Sarah Palin, Debate Champ

After behaving like a clueless Barbie doll in the interviews, Palin will no longer be able to fool critical voters by performing well in this single debate.

It will be interesting.
As a stage performer, I can say that people are not always ‘on’ although that is a trait politicians try to acquire. The set and setting bring out the talent. Are you “THE JAKE TAPPER” in the subway, or are you “Jake”?
I suspect that is part of what we are seeing, part is trying to be genuine, and another part is there is active bias in some of the interviewer’s techniques, and another is she is keeping it toned down until the debate to lower expectations. That seems to be working.
I’d like to see you interview her. You’re tough but usually fair. You are in the tank for Obama, but there is a scintilla of objective journalist in you Tapper, and my guess is the same set and setting effect would kick in and keep it professional.

Crazy Joe is a master! Best strip bar lounge comic in the debate. Let’s see if he takes his shoes off to insert his mouth.
Why didn’t Gwen Ifill recuse herself as moderator. Isn’t there any code of ethics amongst journalists?

From the Christian Science Monitor:
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Palin is a master of the nonanswer. She can turn a 60-second response to a query about her specific solutions to healthcare challenges into a folksy story about how she’s met people on the campaign trail who face healthcare challenges. All without uttering a word about her public-policy solutions to healthcare challenges.
In one debate, a moderator asked the candidates to name a bill the legislature had recently passed that we didn’t like. I named one. Democratic candidate Tony Knowles named one. But Sarah Palin instead used her allotted time to criticize the incumbent governor, Frank Murkowski. Asked to name a bill we did like, the same pattern emerged: Palin didn’t name a bill.
And when she does answer the actual question asked, she has a canny ability to connect with the audience on a personal level. For example, asked to name a major issue that had been ignored during the campaign, I discussed the health of local communities, Mr. Knowles talked about affordable healthcare, and Palin talked about … the need to protect hunting and fishing rights.
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Palin is a Barracuda and a Pitball. She can take care of her self.

Palin has been coached for a month, she will probably do well, but stupid is forever, it will not matter how she does, everyone will just beign fooled…

Unless Palin announces that, suffering from post partem depression she had the Thetan’s removed after the birth of Trigg, the 27% who approve of Bush will still be rabidly wild about her. In the event she does make such an announcement McCain will blame “gotcha journalism.”

In reality it doesn’t matter how Palin does, at least to the news media and pundits. The spin will be that she was awesome or that Gwen was biased or that Biden was sexist. There is no way Biden can win this debate.
Look how almost uniformly the media claimed that McCain won the debate last Friday, yet every poll and focus group had Obama on top; some polls with double digit wins.
I am afraid that the news media has been so beaten down by the Wing Nut Talk Radio crowd, that they can no longer be objective.
Thankfully, the public appears to be a little smarter and much more driven for change this year.

Somewhere a pundit of mixed metaphor ancestry will pronounce she did just fine. “She floated like a feather and stung like a box of chocolates.” Dissatisfied right wingers will accuse the pundit of using the Forrest Gump analogy to make fun of her pregnant daughter.

An illustration of Palin’s misuse of language, from her most recent conversation with Couric:
PALIN: No, I don’t. I mean, I know that there–it’s obvious there’s some double-standards here, you know, in terms of what the media has been doing, but I think that’s more–I think more attributable to just the media elite, the Washington elite, not knowing who I am and just asking a whole lot of questions and not so much based on gender though, but based on just the fact that I’m not part of the Washington herd.”
Wow.

If she flubs one, how long will it take the Palinapologists to say that Gwen Ifill asked a trick question and that she is…well you…one of…you know…

How come ABC isn’t reporting the story about Gwen Ifill, VP Debate moderator, who has written a pro-Obama book and is clearly “in the tank for him”. The utter corruption of the leftist media is beyond belief.

Nice quote, Kurt. If whe had been part of the Washington herd she would have been culled long ago and put in the Quayle pen.

the praise she has been given regarding her debate skills has been regarding her mastery of the non-answer. Like her response to Couric when asked about he economy, by going on about health care. She will tell stories, provide anecdotes and smile, but she won’t give answers. she will deflect, diffuse, obfuscate and lie when it suits her. Now we find that she cannot, indeed, see Russia from her house. I’m sure that she meant that metaphorically, but has been delivering the line quite seriously.

tony, ron, you must think the earth is flat too, this is getting funnier by the minute!!

The audience will be looking for specifics from Palin, because her interviews have been very bad. In this case, the non-answers and put downs will not help the Governor.

Maybe Gwen Ifill should step aside from moderating the dabate and have a more impartial moderator – maybe Michelle Obama.

I’m not looking for a gaffe from Sarah Palin, but I do expect her to answer the questions asked and not dance around them. I think most Americans will look for the same from her and Biden.

Gwen Ifill moderated the last VP debate. Now she’s in the tank. Stop making excuses before a question is even asked. Is Palin ready or not?

From Quinnipiac University poll:
FLORIDA: Obama 51, McCain 43
OHIO: Obama 50, McCain 42
PENNSYLVANIA: Obama 54, McCain 39
UP IN: CO, IA, MI, MN, NV, NM
WILL TAKE: NC, VA
The debates are just “technicalities”
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK

Fox News just reported that PBS anchor, Gwen Ifill, who is going to be moderating the VP debate tomorrow night has just published a pro-Obama book. You can be sure she will ask Biden easy questions and Sarah Palin tough or trick questions. I think she should be disqualified and allow someone else to moderate the debate.

Will she actually answer the questions asked? I think the bar is set pretty low for her.

ricky….huh?!?!?

Angela Davis for Moderator!
Why don’t we allow Cry Baby Hasselbeck from the view to moderate? Tears are bound to show.
GOOD FOR TV.
Cynics, is this the best you and Fox have left? The inevitable holds true:
From Quinnipiac University poll:
FLORIDA: Obama 51, McCain 43
OHIO: Obama 50, McCain 42
PENNSYLVANIA: Obama 54, McCain 39
UP IN: CO, IA, MI, MN, NV, NM
WILL TAKE: NC, VA
The debates are just “technicalities”
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK

I have to tell you guys… I was watching CNN last night and at one point in Alaska you can see Russia… LOLOLOLOL…. and yes, there is a little water between.. I could not stop laughing. On one side was Russia mountains and then a little water and then a very small town in Alaska. When I say small I think they said 20 people live there. Then there is nothing for miles. LOLOLOL OMG…..

Matt do not be confused by my attempt to correct you over simplification of the deeply held religious beliefs of others. Just because someone walks in the shoes of those who left footprints in dinosaur tracks is no reason to poke fun of them.

I think they both will do well… The news media will probably call it a draw… after all you will have two-six-pack-joe’s going at it. LOLOL

Brooklyn Democrat they will not accuse Ifill of being in the tank with Obama just because she is…you know…how it is with those…peep…peep…pundits.

Sounds like the GOP is trying to make sure Ifill throws softballs to Palin.

“Which of these four people would you trust to watch your house or over a relative?”

The Republicans must be nervous to smear Ifill. She moderated the last VP debate, if she seemed biased towards the Democrats why was she approved by the McCain camp? They already have their excuse in case Palin looks as bad as she has in interviews.

I’m afraid the debate will become Miss or Mister Six Pack Joe contest. Who’s MOST in touch with Mr. and Mrs. Average?
well, WHO CARES? No politician will be able to tackle this country’s and this world’s issues, problems and possibilities by being in touch with the ordinary folks.
What we need is intelligence, strong thinking, clever acting, analytic powers, leadership, internationalism etc. and a lot more.
Bur ‘being in touch’ is populism and nothing else. It will bring us nowhere.

In case you lose, blame the referee.
If you blame the referee, you must have lost already.

“Which of these four people would you trust to watch your house or over a relative?” If I wanted to have the relative charged with everything under the sun for years after the events allegedly took place I would pick Palin.

I think McCain should have waited ’til after the debate to blame Ifill. The only ones buying this lame excuse now are Fox News viewers, who will vote for McCain anyway.

Oh, that Sarah!
An Alaska NORAD spokesman explained to NY Daily News that when Russian bombers approach U.S. airspace the Governor has no authority whatsoever, despite what she said in the Couric interview.
The Washington Post just found out that Palin used another private e-mail account outside the state government’s system and separate from her hacked Yahoo! account to communicate with a small circle of staff. That’s Palin’s idea of a transparent government, no doubt.
Voters, keep this woman away from the White House.
Republicans, let the McCain campaign know your growing discontent with the empty headed Palin.

Why didn’t the McCain people speak out about the Ifill book before they agreed that she would be the moderator?
1) They understood and recognized Ms. Ifill’s impeccable journalistic credentials or they knew about the book and planned on blaming Ifill for Palin’s debate flameout all along!!

“Fox News just reported that PBS anchor, Gwen Ifill, who is going to be moderating the VP debate tomorrow night has just published a pro-Obama book. ”
The book will be published in January.
The book was announced in mid July.
The McCain campaign agreed to Gwen Ifill in early August.
So either the McCain campaign didn’t do their homework again or these cries of bias are more about the abilities of the VP (or lackthereof).

“Questions are being raised about PBS anchor Gwen Ifill’s objectivity after news surfaced that she is releasing a new book promoting Barack Obama and other black politicians who have benefited from the civil rights struggle.”
News surfaced?
The book was announced in July.
Malkin also thinks that internment (ie imprisonment without cause beyond nationality) was a good idea.

“FOX News political analyst Michelle Malkin argued in a post on National Review that Ifill is “so far in the tank for the Democratic presidential candidate, her oxygen delivery line is running.”
That fair and balanced reporting by FoxNews we keep hearing about.

“Why IN THE WORLD would she be picked, and BY WHOM, to facilitate this debate??”
She was picked by the debate commission and AGREED to by BOTH campaigns because she is known as a fair and serious journalist.

Kelly, Ifill was approved by the McCain camp.

McCain is still firing up his base in October. That doesn’t bode well. They must really think Palin may seal the deal for Obama. This moderator nonsense is laughable.

KELLY: Relax, she is not writing a book just on Obama. Her book is based on Black men and women in politics. We do have them… You know that don’t you…..McCain’s camp approved her.

both campaigns must agree to the moderator of any debate
the book was announced before they agreed to have her as the moderator
so you have only two choices in this matter
1. the mccain camp is incompetent at doing the most basic of research
2. they didnt really think it was a big deal

“In her book, Ifill contends that the black political structure of the civil rights movement has cleared the way for post-racial politicians to ascend to new heights.. ”
The problem is, if Obama is the avatar of that movement today, he is destroying it by cheating. Why does he have to cheat to win? Why is voter registration fraud required? Why can’t he admit he trained volunteers for that and sued banks to obtain sub-prime mortgages for unqualified borrowers thus being a direct contributor to the current financial crisis?
Why does Obama have to cheat to win?

Of great concern to McCain’s campaign is a remaining and still-undisclosed clip from Palin’s interview with Couric last week.
A Palin aide, after first noting how “infuriating” it was for CBS to purportedly leak word about the gaffe, revealed that it came in response to a question about Supreme Court decisions.
After noting Roe vs. Wade, Palin was apparently unable to discuss any major court cases.
There was no verbal fumbling with this particular question as there was with some others, the aide said, but rather silence.

“She was picked by the debate commission and AGREED to by BOTH campaigns because she is known as a fair and serious journalist.”
Fair and serious in the world of the liberal media.

“Fair and serious in the world of the liberal media.”
So Mack was the McCain campaign then momumentally stupid to agree to her as moderator given what you perceive as her deeply held bias?

Sarah Who: Sarah Palin will topple and trick old Biden. But of course you forgot one thing. Biden praised her as a good looking woman which means he may be looking at her and forget to answer the questions. The leader of Pakistan didn’t want to let her hand go. What does that tell you.

“Matt Damon is probably another one of those Hollywood fluffs that didn’t make it big time”
Not that what Matt Damon says on political matters much to me but he has had a pretty good career.

Voter Fraud: Doesn’t voter registration happening in Ohio this week qualify?

Did you know that Gwen Ifill, the moderator of the VP debate has a financial stake in making sure that Obama wins the November election? She has written a pro-Obama book which is scheduled to be released on inauguration day! She never bothered to disclose that information to the McCain campaign! The fix is in on this debate. Ifill is a devout Obama partisan.

mccain got lost on stage HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAH

I like Sarah Palin and don’t mind one bit that the Democrats underestimate her.

Palin looked bad in the interviews when Couric forced her stay on issue.
That’s not the format of this debate. In this debate, Palin will be able to talk about other things.
Anyone thinking Palin will stumble with this format should remember Bush using the same tactics. Americans know Bush was incompetent, but he was able to ingore the question.

“Fair and serious in the world of the liberal media.”
So Mack was the McCain campaign then momumentally stupid to agree to her as moderator given what you perceive as her deeply held bias? ”
If they complain then they are perceived as whiners. If you can’t stand up to Ifill how will you stand up to Putin…blah…blah…blah.

“Can you name a single instance of voter registration fraud committed by the Obama campaign this election?”
I tried, Ryan, but your spam filter snagged it as usual when people reply to your rhetorical questions. I suggest you do the search yourself since you know all about ‘googling’ but don’t seem to concern yourself with the ethics of your candidate.
So I ask once again, why does Obama have to cheat to win? We’ve had eight years of crap sandwiches from Bush. Do we deserve another four from Obama?

“I tried, Ryan, but your spam filter snagged it as usual when people reply to your rhetorical questions.”
My spam filter?
That’s what you’re reduced to len in the face of McCain’s campaign tanking?
Yesterday you claimed there would be blood in the streets from rioting if Obama won.
Today you claim Obama is cheating with ZERO evidence and then accuse me of somehow blocking your comments.
I know its been a rough week but get it together would you.

“So Mack was the McCain campaign then momumentally stupid to agree to her as moderator given what you perceive as her deeply held bias? ”
If they complain then they are perceived as whiners. If you can’t stand up to Ifill how will you stand up to Putin…blah…blah…blah.”
So instead of making it an issue in August when no one is paying attention and it would be much less likely to be perceived by the public as whining just political inside baseball, they make it an issue 1 day before the debate with all eyes focused on it.
The McCain campaign has shown that a McCain administration would be a complete mess.

Blip Said: Every once in a while, she’ll take a dig at Biden… and people will think, “Wow! She’s feisty.”
I agree with this statement. “They” will talk about how tough and feisty she is, and that somehow is a qualifier for VP.
However, if Biden takes a dig at Palin, “they” will talk about how rude, condescending and sexist he was towards her. It’s a guaranteed double standard. And that “my friends” is one of the glaring problems the Republican party.

The “Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now,” known by the acronym ACORN, acknowledged that one of its employees had been filing bogus voter registrations in Seminole County, Florida, but characterized it as “an isolated incident.”
“ACORN has received nearly a million dollars from the Barack Obama Campaign in 2008. Senator Obama and mentor William Ayers also worked with ACORN during Obama’s years as a Community Organizer in Chicago.

Blip,
Don’t forget GOP plans to challenge minority voters.
len was kind enough to tell me this would lead to race riots so Obama should make sure minorities stay away from the polls or the riots would be his fault.

Governor Palin faces a daunting challenge in the debate with a moderator who so strongly supports Obama, she has written a book praising him.
There can be little doubt the questions will play to Biden’s strengths. I sure hope he has the opportunity to elaborate on the incident in which his helicopter was forced down in Afghanistan, and he was shot at in Iraq, since the media does not feel the need to investigate these over-the-top remarks he made.
To those who have been so critical of Governor Palin’s performance in recent interviews with Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric, you would do well to read the transcrips of the interviews, rather than forming opinions based on what you are being spoon-fed by the media.

ACORN’s management flagged a number of registration cards as “problematic”. They fired the person responsible for the problematic registrations.
The GOP in Florida got wind of this and are trying to suggest that this kind of fraud… filling out a voter’s registration card for them… is widespread and systemic fraud.
Now, does filling out a voter’s registration card mean that this person is going to vote for Obama? No. Is it wrong? I suppose it is.
But ACORN fired the individual responsible before the Republicans even knew about it. ACORN saved the problematic forms as evidence.
This kind of “Fraud” is small peanuts next to the massive irregularities in vote counting that gave Ohio to Bush in 2004. In fact, the courts did not even think ACORN committed fraud at all. The only ones who are crying fraud are partisan Republicans looking to stir up controversy.
And ACORN is a great target because they register minorities.

len:
Voter fraud: Ohio voting may not be done in Obama’s name, but you can almost be sure that he had something to with the decision to go forward with it. Register and vote the same day, how many days can you vote? At least seven, and maybe more depending how many times the bus comes by your stop.

Of course, Ryan. In Ohio in 2004, in black districts, lines were 10 hours long. 10 hours! In Bush-leaning districts, you could walk in, vote, and walk right out.
Now who is going to wait 10 hours to vote? Some people. But most people have jobs and bills and kids… they cannot afford to wait 10 hours.
Now maybe the Republicans don’t think this is a problem… but if you did this to voters in GOP strongholds… they would be crying their eyes out.

Hey Ryan, are you a graduate of Barry’s indoctrination camp?
“The next tip is to be absolutely ruthless,” Jocelyn Woodards tells the campers. “We want you to be determined, ambitious, take a risk.”
No toasted marshmallows here. This is the second day of Camp Obama, a two-day (sometimes four-day) intensive training course in becoming an activist to help get Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) elected president.
“It’s not enough for you to be a supporter of Barack. You have to go out and build an organization that will deliver votes for Barack Obama,” Woodards tells the 40 campers “

Everyone keeps saying she doesn’t know about the politics in Washington because she’s from Alaska. Well are forgeting that she has to be very involved with everything since her state seems the one that everyone keeps talking about “To drill or not to drill” She has been in politics for a while. I can’t believe that Anyone is playing the no experiance card since Obama is still a baby in politics.

I’m hoping that Ifill and Biden don’t allow Palin to get away with a single canned response to any question. I would hope that either, or both, press Palin to expand or defend her positions. The structure of the debate limits the time to do that — but if they don’t make it a little intense for Palin, this debate will be just a series of small speeches.

“This is a woman who can not even magazines or newspapers that she reads. ANYONE could do that.”
Who sits down and reads a newspaper anymore? Most people read articles online that interest them from a number of differnet sources. I can’t remember the last time I held an actual newspaper in my hand.

“I go to lots of sporting events…. 99% of the people in attendance do not place their hand over their hearts during the national anthem.”
Actually this annoys me a great deal and I’ve been to stadiums in every corner of the country.
I sing the national anthem when its played and I think others should to.
If you don’t feel comfortable singing in public at least remove your hat and show some respect.

I have noticed a lot of people that have forgot how to show respect for their country and the men and women that have died to keep it free. But when they tell me that they “don’t want to be perceived as taking sides” by showing that respect, that to me says they have already picked a side and it is not American Values.

I am very familiar with GOP astroturfing… they have been doing it for years.
You send out these fake letters… and then get locals to sign and send them.
It happens quite often. It started with the big bad boys of Wall Street. Tobacco, Pharma, Oil, and Agribusiness… they all do this kind of marketing. It seems natural that they would share this technique with their buddies in the GOP.
But, to be fair, Axelrod also has experience in astrotrufing. But Democratic astroturfing is negligible next to the Republican machine. The GOP are masters of buying fake popular support for their initiatives. And their base tends to be more loyal and trusting of their media venues (Rush Limbaugh, Christian Coalition, Fox News). The Democrats just don’t have the kind of consolidated base working in lock step with Church and Media entities. And I hope they never, ever do.

“Doesn’t it scare you that commentators here (left and right) think better on their feet than she does? ”
She’s no Hillary Clinton, that’s for sure.

“But when they tell me that they “don’t want to be perceived as taking sides” by showing that respect, that to me says they have already picked a side and it is not American Values”
M/P 08 you are getting upset about something that never happened.
Check snopes.
If anything you should be upset that the person who forwarded you that email lied to you.

“Ryan c is so naive that he thinks everything posted on snopes is true. You are being fooled by people who create rebuttals to things they don’t like.”
I’m naive because I research a claim and find it to be false.
But you are not naive because you take a forwarded email’s accuracy at face value.
OK then….
I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt but it looks like your ignorance is quite willful.

How can McCain supporters continue to circulate demonstrably false allegations?
Either they are naive rubes… or cynical liars.

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said this about oil companies: “When I look every day, the big oil company’s building is right out there next to me, and it’s quite a reminder that we should have mutually beneficial relationships with the oil industry.” (Source: Roll Call, 08/25/08).

Gwen Ifill should recuse herself from moderating tomorrows debate!

Posted by Ryan C: “You think the transcripts actually help her?”
Yes, I do.
ABC’s front page headline: “Sarah Palin Doesn’t Read the Papers?”.
In reality, Governor Palin REFUSED TO NAME the magazines/newspapers she reads in response to Ms. Couric’s interview question.
ABC clearly intended to convey a negative, and inaccurate account of the Governor’s response.
Many voters are being influenced by the media’s all too often incomplete, inaccurate, and misleading reports of campaign events on both sides.
Spending more time seeking factual information helps us all to vote responsibly. Reading the full transcript of an interview is one easy way we can all be better informed.

“ryan..I do to, I sing I salute and I have taught my children to do the same.”
Do you also teach your children to lie by way of your example?
You were shown something was untrue and you continue to repeat it.
Once is a mistake, twice is a lie.
Is that what you are teaching your children lying is ok when done for political purposes?

“I sing the national anthem regardless but I want to feel good about my country again.
And that is why I am voting for and donating to Obama.”
I don’t think I want to know what would make you feel good about our country again. If it involves Obama, Wright, Ayers, Dohrn, Rezko, Farrakhan, black liberation theology, TUCC, ACORN, Chicago thug politics, etc., then I hope that you never feel good about our country again.

“Ryan, the point is that nobody puts their hands on their heart while singing the national anthem”
How big of a lie is that? Go to the videotape. Hillary Clinton -hand over heart CHECK. Bill Richardson -hand over heaert -CHECK. The Harkins -hand over hert -CHECK. Obama -hand over heart – NOPE. hands impatiently fidgeting around -CHECK.

“I don’t think I want to know what would make you feel good about our country again”
How about we stop torturing people?
How about we start honoring our ideals of liberty and justice for all and stop claiming we’re spreading democracy while laying waste to another country?
How about instead of throwing up our hands and pretending climate change doesn’t exist we start acting like leaders?
How about we stop looking the other way while Wall Street fleeces Main Street?
That would make me feel good about our country again.
You? You want a continuation of the current policies if not a further lurch rightward.

“Could the McCain campaign be that smart?”
Lowering expectations to the point of destroying any sense of credibility is rarely a smart thing.

Since McCain could not figure out how to pospone his debate so it would take the date of the VP debate they are now trying to manufacture outrage over Gwen Ifill as moderator to cancel the Palin debate. Let Sarah be Sarah. It’s hell filling the shoes of the first, but she will do Geraldine Ferraro proud.

Using Mccain logic, they will have to cancel the Presidential debate with Tom Brokaw. He wrote a book that is pro-veteran. It wouldn’t be fair.

Cincyr: No. Instead they will use Gwen Ifill to either cancel or postpone the debate or raise enough of a stink to further their cause of Palin as Miss Media Martyr. Meanwhile Ifill and Random House will chuckle all the way to the bestseller list.

“Using Mccain logic, they will have to cancel the Presidential debate with Tom Brokaw”
Forget the book, how about this?
His mission, he said, was to assure the candidate’s aides that — despite some negative on-air commentary by Mr. Olbermann in particular — Mr. McCain could still get a fair shake from NBC News. Mr. Brokaw said he had been told by a senior McCain aide, whom he did not name, that the campaign had been reluctant to accept an NBC representative as one of the moderators of the three presidential debates — until his name was invoked.
“One of the things I was told by this person was that they were so irritated, they said, ‘If it’s an NBC moderator, for any of these debates, we won’t go,’ ” Mr. Brokaw said. “My name came up, and they said, ‘Oh, hell, we have to do it, because it’s going to be Brokaw.”

It has been known for months that Gwen Ifill was working on a book about the “younger generation of black politicans”. The book looks at Obama and 3 other “up-and-coming” politicians. There is NO evidence the book will be favorable to Obama. She had this to say about the criticism in a WaPo article today:
“I still don’t know if he’ll be a good president. I’m still capable of looking at his pros and cons in a political sense.” She added: “No one’s ever assumed a white reporter can’t cover a white candidate.”
Ifill is an excellent journalist. I have seen no bias in her reporting thus far on the Newshour or Washington Week.
In any case, if Palin does not do well, it is likely Ifill will be blamed.

sp: I take it you are an expert in debates.Palin is smarter than Couric and I can give you a run down about Couric. Palin knows what to say and not say and slick chic Couric thought Palin would answer her dumb questions. When anyone avoids a direct answer its because of a dumb question.

Mariann P is wrong. Couric was actually a Low Level Assistant II and supervised other junior Low Level Assistant I’s. Then she was promnoted to Low Level Radioactive Waste Correspondent, in which capacity she was assigned the hazardous task of interviewing Palin and other fossil views.

“Yesterday you claimed there would be blood in the streets from rioting if Obama won.”
Try again. I said something altogether different: if the votes are contested because of voter fraud and he is not elected, there is the possibility of rioting. Leading figures said it and you deny it. You’re lieing Ryan.
“Today you claim Obama is cheating with ZERO evidence and then accuse me of somehow blocking your comments.”
There are indictments in over 12 states against ACORN, Ryan. You know that.
Why do you have to cheat to win? Is that what Obama indoctrination teaches? Is that what you want for this country?
We’ve just had eight years of it. We want real change. Obama is more of what Bush has done but worse because he is recruiting the kids to do his dirty deeds for him.
Ryan, has the spam filter ever stopped one of your low-information posts? If not, explain the ABC spam filters to us.
You aren’t what we need. You are exactly what is worst for the country. You are passionate but without ethics and that is exactly the kind of crap sandwich we’ve been forced to eat for eight years, except now we’ll have to do it with a bad economy made worse by Obama’s entitlement programs that will raise taxes and drive the country into a depresssion.

“If not, explain the ABC spam filters to us.”
Who is us, len?
Are you posting from Arlington with the rest of the McCain ghost writers?

Despite the long post about how deletions are related to url’s, my post about Joe Pepitone was deleted. Did I get his ERA wrong?

“I said something altogether different: if the votes are contested because of voter fraud and he is not elected, there is the possibility of rioting.”
You said nothing about him not being elected. You discussed voter fraud in the event of a landslide. You blamed Obama telling people to get in other people faces.
You were message testing scare tactics.
“Leading figures said it and you deny it. You’re lieing Ryan.”
Which leading figure len? Rush? Hannity? Savage?
“”Today you claim Obama is cheating with ZERO evidence and then accuse me of somehow blocking your comments.”
“There are indictments in over 12 states against ACORN, Ryan. You know that.”
Again where is the evidence of voter registration fraud this election len?
There are also a dozen Congressmen and dozens of aides from the Republican party indicted for abuse of power, perhaps the Republicans party should be disallowed from further elections given their past behavior?
That is your logic taken to heart len.

If Palin wants to start the debate off even, she should congratulate Gwen the first rattle out of the box, “congratulations on your book. Hope you are successful.” The worm will turn….

“If Palin wants to start the debate off even, she should congratulate Gwen the first rattle out of the box, “congratulations on your book. Hope you are successful”
Use your own lines instead of RedState’s crap.

These past 8 years have been a “crap sandwich” and on November 4th – voters will be removing the “crap sandwich” from the menu.’
And it will be replaced with a sandwich au merde.

Mack – au merde and a “crap sandwich” are the same thing. Nice to know you are for getting rid of the GOP too!

Thanking Ifill on her upcoming book.
That would be brilliant. Thanks Ryan C

Ryan C.,
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If Palin wants to start the debate off even, she should congratulate Gwen the first rattle out of the box, “congratulations on your book. Hope you are successful.” The worm will turn….
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Voter fraud..what is happening in Ohio this week. How many times can they vote? Are they elegible to vote?
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Snoopes might be able to verify, just heard that sometime ago Joe Biden wanted
to give Iran a $2million dollar check with no strings attached.
Posted by: s
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Give us your thoughts…

“I have little doubt Senator Obama could not only identify a number of supreme court decisions, but could probably recite several of them word-for-word.”
Imagine that as a Constitutional Law lecturer, Obama knows about Supreme Court decisions famous and obscure and can discuss them in great detail.
Joe Biden who also teaches a class in Consitutional Law and has done so for decades can also do such.
John McCain likely has a working knowledge of Supreme Court decisions from his campaign finance bill alone to say nothing of historical knowledge.
Palin could not answer a basic US history question that any American school kid could.

Actually, Alaska is not isolated. It is micro Cosmo of America. So Palin probably knows who Ifill is from seeing her on the cover of the pancakes boxes when she fixed breakfast for Track and Willow after firing the chef.

ricky: Why does Palin need a chef. She can do her own cooking. There are so called chef’s working in restaurants that need to go back to cooking school. If I was in her position I would let anyone cook for me. In fact, I wouldn’t even have a cleaning woman. I would clean my own house and do the laundry myself. There are people that like to do their own work and object to other people even if they have money.

mercy: Biden has so much knowledge that he puts his foot in his mouth and has done it three or four times already. And he probably will again in the debate. So much for Biden.

Sarah Palin is the MOST RECENT and visible example of “white privilege” and “affirmative action” for white women. A person of color of EITHER gender with her very limited backgound and experience would never be in such a position. All of you people who have been harping on Obama’s “inexperience” and lack of readiness to be president who are now 100% behind Palin are a bunch of hypocrits. Or, as Tim Wise said: “Your ‘whiteness’ is showing.”

Ryan C.,
Voter fraud..what is happening in Ohio this week. How many times can they vote? Are they elegible to vote?
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Ryan, you forgot to mention a fake electricity bill for identification will do also. Hum….

Obama = Dumb
Biden = Dumber

“Ryan, you forgot to mention a fake electricity bill for identification will do also.”
Fake electricity bills?
LOL.
Why are Republicans so eager to restrict other people’s right to vote?
Why do they hate America?

“Obama did nothing in Congress but be absent about 143 times. He was a state senator and god knows how many times he wasn’t there. He’s lucky he knows what bill to pass and not to pass. Why he missed so many time has never been questioned. What would he do as president. Go on several vacation’s?”
Mariann is so frustrated she is confusing her smears.
Poor Mariann

“it is only an issue becuase Ifill, the MSM and the Obama campaign thought they could get away with it. Just like George Brett thought he could continue to use too much pine tar.”
You made the point that Martin waited till Brett hit the HR to do so.
You screwed up your own analogy.

vote4peace: I beg to differ with you but that’s not what the media is saying. The subject is about Obama missing or voting present many times over.

“Ifill’s book is now a news story today and tomorrow the day of the debate. Timing is everything Ryan C.”
Yes and what is the benefit of this timing?
Two fold, either its a try a cowing Ifill to go easy on Palin or its the built in excuse for conservatives why Palin failed.
Either way its shows how little faith they have in Palin.

Martin: I diagree on your statement. If Obama was that good why does he have to copy the speeches of other’s. And we all know he uses them and adds word to them. Doesn’t he have a speech writer? No he is not as smart as Biden. There are a lot of lawers that graduated from Harvard but that doesn’t mean they are smart in politics. Biden knows foreign policy very well where Obama lacks it. Obama had to go for three hours to learn it. He shouldn’t need training being a senator for three years. Where have you been.

Mariann, he has only been present 141 times since he took office as senator.
Makes even look worse. Hum, wonder how much time he will spend in Washington when president?

Did they get a fair moderator yet?

she should bring up Rev. Wright.

“Are you posting from Arlington with the rest of the McCain ghost writers?”
Not even close. Now you’re getting paranoid, Ryan.
If Obama has to cheat to win, he is a loser. A country led by a bean counter using intimidation and voter fraud is not a country that will be fixing its problems anytime soon.
But you know, I think he is going to win. Ever see The Candidate?

“I don’t have to be frustrated because I already know there were complaints about Obama missing the senate so many times and Hillary stated it in her campaign. Are you calling her a liar?”
You seem fully aware of Obama missing votes.
What’s funny you don’t seem to express an outrage about McCain missing 100 more votes than Obama.
And I think your frustration is showing in your clumsy handling of talking points. You seem to mix them up or plain get them wrong which makes you an incredibly easy fish to shoot in a barrel full of them.

Dear Fellow American:
Never before in the history of our nation have we faced such a grave crisis: one of the most radical political figures ever to be nominated by a major party is just minutes away from becoming President of the United States.
That man is Barack Obama.
He promises to change America forever. If elected, he will do just that — but in ways you make not like.
Remember Obama is the most liberal member of the United States Senate.
He received a 100 percent Liberal Rating from the National Journal, making him the most left-wing Senator in Washington — more liberal than even Democratic senators like Ted Kennedy.
If you look at Obama’s record, you will understand just how dangerous this man is.
He even has terrorist friends he won’t denounce. One such man is William Ayers, a leader in the radical terrorist group the Weatherman Underground. The group bombed several government buildings, including the Pentagon, killing civilians and police officers.
In 2001, Ayers said he had no regrets for his actions and wished he could have done more.
The ties between Obama and Ayers are tight. Both served on two non profit boards and they worked closely together. Ayers even hosted a political event at his home for Obama.
Obama has acknowledged he is a friend of Ayers and defends his association by saying he, Obama, was only 8 years old at the time of the Pentagon bombing.
However, Obama has no explanation as to why he is still a friend of Ayers.
Obama has even been endorsed by radicals such as Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan.
No one can deny hearing about Obama’s relationship with the America-hating Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
There should be little doubt that William Ayers and Louis Farrakhan and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright are rooting for Obama — because he is one of them.
In keeping with such friends, Obama has promised to meet with radical leaders like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad without “preconditions” even though Ahmadinejad has promised to “wipe Israel off the map” and “destroy” America.
Even radical Hamas terrorists have praised him.
“We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election,” Ahmed Yousef, senior Hamas leader was quoted by ABC radio as saying.

“Not even close. Now you’re getting paranoid, Ryan.”
Not really.
Just looking for reasons why you become unhinged for no reason and it would be more comforting to think you are just putting us on for the purposes of a campaign versus truly believing what you write.
One day you lament the failure of both parties and discuss conservative economic theory.
The next you are predicting blood in the streets and a reprise of the assasinations of the 60′s.

“What’s funny you don’t seem to express an outrage about McCain missing 100 more votes than Obama.”
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Ryan C, was 100 votes over the complete time McCain has been a senator? You seem to have all the stats…let’s hear

“Ryan C, was 100 votes over the complete time McCain has been a senator? You seem to have all the stats…let’s hear ”
Its during the 110th session of Congress which is the current session.
Congressional sessions last 2 years.
This current session(the 110th) includes 2007 & 2008.
During this session, Obama has missed 303 votes while McCain has missed 420 votes.
During the 109th session of Congress, Obama missed 11 votes while McCain missed 56 votes.
as stated before google washington post Congress votes. That will get you a database set up to track votes by Congress and things like voting with party.

Ryan C.,
I hope your play-book will be empty soon. Maybe you are part of the DNC making sure we all know the, hum, facts.
You won’t change my mind.. I, like John McCain am a TRUE PATRIOT and I LOVE the
USA.

People have already made up their mind about Palin. The debate on Thursday will be for entertainment value only. Biden has far more to lose than Palin, politically, her bar is so low by now. Could there be 75 million viewers? Would that be possible?

Nat Turner: McCain don’t have to worry about Palin Joe Blow does. He puts his foot in his mouth ofter and if he does it this time it will show how little he really knows. But on the other hand Nat Biden said that Palin was a good looking women so he may be looking at her instead of paying attention to the questions or get confused in his answers.

Well, the jury is still out on Palin, but it is not on Biden. He’s a blowhard and an imbecile. How funny it is to watch lefties savage Sarah Palin when they can’t be particularly bright themselves if they feel good about Biden. For all of his experience the guy makes so many foolish utterances that they are scarcely newsworthy anymore.
At least Palin has been in the position of facing a hostile media while having limited experience in speaking for another candidate as opposed to herself. Unlike stating your own beliefs, that’s an acquired skill.
What is Biden’s excuse?

s: I am with you. I was born and raised in this country, love this country, and its the greatest country in the world. Evidently Obama didn’t think so when he joined a racist, white hater, anti-american church for 20 years. He would have still attended that church if it wasn’t for Wright’s video. And thank goodness that came out. But you can bet on it if Obama wins the election look for Wright, Farrakhan, Father P, Rezko and Ayers at the white house having dinner. Sometimes when you start out in life as a crook you stay that way. Obama never fooled me for one second. I am well aware of the fact that he is in this race for history making wanting to be like MLK. He should start walking in his own shoes.

Ranger: Isn’t that what Obama has been doing throughout this campaign? Doesn’t he have the people in this country fooled by his copied speeches of RFK whose book he has. If you think for one minute that Obama is going to do everything he is telling the public then you don’t understand politics. Obama wants to make history like MLK and is desperate to do that besides wanting to be president. Are you aware of the fact that this country would go into a disaster if he is elected. He lacks the knowledge to lead a big country like America. Biden would be leading the country while Obama is president in name only. Get a grip. And Palin will be Biden at his own game.

No to Palin and McCain, we need leaders with at least half a brain.

Well lets see the 100 votes that Mccain should have. Are right here in the USA. One thing to think about is Democrats act on polls so fast before they have all the answers and Republicans sit back and wait till they have all the answers before the act that is the difference between Republicans and Democrats…

As for Palin well humm how about a strategy or maybe its a a a a well even Obama didn’t know that one LOL… Anyway ever hurd of the dumb blonde effect well think play dumb and make eveyone take the bait and well she will make Biden look like the fool that he is she is one of the number one debaters around and she has a gift of like photograghic memory so they just think she is like a dumb blonde and she is not.

“I hope your play-book will be empty soon. Maybe you are part of the DNC making sure we all know the, hum, facts.”
Or I just hate right wing lies.
“You won’t change my mind.. I, like John McCain am a TRUE PATRIOT and I LOVE the
USA.”
Of course I won’t change your mind.
The truth is an uncomfortable thing to be ignored with the FoxNews obedient.

Mariann Pepitone – Actually, Obama voted present 129 times. 129 out of 4000 votes. Voting present is common practice in the Illinois State Legislature. It is used to signal approval of a bill, but may-be not all parts and/or used when their is a conflict of interest.
On the other hand, your candidate is the MOST ABSENT SENATOR from Congress. McCain has missed more votes than any other member. He even managed to beat a Senator who is battling a brain tumor for the prize.

In tonight’s CBS interview, Sarah Palin could have mentioned this Supreme Court case from JUNE 2008. Keep in mind it has to do with her ‘specialty,’ the Oil Industy.
The case is called Exxon v. Baker. We will certainly be hearing more about it. NYT and a Juneau paper covered this verdict reducing the Exxon Valdez damages to a pittance. You may recall that one? The one where dishwashing detergent was used to clean the greasy oil off the birds?
“The Supreme Court on Wednesday reduced what had once been a $5 billion punitive damages award against Exxon Mobil to about $500 million. The ruling essentially concluded a legal saga that started when the Exxon Valdez, a supertanker, struck a reef and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into the Prince William Sound in Alaska in 1989.
Gov. Sarah Palin [said,] “I am extremely disappointed with today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court,” Palin said. “While the decision brings some degree of closure to Alaskans suffering from 19 years of litigation and delay, the court gutted the jury’s decision on punitive damages.”

The VP debate will be moderated by Gwen Ifill who stands to gain only if Obama gets elected because she is writing a book about him that not-so-coincidentally is set to be published on inauguration day. As has been accurately pointed out “in law, this would create a mistrial.” Once again, American voters lose out because of a media that wants so bad for Obama to get elected that their risking their jobs on it.

“Are you aware that Russia is on the border of Alaska.”
Since Illinois shares a maritime border with Canada does that count towards Obama’s foreign policy experience?
“And you don’t even know where her house is located.”
I think they still live in Wasilla.
I do know that she charged the state for basically staying at home using an account meant for business travel.
“And as far as Katie Couric, go on line and CBS stated if their ratings don’t go up her job is under discussion.”
The line on Couric is that she is a fluff journalist and is therefore not taken very seriously.
Funny how right wingers think of her as some kind of Murphy Brown character.
“Palin’s job as governor is not. What do you make of that?”
Governors face elections. If politicians could be fired at any time for ratings we would have been rid of Bush long ago.
BTW, Palin’s ratings in Alaska dropped 15 points since she became the VP nominee.

“Gov. Sarah Palin [said,] “I am extremely disappointed with today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court,” Palin said. “While the decision brings some degree of closure to Alaskans suffering from 19 years of litigation and delay, the court gutted the jury’s decision on punitive damages.”
LOL…good one Kravitz

“As for Palin well humm how about a strategy or maybe its a a a a well even Obama didn’t know that one LOL… Anyway ever hurd of the dumb blonde effect well think play dumb and make eveyone take the bait and well she will make Biden look like the fool that he is she is one of the number one debaters around and she has a gift of like photograghic memory so they just think she is like a dumb blonde and she is not.”
Another victim of No Child Left Behind.

re: 3 young men fainted today, as governer Palin was talking to a large group of people.
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Whilst a young children’s choir sang praise and allegiance to their messiah – Obama.
I wonder how many of their parents have tought these children songs of praise to God, the real object of praise.

re: Not put so elequently or gramatically-correct, but nevertheless, I think what you’re advocating is Obama’s on-the-job training, which does not seem that appealing to me.
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Obama has to be trained as anyone elected into office will have to be. That is why they have advisers to tell them what to do.

But I am a McCain supporter but even he will have to have training as well hes not perfect

I hear they have Biden secluded in a camp doing mock interviews with some lucky female. I would luv to see this spoofed on Sat. night live, but obviously that would cut into our regulary scheduled Palin spoof. So we won’t see it :-/

re: Thanks, at least you (and Biden who said the same thing) have made the honest evaluation that Obama is so lacking in experience that he needs his advisors to make his decisions and provide him experience. No thanks. You don’t hire the fresh-out-of school Harvard MBA to run the family business. Ya know what I mean?

“I have heard that Obama has hired bloggers to scour internet sites and fill blogs with negative-McCain opinions. I understand if they can’t dispute the facts, they simply call the other blogger a “fool” or some other derogatory name. That’s pretty low for a politician who claims he’s above all that.”
Wow I heard the same thing but with the McCain campaign.
I also heard about the Dutch writer who volunteered for the McCain campaign and the put her to work ghost writing letters to the editor to deluge papers with fake letters to create an impression of support.

I heard the mccain camp is :
In hopes of organizing a robust demonstration for the vice presidential debate this Thursday in St. Louis, the pro-Iraq War (and ostensibly pro-McCain) organization, Vets for Freedom, is resorting to offering local college fraternities hundreds of dollars if their members come and hold signs.
“I was emailing you today,” wrote Meyer, “because I am trying to find people who would be willing to hold up signs for a few hours in the afternoon this Thursday outside the VP debate site. It’s only for a few hours and you can gain a lot from it…. first off, lunch for any guys who agree to volunteer will be on me. Secondly, they will get lots of media attention! My organization did a similar thing in Mississippi last week and a ton of them were on TV. Meaning, the guys could wear their McCain gear while holding up our signs and get attention for their frat. Also, they will get to hang out with a bunch of really cool Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans.
“Lastly, and here’s the kicker…. if you guys can get us at least 20 volunteers for those few hours, my organization will make a sizable donation to your fraternity. If you use pledges you could look at it as ‘free money and free publicity’. If this sounds like something you may be willing to help us out with, please let me know ASAP!”
Reached by phone, Meyer said the total amount of cash the frat could earn was between $200 and $250 for organizing 20-plus members. She also noted that the program was a success in generating publicity during last Friday’s presidential debate.

You know things are bad when you have to pay for people $200-$250 to support your candidate at a VP debate!

“I haven’t heard anything about McCain having any truth squads in any states or anything about these so called letters”
FoxNews doesn’t like to talk abotu such things.
Here’s the ghost writers
“You can be whoever you want to be,” says an inviting Phil Tuchman. “You can be a beggar or a millionaire. A mom or a husband. Whatever. You decide!”
The assignment is simple: We are going to write letters to the editor and we are allowed to make up whatever we want — as long as it adds to the campaign. After today we are supposed to use our free moments at home to create a flow of fictional fan mail for McCain. “Your letters,” says Phil Tuchman, “will be sent to our campaign offices in battle states. Ohio. Pennsylvania. Virginia. New Hampshire. There we’ll place them in local newspapers.”
Place them? I may be wrong, but I thought that in the USA only a newspaper’s editors decided that.
“We will show your letters to our supporters in those states,” explains Phil. “If they say: ‘Yeah, he/she is right!’ then we ask them to sign your letter. And then we send that letter to the local newspaper. That’s how we send dozens of letters at once.”

re:
And now for the truth squad
ABC News’ Ron Claiborne Reports: John McCain’s “Truth Squad” went into action for the first time today, denouncing a mailer it says was sent to South Carolina voters by a group calling itself Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain.

re:How can she have good debating skills, when she could not give good quick answers in previous interviews? I have good debating skills and even I can answer a quick question like “what magazines do you read?”
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Its a strategy to keep her expectations low till the debate. She is a great debater

Not sure what is going to happen, I think Palin is a total wild card. I do predict that the McCain’s election will be won or lost on Palin’s performance.
If Palin does really well, it could pull the numbers up, especially since last week was a disaster for them with respect to PR. Still not sure why everybody thinks Bush’s tax cuts have anything to do with high risk debt trading, but oh well, that’s the way the cookie goes bankrupt! :)
If she bombs, McCain is sunk.
Pressure’s on, gettin higher…difference is..anyone? Beuller?
Just tryin to keep it light…

Sorry I was away for a few
Yea like I said Obama is got to be behind it all I’m sure

Ken
How is Obama behind them ? ? ?

Rich N:
have heard that Obama has hired
bloggers to scour internet sites and fill blogs with negative-McCain opinions. I understand if they can’t dispute the facts, they simply call the other blogger a “fool” or some other derogatory name. That’s pretty low for a politician who claims he’s above all that.
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Rich, think maybe we have at least one of those bloggers on this blog. Had hoped that his play-book would be empty soon…but guess he is going to go on into the night.

Ken said: “I have heard that Obama has hired bloggers to scour internet sites and fill blogs with negative-McCain opinions. I understand if they can’t dispute the facts, they simply call the other blogger a “fool” or some other derogatory name. That’s pretty low for a politician who claims he’s above all that.”
Very amusing REPUBLICAN BLOGGER, but what did all of you PAID REPUBLICAN BLOGGERS do after Obama won the Democratic nomination? That’s right, EXACTLY THE SAME THING against Obama! Do you REALLY think that we are so dumb as to fall for all of this nonsense? McCain is snaking faster then lead through a goose! As for your little sweetie Palin I predict that she will do well the first half of tomorrow’s debate and then implode horribly during the second half.

Actually I was hired by Alaskans to send her back home to face the music…..

Most of the criticism leveled here against Obama demonstrates little regard for the truth about this candidate. To those who echoed Palin’s Convention speech in which she ridiculed Obama for missing votes in the Senate, I suggest you go to There you will find out that Obama voted present approximately 100 times, a mere 3 per cent of the total votes he cast.
As for Palin, the bar has been set so low for her that if she perform passably, the spinmasters will declare that she won. I don’t deny that her strong suit is going for the cheap shot – and boy does she enjoy the kill – but when asked for one Supreme Court decision that she disagreed with aside Roe v Wade, she couldn’t think of one case and proceeded to babble inanely.
This being said, I don’t think the upcoming between between Palin and Biden will change the election dynamic one iota.

So you can’t attack a pitbull, huh? It’s not allowed? She’s snide. She’s cocky. He has to be careful how he says to her? BS!!! I’m a grown woman who is appalled at this thinking.
What position will she have if McCain get’s the new position he wants. In a recent interview about the bailout, he says he always “aspired to be a dictator”!!

McCain’s voting record from Veterans for Common Sense.

Mariann Pepitone
You wrote:
“It probably was a setup for the purpose of Palin and no doubt to make sure she can’t answer the questions.”
Palin should be able to answer the questions regardless of the person asking the questions! Unless she is stupid!
Obama faced Fox’s Bill Oriely
You also wrote:
“Another problem is she is black and Obama is half black.”
So what if she is black ? Can only Blacks interview Blacks ? And White interview whites ? Its a VP debate they are both white the interviewer is black!
Its just skin color babe!

Debates are what Sarah Palin is good at. She might not be very good at giving interviews but, if you’ve seen the debates that she wss in when she was running for governor, you know that debates are where she shines. She is very good at debating. Joe Biden had better be ready!

“Its just skin color babe!”
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Oh no it ain’t babe…liberal, liberal.
Right on, Mariann. Go Sarah, this female is on your side..all the way!!!!

What is happening tonight is not a “debate”. They will not even be interacting. And Ifel will probably not even be asking “the followup question” that Palin can never answer. She will ask the usual questions and Palin will have her answers memorized. Unless you ask her to actually think, she does ok. She probably will not be a train wreck tonight – the woman can probably memorize just fine. Incredible that we’re even having these discussions about someone who is all flash, no substance.

VP Palin could not answer almost all the questions raised by Kate Couric. Do you think that Kate Couric is stupid? We know the meanings of questions that Couric asked and the type of answers that Palin gave. Palin could not answer the questions at all mark is 0%. Now we’ll compare the the level and depth of the questions that the moderator asks and the responses of the both candidates. It will tell us who provides the aubstances and the counter attacks. We are not idiots!!! There is no sexism or racism here- it comes back to the strength of argument, reasoning and the logic, not the gender or race. We know that some idiots (those in fox box – Martha & Hans in particular favour creating an outstanding image for Palin – absolute nonsence!) Ability to answer questions is not one-off event like the debate – it is something that Palin has to face whether she is xx, xo, xxx, xxxo or what ever in her sex chromosomes.

Joe Biden is the clear winner of tonight’s debate. Sarah Palin, you don’t fool me. You’re Dubya in a skirt. I’m a well-educated woman who expects a national leader to have a wider vocabulary and a progressive view of the world than Sarah Palin. You did not deliver that — but you did deliver a lot of slang, and some inappropriate winking on national TV.

Governor Sarah Palin needs to learn to pronounce “NUCLEAR” (not nukiller) “IRAN” (not Aayran), “IRAQ” (not Aayrak” before she can qualify for a job as a stenographer or a typist or a public relations assistant of just a pretty escort for the next president of the United States.

What is it with McDaddy McCain and ex beauty queen wannabes and dumb barbie dolls? I was kind of wondering if this is the maverick Republican’s idea of affirmative action? Speaking of action… well.. I wonder if the McCain campaign is offering any cabinet posts to ex playboy bunnies?

If McCain/Palin win the next presidential election, it would mean the the election rigging machinery which was used so effectively to steal the 2000 election from Al Gore has been perfected by the Republicans.