The Note: McCain Takes Fight to Obama’s Turf

Please wake me up on November 4th, so I can go vote..OBAMA 08.. I’M GOING BACK TO SLEEP!!…

Well last night the big blow of hot air arrived and now on the election of Obama/Biden 2008 and the defeat of Popeye & Olive Oil who it now seems had an affair with her fisherman husbands business partner(true Republican family values)

s.b. You can’t mention what doesn’t exist.

Of course, Obama doesn’t want to question Palin’s experience. How can you whine about someone else’s lack of experience when you have none of your own? BTW, Cindy McCain certainly put Obama in his place last night. She made sure everyone knew that her family started out with nothing, built a business, and lived the American dream. Kind of makes you wonder why Obama would mock the McCain wealth. What does Obama have against living the American dream? My family is Democratic, and we believe in the American dream. We work toward it every day, and we don’t expect someone to hand it to us. AND I NEVER ONCE WHINED ABOUT PAYING BACK MY STUDENT LOANS. Hear that, Michelle?

Obama is going to have to hire a few thousand more paid Obama bloggers to argue his case on the internet. He’s already hired, at last count, THREE THOUSAND. Wonder where he gets his money? Oh, right. He’s collected half a billion – from African Americans and college kids on the Internet.

At this stage of the race … Kerry was leading by about 6% over Bush before the RNC Convention … we know the outcome of that race.
Obama should be worried, very worried.

One does not need any Military experience to be Commander in Chief, since the President is the Civilian Head of the Military and he has full access to the General staff which are at his disposal 24/7/365. What he must have are excellent organizational skills and the ability to delegate work to others as the work of the President is more than anyone person can handle alone. The President wears many hats in his job and Commander in Chief is only one of many and two of our countries finest, Lincoln & Roosevelt, never served a day in this countries military.

Palin is no fool, even if they try to make her one. Comparing Palin to Dan Quayle, saying even she was worse than Quayle did not sit well with me. Was she worse because she’s a woman? Very sexist. Shame on those journalists.
Dan Quayle misspoke and made idiot spelling errors which made his name synonym for being stupid. Nothing warrant such a comparison on Palin. Biden on the other hand, he’s goodlooking and he’s known to say the wrong thing. Biden is the one you should compare with Quayle.
Highlighting Palin studies and eagerness to travel to different colleges and publishing a picture of Palin from the 80ties, what characterizations are they trying to sell? Everyone has an embarrassing hairstyle from the 80ties and the sexist attacks on Palin are uncalled for. You don’t have to be stupid white trash, just because you didn’t go to IVY-league top schools. Is media and Obama really this uppity?

So Obama is relying on his non-running mate Clinton to shore up the women vote?

how about the fact that Rick davis argued against Plain actually doing interviews.
actually answering questions?!!!
the stark differenc eis Palin was gimmick and read someone else’s words with the right intonation and has never shown an understanding of the issues we face…
and now McCain is showing his judgment and deicsion and governement will be exactly like Bush Cheney
make a mistake…hide it…call the press unpatriotic and sexist…
all the while covering your tracks and hiding the candidate out the back dorr who can’t answer the questions
this person who will need to know the effects if like Cheney in the first year she has to make decisions about shooting down plane fulls of Americans knowing the fdifference between a couple of Sunni passengers, southeast asian terrorist, georgian individuals, etc.
and what will be the effects in southeast asian villages? or in Africa?
or how does that effect negotiations with iran or Russia?
what is our history with China and what effect would shooting down those planes effect historically?
this woman is the worst decision and most brazenly self helping choice…in the history of our country.
and now like Bush Cheney Rumsfeld, Rove
they are going to hide it.
the dark lord is

“No interviews for Palin”
Cover up call the press unpatriotic and sexist…shut out the people…continue the Bush Cheney legacy
the dark lord is rising again…shiver.

Carrie
Everybody complains about their student loans, but when Cindy has billions to pay with, she shouldn’t caomplain…

Detriot Mayor’s fall from grace … signs of more to come in the Obama camp ?

I think McCain’s best years are behind him and now I fear, with all of his talk about “Iran” this and “Iran” that, he’s looking for a fight he thinks he can win. Just look how many times he used the word “fight” in his acceptance speech last night.
Also, his choice of Sarah Palin is a total brain fart. McCain has a lot of these, folks. I don’t want McCain “hovering over the button” and I certainly don’t want Sarah Palin keeping Mr. Putin on hold while she practices her beauty pageant wave. I also do not want either one of them mandating what a woman can or cannot do with their own body. Palin’s statement was clear about her daughter. “Bristol decided to keep the baby.” If McCain and Palin are elected, there will be no individual “decision” at all. The government will have already made it for you; rape and incest be dammned!
Teaching creationism in our schools? No sex education? Are you KIDDING ME?
Look, we got it wrong 8 years ago and again 4 years later. Let’s not get fooled again by the self-serving “Rich First” party.

Carrie where were Cindy McCain’s two sister last night?? The two she doesn’t even acknowlege exist as she still claims she is an only child(true Republican family values)…….

I wonder how many were caught waving their hands under the toilet stalls at the convention last night, with that many Republican in one place you know there were some hanky panky goings on.

I thought McCain speech was dull and he talked about how horrible Vietnam was for him. If being in a war that should never have been so bad then get us out of Iraq which we should not have been in in the first place. Don’t keep surging troops and continue it for “100 years.”

Palin is inexperienced and should not be anywhere near the presidency…
republicans have fought that obamas 8 years of public office is not enough, how can her little time in office with zero foreign policy knowledge be near the presidency….

Obama is signing attack dogs to blunt the Palin Surge.
What happened to Biden ? Buyers Remorse

FYI evereyone Obama’s degree from Columbia is in Political Science major (Foreign Relations) its not like he’s un-educated in foreign affairs.

Obama’s isolationist views are not in accordance with the world ecomomy. If the US doesn’t expand into more markets, the economy will continue to decline. Simple as that.
Vote for real change
McCain/Palin ’08

YOU HOOOO NeoConnies it’s time to check in with Uncle John Bush McCain for your list of Friday talking points! Today’s gift is a freshly clubbed harp seal pup compliments of Gov Palin.
http://www.johnmccain.com/ActionCenter/BlogInteract/BlogInteract.aspx

That Obama has such a nice preacher!
I would like to hear some more of his nice sermons!
Obama also knows a guy who can get houses real cheap! Rezko is such a nice guy!
Obama knows a guy who can blow things up if that is what you need. Ayers is a good friend of his!

Quite possibly the most bizzare convention I have ever witnessed. Lets begin with the fact that barely ANY minorities were in the audience, why would they be anyway? who would support such a divisive and “cultural war” based agenda. I loved how they cut to the token black people in the crowd, as if to prove a point and say “hey, we got blacks too!” miserable attempt.
Sure we all love county, but did you hear the USA chants, mindless insinutation at Senator OBama’s “lack of patriotism” , country first, terror , terror, terror. How could any straight thinking individual support such a negative agenda based on fear, war mongering, power? Same team who brough you 8 years is now running the campaign. I don’t care about personal politics and where Obama spent his church time, I Care about the proposed plans, economic ideas, PEACE, COOPERATION, and progrss in the world. if you want to get into personal politics, lets talk about Rev. Hagee’? keating five? the fact that he’s still in denial about the economy, his personal ethics, his failure of marriage all the other crap! there’s no end to it. Thats the nature of personal politics and smear and I only SEE one campaign moving past this and taking the high road.
So please, don’t insult me with the “but he stayed in there for 20 yrs ” or “rezko”. He was not even indicted and you need to understand the impact of slavery on the black church and general mistrust of the system.
This country may not be 100% for change since some people still fear the unknown and carry hateful xenophobic sentiments but all we need is 60% of the country behind a uniting, inspiring, and new agenda with Obama.

The Obama camp is clearly afraid of Palin. They and their media friends have pulled out all the stops. The Obama blog sphere trolls are foaming at the mouth like rabid dogs. This bodes well for McCain as it indicates the fear now settling in among the far left.

I was never one to claim a religion but I believe in a power that reigns over all and I believe that good will prevail and that balance will be restored. Its more than politics, its a moment in history and it is Obama’s time.
Obama Biden 2008.

McCain served his country! Obama served himself!
McCain stood up for this country while Obama and Rev Wright defiled it!
McCain and his friends defended this country while Obama and his friend Ayers tried to blow it up!
McCain was a POW while Obama used drugs and had a gay affair.
McCain’s wife loves America and is a patriot while Michelle hates it and isn’t proud to be here!
The choice becomes quite simple when you look at it this way! Suck it up and quit your whining liberals!

baz
you knock it out the park.. could not have said it better.

Can someone figure out what palin was doing in her first three years after college- the same time that Obama was a community organizer?
My quick check into this is that she
Year 1. Had to do a 5th year of college
Year 2. Part time fishing/unemployed
Year 3. local sports broadcasts/ unemployed(?)
I’m not sure when she started running the car wash.
The point here is that she’s bashing him as a community organizer but looks like an idiot b/c I’m pretty sure she couldn’t even finish college and hold down a real job at the same age.
Of course after those 3 years Obama became president of the Harvard law review, a constitutional scholar, a practicing civil rights attorney, a state senator, a board member of dozens of civic organizations, a United States Senator and for two years, a highly respected and battle-tested candidate (23 debates!) for president who took on the most powerful family in democratic politics. Sorry, Palin’s charming, but has no business insulting Obama.
Someone needs to seriously take these GOP lobbyists to task for their lies. I think alot of dupes out there actually fall for the tripe coming out of GOP attacks.

His speech was the same ole Bush and he has no clue as to what to do for the middle class but then again you are middle class if you make 5,000.000 wowow No clue as how to fix this America time for change but not with (McCain…….

This will absolutely blow your mind. One more reason why you never hear the details of Obama’s “community organizing” activities in the mainstream media. People, we are being duped on an unimaginable level.
Michelle’s Boot Camps For Radicals
http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=305420655186700

oh yeah when it wasn’t the Mccain History Channel …. It was the Bash-Obama Fest
Notice how there was a time warp to present once he got out of prison.
the divorce wasnt talked about
that clip on john and cindy’s adulterous love affair was so heart warming
he repeatedly denounced the mlk holiday
he is now an opponent of legislation HE sponsored
oh yeah … didn’t hear a thing about the keating five.

By the way whatever happened to his being against big oil when he voted for the Cheney Energy Bill in 2005 which actually caused your gas prices to go up? What about the fact the idiot said he was against the war and voted for it? What about the fact that because Exxalon (a subsidiary of Exxon) contributes heavily to his campaign after he said he’d get tough on nuclear energy and then magically just forgot about helping the people of Illinois get tough legislation on nuclear energy and by the way taking their money.
What about that Rezko land deal? What about the fact that he called anyone white racist that went against him? What about his whining wife who complains that she actually has to pay back student loans “SHE AGREED TO PAY BACK.” He wants you to give him more and more and more and yet what has he delivered? A few words on a stage that replicates an image of him as a Greek God. He’s a high priced Harvard Lawyer who hasn’t a clue what he’s doing. By the way he needs to take a fundamental economics course.
Silly people!

Ed
No animosity here. You guys are quite laughable.
I am having fun watching you all with this painful smile on your faces as you try to embrace mccain
I am loving it.

Did i once say i was starving …. nitwit.
so i guess if I am not starving i should just be oblivious to the rancid putrid direction this country has been going the past eight years and be totally passive to mccain trying to go it another 4 years
nitwit

Despite Obama’s claims of deep concern for Galesburg’s proletarian victims, however, Maytag union members told Secter that Obama had done remarkably little to save the Galesburg workers’ jobs. Those workers belonged to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, whose president noted that “Obama’s support for Maytag workers was more show than substance.

just like i recently saw a man that want to run my country and dont even know how many houses he has
is that someone who i think can relate to average american’s issues
think again and maybe you should too ED.

I’m insulted. I voted present 130 times not because I COULDN’T make a decision, I did it because I WOULDN’T make a decision. Then you wouldn’t have a paper path of my far-left, radical voting record and use it against me. I promise change ’cause baby you will see me change back to a lefty loonie so fast when I’m elected that your head will spin. Narcissism rules!

This part of his speech was very moving….
“I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else’s. I loved it not just for the many comforts of life here. I loved it for its decency; for its faith in the wisdom, justice and goodness of its people. I loved it because it was not just a place, but an idea, a cause worth fighting for. I was never the same again. I wasn’t my own man anymore. I was my country’s.
I’m not running for president because I think I’m blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save our country in its hour of need. My country saved me. My country saved me, and I cannot forget it. And I will fight for her for as long as I draw breath, so help me God.
If you find faults with our country, make it a better one. If you’re disappointed with the mistakes of government, join its ranks and work to correct them. Enlist in our armed forces. Become a teacher. Enter the ministry. Run for public office. Feed a hungry child. Teach an illiterate adult to read. Comfort the afflicted. Defend the rights of the oppressed. Our country will be the better, and you will be the happier. Because nothing brings greater happiness in life than to serve a cause greater than yourself.

that crowd looked like
COUNTRY CLUB FIRST
OR COUNTRY MUSIC FIRST

Let me get this straight: after months of mocking Obama’s hope/change rhetoric, Karl Rove’s little geriatric pet comes out on stage tonight and yelps about change and unity and hope? McCain used to be boring … with “more experience.” Now he got a rookie MILF next to him, and all of a sudden, these Republicunts are all in gasping for air, throwing their hands up in the air, catching a hissy fit about how McCain/Palin are the biggest mavericks since … err … Top Gun?! What the f is going on? “Change is coming”? For real, Johnny boy? Honestly, the look on your face sort of made it look like even you couldn’t believe the words that were coming out of your mouth!
Obama went from galvanizing grandeur to addressing actual issues and policies … albeit by catapulting himself much farther to the right than what most Obama supports were initially comfortable with. There’s a lot of icky stuff with Obama that I still need to get off my chest … but I’ll get to that at a later time.
Inversely, McCain went from a PTSD-inflicted lump of wrinkles on the brink of death (by old age and bizarre skin peelage), flag-waving, mini-Bush … to … hm … some sort of agent of change? Wait … is he feminist now? If memory serves me right, he snapped at his wife and called her a “trollop” … and a “c*nt.”
But now he’s a maverick! A feminist maverick! And so is Palin, who suddenly has “executive experience” and happens to be really good at “standing up.” And they both want in on this whole change phenomenon, damn it. He went from boring Bush-era policy wonk to … oratorial antics? And what’s up with the very undignified and unpresidential stiff-twitch geriatric spasm thing he does? Johnny Mac’s been sipping on some of Cindy’s botox? Yes? No? Maybe?

Obama : “Iran is a TINY threat”
Obama : “Iran is a MAJOR threat”
Will the real Obama stand up ?

Lots of paid McCain bloggers out today, like Carrie.

oh and barry O, FYI you might want to READ on that 130 voting present. its not about not making decisions (hard ones) there was an article here :
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/us/politics/20obama.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Mr. Obama cast 4,000 votes in the Illinois Senate and used the present vote to protest bills that he believed had been drafted unconstitutionally or as part of a broader legislative strategy.
I consider this a better strategy than voting on impulse and sending us to an unnecessary war.
so again, THINK before you post ludicris “facts”.

Palin attended five colleges, six times in six years. “According to a biography — ‘Sarah’ by Kaylene Johnson — Palin and three friends went to the University of Hawaii at Hilo after graduation from high school in Alaska in 1982. But they left after a few weeks because of the constant rain there, the book said.” She then attended Hawaii Pacific University (1982), then two-year college North Idaho College (1983), then the University of Idaho (1984-1985), then Matanuska-Susitna College in Palmer, Alaska (fall 1985), then back to the University of Idaho (fall 1986, spring 1987).

FYI to all you Republicans:
Victory in war is when you defeat the other army. We did that in 2003 we defeated the Iraqi army. Since then we have been an occupying force who has been attacked byh insurgents of Al Qaida. So pleas tell me how it is defeat to take our troops oput of a coountry where we whipped their army and bring most home ands deploy the rest to Afganastan where Al Quida is mostly located. How thew hell do you get defeat out of that???? Oh thats right its just a polotical statment to try to get your own way when the majority of thsi country wants our troops the hell out.

McCainPlain 2008 Had the force of 450,000 been used to begin with as the Joint Chiefs had advised this whole mess would never have gotten started to begin with. The surge was necessary as the Village Idiot and his minions wanted to fight a war on the cheap. Well we and our troops have paid a hell of a price for that cheapness.

“Mr. Obama cast 4,000 votes in the Illinois Senate and used the present vote to protest bills that he believed had been drafted unconstitutionally or as part of a broader legislative strategy.” That’s right! And when I voted present the first two times on the Born Alive Infant Protection act, I finally had to vote against it, even thought I was the only one to do so. Here’s my reasoning in my exact words:
It would essentially bar abortions, because the equal protection clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this would be an antiabortion statute. For that purpose, I think it would probably be found unconstitutional.
So, these are the types of bills I like to vote Present on. You can get in all kinds of trouble if people know where you stand on the issues.

Ernest, if it had been up to Obama, who voted “PRESENT”, there would not have been a SURGE … then more lives will be lost.
All other scenarios you pointed out earlier were HINDSIGHT, all 20/20.

The anti-Palin e-mail
The Anchorage Daily News confirms its authenticity and describes her as a “stay-at-home mom, letter-to-the-editor writer and longtime watcher of [Mat-Su] Valley politics” who has been deluged with e-mail as she become’s Palin’s leading local critic.
She says she clashed with Palin over her 1996 “attempt at censorship,” a reported suggested to ban books at a local library, which Palin later said wasn’t a serious proposal.
The letter mostly contains undisputed facts, and while it’s occasionally positive — “she’s smart” — it offers a bit of an alternate, and mostly hostile, history to the campaign biography.
A sample: “They call her ‘Sarah Barracuda’ because of her unbridled ambition and predatory ruthlessness.”
In any case, the full, viral anti-Palin e-mail after the jump.
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Dear friends,
So many people have asked me about what I know about Sarah Palin in the last 2 days that I decided to write something up . . .
Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in common: their gender and their good looks. :)
You have my permission to forward this to your friends/email contacts with my name and email address attached, but please do not post it on any websites, as there are too many kooks out there . . .
Thanks,
Anne
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.
She is enormously popular; in every way she’s like the most popular girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and won’t vote for her can’t quit smiling when talking about her because she is a “babe”.
It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. She kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents for seven months.
She is “pro-life”. She recently gave birth to a Down’s syndrome baby. There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby.
She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.
She is savvy. She doesn’t take positions; she just “puts things out there” and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.
Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin’s kind of job is highly sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything like that of native Alaskans.
Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters.
She’s smart.
Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000 (at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about 670,000 residents.
During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had given rise to a recall campaign.
Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a “fiscal conservative”. During her 6 years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over 33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation (1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they benefited residents.
The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration weren’t enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece of property that the City didn’t even have clear title to, that was still in litigation 7 yrs later–to the delight of the lawyers involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.
While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office redecorated more than once.
These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city.
As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.
In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today’s surplus, borrow for needs.
She’s not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren’t generated by her or her staff. Ideas weren’t evaluated on their merits, but on the basis of who proposed them.
While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin’s attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.
Sarah complained about the “old boy’s club” when she first ran for Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of “old boys”. Palin fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people, creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally grateful and fiercely loyal–loyal to the point of abusing their power to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the case of pressuring the State’s top cop (see below).
As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla’s Police Chief because he “intimidated” her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska’s top cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure and she had every legal right to fire him, but it’s pretty clear that an important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn’t fire her sister’s ex-husband, a State Trooper. Under investigation for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen contacts were made between her staff and family to the person that she later fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew her support.
She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn’t like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.
Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything publicly about her.
When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah got the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission: one of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid. She had no background in oil & gas issues. Within months of scoring this great job which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in the press about the high salary. I was told that she hated that job: the commute, the structured hours, the work. Sarah became aware that a member of this Commission (who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party) engaged in unethical behavior on the job. In a gutsy move which some undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah solved all her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics and as a gutsy fighter against the “old boys’ club” when she dramatically quit, exposing this man’s ethics violations (for which he was fined).
As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from Senator Ted Stevens. Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel politics and publicly humiliated him. She only opposed the “bridge to nowhere” after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.
As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing projects, calling them pork. Public outcry and further legislative action restored most of these projects–which had been vetoed simply because she was not aware of their importance–but with the unobservant she had gained a reputation as “anti-pork”.
She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated them. Other members of the party object to her self-description as a fiscal conservative.
Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah. They call her “Sarah Barracuda” because of her unbridled ambition and predatory ruthlessness. Before she became so powerful, very ugly stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made point guard on the high school basketball team. When Sarah’s mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.
As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of package of legislation known as “AGIA” that forced the oil companies to march to the beat of her drum.
Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked to global warming. She campaigned “as a private citizen” against a state initiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the state (depending on who you listen to). She has pushed the State’s lawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior’s decision to list polar bears as threatened species.
McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be a heartbeat away from being President.
There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more knowledgeable and experienced than she.
However, there’s a lot of people who have underestimated her and are regretting it.
CLAIM VS FACT
*”Hockey mom”: true for a few years.
*”PTA mom”: true years ago when her first-born was in elementary school, not since.
*”NRA supporter”: absolutely true
*social conservative: mixed. Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a bill that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships (said she did this because it was unconsitutional).
*pro-creationism: mixed. Supports it, BUT did nothing as Governor to promote it.
*”Pro-life”: mixed. Knowingly gave birth to a Down’s syndrome baby BUT declined to call a special legislative session on some pro-life legislation
*”Experienced”: Some high schools have more students than Wasilla has residents. Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska. No legislative experience other than City Council. Little hands-on supervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city administrator to run town of about 5,000.
*political maverick: not at all
*gutsy: absolutely!
*open & transparent: ??? Good at keeping secrets. Not good at explaining actions.
*has a developed philosophy of public policy: no
*”a Greenie”: no. Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores and disconnected parking lots. Is pro-drilling off-shore and in ANWR.
*fiscal conservative: not by my definition!
*pro-infrastructure: No. Promoted a sports complex and park in a city without a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system. Built streets to early 20th century standards.
*pro-tax relief: Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax burden on residents
*pro-small government: No. Oversaw greatest expansion of city government in Wasilla’s history.
*pro-labor/pro-union. No. Just because her husband works union doesn’t make her pro-labor. I have seen nothing to support any claim that she is pro-labor/pro-union.
WHY AM I WRITING THIS?
First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting programs in the schools. If you google my name (Anne Kilkenny + Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.
Secondly, I’ve always operated in the belief that “Bad things happen when good people stay silent”. Few people know as much as I do because few have gone to as many City Council meetings.
Third, I am just a housewife. I don’t have a job she can bump me out of. I don’t belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I am no fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will cost me somehow in the future: that’s life.
Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100 or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah’s attempt at censorship.
Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to say anything because they were somehow vulnerable.
CAVEATS
I am not a statistician. I developed the numbers for the increase in spending & taxation 2 years ago (when Palin was running for Governor) from information supplied to me by the Finance Director of the City of Wasilla, and I can’t recall exactly what I adjusted for: did I adjust for inflation? for population increases? Right now, it is impossible for a private person to get any info out of City Hall–they are swamped. So I can’t verify my numbers.
You may have noticed that there are various numbers circulating for the population of Wasilla, ranging from my “about 5,000″, up to 9,000. The day Palin’s selection was announced a city official told me that the current population is about 7,000. The official 2000 census count was 5,460. I have used about 5,000 because Palin was Mayor from 1996 to 2002, and the city was growing rapidly in the mid-90′s.
Anne Kilkenny
August 31, 2008

Educated Black Man
you are a joke to begin with.
like education and black is some sort of a anomoly.
doesn’t seem tooo educated to me.
you border on being dumb and being a brick

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&title=sarah-palin-gender-card

think – I’m in agreement with you. I thought just stating her college experience spoke volumes without additional commentary. I also want the media to ask if Palin is ready to lead on day one in her capacity as VP – why isn’t she ready to speak to the press on day 6? Why is she going to be avoiding all press for awhile?

NMP agreed :)
please enjoy this little piece
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&title=sarah-palin-gender-card
i think we could all use a little humour in our lives
Obama Biden 2008

We have always Respected and Honored McCain’s service to this country. But we know who is spinning the message Schmidt and Rove known as the guys that brought us two George W. Bush terms and now they want to sell us a third Bush term.
McCain called for an end to the“constant partisan rancor”. Yet his campaign ads have attacked American Artists by attempting to brand them as just celebrities. Barack Obama is like Ronald Reagan when it comes to support of the Talented Artists of their time. Obama’s message rings of a “Beautiful day coming to America” which is similar to Reagan’s “Its morning in america again”.
McCain’s campaign has gone after the media who are asking the important questions that help keep the voters informed about the contrasts between the Democrat and Republican Parties in the most important election of our times.
After watching this Republican convention the first impression was the Republicans rallied their base by attacking Obama/Biden instead of presenting a clear case for voting for McCain. What about their solutions for the issues voters care about? A missed opportunity for the Republicans. Follow up impression common sense now says that its Obama/Biden who can end the “constant partisan rancor” in Washington DC.
When McCain says the last weeks of this campaign will be hard fought, nothing personally, just the nature of the business we know what McCain, Schmidt and Rove are saying – more negative attacks, more slash and burn tactics. When McCain says “Change is coming,” to Washington DC – The voters look at the Schmidt, Rove and Fox News attacking and we know what is coming – A Pit Bull? Avoid The Pit Bull with Lip Stick when The Pit Bull attacks. Who says we must fight on their turf? Let them come to ours. This race is still Obama/Biden vs McCain/Bush.
America can have a beautiful day in November by Voting for Change we can believe in
U2 can have a beautiful day!
U2 can Join us!
Vote Obama/Biden ’08

John McCain is asking us to forget he sold his soul to the Republican right. Sorry John, we are not that stupid. RIP John McCain of 2000, the new version is just a cynical old man with a clueless sidekick. It is going to be a sad experience to watch the defeated old man lumber back to the Senate in January, but had he REALLY been the reform candidate he said he was, it would have been a McCain/Ridge ticket. THAT would have been a winner. Sarah Palin may be star now, but what happens when she is own her own?

again…in keeping with his “Change” agenda

“I am a Hillary supported that after hearing the Palin/McCain speeches will be now voting for blah blah blah blah blah…”
Like that’s going to fool anyone but yourselves.
These pathetic Republican “pseudo Hillary people” think they can stand and post everywhere, in front of real Hillary supporters, and pretend their shallow logic has now made them McCain/Palin supporters.
You fools don’t even come close to getting it. You people are such obvious victims of the sexist nature of your political party’s policies on women that you think we support Hillary because of her tits and shinny white smile.
We support Hillary not only because she is a woman with highly capable intellect, experience and abilities, but because SHE HAS BALLS!!!

Real John McCain
“About 300 guests turned out Saturday night to celebrate the 90th birthday of Joseph ‘Joe Bananas’ Bonanno, retired boss of New York’s Bonanno crime family. He retired to Tucson in 1968 . . . John McCain, R-Ariz., and Gov. Fife Symington sent their regards by telegram.” The Arizona Republic – January 17, 1995
McCain was one of the “Keating Five,” congressmen investigated on ethics charges for strenuously helping convicted racketeer Charles Keating after he gave them large campaign contributions and vacation trips.
Charles Keating was convicted of racketeering and fraud in both state and federal court after his Lincoln Savings & Loan collapsed, costing the taxpayers $3.4 billion. His convictions were overturned on technicalities.
McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating after Keating gave McCain at least $112,00 in contributions. In the mid-1980s, McCain made at least nine trips on Keating’s airplanes, and three of those were to Keating’s luxurious retreat in the Bahamas. McCain’s wife and father-in-law also were the largest investors (at $350,000) in a Keating shopping center; the Phoenix New Times called it a “sweetheart deal.”
In 2001 and again in 2003, he voted against the Bush tax cuts, saying at the time: “I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle-class Americans who most need tax relief.” Today, he’s the biggest champion of making the Bush tax cuts permanent. He once condemned religious conservatives like Jerry Falwell and James Dobson as “agents of intolerance.” Today, he’s sucking up to them. On Jan. 9, 2000, he called the Confederate flag “a symbol of racism and slavery.” Three days later, he insisted: “Personally, I see the flag as a symbol of heritage.” Today, he says he’ll leave it up to states to decide what to do about flying the Confederate flag. Even on his signature issues, John McCain’s all over the place. He angered conservatives by standing with President Bush on comprehensive immigration reform. Today, he says, as president, he wouldn’t even sign the immigration bill he sponsored. Same on campaign reform. In 2004, he denounced the so-called Swift Boat Veterans for the lies they broadcast about John Kerry’s record in Vietnam. Running for president in 2008, McCain, as first reported by The Nation magazine, has accepted over $60,000 in campaign contributions from the same Swift Boat liars. This week, the anti-torture McCain even voted to allow the continued use of waterboarding.
But nowhere is McCain’s change-with-the-wind politics more apparent than in his approach to the war in Iraq. In January 2007, he blasted those who led the American people to believe the war would be “some kind of a walk at the beach.” Yet during the buildup to war, McCain himself told Larry King: “I believe that we can win an overwhelming victory in a very short time.” Now, running for president, McCain is the chief cheerleader for the war, asserting it’s OK with him if American troops remain in Iraq for 100 years.
McCain is equally hawkish on Iran, rejecting direct talks with Iranian leaders and holding out war with Iran as a real option. “There is only one scenario worse than military action in Iran and that is a nuclear-armed Iran,” says McCain – which, of course, is the same policy toward Iran advocated by George W. Bush

The choice of a powerful woman for VP who has more experience in governance that NObama has left NObama’s campaign powerless and shows the grave mistake Barack made not choosing Hillary Clinton for VP, choosing instead an old Washington politician, an by doing so negating the flag of change.
Hillary supporters who are still scared by the mistreatment and attacks of the liberal media who shamelessly destroyed Hillary’s presidential bid are now resigned to put our country first and vote for the republican ticket to elect a president that is qualified and has the experience to deal with all the complexed problems our country is facing and also to demonstrate that a woman can handle successfully any job including being the commander in chief.
Hillary supporters have no other choice that to choose our country first and elect a a qualified president and a woman in the white house!
Country First! McCain/Palin!

Gen Don McArthur(the one that fade away ?) … what you just said IS hindsight.
I think it also call Monday Morning Quarterbacking

“I am a Hillary supported that after hearing the Palin/McCain speeches will be now voting for blah blah blah blah blah…”
Like that’s going to fool anyone but yourselves.
These pathetic Republican “pseudo Hillary people” think they can stand and post everywhere, in front of real Hillary supporters, and pretend their shallow logic has now made them McCain/Palin supporters.
You fools don’t even come close to getting it. You people are such obvious victims of the sexist nature of your political party’s policies on women that you think we support Hillary because of her tits and shinny white smile.
We support Hillary not only because she is a woman with highly capable intellect, experience and abilities, but because SHE HAS BALLS!!!
Posted by: Dom | Sep 5, 2008 11:47:08 AM
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LOLOL, Don’t forget the phony African-Americans voting for the bloated white presidential ticket, LOLOL!
Poor McCainites, they are resorting to the most pathetic tactics…
The joy I feel the most is that they will now suffer for 8 years+!!!!
RIP Republican Party!

It is simply amazing that a Presidential candidate makes his running mate choise by relying his tiny brain located in his Johnson, instead of picking one who actualy has the capabilities to be VP or President if necessary.

Why is everyone ignoring the Beast in the room? Fathers and fatherhood is about to be flushed again. When will candidates realize that little truth yet comes forth and when it does the government itself will be shown as perpetrator of family destruction? Just take Biden’s Violence Against Women Act to see that there is no support for an abused man or father. Is this even Equal Protection under the law? Check my facts at http://www.mediaradar.org

McCain and Palin are puppets for the Republican party. McCain doesn’t believe what he is saying. He has changed all that he does to fit into the mold that will make him an acceptable republican candidate for president. He is a man determined by any means to be president of the United States.
Immigration Reform is a perfect example. It was an issue McCain “believed in” – Hell! He cowrote the bill! His name is on it: S1433, McCain-Kennedy Immigration Bill
He says that he would not sign the bill excusing himself because he “learned” that we need to protect our borders first. Basically buying into the “Mexican Terrorist Theory”. As far as I know the last time Terrorists crossed our borders that did it in a plane. The Mexican border is to dangerous and hard for our Saudi born and Saudi led terrorists.
So lets stop immigration reform a sure fire economy driven good move and start another war this time with Iraq’s next door neighbor, Iran!
We need a law that requires and enforces corporations and small businesses alike to not hire illegals. That law will effectively stop illegal immigration. Then at the same time establish a legal and fair process for citenship paid for by the illegal aliens that are here with some profit built in to help pay back deficits.
That is a solution. I don’t hear any of those from John McCain.
Obama has a plan to bring jobs back. He wants to renovate our infrastructure and create green energy jobs/sources in the United States for people in the United States. McCains says he will create jobs but remains vague on how or what actual industries would provide those jobs.
Ride with Obama who got the war question right from the start or ride with McCain who knows how to “stop losing so bad” after six years of being in a war we had no business and no real rationale for being in.
Keating/Rezko
A lot of years of failures/a smaller number of years with more successes than failures
A quick to anger approach/A quick to access the situation approach
A poor pick for president/possibly one of the best choices ever for a president on many different levels
the choice is clear…to me
our voice will be heard in November!

Oprah will not interview Palin until after the election. BET and TV One devoted “unprecedented resources toward political coverage of the DNC as opposed to TV One no RNC coverage and BET limited coverage, MLK was a Republican by the way…Liberals pushing lies on Palin..i.e. succession…banning books…NT Times, US Magazine on and on and on media bias..GUESS MCCARTHYSIM OF THE 40′S HAS SWITCHED SIDES, NOW HOLLYWOOD IS DOING THE BLACKLISTING…TROUBLING

Mccain & Palin will have a land slide victory this fall by the way. Obama’s questionable character and radical ties will bring down the Dems this fall.
Obama friend Kilpatrick is in jail now for putting himself and his family members first than City and Country

Its okay if the Republicans win! becuase there is nothing much to loose! under their rule just ask yourselves how much money we have borrowed from the Chinese! and you will get the answer. This is not a joke! I swear 4 more years of the Republicans and we gonna slide down the hill faster than the Russians. Even now, with this kind of economy! I’m doubtful whether we are still the # one in the world.

Haven’t heard from Bill Clinton lately. Is he home laughing his behind off at Obama’s stupidity?

McCain Takes Fight to Obama’s Turf, As what I heard in my trip to Peoria last week I know the out state people are looking for a truthful, sincere and not another promise breaking politician to be their leader. I was told of many untruthful facts that are coming from Obama’s campaign of all the help he gave factory workers when tough times over came the companies they worked for. He put on a good initial concern and then dropped the ball. I was told over and over by several random people that the only Illinois people that he helps is the Chicago metro area. He knows who will believe anything and where the numbers are. They also told me he has an agenda not revealed yet for certain connections. The common word describing him was “shady” or “fake”.

This is the most interesting perspective I have read yet regarding McCain’s choice of Palin. It’s from an unusual religious perspective. If you are into those things, I highly recommend checking it out:
http://www.newsflavor.com/Opinions/McCain-Hijacks-Christianity-Via-Palin.240929

Is Biden still alive? Has he joined Vince Foster yet?
Obammy has as much experience as my parakeet.
Come to think of it, my parakeet speaks better.
Palin/McCain 08

In six days Sarah Palin becomes almost as popular as Senator Obama has in almost four years of campaigning. Far too many voters are not sure of his sincerity and abilities.
Last night, he finally admitted the surge in Iraq worked and today on TV he is for off-shore drilling. If he had been a competent candidate, he would not have to flip-flop so much. He would have thoroughly studied the topics before taking a position.
And he certainly has not admiited his 13th IL senate district lost 11% of its jobs during his 8 year term. He is really an ecomonic expert. LOL

Let’s face it, he’s black too. You have to be kidding me. Everyone knows we don’t elect Negroes into the presidency. And since they only comprise a small percentage of the population, it’s all over.
That’s why he’ll lose.
McCain is actually is a blown out wind bag and Sarah reminds me more of the sluts in High School than anything else.
But, anything but Obama for me and America.
This is payback for OJ!

I personally believe that the democrats are covering there ears and shoving their heads in the sand. they are complaining that there is too much political manuevering on the Republican side when the facts state that they do the same daily to draw power to themselves. The truth of the matter is, they are jealous. John McCain is a Maverick. He chose someone that has governing experience and is younger than Obuma. Palin is the right choice for the vice pres position. She has a strong character and resourceful. Her capabilities will be a great contribution to McCain’s impending victory. With McCain’s dealmaking and Palin’s resourcefullness, the important bills that need passed will pass. Next thing that needs to happen is for Republicans to retake congress and pass a veterans’ healthcare bill with out the pork and earmarks (the reason McCain opposed the last 27 versions of the bill) Finally the Democratic party needs to be dissolved because that party is run by slackers, money launderers, old money, baby killers, criminal supporters, and anti-progress members.

Democrats need to open there eyes to the real world and accept a real
leader.
They need to realize our enemies
don’t wear uniforms and don’t follow the rules of war. No amount of negotiations or money with assuage their hatred for our culture. I cannot stand idly by while many americans are trying to elect a talker into office when we need a strong willed leader in this time of crisis when our businesses are being bought out by foreign companies, our fellow americans are taken hostage and murdered in cold blood. We need to regain control of the markets and strengthen the dollar. Nationalize our electric power. Americans can pay a small percent through tax dollars. We need to become fuel independent to cut prices. America first. Cut off our support to foreign nations of humanitarian aid. Most of the money we give them is filtered through their government’s pockets. We’d be saving billions of dollars which can go into the national debt and deficit. We can use that money to buy back gold from China and middle eastern countries. Once we get that back, we make our dollars gold-backed. That will make the U.S. dollar dominate the world market cause the Euro is only silver-backed. Take that Dems.

The GOP is fired and ready to go !
FACT : More people actually watched RNC than DNC.
McCain and Palin each garnered more viewership than Obama….no one even make any mentioned of Biden. So is Biden still on the ticket ?

Posted by: Carrie | Sep 5, 2008 9:31:09 AM
Carrie – If you were really a Hillary supporter, then you would know exactly what Hillary stood for, and you would be appalled by what Palin stands for. Someone that would vote for a candidate based on their gender is the real “sexist”! Stop using the whole “sexist” talking points garbage that the GOP keeps texting you every morning! Your party is playing the “the media is picking on me” tactic, which has been used over and over before, in so many past elections, and everyone can see right through it. Is that really the change McCain is promising? It’s just the same old tired politics of the past.
The only ‘ch-ch-change’ McCain has done is how his campaign has quickly changed direction, and started mirroring Obama’s campaign. How do you expect everyone to believe in what McCain was saying Thursday night about wanting to reach across party lines, and doing things with character and integrity – after all the speakers the 2 nights before used the old politics style of “mudslinging”, and further dividing the country. I’ve always had a lot of respect for McCain, but a man of character and integrity, would not be talking about all of this now, after witnessing his own party’s behavior the prior nights. It just makes him look like a hypocrite, and I’ve lost the respect that I had for him! How can he even be saying all these things with a straight face?!
This whole time I’ve just kind of been so-so about this whole election, because I didn’t mind having McCain as president. I am PI$$ED, because as a moderate Democrat, I actually really liked McCain! But after him selling his soul to the devil with his selection of right-wing nutjob, Palin, and this recent week’s parade of lies and hypocrisy, I’m going all out for Obama now. I just can’t trust McCain – he has completely lost his mind!

McCain/Palin2008 Yes more people watched the RNC convention we Demopcrats watched the comedy show for laughs and got alot, and the Geritopl crowds that attended ya’ll convention won’t be back for the next as they will be nursing home bound by then.

The Obama camp is not going to like this but the race is definitely TIGHT.
A more Obama-leaning CNN is officially declaring :
“According the latest CNN Poll of Polls, Obama now leads the Arizona senator by three points, 45 percent to 42 percent. Last Thursday’s Poll of Polls showed the Illinois senator up by four points, 47 percent to McCain’s 43 percent.
The latest CNN analysis of several recent surveys DOES NOT include any post Republican National Convention tallies.
“While the race appears to be tightening up a bit, it’s worth keeping in mind that we still haven’t seen any polling conducted after the Republican Convention,”
This is closer than many pundits are making it out to be … never rule out the MAVERICK / REFORMER combination

Saddleblazing … I agree … of the many who tuned in to watch Obama on his DNC coronation, many, I am sure are Democrats tuning to watch Obama, the comedian.
BTW, it was a great Greek comedy show … with Greek Temple and all.

The notion that maverick is more patriotic than community organizer is completely untrue…. Soryy fellow democrates, I mean the notion that a mayor of a small town is more patriotic than a community organizer is completely untrue…. Ok let’s do it again, take 3: The notion that a community organizer is more patriotic than … Stop? Man!! Any body chek the teleporter please! Ok ready? … Take 4: The notion that a small town mayor is more … What? You mean of a small twon of 9 thousands. Ok, I am ready. Wait where are you going? Oh, it’s so late now? Ok we do it again tomorrow.