The Note: Palin a Hit, and McCain Bats Next

As a Democrat supporting Democrats downticket and McCain for President, I think the Republicans can breathe a sigh of relief. Sarah Palin did women proud. She will not back down, she will not be destroyed by a pro-Obama media, and she showed how strong women really can be. As a woman, I was proud of her, and I think she will make a fine Vice President. If the DNC doesn’t think this woman is going to bring over some moderate and conservative-leaning Hillary supporters, they are living in Fantasy Land. I don’t like all her stances, but I like Sarah just fine. McCain-Palin have the support of all the women in my extended Irish-American family.

Who is Sarah Palin to criticize Obama’s quantity and quality of experience? That is utterly ridiculous. She is the last person who should be making that case. Even Reagan’s speechwriter Peggy Noonan said of Palin: “Most qualified? No….It’s over.”

Argetina had Evita
We’ve got Sarah!!!!!!!!!
Palin Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Carrie: You got all that out of that speech last night??
Hippiemom: I totally agree.
I heard on the news this morning she has no knowledge on the War or the Middle East that they are in the process of informing her and teaching her that is is why she said nothing last night in her speech about any of it. Now my question is why would you pick a VP who has no knowledge and admitted she has never followed the war or the middle east??? McCain you lose!

Not impressed at all I will vote for the third party

If the Obama campaign and their allies in the MSM want to destroy Sarah Palin, they have their work cut out for them. This woman is as strong in her own way as John McCain. She will attract Democratic women like myself who are no longer comfortable with a party that so easily cast aside a woman who received 50% of the vote in the Primary. I am opposed to many of the positions that Sarah Palin holds. However, those positions pale in comparison to my determination to help shatter the highest glass ceiling. As a 72-year old woman who faced discrimation first-hand in the work place, I intend to support this female candidate for Vice President. When the Democratic Party begins to appreciate the women who make up more than half its membership, I may consider returning to the party of my parents and grandparents.

For better part of the last two weeks, we have all heard polished speeches from performing orators on both sides of the political aisle.
Last night’s speech by Sarah Palin was quite refreshing and provides the indication that a McCain/Palin administration will not be politics as usual.
As Obama and his campaign have chosen to attempt to attack and demean Sarah and her family since the announcement of her choice, she responded in an appropriate and aggressive manner, yet did so with respect…something that Obama and his minions seem to be unable to accomplish.
In my view, I find it significantly important that Sarah’s son is serving our country’s military and may soon be deployed to Iraq while one of John’s sons is facing a possible second tour of duty with another graduating from Anapolis.
Such would indicate that the McCain and Palin families understand both the importance of service and the reality of sacrifice for country and freedom rather than the encouragement and proliferation of the Obama/Biden welfare state.

McCain has really put energy back into the GOP. The last time a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed woman was in the White House, Bill Clinton was President.

‘The Nanny’ is not going to tell my daughter that it’s okay to have a child at 17, she’s nuttier that McNuts…

I can’t think of even one issue that McCain will turn to Palin for advice as VP….I think we know why she was chosen! Shame on him…and at the country’s expense….so much for country first!

PALIN: “I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending … and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress ‘thanks but no thanks’ for that Bridge to Nowhere.”
THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a “bridge to nowhere.”

PALIN: “There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform _ not even in the state senate.”
THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.

PALIN: “The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars.”
THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama’s plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain’s plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.
Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.
He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.

I saw something else last night. I saw an American people who have had a belly full of Orwellian, biased, left wing media distortion of the news and who stood up a shouted “enough”. Obama supporters tend to be ignorant of history and uninformed on world events, which is why, as Rudy noted, Obama did not even know that Russia has a veto on the UN Security Council. Rudy also correctly pointedout that Obama has voted “present” over 130 times because the sniveling little coward is not man enough to vote “yes or no” on controversial legislation until after others have made the decision and it is “safe” to criticize or accept a decison by hindsight. Palin is more of a man that Obama, who, if elected, will not only be America”s first black president..he will be our first yellow president. Perhaps when Russia invades the Ukraine Obama can defend us by building them a school and sending lollipops?

no talk of issues, just remarks to play up the bitterness between GOP and DNC. She mimics very well what shes told to do – but there was nothing substanial there. She is nothing but a parrot – no leadership shown no ability to inspire only bring down.
and she has left a trail of trouble in Alaska behind her that is coming to bring her down- as well as Mcsame

Sarah Palin’s economic record is different from the bhrandon planet of understanding:
While Governor of Alaska, Sarah reduced general fund spending (so far) by $124 million.
Sarah’s projection for the future spending is to reduce general fund spending by $150 million.
In essence, Sarah Palin believer in free market capitalism rather than closed market socialism that is part of the Obama/Biden plans for expansion of government.

oh and lets not forget she was a pot smoking addict

I was reminded last night that we have a lot of incredibly talented and powerful women leaders in this country. Barack Obama executed a very clever primary campaign and leveraged the caucus system to come out victorious. I’m just concerned that clever is not good enough to be president.

For the benefit of all of you financial geniuses on the left: I am a worker, I put in 60 hours a week. I make good money, and I will be damned if some filthy politician is going to take away my “excess income” that I EARNED BY MY LABOR. How many of you Democrat cretins understand that raising taxes on business causes AN INCREASE IN RETAIL PRICES FOR CONSUMERS!!Business does not pay taxes, CONSUMERS DO. Taxes are passed on to the public through HIGHER RETAIL PRICES. DO YOU GET IT YET? DON’T ANY OF YOU MORONS REMEMBER “STAGFLATION” WHEN CARTER AND THE DEMOCRATS CONTROLLED THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE CONGRESS? DON’T YOU REMEMBER 18% HOME MORTGAGES, 22% INFLATION AND 12% UNEMPLOYMENT? FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE, WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!

Did everyone notice how old McCain looked after Palin’s speech?
We need a prez ready for the 21st century, not McCain.
Don’t have to worry about him reading this though, He can’t use a computer.
How tough is that?

The Democratic ticket is upside down. That’s why the Democrats are so pissed about the selection of Sarah Palin. Her lack of foreign affairs experience highlights the same lack of foreign affairs experience in Obama. The Republicans want the Democrats to go down that road. They are dying for the Dems to bring up experience in the debates.

Carrie,
You are not a Democrat. Palin did not do women proud. She is a mean-spirited simpleton. If you support McCain, stop calling yourself a Democrat. He is opposed to all things the Democrats stand for… go back under your bridge. Troll.

btw, my 93 year old mother can’t use a computer either.

“Sarah is an extremist moujahidine and McCain is an extremist jihadist, this ticket is a very dangerous couple and a very explosive combination. God save America from McSarah. ”
Posted by: BKMC | Sep 4, 2008 9:40:12 AM
BKMC,
I can’t believe you really made me laugh this morning. I was just about to leave the site before I read your post. Thanks for the laugh!

For the folks who can’t handle it: Obama won playing by the rules. He competently and intelligently led his campaign. After 8 years of fear and recklessness, do you really want more?

As a retired professional women who believes in self responsibility, I will be voting McCain/Palin. Out with the socialists, in with the reformers.
When truth is told about Obama, it is considered an attack. How utterly a childless and ludicrous response.

Exactly, Christopher,
The wholesale expansion of socialist-type government proposed by Obama/Biden cannot be financed solely by additional taxes on the wealthy and big business…Econ 101 would tell you that.
And, any increase in taxes on business will simply result in higher prices for middle and lower class consumers.
If you don’t think so, then consider the “fuel cost adjustment” on many of your monthly bills.
Businesses don’t pay for increases in expenses or their taxes…YOU DO.
Cuts in spending is the key to economic success in this country.
Such in not in the Obama/Biden move towards a socialist state.
Anybody But Obama…

Joe Biden, The American People, The National Enquirer & The People of State Of Alaska will EXPOSE Palin for the Fraud she is !!
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ST. PAUL, Minn: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.
Some Examples:
PALIN: “I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending … and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress ‘thanks but no thanks’ for that Bridge to Nowhere.”
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THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a “bridge to nowhere.”
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PALIN: “There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform _ not even in the state senate.”
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THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.
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PALIN: “The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars.”
THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama’s plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain’s plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.
FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin “got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States.”
THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor’s election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.
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FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: “We need change, all right _ change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington _ throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin.”
THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.
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Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.
He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.
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MCCAIN: “She’s been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America’s energy supply … She’s responsible for 20 percent of the nation’s energy supply. I’m entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America,” he said in an interview with ABC News’ Charles Gibson.
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THE FACTS: McCain’s phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she’s no more “responsible” for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state _ by population.
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MCCAIN: “She’s the commander of the Alaska National Guard. … She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,” he said on ABC.
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THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under “federal status,” which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska’s national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.
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FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin “got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States.”
THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor’s election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.

I don’t remember experiencing difficult financial times during Jimmy Carter’s administration. The Hostage Crisis I do remember, however. Also, I do remember not being able to get a raise one year (1973) while Nixon was President because of the economy; I do remember my mortgage rate going to 14.5% in 1985 (Ronald Reagan’s administration); and I do know we are experiencing some very serious economic problems right now in America (George Bush’s administration). So, what exactly is the problem with getting rid of this corrupt, obnoxious, lousy, horrible, war-mongering Republican adminstration this year and getting something different? And don’t tell me McSame/Palin will be any different than all Republican administrations. We know they only want to help the rich and businessmen got even more wealthy than they already are. Every year in this country the number of millionaires and billionaires goes up. Yet where is the so-called “trickle down effect” to the middle-class working people? I haven’t seen it yet. I do know I was much better off financially during Clinton’s administration!!!

“..Obama won playing by the rules….”
Weeelllll, first he did, and then he didn’t.
Remember Florida, Michigan??
First, according to Obama, it was according to the rules that their delegates not be allowed to vote.
THEN, when it was time for his nomination at the Convention, BY ALL MEANS, let these delegates have their votes, and not just 50% !!!

The difference between Obama and Palin. She is a “I have done that already.” He is a “I will, I will, I will, maybe.”
She is a doer, he is a dreamer. Big difference.

The Kool aid is wearing off….you obamites needs to double dose your meds. I know you are in a state of shock, but get used to it. Palin is your new VP.
LOL! I love watching you whiners scream like little children who’s ice cream just felloff of the cone and onto the pavement.
Just like obama’s chances of winning now.Melted on the hard concrete of reality.

The Republicans had the past 8 years to demonstrate leadership. They had control of the White House, and both houses of Congress. And what did we get?
We got screwed. REPUBLICANS HAVE CREATED MORE DEPT THAN AT ANY TIME IN US HISTORY! And they still want more?
McCain/Bush is responsible for a TRILLION dollar loss as a result fo the debacle in Iraq. And these same irresponsible people want another 4 years? Are you kidding me?????
If you are a millionare oil exec, military supplier, hedge fund manager or pharmaceutical CEO, I understand that voting for McCain is in your best interests. But for the rest of us, it’s Obama. Vote Democrat! The a$$ you save may be your own.

You ultra liberal Democrats are up early today. Can’t take it, can you? As an independent, I see lots of strength in Palin; she is honest, honorable, intelligent, a quick learner, a great speaker. One plus she has is she is not the liar that Obama and Biden are. Oh, by the way, have you hear of Dr. Kralid Adullar Tariz Al Mansour of Texas, a African Amrican Muslim activist who is a close friend of Prince Alwaleed of Saudi? He contacted people on behalf of Hussein Obama before Obama got into Harvard asking them to writer “good boy” letters to Harvard about Obama. Lots more on that.

????Obama making this a socialist state????
Heck, no….he will make it another Muslim nation for all his brothers and The Nation of Islam and for the Saudis.

sickofuglyamericans: “…she is honest…”
We’ll see. She may be, but too much isn’t know right now. We do have some indications of lacking honesty.
I think her speech last night won’t come out of fact-checking unscathed. And at one point she said she had no contact with the supervisor regarding the trooper she wanted fired, before having to admit that she did have contact.

And I still think her involvement with the Alaskan Independence Party is a potential landmine for her.
Its really kind of funny. That party has a slogan Alaska First, because its members don’t want to be Americans, and now she’s in a campaign with the slogan Country First.
The stuff of novels.

I’m still amazed at how often Palin lied. She shouldn’t be dog catcher, let alone VP.

Yeah… Palin is a reformer. She reforms her words to hide her actions.
She took that money for the “bridge to nowhere.”
I hope the press will fact-check her speech…. but maybe it is sexist to fact-check a Republican’s speech.

barnie: “I hope the press will fact-check her speech…. but maybe it is sexist to fact-check a Republican’s speech.”
I suspect the media will fact-check her well enough. The media reaction this morning seems to indicate it thinks the McCain camp over-played this media-victimization thing, and its digging in.
We see a lot of commentaries about how they will continue to ask about Palin’s background, regardless of how many times they are called sexist for doing it.

Sarah Palin and her associations too radical?
Compared to who?
Twenty years of Jeremiah Wright?
Rezko land deals?
Friendship with terrorist Ayers and Dohrn?
Admiration of Farrakhan?
If you want extreme views, not just statements claiming to be otherwise, you don’t have to look any further than Obama.
As for the direction of the United States…
Anybody But Obama…

Yep, Jayhawk, even more radical than the stuff you guys have dug up on Obama.
Does she believe Christians should form an army to kill all non-Christians? I’ve heard that alleged about her church, though don’t know if its true.
Does she see Iraq as a Christian crusade?
Does she believe Alaskans should have a vote to decide if they are no longer part of the United States? She certainly has had some involvement, including recent involvement, with a political party that exists solely to promote such a referendum, though the degree of her involvement isn’t known.
Does she really approve of censoring library books? And is she willing to fire librarians who don’t dispose of the books she doesn’t like?
There’s some radical stuff here.
The questions you raise about Obama are guilt by association questions, and Obama has answered those questions to the satisfaction of many (certainly not all). He doesn’t agree with Wright’s radical comments. He doesn’t condone blowing up police memorial statues, as Ayers was involved with some 50 years ago.
Now we need to hear Palin answer the questions that are raised by her associations, as well as her own performance in office.

Seriously, I thought she was an outsider. That sounded like pure Rove to me…
I think that people had low expectations, so in the end she looked good, but listening ot her words, she is just another angry old man…

Proverb/Joke/Truth
A young women returned from college with a 4.0 grade point average and a job offer in hand. She was also a liberal, staunch Democrat (since that is the only option while in college.) Her father asked her about why she was a Democrat and she explained that wealth re-distribution and taxing the wealthy was the right thing to do for America. Her father then asked about her friend who had a 2.0….his daughter responded that this friend did not work very hard, partied too much, was still looking for employment and was distraught. The father then suggested to his daughter that she give the friend 1 of her GPA points to help her become a more attractive job applicant. The duaghter responded, “no way, those are my grades and I worked very hard for them, I earned them.” The father then said, “welcome to the Republican Party.”

McMary: “The Repugs certainly can use the bridge to nowhere as their symbol…”
Can they? I was pretty surprised she brought that up, actually. It just invites people to say, “wait a minute… you were for that, weren’t you?”
Plus, its only a matter of time before people start calling this Republican ticket the bridge to nowhere.
The whole thing just strains credibility. To hear her speech, you’d think that John McCain was a Washington outsider running against an incumbent from the other party.
Its obvious they are making a shallow attempt to co-opt the “change” message presumably because they didn’t see the “experience” and “POW” messages carrying the election.
So now the Republicans are the party of change, huh? I’m just not sure people are going to buy that one.

haven’t we had enough with presidents (and VPs) who are trying to do their gods work. How come every time gop claims gods work, people have to die.

Bonco – here’s another proverb for you.
A young woman goes to college, only to find out one of her classmates, Sarah Palin, controls the school’s library.
Time and again, this young woman can’t do her research because Palin has burned the books she would need.
Now, that’s a welcome to this new Republican Party of “change.”

She has enough problems at home to keep her fully occupied: A pregnant daughter and a baby with Down’s syndrome. If she thinks being VP is more important than that, then her moral priorities are obviously all screwed up. Do we really want someone who can’t even take care and be responsible for her own family to be second in command? She reminds me of many Welfare mothers who leave their many young kids running around while they are dumping coins in a slot machine at an Indian casino. It’s no wonder this country is so screwed up. Palin is nothing more than dressed up trailer trash…

My blog about the Huffington Post having a speech given by Sara Palin to a church in Alska in June 2008 has dissapeared. I placed the link because the video was over 14 minutes and the AOL version on their page cut out over 6 minutes. I am glad that I saw the entire version.

AkaDad: “Mother Theresa was a community organizer.”
She was also a Catholic, and we all know what these evangelical Republicans think about the Catholic Church.

Here’s one Paul – A young girl walks into college and is told, go home, you don’t need an education as some day you will be a mother. Mother’s can’t have a family and hold a high level high pressure job at the same time. Don’t worry though, you can come back in your late 40s/early 50s and start a career then.

JRinLA–I wasn’t trying to hide my philosophical or political stance. You sound like a rankist. And I was speaking to other women.

Even if McCain loses, Sarah Pailn won a BIG TIME.
As this blogger mentions: http://www.governorpalin.blogspot.com
Margaret Thatcher once said: “In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”

Announced earlier – Todd Palin has taken a leave from work and is staying at home FULL TIME with his family. Wish there were more men like him out there.

Paul, your comment about the Catholic Church was rude. I’m Catholic and have many evangelical friends. Don’t spout off misinformation. Thanks!

Sarah was also sexy, domineering and a bit sadistic. She made me hot to my core. Obama does nothing for me.
Sarah should be the presidential candidate! The ASSets she brings to the table will overwhelm the competition!
PALIN/MCCAIN ’08

We witnessed an amazing speech by the first female Vice President of the United States who will also become the first female President of the United States. Sarah Palin is all that and more!

McCain: Hey Sarah, do you think we should invade Georgia tonight?
Palin: I don’t know, Johnnie. What do you think we should do?

Guilt by association?
Not hardly, Paul,
Obama answers questions to his own satisfaction and that of his flock.
The rest of us are not so easily led down the path of a polished speaker.
Simply saying that you do not agree with the comments of Jeremiah Wright does not relieve Obama the responsibility of 20 years of membership in Wright’s church, being married by the man, having the man baptize the Obama children, and Obama calling Wright his “old uncle” and “spiritual mentor.”
Not being associated with the likes of terrorist William Ayers (“I do not regret the bombings…we didn’t do enough.”)and his wife when they actually did the bombing does not relieve Obama from responsibility. Ayers and his wife held a fundraiser for Obama’s U.S. Senate bid which is evidence of an ongoing partnership.
And, then, there are the ongoing questions about the Obama’s ties to Syrian nationalists through Antonin Rezko and his wife who arranged a land deal on the Obama estate…that would be the same Rezko currently under federal indictment. And, we cannot leave out the fact that Rezko was active in fundraising for Obama on more than one occassion.
Or, perhaps we could explore the Obama admiration of and fascination with the likes of Louis Farrakhan, not exactly of the same mold as Jeremiah Wright, but not someone who could be classified as less than radical.
The questions about the Obama list of radical and questionable associations, admirations, and friendships is indeed lengthy and has not been answered with any degree of certainty or credulity…unless one is an Obama supporter.
Anybody But Obama…

McCain must be feeling rather dour about his chances in Nov. Now he’s being upstaged by Palin who if she is as fiery as she says might just start to boss him around, like daughter to grandpa. It’s comical how the GOP bigwigs are trying to pump up her qualifications. If Alaska was a city, it would be around the 20 in pop. in the US and were she was mayor would be called a village in most of the country. We can wonder what she thinks of Bush’s ABSTINENCE PROGRAM and about who is going to be taking care of her children who we can agree will need a LOT of attention. GOP women are good a spinning this for someone that contradicts everything that they have been supporting for years. This ticket is dangerous for our country what with McCain’s age and condition, Palin in the WH would be worse than Bush. If McCain really loves his country, he should quit and go home, he has about SEVEN from which to choose. Just look at the faces of the GOP faithful and see how they strain to keep a straight face when pumping up Palin.

ANOTHER FAKE POST:
The one between “Barack Obama is our Next President” (yeah right) and oh-my-goodness another ‘Barack Obama is our Next President’
Could a Barack Hussein Obama supporter actually be misrepresenting himself?
all too transparent.
ABC, please check this out.
The REAL Theresa T.

That’s it. With all these fake posts I am past the boiling point!
The gloves are finally coming off here.
I am so tired of liberals! They are the pathetic scum of the earth. Minorities, the poor, the non-Christians – they are all un American and should be expelled or worse!
Finally the Republican agenda and master plan will take flight! We will win and we will “take care” of all of you filthy scum liberals once and for all. This is the death of the Democratic party!
Your days are numbered!
The REAL Theresa T.

THE PERSON WHO JUST POSTED THIS IS ALSO FAKE (can’t you tell by the tone it’s not me?
fake post below (note please ABC)———————————————-
That’s it. With all these fake posts I am past the boiling point!
The gloves are finally coming off here.
I am so tired of liberals! They are the pathetic scum of the earth. Minorities, the poor, the non-Christians – they are all un American and should be expelled or worse!
Finally the Republican agenda and master plan will take flight! We will win and we will “take care” of all of you filthy scum liberals once and for all. This is the death of the Democratic party!
Your days are numbered!
The REAL Theresa T.
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I hope the rest of you can see this is a ploy to bully me off this board.
The REAL Theresa T.

It looks like the Obamabots are a bit worried.
Here’s the thing:
A few weeks ago, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius from Kansas was a better VP candidate in Barack Obama’s opinion than Hillary Clinton.
John McCain put out a video congratulating the Democrats.
Barack Obama’s spokesperson came out and slammed Palin for being a rural mayor, instead of a woman who has been at the same pay grade as Sebelius for the last two years.
I am a Clinton supporter who planned on writing in PUMA on my ballot to get my point across to the DNC.
Now I get to actually VOTE for a strong leader, who happens to be a woman — and who also happens to have a fatter resume than Barack Obama and Kathleen Sebelius put together.
Thank you, John McCain.
This was one of the best political speeches I’ve heard, and it hit home to my neighbors in the battleground state of New Hampshire.
We don’t like Greek columns here; we like hockey moms!

I’m going to ignore the hate spewing posts under my name. You can slander me but you cannot stop me from speaking the truth. You may know how to post filth but you do not know how to post intelligently or with respect. I trust others here will recognize that.
Besides, a complaint has been filed with ABC and they have the email addresses of ALL your fake identities.
The point is, Jan is right. Sarah’s speech was one of the best speeches I’ve ever heard.
This is unfolding better than I could have ever imagined. Can’t wait for McCain and Palin to take office ! :)

The RNC has welcomed Asama Bin Palin. The middle eastern countries have Al Qaeda and we have Evangelicals. Both condemn others if the condemned do not think like the condemners , one sends souls to hell the other murders the living. Both blame the victims for exercising their freedom of choice. Both undermine the basis of the Constitution. We do not need religiously fanatic leaders. We need a Constitutional Amendment that requires that all elected officials take an oath to put the Constitution above any and all religious material.

loki7329…ANOTHER LIBERAL CHINESE WHISPER…THE LIBERIAN IN QUESTION IS MARY ELLEN EMMONS…PALIN ASKS A “RETORICAL QUESTION” AT AN CITY COUNCIL MEETING ABOUT THE FEASIBILITY OF TAKING BOOKS OF INAPPROPRIATE LANGUAGE, COMPLAINTS FROM TOWN MEMBERS, OFF THE LIBRARY SHELVES…THE LIBERIAN DID NOT RESIGN IN PROTEST….LOL LOL.. THE QUESTION WAS ASKED IN 1996 AND THE LIBERIAN RESIGNED HER POSITION IN 1999….AT THIS TIME THE LIBERIAN CANNOT NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT…I DON’T BLAME HER

Back to work, now. Any more posts by me are fake.
I have a life. That’s a Republican for you.

A young pregnant 17 yr old walks into a library with an overdue book and a field-dressed moose. Sarah Palin shoots the teen with a tranquilizer dart and then artificially inseminates her with angry black man’s semen. Does the young woman keep the baby, or just return her library books?
Obama 08!

hh, the good ol’ days.
When Clinton was in office, our biggest worries was who was “smokin’” his cigars and where he kept his cigars before he smoked ‘em.
‘Tis true that we don’t know how good we have it ’til it’s gone…
Posted by: Robby | Sep 4, 2008 2:05:27 PM
Now aint that the truth!

OK, I’m just going to come out and say it. Having a Down Syndrome baby was just plain stupid. The kid will have no quality of life whatsoever. And he’ll be a lifetime burden to the parents and siblings.

“OK, I’m just going to come out and say it. Having a Down Syndrome baby was just plain stupid.”
I’m an Obama supporter, but that’s offensive.

“OK, I’m just going to come out and say it. Having a Down Syndrome baby was just plain stupid.”
I’m an Obama supporter, but that’s offensive.
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Truth hurts.

FROM THE ALASKA DAILY NEWS…
Gov. Sarah Palin’s remarks to the Republican National Convention about her record in state government stretched the truth.
GAS PIPELINE:
PALIN: “I fought to bring about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history. And when that deal was struck, we began a nearly forty billion dollar natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence. That pipeline, when the last section is laid and its valves are opened, will lead America one step farther away from dependence on dangerous foreign powers that do not have our interests at heart.
THE FACTS: Palin implies that construction has begun on a major natural gas pipeline from the top of Alaska into Canada. That is not correct.
In fact, no building has begun and actual construction is years away, if it ever happens. This summer the Alaska Legislature, at Palin’s request, passed a bill under which the state will issue a “license” to a Canadian energy company, TransCanada Corp., and pay it up to $500 million as an incentive to someday build this enormous project, which Alaska politicians have long sought with little success.
The license is not a construction contract, and federal energy regulators have not yet approved the project.
Why do Republicans always think they have to LIE to us??? The good people of Alaska obviously don’t buy her LIES either…
http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/515517.html

You know, Paul,
I taught school yesterday with some Down Syndrome children.
A lot of things came to mind as I worked with these children.
But, calling one of them or their parents “stupid” as you suggested was not one of them.
Perhaps, you should check with the Obama campaign and see if they consider Down Syndrome children or their parents as “stupid.”
Simply pathetic…
Anybody But Obama…

“OK, I’m just going to come out and say it. Having a Down Syndrome baby was just plain stupid.”
I retract that statement and apologize. It was indeed a poor choice of words, but I have experience with this issue and I had to vent.

oh and lets not forget she was a pot smoking addict
Posted by: jozy | Sep 4, 2008 10:11:36 AM
as i pot smoking addict, i object to the implicit criticism, you’re a wanker.

Jayhawk: “…their ticket is upside down with experience at the bottom acting as a babysitter for the Obamas.”
Actually from a perspective of logic, its the Republican ticket that’s upside-down.
If a “ready” president dies and leaves behind an “unready” veep, that’s worse than an “unready” president being helped by the “ready” veep, only to have that veep eventually step in.
That’s not to say Palin isn’t ready, or any of that. Just noting the logic of it.
And let’s talk reading comprehension, Jayhawk. It wasn’t me who called any parents stupid. I was the one saying I was offended by that.

Jayhawk: “The fact that he’s a liberal scares me even more.”
The one who worries me is McCain, with his lacking temperment and seeming pathological hatred of Russians.
The Republicans tried to tell us about Senator Hothead eight years ago. I guess on this one they were right.

Sarah Palin and her family is the type of people I love in my neighborhood. She is straight forward, honest and right on target. She has the experience for VP.
I have heard and read a hundred speeches and writings about Obama. He certainly comes across as manufactured, artificial and superficial and oh, so arrogant. He does not tell the truth so I certainly would not want my country in his hand. His solutions to our problems are non-workable. He is just dreaming.

Okay, Paul,
I missed the quotation marks in your copy and paste.
However, that does not change the upside down analogy you and the Democrats have embraced.
With such logic, the most qualified and experienced leaders in any organization would never be in the top position unless there was a tragedy or emergency.
In business, the best leaders would not be leading.
In sports, the best quarterback would be on the bench.
The analogies are legion, but the idea is to put the best qualified and most experienced in the top spot.
Get it?
Reverse hierarchy may be the manner of ruling for national socialism, but it doesn’t work in a country built on competition and free enterprise.
But, you already knew that.
Anybody But Obama…

Jayhawk: “However, that does not change the upside down analogy you and the Democrats have embraced.”
Jayhawk, you are making assumptions and then arguing those assumptions, as opposed to what the other side is actually saying.
We haven’t embraced any analogy. We had a chance to nominate Biden, remember? We chose not to.
I was merely questioning your assertion that its better to have experience at the top rather than the bottom of the ticket. From a purely logical perspective, there’s a case to be made against that.

And to further demonstrate how fast and loose you are playing with both semantics and logic, you tried to make a point about best quarterbacks sitting on the bench, etc.
In other words, you are equating “experienced” with “best.”
Obviously that’s not an equation that either party always makes. Was George Bush the most experienced candidate for the Republican nomination in 2000?
If the Democrats valued experience and only experience in 2008, the nominee would have been Biden, Dodd or Richardson.
If the Republicans valued executive experience above all else in 2008, the nominee would have been Romney or Guiliani.
Do me a favor – make a list of your five all-time great presidents, and five all-time worst presidents. Then compare the list in terms of their prior experience before assuming the presidency. I’m willing to bet your great presidents have less experience than your worst. You don’t have to share the results; but as a favor to me do this just for yourself.

Jayhawk: “Even though the experience of Joe Biden is not at the top of the ticet, that choice does not embrace reverse hierarchy?”
Are you saying we planned all along to nominate Obama so we could have Biden as the veep? Um, well, we didn’t.
No, the Obama/Biden ticket does not embrace what you are calling reverse hierarchy. Obama is the presidential nominee because Democrats wanted him to be the president. Not all Democrats, of course, and as we all know it was a historically close race between him and Clinton.
But Obama won the nomination and then chose his running mate, as did McCain.
And, yes, you are making assumptions about Obama and Democrats, and then arguing against those assumptions, whether you recognize it or not.

Actually, Paul, your argument goes in circles and defies logic.
Referring to semantics does not lend any credence to the Obama mantra.
Actually, the circular path works extremely well to make the argument for experience in leadership more than any post I have viewed to this point.
To the point, how many resumes have you filled out that tout your lack of experience?
And, while lack of experience does not necessarily ensure the candidate will fail, experience most certainly does favor the success of any candidate.
And, in vast majority of cases, the most experience is called on for the lead role, not to follow and be there just in case.
You sound just like a person I once met from Nebraska who used a similar tone of argument over logic.
He was in error, too.
Anybody But Obama…

Jayhawk: “Referring to semantics does not lend any credence to the Obama mantra.”
Sorry, but you’re going to have to explain exactly what you mean by that one.

And, no, Paul,
I don’t “have” to do anything relative to comments on a blog.
No comrade dictating what I have to do or what I don’t have to do.
Right now, I “have” to get some other work done.
And, you are from Nebraska, aren’t you?
Perhaps Hastings?
Anybody But Obama…

Senator Obama was just on TV and slammed the Palin speech as more Republican rhetric. He stated that she didn’t say anything about health care or college costs and other socialist ideas. I am a responsible person and have made my own life. I don’t want Big Brother telling what they should do for me other than as outlined in the Constitution. Don’t think Obama understands that. There in nothing that say that minorities must be given college education and the better jobs. All people should have the same rights and privileges. This has caused a great division in America. He certainly not a uniter. That is propaganda. Obama says ‘I will, I will , I will.’ Palin say, ‘I have already done that and this and that.’ Palin wins.

I stated last night after Palin’s speech:
“She exuded charisma, a direct connection to her audience, delivered a substantive pro-American message, and had the poise of a down-to-earth leader. Expect the left to become even more unhinged tomorrow! That’ll tell you all you need to know.”
I think the over-the-top, shrill posts above speak for themselves. I’m positively giddy watching Obamabots melt down this week. The panic is palpable.

For the past two years, Barack Obama has galvanized a Nation.
For the past week, Sarah Palin has galvanized the National Enquirer.
Vote “Family Values” this Nov. 2008!
God Bless America and God Bless our Troops – bring them home with dignity and honor.

What do McCain’s years as a P.O.W. or Palin’s membership in the P.T.A. have to do with their qualifications to be President or Vice-President?
What McCain endured in the Hanoi Hilton tells us he is tough, honorable, and a good soldier. But he is not asking us to send him to fight as a soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan, he is asking us to make him Commander-in-Chief. McCain has little if any Command experience, and he dropped out of the Navy because, as he himself admits, the Navy was not going to promote him very far, his career as a hot-dog, his temperament DID not fit him for Command. If the Navy didn’t think he was worth promoting, why should the American people promote him?
As to Palin’s experience in the P.T.A.? What can I say…? What did she try to actually accomplish as a member of her P.T.A.? Was she trying to get “creationism taught in our public schools? Was she trying to prevent teen-agers from being taught safe-sex practices, the risks of STDs, the risk of pregnancy – if a teen-ager should choose to have sex and end up with an unplanned pregnancy?

A lot of Obamabots are young and unfortunately ignorant of American history (another testament to the ineffectiveness of government-run schools). So their only “arguments” are leftist talking points spoon-fed to them by Obama’s campaign and leftist blogs. They are simply incapable of thinking for themselves and objectively viewing the world as it exists.
Let’s step back in time, shall we?
Before Bill Clinton became President, he was governor of Arkansas. He was popular and had a 65% approval rating when he left that office. Despite this, a legendarily corrupt political system remained. He had no foreign policy experience. He was deemed qualified to be President by many Democrats.
Sarah Palin is governor of the strategic energy state of Alaska. She enjoys an 80% approval rating, the highest rating of any state governor in the country. She fought corruption in her own party, cut taxes, aggressively slashed wasteful spending even while the state enjoyed a large SURPLUS, and even returned money to her constituents. She has no foreign policy experience. She is deemed unqualified to be Vice President by many Democrats.
This objective comparison above demonstrates that the smear attacks against Palin have nothing to do with “qualifications.” Democrats have clearly supported less successful politicians in their own party in the past, and the top of the ticket.
What we’re witnessing this week is sheer leftist terror…the fear that a charismatic, conservative reformer will reverse reckless liberal policies hoisted on us, without our consent, by an inept and corrupt Congress. And this is why McCain and Palin must win.

Posted by: Jim in OH | Sep 4, 2008 5:17:23 PM
Let’s step back in time, shall we?
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You start of your argument by making a number of vague charges against a vague, and undefined opponent.
Obamabot?
Right back atya you McCatron;-)
You McCatrons have spun, and spin yourselves silly spouting the few ‘talking points’ you’ve had to defend Gov. Palin. Unfortunately, the McCatron army had not been briefed in advance of your leader’s decision, and were as taken aback by the choice as everyone else in the nation. So, you’ve been busy spinning the one little wheel you thought you had, your one talking point – heard over and over again from McCain’s army of robots
1. “Executive Experience”.
2. She has more executive experience than….(fill in the blank with Obama or Biden, or with “Obama & Biden combined)
because…(fill in the blank with P.T.A., Mayor of Wasilla, Gov. of Alaska).
This claim is wildly inflated, and bears no relation to the facts, besides being irrelevant to the question of who would make a good President. Abraham Lincoln had no executive experience when he was elected to the Presidency and about as much political experience as Barack Obama, and he emerged as one of the nation’s greatest Presidents.
I’m going to post my thoughts in chunks so you McCatrons can have an easier time digesting the argument.
Chunk I McCain & Palin’s “Combined Experience” (follows below)

“A Little Ditty about Alaskan Oil”
“When oil prices rise, Alaskans break out the champagne,
While the rest of us cry out in pain.
When oil prices fall, the rest of us cheer!
While Alaskans weep into their beer.”
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The Alaskan Economy, Oil Producing States, and the Price of Oil
(follows below)

Gov. Palin won the Lottery, Does that Mean She is a Good Executive?
This next point may be a little too subtle for the McCatrons reading this, but for Obamabots who are still with me: you’ll notice that ALL oil producting countries have been doing well since the price of oil trebled, but whether they do well or not has little or nothing to do with the person or kind of government running them. Venezuela has something like a Socialist Dictatorship, Norway has a Social Democratic Government, Russia is centralized and Authoritarian, Saudi Arabia is a monarchy. It really makes no difference who is the “EXECUTIVE” of these countries, all the leaders are popular – they are popular because the price of oil keeps them popular.
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Gov. Palin’s 80% Popularity Rating, Is she really that popular?
(Follows Below)

Like so many here have said, it is truly OVER. A totally unqualified ticket is not going to be elected to president and vice president.
McCain and Palin?
No, the “community organizer” and the “30 year Washington insider”.
Democrats are squirming and messing their pants.

Posted by: LarryMan | Sep 4, 2008 7:36:52 PM
Like so many here have said, it is truly OVER. A totally unqualified ticket is not going to be elected to president and vice president.
McCain and Palin?
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Indeed, McCain & Palin;-)
A man without any leadership quality, poor judgement, and over the hill.
A woman with little experience, who is still not vetted, and has yet to give a press conference. She can read a good speech…she is a fire-brand…but the V.P. job is not a walk-on role in a reality T.V. show. At some point she is going to have to present an unedited version of her real self to the public. Then we’ll learn what she’s really worth.
A don’t come back with the charge that all Barack can do is “read the teleprompter”. He has given multiple interviews, appeared in more than 20 debates, survived intense and unrelenting media scrutiny. And what’s more, where McCain ran his campaign into BANKRUPTCY early in the Republican primary, Obama ran a disciplined campaign, and is still hundreds of millions of dollars ahead.
1. McCain doesn’t even know the state of his own personal finances: he can’t even remember how many houses he owns
2. He ran his own campaign into bankruptcy, and he’ll do the same to the country.
Whose your daddy, now “LarryMan”.

There’s a good reason why the mainstream media never trumpets the details of Obama’s community organizing experiences.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDZiMjkwMDczZWI5ODdjOWYxZTIzZGIyNzEyMjE0ODI=
Americans have been so duped by this fraud, it’s frightening.

Posted by: Jim in OH | Sep 4, 2008 9:23:14
Americans have been so duped by this fraud, it’s frightening.
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If anyone wants a different picture of ACORN, here’s a link to a rebuttal to the first piece, which is written by two authors actually familiar with it, and who are actually reporting, not writing fiction.
http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/129/ACORN.html
To save you time, here’s the main idea:
in the rebuttal, the authors admit that “[the article]..accurately outlines ACORN’s agenda”
They then go on to describe that agenda:
1. living wages for the working poor
2, improvement of housing conditions through rent subsidies and access to credit
3. help for people on welfare to get off welfare into reasonable jobs, including child care subsidies
4. health care for their kids and job training
5. improvement in the physical and fiscal condition of public schools in the cities
That’s, in a “nutshell” what ACORN does. If you did not already know that Obama is at least still sympathetic to these ideas, though he may no longer think they are all equally effective or achievable, then you haven’t been paying attention.

m@chiavelli,
You have to be on Obama’s payroll. You have absolutely NO credibility.
You’re putting up a biased, pro-ACORN article as a valid rebuttal to a detailed, objective analysis written by a widely respected, Harvard-educated journalist? You must be joking.
ACORN is LEGENDARY for massive voter fraud, with recent examples in Louisiana and Wisconsin.
Google “Democrats’ Vote Drive in Louisiana Stirs Concern”
and “10 more voter registration workers face investigation”
Would you like to explain that fraud away to the rest of us as some sort of benevolent action on behalf of disadvantaged minorities?

m@cchiavelli,
OK, so the current voter fraud being perpetrated by ACORN is merely a figment of my imagination. Thanks for clearing that up.
We’ll let the American public decide how noble ACORN is as we get closer to the election. I predict it won’t be pretty, especially now that Obama’s lead is slipping.

I WAS VERY MUCH SADDEN BY MCCAIN’S SPEECH TONIGHT. I FEEL THAT HE IS TRYING TO SKATE HIS WAY INTO THE WHITE HOUSE ON THE SYMPATHY FROM HIS POW EXPERIENCE. THERE ARE MANY AMERICAN SOLDIERS WHO WERE POWS, BUT THAT SURELY DOESN’T QUALIFY A PERSON TO BE PRESIDENT. WHAT OTHER PRESIDENT WAS A POW? NONE. ANOTHER ISSUE IS THAT I TRULY DON’T BELIEVE THAT THE DOWN SYNDROME BABY IS PALIN’S 17 YEAR OLD DAUGHTERS, AFTER THE JOHN EDWARDS FARSE, I WOULDN’T BE SURPRISED IF IT’S MCCAIN’S BABY.

http://www.votetheday.com/polls/spalins-executive-experience-167/