I’ll Try to Find Ya Some and I’ll Bring ‘Em to Ya

Oh dear! here we go. Finally someone did notice. I thought I was alone. Was Mcsame really serious picking this woman? I have nothing against her but she is completely out of her depth here and she sould do the honourable thing for the sake of every American woman who aspire for the high office and resign. I’m sure we can find really brillant Republican women to fill the ticket if we look harder.

No going to go there.

Jake, I’m not a conservative, but I agree with Parker that watching Palin is a cringefest of the highest order.
However, the bulk of what she says causes me great consternation, particularly in these areas:
1) Yes, Joe Biden occasionally suffers from foot-in-mouth disease. However, given the breadth of his knowledge and the amount of campaigning he’s doing, occasional gaffes are expected. Palin’s unscripted appearances are few and far between and she is incapable of speaking to his level of expertise on any subject, except possibly Alaska’s proximity to Russia.
2) This comment of Parker’s, “bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first.” reeks of sexism and serve only to harm women’s pursuit of higher office. Those of us who criticized Palin for putting her career ahead of her family, in particular her special needs child and 17-year-old daughter especially in need of privacy, were severely taken to task by conservative and Republican supporters. And yet that now becomes an acceptable reason for her to withdraw? Once again, the hypocrisy of the Republicans stuns me, even though I know that I should expect no less.

Palin has shown herself to be disastrous already! To anyone even CONSIDERING voting for McCain: Please watch the Couric or Gibson interview first! Are YOU willing to risk America’s future with Palin and the man who said she was the most qualified person to be VP? I wonder who he would appoint to the Supreme Court and cabinet – more clueless ex-beauty queens? As a woman, I am so disappointed and disgusted with McCain.
OBAMA/BIDEN!

Palin is definitely out of her league. I suspect that she was out of her league as governor as well and that would have been increasingly obvious the longer she was in office.
My guess is that when she returns to private life, she will get help writing a book blaming the Republican campaign difficulties on McCain’s hot temper.

Jake, what McSame has done to Palin is to use her as usual. McCian has used his first wife and got rich out of his second wife and wants to get to the White House through Sarah Palin. Unfortunately this time around he has chosen the worst horse because looking at Sarah it is like asking a light weight boxer to take on a heavy weight boxer, she comes out like asking a high school student to do a PhD, she is exhausted and is not ready for this job. She is not that kind of person, her IQ is not high better than McSame’s but still managing the largest economy in the world, the only one superpower in the world is not a Miss Alaska contest. God save America from McPalin. God bless America and God bless Obama.

Did it really take this long to figure this out? Out of league.
It’s not a personal attack, she simply isn’t ready for the job.
Even the infomercial with Hannity didn’t make Palin look prepared.
She an probably do fine in an oil rich state that only has 650,000 people. But no way this person should be a national leader.
Perhaps someone SHOULD have “told her what the Vice President does” before she agreed to run.

Criticisms of Governor Palin’s lack of readiness to run the country if needed are legitimate. I, for one, am weary of the sexism card. This has no more to do with sexism than it does Alaskaism or Big Hairism.

McCain wanted Liberman.
Most ‘pubs wanted Romney.
“Maverick” was TOLD to take Palin.
Not much of a “maverick” as far as I can see. He didn’t even stand up to chose his own running mate.
And who is running the Republican Party? I’d like to know. Because it will be the same unelected people that will run our country if McCain and Palin pull off their smokescreen.

Palin is sinking the McCain campaign with these interviews. She clearly is not competent AT ALL. It’s enormously embarrassing to see her stumble after getting some basic questions. I agree with Parker: bow out NOW, so that McCain will still have a chance of winning in November. The polls and her unfavorability ratings show that she is ALREADY hurting the ticket.

Funny, to me, she sounds no different from the other times I’ve heard her speak. Why are people making a big deal about this interview?
Anyway, at least people are finally seeing her for what she is.

Maverick McCain – Look at the names on the Project for a New American Century website. Those are the men behind the curtain. That bunch of lunatics has been running the show since January 2001, and they’re the ones whose drumbeat Candidate McCain is marching to.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.

As l’ve always said this sarah palin pick goes on to tell us about john McCain’s judgment and temperament.
l honestly and sincerely hope the american pple are taking this elections as seriouly as it should be taken,ON THE ISSUES,not on a pretty bimbo.
OBAMA-BIDEN 4 PRESIDENT AND V.P

3 days in seclusion being coached on how to debate foreign policy $600,00.00
Hiring a skilled debate faux opponent to practice with $300,000.00
Research assistants to feed you information on every topic imaginable $250,000.00
Being outsmarted by your opponent so that you are unable to make use of any of it just before the big debate….PRICELESS

It is about time somebody spoke up and more people need to do so. This is such an embarassment

Her interview was awful. It was a lot of bad answers, generic responses and she has no confidence at all. It was truly sad to watch and I feel bad for her.
Obama/Biden ’08

Palin’s responses remind of something that’s always painful to watch; pretty girls in a Miss contest having to answer to general questions about their world view. And then only the mute button can save their grace.
Since we’re talking a VP candidate here, that’s more than embarrassing: it’s frightening, certainly in a time of two wars and an immense economic crisis.
The White House clearly is no place for Miss Wasilla.
So yes, do the right thing and please bow out. Show some judgment. Alaska will embrace ya.

Clearly, Palin was nervous and tongue tied. I still think highly of Plain and think the chattering class is selling her short. Palin is genuine, adds more to the ticket than her inexperience takes away, and will rise to the occasion. Wait for the debate.

During the Couric interview she reminded me of a doll with a pull string repeating McCain’s talking points over and over again. We should seriously question McCain’s judgement in picking Palin. Our first chance to see his decision making skills and he seriously blew it.

What worries me more she is looking more like dubya who last nite as paul begala said was looking like a high-functioning moron given this bailout crisis send paulson former ceo goldmine sachs who basically has been carrying his water to congress even republicans ignored bush and boehner did most of the talking while super mccain[who came to save the day] kept quiet, never gain we must elect a blank slate sadly the are americans who are stupid and will again elect a bush clone with likes of cheneys putting their language on that blank slate.

Although I am not overly impressed with Sara Palin, I believe she is sincere and refreshing compared to the smooth talking bombasts we are used to seeing. I am, however, even less impressed with Katie Curic. I thought her interview was less an attempt to learn more about the candidate and more of an “I gotcha” attempt. There was no reason to grill her on what John McCaine has accomplished in the Senate. Palin’s first answer of his warning regarding Fannie and Freddie was a sufficient answer. When Curic persisted I would have told her to interview McCaine if she wanted to talk about his Senate career. Curic is in over her head…she came across as mean spirited and I think CBS should send her packing to a market where professionalism is not a job requirement.

Anyone that would vote for McCain/Palin has a death wish.

I am a woman and i real feel hurt by this.People who will vote for Mc./Pl should remember this will hurt women to be higher office in the future.If we know now is not ready then republican should pressure mcain to choose another strong woman somewhere.Otherwise American people will not risk their votes to any woman in higher office in the future whether it is republican or democratic we will be viewed the same.And that is so annoying.If you can not vote for Obama/Biden for whatever reasons then just don’t vote and let it go.It is real a shame.

OBAMA: Uh, uh, are, uh, uh, uh, um. That’s — that’s a bunch — so — so let me tick these off. Deh… Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, um, uh. So the issue is not a perception that, uh… Weh, weh, let me put it this way. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, We’re — we’re trying to — you know, we’ve got a bipartisan group here and — and — and, uh, uh, uh, uh, um, uh, uh, uh.
THIS IS AN ACTUAL TRANSCRIPT
OBAMA: With respect to the surge, you know, we don’t know what would have happened if the plan that I put forward in January 2000 — How many questions — okay. That’s a bunch. I’m going to have to get a pen for all these triple questions you guys are — you know, it-it-it’s always a bad practice to say always or never. These are difficult questions. I’m just trying to get to everybody. I’ll take the second question first. I’ve been very clear on that. I — I was gonna save some of these comments until I — I actually have these conversations tomorrow. Uh, it wasn’t that we were avoiding the issue. I need you to speak up. You were speaking up very loudly when you wanted me to call on you.
SOUNDS NERVOUS TO ME AND NOT VERY CONFIDENT.

McCain felt he “deserved” to kick his first, disabled wife to the curb to marry (not mention philander with) a beer heiress 17 years his junior. Cretins like Hannity even use that rationalization. “He was a P.O.W.. Why not?!”
Now he feels he “deserves” to be President before he kicks, and he will say or do any political ploy to get it, even though Mr. “Country First” probably knows he’s dying. And he will leave the country he puts “first” with . . . this.
I am a former Reagan Republican. If you vote for McCain, what are you really thinking?

When asked by Pastor Rick Warren. “Who are the three wisest people you know in your life and who you are you going to rely on heavily in your administration?”
Barack answered. “You mentioned one person I’d be listening to and that’s Michelle, my wife, who is not only wise but she’s honest. And one of the things you need, I think any leader needs, is somebody who can get up in your face and say, ‘boy, you really screwed that one up.’”
Chist! Is he kidding? He followed that inane response with one even more ludicrous. He said this.
“Another person in that category is my grandmother, who’s an extraordinary woman. She was never went to college. (A little grammar faux pas I’m sure. I’m taking this quote directly off the transcript.) She worked on a bomber assembly line during World War II when my grandfather was away, came back, got a job as a secretary, worked her way up to become a bank vice president before she retired and she’s just a very grounded common sense, no fuss, no frill, kind of person. And when I’ve got big decisions I often check in with her.”
OBAMA IS THIS THE SAME GRANDMOTHER THAT YOU CALLED A TYPICAL WHITE WOMAN?

At this point, any Conservative who defends Sarah Palin as even remotely ready for the job is surrendering any claim to credibility. If you care about your nation, you must acknowledge that this is someone who is in way over her head. And it would literally imperil the country to have her ascend to the office. Those who still advocate for her are nothing short of undignified.

Ok, Jake, she should have said McCain -Feingold or McCain-Kennedy or McCain-Lieberman. But what if Sen. Biden had been surprised by some question about specifics of Sen. Obama’s record. He probably made something up on fly along the lines of FDR went on TV to assure America after the crash of 1929! Imagine if Gov. Palin had said something so ridiculous. The MSM collective heads would’ve exploded. Jake, read Tony Blankley’s Washington Times editorial and then read it again. How come the MSM does not ask tough gotcha questions of Sen. Obama? The MSM have disgraced themselves this campaign.

I am neither republican nor democratic, but I am seriously wounded by how the republican party is portraying women as epitomized by their shielding and ‘barbie’ presentation of Palin. I am a full time working mother of 3, with two post graduate degrees, one of which I earned after having my third child. My children are always with family members and have never been with a sitter and I work in a mostly male-dominated field. I strive to juggle it all, and with the support of my husband and family, we are making it work. Women CAN do it ALL, however, McCain’s campaign is showcasing how biased they are against the belief that women can compete equally, presenting her as just a pretty face who is not trusted to say what she REALLY thinks for fear she will say something wrong. This is not the media’s fault completely, they are feeding off the image McCain’s camp has portrayed of her. It ANNOYS the heck out of me, and I hope McCain lives to regret this portrayal of working moms.

Carolyn my wife is very attractive and has a law degree and still gets approached that way. Sarah Palin is attractive and a smart cookie. There are different types of intelligence. She reminds me of Truman. I think women are doing themselves a disservice by saying that she is dumb even if you really believe that. I think women did themselves a disservice by voting an empty suit on the DNC ticket over Hillary Clinton. Your party the DNC is the stupid one.

This Kathleen Parker conclusion sums it up:
“If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself. ”
That’s right, but BS is no currency, so Palin please go home.

Well at least we all know why The McCain people are keeping Sarah away from the press. Geeze, was there no other Republican available?

“I am, however, even less impressed with Katie Curic. I thought her interview was less an attempt to learn more about the candidate and more of an “I gotcha” attempt. ………… Curic is in over her head…she came across as mean spirited and I think CBS should send her packing to a market where professionalism is not a job requirement.”
Posted by: Meg | Sep 26, 2008 8:18:50 AM
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Good job, Meg! Your candidate does poorly, then you go out and beat the interviewer. Priceless! If this was a debate and the moderator was unfair to one candidate, I would concur with your ridiculous assessment. But to suggest that it was mean of Couric to press on Ms. Palin to give examples of where John McCain had shown himself to be a regulator? Just go with your Fox News gang. You all just want the media to dumb down to propaganda. The scary thing is, some in the media fall for this pressure. They’d rather have viewers then stick to their professionalism. The media has the choices of dumbing down to our levels, or informing and educating us.

Palin is not ready. Period.
Even when Couric didn’t ask her about foreign policy-her weaker one, but domestic one, Palin tripped up without Couric having to do anything. I watched her interview and she has a habit of NOT answering the question, or ending up going into a false start.
I don’t know if it’s on purpose or if she’s just got the jitters or she can’t help it, but it’s certainly worrying.
Obama has less experience. So? Experience must be coupled with judgement and competence. All I see is McCain rapidly flip-flopping on the economy, wanting to continue the “Shoot first talk later” sort of foreign policy that has only earned us more enemies. Obama keeps his cool and doesn’t get flustered- what we need for a President to deal with a crises in a considered manner.
Look what happened the last time someone decided to jump into a war without getting all the facts.

Obama has said he is open to talks with Iran-with some sort of conditions.
Thank you, but I do not want one more war to add to the two other messes to deal with in the Middle-East. I guess that’ll open up the bill from $12 billion per month to oh, maybe only around $20 billion?

So much was made of those that jumped on the McCain bandwagon after Palin joined the “team.” Not much has been said about those of us that moved firmly from undecided to Obama after this stunt by McC. Obama has given thousands of interviews, and it’s easy to find gaffes here and there. Palin has given two interviews at length and there are gaffes throughout. Enthusiastic incompetents are the most dangerous people to put into leadership.

OBAMA: Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain government, administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
Break transcript
Now, we all know that he didn’t mean to say Israel is a strong friend of Israel?

We should be more worried when the candidate appears CLEARLY out of touch.
McCain first says the fundamentals of the economy are strong. Okay, fine, maybe that was misconstrued. But then he said he didn’t support the bail out.
A few hours later : I support the bail out!
A FEW hours LATER: Hehe, actually I haven’t even read the bail out plan yet.
WHAT ON EARTH?!
I don’t know why people say Obama is elitist just because he got into the Ivy league. Isn’t the Naval Academy supposed to be a prestigious school too? Obama and Michelle own ONE car.
McCain and Cindy? THIRTEEN.
Enough said.

Cult of Personality:
You’ve made you’re point. You’re voting for McCain no matter what. Please stop with the scripted campaign messages. We’ve gotten nothing but lies, deceptions, spin and distractions from McCain for months now, and your comments are much the same.
For the sake of my son and all America’s children and young people, if you can’t bring yourself to vote for Obama/Biden, just stay home on election day. Sarah Palin is unacceptable as a VP candidate and the thought of her ascending to the presidency is downright frightening.
Just this once, put your “country first” and not inflict this silly, unimpressive, unintelligent, inarticulate, booble head woman on our country. Please.

Grey matter that is the actual transcript

Cult of Personality,
Isn’t that just about right? I think hes being realistic, not like McCain who goes around saying things like “bomb bomb bomb Iran”. In case you have forgotten, McCain, Iran is not made up of Ahmadinejad himself. There are plenty of normal Iranians who, even if they hate America’s guts, think it pretty stupid to start a war with a country who’s nuclear capability dwarfs theirs. They can’t even launch a missile over the ocean to hit us right now.
I know Obama’s transcripts are very interesting, but what has McCain got that you think is better? Care to share?

Ouuuuuuuuuuch. Mute. Too painful to watch. Can you imagine? Poor thing…

Look, even if he says uh here and there, I notice it’s not because he doesn’t know what to say. He’s pausing to weigh his next words carefully.
Palin says uh to. So does McCain. Unlike Obama, however, Palin gave some pretty skipping-around-the-question sort of answers. I find it scary she says Perhaps So outright to the possiblity of a Russo-American war. Yes, some people say her words were misconstrued.
But the way she speaks is a nightmare for diplomacy. If the Russians wanted it so, they could keep replaying Perhaps So in their country to use as propaganda and fodder to start another war, and plenty of people wouldn’t know better. Nice.

You’d have to be brainwashed by a cult in order to think that as VP would be ok. Pity doesn’t belong in presidential politics. If you can’t run with the big dogs – stay on the porch.

Geez.
Biden has faced down dictators. Negotiated in the Yugoslav wars. Has more experience then even McCain. He makes a pretty solid pick and an excellent complement for Obama’s fresh ideas and youth.
Palin? She can’t hold the fort if something happens to McCain. I can’t believe she kept on repeating the “You can see Alaska from Russia” thing. Yeah, she’s given a crash course on foreign policy. Precisely. A CRASH COURSE.
Biden is definitely solid on foreign policy. Obama, we can’t deny he has less experience-but he knows his stuff. His studied political science and is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Sure, a President has advisors. But they’re there to feed you info and factors about a situation, but not to teach you the whole thing from the scratch like we can see McCain doing for Palin.

LOL, Just the thought alone of McBush/Failin occupying the White House scares the heck out of me. Can you imagine?
JIff

And ss if Palin’s terribly bad week needed to get worse, the Washington Post reports that, as governor, Palin accepted over $25,000 in gifts:
“from industry executives, municipalities and a cultural center whose board includes officials from some of the largest mining interests in the state, a review of state records shows. About a quarter of the entities bestowing gifts on the governor are represented by one of Alaska’s most influential mining lobbyists, who said in an interview that she was not involved in the tributes. The lobbyist, Wendy Chamberlain, has a relationship with the governor’s family through the friendship of their teenage daughters.”
She may not be blinking, but the EXIT sign is.

Oh dear. Reformer? Maverick?
Do you have a link we could have a look at?

It’s not fair to compare Palin’s interviews to Biden’s gaffes. She hasn’t made any real gaffes or said anything like “FDR went on TV in 1929.” So why should she bow out? She’s not really an embarrassment and most of the stuff Olbermann makes fun of her for isn’t really that terrible.

AP-Washington lawyer Greg Craig will play the role of McCain in Obama’s debate rehearsals. Craig, a foreign policy expert and member of President Clinton’s impeachment defense team, also played President Bush in John Kerry’s preparations in 2004.”
Timing will kill you Obama.
3 days in seclusion being coached on how to debate foreign policy $600,00.00
Hiring a skilled debate faux opponent to practice with $300,000.00
Research assistants to feed you information on every topic imaginable $250,000.00
Being outsmarted by your opponent John Mccain so that you are unable to make use of any of it just before the big debate….PRICELESS

No, she’s not out of her league, and here’s why. Barack Obama has and is NOT able to answers questions on the fly without an enormous amount of hemming and hawing, just look at his performance yesterday morning, and the excuses thereafter. In fact, Sarah speaks better off the cuff. You are assessing her based on two journalists who did their utmost to “getcha” and prove to Americans that the far left Barack Obama press corps and the Obama campaign are right. Where are the articles about Joe Biden’s constant mistakes? Where are the articles about Barack Obama’s constant mistakes? Where are the gotcha interviews for those two men? Let’s sit Obama down and ask him gotcha questions as well while staring him down and daring him to hem and haw JUST ONCE! Sarah’s record in Alaska speaks for itself. Barack Obama has no record to speak for itself. In the current crisis he said call me if you need me. CALL ME IF YOU NEED ME! Where are the articles about that. Instead the AP comes out with an article to make it look like Obama and McCain equally left the campaign trail on their own merit to return to Washington to work on the bailout. Obama is still taking a backseat just to make sure he doesn’t come down on the wrong side of this bailout.
I would rather have a woman who cannot sit and lie at will when asked tough questions then a man who would be a call me if you need me President.
Stop drinking the koolaid Jake. I think better of you than that.

I cannot believe I once supported John McCain. There are scores of great, strong, informed, intelligent, tough, experienced Republican/ conservative women he could have picked – and he is a 72-year old man with cancer and some serious memory issues. What hubris to pick this woman. I honestly don’t know another woman – white, black, conservative, liberal, any party, any education level, who would have answered these questions – and Gibson’s questions so miserably. My Mom had a kid at 43 – she didn’t have a college education – she was vehemently pro-life. she was a real American woman – one who had honor and brains. She would have looked Couric straight in the eye and answered those questions – she actually read the newspapers and kept up on politics – apparently Sarah did not believe she needed to. She doesn’t even understand petroleum reserves in Alaska – and it is their top economic product and apparently served on some major board. How did this woman get to be Governor of any state?

Today’s Candidate Schedule
Where will the candidates be today?
Barack Obama
Oxford, Mississippi – Presidential Debate
Joe Biden
No public events scheduled
John McCain
Details may emerge during one of the many media interviews McCain is doing during his suspended campaign.
Sarah Palin
Protecting America from Russian invasion.

The McCain campaign is making two mistakes. Firstly, they continue to allow Palin to be baited about her lack of foreign policy experience. By constantly trying to insist that she has some, she just looks silly. Why not just admit that she doesn’t have any? She should then go on to say that foreign policy is John McCain’s area of strength, and that she was brought on to the ticket for domestic policy issues, particularly energy and anti-corruption. The public would be fine with that. After all, if foreign policy experience was the be all and end all, Bill Clinton would have lost to George H.W. Bush in 1992.
Secondly, by keeping Palin so tightly under wraps, the McCain campaign is ensuring that every interview she gives is scrutinized line by line. The media assumes they are trying to hide her, so of course when she gives an interview, she is held to a tougher standard. Let her off the leash and have her do a bunch of media – within a few days, the media will be tired of hearing from her, and a Sarah Palin interview will become old news. When she getting caught up in a stupid debate about her foreign policy credentials, she actually does just fine on the other questions.

Brenda,
Obama has sponsored 136 bills since joining the US Senate. Two were signed into law by the president.
Palin’s record?
Oh SURE. Left her town swimming in debt after pushing through with building a sportshall without checking that they acquired the land properly- resulted in lawsuit that cost millions. Took earmarks, many times more per capita then Obama.Put her cronies in top positions and fired everyone else once she became governor. Asked for federal pork and supported the Bridge. And claimed she didn’t.
That’s nice Sarah. Couldn’t you have just admitted your mistake?
The Coburn-Obama Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 was supposed to help counter the kind of stunts Palin was pulling Alaska.

There was a Memorial Day speech where Obama told the veterans in the audience that his uncle was among those who liberated Auschwitz. Really? So Obama’s uncle a member of the Russian Red Army? Of course, its just a technicality that Obama does not have an uncle, but a great uncle instead.

Dan – I’m sorry, but I disagree. I’ve lived everywhere in this country – farms in the midwest, California, many years in the south, a rural town in the Rockies and leaders go out of their way NOT to talk like Sarah Palin. My Dad didn’t have a high school education and he would never have spoken that way. The only people I’ve heard who actually talk that way are politicians like W who went to Yale but think they are supposed to sound like the “common man” to get elected. Sarah Palin opens her speeches by saying “Guys and Gals.” Try talking that way to “common people.” You’ll be ripped to pieces or laughed out of the room. She’s playing a part Charlie Black has given her to play – and I swear I am starting to feel sorry for her – she is playing it very, very badly. She is simply way, way, way out of her league. And the other sad thing is that there are so many decent, bright, experienced Republican women that McCain could have chosen if he wanted to play that card – but he didn’t. And it could set us all back. And put the country in an incredibly dangerous position. I think this woman could actually start WWIII. I think she would consider it a religious war. Remember the good old days, when Republicans talked about diplomacy and solvency?

Sara Palin is Shameless and clueless indeed. Watching her is so nausiating that I could hardly help myself. This is an insult to the intelligence of the voters of this great nation. Sara Palin is a grave and gathering danger to whatever remain of our country after Bush/cheney has decimated it. Sara should withdraw for the good of the nation. Her children needs her more than we do. Sara must go and go NOW.

She needs to go, what exactly does she have to offer? Her ultra conservative ideals? America doesn’t need that.

What matters Grey matter is that is not what he said.
Breaking NEWS: The Commission on Presidential Debates should turn Friday’s planned debate between Barack Obama and John McCain into a town hall meeting with Obama if McCain does not attend, the chancellor of University of Mississippi told FOX News Friday morning.
Chancellor Robert Khayat said he is hopeful that McCain will “be on that stage” for the 9 p.m. EDT debate, but was meeting with commissioners to discuss the option.
“We’re going to urge the Presidential Debate Commission to have Senator Obama on stage and we’ll have a town meeting,” Khayat said.
GREAT OBAMA UNSCRIPTED. EXPECT MORE LIES AND UH UH’S

Palin is better than the slack jawed, open mouthed, Biden. What are the qualifications for office? It is currently being connected with the worst elements of our society. Palin will do a better job than all as she has the people’s interests first.
Shame on the media for being worse on her than they are on Biden. She is more qualified than Obama and more believable.

By the way Obama’s speeches are written by someone else as well, you may want to keep that in mind. He uses a teleprompter to deliver them, and God help him when he doesn’t have it. He even recently used it on a campaign stump, so please spare us the critique of Palin if you cannot be honest enough to admit that Obama has serious deficits as well. Let’s sit Obama down with a serious journalist who hasn’t drank the koolaid and ask him some tough questions, here’s a few for you Jake.
1. Why is there no public record of your two years at Columbia?
2. WHO financed your Harvard education
3. Why would you work with Ayers on the Annenberg Project knowing that it was liberal indoctrination of our school children?
4. Where did the rest of the $100,000 go that you acquired for funding of a community garden, and why did you not oversee the project you were acquiring funds for?
5. Why are you accepting money from Jodie Evans who recently met with Ahmadinejad AND Chavez to promote peace and talk about raising funds for a “peace park” in Iran? Jodie Evans is the founder of CODE PINK and a bundler for the Obama Campaign.
6. Why are you misrepresenting your vote on the Born Alive bill?
7. Why 130 Present votes?
8. Why is your brother George living in absolute poverty when you yourself at the Saddleback Forum said WE ARE OUR brother’s keepers and quoted Jesus by saying what you do for the least of these?
9. Can you explain these associations? Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Bernadette Dorhn, Tony Rezko, Emil Jones, Rashid Khalidi, Father Pfleger, Nahhami Auchi, James Meeks, Sam Felson, to name JUST a few, the list could expand enormously.
10. Tell us about your mentor, Frank Marshall Davis? What does he stand for and what about what he believed in did you embrace and believe?
11. Since becoming a United States Senator what bills did you YOU personally draft and introduce, acquire sponsers for, and then pass?
12. Since becoming Senator, how much in earmarks have your acquired and where did they go?
13. Since becoming a United States Senator, how many days have you spent on the floor of the Senate actually working for the American people?
14. WHAT qualifies YOU to be President of the United States?
Those are just a few questions, but believe me the list could be large if there were ANY journalists worth a grain of salt.
The publics right to know went out the window when journalists began presenting their own biases and coddling their own candidate, Barack Obama.
He’ll never get asked those questions.

So Grey Matter are you saying that Obama’s uncle did serve in the Red Army????

I would like to see Palin debate Obama tonight. Go Palin.

In The Dark
You may want to read the entire transcript of Gibson’s so called interview with Palin and her response in WHOLE about seeing Alaska. She was speaking of its proximity to her State and why it was necessary to have working knowledge of that country and its leaders. However, you do know that, its just easier to keep twisting, makes Sarah look bad which suits your purpose. Let’s examine this one
“Iran is JUST a LITTLE country that isn’t a serious threat.”
Now who said that zinger?

Don’t worry, guys.
Anyhow, she is now irrelevant.
American people who has common sense are not that stupid.
We can be fooled for a while but after 3 weeks, we are waking up to see the reality of Palin.
She gave us a nice drama otherwise this campaign would have been boring…. she gave us excitement and panic.

Brenda,
Iran is troublesome, but isn’t a looming threat. We could blast them to smithereens quite easily, and they know it.
His comments were taken out of context. He was saying Iran was SMALL IN COMPARISON to the threat the Soviet Union posed during the Cold War.

Obama began his speech yesterday stating:
“On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes – and I see many of them in the audience here today – our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.”
Obama’s canned speeches are poorly covered up. In one speech his line about seeing fallen heroes in the audience was removed from a transcript posted on his website by his official campaign blogger, Sam Graham-Felson.
“On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes, our sense of patriotism is particularly strong,” reads the campaign transcript.
Obama a pathetic empty suit liar.
Where are you Columbia grades Obama?
Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh,

I looked it up. It’s true, his great- uncle who served in the United States Army. He just got Auschwitz mixed up with Buchenwald.
[[ Madelyn Dunham's brother Charlie Payne was part of the 89th Infantry Division that liberated the Nazi concentration camp of Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald.]]

“I would like to see Palin debate Obama tonight. Go Palin.”

Brenda, excellent questions. I also don’t understand how the media and Dems can tear down Gov. Palin for trivial things when their candidate cannot answer even one of your questions truthfully. What makes them so afraid of asking these questions?

I don’t understand why people keep calling for Biden and Palin to drop out. The decisions were made, deal with it…

So without Coburn and Lugar, you just have two blank pieces of paper. What bills did HE write, submit and pass? Not which bills did he get added to as an afterthought token?

GOP = distraction from the issues, and this thread proves it.
The issue here is Palin’s now proven incompetence. Many Republicans have gone bald or grey watching her being interviewed by Gibson and Couric; she was too embarrassing for words. I couldn’t believe my ears.
But what do the GOP fanboys in this thread do: change the subject, change the subject, change the subject….
Is that the only change the GOP still believes in? Come on, get a grip.
Let’s discuss Palin. My decision to vote Republican will depend on her bowing out, it is simple as that.
I’ve seen ‘all’ her interviews, and I’ve never seen such poor and embarrassing performances from a VP candidate in my 56 years. I feel ashamed for my country when listening to Palin’s comments.
She needs to return to Alaska, after which McCain can try to save his campaign.
And no more distractions, please.

To make this clear, I don’t support Palin not just because I think she’s weak on foreign policy and isn’t ready.
I don’t agree with her stands on issues like Roe vs Wade. She has every right to be pro-life, but what right has she to think that she can enforce her pro-life views on everyone? She said she believed Roe vs Wade should be overturned. It’s different from being pro-life to believing that choice should be taken away from all of us.
ANWR? I cannot believe she wants to drill baby drill in such a beautiful place without seeming bothered about the environmental damage. And wanting to get polar bears shoved off the endangered species list when they are already in trouble just so they can open up the polar regions for drilling? Geez, I mean, shouldn’t you as a Christian be mindful of God’s creations too?

Brenda: “Obama wants to be president. Its all about Obama, nothing more, nothing less.”
That reminds me of a quote:
“I didn’t decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president. … In truth, I’d had the ambition for a long time.”
Of course, it wasn’t Obama who said that. It was John McCain.

I’m “sartorially” conservative (no cape!).
But anyway:
On some of the CBS footage, Palin seems to be looking down at notes (at 2:52 and 3:39 on the above clip, for example). It’s disturbing that if she was actually using notes, she couldn’t perform any better than this.
Palin also seems to have a lot of difficulty speaking in grammatically correct sentences when discussing complex topics. That suggests to me that she lacks experience in thinking and expressing herself in complex, nuanced ways on economics and foreign policy. A disturbing quality for someone who could be President.

In the same interview Palin said we have a victory in Iraq.
I wonder if she knows who general Petraeus is. If she does, she could have tried to remember that the general has another view.

WOW!
This is the person John McCain believes could take over as president in an instant and cope with three wars – in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan – and a potential reprise of the Great Depression?
Unbelievable!
She’s from a Mel Brooks movie!

OMG…
What about Palin on why it’s better to spend $700 billion on financial bailouts than broad-based economic help. The question was simple. The answer came from some dreamscape nobody ever visited:
“That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, were ill about this position that we have been put in. Where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Um, helping, oh, it’s got to be about job creation, too. Shoring up our economy, and getting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions, and tax relief for Americans, and trade — we have got to see trade as opportunity, not as, uh, competitive, um, scary thing, but one in five jobs created in the trade sector today. We’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All of those things under the umbrella of job creation.”
Excuse me?
Try to parse that. The bailout helps health reformers by bankrupting the government? We need to accompany our tax reductions with reduced taxes, and pair that with tax relief for Americans? How does the bailout connect to trade, or to job growth? And even the syntax is falling apart: She corrects “help” to “helping,” but “helping” doesn’t make sense in that paragraph.
These aren’t lies she’s telling.
It’s not misdirection, or deception.
It’s just nonsense.

So Biden being a hearbeat away from the presidency is a comforting thought?
Biden after 35 years of experience is severely lacking in discipline and judgement.
Palin has the judgement and the discipline and will continue to improve.

There is a disturbing trend emerging from this race. Women simply can’t stand the thought of other women succeeding and sabotage each other at every opportunity.
Biden can’t even tell us who was the President during the Wall Street crash or that there was no television in 1929.
Palin will be a good VP. For once, we’ll have someone the people like instead of the Washington talking heads who only seem to like each other.
The Beltway including the journalists who cover it have become an exclusive club that resists any attempt to inject an authentic voice into their conversations. It’s about time to close it and open another capital in Phoenix. Better weather and better golf; only slightly worse water.

ABC’s spin: There was a deal before McCain came back to Washington. There was not a deal by the time the evening ended. And now there might not be a bill — or a first presidential debate Friday in Mississippi.
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Thank You John McCain for putting the people first and not rushing into this stupid bill without giving it a check over. In my book Obama failed his first test. I would rather have no bill than the wrong bill.

OBAMA: Uh, uh, are, uh, uh, uh, um. That’s — that’s a bunch — so — so let me tick these off. Deh… Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, um, uh. So the issue is not a perception that, uh… Weh, weh, let me put it this way. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, We’re — we’re trying to — you know, we’ve got a bipartisan group here and — and — and, uh, uh, uh, uh, um, uh, uh, uh.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT

I never knew that Alaska was such a hopeless place on earth.

Ann Coulter was right:
Obama should debate Joe Biden tonight since they can’t seem to agree on issues lately.
I think Palin could debate Obama and still come out looking more sharp and decisive. Obama stutters and rambles on with no clear answer.
He has had 18 months of campaigning and Palin in just one month gives clearer answers. She will improve–BO still the same. Biden has gotten worse.

Palin is a joke. I can’t believe that she actually cites foreign policy experience because she is “close” to Russia and can see it from an island. I can see the moon, it doesn’t make me an “astrophysicist.”

Well I hope that you get a town hall meeting instead. Obama was asked countless times to do that. I love what McCain did to Obama it was brilliant.
How many times did we hear Obama say he would debate McCain anytime-anywhere? And how many times did Obama decline McCain’s offer to debate?
Obama does not understand that what is agreed upon for this bailout bill is going to be handed to the next president, and I know I would want to have some kind of influence on it or as much as possible. Barack is only concerned with being on T.V. As usual he’s playing the role of a celebrity.

BREAKING NEWS MCCAIN WILL DEBATE

Parker is way out of line. If Biden was a woman, heck, even Obama, the uproar would be torrential.

Cult of Personality,
Where did you hear it? Sorry, I can’t find it on the news or anything. Do you have insider info (I’m not being sarcastic).
Whatever their stands, I strongly believe McCain should show up. I believe choosing the next president of the United States is important too, and the debates are critical to the process.

Why is it the Republican talking points on this thread don’t even acknowledge Palin’s performance with Couric.
Complete denial of reality and substituting mindless repetition of something you think is true for any actual dialogue, involving listening and learning. (ie Obama lied about his Uncle’s patriotic service, when he simply mis-named the concentration camp liberated is a good example in this thread)
Change the subject, change the subject change the subjet. And meanwhile look at what has happened to the country.

Why is it the Republican talking points on this thread don’t even acknowledge Palin’s performance with Couric.
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Because if you bothered to scroll you will see that we discussed it a long time ago.

Obama repeatedly stressed at his news conference that he called McCain first to propose that they issue a joint statement in support of a package to help fix the economy as soon as possible.
He said McCain called back several hours later, as Obama was leaving a rally in Florida, and agreed to the idea of a statement but also said he wanted to postpone the debate and hold joint meetings in Washington.
Obama said he suggested they first issue a joint statement showing bipartisanship.
“When I got back to the hotel, he had gone on television to announce what he was going to do,” Obama aid.
Oh, gosh .. you mean he opted for action vs. “speech” and took the initiative. How disappointing.

Actually, McCain didn’t tell Obama he was skipping the debate. He only suggested suspending the campaign, and Obama said he’d think about it. By the time he got back, McCain had gone on television, not waiting for Obama’s reply. I think he shouldn’t have done that.

Why should McCain give a hoot what Obama does? I admire McCain for taking the lead. I am glad that he was in the talks. Obama also does not want to accountable for anything so of course he did not want to be PRESENT.

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Thank You John McCain for putting the people first and not rushing into this stupid bill without giving it a check over. In my book Obama failed his first test. I would rather have no bill than the wrong bill.
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Ha ha ha, that’s funny. Obama had not only read it, but interjected his own ideas well before McCain had even READ THE PAULSON report on Tuesday night.
Wow, I’m guessing you’re going to be one of the really disappointed ones when Obama wins 11/4

If he favoured a bi-partisan thing, he would’ve waited for Obama’s reply whether he was going withdraw from the debate. What if Obama wanted to do that? McCain goes on TV first so even if Obama was thinking the same, it’d make it look as though Obama followed his “lead” instead of a truly, joint bi-partisan action.
[[Mr. Boehner pressed an alternative that involved a smaller role for the government, and Mr. McCain, whose support of the deal is critical if fellow Republicans are to sign on, DECLINED TO TAKE A STAND ]]
I didn’t think McCain single handedly caused the talks to fall apart, but it seems he didn’t want to take a stand here either.

Obama looked like a deer caught in the headlights and very ordinary in this crisis. Obama didn’t care about the bill then and he won’t care tomorrow. He doesn’t want the bankruptcy clause in this bail out bill because it would reflect as a bad vote, bad decision on his part two years ago. It’s all about politics. He’s now carrying on about the U.S. wiping out malaria across the world but God forbid an American gets something.

Alright, conservatives, can we talk?
I realize you’ll continue flaming these boards. That’s OK, flame on. But consider this. The GOP is wrecked, and needs to be rebuilt. Do you really want to do this with McCain and (cringe) Palin? Consider McCain’s weird behavior, wooden leadership style, lack of core message, and advanced age. He is not really a conservative. Consider Palin’s obvious cluelessness.
Let’s say they win. Well, thing’s ain’t getting much better over the next four years. McCain/Palin are a ticket to GOP oblivion.
If I were you, I’d pull up stakes on these losers, keep your powder dry, and work to rebuild the party as true conservatives. Look to people like Bobby Jindal – technocratic, religious, conservative, competent, young, not white.
OK, recommence firing.

McCain will wipe the floor with Obama which is why he could care less about study time. My prediction is that obama will listen to his answers and pull what he did with Hillary and fashion McCain’s answers into his own. Just like he did at the Columbia forum on Public Service.
Obama is a poor candidate choice by the DNC.

We may as well not say whom will wipe the floor with whom since we will find out in about nine hours anyway.
I’m looking forward to it.

“If I were you, I’d pull up stakes on these losers, keep your powder dry, and work to rebuild the party as true conservatives.”
Tungsten, as a conservative but not necessarily a Republican I couldn’t agree more. I’ve already braced myself for an Obama victory. I would have preferred Clinton because I believe she would have governed from the center like Bill and that would have been fine with me.
Obama on the other hand really concerns me. He will be left of Carter and will do some serious damage (see Community Reinvestment Act for an example). Whenever I hear a Democrat use the words “fair” and “community” I can feel the money flying out of my wallet and my rights being diminished.

I don’t know,
If I had to go for a surgery, I’d like the most qualified doctor, even if I can’t have a beer with him or her.

cultofpersonality.
I did nto want you to google anything–just give me the support for your position as to why McCain going to DC was to “put country first” and unlkie Obama was acting rather thsn speaking.
I am asking you for support for your position as to what is it that McCain did by going to DC and why he had to go to the Clinto Initiative first.
There would be the difference in NOT drinking the Kool Aid and actaully supportying your position.
As of right now, you have not been able to do so. Don’t google, that would be an ad hoc justification for your position. Rather explain to us what McCain did that exemplefies “action” and what he did for this bill on the what was it, “fundamentally sound economy.”
Rather than give us Kool Aid induced sound bites, I am asking for you to support your views.
Please enlighten us……

It s clear why they keep her under wraps. She can only utter “beauty queen speak”. Several times she is just incoherent. We hear disjointed fragments of talking points that have been drilled into her, but they are irrelevant to the question asked. She may be the butt of jokes making fun of her ineptitude but her lack of knowledge and skill is alarming and not at all funny. She could become president of the US if the McCain/Palin ticket is elected and he becomes incapacitated for any reason. Even die-hard Republicans must recognize McCain’s lack of judgment in choosing her as a candidate. It is Country Last.

ATTN Conservatives:
I must confess, I am a Democrat, I have voted the Democrat ticket all my life. But in the interest in putting our country first I will try and be objective and level with you. McCain has displayed for all the world to see that he likes to gamble with hos political future. Now I grant that the conventional wisdom is that it is a bad year to be a Republican. All things considered it would be tough for any Republican Presidential candidate to succeed in this envoirnment. I guess this is why Sen McCain felt that it was neccessary to throw a couple of Hail Mary passes. (Examples: Suspending his campaign, Picking Sarah Palin, saying We are all Georgians, adopting the Karl Rove slash and burn politics rather than being the McCain that ran in 2000). i don’t agree but I can see how most Republicans could find this acceptable. Republicans love their country as much as Democrats do and they have an idea of how to improve tjis country. But if you take an objective view, I think you will find that while this behavior may fly on the campagn trail, it absolutely can not fly in the White House. Imagine what a President whose goal is to ” shake things up” can do in the White House. We can not gamble with our future. Not now. We have a lot of big problems to solve. We are in two wars, our ecomomy is on the edge of falling into a depression, there are 45 million US citizens without healthcare, our Education system and Infrastructure is in tatters, and the confidence of the American people in their governments ability to tackle big problems is at an all time low. And for the last two months John Mccain has shown himself to be reckless, short-sighted and impetuous in his decision making. We literally can not afford this right now.
Furthermore, Sarah Palin is demonstratively unprepared for this job. She has shown no interest in Foreign Policy or Domestic Policy. The prospect of someone so unprepared beingthat close to power sends shivers down my spine. Especially when John McCain has had 4 bouts of Cancer and he is 72 years old.
I ask for Republicans to step back and take a good look at what they are offering for President and Vice President. I implore you to take a second look at what Barack Obama offers. Put your prejudice aside, put your country first, and ask yourself what kind of president do we need right now. Do we need a maverick who’s favorite game is craps, or do we need a steady hand who’s favorite game is poker. I think that when we look at the choice rationally, Barack Obama is the best man for the job right now. That might not have been the case 4 years ago, or 4 years from now. But it is surely the case right now.

I never said anything about Obama’s grades–so how is that quid pro quo? I said it took Sarah Palin 6 years and 5 colleges to get a BA in Journalism and not from a school like Columbia.
Yuo stated that McCain put the country first and he acted. I am asking you how????
Seriously, if you really beleived this, then you would have an answer at the ready to ward of any questions. But, you do not.
I am asking you for support for your position. You asked for Obama’s grades….oh wait, I see what you are doing, clever, changing the topic. It seems to be a theme.
So really the entire board must now be waiting. WHAT DID MCCAIN DO TO PUT COUNTRY FIRST–HOW EXACTLY DID HE ACT IN CONNECTION WITH THIOS BILL AND HOW, DEAR GOD, HOW WAS THE CLINTON INICIATIVE MORE IMPORTANT THAN HIS MAD DASH TO DC?
These are statements you made. I backed my posts and my positions as to why I beleive Palin is unqualified and would nt vote for ANY tiket she was on. Read below.
Now, support your position……and do not change the subject.

To Waleeg:
“Barack Obama is the best man for the job right now.”
I will vote for Obama if and if you can tell me if he has any:
#1: Foreign policy experience?
#2: executive experience?
#3: legislative accomplishment?
#4: Can he talk without the teleprompter?
#5 What was his toughest vote that he took because if was right for the country and not his party?
Even Obama could not come up with an answer at the 60 minute interview…he said the reason he is ready is because of his “DISPOSITION and knowing how the work with people”
And this is what he said regarding his job:
Based on his own admission yesterday during CNN forum at Columbia University , Obama said this yesterday:
“It’s easy for me to go to Washington and frankly, be somewhat divorced from the day-to-day challenges people have,” he said. Obama, meanwhile, also mocks his own job in response to the same question. “We yak,” he said, while small-town mayors work.”
I rather vote for a DOER than a YAKER

Sarah Palin reminds me of how the late Sen. Roman Hruska(R-Neb.) once argued that the mediocre in this country deserved to be represented by one of their own. So, mediocre Americans everywhere, your ‘hour’ has arrived. Meet your new leader, Sarah Palin.

In defense of Palin all I have seen on this blog are routine attacks on Obama. Can anyone honestly stand up and say that Palin is ready to be Vice President? If you are not a trained public speaker and have a poor education does that mean you she is are ready for national office because she is like you? don’t we need the best qualified people to run our country, not our next door neighbors? McCain is making a mockery of this election. His “debate is off now its on” and his choice of Palin are proof positive of McCain’s shoot-from-the-hip lack of judgment.

I get it. You have an answer that supports your position and of course, supports your candidate.
You just want to keep it a secret until you get Obama’s grades.
Since my education has provided me with knowldge of what quid pro quo really means, I can safely say this is not it.
But, thank you. I printed out your response to my questions to show your support and showed them around. My office is still laughing!

I am painful to see this interview, she must really feel the pain. Sorry for her!!

I’m a conservative, and used to be 100% Republican up until 2000.
My views haven’t changed since — but the GOP has. Quite a lot.
I certainly don’t like all-hype-with-little-to-back-it-up Obama or that Clinton clone Biden, but they are less of a disaster than “bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran” McCain (imagine what would happen if the countries were reversed, and it was Ahmadinejad going on stage singing “bomb bomb bomb bomb the US” — does anyone think we wouldn’t have bombed Iran into oblivion for that? So did McCain’s misguided attempt at a joke give Iran a justification to do that to us?) or Palin, who can’t say a coherent sentence if none of the answers from her talking point sheet matches up 100%?
I like Palin’s view on abortion, but I think that’s all there is to like about her – and that’s just not enough.
We (conservatives) need to get our thing together, get back on track and eliminate the Neocon (what is conservative about Bush or McCain? Their interventionism? Or their liberal spending? Or getting more power to the federal govt? I think not.) menace within our rows, until then, the Democrats remain evil, but – as much as it hurts – the lesser evil.
Obama 2008, a real conservative 2012!

If you were honest with yourself, you’d admit that she is in over her head. I feel sorry for her and her family. She’s in the Dan Quayle Club now. I’m sure she’s bright and she is very pretty and she’s hard working but she just isn’t ready for prime time. This has got to be hard on her – lay off.

I’m afraid Sarah Palin is not only embarrassing herself, she’s quickly become a national joke.
Usually, candidates for national office get better as time goes on. Palin is clearly getting worse.
The more time Sarah Palin spends on the national stage, the worse she gets.
Embarrasing for US.

Many things about Palin have
caught the public imagination.
- telegenic youthful good looks
- mayor, governor
- working mom
- Super Mom
- loves her family
- deep religious faith
- back at work at the
governor’s office three days
after giving birth to her
fifth child along with the
baby
- error of teenage daughter
and other family problems
people can relate to
- frontierswoman
- huntress
- markswoman
- Annie Oakley
- more boy than boys
But Palin lacks the core
requirements the job of
the vice president – and
potentially president -
demands.
- limited range and depth of
knowledge of major national
and global issues and the
ability to articulate them
- does not appear to have
read much, thought much about
our own history and world
history
- does not display independent
thought and polciy ideas in
matters of war and peace, and
relations with foreign
nations
- has not shown the courage
to separate personal beliefs
from public policy on matters
women care deeply about
- does not appear to be
deeply committed to
environmental preservation,
energy independence and
protection of endangered
species

Hi Freida,
I think I make my case very clear. Besides that you are attributing a quote to Obama that John McCain actually said ( about being in Washington can keep you away from the day-to-day struggles of average Americans) I don’t want to argue with you about experience, because w/ Sarah Palin the best you can hope for is a tie. My point is that the prospect of these two people running our country should give everyone pause. McCain has the temperment of a person that plays craps. Win big or lose big. and we can not afford that right now. I don’t want to get caught up in the Democratic-Republican anomosity. I just want to ask voters to step back and take a serious look at the pros and cons of our options using the info that each candidate has given us.

First, let me say I am a very Liberal Democrat. I am proudly voting for Obama. To my conservative friends (and, yes, I do consider you friends and fellow Americans), please consider a few things…
Regardless of what you think about Obama’s stands on issues, if you are serious and honest with yourself, I think you can agree that he is a well-informed, serious individual. He has spent his entire adult life thinking through issues and discussing them with other top-notch, smart people.
Obama WILL NOT destroy America. In fact, he surrounds himself with very smart people and people who do not necessarily agree with him on the issues.
If you are conservative, you should welcome sane and rational government – regardless of what Obama’s view on abortion or other hot-button topics may be. I think anyone can agree that he is an extraordinary, gifted individual on many fronts…even if you can’t stand him.
I say these things because if you just step back for a moment and logically look at the two choices in front of you, there is only one that makes sense for America. McCain, through his reckless gambits, has confirmed that he does not have the judgment or temperament to lead the nation.
Obama provides conservatives with a sane choice for the next four years while allowing the opportunity to rebuild their party, rethink their positions and reframe the debate. Obama is a supersmart, seriously talented politician. Don’t fear him. In four years, conservatives will be much better off for having him as competition. In fact, the nation will be better off. The Republican party will hopefully offer a serious (and sane) alternative in 2012.

Cult of Personality:
if you would take a deep breath for just a moment and do some research, you’d discover the following:
Senator Obama has in fact spoken with Paulson, consistently and regularly during the financial crisis. He has done so without the publicity. It is his nature as well as his character. Please take a deep breath, research and read more intently. I was not aware of the work he’s done until several REPUBLICANS mentioned their secret respect and admiration for the way he carries himself and handles politics. Many have watched and are looking forward to working with him, even when they disagree on principle.

If she is the most qualified Republican women McCain could find, the GOP is in sad shape. Stop with the pretty, I would rather have smart and informed.

That is the problem. She advertised herself as tough and experienced. She was very sarcastic on the convention night…. and these are what the people see now. It’s very embarrassing. It’s very sad. I wonder how she handles it. People might vote for her because of symphaty and that is not good for the nation. I like her but she is just not ready at this time. Our nation and our pride is at stake. This time it’s nation first before party.

My heart goes to Sarah. She is not ready. It’s Mccain fault and his political agenda. Why subject her to all this torture. She is a nice hockey mom.

Who is better to judge Palin than fellow conservative woman like Parker. Well, now we know that Palin is clueless, and McCain is putting this nation before personal ambition to be the President than he claims “Country First.” McCain selection of Palin is a an insult to intelligent women in this country and insult that everyone that has a brain.
Get ready for WW III if McCain is elected because he is reckless and the world might come to end with his clueless VP.

I applaud Kathleen Parker for speaking what a lot of us women who earned our seat at the “good ‘ole boys” table by being roasted, toasted, and able to stand the heat; Sarah Palin is NOT qualified to be VP. She should bow out with respect and dignity.

Leave Sarah alone. She has more executive experience than Obama, and if the media spent as much time airing and writing about the many gaffes that Obama and Biden have said, than they should be declared as unqualified and are an embarrassment to the Democrat party.

Sarah Palin is the perfect symbol of the current state of the United States of America.

Maggie: Who cares what the Bush Doctrine is. We care about the issues. I have voted many times over and I had never heard of it myself and it isn’t that important. What’s important is the economy and the bail out. Get a life. Couric and Parker are very jealous of Palin and they didn’t go further in their life than she did and neither did a lot of young woman. She is very aggressive and that’s why she was a mayor then a governor. If you think you can do better than that get busy and get into politics.

Jay B. Long: If your not satisfied with your party vote democrat and call it a day. And McCain’s age at 72 doesn’t matter. Joe Biden is 65 years of age. Who cares as long as they can do the job. Be lucky if you live to be that age. And I am sure your parent’s are not young.

I don’t think this is a take home interview, Sarah.
Nice person, just not too bright.

Kathleen Parker, a so called “conservative columnist” is either “missing a few tacos from her platter” or is a Mole for the Democrats.
With less that 40 days to go until the general election, she made an incredible statement attacking John McCain’s Presidential running mate, Sarah Palin. She stated that Palin is a “dud” and should “step aside”.
Surely, a True Republican would never say such a thing, and certainly not at this stage as it would mean a a certain loss to McCain if that were to happen. So why did she say it?
A few more Kathleen Parker gems below:
“I love Obama for his style, grace, intellect and his way with words. I want the healing power that an Obama presidency could deliver to this country”.
“Alaska someday will be home to Christian renegades arriving for the Rapture”.
This is also the same Kathleen Parker that agreed with Ahmadinejad’s assertion that women should not be in the British military (or any military for that matter) after Iran commandeered a British ship with a woman sailor on board.
Parker went on to “diss” the woman in the military and say it was not their roles to be serving their country in uniform and should instead stay home and raise their kids.
Perhaps she sould tell that to Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester who won a Silver Star in Iraq after a fierce 90 minute firefight in which she saved many lives with her bravery in direct combat with the enemy.
Or perhaps she should tell that Army Spc. Monica Lin Brown who was also awarded a Silver Star for bravery under fire and also saving many lives.
Should we now ground Colonel Martha McSally, the first woman to fly combat in the United States Air Force? Not only is Colonel McSally a decorated combat pilot (A-10 Thunderbolt II), she also is the first woman to successfully command an American fighter squadron-the 354th Fighter Squadron.
Oh wait..let’s not forget that Parker strongly believes that Sarah Palin needs to spend more time with the family..along with our women in the military.
No, Kathleen Parker is not missing a “few tacos” at all. It is my view that she knew Exactly what she was saying and why she said it. Furthermore, it is my view that she is either a secret Mole for the Democrats or at the very least, has become a useful idiot for them. Truly pathetic.

Parker is just one of those women that can’t stand when a woman passes her on the ladder of success! She deserves to be where Palin is. She has been throwing out little bones about running for office herself for years now. I don’t think Palin is out of her depth. Parker is just another elitist woman who likes to think of themselves as better than the rest of us ‘normal” women. These diva-ish women like Parker and that perky blonde chick on the nbc morning show that lost her husband are the same way, other women just are not as smart as couric and parker and they must let us know or we might find out the hard way how stupid we are. We might even do something that would embarass them like voting republican no matter what Parker and her little friends vote. What would happen if they showed some respect. I know, their little faces would crack! Ick, Horrors, respecting other WOMEN! Parker might consider dragging herself out of the “trash all women but me” line before the heat gets turned all the way up.