Rice Offers Less-Than-Hearty Palin Endorsement

No great and experienced politician, not at home and certainly not abroad, takes Palin serious.
She’s the cute puppet that can talk for the American masses who hate the World News and still cling to The Little House On The Prairie.

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/325.html

I bet come election day enough good ole Americans will have more confidence in Palin as VP than Obama as P.

Rice’s silence on Palin’s foreign policy expertise speaks volumes!

Why do the Democrats expect Sarah Palin to have foreign affairs experience when their own presidential candidate doesn’t have any?

Hey Obama supporters, Rasmussen just came out, Mccain 48, Obama 47. So the elections is not lost and that means Obama is polling strongly again but he has to start attacking. No defence. I like his speech in Terre Haute and he should keep up with it. Mccain is up with an Ad trying to define their ticket, Obama has to come up with a counter Ad.

palin is a female rumsfeld without any foriegn policy experience. If you look at her record anyone who disagreed with her got fired. Thats exactly what has been happening in the bush admin for the past 8 years. dont vote for the hockeymom and the fossil.

The Palin selection is the most hypocritical thing McCain could have done. While saying he wants to unite the US, he deliberately chooses to reignite the cultural wars by choosing the most divisive candidate possible as a way of keeping voters’ eyes away from any and all issues.
McCain would rather divide America than lose an election. Some patriot.

How can anyone even say Palin gave a good speech? It was filled with lies and distortions. I think the best you can say is that “she delivered a good speech”.
We’re all just being manipulated by the McCain campaign’s unethical tactics.

Gallop poll today: 50/46 Mccain vs OB. It’s getting better every day.Thanks to Sarah Palin. The Freudian slip of “my Muslim faith” from OB could be another nail in the coffin. That remains to be seen.

As a foreign observer of the US elections, I really do want McCain to win in November.
This is not because he is the better than Obama. He will only fast track the downfall of the US as the most powerful country in the world.
America’s standing in the world has diminished over the last 8 years and many people in Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe can’t wait for it to finally collapse both economically and politically.
History teaches us that empires reign but they also fall at some point. A lot of people outside the US really like Obama and believe that he can lead America back to the position it was during the Clinton years of prosperity and global respect.
However, we dont want him to win because the world is tired of America’s dominance. Hence, John McCain will better serve the purpose of finally putting to rest the American dream…ha! ha! ha!
Please vote for the dullard and unintelligent JOHN McCAIN and SARAH PALIN who believes that the world is just 5,000 years old!
A people deserve the type of leader they get.

Bloomberg takes a look at her academic career. “Interviews with classmates paint a similar picture of Palin as an anonymous, though motivated and hard-working, student who earned a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism from the University of Idaho in 1987. She later told a campus publication that one of her best semesters was spent learning about broadcasting at a student-run Idaho television studio. ‘My sense from people is that she was an average student,’ said Kaylene Johnson, author of a biography, ‘Sarah’ (Epicenter Press, 2008). ‘I don’t know that she distinguished herself in college in any particular way.’”
“Gov. Sarah Palin’s church is promoting a conference that promises to convert gays into heterosexuals through the power of prayer. ‘You’ll be encouraged by the power of God’s love and His desire to transform the lives of those impacted by homosexuality,’ according to the insert in the bulletin of the Wasilla Bible Church, where Palin has prayed for about six years. … Focus on the Family, a national Christian fundamentalist organization, is conducting the ‘Love Won Out’ Conference in Anchorage, about 30 miles from Wasilla.
“Palin has not publicly expressed a view on the so-called ‘pray away the gay’ movement. Larry Kroon, senior pastor at Palin’s church, was not available to discuss the matter, said a church worker who declined to give her name. Gay activists in Alaska said Palin has not worked actively against their interests, but early in her administration she supported a bill to overrule a court decision to block state benefits for gay partners of public employees.”
Lots of profiles this weekend, here’s what you need to know out of Newsweek. “Little of her experience will help Palin with the questions she’s sure to face in the days and weeks to come. The media (and presumably voters) will aim to find out what Palin believes, what her expertise is and whether she’s really prepared to be next in line for the most powerful job on the planet. At last week’s Republican convention, the former sportscaster proved she can deliver a terrific speech (written by Matthew Scully, who wrote some of George W. Bush’s more memorable lines). But journalists are clamoring for a chance to question her directly. She’ll need to have cogent views on Iraq, to know the difference between Sunnis and Shiites (which McCain himself has occasionally confused) and the distinctions between Hizbullah and Al Qaeda. She’ll be asked about Iran’s nuclear program and China’s growing power, about the national debt, the subprime mortgage crisis, America’s trade imbalance and the value of the dollar against foreign currencies.”
”Palin started intense tutorials last week in a suite of the Hilton Hotel in downtown Minneapolis. Stephen Biegun, a longtime foreign-policy hand who last worked on George W. Bush’s National Security Council, ran what one participant called a ‘boot camp on McCain world.’ Biegun and others briefed her on international issues. McCain’s top domestic-policy adviser, economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin, led other sessions. Before Holtz-Eakin even got started, Palin let him know that she likes to get her study points on large index cards. ‘What we have to do is take all our accumulated policy and John McCain’s entire Senate history and get her comfortable with the campaign,’ Holtz-Eakin told NEWSWEEK.”
”Others involved in the process say Palin has a long way to go, and they are watching closely to make sure she doesn’t get overwhelmed. Over the weekend before the convention, campaign aides made the uncomfortable decision to urge her to go public with her unmarried 17-year-old daughter’s pregnancy in order to rebut salacious Internet rumors that the teen was actually the mother of Palin’s own newborn child. An aide, speaking anonymously because the matter is sensitive, says that Palin and her husband grew angry about the allegations. “Do I have to show them my stretch marks?” she asked one campaign official. In the midst of the drama, Palin had little time to interact with her family because she was shuffling from one briefing or prep session to another. (In St. Louis, a campaign aide took Todd shopping at a Saks Fifth Avenue, where he bought a new suit to wear to the convention.) At one point McCain, himself tied up in campaign duties, asked an adviser, ‘Can you make sure she’s OK?’”
The Seattle Times digs through Palin’s record as mayor of Wasilla. “As much of Palin’s hometown rallies with pride around her, 1,400 miles away — in a National Archives warehouse in Seattle — three boxes of documents help capture the quality of her mayoral experience. These records, from a federal wrongful-termination lawsuit, include the minutiae of municipal governance, with memos to administrators and personnel records stamped ‘confidential.’ The documents, combined with accounts from her hometown newspaper, show how Palin’s first year as mayor could easily have been her last. She became embroiled in personnel challenges, a thwarted attempt to pack the City Council and a standoff with her local newspaper. Her first months were so contentious and polarizing that critics started talking recall.”
“Gov. Sarah Palin used state funds in June when she traveled from Juneau to Wasilla to speak to graduating evangelical students and urge them to fan out through Alaska ‘to make sure God’s will be done here,’” the Alaska Daily News writes. “State records show that Palin submitted a travel authorization for a quick round-trip visit to attend the June 8 graduation of the Master’s Commission program at the Wasilla Assembly of God, the church where she was baptized at age 12. The only other item on the agenda for that trip was a ‘One Lord Sunday’ service involving a network of Mat-Su Christian churches earlier that morning at the Wasilla sports complex.”

Intertrade market -Obama 50 McCain 49.8
Wheels are coming off the bus.

Sarah Palin’s foreign affairs experience equals or exceeds that of Barack Obama. That is the single reason the Obama campaign and supporters are out to destroy her.

Barack Obama’s foreign affairs experience consists of dealing with the Republics of Indiana and Missouri. If the Democrats valued experience, they should have put Joe Biden at the top of the ticket.

Looks like there are a lot of bitter Americans clinging to their guns and religion that are Palin supporters. Hence, the sudden upturn for McCain in the polls.
I’m hearing a lot of bitter Americans here because their man is loosing credibility with the American people. The people driving Obama’s campaign was the media and they have suddenly dropped him like a hot potato for Sarah Palin.
BTW: Did anyone see Obama’s interview with Stephanhopolous where Obama said Republicans are putting him down for his Muslim faith? Really? He’s finally admitting it either that or its a Freudian slip.
Oh, and I also noticed that Obama has another flip-flop, on the tax hikes due to the recession. Well, I thought he’s been running his campaign based on the poor economy and that we NEEDED to have tax hikes to help the economy. Now it turns aout tax hikes would be BAD for the economy. Would this guy please make up his mind, I can’t keep track of what his positions are.

Kathleen, I don’t know what “Democratic super voters” are, but my half-Democratic family is voting for McCain/Palin, too. We are kind of evenly divided between Dems and Repubs. This will be the first election that I, my mother, and several aunts have voted Republican. My mother even donated to the McCain campaign – something I never thought I’d see in my entire lifetime.

This is not a bad endorsement. I am sure she wouldn’t say Obama is any more ready than Palin. The facts are Biden and McCain are the only two with any credible foreign policy record or history. When you step on Palin why not also complain about Obama. There isn’t much difference between the two.

S Adams said, “Biden has tried to run for president 20 times no one wants him.” You’re right about that. It makes me wonder why Obama chose him, since he didn’t last past Iowa. Hmmm. Pass up a woman who got 18 million votes in favor of a man who got less than 1 million. Yeah, that makes sense to me to the Obamabots. Just not to me.

I’m becoming increasingly distressed that I cannot see Palin speaking her mind. It is the tactic of communist governments and dictatorships to control messages, not the United States. Freedom of speech is one of our most powerful rights, and Sarah Palin is willingly forfeiting that right so that her party can properly manipulate her image.
I don’t need prepared speeches, in fact I refuse to consider them. I need to see her as she is, not as Karl Rove wants. The longer they keep her under wraps, the more I will assume that she is not ready for public exposure, and if her own backers feel she is not ready for that, there is no way they can claim she is ready to assume the vice presidency.
Let ME decide please. Put Sarah Palin in the spotlight so that I may make an informed choice in the very serious issue of electing my next leaders.

Kitty:
WHY?

On C-Span last night I watched a replay of a three-way debate that was conducted on a PBS channel in Juneau, Alaska immediately prior to the November 2006 gubernatorial election. Sarah Palin participated with the Democratic and Independent candidates and literally mopped the floor with her precise, thoughtful and intelligent responses to the questions that were asked.
For those of you who are doubting her contributions to the speech she made at the Republican Convention, I heard Palin make many of the same references, particularly on energy questions, in the November 2006 gubernatorial debate that she made in her acceptance speech last week.
And whether you agree with her positions or not, this woman is confident and well-versed on most issues that the American people care about. I have a feeling those who have been criticizing her lack of experience are going to be surprised when she does eventually sit down for interviews and then participates in the debate with Biden.

The republican party is not worth saving. If you love your country vote D or 3rd party. The Republican party is an absolute JOKE!

Palin’s poll numbers are higher than both Mccain and BHO. That should tell you more than Rice’s comments.

Anyone in their right mind would not for Palin. It appears she’s the one running for office, instead of MCCain; who seems to be hiding under her skirt. Hope Cindy has a prenup.

You didn’t expect her to offer a ringing endorsement did you?

i could care less what polls say. i think we all can agree on one thing… the american people are a bunch of idiots. and… its only getting worse.
all you have to do is have the right packaging… even for someone who really has no education to speak for an office like this.. and you can sell these idiots anything!
i do it every single day. believe me… i know

Despite her protests to the contrary, Rice wanted the VP nod.
Enough said !!

S. Adams – Biden was forced on him to bolster his foreign affairs experience. After months of trashing Hillary and claiming foreign affairs experience didn’t matter, the Obama campaign suddenly decided that foreign affairs really is important, after all. To wit – Biden, the walking gaffe machine. The guy who told a supporter, “If I had your hair, I would president. I wouldn’t be screwing around with this other job.” Sounds like Biden agrees with those of us who think the Dem ticket is upside down! LOL

Jill, what Rice wanted was for them to beg her to be on the ticket. They didn’t and now she’s sulking.

carrie…
you have no idea what you are talking about. all you are managing to accomplish with a post like that is .. being tedious.

Could someone please tell me what the Mccain/Palin proposals are for tax cuts to the middle class, increased taxation for companies who ship jobs overseas, increasing domestic employment, reducing our dependency on foreign oil, identifying and addressing environmental concerns, solving the healthcare dilemma, providing for the needs of our veterans, making college more affordable, addressing immigration, the intention to keep church and state separate, viewing the supreme court, addressing the rights of the oppressed, and of course the biggest concern of all, foreign policy and affairs?
Then of course the selection for VP is currently under investigation for ABUSE OF POWER along with other problematic political issues – all amid no thorough vetting – so the uncertainty of another scandal round the next bend is present.
Unless you are a member of a herd unable to think independently, only a completely biased or irrational human being would not see CAUSE TO PAUSE.
Good for Condoleeza Rice!!!

If Rice had anything positive or supportive or nice to say regarding Palins’ foreign policy credentials, she would have said it. Her silence speaks volumes about her opinion of ‘The Barracuda’ (or should I say Guppy)…..

JOHN’S WAR:
sorry bud… you’re an idiot

questions for palin
Without mentioning her supervision of the Alaskan National Guard (a task all governors have), her state’s proximity to Russia, and her son’s military service, what qualifies her to be commander-in-chief in such turbulent times? How does she reconcile being a “reform” candidate with being under ethical investigation in her home state? Why did she originally back the infamous Bridge to Nowhere? Does she support Alaska not receiving a single additional earmark under a McCain Administration? (And if so, what would that mean economically for her home state?) Does she now agree with McCain’s opposition to drilling in ANWR? Does she believe that the war in Iraq is “a task from God”? Does she support converting homosexuals into heterosexuals, as her church in Alaska promotes? And has her own personal family situation changed her views on family planning and sex education?

“THESE ARE THE EXACT SAME GULLIBLE IDIOTS WHO VOTED FOR BUSH – TWICE!!!” Wrong!!! I’m a Democrat, and I have NEVER voted for a Republican before. I did not vote for George Bush either election, nor did I vote for his father. I held my nose and voted for John Kerry even though I thought he was a Ted Kennedy-type jerk. When will Democrats realize that not all Democrats are left-wing? Some of us are moderates. I do admit that I’m becoming more and more conservative as I get older. One of these days I may move to the Repub side with my brothers, but so far I’ve always voted Dem. Voting McCain/Palin will mark the first time I’ve ever voted Republican.

I am a republincan women. I am going to say this loud and clear. We are getting dooped again my this women PALIN. She is just an empty dispaly case, simple. Shame on us republican women if vote just based on personality and looks. Lets be real the women is cute but thats the end of what she can do or will do.We are the party that it prides it self from being lay back, cool and colective and now we are acting like teen go on their first concert to see a rock star. this is purely insane. I really belive that the only guy with the correct experience to lead this nation NOW!!!! is Biden. McCain is being used as a puppet, period. We need to hold our noses and vote as Americans first. We cretized Obama for not having experience and now we are getting excited for this BIMBOO!!!Yes I said it. I am a white women, a republican women but most of all I am an AMERICAN.

An endorsement by Vice-President Cheney of McCain-Palin really turns me off from that ticket.

LIKE HILLARY SAID:
NO WAY, NO HOW, NO McCain….
I am a republincan. I am a women. I am a mother and more importanly an American. I will not support Palin. We republincas need to start acting like true conservatives. Instead we are acting like teen girls going to their first concert. I agree with the last person we will vote country first. Biden is the only one up there with tru foreing policy experience. Palin is just there to look good. I was going to support MccAIN but after he picked this women I change my mind. Palind has to much she hidding. She needs to stay home and raise those children. She is carrying her son arounf like hes a pupet to get votes. that is shamefull. She needs to devote her time to raising the boy and drag him around lek she does.

So what has McCain done for you lately?
I haven’t heard anything that will help America. His Policies, by every measure, are worse then Obama’s.
So either vote for policies, or vote for personality.
I’d rather have an intellegent guy with no social life as pres then an idiot with a beer.

Please if I was Palin I would not want her endorsemnet, since she along with Powell, Chenney, Rumsfeld and Bush all
lied to us about this war. Beside she is about change and believe me Rice does not represent reform and change.
We say out with the old in with the reform.

Condi Rice, you elitist sexist pig. Outrageous that you wouldn’t be falling all over yourself like the GOP flacks on this blog in an attempt to puff up a former beauty queen & newscaster who knows how to read a teleprompter. Just disgusting…

MarciaBrown you are not telling the truth a true republican would never side along with liberal Joe Biden. Please you are not kidding anyone go back to your Obama camp and get a new name and try again later with your lies.

Dailykrud and huffpoop orders for the day: post to blogs pretending to be Republicans that don’t like Palin. Read the polls and weap.

“HILLARY GIRLS:
NO WAY, NO HOW!!!! NO MCCAIN……
PALIN IS A BIMBOO!!!!”
Jealousy is an ugly thing. You should seek treatment.

I just read a very long article by Bryan York on what Obama did as a “community organizer”. It is exactly the same job description as Jesse Jackson has had all these years. Community organizer is another word for extortion. He accomplished nothing in those 3 years and left Chicago as he found it. While Senator in Illinois he voted “present” 130 times instead of taking a stand. Obama is very inexperienced so how can they say Palin has less? She made more decisions in her position as gov. than Obama ever did. This guy is a loser, we elect this dude at our peril. Americans, do NOT elect this man or we will be sorry.
Ruth
Colorado

Actually Mack, if you check independent sources like factcheck.org, you will learn that Obama’s tax policies will benefit the middle class more than McCains.

McCain has pulled ahead in the polls. Thats a convention bounce and i love it. Now its time to put him on the hot seat and expose him for being a fraud.

To: WILL ANY REPUBLICAN ANSWER THIS QUESTION?
Would you please tell us Democrats at least three of the Bush/McCain policies you would like to see continued for the next four years?
Yes,here is your answer. I expect to see the tax cuts FOR MY PAYCHECK AND MY HUSBANDS TO STAY IN PLACE. To me this is a good reason to keep the DemocRATs out of office who tax and spend, tax and spend, tax and spend.
Colorado

I am voting for Obama because:
1) Renewable energy plan
2) International labor/trade plan
3) Tax plan
I haven’t read or heard anything about McCain’s plan that would be good for me and I am RESPONSIBLE and INTELLEGENT enough to ignore rumors and smear campaigning. I wish more Amercians were more responsible.

Colorado,
If you make more then 250K a year, then i guess you should vote for McCain. He will take poor people’s taxes and give them to the rich.
But you have to respect the fact that OBAMA is willing to TAX HIMSELF MORE to help out America and its citizens. I guess Obama has more humanity in him then yourself.
Of course, if you make less then 250K a year, you would be shooting yourself in the foot by voting for McCain.

“Actually Mack, if you check independent sources like factcheck.org, you will learn that Obama’s tax policies will benefit the middle class more than McCains. ”
Yes, I’ve done the research and I will benefit more under McCain’s plan.

“obama will only lose this election because of the colour of his skin as i cannot understand why a 72 year old man and a highly controversial woman is better than a vibrant young man. the only answer is because he is black”
Pastor Wright is that you? Maybe if he was more discerning when he chose his mentor, he may have garnered more support among typical white people.

rice’s heart is with the brother.it is the pride thingie.like oprah.color comes first .obama will lose not because of his color but becuse he lacks any experience.hillary 2012

“I love when someone is completely wrong, and calls me stupid.”
It was a play on “it’s the economy, stupid” line.

“Mack,
It must be nice to make over $250k a year, and spend all your daily time blogging.
Even if I was in your shoes, I would still vote for Obama. There is only some much money a person needs before they are just selfish.”
No I don’t make over 250k, and yes McCain’s plan will save me more money. Not much, but more.

A black political woman will prefer another black in high office regardless of how little credibility, judgment or experience that person has. She has been trotting around the world for years but I would not say she is a very successful diplomat or an accomplished statesman. Other countries still hate us and will continue to do so regardless of which party is in power.
Power, money and territory-controlled makes the world go around.

rice is wise to respond as she did….
some folks still have integrity…..

Dear Obama supporters: what part of “American people are a bunch of idiots” that is posted on this board is patriotic?

Tim, your article “according to analysts working for a left-leaning think tank” might – just MIGHT – be the product of bias.

I am independent and I weigh the situation. So, anything I say may appear bias to some people.

Who cares what Rice thinks????

“The fact that she is the same sex as you should be all you need to vote for her. You betray us all by playing the race card.”
WHAT? Just pick her because she is a woman?But she believes that assault weapons are good,church and state should rule as one(as long as you pick HER church),that woman arent smart enough to make their own choices with their own bodies,that we can invade pristine sanctuaries for some oil that MAY be there because its our godgiven right to use up our resources.What about future generations?It’s not OUR right to use it all up rather than seriously adapt to alternatives.
but maybe because she’s a woman I should agree to let men run my life…

Ronneirguy or whatever you are, Palin being white doesn,t mean she can do the job. One has look at the persons’ qualificatioins and what they stand for , its no suprise u dont like Obama.Rice got the job bcaz of her qualifications and experience. Your comments show how comfused and sad you are.Keep your racist comments to yourself,PATHETIC

Both the McCains think that because Alaska is the closest state to Russia, Sarah has foreign policy experience. Okay! How about the fact that she also believes (saw on TV yesterday) that Alaska will be one of the only states left when the world comes to an end! Okay!
Did anyone see McCain’s senior advisor, Nancy P., on Wolf Blitzer’s show yesterday, call Obama just his party’s water boy?

Who is Palin!?! Ask the people of Alaska. Just don’t let anyone know who your talking to. Go to…
http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%e2%80%9cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%e2%80%9d

the aptly named “confused in miami” sez:
“Why do the Democrats expect Sarah Palin to have foreign affairs experience when their own presidential candidate doesn’t have any?”
obama does have a wealth of foreign affairs experience; its name is joe biden.
hey, confused in miami, how much do you pay for health insurance? meeting your mortgage payments? worried about keeping your job? the deficit created by bush? cheney’s vigorous endorsement of palin? the war about nothing in iraq? inflation? gas prices?
are you a millionaire? if not, mcpalin doesn’t have your best interests at heart any more than bush and cheney do; all this boils down to is the rich people not wanting to pay their fair share of taxes; they pretend that free enterprise is free, and so they owe nothing to the nation whose free market helped them make their fortunes;
they are putting on this hockey-mom dog-and-pony show to keep the dumbbells entertained and reassured that mythic 1950s america really exists; they same dumbbells, mind you, whose pockets they pick every chance they get;
you are being played for a chump!

I do not understand why the media continually harps on the fact that Palin has no foreign policy experience, so therefore, she should not be a heartbeat away from the presidency. The argument is stupid. If something should happen to McCain, all Palin has to do is what Obama did, and that is to choose a vice president who has foreign policy experience. It is as simple as that. I mean, why is that course of action okay for Obama, but not for her?

I am a college senior who is so disgusted with all the double standard involved with the “vetting” of candidates. If the liberal media is so concerned about the vetting of Governor Sarah Palin, they should also be concerned about the democratic nominee as well. As someone else said above, I am also scared of this Obama guy. I will be voting for the first time in November and I feel so sad that I do not have a trustworthy democratic presidential candidate to vote for. I really liked Hillary Clinton and I feel that she and her supporters were cheated from securing her nomination.
After eight terrible years of Bush/Cheney, I believe USA deserves a good, patriotic, and experienced president with a solid Christian and American values. Barack Obama (with his muslim middle name) will never be the right man. Obama (not to mention his anti-American angry wife and hateful pastor) has too much garbbage and too many questionable associations that should disqualify him from seeking the highest office of the land. I am so shocked to see the democratic party and its top leaders working hard to secure his nomination. I know they will pay a heavy price on election day in November.
Since Barack Obama has miserably failed to convice me about:
1. his American origin and values
2. his Christian faith
3. his close association with people like Rezko, Ayers, and Rev. Wright
4. his alcohol and drug use
5. his shady dealings in Chicago politics
6. his philosophy about money and politics, etc.
I will never vote for him. I am an independent woman who strongly believes in America and her values and I know my country deserves a much better person for president than the shallow and opportunist Barack Hussein Obama.
I will be voting for the McCain/Palin ticket in Novemeber.

Palin’s stall
Governor is stonewalling the Troopergate investigation
Gov. Sarah Palin is taking the wrong approach to Troopergate. She should be practicing the open and transparent, ethical and accountable government she promised when running for governor and boasts about now that she’s on the national stage.
Instead, Gov. Palin has begun stonewalling the Legislature’s attempt to get the bottom of allegations that she, her family or staff violated ethical or state personnel rules.
As a result, the Troopergate allegations hang over Palin’s future and cloud her candidacy for vice president.
The allegations are that she, her family or administration improperly pressured then-Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan to fire Gov. Palin’s ex-brother-in-law, state trooper Mike Wooten, who had been in the middle of a custody dispute with Palin’s sister.
In July, when legislators started talking about conducting an investigation, Palin denied any wrongdoing and said she welcomed an investigation.
“Hold me accountable,” she said.
The Legislature took her up on that offer. But this week, she basically told the Legislature, “Never mind.”
Palin’s lawyer has asked the Legislature to drop its investigation. He had the governor file an ethics complaint against herself, in a bid to turn the entire matter over to the state Personnel Board, which would hire an independent investigator.
This is not an open and transparent attempt to establish Gov. Palin’s accountability. It is an attempt to drag out the investigation until after voters decide the fate of her vice-presidential bid.
Instead, Gov. Palin should honor her pledge to cooperate with the Legislature’s investigation, conducted by former state prosecutor Steve Branchflower.
She could start by telling aide Frank Bailey he has to talk to the legislative investigator. She should fire him if he doesn’t.
Bailey was caught on an audio recording of a phone conversation with a Public Safety Department official, in which Bailey pushed to get Wooten fired.
Bailey was put on paid leave, not fired. A spokeswoman for Palin said that while Bailey is on the state payroll, Palin can direct him to cooperate with the legislative investigation.
So why is Bailey still on the payroll, after he bailed on a scheduled interview with the legislative investigator Wednesday?
The Legislature hasn’t given its investigator the power to subpoena, or compel, testimony of witnesses. Subpoenas appeared unnecessary, since it appeared the governor and administration would be cooperating.
That’s over. It’s time for the subpoenas.
The Legislature’s investigation is supposed to be wrapped up by Oct. 31. That’s obviously poor timing from the standpoint of the McCain-Palin presidential campaign, coming just a few days before the national election.
Instead of trying to delay the whole thing, Palin should take a cue from U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, who asked that his corruption trial be moved up so it would be completed well ahead of the November general election. Voters deserve to know the outcome of Sen. Stevens trial and the investigation into Palin.
When this investigation into Troopergate started, Gov. Palin’s response was refreshingly open. Since she became the Republican candidate for vice president, her approach has changed for the worse. America deserves the same openness and ethics from vice-presidential candidate Palin that she promised to Alaska voters in 2006.
BOTTOM LINE: Gov. Palin is stonewalling on Troopergate; the Legislature should issue subpoenas.
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‘Threat’?
Palin’s lawyer tries to play Secret Service card
Gov. Sarah Palin’s lawyer, Thomas Van Flein, made an absurd threat in his battle to get the Legislature to back off its ethics investigation of the governor and her staff.
Van Flein said legislative investigator Steve Branchflower tried to call First Gentleman Todd Palin directly on “a secure and confidential line. This represents a serious security breach that we may be obligated to report to the Secret Service.”
Hello? Branchflower is acting on behalf of the Legislature. That’s a security breach?
Lawyers are supposed to vigorously represent their clients, but claiming that a legislative investigator’s phone call may be a security matter worthy of Secret Service attention is ridiculous.
Gov. Palin should keep her legal attack dog on a shorter leash.
BOTTOM LINE: More obstruction from Palin in Troopergate.
http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/516641.html

Carrie;
You are neither repub or dem. You are what I call racist….

Jessica: This is a country established with a separation of Church and State. What we should be concerned about is not the candidates’ “Christian Faith”, but whether or not they believe THEIR specific faith should be interwoven into government action. Like spending 1 BILLION during the Bush Administration to promote a completely failed abstinence only sex education program. I also won’t vote based solely on “shady dealings’; when you open the cupboard door of every candidate – they all have ugly skeletons. Instead, I will vote based on where the candidates fall on the issues facing each American: Building middle class jobs. Changing from failed supply-side economics. Health care reform. Alternative energy. Rebuilding America’s crumbling infrastructure. Improved education. I will be voting for Obama / Biden in November.

Rice does not want to get into the political mix–that’s her style. Of course she endorses Palin and believes she can do the job. But to not tie their campaign to the bush-cheney campaign, she will remain as neutral as possible.

AS someone put it earlier … Rices silence, and/or lack of endorsement says volumes of this candidates experience …. “Obama just does speeches” according to the liberal elite press, but Palins’ speech was historic … Am I the only one that can see directly through this woman and her as a pick … placating the evangelical right, and disenfranchised women voters …. The woman is a mayer of a town with a population less that 700 people ….
The whole Alaska being close in proximity to Russio … cheney cant even get it right that Georgia attacked Russia, not vice versa, the Check Republic doesnt exist … both of these candidates need more to stand on than McSames POW (songbird-squeeler within days-top secret info)I have no respect, and he deserves nothing, except a swift kick in the head, for being a trader and selfish republican which has voted against vetrans rights, the very same programs he took advantage of … No one is talking about his first family to which he refused to take responsibility for…. but now hes a trophy husband for binmo cindy anheiser busch aire…. Palin, just another attempt to take away from the left thier courage to put a women and a person of mixed race. Keep trrying Right wing hacks, your going to lose and going to lose bad, even with attempts to cheat lie and steal ! Perfect puppet Palin, and here proped up family, and Mcstain in his pants … GOP grand ole party of White wing christain evangelical zealots …. stay home, or you will be targeted, and taken out like the sheep you are.
Race card, gender card … how about judging someone on issues, on which the neocon aggenda only has one … to grow government to the point of no return, tax the middle class out of exsistance, and making all those whom vote with there emotions, vote against their own best interest … keep watching fox, you brainless vacuous empty shells of humans … god will save you, Palin will create the endtimes, and you can all start over building a master race of degenerate white idiots, consume . consume ,,,,
Idiots!

We said about Bush “there’s a guy I can have a beer with.” AND LOOK WHAT WE END UP WITH.
WE CANNOT AFFORD TO BE FOOLED BY THE RNC GIMMICKS! IN THE END, PALIN AND MCCAIN WOULD OFFER THE SAME AND IF YOU’RE SUFFERING AND VOTE FOR THEM, THEN YOU HAVE NO ONE TO COMPLAIN TO BUT YOURSELVES.
WE WERE STUPID TO HAVE VOTED FOR BUSH AND NOW WE’RE STUPID ENOUGH TO FALL FOR GIMMICKS IN SKIRTS!
WHAT THE F IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY!

Yes, and ABC has a story on how he Lobbied his Fathers (Joe Bidens) office… That’s Illegal… And there worried about 4 month old babies when millions are being extorted by Democrats…

yeah yeah, kumbaya. look, this is already getting spun as a black woman not wanting to spit on obama, so to palin/mccain’s supporters, rice is a non-starter..
next item….

Mack,
Judging by your low brow response you seem to be precisely the sort of willfully ignorant person I am referring to. I have seen your handle on these boards before and it appears you are incapable of anything except ‘snappy’ one-liners. Unfortunately, these qualify you for the next round of Last Comic Standing, but not as someone to be taken seriously when talking politics. Perhaps I can refer you to Reuter’s Oddly Enough page instead.
http://www.reuters.com/news/oddlyEnough?type=oddlyEnoughNews
There are you, and adieu.

I wish you guys would stop bashing the media. These postings are by american people who despite what the media is saying seem not to buying Palin’s BS.
By the Carrie, you are the kind of moron McCain hopes will come out and vote.
I will accept the fact that Palin and Obama lacks experience but one of them lack education which contrary to what many people think is necessary to run and represent the country. Imagine the message we are sending to the children the first dude only has a HS diploma.

Sarah Palin does so have foreign experience, she has been on the Its a Samll World Ride at Disney.

Rice is being nice about….No one can say that Palin has the needed experience in foreign policy with a straight face. Republicans should just be honest and admit it. Skirting around it is not going to make the question go away. They should say she was chosen because she looks on camera and appeals to her conservative base and move on. Dishonestly galls me and Republicans trying to justify her experience with lame examples or compare to Obama is stupid and childish.

“Palins first major Gaffe”
Gov. Sarah Palin made her first potentially major gaffe during her time on the national scene while discussing the developments of the perilous housing market this past weekend.
Speaking before voters in Colorado Springs, the Republican vice presidential nominee claimed that lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had “gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers.” The companies, as McClatchy reported, “aren’t taxpayer funded but operate as private companies. The takeover may result in a taxpayer bailout during reorganization.”
Economists and analysts pounced on the misstatement, saying it demonstrated a lack of understanding about one of the key economic issues likely to face the next administration.
“You would like to think that someone who is going to be vice president and conceivable president would know what Fannie and Freddie do,” said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. “These are huge institutions and they are absolutely central to our country’s mortgage debt. To not have a clue what they do doesn’t speak well for her, I’d say.”

“reason, I get you acting with class like Republicans, lying at every turn in the election process. Yea I get it do every dirty trick possible and lie like the devil thats Republican class.”
Kind of like how Barry lied on TV about his relationship with Rezko.

Thanks to the incompetent Democratic party leaders, the Republicans are on their way to victory! They got a lightweight in Barack Hussein Obama whose ego is the only thing that outweighs his flip floppng personality. Hillary Clinton was the best hope for our party but she was deceived out of the nomination.
I will never vote for a Barack Hussein who still maintains relationship with his hateful and anti-American pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. You can read about it in the New York Times.
A true American will never vote for Barack Hussein whose wife Michelle Hussein Obama became proud of America for the first time when her husband started winning in the primary elections. We need an experienced and partriotic president like John McCain.
McCain/Palin 2008
Hillary 2012.

It shows the wisdom and confidence they have in their ticket. The comparing of the pres vs. VP. parts of the ticket. Obama doesn’t have a chance against MCCAIN. Deception, fast and fancy talk, and the wavering in Obama’s voice with no backbone for support. Theatrics should return to Chicago’s organizing. Nervousness and sacredness shows in the in the nervous grin of Obama’s face and the slow no-confidence in his presentation.
The voters are seeing the truth.

Becky, did you forget about Obama’s crooked friends and his drug use?

Kimberly, I agree with you 100%! You said it so well! Thank you!
Posted by: Kimberly | Sep 8, 2008 2:28:26 PM
Thanks to the incompetent Democratic party leaders, the Republicans are on their way to victory! They got a lightweight in Barack Hussein Obama whose ego is the only thing that outweighs his flip floppng personality. Hillary Clinton was the best hope for our party but she was deceived out of the nomination.
I will never vote for a Barack Hussein who still maintains relationship with his hateful and anti-American pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. You can read about it in the New York Times.
A true American will never vote for Barack Hussein whose wife Michelle Hussein Obama became proud of America for the first time when her husband started winning in the primary elections. We need an experienced and partriotic president like John McCain.
McCain/Palin 2008
Hillary 2012.

America decided that it was OK for women to vote and hold public office, so yall get used to it. You asked for it.

Ingram, They say Biden is more experienced then Palin, Biden has experience in B.S. and deception. Following in line with the Dems. during their pick of a candidate.
How can anyone overlook the Chicago experience’s and the spiritual hate he has of AMERICA through Wright. America with a pres. that slept with the Chicago cons and can not give our flag respect is a breeding ground for more of the same anti Americanism.

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Sticking to the topic of this blog, unlike some of you Palin bashers, I have heard that Condi Rice is pro-choice. But also heard that she is pro-gun.
She truly has not distinguished herself as the SS. Russia snuck up on her.
That said, I think, like Colin Powell, that she is a black first and a repug second. So in the back of her mind, she may be voting for Obammy.
Tell me that you are really surprised. Come on, now.
Plus, I have always wondered why such an intelligent and fairly good looking woman is not married? She has a good figure.
Palin – 08

Rice’s comments speak volumes about a form of governance she now knows so well. McCain looked into Sarah’s eyes and saw a soulmate–no more information needed. “These are decisions that Senator McCain has made. I have great confidence in him.” It doesn’t matter what experience she has, it’s good enough for John Bush, so it should be good enough for you.

If you are a victim of rape or incest,
“You will have that baby,” Palin insists.
She’s the Queen of Extreme
there’s no in-between,
A heartbeat away? That is surely in jest!

Hey Lefties: Bring on the Biden – Palin debates. Your guy is gonna get his pansy butt kicked.
He’s been wrong on foreign policy since the Reagan administration and Sarah Palin is gonna show America the doofus that Biden is.

Some insights on the other “family man” in this election…
“The joke did appear in McCain’s hometown paper, the Arizona Republic, and the Associated Press did report the joke in full, so everyone in the press had access to McCain’s words. But by censoring themselves, the Post, the Times and others helped McCain deflect flak and preserved his status as a Republican presidential contender.
Though no tape of McCain’s quip has yet emerged, this is what he reportedly said:
“Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?
Because her father is Janet Reno.”
The joke may be crude, but it pales in comparison with the published details surrounding the presidential sex scandal.
McCain’s two-liner conveys some interesting insights into what he considers humorous (lesbianism, a young woman’s physical appearance), particularly since it was delivered to a Republican crowd. Remember, this is the party that champions pro-family values.”
Nice guy, eh?
And we all know jokes are laced with reality.
What an insight to this “reformer”. He’s really going to bring everyone together.
“C’mon all you sp!cs, n!ggers, Jews, fa99ots, b!tches, vote for me, I’ll change ya!”
Woo Hoo!

Actually Mary, I did not like OBAMA until after the CNN piece. At least now I know he will be able to deal with the mafia organization that has been running this country for the last 8 years and remain a strong part of the establishment .
Your guys had the presidency, congress and house of representatives and look how much better off we are.

Of course she has plenty of foreign policy experience with Alaska being so close to Russia.

You Dems should also know you have the worst approval rating in the history of the congress. By the way Palin would not be the President. She is not running for President, she will not be running the country. Why do you think Mccain has pulled out in front. Its the ticket. Not one person. She brings more experience then the Dems Presidential nominee to the table. Community organizer, what in the world is that. Middle America can not identify with a communtiy organizer because no one knows what that person does. She doesnt need Foreign policy exp, altough it would help. Mccain has that. Obama has no experience. Zippy, Zilch, Nada. How can you put into office a guy who has written two books but no bills. All Talk no substance.

Gomac, with McCain’s health issues what would happen if Palin had to take over. I shudder to think.

Cubistcat: You must remember one important thing..most of us ex-Dems will vote straight Republican line simply because we are sick of the Democrat do-nothing Congress!! We are not only concerned about the gas prices, we are scared to death of our heating bills this coming winter….THIS CONGRESS COULD CARE LESS ABOUT OUR HEATING BILLS…THEY HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY FOR THEIRS!! THEY JUST WANT TO KEEP SCREWING US WITH THEIR TAX AND SPEND PROGRAMS!!!!!

Take away the lipstick, and what’s left is a pig, or a pitbull, or something that she would be out shooting on any given day. But she is an honorable woman, and we are here to praise her, not bury her.
Did the plane sell on ebay, or was it a sweetheart deal when nobody was looking any more? Maybe this playing fast and loose with the truth is a recurring feature with her. But she seems to be an honorable woman, and we are here to praise her, not to bury her.
So many people she fired or desparately wanted fired in her long years in public office. Was that right? We may never know, but we take her word, while we wonder what may be in store for this country. But why worry, for her friends insist she is an honorable woman, and we are here to praise her, not to bury her.

No worries – Palin is a ticking timebomb just waiting to go off. Tick, tock, tick…

There is just too much I find unsettling about the Palin pick
and why I am not suprised at the people trying to scare voters away on the board by all of this anti-christ crap

It’s not just the tick, tock, tick… it’s the drip, drip, drip of oil from her hands.

mfmros:
Don’t forget, the Democratic party only has a NARROW majority in Congress, and thus it’s nearly impossible to get anything done when the Republican members keep negating all democratic proposals and causing filibusters. Plus, many bills that the Democratic-led Congress have barely mustered enough votes to pass to President Bush for signing have been VETOED, with not enough votes to override him. If we got at least a few more Democratic seats in the House and Senate, we would be seeing a lot more Congressional action, and less vetoing and filibustering by Republicans.

Maybe someone can ask Gov Palin. If she such a champion of standing up to Big Oil and other Republican’s. Then who does she plan to have drill in Alaska and other outter shelf? It’s hard for me to see how you can “stan up to big oil” and in the same breath, say “we need to drill in Alaska.” So again, who does she plan on having drill in Alaska and other places?

sorry, mfmros, i don’t know why this thing posted me 3 times. i only pressed the Post button once…weird..

Since neither McCain nor Obama meet the legal birth qualifications for the presidency, why not just do the right thing and vote for Ron Paul as should have been done in the first place? It would save everyone a lot of trouble and allow America to keep its freedom and constitution a little longer besides. Why wait until the last minute and go through all this wrangling and infighting only to figure out that neither Obama nor McCain are eligible for the office? Just get behind Ron Paul so we can have a real president that is not controlled by the New World Order. He was close personal friends with Ronald Reagan and Reagan even campaigned for Ron Paul.

It would be great to hear a republican view on a subject other the being a community organizer. McCain was a POW so was my Father-in-law does that make him qualified to be president. And as for the folks still complaining about the “cling to guns and religion’ comment, the only reason you are mad is because the truth hurts. would someone out there please tell me how we can have a strong country with out stability for the people who live in it. and for f*#k sake would you people stand up and pay attention to the real issues. the war in Iraq was and is a joke. Bush just wanted to be like his dad and blow up some little brown people on the other side of the world. the real was should have been in Afghanistan where the terrorist are still living comfortably. wake up people.

HP Boston, many thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You should send your letter to the Obama camp and to all media, including newspapers and magazines. It’s the best letter so far that expresses the feelings of millions of us. Thank you again. You truly expressed my sentiment so eloquently.
It’s so unfortunate that Obama and the democratic party leaders have chased us away to vote for John McCain. To be fair, McCain/Palin is the next best thing to Hillary Clinton.
Therefore, as the chickens come home to roost (if I may borrow the expression), I will be heading to the polls in November with my McCain/Palin t-shirt on and envisioning a Hillary run in 2012. Thanks again.
Danielle

I can understand the phenomenon of how people who grew up in Alaska would be very proud and devouted to it considering its isolation and unique characteristics and way of life…it’s only natural, but the thing that concerns me about Palin from the stuff I’ve read about her that is coming to light is that she seems to be extremely provincial and very Alaska-centric if you will. I feel like she will have a VERY narrow veiw as VP. How will this affect her ability to decide issues for the other 49 states? I question how many times she’s ever even travelled outside of Alaska to see other states aside from her various stints at different colleges, and I don’t beleive she’s lived in any other states for any lengthy period of time. She was mayor of a town very small town that she grew up in her whole life. She doesn’t seem to have had much of a world-veiw nor cared to up until now. She has even admitted to not really being up on or focusing on Iraq, until now presumably. Scary. Now is not the time for her to have a crash course on life in the other 49 states and in the rest of the world.

Hey Obama supporters, Rasmussen just came out, Mccain 48, Obama 47. So the elections is not lost and that means Obama is polling strongly again but he has to start attacking. No defence. I like his speech in Terre Haute and he should keep up with it. Mccain is up with an Ad trying to define their ticket, Obama has to come up with a counter Ad.
Posted by: jayjay
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Don’t take polls too seriously, especially
when they’re this tight on the margin. I’d
like to know if these are internet or phone
polls. Can’t image anyone waiting by the
phone for a poll taker. I have as much confidence
in that group as a used car salespersons

HP Boston, many thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You should send your letter to the Obama camp and to all media, including newspapers and magazines. It’s the best letter so far that expresses the feelings of millions of us. Thank you again. You truly expressed my sentiment so eloquently.
It’s so unfortunate that Obama and the democratic party leaders have chased us away to vote for John McCain. To be fair, McCain/Palin is the next best thing to Hillary Clinton.
Therefore, as the chickens come home to roost (if I may borrow the expression), I will be heading to the polls in November with my McCain/Palin t-shirt on and envisioning a Hillary run in 2012. Thanks again.
Danielle

If you are white and don’t support Obama, you are racist.
If you are black and don’t support him…no case on this ,because almost 90% support him.
So far I only know one guy name Chris Rock ever said he supported Hillary.

Danielle posted, “To be fair, McCain/Palin is the next best thing to Hillary Clinton.”
Really Danielle??? You can’t be serious right? Have you paid any attention to any of their policies???? I’m sorry but your statement is wrong and just false. Clinton and McCain/Palin couldn’t be at further ends of the spectrum and I seriously suggest you read up on them before you waste your vote thinking your going to get one thing and end up getting completely the opposite. McCain and Palin’s policies will set women back in this country not empower them to move forward.

Deart Huh???
I would rather have a John McCain who is a maverick and a war hero as president of the great United States than the flip-flop Barack Hussein Obama whose anti-American pastor and wife disgust me so much.
You do not want to go into Barack Hussein’s inexperience and policy shortcomings, do you?
Danielle

Isn’t that a good thing, making the whole McCain is different than Bush argument more believable? Hmmmm.

Dear HP Boston,
Thanks for the invitation; I certainly will visit the website and join the movement.
The letter must be publicized and if you give me the permission, I would like to distribute it to my mailing lists. Please publicize it as much as you can. It so eloquently and effectively expresses the sentiments of millions.
McCain/Palin 08 and on to Hillary 2012!
Danielle

In recent years pit bulls have been known to maul children and women. These dogs often times are put to sleep afterward. It is nice that John Mccain is keeping his pit bull with lip stick on a leash… for now that is. So as to not be mauled, I advise women and children everywhere to stay within a safe distance of this pit bull with lip stick, especially after John Mccain lets her off her leash.

I just love the letter below! A million thanks to the person who wrote it. Exactly my sentiments! I, too, will repeat this: McCain/Palin 2008
Hillary 2012.
PUMA LETTER And message to Obama is;
Dear Senator Obama:
I was enthusiastically impressed with you when I heard you at the 2004 Democratic convention. I thought to myself that one day you might be president. Obviously you thought so too.
My problem is that you let your overwhelming desire to be the first black President overide your good sense. You became more obsessed with your personal potential legacy than with the good of this country.
Now, I know that everyone who runs for President must have an ego. However, in your case, you allowed your ego to actually destroy friends and enemies alike.
Instead of being the ideal President to heal racial division, the county is now more racially divided than in decades. Instead of embracing the cause of women, which was the most significant group of your base, you went out of your way to demean and disparage them. You also helped set back feminists by decades.
Because of this, we now have historic Democrats flocking to the GOP.
Senator, you could have had it all. All you had to do was have a little patience. Had you “allowed” Hillary to become President, and thus attain the position she deserves, you could have had the VP slot which would have positioned you perfectly for the Presidential run in 2016. We would then have had the first woman and the first AA Presidents in our history. A monumentous milestone. Not to mention 16 years of Democratic rule.
But you couldn’t wait. And all of America will be suffering the consequences.
Well, Senator, the tide is turning. In words you can understand: The chickens are coming home to roost.
And the cluck stops here.

Dear Huh???
You have not answered my questions….
How can I trust a person who stayed in an anti-American church for twenty years?
How can I trust a person with a middle name “Hussein” as a president of the United States?
All the issues you raised are secondary. First and foremost, I need a president who is a proud American and who is not in any way associated with anti-American people like Rev. Wright and Ayers as Barack Huseein Obama is.
Can you address these important questions of identity? Then we will move on to the specifics.
McCain/Palin 2008
Hillary 2012
Danielle

Maybe the Honorable Secretary Rice actually has vetted Gov. Palin:
http://thinkprogress.org/palin-digest/
http://mudflats.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/palin-2006-vetting.pdf
Also, Secretary Rice turned down the VEEP spot. I don’t blame her.
She is the most respected and well liked member of the Bush Administration.

Why do Reps. keep pitting Palin against Obama? Since when is it that the vp is compared to the other guys Pres. choice?
They seem to have more faith in Palin than they do McCain. My vote for Obama is strengthened by his vp choice of Biden. Not the other way around. I cannot wait for the debates, it should be interesting.

If Rice is smart, she’ll stay far away from this election and who she likes or doesn’t like. She is pretty smart but has been a puppet for years under President Bush. I’m sure she thinks George is an idiot. Look what he’s put her through the last 8 years – most of all with the lying about Iraq. Both Rice and Obama are highly educated and intelligent – unlike McCain and Palin who tend to shoot from the hip.

Q: Why is McCain such a Maverick?
A: He’s the only republican in office who isn’t a pedophile.

Danielle says: How can I trust a person with a middle name “Hussein” as a president of the United States?
Please tell me you’re joking.

For the racist pigs on this thread. did you know that minorities will be the majority soon? If we will not have a black president now, there is always the future.

I think Obama & Paulin are almost a wash in the expirence department. Althought I think Chicago may represent a more diverse understanding of today’s American then all of Alaska. McCain and Biden are a wash as well. Old country for Old men. Where McCain may hold a steadier hand. BRING ON THE DEBATES. Not that I would ever look forward to watching that but with all the bias in the media that may be my only true refection of the candidates and the ability to speak outside of thier speech writers.

Well! All of a sudden I have a new-found respect for Rice.

McCain camp wanted Schwarzenegger to tell McCain’s POW story so he wouldn’t mention ‘centrist politics.’
After California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) decided not to attend the Republican National Convention, the RNC replaced him with former senator Fred Thompson, who gave the speech originally intended for Schwarzenegger. The California governor told Der Spiegel that he was ordered to focus on McCain’s biography; that way, the campaign could prevent him from talking about “centrist policies”:
SCHWARZENEGGER: The speech I would have given is the one that Fred Thompson gave. I gave him my speech because I did not go to the convention. It was a great speech because it talked in minute detail about McCain’s torture and his being a POW, and that’s the speech that the party wanted me to give. Why? Because this way I don’t go and talk about centrist politics and maybe rub some people the wrong way. That’s another stage.
Can you spell E-X-T-R-E-M-I-S-T McCain/Palin?
Holding especially political views that DEVIATE drastically and fundamentally FROM CONVENTIONAL or TRADITIONAL beliefs: extreme, fanatic, fanatical, rabid, radical, revolutionary, ultra. Slang far-out.
Extremist; you are terminated!

Palin, did I hear she doesnt even have a Lawyers Degree? Whats this Country comming to! The World Powers are laughing at us im sure.Republicans=War Monger and soccer mom, whats next!

BHO already started shining and playing victim. He does not know that his whining will not work against Russia, Iran, Korea. We can not have such a lame loser in the white house.
McCain/Palin 08
Hillary 2012

I think Kitty had the best post of the day. I bet come election day enough good ole Americans will have more confidence in Palin as VP than Obama as P. Enough said.

I’ll vote democrat but not anymore because of mistake of Mr Obama first was he dump a woman as his VP Clinton who supposed to be a dream team. Second he select Biden who has been loosing for every democrat predential nomination. Third he said his gonna stop special interest in Washington but he received over 100,000 dollar from Famie/Freddie Mac that will be bailout by our tax money and the top 5 who received money from them are all democrat which he is in number two.
This was aired in CNN Lou Dobbs. It’s about time to put a woman in Washington I’m voting GOP because of Sarah who she fought her own corrupt party she sure gonna do the same thing in Washington. By the way how he become millionare?? UHMM

Any sensible person in the world would think Palin is capable of dealing with foreign policy and international matters.
She can read written script by Bushites with great performance.
Let’s see how long she can deceive people.

Rice Was A Raving NeoCon,
Until all of a sudden it was her job.
She happened to have PhD in this
particular subject so in going from
The Lecture Hall to the Laboratory
she decided to join the rest of us
here on planet Earth.
Bush-McFailin’ 08!
“Because God Wants It That Way!”

Didn’t think that you libs valued Rice’s oppinion. Picky and choosy, aren’t you?

Whole world knows this woman is a joke.
except the half of americans.
what a shame to American!

Why would you keep your prize candidate hidden from the media? I guess your girl Sarah is in to reading and not into answering the tough questions unscripted. I would like to see just how prepared they can possibly make her in 2 weeks. She is nothing more than a mere puppet.
Can you imagine a person with a degree in jounalism as President? Americans (some) are idiots!!!!!

WHAT IS STILL INTERESTING…. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE STILL DOES NOT KNOW WHO THIS WOMAN IS… AND ALSO MCCAIN DOESN’T EITHER….

This is great, all of a sudden Rice has credit in the Dems. world, I think it is funny to see all the attention on Palin, well I believe that the only thing to come from this is we will see her even more in the spot light and we all have to admitt that when Obamanation is in the spot light he is fumbling alot lately, I think he has good reason to speek clearly, he realy never has, and he sure isnt now, its all hate. now now lets just look at his mentors and he’s the one that called those hate America(or should I say “God Damn America”) and the “USKKKA”preachen hate the “white folks” his mentors. these are great choices for a Change President & for the first hating lady Im glad she can finaly like her home land, I wonder how that would go over for Hillary or Sarah I can bet not good but wait I know they had it better, Hillary maybe, Colan Powell a big yes but iether Obama Mr. or Mrs. well lets go back to their marage counselor he hates white folks I wonder how the Obamas feel, oh and why not just keep buying oil from his freinds in Iran we all know we shouldnt be drilling our own ground we might not support the hate freinds on the other side of the world, you know the other side of the world that he knows so much more than Palin about,that will bring the prices down,and I know lets tax all the other employers that are left here maybe then they will go off shore like the rest have, and we will all have better jobs, remember this one “wake up America” or the Rev.Rite might just be right. I dont think that Colan Powell would have ever spoke so anti American and that would have been my choice for a Black American President.But this guy I cant vote for my heart will not let me its not a color issue at all it is all the other issues, but you can say it because when he looses it will be said in full hate abroad, I wonder if they will riot this time around, well if they keep setting under the hate Rev. and the students they are teaching like Obama then you can bet if the Dems. loose this it will be all becuase of the “white folks” its a shame to say or hear this kind of hate in our country after all the people that have died for a freedom they/we can all live for and achive in, maybe if they would let go of all the hate and start to love alittle the dream of the great Martin Luther King Jr. would finally come true.

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Vicky, please tell me that you are not a total idiot. Please tell me.
It’s very easy to explain Palin taking several years to get a degree. It took me over 20 years to get my first degree. And I wasn’t having babies. Well, my wife was. Plus I was working full time jobs and going at night. So there are easy ways to explain this, except if one is a moron.
Then you take the “The public doesn’t know who this woman” stuff. Well, DUH!!! If you don’t know her by now then you got peanut butter in your ears.
Now, the whiners who say “she only talks through a prompter”. A few months ago she was busy with Alaska business. Having a baby, family problems, putting a pipeling through. Why should she care about knowing what a bunch of liberal idiots want?
Since she was just picked, NOW you want her to jump up, immediately go before Dirtbag Oberman, Forehead Bagala, Katie Kutie, or any of the other foaming at the mouth liberals who have been doing this for 30 years. They would eat her for lunch and then brag about it.
Give her a few weeks to bone up on things. I guarantee you she will kick some Moose butt then. Plus some liberal butt.
Got it now? No.
Palin – 08

Larry, you are the stupid one thinking that McCain is going to change anything. But of course if you’re a republican then you don’t care, you want more of Bush. And he chose Palin to pander to the conservatives. McCain could care less about this country. That’s obvious with his choice of Palin. If you really believe that she would make a good president if something happened to McCain then you are just a fool.

PALINS FOREIGN POLICY?
McCain is old so as it is written in the book of revelation….the old man must pass
Once in power wage war with the powers of darkness…begin air attacks on Iran
Draw the chosen people into the final battle…provoke Israel into joining in the attack
Then the kings of the north will descend from their nations, and enter the battle…China and Russia send their troops in
When the all out war ( armageddon to those heathens who don’t believe ) is taking place then look to the heavens for he will descend mounted on a white horse.
According to her church this is how it shall all end. In fact not only do they welcome it they actively seek it, and want to set things in motion to quicken these events.
Palin is not mainstream, not middle America and is not committed to keeping the United States safe.

We could have a Vice-President (or President, eventually) who does not believe dinosaurs existed, despite many thousands of dinosaur fossils taken out of the ground. Maybe she will ban science in the country, then we will be on the right track!

obama made a very wise decision in choosing biden as vp… he realized the area in which he was week…foreign policy… and selected the chariman of the U. S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations…some one to help him make real decisions in the white house…mccain takes this opportunity to select a running mate to advise him on the next coming of Christ… smh

The insanity is you people even considering a scoialist like Obama for president. When did this become the Union of American Socialist States? Are you people watching? Listening? Obviously not. McCain is the first man in twenty years who actually deserves to be elected president. He’s the first man since Bush Sr that I’d be proud to call Commander in Chief. Obama wasn’t even raised in the US. A senate field trip to Harlem or the South Side of Chicago doesn’t make an Afro-American. Obama has ZERO business trying to run the US, and ZERO business giving the military orders.

Sarah Palin is a state governor, and has about the same experience in foreign policy as did the Democratic nominee for President prior to his overseas travel in July of this year. [Time magazine even ran a story on Senator Obama’s foreign policy “problem” in December of 2007.] Now, of course, Gov. Palin could equal Senator Obama’s experience with her own trip, but why waste the time of busy international leaders for what amounts to a photo op for campaign purposes. Some perspective on this question can be gained by asking how much foreign policy experience did former Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton have before being elected President? How about former California Governor Ronald Reagan, whose foreign policy victories are memorable? C’mon, this is not that hard.
As an engineer myself, I know that I do not know everything, and each player in the team I am on plays an integral part of the whole. A Vice President Palin does not, I believe, need to be an expert in foreign policy at this time any more than Senator and Presidential hopeful Barack Obama is now, but she does need to know how to get answers, who to go to for those answers, how to work with the Secretary of State and others in leadership roles, and follow through on moving policies forward. I think she’s displayed throughout her [albeit short] career and in her personal life that she can aggressively pursue answers, and lead a team on to completion. It’s not the specific knowledge that matters, it’s the ability to solve problems and deliver results.

The Obama campaign has made the case all along that judgment and ideas can trump experience. His opponents counter that experience is more important overall.
So if the argument now is about comparing Obama’s lack of experience to Palin’s lack of experience then that transposition is deceptive. To repeat, experience is the Republican criteria for leadership. Judgment and ideas are the Obama campaign’s criteria.
Most of us know something about Obama’s judgment and ideas.
He took a very outspoken and contrarian position to the calls for war in Iraq just before he was about to enter his campaign for the U.S. Senate. Most politicians would not have taken such a controversial stand at a time when there were only potential costs and no gains (except on principle) from it.
During the DNC Primary debates, he said he would not hesitate to attack Al Qaeda in Pakistan if the Pakistanis failed to do it. He drew a lot of criticism from his opponents over that, but we see that is now standard procedure.
He said we should have direct talks with adversaries. Since then, we have sat in talks with Iran.
He disagreed with the Surge and said a time line for troop withdrawal would do more to spur the necessary political action in Iraq. While the Surge has contributed to reducing violence, it is not clear if any political progress has been made. The elections were pushed back to January. The central government is at odds with the Kurds over leadership sharing in Kirkuk. The central government is at odds with the Sunni tribes over whether or how much they will support the Sons of Iraq security forces. So, we may still end up with a partitioned country fighting over oil and resources for years to come.
Domestically, today Obama said the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives should not receive severance awards. This ought to be interesting. McCain said during his RNC speech that “my administration will set a new standard for transparency and accountability.” Will McCain/Palin agree with Obama on accountability in this case? Telling failed corporate executives they must forfeit golden parachutes may not go over to well with RNC, deep pocket contributors.
For someone with so little experience, Obama doesn’t seem to shy away from staking out judgment based positions in public. Whether you agree or disagree with them. Is Gov. Palin ready to step up and do the same?

Obama has a lot of paid professionals going online to write, compliment him and attack his opponents. This is all they do. I am a Democrat…but sad to say, it took many Republican to point out that Obama is a flaw candidate, who uses distasteful tactics to win the election against Hillary. It’s unbearable to think that there will be another four years of Republican control of the white house, but from the way Hillary was treated and the fact that I think McCain is an honorable man…I could never vote for Obama…this is hard…the Republican will ruin this country…but Obama…no way.

Americans can no longer vote for just the President of the United States. We’re a member of the world stage, and how we are perceived by other countries now matters in a way that we’ve never seen before. Currently, we are hated due to our short-sighted, self-serving foreign policies. I live in another Western, English speaking country and I can say without a shadow of a doubt, that Americans are seen as selfish bullies, using the planet for our own ends – not caring about other cultures – and this perception has been taken out on me, as a representative of the USA. I used to be a registered Republican, but I can no longer justify my membership, either intellectually or morally. How sad… I will be voting for a REAL change this fall: Obama/Biden.

I wrote this letter to friends and family on August 31. It has since circulated throughout the Web.
About Sarah Palin
I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992. Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her father was my child’s favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more city council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the residents of the city.
Go to Huffington Post for info. packed email from Anne Kilkenny on Sarah Palin.

THE ONLY REASON THE POLLS DONT FAVOUR HIM IS BECAUSE HE IS BLACK.NOT BECAUSE HE WONT BE A GOOD PRESIDENT OR GOT THE KNOWLEDGE.ITS A SHAME AMERICA STILL THINK LIKE THIS,U HAVE THE BEST DUO EVER TO PULL US OUT.TELL ME ONE SIGNIFICANT THING PALIN HAS DONE OR SAID APART FROM THOSE SNIPES.AND THATS WHAT WE PUSHING TO THE WORLD.YET WE SIT DOWN AND BLAME HITLER,WHO DO WE EVEN THINK WE ARE?OBAMA U ARE A GOOD MAN AND IF U DONT WIN ITS NOT YOUR FAULT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FAILED YOU AND THEIR FUTURE.AS IF THE PRESIDENCY IS A HYPE THING.BUT I KNOW U WILL WIN THE WILL COME DOWN.I PROMISE YOU.

4real:
I’m sorry that you think that way. That sounds pretty racist. I’m voting for McCain because I studied his voting record and his thoughts on moving the country forward. Skin color has nothing to do with it. Can we please move past that? I fully expect Obama to be President, someday (and I might be able to support him with a future vote), but for the office of President of the U.S. I want to see more maturity in his views. I’ve seen him do a 180 on too many issues of importance to me. For you to infer that all of America is racist is just weak. It’s pathetic. It’s immature. The same with those of you who keep name-calling (“McSame”, etc.), and infer that McCain is the same as Bush, and so on. If you’re going to argue for either candidate, step up to the plate and argue some kind of position based on real issues and facts. And don’t use CAPS for your entire post!

McCain wants to win at all cost. His inner thought is telling him that Palin was the wrong choice for VP but he doesn’t care. I hope the American people can see this and make the right decision in November.

Now that Russia is going to have a military to Venezuala , i am waiting to see how McPalin will deal with that. This is just a proof that tough talk does not make things better. Bush-McCain vision of the world is tough talk, war, sanction and no place for diplomacy.
Russia has proven you wrong! You can pitbulled , still their still have their troops in Georgia.
I am now waiting for mccain maverick to invade russia and to go and bring freedom to georgia.
Right as a British I am just amazed how americian could imagine McPalin as thier leader. Just AMAZED!

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kcareymac, don’t you know that McCain has really had 25 cancers?
Palin didn’t deliver a good speech written by someone else. Now that Barako, the “community organ grinder”, he gives good speech written by someone else. He would make a good actor since the Hollyweirds love him so much.
Don’t worry. She ain’t nasty to kcareymac’s, she’s only nasty to mean Moose.
She does lie.
She had to lie, she was dealing with crooked democrats in Alaska.
Palin – 08

It is very interesting to see how people votes in a country where so called democratic norms are in place since many centuries.
I do not have life experience of McCan to see last 25 Presidents of the USA and also have spent only 16 years in the USA. I studied, watched and experienced leadership of GW Bush, Clinton, GH Bush and Reagan; but experienced more closely GW Presidency and now this election campaign. Based on these experiences, I could say with full confidence that AMERICAN PEOPLE are either THE MOST RACISTS and COWARDS (since they will claim they are not racists but they are) or they are THE MOST STUPID people.
I have great regard for many american, but I am saying this based on how they select their choices for the President. How in the hell, some one will elect GW Bush even to lead a family, forget about a city or country, when you have choice of some one like Gore. I am not saying because he is Democrate, rather look at him as a leader, do not judge presidents based on who would you like to sleep or have a drink.
Similarly, now every one is talking about McCain being a prisoner of war. Are you electing him to do JAIL reforms? why would time in jail will qualify someone for being a good COMMANDER IN CHIEF. Do you doubt yourself on your patriotism. Being patriotic does not need to be in jail of an enemy or doesnt require you to fight a war. USA is in a war for last 7 + years, did every American served in Iraq and Afganistan? Only 150,000 americans served in these two wars, Does it mean remaining 300+ million americans are not patriotics? GW Bush never served in a war, while Kerry did serve, then why you thought GW Bush will be a better war time President than Kerry?
These all things tell me either you all are RACISTS or STUPID, but for sure NOT DEMOCRATICS. So stop lecturing other nations on democracy.
I am Proud to be a CANADIAN

I am an independant from Wisconsin. Would an Obama voter please help me out and tell me, other than making a Bush/Palin comment, why I should vote for Obama? And don’t just say CHANGE. The Dems. have been in charge of the Congress and Senate for about 2 years now. Can anyone tell me what leadership Obama has shown in the Senate? What kind of change has he brought to the Senate table? Has he been in session over the last year at all? Does he have any new legislation on the table that promotes change? If so tell me what the bill is called or what number it is. I want change, I really do, but please give me some evedience of the type of change he will give me. It seems he has had plenty of opportunity over the past two years to propose his policy on the Senate floor. Has he done it? Please help!! I will and have been asking the same questions about McCain also. So far the Reps. are at least giving me some examples of McCains leadership and they have given me many of examples of McCains leadership and his changes he has brought to the Senate floor. Whether I believe in his policy or not he does have a record of some kind of change.

PAL, did you not read the whole comment? Why can’t you answer the questions. All Obama voters keep doing is tell me to ask McCain/Palin those questions. I do and will continue to do so. But will you please answer what has Obama done as a U.S. Senator?

Has Obama nominated his V.P. yet? I haven’t heard anything about who he is going to choose or if he has chosen someone. I hope it is Hillary!! He really needs to show how he can CHANGE this country and chosing someone else would be a disaster. Especially if it the same old same old.

Hey all you libs!!! For not knowing very much about Palin you sure do have strong opinions about her. Do you prejudge all people this way? I thought you were above this type of behavior? Nicole, where is Biden? Does he represent the type of change you have been looking for? What exactly does he bring to the table to make this a better place. And please don’t tell me he is head of the foreign relations. Who cares. What about the U.S.? What is he going to do for the U.S.?

Canada, So now you are telling me to pick a President based on their sleeping and eating habits? Are you saying McCain has a medical checkup for 1-2 hours a day? You Canadians can really tell a story. Oh by the way when you need a medical transplant of some sort be sure to stay in Canada. Let our system take care of it’s citizens only!!!

Reggie92: I didnt mean to attack you or any american rather said this based on the fact that a person at the age of 72 with skin cancer and multiple broken bones in his body, will need this kind of attention.
As far as medical help is concern, for your information PLEASE TAKE CARE OF YOUR ANCESTORS, if you go to a hospital in a Canadian town near US border, you will know how many of your seniors go to get their refills from canada on daily basis.

Is Sarah any less qualified or lacking in foreign policy than many of our former Presidents prior to being elected or are we dealing with gender bias?
Just look at some of the records.
George W. Bush: Texas Rangers Baseball team partial owner, two term Governor, no foreign policy experience.
Bill Clinton: Two term Governor with no foreign policy experience.
Ronald Reagan: Movie Star, two term Governor, no foreign policy experience.
Jimmy Carter: Peanut farmer, one term Governor, no foreign policy experience.
LBJ: Decades of experience in the Senate and House, former Vice resident,
and plunged American in his failed Viet Nam policy.
JFK: Served six years in the House, almost two terms in the Senate, and traveled extensivley abroad. As President he is credited with the botched Bay of Pigs invasion and getting stuck in Viet Nam.
IKE: Never held elected office prior to being elected President. Did handle the Soviets well plus built our national highway system.
So, tell me is she any less qualified that some of the Presidents listed above or is it just that she is a female and a mom? If Mitt Romney would have been McCain’s VP pick, would we hearing people questioning his qualifications to the extent that they do Palin’s?
FDR: Two term Governor, no foreign policy experience and yet lead us through the Great Depression and WWII
Theodore Roosevelt: Two years as governer, no foreign policy experience. Served several months as Vice President and became President when McKinley was assassinated. Went on to become one of the great goverment reformers of 20th Century and awarded Noble Peace Prize for ending a war between Russia and Japan.

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Got a kick out of Adam the not so proud Canadian. Hey, Adam, if we need any crap out of you we will squish it out of you.
We just don’t care what a liberal, can’t defend anything, for total gun-control pile of pukes say. Just go down to your local free health center and get your meds.
For your information, Bush beat Gore, like he beat Kerry, like McCain will beat Obammy because democrats are soooo stupid and keep running loooooooosers. They keep running these guys who try and BS the country. The preach more taxes, more gun-control, and “let’s Pull OUT”, to get the nomination. Then they change (love that don’t you) and say “well, I won’t tax anybody but the Filthy Rich”.
Then they put on camiflage underwear and say “Ya SEE, I yam a Hunter”.
Then Obammy says “Ahh won’t PULL OUT immediately”. CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE.
And only the most gullible, like a Canadian who drinks his tea with two fingers, believes that BS.
So, we don’t have a bunch of dummies down here. That’s why Obammy will be back in the Senate in January.
Palin – 08

For the first time in my life I’m proud of Rice. She knows what’s good for America.

As far as speaches go, I simply do not see that Palin’s speach was even good much less great. I have listened to all the political speaches and her speach was about the worst especially the stupidity of her comments. “I put it on E-Bay”. Sounded like a first grader and it did not sell on E-Bay. It sold for $400,000 less than it was worth and sold to another rep.She has not told the complete truth on anything so far.

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Adam, I could post website after website to prove any statement.
Try going to this website —–
http://www.iamatotaldufus.com
You will find the answers to all your problems there.
When I first took College Economics 201, I asked the Doctor Professor “is it necessary to have a balanced budget to have a good economy?” His answer was an emphatic “NO”.
So don’t try to weasel some liberal rant to me. The deficit is not the problem. We are fighting two wars, giving childrens’ healthcare to parents making $60,000 a year (thanks to democrats), giving, giving, giving to every drunk and drug user in the country.
THAT is the reason we have a deficit.
Palin – 08

It sounds like Condoleeza isn’t too sold on the GOP talking points. Almost every Republican quotes the same Bullcr@p over and over again, regarding Palin. Also, why is the press interviews of Palin so controlled? Here’s the response from the McCain camp.
“McCain campaign manager Rick Davis made this as clear as you could want by suggesting recently that he wants to see her treated with “deference” first — basically flipping the entire press corps the bird.”
“Deference” … wow, sounds like the start of a dictatorship to me!

Rice probably belives in personal discovery and growth regarding her assignments. Don’t know her to be sure. I should hope that Rich/Bush et all.. have grown, exanded and been flexible as they handled the immense new challenges of the recent years.
Someone who doesn’t belive in personal discovery on all phases of their life is just a product of their culture… pure and simple… and cannot expand beyond.
My fellow citizens, the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of ‘personal discovery’”:
This line sort of symbolized exactly the Reb party’s motto. It in fact symbolizes a lot of reasons why people in the world just cannot expand beyond their “little frog well” to see the unity in all- and get into all sorts of nation/religion fights, et all.
If the Dem are about personal discovery, growth and new vision for a better unity and world- then that speech is the best line ever to move away from the Reb now. Nothing in the speech told me it was anything but the status-quo. The status-quo is a softer fresher way.. but still it.
The Reb party used to be an intelligent party with a sharp piercing vision. They should have kept growing instead of stopping to discover themselves – now it’s stagnant.
Oh well… tomorrow is another day.

at least obama has traveled to over 30 countries and had a passport over 40 years ago
unlike palin who only been out of the country once when she got her passport last year to do a photo op with the alaskian national guard in kuwait..
country first my A$$
when will the republicans put american familys first?

I wrote a lot of impulsive things..
I must say, I’d like to be positive and practice what I preach.
I respect all the candidates– and in fact, give my honor and respect to McCain as a War Hero. Palin, I respect, as a person who has integrity and lives by her principles (she had the 5th child– which is beautiful) Many people cannot take that test of true principle.
A lot of things come out in these blogs as truly impulsive– and we need to step back and be sure of what we say and write. We never know- they may hurt someone or help someone.
I hope blogs like these can be positive forums.

Dan from above is obviously a complete moron. McCain’s POW experience doesn’t impress him? Nice. I’d love to see how long this liberal wimp would survive in the Hanoi Hilton. Or without his Tivo for a single night. Get a life you loser.

Dr. Rice is a very intelligent woman. She would most definitely have been an excellent choice for vice-president. However, Sarah Palin is a first class idiot. She has not clue as to what is going on only what she memorizes. She is the dumb blond in dark hair. God help our country should McCain win.