Palin Seeks Serenity in Sedona

From:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/mccain-and-couric-on-gotcha-journalism.html
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
McCain and Couric Spar on Gotcha Journalism
COURIC: Over the weekend, Gov. Palin, you said the U.S. should absolutely launch cross-border attacks from Afghanistan into Pakistan to, quote, “stop the terrorists from coming any further in.” Now, that’s almost the exact position that Barack Obama has taken and that you, Sen. McCain, have criticized as something you do not say out loud. So, Gov. Palin, are you two on the same page on this?
MCCAIN: Now, just a minute, Katie. I have to step in here. That’s another example of the media’s “Gotcha journalism”…
COURIC: But, it was a question from a citizen. How is a citizen asking a candidate a question an example of what you call “Gotcha Journalism?”
MCCAIN: Because it was hard, Katie.
We don’t want Gov. Palin to be asked questions, unless she is prepared for them. When she is prepared, as she will be before the debate, she sounds intelligent, knowledgeable and feisty. But when she has not been prepared, she sounds lost and incoherent.
We can’t have people asking her questions when she has not had time to be prepared with an answer.
COURIC: But, Sen. McCain, I have to say, you are 72-years old. Actuarial preditions show that if you were to be elected, Gov. Palin would have a 1 in 5 chance of actually becoming President. These are perilous times–unprecedented crises in financial markets, tensions across a wide range of critical foreign policy arenas.
Shouldn’t we have a Vice President, and a potential President, who actually understands these issues, beyond the preparation necessary for a debate?
For example, here is her response to a question on the economy:
COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families who are struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries; allow them to spend more and put more money into the economy instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?
PALIN: That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, were ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health-care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the—it’s got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health-care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans. And trade, we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, scary thing. But one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today, we’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that.
COURIC: That answer, Sen. McCain, as noted by Fareed Zakaria, is incoherent.
MCCAIN: Yes. (nodding head)
COURIC: Well, isn’t it actually important that a potential President actually comprehend issues? That is, beyond debate preparation?
MCCAIN: No, Katie. That’s what I mean by “gotcha journalism”. It’s obvious from these prior interviews that Palin has little to no comprehension of fiscal policy and economics. For heaven’s sake, she received a “D” in macroeconomics in college! And, as I’ve I said in the past, I have little understanding of economic issues myself.
No, what’s important, Katie, is that she *sound* like she understands the issues. In the debate. If she is sufficiently prepared, she can give an illusion of understanding the issues–even if she is giving answers with the prepared and practiced spontaneity and content necessary to give that illusion force.
Given that the bar is set at the lowest standard imaginable, Katie, if she accompanies that performance with sufficient charm, we believe that media will follow, into focusing on the change from that low standard, and on those superficial entertainment values–you know, Katie, (McCain smiles through tight lips and squinting eyes and moves his hands up and down)–”She certainly appears to be more confident tonight; she appears more poised, coherent, humorous”–rather than her actual readiness to be President.
So, Katie, we want them to focus on that difference, on her debate preparation, rather than on her actual well-demonstrated Presidential unreadiness. And that’s what I mean by “gotcha journalism.”
KATIE: But if I understand you correctly, Sen. McCain, you actually believe that it’s not important that she understand the issues actually facing the nation…
MCCAIN: Right.
COURIC: On which many people’s very jobs, health and life will rely at this critical time…
MCCAIN: Yes.
COURIC: All that really matters creating a standard so low that she actually is rewarded for her widely seen and repeatedly demonstrated lack of knowledge and understanding. We would be using what is essentially a remedial standard for Presidential capability–instead of one of actual Presidential capacity.
Sen. McCain, no one can gain Presidential-level understanding in days. And in the office of the Presidency, with its intense crises and unforseeable events, she will not be prepared for each unpredictable day, as she was for the debate.
Yet you expect media to focus on these values, rather than actual readiness to be President. That’s what you mean by “gotcha journalism”?
MCCAIN: Exactly. Once again, Katie–we “gotcha.”
COURIC: How can you expect the media to fall for that?
MCCAIN: It worked for Bush.
Cite:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/mccain-and-couric-on-gotcha-journalism.html

FREE SARAH PALIN!! FREE SARAH PALIN!!
Never held a press conference
Answers very few media or public questions
Holds radical views on abortion, religion, guns, gays…
What is the McCain Campaign so afraid of? Her being honest?
Her reputation already stinks since the largest number of Americans (49 percent) say she is unqualified to be VP.
She is a scary, radical and, as the Anchorage Alaska Daily News described her, an “extreme social Conservative.”
Let Sarah have the freedom of speech, unlike her Russian neighbor, Vladimir Putin.
FREE SARAH PALIN!! FREE SARAH PALIN!!

“I’m the new energy, the new face, the new ideas and he’s got the experience based on many many years in the Senate and voters are gonna have a choice there of what it is that they want in these next four years.”
she really has no idea at all what she is doing does she? Does she realize that she is making the case right there for Obama?

Homosexuality is a choice people make, according to Palin in her latest exchange with Couric.
Plus more interesting stuff on Palin’s favorite newspapers and magazines:
COURIC: And when it comes to establishing your world view, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this — to stay informed and to understand the world?
PALIN: I’ve read most of them again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media —
COURIC: But what ones specifically? I’m curious.
PALIN: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years.
COURIC: Can you name any of them?
PALIN: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news.
Plus, a 15-years old girl raped by her father got to have the baby, according to Palin.
And she’s against the morning after pill.
Interesting stuff, isn’t it? Would make a great VP.

Katie: do you believe in the “the morning after pill?
Palin: I believe in birth control, however, i do not believe in abortion…life starts at conception:
\Katie: SO, LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT…YOU DON’T BELIEVE IN THER MORNING AFTER PILL’
Palin: i believe that life starts at conception;
Katie: , so what you are telling me is that you do not believe in the morning after pill?
that’s real fair journalism Katie…you will be looking for a job yourself soon anyway.

She really thinks alot of herself. Not an ounce of modesty in her.
No matter what happens thursday night, the only ones who will be chanting her name are the far right nutjobs who thinks she walks on water.
The MSM already has Joe Biden losing because he is not afraid to talk and wears his heart on his sleeve… so they automatically say he will gaffe so much that she will knock it out of the park… mark my words.. the exact words that George S. and Charlie will use, is “she has impressed the world with her vast knowledge, we should not have underestimated her, She knocked it out of the park”
which is what they said when she gave her scripted speech at the RNC… not sure what speech they heard, but all I heard was a bunch of teeth gnashing comments that had no substance.
Bottom line… she is as corrupt as McSame, she is a liar and she has clue what is going on in the lower 48 or around the world and she doesn’t care.
No way will I fall for the pity party the MSM has started for Palin.

Sarah Palin doesn’t anyone to be concerned. She is a very qualified canditate. Someone said that she would be on some sort of special trial at the debate. Think about it. What could she possibly say or do that would make anyone want to vote for those other guys. Oboma and Biden scare me. Those two are more concerned with themselves, rather than the country.
Thanks Sarah palin for being “real”, for being honest. and for being qualified. Given the choice of the others, I would rather trust you with the country anyday.
jjsjr

Katie, just another dumb blonde, guess
your trying to make up for your lack of
experience in journalism!!!!!!!!!!

wait, is this another SNL sketch?
“He’s got a lot of experience and just stating the fact there, that we’ve been hearing his speeches for all these years. So he’s got a tremendous amount of experience and, you know, I’m the new energy, the new face, the new ideas and he’s got the experience based on many many years in the Senate and voters are gonna have a choice there of what it is that they want in these next four years”
————– uh, O.K.A.Y. where should Obama have your flowers delivered?
MCCAIN: No, Katie. That’s what I mean by “gotcha journalism”. It’s obvious from these prior interviews that Palin has little to no comprehension of fiscal policy and economics. For heaven’s sake, she received a “D” in macroeconomics in college! And, as I’ve I said in the past, I have little understanding of economic issues myself.
No, what’s important, Katie, is that she *sound* like she understands the issues. In the debate. If she is sufficiently prepared, she can give an illusion of understanding the issues–even if she is giving answers with the prepared and practiced spontaneity and content necessary to give that illusion force.
———————– HE CANNOT BE SERIOUS! can he?
IS THIS REAL?

Win or Lose, Palin is still a joke. A joke on us, what if she ends up president? Who’s the joke on then?

There has been a lot of talk about setting the bar low so that Sarah Palin cannot help doing well in the upcoming debate… Unfortunately, the job she’s running for in the Real World is more important than Top Debater… it’s for VP (heaven forbid, President) of the United States of America.
Has our bar for the office sunk so low?

New released tape:
COURIC: And when it comes to establishing your world view, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this — to stay informed and to understand the world?
PALIN: I’ve read most of them again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media —
COURIC: But what ones specifically? I’m curious.
PALIN: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years.
COURIC: Can you name any of them?
PALIN: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news.
She reads all of them. Not just all of them, but any of them that have been in front of her “over all these years.”
And strangely enough, not one of those many, many newspapers ever mentioned the Bush Doctrine!

I have never seen so many people who claim that they know EVERY detail about Sarah Palin’s life- (Just check The Daily Kos for every bad story about Palin.)
Yet these same people claim they do NOT know enough about her and want to see her do every interview that comes down the pike- (including The Home Shopping Network.)
Which is it..??
I want to see more of Sen. Biden. That guy is hilarious. (Though, I do not think he is trying to be funny?)
No doubt, this is the most important event in Sarah Palin’s life. (VP Debate with Biden.)
It could also be the most important event in John McCain’s presidential run?

Congratulations! You earned 50 McCain points for posting that.
Now jump off a bridge to nowhere.

This woman needs to go back to Alaska and have babies. That’s the great Republican dream, isn’t it?
She seems to hate everything in the World except her own family.
Maybe now is the time to admit that she’s in waaaay over her head, and go back to
her guns and church. LOL! (Obama was right!)

know Barack is a radical extremist and black supremacist that has a hidden agenda that is a serious threat to the American values we all treasure and cherish.
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facts?
email and chain letters do not constitute fact.

McCain has lost every
war or conflict he has
been associated with.
Vietnam
Iraq
Georgia – his buddy
Saakashvili just lost
two provinces, they
broke away, all
opposition parties in
Georgia want him to
step down voluntarily
and be gone

Palin is obviously about an inch deep. Even my 13 year old reads the daily newspaper. What kind of idiot can’t name a single newspaper?

These days I read my children Palin’s Couric Chronicals as a bedtime story to prepare them for Halloween.

OMG! I am appalled that Senator Palin would use the phrase “…since I was in like 2nd grade.” Like I wonder if she knows, like, how potential world leaders, don’t talk like, that way. Very juvenille and unprofessional.
Posted by: Mistiethepup
hey…Palin is a potential world leader and she talks that way..so, you are incorrect on that point alone…and like talk to the Frecnch leader…that will cahnge your mind. and like talk to they leader of Iran..like Palin makes him look like a 1st grader…like,..you make me laugh.

She is a horrible excuse for a mother, a mayor, a governer, a VP candidate, and a leader.God help us all if she gets anywhere near the white house.
Sarah needs to stick with what she know…abstinance only sex education and birthing retarded babies….
McCain=Unstable
Palin=Unable

Sarah Palin will fall in love with the cowboy west and change her name to Sarah Sedona and move to Arizona after she and Johnny Mac get creamed in Nov.

I have noticed that she seems to lie alot.
Posted by: patti
how would you like me to send you a list of all the presidents that have lied to you?

McCain’s ranch is NOT in Sedona..I get tired of hearing that… It may sound more upscale, but his ranch is in Paige Springs..

palin will help mccain win because every white jesus freak in america will now vote for mccain — she’s about as dumb as george w bush, another jesus freak — americans had no qualms about electing bush twice, so palin’s dimwittedness is no drawback — in sum, american whites vote for their likenesses — they’ve found their likeness in palin

Posted by: HoraceManoor ..mad about something, eh?

This is sad, I am a woman who supported Hillary,
This woman just needs to shut up and go away

I am surprised to see so many women being so hateful toward Sarah Palin. I guess I shouldn’t be, look how many so called feminist voted against Hillary Clinton in the primaries. I tell you what, I am pro-choice but I won’t let the democrats use that as a noose around may neck any more. Palin is a brilliant woman and it is about time we have a powerful woman in office. Wouldn’t it be great to have two women competing for the presidency in 4 years?
Obama has never done anything for the people. He has a well marketed campaign and that is it. McCain and Palin have always fought for the people.
I am a woman, and a former democrat and I am proud to vote McCain/Palin

I think it’s really bad luck for Palin that the moderator of the VP debate is a woman, Gwen Ifill, a very knowledgeable one who is on the Board of the Harvard Institute of Politics.
Besides, Ifill is the author of The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.
Palin will not easily put Ifill in her empty tank.

Wrong area Cindy!

So it’s true – put a hundred monkeys in a room with a hundred typewriters and they’ll eventually come up with a defense for Sarah Palin’s unbearable stupidity. (I also see that some of those monkeys know how to post on the internet.) Sure Sarah’s your kind of candidate. She represents this country’s LOWEST common denominator – those people who would defend this idiot’s credentials. You seem incapable of comprehending the difference between getting laid by a cheerleader and voting one into office. So to all you Palin-drones, you’d better get ready for Thursday night when you’ll all be crying in your beer – and we’ll be sitting over in the grown-up’s corner Biden our time……

What I want to know is where the he!! she got her children’s names. Lord of the Rings novel???? Harry Potter????

REPENT America,
Get out of the mall and learn to study the issues and learn to think critically

SNL characters – Sarah Who?

“JUST LIES!”
1.) Selma Got Me Born – LIAR, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 – Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965.
2.) Father Was A Goat Herder – LIAR, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.
3.) Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter – LIAR, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had
4.) My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom – LIAR, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first widespread violence in decades.
5.) My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian – LIAR, she does her daily Salat prayers at 5am according to her own interviews. Not to mention, Christianity wouldn’t allow her to have been one of 14 wives to 1 man.
6.) My Name is African Swahili – LIAR, your name is Arabic and ‘Baraka’ (from which Barack came) means ‘blessed’ in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.
7.) I Never Practiced Islam – LIAR, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years,until your wife made you change, so you could run for office.
8.) My School In Indonesia Was Christian – LIAR, you were registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making faces (check your own book).
9.) I Was Fluent In Indonesian – LIAR, not one teacher says you could speak the language.
10.) Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience – LIAR, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn’t even speak the language. What did you learn, how to study the Koran and watch cartoons.
11.) I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs – LIAR, except for Africa (surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our closest allies.
12.) I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion – LIAR, you were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify – your classmates said you were just fine.
13.)An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office – LIAR, Ebony has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never did, exist.
14.) A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life – LIAR, Life has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never did, exist.
15.) I Won’t Run On A National Ticket In ‘08 – LIAR, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.
16.) Present Votes Are Common In Illinois – LIAR, they are common for YOU, but not many others have 130 NO VOTES.
17.) Oops, I Misvoted – LIAR, only when caught by church groups and democrats, did you beg to change your misvote.
18.) I Was A Professor Of Law – LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
19.) I Was A Constitutional Lawyer – LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
20.) Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill – LIAR, you didn’t write it,introduce it, change it, or create it.
21.) The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass – LIAR, it took just 14 days from start to finish.
22.) I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill – LIAR, your bill was rejected by your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation – mainly because of your Nuclear Donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came.
23.) I Have Released My State Records – LIAR, as of March, 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.
24.) I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess – LIAR, you were part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens. You failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.
25.) My Economics Bill Will Help America – LIAR, your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even YOU voted against your own bill.
26.) I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois – LIAR, even your own supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.
27.) I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year – LIAR, they were not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.
28.) No One Contacted Canada About NAFTA – LIAR, the Candian Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your campaign had with them.
29.) I Am Tough On Terrorism – LIAR, you missed the Iran Resolution vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the destruction of Israel.
30.) I Am Not Acting As President Yet – LIAR, after the NAFTA Memo, a dead terrorist in the FARC, in Colombia, was found with a letter stating how you and he were working together on getting FARC recognized officially.
31.) I Didn’t Run Ads In Florida – LIAR, you allowed national ads to run 8-12 times per day for two weeks – and you still lost.
32.) I Won Michigan – LIAR, no you didn’t.
33.) I won Nevada – LIAR, no you did not.
34.) I Want All Votes To Count – LIAR, you said let the delegates decide.
35.) I Want Americans To Decide – LIAR, you prefer caucuses that limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only operate during small windows of time.
36.) I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate – LIAR, you passed 26, most of which you didn’t write yourself.
37.) My Campaign Was Extorted By A Friend – LIAR, that friend is threatening to sue if you do not stop saying this. Obama has stopped saying this.
38.) I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics – LIAR, you used tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.
39.) I Don’t Take PAC Money – LIAR, you take loads of it.
40.) I don’t Have Lobbysists – LIAR, you have over 47 lobbyists, and counting.
41.) My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad – LIAR, your own campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.
42.) My Campaign Never Took Over MySpace – LIAR, Tom, who started MySpace issued a warning about this advertising to MySpace clients.
43.) I Inspire People With My Words – LIAR, you inspire people with other people’s words.
44.) I Have Passed Bills In The U.S. Senate – LIAR, you have passed A BILL in the U.S. Senate – for Africa, which shows YOUR priorities.
45.) I Have Always Been Against Iraq – LIAR, you weren’t in office to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time, unlike Kucinich, who seems to be out gutting you Obama. You also seem to be stepping back from your departure date – AGAIN.
46.) I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care – LIAR, your plan leaves us all to pay the 15,000,000 who don’t have to buy it.
47.) I Only Found Out About My Investment Conflicts Via Mail – LIAR, both companies you site as having sent you letters about this conflict have no record of any such letter ever being created or sent.
48.) I Am As Patriotic As Anyone – LIAR, you won’t wear a flag pin and you don’t put your hand over your heart during the Anthem.
49.) My Wife Didn’t Mean What She Said About Pride In Country – LIAR, your wife’s words follow lock-step in the vain of Wright and Farrahkan, in relation to their contempt and hatred of America.
50.) Wal-Mart Is A Company I Wouldn’t Support – LIAR, your wife has received nearly a quater of a million dollars through Treehouse, which is connected to Wal-Mart.
51.) Treehouse Is A Small Company – LIAR, the CEO of Treehouse last year, made more than the CEO of Wal-Mart, according to public records.
52.) University Of Chicago Hospital Pay Is Fair – LIAR, your wife’s pay raise was nearly 150% her already bloated rate and the hospital is a Non-Profit Hospital, which made $100,000,000 in the last 3 years. They overcharge blacks VS whites for services, and overcharge everyone in general by 538%!
53.)I Barely Know Rezko – Only 5 Billed Hours – LIAR, you have known him for 17 years, and decided to do a real estate deal with him during a time when he was proven to be under investigation. Despite this, you divided your property and had them take off $300K before the mortgage problems started. Then Rezko’s wife buys the lot beside it that you can’t afford, saving you $625,000.
54.) My Donations Have Been Checked Thoroughly – LIAR, you only gave back Hsu ($72K) and Rezko ($150K) their money when publically called on their involvement in your campaigns.
55.) My Church Is Like Any Other Christian Church – LIAR, your church is so extreme, the pastor who married you, Rev. Wright, just got done blaming the US for 9/11 and named Louis Farrahkan their person of the year.
56.) I Disagree With My Church All The Time – LIAR, you still have yet to repudiate Wright, who married you and your wife, and you still donate large sums of money to assist the church in furthering its message – hatred and revenge. You donated in 2006 alone, $22,500 to the church that you so terribly disagree with. That is nearly $500 PER WEEK – that sure is disagreement, Senator Obama.
57.) I Have Clean Connections Despite Rezko – LIAR, you are not only connected to Exelon and Rezko, you are also connected to Hillary PAC supporter Mr. Hsu, AND an Iraqi Billionaire of ill repute, Nadhmi Auchi, who ripped off people in the Food For Oil, Iraqi deal. Seems Mr. Auchi may have helped Obama buy his million dollar property long before Obama had millions of dollars. Wonder what favors Mr. Auchi expects, when Obama leaves Iraq free to be taken over by special interests such as him.
58.) I never heard sermons like Rev. Wright’s, that have been in videos all day, You Tube – LIAR! 3 days later during your Mea Culpa BS speech you said “Did I hear controversial statements while I sat in that church? Yes I did.”

Linda: Great…so your voting based on body parts. Palin is “brillant”….State one thing this women has said or done that makes her so brillant?

What ever happened to Sarah’s daughter’s husband to be? His My Space rant was very impressive. Maybe he also can run for office.

Would the “White Guilt” flag have a honkie bent over a trash can being smacked in the arse by Aunt Jemima??

Well you get what you deserve I suppose. If you get McPalin then you deserve to watch your country become the laughing stock of the planet…

“Linda” said:
“Palin is a brilliant woman and it is about time we have a powerful woman in office.”
Powerful, definitely. But brilliant? Are you kidding me? What is one thing she’s said ON HER OWN, without reading from a script, that was brilliant? Please enlighten us. I have been waiting for this woman to say something – not even brilliant, just coherent would be good enough for me – and I’m still waiting …
“McCain and Palin have always fought for the people.”
Palin has always fought for the people? Is the following an example of your statement?
> September 26, 2008
> Editorial Observer
> Wasilla Watch: Sarah Palin and the Rape Kits
> By DOROTHY SAMUELS
> Even in tough budget times, there are lines that cannot be crossed. So I was startled by this tidbit reported recently by The Associated Press: When Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, the small town began billing sexual-assault victims for the cost of rape kits and forensic exams.
>
> Ms. Palin owes voters an explanation. What was the thinking behind cutting the measly few thousand dollars needed to cover the yearly cost of swabs, specimen containers and medical tests? Whose dumb idea was it to make assault victims and their insurance companies pay instead? Unfortunately, her campaign is shielding the candidate from the press, so Americans may still be waiting for answers on Election Day.
>
> The rape-kit controversy is a troubling matter. The insult to rape victims is obvious. So is the sexism inherent in singling them out to foot the bill for investigating their own case. And the main result of billing rape victims is to protect their attackers by discouraging women from reporting sexual assaults.
>
> That’s why when Senator Joseph Biden, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, drafted the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, he included provisions to make states ineligible for federal grant money if they charged rape victims for exams and the kits containing the medical supplies needed to conduct them. (Senator John McCain, Ms. Palin’s running mate, voted against Mr. Biden’s initiative, and his name has not been among the long list of co-sponsors each time the act has been renewed.)
>
> That’s also why, when news of Wasilla’s practice of billing rape victims got around, Alaska’s State Legislature approved a bill in 2000 to stop it.
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> “We would never bill the victim of a burglary for fingerprinting and photographing the crime scene, or for the cost of gathering other evidence,” said Alaska’s then-governor, Tony Knowles. “Nor should we bill rape victims just because the crime scene happens to be their bodies.”
>
> If Ms. Palin ever spoke out about the issue, one way or another, no record has surfaced. Her campaign would not answer questions about when she learned of the policy, strongly supported by the police chief: whether she saw it in the budget and if not, whether she learned of it before or after the State Legislature outlawed the practice.
>
> All the campaign would do was provide a press release pronouncing: “Prevention of domestic violence and sexual assault is a priority for Gov. Palin.”
>
> Eric Croft, a former Democratic state lawmaker who sponsored the corrective legislation, believes that Wasilla’s mayor knew what was going on. (She does seem to have paid heed to every other detail of town life, including what books were on the library’s shelves.)
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> The local hospital did the billing, but it was the town that set the policy, Mr. Croft noted. That policy was reflected in budget documents that Ms. Palin signed.
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> Mr. Croft further noted that right after his measure became law, Wasilla’s local paper reported that Ms. Palin’s handpicked police chief, Charlie Fannon, acknowledged the practice of billing to collect evidence for sexual-assault cases. He complained that the state was requiring the town to spend $5,000 to $14,000 a year to cover the costs. “I just don’t want to see any more burden put on the taxpayer,” the chief explained.
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> “I can’t imagine any police chief, big city or small, who would take on the entire State Legislature on a bill that passed unanimously and not mention to their mayor that they’re doing this,” Mr. Croft said. Even if he didn’t inform her, the newspaper article would have been hard for her to miss.
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> In the absence of answers, speculation is bubbling in the blogosphere that Wasilla’s policy of billing rape victims may have something to do with Ms. Palin’s extreme opposition to abortion, even in cases of rape. Sexual-assault victims are typically offered an emergency contraception pill, which some people in the anti-choice camp wrongly equate with abortion.
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> My hunch is that it was the result of outmoded attitudes and boneheaded budget cutting. Still, Ms. Palin has been governor for under two years, and she’s running for vice president largely on her experience as mayor of tiny Wasilla — a far superior credential, she’s told us, to being a community organizer. On the rape kits, as on other issues, she owes voters a direct answer.
And you’re PROUD to vote for these people?

People get the leaders – presidents and vice presidents, they DESERVE.
This time they deserve Palin

Blake, thank you for that one. LMAO!

McCain is pulling the October VP Debate Surprise—He is hiding Sarah in Sedona, and has hired Tina Fey to debate Biden—-I can see Russia from Arizona too!

In ref to cara prado’s post at 8:06 PM
Is that conversation for real? or is that the new SNL skit for this coming Saturday nite????
Nobody can be that stupid….I repeat, NOBODY CAN BE THAT STUPID….duhhhh

It is a shame that we have to waste so much ink on an incompetent person like Sarah Palin
I thought this was the most advanced western country. What happened?
Did everybody lose their minds?
Are you really going to give the reins of this country to an uneducated, right wing extremist?

US politics is getting increasingly stupid by the day. It is just a matter of time that countries like China and India are going to race past it in every conceivable field. That will be a sad day for all Americans.

Sarah, go home. Your family needs you, your party does not, & neither does Arizona.

Cut and paste bloggers, especially ones that have no credibility, just spewing rants, are a waste of space.
Could you be more generic next time?

It’s really a no win situation for this country. Palin will be mushing her sorry ass back home to AK come November, but that still leaves us with the liability of all her dissapointed sycophants. Hey, maybe next year you can refer to her as a GILF (Grandma I’d Like to….).

McCain stinks so bad he has to give himself nicknames like the maverdick and the sheriff. Now Palin has to tell you waht she is and give herself a nickname also. Ever see George Costanza try to get everyone to call him T Bone? They ended up calling him coco the chimp. Fitting.
Complain & Whalin’ aught-8

From: http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/mccain-and-couric-on-gotcha-journalism.html
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
McCain and Couric Spar on “Gotcha Journalism”
COURIC: Over the weekend, Gov. Palin, you said the U.S. should absolutely launch cross-border attacks from Afghanistan into Pakistan to, quote, “stop the terrorists from coming any further in.” Now, that’s almost the exact position that Barack Obama has taken and that you, Sen. McCain, have criticized as something you do not say out loud. So, Gov. Palin, are you two on the same page on this?
MCCAIN: Now, just a minute, Katie. I have to step in here. That’s another example of the media’s “Gotcha journalism”…
COURIC: But, it was a question from a citizen. How is a citizen asking a candidate a question an example of what you call “Gotcha Journalism?”
MCCAIN: Because it was hard, Katie.
We don’t want Gov. Palin to be asked questions, unless she is prepared for them. When she is prepared, as she will be before the debate, she sounds intelligent, knowledgeable and feisty. But when she has not been prepared, she sounds lost and incoherent.
We can’t have people asking her questions when she has not had time to be prepared with an answer.
COURIC: But, Sen. McCain, I have to say, you are 72-years old. Actuarial preditions show that if you were to be elected, Gov. Palin would have a 1 in 5 chance of actually becoming President. These are perilous times–unprecedented crises in financial markets, tensions across a wide range of critical foreign policy arenas. Shouldn’t we have a Vice President, and a potential President, who actually understands these issues, beyond the preparation necessary for a debate?
MCCAIN: Gov. Palin understands these areas very well, Katie.
COURIC: Here is her response to a question on the economy:
COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families who are struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries; allow them to spend more and put more money into the economy instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?
PALIN: That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, were ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health-care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the—it’s got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health-care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans. And trade, we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, scary thing. But one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today, we’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that.
COURIC: That answer, Sen. McCain, as noted by Fareed Zakaria, is incoherent.
MCCAIN: Yes. (nodding his head).
COURIC: Well, isn’t it actually important that a potential President actually comprehend issues? That is, beyond debate preparation?
MCCAIN: No, Katie. That’s what I mean by “gotcha journalism”. It’s obvious from these prior interviews that Palin has little to no comprehension of fiscal policy and economics. For heaven’s sake, she received a “D” in macroeconomics in college! And, as I’ve I said in the past, I have little understanding of economic issues myself.
No, what’s important, Katie, is that she sound like she understands the issues. In the debate. If she is sufficiently prepared, she can give an illusion of understanding the issues–even if she is only giving answers with the prepared and practiced spontaneity and content necessary to give that illusion force.
Given that the bar is set at the lowest standard imaginable, Katie, if she accompanies that performance with sufficient charm, we believe that media will follow, into focusing on the change from that low standard, and on those superficial entertainment values–you know, Katie, (McCain smiles through tight lips and squinting eyes and moves his hands up and down)–”She certainly appears to be more confident tonight; she appears more poised, coherent, humorous”–rather than her readiness to be President from an objective standard. After all, using the more important standard of Presdidential capability, she has already demonstrated that she is unprepared to be President.
So, Katie, we want them to focus on that difference, on her debate preparation, rather than on her actual well-demonstrated Presidential unreadiness. And that’s what I mean by “gotcha journalism.”
KATIE: But if I understand you correctly, Sen. McCain, you actually believe that it’s not important that she understand the issues actually facing the nation…
MCCAIN: Right.
COURIC: On which many people’s very jobs, health and life will rely at this critical time…
MCCAIN: Yes.
COURIC: And that all that really matters creating a standard so low that she actually is rewarded for her widely seen and repeatedly demonstrated lack of knowledge and understanding. That we would be using what is essentially a remedial standard for Presidential capability–rather than one of actual capability.
Sen. McCain, you seem to be actually suggesting that we should decide that she is ready for the Presidency, simply because, after preparation, she has improved. Even though just days earlier, time after time, she was unable to give coherent answers on these subjects.
No one can gain Presidential-level understanding in days. And in the office of the Presidency, with its intense crises and unforseeable events, she will not be prepared for each unpredictable day, as she was for the debate.
Yet you expect media to focus on these values, rather than actual readiness to be President. That’s what you mean by “gotcha journalism”?
MCCAIN: Exactly. And they will. Once again, Katie–we “gotcha.”
COURIC: How can you expect the media to fall for that?
MCCAIN: It worked for Bush.

Woman citizen – I was trying to follow your twisted logic and syntax when I suddenly realized that would be anti-evolutionary. Let me state it simply for you:
ALASKAN BUSH DOESN’T BELONG IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

Governor Palin has character. I am sick to death of oily politicians with one hand in the government money pie who play politics with my national security and finances. McCain/Palin have my vote because I trust them. A year ago I had never heard of Barack Obama. And the more I look into his background the more alarming information comes out. I don’t think that tough economic times call for more socialism, more handouts and more taxes and that’s exactly what is in his mostly hidden tax plan. Also, I happen to like freedom, thank you very much. Obama’s background is filled with thugs (like those we saw in the caucuses who physically intimidated Hillary’s supporters. I really don’t like that stuff. It’s not what America is all about.

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That woman there thats from that state up there, you know Alaska. Well, she’s scary there you know, she shouldn’t be anywhere near that White House down there.

Josie, there you go again relying on Palin’s weather girl past. I saw the footage she blew that too. You should put down the ice cream and change your pad.

Did Sarah have her 14 year old daughter drop out of school along with her 17 year old daughter Bristol?
And she said she was breast feeding her infant when she was selected by McCain. Did she abruptly stop that, because the baby goes back home to Alaska when dad goes?

Woman Citizen, your syntax is so confused I can’t figure out what you are trying to say: are you Sarah Palin?

If everyone here is afraid to have an experience person on the ticket…. don’t vote for Obama!
You guys talk about stupid. This is a guy who talked about the 57 states. This is a guy whose ego is so big, he thinks evil dictators will give up because he smiles at them. God help us all if Obama is elected. The terrorists are counting on it.

Don’t understand why nobody talks about Biden or Obama unqualified? When Biden says Roosevelt talked on TV in 1929 and Obama said 57 states and my muslim faith, no media seems to care about it. Then when Palin says something (even it’s only to a voter) and the media just tries to blow it up. Is there still unbiased report which has credibility?

Sarah will do just fine in this debate. She was confident and unblinking in the Alaska governor’s debate. Here is part of the actual transcript.
Q: Suppose Senator John Doe puts forth a constitutional amendment that would outlaw abortion even in cases of rape or incest, and he asked you to attend the announcement and support him in that. Would you do it?
Palin: You’re, you’re asking if… in front of me were legislation that I would be asked to sign?
Q: No, if he was going to put forth a constitutional amendment, and he just wanted your support, you know, as a party member, as the leader of the state.
Sarah Palin: Um, I would. I would. And it’s no secret that I’m pro-life and I don’t hide that and nor am I ashamed of that but I am pro-life and yes, a, a proposal like that, I would stand by it.
Lies lies lies! Our brave Sarah said plain and simple.

What’s scary is Kikz and his comments. How unfortunate for you to have to carry the burden of such hate/fear…everyone comments are saying that Palin just isn’t ready to be VP but your attacks on Obama are vicious and downright scary. I don’t know where you get your information but you need to stop reading it. One final comment. Why do you all think McCain chose Palin over all the other qualified women who have been working years for the Republican Party? Surely there are more qualified republican women whom could give Hillary a run for her money, so why Palin? I just think some of you women are not clearly thinking about this issue. Just look at how he treats her, he watches over her every move, she’s his puppet on a string, she’s being used and that you should be angry about, and it will not be long before Palin’s husband will start to raise questions about the ill treatment of his wife. He will not be able to stand back and watch how she’s being used…just another bush campaign manager bag of tricks to get you naive people to vote for McCain. He doesn’t like her any more than the people posting likes her. And that’s for real.
He needed her to get the mainstream vote and you all fell for it. Once you realize it you’re going to be peaved.

Unlike Clinton, Biden Gets Pass for Saying He Was ‘Shot At’ in Iraq
When Hillary Clinton told a tall tale about “landing under sniper fire” in Bosnia, she was accused of “inflating her war experience” by Barack Obama’s campaign — but the campaign has been silent about Joe Biden telling his own questionable story about being “shot at” in Iraq. (story continuous here)
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/30/unlike-clinton-biden-gets-pass-saying-shot-iraq/

Other Biden Gaffes
http://southerngent.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/other-joe-biden-gaffes/

Obama was unknown to most of us a few months ago. And his supporters clearly don’t know or want to know anything about his past (which is chock full of ultra-leftists, felons, Black Panthers, corrupt political machine members and so on.)
Sarah Palin is honest. She stood up to the corruption in Alaska and had Republicans and Democrats put in jail for cheating the people. Obama rolled over 100% of the time for the Daley political machine. If you’re going to vote for him at least look into his background.

Whats wrong with you people.When McCain says that she is qualified- SHE IS QUALIFIED- what more interviews or proof do you need? McCain nerver lies and he has done his home work. Don’t you trust him. After allhe is Mavreik Rebublican. No one can be better. Vote McCain

jjssr! if being “qaulified” means sounding like an IDIOT! well …hell! let my 3 yr old run then for pete’s sake…so out of touch is frightening…actually frightening to think what would happen to this country if mc cain and his “dog and pony” show actually win this election. say your prayers now ppl – the end will be right around the corner!

Boooo…Biden – the man with the 29+ years of experience who can NOT keep his mouth SHUT! He has made more gaffes in one week than Palin has made in her entite career! And, that is a fact!
Biden Gaffe Triggers Trio Of Ads
http://adspotlight.nationaljournal.com/2008/09/coal_ads.php

Even More Biden Stupidity…
Joe Biden quote:
“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the
television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said,
‘look, here’s what happened.’”
Sen. Joe Biden, in an interview with CBS News. Of course, as Reason
points out, Roosevelt wasn’t president in 1929 and televisions were
still experimental.
Ssshhh!…Biden thinks he’s really smart.
Source:
Google Groups – Even More Biden Stupidity

Wouldn’t it be interesting if the liberal press or anyone for that matter applied the same scrutiny to Obama and Biden that has been thrust upon McCain and Palin? No one could stand that level of scrutiny. Fairness no longer exists in the media. Their basis is beyond belief.

Hmmmm….
Obama campaign urging people to watch debate on CNN
Chicago Sun-Times
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/09/obama_campaign_urging

The Biden Gaffes are ignored by the biased media. Obama Baby, you are a product of the corrupt South Side Chicago political machine. A community organizer for Acorn which has a long and rich history of fraud. You are UN-AMERICAN and I don’t want you anywhere near the Oval Office… Have a nice day.

Sarah Palin is the victim of a bias media. They do gotcha journalism. When Sarah was in the pizza parlor, reporters could have done stories about all the people there who loved her. But no, they focus on the questions about Pakistan. They know Pakistan isn’t next to Alaska. It’s all just so unfair. But it is going to backfire on you haters, the more you pick on Sarah, the more people will be driven to vote for John McCain! You can’t win!

McCain’s running mate’s performance in these interviews is absolutely atrocious.
Why didn’t he choose Romney? If he had, he might have better chances of not losing this election.

Sarah could have named lots of newspapers and magazines… if she wanted to. She said she reads just about everything that comes her way. But that Katie Couric is so bias, you can see the hate in her eyes. She pushes and pushes the same question at Sarah. I don’t blame her for not going into details… Katie Couric is just plain rude!

Annaloh wrote: “The Conservatives better hope that she’s also been given a few lessons in basic English Language principles and vocabulary, so the viewers can at least understand what she’s trying to say, even if it has no substance.”
Reply to annaloh:
Her English is perfect – in fact she is extremely articulate! After all she was not elected Governor of Alaska because she did NOT speak English.
In the mean-time, I suggest to you “smartie” that you start taking some Spanish lessons because in the tragic event that your Barack-this-is-above-my-pay-grade-Obama is elected as our President, we are all going to have to learn how to speak Spanish! Isn’t that what he said in a stump speech during the primaries?! Oh yes, that is exactly what he said!
I have nothing against Spanish people – I am an immigrant myself. However, I do have an issue with Obama telling me or any other American what language we must learn how to speak, while we live and breath in the United States of America.
I came from a European country myself but I learned enough English to function in this great country – never having expected that the American people learn to speak my own language. As a token of respect for America, who welcomed me in its soil, I learned how to speak the language of its great people – not expecting it to be the other way around.
Having said this, I do believe in education and that speaking foreign languages is important. But NOT because Obama says that we must all learn how to speak Spanish!
How much Spanish does Obama (or Biden) know anyway? Enough words probably to impress the Spanish voters on the campaign trail!
ABC News Blogs
Stephanopoulos: Palin Can’t Afford a Debate Mistake

I am sorry- by mistake I re-entered the same comment twice.
To the moderators- please delete my duplicate entry above. My computer froze and I pressed the “post” button twice. I apologize for any inconvinience that this may have caused you.

Sarah could have named lots of newspapers and magazines… if she wanted to. She said she reads just about everything that comes her way. But that Katie Couric is so bias, you can see the hate in her eyes. She pushes and pushes the same question at Sarah. I don’t blame her for not going into details… Katie Couric is just plain rude!
Posted by: Pubby | Oct 1, 2008 1:04:06 AM
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You really should meet this dude Hugo Chavez, RUUUUUDE! lol oh wait, yes yes… we’ll shelter Sarah from rude people like so.
ptfffffffffff…

Gigi, I can tell right away you are a hater. You said you don’t care about people whose hearts are full of joy at the thought of hope and change that Sarah is bringing to this great country of ours. Give her some time to learn about foreign affairs. John McCain’s campaign strategist is asking for fewer foreign affairs questions in the debate. It would be too bias with Biden’s foreign relations experience. So calm down…. she is a quick learner who will soon have all the right answers on Pakistan and Chavez too! Remember, she won’t be taking office until January!

Sarah Palin photoshopped…
It is so embarassing that it took a foreign newspaper to set the record straight about this issue, while our own media clowns have not made an effort to let us know that these “trashy” photos of Palin – circulated on the Internet – are FAKE! Apparently the “O’Bammies” are so desperate that they have come to this to “trash” Palin…
Sarah Palin in pictures and video
The Sunday Times – London, UK
By Nico Hines
Photoshopped! A familiar refrain and a common tool for mocking the political elite – with Sarah Palin, however, it can be quite tricky to work out which of the pictures in circulation are real. (story continuous here)
http://timesonline.typepad.com/uselections/2008/09/sarah-palin-pic.html?OTC-widgets&ATTR=tolblogs

Quote: “CNN’s Cafferty, on viewing Palin’s analysis of the bail-out, called it “one of the most pathetic pieces of tape I have ever seen from someone aspiring to one of the highest offices in this country.”
Reply to PaulinVanc:
Jack Cafferty is an idiot.

They don’t ask Obama or Biden all these gotcha question!

Pubby wrote: “…But that Katie Couric is so bias, you can see the hate in her eyes. She pushes and pushes the same question at Sarah. I don’t blame her for not going into details… Katie Couric is just plain rude!
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Catie Curic is competing with Campbell Brownose – the witch of CNN! They are both mean and rude!!
I don’t think it’s hate you see in Katie Couric’s eyes, but more disbelief and confusion, I think she is just trying very hard to understand what Palin is saying, and wondering why she won’t answer a simple question.
What’s wrong with answering the question? Isn’t that a good quality to have as VP or President? You want someone in office who is going to dodge the question?
“President, what about the financial crisis?”
Palin: “Oh, I am so ill at what’s going on just like every other American, I …it’s about job creation, that’s it, yes, job creation and health care”…
“President, why are Americans losing their jobs?”
Palin: “oh, it is horrible, just horrible, you poor thing, I know, me too, I just lost 20,000 dollars in my stocks, let me put Air Force 1 on ebay, that will bring back the economy heh, poor you, I know how you feel”…
I hope you remember that when Palin is in office, and remember exactly why you supported Palin even though she can’t answer the questions!
Enough is enough, we don’t need someone who is dumber than Bush!

CNN-Campbell Brown: “Why did Palin subject her daughter to this scrutiny?”
Campbell Brown- you are an obnoxious partisan Moron!!!
Next time, wash your mouth before you speak about Sarah Palin. Perhaps we should talk about your “daddy”, should we?
Wikipedia: Campbell Brown
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell_Brown
HillaryClintonForum.net
http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=27154
Palin Sexism Watch Blog:
http://palinsexismwatch.blogspot.com/2008/09/campbell-brown-why-did-palin-subject.html

WHO is Campbell Brown….
“In 1999, her father James H. “Jim” Brown Jr. was indicted for lying to the FBI during a routine investigation and served time in a Federal prison and resigned his post, he is an expert on Louisiana politics. [6]
On April 2, 2006, Brown married her second husband Daniel Samuel Senor (born 1971), a Republican consultant who regularly appears on Fox News.[7][8] Brown converted to Judaism, her husband’s faith;[9] the two were married in an Orthodox Jewish ceremony.[10]
On June 24, 2007, Brown announced on Weekend Today that she and her husband were expecting their first child.[11] On December 18, Brown gave birth to a son, Eli James Senor, named after his grandfather, James Senor.
Her first marriage was to Peregrine “Pere” Roberts, President of TSC Realty in Bethesda, MD.”
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To Campbell Brown I say:
What goes around comes around, BABY !!!
I am Natasha and approve this message.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell_Brown
http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=27154

Katie Couric doesn’t know when to stop. She asked Sarah what newspapers and magazines she read. Sarah told her she read most of them. That’s a good answer. But Couric pushes… what specifically? Sarah answered again, all of them and any of them. Another good answer… But not good enough for Katie! She pushed AGAIN… Can you name a few? Sarah is such a blessed giving person she gave Couric a third answer… a variety of sources. Just more condescending, gotcha journalism! I don’t hear reporters asking Obama or Biden what they read!

Pubby- like you mentioned earlier, I also think that Palin is bluffing! I think she is doing it on purpose to tick the media off and at the same time “trick” the Obama camp in thinking that she is really “naive”! I am sure she could have named one or two newspapers – ie. NY Times, Washington Post, etc. Anybody could have just done that even if they have never bought a newpaper in their life! It was Curic who was stupid not to get Palin’s drift that is Palin was making Curic looking like a “witch”!!
Should we start praying for Biden?.. :-)

The mother of all flip-flops:
Iraqi surge exceeded expectations, Obama says
LANCASTER, Pa. – Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Thursday that the escalation of U.S. troops in Iraq, which he had opposed, has succeeded in reducing violence “beyond our wildest dreams.”
And check this out… This latest revelation by Barack-this-is-above-my pay-grade-Obama comes in less than 24 hours after Sarah Palin stated in her speech that her opponent [Obama] never mentions the word “victory” except when he speaks [pretty speeches] about his own campaign!!
Does the man think that we are stupid and perhaps missed that part in Palin’s acceptance speech? Or does he think that we are so naive not to realize that he just listens to what the other side or the media clowns say and then flip-flops according to where the wind is blowing?!
Come on Obama – the American people have already figured you out…When the heat is on, you start flip-flopping left and right – right and left!
And of course, Campbell Brown and the rest of the left-wing-liberal media idiots have not mentioned a darn thing about this latest flip-flop by Obama.
Booooooooo, Campbell Brown- make sure nobody attacks your “Obama” icon about his latest…”mother of all flip-flops”!
Question: Could Obama be suffering from “multiple personality disorder”???!!!

They are NOT going to question their “Chosen One” – “God’s Gift to America”!
Quote: Jake Lewis wrote: “I don’t recall Mrs. Brown asking the same tough questions regarding Obama’s lack of foreign policy experience, his drug use, his ties to domestic terrorists, to explain how he purchased a $1.5 million home (yea…middle class) on a state legislature’s salary, his refusal to vote ya or na while serving in the state legislature, or why in his 3 1/2 years as a senator he has not sponsored one important piece of legislation? Oh! I understand now…he speaks well.”
Posted by: Jake Lewis | September 04, 2008 at 01:43 PM
BINGO!!
Dear Jake Lewis, you hit the nail on the head! But Ms. Campbell Brown and Jon Clown – as in Jon Klein – President of CNN – have been listening apparently to Nancy Pelosi…..they are NOT going to question their “Chosen One” – “God’s Gift to America”, as Bella Pelosi refers to Obama!
Can you imagine if Senator McCain had said that Sarah Palin was “God’s gift to America”? They would be reminding him about the separation of Church and State!…

If you were the boss, who would you hire???
OBAMA: Harvard law professor, Juris Doctor of law degree, constitutional law expert, Senate committees: foreign affairs, homeland security, veterans affairs, family, education, health.
BIDEN: Juris Doctor of law degree, Senate committees: Foreign affairs (chair), economy, health, crime, women’s affairs, education, technology, environment
McCain: graduated from the naval academy in the bottom 5% of his class, senate committees: economy, environment, official conduct (arguably the 3 biggest Republican failures!!!!!!!!!)
PALIN: went to 6 different universities before finally getting a BA degree in journalism, no domestic or foreign policy experience but can see Russia from her house.
SERIOUSLY, THIS IS A NO BRAINER!!!!
If you vote McBush/Pitbull, the fate of your country will be in jeopardy.

VP DEBATE MODERATOR RELEASING ‘AGE OF OBAMA’ BOOK ON INAUGURATION DAY

The only place where Sarah Palin would be of good use is in my bed.

A newspaper article today says John McCain’s aides have put pressure on the organisers of the upcoming vice-presidential debate by voicing concerns that Sarah Palin will be challenged by an unusually large number of foreign policy questions following her recent poor interview performances.
It’s not fair to challenge Sarah just because she is inexperienced. She will get lots of experience once she is in office. Until then, that bias moderator needs to BACK OFF!

FLIP FLOPIN’?
that is SO 2004
Nice try, it’s not gonna work this time (what? you really think we suffer the same chronic case of Amnesia all Republicans do?)
Better, Hotter Phrase?
the case of the Wondorous Dr. McJekill & Mrs Palin
lol – how nice of McCain to show his true self while holding his pitbull on a leash.

It’s not fair to challenge Sarah just because she is inexperienced. She will get lots of experience once she is in office. Until then, that bias moderator needs to BACK OFF!
Posted by: Pubby | Oct 1, 2008 10:30:28 AM
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Are you serious?

Quote: “The “unbiased” moderator of the VP debate … Ifill releasing pro-Obama (Age of Obama) book that Focuses on blacks who are ‘forging a bold new path to political power’.”
Sometimes you just can’t help it but to laugh in times like these. Look how all the ‘palin’ supporters are coming out in droves already making excuses for what even they think will be a crash and burn for their chosen one.
If she can’t handle the debate, the media and the reporters like all the other candidates, then that should be waving a big red flag in front of your face that anyone can see. Unless you are blind of course, which it seems that many are.

ONE DAY LEFT PALIN!!
There’s only one day left before the debate Palin…
You and McCain can play down expectations, you can talk about being “Joe six-pack” whatever you want. However sweetie, this is the big leagues and you are going to get beaten shamefully. Not by Joe Biden, but by yourself!!
My guess is by Friday morning you and the rest of your family will be on a Greyhound bus back to Alaska, tickets courtesy of the Republicans…
Your stupidity will be so obvious, that even the dumbest of your redneck supporters will desert you!!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go Lou!… (Who pays attention to dumb blond Catie Curic, anyway?)
Dobbs: Biden Makes ‘Many More Misstatements Than Sarah Palin’
An astounding thing happened on CNN Monday evening: not only did Lou Dobbs say that Democrat Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden makes “many more misstatements than Sarah Palin,” but he also chided Wolf Blitzer and the “Situation Room” crew for failing to point it out during their Bash Sarah session.
In preparation for the upcoming vice presidential debate, Blitzer brought on CNN analysts Gloria Borger and Jeffrey Toobin, as well as “The Weekly Standard’s” Steve Hayes, to handicap the event.
As you might expect, Palin was the butt of many jokes leading Dobbs to marvelously inject the following during a mid-segment promo for his upcoming program (h/t NB reader Kevin Groenhagen):
Well, Wolf, I’m shocked. I wish you guys would take it easy on Joe Biden, because I think you’re being really unfair to him, just because he makes so many more misstatements than Sarah Palin. But, anyway, I’m sure you can sort that out.
How delicious. What follows is a partial transcript of this exchange: (follow link)
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/09/30/dobbs-biden-makes-many-more-misstatements-sarah-palin

The 3:00 AM call to the White House…
If Obama bin Biden answers that “3:00 AM call to the White House” he would forward it to…the United Nations!!!!
Is this what you want America?
Do not vote left-wing-liberal Obama bin Biden to be our next Commander in Chief. It took 3 statements by him (after talking to his 300+ foreign policy advisors) to kind of condemn (he still did not even come close to it) Russia for invading a democratic and sovereign country….And, this while Senator McCain, Senator Clinton, our government, and ALL our allies – blasted Russia’s invasion of Georgia! Even China turned its back to Russia on the Georgia issue despite the fact that the Russian leaders – Medvedev (Putin’s hand picked puppet) and Putin himself were courting China’s support on the Georgia conflict!! Ha-ha!
Go McCain-Palin ’08 :-)

A must watch for all media clowns and to everyone that reads this blog:
A VIDEO PORTRAIT OF BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/v
ideo.aspx?RsrcID=2036

Kate Buckingham wrote:
“If you were the boss, who would you hire???”
SERIOUSLY, THIS IS A NO BRAINER!!!!
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It is NO brainer once you are done watching this:
A VIDEO PORTRAIT OF BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?RsrcID=2036

Biden garbles Depression history
September 23, 2008
Joe Biden’s denunciation of his own campaign’s ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that another odd note in the interview slipped by.
He was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis.
“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed,” Biden told Couric. “He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”
As Reason’s Jesse Walker footnotes it: “And if you owned an experimental TV set in 1929, you would have seen him. And you would have said to yourself, ‘Who is that guy? What happened to President Hoover?’”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Biden_garbles_Depression_history.html?showall

Unlike Clinton, Biden Gets Pass for Saying He Was ‘Shot At’ in Iraq
When Hillary Clinton told a tall tale about “landing under sniper fire” in Bosnia, she was accused of “inflating her war experience” by Barack Obama’s campaign — but the campaign has been silent about Joe Biden telling his own questionable story about being “shot at” in Iraq. (story continuous here)
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/30/unlike-clinton-biden-gets-pass-saying-shot-iraq/

Barney Frank’s Fannie (Mae) Love Connection
Barney Frank, the pansy in chief of the House Financial Services Committee, has an ex-spouse in the employ of Fannie Mae.
Prominent Democrats ran Fannie Mae, the same government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) that donated campaign cash to top Democrats. And one of Fannie Mae’s main defenders in the House – Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., a recipient of more than $40,000 in campaign donations from Fannie since 1989 – was once romantically involved with a Fannie Mae executive.
The media coverage of Frank’s coziness with Fannie Mae and his pro-Fannie Mae stances has been lacking. Of the eight appearances Frank made on the three broadcasts networks between Jan. 1, 2008, and Sept. 21, 2008, none of his comments dealt with the potential conflicts of interest. Only six of the appearances dealt with the economy in general and two of those appearances, including an April 6, 2008 appearance on CBS’s “60 Minutes” were about his opposition to a manned mission to Mars.
Frank has argued that family life “should be fair game for campaign discussion,” wrote the Associated Press on Sept. 2. The comment was in reference to GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and her pregnant daughter. “They’re the ones that made an issue of her family,” the Massachusetts Democrat said to the AP.
The news media have covered the relationship in the past, but there have been no mentions since 2005, according to Nexis and despite the collapse of Fannie Mae. The July 3, 1998, Reliable Source column in The Washington Post reported Frank, who is openly gay, had a relationship with Herb Moses, an executive for the now-government controlled Fannie Mae. The column revealed the two had split up at the time but also said Frank was referring to Moses as his “spouse.” Another Washington Post report said Frank called Moses his “lover” and that the two were “still friends” after the breakup.
Stuck on Stupid
http://stuckon-stupid.com/

The Obama Campaign Admits Barack H. Was A Kenyan Citizen Until 1982
Barack Obama’s own website designed to fight the alleged smears against him and his campaign admits that Barack Obama was, in fact, a Kenya citizen until 1982.
Will the MSM pick up on this?
FactCheck.org Clarifies Barack’s Citizenship
“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.
Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982.”
http://stuckon-stupid.com/

C’ est magnifique!….. :-)
CNN’s Campbell Brown Smacked Down By New McCain supporter
http://patdollard.com/2008/09/cnns-campbell-brown-smacked-down-by-new-mccain-supporter/
Apparently they have taken the video down – this to show you how obmoxious the witch of CNN – Campbell Brownose – was toward this new McCain supporter…
But the story is still out there…
Let’s All Watch One More Time as CNN’s Campbell Brown Gets Put in Her Place
Because it’s Friday we should take a breather and enjoy watching CNN blowhard Campell Brown get put in her place.
Scenario: Brown, fanatical water carrier for Barack Obama, can’t come to grips with the fact that former Hillary Clinton fundraiser Lynn Forester de Rothschild now supports John McCain.
Brown gets mean, defensive, and perhaps a bit angry before calling Rothschild a bitter elitist. Rothschild was fine up to that point and then makes Brown eat her lunch.
Added bonus, Rothschild explains to the world why a Hillary Clinton supporter should want to support John McCain. Groovy.
Partial transcript:
BROWN: All right. Lynn, let me ask you finally. I mean, I understand you’re still a Democrat. You’re not going to leave the party.
DE ROTHSCHILD: Right.
BROWN: To some people invariably, it’s going to sound like you’re bitter. Hillary Clinton didn’t get the nomination, this is your way of getting even.
DE ROTHSCHILD: You know what, Campbell? Barack Obama went and he called the people who have guns and cling to their religion bitter. The people out, you know, who are the rednecks or whoever are bitter. If bitter is the easiest way for you to rationalize that I truly with all my heart believe that John McCain will be a great president, then call me bitter. But it doesn’t really advance the dialogue, Campbell, sorry.
BROWN: All right.
Source:
http://www.webloggin.com/lets-all-watch-one-more-time-as-cnns-campbell-brown-gets-put-in-her-place/

Exposed! The Democrats’ Coverup Of The Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Crisis (video)
This video is a must watch… (please follow link)….
http://stuckon-stupid.com/

Obama’s Class War “So Wrong for America”
Friday, September 19, 2008
Lynn Forester de Rothschild, appearing on Campbell Brown’s “Election Center” on CNN, offered one of the most trenchant arguments against Barack Obama’s presidential campaign I’ve heard in months.
Forester de Rothschild grew up in middle class New Jersey, and she says the class war Barack Obama would declare is “so wrong for America,” via Newsbusters:
Here’s the introduction from her Wall Street Journal essay:
If Barack Obama loses the presidential election, it may well be the result of a public perception that he is detached and elitist — a politician whose expressions of empathy for hard-working Americans stem more from abstract solidarity than a real connection to the lives of millions of citizens.
Suggestions that Sen. Obama has failed to relate to working- and middle-class voters in swing states have dogged his campaign for months. His choice of Sen. Joseph Biden as his running mate only marginally corrects the problem.
While Obama supporters attempt to dismiss the charges about their candidate’s perceived hauteur, they confuse privilege and elitism. Elitism is a state of mind, a view of the world that cannot be measured simply by one’s net worth, position or number of houses.
Source:
American Power Blog
http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/obamas-class-war-so-wrong-for-america.html

Re: Campbell Brown & Jon Clown!!! (as in John Klein, President of CNN)
Quote: “I never in a million years thought I would be adding my own comments, but here goes it. First off, I am not committed to any presidential party as of yet, therefore, I am not partial to any one side. Second, I believe for the educated obvious reason, that those who congratulate Ms. Brown are those who undoubtedly do so on a partial basis. This, Ms. Brown/Tucker situation is not about the questions and the alleged unprepared response of the Republican party, and this is not about the Republicans “running from CNN.”
I watched the entire segment unfold and I was appalled. I kept thinking, out loud, as Ms. Brown kept hammering her questions in the interruptive fashion that she continued, “would you just shut up and let him talk.” I was really wondering what CNN would be thinking of this disgrace, of Ms. Brown’s hostility, of Ms. Brown’s very personal agenda, of Ms. Brown’s lack of professionalism and if that was not enough, of Ms. Brown’s conclusive “baby” remark. Wow! Unprofessionalism at its best.
Ms. Brown, this is very personal for you, isn’t it? I have been noting your biased opinions for a long time. I just laughed at how miserable it must be to actually feel so jealous to the point that you literally lose control. I wonder, what got under your skin? This situation was intolerant and hostile, and I would say quite embarrassing. Your colleagues and station know this as well. I can see the “clean up” they are trying to do on your behalf in spite of the fact that John Klein “says” he supports you.
John Klein; bad move not to acknowledge to the public a poor performing employee such as Ms. Brown. Anyway, have it your way Mr. Klein, things have a way of working out in the end. Although I am including an opinion, its really no skin off my back. I can only change what I have control over and I decide for starters to just tune you and yours out. You have had plenty of time to quell Ms. Brown, this situation is not a first, its just the “straw that broke the camels back.” She has been disgusting for a long time. I hope, John Klein, you reprocess your priorities.”
Posted by: Anita A. | September 05, 2008 at 02:14 PM
LA Times
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/09/campbell-brown.html?cid=129291166#comments

Who is Campbell Brownose…
Let’s Take A Look At Campbell Brown’s Family
by Dave Gibson (9/4/08)
A few days ago, CNN anchor Campbell Brown went on a very personal attack against Republican Vice-Presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds was giving Brown an interview, when she decided to place the focus of the conversation on the Governor’s 17-year old daughter Bristol, who is pregnant.
Brown said: “Tucker, though, this obviously putting this young woman, Bristol Palin smack in the media spotlight at what’s already got to be a very challenging time in her life. I mean, how do you respond to people who wonder why her mother would have subjected her to this scrutiny by accepting this high-profile position?”
Brown went on to say: “I recognize that in an ideal world, it would be private. You know, this is a presidential campaign. Nothing is private. The world is watching and if we, you know, as much as everyone might want to give this young woman her privacy, you know that’s not going to happen. And so you do risk putting her through an incredibly difficult process by accepting this job if you’re her mother. You can’t deny that, right?”
Well, this is obviously not an ideal world. Nor is it any longer a world in which the press gives legitimate, unbiased coverage to any and all candidates. This is in fact, now a world in which the press has decided to join the side of the leftist Democrat Party, and attack the Republican Party. Night after night, that same press ignores the fact that Barack Obama launched his political career at the home of unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, while attacking the parenting skills of Sarah Palin.
Since CNN’s Campbell Brown has changed the rules of the game, and it is now evidently appropriate for the mainstream media to question a candidate’s parenting skills and focus on the behavior of the candidate’s family…Then it is also fair to examine the behavior of those related to those members of the press who pose such questions.
In 2003, CNN’s Campbell Brown’s father Jim Brown served six months in federal prison, after being convicted of lying to a federal agent, during a fraud and conspiracy investigation involving Cascade Insurance Co. At the time, Jim Brown was serving as the insurance commissioner of Louisiana, a position which he was forced to resign after the U.S. Supreme Court refused his appeal for the second time. Brown continued that position’s legacy, as the two previous insurance commissioners were convicted of taking bribes and illegal campaign contributions from insurance companies, and still sit in federal prison.
So I would pose this question to Campbell Brown: Since the world is watching you…Do you think it is fair to your father to place this kind of scrutiny on him, since he is a convicted federal criminal? I mean, I know that it has to be painful for him. So don’t you think that you should have ended your journalistic career after he was convicted and resigned in disgrace? You want to be a good daughter don’t you?
We are currently seeing the most illegitimate campaign coverage in U.S. political history. We have seen so-called journalists become nothing more than cheerleaders for the left, and press secretaries for Barack Hussein Obama. In fact, I believe that the Obama campaign should have to list the glowing coverage provided by MSNBC as an in-kind campaign contribution!
I as a true conservative, now find myself in the unusual and uncomfortable position of defending the Republican Party presidential nominee. However, when the left-wing ignores major issues, and so alters their coverage to paint the Democrat as basically the next messiah, and stoops so low as to attack a child…I have no choice.
If those who often cheer for our enemies and hate this nation so much that they would refuse to report the truth as it relates to the success of our troops, as well as to the more than questionable past of Barack Hussein Obama, no one who loves this country has any choice but to support Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin.
http://newsbyus.com/index.php/article/1440
CNN, John McCain’s camp at odds following confrontational Campbell Brown interview
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/09/campbell-brown.html?cid=129044476#comments

The mother of all flip-flops:
Iraqi surge exceeded expectations, Obama says
LANCASTER, Pa. – Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Thursday that the escalation of U.S. troops in Iraq, which he had opposed, has succeeded in reducing violence “beyond our wildest dreams.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26550764
And, check this out… This latest revelation by Mr. – this is above my pay-grade – Barrack Obama – comes in less than 24 hours after Sarah Palin stated in her acceptance speech that her opponent [Obama] never mentions the word “victory” except when he talks [pretty speeches]about his own campaign!!
Does the man think that we are stupid and perhaps missed that part in Palin’s speech? Or does he think that we are so naive not to realize that he just listens to what the other side or the media say and then he flip-flops according to where the wind is blowing?!
Come on Obama – the American people have already figured you out…When the heat is on, you start flip-flopping left and right – right and left!
Let’s see now if Campbell Brown took notice of this flip-flop by her “Chosen One”!… She is so pathetic – so far, she has not mentioned a thing!!!
Booooooooo, Campbell Brown- make sure nobody attacks your “Obama” icon about his latest…”mother of all flip-flops”!
Question: Could Obama be suffering from “multiple personality disorder”???!!!
NSNBC News
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26550764

the mother of all flip-flops. MCain on deregulation/regulation.
could he be suffering from “multiple personality disorder?”

she’s not going to Washington, period, Natasha, unless as a visitor.

Obama would be a great film star…
(Btw, he is the one running for President – NOT Satah Palin!)
1. Yes, Sarah Palin is being drug around in the dirt because she is a Republican woman and how dare the person call Sarah a Caribou Barbie! That is one of the most sexist comments, yet. Also, for the one who called her “trailer trash” that just shows to me that it is not the Republicans who are elitists but the Democrats.This should be very offensive to those whose homes are trailers and who don’t make a six figure income.
2.It keeps coming up about the Bridge to Nowhere. Obama has ALSO been in favor of MANY things and then changed his mind….Israel/Pakistan…Russian/Georgia, etc. but NO-ONE dwells on that. In fact, he can’t make a decision; he just goes with the flow after asking dozens of advisors. He is charmismatic, I will give him that but charisma isn’t what we need. Some of you mentioned that McCain’s heroism doesn’t qualify him for the White House…well,okay then…neither does being a charismatic celebrity. Obama would be a great film star. He loves the spotlight. He’s an eloquent speaker. I’ve heard that John McCain is not. Hmmm…someone who’s become good at smoothly eloquent speaking probably has learned to make words work for him and twist them when necessary and people won’t even notice.
3. I’ve noticed that some are comparing Palin’s lack of experience and background to Obama. How come they are not doing the same comparison on McCain and Obama? Why is Joe Biden not the one that is being compared to her? At least, I have not seen much to that;maybe someone can fill me in on somewhere I could see this.
4. It seems Palin has so many sins in her life and McCain, too. Then,I guess the Democrats are without sin. They are presenting themselves as perfect. Too bad the voters are not nearly as perfect as Obama. In the Bible, there was a story about an adulteress that was getting ready to be stoned to death. Jesus told them “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” The Dems have done a great job of casting the stones and hitting Palin.
And, let’s not forget the Democrat who was President, and even though I’m not a Democrat, he did a decent job of the duties in office, yet he was an adulterer while in the office that he was elected to, disappointing Americans, but in this whole election,no one, not even the Republicans (except this one) has brought that up;(which is right thing NOT to do)maybe, it is because we all have skeletons in our closet. Have you ever thought what would come out if you ran for office?
5. The newstands are full of articles tearing Palin down, but I’ve yet to see the faces of Obama (the liberal media’s little darling) or Joe Biden on the covers presented in a negative way. I agree with one blogger who said that these publications are only ruining themselves. Let’s do real journalistic reporting…report the facts, Jack on both sides, both negative and positive and let the readers decide. I would absolutely LOVE to see an article in a mag that compares Obama to McCain and in the same mag Palin to Biden, side by side on issues, skeletons in the closets, biographies, awards and honors….maybe in the form of resumes so the American public could compare and then at the polls hire the ticket they think would be the best for the job.
6. Finally, and then, I’m through. I understand it may be good to understand the candidates’ views based on their faith but it is a little undeserving to undermine one for “praying” that God’s will be done. Our country was founded on a faith in the One True God, The Creator and our laws and values were built upon the Christian faith, but now, it’s not politically correct to be a Christian,no one must renounce their deep beliefs in order to please everyone. I couldn’t see one bit of hatred in the video that has been circulating where she spoke at her church in Alaska. Praying for someone does not cause hatred or racism or sexism. Their beliefs in their faith did not say they hated gays,only that they would be praying for them. And, in the privacy of a church building, they may do whatever (within the law) that they believe. Now that Obama has disowned his pastor, no one has mentioned anymore about how that church shaped his views. They are afraid to because of the venomous rhetoric that came from the pastor’s mouth. Does anyone know what Biden believes;have they gone to a church he attends or does he attend one? What about McCain? What are his religious values? So, then, why does that play into the equation with Palin? I could understand if she were part of an anti-government,hate religion. The most she could be convicted of in her faith is saying that she believes in praying to God, asking His will for the country. Go back in history to other presidents; many were men who prayed or sought God’s will. At least, the great ones did.
Thank you, both Republicans and Democrats for letting me air my feelings. How, sometimes I wish we didn’t have parties. I can’t stand the division and hatred that ensues. Especially when we say “United we stand, Divided we fall.” Let’s just let each other vote our consciences or faith or whatever standard and quit yelling at each other. I really hope that people in other countries don’t read our comments because it will show the United States are not so united after all. And…I will be praying for this election, that God will put in the candidates He wants (and, although I will vote Republican which is voting based on my faith) I know that whichever party gets in will be because God put them there “for such a time as this” and I will relax and support the Preident of the United States and respect the office.
Posted by: Gloria | September 09, 2008 at 01:43 AM
LA Times
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/09/campbell-brown.html?cid=130091336

McCain was against regulation before he was for it. It’d be funny if it wasn’t pathetic.

Barney Frank’s Fannie (Mae) Love Connection
Barney Frank, the pansy in chief of the House Financial Services Committee, has an ex-spouse in the employ of Fannie Mae.
Prominent Democrats ran Fannie Mae, the same government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) that donated campaign cash to top Democrats. And one of Fannie Mae’s main defenders in the House – Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., a recipient of more than $40,000 in campaign donations from Fannie since 1989 – was once romantically involved with a Fannie Mae executive.
The media coverage of Frank’s coziness with Fannie Mae and his pro-Fannie Mae stances has been lacking. Of the eight appearances Frank made on the three broadcasts networks between Jan. 1, 2008, and Sept. 21, 2008, none of his comments dealt with the potential conflicts of interest. Only six of the appearances dealt with the economy in general and two of those appearances, including an April 6, 2008 appearance on CBS’s “60 Minutes” were about his opposition to a manned mission to Mars.
Frank has argued that family life “should be fair game for campaign discussion,” wrote the Associated Press on Sept. 2. The comment was in reference to GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and her pregnant daughter. “They’re the ones that made an issue of her family,” the Massachusetts Democrat said to the AP.
The news media have covered the relationship in the past, but there have been no mentions since 2005, according to Nexis and despite the collapse of Fannie Mae. The July 3, 1998, Reliable Source column in The Washington Post reported Frank, who is openly gay, had a relationship with Herb Moses, an executive for the now-government controlled Fannie Mae. The column revealed the two had split up at the time but also said Frank was referring to Moses as his “spouse.” Another Washington Post report said Frank called Moses his “lover” and that the two were “still friends” after the breakup.
Stuck on Stupid
http://stuckon-stupid.com/

good thing Barney Frank is not running for President. LOL @ Natasha, grasping desperately at straws

What about McCain’s good buddy, pastor and endorser the Rev. Haage, Natasha? Familiar with his pronouncements? McCain has yet to repudiate him.

The fact that Kenya recognizes dual citizenship or automatically considers those born to their citizens has NO effect on US Law, Natasha. Learn your facts! Hawaii was a state by 1961. US law has NEVER recognized dual citizenship. Get a better argument. And what is your point about using his middle name?

Campbell Brown Suddenly Concerned Over ‘Lack of Experience’
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2008/08/30/campbell-brown-suddenly-concerned-over-lack-experience

Guess you cannot answer any questions

“Palin’s Conservative Problem”
Washington Post blog, 9/30/08

Tired of uneducated losers posting messages…
Hey, uneducated left wing liberals – do you even know what the “Truman Doctrine” is? I am certain that McCain and Palin do, trust me….
otherwise you are in for a big surprise – the best is yet to come from Sarah Palin!!
History 101 for the uneducated left-wing-liberals led by “geopolitically” inept and clueless “Campbell Brown, CNN Family & Friends”
History Lesson 1: Truman Doctrine
video ID:
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History Lesson 2: NATO vs. Russia
video ID:
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Some fool wrote: “Barack Obama believes in globalism.”
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/stephanopoul-10.html?cid=133000497#comment-133000497
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Barack Obama believes in Marxism.
A VIDEO PORTRAIT OF BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?RsrcID=2036

William J. LePetomaine wrote: “Blah blah blah…What about our citizens who are peaceful, law abiding Muslims?”
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I have absolutely nothing against our law abiding Muslim citizens – unless of course they have had “sweet heart” dealings with domestic terrorists, marxists, drug dealers etc. In that case they are not soooo “law abiding citizens”.
Obama’s Terrorist Bill Ayers
Dakota Voice, SD – 9 hours ago
This video puts things into context for those folks who so far just haven’t wanted to deal with this dirty fact surrounding Barack Obama. Bill Ayers, as you … (story continuous below)
Dacota Voice
http://www.dakotavoice.com/2008/10/obamas-terrorist-bill-ayers.html

I bet, Obama does not even know what “NATO ACT” stands for.
NATO Allied Command Transformation Command Video
NATO ACT Command Video “We are NATO’s forcing agent for …
Search Google for video ID:
v=ryuQ0EznYy8

Perhaps, some of you left-wing-liberals would be able to understand why Palin keeps repeating the statement “Alaska is so close to Russia” if you had some clue of what NATO ACT is…
Trust me – it is not what you may think. In fact, somewhere here you will hear something about “proximity to the United States”…
NATO ACT stands for “NATO ALLIED COMMAND TRANSFORMATION”
And here is the official NATO ACT COMMAND video:
NATO ACT Command Video
“We are NATO’s forcing agent for change, leading the continuous improvement of Alliance capabilities to uphold NATO’s global security interests.”
For more information visit:
http://www.act.nato.int
Or search google for video ID #:
v=ryuQ0EznYy8

To uneducated and geopolitically inept left-wing-liberals:
If you think that Sarah Palin as the Governor of Alaska – a state that is only 1.5 miles away from the Russian border – is NOT in the loop of NATO ACT such as this one below – either you are really naive or you must be smoking something funny!!
May 16, 2008
ACT and JFCOM host Joint Forces Reserve Orientation Course – videocast
VIDEOCAST
http://www.act.nato.int/media/5-Multimedia/Vidcasts/080514jfroc.wmv
For a more information regarding ACT:
NATO ALLIED COMMAND TRANSFORMATION
http://www.act.nato.int/
NATO ACT Multimedia Library
http://www.act.nato.int/content.asp?pageid=520

To the media morons and all other left-wing-liberals-socialists-communists:
Just do a Google search with keywords:
NATO+ALASKA+RUSSIAN+BOMBERS
Now, perhaps you can shut-up and stop making fun of Palin’s remarks about Russia’s Putin peaking into our airspace…idiots!!

Just last month…
How is it that we are not hearing anything about this from our “24 hour news-for-dummies” networks???!!!
BBC News
Last Updated: Friday, 17 August 2007, 16:37 GMT 17:37 UK
Russia restarts Cold War patrols
Russia is resuming a Soviet-era practice of sending its bomber aircraft on long-range flights, President Vladimir Putin has said.
Mr Putin said the move to resume the flights permanently after a 15-year suspension was in response to security threats posed by other military powers.
He said 14 bombers had taken off from Russian airfields early on Friday.
The move came a week after Russian bombers flew within a few hundred miles of the US Pacific island of Guam.
A few days ago Moscow said its strategic bombers had begun exercises over the North Pole.
Flexing muscles
“We have decided to restore flights by Russian strategic aviation on a permanent basis,” Mr Putin told reporters at joint military exercises with China and four Central Asian states in Russia’s Ural mountains.
“In 1992, Russia unilaterally ended flights by its strategic aircraft to distant military patrol areas. Unfortunately, our example was not followed by everyone,” Mr Putin said, in an apparent reference to the US.
“Flights by other countries’ strategic aircraft continue and this creates certain problems for ensuring the security of the Russian Federation,” he said.
In Washington, state department spokesman Sean McCormack played down the significance of Russia’s move, saying: “We certainly are not in the kind of posture we were with what used to be the Soviet Union.”
“If Russia feels as though they want to take some of these old aircraft out of mothballs and get them flying again, that’s their decision,” he told reporters.
One of the reasons Russia halted its flights 15 years ago was that it could no longer afford the fuel.
Today Moscow’s coffers are stuffed full of oil money, says the BBC’s Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Moscow, and the Kremlin is determined to show it is still a military power to reckon with.
‘Shadowed by Nato’
Russian media reported earlier on Friday that long-range bombers were airborne, and that Nato jets were shadowing them.
Itar-Tass quoted Russian air force spokesman Alexander Drobyshevsky as saying: “At present, several pairs of Tu-160 and Tu-95MS aircraft are in the air over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, which are accompanied by Nato planes.”
Nato said it was aware of the flights but had no comment on whether Nato planes were in attendance.
In last week’s incident near Guam, the Russian pilots “exchanged smiles” with US fighter pilots who scrambled to track them, a Russian general said.
The US military confirmed the presence of the Russian bombers near Guam, home to a large US base.
Last month two Tupolev 95 aircraft – dubbed “bears” according to their Nato code-name – strayed south from their normal patrol pattern off the Norwegian coast and headed towards Scotland. Two RAF Tornado fighters were sent up to meet them.
Russian bombers have also recently flown close to US airspace over the Arctic Ocean near Alaska.
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If the fact that the left-wing-liberals have shut-up here is a preview of how Palin will make Biden swallow his tongue – for a change – tomorrow’s debate shall prove “quite interesting”
:-)

Joey wrote: “Katie, just another dumb blonde, guess your trying to make up for your lack of experience in journalism!!!!!!!!!!”
Reply to Joey:
Ahaha!! You hit the nail on the head!
Catie Curic is a dumb blonde and Campbell Brown is the definition of “shrill” – a mean and rude brownose.
:-)

Governor Palin – A Star Is Born!!
Appropriate finale for last night’s debate!
A USA Military History (Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6370539579217643597&hl=en
God Bless America!
McCain for President 2008!
Palin for President 2012!

nopalin2009 wrote: “I was embarrased for Palin. If McCain-Palin win in November, then America has truly gone to hell.”
Reply to nopalin2009:
Hmmm, speaking of who is truly going to hell…Is your name Keith Olberman? Or perhaps Campbell Brown?
The left wing liberals, socialists, marxists – Obama bin Biden supporters – and all “24-hour-news-for-dummies” networks are truly the ones going straight to hell…trust me, BABY!!