Aug 31, 2008 10:20am

The Democrats in St. Paul…All Quiet

The Democrats in St. Paul say they will largely silence their "rapid response" effort the next couple of days while Hurricane Gustav bears down on the Gulf Coast.   it is clear they don’t want to seem overly aggressive at a time when millions of Americans are facing a crisis. 

Their silence will be in sharp contrast to constant barrage of political punches that came from the Republican war-room in Denver, where reporters were inundated every day with scores of e-mails making sure we didn’t miss one gaffe or one bit of tension between the Clinton and Obama camps.

In also stands in sharp contrast with the Democrats own plans for St. Paul.  Like the Republicans, the Democrats and Obama campaign sent a response team to Minnesota to try to block whatever message was coming out of the Republican convention. They are set-up in a Union building just outside the convention perimeter, with posters strewn about the building of George W. Bush and John McCain in a warm embrace, with the slogan "More of the Same."   "We’re gonna be here early morning, we’re gonna be here late at night," said Jamal Simmons, who is leading up the Democratic effort, in an interview before the scope of the Hurricane became clear, "We’re gonna be focused on Bush/McCain and how much they look alike."

Now plans for slogans and surrogates are on hold until after the storm passes.

UPDATE:

The DNC canceled their opening reception in St. Paul, not wanting politics to overshadow concern about the hurricane.

"In light of the situation along the Gulf Coast, the DNC has canceled this afternoons Media Welcome reception in St. Paul. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families in the region.," DNC spokesman Damien LaVera said in a statement.

UPDATE #2: The DNC has also canceled a planned daily media briefing for Monday at the Republican national convention in Minnesota.

"In light of the situation in the Gulf Coast, the Democratic National Committee announced that is has canceled its daily media briefing at the More of the Same Media Center on Monday, September 1.  Additional scheduling updates will be provided when available," read a media release from DNC spokesman Damien LaVera.

User Comments

Oh, The liberals have already started. Here is a discussion between John Spratt (D-SC) and Don Fowler recently…
“The hurricane’s going to hit New Orleans about the time they start. [Chuckle] The timing is — at least it appears now that it’ll be there Monday. That just demonstrates that God’s on our side. [Laughter] … Everything’s cool.”
The liberal mindset is a swamp. Always politics over peoples lives. They claim to be there for the average joe. Right.

Posted by: Norman | August 31, 2008, 10:30 am 10:30 am

DEAN,PELOSI…THEY DON’T GET IT….
OBAMA IS THE PROBLEM IN THE TICKET..
McCAIN/PALIN ’08
COUNTRY FIRST……
AMERICANS NEVER SURRENDER….

Posted by: NICHOLAS | August 31, 2008, 10:33 am 10:33 am

God works in mysterious ways. The RNC convention will be a waste. The media will be too focus on the hurricane to discuss much about the convention. And there’s no way they can top what Obama did Thursday night.
Obama/Biden08
It’s a landslide

Posted by: Vanessa | August 31, 2008, 10:35 am 10:35 am

McCain Voted Twice Against Establishing A Commission To Study The Response To Hurricane Katrina. [ 9/14/2005, 2/2/2006]
McCain Opposed Granting Financial Relief To Those Affected By Hurricane Katrina. [9/15/2005]
McCain Voted Against Five Months of Medicaid For Hurricane Katrina Victims. [11/3/2005]
McCain Voted Against Emergency Funding Bill, Including $28 Billion for Hurricane Relief. [5/4/2006]
______________________________
Obama/Biden ’08

Posted by: NMP | August 31, 2008, 10:36 am 10:36 am

biden = 35 years in Washington, same old washington politics.
We can not stand another 4 years of Obama/Biden/Bush.
We need change. We need reform. We need mavericks.
McCain/Palin 2008

Posted by: decentAmerican | August 31, 2008, 10:40 am 10:40 am

Oh, The liberals have already started. Here is a discussion between John Spratt (D-SC) and Don Fowler recently…
“The hurricane’s going to hit New Orleans about the time they start. [Chuckle] The timing is — at least it appears now that it’ll be there Monday. That just demonstrates that God’s on our side. [Laughter] … Everything’s cool.”
The liberal mindset is a swamp. Always politics over peoples lives. They claim to be there for the average joe. Right.
Posted by: Norman | Aug 31, 2008 2:30:34 PM
This is a typical Obama supporter. They love to use a disaster for political gain. This guy didn’t EVEN give thought to the families involved in this looming tragedy! This is why I wWILL NOT vote for Obama. He is a fake and a liar, who is way to self involved. Thank you, John McCain, the next President of the United States for all your compassion in this tragedy!

Posted by: david from texas | August 31, 2008, 10:50 am 10:50 am

The GOP will attack Obama less and the Dems will attack McCain less.
This GOP convention is going to be hell of boring.
I wonder if anybody is going to watch it.

Posted by: vickie | August 31, 2008, 10:50 am 10:50 am

McCain is the most liberal Republican and could never be called Bush II. The Dems are really going in the wrong direction with that one…what idiots. It is legendary that McCain had run ins with Bush and his own party has thought he is Republican “lite” WHICH IS WHY HE PICK GOV. PALIN…SHE SHORES UP THE CONSERVATIVE BASE. That is why she was a great pick!
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN/PALIN!!!!!

Posted by: Debra | August 31, 2008, 10:50 am 10:50 am

REALITY CHECK
==============
LISTEN THE INTERVIEW SARAH PALIN
GAVE ABOUT DRILLING IN ALASKA….
QUOTE:
WE’RE TALKING ABOUT 2.000 ACRES OUT
OF 20 MILLION……
THERE’S PLENTY OIL AND NATURAL GAS TO
OVERCOME THE DEPENDENCE OF FOREIGN
OIL……
DEMOCRATS GOT IT WRONG AGAIN……
McCAIN/PALIN ’08
COUNTRY FIRST…….

Posted by: NICHOLAS | August 31, 2008, 10:50 am 10:50 am

Hey – Poor POW John was fourth from the bottom of his class, so lets forgive him if he can’t count how many homes he has. He knows the right money people – Cindy McCain – Charles Keating -

Posted by: Honest John | August 31, 2008, 10:53 am 10:53 am

God works in mysterious ways. The RNC convention will be a waste. The media will be too focus on the hurricane to discuss much about the convention. And there’s no way they can top what Obama did Thursday night.
Obama/Biden08
It’s a landslide
Posted by: Vanessa | Aug 31, 2008 2:35:17 PM
Vanessa, as always, your posts and hatefulness shows the kind of person you are. I’m so damn glad you are for Obama because you are a poor excuse for an American. You ARE ALWAYS putting down people for Obama’s gain. Now you are thankful to God for a tragedy thats about to ruin thousands of lives! Take yourself and your “boy” Obama and move to Africa or somewhere….We (Americans) don’t want you in our country! I just can’t believe you are thanking God for a freaking hurricane! YOU are one sick individual!!!!

Posted by: Alice | August 31, 2008, 10:54 am 10:54 am

John McCain will use Gustav to try and underscore his leadership…same old opportunism from the same old guy…too bad we won’t get a chance to see him embracing Bush like a disappointing child.

Posted by: What's Better | August 31, 2008, 10:56 am 10:56 am

“Cindy McCain “Offended” By Obama’s Wealth Criticism”
Ha ha ha! lol
Is this the same Cindy McCaint who was so eager to rag on and misrepresent Michelle Obama’s comment about country and pride? lol
Cindy McCaint should be more concerned about demonstrating that she is not as mean as her DESERTER dad and her DESERTER husband, by PUBLICLY acknowledging and sharing some of her father’s huge amounts of wealth with her poorer sister.
Cindy’s dad is a DESERTER of his older wife and of HIS CHILD for younger flesh.
Cindy’s husband, McCaint, is a DESERTER of he older and partially incapacitated wife and of HIS CHILDREN, in order to marry up into money and down into younger flesh!

Posted by: Patriot | August 31, 2008, 11:01 am 11:01 am

I can bet you right now McCain regrets chosing Palin as his VP. Out of all the qualified Republican office elected women he could have choose he choose the MOST unqualified one. And now he has to defend his choice. ahahah
McCain just handed Obama the election.

Posted by: Vanessa | August 31, 2008, 11:01 am 11:01 am

James Dobson’s Focus on the Family was betting on it. The group sponsored a video telling members to pray for “abundant rain, torrential rain … flood-advisory rain…..I’m talking about umbrella-ain’t-gonna-help-you rain … swamp-the-intersections rain.” The target date was the day Barack Obama was to speak at the DNC convention. The plan was to summon God-sized, vengeful payback for positions accomodating gays and women’s choice. Is it just me, or does this kind of “prayer” sentiment appear to be a bit, um, UN-Christian?
__________________________________________________
Obama/Biden ’08

Posted by: NMP | August 31, 2008, 11:03 am 11:03 am

Nicholas-
Yep, 2000 acres of ACTUAL drilling equipment. Unfortunately, that useless stat doesn’t take into account the 1.5 million acres of support infrastructure (roads, gravel pits, pipelines, housing, etc) necessary to construct and maintain those 2000 acres of drilling sites. Guess math and reality are getting in the way of your propaganda again.

Posted by: Kevin | August 31, 2008, 11:03 am 11:03 am

Not to worry. The nasty Liberals will help New Orleans as we did when Katrina hit. Most of us on Obama’s list will come through.
We won’t be down there exploiting it for PR value like McCain and his sidekick.
Maybe Cindy will offer some of her Mob money and help mobilize the Mafia to donate.
It is comforting to know that Palim will have a job after she is recalled or impeached as Governor of Alaska for multiple instances of abuse of power.
The unvetted VP offer came just in time for her to move on and up.
Even if the McCains flop, she will get a nice payoff from Cindy just like Cindy’s ‘American dream’ father did when he went to jail for Kemper Marley and Gus Greenbaum–Meyer Lansky’s deputies.
The Mob always pays its debts.

Posted by: susan | August 31, 2008, 11:03 am 11:03 am

God works in mysterious ways. The RNC convention will be a waste. The media will be too focus on the hurricane to discuss much about the convention. And there’s no way they can top what Obama did Thursday night.
Obama/Biden08
It’s a landslide
Posted by: Vanessa | Aug 31, 2008 2:35:17 PM
Vanessa, as always, your posts and hatefulness shows the kind of person you are. I’m so damn glad you are for Obama because you are a poor excuse for an American. You ARE ALWAYS putting down people for Obama’s gain. Now you are thankful to God for a tragedy thats about to ruin thousands of lives! Take yourself and your “boy” Obama and move to Africa or somewhere….We (Americans) don’t want you in our country! I just can’t believe you are thanking God for a freaking hurricane! YOU are one sick individual!!!!

Posted by: Alice | August 31, 2008, 11:05 am 11:05 am

McCain has a lot of class. He is going to give up his convention and instead, turn it into a rapid response center, calling all Americans to action to help the victims of the Hurricane, of which , there will be many.
Wow. That is pretty classy and impressive.
I don’t think my Democratic party would have done that at all.

Posted by: lisa | August 31, 2008, 11:05 am 11:05 am

God works in mysterious ways. The RNC convention will be a waste. The media will be too focus on the hurricane to discuss much about the convention. And there’s no way they can top what Obama did Thursday night.
Obama/Biden08
It’s a landslide
Posted by: Vanessa | Aug 31, 2008 2:35:17 PM
Vanessa, as always, your posts and hatefulness shows the kind of person you are. I’m so damn glad you are for Obama because you are a poor excuse for an American. You ARE ALWAYS putting down people for Obama’s gain. Now you are thankful to God for a tragedy thats about to ruin thousands of lives! Take yourself and your “boy” Obama and move to Africa or somewhere….We (Americans) don’t want you in our country! I just can’t believe you are thanking God for a freaking hurricane! YOU are one sick individual!!!!

Posted by: Alice | August 31, 2008, 11:05 am 11:05 am

Also, Nicholas, your comment quoting “there’s plenty of oil…”. We have a grand total of 3% of the world’s reserves in the entire United States and we use about 25% of the world’s oil production. Having math problems again?

Posted by: Kevin | August 31, 2008, 11:06 am 11:06 am

Alice says “Vanessa, as always, your posts and hatefulness shows the kind of person you are. I’m so damn glad you are for Obama because you are a poor excuse for an American. You ARE ALWAYS putting down people for Obama’s gain. Now you are thankful to God for a tragedy thats about to ruin thousands of lives! Take yourself and your “boy” Obama and move to Africa or somewhere….We (Americans) don’t want you in our country! I just can’t believe you are thanking God for a freaking hurricane! YOU are one sick individual!!!!”
_______________________________________________
You accuse someone of showing hatefulness while exhibiting quite a bit for yourself.

Posted by: Huh?.. | August 31, 2008, 11:06 am 11:06 am

Too bad the Democrats don’t hand out fliers with Shrubbo and McLame having a birthday cake at shrubbies little ranch in Texas while Katrina drowned a good portion of the South.

Posted by: Bob Lees | August 31, 2008, 11:06 am 11:06 am

Lisa – Yes, here are some examples of McCain’s “class”:
McCain Voted Twice Against Establishing A Commission To Study The Response To Hurricane Katrina. [ 9/14/2005, 2/2/2006]
McCain Opposed Granting Financial Relief To Those Affected By Hurricane Katrina. [9/15/2005]
McCain Voted Against Five Months of Medicaid For Hurricane Katrina Victims. [11/3/2005]
McCain Voted Against Emergency Funding Bill, Including $28 Billion for Hurricane Relief. [5/4/2006]

Posted by: NMP | August 31, 2008, 11:08 am 11:08 am

Obama’s ancestors sold some of the ancestors of the African Americans who are now supporting Obama. This must be something African Americans must think about.

Posted by: Obama | August 31, 2008, 11:12 am 11:12 am

Now that Republicans are in charge of the Governors office in Louisiana, things will be done right.
I am a Democrat from Louisiana and the Democrats here were lazy, corrupt and just sat around for decades doing nothing. When it all went bad, they blamed it on someone else. Pathetic.
The same hurricane hit Mississipi and they handled it much better.
The new Dem’s are so dependent an everyone doing everything for them, they are incapable of helping themselves. They wait for the government to send a bus to pick them up.
I am an old Dem born into poverty and one of the main reasons I succeded was because no one helped me or gave me a darn thing. No food stamps, no financial aid and on top of that, they spat on me on the bus at my college because I was Mexican- American.
I am very successful now and the vast majority of Americans are good, honest and not racist, I should know, I’ve met real racists in my time.
If someone had handed me everything on a silver platter, I and my family would be in the ghetto waiting for the govt. bus to come and save us.
No thanks.
I’m rich and I send my kids to pick fruit in the fields in the summer to toughen them up. We work hard, we are humble, and we don’t expect handouts from those that have more.
We are resiliant . We are the American Dream.

Posted by: lisa | August 31, 2008, 11:12 am 11:12 am

Now, Obama wants to make hay while the same African Americans are losing their home and the dimwit Vanessa likes it.
You people deserve each other.

Posted by: Obama | August 31, 2008, 11:13 am 11:13 am

Vanessa, did you think about the possibility that Obama’s ancestors sold your ancestors to the white man?

Posted by: Obama | August 31, 2008, 11:15 am 11:15 am

Bob Lees-
What you fail to mention is the things most likely tacked onto those bills that forced him to vote against them.
It is done all the time. Most likely, something like a “timeline” for withdrawl was on the bill.
Oldest trick in the book and petty way of forcing others to vote against. Childish trick, but very effective in fooling the uneducated and mis-informed in our communities.

Posted by: lisa | August 31, 2008, 11:16 am 11:16 am

Now, Obama wants to make hay while the same African Americans are losing their home and the dimwit Vanessa likes it.
You people deserve each other.
Posted by: Obama | Aug 31, 2008 3:13:51
I’ll second the “DimWit” part! Obamabots have really been drinking too much NoBamaBerry Kool Aide here of late!
McCain/Palin 08!

Posted by: david from texas | August 31, 2008, 11:18 am 11:18 am

HEY KEVIN…..
LISTEN THE INTERVIEW OF SARAH PALIN
GOVERNOR OF ALASKA……
YOU MAY LEARN SOME DETAILS….OR YOU
CAN PAY 10 DOLLARS A GALLON WITH OBAMA………..
McCAIN/PALIN ’08
COUNTRY FIRST…….

Posted by: NICHOLAS | August 31, 2008, 11:20 am 11:20 am

I’m not thanking God for a hurricane. I’m stating “God works in mysterious ways” because it was the Republicans praying rain for the Obama speech Thursday night. But instead rain is messing with their plans and their convention.
Obama blew the roof off Thursday night and there’s no way the Republicans can top that.

Posted by: Vanessa | August 31, 2008, 11:22 am 11:22 am

In the meantime McCain and his beauty queens head to my state of Mississippi to get in the way. The S.O.B. is using human misery to get votes. He gonna get the same F.U. Cheney got if some of us see him.

Posted by: Joseph | August 31, 2008, 11:22 am 11:22 am

I know all American families that look just like Sarah Palin’s. I have never come across any family that looks like Obama’s. He is different. Of course, that should not stop people from voting for him.
People should not vote for his behavior like associating with Rezko, Wright, Farrakhan, Hamas Sympathizers, etc.,
Anti-american cadidate should not get any patriot vote. He offers typical leftwing liberal programmes. Kill babies if their moms want to or if their grand parents want to but feed the lazy bums who don’t want to work.

Posted by: Obama | August 31, 2008, 11:24 am 11:24 am

I’m not an African American. My mother Vietnamese and my Father is German. White and Asian.

Posted by: Vanessa | August 31, 2008, 11:24 am 11:24 am

My fellow Americans. I have some questions?
When did the people who demand the govt. support them, pay for their abortions, pay for they doctor bills, pay for their homes, pay for their kids education become the noblest amongst us?
I don’t understand that.
I was born in deep poverty and when I earned a scholarship, my dad, with a high school education would not allow me to accept because he thought it was welfare.
Men like my dad hardly exist anymore. No one has any pride anymore. My dad would have rather starved then asked for a handout. My dad worked two jobs and my entire family worked all summer picking in the fields. All six of my siblings and I went to college with NO HELP FROM ANYONE but ourselves.
I am a doctor, my brother is a pharmacist, my sister is a principal, my two other sisters are attorneys, and my final sibling is a physical therapist.
All our kids are doctors, lawyers, professors, teachers, business leaders, eeducator’s and parents. We are all Mexican-American, we are Catholics, we are hard workers that Love our nation.
Now that we defeated devestating poverty, we are told we are the filthy, sstinking, worthless rich and not appreciated, or worth anything. I support over 20 families with my practice. I think that there is a great silent majority of Democrats like me that have seen our party be hijacked into a welfare touting, abortion giving, god hating, military spitting, group that we don’t recognize anymore. i am telling you…there are a lot of Mexican-Americans like me that feel this way. We are voting McCain.
Don’t take my word for it. We want our party to come back to us. Where is Lloyd Bensten when you need him?
We want him back and you can have George Soros and Michael Moore. I pray that my Democtatic Party will lose so that Moderate Dems can have our party back again.

Posted by: lisa | August 31, 2008, 11:26 am 11:26 am

Vanessa says she is Eurasian and therefore can pray for the Hurricane to hit the Katrina victims again because it will help Barry “Ayers” Obama.

Posted by: Obama | August 31, 2008, 11:27 am 11:27 am

Vanessa, if your “boy’ NoBama, blew the roof off, then why isn’t he getting a post convention bounce in the polls? Why is it that he only leads in electoral vote projections by 10 pts? Why is it that Hillary is now praising Sarah Palin? Why cant’ he close the deal?….why?….why?…why?…..
Because AMERICA does not want a liar in OUR Whitehouse!
Sorry…go back to Obamaland and drink some more Kool Aid….LOL!

Posted by: david from texas | August 31, 2008, 11:27 am 11:27 am

Obamabots typically don’t pay for their expenses. Either parents or government give out the handouts.
They vote for their race or vote for change they don’t even know.
Of course, some people vote for Barry because they are not AA but have dark skin.

Posted by: Obama | August 31, 2008, 11:30 am 11:30 am

A ten point lead is Obama winning almost every state and McCain only winning 6.
That’s not going happen. Reagan won by 9.7 and that was landslide. Carter only won 6 states.
Before the convention Obama and McCain were tied. Obama now leads by 6. And on the electoral map he leads by 306-232
That my friend is a modern landslide.
And now that the RNC convention is all by screwd. Obama will maintain his lead. And after McCain chosing such a horrible VP the VP debate will be much easier then expected for Biden. And it’s a no brainer whose going to win a debate between Obama and McCain. Obama 08.
Yes. It’s landslide.

Posted by: Vanessa | August 31, 2008, 11:38 am 11:38 am

obama—Why dont you use a different name? all the bs coming out of your mouth is not going to change people opinions for the [REAL OBAMA] TRUE SUPPORTERS SEE WHAT A REAL IDIOT YOU ARE!!!

Posted by: READY999 | August 31, 2008, 11:43 am 11:43 am

I remember the first election that I got to vote in too, Vanessa. Enjoy it while you can!

Posted by: Paul | August 31, 2008, 11:48 am 11:48 am

It is great to see the government and the citizens preparing for the storm earlier and getting out its way. Three years is not a long time and the memories are still too fresh and the damage still shows.
This is going to be another loss in our ecomony and many lives forever changed again. My sincere respect and love goes out to these people.

Posted by: Mary | August 31, 2008, 11:57 am 11:57 am

I hope for the best for everyone as well, Mary. I live on the Gulf Coast but thankfully far enough away from Gustav this time.

Posted by: Paul | August 31, 2008, 12:00 pm 12:00 pm

Nicholas-
I have read the interview, and she refers only to 2,000 acres of drilling sites. That is the physical space allocated to the equipment necessary to drill the holes in the ground and extract the potential oil. That number fails to mention all of the support infrastructure that would be necessary to establish and maintain those drilling sites because the vast number of acres (estimated 1.5 million) that it would encompass would not be a convenient fact for the republicans. I find it hard to put any trust into the words of the governor of a state that doesn’t have to pay for most of their infrastructure due to oil revenues and $2000 checks per person being handed out by Big Oil (and with more drilling those checks would get bigger, any doubt as to why she wants to expand drilling and would lie about the consequences? Thanks to Big Oil, the typical family of five in Alaska received a check for just about $9,700 in 2007).

Posted by: Kevin | August 31, 2008, 1:27 pm 1:27 pm

KEVIN.
1.5 MILLION ACRES OUT OF 20 MILLION
ACRES LAND IT WILL NOT HURT THE WILD
LIFE IN ALASKA.
DO YOU REALLY LIKE TO PAY 10 DOLLARS
OR MORE A GALLON WITH OBAMA??????
YOU HAVE A CHOICE……

Posted by: NICHOLAS | August 31, 2008, 1:48 pm 1:48 pm

I have a choice, and it’s going to go to the Obama/Biden campaign who are dedicated to ending our oil dependancy through increasing environmentally friendly alternative energy sources and increasing the efficiency standards governing how we use oil. Hypothetical drilling in the continental shelf or Alaska has been proven time and time again, even by the Bush/Cheney appointees, to have no effect on the future price of oil. In addition, do you know what percentage of the oil that is currently extracted from the frontiers of Alaska are sold to the United States as compared to other regions of the world? Do you think the Big Oil companies would agree to a binding contract forcing them to sell all oil extracted from Alaska to the United States and what do you think that would do to the price of the 80% of oil that we would still have to import from Venezuela and the mid-East? And finally, did the Exxon Valdez disaster “hurt the wildlife in Alaska”? Unless we get the U.S. off of the gas addiction it won’t matter who is the President of the country, gas will continue to escalate because it is a limited commodity and the world’s demand will continue to outpace the supply. The only answer is to use less, not drill for more.

Posted by: Kevin | August 31, 2008, 2:06 pm 2:06 pm

It’s great that folks are going to suspend politics as usual to focus on the serious business on our Gulf Coast. I’ve been watching folks take hurricanes lightly since Camille (could be wrong about the name) since 1965. Hurricane parties used to be the norm. Hope the Katrina message will stick. having said tha I must say that this is easily the most bizarre election in my lifetime. Start with Hillary/Obama dogfight. And we’re talking Bulldogs here, not Papillions! Throw in the DNC delegate certification master stroke. That in itself made for first class theater. Add a Republican nominee that almost zero republicans (Including this one) wanted or had any interest in supporting. Add the perverted populist to the mix. An acceptance speech for the ages. A commercial fisherman from Alaska, Hello. The most effective speech in my lifetime is not even mentioned in the media less than 15 hours after it was given. The McCain campaign among Republicans goes from morose to rip roaring in a ney york second. In my neighborhood, granted heavy GOP, folks are yelling across the lawns about Palin. Two went to MCcCain headquarters Sat. and were told that so many folks show up that the campaign would have to call ‘em back! The GOP is off and runnin and ready to exploit The Pistol Packin Palin advantage in St Paul for national TV. Wrong!!Comes now Gustav to the party! Looks like the Palin Punch will control the discussion about as long as the Obama Speech. By the time Gustav peters out, folks will be saying, “What was that woman’s name?” Pardon my French, But you got to be Sxxxxxxx me! What a hoot.

Posted by: AuHOH | August 31, 2008, 4:23 pm 4:23 pm

Finally politicians are doing something right.

Posted by: Left Center | August 31, 2008, 5:06 pm 5:06 pm

As I am watching the hurricane closely to see how I will be affected, I am apalled at the remarks some of you Obama supporters have left. How dare you. How dare you wish this on anyone. I’ll have you know that a lot of the people leaving New Orleans are Democrats…way to be supportive. I have nothing but sympathy and prayer to offer those of you who claim that the Republicans deserve this. NO ONE deserves to have everything they have worked for destroyed. I’m so glad that I am a Republican. Oh, and to speak to some of the links that were listed reagrding what McCain voted against after Katrina, why don’t you read in detail what some of those bills were for. I live in the area and didn’t support some of them. I will take a debate anytime but especially one over the past/current hurricanes.

Posted by: TX/LA | August 31, 2008, 8:08 pm 8:08 pm

When John Spratt (D-SC)stated that God works in mysterious ways and then chuckles, referring to Hurricane Gustav and the RNC convention made myself and others more disgruntled with the Dems- my party. Who is your God that would do such a thing just to show the RNC – my God would not do such a thing. Just shows you why regardless of Bush – will win in November. By the way – where was your Obama – someplace safe – not in the hurricane area where McCain and Palin both are. He had ridiculed into going to Iraq. USA does not need same old politics that Washington offers. We need reform.Lets the democrats skeletons out of the closet. McCain/Palin – our road to recovery. Amen

Posted by: irishmag2 | September 1, 2008, 5:46 am 5:46 am

Gustav, Hanna, and Ike Educating Palin, McCain, and Bush On Global Warming!
One can only hope that 3 hurricanes during the GOP convention will convince Palin, McCain, Bush, and the GOP that global warming is very real and man-made. Palin as a creationist believes global warming is not man-made. Palin could write off 3 hurricanes the week of her VP nomination and GOP convention simply as the answer to Stuart Shepard calls for “abundant rain, torrential rain … flood-advisory rain.” He adds, “I’m talking about umbrella-ain’t-gonna-help-you rain … swamp-the-intersections rain!
Unfortunately, hope and prayer alone will not end global warming. Prayer might help passing global treaties to end global warming and the massive starvation and drought wars that are coming if nothing is done to reduce carbon emissions. But then, the McCain, Palin, and the GOP only want to Drill! Drill! Drill! Burn Baby Burn! So much for the good Religious Right Christian to help their neighbors!
McCain VP Choice Is Religious Right Money Play To Fund McCain! McCain Is Putting Religious Right Over the Country First!
McCain has proven he has no judgment and has sold out to the Religious Right! Forget putting Country first; McCain is putting the Religious Right First! The new McCain campaign slogan now is “The Country First move over, the Religious Right is Taking Over”. This VP choice is a money play for the Religious Right to fund McCain! Today McCain is saying anyone can be President if they buy McCain’s vote with his nobody pick of Palin for VP. An old lobbyist turns to the money base with his VP choice! Big money is already rolling into McCain’s coffers from the Religious Right!

Posted by: kirslis | September 1, 2008, 2:24 pm 2:24 pm

Obama has split and embarrassed the Democratic Party because of his own self centered personality. He’s running for Obama Rule, not democracy.
Obama is a poor example of moral values, religious beliefs, experience and patriotism. He can’t criticize much about experience and God forbid he gets vetted. He’s a disgrace
Obama never won the primary. Obama stole it from Hillary.The world watched as the DNC handed the nomination to Obama by silencing voters.
The media can say what they want about Obama winning the primary but voters know the truth, especially Clinton supporters. Obama ignored voters. Florida and Michigan will never forget it.
Obama and Michelle were given a second chance to put Hillary on his ticket, but instead chose to hog the glory and embarrass the Democratic Party.
Obama could have won these women over. He should have taken advantage of the Clinton’s popularity and the love still felt for them throughout the world. Instead, he lost more respect from women across America. McCain is winning the Hillary women with his VP pick.
Obama is risky, radical and not a great patriot. Remember: Rezko, (the criminal), Reverend Wright (the anti Semitic racist) and William Ayers ( Obama’s coworker = domestic terrorist)
The list of his ugly friends with radical beliefs are endless.
God is watching and the world is laughing at our unfair voting process in the Democratic Party.
Obama should step down.

Posted by: Al from NJ | September 2, 2008, 4:00 am 4:00 am

Wow Al from NJ, could you add a few more republican talking points that have been repeatedly proven false to your spewing message? You may have missed one or two of the e-mail lies that have been spread by the desperate and stupid.

Posted by: Kevin | September 6, 2008, 12:09 pm 12:09 pm

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