Oct 2, 2008 3:34am

Stephanopoulos: Palin a Drag on Republican Ticket

ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos reports: Stakes are high for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin going into tonight’s vice presidential debate with Sen. Joe Biden, D-Dela., with the latest poll finding she has become a drag on the Republican ticket.

Any mistake or gaffe by Palin could be fatal with a new poll finding voters are now questioning their commitment to Republican presidential candidate John McCain because of her.

About one third of likely voters, 32 percent of likely voters now say Palin makes it less likely they’ll vote for McCain, according to the ABC News/Washington Post poll released today.

Palin is beginning to have a big credibility problem: 60 percent of Americans are now doubting her qualifications for office, up 15 points from an ABC/Post poll last month.

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The poll found a minority of likely voters, 35 percent, believe she is experience enough to be president.

The ABC poll also suggests that questions about Palin are reinforcing concerns about McCain’s age. Almost half of voters, 48 percent, now say the senator’s age is a worry — a new high — and 85 percent of that group say that Palin is not qualified to serve as President.

It hasn’t been an easy month for the Alaska governor. Palin initially boosted McCain’s poll numbers, but after refusing to speak to the media she gave a few select interviews where she gave muddled responses.

Contributing to her perception problem: more voters have likely seen the Saturday Night Live sketches making fun of her rather than hearing her speak on the campaign trail.

It’s all cementing in the minds of voters a preconceived notion that Palin is ill-prepared for the job.

Biden’s poll numbers contrast starkly with Palin’s with 75 percent of Americans saying he understands complex issues, 70 percent saying he has suitable experience to take over as president if necessary, and just 13 percent saying the Delaware senator makes them less apt to support Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

In his debate against Palin tonight, Biden will try to show gracious restraint, and focus his attacks against McCain, Obama campaign aides tell ABC News.

Meanwhile McCain campaign aides say Palin will attempt to aggressively take the fight to Obama. 

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Posted by: historyremembered | October 2, 2008, 3:47 am 3:47 am

Headline: Palin a Drag on Republican Ticket
Gee, you would have thought they could have figured that out a LONG time ago.. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize it.. Even Dr. Phil.. DR. PHIL knew!! — sing along.. one of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn’t belong…”

Posted by: GreenEggsAndHam | October 2, 2008, 3:59 am 3:59 am

Stephanopoulos The Colmes of ABC.
The man tooting Obama horn to make himself a name.
Is he Paid off or just a koolaid drinker?
One sided opinionated jourlism,

Posted by: seah | October 2, 2008, 4:03 am 4:03 am

I think the cute little SNL SKITS are hilarious, but do not deserve air time on credible news reports. Have the news editors of the ABC-NBC-CBS lost all credibility? Tina Fey is doing a fabulous job of showing the world just how dumb American’s are. I guess that is her “service to America”. Maybe she will win a Pulitzer prize for her work.

Posted by: disillusioned2008 | October 2, 2008, 4:18 am 4:18 am

Of course Sarah Palin is a drag on John McCain’s “bridge to the White House”. He chose her strictly for the benefit of one family in America-HIS– and then runs on a Country First ticket. Mrs. McCain has made it abundantly clear that she plans to remain in Arizona running daddy’s business and wants little to do with Washington D.C. so Senator McCain will need a surrogate “first lady”. He gives the American people way too much credit for being STUPID!!! I for one do not want to take the chance, I guess I am not a gambler like John–but I don’t have the money to be–on President Palin being in labor when the next crisis takes place or having to answer a tough question, Like what newspaper she reads.
Sybil

Posted by: sybil30 | October 2, 2008, 4:21 am 4:21 am

I think if there were a few more months in this election, Sarah Palin would drop from the ticket. Obviously McCain made a big mistake by not venting her before choosing her.
I believe he chose her because she had that” hollywood” look, she was young, and she was a women.Unfortunately, there was non substance behind that pretty face.

Posted by: militarymom | October 2, 2008, 4:22 am 4:22 am

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 before she has 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?
Here is her response to a question on the economy, a critical issue, you would agree, Sen. McCain:
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, smiling).
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 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.(nodding)
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 is 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. Katie, I would say to the media: Once again–we “gotcha” to lower the bar. We “gotcha” to set expectations far below those actually required for a President. We “gotcha” to focus on characteristics unrelated to Presidential capability, and to ignore her statements on these issues made only days earlier–as if a few days of debate preparation can erase a glaring and dangerous actual lack of knowledge and preparedness. Yes, indeed–we “gotcha”. (smiles).
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

Posted by: Jana Walter | October 2, 2008, 4:22 am 4:22 am

Georgie, the debate has not even taken place yet, but since you are Oduma’s lover, you are already making predictions. He must be paying you a ton of money to make these premature predictions.
Keep suckin’ up, Georgie.

Posted by: Alaina | October 2, 2008, 4:23 am 4:23 am

Think of all the stupid “snip its” as fabulous ads for tonights debates. Sarah Palin still commands the attention of all the world, who is the dumb one here ?

Posted by: disillusioned2008 | October 2, 2008, 4:23 am 4:23 am

Guys…if you have ever watched Stephanopoulos you would know he is pro Rep all the way…but he has to be honest…Palin is a disaster.
Tonight will be th clincher. If she can hold on and not make ANY mistakes, maybe they have a chance.But if she drops any bombs, McCain is done

Posted by: thetruth | October 2, 2008, 4:27 am 4:27 am

I am an Obama supporter but I think that Palin will be just fine tonight.

Posted by: Sandra | October 2, 2008, 4:27 am 4:27 am

disill…she commands attention because they want a little comic relief. She is making the US a laughing stalk. PLEASE…If you were a world leader would you stand in line to see someone who considers living next to a country foreign policy experience?

Posted by: happless | October 2, 2008, 4:30 am 4:30 am

Everyone in the world knows exactly who Sarah Palin is right now. The media and Barack Obama’s 10,000 lawyers have done there best to tarnish this wonderful womans accomplishments, name and family. You lose. Sarah is the ONLY candidate of the four with executive experience. THE ONLY ONE. She is more ready to be President of the US more than any other candidate. Palin/McCain 08

Posted by: Shiny Pennies | October 2, 2008, 4:31 am 4:31 am

“Tina Fey is doing a fabulous job of showing the world just how dumb American’s are”
I’d say she’s doing a fabulous job of showing the world just how dumb Palin is. :-)

Posted by: Aengil | October 2, 2008, 4:31 am 4:31 am

Well, considering the fact that tonight’s VP debate “moderator” is writing a PRO-OBAMA BOOK, if Palin can hold her own, she would be considered the victor.
Incidentally, the latest Gallup poll shows the race to be a near dead-heat again – Obama 48% to McCain 44%, within the margin of error.

Posted by: mike | October 2, 2008, 4:32 am 4:32 am

I actually feel sorry for her. I think McCain walked into her life, told her she could be the VP,built her up, and let the dogs loose.
She is out of her league, and sinking, because a VERY selfish man used her to get what he wanted.

Posted by: christian | October 2, 2008, 4:32 am 4:32 am

“Make the lie big,make it simple,keep saying it and eventually they will beleive it” Adolf Hitler
This guy knew a thing or two about devious minds.

Posted by: kdefree | October 2, 2008, 4:32 am 4:32 am

You shouldn’t judge Sarah Palin like that because Joe Biden could likely run his mouth or as people would call him a “motormouth” and say the wrong things for some of the topics in tonight’s debate.
And I really think that he’s not ready to be vice president because look at what he says about Hillary Clinton:
“Make no mistake about this, Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight,” Biden said testily when a voter told Biden he was glad the Delaware senator had been chosen and not Clinton.
“She’s a truly close personal friend and she is qualified to be President of the United States of America, she’s easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America and quite frankly it might have been a better pick than me,” he continued.
“I mean that sincerely, she’s first rate.”
In which likely he could mess up tonight.And it’s also a big disadvantage to Obama for having a running mate to run his mouth all the time.

Posted by: Derek | October 2, 2008, 4:33 am 4:33 am

Ha ha…hope Joe Biden tells how he was shot down by snowflakes in Afganistan. What a team, a lawyer and a liar. Kinda fit.

Posted by: GK | October 2, 2008, 4:33 am 4:33 am

Barack Obama/Joe biden will win the election in 2008 and I am a huge supporter of the democratic party. However, I must say that I admire Sarah and all of you lunatics that are trash talking her are only hurting our ticket. Stop bashing her unless you are prepared for the backlash. Do not help the republican party.

Posted by: Obama Biden 2008 | October 2, 2008, 4:34 am 4:34 am

george steponanoplis is a total axx kissing dem. and we all know that. Palin is certainly not a drag on the rep. ticket, you dope, look at biden, his is a total axx hxxe and you still say nothing about this liar, tvs in the 20s and roosovelt pres. in the 20s, please, now he was shot at in afgan, another lie, he was a coal miner, lie,

Posted by: stan | October 2, 2008, 4:35 am 4:35 am

Don’t kill the messenger! The truth hurts doesn’t it? Bias & favoritism towards Palin has clouded Republican minds. Palin is clueless and way out of her league which will be proven again tonight in a gross mis-match with Biden.

Posted by: Jackson in NC | October 2, 2008, 4:35 am 4:35 am

Yet the opposite was being written about a month ago. This campaign is in hyper-speed. Suddenly Obama gets back the momentum and Palin finally becomes the sore spot for McCain…
http://www.political-buzz.com/

Posted by: matt | October 2, 2008, 4:35 am 4:35 am

Mike…you cannot determine this by looking at only one poll. There are ten major polls. All have Obama by 4-7 point ahead. The average right now is :
Obama 49 McCain 43
as of Oct 1st

Posted by: cindyct | October 2, 2008, 4:36 am 4:36 am

Has anybody even bothered to check out her previous debates before they bury her. Biden can’t stop his gaffes either; But the fawning corporate media just can’t bring themselves to criticize Obama’s handler. I’m not concerned and am looking forward to Biden screwing up like he has the whole campaign.

Posted by: hmn | October 2, 2008, 4:37 am 4:37 am

@historyremembered … remember to take your meds before you start posting next time.

Posted by: Tamoko | October 2, 2008, 4:37 am 4:37 am

Palin is stupid and ugly. Alaska sucks and is freezing cold. That’s why no one lives there other than crazy people and criminals. Obama 08

Posted by: Vote Repubs out of office | October 2, 2008, 4:38 am 4:38 am

Jackson…you are so right.
Plus, most Dems are recommending that Biden go easy as not to appear to be sexist.Want a bunk…she is just like everyother candidate, male or female…

Posted by: formerhillary | October 2, 2008, 4:38 am 4:38 am

Do you know a “Joe-Six Pack” that lives in a $550K home and whose net worth is $1M+???????

Posted by: rick | October 2, 2008, 4:40 am 4:40 am

hmn…don’t forget…her former debates were on local and state issues, not national, which she knows ABSOLUTLEY nothing about!! Her problem has been not outright admitting she didn’t know, by is sure that she will learn when she gets there….DAAAA

Posted by: forthegoodlife | October 2, 2008, 4:40 am 4:40 am

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Obama’s women reveal his secret
By Spengler
“Cherchez la femme,” advised Alexander Dumas in: “When you want to uncover an unspecified secret, look for the woman.” In the case of Barack Obama, we have two: his late mother, the went-native anthropologist Ann Dunham, and his rancorous wife Michelle. Obama’s women reveal his secret: he hates America.
We know less about Senator Obama than about any prospective president in American history. His uplifting rhetoric is empty, as Hillary Clinton helplessly protests. His career bears no trace of his own character, not an article for the Harvard Law Review he
edited, or a single piece of legislation. He appears to be an empty vessel filled with the wishful thinking of those around him. But there is a real Barack Obama. No man – least of all one abandoned in infancy by his father – can conceal the imprint of an impassioned mother, or the influence of a brilliant wife.
America is not the embodiment of hope, but the abandonment of one kind of hope in return for another. America is the spirit of creative destruction, selecting immigrants willing to turn their back on the tragedy of their own failing culture in return for a new start. Its creative success is so enormous that its global influence hastens the decline of other cultures. For those on the destruction side of the trade, America is a monster. Between half and nine-tenths of the world’s 6,700 spoken languages will become extinct in the next century, and the anguish of dying peoples rises up in a global cry of despair. Some of those who listen to this cry become anthropologists, the curators of soon-to-be extinct cultures; anthropologists who really identify with their subjects marry them. Obama’s mother, the University of Hawaii anthropologist Ann Dunham, did so twice.
Obama profiles Americans the way anthropologists interact with primitive peoples. He holds his own view in reserve and emphatically draws out the feelings of others; that is how friends and colleagues describe his modus operandi since his days at the Harvard Law Review, through his years as a community activist in Chicago, and in national politics. Anthropologists, though, proceed from resentment against the devouring culture of America and sympathy with the endangered cultures of the primitive world. Obama inverts the anthropological model: he applies the tools of cultural manipulation out of resentment against America. The probable next president of the United States is a mother’s revenge against the America she despised.
Ann Dunham died in 1995, and her character emerges piecemeal from the historical record, to which I will return below. But Michelle Obama is a living witness. Her February 18 comment that she felt proud of her country for the first time caused a minor scandal, and was hastily qualified. But she meant it, and more. The video footage of her remarks shows eyes hooded with rage as she declares:
For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country and not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment.
The desperation, frustration and disappointment visible on Michelle Obama’s face are not new to the candidate’s wife; as Steve Sailer, Rod Dreher and other commentators have noted, they were the theme of her undergraduate thesis, on the subject of “blackness” at Princeton University. No matter what the good intentions of Princeton, which founded her fortunes as a well-paid corporate lawyer, she wrote, “My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‘Blackness’ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my White professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.”
Never underestimate the influence of a wife who bitch-slaps her husband in public. Early in Obama’s campaign, Michelle Obama could not restrain herself from belittling the senator. “I have some difficulty reconciling the two images I have of Barack Obama. There’s Barack Obama the phenomenon. He’s an amazing orator, Harvard Law Review, or whatever it was, law professor, best-selling author, Grammy winner. Pretty amazing, right? And then there’s the Barack Obama that lives with me in my house, and that guy’s a little less impressive,” she told a fundraiser in February 2007.
“For some reason this guy still can’t manage to put the butter up when he makes toast, secure the bread so that it doesn’t get stale, and his five-year-old is still better at making the bed than he is.” New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd reported at the time, “She added that the TV version of Barack Obama sounded really interesting and that she’d like to meet him sometime.” Her handlers have convinced her to be more tactful since then.
“Frustration” and “disappointment” have dogged Michelle Obama these past 20 years, despite her US$300,000 a year salary and corporate board memberships. It is hard for the descendants of slaves not to resent America. They were not voluntary immigrants but kidnap victims, subjected to a century of second-class citizenship even after the Civil War ended slavery. Blackness is not the issue; General Colin Powell, whose parents chose to immigrate to America from the West Indies, saw America just as other immigrants do, as a land of opportunity. Obama’s choice of wife is a failsafe indicator of his own sentiments. Spouses do not necessarily share their likes, but they must have their hatreds in common. Obama imbibed this hatred with his mother’s milk.
Michelle Obama speaks with greater warmth of her mother-in-law than of her husband. “She was kind of a dreamer, his mother,” Michelle Obama was quoted in the January 25 Boston Globe. “She wanted the world to be open to her and her children. And as a result of her naivete, sometimes they lived on food stamps, because sometimes dreams don’t pay the rent. But as a result of her naivete, Barack got to see the world like most of us don’t in this country.” How strong the ideological motivation must be of a mother to raise her children on the thin fair in pursuit of a political agenda.
“Naivete” is a euphemism for Ann Dunham’s motivation. Friends describe her as a “fellow traveler”, that is, a communist sympathizer, from her youth, according to a March 27, 2007, Chicago Tribune report. Many Americans harbor leftist views, but not many marry into them, twice. Ann Dunham met and married the Kenyan economics student Barack Obama, Sr, at the University of Hawaii in 1960, and in 1967 married the Indonesian student Lolo Soetero. It is unclear why Soetero’s student visa was revoked in 1967 – the fact but not the cause are noted in press accounts. But it is probable that the change in government in Indonesia in 1967, in which the leftist leader Sukarno was deposed, was the motivation.
Soetero had been sponsored as a graduate student by one of the most radical of all Third World governments. Sukarno had founded the so-called Non-Aligned Movement as an anti-colonialist turn at the 1955 Bandung Conference in Indonesia. Before deposing him in 1967, Indonesia’s military slaughtered 500,000 communists (or unfortunates who were mistaken for communists). When Ann Dunham chose to follow Lolo Soetero to Indonesia in 1967, she brought the six-year-old Barack into the kitchen of anti-colonialist outrage, immediate following one of the worst episodes of civil violence in post-war history.
Dunham’s experience in Indonesia provided the material for a doctoral dissertation celebrating the hardiness of local cultures against the encroaching metropolis. It was entitled, “Peasant blacksmithing in Indonesia: surviving against all odds”. In this respect Dunham remained within the mainstream of her discipline. Anthropology broke into popular awareness with Margaret Mead’s long-discredited Coming of Age in Samoa (1928), which offered a falsified ideal of sexual liberation in the South Pacific as an alternative to the supposedly repressive West. Mead’s work was one of the founding documents of the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and anthropology faculties stood at the left-wing fringe of American universities.
In the Global South, anthropologists went into the field and took matters a step further. Peru’s brutal Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerilla movement was the brainchild of the anthropologist
Efrain Morote Best, who headed the University of San Cristobal of Huamanga in Ayacucho, Peru, between 1962 and 1968. Dunham’s radicalism was more vicarious; she ended her career as an employee of international organizations.
Barack Obama received at least some instruction in the Islamic faith of his father and went with him to the mosque, but the importance of this experience is vastly overstated by conservative commentators who seek to portray Obama as a Muslim of sorts. Radical anti-Americanism, rather than Islam, was the reigning faith in the Dunham household. In the Muslim world of the 1960s, nationalism rather than radical Islam was the ideology of choice among the enraged. Radical Islam did not emerge as a major
political force until the nationalism of a Gamal Abdel Nasser or a Sukarno failed.
Barack Obama is a clever fellow who imbibed hatred of America with his mother’s milk, but worked his way up the elite ladder of education and career. He shares the resentment of Muslims against the encroachment of American culture, although not their religion. He has the empathetic skill set of an anthropologist who lives with his subjects, learns their language, and elicits their hopes and fears while remaining at emotional distance. That is, he is the political equivalent of a sociopath. The difference is that he is practicing not on a primitive tribe but on the population of the United States.
There is nothing mysterious about Obama’s methods. “A demagogue tries to sound as stupid as his audience so that they will think they are as clever as he is,” wrote Karl Krauss. Americans are the world’s biggest suckers, and laugh at this weakness in their popular culture. Listening to Obama speak, Sinclair Lewis’ cynical tent-revivalist Elmer Gantry comes to mind, or, even better, Tyrone Power’s portrayal of a carnival mentalist in the 1947 film noire Nightmare Alley. The latter is available for instant viewing at Netflix, and highly recommended as an antidote to having felt uplifted by an Obama speech.
America has the great misfortune to have encountered Obama at the peak of his powers at its worst moment of vulnerability in a generation. With malice aforethought, he has sought out their sore point.
Since the Ronald Reagan boom began in 1984, the year the American stock market doubled, Americans have enjoyed a quarter-century of rising wealth. Even the collapse of the Internet bubble in 2000 did not interrupt the upward trajectory of household assets, as the housing price boom eclipsed the effect of equity market weakness. America’s success made it a magnet for the world’s savings, and Americans came to believe that they were riding a boom that would last forever, as I wrote recently [1].
Americans regard upward mobility as a God-given right. America had a double founding, as David Hackett Fischer showed in his 1989 study, Albion’s Seed . Two kinds of immigrants founded America: religious dissidents seeking a new Promised Land, and economic opportunists looking to get rich quick. Both elements still are present, but the course of the past quarter-century has made wealth-creation the sine qua non of American life. Now for the first time in a generation Americans have become poorer, and many of them have become much poorer due to the collapse of home prices. Unlike the Reagan years, when cutting the top tax rate from a punitive 70% to a more tolerable 40% was sufficient to start an economic boom, no lever of economic policy is available to fix the problem. Americans have no choice but to work harder, retire later, save more and retrench.
This reversal has provoked a national mood of existential crisis. In Europe, economic downturns do not inspire this kind of soul-searching, for richer are poorer, remain what they always have been. But Americans are what they make of themselves, and the slim makings of 2008 shake their sense of identity. Americans have no institutionalized culture to fall back on. Their national religion has consisted of waves of enthusiasm – “Great Awakenings” – every second generation or so, followed by an interim of apathy. In times of stress they have a baleful susceptibility to hucksters and conmen.
Be afraid – be very afraid. America is at a low point in its fortunes, and feeling sorry for itself. When Barack utters the word “hope”, they instead hear, “handout”. A cynic might translate the national motto, E pluribus unum, as “something for nothing”. Now that the stock market and the housing market have failed to give Americans something for nothing, they want something for nothing from the government. The trouble is that he who gets something for nothing will earn every penny of it, twice over.
The George W Bush administration has squandered a great strategic advantage in a sorry lampoon of nation-building in the Muslim world, and has made enemies out of countries that might have been friendly rivals, notably Russia. Americans question the premise of America’s standing as a global superpower, and of the promise of upward mobility and wealth-creation. If elected, Barack Obama will do his utmost to destroy the dual premises of America’s standing. It might take the country another generation to recover.
“Evil will oft evil mars”, J R R Tolkien wrote. It is conceivable that Barack Obama, if elected, will destroy himself before he destroys the country. Hatred is a toxic diet even for someone with as strong a stomach as Obama. As he recalled in his 1995 autobiography, Dreams From My Father, Obama idealized the Kenyan economist who had married and dumped his mother, and was saddened to learn that Barack Hussein Obama, Sr, was a sullen, drunken polygamist. The elder Obama became a senior official of the government of Kenya after earning a PhD at Harvard. He was an abusive drunk and philanderer whose temper soured his career.
The senior Obama died in a 1982 car crash. Kenyan government officials in those days normally spent their nights drinking themselves stupid at the Pan-Afrique Hotel. Two or three of them would be found with their Mercedes wrapped around a palm tree every morning. During the 1970s I came to know a number of them, mostly British-educated hollow men dying inside of their own hypocrisy and corruption.
Both Obama and the American public should be very careful of what they wish for. As the horrible example of Obama’s father shows, there is nothing worse for an embittered outsider manipulating the system from within than to achieve his goals – and nothing can be more terrible for the system. Even those who despise America for its blunders of the past few years should ask themselves whether the world will be a safer place if America retreats into a self-pitying shell.

Posted by: Derek | October 2, 2008, 4:41 am 4:41 am

Obama’s secrets revealed!
Obama’s women reveal his secret
By Spengler
“Cherchez la femme,” advised Alexander Dumas in: “When you want to uncover an unspecified secret, look for the woman.” In the case of Barack Obama, we have two: his late mother, the went-native anthropologist Ann Dunham, and his rancorous wife Michelle. Obama’s women reveal his secret: he hates America.
We know less about Senator Obama than about any prospective president in American history. His uplifting rhetoric is empty, as Hillary Clinton helplessly protests. His career bears no trace of his own character, not an article for the Harvard Law Review he
edited, or a single piece of legislation. He appears to be an empty vessel filled with the wishful thinking of those around him. But there is a real Barack Obama. No man – least of all one abandoned in infancy by his father – can conceal the imprint of an impassioned mother, or the influence of a brilliant wife.
America is not the embodiment of hope, but the abandonment of one kind of hope in return for another. America is the spirit of creative destruction, selecting immigrants willing to turn their back on the tragedy of their own failing culture in return for a new start. Its creative success is so enormous that its global influence hastens the decline of other cultures. For those on the destruction side of the trade, America is a monster. Between half and nine-tenths of the world’s 6,700 spoken languages will become extinct in the next century, and the anguish of dying peoples rises up in a global cry of despair. Some of those who listen to this cry become anthropologists, the curators of soon-to-be extinct cultures; anthropologists who really identify with their subjects marry them. Obama’s mother, the University of Hawaii anthropologist Ann Dunham, did so twice.
Obama profiles Americans the way anthropologists interact with primitive peoples. He holds his own view in reserve and emphatically draws out the feelings of others; that is how friends and colleagues describe his modus operandi since his days at the Harvard Law Review, through his years as a community activist in Chicago, and in national politics. Anthropologists, though, proceed from resentment against the devouring culture of America and sympathy with the endangered cultures of the primitive world. Obama inverts the anthropological model: he applies the tools of cultural manipulation out of resentment against America. The probable next president of the United States is a mother’s revenge against the America she despised.
Ann Dunham died in 1995, and her character emerges piecemeal from the historical record, to which I will return below. But Michelle Obama is a living witness. Her February 18 comment that she felt proud of her country for the first time caused a minor scandal, and was hastily qualified. But she meant it, and more. The video footage of her remarks shows eyes hooded with rage as she declares:
For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country and not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment.
The desperation, frustration and disappointment visible on Michelle Obama’s face are not new to the candidate’s wife; as Steve Sailer, Rod Dreher and other commentators have noted, they were the theme of her undergraduate thesis, on the subject of “blackness” at Princeton University. No matter what the good intentions of Princeton, which founded her fortunes as a well-paid corporate lawyer, she wrote, “My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‘Blackness’ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my White professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.”
Never underestimate the influence of a wife who bitch-slaps her husband in public. Early in Obama’s campaign, Michelle Obama could not restrain herself from belittling the senator. “I have some difficulty reconciling the two images I have of Barack Obama. There’s Barack Obama the phenomenon. He’s an amazing orator, Harvard Law Review, or whatever it was, law professor, best-selling author, Grammy winner. Pretty amazing, right? And then there’s the Barack Obama that lives with me in my house, and that guy’s a little less impressive,” she told a fundraiser in February 2007.
“For some reason this guy still can’t manage to put the butter up when he makes toast, secure the bread so that it doesn’t get stale, and his five-year-old is still better at making the bed than he is.” New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd reported at the time, “She added that the TV version of Barack Obama sounded really interesting and that she’d like to meet him sometime.” Her handlers have convinced her to be more tactful since then.
“Frustration” and “disappointment” have dogged Michelle Obama these past 20 years, despite her US$300,000 a year salary and corporate board memberships. It is hard for the descendants of slaves not to resent America. They were not voluntary immigrants but kidnap victims, subjected to a century of second-class citizenship even after the Civil War ended slavery. Blackness is not the issue; General Colin Powell, whose parents chose to immigrate to America from the West Indies, saw America just as other immigrants do, as a land of opportunity. Obama’s choice of wife is a failsafe indicator of his own sentiments. Spouses do not necessarily share their likes, but they must have their hatreds in common. Obama imbibed this hatred with his mother’s milk.
Michelle Obama speaks with greater warmth of her mother-in-law than of her husband. “She was kind of a dreamer, his mother,” Michelle Obama was quoted in the January 25 Boston Globe. “She wanted the world to be open to her and her children. And as a result of her naivete, sometimes they lived on food stamps, because sometimes dreams don’t pay the rent. But as a result of her naivete, Barack got to see the world like most of us don’t in this country.” How strong the ideological motivation must be of a mother to raise her children on the thin fair in pursuit of a political agenda.
“Naivete” is a euphemism for Ann Dunham’s motivation. Friends describe her as a “fellow traveler”, that is, a communist sympathizer, from her youth, according to a March 27, 2007, Chicago Tribune report. Many Americans harbor leftist views, but not many marry into them, twice. Ann Dunham met and married the Kenyan economics student Barack Obama, Sr, at the University of Hawaii in 1960, and in 1967 married the Indonesian student Lolo Soetero. It is unclear why Soetero’s student visa was revoked in 1967 – the fact but not the cause are noted in press accounts. But it is probable that the change in government in Indonesia in 1967, in which the leftist leader Sukarno was deposed, was the motivation.
Soetero had been sponsored as a graduate student by one of the most radical of all Third World governments. Sukarno had founded the so-called Non-Aligned Movement as an anti-colonialist turn at the 1955 Bandung Conference in Indonesia. Before deposing him in 1967, Indonesia’s military slaughtered 500,000 communists (or unfortunates who were mistaken for communists). When Ann Dunham chose to follow Lolo Soetero to Indonesia in 1967, she brought the six-year-old Barack into the kitchen of anti-colonialist outrage, immediate following one of the worst episodes of civil violence in post-war history.
Dunham’s experience in Indonesia provided the material for a doctoral dissertation celebrating the hardiness of local cultures against the encroaching metropolis. It was entitled, “Peasant blacksmithing in Indonesia: surviving against all odds”. In this respect Dunham remained within the mainstream of her discipline. Anthropology broke into popular awareness with Margaret Mead’s long-discredited Coming of Age in Samoa (1928), which offered a falsified ideal of sexual liberation in the South Pacific as an alternative to the supposedly repressive West. Mead’s work was one of the founding documents of the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and anthropology faculties stood at the left-wing fringe of American universities.
In the Global South, anthropologists went into the field and took matters a step further. Peru’s brutal Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerilla movement was the brainchild of the anthropologist
Efrain Morote Best, who headed the University of San Cristobal of Huamanga in Ayacucho, Peru, between 1962 and 1968. Dunham’s radicalism was more vicarious; she ended her career as an employee of international organizations.
Barack Obama received at least some instruction in the Islamic faith of his father and went with him to the mosque, but the importance of this experience is vastly overstated by conservative commentators who seek to portray Obama as a Muslim of sorts. Radical anti-Americanism, rather than Islam, was the reigning faith in the Dunham household. In the Muslim world of the 1960s, nationalism rather than radical Islam was the ideology of choice among the enraged. Radical Islam did not emerge as a major
political force until the nationalism of a Gamal Abdel Nasser or a Sukarno failed.
Barack Obama is a clever fellow who imbibed hatred of America with his mother’s milk, but worked his way up the elite ladder of education and career. He shares the resentment of Muslims against the encroachment of American culture, although not their religion. He has the empathetic skill set of an anthropologist who lives with his subjects, learns their language, and elicits their hopes and fears while remaining at emotional distance. That is, he is the political equivalent of a sociopath. The difference is that he is practicing not on a primitive tribe but on the population of the United States.
There is nothing mysterious about Obama’s methods. “A demagogue tries to sound as stupid as his audience so that they will think they are as clever as he is,” wrote Karl Krauss. Americans are the world’s biggest suckers, and laugh at this weakness in their popular culture. Listening to Obama speak, Sinclair Lewis’ cynical tent-revivalist Elmer Gantry comes to mind, or, even better, Tyrone Power’s portrayal of a carnival mentalist in the 1947 film noire Nightmare Alley. The latter is available for instant viewing at Netflix, and highly recommended as an antidote to having felt uplifted by an Obama speech.
America has the great misfortune to have encountered Obama at the peak of his powers at its worst moment of vulnerability in a generation. With malice aforethought, he has sought out their sore point.
Since the Ronald Reagan boom began in 1984, the year the American stock market doubled, Americans have enjoyed a quarter-century of rising wealth. Even the collapse of the Internet bubble in 2000 did not interrupt the upward trajectory of household assets, as the housing price boom eclipsed the effect of equity market weakness. America’s success made it a magnet for the world’s savings, and Americans came to believe that they were riding a boom that would last forever, as I wrote recently [1].
Americans regard upward mobility as a God-given right. America had a double founding, as David Hackett Fischer showed in his 1989 study, Albion’s Seed . Two kinds of immigrants founded America: religious dissidents seeking a new Promised Land, and economic opportunists looking to get rich quick. Both elements still are present, but the course of the past quarter-century has made wealth-creation the sine qua non of American life. Now for the first time in a generation Americans have become poorer, and many of them have become much poorer due to the collapse of home prices. Unlike the Reagan years, when cutting the top tax rate from a punitive 70% to a more tolerable 40% was sufficient to start an economic boom, no lever of economic policy is available to fix the problem. Americans have no choice but to work harder, retire later, save more and retrench.
This reversal has provoked a national mood of existential crisis. In Europe, economic downturns do not inspire this kind of soul-searching, for richer are poorer, remain what they always have been. But Americans are what they make of themselves, and the slim makings of 2008 shake their sense of identity. Americans have no institutionalized culture to fall back on. Their national religion has consisted of waves of enthusiasm – “Great Awakenings” – every second generation or so, followed by an interim of apathy. In times of stress they have a baleful susceptibility to hucksters and conmen.
Be afraid – be very afraid. America is at a low point in its fortunes, and feeling sorry for itself. When Barack utters the word “hope”, they instead hear, “handout”. A cynic might translate the national motto, E pluribus unum, as “something for nothing”. Now that the stock market and the housing market have failed to give Americans something for nothing, they want something for nothing from the government. The trouble is that he who gets something for nothing will earn every penny of it, twice over.
The George W Bush administration has squandered a great strategic advantage in a sorry lampoon of nation-building in the Muslim world, and has made enemies out of countries that might have been friendly rivals, notably Russia. Americans question the premise of America’s standing as a global superpower, and of the promise of upward mobility and wealth-creation. If elected, Barack Obama will do his utmost to destroy the dual premises of America’s standing. It might take the country another generation to recover.
“Evil will oft evil mars”, J R R Tolkien wrote. It is conceivable that Barack Obama, if elected, will destroy himself before he destroys the country. Hatred is a toxic diet even for someone with as strong a stomach as Obama. As he recalled in his 1995 autobiography, Dreams From My Father, Obama idealized the Kenyan economist who had married and dumped his mother, and was saddened to learn that Barack Hussein Obama, Sr, was a sullen, drunken polygamist. The elder Obama became a senior official of the government of Kenya after earning a PhD at Harvard. He was an abusive drunk and philanderer whose temper soured his career.
The senior Obama died in a 1982 car crash. Kenyan government officials in those days normally spent their nights drinking themselves stupid at the Pan-Afrique Hotel. Two or three of them would be found with their Mercedes wrapped around a palm tree every morning. During the 1970s I came to know a number of them, mostly British-educated hollow men dying inside of their own hypocrisy and corruption.
Both Obama and the American public should be very careful of what they wish for. As the horrible example of Obama’s father shows, there is nothing worse for an embittered outsider manipulating the system from within than to achieve his goals – and nothing can be more terrible for the system. Even those who despise America for its blunders of the past few years should ask themselves whether the world will be a safer place if America retreats into a self-pitying shell.

Posted by: Derek | October 2, 2008, 4:41 am 4:41 am

While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher, who’s hand was caught in the gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Palin and her bid.
The old rancher said, “Well, ya know, Palin is a ‘Post Turtle’”.
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a ‘post turtle’ was.
The old rancher said, “When you’re driving down a country road you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a ‘post turtle”.
The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor’s face so he continued to explain. “You know she didn’t get up there by herself, she doesn’t belong up there, and she doesn’t know what to do while she’s up there, and you just wonder what kind of idiot put her up there to begin with”.

Posted by: Greg | October 2, 2008, 4:41 am 4:41 am

Be real here, this is another attempt at gimmickery by McCain. He knows this woman isn’t qualified to be VP. When they started the search for VP, the criteria was get a…Female, to get Hillary’s votes, Pretty and Young to offset McCain’s old look, and somebody unheard of by most of America. That was the only qualifications for the VP slot. It wasn’t about knowledge or ability, as there are plenty of both men and women that would have made for a better choice. Problem with picking any of them is that none of them were Pretty and Young looking, or could get Hillary’s vote. They just thought women would vote for Palin simply because she was a woman. They never thought that today’s women was different the the women of a bygone era who would go along with this. Today’s women is a lot smarter than McCain…and Yes, smarter than Palin too.

Posted by: Jake | October 2, 2008, 4:42 am 4:42 am

The Palin pick goes to McCain’s judgement. He has told us by picking Palin, that he does not respect the office of the Presidency, nor does he “put country first” as he claims. He has chosen someone who is totally unqualified. He has made a mockery of the office of the Presidency of the United States.

Posted by: Intelligent voter | October 2, 2008, 4:42 am 4:42 am

Another story by George Steph. against the Republican ticket. Where are the stories about Biden?

Posted by: quilhot | October 2, 2008, 4:42 am 4:42 am

Will Joe Who also wear a bracelet of a dead soldier whose name doesn´t know?
Wil Joe Who say that in USA there are 57 states?
Will Joe Who recognize Hillary is better qualified than him for VP?
It´s going to be hilarious

Posted by: Stephen from Indiana | October 2, 2008, 4:42 am 4:42 am

These people are grasping at straws. So, now any time a journalist points out a flaw in the Republican campaign, they must be in the tank for Obama? Does this imply that you Republicans think McCain has run a perfect campaign? If so, why are so many conservative Republican journalists voicing their concerns? I guess they’re in the tank for Obama too.

Posted by: Kip | October 2, 2008, 4:43 am 4:43 am

I don’t like Palin one bit. That being said, I believe she will do just fine tonight. This is a debate, not an interview. The moderator simply asks questions and just like Hannity will not press her on any issue. That is Biden’s job. Unfortunately Biden will be on a short leash tonight as the research shows that if he attacks he will make women mad. If he doesn’t he will appear to be a wimp. Palin on the other hand will be her snide, condescending self and get away with it. That will be looked upon as a win. Let’s face it, if she just shows up and doesn’t throw up on stage, she will be deemed worthy or even the winner. Biden is pretty much in a no win situation. Palin knows this and if she has any sense at all (her handlers know this) she will attack Biden full force. That’s just the way it is.

Posted by: wirey | October 2, 2008, 4:44 am 4:44 am

I’m sorry but to lower the bar at this debate so that all she has to do is put a coherent sentence together is pretty sad. This country now needs more than ever clear articulate speakers and thinkers.McCain made a fatal error picking her.

Posted by: linda n carolina | October 2, 2008, 4:44 am 4:44 am

This is ridiculous! This is the left wing biased media trying to “prepare” people in america to look at Palin in a certain way. Anyone can find a “poll” to favor what they want. I am sure there are many polls in the heart of america that show that Palin is winning people’s minds and hearts. It shows that the media is not partial.

Posted by: lifesource | October 2, 2008, 4:45 am 4:45 am

I ask again:
WAS JOHN McCAIN THINKING ABOUT THE WELFARE OF THE UNITED STATES WHEN HE SELECTED SARAH PALIN?
The question answers itself.
Everyone in America has heard Ms. Palin’s statements about the ‘head’ of Russia flying over U.S. airspace, her inability to name a single newspaper or news related magazine that she has read, to name a single Supreme Court case other than Roe v Wade, her simply incoherent answers to Katie Couric’s questions.
Everyone in America knows that John McCain was motivated by fear, fear of John McCain losing, rather than consideration of the welfare of the United States should he become incapacitated.
John McCain, regarding his run for president in 2000:
“I didn’t decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism; in truth I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president. I was 62 yrs old when I made the decision and I thought it was my one shot at the prize.”

Posted by: John McCain's conscience | October 2, 2008, 4:45 am 4:45 am

Columnist Says Barack Obama ‘Lied To The American People;’
Asks Publisher to Withdraw Obama’s BookNEW YORK, Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/ — Out2.com’s independent contrarian columnist, Andy Martin, will publish a column and hold simultaneous news conferences in New York and London on Wednesday, August 11th to disclose he believes Barack Obama is a political fraud who “lied to the American people.” Martin has asked Crown Books to stop sales of Obama’s book because of its fraudulent content. Martin says Obama may be a threat to the Jewish community.
NEWS CONFERENCE DETAILS:
New York:
Time/date: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 11:00 A.M.
Location: Northeast Corner of Fifth Avenue and 65th
Street (Temple Emanu-El)
London:
Time/date: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 4:00 P.M.
Location: 2 Dryden Mansions, Queens Club Gardens London W14
“I feel sad having to expose Barack Obama,” says Martin, “but the man is a complete fraud. The truth is going to surprise, and disappoint, and outrage many people who were drawn to him. He has lied to the American people, and he has sought to misrepresent his own heritage.
“Obama’s life story is vastly different from the one he portrays. My point: if he will lie about his mother and father, what else is he lying about? Can we expect ‘bimbo eruptions?’
“Fiction: Obama stated in his Convention speech: ‘My father … grew up herding goats.’ The ‘goat herder’ claim has been repeated endlessly. It is a lie. Fact: Obama’s grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama was a prominent and wealthy farmer. His son, Obama’s father, was a child of privilege, not privation. He was an outstanding student, not a herdsman.
“Fiction: Obama was given an ‘African’ name. Fact: Obama is a Muslim who has concealed his religion. I am a strong supporter of the Muslim community, and I believe Muslims have been scapegoated. Obama has a great opportunity to be forthright. Instead, he has treated his Muslim heritage as a dark secret. His grandfather was named ‘Hussein.’ That is an Arabic-Muslim, not African, name. Hussein was a devout Muslim and named his son, Barack Senior, ‘Baraka.’ Baraka is an Arabic word meaning ‘blessed.’ Baraka comes out of the Koran and Arabic, not Africa.
“Barack Senior was also a devoted Muslim, and also chose a Muslim name for his son, our own Barack Obama, Junior. Again, his name was an Arabic and Koranic.
Obama has spent a lifetime running from his family heritage and religious heritage. Would his father have given his son a Koranic name if the father was not a devout Muslim? Obama’s stepfather was also a Muslim. Obama will be the first Muslim-heritage senator; he should be proud of that fact. There is nothing to be ashamed of in any of the three great Abrahamic religions.
“Fiction: Obama Senior was a harmless student ‘immigrant’ who came to the United States only to study. Fact: Obama was part of one of the most corrupt and violent organizations in Africa: the Kenyatta regime. Obama’s father ran back to Kenya soon after the British left. It is likely Obama’s father had Mau Mau sympathies or connections, or he would not have been welcomed into the murderous inner circle of rapists, murderers, and arsonists. I believe Obama’s secret shame at his family history of rape, murder and arson is what actualizes him. Our research is not yet complete. We are seeking to examine British colonial records. Our investigation to date has drawn on information on three continents.
“And what about Obama’s beloved Kenyan brothers and sisters? None of his family was invited to Boston to share his prominence. Are his relatives being kept in the closet? Where are they? More secrecy, more prevarication.
“It is time for Barack Obama to stop presenting a fantasy to the American people. We are forgiving and many would still support him. It may well be that his concealment is meant to endanger Israel. His Muslim religion would obviously raise serious questions in many Jewish circles where Obama now enjoys support,” Martin states.
“Our investigation is continuing. In he meantime, Crown Books should stop selling Obama’s novelization of his life. We have asked Crown to do that. Obama is living a lie.”
RESOURCES: Martin’s columns at Out2.com (Govt & Politics); E-mail: andy@andymartin.com
Source: Andy Martin Worldwide Communications

Posted by: Derek | October 2, 2008, 4:45 am 4:45 am

Sarah is ugly and stupid is right. Those red juicy lips, cute blemish free face, i bet she smells so good too. I love her hair and those magical eyes. Yes, she is stupid and I am an obama fan but I bet she can be amazing naked. obama/biden 08

Posted by: Sally Jones | October 2, 2008, 4:46 am 4:46 am

Guys…if you have ever watched Stephanopoulos you would know he is
A Democratic mouthpiece
Obama: “MY MUSLIM FAITH”
George quickly interupts “Christian Faith”.

Posted by: geevill | October 2, 2008, 4:47 am 4:47 am

Sarah Palin’s idea of an intellectual stimulation is to stuff her head under a hair dryer and skim People magazine. She is intellectually lazy. She is a disgrace and an embarrassment to America.

Posted by: sylvie2566 | October 2, 2008, 4:47 am 4:47 am

Come on Georgie, stop all your BS. Just come out openly and support your brother Barrak!

Posted by: bombem | October 2, 2008, 4:48 am 4:48 am

Palin was a reckless pick by McCain. Unfortunately, that reckless pick was a big factor in this race being dragged down into the gutter, with both camps distorting and lying about the other. Nobody is coming out looking good, but of the 4 of them one stands out as being uniquely unqualified to aspire to the presidency.
I’m going to be interested to see her comments dissected after the debate, if they are anything like the Supreme or Russia answer, it’ll be an embarrassment.
http://palincounter.blogspot.com/

Posted by: billthomson | October 2, 2008, 4:48 am 4:48 am

Even the GOP doesn’t trust her alone and on her own. When I saw it I couldn’t believe McCain had to be at her side to help whenever she was stumped in her softball interview. So how are we to trust her with the country should the ancient McCain not be able to complete his term?
And her leadership style is even more arrogant and dictatorial than the current White House occupant: declaring an investigation against her as without merit, ordering her staff and state employees not to respond to suppeanas, not sharing her tax filings [must be very questionable as the GOP seems to be unable to find a solution through ammended return filing],….
And she doesn’t seem to complete many sentences. She appears to begin the answer to a question, then realizing her true beliefs would turn us off, trails off in a collection of not necessarily related, popular phrases.
And though she may seem to be, like Obama, a quick study; we would be bound, should she take the helm, to a White House even more secretive than the current.
And all this motherhood stuff. She obviously didn’t properly educate her pregnant daughter. While I realize that many families conceive children out of wedlock, her ONLY, by choice, tool is to preach abstinence. I can hear Dr. Phil now. “And how’s that workin’ for ya?”
She’s great at inarticulate sound bites. Though above average analytical skills are usually desired of those we place in Washington, she is more on the GOP’s norm like Dan Quayle.
Guess we’ll all learn a little more tonight of this beauty queen who wishes to control her image and thus holds no press confrences. She scares me in that she could be more idealogical than Cheney. She starts down that road in some of her responses but she never completes them.
I just do NOT trust her to run this country should the need arise. We need more openess, not less.

Posted by: Bad Buoy | October 2, 2008, 4:48 am 4:48 am

This is ridiculous! This is the left wing biased media trying to “prepare” people in america to look at Palin in a certain way. Anyone can find a “poll” to favor what they want. I am sure there are many polls in the heart of america that show that Palin is winning people’s minds and hearts. It shows that the media is not partial.

Posted by: lifesource | October 2, 2008, 4:49 am 4:49 am

Obama and McCain just gave American and foreign banks $850 Billion of tax payer money. How much worse can Palin do? Because of the bailout Obama will not deliver on any of his promises such as healthcare for all, cut taxes of 95% of Americans. Yeah right!!

Posted by: quilhot | October 2, 2008, 4:49 am 4:49 am

Ha, you Americans are such clowns. You dig up psycho Palin to run for VP. Can’t you fat slobs do anything right? You screw up your war, your economy, your banks are a joke, your dollar bill is worthless, and now you have Palin, a psycho and a circus clown. God, you Americans are such morons, no wonder you kooks are in such trouble. We are laughing our heads off at you flat slobs.

Posted by: euro.guy | October 2, 2008, 4:50 am 4:50 am

Maybe Sarah should talk about being a coal miner, having her helicopter forded down by gunfire and watching FDR on TV in 1929.

Posted by: jamescbuilder | October 2, 2008, 4:50 am 4:50 am

I bet she’s readng up on all the current periodicals (newsweek, businessweek, WSJ, USNews&world Report, Time, Fortune, Forbes, New Yorker, Business Journal, Government Accounting, Accounting Journal, Financial Times, Economist, Global Finance and all the US major court cases just to prepare for tonights debate. Sorry, thats all could name for now.

Posted by: Your Guidance | October 2, 2008, 4:51 am 4:51 am

Why is FEC Keeping Lid on OBAMA SCANDAL?
It looks as if Senator Obama may have received MORE THAN $200 MILLION in illegal donations including millions overseas campaign donations. Four times during the last three months an FEC Auditor has asked his bosses to start an investigation into Senator Obama’s illegal campaign donations such as this one
Similarly, a donor identified as “Pro, Doodad,” from “Nando, NY,” gave $19,500 in 786 separate donations, most of them for $25. For most of these donations, Mr. Doodad Pro listed his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You,” etc.

Posted by: HP Boston | October 2, 2008, 4:52 am 4:52 am

Ha, ha you Americans will vote for Palin if she goes topless during debate, you are such freaks of nature.
God, you fat American slobs are such total losers, lobotomized cows. Time for your milking, moo, moo.

Posted by: euro.guy | October 2, 2008, 4:52 am 4:52 am

Why is FEC Keeping Lid on OBAMA SCANDAL?
It looks as if Senator Obama may have received MORE THAN $200 MILLION in illegal donations including millions overseas campaign donations. Four times during the last three months an FEC Auditor has asked his bosses to start an investigation into Senator Obama’s illegal campaign donations such as this one
Similarly, a donor identified as “Pro, Doodad,” from “Nando, NY,” gave $19,500 in 786 separate donations, most of them for $25. For most of these donations, Mr. Doodad Pro listed his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You,” etc.

Posted by: HP Boston | October 2, 2008, 4:53 am 4:53 am

The McCain camps shielding of Palin from the press is backfiring. That press shield looks like they are trying to hide things from the American people. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has given more press conferences to American reporters than Palin.

Posted by: Paige | October 2, 2008, 4:54 am 4:54 am

I think most women in America want to see a real debate, not a social tea party event. To reduce this debate to Palin’s level is a disservice to America’s woman. Any well experienced and well versed woman (Rice, Snow) can easily stand her ground and present her knowledge, wisdom, and credientials without fear of any sort. The problem here is that Palin lacks all those elements and is going to depend on being treated differently. Thus, her ace in the hole is that anything Biden says will be seen as “unfair” or “sexist” simply because she is a female. Again, all this does is play to a very small group of narrow minded people that still thinks that she should be treated with kid gloves because she is a women. Most people, especially women find this insulting. Either she can stand her ground or she can’t. Her gender is not what is at stake here, it’s about the ability, knowledge, and qualifications. Nothing else.

Posted by: Jake | October 2, 2008, 4:54 am 4:54 am

seah said:
“Stephanopoulos The Colmes of ABC.
The man tooting Obama horn to make himself a name. Is he Paid off or just a koolaid drinker? One sided opinionated jourlism,”
He was Clinton’s Asst. Press Secretary (before Fox News existed, so you probably never saw him) who made a name for himself long before anyone knew who Obama was…it’s no big secret he is a Democrat. This is an editorial piece, not a reporting piece…so of course it’s opinionated. If you would pull your head out of the conservative propaganda machine for a few seconds and take a minute to maybe think for yourself, you might be able to see the difference. But that’s probably tough for someone who believes that Sean Hannity is actually a journalist and Fox News is devoid of editorialism.

Posted by: cj | October 2, 2008, 4:55 am 4:55 am

“35 percent, believe she is experience enough to be president.” I would bet that the 27% of the country that thinks George W Bush is doing a good job support Plain.

Posted by: plantain11 | October 2, 2008, 4:55 am 4:55 am

Sarah six pack is exactly that. She’s got the brains of a six pack. I think she’ll do well tonite simply because she’ll avoid the tough question. She try and appear smart. For the uneducated McCain supporters, that’ll be enough. I almost took a trip to cancun one time. I think that makes me more qualified that Sarah Palin. I also have not one, but two, bank accounts, so I’m also qualified to handle the finances of the economy, on a national level. Ha ha. What a joke she is.

Posted by: jayandersonjr | October 2, 2008, 4:55 am 4:55 am

Hillary Clinton was always going to be a tough act to follow and unfortunately, even though I like her, Sarah Palin is no Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: Mark | October 2, 2008, 4:56 am 4:56 am

George Steph. was a political adviser for Bill Clinton……..Look it up

Posted by: quilhot | October 2, 2008, 4:57 am 4:57 am

Obama/biden are going to win by record landslide this fall. Sarah can do no good by even showing up tonight. Joe is going to cream her. She knows nothing. has done nothing. Joe is a professional politician with over 30 years in the senate. Tonight is the beginning of the end for the republican party. Its over. Now we can move forward with our liberal agendas and free our country of prejudice, war and hate. Sarah will stumble out of this debate dazed and confused. Obama is a God compared to this loser. Obama/biden 08

Posted by: Sarah Dazed | October 2, 2008, 4:57 am 4:57 am

The responses here are alot more crack-pottish than on other news sites, what’s that about?

Posted by: objective | October 2, 2008, 4:58 am 4:58 am

Hey Disillusioned, just cause Sarah Palin still commands the attention of all the world, doesn’t mean we are the dumb ones. Remember Dan Quayle, he got a lot of attention too. Sarah is a skit on SNL, not VP material. That’s why she is getting the attention. If you want to call someone dumb, focus on McCain. He picked her.

Posted by: BraveBrick | October 2, 2008, 4:58 am 4:58 am

I just watched Sheila Bair on C-SPAN. A gracious, attractive, intelligent and knowledgeable lady. I was struck immediately by the comparison between her and the useless, abrasive airhead McCain selected for VP. Why on earth didn”t he pick someone of the caliber of Sheila Bair or similar? While one doesn”t see this in print, so many people I know are wondering whether McCain is slipping into dementia.

Posted by: J. Simpson | October 2, 2008, 4:59 am 4:59 am

seah,
You are in denial.
Why are you incapabale of acting as an adult and accepting and digesting the reality before you?
Typical right wing nut ostrich mentality. Shoot any messenger who brings you a message you don’t like.
Keep your head stuck in the sand and keep on blaming the press for pointing to you the fact that the “empress is naked”.
If you Repugs are really putting “country first” you will know the right thing to do.
GOOD LUCK.

Posted by: Steve_NJ | October 2, 2008, 4:59 am 4:59 am

Ifull is definitely NOT IMPARTIAL.
I could care less about who she is. This is about electing a President. This is NOT about her this is about hundred million people wanting a fair and honest election.
IFILL is definitely biased. That is the definition of bias. She is biased. She has a favorite to be elected President. She will sell more books if Obama is elected. it is simple money.
She should step down and recuse herself. This is important for the reputation of PBS. She should not politicize PBS. I am shocked that PBS will allow her to moderate with her book coming out. Jim Lehrer has worked for some 30 years to make a neutral PBS News. Ifill can mess that up in 90 minutes. The public needs to feel the debate is beyond reproach.

Posted by: HP Boston | October 2, 2008, 4:59 am 4:59 am

Palin MADE a choice to air her personal and family TRASH for the world to behold. She is a SMUG ARROGANT DUMB ungracious book end to the DEMENTED MEAN SPIRITED LIAR of JOHN McCain, just what the Republicreeps ordered to lead this nation.

Posted by: Cheerleader | October 2, 2008, 5:00 am 5:00 am

sybil:
Sybil:If you think newspapers are that important in life then quit your job, stay home and read them all day. I read the Red Eye because its free and not everyday. There are more important things in life besides a newspaper. How stupid is Couric. That’s not an important issue. Couric is not a good interviewer. She was fired years ago by CNN and now ABC might let her go. Her ratings are very poor. She needs to go back to school and take the course over.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 2, 2008, 5:01 am 5:01 am

If Rick Davis is MORE CORRUPT than Acorn, Why does Capital Socialists only focus on Acorn.
Say No to McCains Pork add on’s to the Bill.
Say No to Wooden Arrows.(If wood=Metal, then you can figure out Arrows) :)
Say No to WallStreet Rescue
Watch CNN and MSNBC
Checkout Turning Points, with Tom Brokow, for History Outlines and Debates. Including JFK’s Debate.
Call Your House Reps. and say NO to ADDED PORK.
Vote INDEPENDENT
SAY NO to PORK for RACETRACKS. Gambling on Wall Street Has already Gambled AWAY Americas FREEDOM.
VOTE NO TO CONGRESS PORK
VOTE NO TO CONGRESS PORK
VOTE NO TO CONGRESS PORK
VOTE NO TO CONGRESS PORK
VOTE NO TO CONGRESS PORK
VOTE NO TO CONGRESS PORK
VOTE NO TO CONGRESS PORK
VOTE NO TO CONGRESS PORK
See McCain sounding like Palin on CNN and MSNBC. AVOIDING the QUESTIONS, and Changing the Subject.

Posted by: historyremembered | October 2, 2008, 5:01 am 5:01 am

I think the 35% who think Palin is qualified are deluding themselves. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised though. 30% still believe GWB is doing a good job.

Posted by: indy_voter | October 2, 2008, 5:01 am 5:01 am

Only 35% think she is “experience” enough?? is that yobonics or a minimum wage proofreader

Posted by: mcnertny | October 2, 2008, 5:02 am 5:02 am

His race is not what is at stake here, it’s about the ability, knowledge, and qualifications. Nothing else. Hands down, barack is not ready to lead our country. He is a rookie senator. Biden would be better as president. Mcain would be better as president. Palin would be better as president. Barack Obama is just too crooked, too much a liar and he is NOT qualified to lead our country.

Posted by: obama is a fool | October 2, 2008, 5:02 am 5:02 am

Maybe the issue should be that because of their STUPID tactic of keeping her locked, she really sounds worse when she makes mistakes. We have not had the chance as an electorate to find out who she is. We have only been spoon fed the GOP talking points about her. To me the handling of her shows me a complete lack of leadership and judgment. I was skeptical about the pick to begin with. But now I am completely stunned by McCain’s decision to choose her, promote her, but not let her take part. He has shown that he is not in touch with our world today.

Posted by: WHAT?? | October 2, 2008, 5:02 am 5:02 am

It does not matter “who, what, where, how or when” Sarah would have answered any of Charlie Gibson’s questions or Katie Couric’s…she was doomed from the beginning. The national media does not like her. They fail to realize that someone who is not Harvard/Princeton educated,not an elitest could be or would be qualified for the top ticket in this country. I wonder how Abraham Lincoln ever got elected? Maybe on good moral principles? Hard work and the belief in the Constitution and the American People? Maybe there are other good colleges and universities in this country other than Harvard and Princeton. I guess it really does matter, the media will do EVERYTHING they can to get Obama elected. SAD…

Posted by: jewel08 | October 2, 2008, 5:02 am 5:02 am

HP Boston: The book is just not about Obama, whose chapter has not even been written yet. It’s about all black politicans in this time OF Obama. You could say she’ll be biased because she’s a woman….get real.

Posted by: linda n carolina | October 2, 2008, 5:04 am 5:04 am

Obama MADE a choice to air his personal and family TRASH for the world to behold. he is a SMUG ARROGANT DUMB ungracious book end to the DEMENTED MEAN SPIRITED LIAR of barack obama, just what the democreeps ordered to lead this nation.

Posted by: Palin 08 | October 2, 2008, 5:05 am 5:05 am

Well, the debate hasn’t even started yet and Georgie Boy has already given it to Bidden! What a surprise. What ever happened to reporting rather than campaigning by the media. Why do they have to give opinions and report on polls? Why do they assume we care what a reporter thinks or what any polls says other than the only one that counts. Again I ask, why does a National network hire a political hack as a journalist?

Posted by: Kathie | October 2, 2008, 5:05 am 5:05 am

Attention to all people who are fed up with the daily bias of ABC against, John Mccain,and Sarah Palin, and for Obama, Biden.
Start Boycotting, ABC sponsors/ advertisers,today.
ABC, you guys blew it, and will pay when its all said and done.
Stepanopolis, Klein, Tapper etc etc etc should ALL be fired, along with the heads of this pro-Obama propaganda spewing company.

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 5:06 am 5:06 am

Stop with this nonsense of finding fault with somebody else rather than in McCain’s pick of Palin for VP. If Ifill asks Palin a question like what advice she would give the President on Russia and she answers it like…”I can see Russia from Alaska, and Putin rears his head, and we send those…”, the response is still ridiculous. It doesn’t make a difference if Ifill or Bozo the Clown asked the question, it’s still a ridiculous response. Get over it already, nothing you can say, or blame somebody else for is going to make this better…Palin just not VP material, end of story.

Posted by: Jake | October 2, 2008, 5:07 am 5:07 am

Cheerleader: Why don’t you prepare yourself to run for office? If you think you can do a better job. Or did jealousy get the best of you. You will be lucky if you accomplish half as much as Palin did and so will thousands of others. Don’t vote for who you don’t like and call it a day. I would rather give my vote to a true American rather than a former drugger, boozer, racist, anti-american white hater like Obama whose wife likes this country now. Get a grip.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 2, 2008, 5:07 am 5:07 am

Barack Obama and the democratic party are directly responsible for the economic tragedy that we are experiencing. This makes it your fault too since you people voted these demolosers into office. Anyone that states this is false does not know the facts or you are hiding from the truth. You are all stupid, pathetic losers who I laugh at every day. Thanks for all the entertainment easy meat.

Posted by: Demolibs are Easy | October 2, 2008, 5:08 am 5:08 am

As Joe Biden and Hillary said, Obama is not ready to be President. So cut the crap about Governor Palin you pro-Obama media. Governor Palin has more experience than Barack Obama, and that is a fact that the pro-Obama media cannot change, which is why the pro-Obama media keeps smearing Governor Palin on a daily basis. That’s the same thing they did to Hillary Clinton during the primary.

Posted by: Doreen | October 2, 2008, 5:09 am 5:09 am

Barack Obama and the democratic party are directly responsible for the economic tragedy that we are experiencing. This makes it your fault too since you people voted these demolosers into office. Anyone that states this is false does not know the facts or you are hiding from the truth. You are all stupid, pathetic losers who I laugh at every day. Thanks for all the entertainment easy meat.

Posted by: Demolibs are dumb | October 2, 2008, 5:09 am 5:09 am

Barack Obama and the democratic party are directly responsible for the economic tragedy that we are experiencing. This makes it your fault too since you people voted these demolosers into office. Anyone that states this is false does not know the facts or you are hiding from the truth. You are all stupid, pathetic losers who I laugh at every day. Thanks for all the entertainment easy meat.

Posted by: demolibs are stupid | October 2, 2008, 5:10 am 5:10 am

Barack Obama and the democratic party are directly responsible for the economic tragedy that we are experiencing. This makes it your fault too since you people voted these demolosers into office. Anyone that states this is false does not know the facts or you are hiding from the truth. You are all stupid, pathetic losers who I laugh at every day. Thanks for all the entertainment easy meat.

Posted by: demolibs are entertaining | October 2, 2008, 5:10 am 5:10 am

It takes a long time for Republicans to admit an error: electing Bush, “supporting” the Iraq war, turning out in droves to see Palin, nominating an old man.
My tip for Republicans in 2012, do more evidence-based research. Adjust. Be rational.

Posted by: Reason | October 2, 2008, 5:10 am 5:10 am

BREAKING NEWS….BREAKING NEWS…..
In a stunning and sudden pre-debate announcement, Governor Palin resigned her office and has withdrawn from the vice presidential campaign and is moving to South Carolina where she will represent the state in the upcoming Ms. USA pageant.
Citing her verbal skills, Ms Palin stated that this was an even better opportunity than running on the McCain ticket, where she has been restrained from showcasing her linguistic abilities.
We now having a video statement from Governor Palin:
“Yeah! Tired of being coached. Wanna speak my mind! Like, am going to go to South Carolina and South Africa and help with the education of antiterrorism because my neighbors are Canadians who rear their heads with health care and democracy for all while looking across the big bad country Russia where on a clear day I can see Bin Laden big hairy ass out my window in Wasilla…”
Hold on…we interrupt the video feed for another breaking news….
It’s official, we can now report that McCain, after temporarily suspending his campaign and rushing back to Washington on the Straight Talk Express, has chosen Paris Hilton to replace Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate…
We understand Hilton is in the capitol building as we speak and is scheduled to give a press conference within the hour…
More details of this startling development after these messages from our sponsors…

Posted by: Johnson | October 2, 2008, 5:11 am 5:11 am

Why does Barack Obama have everyone fooled?
He going to put everyone under 25(including me) under our parents health care and and make our taxes increase immensely.And that’s by force in which that means that we don’t choose what health plan we want.And Barack Obama should have thought about having Joe Biden as a running mate because he’s not pro-life and see things like that would really affect the younger generation when Obama is making all these promises and letting us think of like what I would like to call his “paradise of change”.And people who are parents who have kids should really think about your kids what future they might have and should really do their homework on Barack Obama because some people are picking him because he’s black which is sad because they need to really see what he stands for.And his running mate Joe Biden even claims that he thought that hillary clinton was a way better choice than he was becuase it likely shows he can’t get the job done and likely shows that if he slips up at the debate tonight, people will really be questioning his judgement.Also my opinion on pro-life is that everyone deserves to have a chance to live becuase pregnant women have went in to go have abortions,but when they go in to have that ultrasound and see the baby’s heart beating,that makes them not want to abort the baby because after seeing that little life inside of them made them change their minds.
And I wanted to let you know that I really put my thoughts into this and you really see the truth about Barack Obama.
Do you parents of younger people want to live under his conditions when he’s President?

Posted by: Derek | October 2, 2008, 5:11 am 5:11 am

When the election is over and Obama-Biden wins, can all of you backward people go back to the woods or Alaska with Palin please. Your defense of nonsense and the gross failures of Republicans is beyond belief.

Posted by: Jake | October 2, 2008, 5:13 am 5:13 am

Wow! So many good, decent, caring people posting comments here.
Not really.
Here’s the news folks; You’re not helping your candidate(s).

Posted by: Chris | October 2, 2008, 5:13 am 5:13 am

ABC says Palin is now down 15 points from last month? Well it’s no wonder with their 24 hour a day, seven day a week smear attacks on Palin, while giving an admitted RACIST, with ANTI-AMERICAN TIES a PASS.
As Ive said, I will not shop or be a patron of any advetiser on this web site.
All of the elite media have made a choice, and are now forcing their choice onto america.
The media are nothing but criminals

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 5:13 am 5:13 am

Bill Maher said it best about Palin that every question she anwsers is “the sentence to nowhere”
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=5919988
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5923481

Posted by: Marjoe4U | October 2, 2008, 5:14 am 5:14 am

Barack Obama and the democratic party are directly responsible for the economic tragedy that we are experiencing. This makes it your fault too since you people voted these demolosers into office. Anyone that states this is false does not know the facts or you are hiding from the truth. You are all stupid, pathetic losers who I laugh at every day. Thanks for all the entertainment easy meat.

Posted by: demolibs are easy | October 2, 2008, 5:14 am 5:14 am

Anyone with a function brain always use
it.
Why should McCain camp stuff her up with
all information which she is not familiar with?
There are too much new information in her head and when she start talking it
looks like a propeller going around.
She needs more time to learn and get
familiar of what she talking about.

Posted by: FM | October 2, 2008, 5:15 am 5:15 am

Barack Obama and the democratic party are directly responsible for the economic tragedy that we are experiencing. This makes it your fault too since you people voted these demolosers into office. Anyone that states this is false does not know the facts or you are hiding from the truth. You are all stupid, pathetic losers who I laugh at every day. Thanks for all the entertainment easy meat.

Posted by: demolibs are stupid | October 2, 2008, 5:15 am 5:15 am

Johnson, now that’s funny! LMAO! ROFL!

Posted by: Tina Larouche | October 2, 2008, 5:15 am 5:15 am

To those who keep saying Sarah Palin has more executive experience…George W. Bush had more executive experience than Gore. We see where that got us.
Obama graduated at the top of his class in Harvard Law School.We need a bright
person to fix the mess W and McCain’s crowd got us into, NOT one of the inventors of banking corruption…Keating 5 McCain (google it)

Posted by: Jack | October 2, 2008, 5:16 am 5:16 am

Barack Obama and the democratic party are directly responsible for the economic tragedy that we are experiencing. This makes it your fault too since you people voted these demolosers into office. Anyone that states this is false does not know the facts or you are hiding from the truth. You are all stupid, pathetic losers who I laugh at every day. Thanks for all the entertainment easy meat.

Posted by: snatching defeat from the jaws of victory | October 2, 2008, 5:17 am 5:17 am

I m shocked!!!
I just logged on and Im shocked that the News headlines did not read…
“PALIN DROPS FROM VP RACE” due to family problems.
Is Vegas taking bets?

Posted by: spoon2456 | October 2, 2008, 5:17 am 5:17 am

Amen George! For telling it like it TIZ!!

Posted by: Tyran Boss | October 2, 2008, 5:18 am 5:18 am

It is not being biased, it’s being real. Sarah Palin is not running for VP of the student council. She’s running for VP of one of the most powerful nations in the world. Well used to be powerful! How can you tell you kids that good grades is expected of them and a person running for VP of the USA is not expected to know supreme court cases? If you ask you child they could tell you some other than Roe v Wade, but your’re saying that it is ok that the VP doesnot. It’s bull. McCain chose someone that he knows had no clue of anything. His republican counterparts would not let him have Liberman, so he said…screw you all I am going with a woman. But he inturn screwed himslef. And that is all he saw woman. He knew she had no substance about her, no logic, no common sense! It is quite obvious. People are saying let Sarah be Sarah. If you can not get rehearsed answers out of your mouth clearly and with understanding, then I hate to think what she sounds like if you let her be her. I cannot wait for to night. I love it when Joe Biden has that WTF look on his face. I will bet that he will display a lot of those faces tonight while Palin is talking.

Posted by: Bobbi | October 2, 2008, 5:18 am 5:18 am

BREAKING NEWS….BREAKING NEWS…..
In a stunning and sudden pre-debate announcement, Governor Palin resigned her office and has withdrawn from the vice presidential campaign and is moving to South Carolina where she will represent the state in the upcoming Ms. USA pageant.
Citing her verbal skills, Ms Palin stated that this was an even better opportunity than running on the McCain ticket, where she has been restrained from showcasing her linguistic abilities.
We now having a video statement from Governor Palin:
“Yeah! Tired of being coached. Wanna speak my mind! Like, am going to go to South Carolina and South Africa and help with the education of antiterrorism because my neighbors are Canadians who rear their heads with health care and democracy for all while looking across the big bad country Russia where on a clear day I can see Bin Laden big hairy ass out my window in Wasilla…”
Hold on…we interrupt the video feed for another breaking news….
It’s official, we can now report that McCain, after temporarily suspending his campaign and rushing back to Washington on the Straight Talk Express, has chosen Paris Hilton to replace Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate…
We understand Hilton is in the capitol building as we speak and is scheduled to give a press conference within the hour…
More details of this startling development after these messages from our sponsors…

Posted by: Johnson | October 2, 2008, 5:18 am 5:18 am

Badger: I agree with you. I am surprised at George S. for his comments. Since when did he become a pro-obama supporter. Maybe he’s being paid by Obama for his services. I am aware he was in Clinton’s administration but that didn’t last. ABC then hired him and what a mistake that was. He is very bias like Chris Matthews who got booted. And Katie Couric’s job is on the line if the ratings don’t go up. But that’s not surprising because she was fired from CNN years ago. She didn’t do that well on the Today Show either. Interviewing is not the job for her. I like Palin because she has a good personality that clicks with the public. Obama has a fake personality with a fake smile. He has all this generation of young college students eating up his words from speeches that Robert Kennedy made when he was campaigning. Obama is limited to what he can do. For a Harvard graduate he is not that smart. He only knows what his advisor’s tell him to say. And three days training for a debate when he shouldn’t need that because he is a senator for three years. Biden shouldn’t need it either. Its different with Palin because she didn’t really didn’t need foreign policy as governor.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 2, 2008, 5:19 am 5:19 am

Barack Obama and the democratic party are directly responsible for the economic tragedy that we are experiencing. This makes it your fault too since you people voted these demolosers into office. Anyone that states this is false does not know the facts or you are hiding from the truth. You are all stupid, pathetic losers who I laugh at YOU every day. Thanks for all the entertainment easy meat.

Posted by: demolibs are easy | October 2, 2008, 5:19 am 5:19 am

Screw the stupid polls – they don’t decide the election. The electoral college does.

Posted by: MyFellowAmericans | October 2, 2008, 5:19 am 5:19 am

Badger, GREAT IDEA!! I plan to watch the debate on ABC for the soul purpose of writing down each sponsor before the debate and of course those before and after Georgie Boy’s “Report” on the debate. I will post the entire list here just because I can. Then I will post the list on sites where folks just might boycott. I purpose we boycott for a week and write to the sponsors to let them know why their numbers are dropping like a rock!

Posted by: Kathie | October 2, 2008, 5:19 am 5:19 am

OK, it’s widely accepted that Barak is popular and stands a good change of winning. I think the focus now should change to serious discussion about the mess the new President inherits, whoever it is. Each candidate should be asked what their specific plan is for the transition period, and starting in January. I think we’re all filled up with politiciking.

Posted by: rob | October 2, 2008, 5:20 am 5:20 am

Sara is GREAT! She should be comedian of the year! This is the most fun elections EVER cause of Palin!

Posted by: Maw | October 2, 2008, 5:20 am 5:20 am

It’s painful for the Republicans to admit that Sarah Palin is uneducated and unqualified for the job of VP. They understand that it could cost them the election. So they have to pretend that they still believe she’s qualified.
I don’t think they’re fooling anyone though.

Posted by: JB | October 2, 2008, 5:21 am 5:21 am

To the ignorant people who keep blaming democrats and liberals for everything…
You have had a republican President AND Congress.They increased the size of government and spending,while giving corporate welfare nd they gave us 2 wars.We are in record debt 10 trillion dollars. Your crowd increased the debt and deficit more in 8 years than the previous 42 presidents COMBINED.NOW we have a collapsing economy and failing banks and China and Saudi Arabia own our country. Get an education !

Posted by: Jack | October 2, 2008, 5:21 am 5:21 am

I was honestly impressed with her when she first came out. She can command a stage it appears when she has a written speach, but I gotta tell you, she struggles when she’s on her own. I think she knows what she wants to say but it just does not come out right. Kinda reminds me of Bush.

Posted by: Jim Bob | October 2, 2008, 5:21 am 5:21 am

Hey Johnson, funny skit you must work for SNL

Posted by: abs | October 2, 2008, 5:22 am 5:22 am

Derek: Yes I see you put alot of thought into your post. Have you thought about “us” parents who don’t want to see another son or daughter die in a war based on all lies? Are you happy about the last 8 years? Have you watched your parents who have scrimped and saved all their lives, lose their jobs,homes,self respect and worry what will become of their childerns future? i will be tinking of my childern when I vote this year.

Posted by: linda n carolina | October 2, 2008, 5:22 am 5:22 am

Amen George for telling it like it TIZ

Posted by: Bushwacker08 | October 2, 2008, 5:22 am 5:22 am

GreenEggsAndHam: And what a name you have. Who payes attention to Dr. Phil. I thought he was long gone by now. One of Oprah’s findings. And she does attract some of the oddest people. I listened to him on her show and he is making a good buck fooling people with his advice.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 2, 2008, 5:23 am 5:23 am

The expecations for Palin in this “debate” are so low, that she can’t help but do well in everyone’s eyes tonight.
They will talk about how great she was and how she brought new energy to the race and yadda yadda yadda.
All because tonight “debate” is nothing more than a chance to put out sound bites. And she’s great at that.
Good Job America! Way to ditch substance and knowledge and be easily distracted by small shinny objects that don’t do anyone any good.

Posted by: Greg | October 2, 2008, 5:24 am 5:24 am

Judgement, Judgement, Judgement.
Mccain is 72 years OLD, OLD, OLD…
did you see the Des Moines interview?
Hilarious. those were just voters asking questions.
Obama 08

Posted by: Jobamatx | October 2, 2008, 5:26 am 5:26 am

Listen people, McBush AKA McLiar and his side kick and VP choice Sarah McBlunder and his gang of thugs are gonna hit us with everything they have this month! We need to flood Obama’s campaign with as much money as we can give through October. Let’s get energized people and show McBush/McLiar how strong we really are! We all started very strong and now we all have to pick up even more steam and finish what we started, our families and our soldiers are counting on us to fight the good fight to the end! Let’s start making this about the Economy, Health Care, Equal Pay, Education, Etc and we will win this Election! Keep donating and volunteering. Like I said my family and I have donated a $150 dollars and we do this every month, even my thirteen year old daughter and my seven year old daughter are engaged in this Election and have took money out of their piggy banks to help invest into a better future for not just them but for everyone that believes in Fairness, Justice, Equality and Hope in America. I’ve always told my children this when they started school, you always start strong and you always end strong. Obama/Biden/08
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Posted by: Orlando B. Fremont Ohio | October 2, 2008, 5:26 am 5:26 am

Jack: Obama was at the top of his class? You couldn’t prove it by me. He certainly wasn’t smart in choosing friends which means you can be at the head of the class and come out as dumb as an ass. And that’s what happened to him.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 2, 2008, 5:27 am 5:27 am

What a perfectly fitting, smug little grin you have in your picture, George. I guess that you must know that the media assasination of Sarah Palin is finally paying off. I guess that since the media could not dig up enough dirt from her past, you took the low road of verbal assasination. Congratulations on wielding your power to get your way and enjoy your reporting the years ahead with our FDR style president and congress who will prolong our economic woes…all the while blaming the previous administration.

Posted by: ms | October 2, 2008, 5:30 am 5:30 am

Think of all the stupid “snip its” as fabulous ads for tonights debates. Sarah Palin still commands the attention of all the world, who is the dumb one here ?
Posted by: disillusioned2008
Brittany Spears also commanded a lot of attention. The answer is clearly you!

Posted by: kim | October 2, 2008, 5:31 am 5:31 am

This will be a hard night for Sara. The debate is 90 minutes long and she will have to show a greater depth on subjects. This is not just a Vice Presidential debate, it is also an interview for her to be the President of the United States. John McCain is the the oldest man running for President and 1 out of every 3 VP’s become the President. The test tonight is on Governor Palin.

Posted by: kent | October 2, 2008, 5:31 am 5:31 am

I can not believe what I am reading!! I was (note: WAS) an ABC watcher until this election. NEVER have I witnessed in the past 50 years a more Liberal view for the Democrates than this election. I no longer watch Diane,Robin and Chris. It breaks my heart to know the bias from this station. I used to think there was fair and balanced reporting. Now I watch FOX News and ONLY Fox! There I can see BOTH sides. I may not agree with them but at least I get to see them. ABC has become a Democrate Liberal controled station that NO LONGER provides every day Americans who get up and go to work, struggle to put gas in the tank and pay bills a FAIR and UNBIASED view.
Shame on you!!! Shame on you as reporters supposedly of the truth, you have let your country down for a paycheck. Shame on you Diane, Robin, Chris and Charlie. This is expected of George…he’s always been that way.
A Lost Viewer

Posted by: Texas Gal | October 2, 2008, 5:32 am 5:32 am

Greg: And what have you accomplished so far in you life? Are you in politics? Why don’t you try running for the senate like Obama did. And maybe you can play dirty pool like he did to win the seat. And I mean he played dirty pool. And that’s what happened to Hillary also. Between Obama and Nancy Pelosi she lost the nomination.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 2, 2008, 5:32 am 5:32 am

Alaina: are you confused? Who’s “Oduma”? In our country a man named “Obama” is running for president. Where are you from?

Posted by: Sevres Blue | October 2, 2008, 5:32 am 5:32 am

euro,guy: You GD pathetic freak of nature. which miserable part of Europe do you wollow in? Where ever it is you scum bag I’ll bet it was liberated by US troops during WW2, and lets not forget WW1. Let me guess, you were denied a visa to come here because the INS discovered you are a child molester and distributer of kiddy porn. Your post makes it clear that your mental capacity is is that of a juvenile and that explains the kiddy porn. Now take some more drugs you brain dead moron and go find a job from an American company, that’s if you have a resume’ !

Posted by: bombem | October 2, 2008, 5:33 am 5:33 am

Cynics,
Row row row your boats gently to DEFEAT!
Merrily merrily merrily merrily, all the crow you can EEEEEEEEEEEEAT!
You knew what that inevitable was by supporting a played out Great White Nope. By the way, have you taken a look at ANY of your beloved polls? Doesn’t look pretty, MY FRIENDS.
POTUS OBAMA – It’s a lock

Posted by: Nat Turner | October 2, 2008, 5:35 am 5:35 am

It is good to see that media finally get it now.
Experience matters!!!!!!
It is good to see that media finally run out of soft pillows.
Only real battle fields can produce great generals!!!!!!
It is good to see that media finally did something right.
For good, it brings Obama out of church after 20 years!!!!!!
For good, it brings Palin out of Alaska
and brings this choking notion some fresh air!!!!!!
Now, please do not try to put her back to the dark corner of Washington!!!
Now, please do not try to teach her Bush’s theory!!!
Now, please do not try to force her to accept media’s BS opinion!!!
Think about the current financial crisis and how it happens.
If Bush, Congress, liberal media have not helped this country, why do you trust them???
Choose the one who proves he can fight for you.
Or
Choose the one who crys loudly for fire rescue but stays away from burning himself.
Do not you see it?
Who have got their houses and how?
Do not you see it?
Who have lost their houses and how?

Posted by: jy2008 | October 2, 2008, 5:36 am 5:36 am

HP Boston: Why are you double-posting? Doesn’t make what you say more true. Where did YOU get this info? You can’t attack Obama’s character or his history, you are really searching. Better to have a liar, cheater, one-trick-pony who’s as big a flip flopper as Kerry, who’s at death’s door, with Palin as a running mate (God help us), right?

Posted by: Sevres Blue | October 2, 2008, 5:36 am 5:36 am

Although I am a Obama/Biden supporter I am rooting for Palin to have a great night. She has been hammered this last couple of weeks.
So with that being said…Good luck to Sarah …. I couldn’t take several days of having to change the channels because I’m so embarrassed by your uniformed responses.
With te exception of the Fox channel….there too busy bashing the democrats.

Posted by: T | October 2, 2008, 5:36 am 5:36 am

These are such tied old lines about the liberal media. When ever these lines are used it makes anyone saying them look like a victim. It is exteremely said to hear the same stuff said over and over. The facts are so simple here, Americans have had enough of the Economic views of the Republican party. The party is over and it is time for all of you to go home.

Posted by: kent | October 2, 2008, 5:38 am 5:38 am

You don’t say . . . well, it appears that the constant haranguing and “gotcha” interviews by the U. S. leftist press and their TV talking heads have paid off. These incredible powers of persuasion by the media may well propel us into the era of utopian Marxism you are all hoping for. Way to go, you should really be proud of yourselves.

Posted by: rplat | October 2, 2008, 5:38 am 5:38 am

Aren’t we really all wondering what “game changer” incident McCain and his doodies have in mind for us this week?
He is a man of so little class these days. He was just on Morning Joe, I think (he’s making the rounds _again_ this morning), they were asking about the pork on the Senate bill, and instead of giving straight talk, he took every opportunity to make it partisan, to beat up Obama (“I came to town last week; he phoned it in,” which of course is exactly what he did from his offices—-he did not go round up the troops, he quickly saw it as a lost cause).
This is the guy Palin’s been taking advice from. He has been around for a while, it _is_ his show, and so we can’t blame him for wanting to help her. I guess. She is “new energy, a fresh voice,” (if she is so privileged to be excused from the debate that would be oh so good, ya?) ,and you can’t blame for for wanting to stake a few of her own views her own way. It is not working.
BTW, maybe my fingers aren’t coordinating any better than McCain-Palin this morning. Instead of them typing “you can’t blame him” it comes out “you can’t balm him”—maybe his campaign, you could embalm now, however.

Posted by: Ron, Baltimore | October 2, 2008, 5:38 am 5:38 am

Derek |
I didn’t even bother to read your rambling manifesto. Like Elizabeth Hasselback, when ever you McCain/Palin supporters are confronted with the truth about Palin, you simply pivot, and start talking about Obama. Did you bother to read this article before posting that garbage? Like Palin, you’ve broked loose from your moorings skipper! Try to stay on topic!

Posted by: roxanne | October 2, 2008, 5:39 am 5:39 am

Now lets see. This story was published Sunday/Monday – and it is now Thursday. ABC please try to be a bit less bias when it comes to the the female candidate. Im a democrat and Im getting disgusted in the FOXNews-like reporting over the past few weeks. Dont worry, Obama will win the election.

Posted by: NYC-Independent1664 | October 2, 2008, 5:40 am 5:40 am

I’ll take lack of experience and integrity (not corrupt) for experience (corrupt) anytime. Anyone who’s been in Washington as long as Biden and McCain are part of the problem. They’ve feathered their nest with complacency.
The elite didn’t take Ronald Reagan seriously either.

Posted by: jj | October 2, 2008, 5:40 am 5:40 am

Christian: That’s where your wrong. Evidently you don’t pay attention to what’s going on. Her views are the same as his. He is pro-life and so is she. And that is the good news. Huckabee and Lieberman are pro-choice and the christians warned McCain about his VP choice if he wanted their votes. McCain is in this race just like Obama is to win. Obama is pro-choice. I wouldn’t vote for a candidate that thinks pro-choice because every child has a right to live. And what is your choice?

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 2, 2008, 5:40 am 5:40 am

Duh, George, of course she’s a drag.
ASnyone who thinks she’s ready to be President, is NUTS! Get help, fast!
She is politically amazing, but the woman couldn’t think of:
EXXON VALDEX et al vs. Baker, for crimany sakes!
Brown v. Board of Education
Tonight, all you’ll hear out of her mouth is GIBBERISH! She can’t answer a question, because she is
GEORGE BUSH!
The McLame campaign and the public knew about Iffil’s book in JULY! I knew about it, all McCain had to do was
find the internetS, locate THE Googles, and voila, he’d have know, just like me!
Dumb and dumber.
McCain, the 20th century campaign in the 21st century, HE IS LOST< SOMEONE AHELP THE OLD MAN!
Sarah is serious, 72 yrs old, cancer 4 times, he's in remission.
A 72 yr old only has a 1 in 4 chance of living 4 years, with cancer it's 1 in 1/2% chance.
1 in every 3 vp's becomes President, that's staggering.
NO TO SARAH!

Posted by: Andrea D | October 2, 2008, 5:40 am 5:40 am

If you watch Palin’s interview with Couric, and then watch Tina Fey’s impression, you will notice something more than a little disturbing. Tina’s comedic responses were almost word-for-word the responses that Palin gave. WORD FOR WORD. VERY LITTLE EMBELLISHMENT. I think I have my answer as to her competency.
Obama/Biden ’08
Don’t let our country suffer through anymore terrible mismanagement.

Posted by: snl_lover | October 2, 2008, 5:41 am 5:41 am

@DEREK
YOU SOUND SERIOUSLY MIS-INFORMED RIGHT NOW SWEET HEART, THOSE ARE NOT OBAMAS VIEWS OR ISSUES. NEXT TIME LISTEN TO THE DEBATES AND SPEECHES ON YOUR OWN INSTEAD OF LISTENING TO YOUR MOTHERS FRIENDS BANTER OVER THE CARD TABLE.

Posted by: Latisha Malone | October 2, 2008, 5:42 am 5:42 am

What is the definition of negro? How does this relate to this election; if it does? Why is racism allowed for blacks and not for whites. Why is there not a congressional white caucus, naawp or any other organization that promotes the well being of white people? What is a chicken hawk? What is a cracker? What is the purpose of the Congressional Black Caucus or the NAACP? Racism is alive and well only the tables have been turned. Blacks are now the racist. Many white people are now joining black racist and supporting racism against white people. ANY organization that supports people based on color is racist!

Posted by: Negro | October 2, 2008, 5:43 am 5:43 am

I’d be more concern if the media was “praising” Palin than the heighten bashing. The media has more to lose than anyone. They’ve gone out of their way to single her out more than any candidate in history by painting a bullseye on her for failure. After tonight I want to know how they like their Crow cooked?

Posted by: Kenny Jones | October 2, 2008, 5:44 am 5:44 am

Why is FEC Keeping Lid on OBAMA SCANDAL?
It looks as if Senator Obama may have received MORE THAN $200 MILLION in illegal donations including millions overseas campaign donations. Four times during the last three months an FEC Auditor has asked his bosses to start an investigation into Senator Obama’s illegal campaign donations such as this one
Similarly, a donor identified as “Pro, Doodad,” from “Nando, NY,” gave $19,500 in 786 separate donations, most of them for $25. For most of these donations, Mr. Doodad Pro listed his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You,” etc.

Posted by: HP Boston | October 2, 2008, 5:45 am 5:45 am

“These are such tied old lines about the liberal media. When ever these lines are used it makes anyone saying them look like a victim. It is exteremely said to hear the same stuff said over and over. The facts are so simple here, Americans have had enough of the Economic views of the Republican party. The party is over and it is time for all of you to go home.”
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Yes, the facts are “so simple here” and it’s amazing that you haven’t recognized them. The mainstream media is and always has been far left of center and your emotional, ignorant denials will change nothing. And by the way, learn to spell before you post again . . . “said” = “sad”?

Posted by: rplat | October 2, 2008, 5:45 am 5:45 am

I think anybody – or any poll – that claims to know what’s going on in this election, is full of it.

Posted by: Annie | October 2, 2008, 5:45 am 5:45 am

Hey [Obama Biden 2008] I agree with you totally. Obama supporters should layoff Sarah Palin. She’s doing a mighty fine job of destroying herself and John McCain. We don’t have to do a thing. Sarah Palin may do just fine tonight, and then the momentum could swing back to John McCain. If Sarah does poorly tonight the Republicans are gearing up to bash Gwen Ifil and the media. The Republicans are already turning on each other right now because of the mis-management of the Republican ticket. Sarah doesn’t really scared me half as bad as John McCain. However, to think that John McCain not being able to complete a first term and Sarah Palin assuming the post of President, gives me bloating headache, nausea and pain in my joints.

Posted by: dee | October 2, 2008, 5:45 am 5:45 am

DEREK:
Stop being an IDIOT!

Posted by: Shay | October 2, 2008, 5:46 am 5:46 am


These are such tied old lines about the liberal media. When ever these lines are used it makes anyone saying them look like a victim. It is exteremely said to hear the same stuff said over and over. The facts are so simple here, Americans have had enough of the Economic views of the Republican party. The party is over and it is time for all of you to go home.

I agree, not only Republican party is over but also Democrate party is over.
It is time for moderate right and moderate left to stand up, to work together, to lead this country.
It is time to remove Bush’s dictator machine.
It is time to remove Media’s liberal machine.

Posted by: jy2008 | October 2, 2008, 5:46 am 5:46 am

What a bunch of lies. abc you are so one sided its sad.
Obama has kids singing in KCMO like a cult. He is a terrorist protector, He preached to the Germans and had nothing to do for the USA. What a communist he is. abc looks like it may be protecting its self so if he gets in they will not be shut down by the new communist goverment.

Posted by: Jim Rod | October 2, 2008, 5:47 am 5:47 am

It is pretty pathetic that the only way McCain could persuade house republicans to vote for the bill was to add on all the pork.
Props to the Maverick of the Senate, NOT!

Posted by: ohiogal | October 2, 2008, 5:47 am 5:47 am

i seem to think that this ABC network is so pro democrat that they should be on their knees waveing their hands. for once i would like to see them report the news the way they should where both parties are critized the same way, not just beat up one. xcome on ABC wake up.

Posted by: roy | October 2, 2008, 5:48 am 5:48 am

i seem to think that this ABC network is so pro democrat that they should be on their knees waveing their hands. for once i would like to see them report the news the way they should where both parties are critized the same way, not just beat up one. xcome on ABC wake up.

Posted by: roy | October 2, 2008, 5:49 am 5:49 am

this Stephanoupolus guy is a Obama backer and in Obamas bed. This is news? This is a campain stunt for the communist Obama and his Cult. We need McCain to get bigger ba–s and just tell it like it is. Point the finger at the cult leader.

Posted by: Jim Rod | October 2, 2008, 5:49 am 5:49 am

What does race or color have to do with this debate or sarah palin? Liking one candidate because he is black or white is wrong. Liking one candidate because she is a woman or a man is wrong. Race, Gender, ethnic background, economic classes, origins, languages all have nothing to do with qualification but millions of stupid people are voting for barack because he is black while millions are voting for sarah because she is a woman. People in general are stupid. I do agree that there is no place in our society for groups that promote ONE race like the naacp or the congressional black caucus.

Posted by: cracker | October 2, 2008, 5:49 am 5:49 am

there are more idiots in the democratic party than any other party on the planet.

Posted by: demolibs are stupid | October 2, 2008, 5:50 am 5:50 am

Sara Palin comes across as a likeable competent individual, hardly a drag on the ticket. The Democrat media does fear her though, as evidenced by the smear campaign.
Obama will win because he owns the press. This is not a free country when 80-90% of journalists belong to one political party.
Watch tonight’s debate with its ‘impartial’ moderator.

Posted by: ken | October 2, 2008, 5:50 am 5:50 am

Amen to George S. She is an absolute drain on their ticket but so is he. They should both be put on the shelf!

Posted by: Sharon | October 2, 2008, 5:51 am 5:51 am

Well, the debate hasn’t even started yet and Georgie Boy has already given it to Bidden! What a surprise. What ever happened to reporting rather than campaigning by the media. Why do they have to give opinions and report on polls? Why do they assume we care what a reporter thinks or what any polls says other than the only one that counts. Again I ask, why does a National network hire a political hack as a journalist?
Posted by: Kathie | Oct 2, 2008 9:05:42 AM————————————–This is the dumbest post I’ve ever seen. They assume you care because you read the article. If you don’t care what they say, then why are you on this site. Dummy.

Posted by: jayandersonjr | October 2, 2008, 5:51 am 5:51 am

“I wouldn’t vote for a candidate that thinks pro-choice because every child has a right to live. And what is your choice?”…So we’ve been voting for people who ‘say’ they are pro-life and which one of them has proposed a ban on abortion. Never mind that it would not pass, the ‘pro-life-’ candidates dodge the issue as soon as they are in office. Bush, October 2003, told reporters the country is not ready for Roe-Wade to be overturned. Palin is pro-choice but says she would leave such matters up to the states, as would McCain, which means they will do NOTHING about abortion. It’s a ploy , a lie to get into office.

Posted by: Mike | October 2, 2008, 5:51 am 5:51 am

Ifill is NOT WRITING A PRO OBAMA BOOK!!!!!
IT IS A BOOK ABOUT BLACK AND POLITICS, IT’S THE AGE OF OBAMA!
DID YOU HAPPEN TO THINK, MAYBE BLACK, WHO HAVE ONLY BEEN ABLE TO VOTE FOR 44 YEARS IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY, MAYBE THEY’RE PROUD!
THEY HAVE ONLY HAD OLD PASTY WHITE MEN TO VOTE FOR BEFORE!
YOUR RACISM IS SHOWING!
BET YOU KNOW A BALCK PERSON, RIGHT!
UH, YUK, LEAVE IT TO AMERICA, YOU FOOLS ARE DISGUSTING RACISTS!
OBAMA DUMB. YOU’RE DUMB IF YOU THINK HE IS!
MCCAIN, 894TH OUT OF 899 IN HIS CLASS.
OBAMA, FIRST! YOU ARE THE STUPID ONE AND YOU’RE PROUD OF IT.
YOU ARE WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY, AND YOU VOTED FOR BUSH TWICE!
THIS IS YOUR FAULT!

Posted by: Mike from Augusta | October 2, 2008, 5:52 am 5:52 am

HOW COULD Stephanopoulos, A LEFT-WING LIBERAL, MAKE ANY ACCURATE STATEMENT CONCERNING SARAH PALIN. HE IS BIASED FAR, FAR TO THE LEFT.

Posted by: SID GOBER | October 2, 2008, 5:53 am 5:53 am

I prefer McCain to Obama as President. Both, however, should make at least ‘OK’ presidents.
But Palin? Ready to be President in January!!!! I just don’t get it.
Palin isn’t learning facts, she’s learning beauty queen sound bites to deflect questions.
“My goal is peace for all mankind and to end poverty. No one should be hungry and puppies are cute.”
Holding nose and voting Democrat for Pres and against anyone who supported the fatcat bailout.

Posted by: Joe Brailleio | October 2, 2008, 5:53 am 5:53 am

I am being truthful, when I say I don’t know of any one that has changed their opinion of Sahra. I live in an area that is very Republican. No one has changed their mind about her. It’s hard to believe the news outlets on tv. The more they say things about Sarah, the more strength they give to her image. I know that you will not call her a winner on the debate tonight. But if she does win, I hope that you will be truthful in reorting the facts.

Posted by: Wally Davenprt | October 2, 2008, 5:54 am 5:54 am

Does it really matter about these debates? None of the candidates are qualified to hold any office except maybe dog catcher and even then, we’d have to check with the dogs first. This county is doomed.

Posted by: Lee | October 2, 2008, 5:55 am 5:55 am

Sara Palin comes across as a likeable competent individual, hardly a drag on the ticket. The Democrat media does fear her though, as evidenced by the smear campaign.
Obama will win because he owns the press. This is not a free country when 80-90% of journalists belong to one political party.
Watch tonight’s debate with its ‘impartial’ moderator.
Posted by: ken | Oct 2, 2008 9:
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When is the last time you complained about talk radio being ran by conservatives. And I would say Obama been treated the same way. You know, when they talk about wright, ayers, Rezko. When you agree, it good journalism, when you don’t, It biased media.

Posted by: jayandersonjr | October 2, 2008, 5:55 am 5:55 am

@KEN
THAT IS NOT A TRUE STATEMENT. PEOPLE ARE PARTIAL TO OBAMA BECAUSE HE IS THE INTELLIGENT VOTERS CHOICE. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS BEEN PLAYING DIRTY POOL THIS ENTIRE CAMPAIGN AND NOW THAT THINGS HAVN’T TURNED IN THEIR FAVOR THEY WANT TO CALL FOUL, BUT THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS. THEY HURT THEMSELVES BY MAKING BAD, ILL-INFORMED STATEMENTS, AND NONSENSE ANTICS. AS A RESULT THE GAME IS FAR SPENT AND THE REPUBS HAVE THE LOWEST POINTS ON THE BOARD. IN MY OPINION GAME OVER.

Posted by: Latisha Malone | October 2, 2008, 5:56 am 5:56 am

Palin is so bright she makes Clinton look like a clown – NOT!!!!

Posted by: JOE | October 2, 2008, 5:58 am 5:58 am

I believe Sarah Palin was chosen by McCain, wasn’t thoroughly vetted by him and his advisors, not because she is an intelligent, well-read, thoughtful person who could represent the U.S.A. before various international powers, could serve as a tie-breaker in Congressional votes. She was chosen as a surrogate trophy First Lady because his wife prefers to mind the family store than be involved politically. McCain’s choice of a woman running mate was also a vindictive swipe at Hillary Clinton and Oback Obama. It also demonstrates McCain’s lack of foresight by deliberately ignoring his age and history of multiple medical problems by selecting a woman whose knowledge of complex national and international situations is abysmal to be just a heartbeat away from being president should he become disabled or deceased while in office. She’s been prepped intensively for tonight’s debate with Joe Biden, but if a question comes from left field, she’ll flounder. Don’t forget, Biden has also been prepped extensively for this debate, not so much on the issues, but more because of his tendency to run off at the mouth when he gets wound up, and also how not to come off as chauvenistic and condescending yet still be able to get his point across. It’ll be an interesting debate to watch.

Posted by: ANidel | October 2, 2008, 5:58 am 5:58 am

Stephanopoulos is simply stating the poll numbers. They clearly show people are unhappy with Palin. The day she was announced it was clear she had very little experience. Mayor of a tiny town and around 19 months as governor of a state with fewer people than many cities. Her biggest accomplishment was unsucessfully trying to get her ex-brother-in-law fired. She couldn’t even manage to pull that off!

Posted by: John Tate | October 2, 2008, 5:59 am 5:59 am

Isn’t it pretty much impossible to understand how there can be people who haven’t yet decided how they’ll vote? But getting back to Sarah: She’s another McCain publicity stunt that is backfiring. Sarah is the star high school quarterback who was dumped into a SuperBowl. It’s not right for her, it’s not right for America. Sarah didn’t campaign long and hard (as the major candidates did)…she hasn’t earned a shot at the White House. I’m not a political person, but if I were…I can tell you I’d never let my party, whichever one it is, cloud my judgment to the extent it would have to be clouded to vote for someone as ill-prepared as Sarah.

Posted by: Pat H | October 2, 2008, 6:00 am 6:00 am

The SNL skit with Tina Fey giving a surrealistically stream-of-conscious answer with every talking pt thrown in was cleverly written, I thought.
I was stunned when the news shows aired clips that it was Palin’s answer VERBATIM!
Katie Couric too tough of an interviewer? Sorry, Mr. Rogers is not available.

Posted by: austin | October 2, 2008, 6:00 am 6:00 am

George S. AN OBAMA BACKER!!!!!!!!!!!
GRORGE HATES OBAMA, DIDN’T YOU SEE THE DEBATE WITH HILLARY!!!!
GEORGE, MAN I DOUBT HE’LL VOTE FOR OBAMA, HE DOESN’T LIKE HIM. HE’S UPSET IT’S NOT HILLARY, HE WAS THE PRESS SECRETARY FOR CLINTON, OR AREN’T YOU OLD ENOUGFH, OR TOO ILL INFORMED TO REMEMBER.
AMERICANS ARE THE STUPIDEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD! AND THE MOST RACIST.
KEEP THE LID OF OBAMA SEC INVESTIGATION.
WHERE’D YOU GET THAT, OPENSECRETS!! THE ANTI OBAMA WEBSITE, WHAT A JOKE!
UNLIKE PALIN, OBAMA HAS BEEN VETTED FOR 2 YEARS, THAT STANDS FOR TWO!

Posted by: Andrea D | October 2, 2008, 6:00 am 6:00 am

With the outright lies and level of hypocrisy that have come to characterize the McCain campaign, I can only think of one word to describe it: surreal. Yes, this McCain campaign is feeling more and more surreal each day.

Posted by: chris | October 2, 2008, 6:01 am 6:01 am

Please PLEASE do not judge the abilities of women by Mrs Palin. Women are every bit as smart as men, and I would venture to say “smarter than men” in many respects. Their natural side seems to be far more compassionate than men. This trait alone would have done this nation of ours well early on in its history. With regard to the “leader” of this nation, we cannot and should not be superficial in our choice. Being man or woman, Christian or Agnostic, has little to do with “ability to carry out an agenda”. It is the agenda that we should all vote on. I can only speak for myself, and that is I am voting for anyone who views the military as a LAST OPTION and a safeguard against an (unlikely) invasion. In todays world, we need someone who is not only intelligent, but who will be respected and will garner the respect of leaders whose views may be forged in old mindsets (much like our current leader). We need a leader who can charm a mountain lion out of a cave to negotiate.

Posted by: Tired of the GOP | October 2, 2008, 6:01 am 6:01 am

I am 100% for OBAMA, but I think Palin is going to blow the republican base off their feet tonight. As dumb as she sounds to us, she can do no wrong in the eyes of most republicans. I think no matter how bad she does (if at all), the republicans are going to spin it around. They are good at repeating the same line until people get beat down with it and give in or agree under duress…… But instead of focusing on her, I have to focus on our man Joe. I pray to God that HE makes no mistakes tonight. We all know his mouth can be a bit out of control, but I love him, cuz he tells it like it is… Good Luck Joe, we love you… OBAMA/BIDEN ’08

Posted by: Obamaall theway | October 2, 2008, 6:02 am 6:02 am


YOU ARE WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY, AND YOU VOTED FOR BUSH TWICE!
THIS IS YOUR FAULT!

I hate Bush machine. It controls the nation too much for 8 years.
But I hate liberal media machine more. If it controls the nation longer, it will the America history for ever.

Posted by: jy2008 | October 2, 2008, 6:04 am 6:04 am

SEAH… and you are dumber than the ones you are accusing as you do not know even know how to properly spell ENGLISH words. so shut the ($)(*)(_) Up.

Posted by: natkat | October 2, 2008, 6:04 am 6:04 am

I’m amazed there are so many Demidiots in this country. Obama is pathetic yet only a bit less pathetic than the “Hillary would have been a better pick than me” moron of a running mate. Biden doesn’t even know who was President in 1929 (probably the year he was born) or that television didn’t exist back then. You Demidiots and liberal press–steeped in a process with no concious–are on the verge of ruining our country.

Posted by: sms | October 2, 2008, 6:04 am 6:04 am

Obama is the one who is not really qualified to be running for President. Palin is running for VP and has more experience than him. Interesting how the media is covering this election.

Posted by: Reality | October 2, 2008, 6:04 am 6:04 am

Palin is a disaster.
Her choice was anything but a ‘maverick’ move.
It is pandering to the lowest sort of base, or the basest sort of low.
Now he has shown what poor judgment he has. And how he would govern; in an erratic insane manner.
McCain has no HONOR.

Posted by: mtobias | October 2, 2008, 6:05 am 6:05 am

The Obama camp should take the McCain/Couric conversation and blast it all over the media. McCain is such an a@@. Palin can only talk to the media when she has the questions ahead of time and can prepare the answers? What kind of bull s— is that? She can’t think on her own, she has to be coached for every appearance, there is only dead space between her ears. McCain has shown his total lack of respect for the American people by choosing Palin as his running mate. The woman is a total jerk. Every time I see her on TV, it reminds me of the day when Bush was visiting a kindergarden class in Florida, and someone whispers in his ear that an aircraft has crashed into the World Trade Tower. He had the same dumb look on his face, “the deer in the headlights” look, because he didn’t know what to do, and Cheney wasn’t there to tell him.

Posted by: Sandy | October 2, 2008, 6:05 am 6:05 am


YOU ARE WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY, AND YOU VOTED FOR BUSH TWICE!
THIS IS YOUR FAULT!

I hate Bush machine. It controls the nation too much for 8 years.
But I hate liberal media machine more. If it controls the nation longer, it will change the America history for ever.

Posted by: jy2008 | October 2, 2008, 6:05 am 6:05 am

kent: There are a lot of comments about how long with McCain live. I didn’t know that so many people can determine how long a person is going to live. Its amazing. And who cares. Why do so many people worry who is going to take over. That’s the trouble with this country. Worry about Obama being elected because he will become a dictator like his father and this country will be ruled like Kenya. He is half Kenyan and has that dicatatorship in his speeches. He also tries to speak like MLK. This is not the good for our country. Obama would turn this country into a disaster and you know what would happen to him.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 2, 2008, 6:05 am 6:05 am

The failure of man leaders are the result of ignoring the laws and principles of the One who has the legal right to rule. No mater how honest . selfless a man intentions are as long as he ignores The Supreme of the Universe, he will never succeed, this fact is based in the history of mankind ruling for more than 6000 years, every form of government on earth has not proven to solve or answer to mans needs, humility not pride is much better and lasting, the missuse of power and the lack of honesty is to their own detriment. Sad to see a woman putting herself in this possition when her family in need will grow with no quality care. Must be very hard for her to be asked for things she does not really know.No wisdom in her character. otherwise she will be where she belongs.
San

Posted by: Sandra | October 2, 2008, 6:05 am 6:05 am

It’s kinda like a NASCAR race. People are waiting for the big crash.

Posted by: steve | October 2, 2008, 6:05 am 6:05 am

It’s kinda like a NASCAR race. People are waiting for the big crash.

Posted by: steve | October 2, 2008, 6:05 am 6:05 am

Fact is, the bar is set so LOW for Plain, if she doesn’t fall off her podium it will be considered a success.
The Pubs are already crying about the moderator “bias” and the debate hasn’t even happened. Of course, THEY agreed to use her, but that’s not mentioned.
The pressure is on Biden. He is the one who deserves to be on the stage tonight, but he has to prove it without being “sexist” or “mean”. What a double standard.

Posted by: Not ready for prime time | October 2, 2008, 6:06 am 6:06 am

-Derek-
You’re an idiot on this blog posting. If you’re gonna post crap like that keep it short because nobody’s going to read that crap. Obama has been campaigning for 16 months and the media has tried to find all the crap that they could on him. When they couldn’t find anything, they started throwing lies. It’s Palin’s turn to face the media but only difference is most of the stuff that the media has is TRUE…
Obama/Biden all the way!

Posted by: LB | October 2, 2008, 6:07 am 6:07 am

Who wins the VP debate is irrelevant to me. I am a white female who is tired of hearing GRANDPA MCains nonsense and Palin’s LOUD MOUTH.
All I know, she was chosen because she is a woman, to boost up Grandpa’s campaign. She is a heartbeat away from becoming President. That is a very scary thought. She could not hold it together with press interviews, how will she hold our country together. VOTE FOR A REAL CHANGE, not different folks with same ideas. If McCain is so experienced and knowledgeable, why didn’t he use the last few years to influence real change. He is still living in the past. I am voting for OBAMA! I will take my chances for a real change, not MORE OF THE SAME! Get rid of Palin. She is just another LOUD MOUTH Republican.

Posted by: samantha | October 2, 2008, 6:09 am 6:09 am

Stephanopoulos
You’re the drag, you biased piece of human feces!

Posted by: Appalachian Springs | October 2, 2008, 6:10 am 6:10 am

DON’T BELEIVE THESE PHONY MEDIA POLLS…THEY ARE ALL BALONEY!
GOVERNOR PALIN IS AN ABSOLUTE IMPROVEMENT TO THE GOP TICKET
WATCH TONIGHT’S DEBATE…GOVERNOR PALIN WILL DO GREAT…AND THE VOTERS WILL LOVE HER!

Posted by: John Pen | October 2, 2008, 6:11 am 6:11 am

Sandy: And what are your accomplishments in life. Are you going to run for mayor or governor? I don’t think so and you probably wouldn’t make it. Those that make comments about Palin couldn’t shine the shoes she wears. They are too busy in their own little world about Obama being elected president to worry about what would happen if he is. Of course there are a lot of dumb people in this country that don’t have the faintest idea that he will be come a dictator and run this country like they do in Kenya. Are you forgetting he is half Kenyan and they have dictatorship over there? Wake up. He does a good speech from the book of RFK. Did you think he had the brains to make speeches like that on his own. He has this young generation of fools like you believing what he says and its never going to happen.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 2, 2008, 6:13 am 6:13 am

There is also the chance that Biden could become Pres. After Democratic voters told him no during two primaries!
Which of the two debaters is most likely to put HIS foot in HIS mouth?

Posted by: Frank C | October 2, 2008, 6:13 am 6:13 am

Of course Sarah Palin is a drag on John McCain’s “bridge to the White House”. He chose her strictly for the benefit of one family in America-HIS– and then runs on a Country First ticket. Mrs. McCain has made it abundantly clear that she plans to remain in Arizona running daddy’s business and wants little to do with Washington D.C. so Senator McCain will need a surrogate “first lady”. He gives the American people way too much credit for being STUPID!!! I for one do not want to take the chance, I guess I am not a gambler like John–but I don’t have the money to be–on President Palin being in labor when the next crisis takes place or having to answer a tough question, Like what newspaper she reads. Sybil: Posted by: sybil30
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Sybol, if McCain needed a “surrogate wife” he certainly did not need to pick a woman VP. All he needed was an extramarital affair.

Posted by: get a life | October 2, 2008, 6:13 am 6:13 am

Obama is the one who is not really qualified to be running for President. Palin is running for VP and has more experience than him. Interesting how the media is covering this election.
Posted by: Reality

Posted by: John Pen | October 2, 2008, 6:14 am 6:14 am

DON’T BELEIVE THESE PHONY MEDIA POLLS…THEY ARE ALL BALONEY!
GOVERNOR PALIN IS AN ABSOLUTE IMPROVEMENT TO THE GOP TICKET
WATCH TONIGHT’S DEBATE…GOVERNOR PALIN WILL DO GREAT…AND THE VOTERS WILL LOVE HER!

Posted by: John Pen | October 2, 2008, 6:15 am 6:15 am

Palin will use her “charm” at tonight’s debate to try to overshadow the fact that she is completely inept! Wake up America. “Leadership experience” of a small town and even of a state means absolutely nothing when a person lacks even a basic understanding of key national economic and international issues.

Posted by: Anti_Repugnican | October 2, 2008, 6:15 am 6:15 am

Not to worry, Sara Palin is witch-clean!
http://www.light-to-dark.com/witches_tongues_and_sara_palin.html

Posted by: Stephen | October 2, 2008, 6:15 am 6:15 am

Historically, VPs did not matter to the ticket, male OR female, unless they said something so stupid it could not be ignored. So far it seems Tina Fay is the only one who’s made stupid statements trying to imitate her. We haven’t heard anything from Sarah Palin herself.
Biden, on the other hand said that Roosevelt did a wonderful job on television when television never even existed until long after Roosevelt’s death. He’s said the rich need to be “patrotic” and pay higher taxes as a “contribution”. Try telling the IRS you’re don’t want to make a “contribution” this year.
The media and George Stephanopoulos says Biden is a great debater and public speaker while Palin is a “drag on the Republican ticket”.
The REAL problem is that Palin is a Republican. That means she loses the debate and the election long before either one of them ever happen.
Well, my suggestion is, keep it up. Nancy Pelosi made a wonderful anti-Republican statement the other day and Obama went down in the polls about 5 points.
If Obama wins the election, I hope he enjoys his innaugration. It will be the ONLY high point in his presidency. Two years later, the Republicans get a super majority in both houses of Congress and Obama will be reduced to being a figurehead.

Posted by: ivan | October 2, 2008, 6:16 am 6:16 am

John Pen: You are so right. Even McCain laughed at the polls. Palin will do better than Biden because he usually puts his foot in his mouth. Obama is in Grand Rapids at a rally and the fools there are chanting for him. You should she him looking at them probably saying to himself, I have these sucker’s right where I want them. There is an old say that goes “what fools these mortals be” and that is a true saying. This is a generation of fools.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 2, 2008, 6:17 am 6:17 am

Dear Palin,
Drop out
Sign,
Every GOP supporter with a brain.
Dear GOP

Posted by: nubiangent08 | October 2, 2008, 6:17 am 6:17 am

Palin will use her “charm” at tonight’s debate to try to overshadow the fact that she is completely inept! Wake up America. “Leadership experience” of a small town and even of a state means absolutely nothing when a person lacks even a basic understanding of key national economic and international issues.

Posted by: Anti_Repugnican | October 2, 2008, 6:17 am 6:17 am

I can not laugh any more the liberal DNC brings out a God and the libral mrdia brings out a Chosen One to save America.
They cheer for The Emperor’s New Clothes
and
they want all Americans to cheer too.
In their eyes, Change can only come from the Chosen One and only God has right to change.
But, I do not care. It is your own God and it is ugly God.

Posted by: jy2008 | October 2, 2008, 6:18 am 6:18 am

i have never read such vile and nasty comments as i have read on this blog.i didnt realize there were so many vicious people in the u.s. no wonder you dont put your real names on the blog. i wouldnt either if i were most of you on here. i hope the people in this country wake up before it is too late.

Posted by: dj jones | October 2, 2008, 6:18 am 6:18 am

Its amazing. And who cares. Why do so many people worry who is going to take over
——————
Why?
You’re kidding right?
And the “dictator” line is just rediculous at best – moronic is more like it.
And God forbid you think Obama speaks like MLK. Gee, that’s just horrible isn’t it?
It’s certainly better than the naive militaristic ignorance of McCain and Palin! The Cold War is Over. It has been since the 80′s.
Hate to inform you, but people like YOU are what is wrong with this country. People who dwell in fear and negative smears that have no credibility.

Posted by: Oh no, not MLK | October 2, 2008, 6:19 am 6:19 am

If Gov Palin had been in as many debates as Obama she would be as good or better then him. Most of the time Obama doesn’t know what he is talking about he just says what he is told. After campaigning for over a year he should know all the answers to the questions that the media ask. I am sure Gov Palin would be just as good. The media takes one or to things out of a interview that makes her look less than smart and then play it over and over. She is a gov of the State of Alaska with a 80% approval she can’t be as dumb as the media is trying to make her sound. I just wounder if you took a poll on how the media is doing on reporting the campaign how it would turn out. I’ll bet the democrats would think it was grate and the republican would think it stinks.

Posted by: fnp9 | October 2, 2008, 6:19 am 6:19 am

*chuckles* My ten-year old knows far more about the economy and international relations than Sarah Palin.

Posted by: AnIndependentVoter | October 2, 2008, 6:21 am 6:21 am

The fact is that Tina Fey quoted word for word what Sarah Palin said to Katie Couric. That wasn’t a script Tina Fey created. Palin is clearly out of her league. She is now cramming for a test that she never took the class in.

Posted by: Cynda P. | October 2, 2008, 6:22 am 6:22 am

The title of this story should probably be propaganda works once again. Every dictator has known the value of propaganda, the difference this time being that it is being used by the liberal media. They have pounded Palin every day from the time she was nominated despite the fact that she is no less qualified than Obama. We saw the same treatment of Hillary when she stood in the way of Obama.

Posted by: bbs | October 2, 2008, 6:22 am 6:22 am

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows Barack Obama attracting 51% of the vote while John McCain earns 44%. This seven-point advantage is the largest yet enjoyed by Obama during Election 2008 and is consistent with the stable lead he has enjoyed over the past week.

Posted by: Mr. Coffee | October 2, 2008, 6:23 am 6:23 am

So far it seems Tina Fay is the only one who’s made stupid statements trying to imitate her. We haven’t heard anything from Sarah Palin herself.
—————
DID YOU NOT READ THE INTERVIEWS SHE DID?
TINA FEY ACTUALLY JUST REPEATED WHAT PALIN SAID ALMOST WORD-FOR-WORD.
SO THINK ABOUT WHO IS MAKING “STUPID STATEMENTS AGAIN.

Posted by: Tina Rocks! | October 2, 2008, 6:23 am 6:23 am

Palin will do well. I expect her to smile and repeat her lines just like she wrote on them on the chalkboard 100 times. LOL

Posted by: nubiangent08 | October 2, 2008, 6:24 am 6:24 am

jy2008 – Obama a dictator? With your racist views, I would have to assume you are a white republican.
Let’s see, who else is a dictator. A person that rules a country and has absolute power, and makes selfish decisions based on his own wants and needs and not that of the people…
Ooops, I just described President Bush.
He is acting like a dictator now. For you to say Obama will be a dictator because his family was from Kenya is ridiculous. You do realize Obama taught constitutional law for twelves years, correct? I think he fully understands how to lead and not dictate…

Posted by: MyBrainReallyHurts | October 2, 2008, 6:26 am 6:26 am

If she doesnt step down…McCain is done.

Posted by: Scabby-Nubtail | October 2, 2008, 6:26 am 6:26 am

Frank C,
I agree with you….I am a Obama/Biden supporter and I’m more worried about him than I am for Palin.
At least Palin sticks to the script….Biden other hand, revise and extents the script.

Posted by: TW | October 2, 2008, 6:26 am 6:26 am

Oh no, not MLK – So what you are saying is Obama is more qualified than Palin….Thank you, that is what everyone here is saying too.

Posted by: mybrainreallyhurts | October 2, 2008, 6:29 am 6:29 am

Stephanopoulos is a drag on the MEDIA. If he wants to vote with the Liberals let him, at least we know where he stands. Leave Sarah alone. She will do us proud. Why are you Liberals so afraid of her????? She must have something going for her.

Posted by: political_critic | October 2, 2008, 6:30 am 6:30 am

“time OF Obama”
Obama will a fluke nobody after he loses. There is only a significance if Obama were to be President on January 20, 2009.

Posted by: geevill | October 2, 2008, 6:30 am 6:30 am

Tina Fay is a liberal idiot. She is not funny. She is ugly. I would have to down a 12 pack and bring 2 paper bags to consider bagging her. Which would provide no big challenge. SNL use to be good back in the day; but now its just part of the liberal media promoting the nobody barack nobama.

Posted by: Tina is Stupid | October 2, 2008, 6:31 am 6:31 am

Since when is Palin running for President?

Posted by: geevill | October 2, 2008, 6:32 am 6:32 am

Why is the media making such a big deal out of Gov Palin spending time in AZ. preparing for the debate, when Obama spent at least three days preparing for his debate and they hardly mentioned it. Is this another attempt at tyring to make her look unprepared and less than smart.

Posted by: fnp9 | October 2, 2008, 6:33 am 6:33 am

Barack bin Biden are done tonight. Bin biden always inserts foot in mouth. With his short fuse; watch Sarah set him off like a bottle rocket. And the lemmings fall off the cliff

Posted by: Bin Biden is done | October 2, 2008, 6:34 am 6:34 am

While there is little doubt Obama will win, there is no excuse for the bias that has been shown by the media in this race. The argument is not whether Palin made stupid statements, but whether the stupid statements of all candidates will be examined. You won’t see any routines on SNL with Obama saying he campaigned in all 57 states, that we must transfer our Arabic translators to Afghanistan where they don’t speak Arabic or that 10,000 people died in a tornado when only 10 did. It was this type of media bias that got us into the Iraq war but now it seems to be fine for those who support Obama. You can bet that this will also come back to haunt us within a few years.

Posted by: dd | October 2, 2008, 6:35 am 6:35 am

That’s right ABC News. Plant a seed and hope it grows. The only drag around here would be your attempts to influence the voters with your propaganda.

Posted by: mojo | October 2, 2008, 6:36 am 6:36 am

Sarah Palin is a grown woman. She has put herself out there and should be woman enough to take the criticism, if she isn’t then she shouldn’t be on the ticket. This isn’t her first debate. People need to stop posturing and making excuses for her before the debate begins. The Republican party and the Democratic party agreed to the moderators of each debate long ago. These weren’t last minute decisions. People keep stating how competent Sarah Palin is… then let her fight her own fight.
She shouldn’t have to be handled any differently then any other candidate, period.It isn’t her first debate.If you don’t like the coverage that ABC does, then go read your news elsewhere.

Posted by: Mookie | October 2, 2008, 6:37 am 6:37 am

That’s right ABC News. Plant a seed and hope it grows. The only drag around here would be your attempts to influence the voters with your propaganda.

Posted by: mojo | October 2, 2008, 6:38 am 6:38 am

That’s right ABC News. Plant a seed and hope it grows. The only drag around here would be your attempts to influence the voters with your propaganda.

Posted by: mojo | October 2, 2008, 6:38 am 6:38 am

Ivan: You said it right. Roosevelt was elected into office in Nov. 1933 after the 1929 depression hit. How could Biden make a mistake like that. I thought for sure he knew everything about politics. No doubt probably Obama didn’t even know that. I am voting for McCain and if Obama is elected let the people that voted for him get a good taste of dictatorship by both Obama and Biden. They are both alike that’s why Obama chose him. And I will be laughing every day if that happen’s.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 2, 2008, 6:38 am 6:38 am

Surprise,surprise…another scathing article from ABC News about Sarah Palin and how she has brought down the GOP ticket. PLEASE! We KNOW George IS a former Clinton spokesman. He’s clearly in it for Obama! DUH! No ONE at ABC is talking about Biden’s latest gaffes about sniper fire in Afgahnistan. No one has brought up his plagiarism problems. No one at ABC has asked Biden why he has been a recipient from Fanny, Freddie and Countrywide? Yet, the MSM has to get everyone on their side from stories about troopergate, bridge to nowhere, tanningbed, sex education, abortion, hairstyle, no talking to the press. Yet no one connects the dots to Obama and ACORN, Obama to CEO’s of Fanny and Freddie and Goldman Sachs, et al. Obama and his business dealings with terrorist William Ayers. No one talks about Obama getting his wife a huge raise. No one asks any questions how a nobody can become a US Senator out of nowhere! Where are the questions about Obama’s birth certificate? Why hasn’t anyone from ABC asked Obama about a memo from Obama found with a FARC terrorist in Columbia? Obama DID practice Islam. Can anyone ask Obama about his constant changing of domestic and foreign policy and his INEXPERIENCE! I’m still waiting ABC News and these stupid articles about Palin just reiterates why your veiwership keeps going down and you are viewed with a liberal bias.

Posted by: justright | October 2, 2008, 6:40 am 6:40 am

I think the cute little SNL SKITS are hilarious, but do not deserve air time on credible news reports. Have the news editors of the ABC-NBC-CBS lost all credibility? Tina Fey is doing a fabulous job of showing the world just how dumb American’s are. I guess that is her “service to America”. Maybe she will win a Pulitzer prize for her work.
Posted by: disillusioned2008 | Oct 2, 2008 8:18:02 AM
Actually, a lot of the last skit was verbatim from the Couric interview, so I completely think it has a place in credible news reports! Plus, GS has a point…more people have probably seen the skit than have heard her actually speak. But, sadly, they’re almost one and the same.

Posted by: Jodi | October 2, 2008, 6:41 am 6:41 am

Don’t worry Sarah, Obama is a major “drag” on the Democratic ticket… in fact, he has inspired this Dem to vote for the Republican ticket this year, so Bravo!

Posted by: It's OK | October 2, 2008, 6:41 am 6:41 am

These drive-by media reports from ABC (Anything But Conservative), CNN (Clinton News Network), MSNBC (PMS-NBC), the New York Slimes, and the Washington Compost are blatantly in the tank for Obama. More and more Americans are getting fed up with this Liberal spin. True Journalism has officialy died in America. Go ahead and say that January is the end of an error…but if Obama gets in its the begginning of the end. True Americans don’t vote for a socialist.

Posted by: SouthernFarmer | October 2, 2008, 6:41 am 6:41 am

Those of you that keep arguing that Paling is qualified for VP executive experience just don’t get it. Having the experience is not a qualification. Showing that you have good judgment while in the position would be a qualification. Take a look at the current president. He has executive experience as a gov and prez and still hasn’t shown very good judgment.

Posted by: RealityCheck | October 2, 2008, 6:42 am 6:42 am

Um… McCain received over 195k from Fannie and Freddie folks, actually more than Obama… so we probably shouldn’t go there… it doesn’t help the case, ya know?

Posted by: Mookie | October 2, 2008, 6:43 am 6:43 am

Listen to the little cry baby “cajone” LESS cynics whine their little eyeballs out.
I guess I would feel bad to if a white woman had a son with an African man and although raised only by his white mother and grandmother, he turns out to be the downfall of cynical, hypocritical WHITE AMERICA.
Good Riddance!!
Row row row your boats gently to DEFEEEEAT!
Merrily merrily merrily merrily, ALL THE CROW YOU CAN EEEEEEEEAT!
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK

Posted by: Nat Turner | October 2, 2008, 6:43 am 6:43 am

Mookie | Oct 2, 2008 10:37:59 AM… Bravo!

Posted by: AnIndependentVoter | October 2, 2008, 6:45 am 6:45 am

Would you vote for President Sarah Palin? I wouldn’t. In the face of economic meltdown, two major wars, a nuclear Iran, problems in Pakistan, a Russia resurgent, and all the other things we face, President Sarah Palin is a downright scary thought. And if I wouldn’t vote for her for President, I wouldn’t vote for her to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. McCain’s age is not the issue. JFK was a young man when he was killed. I think it’s sad that McCain played a political game with the VP spot when there were so many qualified GOP women he could have chosen.

Posted by: JAB | October 2, 2008, 6:45 am 6:45 am

I am an Obama fan, but I was ok with the concept of McCain as president because I believed him to be a man of honor and logic. His choice of Sarah Palin however has made me question that. At his age, it was his duty to select a person who would be ready and capable to run this country in a competent manner. Sarah Palin is not that person. I’m sure she is an excellent governor for Alaska, and I believe that with more experience she may one day be presidential material. But not now. ANd with a 72-year-old running mate, we can’t make the bet she’ll learn enough should something happen to McCain. If it had been Romney, Huckabee, Giuliani – almost anyone, I would be ok with the possibility of a McCain presidency. Not thrilled, but ok. With Sarah Palin as the potential VP, I am, quite frankly, terrified for the future of our country.
Obama may not have a lot of experience, but he has a solid educational background in legal matters and in how to think logically and analytically. He has established relationships in Washington and international respect. He also, most importantly, I think, has the humility to know his own limits and know when to turn to experts. His choice of Biden as his running mate is a perfect example of him shoring up his perceived weaknesses – international relations and experience. Biden would be a capable steward and leader of our country should something happen to Obama, and he would also be an excellent advisor – unafraid to disagree.
Palin is a disaster, and even most Republicans think so.

Posted by: JrzWrld | October 2, 2008, 6:45 am 6:45 am

She’s like all the other women I’ve known who flirted their way to the top without knowing what they’re doing. Rent the movie “Disclosure”. Demi Moore’s character and Palin spew out the same lines.

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 6:45 am 6:45 am

Sounds like he is applying for Obamas press secretary if the communist gets in.

Posted by: Jim Rod | October 2, 2008, 6:45 am 6:45 am

A lesson to Conservative Republicans and Democrats- this year’s election is full of liberals who neither care to face the facts or accept reality when it comes to Obama’s RADICAL ideas and connections and his utter lack of experience and judgement. It is not up to you to try to change all of these Anti-American’s minds. These people are who they are. If they want to vote to destroy our country- let them. Once he gets in and screws up everything…we’ll have this nation back for 100 years.

Posted by: SouthernFarmer | October 2, 2008, 6:46 am 6:46 am

Mookie: Who are you kidding. The news media is afraid to say anything about Obama that is the truth. But they don’t care what they say about Palin. You know it as well as I do. They were even critical about McCain and Hillary covering up the underhanded deals of Obama. We need a good taste of dictatorship in this country and that’s what your going to get if Obama is elected. Obama is a sincere liar but is good at fooling the people and Joe Blow Biden shouts too much and might put his foot in his mouth tonight. Get a grip. If Joe Biden was that good at debating why did he have to prepare for it. He has been in the senate too long for that. What does he fear? Obama had to take three days for his. He has been a senator for three years. If they don’t know politics by now they should give it up.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 2, 2008, 6:46 am 6:46 am

Since when is Palin running for President?
Posted by: geevill | Oct 2, 2008 10:32:54 AM
Since she’s running with a 72-year-old man with a history of cancer. Lest we forget…

Posted by: Jodi | October 2, 2008, 6:47 am 6:47 am

G.W. Bush told the media he doesnt read the newspapers. Palin could of at least told Couric that instead of fumbling around. I think Palin will do well in the debate to people that don’t mind her generalities. For people wanting details and more substance not so much.

Posted by: Indy Voter | October 2, 2008, 6:47 am 6:47 am

Listen to the little cry baby “cajone” LESS cynics whine their little eyeballs out.
I guess I would feel bad to if a white woman had a son with an African man and although raised only by his white mother and grandmother, he turns out to be the downfall of cynical, hypocritical WHITE AMERICA. Karma is a cold blooded thing, isn’t it?
Good Riddance!!
Row row row your boats gently to DEFEEEEAT!
Merrily merrily merrily merrily, ALL THE CROW YOU CAN EEEEEEEEAT!
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK

Posted by: Nat Turner | October 2, 2008, 6:47 am 6:47 am

God, you fat American clowns are such losers. Where did you dig up a psycho like Palin? No wonder you kooks are in such trouble. You are all weirdos. You should be embarrassed to show Palin to world, but instead you had orgasm–now you all have venereal disease, ha ha. We in Europe are laughing are heads off at you lobotomized cows, time for your milking, moo, moo.

Posted by: euro.guy | October 2, 2008, 6:48 am 6:48 am

Out of any senator since 1989, Obama has recieved the second largest TOTAL sum of campaign donations from Fannie and Freddie. REMEMBER-he has only been a Senator for three years—and for two of those years he has been running a political campaign. THE #1 benficiary was Chris Dodd!

Posted by: LiberalsHateUSA | October 2, 2008, 6:49 am 6:49 am

Mookie is a typical demolib LIAR. You would not know your ass from your mouth. Neither would your mother. Liar. Read a book. learn so facts. this economic shituation was caused directly by barack nobama and the liberal democratic party. these are facts.

Posted by: Mookie is a typical demolib LIAR | October 2, 2008, 6:49 am 6:49 am

Palin is either the worst national candidate of all time, or the best performance artist ever.
Or both.

Posted by: bored2tears | October 2, 2008, 6:50 am 6:50 am

Dude from Europe- your country sucks…you damn Communist.

Posted by: EUopreansGuySucks | October 2, 2008, 6:50 am 6:50 am

Mookie you are wrong if their is such a word. Obama is the second highest receiver of funds from Fannie and Freddie. Barney Frank, Maxine Waters and yes even Harry Ried got more money. They are on the committee? wow what a safe gaurd we have. What truth watch site are you watching? Obamas cult channel? You really think we Amnericans are stupid? The heart of america will decide this one and it sure wont be the terrorist sympathizer Obama who will win

Posted by: Jim Rod | October 2, 2008, 6:51 am 6:51 am

The only radical idea Obama has is that the smart people should run things for a change instead of the weirdo snake handlers on the extreme right. McCain and Palin remind me of a couple of deer in the headlights.

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 6:53 am 6:53 am

George, where are the questions about Biden’s knowledge of history. He clearly thought Roosevelt was on t.v. in 1929? So, when Biden makes a gaffe, it is ignored (MSM: that’s just Biden being Biden). Then when Palin doesn’t answer well on a question, it is magnified. And the questions that were asked by Gibson and Couric were downright unprofessional and they would NEVER ask the democratic ticket these! Palin has to have atleast SOME smartness since she runs a state government! Obama and Biden wouldn’t know where to start!

Posted by: justright | October 2, 2008, 6:53 am 6:53 am

more liberal bullsh*t, this is getting old abc

Posted by: ja | October 2, 2008, 6:54 am 6:54 am

Did you see the quote from Joe “stand up and wave” Bidden yesterday? I’m not making this up! I swear. Here it is: “I still remember watching the moon landing with FDR during the march to Selma. I told FDR to stand up and wave to the crowd but he didn’t want to as he was close to his high score on PAC MAN. I can’t wait for liberal in the tank for Barry debate monitor Gwen Iffel to stand up and wave to the crowd tonight!”

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 6:55 am 6:55 am

Isn’t it funny to see White America put down those in Europe when that’s where they “originated” from?
Kinda like slapping your Mother when she tells you you’re wrong.
TWP’s……..Expected
Woe is me……..
The press loves someone who nobody knew 2 years ago
He’s not white enough
He doesn’t wear lapel pins
He’s not patriotic
I don’t like his wife’s thesis papers
He called me bitter
He’s an elitist
He only eats white bread
He’s sexist
He’s the Antichrist!
HEE, HEE….You cynics are funny. VERY FUNNY.
So……, what’s next cynics? Moving to Siberia?

Posted by: Nat Turner | October 2, 2008, 6:55 am 6:55 am

Dude from Europe- your country sucks…you damn Communist.
Posted by: EUopreansGuySucks | Oct 2, 2008 10:50:27 AM
You couldn’t at least spell things right so you just look like the “Ugly American” instead of the “Ugly Stupid American” could you?

Posted by: Jodi | October 2, 2008, 6:55 am 6:55 am

Why doesn’t the media bring up the fact that Obama was involved with the races anti-American Rev Wright for more than 20 year and only quit when he knew it would hurt his campaign. After listening to that crap for 20 year he has to believe it or he would have quit long ago.

Posted by: fnp9 | October 2, 2008, 6:55 am 6:55 am

Ha, ha, EUorpeanGuySucks, howdy doody! You fat American slobs are all communists now. Your goverment owns all your banking, ha ha. You are all so fat from eating too much twinky and watching too much Idol America that you can’t think straight. You are broke too, you have to bend over and drop your pants whenever Chinese tell you to, ha ha. You are fake superpower, your fly is unzipped and everybody is laughing at you. You screw up everything. Now put on your flag lapel pin and go waterboard some Muslims. C’mpn yeah! USA!
USA! USA!

Posted by: euro.guy | October 2, 2008, 6:56 am 6:56 am

All you Sarah Palin lovers…let’s talk about true Executive Experience while also showing good judgment and instincts. Obama has led a very successful national campaign for basically the same amount of time that Palin has been gov. I’d say that is executive experience…funding, communications, a huge staff, field operations, consultants…All while speaking to the American public and staying (generally) out of the partisan pit. Palin’s executive experience has led her to give money away to citizens in Alaska and get herself investigated. Take your pick.

Posted by: Reality Check | October 2, 2008, 6:56 am 6:56 am

Derek: Well written. I believe everything you said in that statement. I don’t know how Obama wrote a book called Dreams Of My Father when his father didn’t have any dreams for him. His book called The Audacity Of Hope was taken from the sermon of his pastor Wright who was preaching that when Obama was in church. Obama published a book with the sermon of the pastor probably adding a few words of his own. I wonder if he donation some of that money to the church since he copied the sermon. I know that you are very wise to the tactics of Obama but the majority of the people in this country are fooled by him. I am aware of the fact that he has dictatorship ways in him because he is half Kenyan. But let them get a good taste of him and if he doesn’t destroy himself someone out there will do it to him. And that will also scare Biden.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 2, 2008, 6:56 am 6:56 am

I think Biden should just let her talk, talk, talk. The more she talks the more we get a glimpse to an political illiterate person whom can no more converse of national affairs than a cow can lay eggs. The soccer mom might be a pit bull on the soccer field, but in the a culture that is national and international she is poodle. Everything about her is made to “order”, unfortunately for the McSame campaign we are interested.

Posted by: SD | October 2, 2008, 6:56 am 6:56 am

Do you think Gwen gave Joe the questions beforehand?

Posted by: tom | October 2, 2008, 6:58 am 6:58 am

Osama Bin Laden..Obama Bi Den. Go ahead and vote for the Muslim socialist. You get what you deserve.

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 6:58 am 6:58 am

HA HA HA yeah… I am the irrational one. I realize that the 700 Club doesn’t give you enough information, but here”s a clue for ya… I voted for John McCain in the primary. Sarah Palin needs to finish her work in Alaska. Obviously, her abstinence only plan isn’t being bought by the youth of Alaska, as they have the highest teen pregnancy rate in America… including her own daughter. Considering Sarah is against birth control, in any fashion, she will have more babies that are born handicapped.By the time she is done, she will have enough to have her own team at the special olympics.
The upside is that if one of her children are raped, at least Sarah and Todd have the money to pay for the rape kit :) Oh… and that’s a likely scenario, considering that Alaska also has the highest rape rate in the country as well. Do some reading outside of the Rush(aka give me some oxycontin)Limbaugh’s site.

Posted by: Mookie | October 2, 2008, 6:59 am 6:59 am

So the moderator is to blame before she has done anything. Enough. Is the campaign admitting once again they know very little about vetting? Go figure.

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 6:59 am 6:59 am

JAB, I agree with you completely. I feel that he has wandered far from the young and honorable man he was and that he has compromised his country’s welfare on a cynical PR bet. It saddens me beyond belief that he seems to have abandoned his principles after making such tremendous sacrifices to uphold them when he was a young man. He made what he saw as his best choice for his campaign (I would dispute that, actually), but there is NO WAY that John McCain made the best choice for his country when he selected Sarah Palin. I think the supreme irony will be that he was on equal footing with Obama, but that Sarah Palin will torpedo what once was a perfectly viable campaign.

Posted by: JrzWrld | October 2, 2008, 7:01 am 7:01 am

SC, do you know who was President in 1929 or who had the number one T.V. show in 1929? If not, just ask Joe “stand up and wave” Bidden. OSAMA BIn LADEN..OBAMA Bi DEN. Way too close for me.

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 7:02 am 7:02 am

Derek: You said all of that to say what?….That was Barak”s father which has nothing to do with him as an indivdual..John McCain is an adulterer who left his first wife who stuck by him while he was a prisoner of war; when she had a car accident and her face was disfigured, he left her for Cindy whose family has amassed a fortune on alcohol which has destroyed many families and lives….It’s not where you came from its where you’re going….I would rather go somewhere with Obama than to follow that adulterer…

Posted by: Gwen | October 2, 2008, 7:03 am 7:03 am

I used to date chicks like Palin. Great for a lot of things. But intellectually stimulating conversation wasn’t one of them. Just say no to the pom pon girl.

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 7:03 am 7:03 am

Weak minded cowardley liberal politician won’t even go on FOX NEWS because they may have to answer a real question. We get stuck with liberal GWEN writing a romance novel on Barry. Can we have Rush, Sean or Mark Levin moderate the next debate? And as you libs smirk at this, WHY NOT? Because Barry’s chilly PURPLE LIPS would blow up!

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 7:05 am 7:05 am

People you realize if Obama were to get in there will be NO checks and balances on this guy or his policies from the left wing media who have made this prepackaged man get this far. Gwen is playing the race card alreday. Read the story on Yahoo/ Drudge. She has a conflict of interest.

Posted by: tom | October 2, 2008, 7:05 am 7:05 am

SCOOB, stop lying. Your mommy doesn’t let you date. Besides, most liberal men are gay.

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 7:07 am 7:07 am

I hear that Sarh Palins witch doctor will place his hands on her tonight to cast off evil spells the Demoncrats will cast on poor Sarah. Yes she’s the brightest hockey mom I ever met.

Posted by: AJ | October 2, 2008, 7:07 am 7:07 am

Sarah is a hottie. I am happy for her husband. No wonder they has 5 kids. When you add smart, leader, do’er, maverick, person for the people and with executive experience; this independent is voting Palin/McCain

Posted by: Palin is a Hottie | October 2, 2008, 7:07 am 7:07 am

Killerbee….
Don’t you find it sort of hypocritcal that while everyone screams for less government and deregulation the minute that greed finally caught up with the finance industry they come to the government and the American people for a rescue? That’s not free enterprise. Also, how do you feel about men like Fishman of WaMu working for 18 days and being paid 19 Million?

Posted by: Mookie | October 2, 2008, 7:07 am 7:07 am

George was part of Bill Clinton’s administration before working at ABC.

Posted by: quilhot | October 2, 2008, 7:08 am 7:08 am

I think it will be clear after tonight’s debate that it really doesn’t matter who is asking the questions. She is running out of people to blame. You could be next.

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 7:09 am 7:09 am

No matter how Palin does in the debate tonight, the Liberal Lying media will dog her. I have never seen a more unfair election and it’s the media’s fault. For the first time in my life…I’m embarrassed to be an American. I would much rather take a chance with McCain/Palin over a Socialist/Marxist/Communist Racist Anti-American closet Muslim Chicago Thug. with Terrorist friends anyday. To all the Obama supporters…If Obama is elected President, you better enjoy the last couple months of freedom before he’s sworn in. America, as we know and love it will be no more. He is not who he says he is. Connect the dots. We will be like China.

Posted by: mj | October 2, 2008, 7:09 am 7:09 am

Ignoring your obvious racism for the moment, the difference is that Gwen Ifill tries to be professional and fair, whereas Limbaugh and Hannity would never even know HOW to try.
Just go back to making fun of his name like a 10-year-old (I’ve noticed Rush likes to do that too).

Posted by: jock59801 | October 2, 2008, 7:09 am 7:09 am

Its sad that the Republicans have to “cram and prepare” Palin on US and World issues.
This isn’t a college journalism exam.
If I knew that my young cardiologist crammed for his tests I would find another doctor.
Palin is a joke to the US voters. McCain is truly banking that we Americans are stupid. Looks like he ended up with a Britteny Spears himself.

Posted by: obamatized | October 2, 2008, 7:09 am 7:09 am

I guess McCain/Pamela Anderson would be a winning ticket too. Get a girlfriend man!

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 7:10 am 7:10 am

Here’s what I love Palin is not qualified for the job, she has become a joke, things about her have come to light that reflect badly ON HER, yet somehow it is Obama’s fault. Ding dong the witch is dead (and of course by dead I mean in this campaign)

Posted by: AttitudeOfGratitude | October 2, 2008, 7:10 am 7:10 am

Palin lives in a $550,000 home and almost a $1 million in assets……So? She works hard and apparently saves so what is the problem? I admire her.

Posted by: chattyway | October 2, 2008, 7:10 am 7:10 am

Having voted Democrat in past elections, I have a definite leaning toward that party and its candidates. However, I am not blind to partisan journalism, and am increasingly dismayed and appalled at ABC News for their obvious slanting of anything regarding Palin. Look at their choice of headlines for every Palin story. Are those words fair and balanced? Are those words non-inflamatory? ABC News presents their opinion in the headlines, before the reader even has a chance to see the story. All their Palin articles should be presented as Opinion/Editorials rather than competent, unbiased reporting. I would probably draw the same negative conclusions as ABC News already has, but would prefer to do that after reading the article, rather than having that decision made for me in the sensationalist, negative words carefully chosen for effect in the headlines (ABC, can you spell “National Enquirer”?).

Posted by: J-Phred Muggs | October 2, 2008, 7:11 am 7:11 am

Reality Check: I will take Palin before Obama the underhanded democrat dog who played dirty pool against the woman that wanted to run for the senate. And Hillary’s supporter’s know that Obama and Nancy Pelosi talked the superdelegates into voting for Obama telling them that Hillary couldn’t win. Get a grip on life. He is nothing but a sincere liar using the words for his speeches from other’s. That’s how smart he is. Give me a break. He is such a true american that’s why he is friends with Ayers and Rezko, Wright, Father P and Farrakhan.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 2, 2008, 7:11 am 7:11 am

hey Scoob | Oct 2, 2008 11:03:15 AM… *LMAO* I know what you are saying. I have dated and had them, as well. And, the do excel at some things. *smiles*

Posted by: Success | October 2, 2008, 7:11 am 7:11 am

>>>I hear that Sarh Palins witch doctor will place his hands on her tonight to cast off evil spells the Demoncrats will cast on poor Sarah.
So, you are admitting the importance of any spiritual advisor would have to a person. There would be an “effect” I thought so. Obama.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 7:12 am 7:12 am

“Sarah is a hottie. I am happy for her husband. No wonder they has 5 kids. When you add smart, leader, do’er, maverick, person for the people and with executive experience; this independent is voting Palin/McCain”
Palin is a Hottie | Oct 2, 2008 11:07:27 AM
Sarah Palin is some sort of weirdo! Ha ha, you Americans are such circus clowns. No wonder you kooks are in such trouble.

Posted by: euro.guy | October 2, 2008, 7:12 am 7:12 am

funny thing is… I haven’t seen Palin make any attempt of her own to defend her answers during theses interviews.

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 7:12 am 7:12 am

Palin is Alaska’s governor. No wonder why Alaska is too cold! If Palin was America’s VP, guess what ??? I love America.

Posted by: eskimo | October 2, 2008, 7:13 am 7:13 am

George……. where a the reports on Biden? This is a debate between 2 people. ABC has done everything it can to discredit McCain and Palin. You past work in the Bill Clinton administration is starting to show.

Posted by: quilhot | October 2, 2008, 7:15 am 7:15 am

I wish Palin luck, cuz she’s definitely going to need it. I don’t think “I’m just gonna have to get back to ya” is gonna work too well as an answer in the debate.

Posted by: ejohn38 | October 2, 2008, 7:15 am 7:15 am

>>George was part of Bill Clinton’s administration before working at ABC.
Every time I see him on TV, I think of Bill Clinton. He certainly didn’t make it on his own like Palin has done.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 7:15 am 7:15 am

first off, NAACP and all other groups were formed due to OBVIOUS ignorance in part of past whites who did things in HATE, and while some of these folks is still breathing and in POWER all assurances has to be provided.

Posted by: Andrew | October 2, 2008, 7:15 am 7:15 am

@Derek – Do you have some kind of copy and paste fetish? or are you just too dense and computer illiterate to just post a link to the article with a brief synopsis? Think idiot, and stop wasting all our time.

Posted by: Tamoko | October 2, 2008, 7:16 am 7:16 am

AttituteOfGratitude: Have you been smoking Obama’t pot? The trouble with some of the women who make comments about Palin are extremely jealous of her because they cannot do what she did in their lifetime and that means you. And it is getting to them badly. Maybe they hate themselves for what they didn’t accomplish in life. Well, Palin had her goals set and accomplished them. Get a grip on life. Make the best of life even if you didn’t accomplish a thing.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 2, 2008, 7:16 am 7:16 am

mookie, deregulation DID NOT cause this. Just the opposite. LIBERAL DEMOCRAT REGULATIONS of the MORTGAGE sector forcing banks to hand out mortgages to people who could NEVER possibly pay them back DID THIS! Their regulations to make unemployment benefits, food stamps, and welfare benefits legitamite income sources blew it wide open. Thanks Bill Clinton, Barney Frank, Franklin Raines, Jaime Gorelick, Chris Dodd, Chuckie, James Johnson. LIBERAL SYMBOLISM OVER SUBSTANCE FAILS ONCE AGAIN!!!!

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 7:16 am 7:16 am

>>Do you think Gwen gave Joe the questions beforehand?
Good question since many of us can see the media is in the tank for Obama.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 7:17 am 7:17 am

Sarah will lose this debate, afterwards her numbers will drop, and McCain will lose this election.

Posted by: Matt.G | October 2, 2008, 7:17 am 7:17 am

This debate should be fun!!!! to watch….
She’s been hearing about Biden’s speeches, she said, since the 2nd grade…….
She got a laugh; but, that should be an incredible honor for gov. Palin to be on the same stage with this senator…..

Posted by: shalom | October 2, 2008, 7:17 am 7:17 am

You must feel sorry for Ms Palin. First impressions of the majority were “Whoa, this kid might be out of her league but maybe we are missing something” — so we gave the benefit of the doubt to Mccain and here we are now — GOP’s are in trouble with his support diminishing.
We must not blame Ms Palin!!!
I have looked at Mccain over the last couple of months and it seems that
1. his actions are based on gut feelings
2. when things are not going his way he just reaches out and grabs at anything that looks hopeful with little or no examination of consequences.
3. when (2.) dos’nt work he then resorts to “destroy mode” with zero regards to friends or his responsibilities and or supporters.
It seems weird that thinking people might support him for the most powerful position in the world.

Posted by: In Sympathy | October 2, 2008, 7:18 am 7:18 am

Again people call Barack a Racist! wow the scared stupidity is evident amoung some of you. HOW MANY BLATANT RACISTS Is voting for Mcain? how many racist evangelist endorsements is MCCAIN SEEKING.

Posted by: Andrew | October 2, 2008, 7:18 am 7:18 am

I think Stephanopoulos should stay neutral instead of directly saying Palin a problem.
He should not do that.
You know, when he says that, that helps Obama more.

Posted by: golfgirlusa | October 2, 2008, 7:18 am 7:18 am

EURO GUY, Go braid your your boyfriends arm pit hair.

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 7:18 am 7:18 am

Barack Obama is like a God. He is the one. We love him. I would follow him to the end of time. It does not matter who his friends are. It does not matter what he has done or not done. It does not matter the so called criminal connections or who he took money from. Barack Obama is the best thing since coffee. We out number repuklicans 3 to 1. The White House is ours. Our people are taking the white house by storm. Jan, the bell will toll; black people will occupy 50% of the white house. We have done it. Barack is the one. We are the one. It was only a matter of time. Now, we have done it. We are taking over the world. Look around. Look around you now.

Posted by: Obama 2008 | October 2, 2008, 7:19 am 7:19 am

Ivan: You said it right. Roosevelt was elected into office in Nov. 1933 after the 1929 depression hit. How could Biden make a mistake like that. I thought for sure he knew everything about politics. No doubt probably Obama didn’t even know that. I am voting for McCain and if Obama is elected let the people that voted for him get a good taste of dictatorship by both Obama and Biden. They are both alike that’s why Obama chose him. And I will be laughing every day if that happen’s.
Whomever wrote the above is just incompetent as Palin.
Your candidate is a moron and incompetent. She is being pimped cant you all see that. You are blinded by her glasses b/c she doesnt have a brain. You are also blinded by your own incompetence. After 7.5 years of Bush policies, you appreciate high gas prices, 3.00 for eggs and milk, 2. trillion deficits, two wars, 4500 deaths and counting, no real domestic agenda that includes jobs and improved infrastructure. Do you know how many bridges collapsed and buildings that collapsed. Do you know how many product and food recalls that resulted in deaths and illness of thousands of children world wide, what funding for schools…….. college tuition, what about the seniors….. did you all benefit at all in 8 years I doubt. I assume you all like whats going on….. YOu love that you could lose your home, your job, and your savings b/c of poor decisions. Are you ready for 4 more years of the same……. Are you looking forward to incompetent vp managing this country. Yet, She (Palin) lives in a vaccum. She has no world view or national security views why b/c she doesnt have the intellect and the competence to attain it. She is governor of state of 650,00 vs Obama who is a senatore of several million. She doesnt have the background in anything beside moose hunting and lying. She won that seat b/c she was some cute lil prissy beauty queen.
She couldnt even basic questions that we all learned in high school. As a woman, she atleast could had convey specifically more about Roe v Wade and the Equal Rights Act and Employment Act both can about as result of S.Ct. decisions. What about the fact that she has five kids, yet her oldest child is a teenage mother. What example is she setting, Its okay to have a freaky teenage irresponsible child and mother.
I square you GOP supporters are lost. YOu continue to look stupid even though you are barely making it. What will it take for you to see whats going on…..
This race is not about Obama its about you. He said and I say it. There is no other candidate left but OBama. McCain is 72 years old, 7 houses and 10 cars, and never worked a job in his life. He doesnt know anything about what you going through. He has a rich wife, what do you have…….. think.

Posted by: nubiangent08 | October 2, 2008, 7:19 am 7:19 am

christian | Oct 2, 2008 8:32:22 AM
comment couldn’t have said what I’ve seen all along. She is so out of it that she doesn’t even seem to have one iota of a clue that she is so NOT ready to be VP or President. What an incredibly scary, truly scary, scenario. I cannot imagine why people say that they want to vote for her be cause they thing she is just like them. Don’t these people REALIZE that THEY would make horrific VP or Presidential choices too! I don’t understand the country I live in except to say this is how you get the phrase “ugly American” to be invented in the European lexicon. A base SO GROSSLY uneducated about the basics of adult life resposibilities in this area that it is mind boggling to so many (and Ugly). But this is what W road through on in the R ticket twice — it makes me ill.
Also, one thing I haven’t seen brought up with Sarah Palin, is it seems like there might be the ‘Emperor’s Wearing No Cloths’ story going on with her where the people around her aren’t really honest with her and just let her go on making a rambling airhead of herself on national TV and call it endearing to the common American people or the like (yeah, some of them are UNcommon alright).
I am SO, SO glad that people realize that they can no long compare Palin to Obama. I don’t know how anyone with an ounce of grey matter ever could. Newstations have been saying they felt they didn’t really ‘know’ Obama before the first debate went down. They said this be for the DNC as well. I think they just don’t want to trust him because of the ‘elephant’ in the room for many of thim. If you have heard Obama speak even once probably, you know he has great in depth knowledge. You hear Palin speak once and she can’t even make a complete sentence without it spelled out for her on a telaprompter. But it was pretty obvious before that that she was clueless as she went around ADvertising she was just a HOCKEY mom from Wasilla, AK. Who in the hell would advertise that as a first impression for the nation when you are running for VP or President?!?! And, then people have the freaking NERVE to cry foul when they wonder if a mother of five can be VP!?!?!?!?!!!! How freaking rediculus would it sound if former VP George Bush or former VP Gerald Ford was picked as a running mate and they came out and introduced themselves as just a SOCCOR DAD from their home town and then couldn’t talk acurrately, non-circularly or AT ALL about ANY imporant issue of the country?
Just answer these things for YOURSELF?

Posted by: Laura | October 2, 2008, 7:20 am 7:20 am

Palin’s a tool. It will probably become very obvious after tonight, especially if the “scripted” questions evolve beyond their original topics… Should be good for some laughs.

Posted by: Tamoko | October 2, 2008, 7:20 am 7:20 am

Biden can be a little mouthy but he is a very sharp man. I too agree that if Palin had a few more months she would jump ship in a heartbeat. You can tell just from her last interview when she was trying her best to read from the queue cards – she was losing it and she couldn’t formulate the words. I do feel sorry for her because McCain put her in a horrible spot. He did miscalculate America women intelligence and America in general. I believe they convinced her that all she had to do was to show up and not worry about anyone asking her many questions because of the timeframe of the election. She’s cute but she has no conception of what she is speaking about after they have trained her like a parrot. Yeah we talk about Bush but at least he has some conception of what his Reponses are to the questions. John McCain can “short-tempered” as well but he does have conception of questions and answers as well. We can’t blame the media for Sarah’s intellectual shortcomings because Sarah said what came out of her mouth not the media. She made herself look confused when responding to questions that she tried to remember what she should say during her training of less than 2 weeks. No they weren’t expecting anyone to pressure them so soon about interviewing her… and then they started screaming sexist because they were aware of her intelligence and didn’t show any remorse to the public for not vetting her thoroughly. Now they are cleaning up after themselves every time she speaks alone. They were too quick to pull the trigger – and market her as a “game changer”

Posted by: Art_Frost | October 2, 2008, 7:21 am 7:21 am

Sarah Palin’s answers will be, “I told congress thanks, but no thanks to that bridge to no-where”
Biden’s reply should be, “But it was congress who cancelled the project, even though you, Sarah, still took the money and Spent it on a ‘ROAD TO NO WHERE’.”

Posted by: mere | October 2, 2008, 7:21 am 7:21 am

Oh, so, you are saying that all of the democratic governors are inexperience as well since they are only a governor. Wasn’t Bill Clinton a governor and didn’t they say he didn’t have any foreign policy experience on PBS?? And didn’t Lanny Davis and James Carville say, that Bill Clinton had to be caught up on foreign affairs for months. Obama is on the top of the ticket. I think David Gergen said that Obama had to be brought up to to speed about world affairs which is was extremely lacking. McCain has the experience to handle foreign affairs. Palin has more experience that Obama does. I trust her over Obama. She runs the finances of her state. She runs the largest energy operations in the United States of the largest state. She was elected mayor of her hometown by more votes than Biden received in his national presidential campaign. She is the commander and chief of her state’s National Guard therefore, she has experience of the military and their operations. She took on her own party for corruption and you dare ridicule her and say she could not handle difficult decisions nor be wise or independent of issues. She’s not owned by anyone. She’s not corrupt. She is a fresh and exciting person who will be an asset to our country.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 7:21 am 7:21 am

ANDREW, Barry all ready has the endorsement of the MOST RACIST EVANGELIST on the planet. It’s his OWN Preacher Jerimiah Wright. You know, the totally insane hate America racists that Barry listened to for 20 years yet NEVER heard a word he said. DEAF MUTE, BARRY?

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 7:21 am 7:21 am

Is it me or did mccain look more like sara palin when he tried to cover up her gaffes with Couric? I can now confidently say that both mccain and palin have demonstrated that they are “Post Turtles.”

Posted by: HopingForABetterWorld | October 2, 2008, 7:22 am 7:22 am

Oh all you poor Conservatives are crying in your milk,wah,wah,wah. Poor babies most of you are dumber then a box of rocks,especially the morons who voted for Bush. Attention brain deads their is no Liberal media these are GOP talking points total BS. Why aren’t you idiots listening to Rush or attending a KKK or American Nazi party meeting? Thump your Bibles some more,or maybe stone the adulterous down the road,though she’ probably a republican too. You Republicans are a bunch of mindless American Idol loving bigots. Sarah is a joke and so are you! SNL is great! Faux News sucks! Unfair and unbalanced just like their fans!

Posted by: AJ | October 2, 2008, 7:22 am 7:22 am

nubiangent08:
you much writing does not impress me…..How is it that you think a person can be mistake proof? So, please shorten your comments….

Posted by: shalom | October 2, 2008, 7:22 am 7:22 am

Tamoko: What Derek stated you didn’t want to hear and that is the truth. Obama’s father was married and divorced four times has children all over. Obama’s mother was married and divorced three times, he has a half sister in Hawaii. Obama’s father liked women and no doubt also lived with many. Obama’s father never had dreams of him even if Obama made money on a fake story. His father was too busy doing other things. I don’t know what made Obama’s mother marry a man like him in the first place. I am aware of the fact that you are a supporter of Obama and don’t like the words of Derek however I do and I read the BIO of Obama in the NYT. Get a copy for yourself and wake up to the facts of his family.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 2, 2008, 7:22 am 7:22 am

Remember George is a Democrat. Love the title of this article as if it is fact! Please……

Posted by: Tammi | October 2, 2008, 7:23 am 7:23 am

Turning the keys over to Obama, Pelsoi, and Reid will remove all debate and all checks-and-balances in our government. Their left-wing, socialist agenda will become reality without constraint, as they will control both sides of congress and the White House. Regardless of your political leanings, a government without chacks-and-balances is a scary thought!

Posted by: Alexander Smollett | October 2, 2008, 7:24 am 7:24 am

Christie- to totally agree. Excellent perspective.

Posted by: McCain/Palin 08 | October 2, 2008, 7:24 am 7:24 am

Citizen: blah, blah, blah …?
Palin: blo, blo ,blo …
McCain: Oops! Not “blo, blo, blo …”, Should be ” bli, bli, bli …”
Citizen: blew, blew, blew …?
Palin: bli, bli, bli …
McCain: Oops! “bli, bli, bli …” means ” ble, ble, ble …”.
What’s a wonderful pair!

Posted by: so fun | October 2, 2008, 7:24 am 7:24 am

DOES THE MEDIA REALLY LOVE THE USA? ****
WHEN IS THE NEWS MEDIA GOING TO MAKE HEADLINES TO WHOM WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FRANNIE MAE & FREDDIE MAC DISASTER? **** AMERICAN PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW BEFORE ELECTION DAY! ********
IF THE MEDIA DOESN’T REPORT THE TRUTH ON THIS – YOU WILL BE AIDING and ABETTING THE IRRESPONSIBLE CRIMINALS OF THIS COUNTRY’S FINANCIAL DISASTER.***********
BE THE FIRST – TO MAKE THIS DIFFERENCE FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

Posted by: Maryland Woman | October 2, 2008, 7:24 am 7:24 am

MERE, Joe “stand up and wave” Bidden’s response will be, “I remember listening to Abe Lincoln on the radio when he free’d the slaves”!

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 7:24 am 7:24 am

>>But it was congress who cancelled the project, even though you, Sarah, still took the money and Spent it on a ‘ROAD TO NO WHERE’.”
Isn’t that refreshing when an elected offical listens to the people and does as the people ask her to. They said don’t spend that $$$ for the bridge to nowhere and she didn’t. It’s amazing more politicans should be of that character. Get your spin right.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 7:25 am 7:25 am

Sarah Palin’s answer will also be, “my opponent is just old with one foot in the grave, but I am young and vibrantand a Beauty Queen.”
Biden’s answer should be, “Yet your running mate who is running for president is older than I am. Sarah are you hoping that he has one foot in the grave? He is my friend, and let me tell you, McCain still has a lot of years left.

Posted by: mere | October 2, 2008, 7:25 am 7:25 am

When Harry Reid and Barney Frank are spitting mad displaying partisan acrimony by flipping their tops in public interviews blaming our financial debacle on Republicans, and feigning indignation because John McCain came to town, you know those House Republicans must have done something right by giving the Paulson plan a big emphatic NO.
That Democrats supported the plan should have raised an eyebrow, and true to their stripes, the plan included one particular disgusting earmark that would have given (and still may) twenty percent of any realized profits to the Housing Trust Fund instead of back to taxpayers.
Chris Dodd, the largest recipient of campaign contributions from beleaguered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (second is Barack Obama), added this little jewel to the bailout plan:
VISIT THIS WEBSITE FOR THE REST OF THE STORY AND LIST OF TRANSFER OF A PERCENTAGE OF PROFITS…….. http://formykountry.com

Posted by: Maryland Woman | October 2, 2008, 7:25 am 7:25 am

Obama’s father? Who’s your daddy?

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 7:25 am 7:25 am

Don’t blame McCain for picking Palin for VP. He knows the electorate: We voted for Bush twice! The only one who have shown to be stupid is us! Moreover, the President is only a puppet: he/she does the bidding to those who really hold the strings. The Republicans could put a collie on the ticket and Americans would vote for it!

Posted by: Hobbs | October 2, 2008, 7:27 am 7:27 am

Obama does not know his father. he was a drunk and murderer of his own kind in africa (muslims) this is a fact.

Posted by: obama's daddy | October 2, 2008, 7:27 am 7:27 am

IF THE MEDIA DOESN’T EXPOSE THE CORRUPT PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON AND WALL STREET – AND OBAMA WINS THIS ELECTION — THE DEMOCRATS WHO ARE MAINLY RESPONSIBLE FOR FANNIE/FREDDIE WILL BE THE PEOPLE WHO “HEAD UP THE INVESTIGATION” – AND THEY WILL PROTECT THEMSELVES!!
ARE YOU REALLY READY TO BE SCREWED TWICE??

Posted by: Maryland Woman | October 2, 2008, 7:28 am 7:28 am

aj: Aren’t you aware of the fact that Rush is republican and likes the republican party. Rush talks about Obama all the time, doesn’t not like him and hopes he doesn’t win the election. And Rush tells you the facts about Obama that the news media hides. The trouble with the democrat dogs is they fear anyone winning over Obama. If McCain wins they will be crying racist white people.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 2, 2008, 7:28 am 7:28 am

Defend Palin. If you can manage to get paid for it, then you have a full-time job. Good for you.

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 7:28 am 7:28 am

mcLame is a theif – keating 5. palin is stupid. the bailout is corporate socialism and against everything american. let wall street crash – it happened before and we are still here.

Posted by: Lucid1 | October 2, 2008, 7:28 am 7:28 am

OF COURSE shes a drag on the ticket. Some people on here don’t want to admit it (or call the media ‘mean’ for ”picking on her’)…but I’m sorry…no Vice Presidential candidate in history (not even Dan Quayle) has EVER been this unprepared for the Presidency. It’s not that she’s ‘unpolished’…She’s just STUPID. She went to 6 colleges in 6 years just to get her undergrad! She’s a complete and total moron! A mental midget! She only became a Governor because of who she was running against…it’s common knowledge in Alaska that shes a bit of a ditz and airheaded. Let’s stop pretending otherwise…this woman is a complete dumba**.

Posted by: Scott G. | October 2, 2008, 7:28 am 7:28 am

Obama does not know his father. he was a drunk and murderer of his own kind in africa (muslims) this is a fact.
,,,,probably the next McCain ad…and you wonder why he is losing?

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 7:29 am 7:29 am

AJ, KKK meeting? I didn’t know that LIBERAL KLANSMAN DEMOCRAT SEN ROBERT BYRD W.VA, previous Grand Pubah of his local KKK, was giving rope tying lessons again!!

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 7:29 am 7:29 am

nubiangent08:
Please accept my apology….I am sorry for criticizing you……I now see that you are not a McCain supporter….
Write as much as you like about the exceptional ability of senator Obama to lead this great nation…..and that he is: Exceptional!!!

Posted by: shalom | October 2, 2008, 7:30 am 7:30 am

screw all this ugliness. Both of these candidates suck. I say we change the constitution and re-elect W for 4 more years. Hell, 8 more years. W has been the best president in the short history of our nation. Thank you W for all you have done for our country. Thank you for restoring honor, integrity and trustworthiness to the white house after that evil liar lawyer clinton.

Posted by: 8 more years | October 2, 2008, 7:30 am 7:30 am

Oh all you poor Conservatives are crying in your milk,wah,wah,wah. Poor babies most of you are dumber then a box of rocks,especially the morons who voted for Bush. Attention brain deads their is no Liberal media these are GOP talking points total BS. Why aren’t you idiots listening to Rush or attending a KKK or American Nazi party meeting? Thump your Bibles some more,or maybe stone the adulterous down the road,though she’ probably a republican too. You Republicans are a bunch of mindless American Idol loving bigots. Sarah is a joke and so are you! SNL is great! Faux News sucks! Unfair and unbalanced just like their fans!
Posted by: AJ
____________________________________
Keep it up AJ! Just a few days ago, Nancy Pelosi made a similar statement and Obama’s poll numbers went down about 5 points. You might be the best thing that ever happened to the Republicans

Posted by: get a life | October 2, 2008, 7:30 am 7:30 am

For all these months, that the media has favored Obama and Biden – McCain and Palin aren’t doing that bad in the polls, considering how Palin has been beaten up in the interviews with Couric and Gibson. It was disgraceful of them as reporters. Look at the differences in treatment that they give Obama and Biden. It’s so obvious, and unfair to the American People…who, will be hurt in the end. It’s such a shame.

Posted by: Maryland Woman | October 2, 2008, 7:31 am 7:31 am

the kkk is not different than the congressional black caucus or the naacp. All racist organizations.

Posted by: legal racist organizations | October 2, 2008, 7:31 am 7:31 am

It’s a good thing the Republican McCain Camp does NOT control the questions and answers, or with each questions will come Sarah Palin’s answer of, “THANK’S But you must leave now. This way out the Door.” With a mountain of ‘thank yous’ The McCain camp will escort the host questioner out the door just like they did in a few other times. Especially at Sarah’s visit to the U N

Posted by: mere | October 2, 2008, 7:31 am 7:31 am

Why are you all so jealous of this intelligent, strong man named Obama? Well, he’s gonna be your next President. Might as well start getting use to it. And beautiful Michelle is gonna be your First Lady. If it is meant to happen, it will happen. You can’t stop the future from happening and I believe 100% Obama is meant to be President! He’s got my vote! Obama 08

Posted by: liz | October 2, 2008, 7:32 am 7:32 am

The fry girl at Burger King could have answered those questions. Don’t believe me…ask one.

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 7:32 am 7:32 am

obama’s daddy: Obama did know his father because his father enrolled him in a school for Muslims. And then abandoned him. Obama’s mother fell in love with him while in college. Obama’s mother never married a man of her own race. Maybe that’s why he disliked his mother’s race at a young age. She gave him a book to read on MLK.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 2, 2008, 7:33 am 7:33 am

Maryland – What newspapers do you read? Are you stumped?

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 7:33 am 7:33 am

SNL is an equal opportunity offender lest we forget the fun poked at Sen. Obama by having him call Hillary for the now famous 3:00am phone call. I must admit that as an Obama supporter I was not pleased with the caricature of my preferred candidate as an unprepared President having to call on his arch nemesis at the time to solve the nations ills. However, one must be honest that Sen. Obama did not whine about the treatment but took the criticism and proved them wrong..ie,the financial meltdown. Palin and McCain need to stop crying foul every time theres criticism and step up to the plate and exhibit leadership and stop blowing every direction the wind blows.

Posted by: Lester from Huntsville, Al | October 2, 2008, 7:34 am 7:34 am

>>>Is it me or did mccain look more like sara palin when he tried to cover up her gaffes with Couric?
Go to Google and put in gaffes or type Joe Biden gaffes. They are endless. And he’s a step away from the presidency.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 7:34 am 7:34 am

Killerbee, ha ha, I bet your boyfriend is Mr. Wide-stance Larry Craig, or maybe Mark Foley, or maybe that flitty priest guy Haggard? You have real faggots in American Republican party, real diddlers. You fat American clowns are such losers. If you want to borrow more money from Chinese, drop pants, and bend over!

Posted by: euro.guy | October 2, 2008, 7:34 am 7:34 am

The National Black Republican Association is not in the tank for Barack Obama…they have some very interesting pieces on their website. Can’t say they are ‘racist”

Posted by: Maryland Woman | October 2, 2008, 7:34 am 7:34 am

Just a reminder. Osama Bin Laden.. Obama Bi Den. Yuk!!

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 7:36 am 7:36 am

The kkk hung people because they were people of color, murdered people because they were of color, burned huge crosses, wore hooded white long cloaks, and intimidated black people because they were people of color. Yet the FBI and police do not stick charges of mass murder on them. Only charges of hate crime.
The black caucus or naap NEVER murdered anyone.

Posted by: mere | October 2, 2008, 7:36 am 7:36 am

It is amazing how much fear the DNC has of Gov Palin. She is a real person that is from outside the beltway and not stuck on herself.

Posted by: Brian | October 2, 2008, 7:37 am 7:37 am

Osama Bin Laden.. Obama Bi den

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 7:37 am 7:37 am

Stephanopoulos – is in the tank for Obama…he had to correct Obama on his slip when he interviewed him – about “his Muslin Faith” – How come we didn’t see much about that in the media?
come on people…you have to see the bias here. It’s not for our good as a ccountry. Obama will be RAISING TAXES – and EVERYONE – will feel it – ON TOP OF THE BAILOUT TAXES!!!!

Posted by: Maryland Woman | October 2, 2008, 7:37 am 7:37 am

I am confident that Sarah Palin will blow Joe Biden out of the water this evening at the VP Debate. There are so many issues/gaffes from Joe Biden that Sarah Palin can bring up (i.e., Roosevelt and the television in 1929, being shot at in Iraq) those are just a few examples. The debate will give Sarah Palin an opportunity to connect with the American people. She is not a newcomer to the debate scene. She debated when she ran for Govenor. How ironic will it be tomorrow when the LIBERAL media is left speechless because Sarah Palin has blown Biden out of the water. They will simply do what they’ve been doing and that is brush it under the carpet and proclaim the VP debate was unimportant. Go Sarah!!!!

Posted by: maverick_mom | October 2, 2008, 7:37 am 7:37 am

Sarah really doesn’t have to think while she is the Political lime light and speaking gibberish…could be worst he she is asked to expand on the trained answers. Her husband “first dude” is currently and have been handling all official decisions – it’s kept under wraps but she is not Accustomed to making decisions and thinking outside of her natural intelligence of child like responses.
I think she will do fine as long as she doesn’t have to explain anything or get question by “Biden”… and if Biden doesn’t talk to long where time will run out… She will be fine!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14todd.html?_r=2&oref=login&oref=slogin
political gibberish

Posted by: Art_Frost | October 2, 2008, 7:38 am 7:38 am

Killerbee, you are so funny, such clown. Obviously Mr McCain loves to lick Osama bin Laden’s meat. Weenie McCain has done so much to not make war in Afghanistan where Bin Laden is. McCain wants to pack fudge with bin Laden. He is in love.

Posted by: euro.guy | October 2, 2008, 7:38 am 7:38 am

Don’t blame me! It could have been Obama/Clinton.

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 7:38 am 7:38 am

H. REID, B. FRANK, C. DODD, N. PELOSI AND THE REST OF THEM – NEED TO BE PUSHED OUT OF CONGRESS!
THESE ARE CORRUPT INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE BEEN LYING AND STEALING FROM US. DON’T THINK FOR A MINUTE THAT THEY ARE NOT SCARED OF THE ENSURING INVESTIGATION INTO FREDDIE/FANNIE – NOT TO MENTION BARACK OBAMA – WHO MADE THIS ALL POSSIBLE FOR THEIR BIG BONUS MONEY!

Posted by: Maryland Woman | October 2, 2008, 7:38 am 7:38 am

>>The fry girl at Burger King could have answered those questions. Don’t believe me…ask one.
In Florida, many of them do not speak English. :o( = The results of liberalism.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 7:39 am 7:39 am

on the Supreme Court question… The Supreme Court just recently made rulings related to the Valdez spill. It was clearly favorable to the oil company. But somehow the sitting Governor of Alaska can not think to use this case to answer the question. In addition, she has been touted as an energy expert. How much closer of a case related to Alaska and energy could she have cited. BUT – no one has a right to be concerned? Give me a break!

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 7:39 am 7:39 am

Joe Biden used to watch TV in 1929 ???
What next …
Obama was conceived by Saddam Hussein and Osama Biladen

Posted by: ObamaOnCrack | October 2, 2008, 7:40 am 7:40 am

Palin. What a bimbo.

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 7:40 am 7:40 am

Euro trash, Obama, er, Osama Bin Laden Isn’t hiding in a cave. He’s more likely hiding in the penthouse suite of the Muckmuck Hotel in downtown Tehran

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 7:40 am 7:40 am

Christie…ask them anyway and do not be shocked if they give you an answer.

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 7:41 am 7:41 am

Don’t shoot George. He’s just the messenger. He is only telling it like it is. The economy sucks, Obama won the 1st debate, and Palin is in over her head. That sounds like 3 strikes to me.
History will be made on November 4th!!!

Posted by: Voting Early | October 2, 2008, 7:41 am 7:41 am

Hey, is Palin going to bring her pom pons to the debate? Maybe she can show us her new cheers.

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 7:42 am 7:42 am

Killerbee, you are a moron.. No substance. JUST HATE. YOU ARE WHAT IS WRONG ABOUT THIS COUNTRY!!! WHY DONT YOU FOLLOW HALIBURTON TO DUBAI, THERE NEW HEADQUARTERS.

Posted by: Timesuprepubs | October 2, 2008, 7:43 am 7:43 am

I want to apologize to all… I just took my medication and realized that I was typing stuff that’s not just bigotted, but racist and flat out lying.

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 7:43 am 7:43 am

Republicans would vote for Hitler or Stalin if they were on a GOP ticket,so yes I will continue to tell the truth about Rightwingers. You people are hated worldwide and are the laughing stock of America. You are responsible for enabling the GOPs in the destruction of Americas middle class too. Sarah Palin is just a pawn,a total joke who is by far the dumbest most inempt VP candidate ever! Dan Quayle is a intellectual giant compared to Sarah

Posted by: AJ | October 2, 2008, 7:44 am 7:44 am

McCain Palin 08
Gimmicks First, Country Last
Which gimmick will they try next?
McCain is the worst candidate that I have ever seen. The only thing saving him so far is name recognition and people reluctant to take off their red uniform.

Posted by: billy smith | October 2, 2008, 7:45 am 7:45 am

Why is Obama’s campaign indulging in voter fraud in Columbus, Ohio … shame on you Obama … is this the change you have been barking about all these days

Posted by: Voterfraud | October 2, 2008, 7:45 am 7:45 am

SoWhat: If you claim to be so brilliant why aren’t you up there being interviewed? Or are you working at Burger King yourself? And those working at Burger King can’t get any other type of job so they take what they can get. Low pay.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 2, 2008, 7:45 am 7:45 am

Palin thinks The Flintstones is a documentary.

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 7:46 am 7:46 am

moderator: Governor, what is your position on the current rescue package?
Palin: Thanks but no thanks.
moderator: uh!!! Can you give us more details …?
Palin: Thanks but no thanks.
moderator: Thanks but no thanks.
Debate ends successfully!

Posted by: so fun | October 2, 2008, 7:47 am 7:47 am

Couric: What other Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with?
Palin: Well, I… hey, look, there’s Elvis!

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 7:48 am 7:48 am

Wow – a journalist that wrote a book about a historic candidacy. What a shocker. It is a perfect fall-back for Palin apologists when Palin blows it tonight, huh?
Gimmicks First, Country Last

Posted by: billy smith | October 2, 2008, 7:49 am 7:49 am

nubiangent08:
you much writing does not impress me…..How is it that you think a person can be mistake proof? So, please shorten your comments
ML
Its not about being mistake proof. Its about the one fact. The Bush administration and the Senate were under GOP control and now we are worse off than ever.
I am not an republican nor a Democrat. I recognize the fact that my vote will help determine the next president.
I looked at the pros and cons. Obama and Biden are the best choice right now.
There is absolutely no other options I have. Remember that 3 am commercial, ask yourself……..McCain died in his sleep, and Iran just attacked an ally in the region…….. Palin wakes up and hear the news…….. she sets up a press conference and says…….. I just ordered a nuclear strike on Iran….or she is so inept that her advisors make decisions. We cannot have that state of mind running this country.
Its just like I am dying and my wife doesnt have any idea how to run the home b/c she never had to do anything.
Think!

Posted by: nubiangent08 | October 2, 2008, 7:49 am 7:49 am

I cannot wait for the debate tonight. She will be spitting out words to no where.
I will also be counting the number of time she uses the word “REFORM” i.e. Her prescription to fix it all.

Posted by: Faiz | October 2, 2008, 7:49 am 7:49 am

Mariann – how did you guess? Yes, I am the manager and would not hire Palin. Does that help?

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 7:49 am 7:49 am

Why are my anti Obama comments being flagged? Do you only accept comments that praise him?

Posted by: Albert Pisano | October 2, 2008, 7:49 am 7:49 am

AJ, come on! The DUMBEST person in D.C. is undoubtly NANCY PELOSI!!hahahahahah!! Then woman who has held up the entire energy policy of the country ($4 gas ring a bell?) IS IN ON T. BONER PICKENS natural gas scam. SHE DOESN’T THINK NATURAL GAS IS A FOSSIL FUEL!! HAHAHAHAHA!! She couldn’t run her bridge club.

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 7:49 am 7:49 am

It just came over the news that Biden consulted Hillary Clinton on preparing for tonight’s debate. I can’t believe he could be that dumb for being in politics all those years. What is he afraid of. Even Obama had three days to prepare and he is a senator three years. I can see Palin because she is from Alaska and doesn’t need to know foreign policy like Obama and Biden. Are the democrat dogs that dumb?

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 2, 2008, 7:49 am 7:49 am

I don’t think Palin’s worried about blowing it tonight. She’s blown things before.

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 7:50 am 7:50 am

sowhat, Manager of a Carbon Credit co?

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 7:51 am 7:51 am

>>>Hey, is Palin going to bring her pom pons to the debate? Maybe she can show us her new cheers.
Let’s hope if she does, she doesn’t swing too far out and by error and move Joe’s magic weave.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 7:51 am 7:51 am

Interviewer – Mariann, What papers do you read?
Mariann – (Proudly)toilet paper.

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 7:52 am 7:52 am

Killerbee – whatever you want. It makes no difference to me.

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 7:53 am 7:53 am

Posted by: killerbee | Oct 2, 2008 11:02:00 AM
Derek: You said all of that to say what?….That was Barak”s father which has nothing to do with him as an indivdual..John McCain is an adulterer who left his first wife who stuck by him while he was a prisoner of war; when she had a car accident and her face was disfigured, he left her for Cindy whose family has amassed a fortune on alcohol which has destroyed many families and lives….It’s not where you came from its where you’re going….I would rather go somewhere with Obama than to follow that adulterer…
You see the GOP and its cronies, never talk about issues. Its interesting how these folks are the so-called moral majority…… They so Moral, and value based. Yet, their VP nominee has a teenage daughter, a son who was arrested and shipped to michigan b/c he couldnt stay out of trouble, a husband who wanted to separate from the U.S., a son to be son in law who recently had his myspace removed stated he didnt want to get married, and a Governor who couldnt answer basic U.S. History questions, and call herself a female pit bull. A president who lied about two wars, and torcher, wire tapping, fbi agent issues, a justice department in shambles, a VP who refuse to turnover records about the california energy crisis. I can go on and on. They soooooooo Morally right. Please………… LOL.

Posted by: nubiangent08 | October 2, 2008, 7:54 am 7:54 am

Palin is so stupid, if palin and Stupid went to the movies, Stupid would be wearing an I’m with Stupid T-shirt.

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 7:54 am 7:54 am

A real person. She is corrupt like Bush/Cheney, supports Bush/Cheney views, hides emails like Cheney, can not answer questions like Bush, no nothing about the economy or foreign relations like Bush, has a sportscaster when Obama was a community organizer, was a mayor of a town of 7k when Obama was a State Senator of a district of 200k, was Gov of Alaska with no control over the Guard for war or national defense (but lied about that) and Obama with little to no backing built out of ground the most successful organization that took on seasoned campaigners and organized parties and balanced his budgets campaign and made smart and decisive decisions to become successful and choose a VP who will be able to support his Foreign policy with the needed experience. BIDEN has more foreign policy experience than McSAME even.. LOTS MORE look it up. Besides the fact Palin ran her small town into debt like Bush has done to this country, and as Gov. has the largest earmark expenditures of any state per capita. THAT IS MORE OF THE SAME!!!!
I do not need a lipsticked pitbull, I need an intelligent person and PALIN is so far from it!!
OBAMA/BIDEN 08′
OBAMA/BIDEN 08′

Posted by: Timesuprepubs | October 2, 2008, 7:54 am 7:54 am

WHEN POLITICIANS BEGIN TO SPEAK ABOUT “ABSOLUTE TRUTH,”as McCain claimed in an interview with the editorial board of the Des Moines Register, we are really in trouble. McCain is not only an absolutist, but a danger to himself and the nation. He has come across recently as ill-tempered, uncontrollable, intolerant of those who disagree with him, absurdly arrogant, careless with truth if not deliberately untruthful, self-righteous, and erratic. In this closing days of the Presidential campaign, McCain, Karl Rove protégés and their associated groups (527s and so) are gearing up to wage a cultural war of division and hate. While everyone is concerned about, and talking about the economic and financial crisis the country faces, they want to talk Jeremiah Wright, Rezko and radical professor Ayer. What they have amnesia about is McCain’s involvement in S&L bank scandal as a member of the notorious “Keaten Five.” That scandal earned McCain the honor of being the only member of Senate ever reprimanded for “bad judgment.” McCain wants to talk Jeremiah Wright; time for Democrats to remind him about Palin’s witch doctor pastor blessings in her church at Wasilla. McCain shouts about ‘earmarks” is an accusation against nearly all members of Congress that may even include himself. For instance, McCain had requested funding for special projects in Arizona, including “$10 million for a center at the University of Arizona, $5 million for a home-state water project and spending authority to purchase land around Arizona’s Luke Air Force Base.” (See Politico, Oct. 2/08). The Obama team and Democrats generally must not let McCain’s attacks unanswered with equal force and speed–or they will become sitting ducks like Dukakis and Kerry. Republicans have used division and cultural war to win in the past. Obama, Howard Dean and Democrats generally, do not let it happen this time. It is part of making sure that new politics wins. Answer them with facts not lies. And you have plenty on your side! McCain’s acts of desperation and stunts must fail because Americans cannot be fooled this time! You can fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time. So said Abe Lincoln!

Posted by: Dr. Sam | October 2, 2008, 7:54 am 7:54 am

On Oct. 2, Seah wrote: “Tina Fey is doing a fabulous job of showing the world just how dumb American’s are…”
– My reaction is, YES, Americans are getting dumber by the minute, including those who call other people dumb, yet insert an apostrophe in a word to form a plural.

Posted by: Paul Miller | October 2, 2008, 7:55 am 7:55 am

Obama supporters are running the country on the fast track to socialism. They hide their agenda but it’s really wealth distribution. America, please wake up to these higher taxes that will be coming your way.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 7:56 am 7:56 am

killerbee, you are such clown. John McCain said “economy is strong” then said “economy is in crisis”
then said “I will skip David Letterman and go to Washington NOW!” then made interview with Katie couric, then went to New York, then finally went to Washington and sat in Cabinet room and grinned like Halloween pumpkin but said nothing. What a Hero! Poll numbers are falling like rock because McCain is farting and blowing gaskets like senile old man. You are such a clown!

Posted by: euro.guy | October 2, 2008, 7:56 am 7:56 am

WHEN POLITICIANS BEGIN TO SPEAK ABOUT “ABSOLUTE TRUTH,”as McCain claimed in an interview with the editorial board of the Des Moines Register, we are really in trouble. McCain is not only an absolutist, but a danger to himself and the nation. He has come across recently as ill-tempered, uncontrollable, intolerant of those who disagree with him, absurdly arrogant, careless with truth if not deliberately untruthful, self-righteous, and erratic. In this closing days of the Presidential campaign, McCain, Karl Rove protégés and their associated groups (527s and so) are gearing up to wage a cultural war of division and hate. While everyone is concerned about, and talking about the economic and financial crisis the country faces, they want to talk Jeremiah Wright, Rezko and radical professor Ayer. What they have amnesia about is McCain’s involvement in S&L bank scandal as a member of the notorious “Keaten Five.” That scandal earned McCain the honor of being the only member of Senate ever reprimanded for “bad judgment.” McCain wants to talk Jeremiah Wright; time for Democrats to remind him about Palin’s witch doctor pastor blessings in her church at Wasilla. McCain shouts about ‘earmarks” is an accusation against nearly all members of Congress that may even include himself. For instance, McCain had requested funding for special projects in Arizona, including “$10 million for a center at the University of Arizona, $5 million for a home-state water project and spending authority to purchase land around Arizona’s Luke Air Force Base.” (See Politico, Oct. 2/08). The Obama team and Democrats generally must not let McCain’s attacks unanswered with equal force and speed–or they will become sitting ducks like Dukakis and Kerry. Republicans have used division and cultural war to win in the past. Obama, Howard Dean and Democrats generally, do not let it happen this time. It is part of making sure that new politics wins. Answer them with facts not lies. And you have plenty on your side! McCain’s acts of desperation and stunts must fail because Americans cannot be fooled this time! You can fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time. So said Abe Lincoln!

Posted by: Dr. Sam | October 2, 2008, 7:56 am 7:56 am

Let me go on record to state that Couric was released from CNN years back by an executive of the company because of her voice. She also is under consideration of being released from CBS because of failed ratings. And she wasn’t that good on the Today Show. So she went from ABC to CNN to NBC and now CBS. She really traveled in her day. She is no accomplishment because her ratings are very bad. And she is not a good interviewer. She probably is an Obama supporter and asked questions that don’t pertain to the debate tonight to trip Palin.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 2, 2008, 7:57 am 7:57 am

Attention to all people who are fed up with the daily bias of ABC against, John Mccain,and Sarah Palin.
Start Boycotting, ABC sponsors/ advertisers,today. Who here is with me?
ABC,blew it, and will pay when its all said and done.
Stepanopolis, Klein, Tapper etc etc etc should ALL be fired, along with the heads of this pro-Obama propaganda spewing company. The media has clearly manipulated the minds of many voters who trust them to report fairly.
I hope america wakes up to the rrealization of what the MSM has been cultivating.

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 7:57 am 7:57 am

naacp, congressional black caucus and the black panthers may have murdered and you just don’t know about it. the kkk were racist and so are these black organizations that promote black people only. look up the word racist.

Posted by: whos a racist | October 2, 2008, 7:58 am 7:58 am

Seems to me the Republicans made their bed with this one. Alot of people (including me) knew little or nothing about Gov Palin when she spoke at the Republican convention. Instead of a serious speach she sounded more like a stand up comic that should have been on Jay Leno. It may have whipped up the far-right base of the party, but like they say you never get a second chance to make a first impression and the first impression alot of us have is that she’s a joke.

Posted by: jmengate | October 2, 2008, 7:58 am 7:58 am

Yeah, she’s a great Republican. Her state is the second highest in Federal handouts.

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 7:58 am 7:58 am

People please stop spamming.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 7:59 am 7:59 am

HAHAHAH Ya good luck with that Badger,, Truth hurts, HAHAHAH!! I love it when Repubs squirm!

Posted by: Timesuprepubs | October 2, 2008, 7:59 am 7:59 am

whos a racist – Heh?

Posted by: jmengate | October 2, 2008, 8:00 am 8:00 am

Some of these comments are off. But really we should focus on the issue of how Palin is presented. She is presented like a conservative trophy candidate. But she has to show some subtantial substance. She showed it to the people of Alaska, but she hasn’t really shown it to the American public and that should be her goal in this debate. I think her problem is that she is being crammed with so much information to stay abreast (no pun intended) on dominate issues for the election but she should be careful not to memorize “party lines” on every issue. I agree with some who said let “Palin be Palin”. Let her be known as a woman of opinions. If she is a maverick, she shouldn’t have to always look to John McCain before she gives her opinion and thoughts on things. She may have some controversial views but she has to remember that she hopes to represent the American people. She’s on a Republican ticket but it’s for an American office. John McCain has said that he can work across the line for bipartisan support to really move the country. But has Gov. Palin showed that she is willing to accept this view and not seek to divide the country further over political ideologies? Don’t underestimate her, but do draw the line when it comes to having serious questions that she needs to answer about issues that will come up should she be VP.

Posted by: T | October 2, 2008, 8:01 am 8:01 am

There’s certainly racists in Obama’s camp. Be fair.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 8:01 am 8:01 am

The only thing Couric did was ask her a very simple question. Did not interrupt her answer. Come on, folks, if this stupid bimbo can’t even answer a simple question about the Supreme Court, what kind of president will she be? She’s Bush in a skirt!

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 8:01 am 8:01 am

let me see…what is an appropriate question to ask a VP candidate.
Mrs. Palin – How many teaspoons of salt do you use in your moose stew?
Yikes!

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 8:01 am 8:01 am

michigan- 50 thousand more voters registered than live in the state. flordia- 28 thousand more voters registered than live in the state. the list goes on and on. they are registered mostly as democrats. I wonder which candidate promotes voter fraud for democrats? I wonder which candidate took part in the organization that is deemed primarily responsible for this atrocity.

Posted by: voter fraud | October 2, 2008, 8:02 am 8:02 am

Palin has no experince but Obama does? Palin is a drag on McCain ticket but Pelosi, Dodd, Biden the corrupted demo-rats are a gift from God for this country? If Obama gets in the WH in 4 years you will live in United Republics of Socialist America or URSA

Posted by: ex-dem | October 2, 2008, 8:02 am 8:02 am

McCain talks about his voting record, but nobody can tell me what he did in 26 years other than election reform.
LOL! He missed over 460 votes this year.

Posted by: nubiangent08 | October 2, 2008, 8:02 am 8:02 am

Dr. Sam: Let me advise you of something. The democrat dogs are fooling the public into believing they would change the politics in Washington. Give me a break. Nancy, Dean, Reid and Obama himself are the most underhanded destructagle people in Washington at this time. Let’s hope they don’t get elected so this country will not go into a depression of 1929. Obama with his dictatorship ways will bring us down to rock bottom. And they won’t have a chance to impeach him someone else will do the job.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 2, 2008, 8:02 am 8:02 am

Mariann Pepitone – What’s your point? One issue I’ve always had with Ms. Couric is that she plays ‘gottcha’ journalism. ie trying to get the interviewee to say something they shouldn’t. To be honest, though, until Gov Palin I’ve never seen anyone fall for it.

Posted by: jmengate | October 2, 2008, 8:03 am 8:03 am

Americans rethink this idea that our leaders should be “Joe six-pack” kind of people. The stakes are too high now. We can’t afford to elect people to higher office because we think they’re nice and folksy.
We need leaders who are smart and educated. We need people who will learn from the past. You can’t do that if you don’t read newspapers or study history. You just won’t have the knowledge to work with.
Sarah Palin, you were very entertaining, but it’s time for you to go home.

Posted by: JB | October 2, 2008, 8:03 am 8:03 am

Palin is a drag to an already sinking ship. Insular John McCain did this to himself.

Posted by: Libratine | October 2, 2008, 8:04 am 8:04 am

All the people who are criticizing Gov. Palin and making fun of her; you may be eating your words someday.
You are showing your ignorance and what the mainstream media has successfully brain-washed you into believing this about her.
Gov. Palin is what WE need in Washington; or would you prefer having the B. FRANK’S C. DODD, N. PELOSI’s there – who have stolen from all of us through FANNIE AND FREDDIE – AND OBAMA WAS PART OF THAT!
Don’t you have any common sense at all – why would a less than 3 yr. Jr. senator receive the highest amount of money from Freddie and Fannie? You all can’t be that naive and gullible.
ACORN – is a known fraudulent organization – whose “trainer” is Barack Obama – whose “attorney” was Barack Obama. Do ya think there’s a connection?
Not to mention Obama’s Muslim Faith – his muslim/marxist mother and muslim father – his Muslim education. His Rezko, Ayres, Wright affiliations.
This is a man that you want in our White House??? – You’ve got to be crazy!!!

Posted by: Maryland Woman | October 2, 2008, 8:04 am 8:04 am

Oh yeah, Obama’s a socialist? And how much is Bush asking for in a federal handout? 700 BILLION? Bush is the greatest socialist of all time! OF ALL FRIKKEN TIME!!

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 8:04 am 8:04 am

>>>even answer a simple question about the Supreme Court, what kind of president will she be? She’s Bush in a skirt!
Oh, you told on yourself. How many more times are you going to post insults to Palin.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 8:04 am 8:04 am

whos a racist:
your comments are so stupid until I am compel to respond…..
For you to compare the Congressional Black Caucus, NAACP and even the BBP to the KKK is nothing short of an insane comment….
The KKK is a terrorist organization…period!!!! They are a bunch of cowards who went around killing innocent Blacks because of their skin color…..The KKK is full of the devil and fear!!!!
You need a serious lesson in American and World history……..The NAACP is an honorable organization……The CBC is honorable and so is the BBP….Those are all honorable organization that promoted and promotes the well being of folks who have been oppressed by demonic racist folks……
Now, this article is about tonite’s debate, not the demons of the KKK….

Posted by: shalom | October 2, 2008, 8:05 am 8:05 am

Sorry….I meant disillusioned2008, not seah, when I pointed out the person who wrote about “…showing the world just how dumb American’s are” while inserting an apostrophe in “Americans”.

Posted by: Paul Miller | October 2, 2008, 8:05 am 8:05 am

You people are idiots! When was the last time a VP ever mattered??????? In the last 60 years, only 2, yes 2, mattered. LBJ and Gerald Ford. That’s it. Period. Who gives a crap about the VP other than the media? It is a useless position and always has been. If it’s so damn important, someone please name the last 20 VP’s this country has had.

Posted by: Jim | October 2, 2008, 8:05 am 8:05 am

A drag? After this latest deal of congress loading this bailout up with pork, that will change. Congress is goign to get flushed like a tolet.

Posted by: Old_Blood_N_Guts | October 2, 2008, 8:05 am 8:05 am

PALIN- UNDER INVESTIGATION (BY A MAJORITY REPUBLICANS) REFUSES TO ANSWER SUBPOENA (LIKE CHENEY, ROVE, MYERS), HIDES EMAILS (LIKE CHENEY), KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT FOREIGN POLICIES (LIKE BUSH), HAS THE HIGHEST PER-CAPITA EXPENDITURES IN THE FOURTH SMALLEST STATE IN OUR COUNTRY (CAN YOU SAY EARMARKS), SAYS HER FOREIGN POLICY EXPERIENCE IS HER PROXIMITY TO RUSSIA (OMG ARE YOU SERIOUS), IS HIDDEN FROM THE MEDIA AND THEN GIVES CHOSEN INTERVIEWS AND CAN NOT ANSWER A QUESTION. PLEASE! YOU MORONS WHO VOTE FOR THIS ARE IDIOTS… PLAIN AND SIMPLE

Posted by: Timesuprepubs | October 2, 2008, 8:06 am 8:06 am

What crazy people on here today. You complain about the economy and not being able to buy all you want and pay for medical and education then you, like fools, give your money to a campaign and cry poverty instead of paying your way out of your foolish debt.

Posted by: bob | October 2, 2008, 8:06 am 8:06 am

I can’t believe there are people out there defending this woman. If I were a conservative and witnessed everything in the last 8 years and the mess Mccains making right now, I think I’d want to hide in a cave. And to think people are opening their mouths and trying to make an argument on her behalf is pure ignorance. All else fails lets blame Stephanopoulos.

Posted by: JoeyS | October 2, 2008, 8:06 am 8:06 am

ex-dem: You have that so right. We will be living in dictatorship like the people in Kenya. Obama is half Kenyan and sometimes in his speeches he sounds like a dictator. God will have to help this country is he is elected. And the people that call him the Messiah? Well, I haven’t heard of him walking on the water yet. With all the flooding that took place there was plenty of water.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 2, 2008, 8:06 am 8:06 am

One in three VPs have become President. It matters!

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 8:06 am 8:06 am

I’m going to post LOTS AND LOTS of insults about Palin. She deserves ‘em. She wouldn’t get most of ‘em, but she deserves ‘em.

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 8:06 am 8:06 am

Maryland Woman – “You are showing your ignorance and what the mainstream media has successfully brain-washed you into believing this about her.” – In all due respect, the Republican party needs to take responsibility for this image. They had a chance to introduce her to the public at the convention when alot of people had never seen her speak before. Instead, they gave her a speech that made her appear more of a stand-up comic. How are we suppose to take this ‘hockey mom’ seriously now? Put lipstick on her?

Posted by: jmengate | October 2, 2008, 8:08 am 8:08 am

I feel sorry for the bum on the corner, but he isn’t getting my vote.

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 8:08 am 8:08 am

Look . . . the idiot voters in this country want a Marxist/communist utopia and they’re about to get it. I’m sure that it will be at least as successful as the Soviet Union, Korea, Cuba, or even that bastion of human rights . . . China. Go ahead fools; this is a mindless act you’ll soon live to regret it.

Posted by: rplat | October 2, 2008, 8:08 am 8:08 am

Not a huge Palin fan, but like her. I’m starting to notice that Biden and Obama never get follow up questions. They don’t get hounded at all. They give an answer then move on. I have seen plenty of times when a follow up would be necessary and it is not asked. I don’t disagree with her follow ups, I would just like to see it both ways. And could you imagine if Palin had said the wrong president at the wrong time when TV was not around? She would have been persecuted big time. Seems like a huge double standard.

Posted by: Doug | October 2, 2008, 8:08 am 8:08 am

She’s Bush in a skirt. Only more Bush. If you know what I mean.

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 8:09 am 8:09 am

Timesrepubs – Truth of the matter is. The elite liberal mainstream media has been stacking the deck against Palin everyday for a month, and you know it.
You want to talk about squirming? You mean like last week when the media, and Obama surrogates were playing the RACE CARD? When the polls werent refelcting the kind of lead they should have had based on the economic crisis,that dems pretty much created?
Bottom line, I wont utilize the services of any advertisers on this site, and they can thank ABC , and the rest of the IN THE TANK FOR OBAMA media.

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 8:09 am 8:09 am

Mariann Pepitone – “And the people that call him the Messiah?” – Are you talking about the looney toons on the far right?

Posted by: jmengate | October 2, 2008, 8:10 am 8:10 am

Reality check. Bill Clinton had no foreign affairs experience. Neither did Al Gore. Nor does Obama. Joe Biden said the job as president was not a place for on job training..referring to Obama. And there’s a hit piece on Palin.
Unbelievable, you decide.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 8:11 am 8:11 am

I am a liberal to the hilt and will vote for Obama. However, finding Palin a disqualified candidate, for VP and a possible President based on the few and far in between interviews she has granted to media, is an injustice. I say if W can be elected/foisted to be our President with less ability than Palin to speak understandable English anyone can become our President!

Posted by: SN | October 2, 2008, 8:11 am 8:11 am

You need to visit the website of the NATIONAL BLACK REPUBLICAN ASSOCIATION.
They DO NOT support Barack Obama.
They state that HE IS NOT a Martin Luther King, Jr. — isn’t MLK the man that all the African American families have worshipped all these years? Are you that disloyal to now go with an BARACK OBAMA – who isn’t even a Democrat…but a Liberal Socialist.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. – WAS A REPUBLICAN.
THE DEMOCRATS – TALK – AS THOUGH THEY ARE BEST FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS….THE REPUBLICANS — ACTIVELY HELPED – AFRICAN AMERICANS.
THE NATIONAL BLACK REPUBLICAN ASSOCIATION – SHOWS YOU THIS ON THEIR WEBSITE.
http://www.nbra.info/

Posted by: Maryland Woman | October 2, 2008, 8:11 am 8:11 am

The deck isn’t staked against Palin: she’s a house of cards. That’s why she’s falling apart in these interviews.

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 8:11 am 8:11 am

BIDEN HOLDS THE MOST FOREIGN POLICY EXPERIENCE OF ANYBODY ON EITHER TICKET. PALIN CAN NOT EVEN COME CLOSE. OBAMA IS BETTER AT ECONOMICS THAN ANY OTHER PERSON ON EITHER TICKET. PUT THEM TOGETHER AND YOU HAVE A TICKET WITH MORE ECONOMICS AND FOREIGN POLICY THAN ANY OTHER TICKET!! LOOK IT UP.
OBAMA/BIDEN 08′

Posted by: Timesuprepubs | October 2, 2008, 8:12 am 8:12 am

ex-dem: And don’t let them polls fool you. Obama is not ahead in all those states. The news media wants the public to believe that McCain can’t win the election. All the networks are pro-obama and are degrading McCain and Palin making a king out of Obama. That 9 point they said that Obama had was a bogus poll and they had to dissolve it. No one knows who is going to win until election night. And if Biden is so sure of himself why did he have to consult Hillary Clinton. He has been in the senate a long number of years. He shouldn’t have to prepare. Biden better be aware not to put his foot in his mouth as usual. And does he fear a debate with Palin. I know he said she was good looking. Will that distract him tonight.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 2, 2008, 8:12 am 8:12 am

There are sooooooo… many more qualified, well educated, and experienced individuals for the VP position than Palin. And my bet is that most of them don’t worship with witch hunters! McCain was so stupid to try to make her something that she is not (and I doubt that she will EVER be!).

Posted by: jmb | October 2, 2008, 8:13 am 8:13 am

“The elite liberal mainstream media has been stacking the deck against Palin everyday for a month, and you know it.”
Nobody needed to stack the deck against Palin. She has brought about her own embarrassment with the greatest of ease.
She has done this simply with her answers and non-answers to the most basic questions. She just does not have the intelligence or the sophistication to be in the big leagues and by now we all know it.

Posted by: JB | October 2, 2008, 8:13 am 8:13 am

Who said that Obama had to be Martin Luther King? Hello – Blacks are individuals.

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 8:13 am 8:13 am

rplat:
Let’s see…Warrantless wiretaps, torture, claiming presidential priviledge when ordered to turn over documents by the courts,…yeah, I sure am glad we don’t have a Marxist/Communist utopia NOW, like we would with the democrats…
DUMBASS.

Posted by: McFarland | October 2, 2008, 8:14 am 8:14 am

Couric: So what other Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with?
Palin: Well, I… look a UFO!

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 8:14 am 8:14 am

Badger – “Truth of the matter is. The elite liberal mainstream media has been stacking the deck against Palin everyday for a month, and you know it.” – I realize it’s much easier to blame the ‘elite liberal media’, but don’t you think that the Republican party should take some of the blame for making the decision to have her acceptance speech more of a stand up routine than a serious presentation of what she stands for. Then again, part of being a Republican is apparently not taking responsibility for your decisions.

Posted by: jmengate | October 2, 2008, 8:14 am 8:14 am

Sorry – I’m not voting for someone because they happen to be not as dumb as George Bush or his equal.

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 8:15 am 8:15 am

All of you liberal democrats are a bunch of retards. Palin has more real experience than nobama ever has. That is why you losers are trying to distract the media from the real story. That is, barack is a nobody with no real experience. He has not even balanced a check book and he wants to run our country. Not in this lifetime. You idiots go ahead and vote for obama. a vote for obama is a vote for terrorism and a vote for the demise of our great country. there are a lot of stupid people in this country and they are all democratic liberals. all of you are stupid. haha

Posted by: Its a bird, no a plane | October 2, 2008, 8:16 am 8:16 am

All of you liberal democrats are a bunch of retards. Palin has more real experience than nobama ever has. That is why you losers are trying to distract the media from the real story. That is, barack is a nobody with no real experience. He has not even balanced a check book and he wants to run our country. Not in this lifetime. You idiots go ahead and vote for obama. a vote for obama is a vote for terrorism and a vote for the demise of our great country. there are a lot of stupid people in this country and they are all democratic liberals. all of you are stupid. haha

Posted by: Its a bird, no a plane | October 2, 2008, 8:16 am 8:16 am

Couric: So what other Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with?
Palin: Well, I… do you smell cinnamon? I smell cinnamon!

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 8:17 am 8:17 am

MARYLAND, KEY WORD IS REPUBLICAN. WHO DOES THE NAACP SUPPORT. THOUGHT SO!! YOU KNOW THERE ARE WHITE DEMS WHO DO NOT SUPPORT MCSAME.. SO WHAT IS YOUR POINT.. 91% OF AFRICAN AMERICANS SUPPORT OBAMA. ENOUGH SAID.. OH, BY THE WAY, I AM AN INDEPENDENT (ALONG WITH MY WIFE) WHO IS/ARE WHITE AND BOTH OF US ARE SUPPORTING OBAMA. SEE WE CAN THINK FOR OURSELVES AND NOT WITH THE COLOR OF THE SKIN.

Posted by: Timesuprepubs | October 2, 2008, 8:17 am 8:17 am

If you want to seriously defend Palin, then you have to defend what comes out of her own mouth. It’s difficult, if not impossible. Blaming everyone else is not going to cut it.

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 8:17 am 8:17 am

SoWhat:
Ignore MARYLAND WOMAN. “she” is actually a white man, a paid McCain political operative also going by the names of Mariann Pepitone, JB, and many others on this forum.

Posted by: McFarland | October 2, 2008, 8:18 am 8:18 am

Some people don’t even deserve to speak. I’m so sick of the Obama/Biden and Bin Laden BS. WTF does it matter?! I mean SERIOUSLY. And all this crap about Obama being a Muslim? I will never understand the lack of realistic views so many people (both Republicans and Democrats, but more often the former) have! Find the facts through a bi-partisan organization such as votesmart before you go spreading false rumors. How immature have we all become?! GROW the F up people and find reality!!!

Posted by: Jodi | October 2, 2008, 8:18 am 8:18 am

Mariann Pepitone, you say one in three have become president. Name ‘em. The only presidents to have been assasinated were Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and JFK. Only Nixon stepped down due to impeachment. There have been 43 presidents since the inception of this country. Do the math idiot!

Posted by: Jim | October 2, 2008, 8:18 am 8:18 am

Its a bird, no a plane – Get off the lemming!

Posted by: jmengate | October 2, 2008, 8:19 am 8:19 am

McCain is hoping for a backlash. Palin is an average hockymom, whome many people can relate to emotionally, even if they don’t think she is qualified for VP/P. Let’s face it, it’s pretty hard for women to watch Sarah Palin going through this. If you are a democrate, you feel outraged at McCain for being so reckless and cynical in his decision. If you are a republican, you feel it’s the media and the democrats being mean and rude. Ignor her, please, just ignor her. Watch her tonight and move on. No campaign has won/lost on the no.2 of the ticket. Focus on McCain and the big issues the country is facing.

Posted by: SuperClearVision | October 2, 2008, 8:20 am 8:20 am

>>our President with less ability than Palin to speak understandable English anyone can become our President
If most of the bias liberal elite leftists who look down on people whom they oppose, can be on TV as journalists of character, along the Chicago thug and the wife who hates her country, could be their president proves they cannot even understand the basis of being free vs. being enslaved by their own government. Now, that stuck on stupid. Liberals, bad in the 80′s, worse for the future.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 8:20 am 8:20 am

The mark is so low for any President to do better than the current Administration. Anyone who thinks McCain is different than Bush is living some where else other than the United States of America. McCain would be another 4 years of the last 8 years. Nothing would be different. This War of choice would continue and more lives would be lost. The Bush Administration should be sent to JAIL for taking our Great Nation into a War of choice.

Posted by: kent | October 2, 2008, 8:20 am 8:20 am

Her answers are beginning to remind me of a step of from the poor Miss Teen, Miss South Carolina when answering about finding Iraq on a map!

Posted by: OMG! | October 2, 2008, 8:21 am 8:21 am

ITS ABIRD. NAME THE EXPERIENCE IN DETAIL ( MEANING, GIVE HER BUDGET AS GOV AND WHAT PERCENT OF EARMARKS SHE HAS RECEIVED AND HOW EXACTLY SHE HAS FOREIGN POLICY EXPERIENCE AND HOW EXACTLY SHE HAS SENT ANY NATIONAL GUARD TO DEFEND AMERICA AND HOW EXACTLY SHE HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN ANY NATIONAL LEGISLATION IN HER LIFETIME DEALING WITH ISSUES OF THE ENTIRE NATION WHERE SHE HAD TO DECIDE.) IF SHE CAN NOT HANDLE AN INTERVIEW, SHE CAN NOT HANDLE FOREIGN LEADERS WHO WILL NOT BE AS NICE, IDIOT!

Posted by: Timesuprepubs | October 2, 2008, 8:21 am 8:21 am

Um…Jim I said that. And it is a fact. I did not say they became President solely by assassination. Some Presidents were Vice Presidents. You look it up.

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 8:21 am 8:21 am

EXCUSE ME PEOPLE, BUT WHY ISNT OBAMA BEING HELD TO THE SAME STANDARD AS PALIN BY THE FOLLOWING POLYPHANY OF STUPID COMMENTS?
* Last May, he claimed that Kansas tornadoes killed a whopping 10,000 people: “In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” The actual death toll: 12.
*Earlier this year in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States: “Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.”
*Explaining during primaries why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama again botched basic geography: “Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it’s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.” On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?
*This year, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, South Dakota audience, Obama exulted: “Thank you Sioux City…I said it wrong. I’ve been in Iowa for too long. I’m sorry.”
*Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama, he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement:
“There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.”
Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was “speaking metaphorically about the civil rights movement as a whole.”
*Earlier this month in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by honing in on a lack of translators: “We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.” The real reason it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.
*Over the weekend in Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multi-billion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear waste clean-up:
“Here’s something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I’m not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I’ll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport.”
I assume on that ride, a staffer reminded him that he’s voted on at least one defense authorization bill that addressed the “costs, schedules, and technical issues” dealing with the nation’s most contaminated nuclear waste site.
*Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama’s “Dreams from My Father:”
“Then, there’s the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don’t exist, say the magazine’s own historians.”
* And in perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn’t “pose a serious threat to us”–cluelessly arguing that “tiny countries” with small defense budgets can’t do us harm– and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, “I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.”
Barack Obama–promoted by the Left and the media as an all-knowing, articulate, transcendent Messiah–is a walking, talking gaffe machine. How many more passes does he get? How many more can we afford?

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 8:22 am 8:22 am

so what. I am black and proud of it. Many of us black people are not voting for barack. we are voting mccain because he and palin are both qualified to be President. barack has no qualification that merit him taking the white house. my black brothers that vote for barack because he is black are wrong.

Posted by: Blacks for McCain | October 2, 2008, 8:22 am 8:22 am

Eueotrash, you must have been mezmorised by Barry the Messiah speaking like the World Leader in Berlin!! It must have brought tears to your eyes, thinking of another time , say during the 1930′s and 40′s of another leader speaking in Berlin. AND WITHOUT A COMPLACENT PARTISAN MEDIA, THAT NEVER WOULD HAVE HAPPENED EITHER.

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 8:23 am 8:23 am

ex-dem: And don’t let them polls fool you. Obama is not ahead in all those states. The news media wants the public to believe that McCain can’t win the election. All the networks are pro-obama and are degrading McCain and Palin making a king out of Obama. That 9 point they said that Obama had was a bogus poll and they had to dissolve it. No one knows who is going to win until election night. And if Biden is so sure of himself why did he have to consult Hillary Clinton. He has been in the senate a long number of years. He shouldn’t have to prepare. Biden better be aware not to put his foot in his mouth as usual. And does he fear a debate with Palin. I know he said she was good looking. Will that distract him tonight.
Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | Oct 2, 2008 12:12:52 PM
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I TEND TO AGREE WITH YOU. PALIN IS SO HATED BECAUSE SHE RELATES TO MOST AMERICANS. THE DEMOCRATS/LIBERALS ARE AFFRAID OF HER…SO THEIR TREATMENT OF HER AND McCAIN IS UNDERSTANDABLE…YET, DISGRACEFUL. THEY ACT LIKE THEY ARE AN ‘ENEMY’ FOR HEAVEN SAKE…THIS IS OUR COUNTRY. HORRIBLE.

Posted by: Maryland Woman | October 2, 2008, 8:23 am 8:23 am

Couric: So what other Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with?
Palin: Well, I… hey, are those Pradas? I have those!

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 8:25 am 8:25 am

I DON’T HAVE A PERSONAL PROBLEM WITH PALIN, BUT SERIOUSLY AMERICA…IF SHE’S QUALIFIED, EVERY WOMAN WITH A BACHELOR’S DEGREE, AND WATCHES THE NEWS 2X A WEEK IS QUALIFIED. I’M AFRAID FOR AMERICA! THIS LADY IS NOT FIT TO BE VICE PRESIDENT!!! IF MCCAIN WANTED A WOMAN, THERE ARE A LOT MORE INTELLIGENT, AND QUALIFIED CHOICES! THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!

Posted by: jroc | October 2, 2008, 8:26 am 8:26 am

HERE’S THE QUESTION; AND HERE’S THE VERDICT:
Did senator Obama select gov. Palin to be his running mate? NO!!!!!!
Deductive reasoning tells me the following, which is the verdict:
Since senator Obama did not select gov. Palin to be his running mate, then all of this mess being written is of no value on this site……..
Why? Because Obama will win anyway….
So, gov. Palin will continue be the governor of Alaska and help keep our borders safe from the Russias….

Posted by: shalom | October 2, 2008, 8:26 am 8:26 am

HERE IS OBAMA, THE MAN THE MYTH THE LEGEND IN HIS OWN WORDS
Democratic debate January 2008
BARACK OBAMA: “I ask my staff never to hand me paper until two seconds before I need it, because I will lose it. And my desk in my office doesn’t look good. I’ve got to have somebody around me who is keeping track of that stuff,” said Obama

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 8:27 am 8:27 am

Anyone with half a brain can come up with newspapers or magazines that they read to form thier world veiw. I can name several that read and if the very last straw, she could have said she watches FOX news or CNN or reads TIME magazine. She could not name one!! That was not a trick question, but, it was probably one that she had not been coached on, so it was burned into her brain. They have over handled this woman in an attempt to ram her down the thraots of all Americans. This is crazy and if Obama was attempting do the same thing with a woman just to get votes, then the Republicans would be having a field day on it. McCain is just mad that the jig is up and people have caught on to what he is doing. He did not know enough about Palin himself before the he asked her to be his VP or else I am sure that he would have picked someone else. He was looking at gathering women votes, ex Hillary voters and conservatives all with one pick and it has backfired, because you still have to substance to your style and Palin is all style and very little substance. I am sure that she is a fine gov of Alaska..but it does not translate into her being a fine VP.

Posted by: Francheska | October 2, 2008, 8:27 am 8:27 am

You enlightened libs are sooo funny! Still portraying Pres Bush and ALL Repub’s as dumb! Please explain why Pres Bush has been one step ahead of you Dum’s almost every time? Pres Bush “stole” the election? How? He is so dumb, how could you genius libs let that happen?

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 8:27 am 8:27 am

SO FAR MARYLAND AND KILLERBEE SOUND LIKE THE SAME PERSON, MMMM! BOTH RACIST AND NEITHER HAS DEBATED ECONOMICS AT ALL.. MORE REPUB TALKING POINTS. PATHETIC!!!

Posted by: Timesuprepubs | October 2, 2008, 8:27 am 8:27 am

Blacks for McCain…that’s your choice. You are entitled to think that he is not qualified. There is no need to defend it. But as I stated… there is no reason that every AA candidate must form himself in the mold of MLK. Is there? I’m AA and I do not under any circumstances appreciate being seen as anything other than the unique individual that I am. Do all White leaders have to be like Ronald Reagan? Bill Clinton? Is this even an issue? No. And lastly, anyone who votes based on color is wrong. You agree I assume.

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 8:28 am 8:28 am

BLACKS FOR MCCAIN:
Nice try, dumbass, or should I say, MARYLAND WOMAN, JB, or whatever ID you try to pass off. What’s most funny is the dialog of a white republican trying to sound like a black man. HAAHAAHAA!!!

Posted by: McFarland | October 2, 2008, 8:28 am 8:28 am

palin rocks and not one poll has asked me yet but shes even better than obamma in a 143 days obamma wouldnt even be able to run a gas station just ask biden

Posted by: david serra sr | October 2, 2008, 8:28 am 8:28 am

Hey, all of a sudden the Dems and liberals arent playing the race card. Imagine that.
They have a lead a lead in the polls, and now their pounding their chests like gorillas. But watch, as soon as McCain overtakes Obama, that race card will be front and center. Pathetic

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 8:29 am 8:29 am

to the woman above – friends and I were talking last night about how this country has changed. and not for the better. Your comments solidfied that. Uneducated, angry and full of spite. I can only hope that you are a minority, and if you have children that they are smarter than you appear to be.
You need to rethink your statements

Posted by: cjr | October 2, 2008, 8:29 am 8:29 am

Since the women’s lib movement women wanted equal treatment, So Biden treat Sarah just like you would if she were a man: if she cries so be it.

Posted by: jg5012 | October 2, 2008, 8:29 am 8:29 am

OBAMA’S MILITANT RACISM REVEALED
In her senior thesis at Princeton , Michele Obama, the wife of Barack Obama
stated that America was a nation founded on ‘crime and hatred’.
Moreover, she stated that whites in America were ‘ineradicably racist’. The
1985 thesis, titled ‘Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community’ was
written under her maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson.
Michelle Obama stated in her thesis that to ‘Whites at Princeton , it often
seems as if, to them, she will always be Black first…’ However, it was reported
by a fellow black classmate, ‘If those ‘Whites at Princeton ‘ really saw Michelle
as one who always would ‘be Black first,’ it seems that she gave them that
impression’.
Most alarming is Michele Obama’s use of the terms ‘separationist’ and
‘integrationist’ when describing the views of black people.
Mrs. Obama clearly identifies herself with a ‘separationist’ view of race.
‘By actually working with the Black lower class or within their communities as
a result of their ideologies, a separationist may better understand the desperation
of their situation and feel more hopeless about a resolution as opposed to an
integrationist who is ignorant to their plight.’
Obama writes that the path she chose by attending Princeton would likely lead to
her ‘further integration and/or assimilation into a white cultural and social structure
that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full
participant.’
Michele Obama clearly has a chip on her shoulder.
Not only does she see separate black and white societies in America , but she elevates black over white in her world.
Here is another passage that is uncomfortable and ominous in meaning:
‘There was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the black
community, I am obligated to this community and will utilize
all of my present and future resources to benefit the black
community first and foremost.’
What is Michelle Obama planning to do with her future resources if she’s first
lady that will elevate black over white in America ?
The following passage appears to be a call to arms for affirmative action
policies that could be the hallmark of an Obama administration.
‘Predominately white universities like Princeton are socially and academically
designed to cater to the needs of the white students comprising the bulk of
their enrollments.’
The conclusion of her thesis is alarming.
Michelle Obama’s poll of black alumni concludes that other black students
at Princeton do not share her obsession with blackness. But rather than
celebrate, she is horrified that black alumni identify with our common
American culture more than they value the color of their skin. ‘I hoped that
these findings would help me conclude that despite the high degree of
identification with whites as a result of the educational and occupational
path that black Princeton alumni follow, the alumni would still maintain a
certain level of identification with the black community. However, these
findings do not support this possibility.’
Is it no wonder that most black alumni ignored her racist questionnaire?
Only 89 students responded out of 400 who were asked for input.
Michelle Obama does not look into a crowd of Obama supporters and see
Americans. She sees black people and white people eternally conflicted
with one another.
The thesis provides a trove of Mrs. Obama’s thoughts and
world view seen through a race-based prism. This is a very
divisive view for a potential first lady that would do untold
damage to race relations in this country in a Barack Obama
administration.
Michelle Obama’s intellectually refined racism should give all
Americans pause for deep concern.
Now maybe she’s changed, but she sure sounds like someone with an axe to
grind with America . Will the press let Michelle get a free pass over her obviously
racist comment about American whites? I am sure that it will.
PS: We paid for her scholarship.

Posted by: Tom Barranger | October 2, 2008, 8:30 am 8:30 am

Palin can do a lot to help the economy, she can sell brownies and moose burgers on the white house lawn – now THATS an economic policy I can believe in!

Posted by: killerbeee | October 2, 2008, 8:30 am 8:30 am

its easy to support Obama when the other option sucks through and through and through

Posted by: killerbeee | October 2, 2008, 8:32 am 8:32 am

I GAVE OUT NUMEROUS OBAMA SIGNS FOR THE YARD YESTERDAY.. FUNNY THING WAS. I WENT TO A STREET WITH A FEW MCSAME SIGNS AND WHEN I KNOCKED ON THE DOORS OF THOSE WHO HAD NO SIGNS. NOT ONE OF THEM (10 IN ALL) REFUSED AN OBAMA SIGN. IN FACT MANY HAD BEEN TRYING TO FIND ONE, BUT THEY HAVE BEEN HARD TO KEEP IN STOCK. CALLED MCSAMES HEADQUARTERS IN MY STATE AND THEY HAD PLENTY (COME ON DOWN). BY THE WAY, I AM IN A BATTLE STATE.. HAHAHAHA, IT IS OVER !
POTUS- OBAMA!

Posted by: Timesuprepubs | October 2, 2008, 8:33 am 8:33 am

Asking Palin questions on economy or foriegn policy is sexist.

Posted by: killerbeee | October 2, 2008, 8:33 am 8:33 am

DEAR SEAH,
George Stephanopolous is not a “biased journalist,” he is an “unbiased” former senior advisor for the Clinton Administration.

Posted by: A Difference | October 2, 2008, 8:34 am 8:34 am

Killerbee, ha, ha, I am not German, I am Swiss. You are fat American Clown who is walking around with your fly unzipped. You have no power. You are broke and you deserve it, and we are laughing at your damn foolishness in Geneva. We use your worthless dollar bill to wipe our holes in the morning. We watch you screw up everything, and we laugh at you moronic sheep trying to heave McCain’s corpse into White House. You are good entertainment, your Tina Fey is a hero here. She is more qualified than Sarah Palin. Attaboy, Killerbee!
Sit boy, sit! Good dog, Good dog!

Posted by: euro.guy | October 2, 2008, 8:34 am 8:34 am

So What, you are right when you take into account the VP’s that have ultimately RAN for president and not have had the position thrust on them. Do you think anybody in their right mind would vote for Palin for president (assuming McCain won and decided not to seek a second term)? It’s not like Dan Quayle cleaned up after W senior left office. Why? Because people knew he was a moron and would never vote him for president.

Posted by: Jim | October 2, 2008, 8:34 am 8:34 am

Just wait until America gets another look at Palin tonight! She’s a real Post Turtle. What is a Post Turtle, you ask? “You know she didn’t get up there by herself, she doesn’t belong up there, and she doesn’t know what to do while she’s up there, and you just wonder what kind of dummy put her up there to begin with.”

Posted by: Gene | October 2, 2008, 8:35 am 8:35 am

Wake up America. Obama’s friends, his associations are dangerous. William Ayers. His preacher teaches hate. Do you want this man to be leader of the United States? Please think about what you are doing. Don’t give him a pass. It’s a huge risk for us all.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 8:35 am 8:35 am

Oh My God, surprize surprize Mrs. Palin has not had the debate but the bias press can not wait to beat her up. Enough is a enough. The press is determined to steal the election thus giving them power over future elections.
What they are doing is really un-American – not sporting – just not fair.
The press as now joined the category of used car salesmen, attorneys and those in politics. You can be proud for you distroyed what took the press (good news people) years to develop (honest reporting) you have distroyed in 16 months.
What your doing is trying to call the fight before it happens – hoping no one shows up for the vote.
Your glib – you demonstrate the thought process of some one metally challenged. May be that is it?

Posted by: a citizen | October 2, 2008, 8:35 am 8:35 am

No One Believes You! What a desparate post – McCain is going down faster than the Hindenburg. buy-bye

Posted by: Whites Pretending to Be Blacks | October 2, 2008, 8:36 am 8:36 am

Our Great Nation has had enough of the Republican brand. The debates tonight will show everyone why McCain should not be President. His selection of Governor Palin was a political move and not in the best interest for our Nation. Governor Palin is not ready to be the next President. McCain is the oldest guy that has ever run for the office and we should all be concerned about his judgement.

Posted by: davido | October 2, 2008, 8:36 am 8:36 am

We should not give Sarah Palin a pass because she “simply doesn’t understand.” What does that sound like? Her executive experience didn’t mean too much because she can’t even finish a sentence in an interview without making a major mistake. It does add for great comedic relief, however, at some point we do have to think about her maybe one day leading our country. More power to her Alaskan but it’s not enought. Furthermore, people can honestly say that Obama doesn’t know enough even though he was taught by TWO of our nations prominent schools and became the first African American to be head of Harvards Law Review while not even placing his race on his paper to let people see his talent instead of his color. Secondly, since the Repubs are crying wolf as they always do, remember your “wisdom filled” team signed on to the debate a long time ago and she started writing the book before then. She’s even had interviews over the book and the McShame Campaign pulled this trick out of the book. Listen Repubs, the nations are tired of your tactics… they don’t work. We have proof: economy, war, recession, mortgage crisis, hurricane devestations, & all of the other horrible stuff that has happened in 8 years.
And for this cause, the state of VA will vote Obama. You can count on it because he has so much support in Lynchburg, VA (one of the most conservative parts of VA and home to Jerry Fallwell) and we will not take a chance like Bush 44 again.

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 8:36 am 8:36 am

Watching again the Couric interviews I find that Palin deceives with far too much ease. I don’t think any PERFORMANCE tonight will retrieve McCain’s already sinking ship. McCain’s demeanor over the entire course of the campaign has been anything but Presidential. With desperation on display, McCain will stop at nothing – even to discredit a journalist with an impeccable record for his own personal gain. FACT: The higher Obama climbs in the polls, the lower McCain’s ethics will sink – and it backfires.

Posted by: Libratine | October 2, 2008, 8:38 am 8:38 am

(CNN) – John McCain said Thursday that Barack Obama’s poll numbers are rising as the economy seems to sink “because life isn’t fair.”
LOL! this is true!

Posted by: Doctor Perfect | October 2, 2008, 8:38 am 8:38 am

Hello neocon morons!
You people are so desparately grasping for straws so that anytime anyone makes any comment about Grampy or Caribou Barbi, they must be an Obama supporter. I am not an Obama supporter, neither am I a McCain supporter.
So saying, Caribou Barbie is so out of her league that it is like a junior high school football team playing against a pro team. She will fail miserably tonight.
The only thing Palin succeeds at is injecting a comical angle into an otherwise dreary election!

Posted by: Victoria | October 2, 2008, 8:39 am 8:39 am

Christie: “Do you want this man to be leader of the United States?”
Yes.

Posted by: jock59801 | October 2, 2008, 8:41 am 8:41 am

You have got to love this joke. It is so true.
Looking for Work
A Japanese doctor said, ‘Medicine in my country is so advanced
that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have
him looking for work in six weeks.’
A German doctor said, ‘That’s nothing, we can take a lung out
of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in four
weeks.’
A British doctor said, ‘In my country, medicine is so
advanced
that we can take half of a heart out of one person, put it in another,
and have them both looking for work in two weeks.’
A Texas doctor, not to be outdone said, ‘You guys are way
behind. We took a man with no brains out of Texas , put him in the White
House and now half the country is looking for work.

Posted by: cynthia debbs | October 2, 2008, 8:41 am 8:41 am

I am beyond furious with people in this country, our media, our politicians, and everyone who hasn’t taken a second to get their heads out of their ass*s The state of our economy is ridiculous and hurtful to millions and their families! Remember people George W. skated on 9/11 to be elected for his second term, people were still very sensitive and really still are and acknowledged the rightful “revenge” George W. sought. He played on our heart strings….let’s not elect a 72 year old POW, and a woman who absolutely should not be in the white house because some people relate…let’s fix the economy and the rest of the bs this country faces now and will face after the election!

Posted by: UrJokinRight | October 2, 2008, 8:42 am 8:42 am

Killerbee signs with several names…the name changes but the IP Address they post from remains the same :)

Posted by: Mookie | October 2, 2008, 8:42 am 8:42 am

SARAH PALIN IS A POST TURTLE…
While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75-year old Texas rancher whose
hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a
conversation with the old man.
Eventually the topic got around to Sarah
Palin and her bid to be a heartbeat away from being President.
The old rancher said, ‘Well, ya know, Palin is a post turtle.

Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a post
turtle was.
The old rancher said, ‘Well, when you’re driving down a country road and you
come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a ‘post
turtle.

The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor’s face, so he continued
to explain.
‘You know she didn’t get up there by herself, she doesn’t
belong up there, she doesn’t know what to do while she is up there, and
you just wonder what kind of dumb a-s put her up there to begin with
Ha ha!! this one is a good joke!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 8:44 am 8:44 am

yes, first you work hard to blast and destroy Palin for weeks on end and then do a poll to check if you successful at your character assassination? Is that how it works George???? I used to respect GS before he dived into the Obama tank hook, line and sinker. Yes 2008 is the year journalism died.

Posted by: dgfromtx | October 2, 2008, 8:44 am 8:44 am

Christie: “Wake up America. Obama’s friends, his associations are dangerous.”
America is not ignorant nor stupid. These allegations were raised, publicized, research, discussed and, well, America thinks you’re wrong. Based on the Republican’s proven track record under their current leader, President Bush, this shows both excellent critical thinking skills on the part of America as well as the ability to remember and compare the last 8 years to the 8 years under a Democratic administration that preceded them.

Posted by: jhw539 | October 2, 2008, 8:47 am 8:47 am

People….Palin is an abomination and God forgive me..but as a Republican, I am so upset with Senator McCain for failing his first test for President…as a presidential candidate, you MUST pick the 2nd best choice for President to back you up. Can anyone seriously say Palin is the second best choice? She’s not radical..she’s STUPID. The whole world is mocking us now.

Posted by: Scott G. | October 2, 2008, 8:47 am 8:47 am

coward gay euro trash. your obvious vagina is dragging behind you. careful or the US will not be there next time to save your @ss after your prompt surrender.

Posted by: gay euro trash | October 2, 2008, 8:47 am 8:47 am

I am so desparate for the GOP ticket that I am going to post comments from Michelle Obama about how Barrack doesnt put the butter away correctly and lets the bread go stale.
BwaaaHaaHaaHAaa! Desparation 101!

Posted by: Derek | October 2, 2008, 8:47 am 8:47 am

Nobody, and the media especially wants to talk about what really matters, what Sarah Palin has accomplished in her political life when given the opportunity to serve. They pick on the trivial thing like her lack of knowledge on events that are hardly pertinent. Obama has no record of change no record of achievement, and a strong record of anti-american racist associations. GO FIGURE

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 8:48 am 8:48 am

Killerbee:
Funny you would say Republicans would vote for Hitler since Obama lately has been compared to Hitler by the media. So who is voting for who? “The one” is prepared to sqaush your little bee self and you don’t even see it. Wake up!!!!

Posted by: KB | October 2, 2008, 8:48 am 8:48 am

and to the dummy who said that the Republican black caucacas isn’t voting for Obama** most black people who are republicans aren’t voting for Obama. They dont believe in the same things. Thats why they are Republicans. Some people don’t vote because someone looks just like them, some people vote on qualifications. Now compare those black republicans to the black dems that will vote for him. I think that will beat the republican number very easily! lol It amazes me how narrow minded some people are.

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 8:48 am 8:48 am

Anyone who has watched Sarah Palin in the Katie Couric interviews understands one thing. She has no depth of knowledge about the items we should look for in a person who might run the free world. Those of you who can’t wait for someone like yourself, to become President take a long look at GWB. YOU voted for him because he was JUST like you. This idea that the President doesn’t really need to have no “book learnin” is why we are in the mess we are in today. Let me ask you “common” folk out there something. Would you go to a doctor who had no degree, or indepth medical knowledge just because you liked him? We should want someone who is more knowledgeable then us in the White House, not an ordinary person off of the street.

Posted by: Harry | October 2, 2008, 8:48 am 8:48 am

GENE, THE “POST TURTLE” IS SOMETHING MY WIFE MENTIONED LAST WEEK, IT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE. HILARIOUS!! HERE IT IS IN CASE YOU MISSED IT. IT IS SUPPOSE TO BE AN INTERVIEW WITH A FARMER WHO ASKED WHAT HE THINKS ABOUT SARAH PALIN, HIS REPSONSE:SHE IS A “POST TURTLE”. IT IS AS IF YOU DRIVE DOWN THE ROAD AND SEE A TURTLE SITTING ON A POST. YOU KNOW IT DID NOT GET UP THERE BY ITSELF, YOU KNOW IT DOES NOT BELONG UP THERE,YOU KNOW IT DOES NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO WHILE UP THERE, AND YOU JUST WONDER, WHAT KIND OF DUMMY PUT IT UP THERE TO BEGIN WITH… WELL SAID GENE!!!

Posted by: Timesuprepubs | October 2, 2008, 8:49 am 8:49 am

Scott G, youre a pathetic creature. Palin has more executive experience than all 3 men combined. Why are you allowing the elite liberal media to get you hung up on all the wrong issues?

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 8:50 am 8:50 am

Oh will you all give me a break!? The expectations for Palin are so low that anything better than a complete disaster will be proclaimed a victory by Repubs. Biden will treat her with kid gloves. And the format is skewed in her favor….shorter answers and not free-flowing as in the presidential debates.As a beauty contestent she was/is used to this cramming – and she is good at it. She will present herself well. Her Bush advisors will give her some good one-liners that you will love…..and they will be said in her folksy Alaskan accent. Don’t worry repubs….for you she’ll do just fine. All you will see is the myth. You will all breathe a sigh of releif and joy.

Posted by: prohb | October 2, 2008, 8:50 am 8:50 am

“I TEND TO AGREE WITH YOU. PALIN IS SO HATED BECAUSE SHE RELATES TO MOST AMERICANS.”
Posted by: Maryland Woman | Oct 2, 2008 12:23:42 PM
ROFLMAO Are you one of those Wasilla Meth users? If she related to people, she wouldn’t be disliked. I am a female. I am educated and the mother of 4 daughters, none of whom are banging their bf’s and got knocked up, and yes, they are all adults now. Sarah Palin offends me because she is arrogant and not terribly sharp. She is a walking contradiction to what an intelligent, independent, and responsible woman is. John McCain could have chose any number of other women that were VERY qualified to be his running mate, Sarah Palin is simply not one of them.

Posted by: Mookie | October 2, 2008, 8:51 am 8:51 am

Sarah is ugly and stupid is right. Those red juicy lips, cute blemish free face, i bet she smells so good too. I love her hair and those magical eyes. Yes, she is stupid and I am an obama fan but I bet she can be amazing naked. obama/biden 08
Posted by: Sally Jones | Oct 2, 2008 8:46:27 AM
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I bet you are soooo darn ugly wishing you are like her. Jealous, I figure!

Posted by: allah | October 2, 2008, 8:52 am 8:52 am

Timesrepub – Funny you should mention turtle on a post. Sounds like Obama . I mean hes never run a city, never run a state, never balanced a budget, never reached across the isle, etc. You people are stuck on stupid.

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 8:53 am 8:53 am

Every Single Republican in here and that I know, agrees that Palin SUCKS. But we also made an agreement to defend her to the bitter end, the same way we defended Bush. Bush has a 22% approval rating, well that 22% represents all those as intelligent as me.

Posted by: Derek | October 2, 2008, 8:54 am 8:54 am

That Palin is totally unqualified for VP is a given fact. If you thought Bushie Jr. was bad, Palin would make Junior look like Abraham Lincoln.
I wouldn’t be surprised that as Obama’s lead over McCain continues to grow that McCain’s attack ads will get lower and dirtier — after all, that’s the Republican way as devised by Karl Rove.
Don’t be surprised if McCain even brings out the race card with Obama, as despicable as that would be.

Posted by: Agnostic Free Thinker | October 2, 2008, 8:55 am 8:55 am

Couric: So what other Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with?
Palin: Well, I… oh, my phone’s ringing!
Couric: What? I don’t hear anything.
Palin: John? You gotta flat tire? I’ll be right there! ooh, sorry, Katie, gotta mush!

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 8:55 am 8:55 am

Sarah Palin ISNT running for president BONEHEADS. Barack Obama IS, and he has FAR LESS credentials, and record of achievement than Sarah Palin.

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 8:55 am 8:55 am

I am so incredibly disgusted by the liberal media and their shameless support of the liberal agenda and candidates. This was not more evidenced than the biased remarks made by George Stephanopolis on ABC’s World News Wednesday night. He might as well have been wearing a ‘VOTE Obama’ pin!! Do they not see that they have destroyed their credibility as journalists and completely turned off mainstream America? I know I am turning off World News tonight and forever.

Posted by: Gigi | October 2, 2008, 8:55 am 8:55 am

I just want everyone to remember how the 8 last years have gone, look at who we voted into office, look how dumb he’s become by every passing day, look how the republican party is split wide open with people saying that Sarah isn’t ready (which is funny because I haven’t heard anyone say Biden isn’t ready) and use your common sense and realize if you vote for these people who sell their souls to the devil to win this election and then hide everything behind God, is not whats best for this country. The republicans don’t know about country first. They think us first and then we’ll get to everyone else when we’re finished. I’m sick of the republican party. They are nothing but judgmental hypocrites crying because they know they will lose in Nov. and they thought because Obama was black they would have the upper hand. Most people in America have stepped out of 1960 and are living in 2008. I suggest the republicans and their leaders do the same.

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 8:56 am 8:56 am

hey, gay euro trash, howdy! Have you been packing fudge with Larry Craig or that flitty priest Haggard?
You American Republicans are infested with real faggots.

Posted by: euro.guy | October 2, 2008, 8:56 am 8:56 am

allah- mohammad is a pig and a dog. i spit on him every day.

Posted by: allah | October 2, 2008, 8:56 am 8:56 am

attn: Palin supports, please defend Palins interview with Katie Couric. I seriously want to know your point of view. Please dont repeat McCain’s qip that its ‘gotcha journalism’ if that doesnt aplly to Obama/Biden/McCain then it doesnt apply to Palin. Your answer is?

Posted by: Doctor Perfect | October 2, 2008, 8:57 am 8:57 am

Advice to the McCain Campaign:
I wouldn’t respond to the lefts accusations of Palins intelligence or experience. All four candidates are bright enough, or they wouldn’t be where they are today. Republicans should go with your stength: Character.
Many Americans are voting based on superficial traits and the charisma of Obama, but what is his character?
McCain has real character. He could have left that POW camp but elected to stay four more hellish years. Why? Because he knew he would be used as a propaganda tool.Hedid it for his country and not for himself. McCain goes against his own party when he feels it is right for America. Palin cleaned out corruption in Alaska in her own party. That is character. She did what was right for Alaskans. That is a servant of the people.
We had highly intelligent but immoral crooks in Washington and on Wall Street who ruined our economy to enrich themselves. They were some of the most intelligent people in our country, but their Character IQ was in the retarded range.
Obama was the only person who voted to MURDER third term infants who survived abortion, so he could endear himself with the radical left. Do you want someone who thinks it is OK to Murder a newborn infant as President? Is that an example of his Character?..you bet. He has aligned himself early in his career with the Chicago political machine, and extreme radicals who bombed the pentagon, and police stations. Is that the guy you want as commandder in chief?
Vote for Character this election and not for Charisma. Otherwise you will get what you deserve.

Posted by: Scoutkraft | October 2, 2008, 8:58 am 8:58 am

Dont you just love how these pathetic libs, have to point to Sarahs lack of knowledge on certain issues that arent really relevant, Because they cant mock her truly repectable tenure as a Mayor, and Governor of a state. Gotta Keep that quiet because they know OBAMA DOESNT MATCH UP where it counts the most

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 8:59 am 8:59 am

Everyone just keeps ranting on her executive experience but I think that considering how clueless she is about everything her experience means nothing. The woman couldn’t even name a newspaper she reads and claimed to read all of them. What is wrong with her? I really feel that the intelligence of America has been insulted. Also I hate how the McCain campaign wants to unite the country yet paint Americans who don’t live in “small towns” as some uppity people with no kind of values. They talk about those of us with an education as if its a bad thing that we have an education. This is something that we wish everyone had acess to. I just hope this all works itself out and that the American people recognize that she is not fit to be a heartbeat away from the most powerful/important job in the world in these troubling times.

Posted by: Beverly | October 2, 2008, 8:59 am 8:59 am

The past 8 years have been excellent except on 9/11 which you liberal democrats seem to forget. That is why none of you have every joined our armed services. You hate your country just like barack and his gorilla wife. How embarrassing to him to be married to such an ugly creature. ugh. disgusting. Anyway, the past 8 years, if you made good decisions, then your life is going well, if you made bad choices, then your life sucks. Reading these liberal democratic responses; you are all stupid and you all have made lame brain decisions. 8 more years of W.

Posted by: W the Great | October 2, 2008, 9:01 am 9:01 am

Posted by: thetruth “Guys…if you have ever watched Stephanopoulos you would know he is pro Rep all the way…but he has to be honest…Palin is a disaster.”
YOU are an idiot. George S. was in Clinton’s administration.

Posted by: Military Officer | October 2, 2008, 9:02 am 9:02 am

Governor Palin should do this ticket a favor and bow out now, a few weeks before the election. She lacks the capacity, the broad-based knowledge of world affairs, real politik, hegemonic principles, and knowledge of international relations. She governed a state of 700,000 and some more people, and most of those are alcoholics anyway. She moreover lacks a vision and a mandate with which she can lead.
Nothing against hockey moms and soccer moms, but this one just does not cut. I am certain that a blood bath will ensue this evening.
Mr. Biden, have a heart and go easy on her.

Posted by: lavampire | October 2, 2008, 9:02 am 9:02 am

Couric: So what other Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with?
Palin: Ya, know, I just said thanks but no thanks to those decisions.
Couric: What? That doesn’t make any sense.
Palin: That’s exactly what I’m talkin’ about here. Just no sense.
Couric: What about the decisions?
Palin: Ya know, we can go around and around about this, or we can deal with our problems head on.
Couric: Now you’re being obtuse.
Palin: Yep, we got a lotta moose. Lotta bears, too.
Couric: (sigh)

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 9:02 am 9:02 am

Sarah put her town 20 million in debt.

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 9:02 am 9:02 am

Palin has nothing that the dems can pick on except to try and make her look bad. Look at Bidon if you want to see 35 years of bad and in the pocket politics. Look at Obama who campained in germany and forgot its the USA he is trying to president of. Look at Obama and his preachings, his terrorist pals, his crooked head advisor who may have stole from Fannie and Freddie 100 mil bonus, His communist thoughts and his trillion $ budget to keep the poor, POOR. Wake up you cliff jumpers, you do not have vote one ticket. Wake up and see that hollywood does not voice an opinion. They are all actors playing on you. Strisand and Whoopie do not run this country but walk off the cliff for them dems.

Posted by: Jim Rod | October 2, 2008, 9:03 am 9:03 am

Hi ya Badger, howdy! Sarah Palin is proof that any college-trained dairy cow can become executive and get “experience”. Sarah Palin is college-trained farm animal, now executive.

Posted by: euro.guy | October 2, 2008, 9:03 am 9:03 am

seen somewhere on post… added my two cents.. Thanks!
Sarah will be fine….
Sarah really doesn’t have to think while she is the Political lime light and speaking gibberish…could be worst if she is asked to expand on any of the trained answers. Her husband “first dude” is currently and have been handling all official decisions – it’s kept under wraps but she is not accustomed to making decisions and thinking outside of her natural intelligence of child like responses.
She will do fine as long as she doesn’t have to explain questions! Biden will not let the world see you make a fool of yourself..he like to talk and long. Sarah you will be fine – Use what you got Sarah Your “Beauty…no one in Alaska question your Unexplained political gibberish inadequate unequivocal answers when you were elected “Blink! Blink!” You Go Sarah…you are the “Pit Bull with Lipstick”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14todd.html?_r=2&oref=login&oref=slogin

Posted by: Mike_Sharp | October 2, 2008, 9:03 am 9:03 am

Palin should ask Biden where is those Historical Archive Tapes of Franklin D. Roosevelt going on Television in 1929 to address the issue of the Stock Market Crash? Obama/Biden give up those Historical Archive Tapes!!!

Posted by: scb1111 | October 2, 2008, 9:05 am 9:05 am

euro trash- your mother was good last night. boned and dropped to the curb. little coward weasel.

Posted by: euro trash | October 2, 2008, 9:06 am 9:06 am

Since you guys are going back as far as 1995 to find loose evidence of any wrong doing by Barack, one has to ask: ARE YOU SCARED YET?????

Posted by: Dbow_NC | October 2, 2008, 9:06 am 9:06 am

when Palin is stumped tonight she is going to say “Thats HOT!”

Posted by: Doctor Perfect | October 2, 2008, 9:06 am 9:06 am

You Libs are wrong, Sarah was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it, so how can you critisize her on taking either side. SHE WAS ON BOTH SIDES!!! OBAMA DOESNT MATCH UP

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 9:07 am 9:07 am

When Obama was 5 he took an extra cookie from his moms cookie jar. IS THIS the TYPE of person we want in the White House? McCain-Palin 08!

Posted by: angry Republican | October 2, 2008, 9:07 am 9:07 am

LoL! Who’s Obama’s daddy? Who’s Trig’s Mama!
Obama ?
Trig – Bristol

Posted by: Mike_Sharp | October 2, 2008, 9:08 am 9:08 am

What a bunch of nonsense! She is on the ticket as VP. Unlike Obama, she will have time to gain experience and on the job training will be okay.

Posted by: Susan | October 2, 2008, 9:08 am 9:08 am

why are the republican people so mad that your ticket stinks? It’s not the liberal media’s fault Sarah Palin can’t answer a question with a direct answer. It’s not our fault that most Americans feel they are smarter that Sarah and John and probably are listening to answers of those questions. It’s not America’s fault Johnny Boy only met her once before he chose her and didn’t know how ridiculous she would sound. It’s not America’s fault she’s abusing her power up in Alaska and keeps telling folks she has foreign experience because they are near the Russian border (even though she’s never been to the island in which people do live on and don’t like her as a Governor). It’s not America’s fault that she let her 17 year old daughter get pregnant, unmarried, to a redneck who has racist comments on his MySpace Page because she didn’t believe in birth control. It’s not America’s fault John McCain voted on Viagra being on medical benefits and not placing birth control as one of those benefits medical coverage can pay for. Maybe if he would have voted that way, Sarah Palin could have afforded some birth control to give to her teen. It’s not America’s fault John McCain couldn’t ride his horse into the White House to help the Bailout Bill to get passed in the House. It’s not America’s fault Obama won the debate. MCSHAME IT’S NOT OUR FAULT YOU ARE A SCREW UP AND YOU DON’T HAVE ANY JUDGMENT. IT WILL BE OUR DUTY NOT TO ELECT YOU AND KEEP YOU IN THE SENATE WHERE YOU BELONG.

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 9:08 am 9:08 am

Obama is a racist, anti-american, sexist, elitist FRAUD. Wake up America

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 9:09 am 9:09 am

Couric: So what other Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with?
Palin: I think Dianna Ross was the real star and the others shouldn’t have been so resentful.
Couric: What?
Palin: I mean, The Supremes were great and all, and they were almost as pretty as some white women, but I think Dianna just really stood out.
Couric: Okay, I give up.
Palin: Well, alrighty then. I guess my work is done here!

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 9:09 am 9:09 am

How come I never get polled? I’m a registered voter. Anyhoo, McCain/Palin has been a dog ‘n pony show from the beginning. I feel sorry for her. And when they lose the election, it won’t be a surprise as to why.

Posted by: Paula | October 2, 2008, 9:09 am 9:09 am

George Stephanopoulos would win hands down a poll of who Americans would most like to beat the crap out of.

Posted by: One_American | October 2, 2008, 9:10 am 9:10 am

You Libs are wrong, Sarah has experience she can see rusia from her house OBAMA DOESNT MATCH UP

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 9:10 am 9:10 am

The Obama supporters are trying to win on fear of George Bush. They hate pro American views anyway. It shows they cannot present to the American people Obama’s change and any reforms. Obama and his preacher.. God D–America, that’s a change, we don’t want.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 9:10 am 9:10 am

Things are more simple than that. I am writing form Naples (Florida). I voted for Reagan in the 80s and for Bush in the 2000 election. I am an independent voter. I care about issues, about having SOMEONE COMPETENT WITH A SOUND PLAN IN CHARGE. This time I will vote for Obama-Biden SIMPLY BECAUSE MY FAMILIES´ECONOMY CAN NOT AFFORD 4 MORE YEARS OF THE ECONOMIC MISMANAGEMENT CARRIED BY BUSH AND SUPPORTED BY MCCAIN. As simple and painful as that. McCain has change, quite conveniently, his economic views in the last 2 weeks after years of saying, voting and acting in a complete different direction. Too late. I just can not afford to wait and see while McCain “learns” how to manage the Economy. Once again: it is that simple.

Posted by: TheBigDifference | October 2, 2008, 9:11 am 9:11 am

Compare these two assertions – 1. Sarah Palin doesn’t have the experience to be the Vice President. 2. Barack Obama doesn’t have the experience to be the President…. which ticket would you vote for, Republican or Democratic?

Posted by: Templar | October 2, 2008, 9:11 am 9:11 am

sharp- is that the best you have? weak. the fired cop tazered an 11 yo boy. he should have gotten @ss whooped, fired and put in jail.

Posted by: mike sharp the mouse | October 2, 2008, 9:11 am 9:11 am

Palin looks like a Playboy bunny dressed up like a business woman…

Posted by: Annabelle | October 2, 2008, 9:12 am 9:12 am

Barack, you really need to go back to Chicago, and make right on those FAILED COMMUNITY ORGANIZER PROJECTS. I mean, if you cant take care of your district, how could you possibly take care of a country?
Obama = Sham artist.

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 9:12 am 9:12 am

Palin will do just fine. Heck, all she has to do is show up and not throw up and she will be given a pass. If Biden attacks her he will look bad to women as they all band together for things like this even if they hate Palin (I don’t know why they just do). So yes, she will do just fine as they will be asking general questions and just like Sean Hannity, they won’t press her on any issue.

Posted by: wirey-one | October 2, 2008, 9:13 am 9:13 am

What I want to know is this – are the 35% of Americans that actually believe this dangerously incompetent woman is qualified to serve as vp or president the same 35% who think Bush is doing a good job? These people should not be allowed to vote. Ever. The vast majority of Americans – Republican or Democrat – understand that Bush has been a disaster for our country and most also realize Palin needs to stay in Alaska hunting moose. McCain needs to dump Palin and show he really is a maverick and ask Hillary to be his running mate. Now THAT would really shake things up. (I know, I know but a girl can dream).

Posted by: allie | October 2, 2008, 9:13 am 9:13 am

>>Compare these two assertions – 1. Sarah Palin doesn’t have the experience to be the Vice President. 2. Barack Obama doesn’t have the experience to be the President…. which ticket would you vote for, Republican or Democratic?
Great summary.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 9:14 am 9:14 am

i certainly don’t want the gov. to perform badly as it is the gop and mccain’s objective to blame her when they go down at election time. she does have to go forward and it is those people who are essentially sequestering her from the media and public scrutiny. i hope her attitude isn’t so arrogant and ‘i know everything’ too…if she doesn’t say an answer she should not continue speaking because she hangs herself everytime.
it is beyond my comprehension as to why john chose her except that she was pretty…he has said in interviews that he has relied on her many many times with regards to foreign policy but the facts are that he only met this woman back in feb. and it was only after she was announced to be on the list to be vetted…and then he met her shortly before his announcement.
what the heck was he thinking of?
i have to hope that joe will be kind and not laugh at her as it will look like he is bullying her…and we know that he wouldn’t do that. he likes to laugh alot and obama/biden are my choice anyways.
but i still hope she will hold her own.
it matters to me because i like them all.

Posted by: navy mom | October 2, 2008, 9:14 am 9:14 am

The news media is doing everything they can do destroy Palin and with her McCain, so that we can have a mannequin for President.

Posted by: John Kantor | October 2, 2008, 9:14 am 9:14 am

Palin looks like a Playboy bunny dressed up like a business woman…

Posted by: Annabelle | October 2, 2008, 9:14 am 9:14 am

Annabelle: What have you got against Playboy bunnies? Sheesh, what a slam !!

Posted by: wirey-one | October 2, 2008, 9:15 am 9:15 am

Yet another overt effort by ABC News to assist the Obama campaign. With few exceptions, ABC News has post negative “headline” links on its site since Gov. Palin was nominated. Some of the negatively worded links bore no relation to the articles to which they were linked. If you want an objective “mainstream media,’ BOYCOTT ABC & DISNEY SPONSORS.

Posted by: BOYCOTT ABC & DISNEY SPONSORS | October 2, 2008, 9:15 am 9:15 am

ha, ha, euro trash, (aka killerbee) you are so funny. I know you. You are one of the gigantic balloons that dot the landscape. You are one waterboarding squirrels in the park. C’mon yeah! Put on your lapel pin, and let’s torture Muslim! USA! USA! USA!

Posted by: euro.guy | October 2, 2008, 9:15 am 9:15 am

Couric: So what other Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with?
Palin: Well, I might ask you that same question, there, miss prissy.
Couric: But you’re running for Vice President.
Palin: And you’re not? Come on, the short hair, the blond highlights, if that’s not a Hillary makeover, I don’t know what is.
Couric: Do know ANYTHING?
Palin: Exactly, and that’s why I’m the hottest governor in the coldest state!
Couric: Thanks for your time, governor.
Palin: It’s 3:30. Don’t you own a watch?

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 9:15 am 9:15 am

And pray, by what yardstick one is justified in declaring that Obama will fix the economy more effiviently than McCain? How has such a notion arisen? How does one substantiate such a view?

Posted by: Claire | October 2, 2008, 9:17 am 9:17 am

Annabelle: women’s equal treatment-

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 9:17 am 9:17 am

Please John McCain, get rid of that dumb blonde and take Romney, so I can vote for you. I’m sure there are plenty more Republicans like me.

Posted by: mary | October 2, 2008, 9:18 am 9:18 am

oooh allie…
that is pretty interesting but we both know hillary wouldn’t run with mccain if her life depended on it. interesting scenario though…
the gop would definitely block anything along those lines, remember liebermann?

Posted by: navy mom | October 2, 2008, 9:18 am 9:18 am

you fake Christians out here are something. You keep talking about his faith & the preacher and blah blah blah. Well explain to me why it’s okay for preachers to preach not to vote for Obama? The Bible does say “for we all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.” Those people aren’t removed. Obama faith is not our business just like Sarah Palin’s trashy daughter getting pregnant is not our business. Since I go to church & believe in God’s word, I know he said he will be the only one to judge on judgement day, not you fake Christians who keep hollering he’s not a Christains. Obama’s faith is between him and God and you devils can’t ruin that. I wonder do conservatives even attend church or read the Bible with the ludacris moronic stuff they say. YOu can tell Republican’s are biggots!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 9:19 am 9:19 am

This is nothing but propaganda — worthy of Third World Politics. ABC and their drones are pathetic.
I sure pray — YES PRAY — that the true American Public can see through this trash journalism.

Posted by: thought4u2 | October 2, 2008, 9:19 am 9:19 am

allie: McCain tossing Palin for Hillary would be hillarious. Imagine the outrage of the Dems and the angry disbelief of the Neocons? It just might work…lol. Honestly though after picking Palin as his VP whatever he does will be brought inot question and I am one of those who thinks she will do good tonight. All she has to do is show up and not throw up and she wins at this point. That is how low the publics expectation is of her.

Posted by: wirey-one | October 2, 2008, 9:20 am 9:20 am

Barack Obama aka Barry Soetero’s whole life is a lie. As is his Christian/Muslim faith.
Obamas lies started long before he entered Chicago politics, and they continue to this day, daily. The most unqualified, inexperienced candidate in the last century. What an absolute joke. His only real experience is 20 years in a racially polarizing church.
Sarah Palin would make a far better president than Obama /Soetero the Marxist ideologue. Barry, go back to Chicago, and make right on your failed community organizer projects. Run for Mayor, and get some valuable executive experience first. Keep it real Barack, or is it Barry Soetero?

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 9:20 am 9:20 am

im a republican that think Sarah is a moron! cant vote for that ticket.

Posted by: NotSo | October 2, 2008, 9:20 am 9:20 am

euro.guy. What an intelligent post. *Gag*. Maybe if you cleaned up your language a little, people would take you seriously. Or, perhaps, this is the best you can do, in which case, I regret your lack on education and intelligence.

Posted by: Lisa Again | October 2, 2008, 9:22 am 9:22 am

Do you think Obama knows there’s not 57 States.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 9:22 am 9:22 am

badger, you’re one of those hypocrites I was talking aobut

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 9:22 am 9:22 am

The question every voter in America should ask themselves is:
Is Sarah Palin ready RIGHT NOW to be President of the United States?
The answer is unequivocally “No!”
I think she is intelligent (really, I do.)For her, achievement has been garnered primarily by skimming of the surface without any true understanding. I do not, however, believe that she has the drive to achieve the depth of background necessary for such an potent position as President of the United States, or the intellectual curiosity to be anymore than the provincial governor that she is now.

Posted by: mgkonyx | October 2, 2008, 9:22 am 9:22 am

HEY REPUBLICANS!!
In just a few hours McCain’s campaign is over!!
McCain’s incredibly stupid pick of PALIN is going to come back and bite him in the A** just like a pittbull with lipstick tonight!!
We saw a glimpse on Katie Couric and ABC why McCain has been trying to hide this woman from the press for the last month…
Well McBadJudgment, it is over for you old fool… For today is Judgment day for you pal!!
After the debate:
Palin = LAUGHINGSTOCK! Next Saturday Night Live skit!!
McCain = LAUGHINGSTOCK for picking Palin!!!
The American people just can’t wait to see Palin out “Tina Fey” Tina Fey!!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!
Go Biden!! Tear her up!!!!! Or just stand back and let her destroy herself!!!

Posted by: Davis | October 2, 2008, 9:23 am 9:23 am

Ashley – Put down the koolaid, and get yourself to poison control before it’s too late. PS – you need to breathe, Youve got your head so far up Obamas rectal cavity it’s no wonder youre dizzy.

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 9:24 am 9:24 am

Badger:
Obama- 8 years as a Chicago state Senator, representing a disctrict with a population larger than the ENTIRE population of Alaska, 12 years as a Harvard constitutional law professor, editor of the Harvard law review, 4 years in the US Senate, representing 13 million.
Yep, you’re right…Palin is DEFINITELY more qualified…

Posted by: McFarland | October 2, 2008, 9:24 am 9:24 am

lets water board euro trash and we can hope he is a muslim terrorist…

Posted by: euro trash | October 2, 2008, 9:25 am 9:25 am

BOTH OF THE 2 STOOGES/PUPPETS (McCain & Obama) ARE VOTING FOR THIS ‘CAUSE THEY & THEIR WEALTHY FRIENDS WANT TO USE YOU & I TO (TEMPORARILY) GET OUT OF THIS MESS, WHILE ESCAPING THE BLAME FOR HAVING TAKEN (A VERY PROSPEROUS) PART IN IT!!!!! (THESE 2 WHO ARE CONSTANTLY BEING SHOVED DOWN OUR THROATS AS BEING THEE ONLY 2 CANDIDATES REMAINING…ARE THE SAME!!! YOU MUST LOG ONTO y o u t u b e . c o m , THEN IN SEARCH BAR, TYPE IN , THEN CLICK ON THE FIRST VIDEO LISTED ON THAT PAGE…AFTER THAT, TYPE IN !!!

Posted by: Keith | October 2, 2008, 9:25 am 9:25 am

The question every voter in America should ask themselves is:
Is Barack Obama is ready RIGHT NOW to be President of the United States?
The answer is unequivocally “No!”
Only 56% of the people polled think Obama is ready to be president. That’s the news story.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 9:26 am 9:26 am

One of the most embarrassing things ever would be having a VP that doesn’t even know the group Hamas or the situation with the Gaza strip. In fact, it sounded like she almost endorsed them for being democratically elected…

Posted by: Casey | October 2, 2008, 9:26 am 9:26 am

Sarah Palin would make a far better president thasn Obama /Soetero. She ran a state, he couldnt even run a district. Stop with the Obama charade aleady

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 9:26 am 9:26 am

A Paradox – Obama believes in the future (so it is said) and picks a sixtyfive year old as running mate. McCain believes in the past(so it is said) and picks a fourtyfour year old as his running mate. Who believes more in the future and who believes more in the past?

Posted by: Proudtree | October 2, 2008, 9:26 am 9:26 am

Can you please repost the post turtle joke? It was hilarious.

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 9:27 am 9:27 am

My own prediction: SP will stick JB’s foot into his mouth tonight with his attacking her on qualification. How? She’ll leverage his experience in being forced down and shot at.
Tonight will bring evidence of another rope-a-dope by McCain campaign – aka check-call in poker terminology.

Posted by: Obama-Yah-Wright | October 2, 2008, 9:27 am 9:27 am

Ashley – Put down the koolaid, and get yourself to poison control before it’s too late. PS – you need to breathe, Youve got your head so far up Obamas rectal cavity it’s no wonder youre dizzy.———Dittos from me.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 9:27 am 9:27 am

I am a democrat but I can not vote for obama/biden. have you seen obama’s wife? Gorilla is the only thing I think of when i see her. Anyone that makes decisions that poorly have to be a horrible leader. What a loser.

Posted by: michelle is a gorilla | October 2, 2008, 9:28 am 9:28 am

and for the last time JOHNY MCSHAME HAS NO EXPERIENCE EITHER! That’s why he was happy to have her along because he knows most people and repubs think he’s a hot head lol! they love Sarah so much she should have ran for President. Just because McShame was a POW doesn’t mean he’s capable of running this country! Surge or no surge Obama told us first we didn’t need to be hasty & thats why we’re in the wrong country! Go Bush Admin & Johny McShame. You’ve really made the American people proud! NO its more like you’ve made us feel like jumping off that bridge to nowhere!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 9:28 am 9:28 am

The question every voter in America should ask themselves is:
Is Barack Obama is ready RIGHT NOW to be President of the United States?
The answer is unequivocally “No!”
Only 56% of the people polled think Obama is ready to be president. That’s the news story.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 9:28 am 9:28 am

PALIN ON STAGE WITH NO TELEPROMPTER FOR 90 MINUTES!!!
Ouch! That one has too hurt Republicans!! I hope Gwen Ifel doesn’t try to help Palin “Clean her questions up” like Katie Couric did either, that was a joke.
Just let the “Pittbull” hang out there to dry!! My guess is about halfway through it she runs from the stage crying in SHAME!!!
That actually is the word for the day and what ALL Republicans should be feeling now – SHAME!!!!
How PATHETIC is it going to be to watch Palin tonight??
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!
Get er done Biden!!!!

Posted by: Davis | October 2, 2008, 9:29 am 9:29 am

Osama Bin Laden.. Obama Bi den. Not very pretty, is it?

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 9:29 am 9:29 am

Well, if 56% think Obama’s ready to be president, that’s enough to elect him in a landlslide, isn’t it?

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 9:29 am 9:29 am

christie admit you’re a racist and we can move along with something more important other than you hating over there… remember haters never prosper and neither will you!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 9:29 am 9:29 am

McFarland STFU with that weak garbage. Obama has never run a city, never run a state, never balanced a budget of billions, never weilded veto power. Sarah Palin has, and has the approval of her state. Obama should be running for president of colubia University not president of the United States.
PS Einstein , Obama is a jr senator since 2005. Not impressive at all

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 9:30 am 9:30 am

Palin.. Putin. Not very Pretty, is it?

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 9:30 am 9:30 am

She’s going down.
Nothing new to her.

Posted by: Aaron | October 2, 2008, 9:30 am 9:30 am

wirey-one and navy mom: I know there is no way that would happen (McCain dumping Palin and picking Hillary) but the resulting chaos would be fabulous. Who on earth would anyone vote for? It would be great. Wirey-one – I saw your post about how all women will jump on Biden if he is hard on Palin and I made myself a promise. I cannot stand her and want Biden to be as tough on her as he would be on a male opponent…in fact the campaign saying he will be “graciously restrained” makes me very mad. However, I will remember what you wrote and if I catch myself getting mad at him for treating a woman badly, I PROMISE to slap myself across the face! :)

Posted by: allie | October 2, 2008, 9:30 am 9:30 am

It doesn’t matter. Most people with HS education won’t see the difference between any of the candidates other than maybe tax or no tax anyway. And they have been told by Limbaugh or Hannity that Palin is highly qualified, and they will vote for McCain/Palin even if she doesn’t say a word in the debate.

Posted by: Panabiker | October 2, 2008, 9:30 am 9:30 am

As soon as McCain, in his not-so-good judgment, picked Palin I said “Take the ‘l” out of Palin and you will see that Palin will become the pain in McCain’s campaign.” Time has proven me to be correct.

Posted by: George | October 2, 2008, 9:31 am 9:31 am

Palin.. Vlad the Impaler.. not very pretty, is it?

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 9:31 am 9:31 am

Ha, ha euro trash (aka killerbee) I am no terrorist.
I am Swiss person, and we are laughing at you gigantic American blobs. You are such clowns. You have Bush, now you want Palin. You are so adorable, so clueless. You are so broke that to buy a ticket to Geneva to waterboard me, you have to bend over and drop pants for the Chinese so that they lend you money. We use your worthless dollar bill to wipe our holes in the morning. Screwing up is the American Way! USA! USA!
USA!

Posted by: euro.guy | October 2, 2008, 9:31 am 9:31 am

>>Well, if 56% think Obama’s ready to be president, that’s enough to elect him in a landlslide, isn’t it?
That was from your left wing AP poll. So, why isn’t Obama double digits above McCain just in the economy issue. It doesn’t add up, does it?

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 9:31 am 9:31 am

She’ll blow it.
Nothing new to her.

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 9:32 am 9:32 am

Proudtree,
Your argument might make sense, if VPs automatically inherited the job of president.
It doesn’t work that way.

Posted by: McFarland | October 2, 2008, 9:32 am 9:32 am

“I think it’s a stretch to, in any way, to say that she’s [Sara Palin’s] got the experience to be president of the United States.” Republican Chuck Hagel

Posted by: George | October 2, 2008, 9:32 am 9:32 am

These interviews are bloody attack pieces done with malice and forethought. The innocent little “questions” are all about culture, about being a Washington insider, and not about substance. Palin is inexperieced in how to handle these attack interviews, just like she would be iexperienced in how to handle an attack in the alley by pit bulls.
The media is force-feeding us Obama. That is the main thing I don’t like about Obama, though i’ll probably vote for him cause McCain is an idiot. But I don’t buy the Sarah Palin is dumb bit, she is just not a Washnigton-New York person and hasn’t been exposed to the kind of meanness and hate speech of the liberal media. She is in shock in the interviews, just as any of you would be if asked the same questions by an angry, combative, negative person who is using all of the techniques of evil interrogations, such as long pauses and disapproving face. It shows Sarah Palin is a nice person and not used to this kind of New York incivility. Certainly she isn’t dumb, she is much smarter than Obama for example. These types of questions have never been asked of Obama, he once got a little bit of hard questioning and he lost it and gave Hillary the finger. That is more scary than Sarah Palin, she withdraws when attacked, he gives the finger like some dumb ghetto guy. Still I have to vote for him though, since McCain is awful and violent.

Posted by: Sharn Cedar | October 2, 2008, 9:32 am 9:32 am

Davis, yeah, right! I’ve got FDR coming over to watch it tonight on the picture box (that’s what he calls it). Afterward he likes to take nice long walks. YOU GUYS are the ONE’S who seem pretty nervous about Joey!! hahahahahah!!

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 9:33 am 9:33 am

No, 56% was your number. I just responded.

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 9:33 am 9:33 am

Is It Barack Hussein Obama, or is it Barry (ex coke head) Soetero?
Will the real Obama /Soetero please stand up?

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 9:33 am 9:33 am

Eskimo Barbie wants to be VP…

Posted by: Lily Bell | October 2, 2008, 9:33 am 9:33 am

DON’T DENY THE HURT THE RIGHT TO VOTE
To every American in this United States, I am not commenting as a Democrat or a Republican, but a concerned and confused citizen. In Michigan, there are people who have lost their homes and I read an article that the Republicans are trying to deny the people the right to vote because they do not have a valid address. In California, people lost homes to fire, In Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, people have lost homes to flood. CALL YOUR CONGRESS AND SENATE TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE.
HOW LOW CAN THEY GO, WHILE PEOPLE ARE LOSING JOBS IN RECORD NUMBERS AND LOSING HOMES TO FORECLOSURES, AND BURNED OUT AND FLOODED OUT, THAT ANYONE WOULD DENY THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE.
When America is down, we try and help one another, not step on one another. Do not allow anyone to take away your right to vote or tell you your vote will not count. Not in Michigan, California, Florida, Texas, Louisiana or any other state. I hope some Republicans are not stooping that low to try and help McCain. You will end up in a fight with both Republicans and Democrats!!!!! We may not all be from the same party, but we are from the same country!!!! Verify your rights. If they deny your rights, Americans will stand with you to FIGHT.

Posted by: Woman for Truth | October 2, 2008, 9:33 am 9:33 am

Congress Has 43,457,362 Reasons to Help Goldman Sachs
Embattled Firm and Its Employees Spread Millions Around Washington in Donations and Lobbying Expenses —-
Before becoming Treasury Secretary, Paulson was chairman of Goldman Sachs, earning over $140 million in compensation during his seven years as the firm’s top officer, according to company filings. Upon taking office, Paulson divested himself of his 3.23 million Goldman shares, reportedly worth $485 million at the time, to comply with government ethics rules.
Goldman Sachs bankers are also the number one contributors to the Barack Obama presidential campaign, giving $691,930 to his campaign in this cycle, according to the records.
John McCain’s campaign has received substantially less from Goldman Sachs employees, $208,395, although they are, as a group, his fourth largest contributor.
In addition to campaign contributions, Goldman Sachs has spent $13.8 million on lobbying expenses since 1998, when Paulson became co-CEO.
CLICK ON LINK FOR REST OF STORY.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Blotter/story?id=5891663&page=1

Posted by: Maryland Woman | October 2, 2008, 9:34 am 9:34 am

Palin… Stalin… not very pretty, is it?

Posted by: Casey | October 2, 2008, 9:34 am 9:34 am

Palling Pailin
All is now failing as the Pailin bounce paled into the night.
At the town hall meetings clearly Pailin loses the fight.
You see, her “ya knows” just don’t make it as perhaps it did with the 6 schools she attended.
She cannot speak well at all unless a speech for her is appended.

Posted by: George | October 2, 2008, 9:35 am 9:35 am

President Palin. Works for me.

Posted by: boohoo | October 2, 2008, 9:35 am 9:35 am

YOU JUST KNOW ALL THE REPUBLICANS ARE NERVOUS!!!
All they are doing on all the blogs is wildly hurling insults and racist comments!!
Because they know they and that idiot McKeating-5 only have a FEW HOURS LEFT to campaign!!!!
After the debate:
Palin = LAUGHINGSTOCK!! Next Saturday Night Live skit!!
McCain = LAUGHINGSTOCK for picking Palin!!!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just can’t wait for the debate! It’s like Christmas for Obama, because Palin is the gift that just keeps on GIVING!!!
Get er done Biden!!!!!

Posted by: Davis | October 2, 2008, 9:35 am 9:35 am

Biden tells Palin – you ain’t experienced. Palin slams back – your boss ain’t either.

Posted by: KNOX | October 2, 2008, 9:36 am 9:36 am

she’s what Hall & Oates sang about back in the 1970s.
Sara smile. . . . Oh won’t smile a while for me sara. . . .
She’s all smiles but no white matter.
We love ya anyway.

Posted by: lavampire | October 2, 2008, 9:36 am 9:36 am

It won’t matter at all how well Palin does tonight. The MSM will pan her no matter what she says. If Joe makes a mistake the MSM will just chuckle and chalk it up to just Joe being Joe.
We might as well just air it on the Obama channel. All Obama, all the time.

Posted by: mary | October 2, 2008, 9:37 am 9:37 am

What???!!!! Obama has only been a JR SENATOR 3 years,,, and half of that time he’s been running for president????!!!! There are no words.

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 9:37 am 9:37 am

Hillary was dodging make-believe bullets and now Palin tells us about non-existent Russian Migs buzzing Alaska’s territorial waters.

Posted by: George | October 2, 2008, 9:37 am 9:37 am

Stephanopoulus: Biden a drag on the Democratic ticket.

Posted by: debra | October 2, 2008, 9:37 am 9:37 am

eurotrash, you’re wasting your time in Swahililand. Your hate America attitude would qualify you to run as President on the Dumocrat ticket. You could at least be their spiritual advisor.

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 9:37 am 9:37 am

Excuse me moderator, I have been posting for quite awhile on here. The other day when I began to read there was a crowd on here who had been posting for a long time. After reading numerous posts I did get provoked. A lot of racism, and evil posting. I did become upset and posted a few responds that were not okay. However, they were not in any way insulting, vulgar or what I’m actually reading NOW.
I would appreciate it if you would allow me to continue posting on your blog.
Dianna

Posted by: Dianna | October 2, 2008, 9:37 am 9:37 am

Yeah uh huh George (you mean Christian) Stephanopoulos ,
The last debate with Obama/McCain I heard Jim Lehrer ask Obama about Russia. I heard Georgian pipeline, let the dog out, came back and Obama was talking about off shore drilling? What a crock.
You might be able to convince young voters that what they heard and saw in that debate was not what they heard and saw in that debate. No falconing the falconer here Georgie. I’ve been to the puppet show and have seen the strings for decades my friend
Let’s talk about this after the debates this evening. I’m feeling a tingle up my leg….

Posted by: Seymour | October 2, 2008, 9:38 am 9:38 am

When Palin needed to sell her house during her last year as Wasilla mayor, she got the city to sign off on a special zoning exception — and did so without keeping a promise to remove a potential fire hazard.

Posted by: George | October 2, 2008, 9:38 am 9:38 am

Let’s see Carter had Mondale. Clinton had the guy who invented the internet, Algore. Who didn’t know who Thomas Jefferson was when ask by a reporter. Kerry had Mr. 2 Americas, the trial lawyer. Obama is friends with terrorists and Joe Biden is Mr. Gaffe. Do we see a trend..

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 9:38 am 9:38 am

Badger:
“jr senator, not impressive at all”
??? By who’s standard? I love the way they rabid repubs create their own constructs for what is or isn’t of value, which changes from week to week. When the current governor of Virginia was running for that job, the republicans complained that he didn’t have enough experience because he was ONLY the mayor of Richmond, a city MUCH, MUCH larger than Palin’s little town.

Posted by: McFarland | October 2, 2008, 9:38 am 9:38 am

I’m a Democrat who hopes Palin falls flat on her face tonight! That being said, I think the Debate Commission dropped the ball on this one. Using Gwen Ifill only gives the McCain campaign ammunition to say the fix was in if Palin continues to show she isn’t qualified to be president should the need arise.
Palin was a victim of Charlie Gibson. Palin was a victim of Katie Couric. Palin was a victim of the liberal media. And if she performs poorly tonight, Palin was a victim of Gwen Ifill. If Biden confronts her on any issue, then she’ll be a victim of Joe Biden. Anytime Palin fails, it isn’t her fault, she’s a victim.
If Palin indeed performs poorly, then the Republicans should start shouting the slogan, “Palin for VP! We need a victim in the White House!”

Posted by: Ken Roth | October 2, 2008, 9:39 am 9:39 am

Remember, there are more than two people running for president.
Strongly consider a third party this year, for the good of our country. Bob Barr, Ralph Nader, or even write in Ron Paul. No, they won’t win this year, but a strong showing gives them future potential. Vote Independent or Libertarian locally whenever possible, or expect the same results year after year.

Posted by: Jeremy | October 2, 2008, 9:39 am 9:39 am

BLACKS FOR MCCAIN MUST NOT BE MANY OF YOU CAUSE I DOUBT IF THERE IS ANY BLACKS FOR HIM
CYNTHIA DEBBS-I LOVED THAT JOKE!
POOR SARAH IS GOING TO BE TORN TO BITS TONIGHT I HOPE SHE HAS A DEPENDS ON CAUSE SHE GOING TO NEED IT! THERES NOT ENOUGH REHEARSING IN THE WORLD GOING TO HELP HER TONIGHT. ITS SAD PEOPLE ARE ONLY GOING TO WATCH THIS DEBATE JUST TO SEE HER MAKE A A$$ OF HERSELF. i’M HAVING A DEBATE PARTY TONIGHT SO WE CAN HEAR THE JOKES FIRST HAND. JIMMY KIMMEL IS GOING TO HAVE SOME NEW JOKES TONIGHT. POOR SARAH GO HOME AND VISIT YOUR NEIGHBORS IN RUSSIA WITH SOME
MOOSE STEW!
OBAMA/BIDEN08
ITS TIME TO MAKE A CHANGE!
THEY ARE THE PEOPLE WHO CAN DO IT!

Posted by: terryswifey | October 2, 2008, 9:39 am 9:39 am

Ist true?? Barry Obama didnt know that his own state of Illinois is closer to Kentucky, than Arkansas? Amazing
Hello Barack????? ANYBODY home in OBAMAVILLE?? ILLINOIS BORDERS KENTUCKY, DIPSHTT.

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 9:39 am 9:39 am

NEWS FLASH!!!
FAILING PALIN DESTROYS McCAIN CAMPAIGN!!! Flushes whole thing down the drain!!!
Her next interview is scheduled on are you smarter than a 5th Grader!!!
After the debate:
Palin = LAUGHINGSTOCK!! Next Saturday Night Live skit!!
McCain = LAUGHINGSTOCK for picking Palin!!!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Davis | October 2, 2008, 9:39 am 9:39 am

Let the Palin Comedy Hour begin….
Obama ’08…

Posted by: Jim | October 2, 2008, 9:40 am 9:40 am

lavawhatever, you’re quoting a Hall and Oates tune? We conservatives used to beat up dorks like you in High School.

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 9:40 am 9:40 am

Thank you moderator..
Dianna

Posted by: Dianna | October 2, 2008, 9:40 am 9:40 am

Badger… do you have a brain? Are you simple minded or witless? I”m trying to figure out!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 9:41 am 9:41 am

Wow, for being a “drag” on the ticket, she sure gets a lot of headlines. Who is Obama’s vp again or is he running against Palin?

Posted by: ryukyu | October 2, 2008, 9:41 am 9:41 am

I think it’s sad. In the beginning I would laugh at her during her Couric interview but the more she say the more I feel for her.
Both she and McCain made the wrong decision.
He for chosing her and She for accepting.

Posted by: Vanessa | October 2, 2008, 9:41 am 9:41 am

I think it’s sad. In the beginning I would laugh at her during her Couric interview but the more she say the more I feel for her.
Both she and McCain made the wrong decision.
He for chosing her and She for accepting.

Posted by: Vanessa | October 2, 2008, 9:41 am 9:41 am

Remember Palin’s speech on 06/08/2008 given at the Assembly of God she has attended for years – it was given as part of the Master’s Commission graduation? Many of the graduates had received training for Joel’s Army. From the Southern Poverty Law Center: Joel’s Army is an issue that has largely gone unnoticed by watchdogs of the theocratic right. Joel’s Army is prophesied to become an Armageddon-ready military force of young people with a divine mandate to physically impose Christian “dominion” on non-believers. “An end-time army has one common purpose — to aggressively take ground for the kingdom of God under the authority of Jesus Christ, the Dread Champion.” “The trumpet is sounding, calling on-fire, revolutionary believers to enlist in Joel’s Army. … Many are now ready to be mobilized to establish and advance God’s kingdom on earth.” Joel’s Army followers, many of them teenagers [like those to whom Palin spoke to on June 8, 2008 at her long-time church] and young adults who believe they’re members of the final generation to come of age before the end of the world, are breaking away in droves from mainline Pentecostal churches. Numbering in the tens of thousands, they base their beliefs on an esoteric reading of the second chapter of the Old Testament Book of Joel, in which an avenging swarm of locusts attacks Israel. In their view, the locusts are a metaphor for Joel’s Army. Despite their overt militancy, there’s no evidence Joel’s Army followers have committed any acts of violence. But critics warn that actual bloodletting may only be a matter of time for a movement that casts itself as God’s avenging army.

Posted by: George | October 2, 2008, 9:41 am 9:41 am

BLACKS NEED TO BE CONFRONTED WITH THEIR BLATENT RACIST AGENDA IN THIS CAMPAIGN. WHY THE DOUBLE STANDARD? WHAT IS IT 95% SUPORT OBAMA.

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 9:41 am 9:41 am

Hey, ABC, why not make your bias a little more obvious? A “drag on the ticket?” I don’t think so. She’s the best breath of fresh air we’ve seen anywhere near Washington in decades.

Posted by: Jim Andrews | October 2, 2008, 9:42 am 9:42 am

How can any one say it is media baised on they way they talk about Palin. If it was Obama or Biden who has done what Palin does in interviews. Republicans would have a field day with it. It is not the Democrats fault for putting 2 intellectual people on the ticket. It is the Republicans fault for allowing McCain to pick Palin. It was a gamble for the women vote and it back fired. No they have no other choice than to stick with it. It is like the old saying goes you live by the sword you die by the sword. Palin is a disgrace to all the intellectual women of the US and the world. Shame on McCain for saying that people should not base their opinions because she did uprepared interviews. How can you call it that when they are the ones scheduling the interviews. That is their fault. I would trust Palin to run the PTA at my kids school.
Vote OBAMA, BIDEN 08.

Posted by: eduardo | October 2, 2008, 9:42 am 9:42 am

Beware of Obama …
If he is elected the following states may also be affected by his tax plans
- Toronto
- Ontario
- Vancouver
- Montreal
- Mexico City
- Rio
- Barbados
This empty suite thinks USA has 57 states …
His foreign policy experience
- Campaign for 19 months
- 3 weeks in Karachi, Pakistan
- Visit to Indonesia
According to him, if one visits a country, that individual gets foreign policy experience of that country

Posted by: Barak_USane | October 2, 2008, 9:43 am 9:43 am

Is It Barack Hussein Obama, or is it Barry (ex coke head) Soetero?
Will the real Obama /Soetero please stand up?

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 9:43 am 9:43 am

Remember, there are more than two people running for president.
Strongly consider a third party this year, for the good of our country. Bob Barr or even write in Ron Paul. No, they won’t win this year, but a strong showing gives them future potential. Vote Independent or Libertarian locally whenever possible, or expect the same results year after year.
Posted by: Jeremy | Oct 2, 2008 1:39:23 PM
=======================================
I agree 100% Jeremy, after tonight’s debate I would suggest that at least half of Republicans go out and vote for Bob Barr, he is a much better choice than McLame or Failin Palin!!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Davis | October 2, 2008, 9:43 am 9:43 am

A man that I work with is African American and he tells everyone that he’s voting for McCain/Palin (Like he says, there’s a few, very few, of us out here).

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 9:44 am 9:44 am

The ladies of America now have one helluva chance to put a lady in the Oval Office. Feminist rage, come on!

Posted by: Littledame | October 2, 2008, 9:44 am 9:44 am

I meant to say I wouldnt trust Palin to run PTA at my kids school.

Posted by: eduardo | October 2, 2008, 9:44 am 9:44 am

Ashley, I would suggest you extricate your head from Obamas rectal cavity, and breathe. The world will become much clearer.

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 9:45 am 9:45 am

You people just can’t realize your ticket SUCKS!!!! lol I can’t wait until November 4th. I have my camera waiting to see the faces of the biggots aka Republicans in the USA. You’ve held the Congress for 12 straight years and the Presidency for 8… it’s over, it’s over now. Move over it’s our time now. The game has shut down! Sorry!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 9:46 am 9:46 am

killerbee, yes, I am quoting the old Hall and Oates tune, which came way before my time — I am just knowledgeable about popular music. The point is that all you staunch conservatives are to ashamed to concede defeat. You have a vice-presidential candidate who cannot cut it. She is quite ignorant about issues that are relevant to first-world nations like our own. So Sara(h) keep on smiling a while for me. . . .:)
Poor old McCain is pretty upset by now. His candidacy is seeking quicker than the Titanic.
He should cut the dead weight soon before it is really over. And no, I was not a dork back in high school. I was one of those bigh, bad guys who used to beat up those punks (like you) who used to beat up on the dorks. Ha!!!!

Posted by: lavampire | October 2, 2008, 9:46 am 9:46 am

Is there really 57 states? Yes in the Islamic world and the Quran, just ask Obama, oh thats right ask Stephanopoulos who had to correct Obama in his own words Obama “My Islamic Faith” Stephanopoulos “You mean your Christian Faith” Obama “Yes I mean my Christain faith” How much more a friend to the current media and to the Islamic extremeists could there be and when is the Real media going to start asking questions about Obama past and when did 148 days make anyone qualified for any position until now. Does that mean a cashier at Mcdonalds would be qualified to be manager? or a teacher after 148 days be qualified to be the Principle..Well there it is.

Posted by: Tony | October 2, 2008, 9:46 am 9:46 am

Palin is not used to the world of Washington D.C. politics, true (good or bad). She didn’t have a lot of time to prepare herself for this spotlight, true. She gets nervous about making a false step. Presidents are surrounded by cabinet members and advisors, so, they don’t have to be experts on all subjects. What we need in the Whitehouse is not a polished professional politician, but, someone who will do what’s right for the American citizens. President, vice-president, Congressman, bureaucrat, whoever holds a federal job and no matter who wins the election — if they would only do what is best for the citezens, as a whole, that is all we can ask.

Posted by: Charles Evans | October 2, 2008, 9:46 am 9:46 am

Hey BADGER:
You say “BLACKS NEED TO BE CONFRONTED WITH THEIR BLATENT RACIST AGENDA IN THIS CAMPAIGN…”
You’re just the guy to do it. Go on, tell us all about it…hehehe…

Posted by: McFarland | October 2, 2008, 9:46 am 9:46 am

We know that the ultra left wingers men/women hate Palin. Those are waiting to aboard the Obama mother ship. Those guys are lost souls.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 9:47 am 9:47 am

YOU JUST KNOW ALL THE REPUBLICANS ARE NERVOUS!!!
All they are doing on all the blogs is wildly hurling insults and racist comments!!
Because they know they and that idiot McKeating-5 only have a FEW HOURS LEFT to campaign!!!!
After the debate:
Palin = LAUGHINGSTOCK!! Next Saturday Night Live skit!!
McCain = LAUGHINGSTOCK for picking Palin!!!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just can’t wait for the debate! It’s like Christmas for Obama, because Palin is the gift that just keeps on GIVING!!!
Get er done Biden!!!!!

Posted by: Davis | October 2, 2008, 9:48 am 9:48 am

Palin is the worst Presidential pick in modern history. She makes Dan Quayle look like a Rhodes Scholar.

Posted by: Perspective | October 2, 2008, 9:48 am 9:48 am

Write in The Magic 8 Ball.

Posted by: boohoo | October 2, 2008, 9:48 am 9:48 am

Seymour – “The last debate with Obama/McCain I heard Jim Lehrer ask Obama about Russia. I heard Georgian pipeline, let the dog out, came back and Obama was talking about off shore drilling?” – Yeah, it’s fun to drink during the debates, isn’t it?

Posted by: jmengate | October 2, 2008, 9:48 am 9:48 am

If Obama was white he would win by land slide. The only reason the race is close is because of the racism that still exists in the US. As far as the women vote: do you really want Palin to be the one that damages the chance of a women ever getting a chance again? That is what you are risking by voting for McCain/Palin. Palin is a retart just like Bush. I personally do not want another 4 years of Bush policies. HOw about you?

Posted by: eduardo | October 2, 2008, 9:48 am 9:48 am

I think after reading all the flase claims on both sides, I will now vote for whoever has the best looking wife. Right now Michelle looks pretty mean even when smiling.

Posted by: bpercival | October 2, 2008, 9:48 am 9:48 am

>>Eskimo Barbie wants to be VP…
That’s a beautiful doll, too. On the secondary market, the 1980 version is quite sought after.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 9:49 am 9:49 am

High and dry here. Are there no McCain supporters who can withstand my onslaught of facts about the poor judgment he exercised when he picked Sara Palin? Even Repbulican leaders say she is not qualified. Now Kathleen Parker, a long-time conservative editorialist, has called for her to remove her name from the ticket.

Posted by: George | October 2, 2008, 9:49 am 9:49 am

badger, you can take yourself and crawl up in JOhnny McShames rectal cavity cause you are Bullshtt! The World would become normal again! lol You’re a coward just like Sarah and company!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 9:49 am 9:49 am

Interesting comment that Palin is dragging down the ticket since her selection was what brought up McCain. McCain was DOA before Palin, I don’t think she can hurt the ticket. And in light of the fact that congress and the executive branch seems to know nothing about the economy, since they are why we are in this bailout situation. Someone outside the fore mentioned crowd, like Sarah Palin, obliviously won’t hurt and probably will help. I for one am fully behind her. In fact I’d been leaning toward Obama before he selected her. I’m a moderate Republican who likes the maverick form of politics.

Posted by: bmunzz | October 2, 2008, 9:49 am 9:49 am

All you paid GOP posters are getting more ridiculous and desperate by the hour. You people are so transparent and such lowlife morons. If you weren’t so pathetic you would be amusing. Right Marie? Guess what? Rightwingers suck!

Posted by: AJ | October 2, 2008, 9:49 am 9:49 am

… and talk about floundering.. Did anyone see the video of Obama’s stammering and stuttering when his teleprompter went out, in a “town hall” meeting? He would have asked Palin for pointers, at that time.

Posted by: Charles Evans | October 2, 2008, 9:50 am 9:50 am

Stephanopoulus: a drag on Journalism

Posted by: Press4Obama | October 2, 2008, 9:51 am 9:51 am

Tony – What?

Posted by: jmengate | October 2, 2008, 9:51 am 9:51 am

Couric: So what other Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with?
Palin: Well, first of all, those robes have got to go.
Couric: No, I meant court decisions.
Palin: Well, I certainly made a lot of those on the basketball court. I was Sarah Barracuda, ya know.
Couric: Somebody shoot me.
Palin: My pleasure. Got my moose rifle right here…

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 9:51 am 9:51 am

ABC is for Obama mamma and won’t play fair and balanced. Obama mamma will make all whites slaves and his gorilla wife will get her revenge on America.
ha ha ha haaaaa ha ha ha haaaaaa ha ha

Posted by: Tanisha | October 2, 2008, 9:51 am 9:51 am

Democrats don’t know how to win or they would have won the 2000 election. Republicans are the leaders in this country. Give the Dems enough rope and they’ll hang themselves again!

Posted by: red rocket | October 2, 2008, 9:51 am 9:51 am

Let me help everyone understand a very simple thing. A true Mavrick would not have to tell everyone, they would already understand it.

Posted by: kent | October 2, 2008, 9:52 am 9:52 am

When this doesn’t work out for her, she’ll find there are lots of other jobs she’s more than qualified for, say, like High School Principal in Spearfish, South Dakota. She’d be great at that.

Posted by: Aaron | October 2, 2008, 9:52 am 9:52 am

AJ – I think you are the GOP operative with your nasty attitude. You just want the Democrats to look bad with your name-calling. I am neither Republican nor Democrat. I owe no allegiance to any political ideology, Party platform and have no need to toe the line for any Party.

Posted by: George | October 2, 2008, 9:53 am 9:53 am

I hope to God Sarah Palin blows Joe Biden out of the water and then you so-called “commentators” might have to shut up a bit…or eat crow! For God’s sake, give the lady a chance…..she, and every candidate, deserves that much! Get a life, George Stephanopoulus

Posted by: Judy | October 2, 2008, 9:53 am 9:53 am

George – “Are there no McCain supporters who can withstand my onslaught of facts” – If there’s one thing right wingers hate it’s facts. Kind of makes them look silly.

Posted by: jmengate | October 2, 2008, 9:53 am 9:53 am

One things for certain, John McCain and Sarah Palin WILL win their own home states. Too bad ALGORE couldn’t win his own state of Tennessee (11 electoral votes). It would have made him President. Florida wouldn’t have mattered. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!!!! Thank you, Tennessee!

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 9:54 am 9:54 am

Talk about prejudice!!! Ifil has already published a book predicting Obama is the first black President and it will be released around Inauguration 1/09. Is there no end to the people Obama has “bought and paid for?” I suppose Gwen will end up in his Cabinet with other notable Democrats like Dodd and Pelosi and garbage like Rezko, Wright, Oprah, Babs, etc. etc. etc.
This is becoming a joke to the world at the expense of the American people.

Posted by: james | October 2, 2008, 9:54 am 9:54 am

Tanisha tapped out: “ABC is for Obama…”
So is the rest of the United States of America. Well… MOST of us, anyway.
How does it feel to be a minority?

Posted by: Aaron | October 2, 2008, 9:55 am 9:55 am

Biden’s going to mop-up the floor with her.

Posted by: Danny | October 2, 2008, 9:55 am 9:55 am

>>>badger, you can take yourself and crawl up in JOhnny McShames rectal cavity cause you are Bullshtt! The World would become normal again! lol You’re a coward just like Sarah and company!
And this person’s posting rude insulting messages to others while trying to impose a character of being polite. OBama’s left wingers, sorry, his supporters.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 9:55 am 9:55 am

Blacks are so desperate for a black president that they’re willing to support a racist anti-american at all costs. Obama couldnt clean up his district in south Chicago, he surely cant handle running anything beyond that. Pathetic racist people.

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 9:55 am 9:55 am

Why do the Dem’s use all sort of names for McCain and Palin? I have yet to see Obama’s name altered. Let start with Slobama or Obama Bin Biden.

Posted by: bpercival | October 2, 2008, 9:55 am 9:55 am

Judy – “For God’s sake, give the lady a chance…..” – I actually gave her a chance at the Republican convention when she gave her acceptance speech. I had never heard her speak before and was interested in what she might say. Unfortunately, she didn’t take it seriously and decided to treat it as a stand-up routine instead of a chance to connect with the average voter. She made her bed, now she needs to lie in it.

Posted by: jmengate | October 2, 2008, 9:55 am 9:55 am

killerbee, ha ha, I don’t hate America, you clowns are too comical to hate. I am not hating you, I am laughing at you. Only clowns would pick Bush. Only clowns would pick Palin. You are clowns. People don’t hate clowns, they laugh at them.

Posted by: euro.guy | October 2, 2008, 9:56 am 9:56 am

don’t forget rosie odonald

Posted by: red rocket | October 2, 2008, 9:56 am 9:56 am

>>Biden’s going to mop-up the floor with her.
Does this mean his rage will show up?

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 9:56 am 9:56 am

YOUR ARTICLE IS VERY BIASED AND WHEN DID YOU BECOME A FORTUNE TELLER. PALIN IS GOING TO LIGHT YOUR BOY UP TONIGHT.

Posted by: TOM | October 2, 2008, 9:56 am 9:56 am

Obama stepped on a cricket when he was age 6. Do we want an animal killer in the whitehouse? McCain-Palin 08!

Posted by: angry Republican | October 2, 2008, 9:56 am 9:56 am

Judy wrote (and I’m blushing just repeating it): “I hope to God Sarah Palin blows Joe Biden”
Man! I can’t believe they let you get away with that!

Posted by: Aaron | October 2, 2008, 9:57 am 9:57 am

George Stephanopoulis is a loser Obama nuthugger, along with the rest of his ABC cronies. They all need a serious reality check, aloing with a demotion to toilet scrubbers. Other than that they are useless. What good is journalism if it’s not fair, and unbiased?

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 9:57 am 9:57 am

christie I don’t like you either lol

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 9:57 am 9:57 am

Stephanopoulos has been upset about not knowing Palin was THE choice – he’s acting like a spoiled rich kid “fine then, I’ll just take my vote home and play by myself humph!!!” He was all excited during the prediction period – thinking he knew – privy to his coveted “inside” status. McCain burst his privy bubble and now he’s adjusted his allegiance towards the Obama camp. The media these days should be ASHAMED of themselves – even PBS went wonky for a while after the Palin choice. The media has shown they simply want a black (well, half is close enough) president since it will be good for ratings and everything else that pays their salaries.

Posted by: hummingbird | October 2, 2008, 9:58 am 9:58 am

bpercival – “I have yet to see Obama’s name altered.” – You’re kidding, right?

Posted by: jmengate | October 2, 2008, 9:58 am 9:58 am

I just watched her flute performance from the Miss Alaska competition. Her intonation is very poor. Plays flat throughout the whole piece.

Posted by: hey Scoob | October 2, 2008, 9:58 am 9:58 am

Even if Palin does an outstanding job tonight, its not going to affect the polls. McCain’s polls are only going in one direction now – that is towards the GUTTER.

Posted by: Doctor Perfect | October 2, 2008, 9:59 am 9:59 am

she’s not flat

Posted by: red rocket | October 2, 2008, 9:59 am 9:59 am

Palin certainly knows about Supreme Court rulings. She talked about Roe v. Wade and then was asked about other rulings. She repeated “Roe v. Wade.” She could not even think about Exxon v. Baker which strongly affected Alaska – the State where she is governor. She said nothing about Dread Scott, Bakke, Plessy, Brown v. Board of Ed. Who is this woman? Perhaps it is Todd Palin they really want but can’t have him without her.

Posted by: George | October 2, 2008, 10:00 am 10:00 am

People forget how Obama was not very inexperienced in public…he did not want to debate and complained there were too many debates..he also did not want to interview when he first started his campaign and we all know how soft george was when he actually interviewed with Obama …so how did you meet Mitchelle it was more of getting to know Obama on a personal level rather then on a political level..I am a dem but I believe the Media has been to bias and picks and chooses sides and demostrates this in their clips…

Posted by: SLS | October 2, 2008, 10:01 am 10:01 am

If BARRY loses the election, Gwen Ifels book will sell about 4 copies. If he wins, her book comes out around inauguration time. She stands to PROFIT over $300,000. Real FAIR and BALANCED, right libs?

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 10:01 am 10:01 am

hey Scoob: When the flute has a skin covering, her performance goes up a notch.

Posted by: Aaron | October 2, 2008, 10:02 am 10:02 am

Posted by: TOM | Oct 2, 2008 1:56:44 PM
Obama stepped on a cricket when he was age 6. Do we want an animal killer in the whitehouse? McCain-Palin 08!
You are joking right? The fact you actually typed this mess, explains why the GOP fall for any stupid trick.
I see why HRC and the GOP targed uneducated white people b/c they know exactly what I know that uneducated people will follow anybody.

Posted by: nubiangent08 | October 2, 2008, 10:02 am 10:02 am

and futhermore Christie, thats the best part of living in America. For years (and still even now) we’ve had to listen to you white people demoralize our people and I know it burns to have a prominent black man about to be President of the United States but let me reassure you, God is ready and who cares what you think biggot? I can say whatever I want to you and there isn’t anything you can do… Free Speech!! You biggots have had the KKK running around placing our people in peril. Well guess what? we’re not scared anymore or fooled by yours biased ways or thoughts. I say what I feel and I feel like you’re an idiot! (sigh:: made me feel better)

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 10:02 am 10:02 am

I will be the first to admit that Sarah Palin has come across as quite the bimbo in her latest interviews. Having said that, WHEN IT COMES TO GETTING THINGS DONE, SHE GETS THINGS DONE TO THE TUNE OF 65-80% APPROVAL RATING. Personally I’d rather have someone who is not a great speaker, but is a great doer. Obama is a walking gaffe machine also, but he doesnt even have the accomplishments to counter that.

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 10:02 am 10:02 am

>>> just watched her flute performance from the Miss Alaska competition. Her intonation is very poor. Plays flat throughout the whole piece.
I rather see this than seeing people putting stuff up their nose and putting cigars- in their mouths.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 10:05 am 10:05 am

Badger.. she’s had three interviews… why can’t she do more? because everytime she opens her mouth she say something moronic and you sitting up here trying to tell us otherwise will not work! SNL is killing her and it’s funny.. i hope they keep doing more!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 10:05 am 10:05 am

YOU JUST KNOW ALL THE REPUBLICANS ARE NERVOUS!!!
All they are doing on all the blogs is wildly hurling insults and racist comments!!
Because they know they and that idiot McKeating-5 only have a FEW HOURS LEFT to campaign!!!!
After the debate:
Palin = LAUGHINGSTOCK!! Next Saturday Night Live skit!!
McCain = LAUGHINGSTOCK for picking Palin!!!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just can’t wait for the debate! It’s like Christmas for Obama, because Palin is the gift that just keeps on GIVING!!!
Get er done Biden!!!!!

Posted by: Davis | October 2, 2008, 10:05 am 10:05 am

Interesting web-site about Palin:
http://www.grizzlybay.org/SarahPalinInfoPage.htm

Posted by: Marilyn | October 2, 2008, 10:06 am 10:06 am

Please stop with the whine about how the media has made Sarah Palin appear[insert comment]…
She has done this all by herself. She hasn’t been asked questions that are intrinsically unfair; many of us really have wanted to know where she, herself stands on issues important to ALL the American people.
Her answers have been vague at best and incoherent at worst. Noone forced her to run for VP (which by the way, gives every American voter a right to question who she is…)or to say the words that have come from her own mouth, mind, heart — self.
It’s not the press that has caused a change in opinion of Gov Palin, it is Gov Palin herself.
PS: executive experience is not the litmus test for a good president/vice president — look up Abraham Lincoln and decide for yourself.

Posted by: dassis | October 2, 2008, 10:06 am 10:06 am

SHINY PENNIES – do you live in a cave? She has more expierience than the others?????? Biden has 36 years experience and McCain has 26 years, Obama has 4 years, but expierience in other fields. Where is the experience??? May of a town of 8,000, where she was considered a “wacko”. Govenor for 19 months, where is seems her husband made just as many decisions and he was not in office. She should practice what she preaches – teach abstince – daughter pregnant???? Wants books banned from library, Alaska has the worst education record in the US. Oh what experience. She will not be fine in vp or pres spot, NOT ENOUGH EXPERIENCE, UNABLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS – INCLUDING WHAT NEWSPAPER SHE READS woe is me. I have no college education, nor political experience, but I do know what newspaper I read. Why can’t she face the press, nor grant more interviews, she can’t answer the questions asked. Why is it that if Gibson or Couric ask her questions, they are being hard on her? They asked the same questions to the other candidates?

Posted by: kmn | October 2, 2008, 10:07 am 10:07 am

SHINY PENNIES – do you live in a cave? She has more expierience than the others?????? Biden has 36 years experience and McCain has 26 years, Obama has 4 years, but expierience in other fields. Where is the experience??? May of a town of 8,000, where she was considered a “wacko”. Govenor for 19 months, where is seems her husband made just as many decisions and he was not in office. She should practice what she preaches – teach abstince – daughter pregnant???? Wants books banned from library, Alaska has the worst education record in the US. Oh what experience. She will not be fine in vp or pres spot, NOT ENOUGH EXPERIENCE, UNABLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS – INCLUDING WHAT NEWSPAPER SHE READS woe is me. I have no college education, nor political experience, but I do know what newspaper I read. Why can’t she face the press, nor grant more interviews, she can’t answer the questions asked. Why is it that if Gibson or Couric ask her questions, they are being hard on her? They asked the same questions to the other candidates?

Posted by: kmn | October 2, 2008, 10:07 am 10:07 am

Badger – “WHEN IT COMES TO GETTING THINGS DONE, SHE GETS THINGS DONE TO THE TUNE OF 65-80% APPROVAL RATING.” – I’ll agree she has a high approval rating in Alaska, but as a non-Alaskan voter I know nothing about her except she’s like a pit bull with lipstick. Too bad she didn’t take her acceptance speech more seriously.

Posted by: jmengate | October 2, 2008, 10:07 am 10:07 am

Ashley – We arent hiring a great orator, we are hiring somebody to deal with our nations enrgy, and financial crisis. Her record is how she should be judged.

Posted by: Badger | October 2, 2008, 10:08 am 10:08 am

Georgie Stephanopoulos is getting so excited he’s just about peeing himself.
Obama just called him and wanted to know if he wanted to watch the debate with him. Georgie will have at least 2 hours of private Obama-suck-up-time!

Posted by: janicej | October 2, 2008, 10:08 am 10:08 am

Mariann Pepitone: I am aware of the fact that he has dictatorship ways in him because he is half Kenyan.
Spoken like a true bigot.

Posted by: Indy Voter | October 2, 2008, 10:08 am 10:08 am

WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THIS COUNTRY? ABC AND THE REST OF THE LIBERAL MEDIA HAS BEEN TRYING TO DESTROY GOV. PALIN BECAUSE SHE ACTUALLY HAS MORAL VALUES. WHY DON’T YOU SPEND MORE TIME LOOKING INTO YOUR BELOVED OBAMA’S PAST A LITTLE CLOSER. HIS PAST ASSOCIATIONS ARE VERY SHADY.HE ALSO HAS LESS EXPERIANCE THAN PALIN AND HE’S RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT NOT VP.GEORGE I USED TO RESPECT YOU BUT NO MORE. GO WORK FOR MSNBC WITH OBERMAN.
THE COUNTRY BETTER GET READY FOR FOUR YEARS OF THE NEW JIMMY CARTER.

Posted by: Mike | October 2, 2008, 10:09 am 10:09 am

marilyn… where is PETA when you need them? She is an animal killer!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 10:09 am 10:09 am

Palin should suspend her campaign, head no to Alaska, ask a couple of fishermen to cross over to Russian territory and create an international incident from which she can take credit for negotiating a peaceful solution. Then, she can un-suspend her campaign – after November 4th and run for President for 2012! Then, for the first time, the phrase “I CAN SEE RUSSIA FROM HERE” will really carry some weight.

Posted by: Emanuel | October 2, 2008, 10:09 am 10:09 am

This is hilarious … go to http://www.palinbingo.com and print out your Palin Bingo cards for tonight’s debate.

Posted by: emelder | October 2, 2008, 10:09 am 10:09 am

What a shame … all the posts which are not pro-Obama is getting deleted
ABC go shove you self in Obama

Posted by: ABC Coward | October 2, 2008, 10:10 am 10:10 am

bama does not know his father. he was a drunk and murderer of his own kind in africa (muslims) this is a fact.
Posted by: obama’s daddy | Oct 2, 2008 11:27:31 AM
………………………………….Since your name is obama’s daddy, you must be talking about your self!!!!!

Posted by: Gwen | October 2, 2008, 10:10 am 10:10 am

badger… her record sucks! Ask her how we are going to keep Russia from coming over to the US and she says they are in our back yard? tell me why she’s never even been to that Alaskan island. Just because you want to make her intelligent doesn’t mean she is!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 10:10 am 10:10 am

dassis – “She has done this all by herself.” – I couldn’t agree more. She treated her acceptance speech when many of us were getting to know her as a standup routine. Then she went on hiatus form the press. I really wish I knew more about her, but what is she providing?

Posted by: jmengate | October 2, 2008, 10:11 am 10:11 am

AFTER THE DEBATE!!!
Palin = LAUGHINGSTOCK!! Next Saturday Night Live skit!!
McCain = LAUGHINGSTOCK for picking Palin!!!!
Republicans = LAUGHINGSTOCK for being alive!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Get er done Biden!!!!

Posted by: Davis | October 2, 2008, 10:11 am 10:11 am

Ashley, you are a slave now to your doings. Like Gwen, bring out the race card to cover your own flaws and fears. Catch up to a life of true goodness.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 10:11 am 10:11 am

Posted by: Marilyn | October 2, 2008, 10:11 am 10:11 am

Ashley, you are a tool. The KKK was started by the Democrats. The oldest serving Democrat was the head of the KKK (Robert Byrd). Bull Connor, the one that turned the fire hoses and dogs on the civil rights protestors, was a Democrat. But hey, why let facts get in the way.

Posted by: ryukyu | October 2, 2008, 10:12 am 10:12 am

Dear Ms. ASHLEY’S, when’s my brother Barry’s takes over da house, we’ze gonna gets dat Democract KKK Sen BYRD from the W Virgini. Brother Barry say its deese kinds o people we’ze gonna git! NOW WHERE’S MY REPERATIONS CHEK?

Posted by: Barrys Bro in a Hut | October 2, 2008, 10:13 am 10:13 am

Do you think Gwen would be capable of giving Joe the questions prior to the debate?

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 10:13 am 10:13 am

Badger – “Her record is how she should be judged.” – I agree, but I nothing about her. All I know is that she’s like a pit bull with lipstick. Other than that, I couldn’t tell you one thing about her.

Posted by: jmengate | October 2, 2008, 10:14 am 10:14 am

Sarah is going to tear him up! Even this liberal rag of a company will see

Posted by: Biden is a loser | October 2, 2008, 10:15 am 10:15 am

Christie… my ancestors were slaves not me baby! But just to let you know, the repub have been pulling out every card they can during this election (race, sex, public life) and you people love them so much. Johnny boy couldn’t even look Obama in the eyes during the debate which shows me how he has an immense lack of character.. much like you!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 10:15 am 10:15 am

This is to everyone who’s been trashing me, well this is for you.
Well actually let me break it all down for you:
The stuff I have been talking about earlier are issues that both canidates stand for. example:Abortion, Health care, the economy.
Also people trashing sarah palin calling her dumb, or someone looking pretty just to give McCain a boost, that is very wrong and you should be ashamed of your selves because McCain feels he’s made the right choice and maybe he has and I trust his judgement on that but see he’s been watching her before he picked her to be the vice presidental nominee to see if she’s ready to take on this huge responsibility.
And likely people think she’s dumb, at least she’s smarter in than you people trashing her.
Also Davis your telling Joe Biden to tear Sarah Palin in the debate tonight,if you have not forgotten that he’s a huge disadvantage to democats and Barack Obama because he runs his mouth too much and there’s a huge chance that he’s going to say something that just slips out of his mouth and he might screw up.And could ruin Barack this way and I think he made a wrong choice for biden as his running mate because he even said that hillary clinton would do better than him even though obma picked him.
Davis:
The American people just can’t wait to see Palin out “Tina Fey” Tina Fey!!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!
No offense but Sarah Palin said that it was fuuny that Tina Fey did that skit so stop overwhelming yourself over this.

Posted by: Derek | October 2, 2008, 10:15 am 10:15 am

What’s really scary is that Nancy Pelosi is only a few heartbeats from the presidency.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 10:16 am 10:16 am

This isn’t do or die for Palin. When people start losing their jobs, employers can’t pay and credit is not to be found. All these crazy people talking about pork might wake up. We have a democratic house of representatives if they do’t pass this bill it can’t be blamed on the republicans. Then after the tsunami hits peoples pockets and homes they will be begging for help. I ironically can make it but many can’t. I was always taught to be frugal with my money and it passed from family to family. I will have no sympathy for the people that didn’t see the train coming.

Posted by: Steve (Georgia) | October 2, 2008, 10:17 am 10:17 am

barry’s bro… black people don’t even use bro anymore… you’re an idiot read a book! next!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 10:17 am 10:17 am

below are Sen. Obama’s accomplishments-
State pension fund in Chicago is $44 Billion in debt . . . worst in the country. Cook County (Chicago) sales tax 10.25% . . . highest in the country. (Look it up).
The Chicago school system is one of the worst in country.
This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois . . . and he’s gonna ‘fix’ Washington politics? ? ?

Posted by: Mike | October 2, 2008, 10:18 am 10:18 am

Christie – “What’s really scary is that Nancy Pelosi is only a few heartbeats from the presidency.” – Even scarier, Cheney would have to be President first! BOOOOOO!

Posted by: jmengate | October 2, 2008, 10:18 am 10:18 am

Dear ABC:
Can you please do something about comments that are 85 feet long? Also, to anyone out there who wants to post their latest novel in a comment section, please stop it! Get a blog, because you are annoying everyone here. I can assure you that I don’t have time to read those long posts and always skip them. Knock it off!
Thank you.

Posted by: MJ Parlier | October 2, 2008, 10:18 am 10:18 am

If Katie Couric truly wanted an answer to a question that Palin could answer with confidence, why did she ask her about the United States Supreme Court? If she wanted to see Palin really shine, she should have asked her about the Simpson’s or maybe Wile E. Coyote. What Katie did was engage in “gotcha” politics.

Posted by: rhbate | October 2, 2008, 10:18 am 10:18 am

thank you jmengate! they don’t see the people in their party are crooks!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 10:19 am 10:19 am

Sarah’s not dumb, politically gifted in some ways, but man is she ignorant!

Posted by: kseyetie | October 2, 2008, 10:20 am 10:20 am

What a load of one sided rubbish. Stephanopoulos is so imbalanced. Democrats just don’t know what to do with Sarah Palin. If elected, I would just sideline these lopsided networks. Let them dig up Hollywood dirt that no one cares about

Posted by: Steve | October 2, 2008, 10:20 am 10:20 am

What a totally ridiculous thing to say you pro-Obama media. Governor Palin is the best thing to happen to the ticket. If it wasn’t for the Wall Street meltdown, Obama and Biden would still be behind in the polls. However, the polls will change again when the public sees the real Biden and Obama. Remember Biden’s recent interview with Couric (which the pro-Obama media hid from the public) when Biden said FDR was President when the stock marked crashed in 1929 and that FDR was on TV at that time, when there was no TV. A 66 year old man with 36 years in Congress doesn’t even know basic US history, that is pathetic. Moreover, Biden voted for the war and funding the troops, Obama voted not to fund the troops, and when Obama was against the war he was not even in the US Senate to make a tough decision like that. Finally, both Biden and Hillary said the Obama is not ready to be President. Even Governor Palin has more experience than Obama.

Posted by: Doreen | October 2, 2008, 10:21 am 10:21 am

Yes good point Killerbee, as a resident of the great state of Tennessee you have pointed out something I’m always pointing to the Al Gore whiners. If you can’t win your home state then you should shut the heck up.
Now let me point out something to you “she’s not qualified” crowd. There is NO school for President or Vice President; there is no check list for President or Vice President.
Your argument for a “qualified person” would most likely be championed by 2nd term presidents. But notoriously almost all, if not all, 2nd term presidents have done a terrible job in their 2nd term. Read your history people, the fact that second term presidents do worse than their 1st term should show you that there is no such thing as qualified to be President or Vice President. I might add that the current President is a grossly prime example of this.
I might also add that this IS the United States of America; we have no royalty ascension to the President or Vice President. Contrary to the popular media belief, you do not have to be part of the “royal” media, Washington inside crowd, or entertainment crowd. Read your constitution, please, if you satisfy the age and citizenship then yes, you to can become President.
Please, please stop this stupid elitist “qualified for President or Vice President” and focus on the issues. I can buy you won’t vote for someone because you don’t agree with them.

Posted by: bmunzz | October 2, 2008, 10:21 am 10:21 am

>>my ancestors were slaves not me baby!
A republican president helped the people back then not a liberal. Get the facts correct next time.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 10:21 am 10:21 am

then the repub are saying its unfair… crybabies!
You guys been running the nation for a while and you’ve run us into much of nothing. Will the republican party stand up and take credit for the disasters they’ve caused? NO BECAUSE THEY ARE COWARDS AKA BYTCHASSES!
YALL HEARD WHAT DIDDY SAID… NO MORE BYTCHASSNESS! LOL

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 10:22 am 10:22 am

Obama mammas wife = Gorilla
haa haa ha ha ha haaa ha haaa ha haaa ha

Posted by: Tanisha | October 2, 2008, 10:22 am 10:22 am

Homer Simpson “tries” to vote for Obama, Hilarious!!!
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c4_1222886471

Posted by: Davis | October 2, 2008, 10:23 am 10:23 am

I hope Ifill steps down as moderator. It would give the GOP another thing to whine about when Palin loses the debate.

Posted by: Mike Hunt | October 2, 2008, 10:24 am 10:24 am

why hasen’t Biden finished putting in the rest of the plugs on his bald head?

Posted by: Mike | October 2, 2008, 10:24 am 10:24 am

Attention GOP history buffs: FDR was elected November 1932,took office January 1933. The Great Depression was full blown and crippling this nation in 1932,it was caused by GOP appeasing greedy Robber barons and incompetence. FDR helped to end the Great Depression. It always takes a Democrat to bail out this country when Republicans screw up!

Posted by: AJ | October 2, 2008, 10:24 am 10:24 am

YOU JUST KNOW ALL THE REPUBLICANS ARE NERVOUS!!!
All they are doing on all the blogs is wildly hurling insults and racist comments!!
Because they know they and that idiot McKeating-5 only have a FEW HOURS LEFT to campaign!!!!
After the debate:
Palin = LAUGHINGSTOCK!! Next Saturday Night Live skit!!
McCain = LAUGHINGSTOCK for picking Palin!!!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just can’t wait for the debate! It’s like Christmas for Obama, because Palin is the gift that just keeps on GIVING!!!
Get er done Biden!!!!!

Posted by: Davis | October 2, 2008, 10:24 am 10:24 am

Actually and I could have guessed by the response on crazy for the record I am supporting McCain and Palin.

Posted by: Steve (Georgia) | October 2, 2008, 10:25 am 10:25 am

Biden is a winner wrote: “Sarah is going to tear up!
Jeez – no one wants to see that on national TV; how embarrasing.

Posted by: Aaron | October 2, 2008, 10:25 am 10:25 am

The media had made it there mission to crucify Sarah Palin ever since she came on the scene. NONE of them have given Obama or Biden an interview that even comes close to Palin’s interviews. The View did the same thing when they interviewed McCain. Nailed him but talked about how nice of a shirt Obama was wearing. Barabara was acting like a giddy school girl when they had Obama on. And this is not whining this is just reality. Besides, the Republican party has survived before when the media has tried to paint a candidate “dumb”. They called Reagan dumb and Bush dumb and now Palin. We will survive this too.

Posted by: R | October 2, 2008, 10:25 am 10:25 am

SO? CHRISTIE AM I SUPPOSED TO BE THANKFUL THAT FINALLY REPUBLICANS REALIZED IT WAS WRONG TO TREAT SLAVES THAT WAY? YOU WANT A HAND CLAP FOR THE PAIN IT CAUSED? OR MAYBE THE JIM CROW LAWS YOU WANT A HAND CLAP FOR THAT? HOW ABOUT YOU CHECK THE FACTS YOU FOOL. IT DOESN’T EXCUSE THE FACT OF WHAT HAPPENED.

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 10:26 am 10:26 am

Palin is said to be the leading candidate for the remake of FARGO.

Posted by: Doug 's Johnson | October 2, 2008, 10:26 am 10:26 am

Obama mammas wife = Gorilla
haa haa ha ha ha haaa ha haaa ha haaa ha
Posted by: Tanisha | Oct 2, 2008 2:22:13 PM
___________________
Your comments reveal an abject ignorance. Is this truly the best you can come up with? You’re pathetic and I almost feel sorry for you – emphasis on “almost.”

Posted by: rhbate | October 2, 2008, 10:26 am 10:26 am

Well, Well, Well. GOD bless you sister. WAY TO GO Christie.

Posted by: bombem | October 2, 2008, 10:26 am 10:26 am

And God will bless me too. we have a personal relationship you biggots can’t break. Just like Obama has with God. So Keep hating… you will not prosper!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 10:28 am 10:28 am

Ashley…You go girl!!!!!!..I’m sick of these bigots and racists trying to pass themselves off as Re-pug-nant-cans……..Because deep down inside that’s what it’s all about…they would rather go down the sewer hole even futher from where Bush has taken us than vote for a smart, educated person who wants to make life better for all people only because he is black; he even has a white mother and they still don’t want him….That just shows how much hatred is ingrained in their souls…..

Posted by: Sick of Re-pugh-nant cans | October 2, 2008, 10:28 am 10:28 am

Palin herself is not as much a drag on the Republican ticket as are the questions about McCain’s common sense in selecting her. What the heck was he thinking…?

Posted by: George Cortes | October 2, 2008, 10:29 am 10:29 am

coming from a guy who’s name is bomb em! wow!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 10:29 am 10:29 am

tanisha – honestly…you are embarrassing yourself. Stop talking.

Posted by: R | October 2, 2008, 10:29 am 10:29 am

Please John McCain, get rid of that dumb blonde and take Romney, so I can vote for you. I’m sure there are plenty more Republicans like me.

Posted by: mary | October 2, 2008, 10:29 am 10:29 am

From an August interview with Sam Donaldson -
SD: “Governor Palin, have you been watching the polls?”
SP: (blushing furiously) Gee whiz, Sam! – I can’t do that anymore, I’m a married woman!”

Posted by: Aaron | October 2, 2008, 10:29 am 10:29 am

ABC News is a joke – nothing but propaganda. Do you actually believe the bias in this article. This is not comprehensive news coverage.
Maybe ABC should stick to updating us about “Dancing with the Stars” or “American Idol” events or bragging about their ABC Train.

Posted by: Jack Smythe | October 2, 2008, 10:29 am 10:29 am

The media had made it there mission to crucify Sarah Palin ever since she came on the scene. NONE of them have given Obama or Biden an interview that even comes close to Palin’s interviews.
Posted by: R | Oct 2, 2008 2:25:40 PM
==========================================
You’re right all of Palins Interviews have been total softballs compared to the interviews Obama and Biden have gone through!
How about Obama’s interview with Bill O’Reily on FOX Noise – that was an easy cakewalk right fool??
AFTER THE DEBATE!!!
Palin = LAUGHINGSTOCK!! Next Saturday Night Live skit!!
McCain = LAUGHINGSTOCK for picking Palin!!!!
Republicans = LAUGHINGSTOCK for being alive!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Get er done Biden!!!!

Posted by: Davis | October 2, 2008, 10:30 am 10:30 am

Hey Davis, stop watching Saturday night live for current events, try Fox news.

Posted by: Mike | October 2, 2008, 10:31 am 10:31 am

The thing about Sarah Palin is she has not been keeping up on national and international issues very well. I’m amazed that she said she opposes Roe-v-Wade, yet in the next breath affirms over and over that she supports the constitutional right to privacy. Even after Couric pointed out this was the legal basis of the Roe-v-Wade decision. I’m sorry, but that is not someone who is informed well at all.
Is there a difference in economic growth based upon whether a Republican or Democrat is President? See: http://wolfweb.unr.edu/homepage/elliottp/Parker_Party-in-Power_2006.pdf

Posted by: Edward | October 2, 2008, 10:31 am 10:31 am

So, if the independents will decide the election and here we are with the polls saying Obama has won the presidency and the congress will have a majority win for the democrats. So, you have liberals running the government and the left wing media controlling the spin, where does the truth lie or fit in this scenario over the American lands? Think people. Be careful you are not duped by the media’s guy.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 10:31 am 10:31 am

Amazing how far you can get in the Republican party by having a pair of breasts and memorizing Rush and Hannity catch phrases.

Posted by: Doug's Johnson | October 2, 2008, 10:31 am 10:31 am

Jack Smythe,
The way I see it ABC just calls a spade a spade or in Palin terminology and idiot an idiot!!!

Posted by: Davis | October 2, 2008, 10:32 am 10:32 am

“Desparate times means Desparate Measures, since we got nothing to lose, lets go with Palin” – John McCain

Posted by: Doctor Perfect | October 2, 2008, 10:32 am 10:32 am

I find is amusing however though that a debate about the candidate in the last week on these boards on ABC have turned to a racism debate and it’s almost ALWAYS the democrats who bring the race subject up and then it’s the republicans who have to turn around and give the actual facts of the democratic party to those crying racism. Do any of you have any form of education that you can’t bring forth any concrete facts to prove why Obama is the better choice for president because the race card isn’t covering for you anymore.

Posted by: R | October 2, 2008, 10:33 am 10:33 am

Dear Shiny Pennies!
You are dilusional! God help us if Palin becomes Prez…Our country would become a dumb reality show if that happens! We won’t be taken seriously!
Get a clue.

Posted by: JH | October 2, 2008, 10:33 am 10:33 am

Sick of Re-pugh-nant cans—
Thank you! They are blind and can’t see but it won’t stop me from telling it like it is! The fact of the matter is Obama went to TWO USA prominent schools, worked in his community, President of Harvard Law Review w/ no Affirmative Action, One wife, two girls, good family man (unlike the adultered Johnny McShame is) christian (even though you try to tell him he’s not; and it doesn’t matter that his non existant Kenyan father who he only met once after he left was islamic; obama was raised mostly in American, running a good campaign the fact of the matter is
He can’t be your President because of his color. How narrow minded do you sound? <~ the younger generation doesn't think like that and we will prosper more than the baby boomers before us cause we believe in people not color!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 10:33 am 10:33 am

ABC news is so one sided it is ridiculous!! Gov. Palin has at least some experience as a leader whereas Obama has none! His only qualification is he is black and that is what is going to get him elected if anything. There are all these different things that is not brought up on his past but everything, and then some is on Palin. Everyone will see if he gets in there, how much more screwed up things can get.

Posted by: Mike | October 2, 2008, 10:33 am 10:33 am

Christie…better half a brain than no brain at all………….

Posted by: cindyct | October 2, 2008, 10:34 am 10:34 am

It’s not Sarah Palin that’s a drag on the McCain campaign, it’s McCain himself, and the Bush legacy. Palin temporarily boosted his support because she appeals to the base, was unknown and let’s face it, is good looking. Now that the public is beginning to realize that her highly touted record is largely fabricated and that she doesn’t know didlysquat about well, just about anything, the public is also realizing that all they are getting is McCain; a reckless old fool with a bad temper who can’t go through a single interview or event without bringing up his Hanoi Hilton days.

Posted by: Gary Menten | October 2, 2008, 10:34 am 10:34 am

Tonight, me is gonna see Russia from Alaska.

Posted by: what667 | October 2, 2008, 10:34 am 10:34 am

I think Sarah Palin is actually Miss Teen South Carolina.
To wit:
MISS TEEN SOUTH CAROLINA, 2007:
“I personally believe that, U.S. Americans are unable to do so, because some… people out there in our nation that don’t have maps, and I believe that our education, like such, as in South Africa and Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should… our education over here in the U.S., should help the U.S., er, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future.”
SARAH PALIN, 2008:
“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.”

Posted by: abillmann | October 2, 2008, 10:35 am 10:35 am

christie.. the republicans have had control of the presidency and white house for 6 of the past 8 years… look where we are now! open your eyes you blind fool

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 10:35 am 10:35 am

Palin should be on the payroll of SNL. She not only supplies them with all the material for their sketches, she also supplies them with the scripts. All Tina Fey has to do is memorize the words, pile some hair on top of her head, put on a pair of glasses, look stupid and repeat the same stupid words Palin has already supplied.

Posted by: rhbate | October 2, 2008, 10:36 am 10:36 am

We need a leader who can lead. Obama was only handed this ecomony issue. He has not done one solid thing to correct the actual corruption that lead us to this point. He is part of the problem by his ideas of giving people money as wealth distribution hidden within his heavy taxing. His party was warned by Bush/ McCain and others that we were heading for this crisis. Barney Franks is on record as saying there was no crisis at Fannie/ Freddie when he was ask by Bush in 2001, 2004 and 2006 to set in safeguards. If you are setting blame, be sure you don’t forget these facts. Bush has his flaws but he cannot control what goes on in the legislative branch. The Congress dropped the ball. Obama’s party leaders are mostly responsible. Those same leaders and Obama should not be rewarded to be trusted in the nation’s treasury AGAIN. The days that pass, I feel like we are heading towards socialism. Vote no to Obama nation and socialism. God Bless John McCain and our country.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 10:36 am 10:36 am

Every candidate stumbles around when they’re cornered in an area outside their strengths. You should have seen Barack fumble when Pastor Rick Warren was interviewing him about character and morals!

Posted by: Lynn | October 2, 2008, 10:37 am 10:37 am

OBAMA’S MILITANT RACISM REVEALED
In her senior thesis at Princeton , Michele Obama, the wife of Barack Obama
stated that America was a nation founded on ‘crime and hatred’.
Moreover, she stated that whites in America were ‘ineradicably racist’. The
1985 thesis, titled ‘Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community’ was
written under her maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson.
Michelle Obama stated in her thesis that to ‘Whites at Princeton , it often
seems as if, to them, she will always be Black first…’ However, it was reported
by a fellow black classmate, ‘If those ‘Whites at Princeton ‘ really saw Michelle
as one who always would ‘be Black first,’ it seems that she gave them that
impression’.
Most alarming is Michele Obama’s use of the terms ‘separationist’ and
‘integrationist’ when describing the views of black people.
Mrs. Obama clearly identifies herself with a ‘separationist’ view of race.
‘By actually working with the Black lower class or within their communities as
a result of their ideologies, a separationist may better understand the desperation
of their situation and feel more hopeless about a resolution as opposed to an
integrationist who is ignorant to their plight.’
Obama writes that the path she chose by attending Princeton would likely lead to
her ‘further integration and/or assimilation into a white cultural and social structure
that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full
participant.’
Michele Obama clearly has a chip on her shoulder.
Not only does she see separate black and white societies in America , but she elevates black over white in her world.
Here is another passage that is uncomfortable and ominous in meaning:
‘There was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the black
community, I am obligated to this community and will utilize
all of my present and future resources to benefit the black
community first and foremost.’
What is Michelle Obama planning to do with her future resources if she’s first
lady that will elevate black over white in America ?
The following passage appears to be a call to arms for affirmative action
policies that could be the hallmark of an Obama administration.
‘Predominately white universities like Princeton are socially and academically
designed to cater to the needs of the white students comprising the bulk of
their enrollments.’
The conclusion of her thesis is alarming.
Michelle Obama’s poll of black alumni concludes that other black students
at Princeton do not share her obsession with blackness. But rather than
celebrate, she is horrified that black alumni identify with our common
American culture more than they value the color of their skin. ‘I hoped that
these findings would help me conclude that despite the high degree of
identification with whites as a result of the educational and occupational
path that black Princeton alumni follow, the alumni would still maintain a
certain level of identification with the black community. However, these
findings do not support this possibility.’
Is it no wonder that most black alumni ignored her racist questionnaire?
Only 89 students responded out of 400 who were asked for input.
Michelle Obama does not look into a crowd of Obama supporters and see
Americans. She sees black people and white people eternally conflicted
with one another.
The thesis provides a trove of Mrs. Obama’s thoughts and
world view seen through a race-based prism. This is a very
divisive view for a potential first lady that would do untold
damage to race relations in this country in a Barack Obama
administration.
Michelle Obama’s intellectually refined racism should give all
Americans pause for deep concern.
Now maybe she’s changed, but she sure sounds like someone with an axe to
grind with America . Will the press let Michelle get a free pass over her obviously
racist comment about American whites? I am sure that it will.
PS: We paid for her scholarship.

Posted by: Tom Barranger | October 2, 2008, 10:38 am 10:38 am

Palin’s only qualification is she has breasts and can regurgitate a few GOP talking points.

Posted by: Doug's Johnson | October 2, 2008, 10:38 am 10:38 am

Mike…and what experience does Palin have? She has totally ruined the natural resourses on Alaska to drill for oil, she has corrupted the government for personal reasons, and she attends a church blesses you against withech…Ya Ya…that qauligies you for president….

Posted by: formerhillary | October 2, 2008, 10:38 am 10:38 am

George, dear old George, how one sided is your piece? Do you have anything positive to write about the Governor? Remember, it’s the media that is creatin gthe impression that she is a dumbhead. You are not the media, you are Mr. Insider remember? You know when they are putting a spin on her in favor of Barack. Report from both sides of the argument. I don’t think she is qualified but give her credit for trying. If anything blame McCain for putting this poor woman in the middle of the game which is clearly out of her league. Remember the war room? You mastered the media spin against an inexperienced Arkansas Governeor in 1992 and came out victorious. Now you are giving the McCain campaign the taste of the medicine you fough and won over? Mhhh… how times have change!

Posted by: Emanuel | October 2, 2008, 10:39 am 10:39 am

The press has done a tremendous job of slamming Gov Palin with innuendo, gotcha journalism, biased interviews and generally outdoing themselves in an attempt to destroy her. Sadly, they have succeeded. Tonight is her chance to show how intelligent, calm amd cool she can be, even in front of a moderator who is an unapologetic Obama fanatic.

Posted by: Bubbler Dad | October 2, 2008, 10:39 am 10:39 am

Hey ABCnews.com… a drag on the Republican ticket? Where does THAT come from??
Could you be any MORE biased?????

Posted by: SymphonyGirl | October 2, 2008, 10:39 am 10:39 am

PALIN ON STAGE WITH NO TELEPROMPTER FOR 90 MINUTES!!!
Ouch! That one has too hurt Republicans!! I hope Gwen Ifel doesn’t try to help Palin “Clean her questions up” like Katie Couric did either, that was a joke.
Just let the “Pittbull” hang out there to dry!! My guess is about halfway through it she runs from the stage crying in SHAME!!!
That actually is the word for the day and what ALL Republicans should be feeling now – SHAME!!!!
How PATHETIC is it going to be to watch Palin tonight??
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!
Get er done Biden!!!!

Posted by: Davis | October 2, 2008, 10:39 am 10:39 am

Could any of you Obama Libs explain one thing that qualifies Obama for president? What has he done other than be a street thug in Chicago in the corrupt Illinois system of politics. When Bush was running for his first term all of you spoke about a DWI years ago.Of course Obama admitted to doing some type of drugs in his books. His second term Dan Rather said Bush skipped his Tx Guard duty. And how important it was that Kerry was a Veteran. Obama has sided with all of his democrat buddies in wanting to lose this war and he has never served this country other than be an agitator.
One more thing. Why hasn’t Obama had any one come out and talk about how great he is as a human being. What about someone from his days as Chicago activist? Oh,he had to disown all of his friends from that part of his life. George, why not send several people to Chicago in order to get the rest of the story on Obama.

Posted by: Don | October 2, 2008, 10:40 am 10:40 am

and then out of all nerves these conservatives keep talking about how unfairly the media is treating Palin. It’s not the American people’s fault she can’t get out a sentence without making a complete fool of herself. Just because the conservative bias (& not even all of them) is making excuses for her, it doesn’t change the mind of pragmatic people who have a mind of their own.

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 10:40 am 10:40 am

Well, here’s my prediction: no matter what, Palin will stumble during the debate but then she and McCain will spend the upcoming week blaming the moderator and whining that she wasn’t treated fairly during the debate.

Posted by: briwil2 | October 2, 2008, 10:40 am 10:40 am

Edward, it IS the constitution that is exactly why Roe v Wade IS wrong. It has nothing to do with the content and everything to do with the Legisitative Branch will make the laws. Roe v Wade is a clear Judicial Branch making a law. For the right to abortion to be sound, Congress should have made the law. Read your Constitution and the Federalist Papers. Know how the system is SUPPOST to work.

Posted by: bmunzz | October 2, 2008, 10:40 am 10:40 am

Edward, it IS the constitution that is exactly why Roe v Wade IS wrong. It has nothing to do with the content and everything to do with the Legisitative Branch will make the laws. Roe v Wade is a clear Judicial Branch making a law. For the right to abortion to be sound, Congress should have made the law. Read your Constitution and the Federalist Papers. Know how the system is SUPPOST to work.

Posted by: bmunzz | October 2, 2008, 10:40 am 10:40 am

AFTER THE DEBATE!!!
Palin = LAUGHINGSTOCK!! Next Saturday Night Live skit!!
McCain = LAUGHINGSTOCK for picking Palin!!!!
Republicans = LAUGHINGSTOCK for being alive!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Get er done Biden!!!!

Posted by: Davis | October 2, 2008, 10:41 am 10:41 am

Palin should be on the payroll of SNL. She not only supplies them with all the material for their sketches, she also supplies them with the scripts. All Tina Fey has to do is memorize the words, pile some hair on top of her head, put on a pair of glasses, look stupid and repeat the same stupid words Palin has already supplied.

Posted by: rhbate | October 2, 2008, 10:41 am 10:41 am

don can you explain one thing Johnny McShame has done to prove he’s ready to be president? Being a prisoner of war doesn’t count! okay now where are your reasons?

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 10:41 am 10:41 am

The “moderator” of this debate (the one who is currently writing a PRO-OBAMA BOOK) needs to steer the debate in Biden’s favor, so that her candidate will win the election and her book, which is scheduled to be released on Inauguration Day, will be a big $eller.

Posted by: mike | October 2, 2008, 10:41 am 10:41 am

Has anyone else noticed that Republican women are attractive and democrat women look like men?

Posted by: Mike | October 2, 2008, 10:42 am 10:42 am

Sara Palin was forced on John McCain because the Christian right would not allow him to take Joe Lieberman. She is not qualified for the position and the whole world knows it, regardless of the spin Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and the Limbaugh Lemmings try to put on this. McCain did not make this choice which says something about his lack of leadership skills.

Posted by: dan | October 2, 2008, 10:42 am 10:42 am

The left is at it again. Do they really think people are going to vote for OBAMA if they think Palin is not capable???? WTF? I didn’t know that Republican Voters could be so flip flop and be undecisive between 2 OPPOSING political views. SO what if people think she is not ready – who said they will vote for OBAMA! We are not forced to pick on OR the Other. THis does not automatically got to OBAMA. I think OBAMA is not ready for president!!!!!! let alone VP. ABC Suks!

Posted by: DanDan | October 2, 2008, 10:43 am 10:43 am

McCain is toasted!

Posted by: what667 | October 2, 2008, 10:43 am 10:43 am

PALIN IS THE BEST ARGUMENT FOR ABORTION I CAN THINK OF.

Posted by: rhbate | October 2, 2008, 10:43 am 10:43 am

JUST SAY “NO!” TO BAILOUT (SAY “YES!” TO THE COLLAPSE OF WESTERN FINANCIAL CIVILILZATION.) Without the bailout, we’re finanical toast. Stick a fork in the U.S. and Western Europe cuz’ they’re done!

Posted by: Skipper Tom | October 2, 2008, 10:43 am 10:43 am

If Palin had been allowed out of her cage before these few interviews there may have been something else to report, though these interview results make that seem unlikely. If all of the news about her is negative, that doesn’t leave much else to say. She had her honeymoon after the convention. It lasted until her first unrehearsed moment.
At least having ethical questions surrounding a candidate gives you that warm cozy feeling of familiarity we normally associate with the current administration. She even speaks like Bush! Gotta love it.

Posted by: Whatalotofdrivel | October 2, 2008, 10:43 am 10:43 am

Lynn – In order for these people to have watched that interview they would need to be interested in fair and honest reporting to both sides. These liberals are not interested in that.

Posted by: R | October 2, 2008, 10:44 am 10:44 am

christie and lynn you talk about morals.. where were john mccain’s morals when he cut out on his wife? where were cindy mccains morals when she stole medicine from sick people to develop her own habit?? where were sarah palin’s morals as she allowed her 17 year old daughter get pregnant before wedlock? … doesn’t seem like they know much about morals either!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 10:44 am 10:44 am

I don’t think she’s a drag on the ticket but I think your biased headline is a drag on your objectivity. I don’t even know why I bother with ABC, CBS and NBC — you guys are hopeless.

Posted by: Steve | October 2, 2008, 10:44 am 10:44 am

This was predictable, given that ABC, George S (who was on the Democrats payroll most of his adult life), Charlie Gibson (just look at the questions he asked Obama vs what he asked Palin and you’ll see what who the schoolmarm is for) have all been in tank for Obama since he announced. Palin is a breath of fresh air that is desperately needed to clean out the DC (read media) stink.

Posted by: Conny | October 2, 2008, 10:45 am 10:45 am

ashley’s, YOU A RACISTS! You can’t call Barry Bro a racist. Either you gibves me my’s reparations chek or you gonna go on brother Barry’s list.

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 10:46 am 10:46 am

Homer Simpson “tries” to vote for Obama, Hilarious!!!
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c4_1222886471

Posted by: Davis | October 2, 2008, 10:47 am 10:47 am

What’s really scary is that Nancy Pelosi is only a few heartbeats from the presidency.
Well its ok …
She has already given her husband’s company more than $100,000, if she becomes President, she will give him $100,000 x 100,000

Posted by: YawnCPelosi | October 2, 2008, 10:47 am 10:47 am

Republicans are looking for a life-line.. they scared boy!! lol and whats even better is Obama is going to win VA from the backlash of the Fallwell spreading their lies and trash much like the McShame/Pooper ticket does!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 10:47 am 10:47 am

AFTER THE DEBATE!!!
Palin = LAUGHINGSTOCK!! Next Saturday Night Live skit!!
McCain = LAUGHINGSTOCK for picking Palin!!!!
Republicans = LAUGHINGSTOCK for being alive!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Get er done Biden!!!!

Posted by: Davis | October 2, 2008, 10:47 am 10:47 am

Maybe you should make some time and go to the State of Missouri’s, The Governor’s web site, to read his message to the Obama campaign about freezing free speech in that state. The governor says Obama’s strong arm tactics are intimidating the free markets by forcing them to pull down ads which are crucial of Obama’s voting record or face being sued. There are other incidences of this strong arm tactics in Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan. A leader for all. A new change (for free) speech.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 10:47 am 10:47 am

republicans . . . .the thorn in americas side!

Posted by: O/B 08 | October 2, 2008, 10:48 am 10:48 am

i see that abc published the numbers that 60 percent doubt palin’s qualifications. why didn’t they publish the results that 57 percent also doubt barak hussein obamas qualifications.

Posted by: rc | October 2, 2008, 10:48 am 10:48 am

Funny. I feel the same about OBAMA. Not ready – says scary answers. He works better over the phone you know. Calling into the White House instead of going there. Ha!
Hey, if something happened to OBAMA- you never know – imagine Biden as Pres!!!!?????! He did real good when he ran for President earlier this year, right?! I mean – THAT is FriKin Scary!

Posted by: DanDan | October 2, 2008, 10:48 am 10:48 am

Breath of fresh air? Palin smells like salmon!!!

Posted by: Doug's Johnson | October 2, 2008, 10:48 am 10:48 am

I will be so glad when this election is over and we get back to our elected leaders running the country instead of you media guys trying to be wanabees. Why don’t you guys get a real job?

Posted by: Bill Cosby | October 2, 2008, 10:49 am 10:49 am

MIKE WRITES: “Has anyone else noticed that Republican women are attractive and democrat women look like men?”
Yes Mike, it called “DUMB BLONDES” and “EMPTY-HEADED FORMER BEAUTY QUEENS!”
Who wants brainless-PMS infested creatures running the White House?
Give me a break. Michelle might not be pretty but she is a Princeton Graduate. She did not inherit money from Budweiser!

Posted by: Emanuel | October 2, 2008, 10:49 am 10:49 am

Hello neocon morons!
You people are so desparately grasping for straws so that anytime anyone makes any comment about Grampy or Caribou Barbi, they must be an Obama supporter. I am not an Obama supporter, neither am I a McCain supporter.
So saying, Caribou Barbie is so out of her league that it is like a junior high school football team playing against a pro team. She will fail miserably tonight.
The only thing Palin succeeds at is injecting a comical angle into an otherwise dreary election!

Posted by: Victoria | October 2, 2008, 10:49 am 10:49 am

Well, McCain did try to reform Fanny and Freddy before all this happened. Does that qualify Ashely? Where as Obama ran the Annenburg Challenge where he funneled money that was supposed to go to improving education into his and Bill Ayers radical groups and test scores in Chicago actually declined.

Posted by: ryukyu | October 2, 2008, 10:49 am 10:49 am

I love the way the mainstream media has forgotten to mention that tonight’s debate moderator, Gwenn Ifill, is writing a Pro-Obama book. How convenient for Biden. The mainstream media keeps prostituing themselves by not reporting the truth. Gwenn will probably ask Sarah Palin about Nuclear Proliferation, but ask Biden what his favorite color is.

Posted by: Kim Brietske | October 2, 2008, 10:50 am 10:50 am

ashley’s, YOU A RACISTS! You can’t call Barry Bro a racist. Either you gibves me my’s reparations chek or you gonna go on brother Barry’s list.
Posted by: killerbee | Oct 2, 2008 2:46:19 PM
Killerbee you probably don’t have the money for reparations because President Bush will spend it all for this Bailout he caused lol

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 10:50 am 10:50 am

Mike said: “Has anyone else noticed that Republican women are attractive…”
Mike, I’d like to describe your mom’s looks, but I can’t ever get her face out of my lap!

Posted by: Aaron | October 2, 2008, 10:51 am 10:51 am

you white people hate to called racist don’t you? lol this is hilarious!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 10:51 am 10:51 am

maybe one day the conservative republicans will realize that you cant base your party on abortion, gay marriage and tax cuts for the rich. . . . .or maybe not, you see who they pick to represent them. Yet another awesome choice by the right. Nothing will be able to top George W. Bush as the worst president in our countries history.

Posted by: O/B 08 | October 2, 2008, 10:51 am 10:51 am

That RIGHT!!! If something happens to OBAMA – Biden would be Pres. Would Nancy PELOSI be VP!!!!!!! NOW THAT IS SCAREY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Biden and Pelosi!!!!!!
The beginning of the End.

Posted by: DanDan | October 2, 2008, 10:52 am 10:52 am

Ashley – you certainly are full of judgement when talking about morals and religion. A true Christian would know that he/she does not have the qualifications to make judgements like you are making on those three. You should leave that for someone a little higher up then you. We all have to meet our Maker someday and I recall Jesus saying “He that is without sin shall cast the first stone”. You sure are throwing a lot of them around today.

Posted by: R | October 2, 2008, 10:52 am 10:52 am

OBAMA’S MILITANT RACISM REVEALED
In her senior thesis at Princeton , Michele Obama, the wife of Barack Obama
stated that America was a nation founded on ‘crime and hatred’.
Moreover, she stated that whites in America were ‘ineradicably racist’. The
1985 thesis, titled ‘Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community’ was
written under her maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson.
Michelle Obama stated in her thesis that to ‘Whites at Princeton , it often
seems as if, to them, she will always be Black first…’ However, it was reported
by a fellow black classmate, ‘If those ‘Whites at Princeton ‘ really saw Michelle
as one who always would ‘be Black first,’ it seems that she gave them that
impression’.
Most alarming is Michele Obama’s use of the terms ‘separationist’ and
‘integrationist’ when describing the views of black people.
Mrs. Obama clearly identifies herself with a ‘separationist’ view of race.
‘By actually working with the Black lower class or within their communities as
a result of their ideologies, a separationist may better understand the desperation
of their situation and feel more hopeless about a resolution as opposed to an
integrationist who is ignorant to their plight.’
Obama writes that the path she chose by attending Princeton would likely lead to
her ‘further integration and/or assimilation into a white cultural and social structure
that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full
participant.’
Michele Obama clearly has a chip on her shoulder.
Not only does she see separate black and white societies in America , but she elevates black over white in her world.
Here is another passage that is uncomfortable and ominous in meaning:
‘There was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the black
community, I am obligated to this community and will utilize
all of my present and future resources to benefit the black
community first and foremost.’
What is Michelle Obama planning to do with her future resources if she’s first
lady that will elevate black over white in America ?
The following passage appears to be a call to arms for affirmative action
policies that could be the hallmark of an Obama administration.
‘Predominately white universities like Princeton are socially and academically
designed to cater to the needs of the white students comprising the bulk of
their enrollments.’
The conclusion of her thesis is alarming.
Michelle Obama’s poll of black alumni concludes that other black students
at Princeton do not share her obsession with blackness. But rather than
celebrate, she is horrified that black alumni identify with our common
American culture more than they value the color of their skin. ‘I hoped that
these findings would help me conclude that despite the high degree of
identification with whites as a result of the educational and occupational
path that black Princeton alumni follow, the alumni would still maintain a
certain level of identification with the black community. However, these
findings do not support this possibility.’
Is it no wonder that most black alumni ignored her racist questionnaire?
Only 89 students responded out of 400 who were asked for input.
Michelle Obama does not look into a crowd of Obama supporters and see
Americans. She sees black people and white people eternally conflicted
with one another.
The thesis provides a trove of Mrs. Obama’s thoughts and
world view seen through a race-based prism. This is a very
divisive view for a potential first lady that would do untold
damage to race relations in this country in a Barack Obama
administration.
Michelle Obama’s intellectually refined racism should give all
Americans pause for deep concern.
Now maybe she’s changed, but she sure sounds like someone with an axe to
grind with America . Will the press let Michelle get a free pass over her obviously
racist comment about American whites? I am sure that it will.
PS: We paid for her scholarship.
Posted by: Tom Barranger | Oct 2, 2008 12:30:02 PM
This thread is not about Michelle. You write like someone who can comprehend well. Its about Palin, you know the incompetent beauty pagent loser.
If Michelle wrote this, its partly true. Europeans did steal America from native americans, enslaved blacks, and dropped the atom bomb on hiroshama.
The palins also wanted Alaska separated from Union. I guess you didnt see that part, and you also did see the part where her husband didnt start voting until he was 25. How patriotic huh…….. NOT!
See, Michelle isnt running for President. Palin is, I believe her views are 10 times more important to Michelle’s.
Play that race card, just another “you” scared of change. OH, I forgot, Obama is not black, he’s biracial….. raised “you” people like you call us, but he hates america right? Fool, Please.

Posted by: nubiangent08 | October 2, 2008, 10:52 am 10:52 am

ASHLEY, Where are LIBERAL DEMOCRAT TAX CHEAT CHARLIE RANGELS morals as he tried to avoid paying HIS taxes until that evil right wing conspiracy discovered he was a TAX CHEAT? He is the Head of the House Ways and Means Committee. Why is this piece of garbage TAX CHEAT still the head? A real MAN would RESIGN in SHAME immediatley. The most ethical congress ever, eh Mrs Pelosi? THE WORST CONGRESS EVER, FOR SURE!!!

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 10:53 am 10:53 am

Well, McCain did try to reform Fanny and Freddy before all this happened. Does that qualify Ashely? Where as Obama ran the Annenburg Challenge where he funneled money that was supposed to go to improving education into his and Bill Ayers radical groups and test scores in Chicago actually declined.
Posted by: ryukyu | Oct 2, 2008 2:49:52 PM
this is what I mean by lying… next! and plus McShame didn’t get that stuff to pass through did he? through a congress in which republicans held office? … stupidity for you or sarah is not an excuse buddy!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 10:54 am 10:54 am

ASHLEY, did you pay your taxes? LIBERAL TAX CHEAT CHARLIE RANGEL finally made it on down to his H&R BLOCK office and patriotically (per Joe Biden) was forced to pay SOME of the taxes he TRIED TO CHEAT THE COUNTRY OUT OF. Resign Charlie.

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 10:56 am 10:56 am

Ashley – you certainly are full of judgement when talking about morals and religion. A true Christian would know that he/she does not have the qualifications to make judgements like you are making on those three. You should leave that for someone a little higher up then you. We all have to meet our Maker someday and I recall Jesus saying “He that is without sin shall cast the first stone”. You sure are throwing a lot of them around today.
Posted by: R | Oct 2, 2008 2:52:14 PM
I sure have because I live in Conservative capital w/ Jerry Fallwell and his family and I’m sick of it! Conservatives are the biggest hypocrites ever! I call them like I see them R and a lot of people aren’t liking what they are seeing out the conservative party!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 10:56 am 10:56 am

I sure did pay my taxes… to help support an idiot like you! sad ain’t it?

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 10:57 am 10:57 am

Ok, ok, lay off George. He’s just reporting the news as ABCNews (David Westin) sees fit. I have to say though, where is Peter Jennings, Ted Koppel and David Brinkley when you need them?

Posted by: Emanuel | October 2, 2008, 10:58 am 10:58 am

ASHLEY, Please explain LIBERAL DEMOCRAT TAX CHEAT CHARLIE RANGEL’s tremondous morals and ethics. Come on, I can’t hear you.

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 10:58 am 10:58 am

Palin is so unprepared and unqualified to be in the position that she is in, I “almost” feel bad for her. But then i think about what party she belongs to, and think . . . . . . McCain’s choice makes sense. We have had an arrogant, idiot in the white house for 8 yrs. . . .why stop now.

Posted by: O/B 08 | October 2, 2008, 10:58 am 10:58 am

Do you know why the bill passed after adding $150 billions worth of pork to the initial $700 billions?…
Because they have added subventions to the rum producers!
That cheap rum would give them courage to face the voters next time!

Posted by: thinker | October 2, 2008, 10:59 am 10:59 am

Did you see the story of the people going around a mall putting 100′s of obama stickers on cars–and people got so mad they found tons of those same Obama stickers in the trash can. Not going well in that city.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 10:59 am 10:59 am

Blogger1: ABC News is BIAS!
Blogger2: Yep! But I see you all the time here. Why?
Blogger1: Because I like it! Everybody like it.
Blogger2: ???

Posted by: ILikeit | October 2, 2008, 10:59 am 10:59 am

Listen, Don’t blame Palin.
Fact is, Governor Palin tried to build the Bridge to Nowhere, so she could eventually jump off it.
Now that there’s no bridge, the best way to commit suicide is to help John McSame in a suicide pact.
See the logic?
“From our state of Alaska you can see the Ruskies… I mean Huskies.”
LMAO

Posted by: Chuck | October 2, 2008, 10:59 am 10:59 am

AND NO ONE HAS COMMENTED ON MCSHAMES AFFAIR… OR PALINS DAUGHTER.. I know you republicans have selective memory but most people in the USA don’t~

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 10:59 am 10:59 am

Go Sarah. Finally, a real woman is headed for the Whitehouse. She is self-made, bright, energetic, and has great core values. Yahoo.

Posted by: dancehall14 | October 2, 2008, 10:59 am 10:59 am

ASHLEY, you seem so brilliant on all subjects. Please explain why YOU want a LIBERAL DEMOCRACT TAX CHEAT running the TAX COMMITTEE. Explain why this is really a good thing even if it does smell . Oh, right. It’s ok because TAX CHEAT CHARLIE RANGEL is African American. that makes it ok, right Ash?

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 11:01 am 11:01 am

Ashley = Well if you think your party is innocent then you need new glasses. And if you want to throw judgement around that is fine but why just focus on one party…why not take a conscious look at the people heading up your party’s ticket. They are no angels either. All I would like to see if both parties be held to the same standard and they are not. Obama is getting fluff interviews and McCain and Palin are getting slammed with gotcha questions. It’s a joke and if that is the only way your party can win an election you should be embarrassed by that.

Posted by: R | October 2, 2008, 11:01 am 11:01 am

and who would EVER in their sane life get their news from FOX NEWS??? thats a death sentence within itself lol

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:01 am 11:01 am

The man been in office 26 years and married to rich heiress, cheated on his wife, involved in the biggest financial scandal of 80s and he claims he never lies.
What exactly did McCain do in 26 years? Besides earn a paycheck.

Posted by: nubiangent08 | October 2, 2008, 11:01 am 11:01 am

>>AND NO ONE HAS COMMENTED ON MCSHAMES AFFAIR… OR PALINS DAUGHTER.. I know you republicans have selective memory but most people in the USA don’t~
Ignoring Ashley now.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 11:02 am 11:02 am

dancehall14 . . . . . .and completely out of her league. It’s so sad that everyone is scared to “offend” her or “be sexest” and ask her the tough questions because she is a woman. Want her to be treated the same??? . . Stop babying her! But then again, it’s not like shes running for public office or anything, who needs to know anything about her.

Posted by: O/B 08 | October 2, 2008, 11:03 am 11:03 am

ASHLEY, you seem so brilliant on all subjects. Please explain why YOU want a LIBERAL DEMOCRACT TAX CHEAT running the TAX COMMITTEE. Explain why this is really a good thing even if it does smell . Oh, right. It’s ok because TAX CHEAT CHARLIE RANGEL is African American. that makes it ok, right Ash?
Posted by: killerbee | Oct 2, 2008 3:01:19 PM
Or is it better to have a white corrupt person in the white house instead like we have now? is that okay Killer?

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:03 am 11:03 am

Don’t cry ASHLEY! Liberal TAX CHEAT CHARLIE RANGEL’S problem occurred during the liberal caused financial melt down. Nice timing, CHEATER! 70% of African American kids are born out of wedlock. It happens. McCain got divorced 26 years ago? His first wife gets along great with him. Never been divorced Ash?

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 11:04 am 11:04 am

Historyremembered, I don’t think you have your facts straight.
Obama and his crew have recieved
more money then anyone else.
And as for the pork it was the DEMOCRATS so the republicans would agree
with it.
It is called the Dodd amendment!

Posted by: Melissa | October 2, 2008, 11:04 am 11:04 am

Ashley = Well if you think your party is innocent then you need new glasses. And if you want to throw judgement around that is fine but why just focus on one party…why not take a conscious look at the people heading up your party’s ticket. They are no angels either. All I would like to see if both parties be held to the same standard and they are not. Obama is getting fluff interviews and McCain and Palin are getting slammed with gotcha questions. It’s a joke and if that is the only way your party can win an election you should be embarrassed by that.
Posted by: R | Oct 2, 2008 3:01:32 PM
SOUNDS LIKE A CRY BABY TO ME…:*( CRY A RIVER BUILD A BRIDGE AND GET OVER IT… OR MAYBE YOU CAN LOBBY SARAH PALIN FOR A BRIDGE TO NOWHERE AND KEEP THE MONEY~

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:06 am 11:06 am

Christie – ignoring Ashley now…smart move. She is an embarrassment to her own party.

Posted by: R | October 2, 2008, 11:08 am 11:08 am

hmmm, interesting line ashlie since Palin, a woman, brought down 2 powerful white corrupt Republicians, seems your statement would b an endorsement for her.

Posted by: bmunzz | October 2, 2008, 11:08 am 11:08 am

killerbee . . . wow, i never thought i would hear such a ridiculous statement. out of wedlock huh? Thats so wrong, but i forgot that it’s totally acceptable to cheat on your wife like McCain did. Good job with keeping the “arrogant republican frame of mind” going, I almost forgot that you right wing idiots still think that your always better than the next person. It must suck to be you, my friend.

Posted by: O/B 08 | October 2, 2008, 11:08 am 11:08 am

>>AND NO ONE HAS COMMENTED ON MCSHAMES AFFAIR… OR PALINS DAUGHTER.. I know you republicans have selective memory but most people in the USA don’t~
Ignoring Ashley now.
Posted by: Christie | Oct 2, 2008 3:02:54 PM
Christie we already know you’re a biggot.. no need for you to comment. Still won’t change the fact McShame is a cheater! THe party of Morals leader is an cheater!!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:09 am 11:09 am

hmmm, interesting line ashlie since Palin, a woman, brought down 2 powerful white corrupt Republicians, seems your statement would b an endorsement for her.
Posted by: bmunzz | Oct 2, 2008 3:08:19 PM
**Not when she’s corrupt too!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:10 am 11:10 am

Ash, I hadn’t realized Pres Bush was white! I try not to judge people from the color of their skin, UNLIKE YOU. I do know Pres Bush DOES PAY HIS TAXES like every GOOD American does. LIBERAL DEMOCRAT TAX CHEAT CHARLIE RANGEL DOESN’T and he is not A GOOD American. Tax cheats are scum.

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 11:10 am 11:10 am

Most die-hard Palin supporters don’t – and won’t – care how stupid she makes herself look in the few interviews and one debate in which she engages. She was chosen by McCain to energize the Republican Base, which values blind ideology far more than knowledge or critical-thinking abilities. All she needs to do is recite the usual guns-and-god slogans favored by the Far Right and the Evangelicals will continue to adore her no matter what other absurdities she utters. The only “independents” she was ever going to sway anyway were the ones who thought she looked good and didn’t care what she said.

Posted by: Gil Waters | October 2, 2008, 11:10 am 11:10 am

If Obama and McCain vote for this bill with the pork…neither are worth voting for. Eeess, South Chicago was a slum when Obama got there and it’s still a slum. We need a third party and someone worth walking across the street to vote for.

Posted by: rktsci3127 | October 2, 2008, 11:10 am 11:10 am

Poor Sarah. After tonight she will be running home to Alaska for a much deserved moose burger. How humiliating to know she is bringing down the Republican ticket. Her own kind don’t even believe in her. How pathetic is that.

Posted by: Sarah Who? | October 2, 2008, 11:11 am 11:11 am

At least she never said the following:
1. I visited 57 states only a few more to go!
2. I will sit down with terrorist leaders without preexisting conditions.
3. FDR was Pres. in 1929 and went on t.v.
4. calling Sen. Obama, “Senator George Obama.”
5. Tell Virginians she will protect their firearm rights — even, if need be, from her own running-mate:
6. Told a state Legislator to stand up when he was in a wheel chair.
7. said she is against clean-coal technology
8. said “you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”
9. called Obama “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
10. plagiarized speeches
and so on and so on!!!
NOW WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT?????????

Posted by: joyce | October 2, 2008, 11:11 am 11:11 am

I can understand the concern about a lack of experience in the VP role what I can’t understand is why people think a community organizer, full time campaigner and a being a Chicago political machine member is sufficient experience to be President.
Palin is much, much more qualified to be a number two then Obama is to be a number one. Palin in many respects is more prepared to be president than Obama. Hmmmm, maybe that’s way all the Demo attacks, to hide the fact their presidential candidate is inadequate.
I wouldn’t even vote for Obama as a number two. Why would you!

Posted by: Illinois Fan | October 2, 2008, 11:11 am 11:11 am

hmmm, interesting line ashlie since Palin, a woman, brought down 2 powerful white corrupt Republicians, seems your statement would b an endorsement for her.
Posted by: bmunzz | Oct 2, 2008 3:08:19 PM
HOW WOULD YOU KNOW? ARE YOU A FLY ON THE WALL? YOU SOUND FOOLISH.. STAY IN YOUR LANE DUDE!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:11 am 11:11 am

Every candidate stumbles around when they’re cornered in an area outside their strengths. You should have seen Barack fumble when Pastor Rick Warren was interviewing him about character and morals!
Posted by: Lynn | Oct 2, 2008 2:37:54 PM
…………………………………
Lynn, I know you don’t even want to go there about John McCain having morals and character!!!! As I posted earlier on this bog, John McSame is an adulterer who left his first wife who was disfigured after a car accident and married this drug addict whose family made millons off of alcohol which has ruin so many people and families lives….Then to add insult to injury Ms. Cindy struts in the RNC in a $300,00.00 outfit with John in his $500.00 shoes when people are losing their homes, can’t feed their families,unable to find jobs, etc…. Not to mention his 9 houses and 13 cars….Is this want you Re-pug-nant-cans call a christian candidate?..If so God forbid!!!!I am a christian and the bible tells me that its easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God!!!I wonder how many hot meals can be bought for the homeless or how many coats and gloves and shoes for kids who won’t have them now that the weather is starting to turn cold…..Obama has 1 home and 1 wife….Now who do you think I’m voting for?…Someone who can relate to me and my situations….

Posted by: Sick of Re-pug-nant cans | October 2, 2008, 11:11 am 11:11 am

John McCain’s campaign is dying. Neocon Republicans, you are finished. Your day is over. Try again maybe in ten years or so.

Posted by: euro.guy | October 2, 2008, 11:12 am 11:12 am

hmmm ashley,???? then who is not corrupt????
and what evidence would you give for that statement?????

Posted by: bmunzz | October 2, 2008, 11:12 am 11:12 am

DanDan – It took Sara Palin five years and six collages to finally graduate with a 4 year journalism degree from University of Idaho. Barack Obama received his undergraduate degree in political science from Columbia University, an Ivy League member and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Harvard Law School, where he also served as the first African American President of the Harvard Law Review.
It would have to be a moron to even attempt to say Sara Palin is more qualified to be President than Barack Obama. If you had a choice to hire a person for a position that requires a person so take the oath of office, “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”, would you hire “Joe six-pack” as Sara Palin likes to refer to herself as or a person that taught constitutional law?

Posted by: Annette | October 2, 2008, 11:13 am 11:13 am

Palin who has been coached, briefed, and rehearsed will probably do alright if the questions don’t stray from the expected. However, even if she doesn’t screw up tonight, it proves nothing about her. Surely she can memorize answers to a some expected questions! If she even can’t do that, then I suggest she bow out of politics forever. She was a terrible choice whatever her performance tonight.

Posted by: Two-cats | October 2, 2008, 11:14 am 11:14 am

At least she never said the following:
1. I visited 57 states only a few more to go!
2. I will sit down with terrorist leaders without preexisting conditions.
3. FDR was Pres. in 1929 and went on t.v.
4. calling Sen. Obama, “Senator George Obama.”
5. Tell Virginians she will protect their firearm rights — even, if need be, from her own running-mate:
6. Told a state Legislator to stand up when he was in a wheel chair.
7. said she is against clean-coal technology
8. said “you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”
9. called Obama “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
10. plagiarized speeches
and so on and so on!!!
NOW WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT?????????
Posted by: joyce | Oct 2, 2008 3:11:19 PM
**BIDEN ALSO DIDN’T NEED FOR OBAMA TO GO ON TV AND TAKE UP FOR HIM BECAUSE HE HAS A LACK OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT… O ANYTHING! SARAH’S DUMB AND YOU PEOPLE CAN’T FACE THE FACTS MCSHAME’S JUDGEMENT SUCKS! LOL EVERYONE EVEN SNL IS LAUGHING AT THE PARTY AND I AM TOO!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:14 am 11:14 am

Pointless. In 120 days the US currency goes insolvent. When banks are not working and food isn’t being delivered then there will be nothing that Obama can do.
Winter of 2009 will not have global warming. It will be cold and hunger will stalk the land.

Posted by: Von Doom | October 2, 2008, 11:14 am 11:14 am

I agree with Sandra. I think she’ll do fine. Not voting for her and Johnny but she’ll do fine. If by chance she bombs, stick a fork in them.

Posted by: TSnow27604 | October 2, 2008, 11:14 am 11:14 am

nice job joyce . .. way to keep the republican theme of not thinking for yourself alive!!

Posted by: O/B 08 | October 2, 2008, 11:14 am 11:14 am

>>>What exactly did McCain do in 26 years? Besides earn a paycheck.
Here’s some things I like that he voted for. Resources Washington Post 2008.
McCain Extended the Bush tax cuts.
Reauthorized a slightly modified version of the 2001 USA Patriot Act.
Confirmation of Samuel A. Alito, Jr. to be an Associate Supreme Court Justice.
Cut nearly $40 billion from the federal budget by imposing substantial changes on welfare, child support and student lending programs.
Supported a ban on cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees held by U.S. forces and to requires the military to follow the Army field manual for interrogations.
Confirmation of John G. Roberts, Jr., to be Chief Justice of the United States.
This vote would have given Senate approval to a proposed constitutional amendment that would give Congress the authority to ban ‘desecration of the American flag.’
Offered tax breaks and incentives in what supporters said was an effort to spur oil and gas companies to provide innovative wasy to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil, conserve resources and reduce pollution.
Established a free trade zone between the United States, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua; a separate agreement with the Dominican Republican was also included in the measure.
Sought to curtail the ability of plaintiffs to file class-action lawsuits against corporations by making cases that were filed in multiple states the responsibility of federal courts.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 11:14 am 11:14 am

Ashley – you are the only one who seems to be on the defensive here. Funny.

Posted by: R | October 2, 2008, 11:16 am 11:16 am

hmmm ashley,???? then who is not corrupt????
and what evidence would you give for that statement?????
Posted by: bmunzz | Oct 2, 2008 3:12:34 PM
**PRESIDENT BUSH AND THE EVIDENCE IS EVIDENT… THE WAR, THE ECONOMY, ETC…WALL STREET BAILOUT? DEREGULATION MCSHAME FOUGHT SO MUCH FOR? 700 BILLION DOLLARS… CORRUPTION

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:16 am 11:16 am

uhhh, excuse me ashley, do you read the news???? please read After resigning, Palin filed a formal complaint against Oil and Gas Conservation Commissioner Randy Ruedrich, also the chair of the state Republican Party,[62] accusing him of doing work for the party on public time and of working closely with a company he was supposed to be regulating. She also filed a complaint against Gregg Renkes, a former Alaska Attorney General,[63] accusing him of having a financial conflict of interest in negotiating a coal exporting trade agreement,[64] while Renkes was the subject of investigation and after records suggesting a possible conflict of interest had been released to the public.[65] Ruedrich and Renkes both resigned and Ruedrich paid a record $12,000 fine.[58][66]
btw if u cant read the news u can get the above from wikipedia.
Talk about staying in ur lane, read know then speak plz.

Posted by: bmunzz | October 2, 2008, 11:17 am 11:17 am

uhhh, excuse me ashley, do you read the news???? please read After resigning, Palin filed a formal complaint against Oil and Gas Conservation Commissioner Randy Ruedrich, also the chair of the state Republican Party,[62] accusing him of doing work for the party on public time and of working closely with a company he was supposed to be regulating. She also filed a complaint against Gregg Renkes, a former Alaska Attorney General,[63] accusing him of having a financial conflict of interest in negotiating a coal exporting trade agreement,[64] while Renkes was the subject of investigation and after records suggesting a possible conflict of interest had been released to the public.[65] Ruedrich and Renkes both resigned and Ruedrich paid a record $12,000 fine.[58][66]
btw if u cant read the news u can get the above from wikipedia.
Talk about staying in ur lane, read know then speak plz.

Posted by: bmunzz | October 2, 2008, 11:17 am 11:17 am

Tell this midget Staphocacilaus to shut his pie hole. She is great and hot at the same time.

Posted by: gomac | October 2, 2008, 11:18 am 11:18 am

DOesn’t anyone remember why Obama couldn’t get to Washington (other then maybe Michelle had the car that day) but he was a bit busy being briefed and coached and primped too for the debate. Where was McCain…doing his job.

Posted by: R | October 2, 2008, 11:18 am 11:18 am

stop picking on palin . . . .she’s a woman!!! LOL

Posted by: O/B 08 | October 2, 2008, 11:19 am 11:19 am

Ashley – you are the only one who seems to be on the defensive here. Funny.
Posted by: R | Oct 2, 2008 3:16:00 PM
Im not defensive.. I’m having a great time! lol I don’t care about what you people think… this is passing time. My views are just as important as yours and I will express them. I don’t take what you people say to heart; because most of you in my mind are idiots! so it doesn’t matter if you think I’m defensive cause im sitting here with a smile on my face and 4 other people beside me laughing at you fools! lol

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:19 am 11:19 am

Ashley – you are the only one who seems to be on the defensive here. Funny.
Posted by: R | Oct 2, 2008 3:16:00 PM
Im not defensive.. I’m having a great time! lol I don’t care about what you people think… this is passing time. My views are just as important as yours and I will express them. I don’t take what you people say to heart; because most of you in my mind are idiots! so it doesn’t matter if you think I’m defensive cause im sitting here with a smile on my face and 4 other people beside me laughing at you fools! lol

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:19 am 11:19 am

I am amazed at the people who post that McCain cheated on his wife, These are same ones who voted for CLINTON.

Posted by: quilhot | October 2, 2008, 11:20 am 11:20 am

Intelligent voter, you are a moron. Your party has choosen someone with no experience.

Posted by: gomac | October 2, 2008, 11:20 am 11:20 am

DOesn’t anyone remember why Obama couldn’t get to Washington (other then maybe Michelle had the car that day) but he was a bit busy being briefed and coached and primped too for the debate. Where was McCain…doing his job.
Posted by: R | Oct 2, 2008 3:18:35 PM
see this is an example of a hater! most people have blasted the old man for going back to washington and getting congress to accomplish much of nothing thanks to the house republicans… Hey R {Hi Hater;)}

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:21 am 11:21 am

Palin is unqualified, however she will be juicedup and prepped so well that hse is going to come off as competent, but bottom line is. Real issues in the White House is not going to prep you and make you ready. You have to have a snese of curiosity for this stuff. Even if she does well, the damage is already done. The world knows that they prep her for the debate, but she will still be looked at as incompetent. My views and my views only do not kill me for them.

Posted by: Patriotic American | October 2, 2008, 11:21 am 11:21 am

I think Palin better borrow McCain’s diapers for tonight’s debate!

Posted by: Cindy | October 2, 2008, 11:22 am 11:22 am

and would vote for Bill Clinton again if it were possible!

Posted by: O/B 08 | October 2, 2008, 11:23 am 11:23 am

I think little georgie needs to stand up when he says that. They’re always after his lucky charms!
How can you take the self-serving syncophant seriously!
He sure garnered a lot of attention by regurgitating the party drivel!

Posted by: Ed Clark | October 2, 2008, 11:24 am 11:24 am

One of my issues is moderator and liberal media bias, purposely, making Sarah Palin look bad and making lack of Foreign Policy a Major Issue and flaw in her Background.
Govenors Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush had LESS Foreign Policy Experience than Sarah Palin has, with her Heading National Guard and their first responce to Alaska’s neighbor, Russia.
And certainly, she has more Government Management and Foreign Policy experience than Obama has. Why does Media refuse to point this flaw out about Obama. Because Liberal Media is against her! And Moderator supoorts Obama and is writing a book about him.
Typical, Media hand picked Obama supporter who makes lots of money on her book, if he is elected, so she will do her best to make Sarah Palin look bad, like rest of Liberal Media.
Ethics Party
steve leach

Posted by: steve leach | October 2, 2008, 11:24 am 11:24 am

quilhot – Isn’t that just the funniest thing you have ever heard? I mean really…they defending Clinton and that should ahve been PRIVATE…and don’t hear them saying anything about Edwards having a child with a woman while his wife is battling cancer. hmmmmm, again…it must be different right???

Posted by: R | October 2, 2008, 11:25 am 11:25 am

uhhh, excuse me ashley, do you read the news???? please read After resigning, Palin filed a formal complaint against Oil and Gas Conservation Commissioner Randy Ruedrich, also the chair of the state Republican Party,[62] accusing him of doing work for the party on public time and of working closely with a company he was supposed to be regulating. She also filed a complaint against Gregg Renkes, a former Alaska Attorney General,[63] accusing him of having a financial conflict of interest in negotiating a coal exporting trade agreement,[64] while Renkes was the subject of investigation and after records suggesting a possible conflict of interest had been released to the public.[65] Ruedrich and Renkes both resigned and Ruedrich paid a record $12,000 fine.[58][66]
btw if u cant read the news u can get the above from wikipedia.
Talk about staying in ur lane, read know then speak plz.
*bridge to no where sounds pretty corrupt to me.

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:25 am 11:25 am

everyone’s that attacking me in here don’t answer when I call McShame an adulterer or Sarah’s lack of judgement with sex education or cindy being the real drug addict.. no “conservative” wants to talk about that!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:27 am 11:27 am

Ashley – so is that five people who are not working and soaking from the rest of us or just using company time for personal enjoyment?

Posted by: R | October 2, 2008, 11:27 am 11:27 am

Ashley – so is that five people who are not working and soaking from the rest of us or just using company time for personal enjoyment?

Posted by: R | October 2, 2008, 11:27 am 11:27 am

edwards isnt running for president. if he was, then it should absolutely be brought up. good try though, try and grab on to anything you can “R”. I see it being very hard for you to defend your party with McCain the Cheater, Palin the Idiot, and bush the arrogant moron. But, I it was a valid try.

Posted by: O/B 08 | October 2, 2008, 11:28 am 11:28 am

Christie – ignoring Ashley now…smart move. She is an embarrassment to her own party.
Posted by: R | Oct 2, 2008 3:08:16 PM
yes! the biggots don’t know I’m here! yay! I’m so excited these losers are ignoring me lol. yall sound like you’re in the like the “second grade” Isn’t that was sarah said and her running mate is 72?

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:29 am 11:29 am

AP Oct 2 03:14 PM US/Eastern
By The Associated Press
THE POLL: Mason-Dixon Polling and Research Inc., survey of 625 registered voters in Virginia. (13 electoral votes.)
THE NUMBERS: John McCain 48 percent, Barack Obama 45 percent.
I thought Va was lost for McCain.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 11:29 am 11:29 am

What is ACORN?
–ACORN is the nation’s largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, with over 350,000 member families, organized into 800 neighborhood chapters, in 104 cities nationwide
–The organization was born out of the American Civil Rights Movement.
–ACORN is a leader in the national living wage movement and has helped pass local living wage laws in fifteen cities including Chicago, Oakland, Denver, and New York City.
– ACORN’s Home Cleanout Demonstration Program has gutted and rebuilt over 1,450 homes ruined by Katrina with the help of volunteers…ACORN Housing Services have helped more than 2,000 homeowners affected by the storm and is an official planner working with the city on reconstruction
– Chicago, ACORN has advocated for a certified teacher to be in every classroom. In California ACORN has documented the need for textbooks and school repairs. ACORN works with teachers unions to get money for school construction and more funding for schools.
The last I check ACORN does more domestically than the GOP leadership and Bush Administration done in 7.5 years.

Posted by: nubiangent08 | October 2, 2008, 11:29 am 11:29 am

Ashley – so is that five people who are not working and soaking from the rest of us or just using company time for personal enjoyment?
Posted by: R | Oct 2, 2008 3:27:40 PM
who says I’m at work you fool? some people with good jobs don’t have 5 day work weeks you idiot!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:30 am 11:30 am

Your party holds all those kinds of people as well. None of you wanted to talk about Lewinsky taking a cigar from Clinton in the Oval Office either. So your arguments now hold no water. Its the pot calling the kettle black. (And not hat has nothing to do with race)

Posted by: R | October 2, 2008, 11:31 am 11:31 am

Hey EURO-TRASH GUY, just wondering about your great, brave country of Switzerland. How many politicians has your country elected who are PEOPLE OF COLOR? I mean elected to anything. Dog catcher? I’m going to bet the great SWISS people NEVWER have. A country of RACISTS.

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 11:31 am 11:31 am

Ps. I JUST noticed that the IMPORTANT parts of my last post were deleted! The two MISSING sets of words, that need to be typed into y o u t u b e ‘ s search bar, are as follows: three way debate & 2008 wall street bailout (w/THIS search, you must click on the SECOND video listed)

Posted by: Keith | October 2, 2008, 11:31 am 11:31 am

quilhot – Isn’t that just the funniest thing you have ever heard? I mean really…they defending Clinton and that should ahve been PRIVATE…and don’t hear them saying anything about Edwards having a child with a woman while his wife is battling cancer. hmmmmm, again…it must be different right???
Posted by: R | Oct 2, 2008 3:25:18 PM
**WHY CAN’T WE ASK HOW SARAH’S DAUGHTER GOT PREGNANT AT 17??**

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:32 am 11:32 am

Hey EURO-TRASH GUY, just wondering about your great, brave country of Switzerland. How many politicians has your country elected who are PEOPLE OF COLOR? I mean elected to anything. Dog catcher? I’m going to bet the great SWISS people NEVWER have. A country of RACISTS.
Posted by: killerbee | Oct 2, 2008 3:31:13 PM
DON’T WORRY EURO TRASH GUY… KILLERBEE IS THE BIGGEST PIECE OF AMERICAN TRASH WE HAVE! LOL

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:34 am 11:34 am

Sarah Palin is qualified to Coach her own special olympic team (as she gives birth to them one by one), not much else. Her “college” education is one step from a diploma from an online “university”. Maybe there is a Hooter’s in Alaska that should could work at. JNohn McCain screwed the pooch on that choice.

Posted by: Mookie | October 2, 2008, 11:35 am 11:35 am

“Bailin’ on Palin”

Posted by: TSnow27604 | October 2, 2008, 11:35 am 11:35 am

obama is completely worthless. He is an empty suit but all you kool drinkers want us to blindly support him. george s is another big mouth left wing fool that convinces mindless people how to vote. obama had gay sex in the back of limo but I guess that was okay.

Posted by: wb | October 2, 2008, 11:35 am 11:35 am

I thought Florida was going Obama. Look at those numbers as well. Don’t trust the media and don’t let them try to depress the vote. Palin is not on the top ticket. She will do great against Joe Biden. The liberal dedicated in keeping his job vs. the young reformer who took action and put programs in for the people.

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 11:35 am 11:35 am

I am amazed at the people who post that McCain cheated on his wife, These are same ones who voted for CLINTON.
Posted by: quilhot | Oct 2, 2008 3:20:10 PM
**YOU’RE A LIAR! I WASN’T OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE THEN!!**

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:35 am 11:35 am

Niethr one is going to pull in any votes for their ticket, but either one or both could push votes away.
Brilliance and eloquence will not help either one at this point.
If either makes major gaffs, it could make a difference.

Posted by: GreggW | October 2, 2008, 11:36 am 11:36 am

For all you whiners complaining about Obama in this thread, I’m really shocked. Shocked, shocked, shocked! I’m sure for you guys “To think that no one would check out the black guy?” I don’t think so. Not walking the streets not browsing a store. Oh, by the way, he’s black!? Obama has been vetted for nearly two years now. Mrs Palin for hardly two months. Oh, its soooo unfair! Not!!! 300,000,000 people in this country and the most unique job in the whole country is up to be filled. And you guys are too scared to let this candidate be thoroughly vetted in 10 % of the time of all the other participants? DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW PATHETIC YOU LOOK?

Posted by: cupidsrevenge | October 2, 2008, 11:36 am 11:36 am

Palin will do a good job at the debate tonight. She is very smart and is probably working the media to her favor. With that being said I am voting for Obama because I don’t agree with the extreme Right.

Posted by: Blair | October 2, 2008, 11:37 am 11:37 am

ASH, ASH. Why do you belittle Sarah and her daughter who is with child? As an African American woman (if you really are) you certainly know about the epidemic of babies born out of wedlock in your community. I’m guessing YOU really do know alot about it. (Statistics are on my side.)

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 11:38 am 11:38 am

Once again Ashley, ur wrong…she was against the bridge to nowhere when she was governor. And u are still ignoring the 2 examples of her going against 2 powerful Republican members. Don’t have to be a fly on the wall…read the news, do some research, then post

Posted by: bmunzz | October 2, 2008, 11:38 am 11:38 am

And thus ROME Burned. Hail yellow journalism, Hail the intellectual elite than can do no real work and are but parasites on the butt of the middle class, and Hail the ignorant masses without who’s ignorance the chains of socialism couldn’t have been shackled to the working class. Having seen the flames spread through out ROME I will depart to safer lands, and watch from afar the BURNING of ROME !!!!!!

Posted by: jon | October 2, 2008, 11:38 am 11:38 am

Mariann Pepitone is a racist

Posted by: Bethie | October 2, 2008, 11:38 am 11:38 am

“this is what I mean by lying… next!”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Annenberg_Challenge
Who is lying again? Good thing you aren’t the one debating. It wouldn’t matter though because you would just scream “racism” when you lost.

Posted by: ryukyu | October 2, 2008, 11:38 am 11:38 am

Blindness and Hatred are two desease worst than cancer. Riley, Brokaw, Malkin, Caputo, Morning Joe and the many more. I am an Independent/ Republican who do not appreciate your attitude. Where is your common sense. It’s puzzling how so called news reporters, especially the “Fox News,” cast behave like mad men and women. The eyes, the mirror of their souls reveals the hellish fire within as soon as they begin to speak. I am ashamed, so very ashamed of you all. I am going to vote for Mr. Obama, thanks to you all.

Posted by: Susan W | October 2, 2008, 11:40 am 11:40 am

AP Oct 2 03:14 PM US/Eastern
By The Associated Press
THE POLL: Mason-Dixon Polling and Research Inc., survey of 625 registered voters in Virginia. (13 electoral votes.)
THE NUMBERS: John McCain 48 percent, Barack Obama 45 percent.
I thought Va was lost for McCain.
Posted by: Christie | Oct 2, 2008 3:29:38 PM
*CHRISTIE I HAVE TO PROVE YOU WRONG AGAIN YOU MORON… THOSE ARE REGISTERED VOTERS NOT THE VOTERS WHO AREN’T… PLUS I LIVE IN VA AND IF YOU NOTICED WE HAVE A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR… WE DON’T LIKE LIARS & CHEATERS AROUND THESE PARTS… WHEN YOU’RE CRYING NOV 5 CALL ME GIRL! I’D LOVE TO TELL YOU I TOLD YOU SO FOOL~

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:41 am 11:41 am

I ‘m so supporting Palin and McCain considering the alternative. She is as qualified as any American.It’s about time to have someone from the rank and file . Look where we’ve gotten with the overconfident over qualified politicians who say the same thing year after year, occupy congress and still create this present mess.Wake up ‘media’, report and ask the questions you should have asked during the primaries. Don’t be afraid to point out the statements and ideas that were Obamas’. The truth will set us free

Posted by: Ken Smith | October 2, 2008, 11:41 am 11:41 am

Mr. George S.
I think you are personally biased on this issue. I think that she is fresh. She is an “OUTSIDER” and this upsets many right now. Nobody likes and “OUTSIDER” and I get the indications you might be one of them.
She has grounded fundamentals. Period. That she knows not the “Job Specifics” of being a VP is not a bother. She will pick it up.
I see a lot of bias in here. But; y’all go ahead and vote up your Obama. Me=Nobama. Nope. No way, no how. Too liberal. Too spendthrift. Just another Clinton in disguise.

Posted by: J Kline | October 2, 2008, 11:41 am 11:41 am

Who is lying again? Good thing you aren’t the one debating. It wouldn’t matter though because you would just scream “racism” when you lost.
Posted by: ryukyu | Oct 2, 2008 3:38:51 PM
CONSERVATIVES WILL BE USING THE RACE CARD ONCE THEY LOSE LOL

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:43 am 11:43 am

let me say again:
Now let me point out something to you “she’s not qualified” crowd. There is NO school for President or Vice President; there is no check list for President or Vice President.
Your argument for a “qualified person” would most likely be championed by 2nd term presidents. But notoriously almost all, if not all, 2nd term presidents have done a terrible job in their 2nd term. Read your history people, the fact that second term presidents do worse than their 1st term should show you that there is no such thing as qualified to be President or Vice President. I might add that the current President is a grossly prime example of this.
I might also add that this IS the United States of America; we have no royalty ascension to the President or Vice President. Contrary to the popular media belief, you do not have to be part of the “royal” media, Washington inside crowd, or entertainment crowd. Read your constitution, please, if you satisfy the age and citizenship then yes, you to can become President.
Please, please stop this stupid elitist “qualified for President or Vice President” and focus on the issues. I can buy you won’t vote for someone because you don’t agree with them.

Posted by: bmunzz | October 2, 2008, 11:43 am 11:43 am

Once again Ashley, ur wrong…she was against the bridge to nowhere when she was governor. And u are still ignoring the 2 examples of her going against 2 powerful Republican members. Don’t have to be a fly on the wall…read the news, do some research, then post
Posted by: bmunzz | Oct 2, 2008 3:38:17 PM
does it matter when or when she wasn’t for the bridge to nowhere? she changed her mind and she sucks for it and she still took the money… thats called corruption in my book

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:44 am 11:44 am

ASHLEY, glad to hear you don’t like LIARS AND CHEATERS. But I haven’t heard you say anything bad about LIBERAL DEMOCRACT TAX CHEAT CHARLIE RANGEL and his attempt to CHEAT the American taxpayers. I bet Charlie even hangs out in Virginia when he’s not hiding money at his crib in the Dominican.

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 11:45 am 11:45 am

Sarah Palin is a nice lady, but come on… her knowledge is embarrassing! Do you really want someone who is so little versed to be #2, potentially #1, of this country? If she doesn’t stay focused with her answers tonight, McCain should remove her from his ticket and apologize to the American people for having to endure her B.S.

Posted by: Kim | October 2, 2008, 11:45 am 11:45 am

Gwen Ifils asks Sarah Palin – Tell us, Governor, do you have the experience to be the Vice President? The correct answer – Tell us, Gwen, does Barack Obama has the experience to be the President?

Posted by: Templar | October 2, 2008, 11:45 am 11:45 am

Alas I fear the burning of ROME. For the smoke shall render sightless those that seek truth, and the ash shall choke the voice of freedom. No longer shall the mighty EAGLE soar in this smoke filled land.

Posted by: jon | October 2, 2008, 11:46 am 11:46 am

Ash, Corruption? LIBERAL DEMOCRAT TAX CHEAT CHARLIE RANGEL is very corrupt, right Ash?

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 11:46 am 11:46 am

conservatives are already using the “liberal media card” nothing but a bunch of crybabies!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:46 am 11:46 am

Man, there are a lot of Kool aid drinkers here. Palin could cluck like a chicken on stage in the nude and some of you people would still think she was qualified. It isn’t her lack of experience that scares me – it’s her lack of even understanding the questions that are asked her. She is a heart attack away from being president people. The Straight Gaffe Express would drive us to oblivion.

Posted by: Crow | October 2, 2008, 11:47 am 11:47 am

CHRISTIE I HAVE TO PROVE YOU WRONG >>>AGAIN YOU MORON… THOSE ARE REGISTERED VOTERS NOT THE VOTERS WHO AREN’T… PLUS I LIVE IN VA AND IF YOU NOTICED WE HAVE A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR… WE DON’T LIKE LIARS & CHEATERS AROUND THESE PARTS… WHEN YOU’RE CRYING NOV 5 CALL ME GIRL! I’D LOVE TO TELL YOU I TOLD YOU SO FOOL~
I have a home in VA too. Knock it off. Timmy Paine. Why do the mods allow your rantings and insults?

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 11:47 am 11:47 am

Ash, Corruption? LIBERAL DEMOCRAT TAX CHEAT CHARLIE RANGEL is very corrupt, right Ash?
Posted by: killerbee | Oct 2, 2008 3:46:45 PM
**sure but he’s not running for President like John McCain or Vice President like Sarah Palin or President like George Bush.. there is a difference… but you still haven’t said a thing about John’s affairs, cindy’s addiction, Sarah childs child… etc

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:48 am 11:48 am

kim, it’s all about knowledge, right? How many states? 57? Who was Pres in 1929? When did T.V. get invented? Can crippled people stand up and wave? Does Barry practice his Muslim faith or Christian faith?

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 11:49 am 11:49 am

bmunzz – ok – Lets put it another way, SHE IS NOT SMART ENOUGH!

Posted by: Annette | October 2, 2008, 11:49 am 11:49 am

Posted by: Christie | October 2, 2008, 11:49 am 11:49 am

The quote “tell a lie often enough and it will become true” was a dictum from Josef Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister, not from Hitler himself.
Let’s be sure we are not quoting from Joe Biden’s history books.
In truth, the lie is Obama in whom you will find that the ACORN did not fall far from the tree.
Wake up, America.

Posted by: Joe | October 2, 2008, 11:49 am 11:49 am

CHRISTIE I HAVE TO PROVE YOU WRONG >>>AGAIN YOU MORON… THOSE ARE REGISTERED VOTERS NOT THE VOTERS WHO AREN’T… PLUS I LIVE IN VA AND IF YOU NOTICED WE HAVE A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR… WE DON’T LIKE LIARS & CHEATERS AROUND THESE PARTS… WHEN YOU’RE CRYING NOV 5 CALL ME GIRL! I’D LOVE TO TELL YOU I TOLD YOU SO FOOL~
I have a home in VA too. Knock it off. Timmy Paine. Why do the mods allow your rantings and insults?
Posted by: Christie | Oct 2, 2008 3:47:49 PM
and why christie are most conservatives hypocrites? hiding behind the word of God and actually betraying it?

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:50 am 11:50 am

Hence I depart…….to foreign lands.

Posted by: jon | October 2, 2008, 11:50 am 11:50 am

Ash, aren’t those all personal items you seem so nosey about? We have been scolded for a generation that politicians personal lives were off limits. You remember, the CONVICTED CHEATER AND LIAR, BILL CLINTON?

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 11:52 am 11:52 am

Derek:
Thanks for that poisonous spin-drivel about Obama. You seem to have a good mind. Too bad you’re lowering it to serve McCain the opportunist, who has no genuine concern for this country or its people.
————————————–
About Palin:
Smart money right from the start said that McCain would use her and kick her to the curb. A slightly different scenario goes like this. Palin resigns and McCain gets the sympathy vote. He also gets approval votes for whatever suitable VP he then choses.
————————————–
J Simpson: (about choosing Sarah)
McCain’s not demented. He merely sold his soul to the devil. Sarah is only a minor example of what he’s willing to inflict on this country if he thinks it will get him the presidency.
————————————–
About Stephanopoulos:
George S. has always been pragmatic, as Clinton found out. George allows himself to editorialize these days, because he can do that on his own show. However, he can be strictly and infuriatingly objective at times. In fact, I’ve often gnashed my teeth because he was touting some right-winger’s extreme viewpoints. He’s a good journalist.
————————————–
About Gwen:
I don’t know about right now, but Gwen and Lehrer in the past would trade off taking the Lehrer TV show alone. She’s a very skilled interviewer. I’ve long admired her work. She’s a self-effacing person, blends right into the process, task-oriented instead of ego-oriented. I used to only wake up to the fact that a person named Gwen was there — after the interview was over. I think that’s the highest compliment one can pay a moderator. And yes, Gwen will be objective. She and Lehrer are of the same caliber.

Posted by: an observer | October 2, 2008, 11:54 am 11:54 am

Obama mamma wants to make all whites slaves and his gorilla wife wants to beat down all the women whities that take her black men.

Posted by: Tanisha | October 2, 2008, 11:55 am 11:55 am

Obama mamma wants to make all whites slaves and his gorilla wife wants to beat down all the women whities that take her black men.

Posted by: Tanisha | October 2, 2008, 11:55 am 11:55 am

Ash, aren’t those all personal items you seem so nosey about? We have been scolded for a generation that politicians personal lives were off limits. You remember, the CONVICTED CHEATER AND LIAR, BILL CLINTON?
Posted by: killerbee | Oct 2, 2008 3:52:49 PM
**I sure do… I know he left us with a surplus, more jobs, better economy… please it won’t work… you still won’t say a word about Johnny McShame… John McCain is a fraud who sold his soul to be on the Republican ticket…. O yeah and the fact Cindy was a drug addict and stole from sick people?? say something!!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 11:56 am 11:56 am

Governor, I served with Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse is a friend of mine, and Governor, you ARE a Mickey Mouse!

Posted by: rhbate | October 2, 2008, 11:57 am 11:57 am

LOL, Ashley. She didnt’t pocket the money it went to the state for other road projects.
Also, I grew up in VAand presently live in TN and am on the VA border. I might note Ashley. (And if you research this you will find it is no lie.) Up untill a year ago (when G Allen destroyed his campain) VA has had 2 Republican Senators. Allen for 6 years and Warner for 29. The Commonwealth of VA does not hang its political state in eather party. Thats why its a toss up this ellection.

Posted by: bmunzz | October 2, 2008, 11:58 am 11:58 am

Observer, yeah, right! If Barry loses, Gwen’s book will sell about 4 copies. If he wins, she’ll make over $300,000. Pardon me, but I don’t trust any liberal who’s wrighting a Romance Novel about Barry and who will PROFIT greatly by tripping up Sarah.

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 11:58 am 11:58 am

I have several friends that label themselves “conservative Christians” there are two things and only two things that they use as arguments when it comes to Sara Palin’s qualifications. 1) She’s a Christian 2) she has Christian “values”.
There is no other question, qualification or argument that they are even willing to listen to. IT’S AMAZING how closed minded these people truly are!! It’s like someone tells them what to think and it instantly becomes god’s law.

Posted by: dan | October 2, 2008, 11:58 am 11:58 am

The women on the view made their political preference clear on day one, and keep snipping away at Palin, their arch enemy. Maybe if they had to pay for their air time like politicians do, we could get on with entertainment….which is what their show is supposed to be. If they weren’t such vicious shrews and so catty, I might think twice about Obama instead I watch them fade to clickish,classless girls from the office.

Posted by: in38 | October 2, 2008, 11:58 am 11:58 am

Gwen Ifils asks Sarah Palin – Tell us, Governor, do you have the experience to be the Vice President? The correct answer – Tell us, Gwen, does Barack Obama has the experience to be the President?
Well, Gwens question to O’Drama will be very different
Gwen – Are you related to Brad Pitt
Obama -
Gwen – Do you know you are very sexc
Obama -
Gwen – Hope this interview was not too tough, we at PBS like to be very fair and balanced

Posted by: ABC4Obama | October 2, 2008, 11:59 am 11:59 am

ASH, are you better off now than you were 2 years ago before the Dum’s took over Congress?

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 12:00 pm 12:00 pm

LOL, Ashley. She didnt’t pocket the money it went to the state for other road projects.
Also, I grew up in VAand presently live in TN and am on the VA border. I might note Ashley. (And if you research this you will find it is no lie.) Up untill a year ago (when G Allen destroyed his campain) VA has had 2 Republican Senators. Allen for 6 years and Warner for 29. The Commonwealth of VA does not hang its political state in eather party. Thats why its a toss up this ellection.
Posted by: bmunzz | Oct 2, 2008 3:58:10 PM
*well since you’re an idiot I’m going to have to break it down even more. if you are from Va you would know the area you are talking about is rural and extremely conservative. Where all the normal people are in the northern and eastern part of the state which is mostly filled with minorities is more populous beause there are what we call cities on that side of the state. Now tell me whats a bigger city in VA? Lynchburg or Norfolk? … I’m going to need for you to shut up now! lol

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 12:00 pm 12:00 pm

Governor Palin is not a good candidate for VP. If Senator McCain had wanted to pick a truly qualified Republican woman, there are plenty out there.
“The Mail Online is reporting that:
Sarah Palin has committed yet another political blunder after claiming she had held talks with a British ambassador – talks that never actually took place.
In an answer to questions about her foreign policy experience ahead of tonight’s make-or-break vice presidential TV debate, her aides listed numerous contacts with foreign officials – including Britain’s ambassador to Washington, Sir Nigel Sheinwald.
VA Classical Liberal’s diary :: ::
It seems that Sir Nigel was suppose to have been at a US Govenors meeting last July, but had to pull out at the last minute. He did not attend the meeting!
And yet, today Sarah’s aids claimed she not only attended the meeting with him but actually met Sir Nigel and claimed it as foreign policy experience.
Incredible, they are just making this stuff up and hoping no one calls them on it.
But it didn’t work out in this case.
However the meeting never occurred. Officials at the embassy swiftly contacted the McCain-Palin campaign to inform them of the discrepancy.
A British Embassy spokesman said the error arose after Sir Nigel’s name was listed among those who had attended a US Governor’s meeting in July.
They are that desperate. They just found an ambassador’s name on a guest list and claimed it because, if he had attended, Palin would have been in the same room as him. I bet she even could have seen him from her table.
It’s like me claiming to have met the cast of Friends because I once had lunch in the same restaurant as them. Actually, I have a better case because the cast of Friends actually was in the room.”

Posted by: Wisconsin | October 2, 2008, 12:01 pm 12:01 pm

Gwen is a gorilla.

Posted by: Tan | October 2, 2008, 12:01 pm 12:01 pm

Gwen is a gorilla.

Posted by: Tan | October 2, 2008, 12:01 pm 12:01 pm

I thank we need a women for president it dont matter if she is qaulified or not. She is a hottie. and Bidon is ugly.

Posted by: Cash | October 2, 2008, 12:02 pm 12:02 pm

Palin made a BIG mistake. She should do just like Joe Biden, walk around mumbling about television shows in 1929 and CNN’s poor coverage of the Lincoln Douglas debates. McCain fans would think she was funny and Obama fans would think she was smart.

Posted by: rktsci3127 | October 2, 2008, 12:02 pm 12:02 pm

killerbee – I suppose you think Sean Hannity would be an unbiased moderator.

Posted by: dan | October 2, 2008, 12:02 pm 12:02 pm

killerbee – I suppose you think Sean Hannity would be an unbiased moderator.

Posted by: dan | October 2, 2008, 12:03 pm 12:03 pm

Conservatives are hypocrites betraying the word of God??? Hmmm, let’s see…
Democrats: It’s OK to kill innocent babies and free murderers from prison.
on the otherhand,
Conservatives: It’s OK to punish murderers and protect innocent babies.
Obama: Feverishly supports the “Alive Abortion” law which makes it legal to kill a fetus who survives an abortion.
Conservatives: “Hey Obama, if a baby survives a deliberate attempt to kill her, think about giving the kid a break.”
How do you people on the Left live with yourselves?
At the end of the day, I really don’t care how you do it, but do it somewhere besides the White House.

Posted by: Joe | October 2, 2008, 12:03 pm 12:03 pm

ASH, are you better off now than you were 2 years ago before the Dum’s took over Congress?
Posted by: killerbee | Oct 2, 2008 4:00:28 PM
Yes but as you know it takes a while to feel the affect from the loser President we have and the administration he brought to the table!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 12:03 pm 12:03 pm

DAN, I have liberal enemies who will vote for Barry because of two issues. 1) He has a Muslim name. 2) He is a Muslim and will sell us out. Nothing else! It’s amazing that Liberals will vote for anything Muslim. ALAH!!!

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 12:04 pm 12:04 pm

Palin is George Bush with a v-jayjay. Cheerleader dressed up to look qualified. Yikes!

Posted by: Chris | October 2, 2008, 12:05 pm 12:05 pm

Conservatives are hypocrites betraying the word of God??? Hmmm, let’s see…
Democrats: It’s OK to kill innocent babies and free murderers from prison.
on the otherhand,
Conservatives: It’s OK to punish murderers and protect innocent babies.
Obama: Feverishly supports the “Alive Abortion” law which makes it legal to kill a fetus who survives an abortion.
Conservatives: “Hey Obama, if a baby survives a deliberate attempt to kill her, think about giving the kid a break.”
How do you people on the Left live with yourselves?
At the end of the day, I really don’t care how you do it, but do it somewhere besides the White House.
Posted by: Joe | Oct 2, 2008 4:03:04 PM
**hey Joe what about the Bible said God will judge people not you? Because all I ever see is conservatives judging people with skeletons in their closet. You can’t take the higher moral grounds if you don’t listen to your morals anyway. Furthermore, if you think abortions are wrong, isn’t the death sentence a bit wrong too?

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 12:06 pm 12:06 pm

DAN, I have liberal enemies who will vote for Barry because of two issues. 1) He has a Muslim name. 2) He is a Muslim and will sell us out. Nothing else! It’s amazing that Liberals will vote for anything Muslim. ALAH!!!
Posted by: killerbee | Oct 2, 2008 4:04:09 PM
*Look at the Killer judging people =( <~! conservative righteous fool! You can't tell him he's a muslim cause you said so… you don't make the rules God does and if Obama has a relationship with God… you can't taint that with your devilish ways! May God rebuke the devil from your judgmental soul!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 12:08 pm 12:08 pm

DAN, I have liberal enemies who will vote for Barry because of two issues. 1) He has a Muslim name. 2) He is a Muslim and will sell us out. Nothing else! It’s amazing that Liberals will vote for anything Muslim. ALAH!!!
Posted by: killerbee | Oct 2, 2008 4:04:09 PM
*Look at the Killer judging people =( <~! conservative righteous fool! You can't tell him he's a muslim cause you said so… you don't make the rules God does and if Obama has a relationship with God… you can't taint that with your devilish ways! May God rebuke the devil from your judgmental soul!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 12:08 pm 12:08 pm

Future mom: Doctors told me that my unborn son will be an elephant man, and he will have no brain…
Palin: No abortion accepted! Period!
Future mom: But he will not be a human!
Palin: Who cares! Global warming is not caused by human!

Posted by: humanlover | October 2, 2008, 12:08 pm 12:08 pm

Wow, ASH. You must be driving one of Nancy Pelosi’s natural gas cars if you’re not feeling the pain the libs nailed us with at the gas pump. Before Dum’s took over gas was $2.69. How are those alternative energies coming along?

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 12:09 pm 12:09 pm

Regardless of how Sarah does tonight there are MANY of us that will vote the McCain/Palin ticket because it is the only answer for this country. Obama is just not an option. He will do more damage to this country than we can even imagine. At the end of 4 years his “fresh face” will be just as old and objectionable as George W. Bush. Mark my words… he is BAD NEWS for this country. I pray that McCain/Palin win because the people of this country come to their senses and recognize how Obama is a bad thing being shoved down their throats by the DNC and the media.

Posted by: Voting for McCain because of Palin | October 2, 2008, 12:09 pm 12:09 pm

humanlover..GOD loves you in spite of your ignorance

Posted by: LordHelpLiberals | October 2, 2008, 12:10 pm 12:10 pm

Well, TY Ashley for being bigoted to us peeps in southwest VA. NOW let me BREAK-IT down for you. The entire state votes for our 2 senators, not just us conservative hicks form SWVA. That means that the majority of Virginians, including the peeps from northern and eastern VA, and yes form Norfolk 2.
Please try not to be so bigoted, rude, and try reading up on what you r posting b4 u post.

Posted by: bmunzz | October 2, 2008, 12:10 pm 12:10 pm

humanlover. You’re just sick. You could take over for Howard Dean.

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 12:10 pm 12:10 pm

This is what Sarah Palin is going to do tonight:
It doesn’t really matter what questions she is asked, because it won’t be a real debate. She has a whole collection of little pre-prepared speeches and she will haul out one or another with each “answer,” no matter what the question is.
Almost all her little speeches will be attacks on Obama and Biden, whether or not they are relevant to the question. She will do what she can to get the focus off of herself.
And anything she says about herself and McCain will be vague generalities that she thinks we, the people, want to hear. Specifically, it will be what she thinks “Joe Six-Pack” wants to hear.
This is what’s going to happen!
Hopefully there will be some gaffes from both sides, that should keep it entertaining. But there will be no surprises from Sarah Palin.

Posted by: Abe | October 2, 2008, 12:11 pm 12:11 pm

Wow, ASH. You must be driving one of Nancy Pelosi’s natural gas cars if you’re not feeling the pain the libs nailed us with at the gas pump. Before Dum’s took over gas was $2.69. How are those alternative energies coming along?
Posted by: killerbee | Oct 2, 2008 4:09:09 PM
we can’t mess w/ the republicans and energy! Drill baby drill and we have 3% of the reserves in the world! whooo!! Been in leadership of the congress and presidency for 6 years and why aren’t we drilling now? you had control then? O i know what happened you just let it slip by the cracks like the housing crisis… it all leads back to the Republicans…

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 12:12 pm 12:12 pm

Posted by: Voting for McCain because of Palin ……….you must have lived through the other no-experience, no-resume guy, Jimmy Carter. Just when you think things couldn’t get worse…you find out they can!

Posted by: rktsci3127 | October 2, 2008, 12:12 pm 12:12 pm

AJ, it’s not quite as simple as you make it sound. FDR got us out of the Great Depression via the war machine — the beginning of the military-industrial complex that continues today. Like that $10 Billion per month we now are spending on Iraq. Virtually none of it is actually going to Iraq itself — it’s going to US companies like Lockheed, Halliburton, etc.; and it’s just about the only thing that has kept the entire economy from collapsing months ago.

Posted by: War is Hell | October 2, 2008, 12:13 pm 12:13 pm

Well, TY Ashley for being bigoted to us peeps in southwest VA. NOW let me BREAK-IT down for you. The entire state votes for our 2 senators, not just us conservative hicks form SWVA. That means that the majority of Virginians, including the peeps from northern and eastern VA, and yes form Norfolk 2.
Please try not to be so bigoted, rude, and try reading up on what you r posting b4 u post.
Posted by: bmunzz | Oct 2, 2008 4:10:43 PM
And all these people also vote for our Democratic Governor… SHHHHH!!!!!!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 12:13 pm 12:13 pm

Ashley… get some manners. What a crude, ignorant person you are!

Posted by: Voting for McCain because of Palin | October 2, 2008, 12:14 pm 12:14 pm

ASH, spare me the God stuff! You libs despise God because you can’t stand to be told you’re doing wrong. WHY DO YOU LIBS ALWAYS FIND GOD AT ELECTION TIME?

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 12:14 pm 12:14 pm

The foul and idiotic left wingnut commentors on this website are one of the reasons I could never, ever vote for Obama for President. Their nasty and vitriolic comments regarding Sarah Palin just illuminate their below 80 IQ’s. Arm chair politics from jerks who would never have the balls to run for office but prefer to offer their peabrained and self-important thoughts from a computer keyboard. They are under the disllusion that people actually find them enlightening.

Posted by: Leigh | October 2, 2008, 12:14 pm 12:14 pm

Sarah Palin battle is against herself… She created the perspection people her of her… She has to recover from her own self-destruction.
I don’t expect Palin to do well in her debate. I do expect republican spinster to blame Gwen Ifill. I do expect Biden to do well on the issues. Palin was earned her demise. When she asked questions she clearly doesn’t have answers to, she should just say she doesn’t know. She looks so much worst, making up stuff and trying to sound intelligent. Obama, McCain & Biden are not perfect, they have made gaffes… But Palin is an embarrassment. She’s not qualified to be the Vice President of the United States of American, and certainly, not the President.
If John McCain truly believes in putting “Country First”, he should not worry about saving face, he should be concerned about saving our country… I’ve been an registered Independent for over twenty years, and from an objective point of reference, I have never seen a more pathetic choice for VP, much less, a poor display of judgment on Sen. McCain part. The American voter needs to be an intelligent voter, a logical voter. The Republican Party has been exposed. They are principally responsible for our failed economy, a irresponsible and unjust war, and making policies that encouraged the greed and corruption we see on Wall Street and in the housing markets…
As an Independent voter, I hold politicians accountable. As an Independent voter I will be casting my vote this time for the Obama/Biden ticket. If they don’t improve the condition of our country, I will hold them accountable in 2012. A change from politics as usual must change… I have the confidence Sen. Obama will be about that change…

Posted by: Bruce | October 2, 2008, 12:15 pm 12:15 pm

Red herring rebuttal. There is no equity between abortion and convicted murderers.
The Left killed Terri Schiavo, tried to save Crips Gang Founder Tooki Williams, and shipped Elian Gonzalez back to Communist Cuba.
Moral high ground is applicable is ensuring societal order. Duke Cunningham was an American hero and it was painful learning that he took bribe money and sold out his constituency.
Nevertheless, when my hero got caught, he was put right where he belonged – in prison.
When Bill Clinton was caught with his pants down (literally), the Dems did a photo op with Larry Flynt and called his compromise of National Office a “private” matter.
God will judge us when the time comes, but while we’re here, keeping order means having moral values and compasses. I know where mine is, I can’t say the same about the Democrats.

Posted by: Joe | October 2, 2008, 12:15 pm 12:15 pm

There seems to be no difference between Fauxboma and McCain. Even with the advise of one of the richest man in the world Fauxboma is afraid to speak up or act as a president. Fauxbama is just another Bush touting the word ‘Change’. Oops, I forgot he went out to help his people in the poor part of town. Didn’t help my people in the poor part of town, nor the Mexicans, Jews, Whites, Asians, etc., etc. But I guess that makes him a president, helping his own, an indication of his presidency? Bushbama, Bushbama, Bushbama

Posted by: upfront | October 2, 2008, 12:15 pm 12:15 pm

ASH, spare me the God stuff! You libs despise God because you can’t stand to be told you’re doing wrong. WHY DO YOU LIBS ALWAYS FIND GOD AT ELECTION TIME?
Posted by: killerbee | Oct 2, 2008 4:14:24 PM
I know God everyday! He’s my friend and you are not. And even though I think you’re an idiot, because I believe in God I love you even though you’re one of those POST TURTLES like Sarah Palin lol you are soo sad…. so very sad… lol

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 12:16 pm 12:16 pm

Yes , there you go Ashley on that I agree with u. All of VA voted for the Republican Senators and the Democratic Governor. Once again that’s why VA is a tossup state. :)

Posted by: bmunzz | October 2, 2008, 12:17 pm 12:17 pm

Yes , there you go Ashley on that I agree with u. All of VA voted for the Republican Senators and the Democratic Governor. Once again that’s why VA is a tossup state. :)

Posted by: bmunzz | October 2, 2008, 12:17 pm 12:17 pm

God will judge us when the time comes, but while we’re here, keeping order means having moral values and compasses. I know where mine is, I can’t say the same about the Democrats.
Posted by: Joe | Oct 2, 2008 4:15:40 PM
*just because you call yourself a conservative doesn’t mean you’re saved by God*

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 12:17 pm 12:17 pm

George, you’re an ass. Give the woman a chance before you start ripping her apart. I can’t wait to watch tonight and I hope Palin whips Bidens butt.

Posted by: misstsd | October 2, 2008, 12:18 pm 12:18 pm

George, you’re an ass. Give the woman a chance before you start ripping her apart. I can’t wait to watch tonight and I hope Palin whips Bidens butt.

Posted by: misstsd | October 2, 2008, 12:18 pm 12:18 pm

It’s not about “hating” Sarah Palin. There’s no reason to hate her. It’s about wanting what’s best for this country and realizing that the stakes are extremely high now. We can’t afford to have someone in the the VP slot who just isn’t educated or smart or experienced in foreign affairs.
This isn’t the head of the garden club she’s running for. Be serious.

Posted by: Laura H. | October 2, 2008, 12:19 pm 12:19 pm

Yes , there you go Ashley on that I agree with u. All of VA voted for the Republican Senators and the Democratic Governor. Once again that’s why VA is a tossup state. :)
Posted by: bmunzz | Oct 2, 2008 4:17:42 PM
True but I believe most Virginias aren’t as stupid. Remember our state motto is “VA is for lovers”
Not haters aka republican party

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 12:19 pm 12:19 pm

Did you know Biden, Obama, McCain, Bush 44, Cheney, Gore, Clinton, Quale, Bush 42, Carter, and Ford were all named for their father and/or grandfather?
So if you want your son to grow up to be president, name him after his father and/or grandfather!

Posted by: GreggW | October 2, 2008, 12:20 pm 12:20 pm

Sarah Palin provided a lot of fun moments here are some

Posted by: LAThinker | October 2, 2008, 12:20 pm 12:20 pm

Ashley… get some manners. What a crude, ignorant person you are!
Posted by: Voting for McCain because of Palin | Oct 2, 2008 4:14:19
Freedom of speech … tell the KKK stop spewing their hate…

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 12:21 pm 12:21 pm

Ashley,
PLEASE learn to spell. I usually just presume that someone made a hurried typo when something misspelled slips into a posting.
But every single time now that you have posted the word “bigot” you have misspelled it as “biggot”. It really cuts down your credibility in terms of whether you are sufficiently educated to know of what you speak, and therefore whether we should even bother considering your comments.
Thank you.

Posted by: aaaaargh! | October 2, 2008, 12:22 pm 12:22 pm

ok, Ashley…LOL. But you shouldn’t make a point in support of your positions then call that support stupid. It tend to unvalidate your point.
And please people get off the qualified stuff. Its the idiots in Washington who got us into this. Palin is surely as qualidied as all those in congress or the executive branch.

Posted by: bmunzz | October 2, 2008, 12:23 pm 12:23 pm

ASH, ASH. Why do you belittle Sarah and her daughter who is with child? As an African American woman (if you really are) you certainly know about the epidemic of babies born out of wedlock in your community. I’m guessing YOU really do know alot about it. (Statistics are on my side.)
Posted by: killerbee | Oct 2, 2008 3:38:10 PM
**so what? I’m 24 and I haven’t had a baby out of wed lock? I know is going to though! lol doesn’t bother me thats why John McCain should vote for birth control on insurance instead of viagra you racist bastard!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm

I agree, Gwen Ifils is a Gorilla. Obama mammas wife also looks like a big teethed gorilla. Do blacks think she is attractive? She is one ugly jungle bunny with big teeth. What a gorilla looking female.

Posted by: Leon | October 2, 2008, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm

I agree, Gwen Ifils is a Gorilla. Obama mammas wife also looks like a big teethed gorilla. Do blacks think she is attractive? She is one ugly jungle bunny with big teeth. What a gorilla looking female.

Posted by: Leon | October 2, 2008, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm

Why is ABC in the tank for Obama ?
Was ABC one of the news channels in 1929 ?
Shame on you ABC …

Posted by: TruthSquad | October 2, 2008, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm

Ashley,
PLEASE learn to spell. I usually just presume that someone made a hurried typo when something misspelled slips into a posting.
But every single time now that you have posted the word “bigot” you have misspelled it as “biggot”. It really cuts down your credibility in terms of whether you are sufficiently educated to know of what you speak, and therefore whether we should even bother considering your comments.
Thank you.
Posted by: aaaaargh! | Oct 2, 2008 4:22:47 PM
Guess what I can spell this… SHUT UP!! lol

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 12:25 pm 12:25 pm

rktsci3127 After reading Obama’s books and studying everything I could get my hands on about him, I just plain do not trust him as the president. I don’t think things can get much worse. I have voted democratic all my long life and this time I have to vote for the lesser of two evils. And I’ll give you a poll… everyone I encounter in my daily life is voting for McCain.. so 100% are for McCain.

Posted by: Voting for McCain because of Palin | October 2, 2008, 12:25 pm 12:25 pm

Laura H….that’s just an excuse…it is all about hate …that woman has not done anything to you LIBS . You treat her like she burned you house down, kidnapped your first born and shot your dog. When you say it is not about hate, well, you should read what you libs post…it is about hatred for someone you have no reason to hate

Posted by: LordHelpLiberals | October 2, 2008, 12:26 pm 12:26 pm

Ashley,
PLEASE learn to spell. I usually just presume that someone made a hurried typo when something misspelled slips into a posting.
But every single time now that you have posted the word “bigot” you have misspelled it as “biggot”. It really cuts down your credibility in terms of whether you are sufficiently educated to know of what you speak, and therefore whether we should even bother considering your comments.
Thank you.
** O EXCUSE ME BIGOT!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 12:26 pm 12:26 pm

“God will judge us when the time comes, but while we’re here, keeping order means having moral values and compasses.”
…………………..
Ashley must be out of her mind if she thinks the Republicans have demonstrated moral values. Starting an unnecessary war that resulted in thousands of lives lost, including civilians and innocent children? Trashing God’s green earth at every opportunity? Letting greed become rampant and uncontrolled on Wall Street?
It’s been a long time since the Republicans had any moral authority.
My father, who was a loyal Republican all his life, would be so saddened to know how far the party that he loved has fallen.
Time for some new ideas. Time for a change.

Posted by: Mel | October 2, 2008, 12:26 pm 12:26 pm

I have never seen this much interest in a VP debate. I know alot of people who are cancelling plans just to watch it so they can laugh at Palin.

Posted by: jmengate | October 2, 2008, 12:27 pm 12:27 pm

George and ABC are in the tank for Obama and so is Gwen Ifill, who moderates the debate tonight. As a professional, she should already have recused herself because of her undisclosed financial interest in her pro Obama book coming out in January. The liberal broadcast media and the Fourth Estate have largely lost their credibility and have virtually no ethics in journalism. They must have missed classes that day. McCain has two things Obama will never have and those are credible experience and character. McCain is swimming upstream against the media, an unpopular President who could have done a LOT better job, a Chicago thug politician with a socialist streak a mile wide and a separationist view of the races and he wants to lead our republic. I hope not. It is the democrats who bear nearly all the responsibility for the Fannie Mae, Freddy Mac debacle, by laws passed and even when more regulation was requested, the dems shot it down. That is a major contributor to the current fiscal crisis and Reid and others share a majority of the blame, all the way back to President Carter. Even President Clinton recognized that. The democrats put forth a candidate unqualified to be President by experience and certainly with a cut and run mentality not qualified in any manner to be Commander-in-Chief. Only blind, loyal democrats would select a socialist to lead a republic into chaos. Be very careful what you wish for, you might just get it. Palin is as qualified as Obama, and she is in the VP slot, not the Presidential slot. There will be no fairness in the party that so loves the fairness doctrine. What hypocrites. Thank God for the Internet, international news and conservative talk radio for some sense of balance in what is otherwise Newsspeak from the Ministry of Truth. The evening news does NOT report the news, it DISTORTS the news, leaves important facts OUT, decides what you will NOT hear and then tells you what you just heard MEANS. For shame George, et al.

Posted by: curtis41 | October 2, 2008, 12:28 pm 12:28 pm

“who says I’m at work you fool? some people with good jobs don’t have 5 day work weeks you idiot!
Posted by: Ashley | Oct 2, 2008 3:30:31 PM”
=====================
She’s right folks…some of them who work nights don’t get on their street corners until after rush hour.

Posted by: working girls | October 2, 2008, 12:29 pm 12:29 pm

Hey George your just showing your ASS. we can all guess who your voting for. we shouldn’t have to listen to all you Democrats on the internet.

Posted by: tlcannon | October 2, 2008, 12:29 pm 12:29 pm

“God will judge us when the time comes, but while we’re here, keeping order means having moral values and compasses.”
…………………..
Ashley must be out of her mind if she thinks the Republicans have demonstrated moral values. Starting an unnecessary war that resulted in thousands of lives lost, including civilians and innocent children? Trashing God’s green earth at every opportunity? Letting greed become rampant and uncontrolled on Wall Street?
It’s been a long time since the Republicans had any moral authority.
My father, who was a loyal Republican all his life, would be so saddened to know how far the party that he loved has fallen.
Time for some new ideas. Time for a change.
Posted by: Mel | Oct 2, 2008 4:26:51 PM
Thats why I called the conservatives “hypocrites” I sat in the Thomas Road Baptist Church and heard Jerry Fallwall exclaim “the liberals are ruining our Earth.” I’m around this conservative bs all day every day…. they are just sickening~

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 12:29 pm 12:29 pm

Ashley, Ashley, Ashley…are you ok?..i’m concerned about you child. Take a deep breath and start over…you can do it.

Posted by: LordHelpLiberals | October 2, 2008, 12:29 pm 12:29 pm

Sara Palin is nothing more than another closed minded puppet for James Dobson. This guy is about as close to an Ayatollah as anybody can be in the Christian faith. If you do not follow his interpretation of the bible you are not a “true” Christian. He has vowed to bring his form of Christianity to run our government, very similar to fanatic Islamic clergy. Different religion, same goals. Sara Palin is just another possible achievement in the direction of James Dobson’s goal. If you want radical Christianity forced into your daily life, she’s your girl.

Posted by: Jan | October 2, 2008, 12:31 pm 12:31 pm

Posted by: Ashley | Oct 2, 2008 3:30:31 PM”
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She’s right folks…some of them who work nights don’t get on their street corners until after rush hour.
Posted by: working girls | Oct 2, 2008 4:29:05 PM
If you call working for a major phone company working the poles likes your wife does… its not the same type of job! A company pays me not like the sleezy men that pay your wife lol

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 12:32 pm 12:32 pm

Sorry Ashley. My previous post was directed at Joe. (You repost a lot of other people’s posts and it’s confusing….).

Posted by: Mel | October 2, 2008, 12:32 pm 12:32 pm

ABC is a Democratic news agency.
Anybody who thinks or says otherwise is in La-La land.
Not all Americans can be fooled by this type of Leftist Media Agenda to elect Sen. Obama.
As for Gov. Palin, how is she a drag on the Republican ticket? Is it because Stephanopoulos, who worked for President Clinton, says so?
Once again it is obvious that certain media are shielding the truths about Sen. Obama such as:
(1) Rev Wright- Took Obama, Harvard grad, 20 years to distance himself from him
(2) Tony Rezko – friend indicted 17 counts fraud, gave campaign money
(3) William Ayers- of the Weather Underground
(4) Voted present in Illinois legislature more than 100 times – demonstrates indecision
(5) Supporter of Earmarks and He is on record for almost 1 BILLION dollars
(6) He voted against supporting our troops – lack of common sense for those in service
(7) Sen. Biden & Sen. Hillary Clinton are on record for noting that Sen. Obama lacks the experience to be the President.
(8) Voted yes to S.B. 99 education Bill – to teach sex education in kindergarten
FYI senators do not have executive experience only Governors such as Gov. Palin do.
These are facts

Posted by: D.R. | October 2, 2008, 12:33 pm 12:33 pm

LOL ya, McCain is all about McCain, he chose her hoping we were dumb enough to think “OMG theres a woman on the ticket”. What in the world was he thinking about, not the American people thats for sure. He is so painfully egotistical and its me, what did I do, doh, well I was in da war and a prisoner, SO WERE alot of other man, instead of saying you dummy, talk about the people that might vote for you, although that wont be many anymore at this point. Oh I could go on but I wont waste your time. And really FAT CHANCE she will ever make it to Washington, a Senator would have been better NOT a governor of a state that ummm, well gee you can see to Russia…

Posted by: Wendy | October 2, 2008, 12:33 pm 12:33 pm

Maybe at the time Falwell said that, the Liberals were ruining our earth.you have to admit, they appear to be at times. I don’t think they were running it, but they sure can screw it up without conservative interruptions..

Posted by: LordHelpLiberals | October 2, 2008, 12:34 pm 12:34 pm

Here a website with some extra fun for tonight’s debate watchers….palinbingo.com.

Posted by: Intelligent voter | October 2, 2008, 12:35 pm 12:35 pm

ABC reported it when Obama abandoned ND and MT, so those of you who think reporting this is picking on McCain, get real.

Posted by: GreggW | October 2, 2008, 12:35 pm 12:35 pm

George and ABC are in the tank for Obama and so is Gwen Ifill, who moderates the debate tonight. As a professional, she should already have recused herself because of her undisclosed financial interest in her pro Obama book coming out in January. The liberal broadcast media and the Fourth Estate have largely lost their credibility and have virtually no ethics in journalism. They must have missed classes that day. McCain has two things Obama will never have and those are credible experience and character. McCain is swimming upstream against the media, an unpopular President who could have done a LOT better job, a Chicago thug politician with a socialist streak a mile wide and a separationist view of the races and he wants to lead our republic. I hope not. It is the democrats who bear nearly all the responsibility for the Fannie Mae, Freddy Mac debacle, by laws passed and even when more regulation was requested, the dems shot it down. That is a major contributor to the current fiscal crisis and Reid and others share a majority of the blame, all the way back to President Carter. Even President Clinton recognized that. The democrats put forth a candidate unqualified to be President by experience and certainly with a cut and run mentality not qualified in any manner to be Commander-in-Chief. Only blind, loyal democrats would select a socialist to lead a republic into chaos. Be very careful what you wish for, you might just get it. Palin is as qualified as Obama, and she is in the VP slot, not the Presidential slot. There will be no fairness in the party that so loves the fairness doctrine. What hypocrites. Thank God for the Internet, international news and conservative talk radio for some sense of balance in what is otherwise Newsspeak from the Ministry of Truth. The evening news does NOT report the news, it DISTORTS the news, leaves important facts OUT, decides what you will NOT hear and then tells you what you just heard MEANS. For shame George, et al.

Posted by: curtis41 | October 2, 2008, 12:36 pm 12:36 pm

Just a little about Obama … Please read all the way to the bottom.
HIS FATHER WAS A KENYAN, A MUSLIM, AND A BLACK- WE SEEN ALL THOSE PICTURES OF HIS NICE AFRICAN FAMILY.
HIS MOTHER IS KANSAN, ATHEIST, AND WHITE. SO – WHERE ARE ALL THOSE PICTURES OF HIS NICE WHITE MOTHER AND HIS NICE WHITE GRANDPARENTS – THE ONES WHO RAISED HIM ALL THOSE EARLY YEARS?
HIS FATHER DESERTED HIS MOTHER AND HIM WHEN HE WAS VERY YOUNG AND MOVED BACK TO LIVE WITH HIS FAMILY IN KENYA (THAT’S THE ONES IN THE PICTURES).
HIS WHITE MOTHER THEN MARRIED AN INDONESIAN MUSLIM AND TOOK HIM TO THE CITY OF JAKARTA WHERE HE WAS FIRST SCHOOLED IN A MUSLIM SCHOOL ..
HIS MOTHER THEN MOVED TO HAWAII AND HE WAS RAISED BY HIS WHITE MIDDLE-MERICAN GRANDPARENTS THERE.
UMMM…NOW HERE’S THE HARD PART FOR ME (HELP ME OUT HERE, IF YOU CAN):
SOMEHOW, SUDDENLY – HE WENT TO THE B EST HIGH DOLLAR PREP SCHOOLS IN AMERICA , AND LATER, HE GOT INTO A TOP IVY LEAGUE COLLEGE AND LATER, INTO HARVARD LAW SCHOOL- HOW? WHO SPONSORED HIM? WHO PAID FOR ALL THAT SCHOOLING? (HAVE YOU LOOKED AT TUITION EXPENSES TO ATTEND UNDERGRADUATE YALE LATELY? HOW ABOUT HARVARD LAW SCHOOL ? SOMEBODY PAID A LOT OF BUCKS FOR THIS KID’S IVY LEAGUE EDUCATION…….) WHO?
A SENATOR’S SALARY IS NOT THAT GREAT, BUT THIS YOUNG MAN AND HIS YOUNG WIFE PRESENTLY LIVE IN A $1.4 MILLION DOLLAR HOUSE THAT HE ACQUIRED THROUGH A”DEAL” WITH A WEALTHY FUND RAISER.
WHAT SORT OF “DEAL”? RIGHT OUT OF HARVARD LAW, HE “WORKED” AS A CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST IN CHICAGO .
HE THEN ENTERED POLITICS AT THE STATE LEVEL AND THEN MOVED TO THE NATIONAL LEVEL – WHERE HE SCRAMBLES TODAY WITH VERY MINIMAL EXPERIENCE IN ANYTHING – WHILE OTHER PEOPLE WRITE HIS SPEECHES FOR HIM.
IN ALL HIS TIME IN THE STATE AND NATIONAL LEGISLATURES – HE’S NEVER LAUNCHED ANY IMPORTANT LEGISLATION WHATSOEVER MOSTLY, HE’S OUT RUNNING F OR PRESIDENT.
HE CLAIMS TO BE “PROUD OF HIS AFRICAN HERITAGE” BUT IT SEEMS THAT HIS ONLY CONNECTION WITH AFRICA WAS THAT HIS AFRICAN FATHER GOT A WHITE GIRL PREGNANT AND THEN DESERTED HER.
UMMM….WHERE IS THE PRIDE IN HIS WHITE HERITAGE? AFTER ALL – IT WAS WHITE GRANDPARENTS THAT RAISED HIM!
HE IS PRESENTLY A MEMBER (FOR OVER 20 YEARS!) OF AN “AFROCENTRIC” CHURCH IN CHICAGO THAT HATES WHITES, HATES JEWS, AND BLAMES AMERICA FOR ALL THE WORLD’S FAULTS.
HE REPEATEDLY COVER ED UP FOR THAT PASTOR AND THAT CHURCH – SAYING THAT HE CAN SEPARATE THE RELIGION FROM THE POLITICS, WHEN HE HEARS A HATE-WHITEY SERMON.
HE CLAIMED THAT HE WAS SIMPLY UNABLE TO CONFRONT HIS PASTOR OF 20+ YEARS ABOUT THE PASTOR’S DEMONSTRATED UN-AMERICAN BIAS, BUT HE WANTS US TO BELIEVE THAT HE CAN CONFRONT NORTH KOREA AND IRAN , WHEN THE TIME ARISES TO TAKE AMERICA ‘S SIDE.
YEAH – WITH THIS BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE, HE “HOPES” THAT HE COULD BE A UNITER AND BRING US ALL TOGETHER;
BUT – WE THINK THAT THE REAL “HOPE” IS, THAT HE REALLY HOPES, THAT NO ONE WILL PUT ALL THESE PIECES TOGETHER, UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION…….! and he wants to be our commander and chief of our armed forces and he was never in the service. Hmmm…….we can’t let this happen.
What do you think of this?
The Book of Revelations
This will make you re-think : A Trivia question in Sunday School : How long is the beast allowed to have authority in Revelations ? Guess the Answer?
Revelations Chapter 13 tells us it is 42 months, and you know what that is.
Almost a four-year term to a Presidency. All I can say is Lord Have Mercy on us.!
According to The Book of Revelations the anti-Christ is:
The anti-Christ will be a man, in his 40′s, of MUSLIM descent, who will deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal….the prophecy says that people will flock to him and he will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power, will destroy everything ..
Is it OBAMA?? I STRONGLY URGE each one of you to repost this as many times as you can!
Each opportunity that you have to send it to a friend or media outlet…do it! I refuse to take a chance on this unknown candidate who came out of nowhere.

Posted by: Karl | October 2, 2008, 12:36 pm 12:36 pm

does anyone else feel like despite what happens tonite, troopergate is going to “rear its head” and put the final nail in the mccain/palin coffin before this month is out???

Posted by: bhuddaflii | October 2, 2008, 12:36 pm 12:36 pm

“Laura H….that’s just an excuse…it is all about hate …that woman has not done anything to you LIBS . You treat her like she burned you house down, kidnapped your first born and shot your dog. When you say it is not about hate, well, you should read what you libs post…it is about hatred for someone you have no reason to hate”
………………..
Um, first of all, thinking that someone is unfit to lead seems like a pretty good “excuse” for criticizing their candidacy.
And secondly, if you have any intellectual honesty in you at all, you should be able to admit that there’s a lot of “hating” going on on both sides. No side has the monopoly on hateful remarks.

Posted by: Al J. | October 2, 2008, 12:37 pm 12:37 pm

Since Tina Fay mocks Palin, by spewing her vicious personality at us and showing off for Hollywood (pimping to the demented few, TV Media democrats, rich cats she hopes to connect with, and the immature), then she is the loser. If her repeated slurs and rant causes Palin to lose, Fey will be an immediate has-been and out of a job. Yea! Sad, Fey is only a disposable clown, Not the hero she thinks. Get a real job Fey…..go work for the two bit circus where you belong. Oops, I forgot, show business is a two bit circus. Classless.

Posted by: LL | October 2, 2008, 12:37 pm 12:37 pm

As they said, little knowledge is dangerous. that is palin

Posted by: meron | October 2, 2008, 12:38 pm 12:38 pm

well thanks to all the Liberals today who have an open mind and are excited about the future. To all the hypocrite conservatives who use their religion to hide their own insecurities.. God is always waiting for you to admit your sins and confess to him so that he can clean you of your sin. Even though I know today my language was inappropriate and judgmental in its own right, I am now asking God to forgive me for my sins of the day and cleanse my heart. I also will seriously pray for those who need it today in the hope one day we will have a better life without the hatred and jealousy following it. Imagine hearing this all the time in the society I live in. Conservative VA is not fun but I believe the Lord will rescue us from the evil the Earth possesses. Sorry if I hurt any feelings today… it was all said in good fun! =)

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 12:38 pm 12:38 pm

karl…
i’m sorry but you sound about as crazy as that witchcraft dude that laid hands on palin at her church!! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Posted by: bhuddaflii | October 2, 2008, 12:38 pm 12:38 pm

Posted by: Karl | Oct 2, 2008 4:36:17 PM
Karl Rove… White people are the biggest racists in America… they still are… check that fact out!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 12:40 pm 12:40 pm

I agree, Gwen Ifils is a Gorilla. Obama mammas wife also looks like a big teethed gorilla. Do blacks think she is attractive? She is one ugly jungle bunny with big teeth. What a gorilla looking female.
Posted by: Leon | Oct 2, 2008 4:24:19 PM
……………………………….
Leon..as you are typing on this blog, you must be sitting there staring at yourself in the mirror!!!!!……….I know because I’m looking at you right through my computer and you look like the back side of Willie Bee’s…a@#$%…Have a Great Day!!!!!

Posted by: Sickandtired of Reps | October 2, 2008, 12:40 pm 12:40 pm

Voting for the same 2 parties time after time and expecting a different outcome is insane.
If America wants change quit voting for the 2 leading corrupt parties, if not we will continue to be sold down the river by both!!!
Obama and McCain are part of the same crew that has brought us to our knees, why oh why do we want either as president???

Posted by: david | October 2, 2008, 12:40 pm 12:40 pm

Posted by: Karl | Oct 2, 2008 4:36:17 PM
Karl Rove… White people are the biggest racists in America… they still are… check that fact out!

Posted by: Ashley | October 2, 2008, 12:41 pm 12:41 pm

If my conservative colleagues are correct that Sarah Palin is as qualified as any American to be Vice President, and my ultra conservative colleagues are correct that Sarah Palin is more qualified to be POTUS than any of the other three candidates, then I need a beer. A very large beer. That’s the only issue of merit here. Does she possess the intellectual wherewithal to give the rest of us advice on foreign policy or domestic economic policy? Does she possess the educational background, historical knowledge and current events savvy to guide us in fighting terrorism, poverty, financing health care and resolving the abortion issue? I will not be taking anyone else’s word for it, not the many respondants here, nor the author who started this donnybrook. I will be taking Sarah Palin’s word, tonight, in the crucible we call debate, with an adversary to confront her, Joe Biden, and a moderator whose loyalty to race has been alleged to be stronger than her loyalty to gender. Doesn’t matter. It is Sarah’s time. I hope she can do more than show up and not throw up.

Posted by: Time Out | October 2, 2008, 12:42 pm 12:42 pm

Posted by: Al J….lot going on both sides does not make it right. Watch the “view” and tell me they treat Palin like the others…Not agreeing with some one’s views, or even not liking someone is one thing..But, to talk about someone the way Palin is being talked about is beyond not agreeing with..it’s pure “unjustified hatred”…Whoppie and that other idiot should be ashamed of theirselfs…as should some of you DXEMs out there. Try selling me on why i should vote for Obama and not why is should not vote for Palin…you may win an election

Posted by: LordHelpLiberals | October 2, 2008, 12:44 pm 12:44 pm

“If you call working for a major phone company working the poles likes your wife does… its not the same type of job! A company pays me not like the sleezy men that pay your wife lol
Posted by: Ashley | Oct 2, 2008 4:32:20 PM”
==========================
sorry dear, you are wrong yet again. I am a woman. And now that you’ve told us your age and your ethnicity, I realize you could not possibly be one of the “working girls” on the street. You are part of the age-and-ethnic group that just gives it away free to any thug who sweet-talks you.
ooooh! I am such a “biggot” ~

Posted by: working girls | October 2, 2008, 12:45 pm 12:45 pm

ABC News has out done itself with yet another idiotic and biased link title! It doesn’t matter, though. People will see Gov. Palin tonight without the ABC News smell that accompanies this year’s political “news.” Thanks for setting the bar so low that Palin will crush Joe “Mr. Gaffe” Biden. Stupid liberal elitists…

Posted by: MediaBias | October 2, 2008, 12:48 pm 12:48 pm

ABC will be first on the new Obama channel. George Stephanopoulos can put his Obama worship right where it belongs.

Posted by: inl82008 | October 2, 2008, 12:48 pm 12:48 pm

Thank GOD we stopped GWB and the GOP from privatizing social security to be dependent on our stock market… the left took a lot of heat from the right for fighting that. … your welcome.

Posted by: The GOP are AMATEURS! | October 2, 2008, 12:48 pm 12:48 pm

Sarah will be a victim tonight, no matter what. The nutjobs have already postured themselves.

Posted by: Mookie | October 2, 2008, 12:48 pm 12:48 pm

Just this morning on FOXNEWS, Senator McCain said that he felt Ms. Ifill will be unbiased and fair. He did NOT even insinuate that she would be otherwise.
This article is a FARCE.

Posted by: K. Sullivan | October 2, 2008, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm

ASH, ASH. Why do you belittle Sarah and her daughter who is with child? As an African American woman (if you really are) you certainly know about the epidemic of babies born out of wedlock in your community. I’m guessing YOU really do know alot about it. (Statistics are on my side.)
Posted by: killerbee | Oct 2, 2008 3:38:10 PM
………………………..Yeah, black women do have the decency to have theirs; white women abort all of theirs….

Posted by: Sickandtired of Reps | October 2, 2008, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm

Bar Stool Economics
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.
So, that’s what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. ‘Since you are all such good customers, he said, ‘I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20. Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free.
But what about the other six men – the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his ‘fair share?’ They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody’s share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.
And so:
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings)
The seventh now paid $5 instead of $7 (28%savings) .
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).
Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free.
But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.
‘I only got a dollar out of the $20,’declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man,’ but he got $10!’
‘Yeah, that’s right,’ exclaimed the fifth man. ‘ I only saved a dollar, too. It’s unfair that he got ten times more than I!’
‘That’s true!!’ shouted the seventh man. ‘Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!’
‘Wait a minute,’ yelled the first four men in unison. ‘We didn’t get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!’
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.
The next night the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn’t have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!
And that, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.
David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics, University of Georgia
For those who understand, no explanation is needed.
For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

Posted by: Wayne | October 2, 2008, 12:50 pm 12:50 pm

George…you are just another liberal hack..doing another hatchet job….for a man who has no resume or experience. You ElITIST LIBERAL SNOTS are pathetic.

Posted by: Jim Hill | October 2, 2008, 12:52 pm 12:52 pm

Bar Stool Economics
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.
So, that’s what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. ‘Since you are all such good customers, he said, ‘I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20. Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free.
But what about the other six men – the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his ‘fair share?’ They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody’s share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.
And so:
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings)
The seventh now paid $5 instead of $7 (28%savings) .
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).
Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free.
But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.
‘I only got a dollar out of the $20,’declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man,’ but he got $10!’
‘Yeah, that’s right,’ exclaimed the fifth man. ‘ I only saved a dollar, too. It’s unfair that he got ten times more than I!’
‘That’s true!!’ shouted the seventh man. ‘Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!’
‘Wait a minute,’ yelled the first four men in unison. ‘We didn’t get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!’
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.
The next night the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn’t have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!
And that, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.
David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics, University of Georgia
For those who understand, no explanation is needed.
For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

Posted by: Wayne | October 2, 2008, 12:52 pm 12:52 pm

I am one of those voters that will be less likely to vote for McCain because of Palin. After watching her interviews that are unscripted, Gov. Palin is not smarter than a fifth grader. It’s scary to think that she is a step away from being President.

Posted by: Palin is a Bimbo | October 2, 2008, 12:52 pm 12:52 pm

I am one of those voters that will be less likely to vote for McCain because of Palin. After watching her interviews that are unscripted, Gov. Palin is not smarter than a fifth grader. It’s scary to think that she is a step away from being President.

Posted by: Palin is a Bimbo | October 2, 2008, 12:52 pm 12:52 pm

“We are not hated beacuse we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human rights. We are hated because our government denies these things to people in 3rd world cuontries whose resources are coveted by our multinational corporations. That hatred we have sown has come back to haunt us in the form of terrorism. Instead of sending our sons and daughters around the world to kill Arabs so we can have the iol under their sand, we should send them to rebuild their infrastructure, supply clean water, and feed starving children. In short we should do good instead of evil. Who would try to stop us? Who would hate us? Who would want to bomb us?…” Lt R. Bowman

Posted by: The GOP are AMATEURS! | October 2, 2008, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm

Ash, sorry but I am one of the few people in Michigan with a job. (Liberal control for decades has demolished this state along with our socialist tax and spend Gov Granhmole). Got busy. Anyway, you’re a religious woman, eh? What sized berka do you fit into, liberal BITCH!

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm

LL: Lighten up. Tina Fey rocks. If she mocks Palin and you dislike it, too bad. Tune into the Disney channel instead.

Posted by: What's that smell? | October 2, 2008, 12:57 pm 12:57 pm

LL: Lighten up. Tina Fey rocks. If she mocks Palin and you dislike it, too bad. Tune into the Disney channel instead.

Posted by: What's that smell? | October 2, 2008, 12:57 pm 12:57 pm

Reality has arrived. Palin could give out cash and I wouldn’t vote for her.

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 12:58 pm 12:58 pm

LordhelpLiberals, if you don’t see all the “unjustified hatred” of Obama on these boards and on many other sites (someone here is calling him the anti-Christ for heaven’s sake), then I don’t think we can get anywhere in this discussion. Please be honest and realize that it goes both ways. It certainly doesn’t make it right, but it isn’t fair to say that one side or the other are the haters. I’ve heard enough “muslim” remarks and “what, are we going to call it the Black House now” type of remarks, AS WELL AS ENOUGH moose-skinning jokes, to know that the hate flows out from all sides.

Posted by: Al J. | October 2, 2008, 1:01 pm 1:01 pm

WHY IS THE MEDIA REFUSING TO AIR VIDEOS OF OBAMA AND HIS WIFE BOTH SLAMMING WHITE PEOPLE? WHY VOTE FOR A GUY WHO WON’T EVEN SALUTE OUR FLAG?

Posted by: TOM | October 2, 2008, 1:01 pm 1:01 pm

: SoWhat …we will save our nickel ment for you. ..there are more liberal idiots out there that will accept it for a vote.

Posted by: LordHelpLiberals | October 2, 2008, 1:01 pm 1:01 pm

tTina fey, when accepting a recent emmy award, thanked New York City for the HUGE TAX BREAK the city gave her show. She said they could not have shot the series without it. ANYBODY SEE A LOT OF HYPOCRICY HERE? Tax breaks are good for her HUGE CORPORATION but not anyone else’s. Typical liberal scum.

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 1:03 pm 1:03 pm

al j, I just want to know what shade of PURPLE LIPSTICK Barry wears? Oink, oink

Posted by: killerbee | October 2, 2008, 1:04 pm 1:04 pm

Al J…good point..what a shame it has come to this. When you read the post’s…i am starting to believe that the politicians are not messing up the country…ignorant people are..

Posted by: LordHelpLiberals | October 2, 2008, 1:05 pm 1:05 pm

I wouldn’t call voters’ opinion about Pailn’s qualifications to be president “pre-conceived”. What do they have to do, wait until she GETS to be president before they form their opinion?
What does this wording say about ABC News political leanings?

Posted by: rsh | October 2, 2008, 1:08 pm 1:08 pm

People. Lets be honest. And first let me know I myself am an independent thinker and have voted both Republican and Democrat. But again lets be serious and honest about this Palin business. This women is one 72 year old heartbeat away from running this country should mccain win. It is stunningly clear that she is incapable of being the chief executive of this country. Any other suggestion is either blind loyalty or sad ignorance. What the hell was mccain thinking? This is not the time for an amateur.

Posted by: Marc Watt | October 2, 2008, 1:10 pm 1:10 pm

HEY LORD HELP LIBERALS MORON, LEARN HOW TO SPELL………..!!!!!!!!

Posted by: TOM | October 2, 2008, 1:10 pm 1:10 pm

Really..the MEDIA is pro-Obama..shame on you…
Obama is an actor during then last debate. The moment he stood on the podium is that it seems the advisers told him to look serious….next time to look smiling. Is this Presidential…wake up America, don’t get fooled.
Palin is qualified than Obama and Biden!

Posted by: Al | October 2, 2008, 1:11 pm 1:11 pm

The moderator for the vice presidential debate to night should be fired! She is Pro-Obama…wake up…don’t fool the americans.

Posted by: Al | October 2, 2008, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm

The McCain supporters may have a better time convincing people to vote for McCain by telling people what he would do for America as President than trying to scare people with things we already know about Obama. The polls show McCain is down despite these attack ads that suggest we should be afraid of Obama. Just a thought why not concentrate on why McCain is better. I am still undecided and would like to believe mccain would work in a bipartisan fashion as he says, but it looks more like partisan politics as usual- especially with the vitriol being spewed about on this website.

Posted by: Florida Teacher | October 2, 2008, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm

Wayne – OK! You have posted that long article a number of times! Why repeat it so much. Personally I don’t care if the “wealthy” you are talking about leave the United States of America! Let them leave and NEVER COME BACK! We in America will be better off without them!Goodbye and “No Return”!

Posted by: john copeland | October 2, 2008, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm

“Well, he is just too old.” Said Beauty Queen VP contestant Palin referring to her opponent Biden.
Poor Sarah. She just bashed her own running mate McCain who is 10 years older than Biden.

Posted by: mere | October 2, 2008, 1:15 pm 1:15 pm

George
You dissapoint me. I know you are left wing, liberal, biased. You cannot say you are not. The media gets offended when pressured about their lib standings. Democracy from Greece as it was meant to be and being a Democrat in the USA is NOT the same. This attitude of “we are for the little people, the average joe”, is about as played out as hearing Obamonation acting like a cheerleader with his “change” cheer. The sheep are in the stadium, awaiting his next empty promise. Oh by the way, I have taken a poll, Obama is 50 points ahead. But wait! Anyone care to verify this poll? Anyone? I called 546 people in the southside of chicago, yeah! Also called 148 more in Kenya, yeah! They all agree, Obamanation and Bidet! all the way! George, you really really dissapoint us.

Posted by: think | October 2, 2008, 1:20 pm 1:20 pm

Amazing all the negativity amongst many of the bloggers responding to this article. Canned vitriolic diatribe unrelated to the topic discussed. If you do not share the political views of certain commentators on this website – go to your own Republican owned media mouthpiece spouting fair and balanced reporting – joke -(biased, slanted, and paid for by the Republican Party).

Posted by: Carlyle | October 2, 2008, 1:20 pm 1:20 pm

Is there a way that someone can check Palin for an earpiece that she may be wearing tonight with someone feeding her the answers?

Posted by: FAL | October 2, 2008, 1:20 pm 1:20 pm

I will never vote for a Republican until they convince me that they are willing to adopt a broader agenda that encompasses an electorate that mirrors the diversity in this country. They just don’t get it. I think of Cheney’s daughter and can only imagine how many times she has had to stay below the radar because she is gay. There is no way in hel$ I would do that to my child. If they can sell out their own children, then it is clear that none of them can do anything to assist me with my own.

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 1:20 pm 1:20 pm

Her bounce was good, her landing not so much.

Posted by: AttitudeOfGratitude | October 2, 2008, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm

FAL….lol I must admit I had the same thought.

Posted by: SoWhat | October 2, 2008, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm

LordHelpLiberals – “Watch the “view” and tell me they treat Palin like the others…” – I wouldn’t with watching The View on anyone!

Posted by: jmengate | October 2, 2008, 1:31 pm 1:31 pm

To Jana Walter
LOL! That was sofa king awesome!
Truth hurts. All you die hard vote-for-party-no-matter-what types are crapping your pants.
The election is already over.
The entire Republican party has a lot of work to do, and all joking aside, if you can regroup, adjust to the times, things like that…honestly…it will make the country better for we need good balance.
We are witnessing the fact that Republican 1950 ideas are WAY out dated and do not work any more.
CHANGE = Obama/Biden

Posted by: mike | October 2, 2008, 1:37 pm 1:37 pm

I checked out this show called The View. I could not see any difference between it and ABC World News…or NBC Nightly News, CBS News, MSNBC, CNN, PBS. And yes, your tax dollars are going to support Washington Week, Now, and Moyer’s Journal on PBS, and their ani’t a thing you can do about it…lol! The government is taking tax money from the republicans pockets to use to support PBS. Suckers!

Posted by: mojo | October 2, 2008, 1:49 pm 1:49 pm

Play Palin Bingo ! http://www.palinbingo.com/

Posted by: my5200 | October 2, 2008, 1:52 pm 1:52 pm

sowhat, you sound like edwards, and you must be queer!

Posted by: Vote for the Maverick | October 2, 2008, 2:03 pm 2:03 pm

On Jan. 20, 1993, the day Bill Clinton was inaugurated, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 3,241, the national debt was 4 trillion, and the unemployment rate was 7.3 percent. After eight years of Clintonomics, on Jan. 20, 2001, when George Bush took office, the Dow had reached 10,588, the national debt was 5.7 trillion, and the unemployment rate was 4.2 percent.
Today, the Dow closed at 10,482, the unemployment rate is 6.1 percent, and the national debt, this very week, crossed $10 trillion.

Posted by: Carrieny | October 2, 2008, 2:49 pm 2:49 pm

PALIN ON STAGE WITH NO TELEPROMPTER FOR 90 MINUTES!!!
Ouch! That one has too hurt Republicans!! I hope Gwen Ifel doesn’t try to help Palin “Clean her questions up” like Katie Couric did either, that was a joke.
Just let the “Pittbull” hang out there to dry!! My guess is about halfway through it she runs from the stage crying in SHAME!!!
That actually is the word for the day and what ALL Republicans should be feeling now – SHAME!!!!
How PATHETIC is it going to be to watch Palin tonight??
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!
Get er done Biden!!!!

Posted by: Davis | October 2, 2008, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm

Did anyone really ever think she was anything but a “Hail Mary” pass when he announced her as VP?

Posted by: Rick_VT | October 2, 2008, 3:14 pm 3:14 pm

And George is a disgrace to real, unbiased journalists–if there are any left out there! Why hasn’t he or anyone else in the msm done serious investigative journalism on Obama? There’s plenty of info out there that the people are entitled to know. What about Rezko, Odinga, Ayers, Wright, etc.? Why did Obama choose Biden who had almost zero support in his own presidential campaign? He’s a total gaffe master who brings very little to the ticket. Yes, he has experience–in plagiarism and telling whoppers!

Posted by: JKIR | October 2, 2008, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm

Derek,
You need the help of a good forensic psychologist. Your writings are consistent with a paraniod schizophrenic.

Posted by: Charles | October 2, 2008, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm

She’s the main reason I will not be voting for Republican Presidential Canadate. He had my vote until he picked her has a running mate. She is almost CLUELESS on many points that I find of importance to our country. We have enough clueless people in our government already. That should be PAINFULLY seen at the state that our country is in now.

Posted by: weld387 | October 2, 2008, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm

Is this what you left wing lunatics do all day? This is nothing but lies and jealousy for a very successful business woman.
I wont even waste precious oxygen in trying to convince you that you need to get educated on the issues. If all you do is lishould research your claims before you post this BS on this website.
If you have even the slightest inkling of voting for Obama, do youself a favor, invest $15 in the book Obamanation, read the first 30 pages (that’s all you need to know)and see what level of character you’re dealing with.
If someone feels at ease LYING about his family history, what won’t he lie about?

Posted by: Michael | October 2, 2008, 5:33 pm 5:33 pm

Sarah has no fear of Biden or any other Obama stooge, and we are proud to support her! She won the VP debate hands bown!

Posted by: C. Roderick | October 2, 2008, 6:24 pm 6:24 pm

Sarah has no fear of Biden or any other Obama stooge, and we are proud to support her! She won the VP debate hands bown!

Posted by: C. Roderick | October 2, 2008, 6:24 pm 6:24 pm

{{{{DRUDGE POLL}}}} WHO WON THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE?…
BIDEN 24% 23,202
PALIN 74% 70,789
NEITHER 2% 1,877
Total Votes: 95,868

Posted by: mon bracelet est plus grande que le votre | October 2, 2008, 7:22 pm 7:22 pm

I love that “Woman of Mass Destruction”
PALIN KICKED BUTT AND TOOK NAMES! Caligula’s going down!

Posted by: mon bracelet est plus grande que le votre | October 2, 2008, 7:29 pm 7:29 pm

she cant tell the difference between crystal meth and marijuana in alaska,she doesnt know how to properly address a muslim head of state,she doesnt know what an economy is unless the big business people tell her,she has never traveled outside of the states.she has abandoned her role as a governor of an important state to persue a popularity contest.as an alaskan i ask you all to please send her back to her big house in her little town in alaska to deal with her scandal there.

Posted by: get real | October 2, 2008, 7:37 pm 7:37 pm

If Palin quits, there will be no more good material for Saturday Night Live. Now we can’t have that. So hang in there Sarah, and I mean that literally.

Posted by: disgusted | October 2, 2008, 8:29 pm 8:29 pm

PALIN RESIGNS AS VICE PRESIDENT NOMINEE!!! SHE IS TAKING MEDICATION FOR DEPRESSION DUE TO HER POOR DEBATE PERFORMANCE.

Posted by: HA HA | October 2, 2008, 8:38 pm 8:38 pm

palin was totally unpresidential. she was acting and talking like a hill billy and there is no way in hell that someone like her should be let out of the stable to represent this country’s highest office to the world. i can’t believe that in this critical time in our country’s history she would be on a ticket. UNBELIEVABLE… and sad…

Posted by: bhuddaflii | October 2, 2008, 11:13 pm 11:13 pm

I felt Joe Biden (as usual) was talking down to America last night. No we may not have graduated law school, but Americans are much smarter than he or Barack give us credit for. I can see through all the false rhetoric,(ie the constant ties to Scranton PA -Joe you left when you were 10 y.o.) I personally don’t want to live in the socialist state Obama and Biden are suggesting with a bigger government and government run mandated health care, (how will all those Hollywood supporters get their plastic surgery if they are on waiting lists?). Sorry Barack -I just don’t beleive you will cut my taxes without severe damage to the little business’ I frequent in my small PA town while bitterly clinging to my guns and religion.
Even my 9 year old saw the news this morning and said Biden just looks like Blah, Blah, Blah but Sarah is at least looking at me.
I think the democrats need a new mantra other than more of the same Bush policies. Barack claims that John McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time- But Obama voted right along party lines 97% of the time!! America-wake up! Do you really want the number 1 and 3 most liberal Senators in Congress running what, for now, is still the greatest country on earth.

Posted by: John | October 3, 2008, 3:35 am 3:35 am

We are Power and Controls little Honey Bees.
They are dying off. Why?
Call your house rep. and Vote NO to collecting their Honey.(money)
Vote Independant.
We are Power and Controls little Honey Bees.
They are dying off. Why?
Call your house rep. and Vote NO to collecting their Honey.(money)
Vote Independant.
Republican only except Pork.
They will blame everyone, but Rick Davis.
Remember him. McCcains Advisor, who was STILL recieveing Middle Americans Money, until last Month.
McCains Top Advisor, who was helping to raise McCains Funds.
Say NO to the Bailout for Rick Davis.
Say NO to the Bailout for Rick Davis.

Posted by: remember the Honey Bee | October 3, 2008, 5:45 am 5:45 am

We are Power and Controls little Honey Bees.
They are dying off. Why?
Call your house rep. and Vote NO to collecting their Honey.(money)
Vote Independant.
We are Power and Controls little Honey Bees.
They are dying off. Why?
Call your house rep. and Vote NO to collecting their Honey.(money)
Vote Independant.
Republican only except Pork.
They will blame everyone, but Rick Davis.
Remember him. McCcains Advisor, who was STILL recieveing Middle Americans Money, until last Month.
McCains Top Advisor, who was helping to raise McCains Funds.
Say NO to the Bailout for Rick Davis.
Say NO to the Bailout for Rick Davis.

Posted by: remember the Honey Bee | October 3, 2008, 5:45 am 5:45 am

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