Webb: Palin Pick Evidence Obama More Presidential Than McCain
At a rally for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in Roanoke, Va., Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., cited Sen. John McCain’s, R-Ariz., selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — and Obama’s pick of Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del. — as evidence that Obama would be a better president.
"What is the one decision that a candidate for president makes before he or she is elected that clearly indicates what their judgment is?" Webb asked the crowd. "The selection for who is going to run with that individual as vice president."
"Do you really think that Sarah Palin is the most qualified person in the Republican Party?" Webb asked the crowd after heralding Biden’s credentials.
He said the choice reminded him of a country and western song, "I Know What I Was Doing, but What Was I Thinking?" (The refrain from the song, by Dierks Bentley, "What Was I Thinking," is actually "Well I know what I was feeling/But What was I thinking?") "John McCain is probably singing that sing right now," Webb said.
Webb told the crowd, "So, folks if you are trying to talk to your friends about clear distinctions in terms of judgment, temperament, vision -– this is something you can really ask them to take a look at."
He recalled the moment just before the start of the vice presidential debate when Palin asked Biden if she could call him "Joe."
Webb said he wanted Biden to respond, "You can call me whatever you want, in two months you’re going to be calling me Mr. Vice President."
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The most revealing factor of a candidate’s judgment, not to mention sanity, is whom he chooses as his running mate. It’s ironic that Sen. McCain constantly criticizes Sen. Obama’s judgment after having selected such an utterly unqualified mock populist as Gov. Palin. Is there anyone who really believes her to be ready to assume the Presidency?
Posted by: chuck | October 17, 2008, 1:08 pm 1:08 pm
AS we all know she MRS.Palin was picked because John felt and needed a gimic to try and win. SHE’S FEMALE no one will notice anything other than this. Mrs. Palin has a 35% chance of being the president and granted she is likable will she be able to wink at her enemy or “You betcha” out of something huge that could come up in Washington. PEOPLE wake up is this someone WE want so close in Washington leading us. McCain is bad enough. They both scare me and I am a REPUBLICAN.
If everyone is truthful with themselves he picked her because of the way she looks and she is female. Credentials for what a beauty pagent were she would bomb the interview……NO THANK YOU
OBAMA for this FEMALE FORMER REPUBLICAN
Posted by: mcar | October 17, 2008, 1:15 pm 1:15 pm
Mccain pondered to the Women because of Hillary, First of all PALIN IS NOT HILLARY!second Its not that a woman shouldnt be VP or President, Me being a woman I would love to see that BUT NOT PALIN NO WAY NO HOW!!!
Posted by: Angie | October 17, 2008, 1:15 pm 1:15 pm
Talk about judgment. Please read about the ex-FBI’s who are very upset at the Obama-Ayers relationship and have knowledge. Now, take a look at the Ayers, Acorn, SEIU, Rathke and Obama relationship. You want to talk about judgment and honesty. Why are the news media not reporting the facts on these issues. The ex-FBI stories are very fascinating.
Posted by: lp | October 17, 2008, 1:17 pm 1:17 pm
Talk about judgment. Please read about the ex-FBI’s who are very upset at the Obama-Ayers relationship and have knowledge. Now, take a look at the Ayers, Acorn, SEIU, Rathke and Obama relationship. You want to talk about judgment and honesty. Why are the news media not reporting the facts on these issues. The ex-FBI stories are very fascinating.
Posted by: lp | October 17, 2008, 1:18 pm 1:18 pm
There is a movement gathering support that if Hussein is elected will stop his Socialist agenda dead in its tracks and eliminate his ability to govern. All repubilcans conservative democrats and independants especially anyone earning over $50K single or jointly refuse to taxes. There will be no funds available for him try attempt to redistribute the wealth. Capitalism in America is at stake. More will be coming with websites dedicated to this issue. Shall we succeed we will create another Boston Tea Party on a major scale. It is time for the people to revolt against the policies before they are enacted. Hussein will try to overturn the second amendment should he be elected. Start stocking up boys because you may not be able to after he enacts his social government regulations.
Posted by: jamesferrel | October 17, 2008, 1:18 pm 1:18 pm
McCain picked Palin because she was a women and because she looked good.
McCain has a soft place in this heart for beautiful women( we all know that).
He wanted Joe Libermann, but the Republicans put a stop to that.
Unfortunately for McCain, Palin turned out to be even more stupid then they thought. She has been a real drag on the campaign for at least a two month period.
All the excitement wore off when she o ened her mouth minus the teleprompter.
Posted by: cindyct | October 17, 2008, 1:18 pm 1:18 pm
Does anyone actually think that Palin would have been picked if Obama had selected Clinton?
Posted by: Steve | October 17, 2008, 1:20 pm 1:20 pm
What do you expect a democrat say?!
On the other hand, Ticker: Colin Powell ready to endorse?
Guess who? What a surprise!
Posted by: d0 | October 17, 2008, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm
Webb and those like him are elitist. Where in the Constitution does it say that the VP must not come from Alaska? Webb is a snob and I hope he eats his words.
Posted by: Gina | October 17, 2008, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm
Yeah, talk about speaking without a teleprompter..
Obama ought to take his with him next time he goes canvassing door-to-door in neighborhoods.
Maybe he won’t open mounth and insert foot saying “spread the wealth around” the next time a plumber asks him a question.
Posted by: SandyB | October 17, 2008, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm
There is a movement gathering support that if Hussein is elected will stop his Socialist agenda dead in its tracks and eliminate his ability to govern. All repubilcans especially anyone earning over $50K single or jointly refuse to taxes. There will be no funds available for him try attempt to redistribute the wealth. Capitalism in America is at stake. More will be coming with websites dedicated to this issue. Shall we succeed we will create another Boston Tea Party on a major scale. It is time for the people to revolt against the policies before they are enacted. Hussein will try to overturn the second amendment should he be elected. Start stocking up boys because you may not be able to after he enacts his social government regulations.
Posted by: jamesferrel | October 17, 2008, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm
Does anyone actually think that Palin would have been picked if Obama had selected Clinton?
Posted by: Steve | Oct 17, 2008 1:20:47 PM
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You think Zero-bama would have not responded to the small Georgia problem by asking the Russians to sit down to talk it over with the Georgians?
Posted by: d0 | October 17, 2008, 1:23 pm 1:23 pm
PALIN IS NOTHING BUT A PARROT!!
Like the “straw man” she doesn’t have a brain! When are the American people and the press going to STAND UP and DEMAND she does a full blown 30 minute press conference??
Do you Republicans like Concerned in OH object to this? If you do why?
I will give you the answer, because there is nothing in that pretty head of hers! All she can do is read speeches written FOR her of a teleprompter!!
This is a travesty! How can somebody so stupid, that has just been convicted of ABUSE of POWER still be a serious contender in this race???
PRESS CONFERENCE, PRESS CONFERENCE, PRESS CONFERENCE FOR PALIN!!!!
Posted by: Davis | October 17, 2008, 1:23 pm 1:23 pm
Ummm, Concerned, that is a 4 letter word.
Posted by: Mack | October 17, 2008, 1:24 pm 1:24 pm
Maybe he won’t open mounth and insert foot saying “spread the wealth around” the next time a plumber asks him a question.
Posted by: SandyB | Oct 17, 2008 1:22:44 PM
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He cannot help. It’s carved into his bones, just as a similar phrase carved on Karl’s tomb stone.
Posted by: d0 | October 17, 2008, 1:24 pm 1:24 pm
HHHMMMMM…Let’s see Palin took 6 year to graduate from 6 different colleges. She was Mayor of Wasilla and left that city in tremendous debt, when she started in the red. As Gov she cut off funding for special needs children and had her brother-in-law fired because he wanted visitation rights for his children. And OH YEA, she was pregnant when she got married and her 16 yr old is pregnant now…
Wow, I guess Obama DIDN’T accomplish all that. He has been working for the poor and disadvantage his whole adult life.
Posted by: formerhillary | October 17, 2008, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm
Where in the Constitution does it say that the VP must not come from Alaska? Posted by: Gina
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Neither the Constitution nor Alaska has anything to do with the fact that Palin was a bad choice for VP. Good try, though! LOL
Posted by: hang | October 17, 2008, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm
I got a 3 letter word for Webb. L-I-E-S.
Posted by: Concerned in OH | Oct 17, 2008 1:14:41 PM
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A typical Zero-bama smart.
Posted by: d0 | October 17, 2008, 1:27 pm 1:27 pm
Obama has gone above and beyond in taking down opponents like Pallin, and now Joe the Plumber. He managed the lastest in less than 24 hours (with the help of the MSM).
They criticize Palin to sidetrack from Obama’s own record, which is null and void, other than dirty dealing with terrorist friends, racist reverends, slumlords, and unsavory politicians. These people supported and raised money for him in Chicago, the voters of which he has abandoned. His entire street credential is wrapped up in Acorn and Ayers, all an effort to get votes for himself. His senatorial credential is voting, “present,” in order to prevent backlash as he rises to higher office. He has no experience whatsover on the economy, energy, national security. All we really know about him is from his writing about himself. Even his wife, part of highly overpaid (300k+) healthcare management, worked to keep poor minority sick people from getting treatment the white University of Chicago hospital. That was her job description, so don’t expect Obama to do anything on healthcare reform, either.
Think twice before voting for Obama, the unknown.
Posted by: tina | October 17, 2008, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm
There’s that word “elitist” again. Gina, can you not think on your own, or do you just repeat what McCain and Palin – and the rest of the Republican party – say? What is ‘elitist’ about his comments? Do you even know what the word means?
Posted by: Greg | October 17, 2008, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm
Sandy….Yea, a plumber who is working without a license, hasn’t paid his taxes and has liens on him.
Oh, and he only makes $40,000 a year, which means he will get a tax cut under Obama.( in his state, he needs a license in order to run a plumbing business)
Posted by: newvoter | October 17, 2008, 1:29 pm 1:29 pm
Gina – this has nothing to do with Palin’s coming from Alaska. It has to do with the fact that she’s ignorant and uninformed. She can learn talking points but the woman doesn’t have a whole lot of brain power. And it’s kinda crazy when republicans call democrats, any democrat, elitist. Republicans favor ceo’s and the bigwigs. Democrats favor the middle class. Maybe you should look up the word “elitist.” That is, if you have a dictionary. Or is owning one elitist as well?
Posted by: counting crows | October 17, 2008, 1:30 pm 1:30 pm
THE PHILOSOPHERS HAVE ONLY INTERPRETED THE WORLD IN VARIOUS WAYS; THE POINT IS TO CHANGE IT
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Who cares what it changes to, just as Mr. Zero-bama promised you!
Posted by: d0 | October 17, 2008, 1:30 pm 1:30 pm
Most have taken some serious investigative reporting to break this story.
Posted by: Mack | October 17, 2008, 1:31 pm 1:31 pm
Pailin, Joe Plumber, Joe Six Pack, all the same, on the fringe, when looked at not much there.
Posted by: Thinking | October 17, 2008, 1:31 pm 1:31 pm
Tina…and I guess we know Palin after only a few weeks….MMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmm
interesting.
She scares the heck out of me
Posted by: life201 | October 17, 2008, 1:32 pm 1:32 pm
Even the Conservatives now understand how the republicans have ruined America.. they’re a lil bit late…….
“The truth few wish to utter is that the GOP has abandoned many conservatives, who mostly nurse their angst in private. Those chickens we keep hearing about have indeed come home to roost. Years of pandering to the extreme wing — the “kooks” the senior Buckley tried to separate from the right — have created a party no longer attentive to its principles.
Instead, as Christopher Buckley pointed out in a blog post explaining his departure from National Review, eight years of “conservatism” have brought us “a doubled national debt, ruinous expansion of entitlement programs, bridges to nowhere, poster boy Jack Abramoff and an ill-premised, ill-waged war conducted by politicians of breathtaking arrogance.”
Posted by: Blue | October 17, 2008, 1:33 pm 1:33 pm
Jim Webb is an idiot. Virginians are ashamed of him.
Palin is more qualified to serve as President today than Obama and McCain combined. Any sentiment to the contrary is a sexist crap sandwich from the leftist besmirching machine.
Posted by: Bright n' Beautiful/Deal with it! | October 17, 2008, 1:33 pm 1:33 pm
REALITY CHECK
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Webb plays politics…….we all know
that……
Obama wants to spread the wealth….that’s SOCIALISM……americans do not like
that idea…..
Obama is wrong……..
Best choice is:
McCAIN/PALIN ’08
Posted by: Nicholas | October 17, 2008, 1:34 pm 1:34 pm
Think twice before voting McCain – Palin’s just a heartbeat away….
Posted by: Greg | October 17, 2008, 1:34 pm 1:34 pm
Give ‘em Hell, Jim! Jim’s a proud centrist who has served this country honorably both in the military and in Reagan’s cabinet! He’s been a great addition to the US senate, supporting troops and fighting for the little guy. I trust his judgement.
Posted by: USMC | October 17, 2008, 1:34 pm 1:34 pm
formerhillary:
Hmmmmmmm. Let’s see:
1) If Wasilla was not in debt when Palin took over as Mayor, they were in the “BLACK,” not RED. The reason they were in the “RED” is because the townspeople voted and approved a bond for a sports complex, that was paid off over a period of time.
2) She did not cut off spending for special needs education, as a matter of fact, she raised funding for such programs.
3) Her brother-in-law was never fired, and still works as a trooper today.
4) Her pregnant daughter is 17, not 16.
Please check your facts next time. This is how RUMORS are spread.
Posted by: SandyB | October 17, 2008, 1:36 pm 1:36 pm
The vicious slams against Governor Palin and now an ordinary plumber for questioning the paper boy’s plans speak volumes about the sick cynicism of the diseased Left. They sicken me.
Posted by: Taxpaying Woman | October 17, 2008, 1:36 pm 1:36 pm
like them or not Obama answers questions everywhere he goes…proven.
why is Palin & hubby never asked about their full involvement with the Alaskan Independence Party? (use your brain and don’t answer by attacking Obama)
Posted by: watching | October 17, 2008, 1:36 pm 1:36 pm
REALITY CHECK
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Webb plays politics…….we all know
that……
Obama wants to spread the wealth….that’s SOCIALISM……americans do not like
that idea…..
Obama is wrong……..
Best choice is:
McCAIN/PALIN ’08
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Webb served in Reagan’s cabinet. Webb is a war veteran. Of all the people you could claim ‘plays politics’ he’s the least. You look like a fool when you slander America’s soldiers. Be careful, He is much beloved in Virginia, red state Virginia. They don’t take to kindly to bashers such as yourself.
Posted by: USMC | October 17, 2008, 1:36 pm 1:36 pm
“The most revealing factor of a candidate’s judgment, not to mention sanity, is whom he chooses as his running mate.”
I guess that is why Kerry lost when he picked John Edwards.
It was not that long ago people, do you already forget? You thought John Edwards was a great VP pick. Much, much less qualified than Palin on her worst day.
Posted by: JBJB | October 17, 2008, 1:36 pm 1:36 pm
McCain made a huge mistake in picking Palin. This was just an indicator of how out of touch he really is with the American people. He’s been hiding in one of his seven homes too long….
Posted by: Dave | October 17, 2008, 1:37 pm 1:37 pm
“Jim’s a proud centrist who has served this country honorably both in the military and in Reagan’s cabinet! He’s been a great addition to the US senate, supporting troops and fighting for the little guy. I trust his judgement.”
Very much agreed. I don’t always agree with him but I certainly respect him.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 17, 2008, 1:37 pm 1:37 pm
Even the Conservatives now understand how the republicans have ruined America.. they’re a lil bit late…….
Posted by: Blue | Oct 17, 2008 1:33:08 PM
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No. It’s the Supreme Court that has ruined it by stopping the Constitution to count votes, giving the presidency to Bush.
Zero-bama is taking advantage of this unfortunate situation, although he is unfit as George W. Bush for that job.
Posted by: d0 | October 17, 2008, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm
Palin scares Obama supporters because she’s helping the Republican ticket. That’s why they feel they have to attack her.
Posted by: tina | October 17, 2008, 1:41 pm 1:41 pm
“You thought John Edwards was a great VP pick. Much, much less qualified than Palin on her worst day”
On Palin’s worst day she couldn’t name what newspapers she reads.
Her entire career seems to be stabbing the back of her superior and climbing over them to get ahead.
John Edwards could have had sex with his mistress on the desk in front of Cheney at their debate and he would still be a better VP pick.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 17, 2008, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm
I literally laughed out loud when I first heard That One whining that “I would be up another 3 points in the polls, if not for Fox News…”
What an immature, ‘It’s All-About-Me’ clown!
The real question for you, NObama, is where would you be in the polls WITHOUT CBS, NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CNN, NPR, Air America, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, Chris ‘My-Leg-Is-Tingling’ Matthews, Andrea Mitchell, Campbell Brown, et. al.?
Aaaaawh, Puddin’, what are you going to do next?
Hold your breath until you turn blue, if people don’t buy what you’re selling…?
Posted by: HP Boston | October 17, 2008, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm
JBJB: It was not that long ago people, do you already forget? You thought John Edwards was a great VP pick. Much, much less qualified than Palin on her worst day.
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Not to mention John McCain had affairs on his wife also. He is no saint at all.
Posted by: beck | October 17, 2008, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm
So now you GOPers are willing to smear another military veteran when it is convenient. Remember what Chambliss did to Max Cleland. Webb is a patriot and a veteran. I thought you guys loved that about McCain…Now, you call Webb and “elitist”? What about McCain…8 houses (unless he missed one), millions, lobbyist buddies running his campaign. Look at the facts. That is why he is losing the campaign…b/c he is out of touch and doesn’t pay attention to reality. He/She think they are doing so well b/c their partisan crowds chant loudly. The problem is, everyone else is going the other way. Have fun in retirement John.
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm
Whatever McCain claims Sarah
has accomplished, I think it was
her husband Todd and not her.
This woman is empty coconut head.
She is not using her head, she is
depending on someone else to tell
her what to say or what to do.
Posted by: FM | October 17, 2008, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm
I literally laughed out loud when I first heard That One whining that “I would be up another 3 points in the polls, if not for Fox News…”
What an immature, ‘It’s All-About-Me’ clown!
The real question for you, NObama, is where would you be in the polls WITHOUT CBS, NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CNN, NPR, Air America, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, Chris ‘My-Leg-Is-Tingling’ Matthews, Andrea Mitchell, Campbell Brown, et. al.?
Aaaaawh, Puddin’, what are you going to do next?
Hold your breath until you turn blue, if people don’t buy what you’re selling…?
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Aww, poor you! Big bad press is so unfair! Waa waa! John McCain would be leading if it weren’t for those bullies in the press asking him questions and reporting on his campaign! Waaaah!
Posted by: USMC | October 17, 2008, 1:44 pm 1:44 pm
lp – i guess you need to also take a look at all the republicans who “have a relationship” with Ayers.
Posted by: counting crows | October 17, 2008, 1:46 pm 1:46 pm
To Newvoter….
This was not about his current earnings…if you listen to the clip between 0 and the plumber….he would like to buy the business for 250 – 280,000. This was NOT about what his current income is….
Posted by: Mike A | October 17, 2008, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm
PALIN IS NOTHING BUT A PARROT!!
Like the “straw man” she doesn’t have a brain! When are the American people and the press going to STAND UP and DEMAND she does a full blown 30 minute press conference??
Do you Republicans like Concerned in OH and Nicholas object to this? If you do why?
I will give you the answer, because there is nothing in that pretty head of hers! All she can do is read speeches WRITTEN FOR HER off a teleprompter!!
This is a travesty! How can somebody so stupid, that has just been convicted of ABUSE of POWER, still be a serious contender in this race???
PRESS CONFERENCE, PRESS CONFERENCE, PRESS CONFERENCE FOR PALIN!!!!
Maverick? I don’t think so, more like Dummy!
Posted by: Davis | October 17, 2008, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm
What will you do if Obama wins, the democrats add seats in both Houses. Enough seats to not need one republican vote for any bill they come up with. Obama’s true agenda will then go forth with no one to stop him. You will have higher costs and taxes. You will have government mandated health care, their way. You will be paying much more for gas because of the windfall profits tax that will be imposed. Fannie and Freddie will not be investigated since it poured money into Obama’s campaign. Pork bill spending will rise to a all new high because there won’t be a republican there able to stop it. Defense budgets will be slashed again, dramatically as all democrats want to do as president. So vote away democrats, vote away your livlihood, but please never let me hear you complain after it is done.
Posted by: An American | October 17, 2008, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm
Do Not Vote for John McCain! He is LEFT HANDED! He is not like the rest of US!
Posted by: Uncle Sam | October 17, 2008, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm
BREAKING NEWS= THE CONSERVIATE SUPREME COURT HAS SAID BASICALLY ACORN IS BULL
Posted by: Angie | October 17, 2008, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm
Palin has consistently said that Obama “pals around with terrorists.” (note the plural)
yet, just last night, McCain was paling around with Obama. So, let me get this straight… McCain pals around with a guy who pals around with terrorists (plural) and Palin has no problem with that? Send the Ice Princess back to the frozen tundra.
Posted by: Gus | October 17, 2008, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm
Left wing extremeist radio host, Ed Shultz Stormed off the set this morning when ask how Obamas tax plan would affect his sons construction business, Hilarious..
Posted by: bits & pieces | October 17, 2008, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm
Defense budgets will be slashed again, dramatically as all democrats want to do as president. So vote away democrats, vote away your livlihood, but please never let me hear you complain after it is done.
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So you think that from 2001-2006 when it was repub white house, supreme court, senate and House that things were just peachy? How about only republicans should pay the debt accrued under those 6 years.
Posted by: USMC | October 17, 2008, 1:49 pm 1:49 pm
jamesferrel – You’re comment is not based on facts but diatribes that have been spread by the same people that prevented John McCain from becoming president in the past.
Posted by: MB | October 17, 2008, 1:49 pm 1:49 pm
nothin but the ‘truth’ (lol)
re: Americans are dumb; they deserve a deceitful president
Very accurate assessment of what happened over the last 8 years under Bush, Cheney & the Repugs, America ‘elected’ the most ignorant fool in the history of the country.
Time for a change….. and YOU will see it Nov 4th.
Posted by: Blue | October 17, 2008, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm
No more Letterman for me – what a worm…
I think McCain is ahead of his time for picking Palin. Funny how the democrats are turning out to be the knuckle draggers.
“None are as blind as those that will not see”
Posted by: joy | October 17, 2008, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm
Left wing extremeist radio host…
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Ed Shultz is a former republican and centrist. When you say things like ‘extremist’ you look like a wingnut.
Posted by: USMC | October 17, 2008, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm
Senator McCain did make a mistake by choosing Mrs Palin, a corrupted neophyte as his VP. But this wasn’t surprising given that he had obviously made a “deal” with the Bush administration and the RNC to “vote with Bush” and go along in return for the party pick. McCain voted with Bush for >90% of the time over the last 4yrs and now has a Republican platform that is more right of Bush but mostly the same. If Senator McCain had remained more independent and had not made such a faustiam bargain he may of attracted the main street and moderates of our country. As it happens, over 50% of voting Americans are voting for Senator Obama and many have fled the Republican party. The McCain of 2008 is immoral and decadent and glued to the hips of Bush and the neoconservatives and the evangelicals. McCain’s advisors are more of the same Bush neoconservatives. Now that is scary. As my father says, “Kick the bums out!”.
Posted by: lucy2008 | October 17, 2008, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm
I think McCain is ahead of his time for picking Palin. Funny how the democrats are turning out to be the knuckle draggers.
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Congrats to the republican party for picking a woman for VP! So forward thinking that the democrats already did it 24 years ago.
Posted by: USMC | October 17, 2008, 1:52 pm 1:52 pm
Uh..Angie.. this is the same Supreme Court that said Osama Bin laden and all other terrorist have the same rights under the constitution that anyone else has in America lmao….Conservative? lmao..Hey leave her post up so i can laugh some more today
Posted by: bits & pieces | October 17, 2008, 1:52 pm 1:52 pm
Your messiah is also left-handed
Posted by: SandyB | October 17, 2008, 1:52 pm 1:52 pm
Jim Webb a hero? I think you mean useless coward, don’t you? He’s just enraged because some one like Sarah Palin would never give a wuss like him the time of day.
It’s all about sex and sexism, idiots. Osama attacked us so he could keep subjugating women. Get it? That same sexist spirit thrives here. Get over it or move to Saudi Arabia where all the progressive boys get along just fine. In the meantime, we, the dropdead gorgeous, powerful, virtuous women who sustain every facet of this nation, women like Palin and I, will continue to dominate. Deal with it!
Posted by: Emma Divine | October 17, 2008, 1:53 pm 1:53 pm
Obama’s lawyerly skills came through. Well done again.
Confuse the facts and divert attention.
Posted by: owl | October 17, 2008, 1:53 pm 1:53 pm
Uh..Angie.. this is the same Supreme Court that said Osama Bin laden and all other terrorist have the same rights under the constitution that anyone else has in America lmao….Conservative? lmao..Hey leave her post up so i can laugh some more today
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Wow, anybody who thinks Antonin Scalia is a liberal scares the crap outta me!
Posted by: USMC | October 17, 2008, 1:53 pm 1:53 pm
USMC
I didn’t say anything wrong against
Webb….I know very well Jim Webb and his positions in government….i just
said he plays politics for Obama….
John McCain is a war hero….don’t forget that…….
I like to tell you,i have a family member in U.S military serving our nation,in Iraq,as we speak….
I’m a veteran myself…..
Posted by: Nicholas | October 17, 2008, 1:54 pm 1:54 pm
Jim Webb a hero? I think you mean useless coward, don’t you?
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Another republican hates America’s troops. What a surprise.
Posted by: USMC | October 17, 2008, 1:54 pm 1:54 pm
Sen. Webb, a former Reagan cabinet member, tactfully pulled his punches. What he really thought was, “What was my friend, John McCain, possibley thinkging when he picked ‘Witless from Wasilla’to be Vice-President?
Posted by: B. Bear | October 17, 2008, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm
John McCain is a war hero….don’t forget that…….
I like to tell you,i have a family member in U.S military serving our nation,in Iraq,as we speak….
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I respect McCain’s service and I hope and wish for a safe return of your family member. Nuff said.
Posted by: USMC | October 17, 2008, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm
Palin is STILL under Obama’s skin.
Did you notice how many of his pathetic attempts at humor last night were references to Palin?
He mentioned “palling around” at least twice, his comment on seeing the “Russian Tea Room,” and also his numerous mentions of “lipstick,” and the one to “pitbull.”
I would just love to have seen Obama and Palin in a debate. She rattles him so much he probably would have stuttered all the way through.
Posted by: SandyB | October 17, 2008, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm
He chooses her finds out what an empty suit she is, then puts under wraps, they won’t even let her read the papers.
I wonder if they let her read her own legislature’s report on her conduct. From what she has said regarding her proclaiming exoneration it would seem they redacted a large portion.
Posted by: Tom. Tescher | October 17, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm
He chooses her finds out what an empty suit she is, then puts under wraps, they won’t even let her read the papers.
I wonder if they let her read her own legislature’s report on her conduct. From what she has said regarding her proclaiming exoneration it would seem they redacted a large portion.
Posted by: Tom. Tescher | October 17, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm
He mentioned “palling around” at least twice, his comment on seeing the “Russian Tea Room,” and also his numerous mentions of “lipstick,” and the one to “pitbull.”
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It was a great set. Even McCain was in fits. I was laughing out loud.
Posted by: USMC | October 17, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm
And she got the same sexist treatment as Palin is getting now…we’re so progressive…look at what your messiah did to Hillary…lol…and she now supports him even after her own accusations…she’s turning out to be joke…
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I think McCain is ahead of his time for picking Palin. Funny how the democrats are turning out to be the knuckle draggers.
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Congrats to the republican party for picking a woman for VP! So forward thinking that the democrats already did it 24 years ago.
Posted by: halley | October 17, 2008, 1:58 pm 1:58 pm
emma devoid of brains
re:” Jim Webb a hero? I think you mean useless coward,..”
you sound just like that heinous shrew Congresswoman Jean Schmidt from Ohio…and Saxby Chambliss
Posted by: Blue | October 17, 2008, 1:59 pm 1:59 pm
Uh.. realitycheck…I would check my history if i were you, it was the republician controlled congress along with several social conservative democrats that FORCED Clinton to cut the welfare rolls, Clinton went along for the ride, and he took a lot o f heat for it
Posted by: bits & pieces | October 17, 2008, 1:59 pm 1:59 pm
Hey SandyB…neither McCain or Obama wrote those jokes. Are you really that gullible?
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm
USMC – Yaah but Sarah Palin will set women back how far? If you ask kme they waited this long what’s four or eight more years?
Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | October 17, 2008, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm
Palin’s a joke….
‘Joe the sort of plumber’ has had more press interviews than Palin
Posted by: Blue | October 17, 2008, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm
So you think that from 2001-2006 when it was repub white house, supreme court, senate and House that things were just peachy? How about only republicans should pay the debt accrued under those 6 years.
I may be wrong but I don’t believe republicans ever had enough seats to override vetoes without some democrat votes. As far as the war I guess you need to start doing some research on Radical Islam as we are going to be in that region for a long time to come, unless we turn tail and run.
Posted by: Dave | October 17, 2008, 2:02 pm 2:02 pm
hey bits& pieces…so, if that is your logic, are you willing to give bush and HIS GOP congress credit for screwing all of us financially? You can’t have it both ways. I love how Clinton still gets to you losers after all these years. If he was able to run again he would win in a landslide.
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 2:02 pm 2:02 pm
Sarah Plain is a veritable Einstein compared to Obama whose vapid platitudes resemble badly executed ventriloquism. I am sorry if all the women in your life are frumpy and homely, but to project your sorry stereotype on a star like Governor Palin suggests an unfortunate case of clit envy. Stop resenting Palin’s self-evident glory. Get with the wave of muscular feminism or be crushed by it.
Posted by: Prophetess at Large | October 17, 2008, 2:02 pm 2:02 pm
It is absolutely true that the Palin pick showed McCain to be insincere about his care or consideration for the American people. If he can’t even trust her to do a prime time interview, how can he trust her to lead this country in our troubled times. He sold us down the river on that pick and I have ZERO respect for him. – this is from a person who voted for him many times for senator.
Posted by: nina | October 17, 2008, 2:03 pm 2:03 pm
Palin cost McCcain the Presidency. Look at his nose dive right after she began giving interviews. McCain started to plummet before the stock markets went down. Go back and look. Palin started his decline.
Posted by: Doreen | October 17, 2008, 2:04 pm 2:04 pm
You can tell a lot about a person by who they gather around themselves to advise them. Senator McCain shed his old time campaigners and joined the Rove camp of “do anything” for power. This followed the “do anything to be president” decision he made with Bush and the RNC. McCain is an egomaniac and a bit off but hey, anything to get the golden ring and show the world he got it. The McCain campaign has been run with the idea of “do anything for power” with smears and bold-face lies and rallying hate and racism, with the choice of Palin for VP, with the erratic meandering of opporunism to “stop his campaign and cancel the debate” for his country. McCain’s biggest “do anything for the presidency” has been his fundamental spin to remake himself as the literary character of his own making, that is the made-up literary character of his own published autobiography. The McCain myth in gigantic proportion.
Posted by: lucy2008 | October 17, 2008, 2:05 pm 2:05 pm
Jamesferrel;
Bush already turned america “socialist” with the bail-out of AIG!
Sady:
So McCain is also left-handed. So what?
Reading some of these posts really hurts the head and numbs the heart.
Posted by: anaon | October 17, 2008, 2:05 pm 2:05 pm
I will continue to make this simple point. The Dems need to go after mrs. mooseburger and shred every ounce of virtual credibility that she and the RNC thinks they can get away with. Until the Dems start attacking her solely on her credentials, the media will not touch her.
Posted by: Optimus | October 17, 2008, 2:05 pm 2:05 pm
Let’s face it – people are afraid of Palin because she straighforward and honest. Let’s not kid ourselves – she has enemies. She exposed republicans and democrats in Alaska and that doesn’t sit well with the older boys. And as far as butch fems go well…should I say it?…they are simply envious that Sarah made it without burning her bra…
Posted by: propalin | October 17, 2008, 2:06 pm 2:06 pm
Her own running mate won’t even let her perform interviews. What does that tell you about how much HE trusts her? Wake up people. The whole thing was an unpatriotic and pathetic attempt to reel in his own base (who dislike him) and create a wedge for women voters. His problem is that since he’s been a “maverick” all these years that he can’t even motivate his own base. He HAD to pick a fringe VP in order to get the whackos back under his tent.
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 2:06 pm 2:06 pm
sandyb
re” I would just love to have seen Obama and Palin in a debate.”
I would have liked to seen Palin in just 1 debate.. what I saw when she and Biden were on stage together was someone who said she would not answer the questions put to her….
Obama would carve her up in a debate like fresh moose, served on a bed of arugula……
Posted by: Blue | October 17, 2008, 2:06 pm 2:06 pm
VP’s do matter and Palin is the Key to putting the nail in the coffin for the Hate train express.
Posted by: Optimus | October 17, 2008, 2:07 pm 2:07 pm
Jamesferrel;
Bush already turned america “socialist” with the bail-out of AIG!
Sady:
So McCain is also left-handed. So what?
Reading some of these posts really hurts the head and numbs the heart.
Posted by: anaon | October 17, 2008, 2:07 pm 2:07 pm
Biden sounds real presidential making fun of Joe the Plumber. That’s what they (Elitist Libs) really think of the people living on Main Street. Please – WAKE UP
Posted by: Real Story | October 17, 2008, 2:08 pm 2:08 pm
hey propalin…”straightforward and honest”???!!! Ha! Is that what you call it when she tries to stop Troopergate and then openly lies about the results (which found her in violation of Alaska’s ethics code)? What about her husband who was registered as a secessionist? Now that’s putting America first. You might call her a lot of things, but “straightforward and honest” is pushing it.
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 2:09 pm 2:09 pm
So you think that from 2001-2006 when it was repub white house, supreme court, senate and House that things were just peachy? How about only republicans should pay the debt accrued under those 6 years.
You think the 8 years with the lying Clintons was a good time period in our history. Obama has already shown his desire for affairs so it would be another 8 yrs. I absolutely did not have sex with _____________ fill in the blank. How about the FACT that Bush called for increased regulation of Fannie and Freddie only to bew blocked by democrats. It helped get Obama his donations.
Posted by: Go Navy | October 17, 2008, 2:10 pm 2:10 pm
This pick was the turning point for McCain historically speaking
Posted by: not ready | October 17, 2008, 2:11 pm 2:11 pm
hey propalin…by the way, IF someone was being “straightforward and honest”, why would that make people “afraid”? Just wondering. I think people are not afraid of her, I think they are scared to death by the notion that she might be in the oval office some day. One-liners and hockey chants do not a vice president make.
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 2:12 pm 2:12 pm
Hey RealityCheck,
One question – Why is Obama’s past a non issue? If the media had an ounce of integrity they would present the facts and let the American people decide…too much to ask?
Posted by: propalin | October 17, 2008, 2:13 pm 2:13 pm
Palin is an airhead. She really is. Now if she goes on “Meet The Press” or “Face The Nation” and can actually answer a question in a straightforward coherent manner, I might change my mind. But she hasn’t shown she is capable of doing that yet, and I really don’t think it’s ever going to happen. And to think she could be our President if McCain ever got elected and became incapacitated for some reason is a truly frightening thought!!
Posted by: geecee | October 17, 2008, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm
I think Obama scares a lot of people…and for good reasons..
Posted by: propalin | October 17, 2008, 2:15 pm 2:15 pm
I see the desperate rightists are now going to declare that the Supreme Court they have owned since Bush v. Gore is really part of a left-wing plot.
amusing.
Posted by: eyeball | October 17, 2008, 2:15 pm 2:15 pm
propalin
re: ‘obama’s past’
maybe it actually has been investigated over 2+ years by everybody and their mother and there’s nothing there, except for what looney folks like Rush, Malkin et al. try to make up.
Posted by: Blue | October 17, 2008, 2:15 pm 2:15 pm
propalin “Let’s face it – people are afraid of Palin because she straighforward and honest.” I am not going to speak for any one but myself on this my friend. I can assure you that of the many things that I am afraid of that Sarah Palin brings to this Repbulican ticket, honesty is not one of them. That debate was a facre. She answered NO question out to her. She answered the questions the way she wanted to or just simply changed the question. I have not seen that much weaving and dodging since the last Quidditch game in a HArry Potter movie. What scares me about this girl is her COMPLETE inability to grasp even the concept of what she is talking about. I don’t care if it is foreign policy or plubming problems. The girl is a complete idiot.
Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | October 17, 2008, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm
The choice of Mrs. Palin was a dramatic failure by Senator McCain’s team. But that follows a failure of dramatic proportions to choose the Rovians to run his campaign after glueing himself to President Bush and his policies.
McCain did not serve his country by picking a shallow, corrupt neophyte as a VP. He did not serve his country by being 72 yrs old and a victim of 4 cases of melanoma cancer and then choosing an ill-educated, shallow thinker, with little experience. McCain did not serve his country by picking an unknown to be VP and then not having her vetted by the media and public- a crime that does not serve our democratic election process and not our country. We have only 19 days to vett this neophyte person and Mr. McCain is thumbing his nose at us the country he holds first.
Posted by: lucy2008 | October 17, 2008, 2:19 pm 2:19 pm
Where to begin Realitynotforu,
Ayers and Obama had ties and Obama has been in the guy’s house – fact – in the debate all he admitted to was sitting on a board together.
Acorn – Obama paid them to recruit – trained them – represented them in court.
No history?
Should we talk Church?
Posted by: propalin | October 17, 2008, 2:20 pm 2:20 pm
We should realize that we all pay taxes to Alaska. Alaska charges the rest of us for even bit of oil that is pumped and gives the money to their citizens and to run their state. This tax is unconstitutional, see Article I, Section 10 of the US Constitution. This makes Governing Alaska easy, unlike all other states that actually have to make difficult choices about how to spend money. When you are rich life is easy, ask John McCain.
Posted by: Rich | October 17, 2008, 2:20 pm 2:20 pm
curiouser and curiouser…..
Long before he was “Joe the plumber,” Joe Wurzelbacher lived in North Pole and Eielson Air Force Base outside Fairbanks, according to Alaska public records.
Posted by: dewde | October 17, 2008, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm
The folks who LIKE Sarah Palin are walking, talking, living, breathing proof that our schools are NOT educating people. After all, if you don’t know how to tell facts from sheer fantasies, then Bugs Bunny might look like a pretty good candidate for prez or vice prez. Sigh . . . .
Posted by: Jay in Austin | October 17, 2008, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm
propalin – I’m not afraid of Palin for her honesty and straightforwardness – she has none to speak of. I’m afraid of her because she’s not intelligent. She can learn her lines, yes. Smart, no. Not someone I want as a leader of this country. What a lame-brained, dumba.. pick McCain made.
Posted by: counting crows | October 17, 2008, 2:27 pm 2:27 pm
propalin…gorw up. Obama’s past is an issue. But so is McCain’s. No one gets to this level in politics without some dubious associations. But, last I checked this blog was about Palin…and she is utterly unqualified. Obama and McCain are qualified to be President. So is Biden. We don;t even need to get to Palin’s past, which is pretty questionable itself. She is UNQUALIFIED.
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm
How about if Obama gets elected, and when he raises our taxes, you democrats pay registered republicans shares for us.
Posted by: An American | October 17, 2008, 2:29 pm 2:29 pm
Most democrats do not hate Mrs. Palin. That has never been the issue. The issue is that she is a symbol and the result of decisions that are corrupt and show the darkest demons and lack of respect for the democratic process and our constitution.
It is patriotic to be upset with McCain and his Rovian philosophy to “do anything for power” and “do anything to get the presidency”. It’s nothing about our country first. It’s nothing about our constitution and democracy. Bold-faced lies, dirty tricks, and Palin picks (it rhymes :-))are all part of the do anything for power equation.
This also involves not picking a qualified VP -but for “getting votes by symbol and style”. This also involves not allowing the media and public to vett her and defying our democratic election process.
Yes, I’m offended by Mr. McCain and the RNC and the entire Republican party that goosesteps to this Rovian pied piper and worse corrupt view of power. Mrs. Palin is just one of core puzzle pieces that was implemented. How can you hate the “coconut icing” on a cake of x@#$%?
Posted by: lucy2008 | October 17, 2008, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm
Palin could turnout to be the best ever (although I doubt it). That’s not the point. The point is that McCain picked her without any serious vetting. He gambled for political reasons. It was risky, reckless and impulsive.
That kind of behavior is not suited to the White House. It’s too dangerous. Stay in the Senate, my friend.
Posted by: thebob.bob | October 17, 2008, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm
Sounds great “An American” b/c most of us won’t have an increase except the ultra rich which I’m guessing you are not one of or you would be busy protecting your stock portfolio and not blogging with the masses. How does it feel to be exposed you loser?
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm
Because most if not all the new debt has been incurred by Republicans so I think only republicans should get there taxes raised.
Posted by: Sarahpalinisstupid | October 17, 2008, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm
Has anyone wondered why Palin has never said anything nice about either Biden or Obama? Everything out of her mouth is attack, attack and more attack. Obama has tip-toed around her like a sleeping baby. I know he has done this because he is respectful of women. I just find it odd that she cant admit when she is wrong or that she cannot speak nice things even though nice things have been spoken about her. She keeps asking who is the real but the real question is Who is the real Sarah Palin? as church lady use to say….could it be satan:)
Posted by: SHEAMINOR | October 17, 2008, 2:33 pm 2:33 pm
Hey “An American”. Cutting taxes sure solved everything for Bush didn’t it? Hahaha. Even Reagan Poppy Bush raised taxes on the rich. Have a look at the record. But, then again McCain does like to gamble, so why not just double down with our national treasury. Funny, you don;t mention Joe the Plumber who lied to Obama about the business he was going to buy and also owes taxes. What a looooooser.
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 2:34 pm 2:34 pm
Sounds great “An American” b/c most of us won’t have an increase except the ultra rich which I’m guessing you are not one of or you would be busy protecting your stock portfolio and not blogging with the masses. How does it feel to be exposed you loser?
The fact that you actually BELIEVE you won’t pay more is what is absurd. I am on a fixed income due to a disability.
Posted by: An American | October 17, 2008, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm
Notice how this was ignored?
Where to begin Realitynotforu,
Ayers and Obama had ties and Obama has been in the guy’s house – fact – in the debate all he admitted to was sitting on a board together.
Acorn – Obama paid them to recruit – trained them – represented them in court.
No history?
Should we talk Church?
Posted by: propalin | October 17, 2008, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm
Lets talk about Palins church!AIP Troopergate banning books an affair. I could dig up more but it’s just not consructive!
Posted by: Sarahpalinisstupid | October 17, 2008, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm
PALIn has single handedly LOWERED the standards for any woman political candidate and the Anerican political discourse.
-She has an almost surreal disregard for
subjects and issues – she is supposed -to be informed about!
-All she has is scripted attack lines, platitudes, lies, gibberish and grating references to her own
pseudo-folksy authenticity!
Palin is a woman who can’t even tell the Truth about the most simple and public details of her own life, never mind about matters of major public interest.
Hillary lost because of her Negative attacks on Obama – Not because of her lack of intellect and the ability to address issues with insight!
Posted by: tkforchange | October 17, 2008, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm
Once you are vice president or president, you got no name, according to Mr. Webb.
Posted by: Beth | October 17, 2008, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm
Sarah was plucked from relative (backwoods) obscurity and dropped onto the hotplate that is international politics. (It’s akin to grabbing a good high school quarterback and dropping him in to play in the SuperBowl.) Never has made sense, except in Sen. McCain’s world. Look, most of us have nothing against Sarah and we’d just as soon go back to where we were (having no idea who she was before Sen. McCain adopted her). ‘Joe the Plumber’ is another example of how Sen. McCain likes to pluck people from obscurity to fry them in the heat of the international spotlight (at least Sarah agreed to it in advance).
Posted by: Jesse M | October 17, 2008, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm
I was in Paris last week on business; everyone was talking about the Election. How is it that Europeans can smell a fraud better than Republicans? I watched an interview wherein Gov. Palin was asked for her thoughts on the Bush Doctrine. Poor thing, she just sat there like a stunned mullet, she didn’t even know what the Bush Doctrine was. 30 seconds after the question was asked, she began vomiting her memorized tape-recorded propaganda. I actually laughed out loud…she’s pathetic. I read the posts above and people talk about Gov Palin’s honesty…wake up America; we all need to be honest with ourselves and recognize that McCain made really cynical choice in Palin. I just can’t believe that there’s anyone out there uninformed enough to cast a vote for a republican. Republican = fiscal conservative? What a joke! Free market advocates? Can you spell Bailout or AIG? Republicans can’t even lay claim to their own core values with a straight face anymore. Anyone with an ounce of objectivity will recognized that she’s simply not qualified and that the GOP is morally and politically bankrupt.
Posted by: Bruce in Houston | October 17, 2008, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm
I really like Dierks Bentley!!!!!!
Posted by: meg | October 17, 2008, 2:49 pm 2:49 pm
If I wanted to make anti-Palin comments, I certainly wouldn’t bring up her college credentials, as the comparison with Joe Biden is not favorable to him. Biden was, at best, a mediocre student in college and should have been kicked out of law school for plagiarism instead of receiving an F for the course.
Posted by: riverdawg | October 17, 2008, 2:50 pm 2:50 pm
Yes the morals no longer lie within The Republican party!
Posted by: Paint VA Blue (Go Hokies!) | October 17, 2008, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm
Imagine the debate had Obama chosen Clinton as his running mate. The holding back that Biden did so he wouldn’t look like he was beating up a woman would not have applied. What a riot to watch a debate with the articulate, highly intelligent Clinton vs airhead Palin.
Posted by: blueeyedwmn | October 17, 2008, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm
I just have to wonder what all the truly qualified GOP women have to think of the Palin pick? Olympia Snowe, Condi Rice, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Meg Whitman…
At the end of the day this is not about Palin, but about McCain. And, he blew it. Didn’t even have the guts to stand up to his own advisors when he wanted Lieberman. Some “maverick”.
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm
If I wanted to make anti-Palin comments, I certainly wouldn’t bring up her college credentials, as the comparison with Joe Biden is not favorable to him. Biden was, at best, a mediocre student in college and should have been kicked out of law school for plagiarism instead of receiving an F for the course.
Posted by: riverdawg | Oct 17, 2008 2:50:06 PM
* He also can speak in sentences so that really doesn’t compare either. Everyone knows palin is ‘less than average’ and biden is respected for his intelligence… sarah refuses to go on interviews because they are usually disasterous. Thats because she doesn’t know anything!
Posted by: Paint VA Blue (Go Hokies!) | October 17, 2008, 2:53 pm 2:53 pm
Moderator: How do we protect America?
McCain: Cut taxes.
Moderator: How do we improve the environment in America?
McCain: Cut taxes.
Moderator: How do we build PUBLIC roads and bridges?
McCain: Cut taxes.
Moderator: How do we protect the rich?
McCain: Cut taxes.
Moderator: How do the Cubs ever win?
McCain: Cut taxes.
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 2:54 pm 2:54 pm
Obama’s father died at age 46 and his mother died at age 53. Until very recently, Obama was a multi-pack-a-day chain smoker. McCain’s mother is still alive at age 96. Plus, Obama will not release his health records. I find it amusing that many Democrats are so worried that McCain might die in office if elected. What frightens me almost as much as an Obama presidency is a Biden vice-presidency.
Posted by: riverdawg | October 17, 2008, 2:55 pm 2:55 pm
Putin: Here, sign this nuclear expansion treaty.
Palin: You betcha. Sounds great Vlad (wink, wink).
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm
Sarah Palin is an inexperienced, uneducated and corrupt right wing extremist who only cares about money, power and oil!!
She’s not even fit enough to be the Governor of Alaska or even the mayor of the town of Wasilla.
Posted by: jillian | October 17, 2008, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm
Yes, it would have been wildly great to have seen Clinton and Palin in a debate! I would have paid for FRONT ROW SEATS!
But remember, throught the darkness of the Alaskan skies, she can probably STILL see Russia! ha! Take your high heels and go back to Alaska and face your state and troopergate! She should be IMPEACHED!!!
Vote Obama/Biden!
Posted by: Richard | October 17, 2008, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm
propalin….question for you. I once flew over Alaska and saw it from above. Guess that qualified me to be governor there, huh? Oh, and I visited China. Can I be ambassador now?
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm
propalin…here’s a new slogan for Palin. “Vote for Hate in ’08″ Everything she says is negative. Thanks, but no thanks on Palin.
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm
Is there a cost savings if we impeach W, Uncle Cheney, and Palin all at the same time?
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 3:01 pm 3:01 pm
How can anyone with half a brain come on here and compare Sarah Palin to Joe Biden or Obama.The woman is simply out of her element and totally incapable of holding any high office.To view her choice as McCain’s VP as anything other than a total slap in the face to the Amnerican voter is laughable.Thank God most people this year appear to be listening to actual policies and not just falling for the usual Republican slime attacks.
Posted by: bill | October 17, 2008, 3:01 pm 3:01 pm
Joe the not really a plumber has given more interviews than Palin.
There’s no way McCain would prevent a women from speaking. That means Palin is the one who won’t talk to the media.
Why is a VP afraid to answer questions about Americans? Why is a VP afraid to answer questions about the economy and her running mates plans?
Posted by: Dan | October 17, 2008, 3:01 pm 3:01 pm
“My friends” it wasn’t McCain’s fault. I mean, who knew that she was an idiot? I mean, who knew you were supposed to “vet” VP picks first? Seriously though, it says a lot about his willingness to “trust his gut” – just like Bush…and then be stubborn about it when he should have tossed her aside and picked a qualified individual.
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm
Any republican questioning Obama’s past association, I submit this question to you to answer for all of us here: Did Hillary Clinton not want to be the Democratic Party nominee? If you answer no, then why did she go so far into debt chasing it? If you answer yes, are you saying that with all of her connections, all of Bill’s connections, the money, insiders, surrogates, campaign managers, etc. that they were totally incompetent in looking for information on her opponent?
Under most circumstances, a rational person can determine that in a contest of significant duration, such as the democrat primary, the inability to obtain damaging information to discredit your opponent would have been made available. If there was any. The problem that faced Hillary, and to the current extent, McCain and the rest of Republican operatives is that there is nothing there outside innuendo and rumor. That’s it! Now innuendo and rumor don’t translate into fact. Palin’s ethics violation is not innuendo and rumor, it is fact! McCain’s admonishment about his participation in the Keating issue is not innuendo or rumor. It is fact!
John McCain picked Sarah Palin, it was his choice, and his alone, regardless of what his advisers said at the time. To state otherwise is to either admit that McCain is neither a maverick, nor a leader capable of making his own decisions. Her initial interviews presented to the world what exactly is Sarah Palin. Unwashed, unvarnished, and unprepared by exerts. An honest view. That view unfortunately says a lot about how desperate the Republican Party, and John McCain, were in their actions in trying to change the narrative. As an aside, after the exposure she has received, there is very little doubt that her political career as Governor of Alaska is now most certainly over come re-election time.
Posted by: Moeger | October 17, 2008, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm
Hey Bill…welcome to the fray. You’re giving them too much credit. The GOP posters share a brain between all three of them.
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 3:04 pm 3:04 pm
MikeElPaso,
Yes, those traits DO sound familiar, and they all describe George Bush and Sarah Palin!
Especially interesting was the part that said “They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims.” That describes traitor-liar Bush perfectly. For example, one way he humiliates people is by giving them pet names.
He also like to push people backwards when he shakes hands, as though to say “I’m in charge. Don’t mess with me.” It’s just one manner of his childish bullying.
Posted by: Frank | October 17, 2008, 3:04 pm 3:04 pm
Hey Moeger…don’t even try using phrases like “a rational person” when addressing the fringe righties. They don’t understand what it means. Best to just ignore them.
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm
Palin’s qualifications to run as GOP VP are excellent.
She lies with a straight face when everyone knows she abused her power for personal gain.
She denies that she broke statutes when she made her employees use Yahoo to avoid the Freedom of Information Act. She is a perfect GOP candidate.
She is liar who appeals to fundamentalists who dont think and are willing to “BELIEVE” any authority.
Posted by: Bruce Becker | October 17, 2008, 3:13 pm 3:13 pm
There’s a reason why Sarah Palin (SP)moved to the front of the Republican VP line ahead of the likes of Kay Bailey Hutchison, et al. SP was selected for her entertainment value. SP does reasonably good standup comedy. Whattt? You’re saying that’s not a great reason to elect her VP?
Posted by: Pauline G | October 17, 2008, 3:15 pm 3:15 pm
Anyone else find it interesting how McSame keeps talking about how Obama “never” took on his own party? Since when did that become a qualification for being president? I wish the other night Obama had said, “that’s right, b/c my party doesn’t do the same stupid things that yours does John. Why don’t you defect and come over to join us?”
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 3:18 pm 3:18 pm
Why is it that we cannot disagree on something without digressing into name calling? You are unpatriotic, a socialist, a liberal, a communist, a Democrat God forbid, if you question Sarah Palin’s qualifications for vice president. When we stop questioning we abandon our role in this government. And yes, we do have one. It is not to sit back and let “Uncle John” tell us how he is going to run things.
Posted by: J Smith | October 17, 2008, 3:18 pm 3:18 pm
John McCain got a call from Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was on the phone to Barack Obama, and to his Democratic running mate, Joe Biden. Nobody called Sarah Palin.
The calls this week were part of the Bush administration’s campaign to line up political support for a compromise deal with Iraq that cedes some authority over U.S. forces, and a courtesy to the presidential hopefuls on whose watch the deal would take effect.
“We are keeping them informed about activities and remember, certainly, they have committee assignments and things like that as senators as well,” White House press secretary Dana Perino said Friday. “One of them is going to win the election, and they will be taking over and having to deal with these issues … So it’s only prudent for us to make sure that we get them the information that we think they need.”
Posted by: Ryan C | October 17, 2008, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm
You’re right, RealityCheck. But I feel disgusted whenever McCain uses that line for a different reason: Sarah Palin.
She represents nothing so much as McCain’s desperate groveling before the extreme right wing of the party. If there was one time for him to actually be a maverick and to actually put country first, the VP choice was it. But he failed miserably on both counts.
Posted by: Sportin' Life | October 17, 2008, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm
Palin/McCain:
“I want it, I see it…the precious.”
A final, desperate grasp at the brass ring for ‘ole Johnboy. I’m also reminded of Yoda” “mine, mine, or I’ll help you not!”
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm
I know my last comment had nothing to do with McCain’s VP pick, but I had to address some other posted comments. Its too obvious why he picked her. It surely wasn’t her intelligence. How truly frightening the prospect of Sarah running our Country.
Posted by: Spyder | October 17, 2008, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm
One has to be very sad about what all these personal attacks here on Governor Palin say about Americans today. None of you know her but for a few interviews by journalists who set her up for failure. I’ll concede Palin has been kept too sheltered, but I don’t think I’d be out doing interviews with the “View” or other liberal media, if I was treated like Palin was in her Gibson and Couric interviews – Please raise your hand all of you who could have answered the question, “What is the Bush doctrine”? Those interviews were obviously intended by Gibson and Couric to show every one they were tough and were designed to try and embarass Palin. Sarah Palin is the elected governor of one the United States and seems to have done very well at the job so far, with an approval rating of 80%. How many of you could do that job? It’s fair to criticize people for their lack of experience or their views. However, personal attacks speculating on character, intelligence, and other areas where you simply have no bases to make such claims shows your bigotry and ignorance and you should be ashamed. I personally don’t think Palin has enough knowledge or experience right now to be the President. But I do think she is smart and a quick study and would be ready to step into that role in a few years. She also has shown much more character than most of you critics of her on this page.
Posted by: JWord | October 17, 2008, 3:34 pm 3:34 pm
How come the GOP posters aren’t talking about Joe the Plumber today? Oh, that’s because they found out he was a fraud. Another example of McCain using poor judgment. His final chance to convince millions that he has the judgment and temperament to be Pres. and he singles out a guy he’s never even met. Hey John, here’s a hint: don’t rely on Fix News clips for your campaign strategy. Or was it a tactic? Or a strategy? Either way you are going to be in the books as the election loser…for ever and ever. At one time I had respect for you as a man and a leader. But you have squandered that respect in the eyes of many and decided to “pal around” with losers like Rush, O’Reilly, and Eskew.
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm
For JWord…
Let’s all hold a pity party for the Palin lovers: 1, 2, 3: Awwwwwwwwh.
She invited every single attack against her character, person, and record when she immediately accepted McCain’s offer. And, certainly after she gave that nasty acceptance speech at the GOP convention. Welcome to the big leagues. She is an opportunist just like McCain. Sure, she took on her own party…because they were corrupt GOPers and she saw chance to climb up a rung or two. She left Wasilla drowning in debt and divided as a town.
The reason I like Obama/Biden has nothing to do with policy or experience. It has to do with conduct. They WANT and VALUE a nation that is united again. McCain and Palin are following the same narrow-margin-of-victory-at-all-costs-to-the-nation strategy (and, yes John it is a strategy, not a tactic) that Rove and Shrub did.
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm
I think it is so funny that the right is wailing about “spread the wealth” when that is what most people want. Remember their hallowed Reagan’s plan for redistribution of wealth…tickle down economics that his own VP denounced as “voodoo economics”? (and ultimately cost Poppy the Presidency). Oh, wait, I forgot the GOPers never remember inconvenient truths like that.
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm
Palin’s record disqualifies her outright. Abuse of power, lies, her home built for free in return for a $12 million stadium building contract to the contractor, her association with the Alaska Independence Party (and her husband’s membership in same) — a notorious anti-United States group hellbent on taking over our government (talk about pallin’ around with terrorists!), troopergate, the baby that may or may not belong to her daughter, and on and on and on. That McCain chose such a person as his running mate and possible president of the U.S. should something happen to McCain proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that McCain is unfit to serve. His judgment is terrible. The burden he’d place on this country should Palin become president is shocking and dangerous to our freedom. There really is only one choice for Americans, and that is:
OBAMA/BIDEN 2008!
Posted by: Republican Christians for Obama! | October 17, 2008, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm
Jword,
I venture to say that those of us who have posted comments critical of Sarah Palin’s performances would be willing to have our own job interviews televised nationally. Had we given anything that resembled her absurd responses at our interviews we would have quickly been escorted out the door.
Posted by: MikeElPaso | October 17, 2008, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm
McCain should have picked a better female candidate…there are plenty of other female governors and senators that are 100 times more qualified. YOU all CANT deny that!
For this candidate to make such statements that the “HIGH HEELS ARE ON AND THE GLOVES ARE OFF” is quite pathetic and Americans deserve much better than this!
Go Obama/Biden!
Posted by: Richard | October 17, 2008, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm
When old John Complain loses, he will have written the final chapter of a long and self-congradulatory government career, one spent entirely at the taxpayer’s expense. Old John Complain has never held a job in the private sector and has always taken his pay straight from the U.S. Treasury. Maybe that’s why he’s so fascinated by “Joe the Plumber”. He marvels at someone’s ability to make money in the open market. (Even though it turns out even Joe, like old John, is a right-wing gimmick.)
Posted by: old john complain | October 17, 2008, 4:35 pm 4:35 pm
Contrasting with Palin…Obama promised to represent ALL of us. Promised to compete for the whole nation and he has done that very well.
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm
Spyder,If you are so worried about succession, consider this: both of Obama’s parents died young, he smokes and took drugs. Beiden has had two brain anurisms, both very serious. That would leave, God forbid PELOSI! Give me Sarah Palin any day! And by the way, Obama’s credentials were well explained by Hillary when she cited, I have done …., and Senator Obama, you have made a speech somewhere! That about tells it all. Organizing ACORN hardly qualifies him. He talks a good game, but …!
Posted by: mark | October 17, 2008, 5:03 pm 5:03 pm
One question – Why is Obama’s past a non issue? If the media had an ounce of integrity they would present the facts and let the American people decide…too much to ask?
Posted by: propalin
So, propalin, exactly what is it about Senator Obama you don’t know? He has written two books about his life, has been veted for almost two years while running for President, has been interviewed, participated in about 30 debates – I just cannot imagine what you think is out there that you do not know about him. Or, more likely, you are just a whiner and hope that someone will come up with another slimy rumor. You really are a sad little person.
Posted by: sunny in tulsa | October 17, 2008, 5:04 pm 5:04 pm
What a fascinating webb we weave.
It is hard not to agree with Sen Webb’s observation. The selection methodology and criteria for VP are highly indicative of how cabinet and other vacancies would be filled if a candidate becomes President.
VP Palin is likely to attend cabinet meetings with
Sec Defense … Chuck Norris
Sec State ….. Don Rickles
Sec Trsy …… Scrooge McDuck
Att General … Dunneda Waun
Sec Housing … Joe T. Plummer
Sec Interior .. anybody from Exxon
Sec Energy …. anybody from Chevron
Posted by: OneObservation | October 17, 2008, 5:06 pm 5:06 pm
Khallid Hamid Guerueri, Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican? did you know that George Wallace was a Democrat? Did you know that white Americans, including my great, great grandfather, faught for the Union to put an end to slavery? Talk about reparations, he even had a struggle getting his military pension. It seems to me that you may be a racist and not know it. When all else fails, blame someone else, and then play the racist card!!
Posted by: mark | October 17, 2008, 5:12 pm 5:12 pm
Khallid Hamid Guerueri, Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican? did you know that George Wallace was a Democrat? Did you know that white Americans, including my great, great grandfather, faught for the Union to put an end to slavery? Talk about reparations, he even had a struggle getting his military pension. It seems to me that you may be a racist and not know it. When all else fails, blame someone else, and then play the racist card!!
Posted by: mark | October 17, 2008, 5:12 pm 5:12 pm
Joe Biden thinks that jobs is a three letter word. This does not inspire confidence.
Posted by: ubu1991 | October 17, 2008, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm
How come no one talks about McCain’s horrendous record of not supporting VA rights? He didn’t even support the most recent GI Bill proposal. Country first my foot. I have two grandfathers and a father who are veterans and all three are voting for Obama. Do your homework vets. McCain is not your “friend”
Posted by: RealityCheck | October 17, 2008, 5:17 pm 5:17 pm
Go ahead and elect “flake” Obama, then
when you lose everything, you can’t blame us. His tax plan stinks to high
heaven and there will be race riots. why, because of you.
Maybe John isn’t the best but he beats
anything running for President.
Posted by: Paul Neas | October 17, 2008, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm
Give me Sarah Palin any day!Posted by: mark | Oct 17, 2008 5:03:57 PM
You can have her. The rest of us lost interest when we learned she’s one of the most corrupt politicians out there. A corrupt republican. Who would have thought? Try everyone.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2008!
Posted by: Republican Christians for Obama! | October 17, 2008, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm
Go ahead and elect “flake” Obama, then
when you lose everything, you can’t blame us…Posted by: Paul Neas | Oct 17, 2008 5:29:34 PM
Will you thank us and admit you were wrong when Obama becomes the most beloved, best president this country has ever seen? Will you thank us when our deeply divided country (thanks to Bush and the republicans) is brought together again as one proud citizenry? Will you admit you were wrong? Or would you prefer the Obama prsidency fail so you can say “I told you so?” To my mind, that sort of thing and your sort of attitude is deeply unpatriotic, and deeply unAmerican. We are to pull for our country to succeed as one people with a common goal put our country back on top. Obama is the man to do that. And that’s why I’m voting for Obama. I’m tired of our country’s divide and infighting. It’s time we all truly all put our country first.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2008!
Posted by: Republican Christians for Obama! | October 17, 2008, 5:45 pm 5:45 pm
“Do you really think that Sarah Palin is the most qualified person in the Republican Party?” Webb asked the crowd after heralding Biden’s credentials.”
The country needs to ask if Obama is the best qualifed for President.
Posted by: Maria | October 17, 2008, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm
Please stop referring to Palin as a parrot! I have parrots, and this is an insult to their intelligence!
Palin is shallow. She lacks the curiosity to learn about the world beyond her immediate circle. She is unsuitable for an office that requires one to represent us to the rest of the world. The fact that McCain chose her shows that he either sold out, or has bad judgment.
She does seem to be good at delivering a speech or talking points written by someone else, but not if asked a question for which she has to think, as in, “What publications do you read”? To me she reeks of someone who took the credit for everyone else’s hard work, and has gotten by this way by using her looks and flirting her way through stuff, as she did in the VP debate. She would make a great person on a show like the “Today Show” or “Good Morning America”. But as VP? NO!!
Joe Biden will answer any question. It may not always come out exactly right, but if you know anything about him, which it is possible to do because he has been around for a long time, then you cut him some slack because you know that he does have the credentials, and he is interviewed so much that there is just more opportunity for something to come out wrong. And the media only seems to make a noise about him when there is some sort of gaffe.
To make a big thing out of the J-O-B-S thing is just deliberately making a mountain out of a molehill.
Posted by: Donna Hughes | October 17, 2008, 6:07 pm 6:07 pm
Re-Republican Presidents-
Good vs. Bad vs. Ugly.
Good-
Abraham Lincoln
Chester A Arthur (Everyone thought he was a crook, turned out to be a good guy and a reformer)
Teddy Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Total 4.
Bad
U.S. Grant. -Corruption
Hayes – Failure of Reconstruction
B. Harrison – Overthow of Hawaiian govt.
W.M. McKinnley – Fake pretense to attack Spain
W.H.Taft – A reformer who became a crony.
Harding – Teapot Dome.
Cooledge – Roaring 20′s-Stock Market excess.
Hoover – Depression
Nixon – Too much to name.
Reagan – Iran Contra, Debt.
GW Bush – Total Bozo.
Ugly
James Garfield – Died too soon to tell.
Ford – Too little time.
GHW Bush – Mixed bag, better before he sucked up to Reagan.
Posted by: W.R.Printz | October 17, 2008, 6:27 pm 6:27 pm
Democrats-
Good, Bad, Ugly
Good-
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
Andrew Jackson
James K. Polk
Grover Cleveland
Woodrow Wilson
FDR (x4)
Harry Truman
JFK
Bill Clinton
The Bad
Martin Van Buren
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Andrew Johnson
Jimmy Carter (Great Man…not a great pres.)
The Ugly
LBJ – Like Harvey Dent, half good, half bad.
Posted by: W.R.Printz | October 17, 2008, 6:33 pm 6:33 pm
Pardon me if I leave the Federalists and Whigs out….
Democrats have been better for this country, and better for the Presidency, by far, though a Republican the caliber of Lincoln or Teddy R. is always welcome.
Posted by: W.R.Printz | October 17, 2008, 6:36 pm 6:36 pm
Even if Obama put his new presidential seal on his booster seat and took the training wheels off his bike, he would still not look presidential.
But I am absolutely shocked that another fellow Democrat is putting down Palin. Just shocked!
Posted by: S Adams | October 17, 2008, 6:42 pm 6:42 pm
How can people be so stupid as to think that it’s sexist to criticize Palin’s positions, statements, history, and qualifications? On the contrary, it’s sexist to treat her differently because she’s a female, to imagine that her gender shields her from criticism.
Posted by: Johnny | October 17, 2008, 7:00 pm 7:00 pm
Trickle down is dead. No more tax cuts for the rich. It has never worked. Most of the middle class has had enough of it. It has always been a lie that was sugar coated with the sweet syrup of the bible and patriotism. It’s time for the top 5% to pay their fair share and stop saddling America’s workers with the burden of paying Haliburton and Exxon. This hoax has gone on long enough. Pull the shroud off your heads and see the light, politics as usual has been sticking it to America for long enough. Let’s have some change and some class in the highest office. President Obama, welcome to the White House!!!
Posted by: Trickle down death | October 17, 2008, 7:01 pm 7:01 pm
McCain chose Palin for two simple reasons:
1) Female. Hoping to peel off Clinotn supporters in a cynical poltical move.
2) Fundamentalist Wingnut. Palin has been involved in efforts to ban books, supports “young earth” beliefs that dinosaurs and cave men coexisted only several thousand years ago, and other such craziness. 2000 McCain called the fundies crazy and totally scorned them as an anti-intellectual movement dangerous to the nation. Then they pulled the rug out from under him. 2008 McCain sucked up to them, and even allowed them to dictate his running mate, knowing full well they hope he drops in office.
Shameful.
Posted by: kozmik | October 17, 2008, 7:05 pm 7:05 pm
It must really grate on Senator Webb and Senator Biden that Governor Sarah Palin outranks both of them in her position of Governor of Alaska and certainly outranks Barrack Hussein Obama.
While Governor Sarah Palin has been minding the strategic business of Alaska to help the rest of America with energy, Obama spent two years spending taxpayers money and contributors money to tour the nation and to build a flimsey resume.
‘Obama has no National Credentials nor does he have International Credentials.’
His trip to the mid-East and Europe was his vacation tour of those areas—bought and paid for by taxpayers and contributors to his campaign—–to build a resume he did not have.
And, as McCain stated—–he has not even been South of the USA border with Mexico.
We have for the first time since Geraldine Ferraro ran unsucessfully against President Reagan whom I supported a qualified woman ready to break the glass-ceiling for all American women.
If you are a woman on this board, then join hands with other women and vote for Sarah Palin and John McCain on November 5, 2008.
Posted by: Roxieanne | October 17, 2008, 8:05 pm 8:05 pm
Roxieanne,
The only way you could think like that is if you live under the same rock as “What Publications Do You Read Palin”!!!
there is no hope for you, but don’t insult the rest of us by making such a ridiculous request!
Posted by: Donna Hughes | October 17, 2008, 8:46 pm 8:46 pm
Roxieanne–I’m with you.
Posted by: Kay | October 17, 2008, 9:35 pm 9:35 pm
If you are a woman on this board, then join hands with other women and vote for Sarah Palin and John McCain on November 5, 2008.
Posted by: Roxieanne | Oct 17, 2008 8:05:45 PM
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The only problem with your statement is that you are voting on November 5, If you are a Republican you are suppose to vote on November 4, Democrats are instructed to vote on November 5.
Posted by: Kay | October 17, 2008, 9:37 pm 9:37 pm
We’ve already voted for Obama/Biden here.
Posted by: Donna Hughes | October 17, 2008, 9:52 pm 9:52 pm
We have learned enough about these people to be able to declare categorically that they are unfit for public service–certainly high public office–and to ignore this is frankly absurd, dangerous and indicative of extreme mental weakness and delusion.
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Vincent–You just described Obama.This is the exact reason Obama will not get my vote. Other reasons are:
ACORN associations/voter fraud
Ayers Associations
Rev Wright, Black liberation theology church, racist for 20 yrs
Notable Flip-flopper
Inexperienced
Endorsements by Louis Farakhan, Hamas and Hezbollah
Fictitous and questionable donations
Associations with Raila Odinga in Kenya
If he’s not helping his brother George, living in a
6 x 9 hut on a $1 month, why would he help us.
Most liberal record in Senate
Admited he has a no sway with those on the other side of the aisle.
Questionable Rezko land deal
Part of the corrupt “chicago machine”
Voted to take away 2nd amendment rights.
Voted for abortions at any stage in pregnancy (above his pay grade)
Voted to allow young girls to get abortions without parental consent and they can go across state lines to get it.
The list goes on…….
Posted by: True American | October 17, 2008, 10:44 pm 10:44 pm
From Sunday’s Washington Times (even before the Three-Letter-Word):
Biden’s gaffes Jay Ambrose Sunday, October 12, 2008
During all the hysteria about Sarah Palin and whether she is fit to be vice president, has anyone noticed Joe Biden is a persistent, unreformed, downright clownish bungler whose gaffes are simply too many and too wild to be considered perfectly excusable slips of the tongue?
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Just remember Joe’s 3 letter word J O B S!!!
Add a typical room service for Barrack and Michele of lobster appetizers, IRANIAN CAVIAR, 2 steamed lobsters…
Make sure that caviar came from Iran …
Posted by: Dr Perfect | October 18, 2008, 12:32 am 12:32 am
Kay,
Sorry, but I don’t vote for a woman simply because she’s a woman.
If Sarah Palin were qualified, if I agreed with her politically, and if I respected her, I would vote for her — and her being a woman would be a plus.
But the fact that we both have the same type of reproductive equipment doesn’t inspire or oblige me to vote for her.
Posted by: Kate | October 18, 2008, 12:57 am 12:57 am
“If you are a woman on this board, then join hands with other women and vote for Sarah Palin and John McCain on November 4, 2008.”
YOU WON’T BE SORRY!
Posted by: ROXIEANNE | October 18, 2008, 1:06 am 1:06 am
“Sorry, but I don’t vote for a woman simply because she’s a woman.”
Yet a lot of blacks will be voting for Barack because of the color of his skin.
Why is that any more acceptable than voting for a candidate because of her sex… especially in an election during which each and every woman.. aside from PPelosi… has been treated like cowpod.
Ferraro, Clinton, and, now Palin!
Palin, by the way, has more ***** than Obama…. so maybe tht could convince you to change your mind.
Posted by: just thinking... | October 18, 2008, 1:13 am 1:13 am
The change we need!
Obama/Biden ’08
Posted by: Hunner | October 18, 2008, 2:07 am 2:07 am
Donna Hughes,
“Palin is shallow. She lacks the curiosity to learn about the world beyond her immediate circle. She is unsuitable for an office that requires one to represent us to the rest of the world. The fact that McCain chose her shows that he either sold out, or has bad judgment.”
I couldn’t agree more. I think McCain has bad judgement because he has consistently sold out. He sold his soul in previous run for the presidency, too. I think it was over the “issue” of flying the confederate flag in SC. CNN aired both of his statements — the one where he said it was not cool, then the one after the right-wing nuts forced him to state otherwise and declare his new “belief”.
Obama/Biden 08!
Posted by: Common Sense | October 18, 2008, 7:08 am 7:08 am