Palin Speaks: How Did She Do?

Gmac-
When it comes to ignorance, you're in a league by yourself. First of all, how do you know that I am not black. (In fact, by your definition, virtually everyone is black.) Secondly, you are not only ignorant of my race, you don't know whether my wife, family or friends are black, white, both or neither. You have ignorantly presumed that I am so shallow as to consider Obama's race as a reason not to vote for him.

You say that my forefathers stated, "if a person had a drop of negro blood in them, they were negro" You don't know my forefathers, and your allegation is just further evidence of your ignorant, racist (I know, that's redundant) attitude.

Frankly, I don't give a damn, about a candidate's race. I do, however, care about his or her experience, capabilities and position on significant issues. Those are things you might consider rather than thinking everything is based on race. But I'm sure, you'd rather wallow in ignorance and promote your prejudiced point of view.

It's not my place to "dis" someone for their opinion, we all have one, however....Dave, your post of 9/7 is down right ignorant!

"I seriously question Obama on several fronts, but of most concern is that he has been selling himself as a "black man" and all but denied that he is half white and was actually raised by the white side of his family..." - You all can read the rest of his post...

He does not have to advertise himself as a black man when he "IS" a black man! Didn't your forefathers state that if a person had a drop of negro blood in them, they were negro? I bet you also believe that Tiger Woods is a "Cablanasian" as well?

Why don't you simply post that you won't vote for a person of color (a black person) because he is a person of color? Regardless of the issues, education, experience or platform? Pandering to black people, puhhleasseee! What more can he do to be more ethnically diverse...bleach his skin like Michael Jackson?

You should try getting to know one sometime, they don't bite (and some truly are smarter than you)...shhh...but don't tell anyone...

McCain's campaign manager already said that this election is not about the issues, its about the people. So...let's not talk anymore about the issues. How about we talk about something very real, like..uhh...race!

Forget about who's qualified or not, experienced or not, or even gender. The bigger question as I see it is whether or not America (specifically white America) is prepared to vote for a person of color for President (specifically African American). I find it very hard to believe that if the GOP VP candidate were a black female or the Democratic nominee happened to be Michelle (Obama), white America, especially rural white American females would be so "thrilled" to break from the issues and vote for a ticket with a women candidate.

Gender, experience and their platforms aside, this race is about RACE!

Like Charles Barkley said, "I might be wrong, but I doubt it"...

i am alaskan, i prsy this country will vote for the person who will make this country great and strong again. so you have 2 choices, obama or john. john mcain is one who will take on all the corrution ,shake up washington to get it right again and get this country back to work. and as a president, you need a person who will have your back in same thoughts and plans. sarah palin has done such things in alaska and has proven she is for the people who make this country run.she has dennied special intrests indicted severl gov representatives who has linged there own pockets with companies money to keep them on top. she has also done everything she has said she will do to make this state right. she did this in a very short time line.
so if you feel the washington office isnt working well for the people who make this country run(middle class tax payers) mcain and palin are your peeps to shake things up and get this country rolling again

Chris:

Sarah Palin's speech was one of the greatest of our lifetime - the energy in the air was amazing - it really was one of the best speeches which will be remembered for decades.

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I think Sarah did a great job. The speech was more introducing of an introduction. All of you who are looking at hard policy, of course you wouldn't get it. We barely know her, but she blew Barack "I can't do it without a teleprompter" Obama out of the water and she is more qualified than him. He is just a talking head for liberal puppetmasters.

THE HOKEY MOM'S "FULL OF HOCKEY " !

It never ceases to amaze me that so many people focus on sideline irrelevancies and ignore real issues. One example-- a person's ability to deliver speeches has nothing to do with his or her character, beliefs or administrative capabilities. So the real question is whether Americans want an experienced Senator who has repeatedly demonstrated the courage of his convictions, or an inexperienced neighborhood organizer who has just as repeatedly shown a lack of both courage and convictions.

I seriously question Obama on several fronts, but of most concern is that he has been selling himself as a "black man" and all but denied that he is half white and was actually raised by the white side of his family. It's pretty obvious that he's pandering to black voters and in that regard considers his white heritage as a disadvantage. His willingness to deny and abandon his heritage shows a disturbing lack of courage and character. Add this to the fact that he has no experience, and has not outlined a specific plan for the "change" he keeps talking about, and you have to wonder about the legitimacy of the Democratic Party.

With Obama as its candidate, the Democratic Party has made this election about salesmanship, not about legitimate issues. The real question that will be answered this November is not whether Americans want a President with liberal or conservative orientation, but whether they'll buy an empty shell as a viable presidential candidate.

Does anyone else remember the "Keating 5" ? John McCain supported Charles Keating during the S&L bailout which cost tax payers more than 3 million, Charles Keating was protected by McCain and his cronies primarily because the two were involved in an earlier real estate transaction involving Cindy McCain and one of their 7 homes. So is anyone suprised that Andrew McCain (Johns son) is on the board of directors for Silver City Bank which we as tax payers will be picking up the tab for its bailout.I assume we won't be seeing any of this in the Johny Boys ads

While everyone is nitpicking Sarah Palin, why is no one mentioning Obama's association with the huge racist Jeremiah Wright, and his close association with the radical William Ayers?

Obama is a socialist, plain and simple. He has clearly associated with racists and radicals, which makes him dangerous to boot. He has no executive experience, has stated that he will sit down without conditions to talk to terrorist regimes, has just admitted that the surge in Iraq was successful (but won't admit that he mis-judged things, although that is obvious).

What makes Obama more qualified than McCain? Obama is an empty suit. His soaring rhetoric is empty and hollow, but poetic enough to cause liberals to shiver in awe. It makes me think that most liberals don't have too much stored in the attic.

Definition of a Republican - a person who has done pretty well, has made good decisions, tried to live up to their potential, has met and continues to try to meet their personal goals, gotten a good education, and is generally happy with their life.

Definition of a Democrat - my life sucks, I refuse to take responsibility for that, so I am going to vote for "Change" so that the government can fix my life because I don't want to do it myself.

I cannot believe how people can be too fanatic even perhaps not verified their facts about Gov. Palin and Obama. Obama is using the slogan of "Change" for himself. Obama's use of the word "CHANGE" IN HIS SLOGAN would just simply mean something that he just can't use the real definition of the word openly in public--but he meant: "CHANGE THE WHITE HOUSE RESIDENTS WITH ANOTHER PROFILE, LIKE THE OBAMA'S" DID YOU ALL GET IT?
OBAMA HAS NO SPECIFICS OF ISSUES UNLIKE THAT OF HILLARY'S. ALL OBAMA HAVE IS TALK, TALK, TALK, TALK AND CHANGE, CHANGE.. CHANCE OF MONEY? CHANGE OF ADDRESS? CHANGE OF CLOTHING? CHANGE OF PLACES? CHANGE OF COLORS? CHANGE OF JOBS, CHANGE OF GIRL FRIENDS? CHANGE OF RELIGION?? FROM WHAT GOOD TO BAD? OBAMA YOUR TALK IS CHEAP. HILLARY WOULD HAVE MADE AMERICA BETTER AND BRING AMERICA BACK TO PROSPERITY. NOW WE HAVE GOV. SARAH PALING, WITH DIGNITY,ETHICS REFORMER, FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY AND DICIPLINE. WOMEN WELCOMES GOV. PALIN AND VOTE CROSS PARTY LINE. I AM ONE OF THOSE WOMEN DEMOCRAT VOTING FOR MCCAIN AND PALIN. DOWN WITH OBAMA! I encourage all those Independents and Democrats women to know your facts--weigh-in then vote for MCCAIN and GOV. SARAH PALIN. LISTEN TO GOV PALIN'S STRAIGHT TALK.
I am shocked of Amanda Kyle's blog on Sept. 3, 2008--it would only show that she is blind folded toward Obama.

All I can say to all you mindless voters who fall for the same b.s. the media feeds you along with all the neo-conservatives talking points is:
VOTE REPUBLICAN - It's easier than thinking!

And when you do, and if he wins, we have no one else to blame except you - like we do now because you voted for Bush not once but twice.
"When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis ...
Wake up America it's here and you voted for it.

Hey!! Like Barak Hussein Obama said in his speeach: "ENOUGH!!"
Yes, Enough Mr. Obama! Stop now with your sweet words! Obama's word won't hold water, much more to take to you bank!! As a saying goes..."If it's too good as it sound, you must verify." That's what is lacking among so many of these critiques in both political parties. Obama himself does not possess any experience to make him claim as better qualified than Gov. Sarah Palin. He never had held an executive office. He has the opportunity to show how to use his official function as Illinois State Senator but he missed his chance, he instead for majority of the time Voted Present at the State Legislative Voting moments. Common sense tells us that Obama is a kind of politician who wants to play safe--afraid to accept responsibility, scared that which ever vote he take side may bring his political dream down. So, to play safe he voted PRESENT, NOT NO NOR NOT YES. He is indecisive therefore he should not be the person to lead America. I was myself a long time Community Development Worker for the United Nation Development Program. I lived with the village people 24hrs / 7 days, but I cannot claim it an opportunity nor qualification I can bragg to run for an elected office, much more to be a President of U.S.
I am a life time Democrat and a woman, strong supporter of Hillary Clinton. The record would show that I was an active financial contributor to Hillary's Campaign. Obama dared to down grade Hillary. Obama's self-claimed qualification in no way could fathom to Hillary's, sadley, Obama's "sweet talker" style, manipulate and convinced a lot of democrats to his side. His words are just but word no foundation and ssurance that he will even be able to perform his promises, he will say anything and everything if it means that he will get American people's votes. After weighing how are the specific issues by each candidate, in the absence of Hillary in the running, I find McCain after all has the record to prove that he is a fighter for the love of his country, worked for bipartisan issues. Gov. Palin has a proven record having held 2 executive office, not afraid to make a decision for the American people, right or wrong at least, unlike "OBAMA VOTES PRESENT."

Wow, there are some long winded comments on here. Remember being succinct is certainly a virtue.

All I want to say is that Sarah Palin is the hope that we on the right have been looking for. She has certainly made mistakes. As has her family but she doesn't take the easy road out. Her personal life reflects that. I just love her and can not wait for Novemeber!

This comment bears repitition just because it was right on the mark:

What an embarrassment.

This year, we witnessed history. A woman ran for president and received 18 million votes from a citizenry that made clear it is indeed ready to consider serious women candidates seriously.

And you, Governor Palin, are making a mockery of that message.

As has been noted by many -- from activists to members of Congress -- you, Governor Palin, are no Hillary Clinton.

But, worse than that, you are a disgrace to the culmination of 200 years of women's struggle that Hillary Clinton represents.

You did not work at the Children's Defense Fund, fighting to secure rights for children.

Instead, you used your line-item veto to strike funding for programs that assist teenage mothers.

You did not revamp the education system of an entire state -- though you are governor of a state in which the illiteracy rate is astronomically high.

Instead, your claim to reformer fame is your activities at the PTA.

You have not traveled overseas to speak in dozens of countries about the rights of women.

You did not stand on a stage among half a dozen men and make the case to the America people for why you are qualified to lead this nation.

You did not receive 18 million votes of confidence. In fact, you were nearly recalled as mayor of your tiny Alaskan town.

You have not stood up for reproductive freedom or even reproductive education.

Instead, you have championed ignorance.

And the proof of your failure lives under your very own roof.

You have agreed to accept a nomination for which you are wholly, indisputably unqualified. And in so doing, you have allowed yourself to become the punchline to a very bad joke.

Except that this isn't a joke, Governor Palin. This is our country's future. And while we have certainly found amusement in the disaster that appears to have been your "vetting process," it's really not funny.

The American people continue to learn new and alarming facts about you, but you already knew these facts when you accepted this position:

• You already knew that you were under investigation for ethical violations.

• You already knew that you turned your town's budget surplus into a deficit before you moved on.

• You already knew of your close involvement with indicted Senator Ted Stevens.

• You already knew the carwash business of which you and your husband were part owners was shut down by the government for failure to comply with regulations.

• You already knew that your husband was a member of a radical political party that advocates secession from the United States.

• You already knew that your teenage daughter was pregnant.

And you damn well know, Governor Palin, that as governor, you have not made any decisions whatsoever regarding the overseas deployment and activities of the Alaska National Guard.

And you damn well know, Governor Palin, that despite your geographical proximity to Russia, you have never been involved in foreign relations with Russia.

You know that, Governor Palin.

And you damn well know that despite your cynical attempt to link your name to the success of Hillary Clinton, you also said that you would not vote for her.

The fight for women's equality is a long and continuous struggle. And you, Governor Palin, are clearly on the wrong side of history. While we fight to prove that we deserve to be taken seriously, your willingness to be on this presidential ticket at this time makes a mockery of that struggle.

And now, although you chastised Hillary Clinton for "whining" about unfair and sexist treatment by the media, because Senator McCain's campaign -- your campaign -- cannot answer the myriad legitimate questions surrounding your vetting process and qualifications, it has instead accused the media, the Democrats, and Obama's campaign of sexism.

And you damn well know, Governor Palin, that just isn't true.

Your own party adamantly opposes affirmative action, and yet, tonight you will stand on a stage and accept the nomination for vice president of your party, a nomination for which you are unprepared and unqualified and which you did not earn and do not deserve.

This is not why Hillary Clinton ran for president, and it is certainly not why 18 million of us voted for her. We were not drawn to her because she won a beauty pageant; we were drawn to her because we believed that decades of work and service and education gave her the wisdom and experience to be able to lead our country out of its current darkness.

That, Governor Palin, was why we stood with Hillary Clinton.

Your candidacy makes a mockery of Hillary Clinton's campaign. It makes a mockery of those who supported her. It makes a mockery of decades and centuries of women who were beaten and jailed, who fought with all their might for a day when there would be no more glass ceilings.

You, Governor Palin, are not a continuation of that legacy. You are an insult to that legacy.

Shame on you, Governor Palin. Shame on you

Posted by: Amanda Kyle | September 3, 2008 11:19 PM

I raised 3 kids by myself, Son in the Navy, Had great profession for 20 years made good income. Now it's gone! was a Mortgage Rep. Now I am facing foreclosure, what did I do? Put my ass right back into school for a new career in Healthcare. I do not blame the government, I do not blame anyone. Life is full of ups and downs, you can complain or you can change but don't sit on your lazy ass and blame. All Obama supports do is cry about there life and how it's the governments fault.

All of you obama loving, socialist, broke and want government hand outs rather then get trained for a new occupation make me sick. Your all a broken record with another 8 years of Bush, McCain is a Regan republican, He's going to win and Sorry Demorcratic you may have to work for a living instead of living off the government. You all are the reason this country is broke. We have to support all you crack heads

Obama is a tax and spend program liberal who promises that gpvernment will take care of us. Been there done that.. lets move on. Just how many Americans have voted with their feet to move to countries with socialist/communist governments versus those who have tried to get to America? If Unions and taxes really worked to make lives better Detroit would be one of the wealthiest cities in the world.

All women should be appalled at the treatment of both Governor Sarah Palin and Senator Hillary Clinton by the Left Press and the Democratic Party. The Republican Party found a winner! Go, Palin, go!

I agree with some of the comments above, specially the one from Neenee. Cindy's $300,000 dress (assuming it is true) it is totally ridiculous.

But again, isn't it the American Dream? "work hard" and you can have anything you want in this Great Country. Her father did, what's wrong with that? Why are we always so blind to one of the sides.

Please can someone tell the need for a family of 4 to live and own a $3 million home? specially coming from those who "claim" their life are dedicated to helping the less fortunated. Yes, Mr. Obama's residence, can someone please explain to me how a man that has been praised for passing up opportunities with some of the best law frims in the world, and dedicating himself to public service, again to help the less fortunated, was able to purchase this real estate?

Why doesn't he and his wife sell this property and donate this money to those he wants to help so desperately? Don't take the money by taxing, and taxing from those who are willing to work hard to help others. Why don't the Clinton's take their millions and donate it to those less fortunated, yes the sameone they are so desperately trying to help by using our monies.

She is now going around to small towns campaigning for Obama, these are the same towns where people are out of work, their homes in foreclosue, etc, etc. But she is trying to raise money to pay for her campaign debt. She could paid it out of her own bank account, and it will never put her or her family in the same financial situation the same american families she is preaching to are in. Why don't they walk their talk?

Can you really tell me that we can trust Mr Obama to protect us or even be aware of what is going on in this country, when he sat in front of his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright for 20 years and claims that he never heard some of the most devastating comments anyone can make about their country.

It is interesting how most people ask, what are they going to do for us. These are the same people that want more goverment and more benefit from the govement. We all need to wake up to the reality that our problem is too much Goverment. It is a very simple, for every $1 the Goverment give us back, they need to take $3 from us.

Obama has only one concern, that is to become president so he can claim he was the first black american president. Just ask yourself the question, how many times did he voted present, he could not make a decision. Yes, there is no question that he will give more back, but only by taking even more and stalling the world biggest and most efficient free enterprise engine known to mankind.

If you believe in socialism, just move to Russia, Venezuela, China. If you do not know it, in these countries everyone is equal, no opportunities no future. The one reason people risk their lives to be able to live in this GREAT COUNTRY.

CREATIONISM VERSUS EVOLUTION – The charge is that Palin opposes the teaching of evolution, and would mandate the teaching of creationism in public schools.

The fact is that Palin said during her 2006 gubernatorial campaign that she would not push the state Board of Education to add creation-based alternatives to the state’s required curriculum, or look for creationism advocates when she appointed board members. She has kept this pledge.

Palin has spoken in favor of classroom discussions of creationism, in some cases. “I don’t think there should be a prohibition against debate if it comes up in class. It doesn’t have to be part of the curriculum,” Palin told the Anchorage Daily News in a recent interview.

BRIDGE TO NOWHERE - The bridge was intended to provide access to Ketchikan's airport on lightly populated Gravina Island, opening up new territory for expansion at the same time. Alaska's congressional delegation endured withering criticism for earmarking $223 million for Ketchikan and a similar amount for a crossing of Knik Arm at Anchorage. In September, 2006, Palin showed up in Ketchikan on her gubernatorial campaign and said the bridge was essential for the town's prosperity.

A projected costs for the Ketchikan bridge rose to nearly $400 million, however, administration officials were telling Ketchikan that the project looked less likely. Local leaders shouldn't have been surprised when Palin announced she was turning to less-costly alternatives to a bridge.

SALE OF JET - According to PolitiFact, the plane, bought by her Republican predecessor whom she beat in 2006, was listed for sale three times on Ebay, but no one ever met the minimum bid. The plane was listed with an asking price of $2.5 million in 2007. The state had paid just under $2.7 million for it in 2005.
Finally, the state turned to an aircraft broker, who sold the jet to an Alaskan businessman for $2.1 million. And my question to her critics is, “So what?” She DID list it on Ebay. Even though it did not sell on Ebay, she DID sell it and who knows what a fair asking price is for a used $2.7 million jet? I think that the tax payers were impressed, and they should have been, too.

PALIN’S TAX CREDIT TO ALASKA TAX PAYERS - the $1200 tax rebate went to the people of Alaska who were robbed by politicians convicted of taking bribes from oil company executives. When you read the actual proposal instead giving a knee-jerk reaction, it is clear that Palin was s returning stolen money back to taxpayers. Not only was there bribery, but her predecessor was giving special breaks to oil companies. This is not a pork barrel project.

I have yet to hear how the republicans are going to reform this country..for the past 8 years they have done nothing by run this country into the ground. People are losing their jobs, houses..no money in their pockets. Palin fits in so well because she's just like them..We have been through 8 years of total hell and they have the nerve to say this election is about personality..No how, no way, No McCain..not another 4 years of lying to the american people..no more, Palin want even go on any talk shows to answer tough questions about her background, she only wants us to hear what the republicans are telling us. Well, I don't buy it for one second and I have more since than to be sucked in by those liars. The american people can see right through their lies, broken promises and dreams. People are losing their sons and daughters in a war that never should have happened in the first place. McCain think he can flaunt Palin in our face like she is the answer to our dreams. Barack Obama spelled out what he will do for this country from the economy, education, health care, our military, washington, small town american working people etc. Senator Obama respects us as smart, intelligent, american people and he doesn't try to play us for fools. McCain and Palin are out of touch with americans because they are too busy putting on a popularity contest. Well, McCain and Palin, this is not a popularity contest, this is serious business with real issues that the american people are more concerned with. I have children and I want someone who will look out for my childs future. Democrats need to rally together and put Obama into office so we can all have a piece of the american dream. McCain is a war monger and if you listened to his speech he said fight with me, fight, fight, fight for your country. We will be in a war for the next 100 years if it's left up to him. Palin is a devil in a blue dress. McCain is evil, dirty and low down we can see that in his negative adds..all he can do is attack and be negative.. he's putting on an act trying to appeal to us to smart to take his bait. McCain go ahead and do all of us a favor and retire...we are not buying it this time..8 is enough. You and Palin may have the media fooled and playing on them talking about their picking you her..that is so yesterday, and game has already been played the american people are to smart to play your games. I wish the media would stop putting your face on tv cause I'm sick and tired of looking at you and Palin already. Cindy McCain sitting in the audience with a $300,000 suit on and we have children out hear that don't have a pair of pants to put on or food to eat..give me a break..talk about elitist..sell that suit and give the money to help some needy families that don't have anything.

I have yet to hear how the republicans are going to reform this country..for the past 8 years they have done nothing by run this country into the ground. People are losing their jobs, houses..no money in their pockets. Palin fits in so well because she's just like them..We have been through 8 years of total hell and they have the never to say this election is about personality..No how, no way, No McCain..not another 4 years of lying to the american people..no more, Palin want even go on any talk shows to answer tough questions about her background, she only wants us to hear what the republicans are telling us. Well, I don't buy it for one second and I have more since than to be sucked in by those liars. The american people can see right through their lies, broken promises and dreams. People are losing their sons and daughters in a war that never should have happened in the first place. McCain think he can flaunt Palin in our face like she is the answer to our dreams. Barack Obama spelled out what he will do for this country from the economy, education, health care, our military, washington, small town american working people etc. Senator Obama respects us as smart, intelligent, american people and he doesn't try to play us for fools. McCain and Palin are out of touch with americans because they are too busy putting on a popularity contest. Well, McCain and Palin, this is not a popularity contest, this is serious business with real issues that the american people are more concerned with. I have children and I want someone who will look out for my childs future. Democrats need to rally together and put Obama into office so we can all have a piece of the american dream. McCain is a war monger and if you listened to his speech he said fight with me, fight, fight, fight for your country. We will be in a war for the next 100 years if it's left up to him. Palin is a devil in a blue dress. McCain is evil, dirty and low down we can see that in his negative adds..all he can do is attack and be negative.. he's putting on an act trying to appeal to us to smart to take his bait. McCain go ahead and do all of us a favor and retire...we are not buying it this time..8 is enough. You and Palin may have the media fooled and playing on them talking about their picking you her..that is so yesterday, and game has already been played the american people are to smart to play your games. I wish the media would stop putting your face on tv cause I'm sick and tired of looking at you and Palin already. Cindy McCain sitting in the audience with a $300,000 suit on and we have children out hear that don't have a pair of pants to put on or food to eat..give me a break..talk about elitist..sell that suit and give the money to help some needy families that don't have anything.

it was a great speech. lacking on policy truth, and filled with sarcasm, but fun to listen to.
if we are looking for zingers in the white house the she is very qualified. i'm she she has done some great things in alaska too. but you can't run on a speech, and you can't lie about your record then hide from the press.
1. she was for the pork to build the bridge to nowhere. she was also never offered to money to turn it down. congress never approved the funding. that is a lie.
2. the ebay jet was little more than a stunt. the put in on at a price higher than the payed for it. i heard mccain say she put in on ebay and sold it for a profit. lie, the lost money on the sale.
3. she fought pork. she was the postergirl for pork. when have you ever heard of a mayor of a city of 6000 getting 26 million in pork from DC. it was an annual trip for her. yet when she left the mayors office wassilla was 20 million dollars it debt. and she is a fiscal conservative? a reformer? a washington outsider?
4. creationism in science class along side evolution?? first i think that's against the constitution that the keep touting.
other things are less an issue but are still valid. husband was a registered member of the AIP, no sex ed, no abortion even if a victim of incest, her future son in laws my space page was hilarious!!, lots of expletives and says he doesn't want kids with quite a few !!!! she tried to ban books and fire the librarian for not complying.
9 days and counting since either answer one single question, he isn't even doing town halls of which are his bread and butter. as a dem, i'm not scared, i am just waiting for some answers. obama was on o'rielly, biden did all the morning shows. team palin/mccain team is acting like superman, but it seems questions are kryptonite!!!

I can't come back to check on this string because I have another kid to raise, another African American boy who I adopted who I need to read a bed time story.

But some thoughts...Sarah Palin is the quintessential feminist. In every way, she represents a successful woman in America - a mom with a successful career, etc. AHHH, but she is CONSERVATIVE and PRO-LIFE. How can this be? The liberal ideology is being turned on it's head with the candidate named Sarah Palin. The visceral responses on this string testify to it. Liberals are scared and if they are not, they should be. This is a woman who embodies conservative ideals in her very being and in everything she says and does. She is intelligent, attractive, not afraid to be a woman, successful, a good mother, and lives by what she preaches. Liberals must be nauseated to think of it - - an unabashed conservative who is everything a successful woman should be according to every definition, EXCEPT that her conservative views are not palatable to the liberal agenda. All I can say is...

HA HA! Liberals are all hot air and bravado until you ask them WHY they believe what they believe. The more specific you ask them to be, the more they blubber along with emotional responses rather than rational discourse.

Ignorance is bliss except for the well educated Republicans who have to listen to all that blather and noise. Why don't you all just shut up and vote?

Can anyone of you liberals explain exactly what Sarah Palin said that was NOT accurate? Let's take the emotions out of it and be specific. What, precisely, are Obama's credentials to be president? Does anyone even know anything about how he voted on even a single bill? What, precisely, is his political background? What was his relationship with Ayers? I personally heard Jeremiah Wright speak at our church and there is NO WAY that Obama did not know his thoughts as this is the only things Wright talks about in his sermons. He is the most racist person I have ever heard in my fifty years of life, and I have raised an African American boy who I adopted and I am aware of prejudice. I would like to debate on the facts.

I'm sorry but I don't feel comfortable with a "hockey mom" or a pit bull with lipstick running the country that I love and reside in. If your going to run a country, make sure that you are in touch with and can relate to the people you serve. The problem with politics and corporate America is that people are only trying to promote their careers and not fixing real issues.

She presented very well considering that every word was already written for her, and now we must wait until she is ready to learn how to response to formal interviews this is according to:
A senior McCain campaign official advises that, despite the gaggle of requests and pressure from the media, Gov. Sarah Palin won't submit to a formal interview anytime soon. She may take some questions from local news entities in Alaska, but until she's ready -- and until she's comfortable -- which might not be for a long while -- the media will have to wait. The campaign believes it can effectively deal with the media's complaints, and their on-the-record response to all this will be: "Sarah Palin needs to spend time with the voters."

Not out of the question are appearances on lighter, fluffier television shows. But -- not for a while.

When do we see the real Hockey Mom? If I had known how the VP selection really works, I would have submitted my name, I am a female, that reads well and can present, oh well, maybe in 8 years I will give it a try.

Is this discussion still alive?

A simple house-milker together with a simple hockey mom cannot give leadership to a complicated nation like America, just forget it, get over with it. Trash them both for the sake of America !! Do it now, and start impeachment proceedings to clean the white house from the sc_umbags still there before they do more harm to a once glorious nation.

A simple house-milker together with a simple hockey mom cannot give leadership to a complicated nation like America, just forget it, get over with it. Trash them both for the sake of America !! Do it now, and start impeachment proceedings to clean the white house from the sc_umbags still there before they do more harm to a once glorious nation.

Palin Speaks: How Did She Do?

Palin’s speech was very appalling. She appeared to be a controlled robot citing exactly what was written for her by the republicans of yesterday. She displayed her acting ability along with the reading of the script. Obama and Biden is way to far above her and McCain, yet they gave it a good shot by trying to climb their gigantic ladder to reach up. It did no good though, both Palin and McCain barely reached the first step of the ladder. God Bless America!

Republican = hate
Republican = greed
Republican = mismanagement, waste, and corruption
Republican = selling out the country (literally)

You all know that's true. Don't hold back. Say it out loud. It'll make you feel good. Then repeat it everywhere you can!

As I sat in the teachers lunch room at the elementary school where I teach I heard nothing but positive comments about Palin's speech. Everyone agreed she is a no nonsense person and we all seemed to relate to her in some special way. She will certainly be an asset to our government and and a very fine political companion to John McCain. I would be proud to have her as my vice president.

As I sat in the teachers lunch room at the elementary school where I teach I heard nothing but positive comments about Palin's speech. Everyone agreed she is a no nonsense person and we all seemed to relate to her in some special way. She will certainly be and asset to our government and and a very fine political companion to John McCain. I would be proud to have her as my vice president.

Gee conservative idiots like yourself that make me vomit. Frankly I don't care about Billo The Clown nor any of your other filthy republican friends. Hear this I spit on your stupid Christian holier than though attitude and also understand this as well all your hatred and anger will come back to haunt you.

HILARIOUS- PALIN "WHINING" ABOUT GETTING PICKED ON
could've sworn she was the same person that called Hillary a 'whiner'. Hmmmmm... And then they say to not talk about family, but then she parades them around and uses them like props. Hmmmmm.... And yet, McCain still can't bring himself to make his campaign focus on issues, no specific agenda for what he will do in the next 4 years. They know they don't want to rely on issues. That does not say much for the concern of American voters. Would Palin have been tapped if she was a man with the same experience? Exactly.

My first reaction while watching it was: "Gee, she's coming across as condescending and kind of nasty, and hasn't really said anything of substance." The speech was straight out of the Republican 2004 convention. It's no surprise that it riled up the far-right base.

My second reaction was: "I wonder how this will play with the moderates and independents who helped send the Republicans to defeat in the last congressional elections?" My sense is that it didn't go over well with them, especially in contrast with the forward-looking, critical yet optimistic Democratic convention last week.

My third reaction was: "She'll be back running Alaska, and McCain will be back in his Senate job on Nov. 5."

I have some advise for Sen. Obama and his supporters. When talking about inexperience, make sure you say the name Gov. Palin. Otherwise, all will think you are talking about Sen. Obama.

BTW, Because Sen. Biden has spent his entire working life in the Washington closet,
SEN. JOE BIDEN EXPERIENCE AND JUDGEMENT ARE LIMITED IN SCOPE, WIEGHT, VALUE AND WORLDLY QUALITIES.

To Max
I approve you to 110 %. What a shame to see these freaks, backward people cheering republicans. You did not have enough of 8 years with Bushie??? But hopefully there will be more than 50 % this time who will do the good choice by voting for Obama, especially since McCain showed his lack of judgement with his choice of running mate, Sarah the Crook (who has the possibility of becoming president knowing the age and bad health of McCain). People are not so stupid Max, you will see. They will choose experience, honesty in order to get USA on his track economically and on the world scale, that is to say they will vote for democrats.

Bush wearing panties and nylons

If America votes for Republicans, I think you officially will be listed as "World's stupidest nation".
Jethro Clampett has run your country into the ground and a lot of you seem to like it. How is it, that 50% of an entire nation are such morons!
IDIOTS!!!!

I was going to post that this was one of the most mean-spirited political speeches in recent memory, but I see that word along with "nasty" in here quite a bit. Guess I'm not alone in that reaction. I'm surprised anyone would introduce themselves to the country with such a vicious, sarcastic tone. Makes me think of something a child would do.

2 things first
did olberman and matthews get denied entry to the excel center and convention ?

second
obama reminds me of clyde in any which way but loose

Obama needs to start drafting a concession speech.

My response to Ms. Palin's speech was to get out my credit card and make a significant donation to the Obama campaign.

I know that the speech was meant for "the base" but if the "Republics" thought that this would help people make up their minds, I think they were absolutely right...just not in the direction they had hoped.

The angry right got to take a big sip of their own kool-aid. The rest of the country had a fine opportunity to see the true colors of these candidates and their party for what they really are. Angry, sarcastic, bitter, exlusive, hypocritical, out of touch, fear mongering (read emotional rather than intellectual), unhappy people.

Yay!

"every friend and coworker I've talked to today (all Obama supporters) have said that they are going to work even harder for his election after last night's party rally."

They obviously agreed that her speech was a "WOW".

I had hoped that he would have picked the same VP nominee as the Democrats did in 2000 (and apparently was close to having done so with he being listed on the "short list"). But I've been very surprised and pleased with Palin and have new respect for him and his choice. He picks strong women (which his wife also is).

I was thinking to vote Obama, but not so much for him, but more to be anti-Bush (which I largely agree with) rather than being pro-anything good (that's not a straw horse). Palin brings the enthusiasm for the future to the Republican side along with McCain's respect (I read his book twenty some years ago long before he was running for national office -- very powerful). She has spun me solidly in the Republican's direction.

P.S. - To those (including commentators grasping for some glimmer of criticism) who point out that her speech was written by a professional, note that ALL speeches by ALL major politicians were written by professional speech writers. Even Obama's speeches (except possibly that humorous one on YouTube where he was talking almost as if he were on drugs or drunk and made Quayle look like a genius).

If the Republican party wins this election with their third-string, elderly, frail, boring, played-out quarterback, backed by a shrill, overly aggressive, small-town cheerleader that is anti-choice, anti-comprehensive sexual education, and anti-science, I can only assume it is because eight years of this terrible administration has ensured that there is no longer enough educated liberal "elites" - or even enough people who watch the news - and no, Fox does not count - enough to understand our precarious, absolutely terrifying role on the global stage right now - to do anything about it. Cling to your guns and your religion, because, damn, you are going to need them when this country collapses and those who actually managed to pull themselves up by their bootstraps flee, and take their jobs with them.

Palin's speech had no substance? When has anyone heard substance in Obama's flowery oratories?
She has no foreign policy experience? And Obama does? Pray tell what that might be!
She's shrill? Have you heard -- actually heard -- Hillary screeching at the podium?
Palin's corrupt? Have you forgotten Obama's dealings with Rezko?
Her unmarried daughter is pregnant, but within the bosom of family. Obama's idolized and immensely sainted dad chose to abandon his family...which is worse?
Palin in unpatriotic? When was the last time anyone saw Obama put his hand over his heart during the National Anthem? The answer is never!!! And then there's the Michelle statement that for the first time in her life she finally has a reason to be proud of America -- only because her husband is running for President.
Palin's speech, according to Obama, lacked the word "economy" in it. When listening to Obama spew "economy" all over his rhetoric -- has anyone ever heard any substance in how he's going to improve it -- besides, of course, saying generically that he's going to improve it?

One could go on and on....but finally, who is funding...really funding...the Obama campaign? Oh yea, it's those anonymous envelopes showing up from all those thousands upon thousands of "little" people sending in all that money that he doesn't have to account for or identify the donors. Yea, right! If it's all so innocent, why won't he identify them?

Palin is more of a man than Obama.

I'm a pro-life, climate changing-hating- registered Democrat. I didn't support Hillary in the primaries b/c I think she is even more strongly pro-choice than Obama, but I like MANY of her other policy positions and I certainly admire the many cracks she has put -- and continues to put -- in glass ceilings facing women. I want very much for women not only to enter the highest level of American politics. I frankly think they should dominate.

With that in mind, I'm enthusiastic about the nomination of Sarah Palin. Like me, she is pro-life. Unlike me, she has her head in the sand as regards climate change, animal rights and a slew of other environmental problems. I generally oppose the death penalty, while she supports it.

My view is that women are people, just like men, meaning that most of them are going to have some views that I agree with and others I disagree with.

I haven't made up my mind about who to vote for in November, but I welcome Palin to the race, and I challenge all sides -- Republican and Democrat -- to see who can come up with the most aggressive strategy for combatting climate change quickly.

Obama needs to get to the gym - he got beat up by a girl last night.

I'm an old guy and I can honestly say it won't matter to me in the long run who wins this election. I do believe however that the current administration has been the worst in my lifetime (born during FDR).

If "small town working class" voters in Ohio, Pa., Michigan and Indiana re-elect the GOP then I don't want to hear anymore whinng from them about their disappearing jobs and livlihoods, the high cost of college and gas, lack of health care etc.

Screw 'um. Cling to your guns and religion. Pray to Jesus when you go hunting for a meal. You will deserve what you get.

I got mine already. I live comfortably in the sunny south on a golf course, got my steady income, my medicare and prescription drug coverage.

As Johnny Carson used to say - I upped my lifestyle - up yours!

God helps those who help themselves - if you're in deep doodoo economically and you vote Republican you deserve it.

Black Yalie

"As long as Notre Dame sucks I'm happy".

Amen to that.....

Janet, what was one of her national level plans that took your vote? Why did you vote for Hillary? Just because she's a woman? That kinda hurts the cause of women if you just throw a random token in with no substance.

That's funny. You ask republicans a serious question, and one comes back saying "ohhh I bet democrats are crapping their pants." From what? What her ideas on the economy? What's her ideas on the wars(plural) we are fighting? What's her idea on the housing issue? How does she feel about health care in a population greater then a few thousand?

Palin knocked it out of the park last night. What an incredible speech and presentation! I am a Democrat and upset over the way Hillary Clinton was treated in the primaries, and have been on the fence over who to vote for this Nov. Palin just bought my vote and I'll do my best to spread the word. Palin and McCain are good people and strong leaders...just the type of leadership we need.

I bet Obama and Biden had to make a trip to the dry cleaner's today after soiling their pants last night. Go Sarah Barracuda!!!

If family choices are off limits, why does she parade her family as much as she does? If I wanted my family to stay out of it, I would not intentionally bring them in to it. It's like she's saying here's my family, and I will make them a focus point, but don't make them a focus point. And it would help if the republicans talked issues, so pundits had something else to report.

Hired Gun
Sarah Palin is simply a hired gun for John McCain and the Republican Party. Literally. Any one who brandish an AK47 before the American people and the world is reckless and irresponsible. This is the type of "machine gun" diplomacy that led to the war in Iraq and added an additional $3,000,000,000,000 (three trillion dollars) to the American deficit. Americans should not be fooled by symbolism. If John McCain and Sarah Palin are elected to the Whitehouse, this country will be further engulfed in war with Iran and other middle eastern countries which it can not win. We should all heed "The Book Of Wisdom" which says, happy (blessed) is the peacemaker. Let's give peace a chance and say no to "machine gun" diplomacy.

It's the hypocrisy stupid!

Shane - nope, don't speak German anymore. My German ancestors came here in the 1850s. My Italian, Hungarian, and English ancestors came here in the early 1900s. So, depending on how you look at it, I'm second generation and, by the way, have worked hard for everything I have as well. What is your point?

Anonymous wrote:

Shane - Just trying to point out that the Republicans can't even perform the duties of their office, and to point out the galling hypocrisy of the Bush administration who builds walls on one hand and looks the other way while undocumented workers boost corporate profits and lower the standard of living for average workers.

Unlike you, I'm not afraid of different peoples, cultures, religions, and ideas. It's influxes of new peoples and ideas that have made us strong. According to US census bureau predictions white folk like us will just be one of the minorities by 2015. You ready for that Shane? Or are you going to break out the white hood and burn some crosses? Se habla espanol?

Posted by: Anonymous | September 4, 2008 5:46 PM

I AM one of those people, and as a first generation American who has worked VERY hard to EARN everything I have I am offended! And no, I do not speak Spanish, aber Ich spreche Deutsch!

Good thinking Chris! Close up the borders! Build a wall around the country so that no black or brown skinned people can get in? Surely this isn't what you mean...

Shane - Just trying to point out that the Republicans can't even perform the duties of their office, and to point out the galling hypocrisy of the Bush administration who builds walls on one hand and looks the other way while undocumented workers boost corporate profits and lower the standard of living for average workers.

Unlike you, I'm not afraid of different peoples, cultures, religions, and ideas. It's influxes of new peoples and ideas that have made us strong. According to US census bureau predictions white folk like us will just be one of the minorities by 2015. You ready for that Shane? Or are you going to break out the white hood and burn some crosses? Se habla espanol?

Just a thought for all you "Christians" on this site. Christians do not offer sarcasm, belittle others, and parade their families and their problems aross the TV screen to win votes and power (this is not the Jerry Springer show, is it?). They do not think of themselves as "worthy" or better than others, and they do not lie and stretch the truth for personal gain. You say that yes, Christians do this and are imperfect ,and know they will be forgiven.

Well a REAL Christian knows these things are not the teachings of Christ and they also know everything they do, say, or feel in their hearts is known by someone else. There is no hiding or fooling Him.

So before you go this route for this election, think about what you know to be true and what you are seeing paraded across your TV screen or stage. Are you willing to be a part of this? He gives you a choice. He also watches.

If you truly feel that Palin is the right person, check her out thoroughly before choosing. If you think McCain is the right choice, check him out too. A war hero is to be respected for his sacrifice, but you must consider his actions toward his first family. There is no honor there. Find out for yourself. I was very disappointed. I cannot judge him, but I don't have to trust him.

Posted by: Steve | September 4, 2008 5:36 PM

I apologize I ment Johnny McCain's Flying Circus

Small town America?

why is your wisdom so more important than the rest of the country?

It is Amazing how much Mileage the Republican's have gotten out of two misstatements by the Obama's

Amazing

a person with 4 houses and 100mm in assets calls a guy who pulled himself up from his bootstraps and elites and you go for it?

Small town America are you going to be fooled three times in a row?

if you kid get's sick would you rather your local doctor did his MD at the local College or Harvard or whomever has the best school for that.

would you rather your son or daughter be deployed with average guys and gals or with the best fighting unit.

Navy Seals, Marine Recon, Army Rangers

they have a name the Elite of the Elite.

he may or may not be a man of the people but he has tried to be a man for the people!!

Steve wrote: "A war hero is to be respected for his sacrifice, but you must consider his actions toward his first family. There is no honor there. Find out for yourself. I was very disappointed. I cannot judge him, but I don't have to trust him."

Posted by: Steve | September 4, 2008 5:36 PM
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Aren't statements like, "There is no honor there" and "I was very disappointed" judgmental statements? Can I assume by this that you are NOT a Christian?

As I was watching her speech last night, I just kept thinking that Ann Coulter looked better as a blonde.

Johny McCain's Fly Circus starring Sarah Palin as Bush in drag. What a joke. And all those fools cheering her on. Rudy made an a** out of himself. If I were a Republican I would be ashamed. Let her talk all she wants she is just diggin a big hole for her self. I felt sorry for her family but they will do fine on the Jerry Springer show once the lose this one.

I would like to commend Governor Palin for a great job in delivering a very passionate and inspiring speech last night! Many are even referring to her as the new “Rock Star” of the Republican party…seems like I’ve heard that description before, but not in such a positive light. Even so, I’d like to offer a couple of comments on her lack of knowledge regarding the role of a “Community Organizer.”

A “Community Organizer” is a person who is driven to public service by a strong passion to represent suffering citizens when mayors and governors fail to do their job. True, “Community Organizers” don’t always acquire the fame and fortune that comes to many mayors and governors; however throughout the history of our country, many of the positive changes that have occurred were the result of work initiated by “Community Organizers.” For instance, growing up in the South, there was a governor of my state by the name of George Wallace. Governor Palin may not be familiar with him--- but he was responsible for pushing the belief that African American students weren’t good enough to attend schools with White American students. In fact, some of his more famous speeches included the phrase, “Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!” There was a young “Community Organizer” who was driven to confront this governor, ultimately resulting in the passage of the Civil Rights Amendment. His name was Martin Luther King.

A few other “Community Organizers” of note: (1) Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, who were instrumental in pushing the rights of women to vote; (2) Harriet Tubman, who played a key role in helping to end slavery by establishing the Underground Railroad; and (3) Luisa Moreno, who was very active in improving the civil rights of Hispanic workers. In case she doesn’t notice, these “Community Organizers” were all women. So, I guess you could say that a “Community Organizer” is a couple of steps above a Hockey Mom or PTA President.

Lastly, when asked about the three people he admired most in the world during an interview with Rick Warren, her running mate, Senator John McCain, mentioned John Lewis. Just in case Governor Palin doesn’t know this, prior to becoming a congressman from the state of Georgia, Mr. Lewis was--- you guessed it--- a “Community Organizer” with Martin Luther King.

Just a thought for all you "Christians" on this site. Christians do not offer sarcasm, belittle others, and parade their families and their problems aross the TV screen to win votes and power (this is not the Jerry Springer show, is it?). They do not think of themselves as "worthy" or better than others, and they do not lie and stretch the truth for personal gain. You say that yes, Christians do this and are imperfect ,and know they will be forgiven.

Well a REAL Christian knows these things are not the teachings of Christ and they also know everything they do, say, or feel in their hearts is known by someone else. There is no hiding or fooling Him.

So before you go this route for this election, think about what you know to be true and what you are seeing paraded across your TV screen or stage. Are you willing to be a part of this? He gives you a choice. He also watches.

If you truly feel that Palin is the right person, check her out thoroughly before choosing. If you think McCain is the right choice, check him out too. A war hero is to be respected for his sacrifice, but you must consider his actions toward his first family. There is no honor there. Find out for yourself. I was very disappointed. I cannot judge him, but I don't have to trust him.

I actually did not attend State College. Just having a little fun with you, and kudos for owning up to it! Good stuff!

Who are You? I don't Know you anymore?

you are suppose to be for limited Government
yet you have added 4 Trillion on to the Debt and the largest deficit every?

you claim for decades that people should pull themselves up by their bootstraps, especially to the black community but ridicule two people for working hard and going to good schools.

the argue that private citizens and communities should make certain decisions but ridicule Community Organizing.

you say knowledge and experience of foreign policy is essential to the next president and then put up the most unqualified candidate for VP ever.

John McCain is 72 and whether your 96 yo Mother is around or not it seems to me he would rather win a political campaign then put country first and put someone qualified like Ridge or Lieberman.

You say Obama will raise your taxes when while not directly the last 8 years you have been through a pseudo tax increase at the pump, the purchasing power of the dollar going down, Increased health care at a spiraling rate.

Who are you people

Dressing a moose and shooting an M16 is more important then that.

They are running for president here.

Now if I had my choice between the four to cast away on island together

Sarah Palin would be my choice or a lot of reasons.

The other Charge of Obama never running anything

well gentlemen, neither has John McCain

not a busines, not a state, a City
nothing
sure he led a squadron, but squadron commanders pass on the orders of others.

Keep America Safe?
by not guarding and searching our containers and trying to sell our port security to Dubai!

When all of us have 1 vote between essentially two people what does it say about someone who could have chosen Any Republican to choose someone he has met twice, who was only vetted last Wednesday

who apparently is so tough she can't answer one question from the media because that would be sexist for them to treat her like everybody else.

what does that say? and if he did make the right choice what does that say about all the other republicans who have represented a population larger then 9000 locally and a state that is smaller than 90% of the Congressional Districts.

Who are you? You use to be the Republican Party! My party!

Jeez, what a bad day for Democrats. After Sarah Palin stuck it to Obama, Bill O'Reilly has now forced Obama to admit that the surge worked. The Democrats are collapsing!! It looks like Obama will have to go back to being a "community organizer." Obama is having such a bad day that he might be tempted to starting snorting cocaine again.

Posted by: Dave | September 4, 2008 5:24 PM

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^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Neocon wet dream

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Good thinking Chris! Close up the borders! Build a wall around the country so that no black or brown skinned people can get in? Surely this isn't what you mean...

Decider is not a word either, did GW go to Yale? But that was my mistake and I own up to it. I must not go to an Ivy League school now, right? State College has served you well.

NEWSFLASH: Groucho is the final authority on everything!

Because Groucho sits in his mom's basement and types it, it must be true!

Seriously, do you ever get tired of being so smug and self-righteous? You accuse everyone not named "you" of being hateful and smug, and yet, you have mastered the art!!! Then, when someone calls you on it you try to blast them! Why can't you just let people say what they want to say and leave it alone?

So Shane E., ever wonder WHY that job only pays $6.75 an hour? Could it be because the Bush administration has been singularly and remarkably unable to secure our borders, even in the shadow of 9/11? Isn't maintaining secure borders one of the main functions of the Executive branch of government? Uncontrolled immigration is the primary cause of low wages in this country. But it does put more $$$ into the pockets of big businesses doesn't it?

The speeches last night were ad hominem laced rants designed to whip up the right wing of the party. There was little to no real policy presented. And facts? Who cares about facts, right?: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_fact_check

Palin's speech was pure self-congratulatory rhetoric designed to reinforce the conservatives' desparate longing for a replacement for W. They are a bunch of evangelical zealots searching for a new shepard to blindly follow - and to insult anyone who questions the path they want to follow. Seriously, creationism is still something people actually talk about? Wow.

Also, what's with slamming Obama for being a community organizer before he went to law school? I guess the only communities Republicans live in are gated - no need for organizing there.

However, I was impressed that it took Giuliani a full 6 minutes before he mentioned 9/11.

Shane - and WHY does that job only pay $6.75 an hour? Could it be that the Bush administration has been singularly and remarkably unable to secure our borders, even in the shadow of 9/11? That is one of the main responsibilities of the Executive branch of government. Uncontrolled immigration is one of the main reasons wages are so low in this country. But it puts more money into the pockets of big business doesn't it?

Jeez, what a bad day for Democrats. After Sarah Palin stuck it to Obama, Bill O'Reilly has now forced Obama to admit that the surge worked. The Democrats are collapsing!! It looks like Obama will have to go back to being a "community organizer." Obama is having such a bad day that he might be tempted to starting snorting cocaine again.

Hey, Shane E

Thanks for proving my point, small one. Nothing but smear. No substance. No sense. Your masters will be proud.

Palin said:

The Iraq war was 'a task that is from God'

..God's plan

Her audience were young vulnerable impressionable students.

Did God tell Bush to lie?
Did God tell Bush to murder and maim thousands of children and babies?

Has Palin managed to segregate her mind from the reality of death and pain and despair and the sobs of a grieving mother?

Right now she may be the 'life' of the Republican Party, but the 'soul' is missing!!

Hey Groucho,

Stop posting inane nonsense on-line! Get back to work and try to earn that $6.75 an hour so I don't have to keep paying for your free Mac with my tax dollars. I know, the idea of EARNING a living may seem foreign to you at first, but you'll get used to it, and may find that you actually get a sense of accomplishment out of it...

I voted for Bush previously, served in Iraq last year, and consider myself politically conservative.

Now that GEN Petraeus has testified that with decreasing violence in Iraq it may be possible for a troop pull-out of Baghdad by next July, I see no more "national security" reason to vote for McCain. Newsflash to anyone who managed to take their eyes off of Gov. Palin's legs for a minute: responsibility for security operations in Anbar Province was just turned back the Iraqis.

I think Rudy and Palin's speeches last night only succeeded at egging on terrorists and earning eye-rolls from the citizens of our NATO allies. Reagan showed us that talking to evil empires doesn't necessarily mean appeasement.

It's time for a different "strategery."
The Muslim World doesn't care for pigs and could care less if pigs wear lipstick.

I'm voting for Obama/Biden.

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People, quit trying to represent yourselves as a "Republican who is now voting for Obama" or a "Democrat who is disgusted with Obama"! It doesn't play well, undermines any valid points you may have and makes you look foolish since no one buys it! Just say what you have to say, whether you be democrat, republican, independent, libertarian, etc. Stop lying!

Posted by: Libertarian Independent | September 4, 2008 4:33 PM

Sarah Palin just pissed off at least half the country with that speech last night. She may have riled up the hard core right wing nut jobs that make up the base off the GOP but she also riled up Democrats and I think a lot of independents too.

The more we learn about Sarah Palin, the less we will like her. She is a nasty politician. She reminds me of some unholy cross between George W. Bush, Dick Cheney & Ann Coulter.

This is what people who actually know her think about her:

http://www.thepresidentialcandidates.us/about-sarah-palin-a-letter-from-anne-kilkenny/741/

Obama now admits that the surge worked. What joke Obama is.

Hey Yalie,

Worthwile is one word, not two....or is English not taught where you went to school? Yale was it?

Shane E. - I understand your sentiments completely and used to feel the same way as you. Are there people who abuse the generosity of the American people. Absolutely. But at the same time there are countless more who are truly needed. In the past, people who needed help could find it locally, in their communities and churches. My church, for instance, staffs soup kitchens, builds low income housing, etc. Unfortunately, many Christians now would rather build elaborate temples to themselves rather than help their fellow man as Jesus told them to do.

This year the Democratic party finds itself in the uncharacteristic position of being the party of fiscal responsibility. Rather than spend tax money on the American people, Bush et al have spent literally trillions of $$$ on an unnecessary war that has taken the lives of 4,000+ American men and women, wounded tens of thousands more, and killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. And where did the money to fund the war come from? Did it come from taxes? No. It came from the sale of t-bills to China to the point where we are some $10 trillion in debt - most of that debt held by foreign countries. I'm 55 years old. I'm not going to have to pay for that debt. However, you, and your children, and their children, are going to be saddled with that debt for the rest of their lives. It's not taxes that will deprive you of a home, it's the insurmountable debt run up by the Republican leadership.

I voted for Nixon in '68 and '72, Ford (bless his football-playing heart) in '76, Reagan in '80 and '84, Bush Sr in '88 and ‘92, Dole in ’96, and Bush jr. in 2000 and 2004 (mea culpa). This year, for the first time in my life, I'm voting for a Democratic president. I've finally had enough.

CBS Poll: McCain, Obama Tied. Poof!! Obama's eight point lead destroyed in 37 minutes.

I hear so many dems calling for "CHANGE", yet they offer tax and spend politics.
Posted by: Shane E | September 4, 2008 5:02 PM

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You might have a point if that were true. Since it's not, and all you have to run on is the borrow (from Commie China) and spend policies of Geehaw Bush, I can understand why the speakers at your convention and your paid punditry have little to say about the issues and spend most of their time engaging in tired old Rovian fear and smear tactics.

Black Yalie - give RichRod a couple of years to purge the previous recruits out of the system. I don't hold out much hope for this season. Down the road, who knows?

The one thing about the U of M that I will be eternally grateful for was teaching me how to reason.

Posted by: Anonymous

RichRod will win at UM...They have more money than God when it comes to getting (buying0 recruits. Now don't all high and mighty on me. Even here in New Haven, we'll splurge on a big time recruit with good grades and decent lineage. So I know the boosters at UM will open their pockets for worth while recruits. As long as Notre Dame sucks I'm happy. I didn't like how they did Ty Willingham. I know...I know...
He didn't have any business coaching there in the 1st place...but still....

I used to be a Community Organizer also working in Hispanic neighborhoods. We used to work together with my local church. Although some people might find that part of the speech offensive, the reality is she didnt want to offend anyone, she was just pointing out something that is just true. We community organizers many times have to go to Mayors offices to get their help in fundraisers, events, in getting their support of their ideas, but we dont have to deal with school budgets, police departments, trash collection, crime, development, environment, local economy etc. Put it this way, the Mayor is to a town/city to what the President is to the US but only in a micro way.
Community organizers realize this. Our job is not less valuable, but we have to admit that a mayor's job entails many other things that an Organizer cant even comprehend.

In response to:

Black Yalie,

Jimbo and Skeeter wanted me to get this straight before they did all that research you asked about. Do you expect us to believe that you have taken courses from three of Bush former professors especially considering that he graduated from Yale in 68? They said its hard to believe that three of his professors would still be around after 40 yrs. And exactly why should we believe anything you say?

You don't have to believe anything I say. Here at Yale we have teaching fellows that remain after their matriculation is over and continue to teach if they so chose, prior to heaing for secondary degrees. I doubt any of these men taught at any school in Iowa:

Prof. Robert Gordon '64
Prof. Robert Ellickson '66
Prof. Joe Levin (visiting professor) taught Bush in a senior economics class....

Happy Googling!

The only way Sarah Palin hit it out of the park last night is if she was batting on a little league field.

It's not just that the speech lacked substance on the issues (e.g., bold vision, or even boring policy prescriptions); it's that the speech lacked even an attempt to *identify* the big issues facing America.

Yes, we all know that the Republicans are big on energy. "Drill, baby, drill," as Michael Steele said. But drilling isn't even a medium-term solution, much less a way to truly end America's dependence on foreign oil. It's disgraceful for her to suggest that the Democrats would "do nothing" on the energy front, when it's the Republicans who have been letter Big Oil stymie the development of alternative fuels for decades.

And that's not to mention the fact that she completely ignored every other major problem facing the U.S. today. Social security, health care, unemployment, inflation, immigration, international trade, education... You name it, she *didn't* talk about it. And don't get me started on foreign policy and military affairs.

I know, lots of people are saying "Don't talk about Palin's lack of experience unless you're willing to admit that Obama doesn't have any experience either." Well, here's the thing: I am willing to admit that. Obama wasn't my first choice for the Democratic ticket (BTW, Hillary wasn't either), but he's the candidate we have. The fact of the matter, though, is that Obama doesn't shy away from those policy areas. Yes, he knows how to give a good speech, and he acts like a bit of a celebrity at times. But the guy is smart; he's a deep thinker; and he understands these issues.

Nobody has the kind of experience necessary to be an expert in all of those policy areas; it simply can't be done. But Obama has demonstrated that he has the judgment and the intellectual horsepower to tackle these issues head on and reverse the do-nothing course that Washington has been on for far too long.

So far, Palin has demonstrated that she's good at reading a teleprompter and talking over applause. I don't doubt that she's bright, but let's get real. Palin's MO is to fire everyone who disagrees with her and replace them with yes-men. Not exactly the hallmark of someone who is willing to debate the issues to come up with a reasonable solution that's acceptable to the majority. Just ask (all of) the (former) members of the Alaska Creamery Board what happens to you when you disagree with her about a public policy issue.

And to all those of you out there who think, "Gee, she's just a regular gal. I really see a lot of myself in her, and I like that." I have just this one question: do you think that YOU are ready to be a heartbeat away from the presidency? Do you really?

It speaks volumes that not one McCain supporter would take my challenge and provide an actual explanation for how Palin was the Republicans' most qualified VP candidate. Not one.

I think that says it all.

I hear so many dems calling for "CHANGE", yet they offer tax and spend politics. How does this policy constitute a change from what they have promoted for years?!?! Some of us are taxed enough already! I have worked hard all my life so that I can afford to own a home, and now I am supposed to give that up because other people make less than I do? Why can't we all payy the same rate? Why do I have to shoulder a larger portion of the tax burden simply because I have worked hard all my life achieve a modicum of financial comfort and freedom? This is Socialist thinking, and NOT a change from what dems have proposed all along. It is the "have nots" wanting to take form the "haves" because they somehow feel entitled to do it! I had to take out student loans to pay for college AND worked a full time job while in school. I then had to work two jobs to pay off my student loans! To ask me to pay for others who have not invested the same time and effort is cahrity; to LEGISLATE it is absurd!

Thiw woman is clearly a danger for Americans and for the world since USA is now the leader of the world actually. Indeed, she has been know by Americans for 1 week and a tons of scandals are known. Thw owrst is that she abused of her power to fired the chief of police of the state troopers because he did not want to fire her step brother for personnal problems. Moreover she lacks experience in domestic and foreign policy (come on, her so called experience in her state is nothing compare to what you need to be President). Knowing that McCain is 72 years old and that he has skin cancer, the possibilities that she become president after a possible death of McCain is plausible if Republicans win the elections.And if thsi happened, it would do more damage to USA and the world than any hurricane blowing in USA.
Obama with his helper, Biden, an experimented polician in foreign policy, will improve the situation in USA and of this country in the world, unlike the McCain-Palin duet who would continue to keep USA in the dark, or worst who would bring back USA to Neanderthal era, just considering the foreign and the social issues of MCCain-Palin duet.

The Dow Jones Industrial Index is down 3% today. Investors must be watching the Republican convention.

Someone asked, "What exactly does it mean that McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time?" Simple. It goes to judgment.

We don't need four more years of that kind of judgment in the White House. It's the same type of judgment that led us to a war in Iraq with no exit strategy... the type of judgment that's trying to convince us Sarah Palin is the most qualified candidate to be Vice President.

No thank you, Mr. McCain.

Good day, all.

, foing that

I watched a day of negative speeches that lacked any real substance. It actually left me feeling angry and helpless...
that sort of "deep in your stomach" anxiety that makes you want to run and hide.

This group of speakers put forth a platform of exclusion and derision rather than hope and vision.

This is the sort of America we want?

We will get "drilled" alright

Black Yalie - give RichRod a couple of years to purge the previous recruits out of the system. I don't hold out much hope for this season. Down the road, who knows?

The one thing about the U of M that I will be eternally grateful for was teaching me how to reason.

Obama's trying to figure out how to dump Biden and get Hillary back right about now...
Posted by: Anonymous | September 4, 2008 4:21 PM

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Why, exactly, would he do that, Noman? According to online Conservative demigod Matt Drudge, the Obama campaign has raked in more than $8 million (from some 130,000 donors) since Palin spoke last night, and is on pace to put that number over the $10 million mark by the time McCain speaks tonight.

Keep it up, Republicans. You're putting the "fun" back in our fundraising.

Need a QB at Michigan. RichRod needs to go down south and get him one...One of those fast, get in trouble types. My classmate applied to UM law and got shut down. He's a liberal, so it serves him right. Nice campus in Ann Arbor... I see good politics too...

At a time when America is engaged in two wars and the credibility of U.S. leadership around the world is historic lows, do we really want a Vice President with exactly ZERO foreign policy experience? Especially when the president would be a 72-year-old, four-time cancer survivor who would be the oldest ever elected. The GOP prides itself on being the party that will “keep America safe,” but does the idea of placing a 44-year-old self-described “hockey mom” nobody heard about a week ago a heartbeat away from the presidency making anyone on this thread feel safe? Seriously?

Black Yalie,

Jimbo and Skeeter wanted me to get this straight before they did all that research you asked about. Do you expect us to believe that you have taken courses from three of Bush former professors especially considering that he graduated from Yale in 68? They said its hard to believe that three of his professors would still be around after 40 yrs. And exactly why should we believe anything you say?

Smart move by McCain, probably, to yield the independents to Obama and focus on mobilizing "the base" (the Christian right). I assume that he's realized that it's impossible to win a presidential election in the US if you are somewhat liked by the opposition. Being hated by the opposition is a requirement to get your own people to vote for you. So, this was the right move.

Anonymous, yes it is true that the President submits a "proposed" budget to the Congress. And the President, like any other citizen, has the right to have a position on a piece of legislation, and to voice his opinion. Still, from a numbers standpoint, how do we do the percentages? Particularly considering how legislation is pretty much never about a single thing, and is filled with pork barrel spending, can we really assign a number in this regard? Is it that McCain voted the way Bush "felt" 90% of the time? What if they agreed about some of the legislation, and disagreed about other parts? Also, most legislation passed is passed unanimously in Congress, because most of the legislation that actually gets through isn't controversial. I would agree that it is likely that McCain and Bush agree about a lot of things, because they share the same basic political philosophy. What makes McCain such a compelling figure is that when he disagrees, he doesn't mind saying so, and voting against his President and his party. What he doesn't do is dodge difficult votes, and he doesn't vote "Present".

Steve - I'm a Christian. As a Christian,I spend my free time helping needy people. I bought the "compassionate conservatism" line from Bush in 2000 and 2004 and have seen the results first hand on the streets of Dallas. I will NOT be taken in again. No thank you.

Dave is awesome...Don't you hate when Blacks try to be smart (besides me of course). Don't worry Dave I'm no threat, I'm just into IB (investment banking) and leverage finance. No political ambitions over here. Just HBS and Wall Street!

Republicans bragging about tokenism.

Derision, divisiveness and dread...
walks and quacks like Karl Rove.

How is this "America First"?

It seems like a lot of you just don't believe in compassionate conservatism. What you don't understand is that real Christians, like Sara Palin, actually believe in God. We know that God is all loving, infinitely compassionate and forgiving. We try to live our lives in this fashion. But we are human, and imperfect, and we fail sometimes. Still, we try not to judge, and we don't throw people under the wheels because they make a mistake. We know that all we need forgiveness because we are sinners. We are compassionate, and we care. Don't believe the psycho posters, Sarah cares, and she will make a great Vice President.

Black Yalie - U of Michigan

fred douglas - Huh?

Chris in Texas...Where did you go to undergrad?

Mike wrote: "I never, EVER, thought I would say this, but this Republican is voting Dem this year. Last night was my most embarrassing moment as a member of this party. Where is our plan for fixing the economy? Iraq? anything? Name calling plays well to the far right, but regular Americans are really turned off by it. She lied several times, and disgracefully trashed their opponents with school yard chants. Have we learned nothing? Why the need to trash church groups and other community organizations? How dumb was that? Trashing people who dedicate their time and energy to helping their fellow man? I thought we were Christians!!!!!!!!"

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People, quit trying to represent yourselves as a "Republican who is now voting for Obama" or a "Democrat who is disgusted with Obama"! It doesn't play well, undermines any valid points you may have and makes you look foolish since no one buys it! Just say what you have to say, whether you be democrat, republican, independent, libertarian, etc. Stop lying!

You know chris the author of She Wolf Clinton sayings sure looks sheepish. I cannot wait til he runs from the senate from Pa to really campaign against him. He and his pimps Joe, Subblefield, etc have really trashed Hillary and they never that Mccain thinks ourside the box all the time. Good bye Chris, Good bye Chris. Chris you have damned America too. So good bye Christine Mathews. Good bye.

Please pardon spelling errors...I'm on a legislative computer and have to watch my back on it...Some liberal freak hates when I'm on the Washington Post during work hours. I'm currently fulfilling my internship requirements...

Dave, I've met Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher signed a book of mine (at a Borders in Plano TX), Frau Palin is no Margaret Thatcher.

Amanda Kyle.....After reading your response I no longer had nothing to say, couldn't have broken it down any better. I will like to thank the republican party/supporters for reassuring me why I am a Democrat, cause either you are deaf or blind, you can hear and see all the lies and deceit.

GO OBAMA/BIDEN 08!!!!

"What exactly does it mean that McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time. Let's have a little lesson in basic American Government. The President has a limited role in legislation. Laws are introduced and passed by the Congress, and the President has nothing other than veto power (and not even line item veto power). Also, the President doesn't exercise his veto power that much. So what does it mean exactly, the 90% number? Does it mean that 90% of the time Bush vetoed a law that McCain didn't vote to override the veto? It has to be that, because that is the only time McCain, or any Congressman, would vote one way or the other on a Presidential vote."

steve, are you so naive that you dont think the president helps craft legislation to be introduced into congress? are you aware that the federal budget is submitted by the executive branch to be approved by congress? do you think that the president doesnt provide his opinion on every significant piece of legislation? do you think he might have his folks lobby on behalf of such legislation? i believe the math is mccain votes = bush supports-10%

Wow - I'm perusing the foreign press and it looks like Sarah Palin has really raised our standing in the world. The Brits are comparing her to Margaret Thatcher. A star is born!!

LOL and writing in CAPS are both annoying. Please stop.

Annonymous and Black Yalie.

I started to write something to refute your assertions....but I couldn't. Damn! I hate it when you're right like that....

And there are dozens more openings, Dave. Dn't worry; there's time.

Obama's trying to figure out how to dump Biden and get Hillary back right about now...

Hillary would have a field day with Sarah Palin....Biden will probably try to ask her out...

Steve, Steve, Steve...

So the difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans don't worry about alienating most Americans, because "most real Americans" agree with them?

How would you define "real" Americans in a way that ISN'T offensive? (Presumably you consider yourself a "real" American but who's NOT in your book?)

Republicans think they've cornered the market on patriotism. That's what all those "Country First" banners are about. Country First as opposed to what? (It's always about banners, flags and slogans with Republicans. You try way too hard.

It seems by the selection of Palin, and the sales pitch for her, the GOP has given the Dems lots of opportunities for negative ads:

1) McCain's stance against earmarks is ruined by Palin's great success in getting such earmarks. Plus, Palin's right wing views on social issues are identical to the views that have dominated in Washington for most of the last 8 years. In Palin, the GOP has found someone who is not from Washington, but who has already been playing the Washington game from 4000 miles away.

2) Palin's qualifications are in complete contradiction to the criteria for a VP that McCain stated on camera. This might go well with a picture of LBJ being sworn in. Perhaps this is a little risky for Obama, but the GOP is making so many silly claims regarding Palin's experience that they might just create a nice ad.

3) Alaska is perhaps the only state in the country where high fuel prices really boost the economy (now that Palin has managed to change the terms of their contract with Exxon). Thus, there are likely to be some juicy quotes from Palin on the joys of high oil prices.

Seems the slant of the comments are about in proportion to the views expressed in the paper. The Times still has you beat.

Her speech was real short on substance and long on nasty condescending remarks about Obama. Aside from that much of what she said about her own performance is not supported by the record. Alaska is the most taxpayer subsidized state in the nation. As to the bridge to nowhere she took the money so we paid but didn't even get a bridge. As to whining about the media, Fox News has been unfairly hammering the Democrats for many, many years so a little payback doesn't even begin to even the books. It seems the neocons can dish it out but can't take it very well. Despite all of the substantive stuff she did okay with the speech in terms of delivery and the Republicans are so desparate for anything that can change the subject from their 8 year failure in power that they were beyond joy.

Look...The GOP doesn't owe anyone any explanations. I had a debate w/a prof up here and I flat out told him, that the GOP is the party of the RIGHT, and if you're right, you don't owe any explanation for anything. Bush is a GOD here. I had three of his professor's and though they said his grades were nothing to write home about (in private), who needs good grades when you have that lineage. I'm no cowboy, but I didn't chose Yale for it's chicks. The conncetions that can be made here are far greater than the majority of the people who are reading this can comprehend. Let's face it Barack though he may be smarter than McCain, just doesn't fit the demographic that votes. And to the liberals out there who do vote for the smartest guy in the room, where did that get you in '00. We at Yale believe that Jimbo and Skeeter in West Virginia are the base that matters not the urban populace that festers like a sore in the united states. Education is the key to everyone, but I doubt 60% of the people who write on "The Fix" take an honest look at the legislative records of any candidate. I'm a poli sci major and I study issues like these and I'm blown away on how utterly dumb Americans are. Very sheepish to say the least. This rich kid from Exeter I go to school with said in a class that he hardly showed up for, it doesn't matter what Obama does or says, at the end of the day he's still black. And as trite as that seems, his utter honesty still rings true to me. It's not about policy or ideas...it's about O'Reilly v. Olberman. Left v. Right. And by deviding a populace of morons with a common interest in the country those who do go to schools like mine, can shape and frame this country to their liking. My last message to you fools that write on "The Fix" is, you should ahve taken that pre-SAT class. Then you could have gone Ivy and the gas price wouldn't even phase you. Just a little nugget for you. Now go really research the voting records and you may be surprised. And to Jimbo and Skeeter...the young republicans here at Yale really would like to thank you. We will be graduating soon and getting jobs at Goldman and learn how to send your jobs overseas very soon!

Laterz

"THERE IS NO INTOLERANCE LIKE LIBERAL INTOLERANCE" A vote for Obama will prove to be a vote for indecision and the paralysis of analysis. The big government, big programs of the Dem party serve only to weaken.

FAR too many of you are asking logical questions, here. (particularly the Dem policy wonks).

Hello! Anybody home? This is American politics, people....remember?

Who CARES if Sarah Palin has no experience, and is a bottom-of-the-barrel pick?

The important thing is she's hot! This is the land of Paris Hilton, people. Man, otherwise intelligent people can be SOOOOOOOOO dumb...

HILARIOUS - OBAMA COMPLAINING ABOUT BEING CRITICIZED AT RNC

LOL. All candidates get criticized at the opponent's convention. McCain was criticized at Obama's convention. Now, Obama and the Democrats are CRYING, saying that Sarah Palin and other Democrats were criticizing him in their convention speeches.

Just to make this clear, none of the criticism was mean and personal, like how Obama said McCain had a "temperament" issue in Obama's nomination speech. Obama's crying about criticism about his rhetoric not having any meat in it, and so on.

LOL. DOUBLE STANDARDS.

Obama has a whole vision of affirmative action politics. One can't jokingly, mildly criticize at african american candidate, even at the other party's convention.

Is there anything he's ever had to earn or achieve without racial preferences???

I'd like to see him take what Sarah Palin has taken from the press over the past week. Obama would develop a traumatic stress disorder!

Maybe Obama and Dems are now going to complain that he's being criticized at the RNC on account of his RACE!

If Obama can't handle the normal, mildly adversarial rhetoric of a national campaign, what is he doing in politics? How would he deal with country leaders who hate us?

WOW.

One interesting angle lies in her identification of the media -- and that means you, Chris -- as a partisan power center separate from the public interest. Nonsense of course; but it does point to a larger issue. The MSM have in fact done a pretty poor job of articulating the legitimacy of their role in our democratic system to an increasingly cynical public.

Perhaps you can convince your editors to give you an extra paragraph or two to explain why things like improper use of power or suppressing information actually matter to the common man. Otherwise he will continue to see the public discourse you enable as a kind of a gotcha game played among the elite, that has no bearing upon the issues he faces every day.

HILARIOUS - OBAMA COMPLAINING ABOUT BEING CRITICIZED AT RNC

LOL. All candidates get criticized at the opponent's convention. McCain was criticized at Obama's convention. Now, Obama and the Democrats are CRYING, saying that Sarah Palin and other Democrats were criticizing him in their convention speeches.

Just to make this clear, none of the criticism was mean and personal, like how Obama said McCain had a "temperament" issue in Obama's nomination speech. Obama's crying about criticism about his rhetoric not having any meat in it, and so on.

LOL. DOUBLE STANDARDS.

Obama has a whole vision of affirmative action politics. One can't jokingly, mildly criticize at african american candidate, even at the other party's convention.

Is there anything he's ever had to earn or achieve without racial preferences???

I'd like to see him take what Sarah Palin has taken from the press over the past week. Obama would develop a traumatic stress disorder!

Yes, she did well. Right about the press and dead on MSNBC-loser station except Brokaw & Gregory.
{Do not mention CM and KO yech!}
And BO was wrong not to pick Hillary- it looks weak and dumb. Biden? Please no one voted for him in primaries. It was the Clintons who did the healing. How's BO going to reach across the isle, let alone the world, when he can't manage Bill and Hillary? Gees! Common sense. Ask JFK w/ LBJ. 18,000,000 votes Michelle B. Go on Wheel of Fortune and get a clue.

I will vote Deems in certain offices-Rahm Emmanuel- and Nader for president. These folks are too much. Mc Cain will not make it and BO is just not the guy so far. Palin is fun and may be a reformer but creationism and Mc Same, who is a nice, brave man, is ill, old and let bush beat him up to badly before.
Bring back socially smart liberal to moderate republicans and more fiscally responsible, strong deems like the Clintons.
Get rid of reid and pelosi-replace with Rahm and Hillary. Then you might have something there.

Holy crapoli. I have never heard so much nasty, racist garbage from adults. The GOP should be proud. I guess that is their base? Don't fret. They won't get in. Way over the top.
Obama/Biden '08

I have to agree with the above comment. It was a dull, dull speech. I am shocked at the way the media is reacting to it.

She was more animated when talking about her family, but for the rest of it, it was obvious she was just reading GOP talking points.

Sorry, but I fell asleep during Giuliani's speech. I gather I didn't miss much.

Chris in Texas, I hope so. I'm not a Hillary supporter, but she is EXACTLY the right Democrat to take the fight to Ms. Alaska. A smart, experienced woman who really DOES have the qualifications to be president would leave Sarah palin' by comparison.

Howard B - she isn't the most qualified pick. All of the republican women qualified to serve as VP ran as fast as they could from McCain. They've worked with him for years in the Senate and can't stand the man. He's a pompous, arrogant jerk (I've met the man and agree with them). They had to go WAY DOWN the list to find Frau Palin. She's the only one stupid enough to accept his offer.

Small town crap. Me and everybody else are too busy working in our small town to give a crap about what other people think. She's just trying to get elected. She quit her small town the moment she left it.

It isn't hard to imagine politicians telling lies. As a matter of fact, I don't have to imagine it because I watched the Democratic National Convention last week. That's the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans come right out and say how they feel and what they believe in. They aren't ashamed at all, and they really don't have to worry about alienating most Americans, because most real Americans agree with a lot of what they have to say, and they appreciate in any event that someone is speaking their mind, whether they agree or not. It is the opposite with Democrats, they must, by necessity, hedge their comments and outright obfuscate their actual beliefs, because if people knew what they actually believe and stand for, they would run out of town on a rail.

Amanda Kyle -

Your intolerance is sick. Sorry that you think that Palin is a disgrace to women because she is not of your party.

Shame on you for putting your wicked paritsanship above all else. You are a disgrace to feminism and a disgrace to women. You care more about your stupid party than you do women.

Go crawl back under whatever slimy rock you came from, traitor.

for those of you who do not want four more years of Bush. republicans do not want that either.We want experience mixed with change,hope and actual reform . Now that is the ticket we should be voting for. Nominating a democratic president does not guarantee sucess.If we looked at the past with Jimmy Carter administration who was catastrophic to his people back then.Vote with your mind and heart ,Vote Mccain/Palin

'Our mama beats your Obama' - I love it!!

hdimig - ummm. Personally I don't recall "pounding Hillary over the head" with anything. I would have loved to see her take McCain, and especially Palin apart piece by piece. It would have been a true joy. I would have loved to see her as VP as well. I believe that Obama made a mistake there. If he had put her on the ticket the Republican convention would have been an interesting exercise in futility. Perhaps she didn't want the VP spot? But you work with the hands you're dealt. Anyone but Mccain!

Thanks Sarah, I just made a contribution to the Obama campaign in your name. I'm off the fence!!!!!

I am truly disappointed by the prejudging -dare I say prejudice - shown by candidate Palin (the pitbull in lipstick) in attacking a man she has apparently never met and whose work she clearly doesn't understand. Wow - and then she and the Republicans dare to cry "sexism" when anyone from the media asks a legitimate question about her record and experience. That wasn't the "-ism" evident in her speech.
Senior Citizen Feminist

rmorrow, why do you assume that the blogging crew at the WAPO is not made up of average Americans? Do you have some super psychic insight into what all average Americans are thinking today?

Marlene wrote
I can not vote for a candidate who says Eye-Rack. It's Er-rack. Take a look at the "sermons" by the minister of her local church -- he ranks right up there Obama's former minister. ... and she only got a passport in 2006 - and has barely ever traveled outside the US.
Sorry Marlene but she was right http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Iraq
this is how you pronounce the iraq. now are you going to vote for her?
Sarah filled my heart with joy . She made me proud to be a woman. she just has it all. I was not going to vote this year but for Ms Palin . I would be honored to vote for someone like her!

"All of you liberals are jealous of Carl Rove because he is just flat out Smarter than you!!"

Jealous of Rove? Yeah, just as jealous as I am of Benedict Arnold, Abramhoff, and all the Enron execs. I want so badly to be as scummy as them!

Gee, what other "great" figures do you worship? Torquemada one of your idols?

Will one -- just ONE -- McCain supporter here tell me how Sarah Palin was the most qualified vice presidential pick available? That's all I ask. Just please, please, please help me understand how this woman was the MOST QUALIFIED nominee the Republicans could select. Then I'll shut up.

Anyone?

What exactly does it mean that McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time. Let's have a little lesson in basic American Government. The President has a limited role in legislation. Laws are introduced and passed by the Congress, and the President has nothing other than veto power (and not even line item veto power). Also, the President doesn't exercise his veto power that much. So what does it mean exactly, the 90% number? Does it mean that 90% of the time Bush vetoed a law that McCain didn't vote to override the veto? It has to be that, because that is the only time McCain, or any Congressman, would vote one way or the other on a Presidential vote.

I'm from Alaska, and have to say that Sarah was very embarassing! Well, at least for Alaskan's we now know her true colors. How can she come home? I didn't vote for her as Governor & most certainly wouldn't vote a ticket that has her as Veep. Do you really want to trust her judgement with America? Look at the situation Alaska is left with.. she is running off to be Veep, her Lt. Governor is in a tight race with Congressman Don Young. They both ran off & left our Executive branch without leadership! Amazing! gees, try visualize her taking the 3:00 a.m phone call! State national guards & civil militia better start planning to defend their own states in the long term if we're going to count on someone like Sarah for national defense. Holy smokes! America gone mad.

I hope McCain, if elected, spends just a tad more time vetting his Sec of Defense, Atty General, etc. But now it's evident that McCain's bad judgment on this VP pick will surely mean Obama will win, thank God! We really can't afford 4 more years of the same.

Palin read the speech nicely - great delivery - but what substance did she offer? And did she say ANYTHING that came from HER? (Maybe the pitt bull part?) She came across as a sarcastic, negative light-weight - not ready for prime time.

Man, the blogging crew at the Post is so far removed from the mindset of average Americans, it is funny.

No wonder you guys are so confused. You spend all day with people who share your petty hatred, so you make the mistake of thinking that all Americans are as petty and hateful as you.

You guys are in for quite a surprise on election day. LOL. Can't wait.

Steve writes: "I have never seen a more caring and loving family. It isn't a show, you can see the love of the older children for their disabled sibling, and you can see how it is supposed to work."

I'm not asserting those things aren't true, but there's no way you can assert that they are. Is the idea of Republicans (or any politicians) telling lies that hard to believe? It was a show... and Ms. Palin is a fine actress. That's all.

Len,

You're absolutely right. The Democratic party should unleash Hillary Clinton on Frau Palin. The absolute gall of Palin's pandering to women who supported Clinton is pathetic. It reminds me of Dan Quayle comparing himself to John Kennedy. The Dems need Clinton to play the role of Benson. The question is, will she do it?

Jeremiah Wright - "...you want me to sing God Bless America? No No No, God Damn America!!!"

Oh yeah, my response is:

You want me to vote for Barrack Obama? No No No, God damn Barrack Obama!!!!

GOD HAS SHE SCARED THE YOU KNOW WHAT OUT OF THE LIBERAL CROWD. A WOMAN WHO CAN STAND ON HER OWN! ONE NOT AFRAID TO CALL A SPADE A SPADE!! A WOMAN NOT APPROVED BY THE DONT HAVE A MAN DONT WANT A BABY CROWD! A WOMAN WHO CAN MANAGE TO BE A MOM AND WIFE AND ALSO COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ALASKE NATIONAL GUARD.
OH HE... WHAT WILL WE DO NOW?
BAMA DOES NOT HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE EXCEPT VOTING PRESENT AND WRITING TWO FICTIONAL BOOKS PASSED OF AS MEMOIRS.
WOW IS OBAMA IN TROUBLE.
WOW WHAT IF THEY LOOK INTO OBMAMB'S BACKGROUND LIKE THEY DID PALIN.
WOW WOW! LETS TRASH HER COME ON GUYS AND GALL FROM THE LEFT GO ON AND TRASH HER AND TRASH EVERYTHING THAT IS GOOD ABOUT AMERICA.
AFTER ALL OBAMA SAID WORKING AMERICANS ARE BITTER, CHURCH GOERS WHO HAVE GUNS.
AND HIS PREACHER SAID, "GOD DAMN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." AND HIS WIFE SAID THE ONLY THING ABOUT AMERICA SHE IS PROUD OF IS HER HUSBAND.

A on delivery. F on substance. For an "outsider" she hit all the talking points of a right-wing divisive partisan. Nothing new. Bush and McCains speech writers prepared her well. I think the ever right-wing tone of this convention is going to drive the moderates and independents towards Obama/Biden. Which is ironic since McCain was suppose to be the guy who could attract those moderate and independent voters. The messege from this convention is that the GOP does not need those moderates and independents. Could be bad news for the GOP.

Obama - studied at a madrassa, snorted cocaine as a young man, his preacher hates America, his wife was never proud of America until recently, corrupt real estate dealings with a convicted felon.

"Well Kurt. It was because Bush/Cheney manufactured the evidence in their run up to the Iraq war and LIED to the senate, house of reps., and the people of the US. They even paraded Colin Powell in front of the UN to present these LIES. Any wonder why Powell left the Bush admin? Based on those LIES, most of our elected reps voted to authorize him to use force."

Nice. How come you can use those facts as an excuse with Biden when you pounded Hillary over the head with them for 6 long months? More Obamapocrisy.

I am from Juneau, Alaska and a member of the political world. I know and work with Sarah. For starters I am tired of hearing how bad we are up here and how Sarah is such an amazing reformer that has cleaned up our state. It is true that Alaska has made a lot of positive changes since she took office but let's be honest it wasn't just because of Sarah. At times it was even in spite of her. Ethics reform here began far before she took over and in the end what we passed went far beyond what she requested. I am also sick of hearing how she "cut spending, cut taxes and balanced our budget." Our total budget actually went up by 34% this year. Our budget was “balanced” but only because we have more cash then we know what to do with because of the spike in oil revenues (which makes up 85% of our total state revenues). Also keep in mind Alaska is a state with no personal income tax or sales tax and the only real "tax" in this state is on corporations, including oil companies. However under Sarah’s leadership corporate taxes increased. Sarah also directed us to hand out, in addition to our normal annual dividend, which this year will be around $2000, an additional $1200 to every man, women and child to off set the increase in energy costs. Ask any of the lower 48 governors what their approval rating would be if they had unlimited revenue to fund government and could handout piles of cash to every resident. Please tell me this is all just a bad dream and American will wake-up and see that Sarah is just the hot girl in class that makes good with a smile and telling us all what we want to hear - which to be honest if you listen isn’t really anything at all. She does deserve credit for being the in right place at the right time, but to take credit for good deeds that for the most part were done by others doesn’t sit well with those of us that did make it happen. The real reason American isn’t hearing the truth about Sarah is because the McCain marketing team is actively branding their new “product.” You also won’t hear a lot “directly” from us that have a dog in the fight because we all know we will end up on her blacklist and with her even greater new found “power” our next job will be finding a spot in the woods to bury our dogs.

All of you liberals are jealous of Carl Rove because he is just flat out Smarter than you!!
Posted by: Anonymous | September 4, 2008 3:41 PM

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On the other hand, we can spell his name, so we've got that going for us.

You gotta give it to Patrick from PG. He starts out by saying "Wow, such harsh words from both sides of the aisle". I thought this might be followed by some reasoned thoughts on the election, but instead it is followed by the old liberal elitist charge that we are "Idiots". That's right, just keep talking that way, and insinuating that everyone who disagrees with you is an "Idiot" or a "Fascist". It just isn't possible that a Republican is an intelligent thinking person who happens to disagree with you about something. We must be "Nazis!" (my favorite). And as a special needs parent I really think you should stop questioning how she is raising her child. I mean, go ahead, but risk alienating Democratic special needs parents. We understand the challenges in a way that most people just can't, because they don't know. I have never seen a more caring and loving family. It isn't a show, you can see the love of the older children for their disabled sibling, and you can see how it is supposed to work. In a real family, you work together to overcome obstacles, and to support each other. Such beautiful people up there, and such despicable people in here.

If Sarah Palin is so awesome, why is she the the only one out of Obama/Biden/McCain not appearing on a Sunday morning press show? Maybe because she'll be called a LIAR for her repeated assertion about the Bridge to Nowhere?

Nah, can't be that. The media is completely rolling over for the Republicans.

Thanks for the kick in the ass. We're gonna work even harder now!
Posted by: RobInDC | September 4, 2008 3:45 PM

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Yep. Every time they try to pull a hit job like that painfully obvious bit of moose poop last night, we donate more, we make more calls, we register more voters, and we work even harder. They haven't quite figured it out, yet, but they will.

If Sarah Palin is so awesome, why is the the only one of Obama/Biden/McCain not appearing on a Sunday press interview? When is the McCain campaign going to stop hiding her from the press?

Yes, Sarah Palin is telegenic and smart. Yes, she proved she can deliver an effective, well-crafted speech to an RNC audience desperate to infuse a moribund, new-idea-free campaign with some energy and personality. But what she also showed America was that she could be petty, partisan, condescending and blatantly dishonest. Her belittling comments about Obama’s supposed lack of experience – how’s that for irony? – made her (and McCain) look like standard-issue Republicans – which is exactly what millions of Americans have said they’ve tired of. If Democrats have the courage they should fire back at her just as forcefully instead of taking the high road for fear of a backlash. I think Obama should have Hillary lead the attack, squashing the GOP’s cynical “any female will do” argument while at the same time pointing out Palin’s inexperience and extreme social positions relative to her own.

After all the Sarah-mania and post-convention buzz dies down, people will remember the election is about the top of the ticket and focus on what Obama and McCain represent (Change vs. More of Same). What last night showed us is that the Republicans won’t go down without a fight and that in the next two months Obama needs to do a better job of contrasting his definition of “change” with McCain’s. Isn’t it interesting how Republicans are trying to seize the “change” mantle for their own purposes?

Most voters already know what Obama means by change – 1. a break from the current GOP blueprint: offering negligible tax relief for the middle class and poor while the richest 5% make out like bandits; and 2. exploiting fear of terrorism to keep America in a perpetual state of war that lines the pockets of big business to name a couple.

Unfortunately, Obama may need to keep driving that point home to undecided voters and those who haven’t been paying attention – voters who may end up swinging the election. Until Obama he does that (he will) FOX News and right-wing talk radio will keep spinning the yarn that somehow a man who voted with George W. Bush 90% of the time somehow represents change. (Good luck trying to make that argument, GOP).

Bring on the debates!

"WWAAAAAAAAAUUUGGHHH!!! There's a woman stealing my job!!!

It was a decent speech. You may not like the content, but she is better than Dan Quayle or Admiral Stockdale. I hate Republicans and The RNC convention! During the DNC convention I was wondering if anything could be worse. Yes it can! The RNC convention is horrid. I wish I could be more enthusiastic about Obama, but the downstream Dems can count on my vote!

Alright RobinDC, that's what we are doing here in South Carolina, getting folks registered to vote.

Guys would much rather look at Sarah Palin for the next four years than Joe Biden.

Where do I get a job as a "community organizer?"

Posted by: Dave | September 4, 2008 3:43 PM

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You don't. You're not qualified.

Only an idiot partisan "journalist" living in a bubble would even need to ask the question, "How did she do?"

How much more out of touch can the MSNBC crowd be?

I just read through the comments and WOW are people mean. Incredibly mean. It is funny to think about how kind everyone was to each other when 9-11 happened. I guess it is much harder to just be nice and civil towards one another.

Dave,

You're not qualified to be a "community organizer". To be one you actually have to care about the well being of other people. You know, hungry kids, families without healthcare, and all the other losers that the Bush administration left behind while shoveling money to the oil and pharmaceutical companies.

Dianne 72, you seem quite ghetto. What is your problem? It seems like you are jealous or threatned by this intelligent lady (Michelle Obama). You better be careful what you dish out, karma is a bithch. You racist a_ _ hole.

Obama might have to go back to being a "community organizer."

For all of the posters here saying that Obama and the Democrats are toast, you should know that every friend and coworker I've talked to today (all Obama supporters) have said that they are going to work even harder for his election after last night's party rally. These are folks who are really more of the types to make a contribution but not do any volunteer work, however they are signing up for get out the vote efforts and planning to drive voters to the polls in November. Thanks for the kick in the ass. We're gonna work even harder now!

Kurt sez "why when picking a running mate based of foreign policy/miltary experience did he select a Senator who supported the invasion of Iraq?"

Well Kurt. It was because Bush/Cheney manufactured the evidence in their run up to the Iraq war and LIED to the senate, house of reps., and the people of the US. They even paraded Colin Powell in front of the UN to present these LIES. Any wonder why Powell left the Bush admin? Based on those LIES, most of our elected reps voted to authorize him to use force.

Where do I get a job as a "community organizer?"

Sarah Palin = Bush 2.0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhjuRMi_78U

Here we go again!

Another "reformer with results" country governor who masks extreme rightwing views and total incompetence with folksiness and platitudes about being "compassionate".

Just another pretty face on the ugly policies of environmental destruction, more subsidies for Big Oil, more wars and hatred abroad, and more partisan warfare and religious extremism at home.

Wow. Such harsh words from both sides of the aisle. Her speech was very effective and it reached the audience that the Republicans are looking for; White Americans in the Midwest and South. Those are the same idiots who backed Bush for 8 years. They are the same idiots who are living check to check and are sending their kids to Iraq to die. Her selection was a classic Republican strategy from the 1980's. Do you remeber affirmative action in the workplace? Well Republicans found a way around it by promoting white woman instead of blacks. It is the same thing here. How do you counter a Black man who is talented? You get a white female who is attactive. If McCain/Palin win the election OUR Country will be in big trouble but that is ok because the ones that will be impacted the most will be the dummies who voted Republican.

All of you liberals are jealous of Carl Rove because he is just flat out Smarter than you!!

Are you telling me to shut up? What about my right to free speech? Help, Help I'm being oppressed!!!!

Dave, if you have some evidence that Obama went to Pakistan to join a jihad against the Russians then PUT IT ON THE TABLE. Otherwise, stop making a fool of yourself with your internet troll conspiracy theories.

"Insane!" the posters wail. "Hottie, good looking..." Up is down, and down is up, as the liberal posters spew sexist hate at this accomplished woman. That's what she is, an accomplished, outspoken, articulate woman. Her looks have nothing to do with this, and you misogynists who proclaim yourselves to be for women's rights should be ashamed of yourselves. I hope you have trouble sleeping at night. What is clear, even more clear than it has been for some time, is that liberals are all for women's rights, just so long as the woman in question walks in lockstep with their views. You people make me sick. Obama had some of the same problems with the radical African American activists, that he wasn't really black, because he disagreed with some of their ideas and policies (see NYT magazine article). It is the same nonsense that Rice and Powell had to deal with, this vicious attack that they aren't really "black" because of their views. I am a Public Defender, in an office of lefties, and speaking with the women in my office today they had nothing but good things to say about Gov. Palin, and her speech. They still aren't going to vote for McCain, because they honestly disagree with his policies, but they don't stoop to the kind of garbage the posters use as their stock in trade. Hopefully, in four years, we will see a Hillary v. Palin race. That would be something.

Wonderful.
Her presence alone guarantees millions of Obama contributions in the coming weeks.

Each time she speaks, it's Golden.

Run Sarah, Run.

The Land God Forgot

The lonely sunsets flare forlorn
Down valleys dreadly desolate;
The lordly mountains soar in scorn
As still as death, as stern as fate.

The lonely sunsets flame and die;
The giant valleys gulp the night;
The monster mountains scrape the sky,
Where eager stars are diamond-bright.

So gaunt against the gibbous moon,
Piercing the silence velvet-piled,
A lone wolf howls his ancient rune --
The fell arch-spirit of the Wild.

O outcast land! O leper land!
Let the lone wolf-cry all express
The hate insensate of thy hand,
Thy heart's abysmal loneliness.

So sayeth Robert W. Service and so sayeth we all. Palin combines both "the hate insensate" and " her heart's abysmal loneliness" into a tirade worthy of the Nuremberg orations. Nice to know who the new Jews are.

Hey Gibbon. Give it up with the Islam thing, okay? If he went to Pakistan with two Christians, would that be okay? People in the 20's explore which is one of the benefits of being young. Did you know that the human brain is not fully developed until the age of 25? Did you do anything in your twenties that you regret? Of course you didn't. Do you know anything about Islam? Of course you don't. You and those of you persuasion would rather wallow in ignorance as opposed to expending some energy to learn something that might alter your very limited worldview. I voted for Bush. I also attended a church where anger at this great country has been expressed - vehemently at times. I also have friends who are Moslem. So what?? You and those like you are amazingly inconsistent. He went to a Christian church but the message was un-American but he has Moslem roots so he must be a Moslem sympathizer. Make up you mind. What is he? Who are you? Do you have your lapel pin on? Of course you do.
By the way, who told you about the trip? Were you provided documents to substantiate the trip? Did Sean Hannity tell you or did he allow you to watch the video? Grow up, Guy. If you don't like the man, don't vote for him but to question a man's patriotism and love for his country because he doen't think, look or act like you is nothing short of disgusting.

I think you got the point.
Posted by: Tuathe | September 4, 2008 3:20 PM

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Yep:

Noun,verb,POW/Noun,verb,Hockey Mom '08!

Same old crap, only this time with 30% more lipstick.

Last night's comments were interesting. Democrat: she didn't mention economics. Response: she spent a lot of time on economics, talking about McC's energy plan and how it would provide jobs for Americans and also allow our money to be investing INSIDE the USA and not sent abroad. Also, she said that his tax plan would provide more jobs in industry than Obama's, which would send jobs abroad and discussed how that would happen. Democrat: she did not talk about foreign policy. Response: she discussed the difference between O's reaction to the Russia-Georgia crisis and McC's explaining how different the approaches were, and why McC was right. She discussed the experience of McC in foreign policy. It goes on. One wonders whether the TV Democrats were watching the speech or were busy writing generic criticisms that were not applicable. So far, most of the Democratic criticisms of the speech were answered IN the speech. The writer was pretty good, and she delivered it well.

Excuse me, but did I hear correctly that the GOP now wants change? Did hear correctly that the GOP hates Washington insiders? Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the GOP controlled the White House for the last eight years, and both houses of Congress for six of the last eight years? And if John McCain isn't a Washington insider, who is? From an objective stand point, this is such an obvious line of b.s. that it's not clear how anyone withan IQ in the triple digits would believe it.

The last person to run as a Washington outside and win trampled on the Bill of Rights, brought us costly wars in which victory was never a possibility and did little to avert economic crisis--and he's smiled all the way through it. We do not need any more clueless outsiders.
And the thing about pit bulls and soccer moms? Was that really supposed to be funny?

Can the Washington Post please tell me what Obama was doing in Pakistan in the early 1980's?

i think obama only memorized the part of the koran that says, "You have your relition and i have mine" before it was abbrogated (erased and replaced) by teh newer revelation that your supposed to hunt down and kill the infidels (non muslims) wherever you find them.

This speech was immature and lacked substance. It was like a schoolyard fight. I don't think this speech reflects very well on her, or the GOP. She also used her youngest child as a prop...which is insulting considering she will be leaving that child and his extraordinary needs for more than 3 months while she campaigns for a job thousands of miles away.

I hope this sounded juvenile enough to make to tighty righties happy.

Posted by: anon | September 3, 2008 11:27 PM

*****

Oh no! she plans on taking him everywhere she campaigns. It is very important for people to know that she is a mom or a special needs baby. What more qualifications do you need? (GAA! eye roll!) She's a mom and a stalwart Republican who believes in the right to life no matter what the situation. Don't you get it! Right is right and anything left of right is wroooong! You really need to get with the program.

Thanks in advance Washington Post for following up and discerning the facts behind Palin's vast past experience that qualifies her to be VP/President. Please send one of your best reporters to interview her about substantive issues. Does she have the education, experience or accomplishments in any area to be deemed an expert at anything except spewing sarcasm and degrading those who help the vulnerable?

"During college, Obama went to Pakistan"..... Wait a minute, that would about the 1982 time frame, wouldn't it? Did Obama go there for the jihad against the Russians? Did he meet with any future Al-Qa'ida members?

Yes, Dave, Obama was honest, unlike George W. Bush who has refused to answer questions about his past drug use. If he hadn't done it he would have said so. I'd prefer someone who faces up to their past than tries to hide it any day.

"Through his book, Obama has become the first potential presidential contender to admit trying cocaine" - Washington Post, 03 January 2007.

Posted by: Dave | September 4, 2008 3:24 PM

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As opposed to W, who lied about it...

Last night's Republican event shows how far we have come toward the goal of gender equality, with Palin proving herself every bit as much of an ambitious, self-serving, smarmy, self-congratulatory petty fascist as either Romney or Giuliani. This whole VP selection phase of the campaign speaks volumes about McCain as a decision-maker, aka President. No thanks!

Palin showed last night that she can be as deceitful, vindictive and sarcastic as any man.

Back home in Alaska she has shown that she is as fiscally irresponsible and comfortable with graft and cronyism as Bush.

She spent her little town's surplus into a $22 mil debt. (which is a lot for a town of 5,000) - even after securing $27 mil in earmarked pork - of the kind McCain used to oppose.

She also tried to ban books from the town library and fire the librarian (she failed) for refusing to cooperate.

Start with this article in The Atlantic for details:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/an-wasillan-on.html

Leave it to the Republicans to think a person like this should hold national office. So much for Country First. Nominating Palin is a cynical act of "Party First" at the expense of the U.S.A.

I just want the media to ask Barak Obama just one question about his choice of Joe Biden.

"If Obama's opposition to the Iraq war is the central issue of his campaign then why when picking a running mate based of foreign policy/miltary experience did he select a Senator who supported the invasion of Iraq?"

Obama received the Dem nomination albeit by a hair based on two reasons-his race and his opposition to the Iraq War. He positioned Clinton as the "war candidate." Why then did he pick a veep with an Iraq war vote identical to Clinton?

With all of the socialist, "change" agent, peacenick members of the Democrat's delegation to Congress and he picks a guy who's served in the Senate three decades and voted yea to troops in Iraq?

The Dem's want to say picking Palin was a pandering pick? Too funny.

Sarah Palin introduced us to her family last night and just as we expected they turned out to be your basic born-again white trash, complete with a hockey star and a champion sno-mobil racer.

Black's shouldn't be in the white house...It's football season, that's where they should be...entertaining. McCain could have paraded a transvestite cyclops out there and Obama still wouldn't stand a chance. I know all of the blogger's and or commentary will state "we're above all of that..." and that needs to stop. We're not above anything. 60 years removed from the civil rights and voting rights isn't enough. Football, basketball, singing, dancing, and Tiger Woods....that's all we get....I'm cool with it though, you should be too

Not impressed by Sarah Palin in the least. Parading a female VP is a poor strategy for McCain whose own party members were not too enthusiastic about him before the announcement. The assumption that the women of America will support him simply because he has a woman on his ticket is a disservice to intelligent women everywhere. We vote on values and issues that are important to us.

Just as Palin wants the media to leave her daughter's pregnancy out of the discussion because it is a 'private matter', so is my right to choose whether or not to have an abortion. This is not an electable platform any longer - leave my 'private matter' out of your public policy.

Rumor:

Russia has selected a "Hockey Mom" from Siberia to be second in command to the Russian President. She will be a heartbeat away from the nuclear button.

Bush with lipstick.

During college, Obama went to Pakistan with a friend who was visiting his family. What is so weird about that? Who hasn't gone home with a friend and met their family? His friend was in college in the US and now lives and works as an executive in New York, so it is a safe bet that he isn't some Islamic radical supporting Al Quaeda in Pakistan.

Do a Poll- Palin Vs Obama for President.

Obama would win with about 78% of the vote.

Obama has been scrutinized by the natinal press for four years and Palin wants to ask him questions?

Rather than try to explain herself to us in two short months before the election!

This is insane and it is apalling that John McCain would stoop to such theatrical tactics as to nominate an unknown hateful hottie into the campaign at the last second.

Watch it again!

Sarah Palin National Convention Speech 09/03/2008

part 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcj4v6YMOZI
part 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzjivV09-Qg
part 3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZOpS7YDBEM&feature=related
part 4: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLdO7qSJn-8

To support Palin's candidacy, you MUST now donate to the RNC, as the McCain campaign has accepted federal funds and can't spend donations for campaigning as of 09/01.

https://secure.gop.com/donate/

MomInABQ - Our president and vice president don't support torture. They support "aggressive interrogation techniques".

GET REAL! Sarah Palin speech contains no real substance. This was more of a distraction speech to divert away from the real issues. The Republicans are not talking about the real issues that plaguing the America people, because they have no solutions. Republicans, what about the economy-jobs loss, rising costs of healthcare, war in Iraq, energy, home foreclosures, education-etc. I was not impress whatsoever-a speech slamming the media, Obama, Biden and the Washington establishment. Sarah Palin, your speech had no merit, or real substances. And kudos to the media, you’re going a great job! Republicans are so out of touch, just look at the crowd at the convention center. There is a lack of diversity in the Republican Party. As the country continues to diversifies, the Republican Party has not. IT VERY OBVIOUS WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY SYMBOLIZE- "A PARTY OF EXCLUSION"

What's really scary isn't so much the election -- it's how dumb the people are that actually post here. They can't spell, write correctly or even put cohesive thoughts together. I think by these posts alone both candidates better look into re-educating a sad American public.

The media is always liberal for questioning - that's a brilliant one for the ages -- BECAUSE THAT HAPPENS TO BE THEIR JOB!

I don't like her whiny voice --- another brilliant mind at work. Yes, you go continue to trust the sound over the substance - should get your far.

Someone please educate the midwest and south to look beyond television, and someone get the educated folks on the two coasts to come off their high horses to actually work politics into a substantive discussion and not a media circus where a candidate is decided on by their looks, voice, age, sex or what have you. Someone get a grip on what's going on in this country.

I'm constantly amazed by the short-term memory loss of so many Americans. The last 8 year have been HORRRIBLE for this country. Do you really want more? And while i may like Palin and McCain as people, the policies they are calling for are simple repeats of what we already have. Wake up folks. Focus on the issues, not the people. If you are better off now,and truly believe the country is, go ahead for for the GOP ticket. But sadly most of are not better off.

Diane72 wrote:
Do you think Michelle Shaniqua Obama
will try to institute that fake ghetto
holiday Kwanza if she gets to the White
House?

We NEED Barack Obama in the White House if only so we can begin to move past racist trailer trash sentiments like this. The fact that you have free speech doesn't mean you aren't vile.

I don't have voting right of this country. But by just watching of two party's conventions by objective point of view, I think Republican party did not choose a good candidate for VP position. It seems that they chose her just to win the election by getting more women's vote, not thinking about how to run the nation after they win. Obviously, the President of US has to have a well qualified, experienced VP on his side running this country. But it does not seem to be the case for this Republican choice of VP for this election. Palin might be a very good governor of Alaska, but I don't think she is ready to be VP of this country yet.

"Through his book, Obama has become the first potential presidential contender to admit trying cocaine" - Washington Post, 03 January 2007.

Nice-looking white woman who doesn't pose a real intellectual challenge to anyone defeating a smart black man is a fantasy that may stroke some serious inferiority complexes for sure.

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Men will vote for Sarah Palin in droves. She's now America's sweetheart!!

Posted by: Dave | September 4, 2008 2:44 PM

All I see here is attacks, attacks, attacks. We must be a buncha angry, out of touch liberal elitists because we're mad the Palin has now repeatedly LIED about the Bridge to Nowhere. Because we're mad she tried to have books banned as mayor, because she's engaged in multiple abuses of power like firing two different police heads for silly reasons. Because she takes extreme positions like opposing abortion even in cases of rape or incest.

Good luck selling that to independents. Most of them would like somebody who actually tells the truth when they campaign, thank you very much.

She didn't cut any spec ed budget. People have misunderstood. Some special-needs schools that were lumped into one item in the budget in past years were placed on two lines in the budget this year. Thus, if you add both lines, you get essentially the same funding from last year to this year.

So, it was bad for the Vietnamese to not respect John McCain's rights when he was a prisoner of war, but it is ok for the US to not respect the rights of our prisoners of war at Guantanomo? Does Ms. Palin believe that only Americans are entitled to be treated fairly?

Hey Dave, it was a state school. Par for the course for you Repubs, LIE just like Palin LIED last night about the bridge to nowhere. Among other things.

Any undecided voter, have a good look at the AP article chronicling all the lies told last night. It makes some eye-opening reading.

Sarah Palin is not Democrats worst nightmare - it is 4 more years of an administration that has ruined many institutions of the federal government with partisanship. It is having a President and VP who support torture. It is trying to live with people for whom lies and coverups are the norm. It is most of all, having an administration that mocks our Constitution and ignores our laws.

Plagerism - is that the worst you can come up with? Tell that to the women and children of Darfur.

Amanda and the rest of you bitter leftists: You've proven what I've known all along. You're no more liberal than Joseph Stalin and your views are basically the same as his. You can't handle the fact that you don't have a monopoly on women and blacks in politics. If they are conservative, then there must be something amiss. All these sexists attacks show your real colors. You all remind me of the Wicked Witch of the East when Dorothy accidentally spilled water on her. Screaching as she melted away. Sarah Palin has an 80% approval rating in her state. 'Splain that to me Lucy...

Just remember
- John McCain was a POW during Vietnam.
- John McCain is a maverick.
- John McCain was a POW during Vietnam.
- John McCain is a straight talker.
- John McCain was a POW during Vietnam.
- John McCain is a warrior.
- John McCain was a POW during Vietnam.

I think you got the point.

I am hoping that someone in the mainstream media, in a non-partisan and objective fashion, will challenge her misinformation and, taking a long hard look at her tone of ridicule and sarcasm, will differentiate these behaviors from leadership, statesmanship, and criteria for VP....
Posted by: PBK | September 4, 2008 3:14 PM

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There's already been an AP story that corrected many of the factual errors (read: lies) from her speech last night. I expect more will follow.

Did B. Hussein Obama memorize the Koran when he was studying in that madrassa? I want to hear him recite it. When is the Washington Post going to send a reporter to the madrassa to check it out? Is it a radical madrassa or a moderate madrassa?

Wonderful VP pick. More than a community organizer and a plagiarist blow hard. She is a breath of fresh air.

BLOWOUT RATINGS FOR SARAH PALIN'S SPEECH

Sarah Palin's ratings: 37 million people tuned in to see Sarah Palin's speech last night, just under the number who tuned in to see Barack Obama's nomination speech.

And she didn't have to build a $6 million temple in a coliseum and fire off fireworks and have free rock groups.

From the vile viciousness of the Obamanuts assaults we know for sure Obama is going to tank in November.

Obamanuts please drink the Jim Jones Kool Aid when Obama tanks so the Democratic Party will not suffer your presence in 2012.

After Obama tanks, he can follow his true calling -- to become the greatest con man TV preacher of all times! He'll rake in more wealth than billionaie Pat robertson ever dreamed of doing in is wildest dreams!

Gov. Palin does not have a "strained beauty pageant smile". Her trouble is that she can't stop smiling, as the photographer for her official photo as Governor reported. I know this is hard for the sky is falling liberals to understand, but some people just like to smile, because whatever their problems, they can be happy, not bouncing off the walls with complaints about how the government isn't giving them enough handouts. Governor Palin delivered a brilliant speech, which, whatever the liberals want to say, was not short on substance. And the continuing attacks that she is just "Bush II" are frankly embarrassing at this point. Gov. Palin is about as far from the Ivy League spoiled rich kid Bush as can be. She is a great American, a potential hero to our people, and an fine example for my own daughter. Oh, and she is the first Candidate from either party that has talked about special needs children and their families. I hoped she would say something, but never expected something as clear as that she would be our friend and advocate in the White House. It is time for someone to speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves, those poor challenged children who receive substandard services, if any at all. We love you Sarah!

Now that we are running for office, let's start spewing the hatred at our opponents because this is what God would want us to do... what a bunch of hypocrites.

Dave sez - "Once in a generation the world gets a gift like her"

True, the last time the world got a "gift like her" her name was Eva Braun.

Seig Heil! Seig Heil! Seig Heil! Frau Palin!

When GOP VP nominee, Sarah Palin, noted that "the difference between soccor
moms and pit bulls was lipstick"; it was powerful, entertaining and
educational. WHO KNEW?
Not, however; the first speech that she has made. The following link tells
the nation exactly why we are in Iraq according to Sarah Palin:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090303102.html?hpid=sec-religion

I watch JSM Ministries, that's Jimmy Swaggert for those with short memories,
sandwiched between the Joyce Myers and Paula White ministries. Wonderful
man, carried the word to the down trodden prostitues on Canal Street in New
Orleans when no other preachers would go there. Practises the same
Penecostal religious beliefs that Sarah Palin practises. Filled with the
Holy Ghost, physical spasms, and speaks in unknown tongues.
Excellent speech last night! I understood every word she said and either she
was speaking English or she needs me when she talks to Vladimir Putin. I
don't think the Holy Ghost was in Minneapolis last night but I've watched
Jimmy for decades and I've never seen it. Can it be predicted?
WHO KNEW! The seperation between church and state has never been more
fragile.

GOP Presidential nominee, McCain has a beautiful, intelligent, articulate
lipstick wearing, soccor mom (read pit bull) for a running mate. We
desperately need change. Lets collectively hope that she doesn't turn out to
just be the lipstick on the pig that Republican Party politics sometimes
resembles!

THE COST WAS WAY TOO HIGH JOHN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dave@3:03, be careful with the remarks about Obama's drug use (it was in high school, not college - get the facts right before you post), because Governor Palin has admitted to having smoke marijuana.

gibbon - last time I checked it's legal for citizens of the US to travel to any foreign country except Cuba and North Korea. Or did I miss something and Bush took that right away from us too?

Too bad Frau Palin never exercised that right.

"Cindy's Outfit? $300K. Elitism Charges? Priceless."

I am hoping that someone in the mainstream media, in a non-partisan and objective fashion, will challenge her misinformation and, taking a long hard look at her tone of ridicule and sarcasm, will differentiate these behaviors from leadership, statesmanship, and criteria for VP. She was clever and entertaining in her tone, somewhat like a SNL skit, successfully trashing the character and achievements of her opponents. I think comedians do that for a laugh; she was presenting herself as a heartbeat away from the presidency! I think she took the country into the gutter and the press went with her.

I'm just giddy. Sarah Palin is the Democrat's worst nightmare come true. She's a natural leader who will rally her party to victory in November. Once in a generation the world gets a gift like her.

Sarah Palin makes me feel dirty. Her ability to deliver petty, baseless insults against a man that millions of people have vetted and already voted for, without even bothering try to offer a positive idea of her own was stunning and sickening, sure. Obviously, right?

But I have to admit, it's very sexy. If I were a woman I would be absolutely embarrassed and mortified by her dregrading presence on a presidential ticket, but as a man... wow, there is something about a very sexy, outrageously hypocritical, psycho-brand-christian woman dressed up like a cable TV newscaster and tossing out republican talking points that really gets to me. Of course I'm terrified at the possibility that she and the dirty old man who thought this was a good idea might be in charge of finishing off the country in too months- but yeah, I would. Know what I mean? Dirty, sexy, money...

Alex H. wrote:
Who do you want as VP?

Joe Biden. . . . A plagiarizer and a LIAR! As a politics-as-usual, 30+-year Washington parasite, Plagiarist-Joe never worked harder than in his efforts to kill bi-partisan legislation simply because it would have adversely affected the enormous income of his lobbyist son. Plagiarist-Joe is the poster-boy for all that is rotten with Washington. This choice further illustrates the incredibly bad judgment of the Chicago Cretin.

Sarah Palin. A true political reformer who has cleaned-up one of the most politically corrupt states in the nation and who has shown a solid and unwavering commitment to ethical government. Palin is the antithesis of Plagiarist-Joe.

Tough choice? ----NOT!

(For the genetically low-IQ supporters of hussein: sorry about using all these adult words. Just so you'll understand, "antithesis" means "opposite". Being a plagiarist is "bad" - not in sense of "good" but in the sense that going to jail for beating-up your old lady is "bad".)

Posted by: ALEX H. | September 4, 2008 2:27 PM

Geez, are you for real? Accusing political opponents of being such things as "low-IQ" supporters of Hussein, etc." is exactly the level of discussion that too many members of your party (and some, though fewer or mine) have sunk to. This is because they crave power so much that they easily delude themselves that they aren't surrendering principles in the process of exercising it, then rant against anyone who objects, however mildly or logically.

Also, have you read ANY of the stuff that is pouring out in the press about Sarah Palin's abuse of power issues (forget the pregnant daughter, that's not really an issue and Obama showed smarts and class by saying so very early on)? It is turning into a torrent. There is probably something to at least some of it, and it at least ought to make fairminded people think a little before throwing their arms around a candidate because the party they endorse has anointed her.

You toss off 30 years of public service from Biden as just being a parasite. Biden becomes a political hack and irredeemable sinner because he made a big mistake 20 years ago? Why don't you ask a few Delaware residents what they think of him? Most would say he has represented their interest pretty well, just as most Alaskans would say the same of Sarah Palin at the moment. By the way, she DID take the "bridge to nowhere" money and there is ample evidence to support her early support of this earmark. I

You think in a laughably simplistic line. One big barrier to having a serious, issue-based campaign is that there are so many of you that serious (or even civil) discussion of issues is becoming difficult. The politicians of both parties know that to get your vote, they are going to have to pander to your idiocy. Your sneering tone is too typical, and it hides a typical lack of measured thinking and substance. The more of you there are, the meaner and dumber our public discoure becomes. Palin's speech last night was full of this sneering, and I am hoping it will have quite the opposite effect that she and the McCain campaign leadership are hoping for.
Red meat for the base, sure. Not very appetizing for anyone else less blindly partisan.

My guess is you write off anything you don't want to be true to a pervasive liberal media conspiracy. You sound like you start with a conclusion you want to be true, then work backwards and reject and insult anything that does not fit your prejudices.

So . . . who's got a low IQ?

I am continually amazed at the vitriol that now seems to be inherent in the campaign process and on lists like this. People, please. We are ALL Americans first; can't we have an election without stereotyping and demonizing each other?

I guess I'm too much of an optimist. I guess that's why I'll be voting for Obama/Biden.

I feel Palin sold her soul, after Obama took a stand for her family, she allowed herself to be used as a pitbull. It was obvious that they were willing to use the baby as a means for sympathy. She represents the new American Woman? Where was the class? She still has to walk the walk.

Are all Obamanuts as stupid as shiv?

The cheapest way to get natural gas from Alaska to the lower 48 is a pipeline through Canada.

I'll also bet you do not know that that method is not the most popular with Alaskans who wanted an All Alaska Natural Gas pipeline to follow the route of the oil pipeline to Valdez on the Gulf of Alaska. From there it would be shipped as liquified natural gas in LNG tankers to pipeline connections on the west cost of the USA.

I know for Obamanuts and Cult of Obama members that ignorance is bliss.

Anne Kilkenny-Please submit this to the editorials of the major newspapers throughout the country. I'm sure more people would like to know what Palin is really like.

Monty Haynes wrote: "I had been a Boston resident but now I live in London. The view from Europe is exasperation that someone with such limited world view would be a candidate for vice president.

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Hmmm, this London paper seems to have a different view:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/columnists/fergus_shanahan/article1647092.ece

The Republicans are scrubbing the web of Palin's past - her minister's talk that he cannot vouch for the salvation of someone who votes for Kerry, etc., her pictures as governor, old speeches, etc. The only way they can establish their brand is to wipe out her record. No speech can cover for the lack of experience we see here and any Republican who has not drunk the kool-aide knows this. McCain had plenty of well-educated, powerful women to choose from - but he likes them cute, and that's where the sexism is. Heather Wilson should have been up there - or Christine Whitman - or many of the women who spoke who were captains of industry. We have a complex set of issues before us. Cheney and Rove are trying to whip up a storm with Russia. We need experienced, settled people with good judgement to lead us. Obama is only divisive if you cannot hear the words from his mouth, cannot stop listening to hate radio, and lack the ability to think about the reality of this situation. Holy cow, it is incredible that the Republicans are trying to say they weren't around for the scandals, the overspending - what is this tax and spend liberal stuff - it's the Republicans who spend us into oblivian and don't raise taxes on the rich so all the middle class can pay long-term for their follies. Noun/verb/POW - that's all I heard. There are people who need help and all I hear is that it's all about Palin and McCain's personal narrative. Put that in your gas tank.

Since "vetting" is suddenly so important to the media. Can somebody explain to me why Obama chose, of all counties, to visit Pakistan for three weeks when he was in his twenties along with his two Islamic friends? I didn't find out about this until very recently...

Palin's speech was like "Sarah, the Insult Comic Pit Bull." But what really grishered my kishkas was that she had the effrontery--as a virtual newcomer to national politics--to ridicule established and respected politicians who, unlike her, HAVE paid their dues. If she'd shown a little newbie humility, I would have found her just barely tolerable. But that strained beauty-pageant smile and preening hockey mom stance--compounded with her total hubris--had me throwing my dog's toys at the TV.

She'd be a joke, if she wasn't so scary ...

Sarah Palin's husband is the luckiest man in the world.

She's just a standard Republican spewing Karl Rove applause lines. I must have missed the parts where she talked about anything of substance.

All McCain did was add a Bible thumper to the ticket. That won't help him this year.

And you Republicans don't even take elections seriously anymore. All you care about is a superficial candidate. She's young, looks good, and can read a speech. This is precisely what you've been criticizing Obama for all year. Hypocrites.

Posted by: Monty Haynes | September 4, 2008 2:27 PM wrote: "I had been a Boston resident but now I live in London. The view from Europe is exasperation that someone with such limited world view would be a candidate for vice president. She's probably not a bad person to be governor of Alaska but thrusted onto the world stage, she would probably be hard pressed to name the leaders of France, Spain and the United Kingdom..., and those are the easy ones."

Hey Monty, how about someone being PRESIDENT "with such limited world view". Good grief, are you kidding me?

"I like when she talked about being a pitbull with lipstick."

Some of my best friends are pit bulls, and I found her remark a complete turn-off. In fact, a dog would make a better vice president than she would.

Under Rove's tutelage, Republicans have come to the point where they think that shouting insults is a valuable skill in a leader. They sure haven't got much else going. I love the loons who keep going on about "evisceration." Yes, she does a very good impression of the toothed vagina. It turns those Republican masochists on, really lights up their noses.

Sarah Palin was a secessionist. She views the lower 48 states as a cash cow. She is no patriot.

I enjoy a good fight, but this was ridiculous. And it was all Democratic party's fault.

Hockey? This is America, people.

Condi Rice, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, and Cheerleader Palin? Come on, People of this great nation. Folksy? Yes! Engaging? Yes! Shallow? Without a doubt! Where was the substance? Hello kids, hubby, mom & dad, presumptive son-in-law and small town America! And????? Now that she's running with the Big Dogs, I hope they treat her just as they would any other candidate. Maybe she can get the state's plan off of Ebay to go back home when the election's over.

What exactly is a "community organizer" anyway? Who pays your salary when you are a "community organizer?" Is this an elected position? What if some people in the community don't follow the directives of the "community organizer?"

After the previous screeds of Mitt, Mike, Rudy and Fred it looks like they saved the best whine for later -- by the time Palin started so much so that it was all vinegar. Mister Scully sure has a way with words, but lacks what used to be called Irish diplomacy which is telling someone to go to hell in such a fashion that they look forward to the trip.

I hope so

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Do you think Michelle Shaniqua Obama will try to institute that fake ghetto holiday Kwanza if she gets to the White House?

Posted by: Dianne72 | September 4, 2008 3:02 PM

It is now clear that the Obama campaign is way too divisive. The only way to bring the country together is to put McCain/Palin in charge. Obama should concede now for the good of the country.

Posted by: Dave | September 4, 2008 2:54 PM

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If we wish hard enough, it'll come true.

If we wish hard enough, it'll come true.

If we wish hard enough, it'll come true.

If we wish hard enough, it'll come true.

If we wish hard enough, it'll come true.

If we wish hard enough, it'll come true.

Cry Obamanuts cry! Stick your fingers in your eyes and cry Obamanuts cry!

Obama reached his high point a week ago, and it is all downhill from here for him.

Obama and his nutties are finding out the truth of Lincolns words: "... you cannot fool all the people all the time..."

Obama the surpreme con-man of the last 100 years sold his snake oil and pied pipered his kiddy corps into thugging the nomination for him, but they cannot thug his way into the Whitehouse for him.

So cry Obamanuts cry! We will have a Republican president because you and the media chauvins for Obama trashed Hillary and stold the nomination for Obama, so cry Obamanuts and media chauvins for Obama because you're going to get McCain elected president instead of Hillary!

We need to seriously examine the candidate vetting process - on the Democratic side. How did a "community organizer" who snorted cocaine in college get the top slot? This shows a huge failure in judgment.

Shiv

"At a minimum she has delivered on a few things she promised, ...pipeline project for Natural gas"

Did anyone notice that she claimed that this gas pipeline to CANADA would decrease our dependence of foreign energy? Does she not know that CANADA is a foreign country? She may be near Russia but her state shares a common border with CANADA. No wonder Canadians are fed up with us. Frau Palin must be a product of Bush's no "child left behind" program.

You are delusional but you were their audience. Have you noticed over night polling have Obama moving ahead since the pick on Palin. He cracked the 50% mark for the first time since her pick and will probably never look back. By the way, if you like her so much you should learn to spell her name. Another clue you are their target audience.

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This 44 Years old beauty queen Sarah Pelin has electrifies republican party last night at RNC in Minnesota. She will wooed all women voters to her side.

I don't think Sen. Obama has any chance left of winning election in November. If he would have choosing Sen. Hillary Clinton as his running mate, then the story would have been different for him.!!!!

Posted by: AKBER A. KASSAM. | September 4, 2008 2:54 PM

Do you think Michelle Shaniqua Obama will try to institute that fake ghetto holiday Kwanza if she gets to the White House?

Karl Rove is the devil. Obama should hire Jon Stewart as a special advisor. He absolutely destroyed these fools last night. Can't wait to see what he does with this piece of Alaskan Log Cabin Trash. Did anyone notice the buttons declaring Palin's "hottness" and then they have the nerve to accuse the liberals of being offensive to women when her experience is questioned. The sad thing is that middle America is just stupid enough to but into it. I'm looking at you Ohio and Florida. Please don't do it to us again. How can McCain lift the country when he can't even lift his arms?

Yawn. What did she really say? Nothing. All the repubs do is attack and don't even speak about the issues. It's become a circus.

Sarah Palin came off as a total A-hole.

Sarcasm without substance.

Just thought I'd remind you all that you are not choosing American Idol or Pope. You are choosing the next LEADER of what USED TO BE the finest country on earth.

G.Bush has managed to put that office a breath away from a dictatorship to where our Olympic team cannot wear their colors while traveling, we are OWNED by China, and republicans show absolutely zero intelligence.

The two party system is crap and these candidates are crap. They will decide your fates. Good Grief. wake up. Demand a man or woman of substance. Except every step of this "election" is choreographed in advance by the 2 party system.

OMG! I just heard that Michelle Shaniqua Obama's (Miss Freedom Fro 1976) "white-gate" tape is going to be released a month early! I can't wait!
Posted by: Dianne72 | September 4, 2008 2:58 PM

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OMG! I just heard that if John McCain wins in November, he's going to give everyone in America a pony! I can't wait!

The Republican ticket: a war hero and a stunningly smart female governor. The Democratic ticket: A former "community organizer" who snorted cocaine in college and a draft-dodging plagiarizer.

Obama is a Socialist. Perhaps he should run for office in Europe with all his talk of redistribution of wealth.

Men will vote for Sarah Palin in droves. She's now America's sweetheart!!

Posted by: Dave | September 4, 2008 2:44 PM

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If we keep saying it, it will come true. If we keep saying it, it will come true.
If we keep saying it, it will come true.
If we keep saying it, it will come true.
If we keep saying it, it will come true.
If we keep saying it, it will come true.

Dear Anonywank
just because you are too afraid to leave a name, even a made up one, do not pre-determine that you understand my motives or intent. I actually like Sarah, I was responding to Asper girl. If you are Asper girl, you may take offense. the lips I was talking about have been attached to the dems, which you would get if you actually realized what I was talking about. However, it is obvious that you don't so-"bite me". As for other comments, usually I have your mother do it for me, when she isn't sucking down some jack and taking hits off her crack pipe

OMG! I just heard that Michelle Shaniqua Obama's (Miss Freedom Fro 1976) "white-gate" tape is going to be released a month early! I can't wait!

It was like watching a pitbull tearing up her opponent...the chihauhau, kind of cruelsome. Isn't it?

wow what 24 hrs can do

everyone suddenly waking up and realizing...she didn't actually SAY ANYTHING.

and all the scandals didn't go away with a speech (although trying to suppress the witness yesterday was a good start...worked for Cheney...might work for them).

OMG! I just heard that Michelle Shaniqua Obama's (Miss Freedom Fro 1976) "white-gate" tape is going to be released a month early! I can't wait!

I used to be a Democrat, but after last night's speech I'm changing my party affiliation and voting for McCain/Palin.

How is being a "hockey mom" connecting with the average family? Last I checked, hockey is quite an expensive sport to take part in...

It is now clear that the Obama campaign is way too divisive. The only way to bring the country together is to put McCain/Palin in charge. Obama should concede now for the good of the country.

Remember those pretty blond German girls in the 1930s?

Sarah Pallin is a fascist.

:-)

This 44 Years old beauty queen Sarah Pelin has electrifies republican party last night at RNC in Minnesota. She will wooed all women voters to her side.

I don't think Sen. Obama has any chance left of winning election in November. If he would have choosing Sen. Hillary Clinton as his running mate, then the story would have been different for him.!!!!

Why isn't Palin's newborn son a family matter? Why does she want to speak about his condition and become an advocate for special needs children, and not speak about or have a solution for her older child with child? And why do they want to get married now, if the teens love each other so much why are they expecting before they marry? To me this sets women back 100 years, the women who had to fight for the right to vote would not be happy with this, this is not the right image for our women or our daughter's to have in this country. There is shame that's why they are now talking marriage. If it's okay why even speak of marriage after the fact? I don't know any mother who would want to put a spotlight on this situation. If this is private don't put yourself in the spotlight with this situation. This was just a way to follow the lead of Hillary Clinton, Palin is not a choice for country first it was a choice of politics which casts a bad reflection rather than making history for all the women who fought for the right to vote. 'Wrong Choice' at the 'Wrong Time' bad move McCain

I guess you haven't checked the polls.

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Jesse Jackson had to go to the hospital today with major stomach pains. Sarah Palin has the left-wingers in knots!! I bet Joe Biden wasn't able to sleep last night. Someone needs to deliver a truckload of Maalox to Obama campaign HQS. Maybe even some adult diapers.

Posted by: Dave | September 4, 2008 2:51 PM

Obama in his own words: "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though," he says. Citation - Washington Post, 03 Jan 2007.

So my questions are 1) How much cocaine did Obama snort? 2) How much money did he pay for the cocaine? 3) Did he snort all the cocaine himself, or did he sell the rest? 4) Who did he buy the cocaine from?

MY RESPONSE TO POST BY: Don | September 4, 2008 2:12 PM

DON WROTE:

Dear Ass-per Grrl

Your comments are as tired and old as the rest of the Dem RHEOTORIC being spewed here. I would ask you to KISS ME WHERE I PEE, but considering where your lips have been SURGICALLY ATTACHED for the past 8 years, I am afraid of the STD’S

Posted by: Don | September 4, 2008 2:12 PM
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Don -- Doesn't your mother do that for you? And talk about someone's lips being "SURGICALLY ATTACHED for the past 8 years?"

They don't call it Bush for nothing.

Stop picking on the ladies, Don.

Join the military...or...did you get a deferment?

shiv

you are on really weak ice with calling Obama unaccomplished...lol

trying to belittle the freakin Harvard law review is stupid... trying to make out that her accomplicshm,ents were substantial in a state that was already being called for the corruption...

oy

and have you been on the planet for the last year?

I don't know if you have noticed the support and movement of a predominance of the American people to do something in numbers they have not in a long long time.

that is called accomplishing something...

not overseeing a state that has little risk with it's governemtn subsidies and oil revenues that's legislature only meets for 90 days out of the year...

and whose record is within three days showing huge huge cracks and gaps and cover ups...

seems she "reformed" the state into her own little power form.

yeah we had 8 years of that...done with that.

and maybe she can accomplish one thing...

like answer a single question or a single answer to a problem...

rather than 2 speeches written by someone else and a clamp down on access to the speeches she gave before.

maybe...I have an idea...an interview...you know I know it''s a lot to ask but considering Obama and Biden deftly answer questions and follow up after follow up...

maybe she could try it all on her own...

or does she have to graduate from "30 second sounbites to rule the world" course they have her on.

Jesse Jackson had to go to the hospital today with major stomach pains. Sarah Palin has the left-wingers in knots!! I bet Joe Biden wasn't able to sleep last night. Someone needs to deliver a truckload of Maalox to Obama campaign HQS. Maybe even some adult diapers.

Obama believes what he is saying, he is not a stooge. He writes the speech.

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She delivered the speech THAT OTHERS HAD WRITTEN (the same as Obama) with gusto. I don't agree with her positions, however, and I thought the writing was very disjointed and not very coherent.

Posted by: Columbia, MD | September 4, 2008 2:47 PM

The new pretty face of Republican hate. Mainstream media; stop patting her on the head for reading the speech she practiced for three days, go back to investigating, reporting, investigating. You're the last line of defense between the future and returning us to 1930s Germany.

I think the correct term for her is jeerleader and the squad included Fred, Rudy, Mitt and Mike. The speech wasn't no mean task, it was just a mean one. Maybe she can star in the next remake of I01 Dalmatians as Cruella DeVil.

VPILF
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Men will vote for Sarah Palin in droves. She's now America's sweetheart!!

Posted by: Dave | September 4, 2008 2:44 PM

She delivered the speech THAT OTHERS HAD WRITTEN (the same as Obama) with gusto. I don't agree with her positions, however, and I thought the writing was very disjointed and not very coherent.

Palin is an insult to women everywhere. Her condescending, snide remarks doesn't tell me she is fit to be VP. Not allowing terroists to be read their rights? Looking down on community organizers? Banning books from libraries? Please tell me this is NOT the best we've got!

Not only that, no way can she tell me she is such a good mother and cares about her family. She is exploiting them- From the baby to the husband! A good mother doesn't allow their newborn son to be up after 10pm being passed around like a Hollywood prop. Shouldn't that baby have been in bed?- Why didn't the father take the child to the back or at least bring the child "offstage". They show poor parenting and it's proven with their pregnant daughter sitting there holding hands with her boyfriend.

Change the scene to a black family?- We would have been called the lowest of low.

Iman Stamford, CT

Tina Fey + Angelina Jolie + Grandpa = victory

It's not that complicated folks...

Uh.....Erin. I hate to tell you this, but the last eight years were the real republicans. Just like McCain/Palin.

Posted by: Dahagg | September 4, 2008 2:43 PM

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The sheer amount of cognitive dissonance required to get them through a single day must simply be staggering, huh?

Senator Barry Hussein's (aka Senator Purple Lips) star is beginning to fade. I am laughing at how scared the Dems are of an electrified Republican Convention compliments of Gov. Palin. LOL!

Palin has made Biden looks like a mauled French poodle.

Political stooge who will say what ever they put in her mouth. She doesn't know it yet though . She thinks she was picked as the VP.

She looked like somebody who would breath life into the republican party. Unfortunately, even though she looked really beautiful, what came out of her mouth was pure hatred.

To look down on a community organizer is mean. Pure and simple. A community organizer's job is a very important job. Ask Mitt Romney when he organized the Olympics. He was an Olympic Community Organizer.

To compare a community organizer of a city with a million people with a mayor of a town of 6000 people is like comparing professional hockey with little league hockey.

I hope tonight McCain can put some meat to that bone that he is always gnawing. Is he a maverick or is he a puppet on a very short string?

Men will vote for Sarah Palin in droves. She's now America's sweetheart!!

Labor numbers came out today. The stock market is down. How does parading out this small timer like Palin solve our problems in this country. For those of you in the Republistank party who are wondering what the labor numbers mean...it means there are no new jobs and unemployment is up. Your new star cannot address these problems. Funny how this speech eradicates the fact that she was not properly vetted. Her family does not give new jobs or fix roads or help with health care. Unfortunately for us all, you are the same fools who gave us GWB twice.

It appears that McCain is smarter than we all thought - given the "freakout factor" from the Left since last night's speech, McCain's pick of Palin was a stroke of genius. The Dems went from being completely assured they would win this thing, to realizing that it's actually a race for the White House in November. This is getting pretty darn exciting!

Sarah Palin ROCKS!
This is going to be a GREAT presidency!
Except THIS time, with a REAL republican!
8 more years!!!!!
8 more years!!!!!
8 more years!!!!!
8 more years!!!!!

Posted by: Erin! | September 4, 2008 1:21 AM
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Uh.....Erin. I hate to tell you this, but the last eight years were the real republicans. Just like McCain/Palin.

Bakker -

It's hard to be east of the mason-dixon - did you mean south???

I'm glad you're not voting based on this basic geographic miss.

anonymous atv 2:30

my best friend from high school sits on our town board and I was President of the residential student body of a college with 20,000 students...

can I be VP...

I have flown by Russia ...

I know that's not like having my state next to russia...but location location location

c'mon...
did you copy that post from your yearbook...

this is the position that on september 11 after Bush took office had Cheney asking for permission to make decisions on identifying and shooting down commercial airliners with Americans on them.

McCain chooses "your high school friend" Palin?!!! as the person in that position...yet they won't have her answer any questions on her own...she has no record of understanding the issues we face overseas...very detailed intricate issues that Obama and Biden and McCain for the past year and a half have had to prove they understand from inside to out...

she on the other hand asks "what exactly does the Vice President do during the day?"

and SHE is going to deal with constitutional separation of powers!!!???!

she has said nothing for answers...nothing for solutions... nothing but hype and words written by someone else.

Republicans said KAINE the Governor of Virginia was not experienced enough...

BUT PALIN who just got a passport does?

and NO mayor of a small town does not compare in any way shape or form to being President of the united Srtates.

In fact as has been reported numerous times today Alaska is the least state governorship that has any challenges similar to the POTUS. They are kept afloat for decades by the oil industry and federal governemtn subsidies...with the least risky or diversified economy...

this woman is so far out of the left field of having any idea what the answers are to the problems that face us...it is not only funny ...

but scary.

In truth, nothing new in this speech. For a maverick reformer, or whatever, she played right out of Rove's book. Get up, tell a bunch of lies, misrepresent your opponent's record and positions -- and your own, as well. Play on the idiots' fears, tell the sheep what they want to hear, collect your check, take it to the bank.

Same old Republican BS. Do they honestly think that after 8 years of this garbage anyone but the most die-hard Kool Aide drinkers can't see through it?

Nasty, sarcastic, mocking speech. Palin still tried to ban books at Wasilla's library, still fired someone for not firing her ex-brother-in-law, still kept money for the bridge to nowhere that the people of Alaska wanted to go to New Orleans after Katrina, still cut funding for special needs children, still cut funding for programs for unwed mothers, still opposes abortion even in cases of rape, incest or where the mother's life is in danger, still has dairy-gate to explain, still left Wasilla with a 20 million dollar deficit (it had a balanced budget when she first took office), still ran a 527 for Ted Stevens, still advocates teaching absinence only...oh, yeah and still thinks that God wanted us to invade Iraq.

It made me sad, because although I'm a Democrat, I used to sort of like McCain. Now he's just playing the game like all the others. So much for Country First.

As for Palin, all I learned was she can read a snide speech off the Teleprompter as well as anyone. But what about policy? Or goals? Or what she wants us to do, together, as Americans? All I heard was the ghost of Karl Rove. What a disappointment.

I will not vote for a ticket with a pit bull with lipstick in November; I will not vote for, as the Republican Delegate campaign buttons say: a "Hottie on the Hill" and "Hot Chick" in November; I will not vote for Geezer and Gidget in 2008.

She did well. I am sure the aim was to energize the crowd and she did that! She will have her appeal. She seemed a little too feisty...watch that temperment missy.

On a more srious note, it will take more than a "Hockey Grandmom" to to change my views after looking at these videos:

How can I vote for McCain after seeing this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioy90nF2anI

And this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c&feature=related

I am convinced McCain is not in his right mind - 90% of the time.

Why is everyone so fired up becausae she's a hockey mom... this isn't Canada... we don't even like hockey

you know what? Dems are two faced morons.
It wasn't ok to bash Hilary, so therefore it is NOT ok to punch up Palin, no matter how much you claim to abhor the "Judeo-White male military industrial regime". At best you are a whining bunch of hypocritical slandering tools, who dabble in psycho-babble because you don't like the chance that Republicans could win. I am SO GLAD that I am not voting this election, because both candidates are fools, and their supporters are drooling, knuckle dragging goons who wouldn't know a decent politician if it bit them on the ass. This campaign needed real leaders, and real people, not Muppets and groupies.
That being said, everyone east of the Mason -Dixon line should just STFU, because the "bitter tears" being wept here by the left should just about destroy N'awlins levees once and for all.
What a waste of column inches. what a travesty.

Well, those of you who are bots let loose from the Obama camp, her questions on Obama's leadership/accomplishments remain unanswered. At a minimum she has delivered on a few things she promised, as Mayor and Governor, including the ethics reform law, pipeline project for Natural gas and she is only running for vice president. Obama who is running to be president to run the govt, is yet to show what his achievements are.
1) What leadership has Obama displayed in his time in Harvard Law Review (0 articles published as the editor of the publication) 2) what significant legal cases/arguments did he pursue as parnet in the chicago law firm (answer: nothing of any legal significance or leadership)
3) As a senior lecturer again he remains unaccomplished with nary a scholarly article on legal theory or practice. 4) As an Illinois senator what issues he advocated consistently and led the dem caucus on? None. Sure he has 100 co-sponsorships like all other politicians worth their salt. That is no leadership. Not a significant law to his name thus far. 5) In the US senate, he has barely had time to run for the presidency let alone lead any effort to do anything. He has given plenty of speeches in his 14 or so years of public life and yet to achieve anything in terms of leadership. He has the gall to criticize palin's resume while his resume is thinner than hers as a presidential candidate, let alone for the vice presidency.

Political stooge who doesn't know any better. Will say what ever they put in her mouth. She doesn't know it yet though . She thinks she was picked as the VP.

She read the lines well during the speech, in terms of attacking the opposition. To a Democrat, it seemed like she was sneering at and dismissing people who aren't die-hard Republicans. I think the real test is when she has to face interviews and debates and answer in her own words instead of reading attack lines prepared by Republican speechwriters.

I never, EVER, thought I would say this, but this Republican is voting Dem this year. Last night was my most embarrassing moment as a member of this party. Where is our plan for fixing the economy? Iraq? anything? Name calling plays well to the far right, but regular Americans are really turned off by it. She lied several times, and disgracefully trashed their opponents with school yard chants. Have we learned nothing? Why the need to trash church groups and other community organizations? How dumb was that? Trashing people who dedicate their time and energy to helping their fellow man? I thought we were Christians!!!!!!!!

was she a cheerleader?

I think she was a cheerleader....because that speech was a great cheer.

and if you take away the great zingers, the factual inconsistencies and the made uyp stuff...

you have...uh...

silence.

when do we see her answer something.

and not try to compare Barack's jr high english class paper with her speech and then from that say "look I'm more experienced than him...see."

oy

the worst VP choice in the history of our country.

what is she going to say when something like 9/11 happens and like Cheney she is in the White House asking for permission to make a judgement on shooting down a commercial airliner...

"I can shoot down a plane...I understand hunting and being a hockey mom...and a small town mayor..."

this woman does not have and has not shown like anyone else involved with these past 2 years ...an understanding or detailed comprehension of ANY of the issues that Obama and Biden have detailed as our biggest issues facing us.

sad McCain

I guess they didn't have time to reprint those banners..."campaign First"

>> ABOUT SARAH PALIN
>>
>> I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992.
>> Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are
>> on a
>> first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her
>> father was my child's favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a
>> first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more
>> City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the
>> residents of the city.
>>
>> She is enormously popular; in every way she's like the most popular
>> girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and
>> won't vote for her can't quit smiling when talking about her because
>> she is a "babe".
>>
>> It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a
>> secret. She
>> kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents
>> for seven months.
>>
>> She is "pro-life". She recently gave birth to a Down's syndrome
>> baby.
>> There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby.
>>
>> She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at
>> the gym.
>>
>> She is savvy. She doesn't take positions; she just "puts things out
>> there" and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.
>>
>> Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a
>> champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin's kind of job is highly
>> sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his
>> work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or
>> so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their
>> major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything
>> like that of native Alaskans.
>>
>> Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters.
>>
>> She's smart.
>>
>> Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000
>> (at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with
>> about
>> 670,000 residents.
>>
>> During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running
>> this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been
>> pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after
>> she had
>> gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had
>> given rise to a recall campaign.
>>
>> Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a "fiscal conservative". During her 6
>> years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over
>> 33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the
>> City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation
>> (1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and
>> increased a
>> regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she
>> promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they
>> benefited residents.
>>
>> The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration
>> weren't enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed
>> money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but
>> left it
>> with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage
>> the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that
>> she said
>> she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a
>> new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a
>> multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece
>> of property that the City didn't even have clear title to, that was
>> still in litigation 7 yrs later--to the delight of the lawyers
>> involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the
>> community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she
>> claimed it
>> would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that
>> could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.
>>
>> While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office
>> redecorated more than once.
>>
>> These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city.
>>
>> As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget
>> surplus
>> in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will
>> make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she
>> proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the
>> state.
>>
>> In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she
>> recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while
>> she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today's
>> surplus, borrow for needs.
>>
>> She's not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside
>> ideas
>> or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren't generated by
>> her or her staff. Ideas weren't evaluated on their merits, but
>> on the
>> basis of who proposed them.
>>
>> While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly
>> respected
>> City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing
>> from
>> the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents
>> rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin's
>> attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew
>> her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the
>> Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.
>>
>> Sarah complained about the "old boy's club" when she first ran for
>> Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of "old boys".
>> Palin
>> fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City
>> and as
>> Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people,
>> creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and
>> eternally
>> grateful and fiercely loyal--loyal to the point of abusing their
>> power
>> to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened
>> in the
>> case of pressuring the State's top cop (see below).
>>
>> As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla's Police Chief because he "intimidated"
>> her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of
>> Alaska's top
>> cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure
>> and she had every legal right to fire him, but it's pretty clear that
>> an important factor in her decision to fire him was because he
>> wouldn't
>> fire her sister's ex-husband, a State Trooper. Under investigation
>> for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen
>> contacts were made between her staff and family to the person
>> that she
>> later fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She
>> tried to
>> replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been
>> reprimanded
>> for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew
>> her support.
>>
>> She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in
>> help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town
>> introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council
>> became one of her first targets when she was later elected
>> Mayor. She
>> abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn't
>> like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.
>>
>> Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything
>> publicly about her.
>>
>> When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums,
>> Sarah got
>> the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation
>> Commission: one
>> of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid. She had no
>> background in oil & gas issues. Within months of scoring this great
>> job which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in the press
>> about the
>> high salary. I was told that she hated that job: the commute, the
>> structured hours, the work. Sarah became aware that a member of this
>> Commission (who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party)
>> engaged in unethical behavior on the job. In a gutsy move
>> which some
>> undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah
>> solved all
>> her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and
>> garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics
>> and as a
>> gutsy fighter against the "old boys' club" when she dramatically
>> quit,
>> exposing this man's ethics violations (for which he was fined).
>>
>> As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from
>> Senator Ted Stevens. Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel
>> politics and publicly humiliated him. She only opposed the
>> "bridge to
>> nowhere" after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.
>>
>> As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget
>> guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing
>> projects, calling them pork. Public outcry and further legislative
>> action restored most of these projects--which had been vetoed simply
>> because she was not aware of their importance--but with the
>> unobservant
>> she had gained a reputation as "anti-pork".
>>
>> She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party
>> leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated
>> them. Other members of the party object to her self-description as a
>> fiscal conservative.
>>
>> Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah.
>> They call her "Sarah Barracuda" because of her unbridled ambition and
>> predatory ruthlessness. Before she became so powerful, very ugly
>> stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be
>> made
>> point guard on the high school basketball team. When Sarah's
>> mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and
>> experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.
>>
>> As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of
>> package
>> of legislation known as "AGIA" that forced the oil companies to march
>> to the beat of her drum.
>>
>> Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National
>> Wildlife
>> Refuge. She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked to
>> global warming. She campaigned "as a private citizen" against a
>> state
>> initiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from
>> pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the
>> state (depending on who you listen to). She has pushed the State's
>> lawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior's decision to list polar
>> bears as threatened species.
>>
>> McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will
>> be a
>> heartbeat away from being President.
>>
>> There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more
>> knowledgeable and experienced than she.
>>
>> However, there's a lot of people who have underestimated her and are
>> regretting it.
>>
>>
>> CLAIM VS FACT
>> *"Hockey mom": true for a few years
>> *"PTA mom": true years ago when her first-born was in elementary
>> school, not since
>> *"NRA supporter": absolutely true
>> *social conservative: mixed. Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a
>> bill
>> that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex
>> relationships
>> (said she did this because it was unconsitutional).
>> *pro-creationism: mixed. Supports it, BUT did nothing as
>> Governor to
>> promote it.
>> *"Pro-life": mixed. Knowingly gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby
>> BUT declined to call a special legislative session on some pro-life
>> legislation
>> *"Experienced": Some high schools have more students than
>> Wasilla has
>> residents. Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska.
>> No legislative experience other than City Council. Little hands-on
>> supervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city
>> administrator to run town of about 5,000.
>> *political maverick: not at all
>> *gutsy: absolutely!
>> *open & transparent: ??? Good at keeping secrets. Not good at
>> explaining actions.
>> *has a developed philosophy of public policy: no
>> *"a Greenie": no. Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores
>> and disconnected parking lots. Is pro-drilling off-shore and in
>> ANWR.
>> *fiscal conservative: not by my definition!
>> *pro-infrastructure: No. Promoted a sports complex and park in
>> a city
>> without a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system. Built
>> streets to early 20th century standards.
>> *pro-tax relief: Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax
>> burden on
>> residents
>> *pro-small government: No. Oversaw greatest expansion of city
>> government in Wasilla's history.
>> *pro-labor/pro-union. No. Just because her husband works union
>> doesn't make her pro-labor. I have seen nothing to support any claim
>> that she is pro-labor/pro-union.
>>
>> WHY AM I WRITING THIS?
>>
>> First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed
>> voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting
>> programs in the schools. If you google my name (Anne Kilkenny +
>> Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local
>> government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.
>>
>> Secondly, I've always operated in the belief that "Bad things happen
>> when good people stay silent". Few people know as much as I do
>> because
>> few have gone to as many City Council meetings.
>>
>> Third, I am just a housewife. I don't have a job she can bump me out
>> of. I don't belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I
>> am no
>> fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will
>> cost me somehow in the future: that's life.
>>
>> Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of
>> the 100
>> or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against
>> Sarah's
>> attempt at censorship.
>>
>> Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to
>> say anything because they were somehow vulnerable.
>>
>> CAVEATS
>> I am not a statistician. I developed the numbers for the increase in
>> spending & taxation 2 years ago (when Palin was running for Governor)
>> from information supplied to me by the Finance Director of the
>> City of
>> Wasilla, and I can't recall exactly what I adjusted for: did I
>> adjust
>> for inflation? for population increases? Right now, it is
>> impossible
>> for a private person to get any info out of City Hall--they are
>> swamped. So I can't verify my numbers.
>>
>> You may have noticed that there are various numbers circulating
>> for the
>> population of Wasilla, ranging from my "about 5,000", up to
>> 9,000. The
>> day Palin's selection was announced a city official told me that the
>> current population is about 7,000. The official 2000 census
>> count was
>> 5,460. I have used about 5,000 because Palin was Mayor from 1996 to
>> 2002, and the city was growing rapidly in the mid-90's.

It's pretty amazing the lefties here don't like it when Palin or anyone on the right replay "Nastiness" for "Nastiness". Grow up lefties. If you can't stand the heat, get out of her kitchen!!

After watching her speech, as a hillary supporter,i feel so offended that hillary was compared with this woman.
Palin has no substance except the pitched voice. i wonder what will happen when she is off the stage and meets the press on her own.
Hillary has so much knowledge and articulateness.
even as a woman, i feel shame that this woman is on VP pick.
there are bunch of great women even in repub.
Maccain... are you really serious?

Okay, so she's a competent public speaker. Whoopie. Isn't that what the GOP has accused Obama of being? Just a good speaker?

Everyday, the GOP does something to kill one of their own arguments against the Democratic candidates. Nice work...

Rudy Gulliani says she has more executive experience than McCain. Too bad, John.

Do the republicans plan on keeping palin isolated for 4 days every time she has to give a speech or talk to a reporter?
Where was she?
More of the same. Not another vice president who dwells in secrecy and isolation.

She wasn't even prepared to go on the campaign trail after the convention. She only packed for 2 days. She can't even be prepared for these minor events.

I had been a Boston resident but now I live in London. The view from Europe is exasperation that someone with such limited world view would be a candidate for vice president. She's probably not a bad person to be governor of Alaska but thrusted onto the world stage, she would probably be hard pressed to name the leaders of France, Spain and the United Kingdom..., and those are the easy ones.

Cynically Laura Bush claims Palin has foreign experience because Alaska is the closest state to Russia. Now the phrase is being repeated by delegates at the RNC. This would be laughable if it were not sad and tragic - the narrow mindedness. It's almost like saying one should have a Harvard degree because they lived in a triple decker on Massachusetts Avenue a few blocks away from the University. Intelligence and experience through geographical absorption. I wish I could do that.

A former Bush advisor David Frum has given interviews on British news stations critical of McCain's choice. CNN caught Repblican analysts' off-handed comments about the 'cynical' choice. It seems that some centrist Republicans are having serious doubts. Hopefully they will look hard and long before they make their choice in November.

Who do you want as VP?

Joe Biden. The "cheney" to compensate for sweetie hussein's gross inexperience; a plagiarizing expert who has stolen more words than Milton Berle (and he's just as funny). Totally lacking in ethics, in his third-rate, mediocre law school Biden was only able to graduate 76th in a class of 85 - i.e., he was in the lowest 10.5%! Of course, while campaigning, he claimed falsely to have graduated in the "top half" of his class. A plagiarizer and a LIAR! As a politics-as-usual, 30+-year Washington parasite, Plagiarist-Joe never worked harder than in his efforts to kill bi-partisan legislation simply because it would have adversely affected the enormous income of his lobbyist son. Plagiarist-Joe is the poster-boy for all that is rotten with Washington. This choice further illustrates the incredibly bad judgment of the Chicago Cretin.

Sarah Palin. A true political reformer who has cleaned-up one of the most politically corrupt states in the nation and who has shown a solid and unwavering commitment to ethical government. Palin is the antithesis of Plagiarist-Joe.

Tough choice? ----NOT!

(For the genetically low-IQ supporters of hussein: sorry about using all these adult words. Just so you'll understand, "antithesis" means "opposite". Being a plagiarist is "bad" - not in sense of "good" but in the sense that going to jail for beating-up your old lady is "bad".)

September 02, 2008
Palin's National Security Credentials
By Donald Douglas

From Real Clear Politics 'Cross Tabs':

"John McCain's selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as vice-presidential running mate is proving more shrewd by the hour. As Blackfive points out, Governor Palin, as Alaska's chief executive, has shared strategic command of the 49th Missile Defense Battalion of the Alaska National Guard:

One area of Sarah Palin's background that may help her is Alaska's unique role in our national security and homeland defense. Several folks have have mentioned this but Tom W. was specific and his info jibes with the record.

Alaska is the first line of defense in our missile interceptor defense system. The 49th Missile Defense Battalion of the Alaska National Guard is the unit that protects the entire nation from ballistic missile attacks. It's on permanent active duty, unlike other Guard units.

As governor of Alaska, Palin is briefed on highly classified military issues, homeland security, and counterterrorism. Her exposure to classified material may rival even Biden's."

Can we all stop with the cries for policy wonking during Convention Week? All I have heard about over the past few days is that the Republicans are not doing a good enough job laying out their platform for growing the economy, ending the sub-prime mess, guaranteeing health care for all Americans and pulling the troops out of Iraq. ALL of this infromation, should you truly want it, is availabnle on both candidates websites. They will both spend plenty of time talking about it over the next several weeks out on the stump! The conventions are merely a rubber stamp, dog and pony show intended to whip your base into a frenzy! Nothing more! So let's stop criticizing the GOP rabble-rousers for not talking specifics! PLEASE! IF someone actually got up there on the stage and eschewed the RAH RAH stuff for an analytical and well thought out disquisition on how the party leadership intend to decrease the trade deficit by exactly 10.5% within the first annum, that individual would NEVER be asked to attend, let alone speak at a party function again! GIVE IT A REST!!!!!

Country is divided and this is what we expect in a free democracy!! We all have our own bias, and views on how things should be done. We all have our own fallacies and short comings. These four guys have put their life in lime light and they expect this type of scrutiny, and criticism and poking and proding. But in the end we will have the best persons for the Job. Whether it is Bill or George, it is us the American people will have to endure their weaknesses. Better find whatever we can but once the election is over support the person and trust his/her judgement. Because rest assured they have the information more than you and I will ever have, and they have their legacy in mind. Ultimately that is what they live for. Because more vitriole we carry worse of we would be.

I am absolutely appalled at the maliciousness that is being show in some of these postings. To call Sarah Palin a redneck because she is an Alaskan makes about as much sense as calling Hillary a gang-banger because she lives in New York. Alaska is one of the most technologically advanced states in the nation. Alaska is home to the community with the highest per-capita percentage of PHD holders in the nation. Alaska is a state of diverse people and resources, with great potential to bring energy relief to the rest of the United States. Calling Palin names like “caribou Barbie” does nothing but show an incredible amount of ignorance and lack of class. Keep it up, you can only help the McCain-Palin ticket.

Sounds like a lot of bitter people out there who can't get over a woman in a higher ranking position then themselves. First Hillary, now Sarah. I bet you all hate your mothers, too.

StillClinging wrote:

"America really is a nation of small towns and Sarah Palin has shown herself to be quintessential small town American."

===========================================

I was born, raised and still live in my small hometown. I can say with some degree of certainty that Sarah Palin is most decidedly NOT 'quintessential small town American.'

In my small town we treat those with opposing viewpoints with respect. We do not spew venom at those with whom we disagree. And we most decidedly do not try to inspire others to a frenzy of partisan hatred by demeaning the life experience of others.

I'm glad I live in my small town and not her's.

Quoth sam:

she did great and i loved the speech, its about time someone like her stood up to the media bias that is pervasive in America today!
Posted by: sam | September 4, 2008 12:31 PM

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Don't worry, sam. As soon as the Democrats take back the White House and both houses of Congress, we're going to restore the Fairness Doctrine and take care of all the ridiculously biased right-wing television and radio networks that plague you so.

I kept expecting to hear hi-hat hits (ba-dum bomp) after each one of her lines followed with "But seriously folks"

This story is circulating on the Internet and I'd like to know if it's true - does anyone know?

Subject: Wasilla voter's take on Palin
To: undisclosed-recipients

http://www.washingtonindependent.com/3671/the-reform-candidate
Submitted by Michael Wrightson on Sept 1, 2008

A note to all by Anne Kilkenny

Dear friends,

So many people have asked me about what I know about Sarah Palin in the last 2 days that I decided to write something up . . .

Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in common: their gender and their good looks. :)

You have my permission to forward this to your friends/email contacts with my name and email address attached, but please do not post it on any websites, as there are too many kooks out there . . .

[ This was already posted on Washington Independent comments area, with a controllable hotmail account, and was obviously meant by the author to be read. ]

Thanks,
Anne

ABOUT SARAH PALIN

I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992.
Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her father was my child's favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the residents of the city.

She is enormously popular; in every way she's like the most popular girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and won't vote for her can't quit smiling when talking about her because she is a "babe".

It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. She kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents for seven months.

She is "pro-life". She recently gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby. There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby.

She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.

She is savvy. She doesn't take positions; she just "puts things out there" and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.

Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin's kind of job is highly sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything like that of native Alaskans.

Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters.

She's smart.

Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000 (at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about 670,000 residents.

During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had given rise to a recall campaign.

Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a "fiscal conservative". During her 6 years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over 33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation (1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they benefited residents.

The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration weren't enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece of property that the City didn't even have clear title to, that was still in litigation 7 yrs later--to the delight of the lawyers involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.

While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office redecorated more than once.

These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city.

As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.

In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today's surplus, borrow for needs.

She's not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren't generated by her or her staff. Ideas weren't evaluated on their merits, but on the basis of who proposed them.

While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin's attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.

Sarah complained about the "old boy's club" when she first ran for Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of "old boys". Palin fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people, creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally grateful and fiercely loyal--loyal to the point of abusing their power to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the case of pressuring the State's top cop (see below).

As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla's Police Chief because he "intimidated" her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska's top cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure and she had every legal right to fire him, but it's pretty clear that an important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn't fire her sister's ex-husband, a State Trooper. Under investigation for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen contacts were made between her staff and family to the person that she later fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew her support.

She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn't like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.

Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything publicly about her.

When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah got the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission: one of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid. She had no background in oil & gas issues. Within months of scoring this great job which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in the press about the high salary. I was told that she hated that job: the commute, the structured hours, the work. Sarah became aware that a member of this Commission (who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party) engaged in unethical behavior on the job. In a gutsy move which some undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah solved all her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics and as a gutsy fighter against the "old boys' club" when she dramatically quit, exposing this man's ethics violations (for which he was fined).

As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from Senator Ted Stevens. Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel politics and publicly humiliated him. She only opposed the "bridge to nowhere" after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.

As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing projects, calling them pork. Public outcry and further legislative
action restored most of these projects--which had been vetoed simply because she was not aware of their importance--but with the unobservant she had gained a reputation as "anti-pork".

She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated them. Other members of the party object to her self-description as a fiscal conservative.

Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah. They call her "Sarah Barracuda" because of her unbridled ambition and predatory ruthlessness. Before she became so powerful, very ugly stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made point guard on the high school basketball team. When Sarah's mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.

As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of package of legislation known as "AGIA" that forced the oil companies to march to the beat of her drum.

Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked to global warming. She campaigned "as a private citizen" against a state initiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the state (depending on who you listen to). She has pushed the State's lawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior's decision to list polar bears as threatened species.

McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be a heartbeat away from being President.

There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more knowledgeable and experienced than she.

However, there's a lot of people who have underestimated her and are regretting it.

CLAIM VS FACT
•"Hockey mom": true for a few years
•"PTA mom": true years ago when her first-born was in elementary
school, not since
•"NRA supporter": absolutely true
•social conservative: mixed. Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a bill that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships (said she did this because it was unconsitutional).
•pro-creationism: mixed. Supports it, BUT did nothing as Governor to promote it.
•"Pro-life": mixed. Knowingly gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby
BUT declined to call a special legislative session on some pro-life legislation
•"Experienced": Some high schools have more students than Wasilla has residents. Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska. No legislative experience other than City Council. Little hands-on supervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city administrator to run town of about 5,000.
•political maverick: not at all
•gutsy: absolutely!
•open & transparent: ??? Good at keeping secrets. Not good at explaining actions.
•has a developed philosophy of public policy: no
•"a Greenie": no. Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores and disconnected parking lots. Is pro-drilling off-shore and in ANWR.
•fiscal conservative: not by my definition!
•pro-infrastructure: No. Promoted a sports complex and park in a city without a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system. Built streets to early 20th century standards.
•pro-tax relief: Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax burden on residents
•pro-small government: No. Oversaw greatest expansion of city government in Wasilla's history.
•pro-labor/pro-union. No. Just because her husband works union doesn't make her pro-labor. I have seen nothing to support any claim that she is pro-labor/pro-union.

WHY AM I WRITING THIS?

First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting programs in the schools. If you google my name (Anne Kilkenny +
Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.

Secondly, I've always operated in the belief that "Bad things happen when good people stay silent". Few people know as much as I do because few have gone to as many City Council meetings.

Third, I am just a housewife. I don't have a job she can bump me out of. I don't belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I am no fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will cost me somehow in the future: that's life.

Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100 or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah's attempt at censorship.

Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to say anything because they were somehow vulnerable.

CAVEATS
I am not a statistician. I developed the numbers for the increase in spending & taxation 2 years ago (when Palin was running for Governor) from information supplied to me by the Finance Director of the City of Wasilla, and I can't recall exactly what I adjusted for: did I adjust for inflation? for population increases? Right now, it is impossible for a private person to get any info out of City Hall--they are swamped. So I can't verify my numbers.

You may have noticed that there are various numbers circulating for the population of Wasilla, ranging from my "about 5,000", up to 9,000. The day Palin's selection was announced a city official told me that the current population is about 7,000. The official 2000 census count was 5,460. I have used about 5,000 because Palin was Mayor from 1996 to 2002, and the city was growing rapidly in the mid-90's.

Anne Kilkenny
annekilkenny@hotmail.com
August 31, 2008

McCain did something when he was 26. He got shot down then beat up by those he was bombing. I might just do the same if I was being bombed. Nothing much else ever since. He's a cancer patient, 72 and didn't know there was a country between Iraq and Afghanastan. He picked a sportscaster Governor who's into big oil's pocket and you call it experience & wisdom. Good thing there's an election in November.

I forgot to mention , during her vice presidency and then her presidency she will be providing, lots of great quotable sound bites ... such as "the presidency is not a voyage of self discovery" !!!! LOL ..... how very true. Do you guys recall Ronald quoting Lucas? “The Evil Empire! AHHHHH , LOL .

she requested millions in federal earmakrs while mayor. evidently, now "she shares McCain's loathing for earmarks."

ossilot

"WHY isn't the media calling out this woman for the lies she's been telling?"

Because the RNC very effectively positioned her as the quintessential "American" mom, holding down a job, taking care of the kids, etc. They don't DARE call her on any facts because they will immediately be labeled as "liberal elitists" and "sexist pigs".

Well done Carl Rove.

"And what is with mocking community organizers?"

Maybe this will be her "bitter" pill.

Sarah = Eva Peron in Alaska version
---- power hungry, corruptive, and most importantly, saintly.....

Hadeem Zakaria:

You are a disgusting racist. Don't even think of yourself as an American. You are an embarrassment to the rest of us.

Big moves on Intrade! LOL!

The GOP's platform is apparently to shi# talk their way into the presidency.

Plenty of lies and sarcastic, condescending BS from Palin.

Not one single iota of a plan for how to fix our country (that broke on the GOP's watch).

And what is with mocking community organizers?

What an insult to the unsung heroes in the trenches trying to help Americans from the bottom up. Being a community organizer is already a thankless, low paying job. Mocking them is simply disgusting.

What an out of touch, mean, nasty group the GOP is these days....

Let's see...

Repub inexperience argument-gone-she's worse.

Celebrity argument-gone-she's flashier.

Didn't address 'issue specifics' in convention-gone-they haven't either.

Roman columns? At least it was different than 'in the round' same set as GWB had last time. Frankly, they got nuthin' but an "ancient never was" and a young wannabe, neither having taken time to get qualified on what America actually needs. More of the same? No thanks. Change is good.

You have to ignore questions about the substance or accuracy or sarcasm of the speech. She probably added some lines of her own, but I'd guess 98% of the speech was drafted for her. That's okay, Mark Salter writes McCain's speeches and books, as often occurs with politicians. Obama is the exception, as was Reagan and, often, Bill Clinton .

Her delivery demonstrated confidence, poise, passion, and an ability to deliver zingers. It, also, revealed an ability to deliver complete untruths and gross exaggerations just as smoothly as truths and unadorned facts. Some politicians actually have trouble doing that.

I disliked the nose wrinkling whenever she seemed to want to punctuate a blatant attack or point. Her accent or tone of voice grated a little on me (and mine probably would on her). To me, the speech did not make her likable. A moment or two of humility or softness would have been nice (I kept thinking back to how well Biden came across on this score).

Finally, although her personality and style appear to well-suited to be the veep attack dog (or pit bull, in her words) I just could not feel she exhibited any credibility to be on the big stage criticizing a presidential candidate in the manner she was. To me, it made her look small.

OBAMA NEEDS SOME NEW RACE CARDS!

Now Obama has to figure out how to play on white guilt and racial preferences to smack down a mom with 5 kids, a blue collar husband and a real family with real problems.

How is he going to demand affirmative action, invoke white guilt and use the racial grievance mentality to demand she step aside so that social justice can be served to him, with his ivy league degrees and record of never having done anything for anyone other than himself? How to beat up a hockey mom for being white?

Such a quandry... He's going to have to go back to the race card store and get some new race cards that useless elite ivy league black guys can play against blue collar hockey moms.

Governor Palin found a target -- the "media" and the "Washington Elites" -- that will surely form the basis of the coming months of Republican Rebuttal.

The problem that she will increasingly face is that, contrary to her contention, the people are not criticizing her experience because it was gathered outside Washington. They are criticizing her experience because it is thin.

Her defense of the PTA, and of the mayoralty of a small town, as proper training for the Presidency does not ring true.

ThisRaceIsOver.

"Of all the qualified women that the Republicans could have chosen - Condi Rice, Libby Dole, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, etc., why they chose this one is beyond reason."

I'm sure it's not because they weren't asked.... None of these educated, intelligent, capable, qualified women want to be anywhere near John McCain. They've worked with him for years, know him intimately, and rejected his calls to be on his ticket. The RNC had to go all the way to the ends of the political earth to find someone willing to run with him.

>> LONGthreadnow wrote: "And you STILL go back to your abuser - the feminist Democratic party. Wow. Bed. Made. Lie."

The Democratic women feel they are superior to Republican women, yet they aren't treated as well, don't get the respect and they are tools used for the identity politics of others.

The sense of freedom that Democratic women have is a chimera. They get pushed around and never really get their agendas met, and they are held hostage by the threats of Roe v. Wade that Democrats hold over their head. Like abused women, they're told "If you think we're bad, they'll overturn Roe v. Wade". Abused women are told, "If you don't like me slapping you around, other men out there will treat you worse!"

Democratic women are workhorses of the Democratic party and they're second class to the men. They're the workhorses and tools, held hostage by threats over Roe v. Wade.

Dear Ass-per Grrl
Your comments are as tired and old as the rest of the Dem RHEOTORIC being spewed here. I would ask you to KISS ME WHERE I PEE, but considering where your lips have been SURGICALLY ATTACHED for the past 8 years, I am afraid of the STD’S

Props to Gov. Palin -- she's had her night in the spotlight.

Now, how about putting the hard questions to her: the economy, the war, why she is out to undermine a woman's reproductive rights. That's what we need to focus on.

To quote Winston Churchill, "This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure."

This country needs to dare to be a beacon of freedom again, to stand up for those in need, to welcome creative and intellectual diversity. That is what is at stake here.

This about says it all about PALIN.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8uGenNjOAI

She strikes me as a black widow, toxic and dangerous, dispite the outward charm. I guess the chill is produced by the sneer behind the smile. She reminded me of Dick Cheney :-)

The GOP pulled Palin straight out of the Jerry Springer audience to put on the national ticket.

Instead of growing their base, last night the Republican Party managed to constrict it down to their hardcore.

Sarah Palin managed to offend two-thirds of the nation rather than reach out to it. By coming out of nowhere and proudly declaring herself the leader of a resumed culture war, she is hitting exactly the wrong tone, with the wrong content.

The growing demographic diversity of this nation does not want to go to war with white rural Pentecostals. Why is she picking this fight? Is that what rural America wants, another Civil War? Or is it just the End Time that they are seeking?

I know that old-line secular Republicans are just as tired of this angry bluster coming from backwoods fundamentalists as the rest of us. We need good governance, not fire and brimstone politicking.

Sarah's faction of religious separatists are a small minority of this great nation. We're going to keep it great, against their attempts to dismantle it.

McCain made an amazing pick. Palin is simply dynamic. Would any of the other choices available to him have been half the asset she is? Obama meanwhile disdained his strongest option -- Hillary -- and managed to latch onto a moss-covered insider who is the perfect foil for Palin. If I'd spent the last 30 years in the U.S. Senate, I think the last thing I'd want to do is face off against Palin.

No class..plain and simple

It is unfortunate that so many postings are vulgar and disrespectful. Most importantly they don't attempt to lend a relevant informed opinion of the question posed by the Fix. It not only offends the numerous readers whether they are men, women, or children, but the Washington Post as well. It is very sad. There are numerous people who should be ashamed and proves very few people actually want to have a respectful and intelligent conversation willing to acknowledge and respect dissenting views while taking the time to form a strong analytical opinion. It won't matter who wins the White House because ultimately, the same veil feelings exist equally amongst both parties.

Sarah Palin is not just the embodiment of the new Republican party that McCain is shaping, she is the new face of feminism.

She is "A Natural" and she is completely natural in her executive femininity.

still clingin: "America really is a nation of small towns..."
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No, it really is not. The USA has a population of 303 million, 81% of whom live in cities and suburbs. Fewer than 1 in 5 Americans live in a rural town.

Wow!!! She is not what she claims to be!!!

http://www.thepresidentialcandidates.us/about-sarah-palin-a-letter-from-anne-kilkenny/741/

39 year old unmarried Dem females are apoplectic over this Palin nomination. They're doomed to permanent singledom, with no hubby, no children, (and by extension, no grandchildren) but hey, they've got their cubicle, their cat, and a little policy-wonking on washingtonpost.com.

And you STILL go back to your abuser - the feminist Democratic party. Wow. Bed. Made. Lie.

What strikes me in all of this is the question being asked by the left - she is a heartbeat away from being president, is she qualified? Well, she is definately more qualified than the Dem's presidential pick Obama. Obama has been in the Senate for 4 years (3 of which he has done nothing but campaingn full time for the presidency)while she is the CEO of the state of Alaska. She is not more qualified than Biden in a VP vs VP race but ironically is way more qualified than Obama. Shouldn't Biden be running against McCain?

WHY isn't the media calling out this woman for the lies she's been telling? Are all of the networks in the tank for McCain now? Are all of the men so enticed by a good looking woman? Are all the women so taken that a on?woman was selected they've decided to stop thinking? What the H*** is going on?? This woman was not speaking in a tone one uses to debate issues. She was downright nasty, combative and one of the most disrespectful politicians I've seen in some time. I certainly hope that Joe Biden will give it right back to her. I don't care if she's a woman. She deserves what she gives and if that's a problem, then she should not be in politics at all. I'd bet that McCain picked her because he knows Obama will want her treated with kid gloves just like he did with Clinton. I didn't agree with that then and don't agree with it now. Clinton took advantage of that and I hope he doesn't let this one do the same thing. She needs to be put in the same positions she's put him in. No holds barrred as far as I'm concerned and, yes, I'm a woman!!!

Where is Hillary Clinton when we need her? Let's see how Obama's decision for VP pans out in this election. The outcome of this election is now quite unpredictable. As left as I am, the republicans simplistic political strategies are a lot of more feasible and well-received by the general public than the lofty democratic agenda.

Biglio

"Us foreigners really don't understand how in America being an "average" man (or woman" qualifies you for the top job"

Interesting and intelligent question. I think the answer lies in our now-distant past. Like you, we were ruled by a colonial elite and it was a rag-tag group of farmers that fought and won our independence. Also, up until WW2, the Federal government was a very small organization primarily chartered to "provide for the mutual defense" of the states. We didn't need an intellectual giant to be a president. Of course, that certainly changed after WW2. Also, we like to hold on to the myth that any old "joe or jane" can win the presidency of the US. This harkens back to our trust in the "common man" and "common sense". The reality is that only the wealthy political elite run this country. So what we get is a political elite (repub and democrat - makes no differenc), that have to pander to these outdated notions.

>> Aspercreme wrote: "She lost. In spite of your hundreds of posts to WaPo under a bunch of different names, she lost. Get it? Game over."

Firstly, I don't post under different names. Secondly, you're a little too fixated on me if you imagine I'm posting things that others are posting. You need to get a grip on your imagining you see AsperGirl in other peoples' posts.

Secondly, I'm taunting Obama. He got sandbagged into thinking McCain was going to run an old-white-man ticket. Obama thought he could get away with not picking HIllary, and now he's stuck with a useless Biden on his ticket and he blew his whole convention on building an argument against McCain that McCain was the same as Bush.

McCain outfoxed Obama, drawing him away from picking Hillary Clinton as his VP, which the sexist got suckered into doing.

You watch, the female vote is going to dribble away starting as of today.

LOL. I'm not insisting Obama change his ticket. I think it's too late for him. He'd have no credibility if he did.

I'm pulling for Sarah Palin. She's much better than Hillary Clinton.

Previously a Barr-leaning, undecided, Indy, Palin pride and patriotism won me over. America really is a nation of small towns and Sarah Palin has shown herself to be quintessential small town American. Consider thus statement from her speech last night...

"We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity.... I grew up with those people. They're the ones who do some of the hardest work in America, who grow our food and run our factories and fight our wars. They love their country in good times and bad and they're always proud of America.'"

I was reminded of this incident: I was initially upset when President Bush committed our troops to war in Iraq. Like many, I questioned whether the evidence was exaggerated and if the government should risk American lives.

That weekend after the war had started, I drove from my cosmopolitan suburban DC condo pass the protesters and anti-war banners to the small blue collar town where I grew up. As I entered from the interstate I noticed an American flag flying from every single light pole and on porches and windows along the main street. At the first stoplight, the local florist assembled a patriotic display and had posted the photos and names of all the locals who had been deployed...private, airman, sergeant.. likely, I thought, the first people in line to be shot up -- hailed there on the main street as hometown heros. Country first. I sat there at the light for what seemed like an eternity with tears streaming down my face -- not necessarily convinced war was the answer, but proud of the stock from which I was cut.

After her speech last night I was left felling I personally know Sarah. She is the mother of that grunt in the florist window... the fellow parishioner at church ...the PTA member heading up the bake sale committee... the parent loudly cheering as the home team scores.. the one whose otherwise good kids, sometimes make wrong choices. Sarah Palin is the tenacity, honor and duty that embodies every small town in America.

Sarah, all of us from Scranton and other small towns throughout this country proudly clinging to our guns and our God -- we recognize you, we welcome you, we support you. God Speed!

Seeing as this was her first nationally televised address, I was hoping to learn about the nuances of her stance on the issues, since we all only know basic information about her. Sadly she offered nothing new in that respect, and instead spent the entire time showing an image of aggression that had nothing to do with issues that would affect American people.

One image of her aggression was defending her potential as VP in light of being a new mom of a special needs child, and of her lack of job experience in the field of government and politics. Clearly she has already been interrogated and harassed by some reporters and pundits on these points, and the buzz on the blogosphere is also quite great, but her response to the attacks were not graceful or diplomatic in my opinion. The aggressive response is like that of a so-called hockey mom seeing her son get checked. It's not really the kind of response you want a leader to have in a national security situation, especially since we already know the result of that type of aggressive response.

The other aggressive stance was attacking Obama, and I found it really interesting that she would state that he is basically two-faced by allegedly changing his talk depending on his audience. This is a quality that seems to apply to all politicians, herself included. For example, she directly denounced the practice of earmarks last night, when we now know there exists her recorded speech from Alaska during which she graciously praised those in Washington who provided such earmarks on Alaska's behalf.

Once again, the GOP knows how to put the spin on a concept to market to the general public.

Sarah Palin speech was filled with insults and attacts. No substance and met the standards of the "same old politics" that the Republician stand for. Sad day if you ask me for the RNC.

Many who read the repeated venom-laden attacks posted here may be surprised at the level of vitriol they contain, however, one need only consider the decidedly left-leaning readership of the Post in order to see a clearer picture of how Gov. Palin is actually being received after last night's coming out party. Personally, I thought she played well in front of the "home" crowd, but she was expected to do well in front of a friendly crowd. Politics is all about EXCEEDING expectations. I will be curious to see how she does in the VP debate against a "seasoned" opponent in Joe Biden. Above all, I hope that people do not lose sight of the fact that the GOP, dominated solely by white men throughout its entire history, has listened to the cries for change and inclusion and has made adjustments to their usual m.o. in order to be more inclusive. Now, is this enough? No, of course not. But it is a move in the right direction!!! To support this selection is to support continued movement to the center. Bashing it merely encourages the old guard to continue to nominate the same tired faces that they have offered for the last century! Let's support progress by endorsing this selection! Does that mean you should vote for McCain/Palin? No. You should vote for whomever you feel will be best for the country, whomever they may be, but bashing this historic selection for the sake of promoting your own favorite candidate is sophomoric and promotes regressive thinking!

The Dems are having some serious "Buyer's Remorse" right about now.

Wow! Obama is our candidate! Wait. Obama is our candidate...oh man....

It's hilarious how people say, "Who is Sarah Palin?" when 18 months ago, 99% of people said "Who is Barack Obama?"

But of course, we're in the land of the free, and the home of the idiots....

Obama, the candidate of CHANGE, picks Joe Biden, the consummate insider and Beltway bathroom fixture. LOL.....

I swear people, you can't make this stuff up....

To independent. Please do not compare Palin to a hot librarian. She doesn't like librarians. She fired the Wasilla librarian because the librarian would not ban books. Do not insult the good and noble profession of librarianship by describing Palin as a hot librarian. I am a hot librarian, so I should know what I am talking about. Librarians believe in free speech and the right to read whatever you want.

My impressions: Can read a speech written by somebody else off a teleprompter pretty well. Sounds like Spiro Agnew. Mean and petty. The Base will love her. The 75% rest of us...... not so much.

Makes McCain look ancient. Obama offers hope. McCain/Palin offers anger.

Still unqualified to be VP. Her 'dysfunctional reality show TV family' and multiple scandals will be a major drag on the ticket.

Bottom line: Obama still wins.

Democrats to Sarah Palin: Go bake me some pie.
Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton to Democrats: Let me finish cutting your balls off first. This dull knife takes a while.

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Truly Sarah Palin was the very embodiment of the modern Republican party last night.

Cheerily nasty, sarcastic and condescending she heaped scorn, mockery and falsehoods upon Obama's public service and family. The respectful tone shown at the Democratic convention last week toward McCain was nowhere to be found.

The contrast with Obama's call for a new politics of civility could not have been more striking. Nothing could showcase the necessity of Obama's call more than this diatribe.

But this is nothing more than what I expected (though I hoped for better). What astonishes me though is the generally favorable reviews this speech is getting in the press.

I can only attribute this to the "reality bubble" of the convention rubbing off - where mere facts were irrelevant and the delegates readily cheered any hate-filled pronouncement.

>>EB wrote: "How dare you and others like you think that being anti-Palin means being a chauvinist or sexist. Real feminism rejects you because you would rather see a woman in a position of power (even though she's just a puppet of an over-zealous sexist cabal of old geezers) rather than understand that she's the problem not the solution. Geez, this pisses me off!"

You have no idea what "real feminism" is. If you think those unnatural, ivory-tower, pseudo-sophisticates like Gloria Steinem are "real feminists", you have to do a double take.

All those old, Democratic feminists are long debunked. Their brand of personally bankrupt, hollow feminism is dead and gone. Their impoverished femininity and their feminism have failed. No one has felt they are relevant for decades, as "real women" have rejected their distorted personal lives.

Sarah Palin is a whole, natural woman feminist. She is a neo-feminist, and calls herself a "pro life feminist". They don't have distorted personal relationships, power confusion, and they don't believe that babies keep them from attaining self-realization. They are completely feminine and completely unaffected in their feminism.

The Democratic feminists are old dinosaurs from a bankrupt, failed movement.

The Democratic feminists today are impotent and full of empty ideas they can't realize because they're too personally impoverished. They're little more than affectations of the Democratic Party, impotent tools.

"Better find whatever we can but once the election is over support the person and trust his/her judgement. Because rest assured they have the information more than you and I will ever have, and they have their legacy in mind. Ultimately that is what they live for. Because more vitriole we carry worse of we would be." ------- This is a mindless, lazy attitude that leads to allowing unqualified leaders to invading countries for no good reason and plunging the country into trillions of dollars of debt.

Senator Barry Hussein's (aka Senator Purple Lips) star is beginning to fade. I am laughing at how scared the Dems are of an electrified Republican Convention compliments of Gov. Palin. LOL!

BigB is not only wrong, but lying, and perpetuates the myths of the extreme left.

"Bored of drilling the Obama women, eh?"

Nah. I'm with Bill Clinton on this one -- I like my women white and trashy! I just did my office in wall to wall Palin!

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erm, that was your mother, you color-blind moron.

Palin's speech was entertaining. But, until a week ago, I had never heard of her, and doubt most of you had either. If she had such a compelling message for all of us, such impressive results with her leadership in Alaska, might we not have heard of them? Or even one of them? I shudder at the thought that (God forbid) she could be President this time next year.

I don't get the media. Are you all afraid of women? Everyone is talking about what a good speech this way, how she showed she's a good mother and how wonderful she is to be a Governor and mother at the same time. MOST women in this country, unfortunately, must juggle work and family. I don't care what you do for a living, it cannot be easy. MOST women with children I know with teenagers don't face their daughter getting pregnant. What values did she teach this girl or did she just not do it at all? In Alaska, she's voted against funding for children with disabilities. Now she is using her own son to get votes from women who have Down Syndrome children. Doesn't sound like a very strong sense of morality to me. Also, she seems somewhat aloof to me when it comes to her family. She's told us her husband is a fisherman and works for BP (surprise! another oil family). Now the media is saying that he's a stay at home dad. What is the truth with this woman???? She's also not the great Mayor or Governor she makes hereself out to be. She's just another Republican who says what needs to be said in order to win. I hope everyone demands that questions be asked and answered soon if they're not too scared that is.

My wife and I watched almost all of Palin's speech last night, until my wife got so angry (at the speech) that she started vacuuming the floor in front of the TV. I really don't understand why the press is giving Palin a pass on both the contents and her delivery. For the TV audience (which was obviously much more important than the party insiders at the convention), the speech was a dismal failure.

Aside from the generally nasty tone, Palin's speech simply did not come off like it was tailored for Palin. Most of the speech was probably partially written some time ago, assuming the VP candidate would be one of the "usual suspects" (Ridge, Huckabee, Romney, etc.), before they picked Palin, and was poorly adapted to her style and strengths. She certainly has no grounds to criticize Obama's experience, and neither she nor McCain can come close to matching Obama's intelligence, judgment and talent.

The speech contained numerous, blatant falsehoods. For example, she didn't refuse the earmark for the "Bridge to Nowhere". Her administration took the money Congress allocated and spent it on other projects, only after public condemnation came out against the bridge. In fact, Alaska receives the most per capita federal tax money in the entire U.S., and Palin actively sought millions in federal pork as governor. She also claimed to have governing experience in her small town, but she had previously admitted that there were only about 60 town employees (which sounds like a lot for a town of 7000 - so much for small government) and it was a part time job. She also didn't mention that she tried to fire the town librarian for refusing to censor the library's collection, and is under investigation for allegedly firing a state employee for refusing to fire a man who had divorced Palin's sister. These issues are not sexist or the houndings of a "liberal" media - they are serious questions about Palin's ethics and ability to be an effective leader.

In addition to the falsehoods, her delivery was terrible - she giggles like a schoolgirl and she was painfully reading the details about her own family off the teleprompter! Has 8 years of Bush's verbal fumbling really set the bar so low? Of all the qualified women that the Republicans could have chosen - Condi Rice, Libby Dole, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, etc., why they chose this one is beyond reason.

Unlike all of the die-hard GOP voters in these comments who pretend to be Hillary democrats voting for McCain, I freely admit that I am, and was, going to vote for Obama regardless of the GOP convention speeches. However, the Palin speech actually drove me to part with some of my own money (and possibly a significant amount of my free time this fall) to support Obama and Biden. This country cannot afford four more years of government by the oil industry. Obama-Biden is the only real choice.

"Hitlery" Clinton makes me turn the television OFF.

Sarah "Hockey Mom" Palin make me turn the television ON.

There it is.

Listen AsperGirl:

She lost. In spite of your hundreds of posts to WaPo under a bunch of different names, she lost. Get it? Game over.

Now go get lost.

So she has mastered the art of evangelical lying, of turning her failure as a parent and her gross lack of serious experience (unless you count giving the green light to massive, senseless slaughtering of wildlife) into plusses. Just because she looks like a Barbie doll does not mean she has the credentials to lead a country. She cannot even control her own daughter., no less oversee a country, should she end up as president.

"A Pit Bull with Lipstick"

Now that she has defined herself, the gloves are off and the brass knuckles are on.

She thinks she can throw a punch? She ain't seen nuthin yet! I hope she can take it like she can dish it out.

Bad news for Repubs: she completely overshadows the Old Geezer with her extremist, sneering rants.

Her extremist positions may generate the campaign $$$ the Repubs so desperately need, but any undecided voters will be running for cover while the news media will be having a field day trashing her record.

How does Obama keep getting all these lucky breaks?

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"Bored of drilling the Obama women, eh?"

Nah. I'm with Bill Clinton on this one -- I like my women white and trashy! I just did my office in wall to wall Palin!

Here we go again! Sarah Palin is now the front woman for the Extreme right-wing Republican attack machine. They had to go all the way to Alaska to find someone extreme enough to spout this nonsense! I listened to her speech Wednesday night because I wanted to see what kind of person she is. She was sarcastic, pompous, bitter, crude and showed very little class. Her speech was extremely low-brow. Sounds like our current commander-in-chief and you know how well he has done running this country.
McCain wants to be president so bad, he has finally let the far-right takeover his whole campaign. Most people I know are fed-up with this kind of political discourse. The Republicans will lose in November, and they will lose big!

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In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers.

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YESTERDAY'S RISING STAR -- TODAY'S CHOPPED LIVER

Wow, after all that empty rhetoric from the hollow posturing narcissist, there appears on the scene a politician with a charisma grounded in an ability to actually do things and run things and mean what she says! A charismatic who is a real person and not a poseur!

Obama looks kinda like a 30-year-old child actor right now. An old fad. Chopped liver.

"What did we ever see in him? He's so yesterday!"

Some retard named Di had the audacity to write: "Palin is awesome! Now I know who I'm voting for! This is the real feminism we need!".... Di, you wouldn't know a feminist even if your (lame) life depended on it! How dare you and others like you think that being anti-Palin means being a chauvinist or sexist. Real feminism rejects you because you would rather see a woman in a position of power (even though she's just a puppet of an over-zealous sexist cabal of old geezers) rather than understand that she's the problem not the solution. Geez, this pisses me off!

McCain wins! Palin becomes President in 4 years (or less). Our “New Reagan!” – Here’s is a small glimpse of the future:

- (Energy Policy) - Drill now, drill often, wherever – it doesn’t matter. Throw in a couple of domestic wind farms and "new-clear" plants. Gas rises to $8.00 a gallon and beyond.
- (National Defense/Homeland Security)- The perpetual war, a.k.a. “God’s Plan,” is here to stay. Lots of cool weapons and eavesdropping devices invented.
- (Separation of Church and State) - The best and brightest of Regent University will be happy to get back to you on that.
- (Civil Rights) - Raped and impregnated by Uncle Bob? Supreme Court has ruled no choice allowed. Didn’t you know that?
- (Taxes) – Only for national defense and morality education. Tornado hit your town? We’ll dispatch the army to help once they finish their offensive on the Eurasian front. In the meantime, Pastor Phil and Sister Maggie will come down to dole out beans and franks and sustain you with the Word. It may take a few days, the public roads are not in the best of shape.
- (Education) – See Taxes above.
- (Health and Housing) – It was just as well Aunt Betsy died in the emergency room from that stomach virus – she couldn’t afford to live with us anymore anyway.

ANONYMOUS, It sounds like you fit into that category. First, if you read correctly I was not comparing DUMBASS George Bush but the republican party leadership for the last eight years. I see you could of used some the school funding so that you can learn how to read and spell.

Like Guiliani who preceded her, she came off as little more than snotty. I was moved by her speech - to donate to the Obama campaign. The Republicans must be punished for the havoc they have wreaked on America for the past eight years. She was persuasive in only one area: that if elected, she will be as much of a mediocrity in a position of power as George W. Bush.

Democrats to Sarah Palin: Go bake me some pie.
Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton to Democrats: Let me finish cutting your balls off first. This dull knife takes a while.

Sarah Palin did better than anyone expected. Her attacks were direct, her delivery was very smooth, and she projected confidence. And she is right -- mayors have much more responsibility than a community organizer. maybe Obama will regret he made such a big deal of that nothing job in Chicago.

at the risk of generalizing (as it seems to have been done in at least every other post here by [presumably] dems), why is it that whining dems just want to say that mccain/pailn wont address the "real" issues and propose solutions to address these problems? all obama has done is criticize that status-quo in monday-morning-qb style with few concrete solutions proposed moving forward. Those he has offered are questionable, to say the least - both in form and function. And it is not hard to criticize the current state of things and simply blame republicans generally. That is all obama done...while casting his spell. I gues that's just politics in general, but come clean dems and admit it goes both ways. Too bad hillary couldnt pull it off 0 at least she was a known commodity. Obama is scary.

Sarah Palin is nothing but a vaudeville act in the human form that isdesigned for one reason and one reason only - to rally the conservative base that had been starving for some red meat rhetoric for a while. It make sense as the energy in republican campaign this election season is measured only in Fred Thomson units. But the problem for my conservative friends for pushing this one trick pony too far is that they might turn it in to a proxy election between a genuine candidate that claimed a spot on the ballet with 18 million votes and a political flyweight who got here with one vote of a sad old caricature of himself. I am quite sure Obama campaign will be more than happy to take on that battle.

And, what's up with McCain's campaign going after media. Bad mistake, me thinks. The only reason without a doubt why McCain is in the position where he is now is that he never failed to offer milk and cookies to every journalist he came across in his career. Going after the people who got him here is a spectacularly bad strategy.

So what? She has the mastered the art of evangelical lying. Give me a break. She manages to turn her failings as a parent to her advantage. She turns her inexperience into a plus. All the ignorant people who buy this are the very people pouring money into the baskets of the evangelical leaders who are dinking around with their children. Good grief!

Well, the delivery was OK and was obviously playing to the base. I thought her style was not very statesmanlike - more of a Rush Limbaugh monologue than an appeal to moderate Americans (independents or whatever you want to call them). My wife hated it so I doubt this is going to capture the hearts of a lot of non GOP folks, least of all women.

I was on the fence between McCain and Obama because of a concern on Obama's experience. Now that Sarah is the veep,that issue has disappeared for me. I'm voting Obama. You right wingers on this blog can breathe easily though as I live in Massachusetts where democratic wins in presidential elections are academic.

As a father of 3 small children, I found the passing around of Trig as some kind of family values baton (good thing the US Olympic relay team wasn't there) at 10 PM in a loud, crowded event way over the top. I keep thinking the theme song for the speech should have been "Up all night" by the Talking Heads.

Finally, as a hockey coach, I now understand why we have to get all of the hockey moms to sign code of conduct forms.

Palin gives the McCain ticket the WOW factor, missing until now. When Hillary was losing while campaigning in primaries, the late Tim Russert decided to end the primaries. I was stunned until his tragic heart attack and elaborate state funeral which followed. Turns out He wasn't a newsman--he was a media-God. This pattern is continuing with Sarah Palin as the target of power-hungry media. Let it go. This time you won't win.

HKY Virginia,

You can call it imasculating all you want, but the fact of the matte ris that Gov. Palin is a lier. It's more important to the "dittoheads" of the world these days that pliticians be debasing and shrewd. Her sppech offered no substance and in fact she debased community organizers. These are the people who work with the church, and such, who help people find jobs and fight for their rights. I guess this is not important to the republican party. Sara Palin sure made that clear last night.

I loved Jon Stewart last night, playing clips from the GOP talking heads, including Rove and Palin talking about how Hillary complaining about the press 'beating up' on her. Paling said she should suck it up and try harder.

The mean spirited tone, especially from Mayor 9/11 and Palin, shows that the GOP has nothing but slash and burn Rove playbook.

Drill, baby, drill!

That's how I feel about Sarah Palin -- I'd drill that skank for sure1

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Bored of drilling the Obama women, eh?

She is attractive, sharp, eloquent, funny, and dignified! Wow! What a package! , I used to miss Reagan, not so much anymore. Now here is a woman I can be proud represents my gender in a high official capacity!

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Drill, baby, drill!

That's how I feel about Sarah Palin -- I'd drill that skank for sure1

If you are a big fan of the culture wars, it looks like Palin is your candidate.

For some reason, a lot of republicans today seem to be living in some fantasy world that Palin changed everything with one mean-spirited, cynical, sarcastic speech that she delivered in a deer-in-the-headlights, wooden persona that makes Al Gore seem animated, and that suddenly all the Democrats are scared.

Once the next morning afterglow fades and everyone realizes that she represents more of the worst of all republicans, they'll see that the only thing Democrats are scared about is that nervous feeling you get in your stomach when you realize you're about to have to step up and lead as opposed to just being horrified at the mess the current administration has created.

Look at her record, it's everything she says it's not.

I love reading the posts of wannabe Dem policy wonks who so obviously don't get it.

Earth to Dem policy wonks, come in. You're in brain-dead America, people. You Dems, with your assinine love of public schools, have succeeded in creating a nation of idiots. And they will vote for Sarah Palin. And she will probably win. And it will be your fault. Yes, YOUR fault.

So wonk all you want. Cry-baby all you want about how she didn't include your beloved POLICY in her speech. You, my friend, are the one who does not understand how it all works. You created a brain-dead public with your brain-dead public school teachers who score miserably themselves on a constantly-changing SAT(to hide the real decline in scores, of course).

So, cry-baby all you want. You're OUT of it. You're clueless. You don't get it.

What we saw tonight was the middleclass family that Obama and Biden want to help, telling the politicians and the media to get out of the way while they help themselves.

Obama's Pastor: GODDAMN SARAH PALIN!!

Palin is the hockey mom from hell.

Are Hockey Moms Grown In Hell?
What does it say about a person who jokes that lipstick is the only difference between herself and a pit bull… a dog known from multiple news reports for being unrelenting, uncontrollable and a deadly killer of children and people…?

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Sarah Palin to Bristol Palin on teenage sex:

"Remember honey: if you want to avoid pregnancy take it in the ass or mouth, God doesn't see it when you do it there

SOUNDS MORE LIKE BILL CLINTON TO ME

A new political star was born last night. Sarah Palin is a natural. Brilliant choice by John McCain.

What a joy it is to see the media and D.C. insiders caught by surprise.

The Wash Post and Sally Quinn(I am not a real journalist, I just shagged the old boss Ben Bradlee and I hate all women who are more successful than me, like Hillary and Sarah Palin) should be ashamed of their sexist coverage of Palin. Do any of you old farts actually think to ask a man, any man, say perhaps Barack, ANY questions about why he's running for President with two young children of his own? No, you don't ever do that. It's only WOMEN you attack. SEXISM LIVES!

Barack Obama has yet to be vetted. Bring it on.

A missed opportunity for the Democrats in failing women in 2008 and failing to nominate the most qualified and most electable candidate, Hillary Clinton who won the popular vote, winning MORE votes than ANY candidate of ANY party in history! Hillary Clinton should be the nominee. Now, the Dems are stuck with an unqualified and unelectable Obama/Biden. Damn.

For this Democrat, it's McCain 08 and Hillary 2012. Country first, party second.

Hold the DNC accountable for the 2008 campaign debacle. Hold the DNC accountable for the rampant sexism, racism, classism, voter disenfranschisement and subversion of democracy in 2008 by the DNC, Obama, and the media.

At least the GOP had the grace and political smarts to acknowledge the accomplishements of Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro. The DNC is too stupid to celebrate both Bill and Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro.

Missed opportunities indeed.

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I guess she energized things. And that's why she's on the ticket. If you doubt that, just take a look at the length of this string.

WOW, WOW, WOW. An amazing speech from a remarkable woman whom most of us had never heard of just a week ago. No wonder the Dems and liberal media have been attacking her ruthlessly and relentlessly since last Friday. She proved last night that they have a LOT to be worried about.

Dems you can yell all you want, doesn't change the fact that your messiah, Obama, was EMASCULATED ON NATIONAL TV IN FRONT OF ABOUT 35 MILLION PEOPLE.

SARAH ROCKS!!!\

35 million? really ? I come to 20 million?
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/08/28/nielsen-ratings-wednesday-august-27-nbc-still-talented-but/4822

Difficult is it to base your judgements on false facts ...

i was completely disgusted by the drill baby drill chants.

By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer
Wed Sep 3, 11:48 PM ET

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.

Some examples:

PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere.
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THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere.
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PALIN: "There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate.
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THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.

PALIN: "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars.
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THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.

Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.

He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.

MCCAIN: "She's been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply ... She's responsible for 20 percent of the nation's energy supply. I'm entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America," he said in an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson.

THE FACTS: McCain's phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she's no more "responsible" for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.

MCCAIN: "She's the commander of the Alaska National Guard. ... She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities," he said on ABC.

THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under "federal status," which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska's national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.

FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States.
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THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.

FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: "We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin.
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THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.

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She needs to be strapped to a rocket and shot into another galaxy. She's the worst of America, ignorant and paranoid. She and McCain are an express train to the stone age. China, India, Brazil, the EU will race past America in a dizzying blur.

She's a hardcore extremist, an American Taliban. Annihilation is the only answer. What a spineless scumbag McCain is too, it's like watching Invasion of the Body Snatchers witnessing the Christianist nutjobs have their way with him. Destroy them and destroy them utterly, they're vermin.

""Only 36 of the 2,380 delegates seated on the convention floor are black, the lowest number since the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies began tracking diversity at political conventions 40 years ago."

Pathetic.

First, I would like to point out that both conventions are a staged event. Second, I would like to say that Gov. Palin did an excellent job of giving her speech and pointing out the problems of the opposition, just as did Joe Biden. So, anyone who attacks the candidates as mean or nasty or dismissive is a blind fool with a set agenda...both side are to blame. Unfortuately, there are a lot of who fools out there.

OBAMA NEEDS SOME NEW RACE CARDS!

Now Obama has to figure out how to play on white guilt and racial preferences to smack down a mom with 5 kids, a blue collar husband and a real family with real problems.

How is he going to demand affirmative action, invoke white guilt and use the racial grievance mentality to demand she step aside so that social justice can be served to him, with his ivy league degrees and record of never having done anything for anyone other than himself? How to beat up a hockey mom for being white?

Such a quandry... He's going to have to go back to the race card store and get some new race cards that useless elite ivy league black guys can play against blue collar hockey moms.

Cheney is in Georgia now meeting with Mikheil Saakashvili.

Palin (who has only traveled abroad ONCE) would fly to Atlanta and wonder where she could find Sack-Cash-Filly.

The chosen one has descended from the Tundra to save us all. With her vast experience, she could serve multiple posts in a McCain adminstration.

Sec. of State--Hey, her state is close to Russia.

Sec. of Defense/Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff--She has commanded the Alaska National Guard for over a year and a half.

Sec. of Education--She was a member of the PTA. What more could you want?

Director, DEA--She used to smoke pot. What more experience could she need?

Palin is the republicans secret weapon. She will win over many democratic working mothers who see politicians as Us and Them.The elitist male who does not know the problems of meeting ends meet. They see in her an advocate regardless of the negativity of the main line media.Watch the polls change!

Asper Girl:

"first black" this and "first black" that?

What is heavens name are you talking about? If anything, Obama has played down his heritage. I don't know who you are listening to but you'd better go on line and get some facts. Also, Hillary Clinton has so much baggage the Republicans would have had a field day. Obama made the right decision and he will take care of our people and our country in a way the Republicans can't even understand.

http://www.thepresidentialcandidates.us/about-sarah-palin-a-letter-from-anne-kilkenny/741/

She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece of property that the City didn’t even have clear title to, that was still in litigation 7 yrs later–to the delight of the lawyers involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.

I feel her speech was not that good. It was too mechanical. Besides vicious personal attacks she did not say much. It seemed as if she was reading the whole time. Overall I would say it was an average speech.

For the first time in my life, I am proud to be an Alaskan

Sarah Palin ROCKS!
This is going to be a GREAT presidency!
Except THIS time, with a REAL republican!
8 more years!!!!!
8 more years!!!!!
8 more years!!!!!
8 more years!!!!!

" AsperGirl, your dru-unk
AsperGirl, your lame
AsperGirl, I would feel sorry for you
but AsperGirl, your all thinky an sh*t

Too much Budweiser, too many girls
Too many std's, too many bad acid tripz
with too many sailors, on 2 many ships
more hands up your dress than a muppet

some people think with their hearts
but you just think with your crotch
there isn't enough scotch
to help me justify your mind..."

The "BAREFOOT AND IN THE KITCHEN" OLD BOY Democrats have something to worry about. They will try to 'CLINTON' her as well.

Now Obama has to figure out how to pull use white guilt and racial preferences to smack down a mom with 5 kids, a blue collar husband and a real family with real problems.

How is he going to demand affirmative action, invoke white guilt and use the racial grievance mentality to demand she step aside so that social justice can be served to him, with his ivy league degrees and record of never having done anything for anyone other than himself?

Such a quandry... He's going to have to go back to the race card store and get some new race cards that useless elite ivy league black guys can play against blue collar hockey moms to beat them up with.

At last we have, in Sarah Palin, America's answer to Iran's Ahmadinejad! A rabid rottweiler in religious garb whose cult embraces Armageddon with righteous enthusiasm. Just add a president with a notorious anger-management problem and a nuclear trigger and both Palin and Ahmadinejad will get exactly what they seem to so fervently desire.

For a woman who just got her passport last year, I think was the right mix of mean and annoying.

Lets see how she does away from the podium without a Karl Rove-like prepared speech.

Obama had the same task and has proven himself...Sarah Palin--so far--has not.

Sarah Palin to Bristol Palin on teenage sex:

"Remember honey: if you want to avoid pregnancy take it in the ass or mouth, God doesn't see it when you do it there."

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Even after her outstanding speech at the convention, the democrat misogynists continue attacking Palin like rabid dogs with the same savagery they used on Hillary. As before, they are being supported 100% by the liberal media, led by msnbc with their chief woman-hater and tax cheat, the deeply disturbed Oedipus olbermann.

This slimebag behavior shows that the loony-left has NOTHING OF SUBSTANCE to OFFER - just smears and hysterical mud-slinging.

The "God D@#! America (and Women)" crowd is as pathetic as it gets.

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A hot politician blowing kisses??

Do NOT underestimate this woman!

If Hillary blew me a kiss, I'd throw up....

america deserves better than this woman. she was mean, spiteful and sarcastic. she said nothing inspirational or uplifting. senator obama has consistently said, "senator mccain served our country and deserves our respect". i'd like to see the republicans offer barack just a little bit of respect in return. now, that would be a real change.

Palin is a typical Republican: a hypocrite who doesn't care about anyone else or society at large. It's all