Todd Palin’s DUI

Boy, can we say Obama Hussein op research? we know ABC couldn’t dig it up by themelves. they couldn’t fight themselves out of a paper bag.
In stories about VP Palin, we see the word “conservative” as an adjective to describe Palin. Although, she may well be a conservative,
I just wanted to point out, for what it’s worth, that I can’t recall ever seeing the adjective “liberal” before either Biden or Obama’s name.
Why is that? The Wall Street Journal just reported the results of a National Journal study of the US Senate voting records. The conclusion was that Obama is most liberal senator in the Senate and Biden is #3. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121962256899067705.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries
I suspect it’s because most of the mainstream press are themselves “liberal”, yet like to think of themselves as moderate and hence think Obama and Biden as “moderates”. But as the objective survey by the National Journal indicates, Obama is the most liberal senator and Biden is just behind in the #3 spot.
Here’s a story about how the major TV networks use the words “liberal” or “conservative” as applied to the presidential tickets. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2008/08/29/cbs-nbc-label-palin-conservative-didnt-tag-biden-liberal

Let’s see, the husband of the VP got a DUI 22 years ago.
But the presidential candidate was frying his brain on cocaine 22 years ago.
This is a toughie.

When Biden was picked for VP, you never saw the word “liberal” being assigned to his name even though he’s the 3rd most liberal senator.
However all day after the Palin pick, the word “conservative” or “staunch conservative” was attatched to her name.
And you wonder why the media has worse rapproval ratings than the ambulance chasers.

This has to fall under the so-what? category.
Todd Palin is not on the ballot in November.
However, Obama is.
If ABC News is concerned about a candidate’s past substance abuse problem, it should focus on Obama’s admitted past illegal abuse of cocaine.

Who gives a crap. I’ve done some things when I was 22 that I wouldnt do now. They are really getting desperate for a scandal!

If this woman had any common decency, she would remove herself from the ticket for the good of the party.

Nub, She has money pouring into McCain’s (and hers) campaign now. Why on earth would any woman with common decency remove herself from the ticket when PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO VOTE REPUBLICAN are so happy?

Must be nice to have the liberal mainstream media on your side.
Example? It took 3 days for ABC to uncover something that happened to the HUSBAND of the VP pick that happened 22 years ago.
However it took a YEAR for ABC to report on Obama’s radical leftwing, hate-spewing pastor of 22 years. And that was only after Sean Hannity got started on it.
Amazing. And yet Obama will still lose. There is a God in heaven after all, Mr. Moore.

ABC news should be finding more to report on than this NON STORY! Please, your desperation is showing….really, ENOUGH ALREADY….at 22 we all did stupid things and THEY WEREN’T MARRIED. What was Bill Clinton doing AND THEY WERE MARRIED, AND IN THE FRIGGIN WHITE HOUSE.
McCAIN/PALIN

Palin is Eva Peron in Alaska version
—- Best fit for the 3rd world.

jo said
Example? It took 3 days for ABC to uncover something that happened to the HUSBAND of the VP pick that happened 22 years ago.
However it took a YEAR for ABC to report on Obama’s radical leftwing, hate-spewing pastor of 22 years. And that was only after Sean Hannity got started on it.
HOW TRUE> THEY MUST ALL BE GAY OR BLACK

New flash to all that’s bashing ABC news. Ms Sarah released this information herself, had to throw the media a bone to get the Bloodhounds off track I suppose. Won’t work Sarah, we want to get to know the REAL you.

Jo your comments are fabulous….the liberal media (all but FOX, the #1 rated news show on cable).
It took Sean Hannity to get the country to take a look at Rezko, Ayers, Wright, Pfleger and angry Michelle….if this guy Nobama had been white he would have been OUSTED long ago. There are different rules for different candidates. Just like O.J. was innocent, right?

Felix…you moron. Have you ever heard of Mr. Moms….there are pleny of couples who trade roles in this country and Gov. Palin is one of them.
McCain/Palin

Yes, please harp on a DWI 22 yrs ago and a teen pregnancy. Then we can get into Obama’s drug use that he admitted to and his mom’s teenage pregancy with a married man in Kenya. Let’s go you hypocritical Democrats. Bring it. I dare you.

Felix…you moron. Have you ever heard of Mr. Moms….there are pleny of couples who trade roles in this country and Gov. Palin is one of them.
McCain/Palin
Posted by: Debra | Sep 1, 2008 4:21:53 PM
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha Debra!!!
This just too good seeing all of you Republican trolls squirming!! Defending McSenile’s bad Palin VP pick!
What’s going to come out tomorrow? She is a member of some secret witches coven and has 666 tattooed on here behind??
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bye, bye Debra, bye, bye McBush – it is so over!!

this is a non issue
I think the fact that she doesn’t know a single stitch of anything regarding the world and foreign policy may be a little bigger of a problem
again with one quick choice…his first Presidential “choice”…. McCain has shown he puts his own election in front of the welfare of the nation.
does she know who has Nukes and who doesn’t…
does she know the historical and constitutional effects of Presidential signing statements.
does she know the details that keep separation of powers…
does she know what language they speak in georgia…or where Georgia or Tajikistan is?
Doe sshe know how to deal with the Pakistan India issue…does she even have an idea that there is an issue?
Does she know the history of NATO and who is in it.
Does she know the forecasts of trade agreements with China and India.
since she does not believe in man made global warming does she know how she would negotiate with China and India?
does she know how the Cuban missile crisis was settled…
does she know who the mujahadin is?
does she know what Reagan’s contra scandal was about?
does she know why it was wrong?
I mean I could type for days…
and Biden and obama could answer all of these at minimum with naming parties involved…
she seems to have a tough time keeping track of her children and what they are doing.
and yes…if a Male VP candidate’s 1st child of age got pregnant at 17…
I would say that was a red flag.

Davis, you are paid Obamabot douchebag. How old are you? 18 is my guess going on 12.

Hey Davis, this is just the tip of the iceberg. McCain’s people are just in Alaska vetting Ms Sarah. This is what happens when you don’t do your homework.

If Barack Obama had shown the incredible bad judgement John McCain has shown in choosing a running mate like this it would be on the news 24-7 on Fox and you can bet everyone else would be piling on as well.
I don’t care what her husband was doing 20 years ago. I don’t care what ANY of these people were doing 20 years ago but this woman doesn’t have enough experience to be governor of any place BUT Alaska. McCain is pandering. He thinks he is pandering to women by chosing a woman – and a great MOM.
Well I’m a mom and if I had a newborn special needs infant at home and a seventeen year old pregnant daughter I would not be taking a job that exposes them like this and makes this kind of demands on my time.
Obama is right. Its about judgement. McCain has none.

“The media is in a frenzy to find a smoking gun on this lady, not because she’s a republican, or a woman, but because she is not known, was not vetted properly, and most importantly she could become the next president if and when McCain croaks.”
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My guess is you have never worked as a broadcaster or journalist. I have.
This is an incredibly naive assertion but given the “if and when McCain croaks” zinger, completely understandable.
Here’s how it works: as soon as a man or woman declares their candidacy, legions of investigators are cut loose to find “smoking guns”, “skeletons in the closet”, or whatever name you want to give scandal.
At some level nine out of 10 journalists want to become the next Woodruff or Bernstein and just about every editor is waiting for the next opportunity to become Ben Bradlee.
If you think this story was part of “vetting’ you’re either incredibly uninformed or working too hard
to sanitize the viciousness that has infected the mass media.

The mainstream media is nothing more than the Enquirer any more. Each outlet trying to out-do the other with political tripe. Better to get real news on the travel channel!

Davis, you are paid Obamabot douchebag. How old are you? 18 is my guess going on 12.
Posted by: K | Sep 1, 2008 4:30:22 PM
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I wish I got paid for this! However I don’t, I do it strictly for my own enjoyment, for the enlightenment of Republican trolls like you and the American public!
Country First!!! We have to save American from this bumbling old man and his pretty beauty queen know nothing cheerleader!!!
Country first “MY FRIENDS” Vote for REAL leaders in November! Obama/Biden!!

Is this really the best you can come up with?????
Palin’s husband – a DUI when he was 22yo and no accident involved.
Let’s compare it to OBAMA SMOKING CRACK AND DOING COCAINE WHEN HE WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL.
Truly pathetic.

And the point? A young foolish man getting caught doing what many young foolish men have done, myself included. Exactly what is the reason for all this? Is there any other member of their family that you can gossip about, did the younger child pull some other kids hair in kindergarden, did the family toss a plastic container in with the glass, did any of them pee outdoors on a hunting trip?
Geesh!

It really looks like families are off limits, maybe we should get a little deeper into Mrs. Obama, oh that’s right only dem families are off limits. If this is the worst they can find something that happened 22 years ago, the rest is a cake walk.

Meanwhile, the MSM ignores Obama’s little tryst with one Larry Sinclair.

Anne
What have you been smoking? You are talking about judgment and Senator Obama? It was BO’s judgment to direct public funds to Rezko and others for public housing projects. The programs failed, the tenants still live in squalor, and Obama still accepted the donations from these men.
It was Obama’s judgment to accept money from bundlers representing lobbyists, law firms, the financial industry, and others. Then, he lied on national TV and stated he doesn’t accept lobbyist money. Michelle’s brother is a bundler for him.
It was his judgment to state at the SC debate that Ayers was a guy in the neighborhood. Ayers and Obama sat on charitable boards together.
You have the nerve to talk about Palin running for office because of her family.
PALIN HAS TAKEN ON THE CORRUPTION OF HER OWN PARTY. BY CONTRAST OBAMA IS PART OF THE CORRUPTION IN THE DP.

Sexists! If Obama isn’t race-baiting, his surrogates are practicing sexism. This is not the kind of change we need.

Davis
ThinkProgress was voted the best liberal blogger in 2006. They are an Obama website.
Posted by: yoga82 | Sep 1, 2008 4:36:43 PM
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Thinkprogress an Obama site? I don’t think so – You should read some of their previous stories on him…
They are thorough and provide links for every single point in their stories to back them up. Unlike the Right Wing-Nut websites you Republican Trolls cut and paste your LIES from…
In my estimation they are the “Tim Russert” of the Web…
God Bless Tim Russert, we miss you guy!! I am absolutely sure if he was alive today, he would have been hammering this “lightweight Palin” and the dumb pick McCain made!!!
I can hear Tim saying now “Palin, a Heartbeat away from the presidency??”
Obama/Biden ’08!!!!!!

K,
So serious and so much negative emotion…
Wow, is all of this having to defend the indefensible choice by McCain of his “pretty one trick pony” getting to you there???
Ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!
About Biden’s age though. I have no problem with McCain being 72 and Biden being just 65… My problem with McCain’s age is, it seems from his actions and words that he is borderline Senile…
We don’t need a Senile President!!

Trish
I’ll bet the thought of a good looking intelligent woman scares the hell out of you.

So is this considered a bad news day for McCain?

We will see Independent, LOL we will see.

As for Palins daughter it was a COVER UP.
They had Bristol come out on stage Friday using a huge blanket, and a baby of course, to hide her tummy.
Watch the tape from Friday and see for yourself.

I never thought that I would see a VP pick worse than Stockdale….but now I have.

This republican team is becoming a real joke. This woman hasen’t even been in the spotlight ONE WEEK.
Hey Dems…
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And she and mcCain say they are against earmarks and lobbyist hell he’d have to fire 3/4 of his campaign staff then and find a new VP choice can you say Harriet Miers

I’m going over to Todds DUI blog, to read all the excuses there, and wait for the next bit of “news” about the next vice presidents family…lol..lol..lol..lol

Nub, She has money pouring into McCain’s (and hers) campaign now. Why on earth would any woman with common decency remove herself from the ticket when PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO VOTE REPUBLICAN are so happy?…because Kitty…she’s unqualified to be POSTUS. The Christian Taliban wackos will vote for ANYONE who is prolife…no matter how unqualified they are. Where McCain loses is with Independants like me and HRC supporters. He has lost the Jewish vote over this because she has supported Pat Buchanan, one of politics biggest anti Semites. McCain has made a collosul blunder here. He cant win with just the votes of the super rich and bible wackos.

Here in Alaska, we sometimes call ourselves The Biggest Small Town on Earth. (That $40Billion savings account we have helps lighten the load of Outside ridicule, as seen above.) So, the last time (some months back) I talked to Todd, I asked if if he would get to pick out the new curtains at the Naval Observatory, or if that would be Vice President Palin’s job. (Picked that one, didn’t I?) He laughed then, and he’ll laugh again in January if partisan Democrats keep picking on a family which epitomizes the portrait of the Jeffersonian yeomanry carving out a homestead in a Jacksonian frontier….

K,
Running scared? What a joke!! You Republican trolls trying to defend your little beauty queen Palin are the only ones running scared that I see!!
Try and run from Palin’s record, I dare you!!
The BIG Bridge to Nowhere LIE!
She Raised Sales Taxes in Alaska!
Backed Corrupt Senator Stevens, even chairwoman of his 527!!
Teen Daughter Pregnant!
Ethics probe for getting her brother-in-law fired! This one so smacks of trailer trash it isn’t funny…
And the list goes on!!!
Run, Run, Run Republicans, Run Forrest Run!!!! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!
Bye, bye McCain! Everyday, something new out on Palin!!! So, so sad……

while we are on the topic of parental judgement, i found obamas judgement to raise his young impressonable children in wright’s church-a serious breech of parenting responsibility.
hillary supporter

Davis-
You should be running scared. I guess you don’t know anything about your candidate.
Bill Ayers- terrorist
Jeremiah Wright – racist, anti-American preacher
Father Pfleger- sexist, anti-American priest
Louis Farrakan- racist, anti-semite, anti-American
All well known friends of Barack Hussein Obama who wants to be President of the very country his friends hate. Interesting.
Obama born out of wedlock to a teenager having an affair with a married Kenyan man. Obama did crack, cocaine, booze in his younger years. Obama has yet to prove he doesn’t have dual citizenship in the US and Indonesia after he was adopted and changed his name to Barry Soretero. You want to start some scandal? That’s just the tip of the iceberg for Bozo. The GOP has yet to reveal what they have on this terrorist friendly candidate.

This is a waste of time although it shows he was a drug abuser — alchohol is a drug. It seems there is better stuff out there. Google Todd Palin BP or Todd Palin Governor.

PUMA – Pretending Unworthy candidates Make Acceptable ones

I think we should concentrate on Gov. Palin credibility and not about her personnel life. Its a total waste of time and dont distract the public by reporting trivial things in life.

Obama is already on record as saying he’d advocate abortions for his daughters. So, you’d never hear about their pregnancy’s if they were to happen.
Obama — not a brain in his head! And no consistent indication he can even think for himself.

Cokehead Obama,
The beauty of this thing is that you Republican trolls don’t even know who you are defending in Palin!
Haven’t you heard that Palin is a self admitted POT HEAD?? Go check it out “MY FRIENDS” on Google! She say she definitely INHALED!!
You Republicans are just soooo funny!!

Obama – still the first choice of Chicago gangsters and terrorists all over the world.

Obama: pro Palestine; anti Israel no matter what one says.

Obama: “Rural Americans cling to their bible and their guns because they cannot fathom the complexities of life”

The American MSM has voluntarily lowered itself to the level of the Inquired. ABC and NBC lead the way down.

MEANWHILE THE RNC CONVENTION IS FAILING!!!
It will be the biggest joke in history!!
CNN is reporting on all the stories floating around the floor of the convention right now. Like all of Palin’s problems and why wasn’t she vetted properly!!
The delegates are all worried about what will come out tomorrow in the sad Palin VP mistake saga….
Poor, poor Republicans….
And since Gustov turned into a CAT 1 and pretty much missed New Orleans, what is John McCain going to do hide behind now???
At least McCain got to avoid having Bush and Cheney speak on TV at the convention!
With Gustov or not this Rethug Convention was doomed to FAILURE…
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!

Non-issue.

Look at the dumb things the repubs say. They will defete themselves in itme.

You don’t even attempt to be unbiased anymore…does Omaba’s camp write your articles for you? It sure seems like it.

And who says it was the Democrats that dug this up? Its the PRESS. They will dig this up and then in the very next breath begin finding dirt on the Obama campaign. They don’t show favorites in this respect. Whatever will make headlines, they will look for it, not matter who it hurts. AND, every blogger is quick to jump on these things that happened years ago just to bring traffic to their blogs. Everybody has a little dirt or indiscrtion in their youth. As long as Palin’s husband, Obama or whoever aren’t doing it NOW, it is not of interest to me.

At 44, she is the hottest VP. She could become the hottest President if something (god forbid) happens to the president.

And this is news because?
Come on you can do better than this, can’t you?
Garbage journalism, just about as bad as it gets .. but then again, we should consider the news agency pushing it .. it is so sad to see that this is all that you are capable of!

Palin said she smoked dope but didn’t like it. We’ve all done things in our 20s that we would not do in our 40s.
My main question with her is “does she have the experience to be one heartbeat away from the most powerful office in the world?”

The Obamasshould have been charged with child abuse since they took their kids to a place where racism, hate against the white and God Damn America was the message.
Obamas’s are complete filth.

As Obama said, “family is off-limit”. This is non-issue and McCain camp should not talk about this. I think they are trying to mislead by looking nice…..

I ask this question to both republicans and democrats if Palin cannot handle her own family affairs how will she able to handle being a VP for the most powerful country in the world i can just hear the world laughing at us especially the Europeans.

“In the United States the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that 17,941 people died in 2006 in “alcohol-related” collisions, representing 41 percent of total traffic deaths in the US. Over 500,000 people were injured in alcohol-related accidents in the US in 2003.”
This is ABSOLUTELY news-worthy. Drug use may be illegal, but it is generally a danger only to the user. Driving drunk is reckless and indubitably endangers the lives of others. I have done some unwise things, but I hope never to commit such a foul and thoughtless crime as driving drunk. I think it displays a criminal lack of judgment.

McCain pick the best Republican! A beauty Queen with a 17 year daughter that got knock off by Levi.
On the PTA
City Council member
Mayor of a city with 8000 people
Govenor of a state with 700,000 people for less then 2 years.
A BA degree from University of Idaho in Journalism minor in Government
As McCain’s Manager said she is a America hero!
All I can said is God Bless America!
She is Trailer Trash!

Additionally, in the phonecalls leaked regarding Troopergate, Palin’s staff referred to “Todd and Sarah” as the motivators behind getting the State Trooper fired. It is clear he has had influence in the governorship, so it is not too much to ask that he be vetted before he assumes influence in the vice presidency.

If she can’t raise her family of 5 properly how is she going to contribute to the country. I suggest she resign and go home an take care of her family which she has chosen.
“Country First” right more like McShame first. He just doesn’t get it and it really shows.
The World is laughing at us! Is this a joke?
Look at the positive it can’t be any worst then the Bush years. Can it?

omg
did they have any clue of what they was getting into.

Only in this country could a viable candidate like Obama be neck and neck with a dumb as@ like McCain. There is NO WAY they knew about the pregnacy or the DUI. Funny thing is that the trash who like Palin are most likely not voting anyway. It will come down once again to FL and OH. Only this time, the tricks aren’t going to work. People are getting ready.

ABC NEWS, the Disgrace to Real
Journalism has hit a New Low!
A DUI from 20 years ago?
Not even on Sarah Palin but her
husband! Hey ABC NEWS try doing your job! Tell is about Obama and Bill Ayers!
Read this:
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.

Repugnants- go home and take care of your children. ENOUGH!

So what. Bush liked cocaine with his Jack daniel’s and HE got TWO TERMS in the White House!!!

The revelations keep coming. Those of us who have watched Sarah the past twelve years know that she is great as a small time administrator but isn’t quite up to the standards of leading the free world. Check out http://www.alaskanobserver.com for more info.

I always thought this pick was beyond stupid, and my point is continuously being proved…But this DUI thing is nonsense, this isnt a big deal at all…Especially considering that it was 20 years ago…Come on

Who the hell cares?
– an Obama supporter

all you republicans must have been smokin crack for the last 22 years.
two oilman, gas 4x the cost, house market screwed by deregulated morgage lending by big banks, unjustified war,
tax cuts for the super rich. any one as poor as all of you should never vote republican. I can just picture rove,cheney, bush, rush, etc. just laughing at the “base” for letting them stick it to you the way they have. just which i didnt have to be stuck too!
poor dumb republicans getting fiscally raped by their leaders. like sheep to slaughter. ill laugh when they drive you to welfare then you can vote not to give your selves any. hahahaha.
PS i guess ill just keep takin your money

sounds like McCain picked his veep right out of the Clampetts. this shows an incredible lack of judgment on his part. McCain, in effect, says out of ALL the potential running mates, Elly May Palin, was the best name he could come up with. oh boy — -what was he thinkin? what about that dopey senator from Texas, Kay Bailey Hutchinson — who is brain dead from all that hairspray??? conservatives could have at least said she was qualified with a straight face. or Olympia Snowe? or Paris Hilton herself.

Not really relevant now. But it just adds to the craziness that is the Republican party. Holy rollers – all the same.

Obama told you this in his book he was up front…Now to Tod Palins DUI when he was 22 and Has no run in with the Law…I agree it’s just better to get all this crap out front but I’m sure the problem is McCain just didn’t do the vetting. His selection of Gov.Palin was for the far-right of the base and attempt to try and get Clinton women voter.

I think this was a great thing for the Haters. It practically guarantees that there will be eight years that they can be doing their hating.
I hate therefore I am.

I agree that her husband’s drunkenness 20+ years ago doesn’t reflect her abilities today. However, I have a few questions for those who point out Barack Obama’s admitted drug use as a disqualification for the Presidency:
1. Did you vote for George W. Bush after learning about his alcoholism and cocaine use?
2. Did you vote for George W. Bush a second time after observing for 4 years that his alcoholism has evidently rendered him retarded?
3. Are you forgive and forget Christian’s who think that people deserve a chance at redemption?
Aside from Troopergate, AIP secessionists, and inexperience, there’s another critical issue more indicative of Palin’s poor judgement. What kind of mother with a pregnant high school teenager and a 6 month old baby with Down Syndrome runs for the demanding job of Vice President, or President once John McCain’s face falls off?
Granted, she doesn’t really know what the VP actually does, so perhaps she doesn’t know what she’s getting herself into. Perhaps she also doesn’t wholly realize the difficulties of raising a child with Down Syndrome. The priority for any mother and father is the welfare of their children. The family values crowd is quick to point out that children are best cared for by a mother and a father. It seems that the job of VP would largely remove Sarah Palin from the parenting equation for at least 4 years. This shows remarkable selfishness and poor judgment from Palin.
Family First, Sarah. Not Alaska First or Country First.

EXPLOSIVE PICS: VP CANDIDATE PALIN’S DAUGHTER IS WILDER THAN BRITNEY … PICS OF HER AND HER GIRLS GETTING DRUNK AND KISSING EACH OTHER!!!
http://www.mediatakeout.com/2008/26330-explosive_pics_vp_candidate_palins_daughter_is_wilder_than_britney__pics_of_her_and_her_girls_getting_drunk_and_kissing_each_other.html

I see they have allot of crazy repubs out here on the website today. Speechless are you repubs? You weren’t when the media took down Obama. You were out here commenting all day long and now it is in your backyard that you pick someone that is about as much as soccer mom as cat, you have a big problem with media coverage. What is this was Obama’s teenage daughter pregnant. The media would not sleep they would be running it 24 hours a day. Putting down Michelle Obama now Faox News is left speeches defending this conservative crap. Why to go repubs….Guess yall world is the same as democrats after all.

This woman who has preached abstinence as the only choice cant even get her own family to listen, a strong mother?? Not to mention over 20 million dollars in pork barrel for her state under her leadership the largest per capita in the country yet she preaches she is for reform….give me a break

If you haven’t seen the word “liberal” linked to Biden’s name you haven’t been paying attention. Do a Google search for “liberal Biden” (in quotes) Voila! Lots of hits: liberalBiden, uber-liberal Biden etc. If you don’t know what you’re talking about, don’t talk.

Obama & Biden are not liberals give me a break. Wanna see a real scary liberal? Google Cynthia McKinney.

Isn’t is great to have such stupid deflections from the national issues at hand. Come on….this is nothing more that a “smypathy vote” that has backfired on McCain. His people didn’t do their homework. Thinking women don’t fall for such ploys. We are talking here about someone who is one heartbeat away from the presidency….hope the GOP factored McCain’s choice of a VP selection into the price of an election.

damn all u peeps talk about dems who do drugs and pres. G.Bush II was on blow and getting drunk in his thrity’s wtf and ya’ll crackers still put his crazy drunk ass in office all bush ever did was live off his rich fam. money and bankrupt copmany his daddy, granddaddy and friends funded about 4 or 5 now six including the U.S.A.

Democrats must have forgotten Bill Clinton getting a blow job in the White House recently and not 28 years ago .
Sarah was dating a guy 28 years ago and he got DUI . Wow, what a big deal .
Democrats, I don’t think you can go back any further as Sarah is only 44 years old .
are you Not ashamed ? I guess Obama does not know the meaning of it .
Shame on ABC for carrying trash instead of real News

Yes, it is not a big deal and I agree. However, I am appalled by the responses of people here. Why do we have to be like this? McCain once told a nasty joke about Clinton’s daughter and later apologized. Where were all these self righteous people then?

Yes, cause if you are going to dis Obama’s drug usage decades ago, and Todd’s dui decades ago, then I am assuming Cindy McCain’s stealing drugs, abusing drugs and prescription fraud is off the table too.
All the repubs have to do is try to use the drug use against Obama and I say bring Cindy’s theft/fraud and usage against her…all while she was adopting children filing goverment papers saying she was clean!
The doctor who wrote some of the Rx for her and then she filled in a staffers name was fired and his credentials ripped…
And Cindy just walked away, vicodin in hand…
So, I think “Don’t Go There” applies.

Eric,
Read my blog above. You rant about returning to public policy debates and you yourself talk about other things in the beginning of your blog. Your reference to the name ‘Hussein’ shows how low people can get in political dialogues.

Democrats don’t march around passing judgment on everyone as Republicans do. Republicans are always bashing everyone. Why is it that when one of their own gets into trouble it’s off limits? They can’t live by their own standards. Ted Kennedy never claimed to be perfect–he is intelligent, compassionate and thoughtful. The Palin’s are already standing around bragging about how righteous they are. THAT is the difference.

Jo: I don’t here any comments from McCheney regarding drug/alcohol use. I wonder why this could be. Gee, growing up in the 1960s–I wonder what he could have been out doing.

I think many in the liberal media, who dig up such a story on Todd Palin, must be guided by Lucifer himself. What will they do when John McCain and Sarah Palin are elected!

It has been intresting reading these post. First of all….the media, or at least 80% of it is controlled by five families or corporations(none are democrats or liberals). So, get real and back off the liberal media BS. Do your fact checking and check out the Alaskan newspapers…they are conservative and very straight forward. As for McCain, I am a vietnam vet and if you really want to find out about McCain….visit…http://www.vietnamveteransaginstjohnmccain.com. You can lead some horses to water, etc….

What about the rumors that John McCain performed oral sex on his captures in Vietnam? Maybe Obama and McCain can get together for a special treaty.

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?!? and the DUI, it’s not relevant, but same idea.
Clearly there is a double standard and hypocrisy…Again, it should be about the best candidates and focus on issues.

The story is an absolute nothing and I see a lot of blame aimed at Democrats but the truth of this is that when people click on a story (online) they are essentially giving the media outlet (ABC News) in this instance an approval of the story. So, should you decide that we are all responsible for ourselves as all good Republicans believe then its mandatory that you no longer click on these stories. Right?

So lets just a few of these FACTS straight:
-Palins under age daughter is having a baby.
-Palins husband got arrested for DUI.
-Palin is under current investigation in Alaska for misuse of power to have her brother fired.
-McCain committed adultery for over a year during his 1st marriage with a girl in her young 20s, then asked his wife of 15 years for a divorce so he could marry this young girl.
-McCain was cited for using “Poor Judgement” in the Keating 5 Trial.
-McCain is known to be temperamental, has a anger problem.
-Cindy McCain is a recovering prescription drug abuser, stealing drugs from her own child charity.
These talking points need to be discussed. If Obama, Biden or their families had any of these issues, it would be all over Fox and AM Radio.
Don’t you deserve better and leaders with good family and moral values.

I beleive that most good people I know have had one or more bad experiences in their lives, although DUI may not be one of them. As for independence, My family ansestry in Texas goes back to 1883. About every 5 years there’s some political figure wanting to have Texas succeed from the union. ain’t happened (yet)!

After reading all the comments thus far, I believe the real issue here is that we need new blood in the White House and a President who set things right domestically and Internationally.
As for the Palin situation, in my fair opinion, she was not the right choice. The reason, there is something mistrustful about her daughter’s situation and baby trig.
She is in no way in comparison to Hilary Clinton, Condeleeza Rice or Michelle Obama. She should have been wise enough not to accept this invitation to run as vice president.
She does not reflect that charisma of “American Quality” as do the above ladies.
Also, parenting is a full-time job.
Who in their right mind as a mother of someone so young as Trig (who has DS)would want to take on a daunting position as vice president of the USA.
Bristol’s situation says it all, you can’t have everything. Ambition has caused many to fall. I believe this will be the case for Palin if she continues to run for VP.
Let America choose a president fit for the job regardless of sex, race, religion, etc…..
signed,
An American who loves our country

Debra You sound like a racist. You can bare the thought of having a black man running to country. Look at yourself in the mirror. What would God say looking back at you. Racist

Ok, I read half of these comments before getting disgusted. Why can’t we discuss real issues?
I agree, Todd Palin’s DUI does not matter. Sara Palin’s prego daughter doesn’t matter. Obama *agrees* kids should be left out, and most of his supporters agree, I am one of them. Guess republicans forget about how they trashed Chelsea Clinton when she was a child and her father was president. And when I say child, she was 12 years old when they moved into the White House, and the right wing crazies completely tore her apart. What a great thing to do to a child! At least for Bristol Palin she is old enough to shrug off, more easily, the attacks from those who are butting in to her business.
Why is it that so many of you want to bash Obama and his drug use from when he was a TEENAGER, yet you seem to forget that BUSH, was a drunk, until the age of 30, and also used cocaine, but has *never* been open and honest about it.
My point is, there are problems with all the candidates. They *all* have skeletons in their closets. What they did 20 years ago is a non issue. We should be focused on how they will help our country regarding with health care, women’s rights, the economy etc.
I want Obama to win this election, as his views are more in line with my own. However, I am happy that no matter who wins, there will at least be a *competent* person running the country, unlike the complete idiot that has been in the White House for the past 8 years.
Obama/Biden!

Just another reason ABC is on my no-watch list

I’ll vote for mccain/palin because of Todd’s DUI. In Alaska you have to have a DUI within 10 years of obtaining your DL to show that you are truly Alaskan. No wonder the socialist are up in arms. Palin and her husband are real people who represent 70% of America. These are the people you will find in the “Fly Over” States. You would know that if you ever left the island or the loony left coast. Prepare for 4 more years of Republican control of the white house democralist.

Wow this is big Headline stuff What a scandal!
Glad to see the Palins are almost normal
And attack nonsense like this only helps build up the devoted band of Palin supporters.
Keep it up we’ll need 70 million supporters in 2012!