Palin on McCain Aides Saying She Didn’t Know Africa Is a Continent: ‘Those Guys Are Jerks’

It’s a painful experience to listen to Palin. Maybe in four more years she’ll be speaking more coherently. I’m hopeful she’ll be a GOP presidential nominee in 2012.

no concerned in ohio,
mccain needs to come forward and say something.

Wow – It’s inconceivable to me the irony of Gov Palin complaining about twisting of words and taking comments out of context!! Isn’t that what she staked her reputation on during the campaign at each stump speech and on national news? She had to take to prefacing each of her campaign speeches by saying what she was doing wasn’t mean-spirited or unprofessional as was being reported against her. Talk about an immature version of “Don’t do what I do, do what I say”. Isn’t this just the exact whining that she denigrated Hillary Clinton for – stating that it accomplished nothing and diminished the female politician in the process? What a difference an election makes!

gee, they’re attacking eachother and nobody wants to take any responsibility for screwing up. How very very republican and how very very Fox news to jump on doing it first.

I’m also hopeful be the 2012 GOP nominee. Another Obama landslide, only bigger.

There are people from the campaign staff saying these accusations about Gov Palin are not true, ao therfore this all boils down to a “she said/she didn’t say” thing. And the media coverage this is getting would make one think McCain-Palin had won.
I’d rather we focus on the what is unquestionably said by the ticket that will be assuming power in less than three months. Obama already started giving us documanted on tape material going back to the primaries (ex: claiming there are 57 states). Then there was that bonehead attempt at humor, yesterday, poking fun at Nancy Reagan.
Bottomline: if we’re going to give Obama the benefit of the doubt, even when it is documanted he really did say something stupid, then we should do the same for Gov. Palin, especially when the accusations about her are just hearsay.

Well, Sarah Palin’s tirade only shows that she is indeed a nitwit. How can she be taken out of context? Perhaps, she did not give a direct answer to a direct question at that time because she almost always gives vague answers to questions! There had been questions during the debate which she did not give an answer to as she instead kept rattling about other things!

Palin just wasn’t qualified and McCain realized it “after” the selection. The news only puts out a portion and a lot of the problems between them will not come out (as is proper). She’s history, and not worth the time. We’re moving forward now. Much bigger tasks at hand.

” I’m hopeful she’ll be a GOP presidential nominee in 2012.”…are you freakn kidding me??????? WHY?? WHY? WHY? do you people LOVE stupid people???? LOOK at what liking stupid people has done to this country! Do you realize we have a 20 year high of unemployment and the layoffs that will result from the crash have NOT EVEN STARTED!!! we are heading for a depression!!! 8 years ago our economy wa s booming and thegovernment had a surplus. that is asotnishing at how badly Bush killed thiscountry. really. It isshocking, as if he was actually TRYING, to kill this countrry as fast and as badly as he did. And here you want a journalism major flunk out for the next try?????? Unbelievable.

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Palin says- ” that’s cruel, it’s mean-spirited, it’s immature, it’s unprofessional and those guys are jerks if they came away with it taking things out of context, then tried to spread something on national news. It’s not fair, it’s not right.”
Well, I have to say to Ms. Palin, how does it feel to have the shoe on the other foot??? You disparaged and denigrated President elect Obama CONSTANTLY on the campaign trail just to win votes. Your claims were based on innuendo and slander and you deliberately stirred up anger and hate in your slavish masses against him. That was NOT Christian behavior and you are getting a taste of your own medicine now. Can you say KARMA?

Live by the sword, die by the sword. Maybe you should have been more careful who you were ‘palling around with”, Sarah. I got some news for ya, YOU were a jerk.

Sarah Palin should reflect back to the things she said against Obama while on the campaign trail. Back then, she had no qualms accusing Obama of palling around with terrorists without even considering that Obama was still a young boy when Ayers committed the despicable act. Ayers was no longer a terrorist but a respected educator when Obama met him. Besides, how could she have accused Obama that when she wasn’t even sure how many times Obama and Ayer’s path crossed in Chicago. The two may have taught in the same university, but that does not prove that they are buddies!

No offence but Gov. Palin was and is associated with these very same people in the Republican party. They are cohorts. If Gov. Palin intends to run in 2012, she is going to need their help. I’m sure they are quite inclined to assist her now that she has called them cowards.

Karma is A Bi– Aint it Palin? all that hate and lies you spewed about Obama and Biden, What goes around comes around!!Couldnt happen to a better Person and Palin we are all PRO AMERICANS!

susie:
your comments are on the mark!!! thank you….
she’s getting back what she gave out….junk!

the chickens have come home to roost….
In other words: what goes around, comes around…..
Be not deceived, God is not mocked: whatsoever one sows, that shall one reaps….Bible

Palin didn’t blink.

Palin you get everything you deserve KARMA! what Goes around Comes around you my friend did nothing but try to divide this country and instill fear, Lying and Slandering Obama, This stuff being said about you hurts doesnt it How does it feel couldnt happen to a better person! Thank god your back in Alaska STAY THERE!

Sarah Palin consistently displays a reckless temperament in the face of adversity, just as McCain did. Americans truly dodged a deadly bullet on this election. I guess hind-sight must truly be 20-20 in that the voters of the USA now clearly know a swindler when they see one.

The Republican Party has no one to blame but themselves; they have lost touch with working people and conservative values a long time ago. Palin deserves some credit but they should be pointing a finger at themselves! At the end of eight years we have had out of control spending, more big government, corruption even the Democrats couldn’t match, poking their nose into matters that should be resolved on a state level, handing billions of tax payer dollars over to the Pharmaceutical Ind. by not negotiating Medicare drugs, wanting to tax our income we pay for health insurance, pandering to the extreme right religious groups for more laws and I could go on and on. Conservative values? Those issues are why the republicans are in the shape they are!

Matt – Sometimes I’m too subtle. Her running for the GOP presidential candidate in 2012 would hand over a victory to the Democrats. I guess I should have ended my post with a wink.

Obama’s 57 state slip was just a word choice error. He probably meant to say “contests”, since there was Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, etc…, during the primaries.
Posted by: Danny | Nov 8, 2008 11:38:16 AM
“Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii.” – Senator Barack Obama, May 9, 2008
Not to parse this quote too closely, but does this then mean Alaska and Hawaii is a single state? (Our own Trinidad and Tobago? Woo-hoo!)

She’s done.

“It never happens.”
Didn’t they used to say that about African-American candidates for President?
The times they are a changing. Did you think it was a one election cycle deal?
Palin is not going away. She is a smart fast learner. She can make of her political future what she wants it to be. You can’t stop her.
That scares you witless, so you attack and attack. As you do, she gains momentum.

The Republican Party has no one to blame but themselves; they have lost touch with working people and conservative values a long time ago. Palin deserves some credit but they should be pointing a finger at themselves! At the end of eight years we have had out of control spending, more big government, corruption even the Democrats couldn’t match, poking their nose into matters that should be resolved on a state level, handing billions of tax payer dollars over to the Pharmaceutical Ind. by not negotiating Medicare drugs, wanting to tax our income we pay for health insurance, pandering to the extreme right religious groups for more laws and I could go on and on. Does that sound like conservative values? Those issues are why the republicans are in the shape they are!

Would this woman just fade into the snow banks in Alaaska.

Len,
Are you laughing at yourself while you were typing that?
Palin getting stronger? Pass what you’re smoking.
The very hand that fed her into believing she could be VP has now opened up and started slapping her.
POTUS OBAMA – Brains in the White House

She is a sad case who wants power so bad it hurts…………………

I can’t believe you guys! It is obvious that from the start, the McCain camp felt that because she was an outsider, she would never fit into the campaign, because they were all insiders! Therefore, she wasn’t even given a chance to fit in by the Republican party. Palin brought life to the party, but it was her own life in which she had crowds of young people & women three times that of McCain.
These were middleclass people but not Republicans or Democrats so declared. I agree, Sarah didn’t fit into the Republican Party, because they were insiders, so now it is more than evident she is made the scapegoat to bear their lose. This only shows that the Republican party itself, is not willing to accept the responsiblity of their lost. Neither party gets my respect. The only one that can set the record straight as a man, is McCain, and I doubt he will, because it only shows he is a insider too, and not a man to accept responsibility. All this is definitely why we need an outsider in Washington next election, to really clean up our government. Sarah Palin is best never to run on the Republican ticket again for President, but a ticket of her own and give it a name. You wait and see, if she did that, she would capture the hearts of the youth, women, seniors, men, Hispanics, and a lot of Black people, even if Obama runs again.

The fact that none of the people making these comments and accusations has come forward leads me to believe that it is all a load of bull and you must be pretty gullible if you believe otherwise. Anyone can make any accusation anonymously. So far, the only persons from the campaign to come forward and speak on camera about the tension/rift have defended Palin. How anyone can believe anonymous sources over those that have actually spoken on camera is beyond me.

She can dish it out but she sure can’t take it.
COUNTRY FIRST!
Yeah, right.
LOL

There is something terribly wrong with the men in both parties bashing this beautiful, intelligent and STRONG woman.
Is this the change American needs? Why has this country elected ANY man who permits the bashing of its women? Obama is disgusting in his shoving Hillary aside and McCain is equally disgusting to use Sarah and then discard her.
Women need to wake up to who is in control of the country and the message these men have sent us.

A new poll out yesterday had 65 percent of Republicans wanting Sarah to run in 2012
Posted by: Jim | Nov 8, 2008 12:13:37 PM
That would be good news for Obama in 2012 :)

There is an irony when a nasty pitbull like Palin can’t take the negativity in return. This thin-skinned whiner could have been president in January if McCain dropped dead. It’s amusing how the born-again Jesus X followers are so full of hate spewing nastiness.

In modern times, NO losing VP candidate has ever come back to become the future Presidential nominee for either the Democratic or Republican parties.
It never happens.
It won’t happen with Palin, either.
Move on people.
There are more important things than discussing old political news; such as the breed of Obama’s new dog and the dog’s name.
Posted by: Thelma | Nov 8, 2008 11:52:59 AM
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Thelma I disagree with you. In 2000 Al Gore won the election and the popular vote. If the counting had continued in Florida and not stopped by the supremely biased supreme court, we would have discovered Al Gore beat bush in Florida and bush stole the election by having the supreme court appoint him president.
Now I digress but how different would our world be today if the American election process had not been destroyed. I guarantee over a million innocent civilians, 4500+ American soldiers, and 6 trillion dollars, would not all be just be memories. I also believe that Al Gore would have listened to the PDB’s and the Twin Towers and the US airlines full of all their precious cargo would be here as well.
Republicans you are to blame for this mess and I hope you never touch the big levers of power again. I will not forget, and I will remind everyone I know what a disaster you have been for this nation. The totality of your destruction by enabling these twisted fascist is mind boggling.

We’re all in trouble when we replace the word “knowledge” with “degree of knowledgeability.” What’s next? A fraction of recollectedness?
It’s what we get for pallin’ around with politicians.
Meanwhile, Sarah, bye-bye for now. We’ll get back to ya.

Wow, the dumbo really thought she had been picked because of her brilliance! Hey, Palin, you were just a prop, it’s time you snap out.

The fact McCain has not come forward to defend – is telling. Count on Palin to resurface as a former govenor running for President starting 2010 in Iowa. Leaving public office enables Palin to do what she does best – wave – and spew out pre-scripted campaign lines. She will appeal to her base – but will be competing with others who have appeal as well. To win ultimately – she’ll have to appeal to the the center – to be successful there – she’d totally have to re-invent herself.

Finally McCain strategist came out last night in FOX NEWS and denied all the rumors about Governor Palin, so Schmidt, they both personally denied. They both are getting the heat and have been called cowards!
I agreed McCain should have come earlier and stop that. They are trying to blame and scapegoat Governor Palin instead of accepting responsibility for their ill advise and campaign management. In all fairness Governor Palin joined the campaign just 9 weeks ago, and bear in mind that McCain lacked his nomination months before Obama did and his campaign strategist did nothing to create a real message for the fall campaign, they had plenty of time to prep and vet the VP candidates in the short list. It’s their fault, they were no match for the well managed Obama’s campaign. As usual the losers without courage are pointing fingers instead of taking responsibility for defeat.
As CNN put it, some of those staffers and strategist will not find job in the near future. Wh will trust them?
Even Campbell Brown from CNN and Oprah mentioned how low the “anonymous” sources can go and how easily they can smear people reputation. As nasty rumors tried to smear Obama about he being a muslim, born in other coutry, don’t know the US has 50 states, etc.
Palin like Obama will probe wrong those cowards and anonymous sources.
Time to move on an support our leaders in the big task of taking this country forward and out of this huge economic chaos.

I think bobby jindal or mitt rummy is far better choice for GOP.
Why bother about this woman?

Sorry not all Americans but the Democrats and the Hollywood league, they are far from being an emancipated society. Nina from Europe

The democrats and the mainstream media including the Hollywood league are one misogynist folk and far from being emancipated. The decried Palin from the beginning to avoid a woman come to power.

Oh my goody. Let’s STOP this bickering and childish nonsense chasing this woman. Sarah Palin was, indeed, not ready to be a VP. With some more experience as Governor, she may…
I think we all need to look at the way America campaigns. It takes too long and for the future consider shortening it.
As for Obama, stop bickering as well because he’s black. He IS the right person for the job, finally someone with BRAINS coming into the White House. Give him some space, and stop judging. If we’re a Nation that says: “In God We Trust”, let’s TRUST in God for having Obama as president, no matter what the skin color. Are there any WHITES out there better than Obama that WANT the job or CAN DO the job? No,
so just be still and let the man run his presidency.
God Bless you all and God Bless the USA.

Barry In Las Vegas, were not ABSOLUTELY offended that this woman was brought forth to the electorate as a contender for one of the most powerful positions in this country? I feel the RNC owes the country an explanation for her selection. Mr. Bush has made his mistakes but I would never call him dumb. Mr. Quayle had his issue but I would never call him dumb. Ms. Palin has demonstrated in numerous incidents her utter lack of knowledge and lack of literacy. What is even more disturbing is that she is unable to recognize this within herself. Is she qualified to be Governor of Alaska? Probably, given its population size but to be Vice President or President of the United States? PLEASE! Keep this woman away from the White House!!! Do not even allow her to take a White House tour! Talk about the story about the “Emperor’s New Clothes” This was a living example!

Palin is a genius, like me. That’s why I want her for President.

Palin is 44. By 2012 she will be menopausal or post-menopausal. She won’t be able to use her sex-appeal anymore, her winks and flirting. She does not have the kind of face that ages well. That’s all she got.

when they stop talking about you is when you become irelevant …
so far sarah seems to be getting about the same amount of coverage as the president elect, i love it!

Right… Palin would only make a fool of herself in the Senate.

“when they stop talking about you is when you become irrelevant ”
If you are irrelevant, people don’t talk about you. But just because people talk about you doesn’t mean you are relevant. Logic 101.

what a mess the mccain campaign was
can you imagine what shape this country would be in in two years if mccain and palin had won?

Palin is a sore loser. And so are her supporters.

Nothing was taken ‘out of context’..she simply didn’t know…..as stated before on this thread….Palin – Read and understand the Constitution – its our Law of the land and our connection to our Fore Fathers….

I’ll say one thing for Sarah Palin, she is persistant with her remarks against Obama. Even after it’s over, and she is back in her homeland Alaska, incidently is Alaska a State, or a country? Anyway, every chance she gets to put a dig in on the president elect, she gets one in on him, and she blames her debaters were poor losers. Well, we’ll see how patriotic, and loyal she really is, when she needs something from our new President, and has to ask him for help in some way. She should have been a little more respectful to Obama, while running against him, because you never know who your boss will be next.

Dumb broad … what was McCain thinking … probably something that can’t be printed here.

Posted by Kat:
“It’s a painful experience to listen to Palin. Maybe in four more years she’ll be speaking more coherently. I’m hopeful she’ll be a GOP presidential nominee in 2012.”
She would would have to grow a brain first. Not likely to happen in four years. Personally, I hope the GOP does put her forth as a candidate in 2012 – actual candidates for POTUS have to survive real press conferences with real questions about real issues. Which means she would be toast before the first press conference ended. So bring her on, GOP. I would love to know that Obama’s second term is guaranteed. Not to mention the high entertainment factor.
A note of interest: We turned NC blue this year, and a huge reason for that was the Palin pick. Hundreds of people we canvassed (many were registered republicans)told us that the moment McCain picked Palin was the moment he lost their vote and Obama gained their vote.

I want an update on the clothing donation after the election. Or isshe returning them to Nieman,Saks?

OMG, will wonders never cease? The very fact that FIXED NOISE is saying that their numbers tanked directly after the Couric interview were the most accurate news fact that they have ever pronounced! It’s positively mind-boggling!!!
I don’t care if Palin didn’t want to be prepped for it, because even if she had been, we still would have seen her butcher the English language and we still would have heard the jumbled words she believes construct a concise sentence! It is simply unimaginable to think this woman is as IGNORANT AS SHE IS AND LACKS GENERAL KNOWLEDGE on current or historical events that most high schoolers know. For her to now say the media is lying and the handlers were jerks is just another one of her LIES [she tells them with a straight face and a smile] to cover up the lack of knowledge and help her get to the top of her personal ambitions.
For McCain to try and pass her off as QUALIFIED for VP, let alone POTUS, tells us that ‘winning’ was the only thing that mattered to him and he didn’t care that he lost whatever honor he may have once had. If she was able to help with inciting her supporters to react in a froth of hate, bigotry and racism, then she needs to rethink her attractiveness [rather lack thereof] for even the GOP base because Americans are sick to death with those Rovian methods of campaigning.
Our votes SPOKE LOUDLY AND CLEARLY to get that message across to the GOP. Palin is simply UNQUALIFIED and there is nothing she can do to change that fact. The GOP needs to rethink and rebuild a genuine approach to diversity and conservatism so until they can change their message, they will continue to lose the moderates who left them in droves in this election.

Lanny easy now easy. But I agree whole heartedly.lol

I hope Republicans will not bring this woman again (Palin). Ask yourself what did she help? Totally nothing just to use your money on clothes.
We all learn through mistakes we make. It was not an ideal thing to put Palin on the ticket. She has been a liability instead of an asset.

We all occasionally make stupid slips of the tongue and briefly forget something we’ve known forever. Call it a senior-moment, blonde-moment, airhead-moment or whatever, that’s all Sarah Palin is guilty of as far as the Africa gaff – and we have all done it. Too bad she had the unfortunate luck to experience her senior-moment in public – kind of like Dan Quayle mispelling potato as potatoe years back. When I have one of these moments in front of my kids they have a heyday with it and have a great time making fun of me. I guess they must be journalism prodigies. I understand that Obama committed a similar gaff when he referred the USA’s 57 states.

I swear McCain seemed relieved when he gave his concession speech. It was almost like he was relieved that he and the United States would not be subjected to 4 more years of Palin.

Ms. Palin may be able to redeem herself, just a little, if she would just answer these questions instead of accusing others of picking on her.
1. Did you, and your family, shop at high end clothing stores and spend more than $150,000.00 when, in fact, your clothing benefactor had expected maybe $20,000-$25,000.00?
2. Did you know before this campaign that Africa was a continent?
3. Before this campaign, what newspapers did you read?
4. Do you understand that this country believes you were “mean-spirited” during the campaign. We heard you and we believe that you were the most negative of them all and many (most?) of your negative comments were found to be untrue.
5. Do you realize that John McCain was ahead in all of the polls, even for a short time after he chose you, until you became a pitbull – with or without lipstick? Are you willing to, finally, take some responsibility for John McCain NOT being our president-elect?
6. Will you reimburse Alaska for the trips that included your family? You know – the ones that you changed the records on after Mr. McCain asked you to to join him in running this country.
7. You didn’t build the “bridge to nowhere” but, did you keep the money for that bridge in Alaska?
8. Did you really expect to give a consession speech? If so, why?
9. How many items that the RNC paid for did you take home and what dollar amount would that be?
Ms. Palin, just let us hear some truths from you. Maybe then, people would let up on you and, at least, agree that you are only human and you made mistakes.

The Alaskan grifters are back where they belong. Palin will never recover from this fiasco. Like Nancy Reagan told her a long, long time ago, “Just say NO.”

aware2u – you’re a religious moron duped by a woman that was absolutely the most unqualified person available as a choice for the GOP. She was forced on McCain by the religious right only because she would bring all the church going housewives that think they have a connection with Palin.

jms55: I would hope that Obama would continue to take the high road and help Palin if ever she does ask for help… even if she is a jerk. :)

Sarah, hun, your 15 minutes are OVER! Go back to work as the Gov and be a hockey mom. Go ahead and try to run in 2012 but when you do I for one will volunteer every bit of my extra time and money to support Obama/Biden and make sure you lose!

Ooooh! Didums Sarah-honey have her feelings hurt? Poor baby. Now maybe you have an idea of what it felt like to be on the recieving end of YOUR nasty, mean-sprited, small-minded, divisive hypocritical and spiteful remarks. Shut up and take your medicine, you twit.
Oh and one other thing. Do us all a favor and stay in Alaska. You no more belong on the National political stage than a muppet belongs in an opera.

solohere: “It would be interesting to know wether she reads all these well thought out remarks”
Like she reads newspapers (well ‘sort of’ reads)

I actually feel bad for Palin to some extent…
it is not her fault that she was thrown into a situation that she was overwhelmingly unqualified for.
It is her fault that she chose to go as false as she did…about just about everything…
but she was acting like a drama in small town government so she doesn’t no any other way I think.
she should have never been near this situation.

Don’t you just love guys like Rhys who defend Palin and then say that Obama is going to make the US of A socialist? Do they seem to forget (or not know) that Alaska is quite socialist with its ‘share the oil wealth’ plan. All citizens receive a check from the gov’t from the state’s oil revenue whether they own any of the land the oil was found on or not. They all sounds like little spoiled children that don’t get their way.

Kay: “Why doesn’t McCain come to her defense? Put out some sort of statement?”
Why, she can’t handle criticism by herself….and she could have been President in Januaty… is she totally incompetent?

I wonder how many people here have come across someone that is misguided but otherwise has the potential to learn from their mistakes, and grow personally.That is not the case here. I see absolutely no way that Ms. Palin (who is 44 years old) has enough time left to ever learn what most people know by the time they are eighteen. It just will not happen. During the course of two months she screwed up about everything she attempted— yet never admitted even the slightest mistake. According to these reports, she refused to apply herself to learning the policies and issues for the interviews and debates. Now she can talk about how these private missteps never happened that way. We all witnessed the public ones. And, we did not take those out of context. So, she should shut her face–or– use it to admit that she was unprepared for this job. While she is bashing herself for not knowing simple facts for a hole in the ground, she should also bash McCain for exposing such an intelligently challenged women from Alaska to a barrage from the press and the American people, and endangering this country. Ninety percent of the blame for the Palin thing rests with McCain and his staff. The religious right is not the fault here— only the reason. They were temptation to evil, but McCain failed to resist that temptation. He fell under their sphere of influence– and, he paid dearly. But, I agree with those who noticed how relieved he was to have lost. I am sure he felt GUILT beyond redemption–for in the end he knew how badly he had let the country down with the Palin selection. It is a mixed bag with the opposition does something so stupid..but thats life. After watching the news conference the other day it is clear: McCain helped the best man win.

80% of recent post election polled republicans support sarah yes they do.
by the way in case you guys have not figured it out yet…neither sarah nor her supporters expect obama followers to support her-so your wasting your time blasting her…

“Jim Macko Like she reads newspapers…..” Good one!!! haaa

Sticks and stones dan! :)
I repeat:
The pseudo intellectual and phony elitist wing of the GOP and the democrats would like to destroy Governor Sarah Palin as quickly as possible!
She is young, authentic, smart, tough, intuitive, likeable, transparent, easy to communicate with, has a genuine moral center, has core American values and ethics, has inherent wisdom, a record of change and reform, and is as normal and American as apple pie! :)
So, she is a huge threat to those who want to manipulate power to their advantage!
Governor Sarah Palin is a one-of-a-kind great leader! :)

Obama is a self-centered talker who will repay those morons who voted for him with higher taxes and lower living standard. Don’t wait for the check in the mailbox. Write check and send out more to Obama. He did not win this election. He bought it.
Palin can give every one a check and more qualified to be the mangeer of the country. Like it or not.

Palin cannot understand why everyone makes bad remarks about her…she doesn’t have the mental capacity to do so. Soooooo glad she doesn’t have a chance to become President by default.
Unsure times are here…but I think we have a man who is intelligent and ambitious in the right ways.

OBAMANATION:
Do you honestly think Obama isn’t intelligent enough to be President? If you are, you are in the very small minority, even for republicans. You don’t get to the top of Harvard Law School by being average. Palin has to prove herself. And if you don’t understand that, maybe Palin is smarter than you are.

“Cruel”, “cowardly”, “jerks”? Yep, that about sums up the Republican party.

Don’t feel bad for Sarah Palin. She is a tough, motivated, happy warrior. She will be back in four years to once again send the left into another fit of feces throwing panic. I believe she will also spend the next four years holding Obama accountable for his failures; something the media seems incapable of doing.
For supporters of Palin, remember the left does not attack those that are not a threat to them. They know that once she is put in front of the American people over a prolonged period she will win them over much as Reagan did. Also, when she becomes the Republican standard bearer the conservative movement will come out to destroy Obama. There is simply too much information on this guy that the press has ignored and it will ultimately be brought forth.
After four years of unchecked liberalism America will elect almost anyone the Republicans put up. Fortunately for America, that person will be Sarah Palin.

Those GOP guys bashing Palin are jerks. But that’s the GOP — they eat their own when they’re not successful at eating others. Hopefully Palin will disappear into the woodwork. The fault lies with McCain who picked her not her for trying her best.

Is it so hard to see that what the left and the right want in a politician is so far removed that these posts do not even make sense. Palin is very attractive to single issue voters and her supporters do not care about her knowledge of the economy, foreign affairs, social security, enviornmental issues, or the other problems that face states that are not supported (read socialism) from big buisness. What her supporters care about are issues like abortion, or religion or what gay people do in their bedroom, and the claim of government staying out of individuals buisness (somehow that does not include government staying out of the bedroom or the dotors office). I have no problem with Palin being the spokeswomen for her causes, but maybe it is that the liberals give the republicans more credit than they give themselves. I truly believe the republicans have smarter people in their ranks than Sara Palin. I am not putting her down in anyway, but when it comes to someone capable of being the most powerful person in the world, is that the best you got? Why do you keep giving us people who are not scholars, because quite frankly the left would like to be represented by someone who can think and speak at the same time about a variety of issues.

Obama is a freaking idiot. He didn’t even know that Russia had veto power in the U.N. All of the leaders of the world are laughing their …. off at him today, his policies are juvenile.
Wall St. is tanking on his economic policies because he doesn’t even know economics 101. And two states in the US that are booming Arizona and Alaska.
The cities and towns that are booming, the ones that have the lowest tax rates. Georgetown Texas, 270 new businesses in the last two years, no individual and no corporate income taxes.

palin has proven what she has to offer –(NOT VERY MUCH) SHE SIMPLY HAS SHOWN HOW UNEDUCATED SHE IS.five years for a degree in journalism that is something that could be done part time local campus.–my bigest problem is trying to understand how she ever became governer of alaska,—something does not smell right with her–and also she has assets far beyond her earnings.

She’s right! They are jerks and they’re cowards, too! I was taught that if you have something to say about someone, to say it to their face! It’s a coward that goes behind someone’s back and says things “anonymously”!

McCain won’t put out a statement because she already has hurt his imagine. The concession speech was our real McCain. The leash crap didn’t work for the pitbull. They let her loose alittle and bang it was over… What a dummy. She’s still cute…but doesn’t belong in any governmental office. She ruin herself when she opened her mouth. Todd was the show for her in Alaska…that’s why he sat in on meetings so he could repeat to her what the meaning of the meetings represented.
The truth has come out and they got more they are awaiting her return in 2012….

They should have asked her was Africa a Continent? during the interview! I bet she couldn’t remember the real answer – even after the news media has posted the answer all over the world… I betcha she didn’t remember the correct answer… What a beauty queen she is..

palin looks and sounds like someone out of a b movie—-wonder what mccain meant when he said he found his (SOUL MATE)—it must have been one of his alzhimers eppisodes.

the old saying–that you cannot make a silk purse out of a pig in lipstick is true—-hope i never hear that screeching voice again.

TomtheMailman: Tell me, what has Africa got to do with the issues in this country? Who cares about Africa. This is America and asking a dumb question like that comes from a humbskull. I don’t even remember myself what it was and don’t care. In fact, I don’t care what happens to other countries but America.

I’m not sure who the bigger goofs are here: The idiots that are saying these things and are ‘remaining anonymous’ or the news media for even reporting this junk…I expect this from the Enquirer…but come on. Palin is sharp – not many could have done the speech she did with a whole three days of prep. Not many at all.

after the election myself family and friends were ready to move on and at least give obama a chance. but after all the continued attacks, and vile, ugly, smears on sarah i am no longer willing to be as kind. this level of hatred only serves to galvanize her supporters. last check 48% of americans voted for mccain/palin that is almost half of the population.

so wrong_cowards: You are absolutely right. And I believe these aides were jealous of Palin from the start because she is what they can never be in their lifetime and that the RNC purchased her expensive clothing. Palin is a down to earth person and has a good personality. I believe the republican party is going to call on her no doubt to run for the presidency in 2012. McCain I liked, I voted for him because I felt that he was well qualified to lead this country. And this young generation of college students who think they know better than us are going to get a big backlash because Emanuel and Pelosi aren’t going to see eye to eye. There is going to be trouble in his administration.

Palin will be back in 2012 because she has a lot of ambition and Todd wants it more than her… The GOP will keep the rest of the dirt for 2012 primaries..and she will have to answer questions during the debates without sicking to scripted points… She’ll be back!

mike
please dont tell us she will be back—–we have had enough punishment—more would be cruel and ususual punishment.

after the election myself family and friends were ready to move on and at least give obama a chance. but after all the continued attacks, and vile, ugly, smears on sarah i am no longer willing to be as kind. this level of hatred only serves to galvanize her supporters. last check 48% of americans voted for mccain/palin that is almost half of the population.
Um – this stuff is coming from McCain aides. This is Republicans throwing mud. “This level of hatred” is coming from YOUR side. The Democrats aren’t paying attention so much.

it is funny to see the repub dogs fighting amoung themselves—what an act—just fire rove the super freak.

IT SURE FEELS GOOD TO BE ON THE WINNING SIDE—LET THE LOSERS FIGHT AMOUNG THEMSELVES.
MCCAINS TRAVELING CIRCUS IS FALLING APART

Yeah, that’s it: Washington needs more intellectuals. If only Barney Frank had been just a little more nuanced and if Chris Dodd had only known the capital of Botswana they might have realized that forcing banks to give mortgages to unqualified borrows in the name of the Communist Reinvestment Act the world’s stock markets might have avoided $10 trillon in losses and counting and we might not be looking down the barrel of a worldwide depression that your grandchildren will be lucky to not feel.
Yeah, let’s get more of the same slimey splineless wonks in Washington to really clean things up and let’s leave any proven corruption busting problem solvers out of this. Fun sullying their borrowed clothes only goes so far.
My single issue is to break the inherent corruption on both sides and mindless duplicity of our “leaders”. Can anyone not understand that 4 years from now Obama will be as hated as Bush is and as Clinton was 8 years ago and Bush was 16 years ago and Reagan was before that.
What will it take for you to understand the system is broken or will you just drowned in your Democrat/Republican/status quo loving asininity?

please some one tell me if it was not a race thing then how was that interview in Harlem where several african americans was asked how they liked Obamas running mate Sara Palin, and most of them said she was a good choice. So what did I miss here was she on both tickets or was this 95% voting of afican americans because Obama was the best Man. come on most of them that voted this year has never and futher more had to be picked up and bused over just for there vote. please Stop putting your self down. the Dems was running the show the last Four YEARS PLEASE LOOK AT THE HOUSE AND ASK YOUR SELF COULD THIS BE OUR MESS NOT THE REPUBLICANS. YES BUSH DID NOT DO THIS ALONE MATER OF FACT YOU DID. AND IT WILL JUST GET WORSE NOW THAT EVEN MORE DEMS, HAVE TAKING SEATS IN THE HOUSE.
PLEASE TELL ME THE STROY ABOUT THE THREE LITTLE PIGS NOW.

So now the elections are over and the media needs some extra news flashes to have something to report. This whole election the media has step onto unethical bounds and what’s news worthy is stupidity at the hands of publicly that are destroying people. It’s shameful and unintelligent reporting. This whole campaign we saw Hillary go down now Palin. I didn’t see the same questions asked to Biden, Obama, or even McCain for that matter, somehow it’s ok if you are a woman seeking public office to endure sexism, torment and your name being pounced on. Again, if these so called folks had the guts to come forward it still is chicken poop because enough is enough. It’s time for the media to stop the garbage at the door with filtering for real news worthy stories and less gossip.

OINK, the party’s over. Time to return the glass slippers.

Is she an idiot? YES. Did some of these idiots recommend her for the VP role? YES. Did they try to pitch her to the rest of the country? YES. IDIOTS + IDIOTS = MORE IDIOTS

rodney – dang you must be oh so smart. Why didn’t you run for Pres. You seem to have all the answers. Maybe Obama will ask you to be a member of his administration then you can get a hint of what it’s all about. All you people that believe he is going to pay your morgage, more food stamps, free health care, buy your gas – I have some oceanfront property in Arizona I’ll give you. Good luck but if it don’t happen you can’t blame me. Pelosi and Reed will wind him up.

I don’t understand why people still
talk about Palin who have graduated from
five different college(BA in Journalism)
or not,what we don’t know for sure.Then
her “troopergate” ” Her RNC Clothing story” I mean this woman is a Low grade
below caliber woman.How she became mayor
or Governor is a big question.Who voted for her.This woman can talk nasty.Any way she is a matter of disguise,A JOKE ?

Palin 2012 – She understands that your 401k money belongs to you – not to the GOVERNMENT!

Kris, the only shot Palin will have in 2012 is if she is still hunting down defenseless animals and I hope she miss
the target like she missed the target of
VP.

I think McCain surrounded himself with some unprofessional staff in his campaign and this is coming out now. Nothing like turning on your own kind in a frenzy of self mutilation. Jerks is to good of a term for this behavior. No wonder the Democrats won with this conduct. Remember these people in the future.

Palin 2012 – She understands that you cannot punish small businesses with higher and higher taxes and expect them to continue to hire new employees or to keep their existing employees.
On taxes – Palin IQ=200 / Obama IQ=3

Everyone is saying Palin 2012. 2012 is a long way off and who knows where this country will by then. Who would have thought in 2004 that an African-American would be elected President in 2008. Things change and Palin is in Alaska and from the look of it some people the Republican are trying to damage her reputation to the point that she is just a laughing stock of the Republican Party.

Palin 2012 – She understands that good governance does not extend from meaningless but flowery language, but in truth, extends from the power of ideas, the power of vision, and the power found in uplifting the human spirit through incentive.
Obama, not so much.

As an Obama supporter, I’m very entertained with the infighting of the GOP. But give me a break when people are saying that Palin didn’t know Africa is a continent. That’s in par with trying to push that Obama thought there are 57 states. In Obama’s case, having a JD exempts him from such ridicules and people who keep using it against him sound like idiots. In Palin’s case, the fact that she developed a reputation similar to Bush doesn’t help her. But even I find it completely absurd that the McCain people and the media (surprised it was a Fox reporter) are pushing such a stupid idea. Obviously, it was taken out of context.

Also speaking of meaningless language… also:
“Oil of coal, of course, is a fungible commodity and they don’t flag, ya know, the molecules where, where it’s going to, where it’s not, but and in the, in the sense of the Congress today they know our very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. So I believe that what Congress is going to do also is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it’s Americans who get stuck holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here; it’s gotta flow into our domestic markets first.” — Sarah Palin, Energy Expert

Also again, speaking of meaningless language also:
“That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, we’re ill about this position that we have been put in. Where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Um, helping, oh, it’s got to be about job creation, too. Shoring up our economy, and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions, and tax relief for Americans, and trade – we have got to see trade as opportunity, not as, uh, competitive, um, scary thing, but one in five jobs created in the trade sector today. We’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All of those things under the umbrella of job creation.” — Sarah Palin, Economy Expert

iQuack8
You are correct; I find Obama’s approach to governance to be devoid of anything that champions the values of hard work, persistence, or self motivated responsibility. No government will survive much less thrive if it has its basis in class envy, the culture of need, the culture of expecting something for nothing, and the culture of transferring responsibility for success to a governmental agency

The plus is if she does run in 2012, Obama can have another 4 years to get this mess fully straightened out.

Danny: What do you mean unprofessional. They are idiotic jerks who probably will never accomplish anything in their lifetime.
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They were McCain aides. Are you saying that directly serving John McCain during his Presidential campaign is not an accomplishment?
And what I meant is this: using juvenile name-calling is far beneath the dignity of someone aspiring to be a high-ranking leader of the United States.

It’s a match made in heaven: A pretty woman with a self-inflated sense of importance because of a profound inability to gauge her own limitations, and a failing GOP party desperate for a charismatic, Joan-of-Arc leader to lead them the way out of the wilderness. Unfortunately, Palin is no Queen Elizabeth. If this much of her ignorance has been exposed in 2 short months, what would 2 years of hard campaigning do?

Coburn,
My time and money are not enough? What else does any of use have to offer? If the commitment of time and money mean nothing then we have no hope. I refuse to believe that. As bad as I expect an Obama presidency to be, and we have a pretty good indication with the 401k takeover found in a previous post, America will survive. However, that does not mean that we will reclaim our lost freedoms, our human dignity, or our lost self reliance without going through a lot of pain. My point in this argument and in the argument found in support of helping the most vulnerable and defenseless in our society is to prevent the replay of the failed and destructive policies and beliefs of the past. I am first and foremost a proud American; I will not hunker down and pretend that harm is not harm and that I am powerless to prevent the gathering concerns that are represented by the thoughts and ideals of an Obama administration.

Well … unless she hires some pretty heavy media outfit and a sharp speech-writer we can forget about her for the next four years. Posted by: Golodh
Well, it worked for Obama! :)
but, the best thing McCain accomplished was to bring Governor Palin on the scene and to give the GOP time to regroup!
It would have been better if he would have dealt with the thuggish attacks on Governor Palin but he didn’t have the energy or the intestinal fortitude to do that!
His campaign was an unorganized mess from square one! :(
Now, the pseudo intellectual and phony elitist wing of the GOP and the democrats would like to destroy Governor Sarah Palin as quickly as possible!
She is young, authentic, smart, tough, intuitive, likeable, transparent, easy to communicate with, has a genuine moral center, has core American values and ethics, has inherent wisdom, a record of change and reform, and is as normal and American as apple pie! :)
So, she is a huge threat to those who want to manipulate power to their advantage!
Governor Sarah Palin is a one-of-a-kind great leader! :)

Aware2u
Well stated. Sarah Palin is one of those rare politicians who don’t just play along to get along. What she accomplished in Alaska should have been a model for the future administration. Instead we have elected a man who will bring more growth in government with associated increases in the deficit, even though people are mad at Bush for the same sin. We elected a man who has never been in a position of singular responsibility instead of being just one vote in a group, even though we rightly questions Bush’s background and results in the same regards. And, we elected a man who has shown a deep seated arrogance, even though we rightly judge Bush to be lacking in the same trait.

In the end, it wasn’t Palin or her underwhelming lack of understanding of the issues, it was the fact that McCain tried to palm her off on us just to get a few votes. His disregard for the future of America was so egregious that even GOP stalwarts couldn’t accept the possibility and turned to Obama to SAVE the U.S. from McCain/Palin.

I am neither a democrat nor a republican because both parties have demonstrated cannibalization of their own.
Governor Sarah Palin was the only breath of life in the general election!
She is an authentic reformer and may put a new face on the pseudo intellectual and phony elitist republican party. :)
If so, I will take a second look at the GOP and Sarah Palin 2012 and or 2016!
All you angry Obama worshippers and pseudo Republican intellectuals and phony elitists are doing Sarah Palin a favor! You are keeping her in the news! :)
By the way, I watched that spooky moment too as Obama raised his arm over a mesmerized crowd when he gave his somber speech Tuesday night! The world has seen this before! :(

I wish the press would move on, I am so sick of hearing about both Sarah and Tod Palin. Go home!

These Reps Losers are more then just bitter about John McSame Failed bid for the White House . They are just in deinal about The Wasilla Hillbillies looting coast to coast . Attacking our New President Elect while we are still under The Failed Bush admin policy that just did not work. Our New President Elect has an 8 years Mess to clean up and it is not going to easy, But these McSame losers just don’t get that.

James, she didn’t have media coverage because the republicans were scared to death that she might open her mouth and insert her foot.

Sarah Palin unleashes a remarkable amount of hate from the left (especially in the media). Even several days after the election, they swarm to message boards like this to smear and belittle her. They loathe her but they cannot stop talking about her.
I think this is due to several psychological factors:
-Bully mentality -little people like to cut down others to feel better about themselves.
-They’re Player Haters – many women (and some men) are extremely jealous of Palin’s looks, style, success and family.
-Sexism – since everybody likes to bring up racism, I think it’s appropriate to talk about sexism. It seems to me like she was just as qualified as BO (resume wise anyway). Many of the attacks on her would never be directed at a male.
-Conservatism – she stands for smaller government, strong national defense, reform and lower taxes, things leftists hate.
-Propaganda – the media was relentless in its abuse of this woman. This election showed how effective a tool propaganda can be. Instead of reporting on the narrative, they created the narrative.
I think because she was forced to expose a lot of critiques about BO’s resume (Ayers & Co., marxism, socialism, etc.) she got the divisive label. If she didn’t put that stuff out there, the media surely wasn’t going to, and it had to be done.
Talking about BO’s background, friends, political philosophy and economic philosophy was only deemed negative because his positions are at odds with a large number of people, and in many ways the founding principles of America of personal property, liberty, and protection from big government.
All of these combine to flip a switch inside the leftist mind that releases a volcano of pent up rage. It’s really quite interesting psychology.

It has occurred to me that Palin’s supporters will find their true destiny by following their idol up north of the 49th parallel. North to Alaska!! You betcha! Independence? If that’s what it takes to keep the redneck Barbie on her side of the snow line and get Ted Stevens out of the Senate, maybe.

JR, Sarah Palin became the most accessible of all of the candidates later in the race. Jake Tapper, to his credit, reported on this. Unfortunately, the press was more interested in repeating vindictive stories about her family than investigating her accomplishments. The press would take any made up story in any blog and run it as though it were hard news if it could portray Sarah Palin in a negative light. At the same time, the press ignored admitted drug use by Barack Obama, dismissed troubling statement such as his desire to “spread the wealth”, and generally acted as cheerleaders instead of journalist. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want less probing coverage of republicans; I just believe the future of America is too important for the press to ignore or diminish the concerns about the Democratic candidates. I don’t care what side of the ideological spectrum you are on; everyone should be concerned over media bias. We really do not know much about Barack Obama. He might turn out to be a decent man but with as little scrutiny as he has received he could also be very dangerous. We simply do not know because the press has chosen sides instead of fulfilling their important role.

Angry Left, it’s too funny how Republicans/Conservatives always rail about big government and big spending, and yet it in recent history it has always been Republican administrations that have expanded government powers, intrusion, and spent over budget balloning our deficit. Sure you don’t want the govnt. to interfere in your hobbied and interests but lets for example go and dictate into people’s private lives such as on abortion and gay rights. Also you want less taxes but want and expanded military, are you nuts? The military corporate machine is one of the most expensive items on the national budget and you all want to collect more while spending more–this is the height of insanity.

To many of you a quote from President Franklin Roosevelt. “Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth”.

Sarah Palin 2012 – She understands that the money in your 401k belongs to you and not to members of congress.
This seems to be something that Barack Obama and the so called democratic congress cannot grasp.

BOO HOO,It’s not fair ! This couldn’t have happened to a more deserving arrogant and totally self absorbed fraud and liar ! Shut up “Moose Killer”,you brought this all on yourself !Wow,one Republican turning against another,who would have thought!

I think this is due to several psychological factors……..
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No. It’s due to the fact she did little more than read sarcastic speeches.
And those speeches were loaded with hypocrisy, distortions, and devisive rhetoric. (Granted, she didn’t write them. Bush speech writers did.)
It was obvious she was not prepared for national politics. Certainly she had no real knowledge of national or international issues. To hear her try and attack others when she had no business being there was insulting to many.
She may be fine for an oil rich state with no real diversity and a population comparable to Memphis, but not as a national leader.
Also, people didn’t like the RNC trying to play her off as someone she was not by misrepresenting her credentials from day one.
The attacks are NOT coming from Democrats now, but from her own campaign staff. The report above is from FOX NEWS of all places. So blame Republicans if you don’t like it.
However, the people voted. McCain/Palin lost. I agree that the petty personal attacks are not warrented and serve no purpose.

The GOP has set Sarah up for a big fall because McCain lost on november 4th and she will get dogged to the point she will need strong antidepressants the rest of her life,they will say the trooper scandal and now a daughter who is pregnant and now the $150.000 spending spree had cost McCain the white house. The GOP has turned their back on women before, remember the former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris after she gave Bush the keys to the white house back in 2000 they turned their back on her when she needed help from them and they never looked back.!She will need GOP help in 2012 but their won’t be any!!!!

What goes around, comes back around. She did it to Obama. Now her own party is doing it to her.
KARMA?

Sarah’s problem is that she was palling around with the McCain people and now they hate her.

There is a part of me that wants to feel sorry for her. Then, there is the part of me that feels like she is getting what she deserves by not having a grasp of the reality of what she was getting into. What this boils down to is someone who’s “confidence” in herself far outstrips her abilities for the national political stage. She should have said, “Thanks, but no thanks” as the running mate rather than about the bridge. Now I just want her to go away. She is not the face, nor the voice, of the Republican party. She is now damaged goods because she was too full of herself and greedy for celebrity as well as power. Thank goodness this country dodged a bullet. Four years — eight years — they don’t change someone like her.

No. It’s due to the fact she did little more than read sarcastic speeches.
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Perhaps most people voted for BO because they thought Sarah Palin “was not prepared for national politics”. So to avoid a VP who isn’t prepared, they’d rather elect a President who isn’t prepared.
I wasn’t talking about the outcome of the election. I was referring to the psychology of the leftist mind and the hate that is released from it at the mere mention of the name Sarah Palin.

Maybe Palin thought they said “Africa is incontinent” . ..

Don’t blame Jake for information coming straight out of the Republican campaign organization – you blame that on the Republicans being screw ups.

greg:
as a mam i am for equal treatment of all people male or female, with that said during the sixtys womens lib came about because they wanted to be treated the same as a man so lets drop the word sexist or sexism because when you are running for the same elected office job you should be able to handle the heat male of female

That was male or female

Dems,
Have you read anything on what the Democrats are planning to do in regards to 401k accounts? Do you really believe taxes should be levied against 401k contributions? Do you really believe the best interest of the American people will be served when Obama and the Democrats confiscate the money people have struggled to save for their retirement and add it to a fund that can then be raided for general budget needs, including failed social programs.
Yes, I compared Sarah to Barack and when the details of this plan are presented to the American people they will conclude as I have – Barack Obama’s simply does not measure up.
Please read about the plan being hatched by Democrats to effectively kill 401k accounts. Simply search Y@hoo for “Democrats 401k” and you will find several links that will help you decide if you prefer Sarah or Barack.

Some words of advice to Sarah Palin from a former mayor who got slimed by so-called friends in her own campaign: Better go back to being unavailable for comment vs. complaining about unfair treatment. No one really wants to hear it out here in Middle Class America and it just gives your enemies good sound bites to use against you in the future. I did not vote for McCain/Palin and hated the mud-slinging you did at your rallies. If you learned anything during your campaign, let it be to concentrate on facts and be a lady.

That’s Right Pefros.
Bill Clinton left the nation is pretty good financial shape – surplus all around. George W. came in and squandered it all and left us with a huge national debt.
This includes trillions a month spent in Iraq and now this $700 billion buyout package. Somebody has to pay for it. We all will, no matter how much we make or what our socio/econmis status is. Obama is a good man to even Want To take on this task. He has my support.

I’ll give Sarah Palin this: she is most definitely smarter than those who supported her, but she isn’t smarter than a smart person.

I wonder what portion of that 64% of Republicans want her to run with Joe the Plumber as her VP …
LOLOLOL

Hearing this lady talk just confirms that America make the right choice choosing Obama/Biden over mccain with his disasterous VP pick.

Hey northernlights – you forgot Lyndon Johnson who lied bold faced to the American public, escalated us into Viet Nam, and then left the mess for Nixon to clean up . . . If you ask me – the democrats have an excellent track record – of messing up this country . . . .

sarah was not spreading rumors. she was expressing the truth. obama’s friends and associates are shady criminals and terrorists. except for wright who only hates america and what it stands for. those were not rumors, their words and actions are facts not fiction.

Has she actually returned all the clothes that she bought for herself, her family, and husband?
If not, where are the clothes now? Will she have to pay tax on them?

Suzanne: Why are you so concerned about Palin’s clothing. And who cares what she did with it. Its none of the public’s business its the business of the RNC. And if they gave her 500,000 I wouldn’t care. This campaign was about the economy, taxes and social security not someone’s clothes.

pt: Obama is no Bill Clinton and he may never clean up the mess but make a bigger one. He needs advisors that are more educated than him because he is no way experienced to run this country. And neither can Biden. I am waiting for the blunders to happen and they will happen. Emanuel and Pelosi will eventually get into it somehow because Pelosi wants power. If he chooses Bill Richardson or John Kerry for secretary of state I think he has lost it all.

Governor Palin=Alaska the ONLY recession proof state in the union.
Governor Palin the most popular Gov in the U.S.

Hmmmmm! John Kerry as secretary of state . . . Now there’s an oxymoron (or just moron) who couldn’t fight his way out of a wet paper sack . . . God help this country . . . .

RUN SARAH RUN!!!
AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Curt: “Do you really believe the best interest of the American people will be served when Obama and the Democrats confiscate the money people have struggled to save for their retirement and add it to a fund that can then be raided for general budget needs, including failed social programs.”
Right, and President Bush wants to take all male babies at age 7 to be trained as soldiers. You’re not getting any responses because you’re posting delusional fantasies.
As for the elimination of the tax shelter, folks survived prior to the 401k being created by a Democratic Congress under President Carter, so even if your delusions of it being eliminated came to pass life would go on. And as has been pointed out, something has to be done to deal with the enormous debt the Republicans have run up. It’s eliminate the Pentagon or take some serious slashes at entitlements (and the 401k tax exemption is simply a white-collar entitlement program).

Mariann, why do you want Obama to fail so bad. Why would you not wish him to do well. We all have a stake in this country and your attitude baffles me.

jhw539,
I am not the one who is proposing the attack on our 401k plans. If you were interested in understanding what, who, and why Democrats are proposing this all you have to do is go to y@hoo and search for “Democrats 401k”. You will see several links that quote the Democrats that are promoting this, including seemingly supporting words from Democratic party leaders. It is strange that you end your post by saying, in essence, that even if it is true we will survive. Well, that is not the point. I don’t want to just “survive”, I want to know that if I work hard and save for my retirement that the Democrats are not going to swoop in and change the rules mid-stream. How can you possibly apologize this away? I understand wanting to support your party, and even wanting to support your choice for president, however; bad policies CAN win passage if there are enough people who are willing to give up their freedom and property. If you would like to research the issue and then give me a reason why we should not be frightened that this has even entered the realm of possibilities then I would be glad to debate the issue with you.
I know I could trust Sarah Palin to reject this form of government intrusion into our lives. With Barack Obama’s stated intention to “spread the wealth” I doubt that he would act in my best interest or the best interest of the American public at large.

Something was probably said on the fly. Let’s face reality here: Palin is governor of a state with 80-90% approval rating and she brought a company back from the brink. If she was as dumb as the picture that her enemies are trying to create, then she could never have accomplished what she has in her life. I’m sick of this pettiness. Americans appear to be the dumb ones, believing everything they hear. You wan’t to hear a real joke: Tina Fey as a governor. Come on people, use your heads. The media had a bone to pick with Palin, and in reality, she is quite capable.

It shows what terrible shape the Republicans are in that they attack their own. It feels a lovely relief they’re no longer in power.
And who knows how many of the Republican insider attacks on Palin are true?
We do know Palin lied about the bridge to nowhere and lied about the findings of the first troopergate report – who’s to know the truth of these recent allegations.
I notice she’s spending most of the time criticizing those who ‘outed’ her, and and making much less effective efforts denying the accusations.
I suppose we’ll find out in time.
Messy business the Republicans cooked up for themselves with this nomination and the infighting.

Michael, I never heard that Palin released her college records. If she had I am sure it would have been all over the news. Good try though – NOT. Pathetic….
Sarah Palin is intelligent enough to know that if you try the same thing over and over again (Socialism) and expect a different result, that is indeed the definition of insanity. Barack Obama does not seem to have been able to absorb this lesson. His arrogance has convinced him that if only HE is the one that implements it then it will all work out and we will live in paradise. Well, not quite. Socoalism is corrosive, it eats away at productivity and efficency, it eats away at the soul of the people under its power, and it produces a privileged class that is based on birth and party affiliation, rather than on hard work and inate ability.

“in reality, she is quite capable..in reality, she has no education, she never brought any company from the brink of anything – pure fiction. In both her stint as mayor and governor she hired someone to essentiall do her job, which was very EASY if you consider all the hired help she had. She odesn’t even collect taxes for
God’s sake, she went overbudget constantly and she hired city managers and laywers and everyone under the sun to essentially do everything WHILE education, healthcare and other issues she never addressed.”
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I find it amazing that you feel justified in making the above comments when Alaska is one of the few states left with a strong economy. Apparently, she has done everything “wrong” yet everything is going right. At the same time, Granholm and Obama “think alike” and Granholm has a 10% approval rating with Michigan having the worst economy of all the states. Americans are so so blind. You trust leaders who can’t produce and attack the ones who prove themselves by thier actions. Go ahead, follow your “wise” ones to your own demise.

I love it. Republicans and their secret conspiracy theories.
OBAMA IS A SECRET MUSLIM.
PALIN IS A SECRET GENIUS.
ROTFLMAO!!!

I pretty much saw through Palin when she began bragging about how she had been the champion of stopping the bridge to nowhere.
We all now know it was actually congress who stopped the bridge by cutting off funding, and that once the funding was gone Palin decided not to support the bridge, but kept all the earlier money dedicated to her bridge.
So she wasn’t stamping out the foolish earmark, she just tagged along when the writing was on the wall – and she kept the taxpayers’ money.
That spoke volumes about her ethics.

And “Mike” – are you not aware that Alaska is the most socialist of states? I mean, which other state hands out $3000 plus to each man, woman and child, just for breathing? Alaska wouldn’t make it without massive federal aid and subsidies.
Sheesh, what hypocracy.

“And “Mike” – are you not aware that Alaska is the most socialist of states? I mean, which other state hands out $3000 plus to each man, woman and child, just for breathing? Alaska wouldn’t make it without massive federal aid and subsidies.
Sheesh, what hypocracy.”
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Giving all tax payers similar amounts of money back is not socialist. That’s good governing, considering that the money is available to give. Socialism is taking money from one group and giving it to another regardless of the surplus/deficit.

Fuzzback,
I would argue that our government has indeed become more Socialistic in its approach. And yes, some of that happened under Republican administrations. More concerning however is the extremly fast pace of supposed “enlightened change” under Carter and especially LBJ. Subsequent administrations have found their flexibility in dealing with changes in our society increasingly hampered by the mandates that flowed from them. I simply do not believe that we can afford one more giant leap toward utopian socialism under Obama. Indeed, I don’t believe America can survive one more round of this sickness that will add tens of thousands to the non-productive class.
Heck, today nearly 40 percent of the American people pay no taxes. The answer to this is not an even faster capitualtion to these failed policies. Obama is promising just such an approach – it is foolhardy.

cincyr – I too am wondering why McCain isn’t coming to her defense – hmmmm…. perhaps because he knows this is all true? To James, who posted that the left only attacks those that threaten them – I’ll agree that both parties attack when threatened and she does threaten me. She is a danger to everthing I hold dear and an insult to all intelligent women. She is ignorant, against the rights of women and children(she is against abortion even in the case of children being raped), and a complete danger to our nation’s economy & security. She gives her high school educated first dude husband control of way too many aspects of her government. HE has no business near any aspect of government and he needs to stop playing around all year as a fisherman and dog sledder and take care of their handicapped child. Damn right she is a threat. I love this country and respect myself and my daughter way too much to ever support any ticket she is on. And don’t come back and say she is a popular governor – the Republicans in Alaska proved themselves incompetent by re-electing Ted Stevens. (Sorry to those of you that didn’t). The funny thing is – I am a moderate and I have voted for Republicans on quite a few occassions but I will NEVER support a dangerously ignorant extremist like Palin – give me a Reagan-type and I might look twice but NEVER someone like her. She is a threat – she’d destroy us with her stupidity.

CC,
No woman will become president if it is left to the Democrats. Certainly, no woman will become president if it is left to Barack Obama. He truly seems to have a problem with women. His attacks on Hillary and Sarah were mean, vindictive, arrogant, and down right sexist. He dismisses their accomplishments and doesn’t have the courage to take them on himself. He trots female surrogates out to take pot shots at them and feeds the most vile invectives about them to his friends in the press. All the while he hides from directly addressing them like a man.
Have heart though, I firmly believe that Republicans will break this final hurdle for women by nominating and electing Sarah Palin! After four years of failed socialism under Obama America will finally be ready to get over its issues with women.

Mike, great point. Over the next four years we can compare how well Sarah Palin is doing in Alask versus how ahh… well Barack Obama is doing in the lower 48.
I will put my money on Sarah – she will succeed. As for Obama, he lied and our economy is going to die! (could’t help but putting one of the leftists favorite sayings in there. You betcha…)

I totally agree with Palin’s comments. It’s sad she even has to comment to such immature stupidity.
I think she’s great!
PALIN!!! For our first woman president!!!!

And now it seems the strongest attacks on Palin are coming from within the REPUBLICAN campaign itself.
The Republicans are so vicious attack oriented they even attack each other in a nasty way.
Live with it suckers.

Seriously CC – how sad it is when sexists within the REPUBLICAN campaign are attacking Palin for being ignorant, clothes hog, overspender and so on.
Just terrible sexist REPUBLICAN attacks on a woman. And when she’s down after a HUGE defeat by the electorate.

pefros,
I read your comments and undersood them just fine. The mistreatment of Hillary just hits closer to home for the liberal leaning crowd on this site.
However, if you want an example of Barack Obama’s attacks on Sarah Palin I will provide one. David Axelrod, campaign manager for Barack Obama, had a direct relationship with Mr. Winner, who produced the intial hit piece video about Sarah Palin. This video attacked her for supposedly not being the mother of her own Down’s Syndrome baby (truly sick and sexist), attacked her by raising the question of whether she could have a career and raise her children at the same time (again – sexist – and has no place in American politics), and made numerous other allegations of a very personal nature. You can research the ties between Obama and Mr. Winner through Michele Malkin and Howard Kurtz articles. This shows just how big of a thug and coward Obama is. He hides behind others and lobs grenades at women while he avoids direct attacks so he can later pout when the women he targets decide to fight back. If any women doubt what I say about Obama wait until you see the final makeup of the Obama cabinet. It will be overwhelmingly male. Obama is clearly not a friend of women and seems to have some weird antagonism toward them

and….she eats with that mouthZ? Wittless in Wasillia needs to just stay up there with people stupid enough to put Stevens back in the Senate! LOL Talk about real cream of the crop. A virtual liar and a thief. What a state.

Sarah Palin lied about the plane and ebay, she lied about the bridge to no where and she lied about her experience and now anyone with a brain thinks she is “now” telling the truth? LOL Buy a freaking clue! or another brain cell because the ONE you have is getting lonely.

You missed the point again Curt – this ATTACK on Palin came from within the REPUBLICAN campaign itself.
The Republicans know no other approach other than fear and smear, so they’re now smearing their woman candidate.
It’s very sad and it’s a very bad example for people all over America.
Of course, Palin may deserve it – we just don’t know the truth because she has lied so easily during the campaign.

pefros,
Obama embraced sexism and dismissiveness and American women paid the price.
It is a sad commentary that no matter how many examples we produce such as the stories an Palin’s baby and attacks on her balancing motherhood and a career, the left will still defend those in the Obama campaign that made the attacks. It is truly sickening…Sarah Palin stated it best in her statement to the press when she got back to Alaska. She said that girls will need to work harder and they had better study harder because the will be subjected to a different standard. The reporter that was covering the event finally admitted what we should all have known – the treatment that was directed toward Palin will have an impact on women beyond her. He was particularly concerned about the world his own daughter would grow up in.

People who can’t spell or use capital letters, periods, commas, or punctuation marks correctly shouldn’t call Sarah Palin, or anyone else, stupid!

pefros: I remind you that Sarah Palin might have violated some ethics but she broke no laws! She’s not a criminal!

Ridiculed all women seeking higher office, that’s the mantra practice by both the male dominated Democratic and Republican leaderships.

Is is the same woman who called Hilary a whiner back in March? who’s whining now? Come on Sarah stop whining, you entered the big boys’ game via extreme ambition and an empty brain, you enjoyed playing with the big boys, you prided yourself being nastier than the big boys now suck it up. They have just started with you. You saw what they did to Obama through you for getting in their way. Brace yourself up for what they are gone to do to you for going rogue and messing up their party and plans. Did somebody say the democratic party was not unified back in June? Hmmmm. who’s barking at each other now

at least the republicans nominated a woman. the democrats on the other hand rejected the most qualified by far female candidate ever…in our history.
hmmm looking forward to a hillary verus sarah 2012 let’s see what the sexists do then- will they vote nader? lol…

The point is that women will never be President of this country..The leadership of both Democrats and Republicans are male dominated and unwilling to accept a female as commander in chief..Just pay attention..Hillary and Sarah were ridiculed and dismissed.
The male dominated media takes the sexist attitudes prevalent among our leaders in Washington and FINISHED ALL WOMEN OFF.

: pefros we noticed. it is not the article i respond to, it is the comments on this blog who turned it into a nasty vile mud fight.
look many of us, family and friends were ready to move on and give obama a chance but these nasty comments against sarah will no go without challenge.

Even women hate to see another women seek higher office..they hated Hillary and Sarah..Why? they don’t want to upset their men.

Why isn’t the main stream media including ABC NEWS investigating and reporting about the OBVIOUS voter /ballot discrepencies in the November 4 election in Alaska?

pefros wrote:
There are a couple of brilliant women currently in Obama’s circle of advisors. Women who look pretty well placed to possibly run for President in the future.
They are Kathleen Sebelius and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.
Just wait for the mainstream media to ridiculed and dismissed these women just like they did it to Hillary and Palin. THEY WILL MAKE NO EXEMPTIONS.

Well Curt, who are you recommending to Obama as having the proper experience?

Pefros,
The two you mentioned would be fine. Governor Napolitano would also be a good choice. But my point is that I believe Obama will nominate very few women, and none to high level posts. There really is some dissonance between Obama and women. He has no close advisors (Michele does not count)that are female and he seems to be unconcerned about how the blueprints for personal destruction he created to destroy Hillary and Sarah will be used against other women.

: pefros and by the way we are not some fringe sub group we are 42% of the u.s population that supported a republican ticket.
by the way i am a female, hillary supporter, life-long democrat, salad bar catholic, hispanic, mother of a gay son. so trying to paint all sarah’s supporters as right wing, religious based thinking is an inaccurate characterization.

northernlights:
what is a ‘salad bar catholic’? i’ve never heard that term before

pefros salad bar catholic means we pick and choose what we accept/practice in our personal lives.
the church would like to deny us communion. think joe biden on abortion for example.

Valerie Bowman Jarrett (born November 14, 1956) is a Chicago lawyer, businesswoman, and civic leader. She is a senior advisor to President-Elect Barack Obama and has been named as a co-chairman of the Obama-Biden Transition Project.

only 4 years before the obama administration runs for re election tic-toc. lol
and 2 years before we throw all the bums out of congress. tic-toc

pefros we are watching, he better appoint qualified women to high level positions.
heck even gwb has condi rice.
hey you figure hillary vs sarah 2012?
hmmm i would feel like i was cheating on hillary… sarah is more tenacious …

: pefros i could go for janet napolitano i lived in phx, i raised my family there.
i went to one of her rally’s for gov she has star power that does not show-up on camera AT ALL, but in person she is dynamic/intellectual/and a heavy hitter.

To his credit, Obama has taken – and is taking – advice from VERY accomplished women. He picks pretty much only the best of all types.

: pefros i also would like to see more hispanics appointed by the obama administration. richardson is not representational of hispanics. many of us see him as a carpet bagger who moved to new mexico from california due to hisp population numbers and an opportunist who stabbed hillary in the back. hispanics love the clintons we won’t forget. and hispanics did not support him in the primary election we supported hillary.

northernlights:
Do you have any idea who the strong hispanic candidates are for cabinet positions?

Of course, there are not just cabinet posts, but many other important positions as well . .

Mac i really am sorry about that comment much earlier in the day. i was reacting to the hateful comments about sarah. i defended hillary as well. i am sick of women being smeared.
i really am willing to give obama a chance. we will see. he has great challenges ahead and will need support. goodnight, God bless.

I am waiting for the ‘REAL’ fun to begin. As former Bush/Cheney cohorts in arms start creeping out of the woodwork, with macabre tales of untold excesses by Bush/Cheney neo-cons and the shameful shenanigans of looting and plunder this administration indulged in.

No matter who McCain brought in as a running mate, he lost before he even started. Who would ever want a ‘bafoon repeat’ in office after 8 sickening years of Bush. This is not a good race for Republicans and it took a sacrificial candidate to get in the race. That being said, Democrats kept pounding Palin about the Curic interview with the SNL skit, like a brain wash. Even Oprah sat smirching and trying to pretend it was in good taste, when in fact it was cruel and tasteless. I hope it never happens to you. Palin may have stumped negatively as she was advised to do, but, most of what she said wasn’t broadcast on TV every half hour like the SNL skits about her were. It was belittling and worse than anything she ever said about Obama. We were hoping race and gender would not become an issue. Race didn’t but gender did in a big way. The media started in on Palin the minute she stepped of the platform the night she was introduced. The people of ABC, CNN, NBC, etc., were relentless, and beyond nasty, but, you didn’t notice because you agreed and felt self-rightous. The Women on the View were so proud of themselves for being rude and nasty to McCain they strutted around like the bunch of turkeys they are. So not one party is any better than the other. Karma was swift and its not over. By the way, for the record, I agree, Palin needs to move to another state, see how the other half thinks then maybe she can understand what happened to her and recognize how disgusting mob mentality gets. Yes, I voted for McCain/Palin not just because she was a woman, but because what I saw was so disgusting. I am an independent and like Obama and knew he would win. I think he is what we need…..but look at your remarks, you are no better than Palin.

Obama is still under investigation by Judicial Watch, a non-partisan government watchdog group. Just because he was elected president doesn’t absolve him of crimes he may have committed. It is known he funneled money to relatives while an Illinois senator and that he received preferential treatment on his mortgage rates and because the liberal media didn’t do its job hr got a free pass on his corrupt dealings. I’m an independent voter who is sick of the liberals, especially the Associated Press trying to shove their failed socialist ideas down my throat. I’ve cancelled my newspaper subscription because of the AP. I don’t watch ABC because of their bias, The Russian communists dubbed the democrats as “useful idiots.” A good description.

GOP are dumping Palin. I never liked the woman and didn’t vote for her, but she did the job they asked her to do – she energised the GOP base. I think she did that job well. She had to wear nice clothes on the campaign trail. So did those travelling with her – her husband and kids. It was a lot of money, but that was the GOP decision, not Palin’s. I think she looked just as nice in her own clothes, she dressed well anyway. And anonymous sources are the worst kind of attack – how can she defend herself from these? I don’t like Sarah Palin’s politics – as I say, I didn’t vote for her or McCain. But I think that GOP are wrong to treat her like this. It must be devastating for her personally and I’m sorry for her in that regard. Chin up Sarah – you’re a strong gal, you’ll get through this. And the people who did support you are behind you, 100%. Best Wishes.

“Newsweek reports that top McCain aides were stunned by the huge tab, especially after adviser Nicolle Wallace had told Palin to buy three outfits for the convention and three for the campaign trail, with a budget of $25,000; instead, the nominee racked up six-figure bills at high-end department stores.”
Yet Palin claims that she didn’t shop for the clothes herself; that a “stylist” hired by the RNC did the shopping and simply handed the clothes over.
Someone is fibbing.

Cowards? Perhaps.
But are they telling the truth? Maybe.

Sarah got exactly what was coming to her. Several old sayings come to mind, and they all have to do with fire:
“If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.”
“If you play with fire, you’re gonna get burned.”
“Where there’s smoke there’s fire.”
The only reason that Palin is in the news anymore, is because she’s a spectacular failure, and it’s fun to laugh at a spectacular failure; similar to the way that people laughed Dan Quayle for years. Quayle must be happy that it’s finally somebody else’s turn.

Who cares about Palin now? The election is over and she will head back to small town Alaska. Three years into the Obama administration, the leftist news media will still be picking on her wardrobe and her glasses. The libs must think she is a future threat to the Messiah.

It’s too bad because Sarah L. Palin almost comes to tears in the video. Sarah Palin is an embarrassment to women, pentecostals, Republicans, and Alaskans. Why does she continue to stay in the limelight rather than living out her true highest potential: best hockey mom? Instead, she is content to prove over and over her middle initial stands for Laughingstock. She is a horrifying symbol of how little we ask for in return for the total surrender of our political power. Never again will such a jibberish speaking nothingness be foisted upon us for a top spot on the ticket. The Palin nightmare is over. Thank God. McCain threw a Hail Mary and it went into the stands. His disrespect for America, shown by his Palin pick, has ruined his reputation.

In addition to almost crying at the end of the video, Sarah Palin clearly uses sarcasm in the interview. Based on these two points from one short interview, I suggest she might be an emotionally immature person. Sad the whole country was put throught this Palin debacle. McCain’s polls started plummeting after Palin’s jibberish-speaking interviews, and before the financial meltdown. Palin continues to be talked about because she is the paramount reason McCain lost the election. History books will see this.

When the Alaska Legislative Committee issued the report that she’d violated that ethics code, she looked right into the camera and said that she was grateful that she’d been found not to have violated the ethics code.
Audits of the McCain campaign and RNC expenditures will ultimately determine whether or not she’s lying about the Palin Family Needless-Markup Spending Spree.
Nate Silver’s analysis of outstanding ballots in Alaska suggests that Stevens is by no means a sure win. Sarah may have to stick it out in Juneau. We can only hope.

Let’s see; failed VP candidates who were selected by their party to run for president…Walter Mondale and Bob Dole. Will Miss Jibberish-Congeniality-Laughingstock make it in 2012? Sad story of a nothingness who got her just reward. But the good news is, she got more liberals to pray (she’d lose) than ever before. Hope she gets to keep her clothes, so “This is not all for naught.”

The right wing came out of the closet with Palin. “Pallin’ around with terrorists” was dangerous jiberrish. She deserves her hard landing. I guess now the hard right has to wait awhile before once again they try to force pregnant women to submit to government rape (forced birth).

God … she is the ultimate air head … thinking she is ‘first rate’ is a blatant expression of total ignorance.

Some of you should really think before you post. Especially those calling Palin stupid..
1.If McCain would win – Nation would never know, how stupid she was? Hmmmm and you think Palin is stupid.
2.Ooooh! Didums Sarah-honey have her feelings hurt? Poor baby. Now maybe you have an idea of what it felt like to be on the recieving end of YOUR nasty, mean-sprited, small-minded, divisive hypocritical and spiteful remarks. Shut up and take your medicine, you twit.
Oh and one other thing. Do us all a favor and stay in Alaska. You no more belong on the National political stage than a muppet belongs in an opera.— Hmmm name calling is all the Obama supporters understand. They called everyone who would not/did not vote for him RACIST. Its like a 2 year old stomping their feet when they dont get their way..
3. Four years in the Senate is a lifetime of experience for a politician. Such we learned in the Presidential election 2008.—- Really interesting since all he did from the time he came to Washington was run for President.
4.I was pretty neutral about McCain – - it was Palin who scared the living daylights out of me. She was NOT ready to be president. I want a woman in office and I think America is ready for it when the right candidate comes along. She was NOT the right candidate.—- This is the same crap spewed about Hillary Clinton, the same ones said they wanted a women for President just not that women. Women are too willing to trounce another women.
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Barack Obama believes that, in the name of fairness, we should aspire to “spread the wealth”. ———- Hmmm I guess thats like giving everyone a participation award just because they show up. Not because they know how to play and win.

Posted by: Patti | Nov 9, 2008 9:45:42 AM
Palin was not well known before she hit the National scene. Why would you come out like she did and start bashing Obama like she did. Most of what she said was baseless lies.
She proved time and time again she knew nothing about the issues. Look at the debate, every time she didn’t know the answer to something she answered it with let’s talk about energy independence. The interviews she gave were truly pathetic and not coherent.
How can any of you say she was the best of the best on the Republican side. There were more qualified, SMART women that had a clue he could have picked.
She criticized Hillary for “whining” but what is she doing? Hillary did have a point and yes there was a lot of sexism displayed in the primaries.
Palin’s negative press was of her own making.

Mary wrote, “Sarah: I give three words for your performance: brave, smart, determined. why you’re so bombed with attacks?”
Because she launched volleys of her own dumb bombs into the air and they’re raining back down on her.

Sarah Palin 2012 – She is the Governor of the only state that is not in recession due to her forward thinking economic policies.
Barack Obama? His election has resulted in the biggest weekly decline in the stock market for any newly elected president, ever. THE MARKET HAS SPOKEN – THEY HAVE RENDERED THEIR JUDGEMENT ON THE OBAMA ECONOMIC PLAN. IT RECEIVED AN “F”.
Please go back to college (or Alaska) Mr. Obama and relearn this – you cannot simultaneously attack economic growth through higher taxes and at the same time successfully promote that same growth.

Sarah Palin 2008 – After the judgement rendered by the stock market last week, can we change our minds? Please?

Mr. Obama seems to think sexism is just another way to win election. Pathetic…
Posted by: Curt | Nov 9, 2008 10:33:44 AM
When did Obama say anything sexist about Palin? Please show us some examples.

Jwench,
The week after every election the stock market either goes up or goes down based on the forward looking economic plans of the incoming administration. The markets are always forward looking.
When the markets looked at Obama’s plans to raise capital gains taxes and raise businesses taxes they know the negative impact it will have – THEY HAVE SEEN IT BEFORE UNDER THE CARTER ADMINISTRATION. We should not repeat the mistakes of the past.

I’ve had it,
Our money is now an “amenities”? Are you serious? My 401k money and the 401k money of other hard working Americans who have sacrificed to save is not some “Amenity” that Barack Obama can just take and add to a communal pool that he then dispenses to those who have not been responsible, or to those who are lazy.
Please research the plan Democrats have for taxing and ultimately confiscating your 401k money. Search y*hoo for “Democrats 401k” and learn more before your money and your economic rights are taken from you.

Curt,
Your candidate lost because instead of telling us what He was going to do, he and his Alaskan mutt were smearing Obama. His plans would not have pulled us out of this economic debacle. More of the same old fat cat policies.
At least Obama is consulting with economists on how best to attack this problem.
Quit whining. We have a new leader and I suggest you either deal with it or move to Alaska with your beloved Palin and join with her and Todd to secede from the union. The election is over and the people have spoken.

Curt,
Just curious what site did you read on 401k’s. I googled it and the first two pages are nothing but Republican sites.

Posted by: Curt | Nov 9, 2008 11:08:58 AM
I hope she does run in 2012. Obama will get 4 more years to get this country back.
Take oil out of the equation in Alaska and tell me if they would be in the same position as most other states.
Those checks they get from the oil is a form of socialism. I would say that the price of fuel at $8-9 a gallon there is nothing to brag of. She is also the Queen of Pork.

Curt… I never said the money was an amenity. What I said and if you would re-read the comment I was referring to and had lumped together the things are taxes pay for … schools, roads, military,,etc I just happened to call them an amenity (I will refer to them as necessities from now on so all will understand) as we all have access to them and use them. These necessities are the things we Americans have grown used to having in our daily lives and we need to pay for these in order to ensure we have them. Have I cleared this up for you?
Don’t take things out of context to try to support you own conclusions.

I’ve Had It,
But that is the point. I don’t want the government to continue to take more and more and then return 20 cents on the dollar to me. I want to keep my 401k money so I can plan for my own retirement, not having to rely on a government run program that will get raided, much like Social Security, for other budgetary “priorities”. I jumped on you use of the term “amenities” because I think there is a serious threat posed by an Obama administration in regards to economic freedom. Use of terms such as “amenities” implies an attempt to soften the blow when OUR resources are siphoned off by the government. I want to call it what it is – socialism. If America wants to go that direction then that will be their choice and I can do nothing about it. However, I want to make sure the American people know exactly what it will mean to them, provide them with clear and unambiguous information, and ultimately rally the American people to oppose it on the grounds of economic freedom. After all, once we cede power to the government it will not be return freely. The issue of economic freedom is too great to have it dismissed just because we want to support our preferred political candidate.

Curt said:
“Fortunately for America we will nominate a highly qualified, hard working, insightful, WOMAN.
Enough with failed male politicians – it is TIME FOR A CHANGE.”
Amen time for a real change.

She’ll be back in 2012 because she enjoys the spotlight. However, as I have said many, many times this was not McCain’s choice. I truly blame his team for Sarah Palin. McCain should not come to her defense because he didn’t want her anyway! They knew she was not intelligent but they wanted to get the women vote. Women are much smarter than they throught. She’ll be back yabetcha and it’s not going to be nice how they treat her because they have the information on her that is not revealed as of yet – they are beefing her up to resurface for a reason. People think – she is not the new face of the republican party – they know what they are doing and she is too stupid to understand that she is playing with the big boys now!

How much force does it take to get Sarah ‘Pit Bull’ Palin to back down when she feels strongly about an issue? Let’s look at how she stood up to some mean old campaign officials.
While locked away up in a hotel room, Sarah Palin was presented with a $3,500 jacket by her stylist. Palin protested, “No, no, no, no, no. I would never wear this at home, I would never wear this outside of home. This is too much, this isn’t me,” The mean old campaign officials told Palin she should wear the jacket. Princess Palin said okay and asked for a Diet Dr. Pepper. The End.
Note: the quote is directly from Sarah Palin’s aide Meg Stapleton.

Sarah also flirted with the team a little to much and wearing a towel in front of those guys wasn’t cute. Todd was present when she presented herself in that fashion. Shame on her for using her looks and body in that fashion but no brains. Clueless Sarah will be back!

I too believe that a woman will be nominated in the near future but it’s not Palin. Those guys understand they have to clean up the mess they created so they will let her resuface and destroy her during the debates in the primaries.
Posted by: TedfromMO | Nov 9, 2008 11:48:26 AM
I agree it won’t be Palin. Hillary said she will not run again, but that remains to be seen. Between the two I think Hillary has a clue. Palin does not. There are enough intelligent women that could run in the future.

Taxes are NOT about the support of a certain political candidate, Democrat or Republican, it is about things that all have access to and use on a daily basis and we have to somehow pay for these. If you don’t want to pay taxes the question then becomes what do you want to give up. Do you want to give up federal funds to help states repair roads, or do a away with federal funds for our schools, or do away with funds to repair the interstate highways, or do you want to reduce our military. What exactly do you want to do away with?
I happen to appreciate all these neccesities (things our taxes pay for) that we have in this country. We have to somehow pay for these whether it’s taxes or our leaders going thru our federal buget and reallocating money or eliminating programs.
Stop dwelling on that mantra of the “lazy people who do nothing”. Unfortunately, this is a reality and I’ll bet their numbers are small compared to the millions of us who do pay taxes. We millions who do pay the taxes in turn do enjoy what our country has to offer. So should we stop paying taxes to spite the “lazy people”. As far a I know you can’t deport people for being lazy.

“there was an inside agreement in the Republican party”
Yeah sure, the Republican Party is still secretly in charge, and have a secret plan to secretly control EVERYTHING (secretly).
MORE PARANOID REPUBLICAN SECRET CONSPIRACY THEORIES.
What are you, a Mason? (secretly?)

Posted by: Curt | Nov 9, 2008 11:55:11 AM
curt we will see who is right.. Keep voting for Palin! She’s done! LoL

Palin doesn’t have anything to complain about. She didn’t see anything wrong with making false accusations or taking words out of context when she was talking about Barack Obama. What’s sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose.

to those who remind me that the election is over, I say the election has just begun (2012). Unfortuantly, the politics of personal destruction will play a bigger role in this election than it has in the past. We on the Republican side have four years to expose Obama, we have four years to ridicule his failures, we have four years to tie every bill that comes out of a Democratic congress around his neck, we also have four years to slowly detail Obama’s personal life. When the complaints start that this is not fair, we will simply point to Sarah Palin, and return to our work.
Obama believes sexism and dismissiveness toward women is a winning political strategy. I believe it is dispicable.

I wonder if Sarah Palin feels any remorse over the heightened number of death threats against Obama. All she seemed to care about at the time were ‘attacks’ on her by the press.
From 2 weeks ago:
“Sarah Palin said she fears her First Amendment rights may be threatened by ‘attacks’ from reporters who suggest she is engaging in a negative campaign against Barack Obama.”
Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama’s associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks. Rather, for reporters or columnists to suggest that it is going negative may constitute an attack that threatens a candidate’s free speech rights under the Constitution, Palin said.”
What a maroon.

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Go Sarah your friends in Alaska know you and what you have done. don’t let the hater get you down

Curt: Fine. You’re perfectly welcome to challenge Obama on his policies and the record he will create. That’s a healthy system.
You seem to be suggesting, however, that all the secret paranoid right-wing boogieman fantasies that failed during the election process will suddenly gain legitimacy if they’re repeated once he’s President.
Did you ever hear the story about the boy who cried “Wolf”?
Moral of the story: repeating demonstrable falsehoods has the effect of discrediting both future lies and the liar himself.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS DISCREDITED ITSELF.
Enjoy your time in the wilderness. Hope you brought a pack of matches, cause IT’S GONNA BE A LONG, COLD JOURNEY.

ADVICE TO SARAH PALIN FOR 2012:
VET YOUR VP PICK.
LOLOL

Sarah Palin thinks the prime minister of Canada is Stef Carse.

it’s quite interesting. those with an education know the deficits of Palin, those without a college education think she’s smart. Those of us in psychiatry know she has the potential to become a charasmatic leader… for the good or bad, we must observe closely.

@casey – how in the name of all things good is Sarah Palin a “rising star”? She almost single-handedly cost John McCain the election. I say “almost” because McCain had a part in his defeat too, with his outdated policies and insistence that the U.S. economy was strong until it proved him wrong. I’ll give Palin credit were credit is due. She’s photogenic and can deliver a well-scripted speech, those things didn’t concern me or trouble me. What was of paramount concern was her inability to know key things that would be required of a government official just a step away from the Oval Office. I don’t care if she can see Alaska, if she knows Africa is a continent or how much money the RNC spent on clothes and accessories. All of that is just pure nonsense and fodder for a media without anything else to do. Today we cater to American’s insatiable appetite for Reality TV, soundbytes and trashy braindead programming like Judge Judy and Jerry Springer. All rubbish.
Palin might someday ascend to the highest office in our government, but to do so she’ll have to show America that she can handle the job.
For now, Barack Obama is our president so we better all learn to come together and work together toward the common purpose and common goal of repairing this nation. We owe it to ourselves, our seniors and the generations to come.

In recent history, there were two failed VP candidates who were selected by their party to run for president…Walter Mondale and Bob Dole. They both lost big. In the final analysis, Miss Jibberish-Congeniality-Laughingstock probably will not make it in 2012. I am afraid Sarah Palin has become a sad story of a nothingness attack dog who got her just reward. The Palin nightmare is over for everyone. McCain threw a Hail Mary and it went into the stands. His disrespect for America, shown by his Palin pick, harmed his reputation.

She typifies Cyndi Lauper’s
“Girls just want to have fun.”

So Palin gets bent out of shape when the shoe is on the other foot. Her buddy McCain, and then her especially, took many comments about now President-elect Obama out of context. This lady is absolutely a lunatic. I hope the Republican party gets over her real quick in their rebuilding effort.

Palin is the most popular governor in the United States of America. Barack Obama has been a senator for a couple of years,, half of the time he was running for President. Palin was the VP choice. John McCain was running for President. There was no way to discredit McCain, so the opposition went after Palin as if she was the opponent for Obama. It was insane. McCain is a true hero with a lifetime of experience so the election was obviously a case of the people vs. Bush and Palin – there weren’t any real arguments vs. McCain. I hope Obama can make good decisions as teh President. At least for now the world at large will have a better opinion of our country even if our new President will be a risk to national security. The economy has nowhere to go but up so its improvement is a given – Obama’s job keeping us secure will be the most important aspect of his Presidency. Our innovative people will heal and improve our economy – not the government.

mak wrote:
“By reading these comments I can only assume that most of you believe every horrid thing that was said about her.
And I bet you dollars to donuts that none of you did any independent research to find out if any or all of it is true.”
Was it a fake video of the witch exorcist casting the witchcraft out of Sarah Palin?
Was the video of Palin asking churchgoers to pray that soldiers are being sent out “on a task that is from God” a fake?
Was the video of Sarah Palin telling the secessionists “Keep up the good work and God bless you,” a fake?
Was it a fake video of the town hall meeting showing Palin speaking gibberish about oil exports?
Was the “you can see Russia” Charlie Gibson video a fake?
Was the “you can see Russia” Katie Couric video a fake?
Was the audio clip of Palin saying the legislative Troopergate report cleared her of “any hint of any kind of unethical activity” a fake?
Was the video of the debate showing Palin winking and dodging questions a fake?
Were the many videos of Palin’s stump speeches with the “thanks but no thanks” statement all fakes?
Were the many videos of her stump speeches inciting the crowds with comments about Obama’s ‘terrorist connections’ all fakes?
Was the audio of the prank phone call revealing a gullible, giggling, fawning Palin a fake?
Were any or all of those BS, mak?

Justin Case: No, Justin, they aren’t telling the truth. Think about it! When did Sarah have time to shop? She was on the road most of the time or flying from rally to rally, sometimes attending at least 4 or 5 different rallys and fund raisers in one day and in 4 or 5 different states! There is only 24 hours in a day and Sarah Palin is a human being. She can’t be in two places at once and she has to sleep sometimes. There is no way on earth that she could have done that shopping herself. Those clothes were bought by RNC aides. More than likely all Sarah did was tell them their sizes. I doubt that she even told them where to shop. They just took her list of sizes and they did the rest. It was probably their idea to buy the items at the most expensive stores in the world because they didn’t think it would look right for a vp pick to wear cheap clothing. In fact I think the whole thing was their idea. Sarah was very happy wearing her own clothing. She said so. Also most of that clothing was returned to the stores unused and the RNC received a refund for it. The worn clothing was given to charity. Sarah Palin kept none of it. Also there was a big discrepancy between the actual cost of the clothing and what was reported by the media. The actual cost of the clothing was not not nearly as much as what the media reported!

carlyonsue. I bloody agree with you. The Media and some McCain Aids didn’t tell the truth. They should some respect to Gov. Palin. I’m sure the truth will be coming soon. They can’t hide the truth forever. We have to wait and see how media was manipulated 2008 election.

It is a little troubling that a mature woman who has a high profile political position had such unpresentable clothing that a shopping spree was necessary. I have run campaigns for years and do not ever remember major clothing sprees for my candidates. I can remember adding a couple extra white blouses or shells or an extra pair of black trousers/skirt, but never more than a ocuple hundred at most.
Other than one absolutely hideous pink jacket, all of the clohes in the pictures from Wasilla wer pesentable. Maybe we were supposed to beieve that she was something she was not…..
Hillary had seven suitcases, but six were filled with brfiefing books!
I guess when there is no substance, you have to resort to distractive windowdressing.

I believe the media and country owes Palin an apology! She has a son in Iraq fighting FOR US and this country – how does he feel if he and his comrades read this crap about his mother. And, what about her “special Needs” child – when he gets older – he’ll have to hear this crap about his mother. Will he understand??? The media is a disgrace. What about Obama and his aunt in this country illegally – you barely hear about that or that Halloween costume Michelle wore the night he was elected!

Has the media and you guys lost respect for the human being??? What the hell is wrong with all of you???

I don’t think people need to even consider information received from unnamed sources to make a pretty good assessment of Sarah Palin’s grasp of the world. Her public statements are more than enough to define her particular BRAND. I think it highly iconic that someone so obviously challenged has never admitted one single instance where negative news was true. All of her apparent stupidity aside, it is her more than obvious hateful attitude that seems to clinch it for her. I am waiting for someone to ask her about how she feels to have been linked by the secret service to a surge in threats from white supremacy types against the President Elect. My guess is that she will just laugh it off as some unfounded rumor. But by GOD, after being told her effect on these people, if she does it again???
Freedom of speech is great. But inciting to riot is another.

And now that Jake is senior correspondent at the White House, ABC has returned to the practice of deleting posts that criticize Obama and present a strategy for the Republicans to come back.
Ominous.

We need to start backing our new president and stop bashing all the politicans. The country voted for Obama. What a great choice. We are Americans and need to support him in OUR efforts to rebuild our country. The constant negative does not rebuild -it continues to divide our great country. Yes We Can!

I’ve always liked Charlie Gibbons. I defended him when friends said he was not good enough to replace Peter Jennings… But I really disliked the cheap shot he had for Sarah Palin when he said maybe the new puppy for the White House should be a Rottwailer and it’s name should be “Lipstick”.
Charlie, I am soooo dissapointed in you!
That was really low.

I agree! The media was extremely too soft on Palin. Sarah made herself looked terrible not John McCain. . I just hope she resurface in 2012 because the GOP will ensure her disappearance from the national scene. She will be good for skits on “SNL” though! When she kept sprouting out ramblings and the inadequate answers that she was given America realized that she was a total mistake. Sarah Palin should have never been on any state yet alone the Republican Party. I could only assume Alaska picked her on a fluke.

“I want to be able to help also Americans to know that they can trust their media,” Palin said”.
From another Blogger!
Sarah Palin is a walking disaster: intellectually incurious, ignorant on many issues, small-minded (remember the comment about “pro-American” parts of the country? Well New York City where there were countless heroes on 9-11 is one of the most Democratic cities in the country. Tell New Yorkers they aren’t pro-American!), and shallow. That John McCain was willing to put someone so clearly unqualified a heart beat away is appalling.
Just happy she was not put into office and now we have to move on… We know she will resurface because she enjoyed the spotlight but it will not last long.

I believe we all must move on from this story however, I will state that all of the people saying these things about Mrs. Palin worked with her day in and day out. Yes, they are probably not to happy to lose but what did we see during the campain?
But Mrs. Palin was sitting down during those telling interviews answering those questions by herself. We seen what she knows and don’t know. On several occasions I was asking myself WHAT DID SHE JUST SAY If and I mean If the Republican party will bring her back in 2012 she will need ALOT OF study time…..

Sarah definitely knows Africa, she saw it thru the window on her way to Kuwait last year.

Well what do you expect from a bunch of cruel cowards? Integrity and understanding?

I really don’t care anymore about the entertainment afforded by Sarah Pailin, or how the McCain campaign built her up as a hot political celebrity only to throw her under the bus. Where her accountability should lie should be in her inciting crowds several weeks ago, which produced, according to Newsweek and the Secret Service, a major increase in death threats against Obama. Nor am I happy that the forever publicity seeking Oprah has invited her to appear on her show. If Palin chooses to continue to be in the national spotlight, then she also chooses continued scrutiny. But at this point, I want no further scrutiny of her and wish she would just fade away and stay in the far northern regions of the planet. But then my wish is as likely as hell freezing over.

And then there’s all that furor over the wardrobe. She’s giving up the 5th Avenue wardrobe selected by the elitists of the RNC and she’ll go back to Out of the Closet. How gay!!!!
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That’s quite interesting. Isn’t YOUR party the one that fights for gay marriage? Now you’re using the expression “how gay!!!!”
As for Palin’s shopping, has anyone, including you, actually followed her into a store and saw her shop with RNC money? I doubt it.
I think the ones going on the attack were either paid big money by the Democrats to do so and remain anonymous, or they are Democrats masquerading as members of the McCain team.
If these anonymous sources really have a case against Sarah Palin, why can’t they come out and show themselves and present their evidence? That’s what brave people do.

Ugh, this woman makes me sick! Thank god McCain and her did’nt win!I dont think I could have taken 4 years of seeing her face. Sarah Palin, go back to Alaska, and STAY THERE!!!

Ladies and Gentlemen, and I use those terms loosely, GIVE IT A REST!
The only thing worse than a Liberal that looses and election is a Liberal that wins an election. You Won! Why do you insist on beating these issues to death!
1. What do you care how the RNC spends their money?
2. Why not worry about the one-sided reporting instead of where Sarah got her clothes? For example, what would the fawning press have said if John McCain had said he had visited all 57 states?
What about that revolting sign Obama stood behind at his “Press Conference.” you know the one that says “Office of The President Elect” What would they have said if McCain or Palin said that had only spoken to the living ex-Presidents and then tried to cover the gaffe with a bad attempt at humor involving Nancy Reagan.
I am sickened by the way Obama is being treated by the press. Instead of talking about the puppies why didn’t he talk about the qualifications for the next Sec Tres? We do have econimic problmes to face, rememeber?
Up until today I was a member of the Democratic party. I will be changing my party affiliation at my first opportunity.
BTW – In case you guys care, the new Messiah is playing outside the rules with the Change.gov web site. The .gov extension is reserved for official government web sites. There is no office of the President Elect. Do you think CNN will cover that? Is this “Change we can believe in?”
Tom

carlyonsue,
Saks Fifth Avenue: $49,425.74
Neiman Marcus: $75,062.63
Macy’s: $9,447.71
Barneys New York: $789.72
Bloomingdales: $5,102.71
Hair and make-up: $4,716.49
Those numbers aren’t that far off from $150,000. Of course they aren’t official totals at this point.

mak,
I addressed your comments and provided references but my posts keep getting removed. Sorry.

US Patriot: Be sure you get the name RIGHT!
That’s Mr Barack H. Obama or Mr. President-Elect Obama or Mr. President!!! Ha Ha Ha!!!
By the way when she fails again,LOL, she will be cleaning up Bush’s mess not President Barack Obama’s work.
Did you get that, President Obama say it again, President Obama. Ha!
Oh and don’t get pissed because we Baracked the vote! Ha Ha Ha!!!

How could anyone possibly listen to Sarah Palin and think she is even remotely intelligent enough to be a national leader? Even my 14 year old daughter was aghast when she heard her in the debate: “she sounds like a kid my age, not at all presidential”.
I have to laugh when people describe those who criticize her as sexist. To be fair to Sarah Palin, it’s not her fault that McCain shot himself in the foot by choosing her. She is not especially articulate or knowledgeable, and it’s not sexist to state the truth: that she can barely put together a cogent argument, especially if she is asked to think for herself without the aid of a script.
She will never make it on the national scene she is a auch a huge liability to the Republican party. They hastily chose her, and they regretted it later. I think 75% of America — and 99% of the rest of the world –is breathing a huge sigh of relief that we have someone intelligent and reasonable at the helm.

I think Sara Palin was a breath of fresh air to the political realm…and if any other woman was going through what she was…for example…all the garbage that was being thrown at her..they would be going shopping as well..in fact I believe I would be going…more shopping…and compared to what the men spent on their suits…ooohhh whoops…we dont know what that was, do we….and as far as her Christianity…that gives her credibility in my book…consider no God in your life..that would leave you ignorant…like number 1…you wouldnt be able to figure out when life begins..when a baby is really a baby..even with ultrasounds staring at you…number 2…you wouldnt know that men are only supposed to marry women..and not other men…number 3…you would think its ok to kill a baby even if its born alive when you first tried to suck his brains out…number 4…you wouldnt know that people who work should not be forced to finance people who refuse to work and their lazy lifestyles…number 5..you might even think that taking stem cells from the carcass of dead children that you killed would help you save someone else’s life…
Wise up people…without God …you are ignorant…I dont care how many churches you want to picket…He wins in the end…everytime

I don’t understand what god loving americans have against flowers. Aren’t flowers a reflection of god?

I also think that the African Americans who think that Barack Obama is their savior and will meet their every need and put their needs above everyone else’s, are in for a BIG disappointment! I think their euphoric bubble will burst, too, pretty soon!