Obama on Letterman: If That’s What I’d Meant, Palin Would Be the Lipstick, ‘McCain’s Failed Policies’ the Pig

McCain’s failed policies? Like campaign finance reform, for example?

“McCain’s failed policies? Like campaign finance reform, for example?”
Umm ever hear of 527s or the fact that issue ad ban was found unconstitutional.
All McCain did was push the money in politics into another less accountable funnel.

WOW!
Obama is in total meltdown mode now!
Obama keeps digging a deeper hole for himself!!
Pathetic!!
Barack is a sexist pig!!

Go get ‘em Barack. Phantom insults, phony outrage.
Google: “Sarah Palin addresses the Alaska Independence Party.”
We might have our second secessionist Vice President!

McCain rails against earmarks like they are all awful things when in reality, quite a few of them provide meaningful benefits for real people.

Obama is in total meltdown. Between this, the Fowler comment and Biden saying Clinton would be a better VP, McCain has enough ammo for about 12 more commercials.
Someone needs to take charge of this campaign and quick. Axlerod has no idea what he is doing.

Randy Schueneman, Rick Davis, Phil Gramm, Charles Black….only a few of the lobbyists running McCain’s campaign who are putting their clients’ words in McCain’s mouth. So yeah, he’s the pig and they’re the lipstick.
McCain dumped his honor about the same way he dumped his first wife.

Actually I disagree with Obama. If you were to take this metaphor to its logical conclusion, Palin would indeed be the pig, but McCain’s campaign would be the pig, not his policies. After all, McCain’s pick of Palin was an attempt to make his campaign “hip” and “new” and frankly, the most cynical thing he has done during his whole career.

Obama’s use of the pig as an illustrstion to show a FAKE CHANGE is brilliant and very appropriate. It has been use so many times. Even by Mccain himself. Because its capaign season that is why republicans are overly reacting. Making it an issue, because they have no issues to run on. Is this all they can offer? I feel that Obama is even kinder for using the pig. If republicans think Palin is the one being referred to, then they are the ones whose calling her a pig.

If John McCaint does not have the vigor to run his campaign and has to depend on a woman without nation or international experience for some mojo and invigoration of his campaign, then what does that tell the alert observer?
It tells you that if the OLD and incompetent McCaint makes it to the White House, then lobbyists will be running a McCaint’s White House in the very same way that neocons are running the administration of the INCOMPETENT bush, who is McCaint’s evil twin.

Some of you are so biased you don’t even know what’s going on. Obama is the one who raised the issue and then acted indignant that anyone called him on it. To go on Letterman’s show and continue the dialogue is just adding more fuel to the fire. He is doing this on purpose and I can only assume it is because he’d rather have this distraction than the gaffe he made on Sunday.

A lot of undecided voters were leaning towards McCain and then he chose Palin and it was a done deal. Just look at the poll numbers and the number of undecideds are where McCain got the bump. I think it is a divide that will continue to grow if Obama keeps adding fuel to the fire. His glib talk and smiles worked in the primary, but I don’t think they will work any more.

I can see that Republicans do not get the joke. By claiming that Obama was refering to Palin, the insinuation then is that McCain’s policies is the pig and Palin the lipstick. Obama was trying to point out the illogical nature of this backward argument. LOl. Slow folks cannot keep up.

South Carolina Democratic chairwoman Carol Fowler sharply attacked Sarah Palin today, saying John McCain had chosen a running mate ” whose primary qualification seems to be that she hasn’t had an abortion.”
This vile comment would not have been possible without Obama’s leadership.
Way to sink to a new low!

Either way here, Obama looks dumb. Either, one, he meant it to be about Palin, and therefore, he’s low class; or, two, he was totally oblivious and used bad judgment when saying it!
But let’s dispense w/ the BS. Of course he meant it. And all you Obama Kool Aid drinkers trying to defend him know it too. Sad …

So, now Palin is lipstick. this only makes things worse — it is personal attack, very insulting to women who with open-mind, and are evaluating Palin on their own. There is no way Obama can win.

The 2008 presidential election is the saddest chapter in the Democratic Party history. The strongest and most qualified candidate, Hillary Clinton, was shoved aside to give way for the weakest candidate, Barack Obama.
As a staunch Hillary Clinton supporter who has full confidence in her abilities, it hurts me to witness the leadership of the Democratic Party handing the 2008 victory to the Republicans. Unfortunately, I, too, am one of the millions who will be voting for McCain/Palin for lack of a better choice.
What the Democratic Party and the media did to Hillary is such a disgrace. I am a middle-aged military man who saw my wife crying her eyes out the day Hillary dropped out of the race. My wife was crying not only because the most qualified woman candidate was pushed out of the race, but also because the Democratic Party’s real chance for victory was denied.
With so many questionable associations and shifting positions, I can not vote for Obama. Since I know what service to country is, John McCain will be my choice for president of our beloved country in November 2008.
I hope and pray that Hillary Clinton will run in 2012. She must! We need her to heal the severe wounds that the Democratic Party and the media inflicted on her and her supporters.

Joe Biden, referring to Hillary, said “She’s easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America and, quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me, but she is first-rate.”
So, now we Biden admitting that Obama could have done better with his VP pick. Two things about this: first, this is one of many foot-in-mouth blunders we will see from Biden; and second, someone should ask Biden why Obama did not pick Hillary. Biden, being what he is, is likely to let slip that (1) Obama was afraid of her, (2) Michelle hated her, or (3) he asked but Hillary said no.

Meh. If you were already against Obama because you think he is a Muslim or because you think blacks are scary or because you are a Bush supporter, then you’re probably going to see sexism everywhere and use it to hide your xenophobia, racism or outright stupidity.
On the flip side, if you’re for Obama because you think he’s cool or because he’s black or any other fluffy non-meaningful issue, you’re probably going to see racism everywhere to cover up your shallowness.
Both extremes are stupid. Unfortunately, both extremes make up a fairly large segment of our population. For this reason, I agree with Obama’s policy on college education for all. Obviously it is necessary to combat anti-intellectualism in our society.

ISSUES, PLEASE TALK ABOUT THE ISSUES
Mcain is just trying to hide from the real issues facing our nation. Barrack is trying to get back to them and focus on the ideas.
Here come Barracks numbers, probably will end up higher than before the convention and all this talk about the pig’s lipstick

sue cameron
please show me how he attacked palin with his comment?
go ahead show me please

ginny
how is mccain a strong leader what will he do for you?

Jake,
Your report on ABC News tonight was biased reporting in favor of Obama. You say that Obama’s lipstick quote was not meant to point to Palin. Then you say MAC has used the same expression therefore how Obama used it means nothing. WHAT? What has one have to do with the other? The audience took Obama’s words differently than you did.
I assert Obama carefully chose the words knowing he could “play” them with the knowledge that his cover could be (I’m sure his opp research told him so) MAC had used the expression before.
On the other hand, if your interpretation is correct, then Obama isn’t suited for the presidency. He suffers from foot in mouth disease.

HAHAHHA
This man is clueless.

how can a saying that predates sara palin be a direct attack against her?
its like when he mccain camp freaked out over him saying hes lost his bearings…
someone who is a navy guy must actually know what bearings are even if he did graduate at the bottom of his class…
losings one bearings means you have lost your way..
losings one marbels is when they have gone insane

I’m sure that when McCain called Hillary a pig back in October, 2007 he wishes he had gone on Letterman. Oh, my bad, when McCain used the expression “lipstick on a pig” the Democrats knew he was referring to Hillary’s health care proposal, and not her. All this phony, baloney indignation is just the same old McBush/Rove POLITICS OF DISTRACTION.

Sue Cameron you are going to have to explain why what Obama said is different from what McCain said? The both used the exact same phrase in describing a candidates political position. How is this an attack and McCain’s is not?
This is classic Republican BS without the lipstick.

Calling all Obama supporters. Stay on message, stay focused. Do whatever you can for the campaign.
We can do this, yes we can!
Palin is nothing but a distraction. John MCcain’s distorted, dishonorable ads are another distraction.
Country First
Obama/Biden 08

And this is the current state of our election. This is what we have been reduced to discuss.We have so much at stake in this election and this what we have been left to review / analyze. The funny thing is that so many people are responding to this stuff with so much passion. Is anyone concerned about the economy, crime, education or the war (s). Or is that stuff not as sexy as the lipstick, jet planes on ebay or the other “critical’ Palin concerns. This is sad silly stuff irregardless of ones party affiliation.

The lipstick comment was a juvenile attempt to smear Palin. The McCain campaign and the media caught him. Now Obama is playing the “who me?” game. He is so immature. The DNC should be ashamed for putting him in front of the voters.

Obama is such a class act.
I feel the winds of change starting to whip up pretty nicely tonight.

kris,
I know this might be difficult since the McCain campaign can’t seem to stay focused on FACTS, but you need to go find em when it comes to who voted for what on that bridge to nowhere.

No one actually believes that McCain/Palin would be better for this country than Obama/Biden. They all just follow blindly. It is pathetic how they all grasp to their selfish single issues…..
If anyone on here can give me two good reasons to allow 4 more years of this same crud (Bush) I will change my vote and vote for the Pig and the lipstick

Again, McCain used the EXACT SAME SAYING about Hillary’s policies. It is a common saying. It is NOT a sexist comment.
Don’t get played people! They’re trying to distract you from the issues. McCain thinks the economy is fine the way it is. He should since his wife can afford $300,000 outfits.
Middle class people becoming homeless as they lose their houses that cost a fraction of the price of her outfit need to focus on the issues!
Obama has a plan. McCain’s constant focus on trivial things shows me he doesn’t.

“yes we can!” as spoken by Bob the Builder and co on the cartoons
‘Watch out, George Bush. Except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics … we’re really gonna shake things up in Washington,’”from a Washington post cartoon on Friday according to fox news website.

The Democrats just came up with a tongue-in-cheek list of idioms that are off-limits, since Republicans are complaining so much about “lipstick on a pig.”
The list from the Democratic National Committee manages to incorporate criticisms of John McCain:
“A day late and a dollar short:” Unfair reference to Senator McCain’s plan to add trillions to the national debt.
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure:” Discriminatory attack against Senator McCain’s health care plan.
“All bets are off:” Prejudiced statement against John McCain’s plan to privatize Social Security and gamble American’s life savings on the stock market.
“When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail:” Unfair attack on McCain for promising to continue George Bush’s disastrous foreign policy.
“Penny wise, pound foolish:” Unfair criticism of McCain’s shortsighted energy policy
“All hat, no cattle:” Bigoted attack against McCain’s lack of support for rural communities.
“All in a day’s work:” Biased attack on McCain’s record against organized labor.
“Birds of a feather flock together:” Unfair to point out that John McCain and Sarah Palin represent more of the same as George W. Bush.

“Calling all Obama supporters. Stay on message, stay focused. Do whatever you can for the campaign.
We can do this, yes we can!
Palin is nothing but a distraction. John MCcain’s distorted, dishonorable ads are another distraction.
Country First
Obama/Biden 08″
I know you are kidding about Country First and Obama/Biden… Neither fought for this country… Obama thinks only of himself. Everything is about him. If you dont think that, get ready for the bus since it will running everyone over. Problem is he just ran into a brick wall in McCain/Palin that has stopped him.

I have watched ABC for years, but that is about to end. Having just watched your conversation with George where you agreed that the Lipstick issuse was not a big deal and McCain had used it before, I do not necessarily dissagree, but you ignoring the comment from the Democratic lead in the Carolina’s, “The only qualification palin has is that she has not had an abortion is all I needed to conclude that George and you are Democratic salesman and mongers. I think Sarah is great and I believe that you are an active part of the smear campaign. So much for ABC and any objective reporting.

Why is this headlines when it has just been disclosed that the Bush/Republican oil royalty program is full of corruption, and the oil companies have gotten away with billions owed to taxpayers?

Again the democrats are running scared
as is obvious by the vitriol spewed here. No matter how you spin it, Mccain is the classier of two less than worth while candidates.

Lol,
I think we should throw a welcome party for Bush to join us down here under the bus.

Your partisan reporting on this issue is disgraceful! There are those of us who believe that Obama’s remarks were directed at Sarah Palin and he is doing whatever he can to destroy her because she has changed the dynamics of the race. But you are as bad as NBC is your support of Obama and his candidacy. You slant your reporting so far left that it is disgusting. Where is the objective reporting?

Obama plans to return to the failed policies of high taxation coupled with an expansion of government spending.
Worse, Obama says he is absolutely committed to almost doubling the capital gains rate — something he will easily accomplish with a Democrat Congress.
In the coming months — when investors realize that Obama will raise the cap gains rate — there could be a stampede of asset sales as investors rush to take their profits now to avoid Obama’s doubling of the tax rates next year.

McCain has used that expression many times himself but when Obama uses it, then they make a big fuss. This is just another tactic out of the dirty political playbook. Don’t get me wrong, Obama has done something similar. He suggested that McCain wants a 100 year war in Iraq. What McCain actually meant is to stay in Iraq for 100 years if really necessary, but for the time being, slowly draw down troops. However, the McCain camp really should cut the political drama if they still want the support of the American people.

Jenny says “Mccain is the classier of two less than worth while candidates.”
___________________________________________________
I’ll have what your having. I could use an escape from reality……

“Ok Dan, don’t take it personal that we Obama/Biden supporters ignore your background noise.
You guys are the ones screaming and pulling your hair out lol
All the lies, just another distraction.
We choose to stay on message.”…..And again I ask you, what message? Did you even read what I wrote?

What I love is that even Fox News is calling this whole pig and lipstick thing a bullsh*t McCain tactic.

Having been born and raised in So IL I can assure you it is not a commonly used phrase there…so maybe he should try again.

Sigh. Looks like Fox News is standing up to this whole pig and lipstick issue and railing against the McCain camp for it.

earthisnotflat,
I agree completely. I love how they also waste time talking about what a time waster it is.

This is hilarious. McCain/Palin have no substance or plan for America so they start self inferring she is a pig. It only took 10 days for the GOP to show their true chavaunistic side.
The only like Palin because she seems like a guy. She shoots guns, she hunts, she likes the outdoors and she cowers to public opinion. I don’t know of any self confident woman that would hide her pregnancy for 7 months and then not feel the need to have more postnatal bonding than 72 hours. She did this because she feared what Alaskan’s might think.

Wow, without a teleprompter this guy is barely coherent.
Somebody thought this Chicago “machine” politician was somebody special?

Dan,
Senator Obama is talking about the issues that are important to the people in this country.
Senator McCain is talking about what? He’s offended from a perceived slight? He’s telling lies, and distorting facts.
Senator Obama is staying on the issues.

I’m a pitbull, no,..I’m a victim,..no really I’m a pitbull,..but then maybe I really am a victim.., but perhaps….

Hmmm, I wonder if the GOP would give Obama flack if he looks at his watch during one of the upcoming debates??

After exploring the context, I do not believe that Obama was referring to Gov. Palin. However having said that and judging by the audience response it certainly was taken as a Palin slam – probably because the “Lipstick” phrase was primarily associated with her. At the very least the comment was DUMB on Obama’s part. He should have known that the comment would be taken wrong – as I’m sure he did afterwards. He has lost many votes because of the backlash of Palin attacks, knowing this, I just can’t see Obama deliberately making that comment to hurt Palin.
McCain/Palin 08

So if the McCain camp uses the expression “that is the pot calling the kettle black”. Is that going to be taken as a racial comment? STOP THE MADNESSSSSSSSSS! Can we focus on somthing real PLEASE!!!! War, Economy, Fuel, Enviorment, Poverty, Education, pick one any one. When are we going to focus on these things. I don’t care about Palins religion anymore then I can about Obama’s. I care about the next 4 years. CHANGE PLEASE !!!!

“Dan,
Senator Obama is talking about the issues that are important to the people in this country.
Senator McCain is talking about what? He’s offended from a perceived slight? He’s telling lies, and distorting facts.
Senator Obama is staying on the issues.”……..I do believe if you were paying attention this entire uproar was caused when Barack was discussing his opponents (about the only thing he has discussed since the RNC). So unless you think criticizing your opponents is talking about the issues I would say you are wrong.

This is a discussion worthy of the greatest country in the world?
———
I’m afraid you may have answered your own question.

Did anyone actually understand the garbled explanation Obama was trying to communicate to Letterman?
I thought he sounded defensive but came across as offensive.
It made me apprehensive….
No comments?
Hmmmmm….

“I wonder why 0bama didn’t do anything like McCain did with his charitable foundation”
He didn’t marry into money like McCain did.

Every day that Obama spends trying to defend himself for some slip or slur, every day that he tries to put down or compare himself to Governor Palin, every day that Obama thinks he is running against George Bush is a day lost by the Obama campaign.
Every day the Democrats/Media keep Palin on the front page is a front page taken away from Obama.

Sorry Dan, you’re making this out to be more than it should be.
Senator Obama was talking issues. He also made the point that McCain was trying to co-opt the change mantra. You know, that same message he has carried for the last 20 months. That one. McCain is pushing the same policies, thus the pig in lipstick metaphor.
Senator Obama is doing just fine.

When you combine the audience reaction to the lipstick remark and add his remark about old fish, I think it’s obvious one remark was to Palin and the other to McCain. Put in another way, he’s either the dumb guy in the room who doesn’t get the joke, the only one who doesn’t get it, or he meant it as a smear. Either way, he looks bad.

Get lost Obama. You are an idiot.

Concerned,
Here is a story problem in Arithmetic
for you:
Mr. Obama was 27 when he did was an organizer.
Mister Obama is now 47.
Mr. Obamas children are under 10 years old.
QUESTION:
How old were Mr. Obamas children when he was an organizer?

A “pig with lipstick” and an “old stinky fish” labled as change: These words are too much to dismiss as innocent words. It is obvious Obama’s audience interpreted his words as inflammatory and pejorative. I guess Obama’s own audience misunderstood him too.

The only people treating Hillary like a second class citizen are the idiots that think Failin’ will give them what they saw in Hillary.

Indisputable facts:
McCain used the phrase several times, as recently as refuting Hillary’s run for president. Was that a sexist attack on Hillary?
McCain’s former press secretary (female) wrote a book called Lipstick on a Pig – a phrase commonly used in politics to mean cutting through the spin.
There is a long, long list of Republicans and Democrats who use this phrase over and over.
This is made up outrage. I am a Republican and I get so mad at my party for not addressing issues.

Well I’m not from Illinois and I’ve been hearing this expression off and on for years!!

lol these are ALL distractions!
Who cares who’s black, who’s white?!
WE ARE ALL AMERICANS!
Go Obama, you are forcing them to lash out, with nothing!

“Yes, they were generous to those schools and continue to be so.”
Actually they stopped contributing as soon as the children moved onto other schools.

What about immigrant votes? Wait and see America!

this needs to stop. we are about 8 weeks away from the election and this is the pathetic crap we are judging our next leader on? what age are these people – 5? I can just see the debates -”YOU called my mooma a bad name…no, YOU called my momma a bad name.” STOP INSULTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND TALK ABOUT THE ISSUES.

“Keep in mind that, technically had I meant it this way –- she would be the lipstick!” What on earth does that mean?! Sounds like another sexist statement to me! Anyway, his audience understood him perfectly well – and he knows it! Just ask them! It is all code for sexism!

Debra,
I am sure that Bund progeny Sean Hannity will be spending every second talking about this.
But the fact that anyone on FoxNews is questioning this shows how utterly stupid it really is.

USVet why don’t you say McCain is a sexist pig? He said this three times before. You are a gender baiter.

McCain in nothing but a CLONE of BUSH and Palin is not far behind…200. million in earmarks for her alone….

I need to find a “lipstick” charm to go with my “flip-flop” charm from the 2004 Election. It symbolized the Loser John Kerry and his flip-flops. This year I’ll be adding a “lipstick” charm to symbolize the Loser Obama. It will represent the demeaning of women by the Obama and the Democrats.

“McCain HAS used this phrase in regards to Universal Healthcare NOT towards a person (McCain prefaced he didn’t like to use the phrase too).”
I’ve seen the video.
He doesn’t preface it and he specifically mentions Hillary.
The audience laughs when he delivers the line.
I don’t think he was calling Hillary a pig because I know what the metaphor means.
Still it never ceases to amaze how Republicans like you (or whatever label you claim for yourself) will lie and think no one will expose it.

Anyone who falls for McCains transparent attempts to creates some kind of outrage over obama’s remark have some serious mental issues. Do you people still believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny? Is the earth flat? Is the Moon made of cheese?? McCain/Pallin supporters are gullible and naive. Anyone who believes anything that comes out of their mouths you are just a sad. Or maybe they are just stupid.

Obama looks less presidental, every day. I can see your not any different than a typical politician, maybe worse. Based on your words and actions of late, your going to lose by a landslide in November.

Why can’t Obama just say he’s sorry the Republicans think Gov. Palin looks like a pig?

Obama cannot win on the issues, only uneducated and unsophisticated, cannot-see-big picture dumb liberals would embrace his socialist , do-nothing policies. That is why he only agreed to 3, instead of 10 debates with McCain. His policies on taxes, healthcare, education, you name it, all big losers. Empty suit.

I am a republican and very very conservative and above all woman who supports McCain/Palin, but this accusation from the McCain camp is by far the most absurd thing I have ever heard!What a turnoff!I have to have faith that McCain is not comfortable with this comment or the ads that followed. Our republican party has single handedly made this historic moment a kindergarten circus. Please let focus on ISSUES!!!! Not “POW” not “earmarks” ISSUES!! I hate admitting this but Obama has outlined issues alot more thoroughly than McCain has. I want to here more from him and Gov. Palin. I must say that her constant attacks on our opponent, reasonably questionable claims of “bridge to nowhere” etc, her redundant speeches, and lack of submitting to one on one interviews with no script is turning me off. Please lets not drop the ball reps. When our children look back on this in their history books, news etc, they are going to look at this like we do on segregation before the civil rights movement. SILLY! Where is the change Reps are promising us? This looks like the same old same old cheap campaigning tactics.I am deeply concerned that in the long run this will haunt us and Obama will surprise us with him taking over the white house…McCain/Palin 08

If it is a common expression for Obama; when was the last time he used it before yesterday?

a McCain presidency may result in us losing our European allies. We will be fighting wars by ourselves. A McCain administration will not receive much help from the outside so expect a draft. Most world leaders are disgusting by our big stick government to date. China already owns us with all the loans we borrowed. Foreign countries are buying our banks. G_d knows who Russia is teaming up with. India is getting stronger, and I know they’ll get more of our jobs with a McCain presidency. The US is broke. We have no money to support US bully war tactics.
China owns us, let’s face it. Communist China at that. US is no longer #1. What happens to us when China wants to collect on that debt?

Obama doesn’t look very presidential lately.
What a big joke!
If Obama is so big on change, then why hasn’t he made any changes yet? Palin and McCain both have.

And now we already see Iran and Venezuela teaming up to make sure we pay high gas prices.
We are the big bully.

The Bounce is OVER??
WHAT???
PALIN!!!!, Yes People, WE HAVE PALIN!!!
Soon the line will be ‘that dog don’t hunt’
Call it sexist if you like – i really don’t care.

Obama could care less about Palin.
This is not about Palin, its about WE the people.

bc46,
If you want to see who is squeezing you on gas prices – check out the 4X tax that Alaska puts on oil exports.

Leonard, what I see TODAY is Iran and Venezuela trying to make sure we pay high gas prices.

“a McCain presidency may result in us losing our European allies.”
At the first sign of trouble they’ll be back. You can count on that.

A jackass in a business suit with a degree from Harvard is still a jackass. It is the maturity and mindset of the animal.

Just when you think Republican political cynicism can’t get any lower. Between this kind of cynicism and real hope, I opt for hope. Obama/Biden 08

I can see where people might think it was a direct comment on Palin- considering how much PORK she and Alaska cost the American Tax Payer! If she can’t handle an old chestnut like this, she really is not ready for prime time in Washington. Does she plan to live in Juneau and charge us for her nights at home and travel expenses?
Probaly!

Dems just can’t get enough of Governor Palin. They keep begging for her to do an interview all the while saying Obama should stay on message and not be distracted. Which is it?

“When Obama refereed to Palin as a pig today, he essentially called all hockey Moms pigs.” No he did not. But YOU are making out they are dimwits.

I cannot believe the trash talking that goes on at this site. What a disgrace to the Founders of our country. We should be writing about education, wars, peace, jobs, economy, health care. Get a life you dumbos. I got sick to my stomach reading the postings.

My wife said at dinner putting lipstick on our dog Lucy would make her a really pretty dog. I agreed.

McCain and Palin are an extraordinarily scummy pair – God help America should this appalling, woefully ill-prepared duo be elected in November…

Obama is not right for this country Please everyone who wants our country save Vote for John and Sarah

Did anyone see how the audience reacted as Obama was saying the “pig and lipstick” comment? They were already laughing as he was saying it… what do you think they thought of first when he was saying it?

To Paul Mitchell:
Here in the south it’s only good manners to apologize for the other guy’s mistake. Now, you take care of that knee, bless your little heart!

this is the link to the state of alaska check book. it was put in place by governor palin in her effort to promote open and honest government. wouldn’t you want to have the same in washington dc.
how ever you might feel about governor you must admit that this is as about as good a reform as you can get. imagine what the people would do if they have access to the check book of the federal government.
take a look and make an inform decision for yourself without the talking heads.
http://fin.admin.state.ak.us/dof/checkbook_online/index.jsp

Why has no one except Chris Matthews bothered to look up the number of times John McCain used this phrase – once even in reference to Hillary Clinton’s healthcare plan? We could end this manufactured controversy and focus on the economy, education, and foreign policy – issues that really matter. Liberal bias? Right. Also – I’m a woman and I wasn’t offended in the slightest. It’s a fairly common expression.

So all hockey moms are pit bulls, only that they have lip stick on! And no one complains. But why are they not bitches with lipstick, but BULLs? Very interesting!

This type of fake out is not new for Obama. What he does is create a fake premise, i.e John McCain’s campaign and then goes on to insert the blow that he wants to create an uproar so he can stand up in fake righteous indignation. He did it with Bill Clinton when he praised Reagan’s administration as having changed the trajectory of politics unlike President Clinton. Yet everyone attacked Clinton for objecting to his analysis. Clinton bit and I can’t blame him. Clinton knew he had been played so Obama then said to his press corp that he was vetted but you could back up a truck and unload it with the unvetted Clinton baggage. The Clinton’s let it go. Rezko, Rev. White, Ayers, etc., etc. haven’t even come out yet. Since I had studied Obama for over a year I thought “Well what a hypocrite Obama is because the Clinton could say a lot about him. That is what he wanted them to do so he could try to make it look like persecution. They didn’t give him his way this second time denying him his righteous indignation.
In this campaign people like to use the phrase “Code Words”. I assume Obama must think women are stupid by thinking we didn’t get the Palin correlation. Her lipstick phrase was played daily multiple times. It’s next to impossible not to draw the two together. Unlike John McCain “Lipstick nor Pig” was being used with great repetition by the press or at all. It was a random remark against my choice for the nomination. But let’s assume Obama wasn’t smart enough to pull the two things together, well then I even feel worse that the Democratic Party made him our nominee. I didn’t think that was possible. A word for Obama, the people in your audience got it, countless women got it and millions of people came to the same conclusion. If you are feeling Swift Boated from this then put all the millions of people who perceived it this way in the Swift Boat category. Just remember that includes a lot of your supports.

this is what the McCain camp wants to talk about?

“Why has no one except Chris Matthews”
You lost me at Chris Matthews. Didn’t he and Olbermann get demoted? Maybe they can go work for the dailykos.

bruhman—we also know what he did on the forestal—–and that is not funny.

Public: We are numb and empty.
Campaigns: The Other is a decadent beast.
Public: We will feign outrage to alleviate boredom.
Campaigns: You will vote as predicted.
Public: The alternative is unthinkable.

So Obama makes this comment, one of his supporters in the US Congress says that Sarah Palin is a governor and so was Pontius Pilate, and a Democratic state chair says that Palin’s primary qualifications is that she has never had an abortion. These are the different and new politics Obama has been promising? I would rather the old way of politics thank you.

PORK and Palin do go together- she is from Alaska the biggest pork barrel in the Nation! She says no thanks and then Keeps the money- HEY! Give back the 200 Million dollars lady- you got oil money to pay for your state and you don’t need my tax money. Like Obama says- Republicans can not run the country but they sure know how to run a bully campaign. They can’t get Obama on the issues, they ruined this country and they lied and distorted so all they have is lipstick on a pig. If the lady can’t handle this, maybe she isnt ready for the Washington BIG City. Get real-I have seen and heard much worse about Clinton and Obama from the Republicans- when it suited them. Stick to the issues, folks!

Explain away, Barack. You got it nearly right. The lipstick/pig remark was for Palin (sexism) and the old fish in newspaper called change was for McCain (ageism).

McCain owes the American people an apology for making “lipstick” an issue. When will the McCain/Palin ticket begin talking about the issues that matter?
7 Years of war
4155 American Military deaths
1 Million + foreclosures
8 days of Sarah Palin avoiding the press.
Let’s talk about the issues.

Kitty-
People will decide this on the issues, and that means Obama will win. That’s my point. Spare me the phony outrage. Give me a counterargument, or perhaps that would be “too wordy”?

Why can’t Palin defend herself?
I thought she was a pitbull.
Hillary wouldn’t take this from a man…

I want to see fish with lipstick,
but that’s just My thing.

I agree with you, Kitty. The “outrage” is purely contrived. Nevertheless, if thinking people decide this on the issues, Obama will not win. For your own sake, pray the American people are stupid enough to be charmed by his charisma enough that they don’t look at his policies.

Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit! I am a lifelong resident of Illinois and can’t say I’ve ever heard the phrase about a pig in lipstick. Maybe it’s a Chicago saying…

McCain can’t remember how many houses he owns.. McCain can’t use a computer…McCain doesn’t know what kind of car he drove last year… can anyone explain how he won the freaking nomination? Limbaugh was right when, 6 months ago, he called McCain a mush-brained wimp.

Not sure everyone was paying close attention, even you Jake, but the way that I see it, Barack just gave away his hand on Letterman on national TV. In explaining that “McCain’s failed policies would be the pig and Gov. Palin would be the lipstick” he just ADMITTED that he WAS referring to Sarah Palin as the lipstick. This is all very subliminal and Freudian, but that is exactly the way that Sen. Barack Obama operates. Only this time, on national TV, he showed his hand. There is just something “not quite right” about this guy. I watch and listen to him and the quote, “Pride goeth before the fall” keeps springing to mind.

I will tell you one thing.. as an owner of a small business all you Dems just be ready for the unemployement rate to rise when Oboma gets into office. . We will lay off people to pay for the higher tax. Maybe all of you will end up in the unemployment line.

Maurizio, people will decide based upon what they want. You may think you know what people will decide upon, but you only know what you will decide. There is no way you know what everyone will base their decision on in this election.

WHAT?
Letterman is still on the air?
I thought he retired or was dead or something.

obama is imploding … acting like a fool … Biden is even embarrassed … dems are once again self inlifcting themselves with terms that describe their true nature … obama is just politics in it’s worse form … Go Palin !!!

Obama has done nothing and is nothing but a media darling. He makes a stupid comment and now tries to spin out of it. I hope everyone realizes he brings nothing to the table but his race. Colin Powell would have been a better “first” choice.

HTuttle,
Yes, those Dems are so yesterday.

Barry, uh, can’t, uh, even, umm, talk, you know, without, uh, his, umm, tele-,uh, you know, prompter.
Barry, stick to what you do best…voting “present” (aka taking a tough stand), giving apologetic speeches to foreign countries, poorly organize communities, and write two more autobiographies.
BTW, can anyone actually name a single thing Obama has changed? Besides his mind?
If anyone honestly believes that this is “actual” change, then don’t complain when everyone’s taxes skyrocket in January.
But my neocon friends, do not worry. Obama is currently self-destructing and will end up being another footnote in history like McGovern, Dukakis, Gore, Kerry (do I need more examples of failed liberals?)

Yeah sure Obama….apparently your staff has given you a way to dig yourself out of this hole you’ve dug for you. Close but no cigar! You are done!

I’m a victim, no I’m not- I’m a pitbull,
but then.. maybe I am a victim…
Mr. Rove who am I really?

Wow, the Dems are venomous! What happened to “Change”, “Hope”, and the “new brand of politics”. All that’s easy to say when you’re up by 10 in the polls. Guess all the niceties go out the window when the goin’ gets rough, huh?

Time to send Barack Obama back home to the Senate.
Maybe this time he’ll actually try to achieve something rather than scheme on how best to run for President.

I really can’t believe that people are pretending to be upset by this. It’s not gonna work, people are too smart.
Google “Sarah Palin addresses Alaska Independence Party.” It’s really interesting stuff.

Sarah Palin: Charged women $1200 for their own rape kits
Joe Biden: Sponsored the Violence Against Women Act that made it illegal for police to charge a woman for investigating a crime against her
Women for Sarah Palin? Must be self-hating misogynists.

Why can’t Obama just be man enough and admit that his use of that phrase was not appropriate since you have a female in the race. It’s just like when McCain apologized back in March for using the word tar baby in an answer about divorce. The phrases may be historical but you have to consider the current context when deciding whether to use them.

Obama says when GOP demands an apology: “Sweetie, shut up and get over it”.
Only ones who seems to accept this type of message from a presidential candidate is the Dems Superdelegates.

Mara, TALKING ABOUT EQUAL PAY … Obama wants Hillary to work for nothing. He didn’t even consider her for a job she was qualified for, and now, he neeeeeeds her.

For all the right-wing nut-job republican bloggers..your the ones running scared..posting as democrats !

Re: “The above my paygrade thing is worn out.” Obama’s “above my pay grade” answer was a cowardly cop-out. Bottom line – if a fetus is not life, abortion is a medical procedure. If it’s life, abortion is the termination of a life, aka murder. If Obama really does not know when life begins, how can anybody vote for someone who admits that he could be supporting the termination of life? Remember, according to Obama, a child is “punishment.” That is sick on the most fundamental level.

Palin is the Governor of 150000
moose in Alaska. She’s not a
Governor of pigs as BO seemed
to imply.

Boy, he’s flailing and scratching at anything. We just might get a catfight afterall. I’m going to put my money on her, not him.

Tomorrow Sarah Palin will appear next to his son and proudly giving him farewell and godspeed to Iraq.
I know I will shed many a tear watching this. I have fallen very much in care with Sarah and her family.

How many Republicans have seen the video of McCain calling his wife (Cindy) a cu*t? I amazed Republicans sure can tell lies and dish trash but are poor loosers and can’t take it.

Hopefully, next week, the candidates will talk big grandma panties instead of the big issues. What will political consultants think of next? So much for both parties being about solving the issues of our day. The joke on us…

This is a pig in a poke.

Palin needs to pull up her big girl panties and stop playing the victim. She wants to dish it out but I guess she can’t take it. And this is the kind of woman that some of you want. I guess you’d settle with anything.

This whole McCain-fueled topic of discussion is an utter disgrace to our democracy. ABC should do its job and lay out the full quotation leading up to the comment. Here is the full quotation of what Obama said, not a *single* reference to Palin.
–”John McCain says he’s about change too,” Obama told a crowd here. “So I guess his whole angle is: Watch out, George Bush — except for economic policy, healthcare policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics, we’re really going to shake things up in Washington..
–Next Sentence: “That’s not change. That’s just calling the same thing something different. But you can put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change, and it’s still going to stink after eight years.”
–Let’s all go back to our English classrooms, people. And to those who are literate: stop blatantly lying by omission.

Obama’s lead-up to his original use of the expression makes it utterly and *objectively* clear to *any literate person* that ‘the change slogan’ is the lipstick and “the set of policies’ is the pig. End of story.

McCain’s military record:
* crashed five military planes
* served 20 hours in combat
* spoke with enemies (McCain named PW Songbird)

McCain has his team looking for every word they can create a scandal over because when it comes to the issues – McCAIN HAS NOTHING NEW TO OFFER!

Sarah Palin came out spewing her mean spirited self righteousness in her speech to the republican convention so why is it that she can only be talked about in glowing terms as if she is Mary from the bible. It’s amazing how many americans would rather forget about real issues and instead tirelessly discuss the ridiculous.

Since 1973, the US Supreme Court decision in Roe versus Wade has given choice to women about abortion as a private matter, exactly the same choice given to McCain to sin against his first wife, Carol, through adultery with his current wife, Cindi (Authority – King James Holy Bible on marriages in the eyes of God); exactly the same choice given to Bristol Palin to sin through adultery and unwed pregnancy (Authority – King James Holy Bible in the ten commandments). Obama understands that, since 1973, Roe versus Wade is not broken and does not need to be fixed. There are much higher priority issues affecting the country right now than “unborn” children. Even on that subject, research has clearly shown that Obama’s solution of comprehensive sex education and support care reduces the number of abortions, while abortions increased under Bush/McCain/Palin type policies. Obama understands that, it is the “already born” children and their parents in the middle class, the largest group of Americans, that need jobs and tax breaks right now, not just the small minority that makes over $250,000 per year- only about 2% of households. Obam/Biden = Fighting for the “the already born and unborn! ”McCain-Palin=Fighting for the “unborn” only… which group are you in???

Well said Senator Obama well said!!!!
Well said Senator Obama well said!!!!
Well said Senator Obama well said!!!!
Well said Senator Obama well said!!!!

LOL, the Republicans has someone that has to hidden away from any questions. What sort of statment is that?
You have NOTHING. You have an empty pantsuit there. She can’t do anything but make the same old tired statements again and again. What a joke. Then McSame comes out and totally fails today all by himself.
This country has some serious problems and you want to give us Captain Stubing and Julie McCoy from The Love Boat.
What sort of problems can she have?
Oh I don’t know….how about the fact that she had taxpayers PAY $60 per night for her to sleep at home?
Oh I dunno, the fact that she trying to obstruct justice in the independent investigation of improper firing of a city official could be another.
You don’t know her, she is your cruise director and has no idea how to steer this ship. Now Captain Stubing has his own problems. He knows nothing about economics. Well, then does she even him out at all on this? Nope, but she sure does know how to turn a phrase, “I said no thank you to that “Bridge from Nowhere”. So the only thing she does say is a flat out lie.
She calls herself a Christian and lies all the time. She has told this lie over and over and the press still can’t ask her about it. What is this??? She must be really inept if McSame has to live off her charm. He certainly has none anymore. Is that the full resume for the second highest position in the land, charm?
Country First! rrriiight.

Isn’t it fun to be played by Karl Rove for another 4 years? I thought it wasn’t possible, but this nonsense will be responsible for running this country directly into the ground. Of course, the neos take no responsibility for it. Got to love that about them.

Matt Damon or whatever from the Bourn Extreme just showed what a moron he and a butt load of other actors are in an interview. He’s just one more pretty boy actor that actually takes himself seriously that I will never spend money to watch again.

No Versailles (PhD isn’t that impressive, by the way, you can buy one online) if you listen to entire sentence (sentence? the sentence began “you can” I think you mean paragraph) it is clear that the comment referred to McCain’s appropriation of the “change” banner. The “lipstick” comment followed the remark that McCain was for “change” except in the areas of tax policy, economic policy, etc. etc. So logically, it referred to that and Sarah Palin was neither mentioned or referenced. However, since Republicans never let facts get in the way, that was ignored.

McCain has used this exact phrase publicly at least 5 times in the last couple of years and at least one time said putting lipstick on a pig when talking about Hillary Clinton’s health plan. Do I think he was calling Clinton a pig. If the mental midgets out there “actually” do believe that this is a sexist comment on th part of Obama towards Palin, or women in general, then isn’t McCain at least 5 times as sexist as Obama? I am sorry McCain apologists it CAN’T be both ways.
The McCain campaign and the idiots that are supporting him and advising him have become absolutely pathetic.
Seriously, how do you look at yourselves in the mirror???

I just saw a report on FakeNews that McCain and Palin may keep campaigning together.
The GOP knows that this woman will get picked apart when she goes solo.
You repubs see it coming. You can duck and dodge and HIDE this woman all you want to. But the end is near !!!

This entire story was advanced by the McCain-Palin campaign to DISTRACT Americans from the release of the budget deficit figures late yesterday. It was a DISTRACTION so that Americans wouldn’t hear about the $500 billion deficit that the George Bush Administration is leaving for the next president. $500 BILLION. That’s one-half of a trillion dollar deficit. That’s the real pig in this contest, and that’s why the Republicans are using everything they have to DISTRACT voters from real news. I hope that ABC reporters and news editors reject this kind of DISTRACTION and start focusing on the real issues. $500 BILLION!

Posted by: Susan Roppel | Sep 10, 2008 9:31:02 PM
The last thing they want is to actually talk about hte economy, our record national debt (which was a surplus when they took office)…
First, Susan, a BUDGET SURPLUS and a NATIONAL DEBT are two seperate things. The Republicans understand what this is, clearly democrats do not. One thing that wipes out a BUDGET SURPLUS is a war, such as the one we went to after 9/11.
Another thing that will wipe out a BUDGET SURPLUS is the massive government spending that Obama has in store for us. Furthermore, how are we going to pay for this? Increasing your taxes. Golly geez, I can’t wait for the government to take more of my paycheck.
Finally, if you how are the Republicans being racist and narrow-minded? Did McCain make some controverisal comment about Obama’s race? I think it was Mr. Biden that said that Obama was “a clean, articulate man”. Biden also said that since he is from Delaware, which is a former slave state, he was qualified to be president.
Once again, liberals, bring a better A-game. I am still not trying and the Republicans are still winning, just wait till Palin tears into Obama next week, he will be running away from Sarah with his tail between his legs.
BTW–The last time the NATIONAL DEBT was paid off was when Andrew Jackson was President.

What a joke!
Mccain just made the worst mistake EVER choosing this girl just to try and boost the damaged REPUBLICON brand.
Please tell me we aren’t foolish enough to buy into this crap.
Imagine this girl trying to talk foreign policy with leaders of countries that want to take us over?
yeah, she has a clue.
Don’t NOT be fooled by this Britney Spears that they have thrown us just to boost mCSAMES lame attendance records. Before he chose his soccer mom, he couldn’t even fill a VFW hall. Trust me, i’VE SEEN IT.
This has to be a bad nightmare, this can’t be real that we’ll even stand for such a mockery.
this is the worst vp pick ever.
she should have been a better parent and maybe her daughter wouldn’t be in such a hole right now.
W

Mr. Tapper,
I wanted to thank you– from one journalist to another– for your contribution to journalism. It’s good to know that the Senior National Correspondent at ABC News is writing about important issues. Of all the key issues that need to be addressed at this critical time in our nation’s history, you’ve certainly found the one that truly matters. You’re a credit to the profession. Another generation had Woodward & Bernstein– we have Jake Tapper! Way to go ABC News.

Oh..My God,, Matt Damon…who do you think you are? McCain has served this country with honor and still serving for this country. His people (Republicans) chose him to be their nomination. You should respect for that. Then, McCain chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate. Of course you have to respect what other chose. This is what American is about…you respect the differences. Sarah is not nobody, she is serving this country as a good citizen. I’m not talking about politics here. Don’t you have decency at all? Have some respect dude. You have a wife, a mother and (3) daughters, at least show respect to ladies. That’s not a good thing to say “absurd”…”scary”..and I found it very offensive and rude. Not gentleman like at all. You look so rude during interview. Do you think you’re better than her? bring it on dude..being a mother is the most challenging job in the world. You sounded that women are inferior than men. My God…what were you thinking…drunk or drug influence?

RANK…NAME…SERIAL NUMBER

Note that conservatives think this is a winning issue. They really think they got Obama!

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
_________________________________________________
McCain/Palin – small minds for President.

My two sisters, both registered Democrats have made the decision to vote McCain/Palin.
Not because McCain tapped a woman but because Obama stands for nothing has accomplished nothing and will lead us to nothing.
You go girls

Oh my God, ABC. You’re supposed to be a serious news organization and THIS is what you think is important? EVERY other news org has said publicly that this whole lipstick fiasco was ridiculous, most even admitting this is the time the media needs to turn the mirror around and take a good hard look at how they’re letting themselves be manipulated and led like lambs to the slaughter by the McCain campaign. COME ON, ABC. Do the American voters the service you owe them and cover THE ISSUES. Give me a break. This crap you guys keep headlining is gutter trash and you know it. Live up to your obligation to report real news and real information on real issues to the voters and your viewers. You should be embarassed that you fallen to this low.

TROOPERGATE – Trooper Mike Wooten was disciplined long before Palin took office as governor. A bipartisan committee of the Alaskan legislature voted 12 to 0 to investigate Palin after she fired Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan after it was learned that he had refused to fire the already disciplined Wooten who prior to his discipline had been involved in a messy divorce with Palin’s sister. The situation regarding Palin’s sister’s divorce and some inconsistent statements by Governor Palin call into question the real reasons for this firing. In fact, Governor Palin had used her Chief Of Staff, Mike Tibbles, her husband, the state’s Attorney General and herself to contact Public Safety Commissioner Monegan no less than 24 times in regards to complaints about Alaska State Trooper Mike Wooten. Common sense tells us that she “abused her power as governor.” Go figure…
It seems strange that John McCain would choose a running mate who is the subject of an ethics probe of this sort, which if it turns out badly could damage his chances right before the election. But this only proves what a high risk gamble the decision to choose Palin was in addition to her serious lack of experience should she ever become president in the event of some national emergency.
Do we really want a 72 year old “high risk” gambler, who sings “bomb, bomb Iran”…who reacts without questioning that “we are all Georgians”…who violated the military code of conduct as a POW by giving more than name, rank and serial number (he gave the location of his target and his base in return for preferential treatment by his captors)… who divorced his first wife and mother of his children, Carol, not for biblically allowed reasons (adultery) but merely because, while waiting faithfully as a POW wife, she was in a car wreck on Christmas Eve and when McCain returned 2 years later, she wasn’t quite the “fashion model” anymore (she gained some weight and walked with a limp). So much for “in sickness or in health,” right?
Sadly, McCain’s life story is that of a morally bankrupt individual and he is NOT qualified to be president nor commander in chief.

I’ll take your 2 new Republicans and raise you 6 new Democrats that were voting Republican until today thanks to McCain’s handling of Palin. The reactions to her, questions regarding her experience and the total over-reach today simply shows a man without the character to be President.

Thanks nocomment,
People who pretend that they are christian and thus won’t vote for Obama because of stuff such as abortion are hypocrites. They are just like pharisians in the Bible. Jesus promoted love instead of hatred. They are full of hatred and will be rejected on the last day. Jesus will tell them: ” I do not know you sinners”.They are just racists and full of hatred. Bush’s pastor asked him to go to war in Irak so to accomplish a prophety of the Bible. Are they trying to help God?
I feel sorry for them.

Brian W: Is McCain capable of starting a sentence with something other than “My friends. . .” My God.

“Demands for military information were accompanied by threats to terminate my medical treatment if I [McCain] did not cooperate. Eventually, I gave them my ship’s name and squadron number, and confirmed that my target had been the power plant.” Page 193-194, Faith of My Fathers by John McCain.
When the communist learned that McCain’s father was Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., the soon-to-be commander of all U.S. Forces in the Pacific, he was rushed to Gai Lam military hospital (U.S. government documents), a medical facility normally unavailable for U.S. POWs.
The communist Vietnamese figured, because POW McCain’s father was of such high military rank, that he was of royalty or the governing circle. Thereafter the communist bragged that they had captured “the crown prince.”
For 23 combat missions (an estimated 20 hours over enemy territory), the U.S. Navy awarded McCain a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit for Valor, a Distinguished Flying Cross, three Bronze Stars, two Commendation medals plus two Purple Hearts and a dozen service medals.
“McCain had roughly 20 hours in combat,” explains Bill Bell, a veteran of Vietnam and former chief of the U.S. Office for POW/MIA Affairs — the first official U.S. representative in Vietnam since the 1973 fall of Saigon. “Since McCain got 28 medals,” Bell continues, “that equals out to about a medal-and-a-half for each hour he spent in combat. There were infantry guys — grunts on the ground — who had more than 7,000 hours in combat and I can tell you that there were times and situations where I’m sure a prison cell would have looked pretty good to them by comparison. The question really is how many guys got that number of medals for not being shot down.”
vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com

Did you know that Palin is antisemetic and hates Jews? Many Jews will not vote for Palin because of her extreme views and support for antisemites. I don’t know about you, but Palin is very scary and a terrible pick for McCain.

When only two out of five Americans know how many branches of government we have how can you expect them to focus on the issues?

PALIN’S “THANKS, BUT NO THANKS LIE”
In September, 2006, Palin showed up in Ketchikan on her gubernatorial campaign and said the bridge was essential for the town’s prosperity.
“We need to come to the defense of Southeast Alaska when proposals are on the table like the bridge,” according to the local newspaper, “and not allow the spinmeisters to turn this project or any other into something that’s so negative.”
She said she could feel the town’s pain at being derided as a “nowhere” by prominent politicians, noting that her home town, Wasilla, had recently been insulted by the state Senate president, Ben Stevens.
“OK, you’ve got valley trash standing here in the middle of nowhere,” Palin said, according to an account in the Ketchikan Daily News. “I think we’re going to make a good team as we progress that bridge project.”
One year later, Ketchikan’s Republican leaders said they were blindsided by Palin’s decision to pull the plug.
Once Palin spiked the bridge project, the money wasn’t available to Minnesota or other states, however. Congress, chastened by criticism of the Alaska funding, had removed the earmark but allowed the state to keep the $232 million and direct it to other transportation projects.

Obama called Gov. Palin a pig, and called Sen. McCain an old fish.
The audience got it, and reacted accordingly.
He knew they got it, smirked and played along.
Everyone watching the video gets it.
Now there’s blowback and he’s trying to weasel out of the spot.
Why doesn’t he brush his shoulders like he did with Sen Clinton?

OBAMA IS FOR THE FREE MARKETS OF CAPITALISM, constrained by the conscience of sensible government regulation! Obama understands that the government is just as essential to capitalism as is the consumer; and, he understands the government’s role to enhance and create new industries and markets when the private sector is failing to do so. For example, Obama sees that the markets are not “laissez faire capitalism” when it comes to our energy industries. This is evident by the abnormally high gas prices! This is screwing the consumer. He understands far better than Bush/McCain that our way to independence is through alternative energies, such as FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGY, BIO-MASS, BIO-DIESEL, WIND, SOLAR, BIO-THERMAL TECHNOLOGIES. Obama knows how to unleash NASA again, unfettered by the sinister repression of free scientific thought, the BUSH/McCain sought to SILENCE and edit the scientists. Obama respects the opinions of ECONOMISTS, unlike Bush/McCain/Palin, who tried to pander with gas holiday gimmicks. OBAMA 08, YES WE CAN!!

My advice to Barack Obama is to stop commenting on that “lipstick” remark or similar stuff, since what ever he says will be distorted by the media (as we can see on this abc news site).
Also he needs to stop appearring on comedy shows like Letterman’s, Leno’s etc.
He needs to appear only on serious ocasions like debates, press conferences etc.

Obama didn’t say it..but yeah..I think she is a pig…a right-winged extremist pig who would set us back 50 years and burn all remaining bridges to the rest of the world. The USA is on the brink of financial collapse and we need to build alliances as we simply cannot go it alone any longer. Sadly, we are headed for a major fall. China..the torch is yours…the new world superpower.

Kay,
Barack is a very smart man. Smarter than even Rove or the parrots here with their psychobabble.
Watch and learn.

Rick – brush off your high heels and laugh. The issue is not whether it was funny. The issue is whether is what a reference to Palin. Any HONEST person with a kindergarten diploma understands that it wasn’t.

All this mudslinging by the Republicans about Obamas lipstick remark is nothing but a subterfuge—-Yeah, keep fanning the media frenzy and the publics ire about something as insignificant as a comment about lipstick to keep the American publics minds off the real and important issues such as the economy, foriegn policy and education—issues that John McCain really doesn’t have solutions for other than what the current administration has been doing for the last eight years. These kinds of smear tactics are typical of the Republican party—-just muddy the waters by playing on the American publics emotions with insignificant minutia, while reason flys out the door!!

Ask yourself what McCain is going to do for the middle class and the poor. Cut food stamps, housing, social security and any program that helps the people because of Bush and the republicans policy’s. Is he going to reinstate the draft like he told that one lady at his rally he would. God bless us if he gets in office.

Let’s cut taxes for the poor – everyone knows they create the most jobs!

COUNTRY FIRST? SOUNDS LIKE AMERICA FIRST
This country is heading down the wrong path, 80% of Americans polled understand this very well after 8 years of Republican misrule. There is only one way for McCain to win and that is to lie, cheat, and steal the election from the Democrats, and that is exactly what he is trying to do with the cowed complicity of the corporatist media. I do not chose the term “corporatist” lightly. Mussolini coined the term to describe his successful merging of rich business interests (controlling the media) and authoritarian government (controlling the people). The first step in this unholy alliance is always to politicize the Church. Mussolini got the Roman Catholic Church on board, Hitler got the German Protestant Church on-board. In 2000 Bush recruited Evangelicals to the Fascist cause.
Unfortunately Americans were asleep at the wheel. Too busy watching Fox News.
Our founding Father’s saw the danger of politicized religion over 200 years ago, hence the Establishment Clause.
Consider this: Evolution is science, Creationism and its’ successor “Intelligent Design” are not. The only people who would argue otherwise are disingenuous or stupid. A 2005 survey of 34 industrialized countries revealed that less than 25% of Americans believed in the Evolution of Species. About 80% of Icelanders, Danes, Swedes, French, Japanese, and Brits believed in Evolution.
Americans were exceeded in their ignorance only by Turks.

Sorry, Samantha, but many of us do care about these issues. Particularly those of us who are independents, that is not registered with either party. And guess what, there are hundreds of thousands of us. We can tip the election!

FACT
BARACK OBAMA IS NOT A MUSLIM!
FACT
THE REPUBLICAN LEAD ECONOMY IS A MESS
FACT
NO HEALTHCARE UNDER MCCAIN
FACT
95% OF AMERICANS WILL BE BETTER OFF UNDER BARACK OBAMA ON AVERAGE $2500-$5500 BETTER OFF!
FACT
MCCAIN IS MORE OF THE SAME VOTED WITH BUSH 90% OF THE TIME IN THE LAST 7 YEARS!
FACT
MCCAIN VOTED WITH GEORGE BUSH 100% OF THE TIME THIS YEAR!
CHANGE IS BARACK OBAMA

Back to the issues. That’s it. I’ve just spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to find McCain’s plan to ensure political reconciliation in Iraq–one of the critical goals according to his own website’s issues page–we must achieve in order to bring our troops home in victory and honor. But nothing, nada. I’m shocked! It’s looking more and more like McCain doesn’t have a plan to bring this war to an end. There is no political or diplomatic aspect to his Iraqi strategy. Yes, he was resolute about the Surge and I admire that. But we all know it wasn’t just the Surge that brought about a decline in violence in Iraq. The Sunni Awakening, a change in tactics for dealing with irreconcilables, Petraeus’ sheer brilliance as a military leader, as well as other factors not only contributed, but perhaps contributed even more to our recent military success.
You may not agree with Obama’s plan for trying to bring this war to an end, but at least he has one! The more I look at McCain, the more I find there’s no there, there. There’s no plan to get us out of Iraq. It’s just stay the course, stand up and fight, and hope things eventually change. Wow! That scares me, far more any uncertainty about Obama’s strategy, because don’t tell me the terrorists wouldn’t just love to see us mired in Iraq for years, emotionally and financially bankrupted by a war with no end.

THE 4156 DECEASED HEROES PUT COUNTRY FIRST. RANK….NAME…SERIAL NUMBER.

Obama was a law professor at Chicago school of law for thirteen years…teaching constitutional law….heavily recruited…Sarah Palin was a hockey mom and mayor of a 6000 person town two years ago. I guess intellect isn’t valued anymore in this country…in that case stop sending your kids to school…it doesnt matter anyway…they dont need to know much..only to be gutsy..gritty…someone like yourself? Its not gutsy to get a mayor job in a tiny town…its gutsy to work your butt off at the best colleges in the world and be challenged by some of the best teachers in the world..maybe you should try getting a law degree from harvard and then teaching constitutional law for thirteen years…for some reason that seems far fetched.

Honestly, who cares? I’m glad you have nothing else to worry about, Tapper. Grow up.

John S. McCain : “The Vietnam War was unwinnable.”
Though expressing anger at the North Vietnamese, McCain seemed to harbor almost no ill will toward Americans who had opposed the war. The more he read, the more he thought that America’s political and military leaders had served the country badly. The Pentagon Papers—the secret study of Vietnam decision-making—convinced him that the generals and admirals, including his father, had long known that the war was unwinnable unless the United States was willing to bomb millions of Vietnamese civilians to death. He believed that the military leadership should have resigned.
Vanity Fair, December 1999

Obama needs to sue the 4ell out of the McScam campaign for the defamation of character. He needs to sue them and announce it publicly. McCain needs to be made more careful about what he says too, not just obama having to worry about saying anything and being jumped on. Obama hAasn’t said anything untruthful about McCain that wasn’t true, but McCain has done nothing but slander Obama. If McCain’s records were opened up to the public, people would see the true John McCain for what he is. He is NO war hero with only 20 hours of flying time and he wasn’t tortured to the extent he makes everyone believe. Let’s unseal his records They went into Kerry’s records in 2004, so let’s get McCain’s out in the open. It helps to have a four star admiral for a daddy who covered up all of John McCain’s misdeeds. Nothing should be off limits about McCain just as nothing is off limits about the other candidates. Including McCain’s war record, which some of those who were with him at Hanoi Hilton said his war hero status is GREATLY exaggerated.
This piece of feces needs to have the h_e_l_l sued out of him. He’s a liar and full of corrupt associations and with a corrupt political record too.

I’ve voted over 90% of the time with President Bush, even higher than some of my republican collegues.
BUSH’D

Imagine applying for a job and having to reveal that you are under to ethics investigations by the legislature of your state by a bipartisan 12-0 vote to investigate. How many of you think you would be hired? Yet, McCain hired such a person to be the Vice President of the United States of America! 2 ethics probes for abuse of power. As mayor, she fired the librarian cause the librarian wouldn’t remove books that Palin thought violated her “christian” teaching. I wonder what books her daughter, Bristol, was reading…hmmmmmm

Palin: 100s of people can vouch for her accomplishments.
Obama: No accomplishment and nobody to vouch for them. He was blowing weed all through high school & college, but the media has failed to interview his college buddies, or his Scandinavian live in girlfriend.

Obama lacks… class and style its funny to watch a community organizer stumble

It got to be Stupid:
All those who have stupid written on their face when they wake up every morning cast your vote now for “Stupid am I” and McCain/Bush as my masters.
While these bloggers want to talk about lipstick, the Russians have pulled out of NATO, are practicing War games off of South America, told the Republican lead Executive Branch (BUSH) to kiss their a. moved warships into the Black Sea, had secret meetings with China and Middle Asian leaders, DEFEID THE PRESENTS OF ANTI-BILLIST MISSILSE IN NETHERLAND.
WE AMERICANS WANT TO TALK ABOUT AN ATTACK ON PALIN. YOU SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT WHAT SHE WOULD DO IF RUSSIA ATTACKED AMERICA.
WILL SHE JUST PUSH THE BUTTON AND END LIFE, AS WE KNOW IT.
WILL SHE HAVE THE SUPPORT OF OTHER COUNTRIES TO WARD OFF SUCH AN ATTACK?
WILL SHE RUN BACK TO ALASKA AND AVOID QUESTION THAT SHE DOES NOT HAVE ANSWER TO?
AMERICANS SHOULD BE SMARTER THAN THAT.
I THINK THAT McCAIN AND BUSH ARE TRYING TO TOUCH ON IGNORANCE OF SOME AMERICANS TO PROMOTE THEIR AGENDA OF FOUR MORE YEARS OF “SCREW YOU” (NO JOB GROWTH, WIDENING GAP OF RICH AND POOR).
WE SUPPORTED THE TALIBAN TO FIGHT THE RUSSIANS, NOW PAKISTAN IS TURNING IT’S BACK ON AMERICA WITH A STATEMENT TODAY THAT SAID, “AMERICA MUST NOT CROSS OUR BORDERS TO STOP THE TALIBAN”.
THE CHICKENS HAVE COME HOME TO ROOST.
WHAT WE DID TO STOP RUSSIA FROM ELIMINATING THE TALIBAN HAS COME FULL CIRCLE.
LIPSTICK. WHAT A FOOL WILL ENGAGE IN JAKE.
McCAIN/PALIN will lead us down the path of more Americans being as they call it whiners, as we, Americans become enslaved by the rich LOBBIEST.
McCain may have one of his suicide moments and Palin will become President ALL because he was behind in the POLLS.
America’s future will lie in the hands, as the Republicans Right put it, [a good looking past beauty queen WHO DESCRIBES HERSELF AS A PITBULL (DOG FIGHTING IS ILLEGAL ASK M. VICK)].
While 90% of Americans will not have a home and will live a life of poverty as a lot of THIRD WORLD NATIONS, the Rich will have theirs.
Obama with the support of REAL TRUE LOVING AMERICANS can change that by putting the PEOPLE FIRST.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
IF YOU DWELL ON GLOOM AND DOOM, THEN SHOOT YOURSELF, AND LET THE REST OF AMERICANS STRIVE ON FOR A BETTER TOMORROW.
OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT, THE ISSUES MATTER.
McCAIN HAS MADE A BAD CHOICE FOR VICE PRESIDENT CAN WE AFFORD 4 YEARS OF BAD CHOICES. (BUSH/BROWNIE) (TOP ADVISOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, {OIL SCANDALS))

Voters aren’t as dumb as people think.
They will make rational choices after listening to speeches, interviews, and debates.
I feel confident that most people will chose John McCain and Sarah Palin to lead our country.

We should all be in awe of her executive experience of managing a welfare state.
I’m sure she’ll be able to apply the hard lessons of taxing oil companies and giving cash handouts to citizens to our problems in the non-Saudi part of the United States.

The McCain Campaign uses these hate lobbyist against Obama. These shameful people haveworked with the following companies. Lets stop supporting them ASAP until they denounce McCain. Let’s stick together and ban these businesses: Google, Verizon, US Airways, Dell, Fannie Mae, General Motors, United Technologies, Hewlett Packard, Exxon and Land of Lakes. And If McCain wins lets boycott these companies and FOX news.

Actually maybe Palin will be able to apply her hardcore executive experience as Mayor, where she ran the city into the ground and left it with a massive budget deficit.
Personally I prefer her executive experience in managing the welfare state of Alaska, but I’m not entirely sure how she’ll be able to tax the oil companies enough to hand everyone in the US their check. Well, maybe that really only works in Saudi Alaska.

IS JOHN MCCAIN AGAINST TORTURE?
No war crimes were committed against McCain. And the techniques used are, according to the president, tools to extract accurate information. And so the false confessions that McCain was forced to make were, according to the logic of the Bush administration, as accurate as the “intelligence” we have procured from “interrogating” terror suspects. Feel safer? Now the kicker: in the Military Commissions Act, McCain acquiesced to the use of these techniques against terror suspects by the CIA. And so the tortured became the enabler of torture. Someone, somewhere cried out in pain for the same reasons McCain once did. And McCain let it continue. These are the prices people pay for power.

Worth repeating…
IS JOHN MCCAIN AGAINST TORTURE?
No war crimes were committed against McCain. And the techniques used are, according to the president, tools to extract accurate information. And so the false confessions that McCain was forced to make were, according to the logic of the Bush administration, as accurate as the “intelligence” we have procured from “interrogating” terror suspects. Feel safer? Now the kicker: in the Military Commissions Act, McCain acquiesced to the use of these techniques against terror suspects by the CIA. And so the tortured became the enabler of torture. Someone, somewhere cried out in pain for the same reasons McCain once did. And McCain let it continue. These are the prices people pay for power.

For a guy that doesn’t like Obama that much, O’Reilly sure was begging for a job in Obama’s administration. “If I beat you in a game of basketball one-on-one, I wanna be Secretary of State.” Hannity, el Rushbo, and Ann Coulter are next!!!

Tens of thousands of dollars in taxes you pay…yeah right, and you spend time on blogs…okay!!!

Someone stop him before he hurts himself. I have never seen a nervous breakdown on the major media before.
Even Biden is regretting getting stuck with this buffoon.

DEB>>>thanks for the excellent and enlightening post! Most people are unaware of what a fake POW McCain is! He is not qualified to be President nor Commander-in-Chief. He is morally bankrupt, as evidenced by his breaking the military code of conduct, as evidenced by how he dumped his first wife due to her car wreck, as evidenced by his pick of Palin. McCain needs to gamble Cindi’s money at a riverboat casino, where he can sit at a slot machine and enjoy his few remaining years!

America…your own stupidity in electing President’s who shun the rest of the world and run up massive deficits is now reaping the grave consequences. Your days as the world’s sole superpower are over. If the Russian’s don’t kick you militarily..which they certainly have the power to do…the Chinese will do so economically. The world will say “we told you so” when the Chinese dump the bonds that have financed the multi-trillion dollar debt. Enjoy your depression!!

Do Obama’s days of community organizing include the waves of violence and poverty we see and hear on the news? If not he must not have inspired too much HOPE and certainly no CHANGE in his own neighborhood.
No thanks, Mr Obama, please stay in your neighborhood.

If Palin hadn’t used that joke it would not have come back at her. I didn’t think it was that funny. But I wonder if it was a set-up. Speech written for her and all that.

John McCain has no executive experience!

lex_soho
Your reasoning is on par with the other dems on here:
“I’ll vote for Obama, that way I get an extra $2000, and can finally buy those Jimmy Choo’s.”
Please stay home Nov 4th, you are obviously a liberal.

Obama supporters do not give these lobbyist tied mccain companies your money…..
Google, Verizon, US Airways, Dell, Fannie Mae, General Motors, and United Technologies, Hewlett Packard, Exxon and Land of Lakes. And If McCain wins lets boycott these companies and FOX news.

Obama is trying so hard to SPIN his as usual political elite comment
and trying so hard to CHANGE the subject and blaming McCain for his mistakes.
Obama will not even own up to his callous sexist comment. This is how the DNC
treat their women and this is not the first time it happen, try last primary with how
they treated Hillary Clinton!!!

LOL…Cindi McCain actually said that Alaska is near Russia, so, Palin has all the foreign policy experience she needs! What a Crock and waste of plastic surgery.

Someone stop him before he hurts himself. I have never seen a nervous breakdown on the major media before.
Even Biden is regretting getting stuck with this buffoon.
________________________________________
No doubt! Biden looks like he hates every minute of this campaign and Obama seems to be out there all on his own. Obama is a moron who made a HUGE mistake not choosing Hillary. In all honesty Obama does not seem to be a Team player. He seems like an egotist so his chemistry with Biden is zero. All of Obama’s speeches seem canned and phony.

You mean like on October 26, 1967…when McCain showed no mercy and was shot down on his 23rd mission in VietNam? If this is showing no mercy, I say spare us the faux heroism!!!

For his thanks, President Bush has been the target of almost unimaginable calumnies — the sort of invective liberals usually reserve for seniors who don’t separate their recyclables properly. Compared to liberals’ anger at Bush, there has always been something vaguely impersonal about their “anger” toward the terrorists.
By my count, roughly one in four books in print in the world at this very moment have the words “Bush” and “Lie” in their title.

Man, I wish Dave would stay out of politics. He’s dragging himself down to their level.

Lol, No Obama, I was trying to make a joke (albeit admittedly pretty poor), and I certainly do not make my voting decision based on how much crap I can buy.
And yes, I am a liberal, I’m not sure how you missed that blaring issue in all my prior postings. But it is unfair to ask me to stay home. This becomes a pretty boring country if either side thinks only their party has the right to make decisions, and our leaders are left untested. Perhaps McCain will win, but I hope its after having to answer some pretty difficult questions (convincingly)

Obama is doing the same thing he did to Sen Clinton when he flipped her during a speech. Now he takes a cartoon from
the Washington Post and adds the pig and fish part to tarnish Palin and McCain.
All I am hoping is for a change in the behaviour and actions of Obama.

Some of you people that are so anti Obama are incredulous. You’re as bad as McCain, making things up whole cloth. Go to factcheck and start researching.
Sarah’s earmarks are ok (despite her claiming she wants them stopped), at least she used them in her state. Yeah, she got the biggest pork project in history and then canned the project and kept the money. That was YOUR money.
Obama’s earmarks in the same year were $15 per resident of Il, Palens was hundreds of dollars per resident.
What’s shameful is that factcheck has called out McCain for misconstruing their info and citing their name. McCain’s being sued for illegal rights infringement for the songs he’s been using at his rallys. These two are breaking laws left and right and are as corrupt as they come, short of Bush and Cheney themselves.

Stanley,
I am a single parent, with a minimum wage job I don’t have the credit for a credi card. I am not wealthy probably never will be. I am a die-hard republican always will be and your stereotype is really starting to tick me off.

lex soho
Don’t stay home, go ahead and vote for Obama. You are right that it is not up to anyone who can and cannot vote. With that said, do you think Obama has been asked any hard questions on his associations and past? If so, you are living with your head in the sand.

Even Biden is sick of it and now wants out:
“-Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America,” Biden said. “Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend; she is qualified to be president of the United States of America. She’s easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America and quite frankly it might have been a better pick than me, but she is first-rate.”
No Joe, you’re fine, it’s the idiot of your boss that is not qualified.

Obama has a great sense of humor!
He’s fighting back in a tongue in check fashion. Kinda like a caricature of himself is being exposed. We have painted him so straight laced, and he has a very dry sense of humor. Now I am laughing so hard. Wow!!! Me thinks I just saw a pig fly!

Obamawho08, can you please explain why you are a “diehard” Republican? And I ask that sincerely, I have my own personal views that lead me consider myself a liberal, and pretty much everyone I know is the same (I’ve mentioned that I live in NYC, although it is a pretty equal mix here).
I really do just want to understand how someone like yourself might consider oneself Republican (without silly stereotypes)

I think Obama answered some pretty tough questions on the O’Reilly Factor the past few nights. Some answers were better than others, but I don’t think Bill threw any softballs and I was impressed with how Barack handled himself. There were a lot of issues left on the table for people to mull over….

Has anyone noticed that McCain has been reading word for word from the exact same script over and over again? Was there a budget cut for speech writers in the GOP? C’mon Maverick we want to here something our of YOUR own mouth. Not reading from the script your attorneys and Neo-Con handlers have put together for you. It’s been months since I’ve heard McCain actually answer a question without prep. What’s the party afraid of? Maybe he might say what he really thinks and loose the election?

Palin and McSame are both idiots!
GOP lies and fools Americans!!!
Look how they got us into the WAR for WMD!!!
Ha, GOP has lots and lots of liars!

As a former Pub the thing that scares me most about McSame is that he chose her without vetting this chick. They tried to hide this Teen Pregnancy crap until after the election. Pandering for the women vote.IT WAS DISGUSTING! Plus he has NO IDEAS ABOUT ANYTHING!Cause if they win all that’s off the table. If he’s being sneaky now how can I trust the short armed devil after the election? PAY ATTENTION WOMEN & SEE THROUGH HIM LIKE I DID!My vote can’t be pandered to. GO OBAMA!

I am a diehard republican because I think that fighting for our country and true patriotism is something that should not be ignored. John McCain is not only a POW but a well respected veteran. He served our country bravely and understands what true patriotism really is. I want to put my country in the hands of someone who is well qualified and is willing to FIGHT for what is right and what they believe. NOT someone who is too worried about pissing other people off which no offense to you or any other liberals out there most democrats worry about about. Not only that they change their minds constantly because they want to agree with the people who are voting. John McCain would do what is right whethere we agree with him or not. He doesn’t just change his mind.

I could respect McCain if he had respected his wedding vows that he made to his first, loyal, faithful, loving wife Carol, who waited patiently for him to return. But, the cowardly punk ditched her….and signed a “PRE-NUP”…to jigalow off Cindi’s money!

Obama did not deny it.
Obama did not say it wasn’t true.
Obama did not apologize for the inference.
Bob Beckel mentioned the joke a few days earlier.
Obama meant it.

Bush doesn’t change his mind either. Stay the course! I don’t want a President who can not humble himself to changing conditions. It just does not make a whole lot of sense. It’s like continuing to drive straight and ignoring the detour signs.

McCain is a person just like all of us, divorce is becoming more and more common and those of you still stuck in the past thinking its this horrible thing need a dose of reality.

Obama is trying so hard to SPIN his as usual political elite comment
and trying so hard to CHANGE the subject and blaming McCain for his mistakes.Obama will not even own up to his callous sexist comment. This is how the DNC treat their women and this is not the first time it happen, try last primary with how they treated Hillary Clinton!!!

I think more of the same is bull. McCain and Bush are quite different.

9/11 was a horrifically tragic event and yet many people living here have thought it through and disagree with the resulting reaction of war. It is particularly frustrating when it seems that many on the right look down in disgust on our lifestyle choices and standard of living and feel it would be acceptable to legislate telling us how to live, to have to continue to be a political tool

I had hoped the GOP convention would have been an apology for the last 8 years. I would have voted for McCain if he had the courage to say sorry for all of the mistakes that the party has made.
But instead they just keep driving. The car’s in a ditch. The wheels spinning in the mud. The passengers are all dead. And old Johnnie has the pedal to the metal, with the stereo blaring a beer in his hand, and smoke coming from under the hood. As if nothing is wrong with their driving in the first place.

Really…think about it…things have to be prioritized. Should the “unborn” be given higher priority than the “born” who need jobs?

In 1984, Mondale got an exactly similar “bump” when he added Geraldine Ferraro to his ticket; yet, after about 3 weeks, the balloon went flat and they were routed in a landslide. PREDICTION – the same fate awaits McCain/Failin…oops, I meant Palin!

GOP Hypocrisy…….. double standard…………..
McCain using the phrase “Lipstick on a pig against Hillary Clinton”
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=5770691
Why is America even tolerating such stinking hypocrisy?

If you are Repulican, please do not try to pretent to be Hillary supporter. We all know there is nothing in common between Hillary and Palin. I don’t think Hillary likes to be compared with Palin either. This is another reason why Hillary hasn’t even talked about her. Palin is just not at same level, she is far below.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the hockey mom/pitbull analogy.
And, at first, I thought it was corny. But now I think there is some truth to it, at least in Palin’s case.
Men with insecurities like to keep a pitbull to make them appear macho.
Pitbulls do not know the difference between the truth and a lie.
So, I’m sure there are some other commonalities…but I’ll leave the tricky ones to the scientists.

PHD.
I am a full OBAMA supporter.
I just wanted to allude to the fact that McCain is an hypocrite…
Palin is just another wolf in sheep’s clothing.

LOOK…
…4156 TROOPS are dead so we could prove what? I don’t care if the mission was to get Saddam. A well placed missile into his palace would have resulted in the same violence and political chaos with a couple of exceptions. People would be alive – A LOT of people and the country would not be mired in debt. As a vet I resent the use of TROOPS for poorly defined military actions. FOR GOD SAKES…THEIR LIVES ARE IN OUR HANDS!

“Barack is one of the smartest people you will ever encounter who will deign to enter this messy thing called politics.”
–Michelle Obama
The definition of deign is:
To condescend: do something that one considers to be below one’s dignity

No comment in Mr. Tapper’s blog about ABC’s decision to air the interview with Palin on 9/11?

Republicans are so jealous of Obama’s charisma…they thought they finally got their own “rock star”…but, what you jokes fail to remember is that Obama has been vetted for 19 months by the public. Governor Failin is being hidden in the closet, except to come out and read speeches written by Bush’s speechwriter! She WILL get vetted and it won’t be pretty! Not by Charles Gibson, he will give her tough questions like “what’s your favorite ice cream”…

These GOP folks have their heads in the SAND.
OBAMA presented a great deal about EDUCATION today. McCain doesn’t even have a plan.
Do you think that the Titanic could have been saved by the Iceberg? Forget about McCain.
Nobody believes McCain’s pandering and distractions.

no obama 08 posted:
“To be a die-hard Republican, you must believe in traditional family values, small government, and taking responsibility for one’s own actions.
Something the Democrats lost long, long, long ago.”
By your own words and definition, Republicans aren’t even Republicans.
*Traditional Family Values: Until those are inconvenient.
*Small Government: The government has grown exponentially in the last 8 years. In addition it now spies on it’s own citizens.
*Taking responsibility for one’s own actions: See Hurricane Katrina, Iraq War, Bush Presidency, Karl Rove, Valerie Plame, Terry Shiavo.
So it’s more of the same indeed. Republicans are the party of double standards. (“It’s an abomination, unless we do it, then it’s ok.”

Colin Powell mislead the United Nations with “FORGED DOCUMENTs”…Bush launched a “war of choice” on a sovereign nation…based on lies and deception…Cheney formulated our energy policy in secret with “big oil”…The Bush family was more involved in Enron and Ken Lay, Skilling, and Fastow than was known..for them it was a blessing that Lay died and took their secrets with him to the grave!

Every republican president that has been in office in my lifetime has managed to get this country into some kind of war. Only when we have Dems in the oval office does the economy flourish and we live in some degree of peace.

Electoral College Counts
Obama 281 McCain 230 Ties 27

McCain and the rest of the Republicans had a pretty good foothold in Afghanistan.
Our military men and women fought and died to overthrow the Taliban.
But did Republican leadership take this military victory, and turn their statesmanship towards creating a “foothold for Democracy” there?
Nope… they squandered all the international goodwill and credibility and money trying to gin up a war in Iraq.
They sacrificed the hard won foothold for Democracy in Afghanistan so they could get a stranglehold on oil in Iraq.
So cool it with all this utopian nonsense about how altruistic the GOP has been in the Middle East.

A phony is always a phony; he can hide, he could explain it away for one or two, but he will show time and again.
When His Nothingness Zerobameus has no substance, and he tells you they are going to tell you Zero-bama has no substance. He proves to you that he has “substance” because he knew he has no substance. It’s substance, isn’t it?

speak in circles much d0?

The “surge” was not necessary, cause, the reduction in violence has been from the fact that we “hired” all of Saddam’s former party members (The Awakening). We could have done that without any troops. BUSH/MCCAIN/FAILIN are slap idiots!

I’m supporting Palin this November!
I never really liked Hillary with her condescending elitist attitude. Hillary isn’t fit to touch Palin’s shoes and after Palin wows them in Washington, Clinton can kiss her her chances to be President goodbye!
Palin ’08/’12/’16!

As I understand it, McClain bought the WMD cover for going into Iraq. He was totally wrong. What I have read is that McCain said Iraq would be a cake walk because McCain said that the US would be welcomed as liberators. Totally wrong. Do these two “wrongs of the century” count against McCain or are we supposed to forget that as thoroughly as McCain has. How much wronger can a would be world-leader get?
The Pentagon is now saying the US Afganistan policy was wrong, thanks McCain/Bush, you were wrong again today.
Afganistan was actually where alQuada was located, not in Iraq (as they tried to confuse us during the Republican convention). Memorize this McCain, alQuada was in Afaganistan. Saddam hated alQuada because they were not under his thumb…remember bin Ladin? al Quada is in Iraq now because we are there to take shots at.
Something else to remember, before we invaded Iraq, most of Iraq was a “no-fly” zone, the US controlled most of Iraq’s air-space. I don’t think Iraq, which couldn’t even fly in most of its own air space, was that much of a threat, except for the WMD…remember this, John McCain, we invaded Iraq to get imaginary WMD, not alQuada.
“Lipstick on a pig” was a common saying in the Army back in the day. It was the expression of the idea that you can dress up something so that it looks better, but underneath the decorations, it’s still what it was. (Who doesn’t know that … Governor Palin or Senator McCain? If you are smarter than them good for you. ) Obama was saying McCain trys to dress up his ideas as substantial change, but its not really the degree of change that the people are expecting. Obama is saying that McCain is trying to create the appearance that the Republican candidates are not with Bush, when they really are with Bush. (In reality, McCain is only 90% with Bush.)
The differences between Bush and McCain seem small compared to the similarities. McCain says he voted with Bush over 90% of the time. Is 90% a lot? What about 10%? (Ninety percent barnyard animal?… ten percent lipstick? Ninety percent hogwash? ten percent change?)
I think we need to redirect our attention from animal images. Is Governor Palin a barracuda, or a pit bull (with lipstick)? Neither one, she is a candidate for Vice-president. This is really a serious election, folks! I am not kidding…we are voting for a world leader who may lead us to greatness or to destruction. A world leader who’s finger is on the trigger of a vast nuclear arsenal. How important are these animal images … how will you feel in a year when one or the other of these people is president? pit bull? barracuda? pig? elephant? donkey?
What about taxes? social security? education? retirement programs? regulation of financial securities? corruption? national security? global warming? supreme count appointments?
A commercial just came on the tv here that says Palin stopped “the bridge to nowhere”, but in reality she was all for it … until it was stopped by public opinion and pressure …now, if you watch the news at all, you know that McClain commercial is an outright lie. It’s not a mistake, it is a lie. Well folks, if McCain and Governor Palin run a commercial like that, a commercial we know is a flat lie … aren’t they really telling us that they believe they can control us and get our votes by lies? That offends me, but maybe I am the only person in the US offended. Maybe that kind of a lie only offends people from one political party, but not the other political party?
Something to consider…McCain comes from the great state of Arizona, which has so much federal land that its almost like it has built in earmark equivalents … I mean, a lot of federal money goes there to keep all the federal possessions going. So Arizona probably doesn’t need earmarks that bad anyway … not as bad as Alaska does…ask Governor Palin. “Governor Palin, since you are now against earmarks, can we have all Alaska’s earmarks back right now?” (Ask her that Charlie Gibson!) “OK, how about by the end of the month?” Make the check payable to US Taxpayers! Show us you really mean it Governor Palin, and no joke.

That was just to show you your proof of them not being one in the same. Maybe it isn’t important voting factors but it is differnces.

So glad I have left the DNC. A bunch of losers going on and on about War, poverty, taxes. Not that I don’t care about it but they drag on the same issues. In all my years as a DEM I see that you guys never have anything positive to say about anything. Clinton was one of your better leaders but besides him most of the DNC “talent” is ineffective and that includes Obama. Cater was a disaster.
I was watching MSNBC Larry King Live and saw the two Obama “strategists” one a Loud Mouth radio talk show host that had no manners, the other an unkempt looking woman who needed to comb her hair. The GOP women were professional and gave clear answers.
When I see speakers for Obama like Donna Brazille they seem angry and racist. Ariana Huffington sounds like an idiot. The Obama campaign is not reaching anyone. your talking points are dull and drawn out to death (bridge to nowhere blah blah) It is like kids are running that campaign. You look unprofessional in public and you are just not appealing to anyone and your going down in the polls.
With the Obama campaign everyone is a racist or attacking your chosen one. He can make all sorts of Annie Oakly or lipstick remarks and whine that he is the victim. Obama shut up, apologize, then take the time to say YOU know Sexism has no place in this election and I am sorry if my words sounded as if they … You get it. It would have shown humility and that you are a leader.
That’s all. Instead of being dismissive and saying “fake rage” which is insulting. I am sure that someone was offended. I was.I know others who were. So Obama just said they had phony rage.
He sounds pompous. He comes out of the Greek temples, makes his own presidential seal. When I see this guy and hear words come out of his mouth, I don’t believe them. He is there for himself as he proved today.

I’m not sure if mcCain was outraged or not….but what Obama really doesn’t understand is that some women were really outraged…and as he continues his nasty digs and mean spirited conversation he needs to hope the people that he refuses to acknowledge don’t vote.
All the bogus “racial coding” and reverse racism branding of not just Bill and Hillary but small town America and various other groups did not go unnoticed….The media participated and spread these smear campaigns and they are doing it again with Palin..
The voters will decide!

WeNeedGoodPres>>>>Excellent! On that note, I’m going to bed. After reading these blogs, I am convinced that Obama will win this election. The republicans have offered nothing here…no substance…no thought… McCain/Failin has been EXPOSED!

Funny you say republicans are not much on reading. Aren’t most democrats (according to your stereotype not mine) Poor or middle class, which would mean you do not have the education that we do? Republicans are just rich ignorant people right? From my understanding of the world today the “rich” are more likely to have a degree from a good school. Of course this comment does not include liberal teachers who obviously don’t apply.

McCain/Palin WILL win this election I have no doubt. I really haven’t seen much on the democratic standpoint that I consider credible information.

That was a really nice Letterman interview — OBama seemed pretty laid-back and comfortable with the setting, and Dave spent a nice long time asking him questions. And heh, Malia had her dad walk her into school and is embarrassed, but he doesn’t care. Sound like my mom’s take on preteen embarrassment.
Nice to see that while the media in general is freaking out, the candidate himself seems in the groove.

Does Sarah Palin think she is above the American people?
14 days and she has not answered a single question.
Grill Palin NOW!

Grace
Yea sure hes in the groove while the campaign is imploding! We get that hes a cool character but then again thats what most polticians do who try to be the Change people want when thats just a word!

McCain’s military record:
* crashed five military planes
* served 20 hours in combat
* spoke with enemies (McCain named PW Songbird)
* asked Vietnamese to seal his records

GrillPalinNow
I look forward to this also. Palin will make any unprepared reporter eat their words. Charles Gibson will not ask the hard questions because she will have the answer to them. Something the left-leaning media has not seen in a CHANGE candidate.

Lex
Thats not the point… it was carried live nationally… and you think that you have your electoral college thing worked out when in fact the only reputable marker for the electoral count is on election day!

How can someone take a woman serious who is upset over a perceived insult to a woman by Obama BUT can rally behind McCain who insulted his own wife? Spare me talking points and help me understand.

McCain will keep us in Iraq for 100 years. We spend $10 billion/month in Irqa. We borrower money to fund war. How long can we pay off all the debt? For this reason, there is no way we should put McCain in the office.

Where Does It End, it defies understanding.
The smartest thing the Republic party ever did was make Family values the center of their platform. It doesn’t matter if they are weak on issues or anything, they can just throw up “We have family values and hate baby killers” and a pretty good portion trot to the polls and vote against their better self interest

I don’t know how can liberal DEM and dummy DEM leaders pick a candidate who speaks like a street fighter? I feel shame to be a Democrat.

thats true I was against the bush administration because of the war but Obama made a speech before he was elected to the senate and now that the surge worked hes acting like its still 2006 when things were in doubt

stock_craft
absoultely the way he draws out hiw words like “pol-i-ceh” his advisors no doubt told him to sound more urban or something… I expect will smith or denzel to show up as Obama sometime!

Deb,
I think you need to wake up, you obviously don’t know what you are talking about.
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How so ? We owe them $3trillion thanks to Bush and McCain voted for it 100%!
Why else do you think we let them poison us and our kids with toys toothpaste food and medication ?

Vic
does that mean hes summoning his gangs in inner cities to rise up and him help him

Wheredoesitend
you already have your answer Obama will lose the election

Obama is smart; even the fleet-footed Letterman was in his dust here. Obama tried to clarify: He is saying that McCain’s policies are the “pig” and Palin is the “lipstick.” Now the issue is: how on earth can the U.S. public be expected to understand Obama. He’s speaking to something higher than the common denominator. McCain/Palin’s appeal to the voters is that they are understandable. People “get” them. A person can understand them even if said person has zero knowledge of politics or government. McCain/Palin are speaking not only in dumbed-down verses, but also to people’s gut-level fears of the unknown. It’s working to some degree. McCain was a decent politico before these shenanigans. Now he’s rolling in the mud with the worst of them. Another one bites the dust.

Troop withdrawal from Iraq has
begun. BO presented a timetable
for bringing troops home a couple
of months ago – a plan that was
accepted rightaway by the Iraqi
government. The original plan
has been modified in some details
and has the support of the UN.
Bush realized he was becoming
irrelevant and is now supporting
the withdrawal agreement with Iraq.
So because of BO’s non-stop
campaigning for a time-bound
departure of our combat troops
from Iraq the war is drawing to a
close.
Where’s McCain in all of this?
Why is this perennial loser
even running for POTUS?

America needs to know these facts about Palin.
• In a videotaped speech to students at her church this year she claimed that the war in Iraq is God’s will.
• In the same speech she also claimed that it is God’s will that Alaska build a $30 million gas and oil pipeline.
• As governor, she advocates teaching creationism in public school classrooms.
• A bipartisan committee is investigating Palin who fired public safety commissioner Walt Monegan because he would not dismiss a trooper, Mike Wooten, who went through a messy divorce with her sister before Palin’s election as governor. The evidence is poring out suggesting abuse of power.
• Also refuting overwhelming scientific evidence, Plain states that global warming is not due to human activity.
• She opposes abortion even in the case of rape or incest.
• As mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, she secured almost $27 million in earmarks for her hamlet of about 6,400, assisted by a lobbyist closely allied to now-tarnished Sen. Ted Stevens. Now she says that she is opposed to earmark funding.
• Palin, who has zero experience in foreign policy and only last year received her first U.S. passport , told Alaska Business Monthly that ‘I’ve been so focused on state government, I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq.”
• She is under investigation as to whether she abused her power as governor by dismissing the state’s public safety commissioner for refusing to fire her former brother-in-law from the state police.
• She opposes Sex Education in schools and has a 17 year old daughter who and is now pregnant and unwed.
Palin has close ties to the extreme fringe Alaska Independence Party, which has at times sought a vote on whether the state should secede.
• As mayor, she pressured her town librarian to ban books.
• Palin is a NRA member and opposes any bans on assault weapons
(Do you need an assault weapon to kill a moose?)
• Palin flip-flopped on her support for the “Bridge to Nowhere.”
• Bush speechwriter Matthew Scully wrote Palin’s speech… How is this Change?
Whats the Difference between Bush and Palin?…. Lipstick
Clearly she is prepared to continue the Bush legacy of hypocrisy, ignorance of science, cronyism, and promoting the agenda of the extreme religious right. Palin can count herself among the members of the “Flat Earth Society.”

Those were people. Of course they were relevant if it’s true. Willy Horton was relevant and he wasn’t even a public official.

Where Does It End
THe problem is Obama walked right into a Willie Horton type thing.. several things in the last couple of weeks so hes no bettet than Dukkakis.. at least his wife isnt as crazy as Kitty was lol

husbusfun
isnt that what some people have accused michelle of… beign liek a separatist or supporting extemists its the same thing…people that know anything abotu pltics and history its like somebody gave Obama a script for this time of the campaign season 8 weeks out from the election and hes folowing it pretty well

…that is evident again in his letterman interview because he explained the lipstick on a pig thing in a freudian way.”
posted by: stanaim | Sep 11, 2008 1:29:11 AM
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I felt like Obama was was explaining the lipstick fisaco to Letterman in Pig Latin.
I STILL feel that way!
What did he say?
What did he MEAN?
I am as confused as David!
Obama should have prefaced his analogy with, “Let me make myself perfectly clear”!
Not that that would have clarified anything…..
He just verbalized himself into a well lit corner where every one can snicker at him
Serves him right for belittling Hillary before, and Palin now…. and Ferraro in between!

Obama is a Phony! Why hasn’t he done any “change” in his community, church, local school district, Ill. state govt, or the National senate? Obama touts “change”, but he hasn’t done any change from the ground up! Obama hasn’t done, or said anything orginal to change anythig! Obama is a phony, words, just words.

“Too expensive to the taxpayers?
They’re private entities.”
___________________
Not any more!
Freddie and Fannie should/probably will be cleaved into one….. so that there won’t need to be two CEO’s and double staffs.
Much more economical!
Sounds sensible to me….
McCain and Palin
COUNTRY BEFORE BROKEN DOWN DNC!

Even if Obama had Hillary on the ticket I wouldn’t vote for them. Palin is so much better than Hillary and her Madison Avenue pantsuits. Hillary has nothing NOTHING on Palin. I will NEVER vote for that woman. EVER.
Palin ’08, ’12, ’16!

Obama, pleeeeeaaassssseeee STOP digging. Now you are saying Palin is the “lipstick”, as if you are giving her a compliment.
What happened to you “judgment” you so proudly boasting?
your performance tonight was painful to watch.

A judge warned the Palin family, including Sarah, to stop harassing Wooten during his custody battle with her sister. This was before Sarah became Governer.
After Sarah became Governor however, she continued harassing Wooten.
This woman is sick and totally incapable of having executive powers.

Does everybody know that McCain biggest campaign issue: “Earmarks” is only an extremely small part of the Federal Budget?
0.63% to be exact.
Federal Budget 2008: $2,902.00 Billion
Earmarks 2008: 18.30 Billion
= 0.63% of Federal Budget!
Currently, the deficit is projected to be 407 Billion.
Another fact not known is that earmarks are applied AFTER a sum of money is budgetted. Getting rid of an earmark, will not lower the budget.

The problem is that dumbing down
of America has been going on for
quite a while.
Look at how the Republicans are
manipulating their party members,
an incredibly uneducated lot.
They have a veep candidate they
announced two weeks ago and they
have gone to extraordinary lengths
to keep her away from the media.
This is unheard of. They have a
whole lot of dumbed down party
people believing that this woman is
some kind of savior of their party
and that they have already won the
election. The truth is the public
knows nothing about her although two
weeks have passed since she became
the Republican veep candidate.

Palin is against abortion even in cases of rape & incest.
She explored the idea of removing books from a public library (in effect ‘banning’).
She believes in giving creationism as much scientific clout in school as evolution.
She would be a heartbeat away from the presidency (and that president, if elected, would be the oldest person to serve his first term). Palin would be appointing Supreme Court justices. Her far right viewpoints are incredibly dangerous for this reason.
She believes the crazy climate we’re living in — along with the pollution, temperature changes, polar ice caps melting, greenhouse effect, etc. — are NOT in any way man-made. (She will likely be revising this to get in line with McCain, however.)
In addition, Palin & her people claim the trooper investigation was moved up for political purposes. If she’s innocent, wouldn’t she want the report’s conclusions coming out sooner rather than later?
Anyone who truly supported Hillary and what she stands for — on the ISSUES — couldn’t possibly vote for McCain.
While McCain was certainly brave during his captivity, his personal life since has hardly been stellar — whether it’s cheating repeatedly on his disabled first wife, being a member of the Keating 5 or failing to defend his supposed friend John Kerry against GOP attacks during the 2004 campaign that he KNEW were false.
Also, take a look at Palin’s actual record. Alaska gets more federal money per capita than any other state. She hired DC lobbyists to land the very pork barrel earmarks she slams today. She didn’t quash the “Bridge to Nowhere” until Congress did — AND Alaska kept the money.
I don’t care if people are Republicans or Democrats. I respect everyone’s right to vote their conscience. That’s what makes America great. Just make sure you know who and what you’re voting FOR.

Jon, how come you are unable to Name One “proven reform credential”?
Because there is none?
The Alaska Republican Party still is corrupt. Even though she has been an active member of it since the mid 90s, she has not been able to clean it up.
McCain himself has been a part of the GOP even longer. He stood by when it descended into the party it is today. Corrupt to the core. McCain has not been able to keep even the GOP on the right track.

It is so funny when McCain said same lipstick on a pig so many times, no one even paid attention to them. But after Obama said it yesterday, almost immediately, all the repulicans jumped up and down, demanding an apology. Unbelievable!
Hypocrite and ridiculous!

Posted by: Deb | Sep 11, 2008 3:24:17 AM
Deb,
if bho supports the constitution he would with draw from the race as he is ineligible to be president. See lawsuit filed 8/21/08 in philadelphia.
the dnc and bho were just served friday. they have till 10/21/08 to prove his citizenship…

Posted by: mere | Sep 11, 2008 4:40:03 AM
curious, which bho are you voting for? the one that is for campaign reform, renegotiating nafta, against fisa, against off shore drilling, wants to be out of iraq in 18 months, etc…or the one, after hillary was suspended her campaign, decided not to change nafta, opted out of federal campaign funds, voted for fisa, thought some drilling was okay, or thought we should listen to the generals in terms of iraq.
which guy is it whose policies you support?

Wouldn’t it be INSULTING to Palin if Obama has to tip-toe around her and cannot even use a common phrase because he has to make sure he doesn’t come across as offending/insulting her?
Wouldn’t that INSULT Palin because he would then be insinuating she’s a light weight ‘cos she’s a woman and cant take the pressure?
DOESN’T she want to be treated as an equal? ISN’T that the whole point of feminism? Us women being on EQUAL standing with men, and not seen as being weaker-minded, more sensitive and unable to take it in our stride?
For goodness’ sakes, stop crying sexism, McCain camp. If Obama had said a “pitbull in a lipstick” then that would be clear. But he didn’t. He wasn’t EVEN talking about Palin before he made that comment.
Besides, who started the mudslinging first, hmm? Why is it the McCain camp can open fire on Obama but when he has the gall to finally fire back they cry foul?
If anyone has a track record of being disrespectful to women, it’s McCain. Chelsea Clinton and even his wife were at the receiving ends of some very rude barbs.
If at a time where the economy is in shambles and we have to try to avoid a return to the Cold War, the McCain camp is insistent on talking only about lipstick, what does this tell you about where their priorities really lie?

Posted by: Fed Up | Sep 11, 2008 5:16:08 AM
like bho didn’t use racism to get where he is?

if the dem congress had any back bone and voted their own policies, they would keep a gop executive branch in tact…
by the way, bho and biden voted for the bridge to nowhere…

pp,
Mr. McCain’s likely nomination as the Republican candidate for president and the happenstance of his birth in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936 are reviving a musty debate that has surfaced periodically since the founders first set quill to parchment and declared that only a “natural-born citizen” can hold the nation’s highest office.
Almost since those words were written in 1787 with scant explanation, their precise meaning has been the stuff of confusion, law school review articles, whisper campaigns and civics class debates over whether only those delivered on American soil can be truly natural born. To date, no American to take the presidential oath has had an official birthplace outside the 50 states.

Jon: “Governor Palin cut Government waste in Alaska.”
No she didn’t, she increased it. During her six years as mayor, general government expenditures increased by more than 33 percent. The city’s debt went from nothing to $22 million.
In June 2007, Palin signed into law a $6.6 billion operating budget—the largest in Alaska’s history.
It was the Federal Congress in 2005 who cut earmarks for one bridge to nowhere, she’s still trying to find earmarks for the second bridge to nowhere.
Yesterday we learned that she had charged the state a per diem for the 312 nights she has *spent at home* ($16,951 in total allowances) and for her family’s travel expenses ($43,490, an additional $93,000 for Palin herself).
What a reformer.
“exposed certain corrupt politicians”
That’s whistleblowing. Whisteblowing has nothing to do with reforming.
” However, OUR DEMOCRATIC then Governor pleaded for the action”
Together with Stevens and Murkowski. Knowles is not running, in case you had missed that.
You have not mentioned ONE feat she has done.

Deb,
Currently, Title 8 of the U.S. Code fills in those gaps. Section 1401 defines the following as people who are “citizens of the United States at birth:”
Anyone born inside the United States
Any Indian or Eskimo born in the United States, provided being a citizen of the U.S. does not impair the person’s status as a citizen of the tribe
Any one born outside the United States, both of whose parents are citizens of the U.S., as long as one parent has lived in the U.S.
Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year and the other parent is a U.S. national
Any one born in a U.S. possession, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year
Any one found in the U.S. under the age of five, whose parentage cannot be determined, as long as proof of non-citizenship is not provided by age 21
Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)
A final, historical condition: a person born before 5/24/1934 of an alien father and a U.S. citizen mother who has lived in the U.S.

“natural-born citizen.”

Jon e.a.
Just this year, she sent to Sen. Ted. Stevens, R-Alaska, a proposal for 31 earmarks totaling $197 million — *more, per person, than any other state*.
[...]
Palin’s requests to Congress came at a time of huge federal deficits, while Alaska state revenue was *soaring* due to rising oil prices and a major tax increase on oil production that Palin signed into law in late 2007.
Let me spell it out for you: Alaska is making huge profits in revenues from it’s resources; from those revenues she’s doling out thousands of dollars in tax-rebates to Alaskans; and at the same time, she’s begging the rest of the US to pay for het petprojects like TWO bridges to Nowhere, and 29 other Pork projects.
That’s not a reformer. That’s more of the same.
And her ethical lapses in charging the state for bogus claims (per diem-gate), her lies about her personal record (Bridges-gate, Earmarks-gate, Ebay-gate), her abuses of power (firing people for personal reasons instead of professional), are proof that she fits perfectly well in the Old Boys Club of Bush and Cheney and the rest of the Republican Party.

pp: legal scholars are still undecided if McCain is a ‘natural born citizen’.
“In the most detailed examination yet of Senator John McCain’s eligibility to be president, a law professor at the University of Arizona has concluded that neither Mr. McCain’s birth in 1936 in the Panama Canal Zone nor the fact that his parents were American citizens is enough to satisfy the constitutional requirement that the president must be a “natural-born citizen.”

pp
Its the same reason Arnold Schwarzenegger can’t be President:
In that he is not a ntural born citizen!
He can be a Senator and a Governor not the President!
Section 1 of Article II of the Constitution contains the clause:
“ No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

pp. Sorry but that makes absolutely no sense. The article itself states that 8 USC 1403 was SPECIFICALLY written because of the special status of the Canal Zone. So that article itself acknowledges that 8 USC 1401 did not include Canal Zone.
Yet they conclude that somehow McCain, who was born in the Canal Zone, should be eligible because of 8 USC 1401.
That’s a contradiction.

pp: just a stark reminder of another time when ‘political winds shifted in an ugly direction’. Here is a poem attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller following the Nazi rise to power.
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn’t a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
Martin Niemöller has always been a controversial figure. This poem however is spot on.

why should i read, believe, chin. look at the constitution!!!!mccain is eligible under 1401, so 1403 does not apply.
bho is not a citizen, if he is show a birth certificate, it is that easy.
You bho supporters are freaking out as mccain/palin numbers move up.
once this election goes full speed and the ayers, wright, auchi, rezko, non-biography biography, present votes, “whitey”, racist, unamerican issues about bho come up, he is toast…
bye bye bho.
“just get over it”

Posted by: Polderboy | Sep 11, 2008 6:45:58 AM
your point…..
perhaps bho’s uncle who liberated auschwitz knew that too….

JA,
the current President is George W Bush, so indeed I can imagine the President having a conversation as stupid, indeed more stupid, than this. (I don’t mean to suggest Bush is stupid, but he is very very goofy).
And on the natural born citizen stuff, I am not a constitutional lawyer, but my laymans reading of the constitution would suggest that McCain is a natural born citizen. (2 American Parents, one serving as a high ranking member of the Navy, if thats not natural born I don’t know what is!)

pp
They sponsored a non-legaly binding resolution!
Its disscused in the articles I asked you to read!

Posted by: Deb | Sep 11, 2008 7:13:31 AM
NO ONE HAS SEEN HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE, only his certificate of live birth. if you have seen it, please tell the world where.

It is incredible that this is the guy that the lefties put out for our Presidency.
Especially considering the wailing about Bush and his ineptness and ill-preparedness and all that crap.
When I hear Barry talk, I hear a college undergrad.

pp
The certificate has all the elements the State Department requires for proving citizenship to obtain a U.S. passport: “your full name, the full name of your parent(s), date and place of birth, sex, date the birth record was filed, and the seal or other certification of the official custodian of such records.” The names, date and place of birth, and filing date are all evident on the scanned version, and you can see the seal above.
The document is a “certification of birth,” also known as a short-form birth certificate. The long form is drawn up by the hospital and includes additional information such as birth weight and parents’ hometowns. The short form is printed by the state and draws from a database with fewer details. The Hawaii Department of Health’s birth record request form does not give the option to request a photocopy of your long-form birth certificate, but their short form has enough information to be acceptable to the State Department. We tried to ask the Hawaii DOH why they only offer the short form, among other questions, but they have not given a response.
The scan released by the campaign shows halos around the black text, making it look (to some) as though the text might have been pasted on top of an image of security paper. But the document itself has no such halos, nor do the close-up photos we took of it. We conclude that the halo seen in the image produced by the campaign is a digital artifact from the scanning process.
We asked the Obama campaign about the date stamp and the blacked-out certificate number. The certificate is stamped June 2007, because that’s when Hawaii officials produced it for the campaign, which requested that document and “all the records we could get our hands on” according to spokesperson Shauna Daly. The campaign didn’t release its copy until 2008, after speculation began to appear on the Internet questioning Obama’s citizenship. The campaign then rushed to release the document, and the rush is responsible for the blacked-out certificate number. Says Shauna: “[We] couldn’t get someone on the phone in Hawaii to tell us whether the number represented some secret information, and we erred on the side of blacking it out. Since then we’ve found out it’s pretty irrelevant for the outside world.” The document we looked at did have a certificate number; it is 151 1961 – 010641.

a certificate of live birth DOES NOT prove where the birth was, ie, citizenship. you can obtain a certificate of live birth if you are born overseas and simply go to get the certificate when you return.

pp
Why wont mccain release his birth certificate ?
Whats he got to hide?
Why must it be keep secret ?

And once again Obama is backpedaling on what he meant to say, how he would have said it differently, having to attempt to make himself clear.
I can’t wait to see this amateur on the world stage going up against nations that either want to see America knocked down a peg or that out and out hate us.

Mom of Two,
I blame the media when will they do their job the didnt tell us the truth about Iraq the havent told us the truth since 911.
News isnt about giving both side the chance to talk its about pointing out BS and telling people when someone is lying and calling things like mccains new sexist defence ploy out for what it is a excuse to not talk about the real issues!
When they do their job people might have to think about the real issues!
Peace : (

Playing the victim is meant to win former clinton supporters!
Like they are really going to vote away Hillary’s chance at being the first felmale VP or President just because she’s a woman! Then again maybe they will ???

I can’t believe it. BO just keeps digging himself deeper. Someone please take away the shovel. Calling a female VP candidate “lipstick” is offensive. How would he feel if someone took an African American stereotypical item or characteristic, and said that BO is just that item/characteristic? People would be furious. Racism is not tolerated, but sexism is. Unbelievable.

How anyone can trust this man with the safety of our country is beyond me.
When I see the touching ceremonies about 9/11 I think of that jackass Rev Wright cursing America and blaming the attacks on us.
And I think of BO willingly staying with him for 20 years. And how Obama sees no problem withing having his own teerorist pal William Ayers.
One-third of American believe Obama shares Wright’s views. Why is this race even close?

This has been my take all along–Obama sees republican policies and their embodiment in John McCain as a tired old pig. He sees Palin as nothing more than an effort to put lipstick on that pig–an insubstantial, frivilous diversion. He really knows how to reach out to women, doesn’t he? Reminds me of the “throwing china” and “claws” remarks about Hillary. He just doesn’t get it. I think we all know who the pig is now.

Deb,
Please stop titling at windmills with McCain’s citizen status. Congress settled this in 1790. If both parents are US citizens then any of their children are NATURAL BORN CITIZENS of the US regardless of where the birth takes place:
“And the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond sea, or outside the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens.” (See ref. for the Act of 1795)

Obama stands for that beautful mind and McCain stands for all legally blind

Fed Up…Wouldn’t it be INSULTING to Palin if Obama has to tip-toe around her and cannot even use a common phrase because he has to make sure he doesn’t come across as offending/insulting her?
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Are you kidding me? Obama has had this entire nation tip-toeing around because new rules have been instituted by him and the DNC about what words are and are not acceptable. Remember the flap about he “boy” comment? People have been calling males “boy” FOREVER and suddenly Obama decides it is offensive. Give me a break!

The only thing that’s insulting is that McCain and Palin are tied in the polls..the only thing that’s insulting is that so many Americans are dumb and willing to continue the failed policies of the last 8 years. We still haven’t won in afghanistan, and these fools got us into another war prematurely and without proper planning. They have proven their incompetence and yet half of you still want more!

“He really knows how to reach out to women, doesn’t he? Reminds me of the “throwing china” and “claws” remarks about Hillary. He just doesn’t get it. I think we all know who the pig is now.”

rae m gonzalez I couldn’t agree with you more. It’s really sad that most Americans seem to enjoy suffering and that’s the bottom line. It will give them something to complain about. Truth is, I believe most people love to be miserable because if they didn’t they would use their brains! The writing couldn’t be more clear but they fall into the same old stupidity. My thing is, if the stupid Americans get McCain/Palin in then their kids should be the ones drafted to all of the wars McCain has planned to keep the population down! Every single Republican’s child should go to war since that is what their stupid parents voted for. The swing voters need to just stay at home because they are bipolar! What stable person swings back and forth due to the amount of negativity in the news this week! I jsut believe people enjoy suffering and will make up every excuse to justify it! While McCain can just pick which house he is going to today and they will be trying to figure out how they are going to feed their kids and heat their homes! Sad but true!

SAVE THE PIGS!
VOTE REPUBLICAN!

How ironic that Obama chastises McCain for criticizing Obama’s comments – Obama says “enough,” yet every chance Obama gets, he mentions the comment (and McCain’s reaction) again and again in speeches and in nationally broadcast television interviews – Obama is the one refusing to let this issue die. If it weren’t Obama doing this, we’d refer his actions as hypocritical or a double standard.

ya know, the Republicans are the ones that are comparing Palin to a pig with lipstick, not Obama. She should be outraged…

Obama was arrogant, defiant, unapologetic and disrespectful on the David Letterman show. He was most definitely referring to Palin / McCain with the lipstick / fish comment and he sure enjoyed the applause over this very distasteful, repulsive joke. He is obviously jealous of the Republican’s rise in the polls and desperate! He has a real issue with powerful women. He mistreated Hillary Clinton as well. Obama is full of empty words and has little experience. He is not ready to lead this country but he is obviously ready to smear. He will keep this country divided. Palin and McCain both have proven records of bipartisanship and will unite America.

Anyone trying to make more of this than the simple analogy that it is….is wasting everyones time. And that alone is suspect. Why try and distract from the important….unless you are a coward like Carl Rove….and John Mcshame.

As a observer from a far off land (Canada)I can say that the fact that you people voted for GWB (twice) was kinda pathetic – I mean really that boy wasn’t bright. Now I am relived to say you will be voting for a candidate who was powerless to take on the coruption of the Illinos political system, voted “present” for most of the time there, attended a racist church or 20+ years, bought his first house with the help of Tony Rezko, was friends with William Ayres, his mentor was Rev. Wright, most questions are above his pay grade, makes TV interviewers feel tingles up their legs, took 3 interviews to get the Russia/Georgia conflict correct, he will very well sit down with supporters of 9/11 to find some middle ground, supporters (1 million on his speed dial)are college students (same ones who welcomed leader of Iran to come hear and spit in your face)- Obama is apparently the only likeable lawyer in the WORLD….and anyone who votes for him is vote to go from the frying pan into the fire.
Good luck America

Obama is the one keeping this story in the media – McCain issued a statement days ago and that was the last they spoke of it – Obama keeps bringing it up in a highly profiled way (on Letterman, in speeches, etc.) to distract voters from the key issue in this election are we ready to a) give up on our current system and usher in a bold new socialist agenda … or do we b) reform our current system and take steps to ensure that the government does not get any bigger or more powerful. That’s the one issue that everyone should focus on right now.

I’m sorry Pete J but I just had the best laugh out loud moment I’ve had in a while.
You’ve put my feelings to words so well!

Obama has nothing to do with keeping this in the media. You do by asking for more on it. McCain didn’t vet her and now the media is doing the job it would have done had she had any national experience or been known. Any candidate that runs for office needs to be scrutinized…the world will do it for us if we don’t. How do we look to the rest of the world?
This Republican has seen the error of her ways and is voting for Obama.

How hypocric OB!! He started lipstic from Palin’s speech. And blaimed on McCain and he is the man obove such a chat. He brought up lipstic story again and again, he changed face and said “enough is enough, I don’t care what they said”. It was so disgusting. Bill O, you said he wasn’t talking about Palin becouse he is so smart and intellegent?????? Don’t be fooled by BO. You think you are fare, but you were navi. OB is not like you, Bill. He tried this lipstic live on and on, so he can pretend with well managed face expression, saying McCain don’t talke about issue, only wining. But he didn’t talked about any issue at all, just blame Rep. I thought anyway it is over. And yet, look! what he is saying to David about again – Lipstic Palin on pig McCain? He doesn’t want to die this story. OB, you have to stop this kind of cheap shot!! Be realistic for citizen. PLEASE… If you don’t have nothing to talk, just be silence.

Ohg Rea Tone Did you see how meaningfully McCain cradled the roses a relative of a 9-11 victim gave him, whereas Obama’s let his dangle drooped from his hand ready to hand them off to an aid. Did you know OBama totally lied to you and abc and the world about his relationship with Bill Ayers? Totally lied, completely lied, he’s hiding the real terrorist-affiliated Obama and ABC is so in the tank for him the don’t vet him…they WANT a terrorist in the White House. Obama’s latest read was The Post American World, he’s been photog’ed with it several times. I’d like McCain with a grumpy temperament in a wheelchair any day compared to terrorist Obama. Did you see the way Obama told off that poor old lady who asked him what he’d do about terrorists? He never did answer her, just belittled her.

So OBama gets to distract from his blaming American victims for being victimized by another double entendre “don’t be so sensitive” crapload.
Remember back in January, the New York Times reported:
As Obama and his wife, Michelle, strolled triumphantly into his victory party in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 3, Jay-Z’s “99 Problems” was blaring.
Oh, Oooooops, just a coincidence again. Axelrod and Obama are SICK individuals.
Now they’re calling on the Clintons for help. Hillary tried to tell us, she was afterall wearing PRISONER orange at her DNC speech. Obama played “Addicted To Love” as Bill Clinton exited the stage. They all do this, and it’s called PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY it gets attention and it distracts from more disastrous emphasis.
Like Obama’s associations with terrorists and all the data pointing to his being cultivated and funded by them for DECADES.
When O’Reilly pointed these associations out all Obama could say is “what can you say?”

The lipstick on a pig is an expression. There’s a book by the same title. Obama didn’t call Palin a pig, he called McCain’s policy the pig. McCain used the same expression about Hillary Clinton’s healthcare plan.And it’s on tape. Do some research, watch some news. Palin needs to be scrutinized. No one knows anything about her. Don’t think for one minute that the republican machine hasn’t been digging into Obama and Biden. They all do it. We know all there is to know about them. Now it’s her turn. This trying to insult the American voter with these stupid comebacks and Comercials that are flat out lies is disgusting.It makes me think she has something more to hide besides her ultra conservitive views. I for one want to know something about her. What does she stand for? What does she believe? What are her politics. She’s made the same speech, which was written for her, at every stop before returning to Alaska. Bring on the scrutiny.

Hey Citizen Voter, at Sep 11, 2009 3:14:04 PM, you are so right! Pete J at the mark Sep 11,2008 2:45:36 PM hit the nail right on the head…I really bust a gut on that one. I am still trying to pull myself together I laughed so hard. Everyone should read it and refer the next person coming on here to read it. I promise they will be thoroughly entertained whether Republican or Democrat…Excuse me, I have to go see my doctor to check if I broke a rib laughing so hard.

Dwight are you serious? So we should elect officials based on their need to heal???Crazy Man say what?????

Obama to Letterman: Sarah Palin is “a brilliant politician.” Thanks, Obama. I will vote for brilliance over neverending Democratic smarminess any day.

I just watched the Palin/Gibson interview.
I hope everyone watches it.
I don’t believe that comments will change someones opinions but I hope people see what I saw in Palin.
I did not see someone speaking from the heart. I saw someone saying what people will want to hear. She is a brilliant politician.

I don’t get it — is that the only difference between a dog and a hockey mom? Lipstick?
Hey, did you see talk of Biden pulling a surprise by stepping down and Hillary taking his place. The Republicans would never know what hit him! Pit Bull Palin getting all ready to debate Biden. Then at the last minute, Hillary shows up. Hoooo! Would the Republicans scream bloody murder. Boy, would that be a massacre! The Palin-McBush party would be over!

It is so sad that the American people can not see the truth. Obama will destroy this country, he will take away all your freedoms to make this nation weak so that his terrorist buddies can march right in and take over! Obama hates the USA why can’t people see that?
Is the American people that undereducated that they can be lead so blindly to vote for a leader that hates the USA?
McCain is not G. Bush he has different views and will keep America strong! Ron Paul will Also be a good choice for America!
But Obama will destroy us!
Don’t let this country die with Obama, Please America see the truth!

Never voted for a Democrat before. Palin is qualified to be a prom queen, nothing more. We cannot stand any more of this devisive garbage. Where did ny party go? I guess Obama will have to get us out of the ditch. My beloved Rubublican party has gone intellectually bamkrupt.

I wish Tom Russett were alive. He would get to the bottom of McCains lies and distortions. He would also flush out the truth about Sarah Palin. There is a big differance in the qalifications for govener of a state which has a very small population and is filthy rich from $120.00 a barral oil and the qualification for vice president. Sarah the phony just does not cut the mustard.

i think our celebrity president loved by the media

come on people stop the bs grow the hell
up,palin is a dipstick and the world
knows it obama may not have experience
what president have had experience
none at least PRESIDENT OBAMA IS SMART