone with a job making as little as $42K a year is subjected to higher taxes in Obamaland - to pay for those who don’t want to work and illegals) and bigger government (more regulations that we have to follow) then vote for Obama and Biden.

You probably have never heard of Ryan Vanderwiel. He is a 7^th grader at Prairie View Jr. High in Tinley Park. He lives in the same town as I did and attends the school district where not only my children but myself also attended.

At District 140, there is a huge influx of Muslim students. A mosque was built close to our area and with it came many Muslims. My kids, one of whom is graduating high school this year and the other of whom is in college, both went to school with Muslim kids. They had Muslim friends. Everyone got along.

Recently, things have changed. There seems to be more Muslim kids at the school. The high school is now about 40 percent Muslim. The grammar schools also have a lot of Muslim kids as well.

For the past 10 years, we have slowly stripped away any mention of Christmas or any other Christian holiday from the school. There are no more Christmas pageants. No more parties. At the high school, Christmas trees are called “Festive Ferns.” Any mention of Christmas or Easter or even Halloween is not allowed in the schools.

Why, then, is there a Ramadan Table for Muslim students only during this season? Yes, during Ramadan, the Muslim holy holiday, the students requested a Ramadan Table. This was granted by the school board right away. Apparently, it is okay to mention Ramadan in the school.

Ryan Vanderwiel is no ordinary 13 year old. He is a smart kid who understands that it his civic duty to question elected officials. He asked the principal of the school, Joel Martin, for a Lenten Table. This would be for the Catholic kids who cannot eat meat on Fridays. Apparently, the excuse for the Ramadan table was so that the Muslim kids would not be tempted to eat. Well, since the Catholic kids are not supposed to eat meat on Friday during lent, they should get a special table, too.

The principal ignored his request. And he continued to ignore it until the 13 year old wrote to a local paper that allows online letters. There are two papers in our town. One of them ignored Ryan’s letter. The other allowed it. The first paper, not wanting to be outdone by a weekly freebie, then called the school. All of the sudden, the issue was addressed. Much to the chagrin of the school board.

I covered the meeting of the school board. They decided beforehand to grant the request for the Lenten Table prior to the meeting. They announced this at the meeting.

At the meeting was a copy of an editorial. The editorial was from the Daily Southtown, not the paper I work for, but the other paper. It was copied from the paper’s website and also listed the anonymous comments that are allowed on news websites. The editorial called request for the table “silly,” and questioned the motives behind the request. The anonymous comments were all negative (but anonymous) about this kid.

Now Ryan Vanderwiel is being labeled a “racist” because he dared to speak up against what he saw as a clear violation of church and state. After all, as one parent put it, the school has done everything it could to remove any mention of religious holidays except the Muslim holidays. At the grammar school where my niece attends, a teacher said “Happy Eid and Happy Holidays” to the kids.

I did the ultimate no-no when acting as a reporter and actually spoke up at the meeting. I work for this paper part time and it really doesn’t pay any big bills. I like it, but I was willing to lose my job when I saw a father being berated by the arrogant school board president, Thomas Martelli, for questioning the fact that this editorial was handed out at the meeting. I stood up and spoke. As a resident of the district, I have the right.

This wasn’t the only editorial. There were others. Our paper did one that called this practice what it is - segregation. Yet the board felt compelled to actually put out copies of an editorial that derided the young man. Then at the same time, out of the other side of their face, praised him for his enacting his civic duties.

And let’s just be frank. This isn’t because of lent. It isn’t because of Ramadan. The Muslim kids wanted a table because they don’t want to sit with any non-Muslims during Ramadan. If this had started with Catholic kids it would be all over the news now. Instead, it is yet another story buried by the media.

The school board was outraged that we covered this story. The board president actually asked why we didn’t cover the “cup stacking championship” with such vigor. They wanted to know how this got into the papers.

I want to know why this didn’t get national coverage. The kid asked for the table in February. He was ignored for months. Finally, after he wrote to two papers, the school gave him an answer (after they consulted with their attorney). Then, at the meeting where the 7^th grader spoke in front of a packed room full of adults, they handed out a derogatory editorial pulled from the internet along with comments from people too cowardly to post their names and got angry when they were questioned.

And they don’t think that this is news?

Let’s see - Hillary Clinton decided to be “one of the boys” and take a shot of whiskey with a beer chaser in some rowdy, blue collar bar. Barack Obama decided to go bowling. And liberals are worried about a photo of what appears to be the reflection of a naked woman in Dick Cheney’s sunglasses?

They really should be worried about the fact that their hopes for getting one of their own in the Whitehouse depends upon people who would be dumb enough to fall for either Clinton or Obama’s charade of pretending to be “one of the guys.”  Does anyone besides me find this behavior somewhat insulting to the intelligence of the average person?

Eight years later and they’re hoping enough people will be able to punch holes correctly into paper.

Because Obama is even himself getting tired of preaching his “time for change” platform, he is now going to change his mantra to “to serve man.”

Obama’s campaign advisors are telling him that more people will blindly follow him if he chooses a more tried and true slogan such as “to serve man.” The advisors were inspired by an old “Twilight Zone” episode with the same title.

That “Twilight Zone” episode has many similarities to Obama’s campaign. In the episode entitled “To Serve Man,” aliens land on the earth. People are a little wary of them at first, but then they seem to be very friendly.

This is somewhat reflected in the beginning of Obama’s campaign. At first he seemed to “come out of nowhere” and quickly began skyrocketing into politics, first with being elected as US Senator and then conquering the primaries. No one ever heard of this guy but all of the sudden, he was everywhere. People were a little wary about him at first (psst….he’s black) but were soon overcome by his charm.

The aliens tell the earthlings that their sole purpose in life is to “serve man.” They have a book about it. Some scientist figures out the title of the book and ascertains that it is, indeed, entitled “To Serve Man.”

Obama has told everyone it is time for a change. Change is good. It is about time for a change. Then he threw in a little Bush bashing and continued with the change mantra.

People are a little upset over the economy, the price of gas and the crash of the housing market. Everyone wants a change from this. They were eager to follow anyone who promises “change.”

Just like the people in the Twilight Zone episode were eager to follow anyone who promised “to serve man.”

Now some people are questioning the change that Obama proposes. Even though it is rare for a politician to say things that people want to hear to get elected, Obama is starting to get pinned down. He will stop advocating change and start vowing “to serve man.”

Unfortunately, his advisors turned off “The Twilight Zone” episode before the end. Before the scientist had time to figure out a little bit more about the book entitled “To Serve Man” that the aliens were touting as they led the eager earthlings onto their spaceships and to their alien paradise.

It was a cook book.

But hey, anything is better than Bush, right?

Despite the fact that oil prices are climbing, jobs are becoming scarce and the housing industry is virtually in the toilet, I think McCain is a shoo in for president. I’m happy about this, as both Obama and Clinton scare me.

It shouldn’t be this way. I go back a little bit. I can remember the “Watergate” scandal and my grandfather, who was a very wise man, saying that “Mickey Mouse” could run on the Democrat slate in 1976 and would win since the Republican party was so vilified. And he did. He just used the name Jimmy Carter.

A lot of people are disillusioned with the government, especially at the federal level. Unemployment rates are going up and the housing market has crashed. Actually, neither of these things have to do with President Bush, but he will be blamed. The housing market crashed largely because of overzealous investors creating a false demand for a product and rising interest rates. More supply than demand equals lower prices. And when the housing industry crashes, it takes a lot of other businesses with it.

Bush is blamed for the economy because most people are too busy thinking about “American Idol” than the principals of economics. Even if he was a democrat, he would be blamed.

Clinton was lauded for the great economy in the 1990s. It wasn’t his fault, either. This can largely be attributed to Alan Greenspan and the lowering of the treasury bond rates. It caused a housing boom. What goes up, must come down.

But most American people don’t understand about economy, know who Alan Greenspan was, know what the federal reserve is or about the real estate bubble. They just know that they hate Bush because (pick one):

He is shoving religion down their throats;

He is a warmonger who is killing innocent Iraqis with his bare hands;

He is personally torturing people to get them to confess to terrorism;

He is spreading AIDS throughout the world;

He is against gay marriage;

He is racist;

He is responsible for killing all those nice death row inmates in Texas by allowing executions when he was the governor;

He plotted 9/11

He is dumb (this goes against the whole 9/11 plot, but do liberals ever really plan out their arguments?)

He is controlling the media (my personal favorite);

He was on the grassy knoll (I’m just waiting for this one).

President Bush has something like a 29 percent approval rating. People are concerned about oil prices, the state of the economy and things like Christmas being mentioned in schools.

This should have been a slam dunk for the Democrats, but it won’t be. The reason being is that the Democrats, which once were supposed to represent the welfare of the common, working man, now represent anything but. It is the lunatic fringe party. The frontrunner in race for nominee on the Democratic ticket has the support of the following:

Louis Farrakhan (I hate whites, Jews and am the leader of the Nation of Islam)

Jesse (Hymie Town) Jackson

Ted Kennedy (Too much material to even list here)

The fact that, after 9/11, someone would be considered a front runner who refuses to salute the flag and who attends a church where hate speech is part of the sermon (but that’s okay, you have to understand where the minister is coming from, after all, slavery just ended last week) and gains support from those who blame us for 9/11 because whitey kept the black man down, is amazing enough as it is. The fact that the Democrats are arrogant enough to believe that 9/11 is all but forgotten is even more amazing and a testament as to how out of touch they really are. With the common, working stiff who they used to represent.

Many ultra leftists are very vocal when it comes to voicing their opinions. I know this just for making political commentaries like this and I’m certainly no expert or professional when it comes to talking politics. But despite the fact that many on the internet spend a good part of their day vilifying Bush and everything in the party, there is another group of people who agree with what I’m saying.

They watch Fox News. They listen to talk radio. They understand what is going on an how the Democratic party has been used by virtually every lunatic fringe element around. And the majority of Americans don’t buy into the mantra of the ultra left. They are silent, but they vote.

Oh, and they know how to punch holes into ballots, too.