A Baby Toe in the Water

A very, very disappointing comment…
For what does it say?
Other than very, very disappointing…
Poor Palin. What does SHE know?

Palin is not ready for prime time, or off off broadway for that matter.

Construction bonds? WTF?
No one who’s well informed was worried about the insurance units of AIG — they are regulated, well-capitalized entities. It’s the unregulated Financial Products thats chockfull of derivatives that is the concern.
My mom could have given a more relevant answer.

As I understand this deal – AIG has about $1 trillion in assets. The Fed handed them a bridge loan for $85 billion. Now, the key word of this is “loan” and if they default on this loan, the Fed gets 79.9% of AIG worth about 10x what the loan was for. Not only that, but the loan has an 11% interest rate on it.
Now, that actually sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
A bailout – actually giving money to AIG so they can stay afloat – I would consider to be different from what this is.
Admittedly I haven’t been watching this with any detail, so if I’m mistaken, please correct me.

This didn’t make any sense. “Construction bonds” ? What in hell is she talking about ?

Even Sarah Palin is brave enough to take a position on AIG. Where’s Obama? Too busy taking quotes out of context for smear ads to bother articulating a position on the biggest economic story of the week?

And Obama would have said…uh..uh..let me be perfectly clear…uh…A..uh AI..uh..All of the above…my plan…organize the community…uh folks…my opponents don’t want to talk about the issues…OH!!!…I might have accepted money from them…one of my staff might have worked for…uh…I’ve raised alot of campaign money lately…uh..you know I could always uh call Rezko-he’s in prison but I uh..think he could call Auchi…between the two of us uh………..

PALIN IS SIMPLY NOT READY.
SHE IS A GREAT PRETENDER.
THAT IS SOOOOO SCARY….
SOME PEOPLE ARE STUPID ENOUGH NOT TO SEE IT.

Another choice moment tonight when Palin was given an opportunity to answer questions on her foreign policy experience at a town hall meeting. Could she give any sort of answer? Of course not. Poor gal, she’s the gift that keeps on giving.

Folks don’t worry about anything in America. After the GREAT ONE is elected, he can hold a star studded consert with the stars of Hollywood. Two hundred thousand people at $60 apiece (20-trillion) should be enough to put America back on it’s feet.

I’m still waiting to hear from someone about why Obama spent 20 years in a racist church, chosing to leave only when politics demanded. He could talk to the press about that one….hasn’t been fully answered.

Palin is running scared whenever the press confronts her. They don’t need to earn her respect, SHE has to earn the respect of the press and the people if she wants to lead the free world. We and the press owe her absolutely nothing. Why should she feel so entitled?
The truth is, she is afraid of the press because she knows so little about the issues and foreign relations and the economy that she would be making ten gaffes a day if she spoke to the media freely.

Where is that guy on you tube who was crying for us all to, “Leave Brittany alone!!”
Maybe McCain’s camp could hire him to defend Palin, as she continuously puts her moose hoof in her mouth! She is hilarious!!!

Sam, all you have to do is listen to their speeches – not soundbites, full speeches. or read them. it doesn’t take any more than that.

oh i can’t WAIT for the debates!!!

“sarah just participated in a no questions barred interview on fox news”
ROFLMAO!

no questions barred interview on FOX news?… oh please… this i have GOT to see!

Samantha you have always been one of my favorite bloggers, but do you think it’s a good idea to give out your address? That said, hope you get alot of McCain supporters, but I can’t imagine there are that many in your neck of the woods.
Good luck…keep up the fight…
McCAIN/PALIN

“Samantha you have always been one of my favorite bloggers, but do you think it’s a good idea to give out your address”
I may dislike Samantha a great deal but I agree with this sentiment.

Eh? Construction bonds?!? Sorry…..FAIL!!
This person clearly doesn’t understand the first thing about the liquidity crisis AIG faced. Please.
Disappointing. Hmm, how ’bout your corrupt attempt to shut down a bipartisan investigation into your abuse of power, Guv?
No press conferences? Well, that would be a first. How would she deal with Al Qaeda if she can’t handle a few questions?
McCain’s a 72-year-old who’s had three bouts with cancer. Melanoma. It’s around a 30% chance we’ll be looking at this fool Palin as pres. Ugh. She’s Bush with and up-do. No wonder McCain’s bounce is deflating.

She must have practiced all day for that one.

What prepared paper would BHO read from his tel reader to answer the question?

Will the press ever understand their rightful place in this world? Or, will they continue to whine that they aren’t getting the attention they SO deserve? Pitiful.

I really would like some more detail about AIG’s construction bonds.
I think somebody dropped a stack of index cards and they aren’t back quite in the right order.
I’m just grateful that particular non-sequitur had something to do with
money.

Emma you are right not many McCain supporters here but I don’t vest much in the city because I concentrate my money and efforts into the burbs and places like Indiana, WI, IA, MI. I am making a lot of ground. I don’t vote in Illinois but do absentee in a swing state. I sit an talk to people without being all in your face like the Obamabots. I get face time because everyone is surprised that I am African American and not for the chosen one.
I raised about $71,350 since I started doing this in July.

Sarah Palin — who feels she is ready to be leader of the free world was asked what “specific skills” she could cite to rebut critics who question her grasp of international affairs,
The “specific skills Sara Palins cited: “I am prepared.”
“I have that confidence. I have that readiness.”
She also said
“And if you want specifics with specific policies or countries, you can go ahead and ask me. You can play ’stump the candidate’ if you want to, before she turned Mccain jumped in to save her.
Hopefully the MCcain campaing will find her some Cliffs Notes to memorize, like they did to prepare her for the Charlie Gibson interview, in case she is ever asked for specifics again.
Because even a politician that thinks she should be treated with “deference”, really should be able to cite at least one specific.

I am outraged that Sarah Palin wants to be our next VP…possibly even President??? I am a 40 year old mom of 2 small children currently working from home. I have about as much experience with my Bachelors degree in Education to be president as she does. I am angry that she thinks she will have the time and energy it takes to raise a family…obviously a family with special needs, not just one baby with special needs. I feel so sorry for her kids as they will get hammered in the press and have no chance for a normal life. Go home Sarah.

So she can’t even answer questions from HAND PICKED STOOGES!!!
WITH A LOADED PROMPTER!!!
She hit the nail on the head and right into her foot!

Truth Matters,
I agree and I for one would like to know a lot more about the top of the Democrat ticket. So far, all we have are fools pretending to be reporters drooling all over themselves and asking him questions like he is a little boy unable to answer anything more difficult than his name. Then, I say let’s go dig up everything on Sarah Palin.

Peltier – What’s the question – AIG offers insurance and surety bonds to construction companies, architects, contractors, etc – from small to big. If contract work isn’t completed within terms, AIG bond would provide funds for penalty/relief/etc. So, impact from AIG going under (without fed buyout) would be that the construction industry, already in trouble, would lose the backing of the bonds, and any state/municipality/business/homeowner would have little financial recourse in case of default/nonperformance.

On the other hand, maybe she just couldn’t see her teleprompter and was staring off into space, or Ohio, or something…

She IS Dan Quayle in a dress.
In a joint town hall with McCain,
in Grand Rapids, Mi, yesterday,
she was asked to identify specific
skills and experience she has in
foreign policy.
She drew a blank. Gave a rambling
non-answer.
She’s substandard, unprepared and
in over her head for the second
highest job.

Barry (The Democrat presidential nominee) goes months without taking any questions and McCain’s VP is the focus of attacks of dodging press.
Incredible. Simply amazing.

I think the McCain supporters have gotten a memo… and it tells them all to refer to Obama as “Barry.”
Who knows why.
I guess it hearkens back to olden days, when owners could give their property whatever name they wanted to.
Thank God it is the 21st Century.

Aaaaagain….!!!
Obama’s press availability? No answer yet on this…because it is nil.

Anon wrote:”I think the McCain supporters have gotten a memo… and it tells them all to refer to Obama as “Barry.”
Because that is one of his legal names moron! Barry Sotero the stepson and adopted son of a MUSLIM MALAYSIAN man his Mother married after his Father ran off back to Africa and left his son behind with no support, no forwarding address, and a no thank you! Of course he waited until the US taxpayers paid a good portion of his college tuition in the form of an international student grant mind you. Libs, useless in my book.