Palin Speaks At Son’s Iraq Deployment Ceremony

I really liked her in the beginning, but she’s really starting to get annoying.
I’m still for you John, but I’m not so sure about your choice of V.P. I’m doubting you.

Like Obama Bin Laden is going to know crap about foreign policy! He doesn’t even know how many states there are!

As a McCain supporter… you’re an idiot E. Quit fear mongering, get back to the issues. You’re a perfect example why I question McCain and his supporters, such fear mongering.

On this day, of all days, we must remember that Obama has a lot of terrorist friends!

she didn’t answer questions…she did not know what he was talking about part of the time with the most basic low balls on issues.
and there is NO one who watched that interview and did not get a sick feeling in the pit of their stomach.
THIS IS THE PERSON JOHN MCCAIN PICKED AS HIS REPLACEMENT.

What heads of state has Obama met with as a community organizer?

is there video of her speaking at her son’s deployment?
-g4p

What a shame that she uses her son’s decision to go to war, as opposed to an education, as a political event.

They need to keep this woman tucked away until Nov. 4th.
McCain has just proven to us that he has no judgment to run this country… look at what he picked to be VP !!!!
Palin says she is a pitbull with lipstick, she is a camel with a sunburnt rump !!!
Obviously she has kept her head in the sand for way too long, she has no clue on what this country is going thru.
Palin is a huge political joke and no way do I want someone like her next to a button that can start a war.
Keep her in Alaska and hole her up in an igloo until after the election.
PALINE ” THE CANDIDATE TO NOWEHRE”

Dear Miss Wasilla,
The Bush Doctrine is a phrase used to describe various related foreign policy principles of United States president George W. Bush, created in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The phrase initially described the policy that the United States had the right to treat countries that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups as terrorists themselves, which was used to justify the invasion of Afghanistan. Later it came to include additional elements, including the controversial policy of preventive war, which held that the United States should depose foreign regimes that represented a threat to the security of the United States, even if that threat was not immediate (used to justify the invasion of Iraq), a policy of supporting democracy around the world, especially in the Middle East, as a strategy for combating the spread of terrorism, and a willingness to pursue U.S. military interests in a unilateral way. Some of these policies were codified in a National Security Council text entitled the National Security Strategy of the United States published on September 20, 2002.
“You mean his world view, Charlie?”

It was great to see somebody have the balls to talk about palin the way everyone with intelligence has been thinking. I’m talking about the Matt Damon video here on abcnews.com where he discusses the absurdity of mccain’s pick and worse, the possibility of her stepping in to be our President. Obama/Biden 2008!!!

Let us take a breath and realize that we were not privileged to hear one COMPLETE answer. ABC had a really quick finger in the edit key!!!

I kind of feel bad for Gov Palin a bit. I was hoping to see her perform a little better than she did. She wasn’t terrible but not very good either. She’s kind of in a tough position with a lot of pressure (which is good because I want to see how she reacts in these situations). She obviously hasn’t given foreign policy and international affairs a whole lot of thought or else the campaign is keeping her so tight that she basically is only allowed to memorize McCain policy and talking points. I’d prefer to see her think for herself, even if her views stray from McCain’s a bit and then she could highlight the fact that having differing points of views in the White House can be an asset to an administration. Instead, I’m afraid that she is being made to look like a robot. I think the McCain camp would be better off to let her be herself more.
In the end, for me, I hope the neocons get their a**es handed to them this election so they might actually get A FRIGGIN CLUE and go back to their conservative roots. These foreign policies (by both parties) are so ridiculous. WAKE UP people! You think Obama is your savior….McCain? Give me a break.

We are all very proud of our military.
But if they must go to war, please make
it a just war and they will win, and it
will be because America is in danger.
Bin Laden is still free.
She is saying that it is God’s war
and she is sending her son into this war
with that attitude.
We are mother’s and our instinct is to
want to protect our children.
I wonder about this woman greatly.
God Bless her son and every soldier but
God has nothing to do with this war.
Bush does.

We are going to need help if she gets
near the White House. I can’t believe
she would say those things and be sending
her son into a war as if it is nothing.
Here I keep praying all our soldiers will
come home now. She is very scary and to
hear the way she is sending her son off
to this war is sad. I would be beside
myself if I had to say goodbye and send
my son to war. I would be very proud of
him for wanting to defend our country but I’m a mother first and foremost.
God Bless our Troops but this woman
has got me very worried. God has nothing to do with this war.
She speaks of going to war with Russia.
I don’t understand what she is doing at
all. We are supposed to be keeping ourselves out of wars not making them.
I feel bad for her son that he is leaving and his mother is acting like
it’s just another day. Sad!!

Let me say a few things… First off I was there today while she spoke at the Ft Wainwright deploment ceremony. She may have stuttered up a few times and maybe even mispronounced Iraq city’s (most of us do) but she was a wonderful speaker and honestly we was all honored to be part of this ceremony. They make it out to be a going away “party” for her son Track but it wasnt… It was a deployment ceremony for over 4,000 Soldiers deploying and we was lucky that she commited to speak BEFORE her VP nomination. She never once mentioned her son directly but did put herself in as an Army family. I guess to the public it would seem to be a publicity stunt but it really wasnt what so ever. She was there to honor the Stryker’s before they deploy one of them being my husband. So do me a favor the next time you want to “bash” Gov Palin instead bow ur head and pray for the troops not only from 1/25 (Arctic Wolves) but for every person in combat. I personally THANK Sarah for being there, she wasnt fake,and dont have to “pretend” to know what all of us wives and families are going thru…she knows first hand as a mother of a soldier…not as a republican running mate for VP! SO THANK YOU SARAH SO MUCH, IT TRUELY MENT ALOT TO ALL OF US THAT YOU ATTENDED TODAY! HOOAH!!!!!!

For all the people that think Palin is ready to go to war with Russia, you need to know that if Georgia joins Nato that we and all the other nations in NATO have the responsibility to defend the Nation OF Georgia. SO WAke up!!!! I think Palin is kicking ass and taking names and it SCARES all you liberals b/c Obama may not make it in to the Whitehouse. This woman is a leader and shows true courage time and time again. So keep trying to knock her down b/c she rises to the occasion every time

“ANOTHER DISGRACFULL PHOTO-OP ,YOU DONT SEE JOE BIDEN DOING ALL THIS, AND HIS SON IF OFF TO IRAQ.
YOU CANT TELL ME SHE COULD HAVE DONE THIS IN PRIVATE AND EVEN IF SHE WENT, NOT HAVE A STUMP AND A MIC.” by Sicken.
Hey Sicken: Joe Biden is not a Gov. He is not the commander in cheif of any national guard, therefore, he would never have the opportunity to do what she did.

To get a true picture of Palin (or any politican),let Rick Warren ask the questions … He is the only really fair interviewer -

jshimota:
•••I for one wish there wasn’t so many news orgs. Because of them, there are now to many places for the surrogates to mouth off and I can’t really get a good read on the candidates. For me, this first chance to listen to Palin was important, and I give a demerit to the GOP for making me wait to hear her answer a few simple questions. I hope McCain/Obama start talking about issues and we can quit having to sift through the attack ads and retoric. So far, I’ve only a mediocre idea of Obama, and even lesser (much lesser) idea of McCain.•••
DITTO
i do believe that she isn’t as bad as the press has dressed her to be but she is far from ready to do what is necessary when the pressure is on.
(and i have a daughter who just returned from iraq and just finished 5 years in the navy and wasn’t deployed there but VOLUNTEERED to go…doubt if track did that one…)i can sympathize with palin’s emotions as it is tough to let them go but have to wonder what kind of assignment this child will get compared to others who don’t have a parent that is high profiled…so for that part, not sure if he will see much anguish or true dangers like our marines and special ops. but the risk is there regardless.)
and you all need to realize that this examination is going to happen to any darkhorse candidate that john mccain was going to choose, he might or might not of picked the right person, i think if he wanted to win the presidency, he would of gone with romney or pawlenty but no…not john…we will see if he ends up on a really short stick but i will bet you that he will still have an important role in this government and sarah? she will go home to alaska and finish her term and then hopefully give that little angel trig the attention he deserves!!!

you are all clueless morons

it was either enlisting or jail time for vandalism and drugs! What a patriot for the Holy War Crusades

Here is part of the danger when a politician brings God into politics and their foreign policy decisions.
Sarah Palin says that she hopes that we are on God’s side in this war but that she is not SURE we are.
She says that she is ready for us to go to war, and that she wants to have God’s blessing, but that no one can know for sure the will of God.
She is wrong.
I can know for sure the will of God and so can you. God speaks to us and if you listen you can sometimes know his will. If I am not sure that I am on a path from God I can sometimes feel it and I don’t think I am the only one.
I’m talking about the big decisions in life here, not which grocery store I should try to find cheap bread at.
And then there are the Commandments. I think we all know that they are from God and therefore His will. So, even if God has never sent you any kind of message, or guided you in a way that you could perceive, you know at least a little of His will through those rules. Enough to live a good and God-loving life by.
Take number 7. My marriage for instance. I am sure that it is the will of God that I should try my best to be a good wife and not cheat on my husband. I know it for sure, without any question. If, that’s IF, I ever wanted to cheat on my husband and knew that God would usually consider that cheating a sin, but I thought that I had good reason to cheat and I prayed really hard that He would let it be His will, I STILL would not cheat, since I love God and the Commandments, unless and until I thought that I had proof that He wanted me to cheat. It’s very unlikely that that would happen, I think you would agree.
The same with killing, number 6, but not at all funny now. If I know that it is the will of God that I NOT KILL, and I DO know that because it’s a Commandment, then I would NOT KILL unless I had what I thought was proof from God that I should.
If our leaders really believe that God can and will guide them and that He will protect our soldiers, but only IF they are on a mission that is sanctioned and blessed by God, then they should NEVER send those soldiers on any mission or war unless they were SURE beyond any doubt that it WAS a mission from God.
In other words, if you really think that God will protect you if you go to war, but only if you are on His side, you would simply not go to war unless and until you thought that you had proof that you are.
To do otherwise is not only to foolishly disregard your own safety, but it’s like saying that even though you think that God CAN guide you and help you make the big decisions if He so chooses, you are just going to go ahead and slaughter people, including innocent women and children, without waiting for a sign, for a message from Him to see if He wants you to.
So, the situation is this; I believe, as many others do, that God is there to help us make decisions and will guide us in life and that if God wants me to kill or die for something, then He will give me what I would consider to be ABSOLUTE proof that I am meant to do that, or I would not do it.
So if Bush and McCain and Palin and Cheney truly believe in a God that will lead them and help them, yet they are sending thousands of our best off to kill or die, and hundreds of thousands of others to die in the wreckage of this war, WITHOUT KNOWING FOR SURE THAT IT IS GOD’S WILL THAT THEY SHOULD DO IT, then what does that say about their regard for our soldiers, for human life in general, or for any kind of good stewardship of God’s Creation?
Sarah Palin recently had a press conference sending her own child off to fight in this war that she has prayed is God’s will. I know that it was his choice to join up, but as part of the Republican leadership of this country who was for this war from the beginning, she is more than a little responsible for the danger that he is going into. If she really believed that God can protect her son, and if she really believed that he SHOULD ONLY BE FIGHTING if he is fighting on God’s side, well, all I can say is, if I had a choice I would not send either of my sons off to kill or die unless I were SURE, sure beyond the shadow of any doubt that it was God’s will. You see I want my sons to have God’s full protection and I don’t believe that they would have that if they were killing, and in so doing breaking a Commandment, without God’s sanction.
But, if you truly only go to war as a last resort and only with what you believe is God’s sanction and if you leave the “kill every last enemy or we have no honor” mindset that McCain seems to have out of politics, then you could rest easy knowing that you have killed no one, or caused them to die without good reason.
Can we, as a nation, rest easy? Do we have God’s sanction for all of this killing? Were our leaders’ prayers for guidance answered? They themselves have as much as admitted that those prayers were not ever answered.
I don’t think that the republicans ever had a good reason for this war in Iraq, and that’s’ why they have been bringing in God and Faith so much to defend their decisions. Because since they think we can’t know for sure that it ISN’T God’s will that we bomb Iraq into submission, we can’t nay-say them. But when they themselves admit that they don’t really know if all this killing is what we should be doing for God, then the horrible truth that we all have to face as a country is this, that our leaders may have evoked God’s name in vain to the tune of hundreds of thousands dead.
I would like it if the politicians would leave God’s will out of their speeches. At least until they were SURE that what they are asking us to participate in as a country, like killing people in this war in Iraq, something that clearly breaks a sacred Commandment, is His will. They should keep praying, keep asking for Him to guide them, but don’t move on those big decisions until they are sure.
I have a hard time believing that someone’s faith and love in God and the Bible are very strong when they will break His Commandments without feeling sure that they have proof from Him that it’s His will.
Both of my parents and one of my brothers are veterans and I would encourage my own sons to join up and serve their country, but only if I could be sure that our leaders would wait until they were SURE before sending them off to break God’s Commandments.
We all know that God has commanded us to not kill. Does anyone dispute that his Commandments are His will? You should at least try very hard to follow God’s will if you are going to talk about your Faith so much in your quest to be a leader. I love God more than I love this country and much more than I love the goals of our leaders and I fervently wish they would follow his rules more closely.

McSame voted with Bush 91% of the Time… NO CHANGE THERE!
McSame employs 134 Lobyests on his campaing…. NO CHANGE THERE!

any republicans here believe in Creationism… Just Curious???

what a great job she did yeah he asked tuff questions but she gave the right answer if she would have said if nato was attacked would we stand buy and let russia take a nato country i wouldnt vote for her she gave the right answer im glad it was tuff because now i feel like i can trust her i dont want a wimp for president im sure putin sees she gonna be strong you cant show weakness she didnt so she gets my vote

ask a cave man if he caused global cooling maybe he didnt lite enuff fires or something the climate of the world is gonna change at times i think i will stand with mccains approach we can do what we can to help reduce it if just not to leave our country better for our children its the right approach if you feel diff about it stop driving your car turn off your ac in your home other wise dont talk

I can hear McCains’ boys now, “If this kid gets dusted, we’re in.”

You know there was less than 2% latino people at the GOP convention

i was born in houston im an american how about you i lived here 50 years

Good luck Reyes

thanks irish good luck is a good thing ineed all we can get imma try to stay safe

What this doesn’t mention is that Palin linked the “righteous” war in Iraq to 9/11 – 5 years after the Bush administration admitted there was no connection!! Can’t believe she would do such a thing on 9/11 – shameful.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080912/cm_thenation/1359848_1
Palin Channels Cheney’s 9/11-Iraq Falsehoods
When everyone’s attention was focusing on Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s less-than-reassuring interview about foreign policy with ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson, the Republican nominee for vice president was off delivering a speech in which she suggested a dramatically greater ignorance of recent history and international affairs than was on display in the interview…
“You’ll be there to defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the deaths of thousands of Americans,” Palin told the departing soldiers….

There’s an amazing thing going on in America right now.
The media has been shoving Barack Obama down our throats.
The DNC has been shoving Barack Obama down our throats.
For a politician who promised to bring an end to partisan politics, he’s blown his own party to smithereens.telling us that Obama is ready to be President.
Out here in real America, we’re looking at two resumes. We’re not looking at what color the background is.
Now we have the swarm from BO’s smirky brand of gutter politics that depends on ridicule.
We don’t see leadrship in Democrats.
We see leadership in both John McCain AND Sarah Palin.
AND Hillary Clinton.
Too bad Democrats see leadership in Nancy Pelosi.
America doesn’t.

I don’t know about the rest of America.
But I’m mad that a person that the
Republicans voted in for eight years
has brought America to such a level.
Bush doesn’t care for human life.
Bush doesn’t care about sending your
job overseas, Bush doesn’t care whether
your children have a good education,
Bush doesn’t care how much it take and cost for you to drive to work to make
your living. Bush doesn’t care that you will spend the rest of your, and your children’s lives and their children’s
paying or a war that should have never
been started. Bush doesn’t care for our
wounded soldiers. My God what kind of
person do you want in the White House.
Take a good look and McCain and Palin
will be another Bush and Cheney or worse
from what I hear from them both.
This is all our chance to turn America
around. My God haven’t any of you
Republicans have had enough of America
being brought to such a terrible level.
My family deserves better than this.
That is why I’m going to vote for Obama.
Our military men and women never deserved what Bush did to them.
He didn’t send enough troops, he didn’t
care if they had the right protection.
He didn’t care if they had wonderful
care when they got back home.
Yes, I’m mad this is my country and I
happen to love it and I love our Military and they deserve the very best
we can give them.
God did not to this Bush and his Administration did all this mess.
God Bless American and I will stand
behind Barack Obama for President of
the Untied States of America!!!!!!!!!!!!

another staged event… Palin’s son won’t be deployed until later near the end of the month, they moved the ceremony up to 9/11 for political points….. nice move … BUT… political…
of course this is just another example of her & McCain’s proposed ‘new politics’ and ‘reform’, they would never stoop to use family as a politica; prop.

Pls i need answers to Palin claim that America’s invasion of Iraq is God’s will. Can someone explain to me the extent of God’s will in the life of all nations on the earth. Can it be said that it was also the will of God for the 9/11 events? I need answers from Palin but admirers can also help.

people act like she should be given a pass or something what because shes a woman… heck no… she has to show that shes just a good as a man.. and i am sorry to say that shes not… she should be kicked for using that kid of hers for photo shots… let the go off to the war… he probably doesnt even want to..i just sat there laughing my butt off at that interview she did.. it was so sorry i couldnt do anything but laugh… to the person calling them selves Judge…. well how can Mccain guide anyone anywhere when he wont even support vets and their causes and their issues… give me a break.. he has either not bothered to show up to vote on important issues for vets and the GI bill or voted no on them.. give me a break he stood up at that debate and said he loves the vet and they no that he will take care of them. what a load of crap.. thats one thing that i am very cncerned about is vets and anything to do with the troops…. like the gov.. wanting troops thats got money for siging up and go over and serve their country and get wounded and have to come home as a result and the gov wants them to pay that money back.. give me a break… the gov. does nothing to protect our men and women that serve… and mccain being someone who served himself… he should be leading that fight but hes not unstead he is full it… and so is his token running mate…

WASHINGTON – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has charged her state a daily allowance, normally used for official travel, for more than 300 nights spent at her home, The Washington Post.
An analysis of travel statements filed by the governor, now John McCain’s Republican running mate, shows she claimed the per diem allowance on 312 occasions when she was home in Wasilla and that she billed taxpayers $43,490 for travel by her husband and children.
Palin’s spending and record in office are coming under intense scrutiny as she is presented to the nation as a champion of ethics reform and frugal use of tax dollars — a leader who put the state jet on sale on eBay and drives herself to work.
The Post’s analysis shows her husband Todd and their daughters were reimbursed by taxpayers for many trips between Wasilla and Juneau as well as for a variety of other travel that was also listed as state business. Palin’s aides said travel by Alaska’s first family is part of the job.
But it’s not clear when children’s travel expenses should be covered. State finance director Kim Garnero told the paper the government covers the travel costs of anyone conducting state business and, “I can’t imagine kids could be doing that.”
Palin took her daughter Bristol to New York in October for a conference on women and leadership, a tour of the New York Stock Exchange and various meetings, the analysis shows. Travel costs included three nights in a hotel room costing more than $700 a night