I thought the folks in Kansas were farily conservative. How did they ever put someone like her in as governor?

If pro is the opposite of con what is the opposite of progress? Congress!

I have no idea what the proper code words are.

You want change? Give me a dollar.

You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck being a dumb-ass senator from Massachusetts. - - Code language from John Kerry  decoded

Comcast.net has a report about Hillary canceling a speech she was going to give at a Jewish rally against the Iranian leader before the UN.

When she found out Palin would also speak Clinton canceled saying "She didn't know that it was a bi-partisan event"

McCain of course pounces.   It was also noted that at this meeting Palin would have a chance to meet with MANY foreign leaders and talk with them.

The useless addition by the AP includes a paragraph about how the Democrats say "Palin doesn't have the foreign policy credentials to be President". 

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-politics/20080917/POLITICS-USA-POLITICS-PALIN-CLINTON-DC/ 

You have to remember that Governor Sebelius is the daughter of John Gilligan a former Cincinnati councilman, congressman and Governor of Ohio. He is and was a certified snob and left-wing nut case.

The liberal apple did not fall far from the tree.

Ordinarily,in comments like this, conclusions tend to follow a listing of facts. This time, it's best to start with one:

Never, ever trust what an Associated Press or MSM reporter or MSM TV correspondent claims re: government and politics or people and issues that divide this nationinto left and right.

That comes from someone who worked as a newspaper reporter for nearly eight years and considers a truthful and fair press vital to the proper functioning of a democracy. The unfaithfulness of partisan messengers makes it extremely difficult for the polity to know what is happening in matters of significance.

In this instance, the reporter, or the editor, decided that Sebelius had not clearly said that which the original lead and headline. Note that parentheses enclose the one instance of "Republicans." She likely had said "They," with Republicans implied to have been "injecting race into the presidential campaign." Who else was used the alleged coded language? Loyal Democrats? But, as a clever political pro, she danced around tagging Republicans with racist appeals.

Will Nigel Duara or any other MSM type challenge Sebelius? What is the "code language"--quotes in the story? Who is using that code? Sebelius may be clever, but her unsupported accusation was slimy and despicable. 

In another, far more appalling report this week, David Espo rebutted things that Gov. Palin said in Colorado. It can be seen at http://www.comcast.net/news/politics/index.jsp?cat=POLITICS&fn=/2008/09/15/1060066.htm

Espo is not incompetent. He did put the real news, the role that Gov. Palin will likely play the next four years, if elected, into the lead, but delayed its support to the 14th paragraph and left out important comments she made on energy. His article also included several major journalistic errors, resulting from his partisan leanings. He included rebuttals that Duara should have included after Sebelius issued her comments, intended to harm Republicans without evidence. The difference in treatment? It's likely because Espo wants to see McCain-Palin lose and Duara wants to see Obama-Biden win. Is any other conclusion possible?

I also looked into the article that exLib referred to, at http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jVDdTXyizJSZq-zJ6D2Az16gjBiQD9387F000

There, someone, most likely on the AP staff, wrote a headline that accepts a Hillary Clinton camp allegation that she was "blindsided" as fact. The AP reporter, Devlin Barrett, also accepted the Clinton side's notion that that "would have setup a closely scrutinized and potentially explosive pairing in the midst of a presidential campaign." 

In fact--to use words Espo sued to suggest that something Gov. Palin said were not true--it's likely that the Jewish group issuing invitations wanted prominent political leaders they could be sure opposed a nuclear-armed Ahmadinejad, whose rhetoric cannot be ignored. Had they invited no political leader, they would have had a debating society affair that most would ignore. Had they invited Clinton alone, they would have erred in favor of the Democrats, unconscionable, since those following these matters know of Palin's support for Israel.

McCain and Obama were able to speak together at a recent discussion in New York City; no one wrote about a "potentially explosive pairing." Canceling from the appearance without so much as trying to find a way not to see her Other demonstrates that it's Clinton first with Clinton and Israel and other matters second. The AP reporter wrote the article without a demurrer--without providing the obvious, recent example of the McCain-Obama appearance: no Espo interjection of an "in fact" dissent.

The AP's Ron Fournier accused the McCain's campaign team of "bashing the media to solidify support among conservatives." He also claimed, for an articlethat ran September 4, that "[t]he media views its job as scrutinizing her background, helping voters determine her readiness to serve and raising questions about the decision-making process of the man who chose her — a man,John McCain, who tells voters he has the experience and judgment to serve aspresident." 

Quite aside from the obvious tilt in that passage, it has never occurred to Fournier to question, well, do the Republicans have cause to be "bashing the media"? It surely does, and especially among fact-grubbing former newspaper reporters, like this writer, who can smell the stink of a blindly partisan allegedly "mainstream" press in this election cycle. And do I have to specify which side the MSM is on?

Sorryto write so much. But somebody has to write this and it has to appear somewhere, even if only a handful of people read this relatively terse blast at a corrupt and incompetent press.