just say no deal

Written by guest heeler Prameela Bartholomeusz
DNC Platform Committee Member

…it is about principle for me.

What motivates you this election season? My passion was inspired by a strong desire to see our country turn the corner after eight years of an administration and a congress that has failed us. Democrats and Republicans alike, in Congress, are responsible for the current economic crisis under the leadership of George W. Bush, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barney Frank. My journey began with the hope of giving back to the country that has given me so much. My family immigrated to the US when I was four years old. Mine is yet another story of how with hard work, one can live the American dream.

I have admired Sen. Clinton from her days as First Lady and saw in her a brilliant woman who would one day make a great president. I volunteered and campaigned for Sen. Clinton in seven states, organizing, fundraising, making calls and knocking on doors. It was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. Sen. Clinton’s dedication to education, healthcare reform, advocacy of women’s causes and her work with the Children’s Defense Fund inspired me and I hoped that I could contribute in some way in addressing issues such as domestic violence and the plight of children that are thus affected.

It was my great honor to have been selected by the Clinton campaign to serve on the DNC Platform Committee. The opportunity provided me a voice that my vote for her during the primaries never did. Eighteen million voices were silenced. Sen. Clinton was never vetted and considered for the VP slot, while a male candidate that received 63,100 votes, who voted to authorize the war and is a long-time Washington insider was selected in her place. It is said that this decision was made against the advice of senior Obama advisors and was the sole will of Barack and Michelle Obama.

To Sen. Clinton supporters, Sen. Obama has never asked for our support and has maintained that he does not need our vote to win on Nov 4th. Sen. Clinton won the popular vote and won every primary except in Illinois. Sen. Obama won his delegate lead in the caucus states that were fraught with documented fraud and was ignored just as voter registration fraud by Acorn is currently. After Florida and Michigan were finally seated with a full vote by the DNC Credentials Committee at the convention, the pledged delegate gap between Clinton & Obama was only 17 delegates (I heard recently that number is 4); without superdelegates.

Track Record Is An Indicator

1) Sen. Obama, while a good man and an accomplished orator, does not have the level of experience required for a commander-in-chief.
2) He has had no notable accomplishments while in the Illinois State Senate nor in the US Senate (in the 143 days he served).
3) As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs, Sen. Obama admittedly held no oversight hearings on Afghanistan.
4) Illinois has the highest tax rates (10.25% sales tax) with one of the highest deficits in the country; Sen. Obama voted 96 times for higher taxes that affected the middle class. Sen. Obama is a big spender; this translates into higher taxes for all.
5) There is no evidence of being an agent of change; his district continues to have high rates of crime, unemployment and foreclosures.
6) Sen. Obama has run on judgment to trump experience. His associations with the indicted developer and good friend, Tony Rezko; his spiritual mentor, Rev. Wright from whom he has distanced himself after 20 years, Bill Ayers, the domestic terrorist with whom he shares some socialist views and with Rashid Khalidi, about whom the LA Times will not share more information, are unsettling.
7) The meteoric rise of Sen. Obama’s political star was on the back of the pervasive corruption of the Chicago political machine. A marriage of Washington style and Chicago style politics would breed a super strain of corruption unparalleled in our nation’s history and is not the solution to our nation’s economic recovery or peace efforts.
Sen. Obama’s silence on the issues of sexism and equality for women are telling of what women may expect under an Obama Administration.
9) Every word and deed of Sen. McCain’s career as a public servant is a matter of public record; Sen. Obama’s have been either sealed, fabricated or distorted.

Country First
I am supporting the McCain/Palin ticket because:
1) I believe in their message of reform; Sen. McCain has never taken earmarks and
promises to veto such funding as President.
2) Sen. McCain has served this nation for 27 years and has been tested.
3) Democrats have endorsed Sen. McCain over the years. Sen. Biden endorsed a
“unity” Kerry/McCain ticket in 2004 while he said that the presidency is not
conducive to “on the job training” when referring to Sen. Obama.
4) The McCain/Palin plan for energy independence is comprehensive. This is one of
Gov. Palin’s strengths.
5) We are headed for a filibuster-proof Congress, threatening the checks and
balances among the branches of government; partisanship will reign if this comes
to fruition.
6) There will be no tax increases which is the right formula at a time of recession,
rising unemployment rates and diminished retirement accounts.
7) Their goal is transparency in government; the McCain campaign accounts for
every dollar of campaign contributions.
Our reproductive rights are not at stake; Roe vs. Wade is a state issue and
the sovereignty of the states will be upheld, regardless of the justices appointed.
9) With this strong, qualified woman on the ticket, we have an advocate for women
and children. In Alaska, she had declared October 2008 Domestic Violence
Awareness Month and has made it known that she will be an advocate for special
needs children..
10) Gov. Palin has fought corruption in her home state of Alaska; she did not
embrace corruption for political advantage.
11) Gov. Palin has executive experience in the largest state of the union, one that
faces some of the broadest challenges, where she has been effective and as governor has had the highest approval rating in the country.
12) This team believes in governing in a bipartisan manner and will ensure a place for everyone at the table.

I am convinced reform in Washington will only happen with a McCain/Palin administration. I am a Democrat voting on democratic principle and putting country first on November 4th. My vote for Sen. Clinton didn’t count and if you voted for her, neither did yours. Eighteen million voices were silenced this election cycle. The McCain/Palin campaign has reached out to us, has respected us and has listened to us. Do not stay home or write Hillary in. I urge EVERY Hillary Clinton supporter to prove that YOUR vote DOES matter on November 4th. Put country first.

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. - Adlai Stevenson

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I’ve been a regular observer/sometime commenter at Just Say No Deal blogs since the beginning. You remember, ‘The Beginning,’ when Coward’s DNC/ RBC handed down that despicable Florida/ Michigan decision – the day the Party formerly known as Democratic died. (I feel ‘60s mood music coming on…”American Pie”?) As a self-identified PUMA, I went to Denver to lend my voice to the movement, and met lots of PUMAs — Will, Diane, Murphy, LadyBoomer, Riverdaughter, LaNell, Laurie, Shari, Shtuey, William, et al. I get a thrill (no, not up my leg) that there are so many PUMAs continuing to stand up, speak out and fight for our democracy and its core principles and processes. Certainly, the Party formerly known as Democratic no longer cares about those principles and processes –after flagrantly flouting them during the primary and since.

I’m in my late fifties, and endured bankruptcy and foreclosure this year. Yep, I’m now just one more casualty of the Democratic corruption/complicity in the subprime mortgage/housing market collapse, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac/ACORN debacle, ultimate economic meltdown, which That One has aided and abetted for his own selfish financial, political gain. A self-supporting independent writer for more than two decades, my key contract was terminated last year and I’ve been sans work since. Was all this the result of ageism, sexism and, yes, social engineering gone dangerously awry? You betcha.

With Gov. Palin as VP, certainly, lifelong women’s rights activists like me will have an advocate in the McCain WH. I’m ashamed of the national leadership of NARAL and NOW (which I’ve also ditched…too much mind control, just like moveon.org…not into being dominated, thanks) and women formerly known as activists such as The Gloria’s (Allred and Steinem) for what I can only describe as their ‘queen bee’ liberal elitist (and ultimately anti-woman) stance against Gov. Palin. This may sound weird, but I liken them to those old women-abusing radicals like Ayers, et al, whose main interest in women was to use ‘em and lose ‘em, after they schlepped the coffee and the joints and gave liberally of themselves (…ahem…). I’m proud of L.A. NOW Prez Shelly Mandell for seeing so clearly in Gov. Palin what those icons (perhaps alabastered from hardening arteries and hearts?) of the old feminist guard refuse to see — that Gov. Palin personifies everything for which we mainstream lifelong women’s rights activists have fought our entire lives: The right to self-determination in all matters.

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beginning at 11:00AM EST on Saturday, Oct. 25th. - Townhall will be streaming the Million Woman Call LIVE!

Who has time to blog. I’m tryin’ to save our country
here. I’m so distressed that hireheels has been in
serious need of a trip to the cobbler… we’ve been
struttin’ on screws for almost a week now, but I’m
not buying a new pair of Pradas ’til my work is done!

Check out Jeri Thompson - I have inside info that
she’s a hireheels chic. I spied her super sexy
leopard-print manolos in St. Paul. Sass, guts and
cool shoes…I knew I liked this gal!

MORE BIAS AGAINST WOMEN!

Wardrobe for an All-American Family from Alaska
injected into a national Presidential Campaign?
$150,000

Styrofoam Greek Shrine, complete with phallic
symbols, for an ego as large as the African Continent?
$5,300,000

One Night at the ‘Poor Peoples’ Convention in
Denver? $53,860,000

Watching Alan Colmes get spanked by a savvy chic
who wears hot shoes? Priceless

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Full disclosure: I like Joe Biden. I found his straight talk during the height of the Iraq disaster a relief from Bush’s onslaught of lying surrogates, including Colin Powell. With nothing to lose, Biden went out on a limb with his creative ideas and fearless tone. Bottom line: Joe says whats on his mind.

The only issue I have with Joe Biden is his drinking. I can recognize a drunk a mile away, and our friend Joe is either an active or dry drunk.  Doesn’t make him a bad guy, and I regret needing to bring it up, but this is yet another example of the media’s refusal to probe a single thing these days other than up Sarah Palin’s skirt.  Guess we’ll ignore this one like Edwards’ philandering and Obama’s cocaining.

My take…Joe’s latest gaffe isn’t really a gaffe. It was more straight talk, like his earlier declaration (and subsequent reiteration) that Barack Obama was unfit for command. Now Joe The Prophet #1 has issued an ominous prophecy for Omerica. By predicting a ‘generated international crisis’ in their first six months, Biden was actually attempting to stay relevant by reassuring his audience that he’ll be right by Prez Obama’s side to make sure he doesn’t screw up (no doubt with a scotch in hand). If anyone reading this believes that Biden believes that Obama has foreign policy experience, then you need detox too!

Now to my boyfriend, Joe The Prophet #2. Didn’t he clean up real nice for Hannity & Colmes last night?

Though the suit and tie threw me off a bit (Princess prefers her Plumber in a T) his gritty, unfiltered position on the American Dream tickled Princess pink. Joe doesn’t want a handout and he certainly doesn’t want to be de-motivated by Obama’s vision for America. His prophecy: Barack Obama will breed mediocrity in America.  In Joe’s words, “what’s the purpose of working hard?”

I’ll end with some anecdotal evidence of the impending GimmeNation in store for Omerica. Yesterday I happened upon a spirited “spread the wealth” debate in Starbucks between a militant African-American Obama volunteer and some white dude. “I’m gonna get me what’s mine,” said she proudly.

Most frightening to me… That she said it with pride.

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We professional gals (whatever that means) have a long standing joke about dating plumbers.  After a bad break-up I’d muse: maybe I should date a plumber?  The theory being that blue-collar dudes would probably appreciate us and treat us a heck of a lot better than our white-collar suitors.

The American Dream - suddenly en vogue thanks to a plumber - means something different to everyone.  The last guy who wanted to share his with me - a home in the burbs with a white picket fence - finds himself now living solo in that charming little home.  I ran the other way.  The American Dream, to me, is about being allowed to pursue it with reckless abandon and without being judged.

Indeed, my whole life I’ve chased a state of mind rather than a physical dream. Daughter of an immigrant machinest and a waitress, I struggled to be included, accepted and noticed.  I knew if I were to achieve anything, I needed to get out of the neighborhood to expand my horizons. So you might say I left “Joe The Plumber” behind.

But after watching his infamous encounter with the elegant Senator Obama, I realized that it was the Average Joe who had the commanding presence, not the Lord of Intelligentsia he was going head-to-head with.

Why is the world so enamored with Barack Obama…and what is it about Hillary Clinton supporters not succumbing to his mass seduction?

Yesterday we read about a group of impressively educated Obama activists caught duping the ridiculously vulnerable voting system in Ohio by casting early votes from a rented house where they did not reside. They figured out how to share their "Vote At Home" scheme with other students around the country and even bragged about it on Facebook.  Their parents must be so proud.

Where is the outrage?

Oh it’s out there! And I’d say Governor Sarah Palin has tapped into it.  Indeed, the Patagonia Princess who’s now branded an air-head for attending numerous generic colleges, turns out to be the decent one in the race.  Yet the Ivy Leaguers cheating the systems (yes, I include Barack Obama in this category) continue to get a pass for their brilliance and eloquence.  I say, No Deal!

I would have given ANYTHING to attend Harvard.  I grew up but a couple of miles away, but access to it and its world was as distant to me as Mars to Earth.  But as my world grew, I continued to revere this distant planet, in spite of the awful feelings of inadequacy and isolation it inspired.  Smarter meant better, right?  Clearly not this time.

Joe The Plumber reminded me of my roots.  My dad worked nearly 80 hours a week for most of his life and never complained.  I used to loathe that inevitable cocktail party question before: “What does your dad do?”  It took Joe The Plumber’s impromptu encounter with Senator Obama to remind me of my Dad’s American Dream.  If he can inspire me, he may have inadvertently become the game-changer that John McCain needs right now.

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Do we have your attention? Good.

Just when you thought the word ‘caucus’ was relegated to the clearance rack with those passé  ’hanging chads,’ Sista and Princess are, ehm, erecting the caucus story. How fitting that this post, be linked with nuts…ACORNS that is! Finally, after months of contemplating the caucus conspiracy (tough to top Dr. Lynette Long’s research), hireheels is now able to sufficiently put the stiletto stamp on the dossier!

Try this one on for size.  Obama paid nearly a million bucks to ACORN’s offshoot CSI  (how forensically apropos).  So the same group that overpowered America’s banks, and is now in the news for overpowering America’s voter registration system, can NOW be linked to overpowering America’s primaries and caucuses earlier this year.

Well, we’ll be damned…this ain’t no blow job, it’s a SNOW JOB!

There we all were, innocent little Hillary Clinton supporters holding up our homemade signs and cheering on our gal, when the buses rolled in.  Who the hell were these people…where did they come from and why were they bullying the election workers just trying to do their jobs, and harassing unsuspecting voters trying to exercise their constitutional right?

Indeed, the thuggery and chaos unleashed by ACORN types on the campaign trail and in the blogosphere is no coincidence! It was one perfectly orchestrated master plan to win the White House, with ACORN right in the center.

Now Hillary Clinton supporters must do the right thing by rejecting the Democratic Presidential Ticket this year. Do everything you can to spread ACORN’s Caucus Connex!  And if anyone asks you why you’re not voting for Obama, just say: "NO DEAL, SUCK MY CAUCUS!"

NO WE WON’T BE SILENCED - WATCH IT!

INSIDE SCOOP: PRINCESS JUST HEARD FROM A GREAT SOURCE THAT THIS MOVIE, IN ITS ENTIRETY WITH NEW FOOTAGE FROM ANGRY DENVER DELEGATES WAS HANDED OVER TO THE MCCAIN CAMPAIGN!!

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Sure I’m grumpy today. Aren’t you?  I mean, who is this Barack Obama?  And how did he get here? A week ago, I created an intricate map of ACORN’s universe and how it, in part, propelled Obama into stratosphere.  Indeed, he is not within a stone’s throw of the White House due to his compelling list of accomplishments (remind me what he’s done?), but because of the enormous financial support given him by Ayers, Soros, the United States Congress, foreign terrorists, and God knows who else.

Thankfully, the RNC is finally forcing the courts to probe further into Obama’s half billion dollar money trail.  But let’s face it, Americans are too consumed by the gravity of their own economic meltdown to muster the patience to return to Research 101.  I can’t say I blame them. I can barely write this post.

That leaves Sarah the Sweeper as Mac’s last hope.  Seems that she’s not only adept at housecleaning but also clock-cleaning. For the past several days, the Patagonia Princess has sharpened her stilettos and her tongue in an effort to remind voters of the dark shadows lurking in the dark prince’s radical past. It’s about time.

Tomorrow night Mac needs to finish the job by answering his own question, ‘Who is the real Barack Obama?’ Americans need to understand that exhuming Obama’s dead bodies is in the best interest of our country’s future, or we’ll soon be writing obituaries for all the traditions and values we hold true.

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I’m aboard a fairly empty Jet Blue flight en route to Fort Lauderdale with all three seats to myself, an unheard of stroke of luck in this age of over-booked, under-"everything" air travel.  So why am I sooooo irked, slouched in my cracked leather seat, unable to focus on my mindless selex of CSI Miami? (uh, I’ve gotta thing for redheads.)
Well, every unoccupied seat in my vicinity stares at a still frame of Jeffrey Toobin’s frozen face making one of his supremely sarcastic points (no doubt in favor of an Obama and in contempt of Palin).  Then it hit me all over again.  Those damn liberal pundits who forced me, a publicist who survived on the media, to stop my life to fight back with everything I have. In the process I lost more than I care to share here, but, suffice it to say, the life of an activist can get pretty lonely, even for a loner.

Had Hillary Clinton not run for Prez, I never would have gripped the danger of a truly biased left-wing media. Now I find myself infuriated daily at a media that forced so many citizens, like myself, to take to the blogosphere and the airwaves in protest.  In the next 30 days, the same people who created their desired outcome by railroading Hillary out of picture, will apply those very same tactics to John McCain.  And with Palin-Porn commanding the ratings, expect any October surprises in store for Obama to be met with the ‘barely there’ coverage of a brazilian bikini.  Toobin and his buddies will make damn certain of it.

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