The Note: New Questions Dog McCain-Palin Ticket

Obama and the MSM are trying to force Palin to quit. Won’t happen. Obama is toast.

So what are considered relevant and worthy attacks on Governor Palin? National politics is a brutal business – and Gov Palin had no idea what she was subjecting her family to. ………….
http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/09/02/regarding-attacks-on-sarah-palin/

and Obama/Biden has no idea how tough this woman is.

Sarah Palin even lied about being named “Miss Congeniality”. Amy Gwin won the title, not Ms Palin. Sounds like this family has serious issues. Maybe Dr. Phil would be winning to help.

What happened to abstinence only? This is about judgment.

The President of the United States appoints over 6,000 positions in the government. With the level of vetting done on Palin, there is no way I’d trust the McCain camp to vet them.

Wait until Obama gets vetted.

It’s funny how a lot of people posting here act like they personally know Palin, I think you know as much as the media is telling you and its not too much. It can all turn out good for her or it can turn out bad.

This is pure Alexrod/Obama. they did the same thing to Clinton. Not everyone has forgotten that.

It would be nice (but impossible) for the media to give Obama the same king of vetting they are giving Sarah Palin.
The media is for free speech but do not mention Obama’s efforts to squash free speech by trying to prevent an investigation into his relationship with Ayers and the Anneburg Challange.

argh! “It’s so nice to see Democrats attack women vociferously.”
Really? This is an attack on all women, by all Democrats? Perhaps you should consider looking at REALITY for a moment:
In the House there are 74 female Representatives. The Senate has 16 females.
Of the 16 female Senators, 11 are Democrats and 5 are Republicans. Of the 74 female Representatives, 53 are Democrats and 21 are Republicans.
Yet Democrats are padlocking the glass ceiling? Please. jhw
Why can’t Republican’s push what’s good about their candidate rather than fling mud at the opposition? Isn’t there ANYTHING good about their ticket to talk about (other than being a POW in the last century)?

Palin opposes sex-ed, is anti-gay, anti-environment, anti-choice. She exaggerates her accomplishments, but really has zero experience in anything national or international. Got her passport last year. Like George Bush. McSame and now female Bush. Nice pair.

Questions? These questions are small change to the real questions facing the Bamma Obiden ticket.
How are they going to explain Joe’s hairplugs? Explain Joe’s son as a lobbyist.
Palin will take these “women” questions all day long.
What liberals cannot question is her totally successful rule as Alaska’s governor.
Palin/McCain 08

“This is pure Alexrod/Obama. they did the same thing to Clinton. Not everyone has forgotten that.”
LOL. Axelrod and Obama went up to Alaska and forced poor Sarah Palin to mismanage funds in Wasilla, take hundreds of millions of dollars in pork-barrel spending from Washington DC, marry a drunk driver, unethically fire a public safety officer, join a pro-secessionist political party and call her political rival the b-word? Wow, if Axelrod/Obama have that kind of power, I want them in the White House. They make things happen!!!
In all seriousness, THIS is misogyny – refusing to judge a woman by the same standards you would judge a man. Sarah Palin is barely fit to be dog catcher, and that would be true if her name were Stanley Palin.

I love the people on this blog who immediate start trashing Obama. Hey, your guy is the one who did not do his homework. What good is his experience if didn’t learn anything. If George McGovern and Walter Mondale taught anything it was the cost of poor vp candidate vetting.

Did some one say Bristol Palin is 17 years old? How old is the boyfriend of her love child? Does he have a US Passport?
Alaska statutory rape laws declare that anyone who is 18 years old or older who has sex with a person who is 16 or 17, or who is at least three years younger than the offender, can be charged with sexual abuse in the third degree. This is also a felony.
Alaska statutory rape laws carry punishments that include imprisonment and fines.
Under Alaska law, health-care practitioners like doctors and nurses, plus teachers, counselors and a whole list of other professionals must report sex between a minor and an adult if it comes to their attention. To fail to do so is a misdemeanor.

Palin belonged to AIP for 2 years in the 90s. Obama belonged to Trinity Church for 20 years till this year.
Guilt by association?
From Wikipedia:
The Alaskan Independence Party is a political party in the U.S. state of Alaska. Its best-known policy is its call for a United Nations vote, which they claim should have been offered as an option in the plebiscite on statehood under international law. Ideologically a constitutional foundation, the party also calls for increased Alaskan control of Alaskan land, gun rights, privatization, home schooling, and reduction of governmental intrusion in the private lives of its citizens with adherence to the founding documents of the United States. The party has appeared on the ballot in Alaska in all state elections since 1970.
At other times, party members have also proposed that the state explore the possibility of joining Canada. Other members have expressed opposition to joining Canada in its present form but are open to the possibility of joining an independent Western Canadian state in the event one should be established. Neither of these scenarios form part of the party’s current platform.
At the national level, the party is affiliated with the conservative Constitution Party.[2]

the change yobamma is talking about is the spare change in your pockets…taxes, welfare, national health care, fee abortions to high schoolers, on and on and on…
Now they attack a women VP because of family issues, just because they were too stupid to put Hillary on the ticket…. yeah they want change all the change you got….

While I am not crazy about the idea of Palin belonging to a separatist party…..it was a way for her to express her opinion(remeber freedom of speech i think it’s in that document located at the archives building in dc)…possibly she feels alaska gives more than it gets….possibly she was tired of panty waste liberals telling her they could drill ANWR…..she’s got more balls than Barak and Biden put together…..

The news media are saying that Biden will have to be soft on her or we would see him as picking on a woman… I say “IF YOU CAN’T TAKE THE HEAT GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN……Lets see what is she made of Biden.

I think it best she withdraws to ” spend more time with her family” and as a consolation give up the slot to Harriet Miers. Maybe McBush will offer the Treasury Sec job to “Scooter” Libby. Have Bush pardon the “unibomber” and use him for Sec of Defense.
Bring it on !!!!!

Anyone on this board that claims Obama had anything to do with the Palin mess IS ONE DUMB AMERICAN. Obama has said he thinks families should be excluded from the campaign (didn’t you know that)! Watch him on CNN….this is what he said OVER AND OVER AGAIN yesterday. AND, it was the McCain campaign that disclosed the story because they knew it was going to come out with all the digging the media was doing checking her out. After all, in my opinion we ought to know everything about those running for the highest and second highest offices. Go ahead and check more into Ayers…this has come out already (over and over again) there’s really nothing there. Go ahead and bring it up again and again…who cares…it’s all out…make your own judgment. Now, let’s find out more about this Palin person.

I just read on another site that the boy friend does not want kids…What do we have here… A shotgun wedding… I can see that lasting!!! yap!!!!

I agree that O and his campaign are could be involved in the frenzy to destroy this woman before Americans get a chance to know her.
They want to kill her before she gest a chance to get a fair chance. They did it to Hillary(pushed her out before she could may be win), and very astutely. I mean they Ruthlessly turned Hillary into a racist of all things!! They sure can make things like that happen, sometimes very quietly and behind the scenes, and trough others while the main guy makes himself look good for the TV. Damm right, I have not forgaten how they did Hillary in. Yes, clearly Os supporters are taking this woman apart piece by piece; he just gets to sit back and watch. I thought it was funny how on CNN he said he had more experience than this woman, who IS NOT the top of the ticket, because he had more employees and a bigger budget for his campaign!! I mean how ridiculous is that . . .LOL
I hope this lady won’t take it like Hillary did. She ought to fight back for her family no less.

Well, John McCain needed someone to help him with his medical situation as he had earlier proposed “The Duty of the VP will be to take care of the president’s health”
Probably helping in reducing stress and substituting for VIAGRA.
McCain lacks judgement. He wanted to appeal to us Clinton supporters not knowing that we were leading him to his grave.
John McCain is a dull man.

“John Edwards had an affair, but that was off limits too. But let a Republican be the target and reporters begin throwing mud.”
When John Edwards affair was made public on August 8, all the cable news networks–especially the Republican fake news network, FOX–were all over the story. It was hardly “off limits.” They milked that story for all it was worth–for several days.
As for Palin, I’m a Democrat and I don’t care that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. It’s NON-ISSUE. But if this 17-year-old knocked-up daughter was a Democrat’s child, the Republicans would be using that as campaign fodder, saying that Democrats don’t have any “family values.”
“President Obama” — get used to it, people.

How does this ticket show the gumption to take on entrenched forces within the party?
It’s been widely reported that McCain wanted to pick Lieberman or Ridge and was told by his party that he couldn’t do that. So he chose Palin at the last minute.
She was for the bridge until Congress wouldn’t pay for all of it. She helped run Ted Stevens’s 527 organization and has been a strong supporter of his in the past. She left her hometown eye deep in debt at the end of her mayoral term, and her approval rating has been dropping steadily within Alaska. Regardless of her daughter (whom I agree shouldn’t be a part of this), I just don’t see the pluses here.
How exactly is any of this maverick or taking on the party?
And I’m sure all of you folks who are defending Sarah Palin also defended Michelle Obama against the ridiculous “fist bump” charges and all of the other vitriol that’s been spewed about her. Yeah, I’m *sure* you did.

Bottom line? McCain is a fool

John McCain should be blamed for the media attention the 17 year old is getting. He has been in politics long enough to know that if the press gets a hold of a scandal, they are going to publish it.
John McCain is a self-righteous pig!!
he is the one who put is political ambitions ahead of a 17 year privacy!!

“I love the people on this blog who immediate start trashing Obama. Hey, your guy is the one who did not do his homework. What good is his experience if didn’t learn anything. If George McGovern and Walter Mondale taught anything it was the cost of poor vp candidate vetting.”
Posted by: DMR | Sep 2, 2008 10:07:40 AM
The problem is that the McCain camp is insisting they have done their homework. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jrhFOsVwX9jtDyUhy3zKCBVms8tgD92UI8D81
The left is jumping and running with any story that they think can generate negative publicity for Palin.
Can any of you please tell me exactly what Palin’s role was in the Alaskan Independence Party? Exactly what positions she held while a member? How this will affect her job as vice president?

“We are going to flush the toilet,” new McCain-Palin aide Tucker Eskew (yes, THE Tucker Eskew) tells the Times.
You are right and please include that senile old man McCain who wants to flush this country down the toilet.

The decent thing to do would be to respect Palin’s daughter’s privacy but it’s just wishful thinking to expect everyone in the country to be decent. Apparently the people from the National Enquirer (and probably all the other tabloids) are in Wasilla poking around. I hope Palin knew what she was getting her daughter into. IMHO her kids need a mom more than America needs her as vice president.

Palin seems like a great person, but not a great VP or, heaven forbid, President.
I know that some religious people are excited about her because of her religious views, and she seems to represent those views very strongly.
But I think a lot of people are seeing her through rose-colored glasses because of it.
She doesn’t have “commander-in-chief” experience. Military and National Guard are handled primarily at the Federal level. The idea that she has led combat troops in any way, shape, or form is specious.

When it comes to leading our nation, we’ll take BRAINS OVER BEAUTY!
McCain hasn’t figured this out yet.

To Larry, who said ”What liberals cannot question is her totally successful rule as Alaska’s governor”
Alaska is one of the smallest states in population (only 700,000 people)withh the highest revenues (from Alaskan natural resources). It’s not hard to balance a budget if you have only 700,000 people and unlimited wealth. A PTA chairperson could be Alaska’s governor. And I wouldn’t say it’s been ”totally successful” Only 20 months in office and already an abuse of power? She claims she fights corruption in her own party, but this ”reformer” publicly supports Alaskan Senator Stevens after police raid his home and he is indicted for wrongdoing? Palin’s brief stint as Alaskan governor is nothing to write home about.

Thank you, John McCain, as well as all you Christianist morons out there. Sarah Palin is a gift from Zeus!

She is suppose to be a big reformer, but her campaign was finance by corrupt politicians and big oil.
She is one of the only Republicans that Big Oil to drill in ANWAR , which McCain and America opposes.

I could care less about Palin’s daughter. That has nothing to do with this election. Leave the poor kid out if this.
I DO CARE that John McCain is 72 and has had 5 boughts of cancer! Palin would be PRESIDENT if he has to step down. THAT IS SCARY!!!!
I DO CARE McCain obviously made a hasty choice based purely on gender and not on qualifications. It shows his lak of foresight and judgement. (A Republican mantra we’ve witnessed for eight years already)
I do care Palin misused her power to get her sister’s ex-husband fired and is under investigation.
I do care Palin has shown POOR JUDGMENT and had NO INTERNATIONAL or DOMESTIC policy experience.
I do care she represents only the EXTREME right on social issues.
She is in NO WAY QUALIFIED to be one step away from being the most powerful peron in the world!

The Beauty Queen who is turning out to be the biggest bust in the World of VP choices.

geevil, always enjoy your dumb comments. The Maverick and Barracuda, eh? I believe the backlash will be directed towards the current administration and those that have supported their policies. Ron Paul!

Of all the people he could have picked that might have helped his campaign, McCain picks Palin who comes with all kinds of questions. I don’t know what he was thinking, but thanks John!
Obama/Biden ’08

Obama likes cake more than Palin. Cake likes Obama more than Palin. Cake wins!

Maybe McCain has the hots for her. After all, he did have an affair on his first wife!

She opposed the War even though she was a Mayor and now has her son join the Armed Forces July 1st 2008 just to place herself as a supporter of Iraq and a possible VP pick.
She wants her son joing Not just the Military,but head to IRAQ.
GOP spin lie!!
By the time he get’s out of boot camp, the War will be winding down with s focus being om the Afghan War.

It is amusing to listen to the neo-con whack jobs like Hannity and Limbaugh. They are scrambling to try to make lemonade out of Palin the lemon.

For two years in the 1990s, the Republican nominee for Vice President was a member of a party (Alaskan Independence Party) which seeks Alaska’s secession from the United States. Dexter Clark, the party’s Vice Chairman has stated that members “should infiltrate” mainstream parties in order to effect the Independence Party’s agenda. If elected, will she use her position in the McCain administration to further the goals of Alaskan independence? She is certainly going to have to bite her tongue to swear that she will uphold the U.S. Constitution.

Tom, you must be one of the 29% that still supports Bush. Must be kind of lonely.

Look a few things from an alaskan. First Mccain did not choose to air the familys dirty laundry a bunch of people on the internet began a false rumor that the latest child was actualy her grand child the best way to head that scanle off was to announce her pregnancy, she didnt have a kid as she was pregnant at the time. And the trooper that she “tried to sack as he was her sisters ex” THis was started by her political opponants and the poliece union. THe fact is he drove a poliece car drunk, tased his son, and threated people using his status as a shield. For this he recieved a 5 day suspension.

Stephen”
Wow…did you make it past 6th grade? Nice post, MORON.

Palin’s LESBIAN AFFAIR…that’s hot!!

glorified hockey mom versus vetran senator and commitee chairman. yeah, i like where this is going

McCain and Palin both opposed the fair wage & equal pay Bill for Women!!
Obama voted for it!
Palin and McCain are not for Women’s Right‘s, but want women to vote for her, because she is a Woman..
Both McCain and Palin are pandering and saying support US and vote for me you Women, even though I don’t support you and your freedom to choose or your rights to earn equal pay..

Thanks to Palin,
Alaska got 100 million more in government earmarks than any other state (360 million total in earmarks), for a population of 670,000.
Compare that to California with a population of 36,500,000.
Crooks=Republicans
Thanks Palin such a Reformer, not!!
Just another lying arse Repug!!

Perhaps Biden could “borrow” some of these posts for his next speech.

Making matters worse, on Monday the Washington Post reported that Palin had previously served on Ted Steven’s political 527 group.
The revelation is a notably thorny one for McCain. The Arizona Republican has butted heads with Stevens over spending matters (Palin, too, has challenged the longtime Senator on the matter).
And Stevens was recently indicted on seven counts of corruption. On Sunday, moreover, McCain’s chief surrogate and confidante, Sen. Lindsey Graham said of Palin’s foreign policy experience, “if she can handle Ted Stevens she can
handle Russia.”

PALIN IS THE EARMARK QUEEN OF THE NORTH!!
WAY TO GO MCDUMMY!!
SHE FITS RIGHT IN WITH ALL THE OTHER CROOKS!!

McCain is now sending people to Alaska to fully vet his VP pick. What does this tell you about HIS judgment?
You and your family values. LOL. Good luck on the shot gun wedding for Bristol.

Sure Mort, this is a partial list on my pro’s and con’s:
Rejected sympathy for Down’s Syndrome son, as gift from God. (Aug 2008)
Opposes stem cell research. (Aug 2008)
Every baby is created with a future and potential. (Aug 2008)
Pro-life. (Nov 2006)
Pro-contraception, pro-woman, pro-life. (Aug 2006)
Only exception for abortion is if mother’s life would end. (Jul 2006)
Reduced general fund spending by $124 million. (Mar 2007)
Aim to reduce general fund spending by $150 million. (Jan 2007)
Firm believer in free market capitalism. (Nov 2006)
Vetoed bill denying benefits to gays, as unconstitutional. (Aug 2008)
Marriage only be between and man and a woman. (Nov 2006)
Value our cultural diversity. (Nov 2006)
Ok to deny benefits to homosexual couples. (Aug 2006)
No spousal benefits for same-sex couples. (Jul 2006)
Top priorities include preserving definition of “marriage”. (Jul 2006)
Governor must act as effective CEO on behalf of Alaskans. (Nov 2006)
Encourage small business growth by reducing business taxes. (Nov 2006)
We are tough on crime and beefing up law enforcement. (Jan 2008)
If legislature passed death penalty law, I would sign it. (Nov 2006)
Strong public safety presence, via police, courts & prisons. (Nov 2006)
No special hate-crime laws; all heinous crime is hate-based. (Jul 2006)
No expansion of gambling in Alaska. (Jul 2006)
Highway fatalities down because of strict drunk driving laws. (Aug 2008)
Opposes legalizing marijuana, but meth is greater threat. (Aug 2006)
Smoked marijuana when it was legal under Alaska law. (Aug 2006)
Top priorities include gangs & drugs; they harm family life. (Jul 2006)
Teach creationism alongside evolution in schools. (Aug 2008)
Supports teaching intelligent design in public schools. (Aug 2008)
294 Alaska public schools progressed under NCLB. (Aug 2008)
School debate should focus on accountability. (Jan 2008)
Committed to providing strong education, including morals. (Jan 2008)
Budget funds education, but will to work is also critical. (Jan 2008)
Fully fund K-12 and support early funding of education. (Jan 2007)
Supports $20 million needs-based aid for U. Alaska. (Nov 2006)
Forward-fund K-12 schools to allow better planning. (Nov 2006)
Supports charter schools, home schools, & other alternatives. (Nov 2006)
Target early education programs to at-risk groups. (Nov 2006)
Alignment between parents, teachers, schools, & business. (Nov 2006)
Faith-based materials ok in homeschooling. (Nov 2006)
ABC method: back to basics, plus patriotism & ethics. (Nov 2006)
Supports parental choice for what is best for their children. (Nov 2006)
Let parents opt out of schoolbooks they find offensive. (Jul 2006)
Parents know best, about school spending & school age. (Jul 2006)
Pledge of Allegiance with ‘Under God’ is good enough. (Jul 2006)
Claimed major triumph: $500 million subsidy for gas pipeline. (Aug 2008)
Global warming affects Alaska, but is not man-made. (Aug 2008)
Resource rebate: suspend AK 8-cent fuel tax for one year. (Aug 2008)
Gasline Inducement Act: 1,715-mile natural gas pipeline. (Aug 2008)
Commercialize Alaska’s North Slope natural gas. (Aug 2008)
Appointed an Alaska oil and gas commissioner. (Aug 2008)
To win, GOP must push energy independence. (Aug 2008)
Agrees with Obama on more Alaska oil & gas production. (Aug 2008)
Windfall oil profits tax prevents investment. (Aug 2008)
Lift moratorium on offshore drilling. (Jul 2008)
Convinced McCain to drill offshore; not yet on drilling ANWR. (Jul 2008)
Unlock ANWR; we’re ready, willing and able to contribute. (Jun 2008)
Fully fund for the Petroleum Systems Integrity Office. (Feb 2008)
$250M for proven alternative energy, including wind & hydro. (Jan 2008)
Gas pipelines are approved if they meet Alaska’s needs. (Jan 2008)
National energy policy not an either/or proposition. (Nov 2007)
Fund cellulosic biofuel research in Farm Bill. (Oct 2007)
Submitted legislation to build natural AGIA gas pipeline. (Mar 2007)
Stranded Gas Development Act no longer applies. (Nov 2006)
Get ANWR open. (Nov 2006)
Opposed protections for salmon from mining contamination. (Aug 2008)
Sue US government to stop listing polar bear as endangered. (Aug 2008)
We must encourage timber, mining, drilling, & fishing. (Jan 2008)
Provide stability in regulations for developers. (Jan 2007)
Convince the rest of the nation to open ANWR. (Jan 2007)
Fish platform: “Resource First” philosophy. (Nov 2006)
Rail provides critical link for business development. (Nov 2006)
17-year-old unmarried daughter is 5 months pregnant. (Sep 2008)
Praised by pro-life groups for keeping Down syndrome baby. (Aug 2008)
Opposes explicit sex-education programs. (Jul 2006)

As the Republicans remind us. Sarah Palin has more executive experience than both Obama and Biden. Of course, she also has more executive experience than McCain. There’s still time for the Republicans to nominate Sarah for President — the best qualified polictican in the country!

Here’s a Question for ABC News or is
it the Obama Daily Express,
Why aren’t you covering this
Important Story?
August 22, 2008
Bill & Barack’s Excellent Adventure
By Thomas Lifson
William Ayers, unrepentant terrorist and education professor, is once again being tied to Barack Obama in the public mind. Controversy builds over the withholding of the archives of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, an expensive failed school reform effort headed by Obama and effectively run by Ayers, held by the library of the University of Illinois Chicago. Researchers who have gained access to a few documents recording the history of the project have found strong evidence of a very important working relationship between the two men on the project, Obama’s sole claim to executive experience.
Oddly enough, even though the project produced no measurable improvement in student performance according to its own final report, educators and administrators — participants and grantees of the CAC — were reported by outside monitors to be often “ebullient” about the activities. For insiders, it was an excellent adventure. For the pupils stuck in the failing public schools of Chicago, an ongoing, unrelieved disaster.
Obama and his campaign long have gone out of their way to downplay, in fact distort, the long and evidently deep relationship between Ayers and Obama. In the Philadelphia Democratic debate last April, George Stephanopoulos asked Obama about his relationship with Ayers, and the candidate responded:
“This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.
“And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn’t make much sense, George. [....]
“So this kind of game, in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, is somehow — somehow their ideas could be attributed to me — I think the American people are smarter than that. They’re not going to suggest somehow that that is reflective of my views, because it obviously isn’t.”
Almost two months earlier, the “neighbor” talking point campaign manager David Axelrod introduced the notion that Obama and Ayers were mostly just neighbors, telling The Politico’s Ben Smith,
“Bill Ayers lives in his neighborhood. Their kids attend the same school,” he said. “They’re certainly friendly, they know each other, as anyone whose kids go to school together.”
Ayers and his wife are in their sixties, while the Obamas are in their mid-forties. Ayers’ children are all adults, while Obama’s children are currently 10 and 7. Axelrod’s prevarication is telling, bespeaking confidence that nobody in the media will bother to dispute an obvious falsehood.
“Flimsy” turns out to be a completely misleading word when it comes to characterizing the Obama-Ayers relationship.
Notwithstanding the campaign’s efforts to direct attention away from Ayers, a 527 group, American Issues Project, has just released the following ad tying Obama to Ayers, and says it is spending 2.8 million on television airtime in key states.
Despite the legally questionable embargo of the CAC archives, most of its tax returns and official evaluations of the CAC have already been made public. In the hands of intrepid bloggers such as Steve Diamond, Tom Maguire and Dan Riehl, there is already proof of Obama’s extensive involvement with Ayers over the course of his chairmanship, and an emerging picture of Obama’s indecisiveness and absence when serious problems needed leadership.
Barack Obama joined the CAC shortly after William Ayers and Anne C. Hallett received news that their letter of November 8, 1994 submitting a grant proposal to The Annenberg Challenge had been approved. They were to get as much as $49 million from Annenberg, plus tens of millions more dollars from other foundations. Obama’s involvement predates by months the actual incorporation of the CAC and his appointment as founding chairman of the board. He came on board almost as soon as the proposal was approved.
How on earth did a relatively unknown associate at a politically-connected but small Chicago law firm come to be entrusted with the heady task of handing out tens of millions of dollars of other people’s money?
Keep in mind that Obama was at this point in his career very undistinguished considering his pedigree. It would be a kind understatement to say he had underperformed his academic resume. Three years out of Harvard Law and the Law Review Presidency, here is a short list of some of the things Obama had not done:
Clerked for a US Supreme Court Justice (or any Federal Judge);
worked in an important legal position at any level of serious responsibility;
written a law review article or note or published anything of legal substance.
As of 1995 Obama may have had the most professionally empty resume of any President of the Harvard Law Review three years gone from “The Law School.”
And yet Ayers gave him a gig that would enable him to hand out large amounts of money to many people in Chicago, who could be expected to be grateful, once Obama ran for office — as he was to do later that very year, in an event held at the home of Ayers and Dohrn.
Quite clearly, Obama was already well-enough known and trusted by Ayers to be offered the sensitive, prestigious and highly visible post of chairman of this important new undertaking. So we must ask, when did Obama and Ayers actually first get to know one another? And how did they come to trust one another?
One possible connection between Ayers and Obama was Sidley Austin, the prestigious Chicago law firm where Obama had a summer job after his first year at Harvard Law School, and where he met his future wife Michelle, assigned to him as a mentor. Also working at Sidley Austin was Bernadine Dohrn, wife of William Ayers, and a fellow Weather Underground terrorist. Given the shared “progressive” politics of the three, they probably knew one another and associated together at a firm known as a white shoe corporate practice.
Or Obama might have met Ayers even earlier, during his stint as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago, in fact. Ayers was a well-known and very active figure in left wing Chicago politics, and might have encountered the young, articulate, Ivy League educated rookie black radical Obama, working in a Saul Alinksy spinoff.
We soon will know much more about the period of collaboration between Obama and Ayers following the start of the CAC. Even if the archives continue to be withheld from public scrutiny, the cat is out of the bag with the documents available to all. The formidable analytical engine of bloggers trading insights and new data is warming up.
But the period prior to 1995, the time when Bill and Barack, the terrorist and the presidential aspirant, got to know one another and build the relationship of trust, is one excellent adventure likely to remain obscure.

All I hear from the left is Bush lied, McSame, and 17 old knocked up. When are you morons gonna say something intelligent like.”hurry up and lets count some more chads” or “lets change the rules of the election voting process so we can win” …well your congress won and the approval is at a all time low of 17%..congratulations you ignorant socialists morons..

I think the focus should not be on Bristol, it should be on the family values of Sarah Palin. What kind of mother would subject her daughter to that sort of national scrutiny at such an emotional time? Sarah Palin also has a four-month old son that really needs his mother’s attention. It seems to me that her career and ego are more important to her than her family.

Palin Almost got Recalled As Mayor!!!
Seriously, though, we’re coming off eight years of cronyism and inept leadership in the White House, which led to everything from Heck Of a Job Brownie to the US Attorney Firing Scandal.
Sarah Palin’s emerging record as Mayor of Wasilla and as Governor are almost a complete mirror of that (though closer to the Mayberry scale than leader of the free world).

Questions, Questions, Questions:
1. Palin was a member of a the Alaskan Independence Party, a party that would like to secede from the United States. This is treason, pure and simple. She should be forced to address that.
2. Palin CLAIMS that she killed the “Bridge to Nowhere”. In fact she ran for the office of Governor of Alaska on a platform to preserve federal funding for that boondoggle. Only after it became clear that the Alaskan congressional delegation (led by Ted Stevens) had lost much of its influence, after Congress said it would cut federal funding in half (Alaska would have to make up the rest), after the project became a joke in the national discourse, ONLY THEN did she flip-flop and kill the project. So, why does she claim credit, she doesn’t deserve?
Incidentally, although she killed the bridge, she took the remaining federal funds, and continued to complete construction of the access road that now leads to the “Bridge to Nowhere”. Noone needs this road, the bridge is gone, but she has allowed its construction to go forward because the project is paid for by federal funds!
3. Palin CLAIMS to fight corruption, even within her own party. Indeed, it seems she has – except when it involves members of her own family. She fired the state commissioner charged with investigating the behavior of her former brother-in-law. She first repeatedly denied personal involvement – until recorded telephone conversations proved otherwise. Two weeks after publicly praising the commissioner for his professional competence, and RECOMMENDING him for a new position, SHE fired him – for not being qualified. It just so happens that it was during these two weeks the commissioner determined not to fire her brother-in-law. Smells very, very fishy. How does she account for this?
3. She is a public advocate of abstinence only sex-education. In light of her own teen-age daughter’s pregancy out-of-wedlock, Gov. Palin should at least be asked if her views have changed at all on this question of PUBLIC POLICY. In a word, have you changed your views on the efficacy of abstinence only sex-education.
4. Her advocates argue she has demonstrable executive experience. How meaningful for the rest of the United States is the executive experience of governing a state that is swimming in oil revenues. After all, our problem here in the rest of the country is EXACTLY the opposite. The State of Alaska celebrates when the price of oil goes, up, while the rest of us wonder how we’re going to pay our heating costs this winter.

In the Netherlands teenage pregnancy is low. Why? Not because of abortion but because of education which includes the entire society of people, Parents and Children.

Sarah Palin is ready to take the reins of this country’s reindeer.

Clearly Gov. Sarah Palin was not vetted properly, if at all.
This tells us everything we need to know about McCain’s judgment – the judgment of the person “AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET”, as Republicans like to remind us.
Apparently McCain’s “EXPERIENCE” didn’t help him much when making this decision. Why should we think it will be any different with any other decision he makes?

Barack superstar image is gone after Palin painted all headlines, web sites, weblogs, etc. Once she starts talking, politics will rock and Barack is history. I will vote for McCain.

Granted, picking a VP via a radio call-in contest may have yielded a more viable candidate, I’m really glad that McCain picked Palin. Who says the man doesn’t have a sense of humor? I just read somewhere that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert both sent him a fruit basket when they got the news.

I have always been tired of the GOP using Religion and God to sway voters….it should simply be about the critical issues and the best leaders to build concensus and implement necessary change to help ALL Americans, not just the faithful. I thought it was hypocritical that Gov. Palin had her poor 17year old daughter holding the 4-month baby with a blanket covering her belly…if she was sooo proud, why were they hiding this? This is so obviously a tactic and it insults educated women like me who can see right thru this risky move. I wonder how the GOP and the media would react if it was a political family that happeed to be Hispanic or black? Would we see it as simply a “common mistake”?! or, would we call it another example of the lack of American values and a baby out of wedlock?!?
Clearly there is a double standard and hypocrisy…Again, it should be about the best candidates and focus on issues.

I am a registered Republican, white, born in Apartheid South Africa, came to the USA for College, met my American husband-to-be 10 days later and have been married for 44 years. Became a US Citizen have four sons and two grandchildren. But this year I am voting for Senator Obama. I am sick to death of Republican double standards, their sactimounous self righteousness .. like they are the only ones who believe in a God. McCain’s choice of Palin is appalling. Of course her daugher is not running for VP, so let’s leave her out of the discussion, but her mother is. Where was she while her children were growing up? Busy being a City Council Member, Mayor, and Governor. When I married, I gave up a career as an opera singer to become a mom … the most important job in the world in my view. Do a good job on your children and you have made a positive contributed to society. Lack of supervision of her children is the way I look at Palin. She is a disaster and so is McCain. God willing, (and I am praying) that Senator Obama becomes our next President.

At first I was concerned, then I realized that this site is like the RNC, people protesting something they do not know.
It looked like a comedy channel show when the news asked why they were protesting.
Now I know where you all come from?

The issue for voters is not the very personal problems being faced by the Palin family. The real problem is that we don’t know Palin at all, and apparently neither does McCain. His decision to go along with this candidate speaks worlds about McCain’s poor judgment. Palin has not been thoroughly vetted and this is a serious error for McCain to have made. Is this the best the Republican Party has to offer?? A lightweight, anti-choice, creationist, anti-animal, anti-environment, pro-oil candidate who won her limited fame on right-wing talk shows? In these uncertain times following 8 years of gross mismanagement by Bush/Cheney, Palin and McCain must be rejected if the United States of America is to regain its economic strength, and its self-respect in the world at large.

If the Republicans don’t dump Sarah Palin her candidacy as VP will single-handedly push the Republicans into the “loser” category come November.