How Palin is Playing in the Supermarket Aisles

Palin claims to be all about “family”, while she leaves her 5 month old down syndrome baby at home with her “mature” daughters. I guess Palin’s teenagers will be fine taking care of both babies while their mom is campaigning. That is until the younger one gets knocked up.

This clearly shows a lack of judgement on McCain’s part. Is America ready for another bumbling President?

This womens fall is McCains fault. In order to win he never vetted a person who was not prepared for this.

This is just horrible! What a boneheaded choice. Thanks Mclame for giving us the election!

My mother-in-law is a republican. On Friday she was over the moon about this pick. Today she is hoping McCain drops her from the ticket. Enough said.

This is really sad for the Repugs. I almost feel sorry for them but for the fact that if the situation were reversed, and this was say, Biden’s daughter, they would be coming at us with both barrels, unlike what Obama has suggested that we keep families out of the campaign. Obama has got class, that’s for sure.

I am an Obama supporter, but somehow this has become painful to watch. This has become worse than Rev. Wright.

A mom who chose to give a speech and fly in a plane instead of getting immediate medical care for her disabled baby when her water broke; chose to leave that 5-month old disabled baby at home while she further her career; and chose to leave her knocked-up teen-age daughter at home while she furthers her career…
What kind of family values are those?

Palin is being dragged through the mud, after only 5 days. Yet, Obama, on the campaign for almost 2 years, is not fully vetted. There is SO much about his past that we don’t know. Why are the vultures digging into his past with as much zeal?
As usual, the sexism reigns. People jump to conclusions and attack the female Palin immediately like savages, but her much more inexperienced male opponent Obama, with so much suspicious and dangerous aspects of his past, gets off scot free. Why isn’t the press asking the exact same questions of Obama?
Not only that, any attempt at investigating into Obama’s past is met with calls of race card.
How did Americans come to this? We should be ashamed.

I’m still unsure if Sarah Palin is campaigning for public office, or auditioning for a role in “Juno-2-Baby Got Bump “

wow, I hope that all of the Female CEO’s that handle billions of Dollars everyday and the Surgeons that handles peoples lives every day and the Lawyers who gets up everyday and defends those on the brink of the death penality or life altering situations, would just quit and go hame and take care of thier children and let the men run the country, is this where we are at? just making sure, because I guess they don’t have fathers and husbands who are responsible enough to pick up the slack.

“Let’s say, instead, like millions of working-class Americans, you get your “news” on the political race from the supermarket aisle’
OMG! How condescending is that. Someone send this to Rush.

I’m sorry, but a woman with 5 kids, some of whom are still very young, is not ready to be a full time Vice President.
What happens if there is an “emergency” between BOTH one of the kids and the nation at the same time? She loses both ways. If she takes care of the nation emergency, she becomes an unfit mother. If she takes care of the kids first, the nation could be put in a war.
Mr. McCain, quit worrying about your personal ego and start worrying about the good of the nation and get a VP who has kids out of diapers.

Wow A mother standing by her daughter during a media driven social life…..She is running for VP. What a about a Presidential Candidate who best friends are criminal but I forgot so are the owners of ABC news… No wonder they aren’t interested in finding out about the man who is running for president? No stories about everything Obama has done, thats right he doesn’t listen to his spiritual guide (Wright) haha….News from ABC is as bad as CBS and NBC. I quit listening to the others several years ago. Now ABC too….. Report all the news not just the parts your criminal owners tell you …. Some journalists you are NOT!

Choosing Palin is one of the most shameful decisions McCain could have ever done to the political process and to the GOP. Having her name on the ticket is an insult to all Americans regardless of party. Is McCain actually TRYING to lose? I never expected him to commit political suicide. But he is doing it. How sad for the GOP.

first of all, lofrommo, how come you are not asking the same question of Obama, with two young children? Michelle has already said that Barack is only home on weekends. Are you going to call him a rotten father? Wow do you assume that women must raise their children first, and men are expected to run the country?
It’s attitudes like that that will keep women in the back of the bus.
You notice that the SAME people who are attacking Palin, are the ones who attacked Hillary? Same issues…..they attack Hillary personally, with sexist comments, why she isn’t there for Chelsea, why she tolerated her husband’s cheating, etc. HIllary is MUCH more experienced than Obama, yet they all attack her, and let the inexperienced opponent run scot free. Sound familiar?
Yet, no one attacked Obama personally that way. So, it is not really about party, it is about GENDER.
As they say, weak men are threatened by a strong woman.
“A respectable woman should not support or advance a party that ignores her”.
— Susan B. Anthony
Americans should be ashamed.
Is this progress?

If anything, the Palin selection demonstrated that relying on emotional vectoring to steer the election is unreliable. Notice that in one day all of the effort to build up Obama leading to the Big Spectacle was undone and the poles switched to the other side. So I wouldn’t count on that cover to change the outcomes. Expect a lot more of that. Obama is insulated because… well.. umm… because he is…. ummm…a …. lawyer.
But the press only runs with what sells.
The experience drum is loose at the rims. If there are two issues that will cause people to think, they will be:
1. EXTREME conservatism. It scares people when you tell them their children will be taught nonsense science and be unable to take the job from an Indian who was taught combinatorics are age ten while you were allowing your children to be told that considering all sides of a question means seriously considering the world was created 5000 years ago.
2. The Sorceror’s Apprentice: at the end of every election cycle we are left with endorphin-addicts who fed on the hate generated by sites like Daily KOS. They have to do something with that energy so the question is can the winner actually redirect that destructive force to positive means or is he merely the Sorceror’s Apprentice.
Goals vs leadership. Bill Clinton had it exactly right.

I love to watch right wingers flush there morals down the tolet in order to prop up a dying party! Why to stand your ground right wingers! Going to have to change our definition of “family values”! Hippocrate bastards.

So when draft-dodger Joe Biden (5 deferrals and then a supposed “childhood ashthma” diagnosis) wife and child died, he decided to go to work at the senate despite having young ORPHANS at home. Where is the scrutiny?
Let us just say that ABCNEWS and Jake Tapper are worse than US magazine. They are bottom dwelling parasites pretending to be serious. May you rot in hell.
The liberal left and the MSM have never been so low. Let us bring back Reverend Wright to remind people of who the first term senator from Chicago listened to for 20 years.

“It’s absurd sexism and I hope woomen take that thought to the ballot box.” Amen. Enough of this crap from the Democrat party. Why do Democrats always eat their own when it suits them? What a bunch of sexist and bigoted hypocrites! VOTE NO TO BIGOTED OBAMA SUPPORTERS!!

“Sexism rears its ugly head again. They got away with it with Hillary and now they are doing worse to Palin. Absolutely horrible. Poor little feeble minded women can’t take care of their families and work”
__________________________
Obviously, she hadn’t been taking care of her family too well. Its a fact, not sexism. How do I know? Her teenager is knocked-up!
BTW, Palin has a “pastor problem” that’s about to explode into the media too. I love it!

decentAmerican “You notice that the SAME people who are attacking Palin, are the ones who attacked Hillary? ”
Is this the current Republican talking point then? I loved it when Representative Bachman tried using that line on Larry King against James Carville last night. Carville was Senator Clinton’s bulldog who only recently let go of gnawing on Obama’s leg to take a quick swipe at Palin. It really showed how flat out false that talking point is. Many of the people skeptical of Palin’s “experience” are Clinton supporters somewhat aghast that McCain thinks she is anywhere near as suitable for the office as Senator Clinton .

GMAB…more smears from another liberal leaning rag.
and who believes that middle America believes the stuff in these rags any more than they do the ENQUIRER.
The liberal feeding frenzy is pathetic to watch….one can only assume that all thectivity is because the left is scared and faliling out.
At least the candidate himself shows some measure of decorum and says to lay off the kids.

Sarah Palin has a high approval rating in Alaska because she’s been a pro-active governor. This is why she’s now the VP on mccains ticket. I cant wait to hear her speech, i reckon its going to get people talking about her again and not trashing her family.

What kind of role model is this for our teenage daughters?

MOMS OF AMERICA,
I need help with this ‘woman thing’ a “leader’s” CREDIBILITY, NOT HER FAMILY! lol
1. You are 44 years old and pregnant (RISKY).
2. Your ‘water broke’ PREMATURELY; and you are leaking amniotic fluid.
3. You would jump on a NON-MEDICAL plane for 8 HOURS and a 4 thousand miles trip, in order to give birth … TO A PREMIE AT THAT?
Is the above;
a) Insane
b) reckless
c) bad judgment
d) an out and out lie, or
e) all of the above? lol
The unbelievable Sarah Pollen story.

Louise: “Sarah Palin has a high approval rating in Alaska because she’s been a pro-active governor.”
What, specifically, has she done with her 18 months in office, beyond putting the state jet up for sale on Ebay and giving away (or proposing to at least) a bit extra from the Permanent Fund that is awash in oil royalty money?

Palin is a horrible parent and she should spend more time at home!

And comparing Palin to Clinton is like comparing a High school drop out to a Astrophysicist

Since women only earn 72% of what men earn, will she forgo 28% of her VP salary because she’s a woman? As a Woman and an undecided, I am not impressed. Olympia Snow, Kay BaileyHutchison would have been 1000% better. Her 5 children being reaised by their father just shows you where their values lie— the son is going to Iraq, the daughter is knocked up. Where was this father? Both of these parents don’t show much in the way of Family Values. I doubt I will be voting for a Republican ticket.

Up by 8 and going. Weed out corruption like loybing for a bridge to no were and lying about it. Or firing people who don’t support your campain? Yea that’s “strong leadership”. LMAO!! Right wing hippocrite!

It should be changed from the GOP to the HOP. Hippocrite OLD Party. LMAO!!! Now there is CHANGE I can believe in! LMAO!!!!

While I agree that candidates dependent children should be off limits for discussion, I am forced to ask, where are this woman’s priorities? She has a five month old Down child, a pregnant 17 year old, and 3 other children who probably need a real mother’s emotional support. There is no real replacement for a mother’s love and it is critical to good emotional development. I am disturbed to think that her ambitions usurp the needs of her children.

McCain is toast! He is going through a late life crisis. Sorry for him, his age should stay home enjoy the rest of his life.
Palin should go home take care of her children. Her children need her more than American people do.
I am so pleased the way Obama is handing this. He shows us the true leader of this country. He is the one we need!
Obama/Biden 2008

black hole … well, you could look at it the other way.
1) On average, women (as a group) make 72% of what men make (as a group) because they tend to make different career choices and step away from working or work part-time to have families. Less experience = less $. By that calculation, Obama’s pay should be cut too.
2) Also, why not peel off the “support our troops” sticker from your car before you suggest that a parent failed somehow b/c the child joined the military.
3) which part bothers you most – the teenage sex or the pregnancy or the fact that her mother’s political views are that abortion shouldn’t be allowed? And how does any of those indicate parental failure any more than your parents’ inability to raise a child capable of critical thinking or compassion?

I guess we’re too stupid to see the roundabout way the press is playing this one. We don’t report trash but we report the people who report trash. Come on keep showing your true colors.
Double standard, took a year for the Edward’s scandal to make it here but Sarah Palin’s, what five days.

What republicans say with this choice:
It’s ok to do it as long as you are a republican. But if your not and your daughter has premarital sex your going to hell!

If you put Palin here in California or New York, she would probally have lowest approval rating in the history.
It is just simple and clear: She is not the one we need for this country.

The most amazing thing is how people’s true colors start to show. Apparently for many Dems, protecting womens’ rights is about choosing to have an abortion, not about having a fulfilling career (or atleast not until your children are 18 or older). Right, sign me up for your “aging womens” movement right now – I’d love not to work, still be intellectually satisfied, know I’m serving my community, help support my family, and still be able to get a real career when the kids are all grown. Even at minimum wage, the 20 years of pay your program will provide me (and every other woman you’re choosing to judge) can certainly be raised by putting more tax burdens on the “rich” and on corporations (aka employers).

decentAmerican “You notice that the SAME people who are attacking Palin, are the ones who attacked Hillary? ”
Is this the current Republican talking point then? I loved it when Representative Bachman tried using that line on Larry King against James Carville last night. Carville was Senator Clinton’s bulldog who only recently let go of gnawing on Obama’s leg to take a quick swipe at Palin. It really showed how flat out false that talking point is. Many of the people skeptical of Palin’s “experience” are Clinton supporters somewhat aghast that McCain thinks she is anywhere near as suitable for the office as Senator Clinton .
JHW539,
I completely agree with your comments. The talking points from the right is to yell “sexism” at every instance if someone is not saying all glowing and positive things about Gov. Palin. The far right has used the term “sexism” more in the last 48 hours than they have ever used it in the last 30 years combined trying to defend this absurd pick by McCain.
I feared as an Obama supporter that McCain was going to pick Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson! Now, that is a person whose credentials or experience could never be criticized even if you do not agree with her political views. Unbelievable that with only 2 months left that McCain would pick a VP that has not been on the national stage and then turn around and not really vet this person. Insanity, considering McCain has had several cancer scares.

LM….if all that is true about palin, then America is facing a tough choice between the redneck chick from alaska and an old naval officer with a maverick reputation and a charmin hypocrite with horrendous judgment and his “change” contradiction of a veteran insider and attack dog……..

Debra: Don’t try to play the goody goody girl when you know that girls younger than 17 are getting pregnant everyday and maybe one of your friend’s is pregnant already. Try watching the Maury show and listen to how many young girls don’t even know who the father is because they have been with so many men. I am sure you definately heard about that or know girls like that.

Chelsey wasn’t a pregnant teen

what’s worse? having your 17 year old become pregnant, or subjecting your younger, impressionable children to the hateful rantings of a pastor of a church you only joined and abandoned to further your political career?

only Senator Clinton is capable of being the best President that our children, our troops and America deserve and need right now at this critical moment in our history…..it is on your conscience if you have decided to act against the best interests of such loved ones by supporting a lesser candidate (mccain/obama) to take on the daunting tasks to be faced by the next President…

Newswatcher: Who cares about vetting. No senator, Mayor or Governor should be vetted. They are not filling out an application for a job. Get real. Also I don’t care about her daughter being pregnant at age 17 when there are young girls the ages of 14 thru 17 haveing babies, throwing them in the garbage, trying to drown them in the toilet or leaving them in a field as one had been found recently. People just want something to say because they don’t have anything to do and didn’t accomplish anything in their life and never will. Comments made about Palin’s daughter are from people that no doubt know several girls that are having babies at a young age. They can’t play games with me because I am well aware of the fact of what their friends do.

T h i s is not about babies! THIS IS ABOUT BEING CONNED INTO GOING INTO IRAQ FOR WMD’s….Our Republican President LIED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. THIS IS ABOUT THE FAILURE TO ACT AFTER 5 DAYS AFTER KATRINA. THIS IS ABOUT THE ECONOMY STUPID – AND BUSH/CHENEY TIES TO BIG OIL!!! And they are trying to get elected AGAIN! Rove, Black, Graham…all the same players.

I agree Michelle, double standard that women deal with everyday.
They are bringing up questions they would never even think to question in a man.
They are creating standards they would never hold a man up to. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER. And they don’t even see the hypocrisy.

Not Again: I am sorry to tell you that McCain is not responsible for the war. If you insist that he voted for the war so did Biden. What about that? Yes, Bush lied about it but the majority of senato’s voted for it so you cannot single out one person only. Hillary voted for it. Obama was against it but wasn’t at the senate for the voting. It was only word of mouth from him. I cannot believe the public is so dumb to believe what he says when it is nothing but a pack of lies. Obama is good at that. He is a good sincerity liar and its people like you that eat it up. I am well aware of what he is doing.

Joe writes – But if your not (republican) and your daughter has premarital sex your going to hell!….Here you are providing yet another example of how the Dem campaign has devalued politics into false finger-pointing and misrepresentations. Republicans did not claim there is a double-standard, but you did. Stop with the divisive sexism tactics, wake up and start to work on the issues and solutions!

Joe – are you saying that any woman that had sex before marriage is a whore b/c I can bet that’s a whole lot of women. Which means you never had sex before you were married, because, being equal – that makes you a whore. In case you didn’t read the whole story – she’s pregnant by her boyfriend and getting married. I certainly hope your daughter (if you have one) never disappoints you b/c that would make you a horrible parent – or would that be your wife’s fault?

Joe: Are you trying to say that you are not having sex with your girlfriend? If your married bets are on you had sex first. This is not the days of the 30′s40′s50′s most young girls today want that sex and so do the guys. Who are you kidding? I know better.

So if the shoe was on the other foot…
What would the repubs be doing to Obama right now?

I don’t care what no one says, Mitt Romney should have been VP. Now once again John McCain has sold us Republican voters out for a horrible pick for VP. THIS YEAR IS ABOUT THE ECONEMY STUPID! John I’m a Republican and you sir are no Republican you are a traitor to my party and deserve to lose. Many Republicans have decided they will not allow McCain to hijack our party and sell us out for a few trashy socialist women Hillary Clinton Votes. We are the party of values and reason and you have threatened to destroy our party by picking Palin who is a unknown and has accomplished nothing that would sugest she was a good pick for VP. Palin’s family morals and family values are in question and if we allow this woman to stay on this ticket then you have lost this race already because we will not vote for you. Either you put Mitt Romney on this ticket or we will allow the Democrats to take the White House. If you dont beleive us, look at the poll numbers that are comming out after his pick of Palin .Choose wisely my friend! Romney/2012

Really? I thought the definition of hypocrisy was when you disavow the church you’ve attended and supported for 20 years b/c it turns out your pastor’s views and comments are insane -but only after national coverage and disclosure. 20 years is a long time to disavow.

This is what bothers me about her. While on the campaign trail, how do you truly take care of your family. I am all for strong women but I am also for strong, smart women who will not neglect their family for their careers. She is young and if she has aspirations to get on the national scene, she has time for that after she had taken care of her family. How can she truly serve America when she has stuff going on in her family that has to be constantly on her mind. We spend a lot of our time thinking about our family when things are stable so I know how it can be when unhappy stuff is going on. Do she plan to run around the country with her kids or will her daughter have to take care of her siblings. You know people can say well we would not say this to a man and that is because the Mother is expected to be there and nuture the family. It has to be hard to hold your baby and two Blackberry.

but JOE — Ref “if it was Obama’s daughter” … – you’d agree w/the republicans that the girl was a whore and the parent a failure, so what’s the problem?

Joe,So if your daughter is a whore and your in the office all the time you are a responsable parent?
I guess she could march her down to the abortion clinic so she wouldn’t be punished with a child. Or I guess she could make her face up to her responsiblities as a 17 year old who made a choice and now has to live with the consequences. Or she could have used birth control so she could be a whore as you say all that she wanted without ever having to deal with a pregnancy. Or she could have locked her in her room so she couldn’t act like she was a normal 17 year old interested in sex.

Joe: And she has been a big show. He raised 10 million dollars after he chose her for VP. And I bet she could give you a good argument. Don’t think that she isn’t a match for Biden. I would like to hear him debate her. She didn’t get elected mayor or governor because she was dumb she got it because she was smart and knew how to run Alaska and clean up the mess. And don’t look for that to happen if Obama gets elected. Look for a bigger mess.

Exsactly pennvoter! Lots of choices! But what about the radical movment that Miss Alaska was invoved in? Drop out of the US and join OPEC? She hates america!

Joe – She has not been hypocritical. You obviously don’t know the meaning of the word – she’s against abortion and her daughter didn’t have an abortion. I would bet that she preached abstinance at home, but heavens, her teenage daughter chose not to listen, what a rare, rare thing. So she must be the worst mother in the world. Of course, that means every other parent of a teenager who doesn’t listen and who makes a mistake is a horrible parent, too. Or is the parent who preaches no drugs a hypocrite b/c thier child drinks and does drugs without their knowledge or consent? Wake up to the real world.

What a shame and disgrace. McCain is a bitter and angry man.He really thinks that the election belong to him on WHITE principles only.Palin is being exploited by her own Party. This is the work of a deeply disturbed Mccain.He feels that Americans owe him for his heroism and POW nightmare. He is saying to the world If I can’t win then I will belittle the entire political process by deverting people from the Substantive issues in our politics.Clever move Mccain but i am HIP to your sinister mind-set

She is a very bad parent then the plane ride all this crap. here daughter got pregnant because her mom is never home!You right wingers have lost it not the election but your minds! And she wants Alaska to drop out of our Union! She hates america!

How naive to think her daughter would not be savaged by the media when her pregnancy was apparent. What kind of mother would subject her daughter to that? For her daughter’s sake, Ms. Palin should have considered this and declined the offer of nomination. She is an example of grossly poor judgment and selfishness.

I hope her other daughter is getting good guidance from her drunk father.

Don’t forget. US is owned by the same outfit that publishes Rolling Stone which is a huge Obama suporter.

What was John McCain thinking? If there was any question about his disdain for women, this should have clinched it. I am stunned when I hear women gush about Palin because, “she is a hockey mom, just like me.” We are not electing the next homeroom mother, PTA chairwoman, or Sunday school teacher – this woman has the very real possibility of becoming the President of the United States. Does anyone think she is even remotely qualified for one of the most difficult and important jobs in the world? Undecided before, I am firmly for Obama now. This last stunt of McCain’s made my decision.

The Obamas have been traveling and campaigning for almost 2 years and they have 2 young daughters. I don’t recall anyone yelling about who’s putting them to bed or who’s helping them with their homework. A politician’s personal life is their own and it’s not our business.

Charles, you left out mayor, business owner and governor of Alaska who has a pair to stand up to her own party when they are wrong. As a Hillary supporter, this is unlike Hillary I might add.

Isn’t she affilited wih the IRA?

Joe- you have conveniently forgotten that Obama did drugs as a youth… which was illegal. So, Palin’s husband was arrested for DUI years ago – that doesn’t make him a drunk now anymore than Obama’s previous drug use makes him a junkie now. You are being ridiculous.

Michelle, I have to correct you on one point and also because I heard it said that Sarah Palin was irresponsible for choosing to keep a down’s syndrome child.
As a mother at 44 I was worried about Down’s, after doing research and as my doctor told, high risk doctor mind you, that since more and more women are postponing pregnancy they have begun to get a more accurate picture of the risks of having a Down’s child,and they are finding that the risks between older and younger women are nearly the same or possibly even higher in younger women.

HRC=strong qualified woman awesome parent!
Sarah Palin=horrible parent unfit for Vp

Obama bounce is dwindling. People are watching the hypocricy. Do yourselves a favor, Obama supporters, take the high road. Don’t complain about the other party acting like they are superior while you are making comments that you didn’t like when the comments were made by them. Get it? If you don’t, then, you are a hypocrite.

She is a terrorist who wants to sell america’s resources to the Russians!

JC- I’m in favor of her. I think you directed this at the wrong person. That was “no comparison”.

Joe
You are a trolling moron who denigrates the very ideal of post-partisanship that Obama has tried to represent. Your points are either outright lies or complete distortions.
No comparison: Her record of standing up to her party and Big Oil is easy enough to find. Your very lack of curiosity about her positions indicates to me that you dismiss her because she is a woman and not worth the effort.
Sexist!!!!
The left has become the side of hate. I am distancing myself from it as fast as I can. I can’t believe that I had been so foolish.

That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard, Joe. What are you smoking?? By the way, my sister got pregnant in her late 30s after having a tubal ligation and her husband had lost a testicle to cancer. She was also on birth control for other reasons. But they still had a miracle baby. So, anything is possible.
And just because her daughter got pregnant doesn’t mean she is a bad parent. What is wrong with you people?? You have to lie and make up stuff to feel better?

Newswatcher: Who cares about vetting. No senator, Mayor or Governor should be vetted. They are not filling out an application for a job. Get real. Also I don’t care about her daughter being pregnant at age 17 when there are young girls the ages of 14 thru 17 haveing babies, throwing them in the garbage, trying to drown them in the toilet or leaving them in a field as one had been found recently. People just want something to say because they don’t have anything to do and didn’t accomplish anything in their life and never will. Comments made about Palin’s daughter are from people that no doubt know several girls that are having babies at a young age. They can’t play games with me because I am well aware of the fact of what their friends do.
Marianne
Marianne,
I did not even mention her daughter’s pregnancy in my post. What bothers me about Palin is: 1) her and her husband’s membership in AIP as recently as 1994, an Alaskan group that strongly believes that the state of Alaska should succeed from the US, 2) Troopergate. Palin’s emails and phone records have now been obtained.By the way Palin has just hired an attorney to represent her on this matter as of yesterday, 3) Palin’s fellow Republican collegue in Alaska (an Alaskan Repbulican state senator) who was interviewed yesterday and stated that “Palin is not only not qualified to be VP, but that she is not even qualified to be mayor or governaor of Alaska,” and 4) Govenor Palin’s Mother-in-Law who stated over the weekend that she did not think that Sarah was qualified.
Ironic that for months the far right has lambasted and falsley attacked Senator Obama for not being a patriotic American. Now John McCain has turned around and nominated someone for his VP that believed as of 1994 that her state of Alaska should succeed the US. Talk about being unpatriotic……What a mess.
Marianne, people do still vett candidates for a reason; and now you should know why they do in case over the last 48 hours you have been out of the country.

JC, soooo, she threw a rock and then hid her hands behind her back by joining the corrupt, with all of her support for Senator Stevens, who is being indicted for corrupt activities, by abusing her power, twice, by firing people unjustly, by lying about her saying “no thanks” to the bridge of nowhere when what she really did was keep the millions of taxpaying dollars..
Even Marge Simpson could have stood up to that corrupt Alaskan government, so what?

It is not hypocrisy. Republicans STRIVE for a moral backbone to this country. Because we are human, we make mistakes, and fail, but that doesn’t mean we should stop trying or that it is hypocritical to want it to be better. And to keep TRYING.
It’s better than the alternative – reward the mistakes through social programs or erase the mistakes and say it’s okay. It’s NOT okay to make excuses just because someone is poor, or doesn’t speak English, or is here illegally.
Yes, Palin’s daughter made a mistake – but she’s going to live with it and do the right thing, not take the easy way out.

Troopergate: a non-issue. One should be fired for threatening the life of someone else and hiding behind the badge to do so.
State Senator: Do you have a name? He is probably a friend and contemporary of those who were ousted out of office.
Mother-in-law??? Her husband’s mother? I haven’t heard that, but I certainly would like to look it up.
As far as I have heard, she was fully vetted when they chose her. Much more so than Obama whose birth certificate cannot be authenticated and whose citizenship may not be in order as he did not reaffirm it by the age of 23. He traveled to Pakistan when he was 20 on his Indonesian passport. There is no dual citizenship with Indonesia.

You all are just scared… This was a brilliant choice and there is no real scandal in her life. She is REAL…unlike the phony Obama who hides everything about himself. Palin has 8 years executive experience while Obama has NONE. He was merely a community activist/organizer. Big deal. Has he ever held a real job? Has he ever run a business? No. Obama isn’t even a legal citizen if you believe the Democrat from Pennsylvania who filed a suit charging that he never reclaimed his citizenship by the age of 23. Obama is the one who has scandals…not Palin. She is just a real human being and a reformer (the latter scares the dickens out of ya’ll!)
JC
JC,
Barack Obama was born in the US. This story was researched and reported on the evening news a few weeks ago. The news reporters were able to even obtain a copy of Senator Obama’s US birth certificate and show it on the air…GAME UP!
Secondly, are you kidding me asking if Obama had ever held a real job? I guess being a constitutuinal law professor, being an Illinois state senator for sev eral years are apparently to you “not a real jobs.”

As an HR administrator, the firing of the state trooper was illegal. There is no way around it.

Joe- you really don’t expect anyone to take you seriously with all these stupid comments, do you? You have nothing more than horrendous name calling and crude insinuations – you are a perfect example of why I could never be a member of the same party as you. And I feel really bad for the rest of the Democrats – you are a horrible member to have.

No comparison – did you not get the memo? He wasn’t fired. She’s been accused of trying to have him fired, which has not been proven.

I feel like throwing up when I read most of the posts here and at other similar sites. What a revolting collection of “human beings” we all are.

Or his embezzlment which costs tax payers billions?

Joe- we don’t defend his adultery. Nor does he. He admits it was horrible and he’s sorry for it. It takes a big man to admit when he’s wrong and ask for foregiveness. And while I’m disappointed that it happened – if we chose our president based upon marital fidelity alone – there’s a lot of presidents that shouldn’t have been, and a lot of them were Democrats. Or have you forgotten that the last Democratic president was impeached for lying about his affair?

Not really…not like working in business. Anyone who isn’t afraid of audiences can lecture, Newswatcher. That is hardly the same as working in business and running an executive office. Besides, he hasn’t passed any legislation or done anything of significance. Where is that $49 million, by the way??
With regard to his birth certificate, it seems to have been altered. But even if it is his true unaltered(and certified) birth certificate, he was adopted by Soetoro when his mother married him. His school records even list him as Barry Soetoro and he used an Indonesian (not U.S.) passport to go to Pakistan in 1980. Philip Berg, a Democrat (very staunch Democrat who does not support any Republican causes), has filed suit against Obama for this. go to obamacrimes.com

Better get used to SP, you’re going to be looking at her for the next 12 years.

Oh lord the “forged” birth certificate people are now out in force. Please, for the love of god, kill yourselves before you spread the disease.

Troopergate: a non-issue. One should be fired for threatening the life of someone else and hiding behind the badge to do so.
State Senator: Do you have a name? He is probably a friend and contemporary of those who were ousted out of office.
Mother-in-law??? Her husband’s mother? I haven’t heard that, but I certainly would like to look it up.
As far as I have heard, she was fully vetted when they chose her. Much more so than Obama whose birth certificate cannot be authenticated and whose citizenship may not be in order as he did not reaffirm it by the age of 23. He traveled to Pakistan when he was 20 on his Indonesian passport. There is no dual citizenship with Indonesia.
JC
JC,
If Troopergate is a non-issue then why did the state hire a private lawyer for Gov. Palin to represent her in this matter? One of her employees stated in an interview that “Palin tried to force him to fire her former brother-in-law.”Why were Gov. Palin’s email and phone records pulled if there is no issue?
The Repbulican state senator was a female by the last name of Green, I believe. I read this on yesterday, I believe on the Anchorage Daily News website.
John McCain was actually the one not born in one of the 50 US states. He was born on a military base in the Panama Canal Zone. Source: wikipedia.org

You didn’t even see the second half of the argument, did you. You just have to leave it at “the forged certificate”. Well, it might be and there is good evidence that it has bee altered, but even if it isn’t there is other information that works against him. Has he ever re-affirmed his citizenship by the age of 23? All of that stuff aside, he is still a hard left marxist. That is probably why you like him. But I say that if you don’t like freedom, capitalism, and a democratic republic, then you should find a socialist country to move to.

This lady is hot!!!!

State troopers should not threaten people’s lives and hide behind his badge. But what does that have to do with the “MOTHER-in-law” you mentioned?

By the way, I want to scream out to ABCNews.com: we do not care what Elisabeth Hasselback thinks! Stop posting daily videos from her stupid ass show on your home page. Bury them 20 pages back if you must. Are you on crack? Why would her blathering be significant to anyone or mean anything in any world? OF COURSE she’s in love with Sarah Palin. Good god ABC, they both put the big snooze on me and they’re both practically the same person.

Time to go. Joe- I hope you’ll be less judgmental and a little more reasonable. Even if you hate republicans, that doesn’t make their opinions any less important than yours. Although – you didn’t really give reasoned opinions, you just lashed out with vulgarities and hypocrisy.

What’s being lost in all of the back-and-forth is that the fundamental issue here is not what Palin’s done, it’s that choosing Palin shows abysmally poor planning and decision-making on the part of McCain.
He wants to be president–the one whose finger is “on the button”–but he picks a VP candidate based on the flimsiest of vetting and minimal direct interaction. In addition, the selection is made not because the candidate offers actual skills, but because it is politically expedient. (If McCain wanted an experienced female VP candidate, why not choose Snowe, Hutchinson, or Rell–or even Christie or Meg Whitman–instead?) Instead, McCain tries to pass of Palin as the MOST QUALIFIED VP candidate he could obtain. (Perhaps that’s true; perhaps the aforementioned women all told him to take a long walk off of a short pier.)
All in all, this whole process and the aftermath reeks of McCain being much too reckless and impulsive to be president in the 21st century.

Ok. I have very little invested in this argument but after reading all the comments I have one thing to add:
Joe, for the love of all that’s Holy, LEARN TO FU*KING USE SPELL CHECK.
Do you have any idea how irritating it is to be lectured by someone who spells the word hypocrite no less than 5 different ways? The substance of your talking points are asinine but you can at least let people figure that out by reading what you’ve typed instead of what you mistyped.
Watching you misspell 8 words and then end with “LMAO!!!!!!!” makes me feel like I’m watching the third grader whose mom won’t let him take his Ritalin because she’s into ‘holistic’ medicine.
You must be the son of horrible horrible parents. lol (sorry, couldn’t resist)

What are Obama’s accomplishments? He was elected president of Harvard Law Review, but didn’t publish any articles. He didn’t take a fast track job at a big law firm which is fine and his choice, but what has he really done with his law degree other than work his way up through the Chicago Machine? Similarly he spent years as a “senior lecturer” of constitutional law, who was “regarded as a professor” or “served as a professor”. So in other words he didn’t publish as most professors do. He did manage to write two autobiographies before he was 47 though. Seems to me the top half of the Democratic ticket is a bit of an underachiever.

Governor Palin should run despite her daughter’s mistake. Why would she want her daughter to be blamed for keeping her mom from running for Vice-President?

I don’t care about Palin and her issues….As an independent I think this election has “peeled back the onion” and exposed some seriously dark things in this country……..
(1) This is still a very very racist country…the blogs and right wing comments are scary. The exit polls in the primaries show that at least 25% of people voted based on race
(2) This is a very very sexist country. The type of attacks on Hilary Clinton, Michelle Obama and now Sarah Palin, show that we have a double standard. Hilary had comments about the way she dressed and laughed. THe right wing even dared to attack John edwards wife when his scandal broke…..saying she obviously was doing something wrong……
(3) We will discriminate based on age – Obama was too young, John Mccain was too old and all the other very demeaning comments about both candidates and their ages
(4) We say we separate church from state but why are the Pastors from all these candidates – Wright, Dobson, Hagee and Parsley taking center stage? Why is the evangelical movement influencing these elections…my last check we had hundreds of religions in America but yet this group is gaining increasingly dangerous power
(5) We have a growing trend of journalists and “Main stream Media” that refuse to be objective. The blogs are driving the politicians and media. No one cares if the info. out here in the blogs is correct. The Networks are lazy and taking info. from blogs and selling it to average Americans as news.
(6) Is there anything in the constitution that would allow us as voters to vito both nominations and select new qualified candidates to run the most powerful nation on earth? Is any one else scared about the future of this country?

Palin is the new Spears. Only thing which is missing is a DUI and panty less photo.

Why don’t you guys just write
If they aren’t liberal…stay home.
It is really apparent how much hate you folks have. I hope you don’t go to church cause God don’t like ugly. Go read about Esther in the Bible…she is Esther and God is not going to be merciful to those who touch his anointed one…she kept her kids.

Had Barrack not been against Hillary we wouldn’t be having this conversation! He choose a wrinkled old White Guy instead of the one who deserved it!
Why attack Palin, your guy made the wrong choice!

Frankly, this is all to be expected, and should probably not phase people in the long run.
I find the feverish attention as a sign that the Obama supporters are very concerned about the Gov. Palin candidacy. Let’s face it, if people thought she was a non-threat, she would not be getting this attention. It is the opposite of the tactics used by the New York Times and other agencies who initially supported McCain within the Republican candidate pool – helping choose who they thought would be a weaker candidate.
Gov. Palin has energized the conservative base. There is no getting around that. For that, I think McCain did make a smart move. Just like democrats worrying about party unity for their convention, there was concern about unifying and bringing in the conservative base. I think this has unified the Republican Party before the convention.
I think the debates will be the key for those who are undecided – not the rags in the supermarket stands. Most people take what the magazines say with a box of salt.
As for the people who put comments here, I don’t expect to change anyone’s mind. Everyone putting comments here have probably made up their minds.

See: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/us/politics/02vetting.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&8au&emc=au
Now, the truth is starting to come out about the reckless, cavalier, and dangerous decision made by McSame to place Sarah (knock ‘em up) Palin on the ticket. If this is the type of decision making to be expected of McSame in the White House, then he is a very dangerous man indeed to even be considered for the presidency. Hopefully, the American people (this doesn’t include mentally deranged social conservatives) will wake up and smell the coffee before it’s too late. Obama/Biden 08!!!

I agree with Will Sasser who wrote,
“What about Rev Wright?
William Ayers?
Why won’t BO release his medical records?”
When will Obama be vetted? If Biden were at the top of the ticket and choosing a running mate he would never opt for Obama with all of his seriously questionable connections. Instead we’re talking about Palin–the No. 2 on the ticket–and giving Obama that pass that’s been going on for some 19 months. It’s the same pass that allowed him to get through the primary season without falling to Clinton. Now it’s happening again. The sexist treatment of Palin is a repeat of the media’s sexist treatment of Clinton. Oh well!

Choosing Palin for a running mate is just another perfect example of why we can’t afford to elect McSame come November. He’ll finish what Bush started…the total destruction of the USA!

Whats wrong ABCNews… Did you run out of new attack stories on this women so now your doing stories on others attacking her?

Trailer meet trash.

Well, if nothing else, we on the left should thank John McCain for converting so many “traditional value” conservatives into militant feminists over night.
I had thought, from years of listening to the likes of James Dobson, Jerry Falwell and Phyllis Schafly, that traditional value conservatives believed women SHOULD be held to a different standard than men, because their most important role in society is to bear and raise children and be obedient “helpmeets” for their husbands, just like the Good Book says.
But now, reading this thread, I see conservatives arguing that a mother with five children (one of them with Downs Syndrome), who already has a very demanding day job — plus a husband who also works away from home much of the year — should throw herself into a grueling campaign for the vice presidency — and anyone who thinks otherwise is a filthy male chauvinist pig.
Color me astonished.
What’s next: a bra-burning rally at the Republican National Convention?

Who is taking care of Obama’s children when he and Michelle are on the campaign trail? It isn’t either one of their parents.
Ari Reed
Edit:
Ari,
Michelle Obams has only said a thousand times that when she has to go out on the campaign trail that her Mother looks after her precious girls!
Next….

Forget Bristol. The REAL reason you should flee Sarah Palin like the plague is that she is a DOMINIONIST (google it, scary stuff people), aka neo-pentacostalism. You know, the speaking in tongues, snake handling, faith healing antics you might have seen on TV….. YOU WANT THAT CALLING THE SHOTS AS POTUS???? You thought BushCo were pushing for theocracy, you ain’t seen nothing yet! The primary goal for Dominionism is to replace our secular government with a theocracy and bit by bit they’ve been hard at work doing exactly that. How do you think somebody with such little experience got picked for that spot? If McCain kicks it, your next POTUS WILL rule this nation as a THEOCRACY, and not the faith that our “founding fathers” established either, but with all the nutcase theatrics that we’ve seen with the Terry Schiavo intervention, Rapture nuts, the “war on Christmas” fanatics, and oh yes, abortion will be VERY illegal in any form. Roe vs Wade WILL be wiped out, especially after 3 soon to be retiring Supreme Court justices get replaced by her administration. Who will it be? James Dobson? Pat Buchanan? Reverend Moon? John Ashcroft, or perhaps Ken Blackwell. Why do you think the religious right are so fired up about her? Minority rights? GONE! Secular education? GONE! Contraception? GONE! Freedom of Religion? GONE! Will there be more wars? YOU BETTER BELIEVE THERE WILL BE! Forced prayer in schools? YEAH BUDDY! ****DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER!!!****

I find it difficult to read the indignant conservatives coming to the defense of Palin, when her role as a mother of five is mentioned to be in conflict with her duties as vice-president. The fact is, we learned it from you! Republicans have touted their moral superiority for the past 25 years. “Tradtional family values” of the 50′s is all that the Republicans have been refering to when they claim they’ll return America back to it’s glory days. You know, before hippies, the culture war of the 60′s, the Clintons and now Obama. All of a sudden, Republicans want it all. The moral high ground of a pro-life stance while begging America for tolerance and understanding for a sexually active pregnant teen. Boy, sexual repression in this Party sure manifests itself in many different ways…

Visualize
The perpetually grinning psycho bimbo vs Vladimir Putin

Even if you don’t get your “news” from the tabloids at the supermarket, you certainly see them every time you shop for groceries.
The only point about her daughters pregnancy that should affect the election is her stand on abstinence being the only method of birth control, and that nothing else should be taught to teenagers. One should assume that this is what she has taught at home. If so, then it hasn’t worked, so why should we think it would work nationally.
Of equal importance is her history of taking earmarks (including being for the bridge to nowhere), wanting to ban books in the public library, mass firings of anyone who doesn’t agree with her (which shows she doesn’t exactly work well with others, how can she possibly work with congress etc.

To s.b. You are a classic example of why more emphasis should be placed on teaching social studies in school. Remember that when you open your mouth you remove all doubt.

So if it’s okay that the Obama’s leave their children with their grandparents, what’s the difference if Palin’s husband,who co-parents, or grandparents watch her kids?

This is all so humorous to read. I am not sure about Palin but the venomous hipocricy of the liberal posters here is disgusting and typical. You so called party of inclusiveness you say? That’s right unless you are a woman governor from Alaska with five children who likes to hunt. Oh and she does actually have executive experience, unlike Biden, Obama, and even McCain who have sucked off the Senate teet their whole political careers.
Oh, and to the person who referred to her husband as a redneck oil worker….its people like him who are working hard to provide you your gas for your Prius.

What’s really sad about many of these comments about Sarah Palin is how she is being vilified for living her beliefs. Not to mention that both Barry Obama and Biden were both born to mothers who didn’t have husband. That makes them illegitimate doesn’t it?

I commend John McCain for picking Sarah instead of that other trollop Fiorina who slept her way to the top at H-P.

Rightwingers are in real denial if they think Obama is weak. Geesh only 38 MILLION Americans watched his acceptance speech on last Thursday night in a pro football stadium made up of over 85,000 plus folks with several thousand still standing in line outside the stadium still trying to get in the stadium. McCain could only hope that he gets 15 million viewers and maybe 18,000 in a stadium.
Secondly, Obama beat the Clinton machine which I dare anyone to say was some sort of easy task.
Thirdly, Obama has raised DOUBLE the amount of money that McCain has raised.
Fourth, Obama is leading McCain in all of the reputable polling firms by several percentage points.
I’d say that is damn good for a candidate who has been the target of false attacks on his religion, patriotism, etc.,etc…..
McCain should have picked Senator Kay Bailey-Hutchinson, Senator Olympia Snowe or former Governor Christie Todd Whitman. Now these women would have been very formidable on that ticket.

We sure do have a lot of bitter partisans out there taking shots at this story. If Obama had chosen a woman as his running mate and she had the same history as Governor Palin, do you really think the media would be treating the story the same? An unregulated media is a danger to a free society, not a protector of it. I dare you to find one standard that a person has to have to qualify as a “journalist”. They have no educational requirements, no standardized entrance exams, no licensing or review boards and no experience necessary but they quickly hide behind the constitution whenever they feel threatened, a document most of them have never read.

Bright Light – what experience and accomplishments does Palin have? I’m not very impressed and she is a threat only to herself. After all, look how much scandal she got herself in as governor of a pissant state like Alaska – and imagine how much damage she could do to herself on the national stage?

Palin has a degree in journalism and worked as a journalist.

Now we all know how Joe gets off. So Sad.

This is a JOKE, I am a Republican and I am truly disappointed in John McCain’s decision for VP, and YES Obama will get my vote in NOVEMBER…John you blew this one big time…

Is Palin’s husband a stay-at-home Dad? I read that he works on the rigs, so who is looking after the kids? It doesn’t matter which one, but someone should be home with them. Sounds like they are both crappy and self-serving parents.

Haven’t we got lots of fun with the “Reality Show” in the last 4 days? I’m a new blogger and this comment is one of the best I found:
Republicans complimenting McCain on his choice of Palin with the pregnant daughter remind me of the TV show Family Feud. No matter how stupid an answer one of their family members offers up, the rest of the family starts clapping and blurting out: “Good answer, Good answer!!”

I have no problem with a working mother, But when you represent the christian conservative party and have 5 childern..the message is clear, someone needs to stay home with the kids, unforetunately it’s not Sarah or her Husband (who has a full time job.).it’s her teenage childern. Babies raising babies should be their motto.
My other issue …A parent’s first job is to protect their childern. IF Sarah and her husband were aware of this pregnancy, then shame on them for useing Bristol and her boyfreind as the sacrificial lamb to their egos. The minute she put her name in the public ring, she knew that her family would be naked to the world. Anyone that says this is a private matter is living in lala land

And I thought that BUSH/CHENEY would forever be the worst administration ever……..until I imagined a McCain/Palin admin.
Palin in control of the USA Nuclear arsenol???

I am an African American Democrat woman and I will definitely vote for McCain/Palin. I watched new Diddy’s video addressing John McCain and I was shame to be black. http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5701173.

Sally298, if you’re going to let anything that Diddy says be your basis for voting for ANYONE, God Bless You. You’ll get exactly the America that you deserve.

Q. How does a Radical Pro Life woman try to get rid of a baby she doesn’t want?
A. She stays pregnant and then . . . . when she breaks her water . . . . she doesn’t immediately get examined by a doctor . . . then ignores a Great Hospital in Texas . . . . gets on a plane for an 8 hour flight, (where No medical attention is possible) . . . lands and . . . . still doesn’t see a doctor . . . ignores a Great Hospital in a large Alaska city . . . . drives 2 hours and goes to a rural Small Hospital.
The baby survived despite the neglect . . . . but NOT because the Mother cared for it, as best she could have. God wants her to keep the baby..

“the framing of Palin”???
Please, lighten up on the trendy pundit-speak, would you? to “frame” someone has (or had before the Age of the Pundit) a meaning very different from the one you intend. At least I hope it does.

At least this presidential election will lead to voter education. Start w/pregnancy — Low level amniotic fluid leaks are common, and aren’t a danger in many circumstances. (Since amniotic fluid is created regularly, there’s little risk to the baby.) Most often, drs tell the woman to monitor and come in if there’s rising temperature (fever from infection) or pain or increased fluid. Especially if it’s not a first child, and the dr/woman are comfortable with how a pregnancy progresses, there’s little reason to panic. And no basis for claiming the woman is trying to kill her baby.

This chick has disaster written all over that forced and toothy grin of hers. Moose hunter? We are expected to be impressed by a moose hunter. Yep, moose hunter.

What family values? Four months from now Palin will have the following in her house:
-a husband who works full time locally
-a wife who works full time
-a newborn with Downs Syndrome who has very special medical and parenting needs
-a newborn whose parents are still children
-a 17-yr-old who obviously needs more parental love and guidance
-two other minor children who will probably be ignored as any available adult attention goes to the two newborns
Now, I ask you, if you are a parent and the above is in your house, would you agree to spend the next 4 or 8 years flying around the nation and the world and working long hours? Or would you and your spouse decide to curtail your careers for a few years, choose jobs where you can both be at home every night with your children, and give your needy family the support they need?
What does it say about Palin’s family values that she and her husband have SO many minor children in need in their home, yet, when McCain asked her to run for VP, the two Palin parents thought “yeah that sounds like a good idea?”
Pro-life doesn’t just mean that the mom and dad should support the child’s right to be born. Pro-life also means that the mom and dad should support the child AFTER s/he is born. And Palin fails miserably.

What family values? Four months from now Palin will have the following in her house:
-a husband who works full time locally
-a wife who works full time
-a newborn with Downs Syndrome who has very special medical and parenting needs
-a newborn whose parents are still children
-a 17-yr-old who obviously needs more parental love and guidance
-two other minor children who will probably be ignored as any available adult attention goes to the two newborns
Now, I ask you, if you are a parent and the above is in your house, would you agree to spend the next 4 or 8 years flying around the nation and the world and working long hours? Or would you and your spouse decide to curtail your careers for a few years, choose jobs where you can both be at home every night with your children, and give your needy family the support they need?
What does it say about Palin’s family values that she and her husband have SO many minor children in need in their home, yet, when McCain asked her to run for VP, the two Palin parents thought “yeah that sounds like a good idea?”
Pro-life doesn’t just mean that the mom and dad should support the child’s right to be born. Pro-life also means that the mom and dad should support the child AFTER s/he is born. And Palin fails miserably.

Newman – don’t worry, I’m sure the Palins will find the Naval Observatory to be a great home, the support staff a great help, and the medical care from Bethesda wonderful.

Please keep here on the ticket. Pretty please.
Palin/McCain change that will secede

The Washington Post reports today (9/3) that Palin wasn’t even vetted by the McCain team until the day before she was announced.
McCain talked with her for about 15 minutes at a conference in February, then didn’t meet with her again before asking her to be VP last week.
This was his first executive, presidential decision.
I’m a website manager and spend more time interviewing a programmer than McCain does interviewing his VP! Can anyone seriously say that this man has the judgment and temperament to make presidential decisions!
It’s not so much about Palin – it’s what it says about McCain!

The poor vetting bothers me, but I think the real story is that McCain wanted to pick Lieberman and was thwarted by “the right”, and so this “maverick” didn’t follow his heart, he played a wild card. That’s not leadership. Standing up to one’s own party insiders would have been “maverick”, but that’s not McCain-the-candidate. Sad. We can expect more of the same if he’s elected.

Tim – There’s maverick and then there’s stupid. Are you seriously suggesting that it would be better for McCain to pick Leiberman and lose any hope of winning? Leadership can come from knowing how to compromise/find alternative approaches in order to achieve the ultimate goal.
Personally, I’d rather have a leader who keeps his (or her) eye on the ball and succeeds in priority goals, then one who sticks to personal desire/principles and achieves nothing.

This is really really good
for the Republicans.
And even if it turns out that
the father of daughter Bristol’s baby is really Newt Gingrich, it will still be good for Republicans.
It doesn’t seem to matter that Ms.Mayor Palin left her tiny town of 6,000
22 MILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT.
Heck, that’s good for Republicans too.
And being FOR the Alaskan Bridge To Nowhere before she flipped to being
against it?
Good for Republicans.
Troopergate, Alaska?
Good for Republicans.
Palin’s now well-known love Earmarks/PORK in Alaska?
Good for Republicans.
What about the disclosure that McCain is actually a brain-eating zombie who
wants to eat millions of American schoolchildren raw while launching ALL our nuclear missiles at the rest
of the world?
Good for Republicans.
Notice a pattern here?
Everything’s good for Republicans these days, isn’t it?
Hey, I get my info from the source:
Republicans.

ok I’m voting Democrat but I want to say on this, that these magazines are such trash and have hurt so many people, I wish they could get some laws passed so that they can’t be displayed by the registers or something. Very often they put misleading stuff on the covers. It brings down our society.

Has anyone brought up the fact that the publisher of the magazine, Ms. Wenner, is a Obama supporter?

Losing the battle? It’s awfully hard to win the battle on the particular grounds you’ve seen when the publisher of that magazine is a staunch Obama supporter, a frequent Democratic donor, and the guy who was responsible for Obama’s glowing halo cover on Rolling Stone Magazine a couple of months ago.
Let’s be honest here. There’s no chance that Sarah Palin is going to get a fair shake from someone like Jann Wenner. That’s true of a good number of magazine publishers who politically sit right where he does.
Time Magazine has put Obama on its cover six or seven times this year, none of them negatively. People magazine has practially drooled all over him at least once (and I think they’ve run two feature stories on him and his family).
Truth is, Sarah Palin doesn’t live the sort of life the folks who publish those magazines like. She’s not the right “kind” of woman nor mother. so they’re going to denigrate her as much as they possibly can because, goodness knows, they don’t want a whole bunch of other Moms out there seeing her success and thinking that their lives are just fine the way they are. That wouldn’t sell any magazines, would it?

pennsylvaniavoter,
Actually Sinclair was arrested in D.C. when he giving a press conference on a WARRANT ISSUED IN DELAWARE BY BIDEN.
Not a word about Warrantgate from the media. They protect the inside beltway crowd and go after non-Washington people like Palin.

Palin doesn’t need to stay home because she’s a woman and a mother.
She needs to stay home because she is unfit for the Vice Presidency. And the fellow who picked her is clearly off his rocker.
Yeah, women can work as they raise children — although raising them fulltime makes a day at the office look like a picnic.
But it seems that this rightwing nutcase isn’t doing such a bang-up job of it. And she’s cheap.
The USA deserves better and will get better with Obama and Biden in office.

The left-wing media is really wetting their panties over Palin. She’s more experienced than Obama, and worked her way up the padder. Obama talked his way up the ladder. Big difference. The more we know about Palin’s family, the more it seems like an average American family. People can relate to her. Sure, she has blemishes – we all do. But if the left-wing media continues to assault her over family issues, there will be a backlash. Many Americans can relate to her.

What a classy, classy woman the Republicans have chosen to represent themselves and, unfortunately, the USA. One can only wonder when the words “Meth Lab” will be associated with this walking episode of Cops.
Has the entire country become a trailer park?

I find the feverish attention as a sign that the Obama supporters are very concerned about the Gov. Palin candidacy.
Actually, We are just amazed that McCain left us this gift-wrapped present.
Still, feel free to continue believing what you believe. It only makes our job easier if you actually think we are scared.

MANY AMERICANS CAN RELATE TO HER…
Not women, unfortunately. Palin has the life no woman wants; 5 kids a low achieving husband and a pregnant teen.
You add vp on top of that and its an accident waiting to happen.
What is really disturbing is…
She is either on her back, or, on her feet.
Sets woman back at least, a hundred years.
On top of it all, she wants to take away other woman’s choices so their life can look just like hers.
The last thing we want to see for the next 4 years is this woman working herself to death. And, possibly pumping out more babies, herself. Apparently, she is not using birth control either. 7 distractions and counting…

I don’t know anyone who has expressed positive words about Palin who cares about what her 17 y/o daughter has done. At 17 y/o you’re an adult and are responsible for your own decisions. If you think Palin’s a bad parent because her daughter is pregnant at 17, I’d ask you, “so if you decided to have sex without protection at 17 and the result was a pregnancy would you blame your parents?”
I find it interesting that despite evidence that she’s been a strong, effective, and popular leader in Alaska, the only news we’ve heard in the past week has focused on the negative. I’d agree with other posters that the ugly hammer that had fallen on Clinton hasn’t spared Palin.
Imagine, for example, if the media started making a stink about Obama, a father, doing drugs in an earlier part of his life. (Yes, he did. Look it up.) What if we find out that Palin has as well? Here’s the next headline we can expect to see:
“Palin, mother of five, sets the example by doing drugs.”
And here’s an example of posts which will resultantly be posted:
“Palin is a horrible parent and she should spend more time at home!”
The only thing that’s missing is the sexist name calling. Standby for the female dog, whiner, and female genitalia references…..just like Clinton all over again.

And to think that when it was clear John McCain and Barack Obama would be the candidates, I was rejoicing that we would have two intelligent, patriotic men who actually cared about and would concentrate on the important and critical issues facing us. Well, I was half-right. I believe Obama is speaking about the economy today…..

How many single mothers on welfare becasue the fathers failed to accept responsiblity. If you are married, I do not care how much sex you have with your husband and do not care how many babies a married woman has.

Let’s think Hillary women, were you there for he views or the fact that she is a woman? If Hillary’s women vote Palin, then they should be ashamed because they misled the world as a follower of Hillary. I do feel for Palin, she is not ready for what is about to happen to her home life, byway of media!!!!!

You know, when I’m standing in line at the supermarket, I just see a picture of the mama and her baby. I don’t even see the rest of it, those silly headlines. I see that she had a baby four months ago! And it has Downs syndrome! And then I pay the cashier. And I think warm thoughts toward that woman.

I am so sick of hearing about sexism when it’s really Sarah Palin’s self absorbed ambition that has caused this scrutiny on her family. I am a working woman…always have been, with two children and a husband. However, you can not be VP of the U.S. with 5 children, especially with one who has Down Syndrome. Not and give that child everything he needs. How do I know? I am the mother of a child with Down Syndrome. I would like to know how much therapy and intervention that child is receiving. It takes an inordinate amount of time to care for special needs children. Further, Down Syndrome children ussually have a host of other medical issues that require the attention of a Mother and a Father. What is all this rhetoric about a baby not needing his Mother and a Father wouldn’t be asked these questions. The Mother is the primary caretaker of babies in all species, but I forgot, she doesn’t believe in evolution. The Republicans need to stop trying to shift this mistake to a sexist issue. It was a bad choice, un-vetted and she and McCain have bad judgement.For the sake of her family, she should have politely declined the “too good to be true” offer.

Does Klein really believe we’re all sheep? that we believe the world is accurately reflected in supermarket tabloid covers? (Except National Enquirer, they get an exemption because they did stick with a scoop.) Klein doesn’t bother to tell us that he is an Obama supporter. He doesn’t bother to tell us that US is owned by Jann Wenner, an acknowledged super Obama supporter. I’ll make up my own mind who to support and this type of blatant manipulation makes me really want to know what the media is trying to hide. Maybe when we see similar investigative reporting on Obama. We get the good and the ugly on Palin in days. How did Obama work his way up the Chicago political machine? Did he challenge it and win? Did he report anyone for corruption? Did he resign any position to be able to give the public the truth? Palin did. Most voters would rather take a chance on even a scoundrel they know than an empty suit they can’t trust. To the sheep: “butcher shop” translates to free hand outs. Go on in.

Pat: Some women are must stronger the others.

The VP job should be easier than the Governor’s job, so it actually may be easier to care for the new baby.
Furthermore, the U.S. has only one strategic missile defense site at the present time. It is manned by the Alaska National Guard, sitting between one of our great erstwhile rivals – Russia – and one of our great allies – Canada. The commander-in-chief of this unit is none other than the governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin.
Gov. Palin is more ready to be President than is Obama. VP should be, relatively, a walk in the park.

Karen: “The liberal left and the MSM have never been so low.”
I am a member of the liberal left. I believe the pregnancy of Governor Palin’s daughter is none of my business. There are many, many others like me.
What I really think is that the right is so pi$$ed off about Governor Palin not being properly vetted that they’re taking it out on the left.
On the other hand, if you want to talk about the right never having been so low, you need only look at the lies and distortions about Senator Obama. Only trouble with that is the MSM didn’t fall for it.

I just want to know what choices have Baby Daddy been given, where are Baby Daddy’s parents and what sort of gun is the Palin family going to be holding on Baby Daddy at the shotgun wedding. The kid has already said he doesn’t want to be married or have kids but too bad, he’s done gone and knocked up the Repub’s hopeful VP and he’ll now have to do as they say “or else!” That kid could blow them out of the water and I’ll bet there is money being paid for his cooperation right now. Ah, this is a true Kodak moment.

Get real people. Palin could not even put socks on her babies feet (take a look at the pictures). How will she take care of the country? Yes, a women can do the job but what happens when the baby gets sick? does she call out? She just had a baby four months ago and her hormones are not even in order yet. Maybe if she had taken the time to get her daughter to planned parenthood she would not be expecting now. Mrs Palin take care of your family because if you can’t handle them you can’t handle our country.

Today, after looking at some of the Leaders of Republican women come out in strong force to fight for Gov. Palin and women, this Democrat African American Woman is glad to switch to the Republican party from the Democrat party It is a shame that the Democratic women (Nancy Pelsoi) did not come and fight for Hillary as she was being mistreated by the media and others in her own party. Democratic can not fight for me….good by, hello Republican.

Family values have been the signature line for the Christian conservatives for a long time and the Republican party took advantages of them to get into power. When they’re asked to be held accountable for their beliefs, suddenly family values and personal responsibility don’t seem to matter. They’re all a bunch of hypocrites.
OK, teenagers go ahead and have *** but must marry if the girls get pregnant. You now have a new idol in the Palin family and blessed by Daddy J. Dobson. Birth control and condom are still not allowed (devil”s toys).

To:Decent American, Your name is an oxymoron with emphasis on moron. You are sadly mistaken if you think that the kings of cronyism, your republican party hasn’t tried to dig up Obamas past. Don’t forget how long they sat on the info about Edwards past. After the past 8 years of the systematic dismantaling of our jobs and industry and constant feeding frensy of the rich and greedy if you think that our current republican government is decent take a look at the real world or seek out the Wizzard of Oz for a brain!
Sick of it!!!

A POLITICIAN’S PERSONAL LIFE IS HER OWN BUSINESS SO AS LONG AS THEY DON’T GIVE THE WHOLE NATION A LECTURE ON FAMILY VALUES. IF THESE POLITICIANS ARE GIVING LECTURES AND HITTING THE TALK SHOW CIRCUIT AND GIVING PEOPLE LECTURES ON ABORTION RIGHTS AND FAMILY VALUES THEN IT’S THE VOTERS RESPONSIBILITY TO SEE KNOW IF THEY ARE JUST HYPOCRITES OR MEAN THEIR WORDS. SO WHY IS IT THAT PALIN’S UNMARRIED DAUGHTER’S ISSUES NO LONGER THE PEOPLE’S BUSINESS WHEN SHE HAS NO PROBLEM GIVING LECTURES ON FAMILY VALUES? IF SHE CAN’T EVEN TAKE CARE OF HER OWN FAMILY HOW CAN SHE GIVE OTHER’S A LECTURE ON FAMILY VALUES? WHAT DO YOU PEOPLE THINK?

Why has no one said this yet? The daughter of a woman and who has been brought up with her ideals and values – is pregnant.
At the end of the day would you want your 17 year old daughter to be pregnant? And is that how Palin or Clinton got to the places they are today?
And WHY is a vote for Palin synonymous with a vote for woman’s rights when she totally rejects one of the most fundamental rights of womankind – whether or not to have a child?

McCAIN Power 1st Country 2nd. This he has proven with his selection. He lacks judgment.

OMG….could the McCain campaign get anymore hillbilly and whiskey-tango?
This ranks right up there with an episode of Jerry Springer.
Next thing you know, there going be a real church-weddin’, and a proper re-cep-shun at Waffle House with free beers afterwards at Cousin Billy-Bob’s mo-beel home (double wide, that is…)

She increased bake sale revenue by 20% in Mooseknuckle, that’s my kind of ‘executive’ experience!

I love it!
Sarah is her own woman and it sounds like individuality dose not fit well into the Politically Correct world of the Democrats. So much for diversity!
She is loyal to her self and her past warts and all.
McCain is true blue and will not drop her like Obama did Rev. Wright and others.
For all of the of the “mean girl things” that she is accused of doing?
She is tough enough to handle herself in a tough world.

Sarah Palin: BA on communications from U. of Idaho. B. Obama and J. Biden: Professors of constitutional law at U. of Chicago.

I feel everyone should shut up about all this mess. Shut everything down the entire day before the election (other than extreme necessities)just like everything was shut down when the “Blue Law” was in effect years ago, and PRAY for guidance for each individual to make the choice “God wants us to make.”
Yah can’t know what to do if you don’t shut up, and be quiet to think. As the bible says; “Be still and know that I am.”
And when you vote in this upcoming election, the more important fact than who is going to be elected as president is the Supreme Court judges that the next president is going to appoint. The judges that will be appointed by the next president elect to the Supreme Court will last our lifetimes.
I am neutral on Palin. For years the men of this country have made a of mess of things in this country. How can a woman do any worse? Actually women do run the country. Where would this country be without moms? Moms are the ones’ who raise the kids, and handle every aspect of life you can think of without much help (so stated by my husband).
Sounds like the “good old boys’ club” is running afraid of losing control to woman (when in fact men have no problem in letting woman do everything else in daily life that have no glory, and the women who dislike Palin might have the same mind set in the reverse.
Pray for our country and leaders, don’t side track into negativity.

The question that still we don’t have an answer for is: Is this Palin’s Daughters second Preganancy? can we see the medical records of where Palin gave birth and the care given to her before she gave birth to her 5th child? Here is more tough questions to ask about the VP Selection McCain… “This is not a smear, it is our obligation who you select is ready to lead this country and not lie to us like George and you have been doing. “Where has Bristol Palin been for the past year? Has she been attending high school? Or was she absent because of infectious mononucleosis for between five and eight months, as is now being reported on the Internet? Why would a 43-year-old woman, on her fifth pregnancy, with a Down syndrome child, after her amniotic fluid has started to leak, not go to the nearest hospital immediately, even if she was in Texas for a speech? Why would she not only not go to the hospital in Texas, but take an eight-hour plane flight to Seattle and then Anchorage? Why would she choose to deliver the baby not in the nearest major facility in Anchorage but at a much smaller hospital near her home town? Why did the flight attendants on the trip home say she bore no signs of being pregnant?’ It strikes me as likely that there are reasonable answers to these questions ” more reasonable than the only one given so far” – Andrew Sullivan

Bella said, “How will she take care of the country? Yes, a women can do the job but what happens when the baby gets sick? does she call out? She just had a baby four months ago and her hormones are not even in order yet.”
Bella, I see that you are apparently a medical doctor and can make diagnoses without seeing the patient! You don’t have any idea what her “hormones” are like! Aside from that, what do you think? You think that no women with children should ever seek to serve in public office or have executive positions?? Maybe we should all stay home and knit! Do you actually believe that if the baby gets sick, she will need to “call out”? As if the potential VP wouldn’t be able to afford a nannay to help? Besides, she is married! Perhaps her husband might be able to watch the baby! What a novel idea! Sexism is the only “ism” that is still okay, and, from what I have seen from the responses here, it’s still being inflicted on its victims (women) by members of their own sex! Unbelievable!!!!

if this is the best you dems can come up with, mccain will win by a landslide.
keep it coming you clueless morons.

Cari: I think she hated that Bristol got pregnant. But then she moved on.
Her values ARE reflected: Bristol keeps the baby! That’s takes more character than not having sex in the first place.
Bristol’s career is probably shot, but who knows: her baby may do something one day! When baby comes around, Bristol will be the age of Obama’s mother when she gave birth to him!

the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. palin was knocked up when she got married. she had her son 8 months later. so her daughter is just copying her mother. what mother would drag her child through the mud as an unmarried teenage person so be vp? what mother with any values would subject her daughter to that? this is disgusting. and her other baby will need intense care to help it get as far as it can – and she is carting it all over, putting him in crowds with germs and in different cribs all the time. she is an awful person in my book.

Michelle’s mother is living with them to care for the two daughters. Also, Michelle is NOT on the campaign trail 7 days/week. She is home at least half of the week caring for her daughters. Yes, Palin did not support her mother-in-law when running for office because she thought her mother-in-law was “too liberal.” The mother-in-law confirmed all this and did not know what “Sarah” could bring to the ticket and is going to vote for Obama.

Two more of my female friends (we are all black democrat women) are planning to vote for McCain/Palin after today. I attended my first republican meeting, join the republican women group, donated money and will donate my time. I am a single mother, one of my girlfriend is a single mother, and my other girlfriend is single with no child.

Each time an Obama’s blogger writes sexist comment about Palin, a new voter is added to McCain/Palin side. Thank you Obama’s bloggers, we love you all…kisses

I LOVE that cover!
Did I hear “a little sarcasm” in the parts of the speech I heard from her today? Or was it more like that, that I “only heard sarcasm”?
Gosh, is Palin going to tell us if we vote for Obama we’re all going to hell? This woman wanted to ban certain books in Alaskan libraries and get ‘creationism’ taught in public school – is she a politician or a preacher? Come down off the cross…we can use the wood. Amen

lol, My little obamites, you need a different attack plan. Attacking poor family members of a candidates family is right from the rush Limbaugh playbook.. But then again, you have managed to erase a fifteen point lead, and now McCain has this supercharged populist from the great north.
wowser, That sure thing you envisioned doesn’t seem so sure anymore, huh soccy?

The comments made by women on this blog regarding Sarah’s husband watching the kids at home doesn’t make a bit of sense. If he stayed home and watched the kids while his wife was off in the White House, I don’t think he would be able to work at the same time. Or doesn’t ‘he’ count? Shall we uncover your true identities as being ‘sexist’? Oh, but wait a minute, that only works for you and not your husbands. Can you spell hypocrit?
Some, not all women are dumber than a cat trying to lay down in a room full of old men/women in rocking chairs.
A bit of history, that women today don’t know (due to a lack of ‘true’ history in modern schools). I’m not going to say that a “women’s place is in the kitchen”. I’m merely pointing out
that “Women’s Lib” wasn’t the idea of women. It was planned and funded by elite groups such as the Rockefeller Foundation so the cabal could tax more people and break up the family.
Here’s a quote from an interview “… Rockefeller asked Russo what he thought women’s liberation was about. Russo’s response that he thought it was about the right to work and receive equal pay as men, just as they had won the right to vote, caused Rockefeller to laughingly retort, ‘You’re an idiot! Let me tell you what that was about, we the Rockefellers funded that, we funded women’s lib, we’re the ones who got all of the newspapers and television – the Rockefeller Foundation.’
Rockefeller told Russo of two primary reasons why the elite bankrolled women’s lib, one because before women’s lib the bankers couldn’t tax half the population (the women staying at home) and two because it allowed them to get children in school at an earlier age, enabling them to be indoctrinated into accepting the state as the primary family, breaking up the traditional family model.”
I won’t bore you with any other remarks, but please, don’t look at the ‘men’ as the bad guys, because women were the ones who were brainwashed. All that time, men were hard at work while women marched. After all, we men still had to bring home the bacon. Didn’t we?
Don’t believe me, but please do your research on the subject. All the facts are there.
Many times, I have praised my beautiful wife for the hard work she has done at home while I went to work. This is the true meaning of ‘Family Values’, what is yours?

right on geerman guy……. i wholely agree with what you are saying….rock on brother

You are all jackasses on this site. clearly left leaning coolaid drinkers. Drink on liberal fools. Ya bunch of idiots!!!

GOVERNOR PALIN – Some of our current and past Presidents that held governor seats:
President Bush – Govenor of Texas,
Formal President Clinton – Governor of Arkansas,
Ronald Wilson Reagan – Governor of California,
James Earl Carter, Jr.- Governor of Georgia,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt – Governor of New York,
Woodrow Wilson – Governor of New Jersey,
William McKinley – governor of Ohio,
Grover Cleveland – governor of New York
Rutherford Birchard Hayes – governor of Ohio,
Andrew Johnson – governor of Tennessee,
James Knox Polk- governor of Tennessee,
Martin Van Buren – governor of New York.
Andrew Jackson- governor of Florida,
James Monroe – governor of Virginia,
Thomas Jefferson – governor of Virginia,

In the land of total darkness and daylight alcohol use/abuse is common. Stories about no relationships while living in this difficult environment would not be believable. Sara Palin has a college year reputation from classmates as being an available party girl. Her first child was reported to have been born 8 months after marrying Todd, so is this a daughter like mother story? Possible! The McCain campaign has dug a huge for itself with a limited vetting process; sloppy work, poor judgment. This is change American does not need!

Us Magazine comes from the publisher of Rolling Stone. I am boycotting advertisers of both.

Good Day. You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
I am from Vietnam and know bad English, tell me right I wrote the following sentence: “May, movies lesbian vampire killers dvdscr xvid done.”
With respect :-(, Dior.