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The Democrats are pushing the spin that John McCain may die in office making Sarah Palin the President of the United States. As if ageism was an acceptable prejudice. John McCain's mother is 96. Even a complete idiot would get that McCain has some genes. Democrats are a whole different story. I stand up to offer them a one fingered salute. It is disrespectful to infer that a person's age may make one incompetent to do the job. John McCain has fought for this country. He has reached across the aisle more than any other member of either party may...

Racism, sexism, ageism . . . evidently, we're all victims now. At least that's what partisans would have us believe. The political reality, of course, is quite different. "Exoticism" in the political realm is no longer an impediment, it's a significant asset. And Republicans, whether they admit it or not, were yearning for the excitement Barack Obama generated — that is, before Sarah Palin came along. Palin's frontier mystique has captivated conservatives. Both the lipstick and the pitbull. It's also discombobulated many Democrats, now fumbling to find a strategy to deal with a conservative woman. We've witnessed accusations of racism...

Official campaign ad is consistent with ageist hate speech hosted at My.Barackobama.comThis official advertisement, "Paid for by Obama for America" and approved by Barack Obama, continues his campaign's proud tradition of mocking and ridiculing senior citizens, and indeed people over 50. The ad opens with a mirror ball from a disco under the caption 1982, and then shows a clumsy portable phone and a Rubik's cube. Then it derides McCain for not knowing how to use a computer or send E-mail. It says, "Things have changed since then, but McCain hasn't." This ad was approved by Barack Obama, and it...

AP/Yahoo think they're funny.This is a photo spread about Anthropology and Archaeology, the 3rd picture in is a hit on McCain.   

Should education and experience always command a high salary? It seems reasonable to think so — yet older employees with advanced degrees may lack the specialized skills needed to satisfy rapidly changing market demand. In perhaps no field is this more true than the tech industry. I recently conducted an e-mail interview with Norm Matloff, a professor at the University of California, Davis, who believes there is widespread age discrimination in the tech industry. (His busy schedule made it impossible to get Matloff on the phone.) In particular, Matloff contends that the tech industry has manufactured a false talent shortage...

<p>In a little intramural joshing in the magazine world, Vanity Fair today posted a send-up of the by-now infamous New Yorker cover meant to be a satire of attacks on Barack Obama's patriotism.</p> <p>The New Yorker's version showed Democrat Obama in Muslim garb fist-bumping his wife Michelle while the American flag burned in the fireplace under a portrait of Osama bin Laden.</p>

When John McCain showed up May 17 as a surprise guest on Saturday Night Live, he pitched himself this way: "I ask you, what should we be looking for in our next president? Certainly, someone who is very, very old. . . . It's about being able to look your children in the eye - or, in my case, my children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, and great-great-great-grandchildren, the youngest of whom are nearing retirement. . . . I have the courage, the wisdom, the experience, and, most importantly, the oldness necessary. The oldness it takes to protect America. . . ."...

Obama Blogger says McCain should “pay a deserved visit to the undertaker.” Obama blogs blood libel U.S. and Israel. Every voter over sixty or so needs to see this, and we encourage our readers to copy and circulate this piece. We have also added a list of anti-American and/or anti-Israel blood libels from Obama’s campaign site and his hate-spewing pastor. Key talking points are as follows: (1) my.barackobama.com is under the editorial control of the Obama campaign. (2) The page in question has a link for reporting objectionable material. Either no one in the Obama community felt that a suggestion...

It is very amusing to see the Bomber Mccain mouthing Barack on issues that do not have any relationship to addressing the mountain of issues created for the American people by his party, the Republican party. The last time I checked, the Republican party, with an incompetent Republican president, is still in the White House. This is a glimpse to the type of "HOPELESS" campaign the bomber is going to engage henceforth since he has admitted he does not know anything about the economy or the issues faced by the American people (mortgage, cost of education, healthcare, jobs and so...

Leave it to liberals to pile on Sen. John McCain with cheap shots about his age, and we're not talking making jokes about him serving in the Civil War or what not. Mocking John McCain's age, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann imagined that the senator could easily segue from talking about foreign policy or the economy to talking about "buying more Depends or something like that." (h/t Conservative Punk) "You can dissassociate yourself from that remark if you wish," Olbermann immediately added in his exchange with Rachel Maddow of the liberal Air America radio network. Yesterday NewsBusters noted a liberal blogger who...

All we need to know about how Barack Obama would intend to run against John McCain, we learned from this line in his speech to the Jefferson-Jackson dinner this evening in Virginia: This week, this week, we found out that the presumptive nominee of the Republican party will be Senator John McCain [scattered boos in the audience.] Now, I believe John McCain is a good man and a genuine American hero. And we honor his half-century of service to this nation. View video.

A usual round of media self-criticism turned into a schoolyard brawl last week, as editors, reporters and bloggers traded insults over a front-page article in The Washington Post, all at the very online water cooler where they usually get their news about the industry. The Post article, which ran on Nov. 29, was about rumors of Barack Obama’s ties to the Muslim world. snip Then things got really ugly. On Dec. 10, Chris Daly, a Boston University journalism professor, posted an entry on his blog that turned the debate over the merits of the article’s reporting into a debate over...

MoveOn.org has taken out radio ads here in Michigan to attack octogenarian – and fellow Democrat - John Dingell as a dinosaur for blocking new Washington fuel economy rules (activists are also donning dinosaur costumes and picketing the congressman’s office with “Dingellsaurus” signs – and I thought lefties were opposed to ageism). Here’s an excerpt from the ad featuring a father and son discussing a dinosaur picture book: Father: And this one? Billy: I don’t know. Father: It’s a Dingell-saurus. Billy: A what? Father: A Dingellsaurus. Someone who’s been in Congress so long, he forgets about the people who sent...

LONDON — Even the Seven Dwarfs are guilty. Well, two of them anyway. Grumpy and Dopey are no longer just the loyal friends of Snow White but must now line up with the likes of the Wicked Queen and Cruella de Vil to be accused of fostering negative images of elderly people.

-- NOW would be relieved to learn --CLINTON MISOGYNY IS FREE OF AGEISM(+ hillary-a-sock-puppet video) by Mia T, 03.17.06   It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. G. K. Chesterton   ... While America appears not to be ready for a female president under any circumstances, the post-9/11 realities pose special problems for a female presidential candidate. Add to these the problems unique to missus clinton. The reviews make the mistake of focusing on the problems of the generic female presidential candidate running during ordinary times. These are not ordinary...

SHOWBIZ LATEST Stones gig bans 'oldies' Energetic ... Mick Jagger on stage     By BECI WOOD Sun Online VETERAN rockers The Rolling Stones are too old to attend one of their OWN concerts - after organisers of their forthcoming Super Bowl gig banned audience members older than 45. The US National Football League (NFL) is offering 2,000 people a chance to watch the band in action at half-time during the final game of the season on February 5. But middle-aged fans and pensioners have been barred from the guest list because organisers fear they are not spritely enough to dance,...

Before we bust out the .50 caliber rifles and start shooting people from a mile away it’s important to know exactly who we’re talking about. Your parents, the baby boomers, are between 40 and 60 years old. They “stopped a war.” They “can’t remember the 60s” and they ruined everything for every generation to come. Though their politics were knee-jerk liberal 25 years ago, today they combine the worst of both parties. They pretend to be Democrats but secretly vote Republican at the last second so they don’t have to pay taxes on the incredible amount of income they’ve accrued...

Most NRO-ers seem angry about the prescription-drug bill on its way to a presidential signature. And maybe they should be. But they shouldn't be surprised. A prescription-drug benefit is what one should expect when there's so much demand (defined as the elderly and near-elderly dominating the electorate), so much supply (defined as the wealth generated by the U.S. economy growing at a Hong Kong-like 8.2-percent pace), and so little restraint on the American people's social-welfaring appetite (defined as the complete collapse of fiscal conservatism). Add those three factors together, and we get the right-tilting politics of the 21st century, which...

Ageism is wasted on the old By Oliver Pritchett (Filed: 06/07/2003) The Trade Secretary, Patricia Hewitt, said last week that it was time to tackle age discrimination. Which particular age did she have in mind? I present my own research into the Seven Ageisms of Man - which she may find helpful. 1. Teethism. One of the great injustices of our age is the stereotyping of young males and females around the age of six months when they are teething. They are treated as emotionally unstable and it is assumed that their decision-making powers are impaired. When they raise genuine...