Palin Accuses ‘Obama/Biden Democrats’ of Attacking Her Family, But Campaign Can’t Name One

I can MSNBC, CNN and DEMOCRACY NOW, to name a few.

US Weekly!

On every TV news station, all those good ole boys and some so called ladies really knocked her as a woman, a mother and candidate. These people have been promoting Obama and are acted like scared rabbits now. The bloogers were even worse.
This must be the diriest campaign in history for a unqualified male candidate. SAD. He runs his big mouth; she runs the biggest state.

albert, The bloggers didn’t run her name through the mud you idiot, SHE did.

“If you can’t stand the heat…get out the kitchen”
Hillary Clinton, the woman Palin accused of being a whiner

“If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” Obama responds. “My opponents are whining.” Primary stump speech.

The first public servant who I heard come out and emphatically say enough don’t go after family was Obama. A class act.

That hypocrisy is a part and parcel of the RNC Campaign handbook, and of this team in particular, is no shock.
It reminds me of the old parable about the horse and the scorpion at the edge of the river.
It’s just in their nature.

Then Reid, part of his support system, said she was SHRIll.

Who’s whining now?

She gets as much time as BO had to FACE the people. WHy should she walk into the Obama’s lion’s den press?

ABC World News did a hit piece on Sarah Palin tonight.
I guess that’s fair considering all the hit pieces ABC has done on Obama about Rezko, Ayers etc. /s

the damsel in distress
priceless

And yet, she has helped raise $1 million for the RNC since her speech and has managed to raise $10 million for Obama since her speech. Thank you Gov Palin, keep on talking. Obama really appreciates your fund raising efforts on his behalf.

aww, how precious. Wasn’t that a lovely recital Sarah did last night? She studied her little heart out for 3 days to make the person who wrote the speech for her proud.
Awww…she reads well.

I thought we knew mccain. why is he introducing himself again tonight. we have heard his POW centric story several times this week
how about that time warp he takes from when he was a pow to the present he passes up
dumping his wife
cheating on his wife
keating five
repeatedly voting against mlk day
now against legislation he sponsored
lets get the whole story

I could truly care less about he 17yr old having a baby… that happens everyday. She has to deal with leaving her son with downs home ..thats her issue….. I have 5 issues
1. She is under investigation for abuse of power
2 She shares the same values of the AIP ..”Alaska first”
3 Her record shows that she is for “pork” spending and when she is introduced to America the first thing she does is says she isn’t.
4 SHE SAID SHE needs someone to tell he what the VP does and that she would only consider it if it could some how benefit her home state of Alaska.
5 I’m not talking experience …but she isn’t Presidential..this isn’t necessary a bad but, she wasn’t seeking the job…. You cant give someone something they down want in their heart.
PLEASE if you decide to reply PLEASE don’t compare her to Obama or Biden …this is about her… or you can compare her to the other that McCain could have picked.

Palin isn’t going to be allowed to be interviewed – it’s too risky. The only think she’ll be doing is giving rehearsed speeches at rallies from here on out. Maybe they might rig a town hall for her with canned questions.
She’s not a candidate, she’s an image.

ENOUGH OF REPUBLICAN CORRUPTION AND LIES!!
This year,
DEMOCRATS ALL THE WAY!!

Jake – Thank you. I hope you’re not the only journalist willing to call out bullsh*t. This is the reporting of the person I admired at salon.com. Welcome back.

Has anyone really read what this woman stands for. She is the extreme right.
From Creationism in school, removing books from libraries she does not like. beleives global warming not man made polar bears are not extinct, no abortion even if you are raped or incest. People start reading and if this is what you beleive you should vote for them

Pork Barrel Palin is a Cash Cow for the MSM. She will sell more advertising than a natural disaster.

She can’t name one because she and the entire McCain campaign is full of ****. She spent her entire speech attacking him now she asking for money for being attacked. If he does attack her after last night he would be well within his rights. But Obama is much too classy to stoop to their level.

Sarah likes to think of herself as a pit bull. Pit Bulls are vicious. They attack without provocation. An unvetted VP can do more harm to this country than Osama bin Laden.

Eight Years of this style of Republican
leadership has been eight years too
much……. The Republicans said
the American people were a bunch of
Whiners Look who’s doing all the
Boo ohing Now…
The Republicans Broke the country
and they are not the ones to Fix it..
and what I saw on a video, Palin thinks
God did it… LOL…

Hey, isn’t using the U.S. mail to make falses statements designd to part people from their money a, um, what’s the word, . . . oh yes, a CRIME?
Jus’ wond’rin’.

hamishdad and PT
Dagg, you guy are so right. It is good to know that there are smart Americans out there that can step out of the woods and see the TREES.
I WOULD LIKE TO SIT DOWN AND TALK TO THOSE KIND OF PEOLPLE AT MY DINNER TABLE AS FELLOW AMERICANS.

Looks like Palin has turned out to be a pound puppy….a stay on the porch pound puppy.
Ya can’t run with the big dogs honey.

Hey, isn’t using the U.S. mail to make false statements designed to part people from their money a, um, what’s the word, . . . oh yes, a CRIME?
Jus’ wond’rin’.

OPPS PT, MEAN THE CIVIL WAR..
EVEN THOUGH THE REVOLUTION WAR WAS ABOUT SEPERATION FROM OLD ENGLAND
THE REPUBLICANS WANT TO TAKE US BACK TO THAT TYPE OF RULE.
THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM IS ALREADY THERE.

More Bullhockey from Sarah Palin!
Pat Buchanan revealed on MSNBC last Friday that Palin and her husband were ardent Buchanan supporters and fundraised for him. Sarah Palin told Buchanan that she converted to his candidacy after one of his most rabid speeches. Sporting a Buchanan button, she was happy to stand up and be photographed with Buchanan then as one of his pitchfork revolutionists.
Palin appears to excel in broadcasting brazen lies and serial self-victimization — for self-aggrandizement, for money,and for power. And in all instances, she has to blame someone else for her own actions.

“Pit Bulls are vicious.”
Only when provoked like the USA.

THE TRUTH:
FOR THE LAST 8 YEARS THE REPUBLCIANS HAVE RUN THIS COUNTRY INTO THE GROUND.
THE REPUBLICIANS PLAYED AMERICANS AS FOOLS TALKING ABOUT MORAL VALUES.
THE REPUBLICANS LOOK OUT FOR THERE OWN SPECIAL INTEREST FOR LAST 8 YEARS AT THE EXPENSE OF AMERICAN WORKING FAMILIES.
AND NOW:
THEY WANT TO BELIEVE THAT THE WOMEN OF THIS COUNTRY ARE STILL FOOLS AND WILL GO DOWN THE SAME PATH AS 2000 AND 2004
WILL HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF.
PROVING THAT AMERICANS ARE FOOLS TO BELIEVE THIS LIE
I WONDER.

As a Christian woman myself I am appalled at how this so called “Christian” woman does not have any problem speaking lies and insults. Her speech reflected her “elitism’ as she thumbed her nose at hard working community workers who are actually doing true Christian work in caring for their neighbors. I am not impressed by Sarah Palin and James Dobson’s brand of Christianity which amounts to putting down others who may not think exactly as they do.

Who is this woman taking her cues from? Blair Waldorf from Gossip Girl????
She loves to dish out the cheap shots, but is quick to play the victim when the tables are turned.
Wasn’t it John McCain who said Obama needed a sense of humor when commenting on the smear-filled “Obama Nation” book?
Look, I won’t pretend that some of the more liberal blogs haven’t gone over the line, but I didn’t hear much outrage when the Republican bloggers tried to turn Michelle Obama into some sort of black panther extremist who hated America.

As Steve Martin would say, Well excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me! Where would we get the idea that she was a Pay Buchanan Republican? Oh, wait, maybe it was that five or ten minutes where Buchanan raved about her on CNN, bragged about how she’d embraced him after his hate-filled speech at the convention, and said repeatedly that she was one of the pitch-fork brigade.
So if they want to call this a slam, they need to blame the source — not MSNBC, but Buchanan himself.

Obviously it would be foolish to attack Palin when so much of the media was all-hands-on-deck to do the job.

KEATON 5
McCAIN MUST HAVE SELECTIVE MEMORY

I was so hopeful this would be a different campaign without all the negative personal attacks. I was so hopeful each party would take the “high road” and speak to the issues. I was so hopeful the era of sarcastic taunts and misinformation was over. That hope died this week at the RNC. As an independent voter, I will now support Obama. He is a refreshing alternative to ” bad old-time politics

This woman said nothing of substance during last night’s speech. While watching Obama, he at least laid out ideas for where he is going to take the country.
I was offended by watching her speech last night. She was divisive, rude and unpleasant to listen to. She couldn’t talk about the issues because she doesn’t know the issues.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2008

If they don’t want anyone including the media taking shots at their families then they shouldn’t parade them around like campaign slogans.. If your going to use them as part of your campaign to get your message (?) across then expect some heat and if you can’t take it get out of the kitchen.. And vicious doesn’t look too well on a woman it’s the wrong shade of lipstick..

Good article…key point made is why should Obama/Biden or anyone in their campaign bother in talking about Palin when the media will do more proper vetting than McCain did. Palin obviously is part of the misrepresentation team, “let us lie and see what the country believes”.

she’s in a catch-22 with this “obama/biden democrats” thing.
obama hasn’t said anything, and if she brings up the bloggers, then ALL THE GROSS LIES AND SMEARS that the right-wing blogs have said about obama come right back to haunt her.
ask her if she decried that 9/11 truther who smeared obama all the way to the nytimes bestseller list.

Regardless of party, it is not hard to tell a nasty piece of work when you see one. Diehard right-wingers may have to keep it to themselves, but really, contrast Sen. Palin to Christie Whitman. I’m from NY, there’s no love lost between Gov. Whitman and New Yorkers (air quality lies), but come on now.

As an Independent, I’ve been holding back on deciding on who I would support until after both conventions wrapped up. I can appreciate the traditional GOP attack politics – to expect less is naive in the state of the game today(although the 9/11 video tonight was way over the top and really tasteless). I wanted to hear some real ideas/plans/issue stances from the GOP this week – but I didn’t hear anything I could latch onto. Obama gets my vote by virtue of his stronger focus on things at a level that impact me. VPs don’t figure into my choice.

Stop it Sarah…you’re killing me…I can’t stop laughing!
The RNC, in direct contrast with the DNC, just had one of the meanest, nastiest, lie fests of them all, with Sarah leading the smear campaign. The rabid party bots (the 28%-ers) were eating it all up.
Then, she actually has the chutzpah to whine about attacks on her family from the Democrats, and can’t even give an example of one.
I think we just got a glimpse of how inept the beauty-queen hockey mom is at thinking on her feet. But she does have a feel for Rove-ian politics…attack your opponent, then cry foul whether they do or don’t hit back.
What a joke. I love Alaska.

Whoever attacking to Sara Palin’ family its doesn’t matter that’s not a politic just gossip which also is nothing affect to Palin. Obama or his media can’t beat Sarah Palin in this way, she is an Angel who born for save White House in time.

Sarah Palin blaming Dems for attacks? Remember how the delegates wore purple band-aids to the RNC four years ago mocking John Kerry’s Vietnam War service? The Republicans who serve are heros. The Dems are mocked for their service. The right is turning into the party of hate and quite frankly it is scary to me and my wife.

Extreme right is correct, get any further right, you’d be in Germany 80 years ago. She is not experienced, she has two ethics investigations against her, her husband belonged to the AIP, she used to go to their conventions, her state has a big deficit. She cut spending for children with special needs by 62%! I could go on and on. We need to keep all of this info in the blogs and email the journalists. Obama 08/12

If you want to know who she’s talking about, just pick up a newspaper.

Palin isn’t being allowed to answer the allegations against her but doesn’t mind making a few of her own. They shouldn’t allow her to open her mouth at all. Who is handling damage control?……….lol. Yes we the American people believe she is the most popular governor even though most of American had never heard of her. Some of us Alaskans wish we never had, although she does have an 80% approval rating. They think if they say it enough you all will believe it. Watch all her videos and all the times she is caught in her web of lies and then listen to the lame excuses she comes up with. Yes, I’m sorry I have to agree, it is very entertaining even though also I think it’s a really distastefully poor joke. Ready to be VP? NO WAY-NO HOW!

Anyone who votes Republican should immediately take all their children down to their local army recruiter and sign them up for military service. The “all-voluntary” army will be history and the DRAFT will blow once more, sucking up future generations to profit the darkness.
Mc Cain’s 100 year occupation of Iraq is just the beginning of a tragic Crusade to hasten the “Rapture”. How did America and Christ’s teachings come to this?

Pitbull or victim, Sarah?
You really can’t be both.
Personally, I’d rather have a calm peacemaker than a hot-headed pit bull in the White House.

I await John McCain’s apology for not speaking up against Citizens United Not Timid, given his amazingly *new* sensitivity to sexism.

The actual candidates will of course take the high road, but it is rabid Obama/Biden supporters in the blogosphere and media–including your counterpart Brian Ross–that smear Palin and her family.
On the Blotter, Ross tried to portray a 1997 lawsuit filed against thrown out by a judge as a current scandal. The judge dismissed it for having no merit. But spin away, boys! It is what you do.
Gust this week Obama-supporting media have accused Obama of slashing funding for special needs programs when she actually raised them 175%, just as she was accused of slashing funding for pregnancy prevention programs when she raised those as well.
The Obama media lies about Sarah Palin, and then won’t retract.
But are you referring to lies against her family only? How about the fevered insistence of left-wing “journalists” that Trig Palin was the son of his sister? How about media claims that Levi Johnston was being forced into a “shotgun marriage” with Bristol Palin, when they were already hoping to get married before they found out she was pregnant?
Americans have had a declining respect for the media at least since I was in j-school in the early 1990s. That decline is part of the reason I switched majors.
It looks like I made a smart choice.

Why is this Palin person hiding?
This woman is running for VP of these United States and has yet to do ONE interview. I want to see what she is like away from the teleprompter and the republican handlers.

Have McCain and Palin violated DoD directives bby bringing up their active duty children p on stage?
4.1.2. A member of the Armed Forces on active duty shall not:
4.1.2.1. Participate in partisan political fundraising activities (except as permitted in subparagraph 4.1.1.7.), rallies, conventions (including making speeches in the course thereof),
management of campaigns, or debates, either on one’s own behalf or on that of another, without respect to uniform or inference or appearance of official sponsorship, approval, or endorsemetn. Participation includes more than mere attendance as a spectator.
4.1.1.7 states they may contribute to campaigns in a non-associated way-as private citizens normally can-with the proviso that it does not infer any endorsement by the military. McCain has obviously made up his own rules on that.
“More than mere attendance as a spectator”- getting up on stage and grandstanding pretty much covers that. Why not just paint a target on their heads for Sadrists to shoot at. Princes William and Harry’s deployment was kept hush for a reason. Treasonous, I tell you.

i am a woman no one attacked sara palin
she came in this with lies and refused to met with the press. mccain is a liar and so is she. when pandora’s box opened up she could not control what was comming out. it is not sexism. it racism, it’s ok to attack michelle obama because she’s black but not ok to ask a white woman what are her qualificaions to be vp which she has none. the american people have the right to know everything about her before she’s elected.
it’s double standard i don’t like it.

When will Palin allow herself to be interviewed and questioned by reporters?
Jake will you lead on this question?
Or, are all the will all the MSM journalists going to let the McCain campaign keep her in a bubble away from scrutiny?

Quote of the day

Bob Owens writes:
Sorry, all you folks with Obama 08 bumper stickers, Obama buttons, and Obama-Biden bumper stickers on your car, you arent Obama/Biden Democrats Even though youve contributed money to the campaign, an…

“Jesus was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a governor,” – Mudflats.

Since this reply mysteriously disappeared, I’ll post it again.
The actual candidates will of course take the high road, but it is rabid Obama/Biden supporters in the blogosphere and media–including your counterpart Brian Ross–that smear Palin and her family.
On the Blotter, Ross tried to portray a 1997 lawsuit filed against thrown out by a judge as a current scandal. The judge dismissed it for having no merit. But spin away, boys! It is what you do.
[J]ust this week Obama-supporting media have accused Obama of slashing funding for special needs programs when she actually raised them 175%, just as she was accused of slashing funding for pregnancy prevention programs when she raised those as well.
The Obama media lies about Sarah Palin, and then won’t retract.
But are you referring to lies against her family only? How about the fevered insistence of left-wing “journalists” that Trig Palin was the son of his sister? How about media claims that Levi Johnston was being forced into a “shotgun marriage” with Bristol Palin, when they were already hoping to get married before they found out she was pregnant?

John McCain and Sarah Palin have terrified the mainstream media& the Democratic Party (I repeat myself.), to the point they are now reduced to reporting direct lies.

Sarah Palin needs to quit her complaining. She’s whining that Obama, Biden and the Dems are attacking her after the speech she made? Seriously? This is the “all American mother” that threw her 17yr old daughter under the bus to quell a rumor about herself, and SHE is being attacked?
The McCain campaign is already becoming a parody of itself. As if their pirating/hijacking everything Obama has done wasn’t evidence enough that “they got nothing”… Wonder if John and Sarah can yell “me too” any louder…

BTW, in case you didn’t hear about it or see it, Tom Ridge in an interview last night referred to “John Bush” and in the GOP role call the speaker for the Tennessee delegation nominated “George S. McCain”!!!!!
So tell me again that McCain and Bush aren’t the same… His own party is making Freudian slips about it on camera at their own convention!!

Many of my neighbors (still clinging to at least their religion here in Pennsylvania) have been looking for months to find … “none of the above”
I think for many, Palin is new, historic .. Obama just another politician. Palin is “none of the above”.
Funny how Obama has now achieved equal status, equal rights if you may, with all other politicians in DC. In a “color blind” society, Obama is just another politician.

As a knowledgeable pitbull owner I can honestly say that pitbulls are almost never victims. Usually when pitbulls are victims(Palin) it’s the result of their owners(McCain) using them to fight for entertainment (Palin’s speecht) or gambling purposes(rally the base).
This smokescreen media attack is a stall to school her on how to spin her history of stances that don’t mesh with the “lower 48″.
She will soon be back governing her oil state and Todd can get back to his snow-machine racing.

Tom Ridge said it best last night during an interview with Tom Brokaw:
TOM BROKAW: But the fact is, governor, that you have had eight years of a bush administration and a lot of Republicans in Congress for the last eight years, so why wouldn’t the american people say, look they had their shot we’re going to change?
TOM RIDGE: Because John Bush – because John McCain is very much his own man…
Here, folks, is the new phrase of the day. John Bush. Priceless. Thanks, Tom.

Your slicing who counts a Obama/Biden democrat maghty fine. Just Look at the US magazine cover. I suppose that is just the work of private citizens as opposed to an editor and pulbisher with strong ties to democratic campaigns and Obama camapin. Also the “objective” press who can’t seem to do basic reseaarch or get their facts straight on Alaskan budget issues, like funding for special needs children, are mostly republicians, right?. So split some more hairs, the smears are happening. Since you can go back 10 years in attempt to try and find some moral equilivantcy, maybe you could spend a little time examining the incomptetance, and the partisan attacks of your peers.

Hey Sarah Palin, if you’re as tough as you claim, then why can’t you do an interview? Keep studying. Sooner or later you’ll have to take the test. I just hope the American idiots don’t vote you into office.

And yet it was both Obama and Biden that came out first to denounce the attack against Willow and that families should remain out of the spotlight?
RIDICULOUS.
i hope and pray that they lose, with such a landslide. This is shameful.

To all of your under-informed people blaming the scary leftist blogs for the story about Gov Palin’s new baby possibly being Bristol’s and the story about Palin claiming her water broke in Texas and then she flew home 8 hrs later and THEN drove 1.5 hrs & bypassed two hospitals to make sure she delivered in the SAME hospital Bristol was in, (for mono), and the fact her chief of staff DID NOT know she was preggo — ALL of the stories originated with the Alaska newspapers in Anchorage & Fairbanks – they were there for everyone to read months ago.
It’s disgusting she has USED her daughter as protection against this story, (this was the reason the CAMPAIGN used for announcing Bristol’s pregnancy for a day or two before they realized the problem with that story). Gov Palin could have ended the story and rumours months ago by simply showing the birth certificate.
What bothers me about the story is two things: 1. No doctor or nurse has come forward & said, ‘Stop this nonsense, I delivered the baby.’ 2. This is NO birth announcement about the baby.

This is just so simple regardless of whether her family has been “attacked” or not. If her family is OFF LIMITS, then let’s not hear about her son with DS and her son going to Iraq, huh? If “family” is off limits, it’s off limits for both sides. Very easy, one can NOT pick and choose which family member is highlighted in the press. Enough.

I am old enough to remember when the Repubs thought a woman’s place was in the home and only left wing liberal women thought working was more important than staying home with the kids. My how times change or is it really anything a Repub does is OK, only the Dems are the evil ones.

If I’m not mistaken Sarah Palin is the one who has put her teenage, pregnant daughter on display not only for Americans to see, but also for the world to view. She seems to think it is ok to show and tell, but if someone wants to talk about it, they are the evil doers. If she doesn’t like scrutiny of her family, then get out of the limelight. NOW.

Incidentally, McCain never apologised to Janet Reno, Chelsea Clinton or Hillary Clinton for his sick joke. He only apologised to Bill Clinton, apparently because McCain’s old-fashioned sense of honor doesn’t extend beyond the patriarch of the family – the fact that the womenfolk might be offended wasn’t important to him.

When is the Obama camp going to raise the fact that McCain wants to reinstitute the draft? This story came out a couple of weeks ago after a woman at a town hall meeting made some comments about the war and ended by saying that we are stretched so thin that we must reinstitute the draft in order to be able to support all of the wars. McSame’s response was “I do not disagree with anything you are saying.” If this story is generated to the greater public, I believe we will see teens, twenty-somethings, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, grandmothers stampede to vote for Sen. Obama simply to keep their sons and daughters safe from the grasp of a cranky unstable former POW stuck in the sixties with a cold war mentality. McSame is sabre rattling against the Russians now and it seems that his answer for any unrest is to send in the troops. Do we really need McSame or the Lipstick Pitbull with their fingers on the button? I don’t think so.

Have you heard that Track Palin was going to be arrested for bus vandalism and moved to Michigan for senior year? Cop was Palin’s brother-in-law? Was he forced into military as alternative to jail? Has anyone interviewed the brother-in-law about any of this (Busgate) including Troopergate?

This pathetic flat earth creationist lier dos NOT deserve to take the White House Tour let along standing next in line behind McSenile codger is just plain scary . . . eating in an International House of Pancakes in Fairbanks is NOT foreign policy experience . . . .

Don’t forget that Joe Biden has been caught in plagiarism on two occasions.
That’s called a liar and cheater, that you want as a President. Get some standards for your choice!

SHAME ON MS. PALIN FOR EXPLOITING HER 17 YEAR OLD PREGNANT DAUGHTER AND NEWBORN SON WITH DOWNS SYNDROME. AND MORE SHAME ON JOHN MCCAIN FOR ALLOWING IT.

If she can’t name specific names that are connected to the actual campaign, she really should be quiet. This is especially true after both Obama and Biden told both the press and their own campaign that family is off limits. Obama even said that if anyone on his staff talked about her family, that person would be fired.
Furthermore, if she really wants people to take her seriously as a “pit bull in lipstick,” “a hockey mom,” or whatever she wants to call herself, she better toughen the hell up real quick. Half of her speech was spent attacking her opponents, but suddenly she’s too weak for the same type of criticism that every other candidate gets whenever they run for office.
If she can talk the talk, then she needs to walk the walk.

hello–the US WEEKLY article was written by a McCain supporter!
Cant blame that on Dems either, sorry

She is ready to be President on Day 1 but cannot do any interviews until she is “briefed.”
She accuses Obama/Biden campaigns of “smearing” her family but cannot point to any evidence.
She was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it but she is a maverick that has cut wasteful spending.
She was for banning books but claims to support the US Constitution.
She gave a speech at the convention of the party whose primary platform is to secede from the US but she is patriotic.
Nice VP pick McBush…..the GOP is a joke!

It seems to me that a moral society is based on truth and forgiveness. Admit your mistake, suffer the consequences and then be forgiven.
Deliberate lies and the lack of accountability have caused much of the death and destruction in the past seven years.
That needs to CHANGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!