John McCain Comes Aboard Joe Biden’s Plane

I wonder how a man forced to repeat a year in LAW SCHOOL for plagiarism can become senator…who claims to be an average joe, yet owns $4 million in real estate…who spends $200 a DAY taking Amtrak home…who was passed over for president and vp so many many times, only to be picked by a man supposedly representing change, who decided that 36 years in the Senate was the change he needed, (not someone with 18 million votes, duh). Good luck in the fall, idiots!

If Biden cannot quit this crap, he needs to resign from the ticket! You have Palin on the Repub side, trashing Obama enthusiastically. Then you have Biden on the Demo side, who can’t seem to praise McCain enough. The story of McCain and the drinking/dancing with Biden’s wife made me sick. What was the point of sharing that?
I think that Biden was a poor choice. It is one thing to say complimentary things about your opponent when you are asked, quite another to keep pulling out these buddy-buddy stories when no-one prompts you to do so…

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Indy_voter, when Sarah Palin has been coached enough to stand up to Freakazoid Noberman and Slobber Mouth Matthews, she will.
After all, back 3-4 months ago she was busy with Alaska business, family business, fighting state corruption, and putting a pipeline through.
Why didn’t YOU warn her then that she would be picked for the 2nd most important job in the free world.
A quick question for you, since you are so smart.
Quickly now, who is the president of New Jerkistan????
Ya see.
Palin – 08

I heard there was also a cardboard cut out of Obama going to Iraq to find out what was going on – when it was uncovered – he had to go in person even though his mind was already made up we’d failed. Newsflash to Obama and Biden – despite your best efforts the US and US Military did not fail.

Indy voter-
Perhaps, you should worry about the TOP of your ticket, and his lack of experience. In a year when the generic Dem pulls 80% in favor of a win, what’s wrong with your candidate, homey?
Perhaps its his 143 WORKING days of “experience” in the senate, where he’s pulled in a MILLION dollars a day in pork for his state.
Where his self proclaimed hardest choice was being against the war WHEN HE WASN’T ABLE TO VOTE ON IT. Wow, what courage-definitely beats a man who was tortured and stabbed in the groin, etc.
Has Obama ever run a business. NO
Has Obama ever voted against tax increases? NO
Has Obama ever had to hire, fire, and administer a budget? NO…
Has all he ever has done is vote for entitlements? YES

Why is it that Joe Biden lies about his wife accident? He says she was killed by a drunk driver when the reports state that the truck driver was not drunk. I think this speaks very pointedly of his honesty.The truck driver’s family is very disturbed that he is smearing their father’s memory.

seriously the election 60 days away and this is election coverage? the press should be ashamed.

This is nonsense. The hype about Sarah Palin is ridiculous. Listening to her surrogates talk about how much experience she has, and then keeping her sequestered from defining herself is transparent. She is not ready; this was an irresponsible choice to win an election.
They accused one candidate of celebrity status he earned through his history, policies, proposals, and ability to organize a huge and successful grassroots organization, as well as his oratory skills. They select a celebrity candidate of their own that is assigned for her personal and sensational life very much on the level of Brittany Spears, et al.
There is no discussion of issues; the Republicans believe they can win this election on “personality” and have said so. Are you insulted yet?

I dont think Biden is doing such a good job. O picked the wrong person.

I watched the Sunday news show and noted the general disdain by the ABC Roundtable regarding John McCain statements regarding Governor Sarah Palin foreign policy creditials as a Governor of Alaska. Everyone thought that there was funny and there was no basis. How does ABC news reconcile that position with Governor Rick Perry of Texas standing up to President George Bush and the World Court opposition to the execution of Mexican nationals who did not have an opportunity to see their Mexican consul. Governor Rick Perry and the State of Texas ignored Bush and the World Court and in so doing conducted an amazing foreign policy for a state. States along the Mexican border such as Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California have had to deal with immigration issues and relations with Mexico on a day to day basis. Those Southern governors do have foreign policy experience. ABC news reporters display their ignorance when they do not recognize the intimacy that exists between states that border foreign countries such as Mexico and Russia.

The press and Google have made this front page news! It sounds like a bunch of high school kids with too much time and money on their hands. The American public need some real news reporters. We are less than 60 days from picking a president.

Just read the letter below for a better understanding of who Sara Palin really is.
About Sarah Palin: A Letter From Anne Kilkenny
By admin on Sep 3, 2008 in John McCain
What follows is an open letter written by a resident of Wasilla, Alaska named Anne Kilkenny.
I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992. Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her father was my child’s favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the residents of the city.
She is enormously popular; in every way she’s like the most popular girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and won’t vote for her can’t quit smiling when talking about her because she is a “babe”.
It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. She kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents for seven months. She is “pro-life”. She recently gave birth to a Down’s syndrome baby. There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby. She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.
She is savvy. She doesn’t take positions; she just “puts things out there” and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit. Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin’s kind of job is highly sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything like that of native Alaskans. Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters. She’s smart.
Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000 (at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about 670,000 residents. During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had given rise to a recall campaign.
Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a “fiscal conservative”. During her 6 years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over 33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation (1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they benefited residents.
The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration weren’t enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece of property that the City didn’t even have clear title to, that was still in litigation 7 yrs later–to the delight of the lawyers involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.
While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office redecorated more than once. These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city. As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.
In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today’s surplus, borrow for needs.
She’s not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideasor compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren’t generated by her or her staff. Ideas weren’t evaluated on their merits, but on the basis of who proposed them.
While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin’s attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.
Sarah complained about the “old boy’s club” when she first ran for Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of “old boys”. Palin fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people, creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally grateful and fiercely loyal–loyal to the point of abusing their power to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the case of pressuring the State’s top cop (see below).
As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla’s Police Chief because he “intimidated” her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska’s top cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure and she had every legal right to fire him, but it’s pretty clear that an important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn’t fire her sister’s ex-husband, a State Trooper. Under investigation for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen contacts were made between her staff and family to the person that she later fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew her support.
She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn’t like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.
Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything publicly about her.
When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah got the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission: one of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid. She had no background in oil & gas issues. Within months of scoring this great job which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in the press about the high salary. I was told that she hated that job: the commute, the structured hours, the work. Sarah became aware that a member of this Commission (who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party) engaged in unethical behavior on the job.
In a gutsy move which some undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah solved all her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics and as a gutsy fighter against the “old boys’ club” when she dramatically quit, exposing this man’s ethics violations (for which he was fined).
As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from Senator Ted Stevens. Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel politics and publicly humiliated him. She only opposed the “bridge to nowhere” after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.
As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing projects, calling them pork. Public outcry and further legislative action restored most of these projects–which had been vetoed simply because she was not aware of their importance–but with the unobservant she had gained a reputation as “anti-pork”.
She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated them. Other members of the party object to her self-description as a fiscal conservative.
Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah.
They call her “Sarah Barracuda” because of her unbridled ambition and predatory ruthlessness. Before she became so powerful, very ugly stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made point guard on the high school basketball team. When Sarah’s mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.
As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of package of legislation known as “AGIA” that forced the oil companies to march to the beat of her drum.
Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked toglobal warming. She campaigned “as a private citizen” against a state initiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the state (depending on who you listen to). She has pushed the State’s lawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior’s decision to list polar bears as threatened species.
McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be a heartbeat away from being President. There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more knowledgeable and experienced than she. However, there’s a lot of people who have underestimated her and are regretting it.
CLAIM VS FACT
•“Hockey mom”: true for a few years
•“PTA mom”: true years ago when her first-born was in elementary school, not since
•“NRA supporter”: absolutely true
•social conservative: mixed. Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a bill that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships (said she did this because it was unconsitutional).
•pro-creationism: mixed. Supports it, BUT did nothing as Governor to promote it.
•“Pro-life”: mixed. Knowingly gave birth to a Down’s syndrome baby BUT declined to call a special legislative session on some pro-life legislation
•“Experienced”: Some high schools have more students than Wasilla has residents. Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska. No legislative experience other than City Council. Little hands-on supervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city administrator to run town of about 5,000.
•political maverick: not at all
•gutsy: absolutely!
•open & transparent: ??? Good at keeping secrets. Not good at explaining actions.
•has a developed philosophy of public policy: no
•”a Greenie”: no. Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores and disconnected parking lots. Is pro-drilling off-shore and in ANWR.
•fiscal conservative: not by my definition!
•pro-infrastructure: No. Promoted a sports complex and park in a city without a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system. Built streets to early 20th century standards.
•pro-tax relief: Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax burden on residents
•pro-small government: No. Oversaw greatest expansion of city government in Wasilla’s history.
•pro-labor/pro-union. No. Just because her husband works union doesn’t make her pro-labor. I have seen nothing to support any claim that she is pro-labor/pro-union.
WHY AM I WRITING THIS?
First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting programs in the schools. If you google my name (Anne Kilkenny + Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.
Secondly, I’ve always operated in the belief that “Bad things happen when good people stay silent”. Few people know as much as I do because few have gone to as many City Council meetings.
Third, I am just a housewife. I don’t have a job she can bump me out of. I don’t belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I am no fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will cost me somehow in the future: that’s life.
Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100 or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah’s attempt at censorship.
Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to say anything because they were somehow vulnerable.
CAVEATS
I am not a statistician. I developed the numbers for the increase in spending & taxation 2 years ago (when Palin was running for Governor) from information supplied to me by the Finance Director of the City of Wasilla, and I can’t recall exactly what I adjusted for: did I adjust for inflation? for population increases? Right now, it is impossible for a private person to get any info out of City Hall–they are swamped. So I can’t verify my numbers.
You may have noticed that there are various numbers circulating for the population of Wasilla, ranging from my “about 5,000″, up to 9,000. The day Palin’s selection was announced a city official told me that the current population is about 7,000. The official 2000 census count was 5,460. I have used about 5,000 because Palin was Mayor from 1996 to 2002, and the city was growing rapidly in the mid-90’s.
Comment by Erika
September 6th, 2008 at 2:49 pm

wow, sounds like this really touched a nerve with all the kneed jerk repubs.
i for one am so happy that turncoat mccain picked palin. the biggest pre-election decision he had to make and he botched it.
the repub party is so out of touch with everything it is laughable. you stupid saps have had the white house for 28 of the last 40 years and been running congress for most of the last 14. party of change? what a f’ing joke.

tunghoy:
Progressive – does that mean Michael Moore Dem? Sure sounds like it. You people sure are bitter. You hate President Bush so much that you’d have us lose a war by electing a completely unqualified ticket and drag our country into a malaise worse than the Carter years.
Why is it that you people all come across as hating people who’ve actually done something in their lives other than make movies and talk a good game.
As far as being old – Newsflash – someday you’re going to be him (meaning old). Take a look at your father and grandfather – are they incapable because their old?

hippie_chucker, you and your ilk, Republican die-hards all, are nothing but single-celled lifeforms incapable of going beyond simple breathing and feeding.
As such, pathetic primitive organisms like you cannot – and will NEVER – go beyond the rigors of critical thinking which requires more than the one cell you’re made of.
Must be from all that inbreeding in your family tree.

This is just another example of the dems wrecklessness. After the DNC, the dems tossed out thousands of American flags. Of course, the “elitist media” didn’t pick that up. No big deal, the dems count on you obamacrats pouring in donations so who cares if he couldn’t recycle during his “oh-so-green” convention…He can’t even spend your $5 donations honestly and you want to entrust him with our national economy…Idiots…

Biden: Obama’s nightmare!

Nine story lines that begin with Obama. They are pushin it a little hard this morning aren’t they? Even more weird, it’s all about the ONE interview.

IF Biden placing a cardboard of Mcaine on his plane and putting out Mccain came anoard to talk Is an example of what I knew all along Biden talk is all about cardboard so much he now beleived it himself and so dose the liberal press.

It is always fun to read the back and forth between democrats and republicans, whatever happen to Americans? I think “We the people” get lost in the shuffle of who doesn’t know this and who lied about that. Just once I wish there were candidates that actually were Americans that stood for the constitution of this greatest country in the world. What is so wrong with saying what you mean and meaning what you say? It just doesn’t happen anymore, it is all lies, finger pointing, etc. I am a true Independent that will be forced to vote this year for one of two people that in my humble opinion neither one deserve to be President. Enough said for said, forgive me this moment. Look at the Constitution, read the Constitution and then vote for the one that follows it the closest. May God Bless America for all of its days.

Blip– I couldn’t have put it better myself. Palin is scared to face the media ONE-on-ONE. She’s not even allowed to campaign without her master McSAME beside her. It’s like she’s learning (being lectured) as she goes on. SCARY… VERY SCARY!

Biden is a famous plagiarist. He lies without any dint of shame on the face. Only once I heard him say the truth and that is during the democratic debate. “Obama is not ready for the job”. I am with him on that.
Obama winnes about the issues that we are facing today but where is the solution obama?
That is the problem besides his character, Shady past, anti-american sentiments and above all 20 years in racist church and radical pastor wright, convicted criminal rezko, jailed fraud mayor kilpatrick and other anti-social elements

Obama study law at Havard but when was asked by Pastor Rick Warren that when a baby gets human right. Obama replied that the question is “above my pay grade”
What did this guy studied guys? Black Rights only?

I am already sick and tired of Obama/Biden and their mantra “more of the same”.
If their entire campaign is going to be based on associating McCain with George Bush, then Obama is not the change I am looking for after all.
I expected better of Obama/Biden, more along the lines of clearly making their case and discussing issues. More along the lines of distancing themselves from the partisan politics that has strangles Washington.
Partisanship is not a Republican malady or a Democrat malady, it is an infection that needs to be eradicated in Washington from BOTH PARTIES.
Eevry time I hear Obama/Biden make that “more of the same” remark, all I hear is Status Quo O.
I am becoming less sold on Obama/Biden as they only want to blame Republicans for stagnation in Washington. It’s a two party system, and it’s a two party problem.
I am beginning to like McCain more as he seems inclined to lay the blame where it belongs, with both parties.

If Palin is not ready to face the “DRIVE BY MEDIA” she is not ready to be the V.P., This independant just decided

Its an insult to Bush to compare Palin with Bush. It is appropriate to compare Palin to lame duck Cheney. It surely answers Palins question of what do VP does in office – just look at Cheney.
Obama08

Is this a news source or what? If McCain’s name had been in quote marks, I would understand the parody, but to devote an entire “news article” to this kind of useless trite is why the American public is fed up with the media.
It’s like when I watched Saturday Night Live as a teen and wondered by everyone was acting so silly. Took me a while to figure it out. Now we have to watch the “real news” and sort out the “legitimate” from the newsworthy all on our own. Where are the editors, producers and publishers?
Who cares?

Actions speak louder than words and Palin’s NOT accepting questions is screaming COWARD, plain and simple.

Jon – “Obama winnes about the issues that we are facing today but where is the solution obama?
That is the problem besides his character, Shady past, anti-american sentiments and above all 20 years in racist church and radical pastor wright, convicted criminal rezko, jailed fraud mayor kilpatrick and other anti-social elements”
Let me put you in your place real quick, since you are another misinformed and uneducated Republican soul in this sad ignorant country.
When has Obama whined about the issues? Are you kidding me? All the Republicans can do is talk about Obama, but where are their policy points? The economy was mentioned how many times by McCain in his speech? None. Isn’t this the most important issue facing Americans today? If so, then why don’t the Republicans talk about this, why doesn’t McCain make this a focal point in his daily discussions? Oh yeah, that’s because he thinks “there’s been great progress economically”. I guess we’re just in a “mental recession”.
Obama made 29 policy points during his speech, you know, he spelled them out for people like yourself. You just chose not to listen. You could always go to his website to find out what his policy platform looks like, but I’m sure you’ll continue to resort to fear and smear blogging, instead of actually educating yourself on the issues.
In regards to Rezko, why don’t you actually read and educate yourself on the issue. Let me help you: http://www.newsweek.com/id/154782/page/1. Oh, and why you’re at it, check out this brilliant interview McCain gave: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1836909,00.html.
You sure do have diarrhea of the mouth. You talk a lot of crap, but don’t have much to back it up. What the hell does Obama have to do with Mayor Kilpatrick? Oh, Reverend Wright, Obama’s former pastor. Have you ever heard any of the Reverend Wright’s sermons, or just the 15 second clips played over, and over, and over again? I’m sure it’s the later, go figure. It’s easy to be ignorant and assuming when you don’t have the whole picture.
The bottom line is that you have no idea what you’re talking about, and you don’t know how to spell. I feel sorry for people like you. Unaccountable, pessimistic, close-minded, uneducated, assuming, neo-con, inbred, etc. More of the same.

No I think Bush/Cheaney takes the title of crook from Nixon.

I have a question, Obama Binladen, Osama-Biden…Are they related?

haha, How is Obama Ignorant?
The man went to Harvard Law and graduated with honors. He was professor of constitutional law for 12 years, he obviously understands the both the foundations and nuances of our constitution.
If Obama is ignorant, then what about McCain/Palin?
one graduated nearly last of his naval academy, the other only has a bachelor’s in journalism.
Not that these things matter mcuh, but calling Obama ignorant is just retarded.

youngBlood – “Obama is here not for a change of America but himself, a change of his career, his social status, and a change of his racial image. He is an arrogant self egoistic inferior ignorant man. He will be an incompetent leader if elected. He has the same kind of smooth talk that you see in a drug dealer, criminals, and pimps in ghettos in Chicago, Illinois.”
I think you know how inaccurate and ignorant your comments are. Let me introduce you to Barack Obama, a true American hero who wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth: http://www.demconwatchblog.com/2008/08/obama-tribute-video.html. He is our last hope, trust me.

I SEEN A CARD BOARD CUT OUT OF OBAMA WHEN I WAS IN IRAQ, BUT WHEN WEE STARTED TO RECIEVE IN COMING MORTAR FIRE, THE OBAMA CUT OUT WAS IN THE CORNER HIDING UNDER A DESK SHIVERING WITH JEREMIAH’S BOOK OF “HOW TO GET WHITY”…..
AND AS THE BAD NEWS FOR OBAMA CONTINUE’S TO PILE UP, IT LOOKS LIKE THE WHEEL’S BE COMIN OFF BARACK’S ESCALADE..

She and their handlers are emulating Obuma… they are trying to hide the fact that she was merely a community organizer.
The truth will come out!
Be careful,A community organizer can become president
GO PALIN! YOU ROCK! I will vote for a real American!

During the primaries, I was very turned off by ugly personal attacks by “my” opponent’s supporters. It is no longer necessary to do that and I beg you to focus on The Issues and on the policy proposals of all of the candidates. It will speak for itself. Those who refute them with the lame question of “What are Obama’s positions?” have either not watched that convention or need to put themselves in denial. I quote from a rally by Joe Biden on Thursday and on Friday?
“What do you talk about when you cannot defend the past 8 years? What do you talk about when you have no solutions, no plan? You talk about the other guy! How many times was ‘middle class’ mentioned at the Republican Convention? How many times were you, the people, mentioned? The silence is deafening, deafening!”
Remember: “What do you talk about when you have nothing to say?”
Palin’s personal ideology and policies and ineptitude to govern but a great skill in bullying and McCain’s weakness of integrity and desire for anything other than atoning for the fact he could not make Admiral in the Navy, will put the crowning cap on the destruction began in the past 8 years. If one considers just the abuses of the Constitution and of the Dept of Justice, just that alone, should tell you that we cannot afford this undynamic duo.
I’m with you now, Obamacans! Let us make him proud. Stick to the issues and the facts; do not respond to the barbs and phoney phacts. What else can they talk about?
“No Way, No How, No McCain/Biden!”

Yeah, that’s real mature; catering to the youth again I see. Gimmick crazy Obama, points fingers with 18 mil helping to point back at him. You reap what you sow.

Biden is hilarious! I love that guy. Anyone who is disrespecting him should realize he’s a good friend of your party’s nominee… Palin has sealed the deal for this Clinton voter to Obama’s side. You can’t just go dig up a pretty woman to win voters. They have to be like Hillary – the best person for the job. Now that Hillary’s out, Obama-Joe is the best team for the job. Hands down, no questions. McCain really blew it with Palin. She doesn’t believe in sex education in the schools, even though it’s been shown to be effective. She believes in forcing the abstinence model and religiosity down people’s throats, even though research has shown the abstinence model doesn’t work. She against a woman’s right to choose. I would almost hope she’s inexperienced, because the more experienced she is, the more effective she might be in backing her flawed ideas. And she should be answering questions from the media… because we’re not all as sure as she is that she knows her voters… Most of us are not your typical soccer mom, or hockey mom, or whatever.

What is wrong with everyone? Democrats or republicans Both are in the race to make things better for themselves, But honestly Obama / Biden ticket is more inspiring than Corrupt liar ms. Palin and goofy irresponsible JM.
Palin is busy cracking Jokes at Obama… get a life lady talk about issue not about what other candidate lacks … tell us what you got to get my VOTE!!!! What did you just say ? … Oh !! you said NADA !!!!
Oh yahh !! Thats what I thought so … you GOT NOTHING

Obama talks of a $4,000 tax credit for education. Bill Clinton had it put into the tax code. It is already there. I heard him talk about small business and that maybe they can’t take a deduction for health care of their employees. They can take that deduction, he is not going to add or subtract from that. I live in a $250,000 home, does that mean I am poverty level? Obama lives in a multi-Million dollar house in the elite part of Chicago, purchased with the help of his friend Rezko, in Hyde Park, and he says he is middle class. hmmm I guess i am poverty level. Fear and hope is his message. I read both of his books. Still looking for the hope in one of them. I supported Clinton, not Obama. They are not the same.

Why has there has been extensive web scrubbing and mysterious disappearances of posts, blogs, and articles concerning Barack Obama and his ties? Obama dissent blogs are being hacked, and information is being destroyed. Bloggers, commentators, and pretty much anyone who attempt to question Barack Obama, including journalists are immediately threatened or warned in some fashion. Just look what happened when Kurtz appeared recently on a Chicago radio station and a bunch of Obama thugs tried to stop him from appearing. Clinton supporters, Hillary 44 and PUMA have reported that super delegates and caucus goers were threatened if they do not go for Barack Obama. Furthermore, anytime anyone questions Barack Obama and his associates, his affiliations, his judgment, or his entire HISTORY, someone jumps out and screams: McCarthyism! or Lies! or Racism! or Negativity! It is all a scheme toward censorship and oppression. That needs to stop. Right now. This is America and Americans have every right to know who their potential American President is. How dare anyone think otherwise? In light of this, copy and save the body of this article for future reference in case this article disappears from this post. The Obama brown shirts are everywhere.

tomay
Sure! You’re the real thing, I guess. But then again, maybe you’re not!

The action the Obama backers took, trumped the issues for that’s how he played his “game.” Rather than issues, which he lacked in the beginning, until he figured which way the WINNING wind would blow at the time, he decided to go after the Clinton legacy. Hillary had far more accomplishments, proving her concerns for Americans of all ages. But no, to Kennedy and the rest, Obama before party. Now Obama before country. No thanks. For me JUSTICE BEFORE A N Y T H I N G. Fight the Power!

I used to like him, but McCain has flip-flopped on so many positions I don’t know what he believes any more. Which McCain do you like better:
There was the one who was for RoeVWade (circa 2000) and the one who is against Roe (circa 2008)
There is the one who is against the bush tax cute (circa 2002) and the one who is for them (circa 2008)
There is the one who said the invasion of Iraq would be easy (2003) and the one who said that he knew it would never be easy (2008)
There is the one who was for immigration reform (2003) and the one who would vote against the bill that he himself wrote (2008).
There was the one who took a “principled stand” against torture (2004), then the one who supported it (2007).
How can you trust a guy who’s position blows back and forth in the wind? I voted against Kerry for exactly the same reason, but I think McCain is even worse!

Web scrubbing? Are you kidding? Did you hear about what happened to Palin’s wikipedia page the day before her nomination — it was turned into complete fiction! Too bad the truth is catching up with her.

I used to like him, but Obama has flip-flopped on so many positions I don’t know what he believes any more. Which Obama do you like better:
1. Special interests In January, the Obama campaign described union contributions to the campaigns of Clinton and John Edwards as “special interest” money. Obama changed his tune as he began gathering his own union endorsements. He now refers respectfully to unions as the representatives of “working people” and says he is “thrilled” by their support.
2. Public financing Obama replied “yes” in September 2007 when asked if he would agree to public financing of the presidential election if his GOP opponent did the same. Obama has now attached several conditions to such an agreement, including regulating spending by outside groups. His spokesman says the candidate never committed himself on the matter.
3. The Cuba embargo In January 2004, Obama said it was time “to end the embargo with Cuba” because it had “utterly failed in the effort to overthrow Castro.” Speaking to a Cuban American audience in Miami in August 2007, he said he would not “take off the embargo” as president because it is “an important inducement for change.”
4. Illegal immigration In a March 2004 questionnaire, Obama was asked if the government should “crack down on businesses that hire illegal immigrants.” He replied “Oppose.” In a Jan. 31, 2008, televised debate, he said that “we do have to crack down on those employers that are taking advantage of the situation.”
5. Decriminalization of marijuana While running for the U.S. Senate in January 2004, Obama told Illinois college students that he supported eliminating criminal penalties for marijuana use. In the Oct. 30, 2007, presidential debate, he joined other Democratic candidates in opposing the decriminalization of marijuana.
How can you trust a guy who’s position blows back and forth in the wind? I voted against Kerry for exactly the same reason, but I think Obama is even worse!

I’m for Obama because I like someone with big ears to tell me where to go. I’m frightened to go anywhere by myself and Obama changes position enough that following him is really interesting.
Come on fellow lemmings – there is plenty of room at the rear of our column. Ready, March!

I’m voting for republicans because I like to reward total failure.

Barack Obama: The Audacity of Image
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=70236

Obama is Christian. I thought this matter was already made clear during the many weeks of media coverage about it. He made the same type of mistake in talking as did Gov. Tom Ridge in referring to McCain as John Bush during an interview at the RNC. I can’t even believe that Republicans are crticizing the media about Palin when Obama and all the others have been under the same type of scrutiny and rumors for MONTHS.

They even spelled Mavrick wrong.
(P.S. I’m a Republican, just trying to goade those dum Democrats!)

I think it’s hillarious that the Republicans call Democrats sexist when they are the ones who have always been against equal pay for women and women’s rights in general. I also think this “executive” experience thing is REALLY funny because, as far as I can tell, the only business Palin ran was a tiny carwash in ALASKA (didn’t it also fail?). Palin is poodle who needs protection, not a pitbull. But you republicans are such great LIARS (pretending to be democrats who have come over to the right) I guess it doesn’t matter what the TRUTH is, right? How books of lies does it take to steal another election?

Sarah Palin should stop getting criticism for wanting a VP slot just because she is a woman. (and MOM is just another word for woman) Her oldest son is in the military (all grown up), her daughter is getting married and having a baby and will be supported by family on BOTH sides (getting all grown up faster), her teenaged daughter is almost in high school, then a 7 year old and a baby with Down’s. So, now she really will have 3 kids left in the home with a very hands-on, loving, capable dad. VP is not the most intensive job- most presidents manage to have family time. WHERE was all this criticism when RFK ran for president? He had a a bunch of kids and a pregnant wife- should HE have just stayed a lawyer and thought of his family? This is blatant sexism- pure and simple. I have a friend who had 4 girls and a boy and the boy is severely handicapped- much worse than Down’s as he is non functional in most ways. She went back to work when he was 2 months old and never quit. He is now 29 and alive and still living at her home. She had home care and went to work. Lots of women WORK. Devoting her every waking minute to the 3 remaining kids is not how life goes. If you think MEN are incompetent to raise kids without a woman present, then you should outlaw adoption by gay men.

John “Killed alot of Vietnames” McCain and Sarah “Trailer Trash” Palin are right wing fascists.
The real question is: “How stupid are we” to even consider voting for these neo-Nazis?

yum yum,
No one thinks palin is wrong because she is a woman. People think Palin is wrong because she is incompetent and also nuts.
* six weeks ago palin stated that she had no idea what the vice president does. So she must be really well prepared for the job by now!
* palin opposes abortion even in cases of rape and incest — way outside the mainstream
* palin thinks creationism should be taught in schools
* palin thinks global warming is not real..
Mainly palin is just a bad candidate. Even many of the conservative commentators agree with this: Noonen, Murphy, Frum, Krautheimer, even Rove said things that make it clear he thinks she is unqualified. I wanted them to nominate K.B. Hutcheson.
The problem isn’t sexism, the problem is Palin.

Obama asserted in a Colorado Springs speech that the U.S. needs a “civilian national security force” that would be as powerful, strong and well-funded as the half-trillion dollar Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force. In the July 2 speech in Colorado Springs, Obama insisted the U.S. “cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set.”He continued, “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.””Big Brother had nothing on the Obamas,” said IBD. “They plan to herd American youth into government-funded re-education camps where they’ll be brainwashed into thinking America is a racist, oppressive place in need of ’social change.

I can’t wait to hear Palin explain all her now famous half truth half lies in her up comoing intervies with Gibson on ABC this should be good. If they ask those questions I know I would. Then I’d ask her how to project for GDP growth in our economy and what type of mathmatics you wouyd use in that type calculation. Then she if she can explain its importance.

TF Palin increased taxes so she could increase AKS “rebate”
According to the state Legislative Finance Division, Alaska will get $11 billion in oil taxes and royalties — $5 billion more than the $6 billion fiscal 2009 budget — if prices average $106 a barrel, yesterday’s price on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The state received $5.1 billion from oil companies in fiscal 2007, when it had a $1.2 billion surplus.
Each Alaska resident gets an annual rebate from state oil revenue, and this year Palin added $1,200 more to the $2,100 check each person received.
Palin, 44, proposed the tax increase Sept. 4, 2007, and called a special legislative session to pass it. At an Oct. 12 community meeting in Anchorage, the governor referred to oil as “our very valuable non-renewable resource.”
“When we develop our natural resources, we will do so for the maximum benefit of Alaskans,” she said then. Palin signed the tax increase Dec. 19.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aYdZoyTvFrTc&refer=home
“When we develop our natural resources, we will do so for the maximum benefit of Alaskans,”:
Sounds like every other politician.
She is for maximimizing AK citizens rebate.
DOnt vote for McCain. McCain will lead us into WWIII and depression

So ABC is now admitting they are totally biased? We know the story is false since there would be no room aboard for a McCain cutout. Biden’s ego fills the entire plane.
seriously, this mentally ill man would be a heartbeat away from the presidency?

I am the “real thing”, tested and tried, informed and prepared, fired up and ready to go!
McCain voted AGAINST equal pay for equal work.
The John and Sarah Show is in Alburqurque today, saying the same stuff again! How many times will America have to listen to that self-congratulatory laudit?
This woman is ill prepared, ill equiped, NOT THE REAL THING, and has been selected for reasons that have nothing to do about putting Country First. This man is a sell out, ambitious without focus, and believes he is “owed” the presidency. He should be glad he was able to have such a cushy and protected life since he returned from Viet Nam, a much better life than his fellow POWs and veterans received. Oh, and he voted against the bill for veterans most recently.
Anyway you look at it, this duo is not the ticket. And this is the best the Republicans could come up with?? Apparently yes, if the convention showcased their finest….This country needs a Community Organizer for President, one who knows how to get work done through others!
“No Way, No How, No McCain/Palin”

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Good Grief!! tomay, how do you know all of these “facts”? You got a secret microphone inside the McCain plane?
Want to tell us just where/when McCain voted the way you say? Are you sure he didn’t just vote “Present”?
This woman is ill what? Ill prepared? How? She has the exact same qualifications that Carter, Bush 2, and Klinton had. Are you saying that they couldn’t be president either? We need to impeach all three I guess.
NOT THE REAL THING? From some of the pictures I have seen of her, she is damn sure THE REAL THING, and then some.
McCain a cushy life? Oh, so not being able to comb your own hair is cushy? So beating cancer is cushy? Putting up with the likes of Schumer, Boxer, and the like are cushy? Get REAL.
HAAAAAAA. Someone to get work done through others? So Obammy will get us to work so we can support the drug users and pimps and Chicago thugs?
tomay – take another drink before you post again.
Palin – 08

Biden who?
Noone cares about Biden, he is Mr Irrelevant.

Very seriously, you know what a mess the attorneys have made of this country with lawsuits about hot coffee; fake illnesses, suing doctors who now cannot afford to practice.
QUESTION. what will two attorneys Obama and Biden do to our country? They will find excuses & spin them with so much legal garbage you’ll never understand what they are saying

No Means No
Why do you say ‘right to choose’ instead of ‘right to abort’?

Definitely, lets get rid of Big Evil Exxon, and their Evil Profits.
Guess what, libs-Exxon makes $1400 a second in net profit, but PAYS $4000 in TAXES.
Look around your house at all the things that are made from oil, and oil byproducts-like car tires, saran wrap, contact lenses, baby oil, etc. It’s not just the oil for cars that we have to replace, it’s literally EVERYTHING in our society. That’s why its utterly laughable to for Obama to say we can get off of oil in 10 years.
Hating oil makes about as much sense as hating apples.
Except oil is one of the primary reasons we enjoy the highest standard of living in the world.

O B A M A ………….O B A M A……..
OBAMA FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THIS NATION!!1

Sarah Palin strongly believes that Men must be paid MORE than women! Sarah Palin also wants to force women/girls that are victims of rape/incest to carry such fetuses resulting from the said rape/incest to full term, then deliver the baby – irrespective of the will of the victim or even her age. And to think that women are cheering Sarah Palin from the rooftops as the poster girl of womens rights who will spectacularly smash through that presidential/Vice presidential glass ceiling.
Some folks wrongly think that being a woman she will moderate or help turn McCain around from his opposition to equal pay to women. Like this statement one Dave from Baltimore, posted on another site:”I hope Palin breaks with McCain on equal pay for equal work – it would pave the way to a better future for her four children and grandson.”
Are you kidding me?!!! Gov. Palin is even more hardcore in her opposition to equal pay for WOMEN, than is McCain. Sarah Palin believes that women must be paid LESS than men – no ifs and buts about it. Period.
McCain, when pushed about his vote AGAINST giving women equal pay as men, has tried to flip-flop saying that ‘if women are to aspire to equal pay, they must first aspire to achieve college eduction”.
In other words, in McCain’s world, only college educated women shall be extended equality with men in terms of pay/wages. Sarah Palin’s views about (rather against) equal pay for women are very straightforward, and cast in stone: Women must get paid LESS than men. College educated or not, when it comes to pay parity, women are less than men. Coming from a Woman herself, its ironic, but true!
Kind of like an Afro-American person advocating slavery and segregation of the black population!! Wierd isn’t it?
Strangely, Sarah Palin is being trumpeted as the symbol of a woman smashing through the glass ceiling!
(We are not even going into her strident opposition to abortion even if the pregnancy is a result of rape/incest, and the victim wants to abort the fetus. Sarah Palin believes that such rape/incest survivors must be forced to carry the fetus resulting from rape/incest to term, then deliver the baby. NO exceptions, no termination. If such a woman chooses to abort the baby, she commits a crime, and must be tried as a criminal and punished for opting to abort the fetus. Even if the pregnant female is a MINOR child, she would still have to deliver the baby.
Just so you know, several courts in the country have allowed visitation/parental rights to rapists and the parents or rapists to meet and bond with children born due to the said rape.
I shudder to even imagine what happens when victims of rape/incest are forced to bear the children resulting from the rape (one Sarah Palin’s wishes becomes the law), and then having to drop off the child at the rapists (child’s father) door for court sanctioned visits to dad. What would go through the mother’s mind? Would such rapists not molest these children all over again. What if this rapist rapes this child/daughter all over again…repeating this unbelievably grotesque cycle!!!!!!
Is this American women we are talking about or some burqa clad subjugated women from some Taliban country?!
Sam
setu.madhavan@gmail.com

The Democrats have backed themselves into a corner. Having amazingly thrown the Clintons overboard for someone with a dubious past and no history of real accomplishment—but more charming and, in the case of Hillary, and less shrill—they now face the dilemma of having to counter the rise of a new personality on the right. This unforeseen salvo, the emergence of an attractive, possibly formidable adversary, the very antithesis of all they hold to be true, has the 0bama camp in disarray. The arguments, protests and name-calling (She’s trailer trash!) should not be expected to make sense because the left is fueled by emotion, not reason. Don’t call attention to any hysteric hypocrisy on the part of the Dems because they won’t stand for it (you ignorant Philistine!).
This is going to be fun to watch.

“The Democrats have backed themselves into a corner. Having amazingly thrown the Clintons overboard for someone with a dubious past and no history of real accomplishment” — Yes, it’s a real shame, we could have had 28, perhaps 32 years of nonstop rule by Bush’s and Clinton’s, exactly what America needs. America should be all about political dynasty and the wonders and joy of stability brought by the families that know best for us.

Sarah Palin, a friend of mine
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
David Murrow – Blog
People around the world are asking, “Who is Sarah Palin?” I thought you might appreciate an analysis from someone who has worked with John McCain’s pick for Vice President.
Before I wrote Why Men Hate Going to Church, I was a full-time television producer in Anchorage, Alaska. I did quite a bit of political consulting in election years. Sarah came to me in 2002 and asked me to produce media for her Lt. Governor campaign. I knew right away she was a different kind of politician. She was confident but not arrogant. She was down-home approachable, yet sophisticated. She seemed utterly uninterested in the trappings of power, yet ambitious to wield power for good. As cameras rolled for her first commercial, I knew that Sarah Palin was a gifted communicator.
And she was a savvy negotiator. At our first meeting she made it clear she would be running a shoestring campaign. She told me she liked my work and wanted me to produce her electronic media, but she had no fat cat donors to bankroll her run.
I don’t cut my rates for anybody. But I did what Christians are supposed to do: I went home and prayed about the decision. Frankly, I didn’t expect an answer. God doesn’t usually prompt me regarding my career decisions. But in the case of Sarah I had an immediate impression that I should help her, and that I was not to worry about the money. I called Sarah the next day and signed on for her long-shot campaign.
Sarah has been a guest in my home. She’s had dinner with my family and I’ve been to her house in Wasilla to film one of her commercials. We’ve worked together through the pressures of the campaign season. We took a moment to stop and pray when the campaign got tough. Sarah also encouraged me to complete my first book, and came to a book signing at Barnes and Noble in Anchorage in 2005 (see photo).
Her rapid rise in politics is a direct result of her unwavering moral compass. Sarah makes her decisions based one criterion: what’s the right thing to do? In 2003, Gov. Frank Murkowski offered her an appointment to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. (I advised her not to take the position. She ignored my advice, and took the job anyway.) Shortly after taking her seat on the commission, she noticed that one of her fellow commissioners, Randy Reudrich, was doing political business on state time. Reudrich was (and still is) chairman of the state Republican party. Randy controls the flow of money to Republican candidates.
Once a year all political appointees in Alaska are required to sign a conflict of interest statement. Part of the statement requires commissioners to report any violation by their colleagues. Sarah felt she had no choice but to tell the truth about Reudrich’s abuses, even though she would be turning in a fellow Republican. In the days following her allegations many who follow Alaska politics (myself included) thought Sarah had committed political suicide. But her courageous stand against corruption endeared her to the citizens of Alaska.
In 2006 Sarah Palin decided to run for governor. You have no idea what a quixotic mission this was. To win elections in Alaska a candidate must gather the backing of at least one powerful group: the oil industry, the media or the labor unions. Sarah had none of these. Nevertheless, she won the Republican nomination handily. In the general election, the power groups stepped up their opposition. The media dismissed her as a lightweight (and too conservative). The oil industry and labor unions backed her Democratic challenger. Even her own Republican Party (under the control of Reudrich) offered only token support. In the end only one group stood behind her: the people. She rolled to victory and began cleaning house.
Sarah tightened the states ethics laws. She sponsored an ingenious new tax regime on the oil industry, sweeping away a law passed a year earlier under the taint of corruption. And she jump-started Alaska’s long-stalled dream of a natural gas pipeline to the Lower 48 states. Instead of begging the big oil companies to build a pipeline (as her predecessor had) she opened the process for competitive bidding. Today, Alaska has two groups competing to build the line, with a possible third group waiting in the wings. She enjoys an 80+ percent approval rating here in Alaska.
Most politicians learn early in their careers to carefully parse every word that flows from their mouths. Not Sarah. She has a tendency to speak her mind, and say things that might one day come back to haunt her. More than once I’ve rolled my eyes and thought to myself, Sarah, why did you say that? But our governor keeps following that moral compass – and comes up smelling like a rose. All the controversy that’s swirling around her this week is vintage Sarah. I’ve seen this movie before, and it always ends the same way: with Sarah Palin standing taller than ever.
The last time I saw Sarah was about two months ago. She was here in my hometown of Chugiak, with her newborn son Trig, walking around a local craft fair on a Sunday afternoon. I was struck by the simplicity of it: the Governor of Alaska, visiting a craft fair with no media entourage, no security guards, no big crowd. Just a mother and son enjoying a beautiful Alaska summer day. We had a nice talk about everything except politics.
As far as her religious beliefs go, Sarah is your garden-variety evangelical Christian. She’s a woman of genuine faith, but not a zealot or weirdo. She has not hidden her faith during her term as governor, but neither has she worn it on her lapel. I think that’s a good thing.
So, is she ready to lead the free world? I have no doubt Sarah Palin would be a tough-as-nails negotiator during any political crisis. She’s stood up to corruption in her own party. She’s stared down Exxon and won. Heck, even she got me to lower my production rates! I see in her the grit, resolve and complete lack of political pretense that brought Teddy Roosevelt to power a century ago. I think she’s ready to be Vice President, and will be prepared to assume the Oval Office if the need arises.

And yet another Wasillan weighs in on Sarah Palin. This one is from Deb Frost.
Sarah Palin is the US’s answer to Margaret Thatcher! Anyone who thinks she cannot handle the job or deal briskly and efficiently with ANY issue, including foreign governments … well, they haven’t met our Sarah.
As an Alaskan resident as well as a resident of Wasilla, AK, where Sarah Palin was at one time Mayor … I can speak with confidence. Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska is exactly what she portrayed during her introduction this morning and exactly what our US Government needs. She is ethical to a fault (if there is such a thing), a refreshing change to the status-quo and as smart and determined a PERSON (gender really isn’t an issue here as far as I’m concerned) as anyone could ask for at the head of government.
Sarah is no naïve “small town mayor” – she just *started out* there. Btw, as Mayor of Wasilla, she brought this “small town” through a lot of GOOD changes and left it at the end of her term having grown to the 4th largest CITY in Alaska – a lot of growth and a stronger economic base than ever before.
She has EXECUTIVE experience *running a government* (something NONE of the other candidates can actually boast, even John McCain ) as Governor of Alaska and got there by defeating the *incumbent* Republican Governor, who was definitely part of the “old school” and who WAS very much in the pocket of the big oil companies. We in Alaska wanted change – and we got it in the person of Sarah Palin!
Sarah Palin is everything she looks to be and more. Her approval rating as Governor of Alaska has been as high as 95% and is currently leveled out consistently in the upper 80 percentile throughout the state (and in both parties) – the HIGHEST approval rating of ANY sitting Governor.
Sarah has been turning around corruption in the Legislature of Alaska – turning things on their ear for that matter; cutting spending in spite of the increased income the state is currently receiving due to the high oil prices – she has insisted on putting a huge amount of the “windfall” into savings for the future rather than spending, spending, spending – and has insisted from the get-go on what she refers to as “honest, ethical and transparent governing” – no more closed door meetings and dealings – the big oil companies thought she would be a pushover and have learned better to their chagrin.
She understands the “real people” and the economic issues we all face (Alaskans along with the rest of the country) – she was one of “us” not long ago. Rather than passing useless “laws” or throwing money at pet projects, she (most recently) temporarily suspended the state gas tax (on gasoline at the pumps, fuel oil and natural gas for homes, etc.) and has ordered checks
issued to ALL residents of Alaska this fall in an attempt to assist with the burden of high fuel costs for the upcoming winter. I could go on and on, but that’s enough for now . She isn’t doing these things to be popular – she is doing it because her constituents are HURTING financially and she can help.
She became Governor of Alaska by defeating the Incumbent Republican Governor and doing it *without* the money or the support of the Republican Party, which was amazing in itself – and she won by a landslide. The “powers that be” at that time totally underestimated Sarah and learned better the hard way. She has done exactly what she claimed she was going to do and is just as popular today as the day she was elected – perhaps more so since even the Democrats up here seem to like her – she works well with both sides in the Legislature here.
Sarah “belongs” to us (Alaskans) … and although we are going to be terribly sorry to see her leave before she finishes the job she started here (two years ago) straightening out OUR State … we understand she is needed for a bigger purpose and hopefully her Lt. Governor will be able to fill her shoes here and continue the job.
As for worrying about what would happen if McCain were to die or step down or whatever … up here in AK we’ve only been wondering how long we would be able to KEEP Sarah in Alaska and have seen her as our first woman President of the USA from the start. It’s always been a matter of whether she would wait until the end of her TWO terms as Governor (no doubt at ALL that she would be re-elected if she ran for a second term at the end of her current term) … or end up in Washington sooner. She could do the job TODAY.
Personally, I feel a lot better about McCain now that I know he has someone as savvy, as strong, as ethical and as steady as Sarah at his back. She will be an excellent Vice President … and my guess is will be our US Republican Presidential candidate in four years – AND by then the country will KNOW her – will love and respect her as we do here – and she’ll win by as much of a landslide as she did here in Alaska. I only wonder if McCain has a clue what he is unleashing on the US of A . She is going to be a fresh wind, but also a strong wind.
Is that enough of an endorsement? If not, I’ll add this … Jerry and I have for many years felt the best “vote” was to vote for the lesser of two “evils” and hope they didn’t do too much damage. Two years ago during our State Governor’s race was the first time EVER that we actually asked for not just a little sign to put in our yard showing our support of our candidate (something we’ve never felt the desire to do at all before) – we asked for a full 4’ x 8’ “SARAH PALIN FOR GOVERNOR!” sign and were proud to have it. She hasn’t let us or Alaska down. She will do the same for the USA if given the opportunity.
Feel free to pass this on to anyone who may be interested (and spam those who aren’t!).
-Deb Frost in Alaska

McCain has chosen Palin, a relative unknown to the voters, for VP just 60-days before the election. Just who does he thing his is to prevent our questioning her credentials to be VP. It sounds and looks to me that McCain is pulling “George Bush Tactic”; screen the people, screen the questions and don’t let them know the truth.
If Palin in not ready for questions; then she is not ready to be VP; and given McCain age, maybe President of these United States.
Sarah Palin has a family and background more akin to those that are featured on Jerry Springer. McCain must have been strapped for time and candidates that wanted to run with him as VP. I do not see her as a role model for families. I do not want my teen age daughter uninformed and pregnant, but rather to make her choice as an informed adult.
Palin does not appear to have the level of in-depth judgment needed to be VP or President and is hiding from the voters because of personal matters that she does not want to discuss. We do not know her and we are being prevented from knowing her by McCain in these last 60-days before the elections. What is being hidden? Is it the overstatements of her meager credentials and her distraction be her attacks on and comparison to Obama? The barracuda needs to swim with the boys (sharks) if she is to have the respect (difference) that McCain thinks that she will get by hiding from the media.

Wasnt John McCain a POW and doesnt Sarah Palin have a handicap child? republicrites pandering!