Dear Senator McCain

he can’t, because he would then have to admit that he lied, and if there is nothing else he has learned from ‘W’ it is that if you tell the American people a lie long enough, a significant number of them will believe it to be truth even in the face of irrefutable fact.

Here comes the Straight Talk Express with a full load of fresh whoppers to put over on the American people.
Now that’s a lie you can believe in!

Jake – where’s Obama’s list? He’s also decried the pork spending — where’s his list?

I *heart* Jake!
and is Palin going to continue to skip every freakin’ Sunday show!?!?!?!? I think the shows should start leaving an empty chair at the table for her!

term of the day: tipping point.

FLASH!!! Just announced!!! Palin is going to sit down next week and get grilled — I mean seriously grilled — by . . . Sean Hannity????
YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING!! HOW LONG ARE YOU NEWSIES GONNA LET THE McCAIN CAMPAIGN GET AWAY WITH THIS “STEPFORD VP” B.S.?

“He’s also decried the pork spending — where’s his list”
Obama released every earmark he requested during his time in the Senate during the primary campaign.
He has worked with Sen Coburn to get an earmark transparency law passed and continue to work with COburn to expand and refine that law.
Obama is not against earmarks. He wants earmakrs to be public so that if the public outcry is that the earmark is wasteful it does not go thru. Many earmarks are important for communities and are not wasteful.
The difference with the McCain campaign is he is adamantly against ALL earmarks and has now lied about his running mate taking earmarks both as governor and mayor.
Hope that clear it up for the right wingers who can’t seem to understand why their guy should get called out on his lies while Obama who has not lied does not get called out.

Wasilla documents clearly show the city paid for rape tests prior to Palin becoming Mayor.
The city documents show Wasilla didn’t start charging until Palin fired the police chief and brought in her own police chief.
Palin won’t be able to claim it’s a lie anymore. Wasilla city documents clearly show her administration was responsible for starting to charge women for rape tests.

The straight talk express just blew out all it’s tires!!!
kepp up the good work Jake

Jake
She sought funds that were already there for projects that made sense.
In contrast, Obama has wasted on his wife’s hospital and Biden’s lobbyist son.
ugh.

John McCain declares war on the facts!

Jake – You are one of the most fair and balanced out there. But not saying very much. Why don’t you spend some time asking why Biden flipped to Obama’s position on drilling. What about Biden’s lobbyist son and the connections to earmarks that Biden and Obama both sought. Why don’t you ask for Biden to release all of his tax returns and earmarks – wasn’t it Obama who demanded Hillary release all her earmarks? Double standard?
Stop belittling the points and grasp the big picture. Palin may have sought earmarks, but she cut them in half already compared to her predecessor.
How about spending some time on Obama’s record? The media is a joke. I hope you all don’t succeed in getting your favorite guy elected.

cover up hide lie…make it up…call the press liberal and every other term…
Nixon.

cover up hide lie…make it up…call the press liberal and every other term…
and now
Mccain Palin.

sgd
she did not cut them in half…ugh
a lot of the earmarks were taking heat sicne the bridge to nowhere moron…
they couldn’t under the microscope of investigation and accusations that started since the whole bridge to nowhere…
but she still had the hubris to ask for more per capita than any other governor in the country!!!

Pork barrel spending
Alaska/Palin – $506.34 per person
Illinois/Obama – $30.67 per person
Arizona/McCain – $18.70 per person
Alaska ranks 1st in earmarks, Arizona ranks last in earmarks. McCain did not choose a maverick reformer. It’s a lie.

Vanessa,
1) Obama has requested nearly $1,000,000 a day for earmarks for each day he has been in the Senate. US Senators do not have to worry about State matching like Governors.
2) Obama is still asking for $3,000,000 for a Chicago musuem that his friend is chairman of
3) Rezko, Rezko, Rezko
4) Picked a plagerist as a running mate
5) Wants change so picked the most partisan Senator of the last 25 years
6) Does not know that Russia has a veto power on the UN security council.
7) Should I go on

Way to call the Liar out, Jake!
Hope you keep it up. You will find that McCain lies quite a bit.

“Uh, Jake?
John McCain doesn’t know how to use a computer. He won’t know to click on the word “here.”"
ROFL!
That was excellent!

“Will you please stop telling the American people that she never asked for or received any pork barrel projects?
Respectfully,
Jake”
Will you please quit telling people the lipstick remark was not a carefully calculated stab that backfired?
Respectfully
len
The problem now, Tapper, is you went in the tank too early and even now after some weeks of trying to be even-handed, it’s a cold tank when you have to get back in. Once you lose that journalistic objectivity, your credibility goes with it.
Ask Geraldo about that.

The bridge claim — dead
The earmark claim — dead
The rape kit claim — dead
The “experience” — dead
The jet auction on ebay — dead.
The lies — alive and kicking

Let me get this straight – McCain wants us to vote for change by voting in MORE republicans into the White House? The last 8 years have been a disaster.

Jake
Call for a copy of McCain’s complete and unredacted military records.

Sarah: give it up: Just say i was for the bridge before I realized how wastefull it was. See people would understand that.Earmarks…well now we all know every state gets them and their reps spend alot of time looking after their states…own up to it , don’t lie just call it what it is a Gov trying to get the most for her state. People can understand that. See Sarah..it makes you look bad and very unbecoming. All this lieing Sarah…bad

I think what’s even worse than the lying is how occasionally he sighs, just like Al Gore did in 2000, and nothing could possibly present a more important or dangerous issue to the republic . . .

Whaa-hooo!! Way to go Jake!
Keep it simple with the truth!!

“Do you think its wrong for a journalist to point out a bald faced lie told by a candidate for President of the United States?”
She cut the spending.
No Ryan, I think its wrong for Jake to flip-flop. It is a situation he put himself in by losing his objectivity earlier. He isn’t the worst by any means. CNN should have put up an Obama sign in downtown Atlanta. MSNBC should go ahead and declare itself a propaganda ministry.
But Jake, based on that earlier blog a week or so ago on reporting and the wrong direction, seems to have a conscience and it’s bothering him. So maybe it’s time for him to look in the mirror and try to understand what Benet and Irving had to say, that even if they call you Ichabod, when the jury came, they came for the great orator as well as Jabez Stone. Maybe we all should, Ryan:
“I am merely an honest American like yourself – and of the best descent – for, to tell the truth, Mr. Webster, though I don’t like to boast of it, my name is older in this country than yours.”

the only spin i see is coming straight from the mccain camp, they are just launching everything htey got, i mean after all they have nothing to lose, just lie cheat steal your way to the top.
teh chances of him winning were low anyway, so if thats the case, then he has seemed to accept that he will lose so throwing anythign and everything out there if he loses it doesnt matter, this appears to be his only option i mean its the only way to win so he might as well do it

Well done, Jake!
This post is circulating the internet now, singing your praises. This is the way to bring readers to your work, tell the truth.

I am so proud of everyone here posting. I’d given up hope that there were people still left in tis country who cared about the truth. No matter who you support it should be based on facts. Americans still can think for themselves. YEAH BABY OBAMA 08

“I am so proud of everyone here posting. I’d given up hope that there were people still left in tis country who cared about the truth”
Yes and we care about why Barry lied about his relationship with Rezko during his debate with Hillary.

Mack – it seems you are on the losing side of this debate. This country is ready for a new direction, no the same old stuff that has been going on since McCain was first elected………yes, that long……Time to take our country back from these right wing nuts

Can we see Obama’s earmark requests – including those made to his top campaign donors or are they “TOP SECRET” until some future date?

“Why was he allowed to lie and not be called out on it?”
He was called out on it.
LAT = Obama dogged by ties to donor
Even better Political Punch: Rezkorama I, II & III
Why do you lie, Mack?

“If you want Mack we can go back thru 8 months of McCain lies, could take some time. ”
So will you admit that he lied?

“Mack we are all wearing our capes today…Truth Justice and The American Way. I suggest everyone ignore Mack ….
Instead of posting here you may want to get out the vote for Barry in NC, since he’s going to get beat there.

To Mr Jake Tapper:
Why don’t you & other members of the media call a spade a spade? McCain by now obviously knows the earmark story is bunk, yet is still repeating these untruths. From where I come from there is a word for that, it’s called “lying”.
Because unless you guys actually confront him and call him on it, he’ll keep doing it (chances are he may do it anyways, but at least now he’ll do it fully knowing the media has called him a liar)

“We should see a Barrack surge’
He’s anti-surge. I think you’ll continue to see him fall. Hillary is laughing somewhere.

I am honestly and truly amazed at the stupidity of the McCain defenders here.
McCain said Palin didn’t take any earmarks while governor of Alaska. That is quite simply a lie.
It is not a defense to say “Well, Obama asked for earmarks”. That has nothing to do with it. If Obama said “I didn’t ask for earmarks” and he did, then that would be a lie.
This is not complicated.
When Palin says that she was against the “Bridge to Nowhere” when in fact she was in favor of it and campaigned in favor of it, that is a lie. It doesn’t matter if Obama voted for a version of the bill that contained funds for the Bridge to Nowhere. He is not saying that he opposed it from the beginning.
Have all you people been listening to Rush Limbaugh for so long that your brains have turned to mush, or were you just born this way?
It is quite truly horrifying to me that people can’t understand written English. I suspect that many of those very same people would be very much in favor of a law in favor of “English as the National Language”……

Thanks for the letter to the McCain “we think Americans are stoopid” campaign.

I hear Palin’s town made the rape victim pay the price for the test. The State had to step in and pass a law to stop it. That’s conservative conpassion for ya.

“So 90% of all the stories are attacks on McCain and Palin. The media is taking up where they left off on Hillary.”
Hey, the McCain camp complained for weeks about Obama getting too much coverage. (what they didn’t mention is that a majority of it was negative coverage) I always said, “be careful what you wish for”. Well, with Ms. Celebrity now the veep nominee, they’ve taken over the media coverage racket. Now, some of it is negative. Hard to avoid that when you lie as much as McCain has been lying lately.

” boring old “gotcha politics”. ”
You mean that same old gotcha politics that is being used against Palin. And I thought Barry was a different kind of politician, that was above all that? I guess he lied about that too.

How many more lies do Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin have to tell before they earn the “Pathological” label?

“I don’t see any earmarks coming from the Governors office”
This is the right wing, Jake.
You provide a pdf file of a letter from the Governor’s office to Sen Stevens listing her requests for earmarks.
The right wing claims they do not see the claims as being from the Governor’s office.
Its like arguing with a tree stump.

Guys
I am worried. New poll has Obama only up by 2 points in Washington state.
Why can’t he close the deal?
Obama ’08

Adam: good post.Your right earmarks are not such a bad thing for small towns and cities. I just can’t understand why you would deny asking for them if you obviously did.

Jake,
Thank you for the facts and your letter to Senator McCain. If Governor Palin has changed her mind on earmarks she should just say so and withdraw her request for 2009. If not, she [and Mr. McCain] should simply state why the earmarks are necessary.
The difficulty is this. You can’t believe the press as stories and facts continually contradict each other. In this case, your pdf attachment speaks for itself and contradicts Governor Palin’s and Mr. McCain’s statements.
One of the above commentors also provided Mr. Obama’s earmarks for 2008 which he has admitted to. He said he would no longer submit earmarks, and to my knowledge has not submitted any for 2009.
While I have not decided who I am going to vote for, on the issue of earmarks, Governor Palin and Mr. McCain loose. Simply because they are not being truthful.
You are a good writer Jake and in a position of influence. I would like to ask you to write about telling the truth. Whether it is from your fellow media, politicians, or your followers that provide comments. I am not interested in biased and inaccurate reporting, double talk by politicians, or biased, sarcastic, or nasty comments by your readers. My decision as to who to vote for will be based on supported facts and the truth.
This election is about change, [or so both candidates say]. We can make that happen only by setting the example starting with each one of us, each reporter, and each politician. Simply state accurate and supported facts, be accountable for your actions, and tell the truth. In other words, do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Nothing else matters.
Thanks Jake, you are doing a good job.

Obama top supporter, James Crown, a members of Obama’s national finance committee got
$1.3 million for high explosive technology overseen by General Dynamics where Crown serves on the board.
$750,000 earmark for renovation of a space center named for Crown’s grandfather.
So when Hopey mentions “change” he really means dollars to his contributors.

Thank you Jake.
Just to be clear-some or even most of these projects may be perfectly good investments of public dollars. The issue is, the Republicans are running as anti-pork “reformers” and lying about their record. She hired a frickin’ DC lobbyist while mayor of Wasilla. That’s major league pork action.
Also, due to oil revenues Alaska is a quasi-socialist, mooch-hog compared to the rest of the state. They get thousands in public money each year per capita.So to talk about them being reformers is just plain bizarre.

Michelle…These Crown earmarks…Who got them for him? What state? Link please.

I think this sums it all up:
“John McCain isn’t running against Barack Obama. He’s running against reality.”

Paige: Great post.

Dear Jake:
A lot of these appear to be federal projects and infrastructure improvements to airports, the fish studies and obesity studies seem a bit “porkish”.
Care to put one of Obamas up for comparison?

Just wait, in four years, Palin will be president! Then you can all scream about EARMARKS! She will show this country who’s spending who’s money.
McCain/Palin 2008

“Care to put one of Obamas up for comparison”
Obama has done that for you when he released every earmark he requested while in the Senate quite a few months ago.
Obama (and Sen Coburn) have also created a law to make earmarks more transparent so that the public can be aware of them.
Obama has never lied and said he doesn’t request earmarks like McCain did when discussing Palin.

Did any of them go for a ping pong tournament?

I don’t know why anyone is blaming “the liberal media.”
This is a simple address laying down a real fact. McCain is lying about the Earmarks. There is nothing biased about presenting a simple truth.
More importantly, why don’t people want to address this truth?
McCain needs to stop hiding behind Palin’s celebrity and face the issues.

It’s not the earmarks…it’s the lying about it. LIE LIE LIE…..another LIAR just like Bush.

“Brenda: Can you name 3 things McCain has done for your family? New GI Bill..you know the one McCain was against. Lets see I’ll have to think about the other 2. ”
I guess that would be a no then.

The lies of McCain/Palin are endless. After 8 years of liers we need a fresh start. I’m voting Obama.

Paige: thank you for the post…I was looking more toward women legislation…Dru Act, Sex Registration Act, Combat Meth Act, the law to combat violence against women. Thanks for getting the info out.

Thanks for posting this!
The truth is out there. It’s great to see the MSM picking it up and actually reporting it!

McCain 08: Bold-faced Lies You Can Believe In!

I do appreciate the “respectfully” at the end of the letter (not kidding, actually).
A good reminder. It’s been easy for a lot of us to forget that lately.

“His law” was just a voice vote to reaffirm an existing program that Lugar started in 1993.”
It was an expansion of that program with additional funding. To call it a reaffirmation is a lie.
“Stop acting like it’s something it isn’t, it makes you look like a moron.”
As opposed to being exposed as a liar ever single day you post here concerned?

Got to go…..Ryan I leave you to continue the fight for truth, justice and the American way.

“Ryan I leave you to continue the fight for truth, justice and the American way.”
Thanks linda.
The same to you!

Mr. Tapper:
Would you please have Charlie Gibson, Diane Sawyer, George Stephanopoulos et al point out at least one of McCain’s numerous lies every day, using the word “lie” to describe it? And encourage your colleagues at NBC, CBS, and CNN to do the same? Because otherwise, he’s not going to stop.

Of course, unlike Obama, if you want to judge McCain’s views on technology, you can look at his record. McCain spent seven years as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, during which he was continuously involved in debates, legislation and hearings on internet issues. In 1996, he blasted the Telecommunications Act as “nothing less than an elaborate influence-peddling scheme.” In the 2000 campaign, he touted his work on the Y2K Product Liability Reform Act and the Internet Tax Moratorium Act; he has continued to fight against taxation of internet commerce. McCain also introduced legislation dealing with internet encryption technologies. Obama may think he invented internet fundraising, but in 2000 McCain’s primary campaign raised millions of dollars over the web, a fundraising surge that was essential to keeping his campaign afloat; at the time, he was on the cutting edge of such tactics. In 2002, McCain introduced the broad-ranging “Consumer Broadband Deregulation Act of 2002″, a comprehensive bill that “would prevent localities from doing anything to interfere with the provision of any consumer broadband service by limiting local governments- rights-of-way compensation to ‘direct and actual costs reasonably allocable to the administration of access to, or use of, public rights-of-way.’” McCain has continued to press for broadband access at high-tech forums during his presidential run, and chosen as chief economic advisers a pair of high-tech executives, Meg Whitman of eBay and Carly Fiorina of Hewlett Packard.”

McCain 08: Bold-faced Lies You Can Believe In!
Posted by: BBpd | Sep 12, 2008 6:22:46 PM
That should read Pigs with Lipstick you can believe in…lol

I meant Mr Tapper. Whan an awful typo to have made!

McCain 08: Bold-faced Lies You Can Believe In!
Posted by: BBpd | Sep 12, 2008 6:22:46 PM
That should read Pigs with Lipstick you can believe in…lol

The republicans have lied so much that they don’t know what a lie is any more.

Palin and earmarks:
“But when it comes to earmarks, Palin is no purist like McCain.
• While she was mayor of the small town of Wasilla, Alaska, Palin hired a lobbyist to seek federal money for special projects. Wasilla obtained 14 earmarks, totaling $27 million, between 2000-2003, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan watchdog group that monitors federal spending.
• As governor, Palin has asked for 31 earmarks worth $197 million for the 2009 fiscal year. State budget documents show that the state requested 52 earmarks worth $256 million for the 2008 budget year.
Several news organizations, including The Associated Press, have used a figure of $550 million in state earmark requests for the 2008 fiscal year. That information has been based on an op-ed piece written in March in the Juneau Empire by John Katz, the director of state-federal relations and special counsel to Palin.”

Obama hasn’t asked for any earmarks this year. Last year, he asked for $311 million worth, about $25 for every Illinois resident. Alaska asked this year for earmarks totaling $198 million, about $295 for every Alaska citizen.
Palin has cut back on pork project requests, but under her administration, Alaska is still and by far the largest per-capita consumer of federal pet-project spending.
Who’s porky pig?

Um . . . Amy, Stevens is the congresscritter who presents the requests in the Senate chamber, not the governor of Alaska.

For all the right-wingers who can not read: The first page of the document is from Governor Palin’s office!

Wow what angry people you all are. McCain is the only candidate that promises to rid the government of Pork spending. I for one am ready for change and McCain is the only honorable experienced American patriot that can produce change. Obama has proven to be very inexperienced and he has millions of dollars of pork spending under his belt. If community activisim and minimal participation in congress is qualification to run this country then what is all the hoopla about Governor Palins experience or inexperience ? I could go on but seriously stop screaming at each other. Just vote on Nov.4 for a man that can use a computer or a man that can fly a navy aircraft in combat to defend our country. You have the right to decide because of honorable patriots like John McCain.

It’s about time someone in the press started telling the truth about McPain.

Money for studying the mating habits of crabs? Geesh..Sarah…you are lying through your teeth.

I’ve been following politics since John Kennedy ran for President when I was a kid. That’s close to fifty years. With the possible exception of the Bush campaign against McCain in South Carolina in 2000, I’ve never seen a campaign as reliant on distraction, distortion, division and out-right lying.
When confronted with lies, they just keep right on lying. It’s as if they believe the American people are imbeciles who will believe whatever they tell them at the moment.
If this is how they campaign, imagine how they’ll govern.

Clinton/ Obama/Biden/McCain have never been sequestered away from the media. Every one of them has had to face tough questions in the endless debates in the primaries as well as all the TV interviews they’ve done. Never has anyone whined about how tough the interviewer was.
Did democrats whine about O’Reilly trying to rip Obama a new one a couple of weeks ago on his show? No they didn’t. Politics is for grown-ups. Are you going to tell Putin that VP Palin won’t deal with him unless he treats her with ‘deference’? Get real and face facts about your ‘pitbull’.
If you don’t like the answers you heard blame your candidate. She has lied shamelessly about her record and obviously knows very little about domestic or foreign policy. She bombed not Gibson.

WHEN will someone in the press start telling the truth about BHO? Thank God for Fox or we would never know about the good rev, the terrorist, the crooked Real Estate guy, the kind of friends BHO keeps. He is nothing more than a Chicago hood! America is already becoming a mean-spirited country because of him – imagine what it would be like if he actually becomes prez! God forbid!

What happens if you stand up and tell the GOP (a la Alice) “You’re all just a bunch of cards!” Do they all fold and fly away?

Palin lied about the Bridge to Nowhere. She didn’t say No Thank You. She said Thank You Very Much and kept the money! She spent it on other things! She should give it back but she won’t!!
As mayor she made rape victims pay for their own examinations. Disgusting.
I was going to vote for John McCain. Not any more. He must be losing his mind to have chosen such a dingbat.

Beckie,
Once again you stand corrected. If this is becoming a mean spirited country, it is exactly because of oulets like Fox News. Along with rightwing radio personalities (and I use the term loosely)like Rush, and Billy Cunningham, and Savage, and Hannity, that spit more vile, and hatred in a broadcast, than any Democrat could muster in a year. And then there are people like you dear Beckie, who insist on refering to Barack Obama, as Barack Hussein Obama, as if the prejudice, hatred, and divisiveness behind that insistance will be lost on the rest of us. You want to be a healer? You want to bring us together? Stop the personal attacks. Quit fanning the flames of racism. Criticize his policies all you want, his so called “inexperience”, his readiness to lead. I promise I’m doing the same about McCain, and Palin. But I don’t need to call McCain a racist, doddering,warmongering old fool to get my point across. Nor do I have to refer to Palin as a child neglecting, bible thumping, religious zealot, animal killing, pork barrel spending, empty headed, beauty pageant winning (sorry, runner up) bimbo. To get my point across about her.

Reggie,
“If you don’t like the answers you heard blame your candidate. She has lied shamelessly about her record and obviously knows very little about domestic or foreign policy. She bombed not Gibson.”
What’s even scarier is that she must’ve told McCain this crap and he simply took her word for it. He must be either very embarassed or very much infatuated.
Obama 08!

Becky -
You must only watch Fox or you would know that for the past nineteen months, every name that you mention has been covered ad nauseum by the MSM. I thought for a while that Jeremiah Wright was running for President.
On what basis are you calling an Editor of the Harvard Law Review and a University of Chicago Constitutional Law Professor a “Chicago thug?”

“More and more people are viewing the press the way Rush Limbaugh does”
“A rigorous, adversarial press is GOOD thing for our country and democracy.”
Remarkable

I am watching Sarah Palin with Charles Gibson. She is cleaning his clock on how state government by the people works.

Plain is Alaska’s earmark queen.

Sarah Palin is the best thing to enter politics in a LONG LONG TIME!!!
She is what American Women want. Charlie Gibson was so condescending and out of line with his attitue towards the respectable Gov. of Alaska and the REPUBLICAN VP NOMINEE that I wanted to gag.
Put his treatment of Obama side by side to his treatment of Palin… the bias is clear. He is a misogynist and a sexist who couldn’t stand the idea of a woman in charge.
Gibson, as is the rest of the media and online trolls who attack her based on her GENDER, have lost all my respect and I will never again listen to or watch them for my information. Its a sad day when you can’t even stand to watch the nightly news due to unfair and biased reporting. If Gibson wants to preach from a pedestal he should take over Wrights job… otherwise, let us, the PEOPLE, make our OWN choices!
I never vote by party… I am an Independant. If Obama had showed he had the ‘right stuff’ I would have voted for him.
But all he has shown me is that he is a liar and a fraud and a hater of women. He goes against the democratic traditions and wants to lead the country he won’t even pledge allegiance to.
McCain is a patriot and hasn’t asked me to vow my soul away to him like Obama with his ‘messianic’ message. McCain and Palin want to make America great… and I would like to live in the America that McCain and Palin are talking about.
So for this Independant, its McCain Palin 08!!

Personally, I don’t think there is anything wrong with earmarks provided it is used to establish People oriented Programmes.
But earmark to study the mating habits of Crabsand Seals? Can someone explain the benefits of these to the People of Alaska.
My grouse with Mrs Palin is that She has been lying all over the Country.
We don’t know her. She would do herself and the Ticket she represents a favor if she starts coming out clean.
Americans are not Morons. The lies may go unnoticed for a few dates, but trust Americans, they will search for the truth and the lies will start haunting her and Mccain the way it is fast become their achelles heel.
Bunch of lies. Earmarks lies, Bridge to no where lies, Plane on e-bay lies etc.

Gee did anyone tell that idiot broad that most of the oil produced by Alaska is shipped to foreign countries not to the USA.

Schmit and Rove campaign ads scare everyone because they are branding the Media as “Piranhas!”, Democrats are “Wolves” and talented Artists are just lite “Celebrities” without talent and their voice doesn’t count. Schmidt and Rove have branded Palin as their Barracuda and Pit Bull.
Now Schmit and Rove are attempting to play the victim when ever the Democrat’s response or the mainstream media starts asking the questions that are on the minds of the voters.
This will be the election that will be studied by historians. How did they do it? They took out everyone with negative ads and then created their own celebrity who is running on a open playing field now. Barracuda and Pit Bull running down field carrying the football. Can a goldfish stop them. I’m checking out a video – Trained Goldfish Performs Amazing Tricks!!. Can all talking dogs stop them? I look at the video -Talking Dogs. This election may decided by a gold fish and all talking dogs taking on Schmidt and Rove’s Barracuda and Pit Bull. I have faith in the gold fish who says “No worries Team. Everything is going to be all right!” Our Goldfish runs onto the playing field to take on Schmidt and Rove’s Barracuda. A determined mutt joins our gold fish to take on Schmidt and Rove’s Pit Bull.

For some reason the “list of earmarks” doesn’t load…are the Karl Rove operatives blocking the information as well as distorting and lying their way through the mouths of McCain and Palin. If our country loves the way Cheney and Bush have governed they will really love the McCain/Palin policies. We can’t afford another term of the Bush/McCain plans. Wake up America and vote for Obama/Biden 08

Jake,
So happy you addressed!! As a registered Republican and a white woman I am so tired of John McCain’s lies. All the news media, fact check, analysts, etc. have proven and verified not true – he is lying.
John McCain himself lied – he personally stated she asked for no earmarks. This is a McCain induced question because he lied again!!
John McCain will not admit he is lying! Says he is telling truth. But everyone knows he is!! Evidence proves he lies all the time. All has been proven with documented verification.
Ear Marks statement is a lie!!
Why say “LIE”????? Guess we all need to all start saying John McCain lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies!! We all say it John McCain will/may hear!! America deserves the truth and an honest politician!! I am ashamed to say I am a registered Republican. Please go check!! Stand up for our rights for truth!!

Dear Jake,
Pork barrel…..hummm…isn’t that when you slip a big project in under the radar? If any money sent to a state is considered pork barrel then they’re all guilty.
Obama is still a bigot against whites. He should have left his church 10 years ago!!! Maybe his wife has changed since she wrote her paper in college. Oh yea, forgot…she’s now proud to be American. Obama has voted to stop every piece of gun legislation since he’s been a politician. Now he says, well I really don’t want to take your guns….Liar!!! How can you support him now? He loves guns now! Man, that’s anti-democrat!

Dear Jake:
You’ve prominently played the McCain’s alleged computer illiteracy heavily. How about posting something about this?
From the Boston Globe (March 4, 2000):
McCain gets emotional at the mention of military families needing food stamps or veterans lacking health care. The outrage comes from inside: McCain’s severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes. Friends marvel at McCain’s encyclopedic knowledge of sports. He’s an avid fan – Ted Williams is his hero – but he can’t raise his arm above his shoulder to throw a baseball.

kgdn: baloney. the media has covered everything from obama’s church bulletins to his smoking habits.
i’d like to hear a little about sarah’s little church. from the la times: “Less than a month ago, Palin sat in the pews at the Wasilla Bible Church, to which she and her family belong, and listened to a sermon by David Brickner, who heads Jews for Jesus, a group cited by the Anti-Defamation League for its “aggressive and deceptive” proselytizing of Jews. Brickner said that Arab terrorism against the state of Israel was an expression of God’s judgment on the Jewish people for their rejection of Christ. After Brickner concluded his remarks, a special collection was taken up to support the sect’s activities.”…”
I sure heard a lot about Obama and his church. why did Sarah Palin not stand up and repudiate the speaker? Why did she not leave – not only the sermon, but the church?? Why would she subject her children to this hatred and bigotry?

Jake,
It used to be that if you say it enough times and the media compares your comment to some random attack by the other side you could eventually convince people that hot is cold.
I’m actually starting to think that you people know the difference between a journalist and a stenographer.
Keep it up and I might start saying good things about you instead of just thinking them.

Obama Earmarks:
1) $8.5 million to prevent Asian Carp fish from entering the Great Lakes through the Chicago waterways
2) More than $6.9 million for Chicago museums
3) $5 million for the Young Men’s Christian Association to combat chronic diseases and obesity
4) $3 million for the Adler Planetarium
5) $3 million for a new Chicago park to hhonor Jean Bapstiste Point DuSable
6) $2 million for ethanol research
7) $2 million for soybean research
8) $200,000 for the construction of a
theater company “using green construction standards”
Sen. Obama requested more than $740 million for pet projects, inclusing $1 million earmark for the hospital his wife was working at and also a $750,000 eearmark to pay for the renovation of a space center named after tojp Obama donor James S Crown’s grandfather, Henry Crown.
Obama also sought more than $3.4 million earmarks for his VP Joe Biden’s llobbyist son, Hunter.

NewsFlash:
Already the McCain campaign are sending phony absentee ballots targeting potential Obama voters in four states including Michigan and Ohio and the return address is to the wrong city clerks office.
The Carl Rove tactics of rigging this election is already starting and foreclosure Americans cannot vote, mostly those that cannot afford the financial fiasco of the Bush McCain administration.
Is this the kind of politics that the holier than thou Sarah Palin is accepting as honest politics? Get real folks – she is just as deceitful and a liar as John McCain and George Bush.
I guess the Supreme court will be deciding this contested election also.

McCain has been seen using a blackberry. If he could write and use a blackberry, why couldn’t he use a computer and explore the internet or type an e-mail?

It is pretty apparent that Jake and most of the commenters don’t recognize the difference between funding requests (which are voted as part of funding legislation) and earmarks which are dropped into legislation, without transparency or a vote. All states submit funding requests through their elected representatives. Palin has significantly reduced those requests in her 1st 2 years in office. Those requests are debated in committee and on the House floor where Congress can allocate and prioritize with full visibility. The earmarks undergo no such scrutiny and point of fact: Governors can’t request earmarks, only senators and representatives can!

But you’re trying get around the crux of the McCain/Palin critiques on earmark and pork. The critique of earmarks is that they make an end-run around the approval process, and their advocates don’t put them up for a traditional Congressional approval; they’re merely tacked on to apprproriations bills.
The critique on pork focuses on wasteful federal spending, and particularly that which has no obvious federal benefit or tie-in. If Palin is using money for the fishing industry, or for roads and infrastructure (generally needed, but obviously there can be excessive spending even in infrastructure, e.g., Bridge to Nowhere), that’s not a problem.