No 'Barracuda' for Palin

You make a comment like the "distinctive twang" comment in your article and then you'll be the first one running out there with your claims of racial discrimination and sexism. You are the same liberal journalist crap that keeps this country stirred up. Go join the rest of the Obama cult.

Hurray for Heart

Whats wrong with Mac and Co?! They should use some twisted sister! Dee Snider backs McCain!

I like the group Heart, but they are being ridiculous here, as are the other artists mentioned. These songs have been played over and over for years on the radio, what does it matter if politicians use them? We have far bigger concerns than this.

This is ridiculous that these washed up has been 70's bands are complaining about the music being used. They will actually BENEFIT from the use of their music as more people may actually purchase this dead stuff now.

McCain can play whatever music that he wants. Anybody can play any song anywhere and anytime they want. The music rights has already been sold. That would be like Van Halen telling me that I can not play his music at my party. There is nothing that these musicians can do about it, because they have already sold their music rights when they sold the album.

Thats for sure ..Heart has no heart....lol

Facts from MoveON....Check out the SOURCES if you really want the truth.

Today is John McCain's 72nd birthday. If elected, he'd be the oldest president ever inaugurated. And after months of slamming Barack Obama for "inexperience," here's who John McCain has chosen to be one heartbeat away from the presidency: a right-wing religious conservative with no foreign policy experience, who until recently was mayor of a town of 9,000 people.


Huh?
Who is Sarah Palin? Here's some basic background:

She was elected Alaska's governor a little over a year and a half ago. Her previous office was mayor of Wasilla, a small town outside Anchorage.1

Palin is strongly anti-choice, opposing abortion even in the case of rape or incest.2

She supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000. 3

Palin thinks creationism should be taught in public schools.4

She's doesn't think humans are the cause of climate change.5

She's solidly in line with John McCain's "Big Oil first" energy policy. She's pushed hard for more oil drilling and says renewables won't be ready for years. She also sued the Bush administration for listing polar bears as a threatened species-she was worried it would interfere with more oil drilling in Alaska.6

This is information the American people need to see. Please take a moment to forward this email to your friends and family.

We also asked Alaska MoveOn members what the rest of us should know about their governor. The response was striking.

Here's a sample:

She is really just a mayor from a small town outside Anchorage who has been a governor for only 1.5 years, and has ZERO national and international experience. I shudder to think that she could be the person taking that 3AM call on the White House hotline, and the one who could potentially be charged with leading the US in the volatile international scene that exists today. —Rose M., Fairbanks, AK

She is VERY, VERY conservative, and far from perfect. She's a hunter and fisherwoman, but votes against the environment again and again. She ran on ethics reform, but is currently under investigation for several charges involving hiring and firing of state officials. She has NO experience beyond Alaska. —Christine B., Denali Park, AK

As an Alaskan and a feminist, I am beyond words at this announcement. Palin is not a feminist, and she is not the reformer she claims to be. —Karen L., Anchorage, AK

Alaskans, collectively, are just as stunned as the rest of the nation. She is doing well running our State, but is totally inexperienced on the national level, and very much unequipped to run the nation, if it came to that. She is as far right as one can get, which has already been communicated on the news. In our office of thirty employees (dems, republicans, and nonpartisans), not one person feels she is ready for the V.P. position.—Sherry C., Anchorage, AK


She's vehemently anti-choice and doesn't care about protecting our natural resources, even though she has worked as a fisherman. McCain chose her to pick up the Hillary voters, but Palin is no Hillary. —Marina L., Juneau, AK

I think she's far too inexperienced to be in this position. I'm all for a woman in the White House, but not one who hasn't done anything to deserve it. There are far many other women who have worked their way up and have much more experience that would have been better choices. This is a patronizing decision on John McCain's part- and insulting to females everywhere that he would assume he'll get our vote by putting "A Woman" in that position.—Jennifer M., Anchorage, AK

So Governor Palin is a staunch anti-choice religious conservative. She's a global warming denier who shares John McCain's commitment to Big Oil. And she's dramatically inexperienced.

In picking Sarah Palin, John McCain has made the religious right very happy. And he's made a very dangerous decision for our country.

In the next few days, many Americans will be wondering what McCain's vice-presidential choice means. Please pass this information along to your friends and family.

Thanks for all you do.
–Ilyse, Noah, Justin, Karin and the rest of the team
Sources:

1. "Sarah Palin," Wikipedia, Accessed August 29, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin
2. "McCain Selects Anti-Choice Sarah Palin as Running Mate," NARAL Pro-Choice America, August 29, 2008
http://www.naral.org/elections/election-pr/pr08292008_palin.html
3. "Sarah Palin, Buchananite," The Nation, August 29, 2008
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/jstreet/350730/sarah_palin_buchananite

4. "'Creation science' enters the race," Anchorage Daily News, October 27, 2006
http://dwb.adn.com/news/politics/elections/story/8347904p-8243554c.html
5. "Palin buys climate denial PR spin—ignores science," Huffington Post, August 29, 2008
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-grandia/palin-buys-climate-denial_b_122428.html
6. "McCain VP Pick Completes Shift to Bush Energy Policy," Sierra Club, August 29, 2008
http://yubanet.com/opinions/Sierra-Club-McCain-VP-Pick-Completes-Shift-to-Bush-Energy-Policy.php
"Choice of Palin Promises Failed Energy Policies of the Past," League of Conservation Voters, August 29, 2008
http://www.lcv.org/newsroom/press-releases/choice-of-palin-promises-failed-energy-policies-of-the-past.html
"Protecting polar bears gets in way of drilling for oil, says governor," The Times of London, May 23, 2008
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3987891.ece

Someone on, 'Obama Rebukes Palin on Earmarks board' wrote, "When Senator Obama accepted his nomination he had an American flag pin on his lapel. When McCann accepted his nomination he did not have on an American flag pin. Since McCain is running as the patriot, why was he not wearing an American flag pin on his lapel?"

Since McCain talks about Country First where was his American Flag Pin or is this another double standard.

Dee Dee, Davis S and Malcom - you don't get it.
I wouldn't call these artists "washed up." Just because they have more or less retired, it hasn't negatively impacted the popularity of their work.
They care because they don't want their art, their image, the copyrighted and internationaly recognized music and lyrics that represent them, used by a campaign with which they fundamentally disagree. Why can't you respect that? If you are opposed to abortion and someone used your music or a picture of you in an advertisement to promote abortion or advertise for an abortion clinic, would you be pissed off? Probably so.
Malcom, you display a total lack of how copy right, trademark and royalties work. You cannot use copyrighted music as a promotion without paying a royalty to the copyright holder. The copyright holder, in this case the music company, has the legal right to go to court and get a cease and desist order issued.

GE OBAMA HAS NO EXPERIENCE BESIDE SIGNING IN WITHOUT A VOTE 130 TIMES

Denise:

Please read this article. If this proves to be true, Sarah Palin is worse than imagined and she and McCain are doomed. It needs to be checked out. The title of the piece is:

Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean”

http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%E2%80%9Cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%E2%80%9D/

RIAS10

SO U ARE WONDERING ABOUT A PIN SO WHAT, AT LEAST JOHN STANDS UP AND SAYS THE PLEDGE AND OBAMA DID NOT AT FIRST AND HIS WIFE SAYS WHEN SHE WAS TALKING BACK IN FEB THAT SHE STARTED LIKEING HER COURTY.... THATS SAID AFTER SHE HAS LIVE IN IT FOR WHAT 40 SOME YEARS....

GE OBAMS HAS GOOD FRIENDS LIKE LARY SINCLAIR WHO HE USED COCAINE AND HAD A GAY RELATIONSHIP WITH, BILL ARES ;MEMBER OF THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND AND MARXIST COMMUNIST LOYALIST

FACTS FROM MOVE ON .COM ARE LIES SAME AS MIKEY MOORES LYES AND PROPERGANDA THAT HE HOPES YOU LIBERALS BELIEVE ,,,,,,OBAMA WANTS TO TELL YOU WHAT TO DO. AND TAX YOU .OBAMA WANTS YOU TO CHANGE WHILE MCCAIN WANT TO CHANGE THE GOVERNMENT FOR YOU,

Malcolm: you're wrong about that. As much as i hate it, you are wrong. There has already been lawsuits of this nature before & the artists still have the power to stop it!!!

OBAMA CLAIMS TO HAVE HELPED IN KATRINA IN NEW ORLEANS AND ONCE AGAIN HE LIED ;HE WAS NOT THERE OR EVEN VOTE FOR HELP.

MARRY THERE OUT OK DOING COCAINE WITH LARY SINCLAIR ;OBAMAS HAD A GAY RELATION WITH

OBAMAS GRAND MOTHER '' AS HE SAID ''SHES JUST YOUR TYPICAL WHITE PERSON''

mccain is a joke