Palin in the Green Room

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  • Posted By: Debunked! @ 08/29/2008 2:35:05 PM

    My co worker just ENTHUSIASTICALLY informed me of all of the accomplishments of McCain's VP pick and stated that she is a fighter and takes no mess and has an admirable record! So I guess it would be smart of me to withhold my judgment UNTIL I have done some research on her.

    • Posted By: kle5507 @ 08/29/2008 4:00:15 PM

      Accomplishments like being a mayor of a small town to being a governor of a small city. The population of Alaska is 670,000. The population of my county is 1.2 Million. I'm not impress.

  • Posted By: funkdome @ 08/29/2008 3:57:39 PM

    LOL. If the partisan liberals really think that experience is important, how can they support Obama for the much more important role of VP.

    This is the beauty of the pick. All of these attacks just highlight Obama's similar lack of experience, but he is going for the top job.

  • Posted By: Young Hickory @ 08/29/2008 3:54:17 PM

    A former beauty queen! This is almost too easy pickings. My only worry is that she will get sympathy votes because people feel she is in over her head. We have to be careful not to pick on her too much. It is really McCain's fault. He is supposed to have the experience to know better but he couldn't resist trying to pander to women voters. How insulting to intelligent women! However, not suprising from someone who tells rape jokes and calls Hillary Clinton a bitch. You would think Palin would have more pride.

  • Posted By: Micky Marsh @ 08/29/2008 3:26:10 PM

    I didn't like a part of Palin's speech concerning Senator Clinton, one of her expression sounded a little loaded, I dare not mention it.

    • Posted By: akguy @ 08/29/2008 3:44:39 PM

      Then whats the point in even commenting if you don't have the gravitas to say what it is?

  • Posted By: abadreview @ 08/29/2008 1:32:34 PM

    She fights corruption? Sounds like a nice cover up for someone who is being investigated for corruption herself! She tried to get he ex-brother in law fired from the Police force because her sister and him were involved in a custody battle. So now the GOP has unstable, loose cannons on the ticket! Prepare to be humiliated in front of the world!

    OBAMA/BIDEN '08

    • Posted By: oneamerican @ 08/29/2008 3:42:38 PM

      If we wanted to talk ethics there would never be an election. McCain's Keating 5, Obama and Ayers, Biden's plagiarism in copying speeches. Move on. She did nothing illegal

    • Posted By: Esencia08 @ 08/29/2008 1:43:53 PM

      Good for Palin for defending her sister! Men are not supposed to "battle" women for children anyways so I hope she gets off scott free!

      • Posted By: ceanf9 @ 08/29/2008 3:24:04 PM

        if men are not supposed to 'battle' women for custody of children, does that mean they should be off the hook for child support? Your post is the dumbest sh_it i have ever heard.

      • Posted By: sue000 @ 08/29/2008 2:05:00 PM

        Not supposed to battle women for children? Hello? They are HIS children too. Maybe she is a horrible mother. Maybe he is a horrible father. I don't know. What I DO know is you do NOT use your position of power to get someone fired just to get back at someone.

        Now I don't know if that is truly the case here. That's why it is under investigation. If it's true, I hope she gets the book thrown at her. If it isn't true, then I hope she's completely cleared.

  • Posted By: tony316 @ 08/29/2008 2:59:11 PM

    As a republican i am feeling i feeling a little bit overwhelemed by McCain choosing Palin. How could McCain make such a serious error. Looking like he is in out of context for this election. McCain is annoying me right now as a long term republican. He is trying to crucify the republican party. We very well might have gift-wrapped the election for the democrats.- This is a very desparate move by McCain

    • Posted By: jblackwell88 @ 08/29/2008 3:40:40 PM

      I doubt it. The CNN poll had her approval rating at 50/50. I'm sure half of those were Democrats.

  • Posted By: neocon @ 08/29/2008 2:03:30 PM

    What a smart pick, te problem is that every time Chicago attacks Palin for her inexperience, it gives McCain yet another opportunity to question Obama's own resume. And while no one votes against a ticket because the No. 2 isn't an old Washington hand???especially when she's as attractive a character as Palin, the former beauty-queen mother of five who hunts, ice fishes, rides snowmobiles, eats moose hamburgers and owns a float plane???plenty of folks are willing to reject a No. 1. on the basis of a skimpy resume. In other words, experience is an argument McCain WANTS to have???and Palin helps him have it.

    • Posted By: kle5507 @ 08/29/2008 3:14:21 PM

      NeoCon is typical of most GOP. They have one lie, repeat it over and over again in hope that it becomes the truth. That's why the GOP is the party of the old farts. They repeat the same thing over and over again because they all have dementia like McCain

    • Posted By: Millipede @ 08/29/2008 2:29:08 PM

      I've seen identical comments made on other sites, neocon. Some match this (and the one below) word for word. Is it your passion that leads you to comment so often--or is it your job?

      • Posted By: neocon @ 08/29/2008 2:32:26 PM

        This was a faulty keyboard

  • Posted By: gustavgustav @ 08/29/2008 1:38:46 PM

    Sarah who? Are you freakin kidding me?! If McCain and the republican party thinks the women of this country are that dumb to jump from hillary to this ticket with simply using her Palin's sex as a way of grabbing them, he's dead wrong. Those who voted for Hillary believed in her ideals and principles. Palin doesn't have those strengths to work for her. A very weak choice for a very desperate party.

    • Posted By: thehappyamerican @ 08/29/2008 1:46:35 PM

      Palin never embraced the Americans Suck First campaign! Clinton (both) and Obama did embraceit!! Palin is not mimmicing Hillary and should never try that as hillary is a loser!
      Palin is a solid conservitive with Mccain a centris or populist (moderate). The DNC ticket is 100% left-wing/Liberal and has limited appeal, and the Americans Suck First campaign of the WHINER...and the WINO!

      • Posted By: gustavgustav @ 08/29/2008 2:33:18 PM

        I don't care who the republicans put on their ticket - they can put jesus h. christ on there for all I care and I still wouldn't vote for them. After eight years of BUSH - EIGHT IS ENOUGH. So, happyamerican - take your right-wing idiots and your george bushs and your john mccains and you sarah palins and shove it right up your a$$.

        • Posted By: oneamerican @ 08/29/2008 3:38:55 PM

          I would seriously reconsider not voting for Jesus if He ran!!!

  • Posted By: Micky Marsh @ 08/29/2008 3:36:04 PM

    Don't worry my friends; I think she'll be back in Alaska in an heart beat.

  • Posted By: Micky Marsh @ 08/29/2008 3:33:31 PM

    McCain didn't pick any of the obvious choices; look like he had a score to settle; a man that take things to heart.

  • Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 08/29/2008 1:51:12 PM

    ??? If you think about it John McCain plan for forty-five new nuclear power plants is reasonable, needed and attainable. Our current 108 nuclear power plants supply twenty (20) percent of our electricity requirements. This is amazing considering that it has been thirty years since there has been new construction on a new nuclear power plant anywhere in the United States. Construction on new nuclear power plants has occurred throughout the world but not in the United States thanks to Democratic leadership. In France, nuclear power supplies 80 percent of their electricity needs. Because 108 nuclear power plants are generating twenty percent of our needs, an additional 45 nuclear power plants will only increase the percentage of nuclear power to roughly 28 percent of our needs well short of French eighty percent nuclear power generation of electricity. John McCain proposals are reasonable and will help lead us to energy independence. Democrats under the leadership of Barack Obama want to study the issue for another 30 years. By that time the only remaining United States builder of nuclear power plants General Electric will have gone the way of Westinghouse and sold its nuclear construction division to a foreign owned company Toshiba Corporation of Japan. Given the Democratic led hostile business environment for nuclear power in the United States, we will have no United States owned companies capable of building nuclear power plants.

    The reality is that a few nuclear power plants will have a greater contribution to our relative energy independence than all the contributions of solar, wind, and thermal energy. Only the proposals of John McCain on nuclear power, offshore drilling, wind, and solar energy will make the idea of United States energy independence a reality.

    • Posted By: Perseus65456 @ 08/29/2008 2:49:26 PM

      Sounds great McCainsupporter!!! Can't wait till the new nuke plants go up in your neighborhood and provide me some energy! Maybe we can store the waste in your state too, right? Of course we'll have to transport it on your roads/railways. I'll tell you what, get the consensus of your local area to have a nuclear power plant in your neighborhood, ship the waste to a dumping site, and store it for the nuclear half-life of the waste and then we can seriously address if that's the way to go. Oh wait, I think you meant build them in someone else's city???BECAUSE YOU SURE AS SH@#$T AIN"T BUILDING THEM IN MINE! Good Luck!

      • Posted By: oneamerican @ 08/29/2008 3:28:46 PM

        I beleive Barack wants to build nuclear plants as well.

  • Posted By: NO WAY NO HOW @ 08/29/2008 1:54:22 PM

    I challenge Palin's educational credentials. Let's do a comparison/contrast of Palin and Hillary.
    McCaine IS REALLY out of touch! I hope when Palin is defined is a becomes clear to all women that McCain has little regard our abliity to recognize this attempt as condecending to women. I would have voted for Hillary because of her leadership in issues that really matter. I won't vote for McCain because he has found a women with a BA in journalism and a background of experience, before her year as governor, as the mayor of her hometown and PTA president! NO WAY. NO HOW. NO MCCAIN.

    • Posted By: oneamerican @ 08/29/2008 3:27:48 PM

      Palin's greatest career highlight is Governor of Alaska. Hillary's is being married to the President.

    • Posted By: neocon @ 08/29/2008 2:11:46 PM

      I don't know if you got the news, but ahh, Hillary is not running

      • Posted By: ceanf9 @ 08/29/2008 3:09:04 PM

        when did going to an ivy league law school become a prerequisite for serving in public office? it is possible for someone to have an educational background in something other than law and still be an effective leader. i challenge hillary's nanny state, socialist ideals.

  • Posted By: Micky Marsh @ 08/29/2008 3:17:10 PM

    I didn't like a part of Palin's speech concerning Senator Clinton, one of her expression sounded a little loaded, I dare not mention it.

  • Posted By: loriw @ 08/29/2008 3:14:34 PM

    Did anyone besides me hear the female CNN commentator refer to Sarah Palin's speech as
    " the LITTLE speech she made"? It was at 2pm on CNN. I couldn't believe my ears. I hope the Republican campaign gets ahold of that sound bite and replays it for the president of CNN. This is just one more example of how CNN has already elected their chosen candidate, Obama. CNN can't even get a female commentator to make a decent comment about a woman like Palin who has actually accomplished something more than just blabber into the TV camera. I hope this commentator is fired for her comment- she deserves it!

  • Posted By: Spacer @ 08/29/2008 2:40:54 PM

    I just saw the comment below claiming that Palin's hubby works for a foreign oil company. It looks like it's true:
    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080829081825AAlmbq2

    It looks like Palin will be an appropriate successor to Dick Cheney as a protector of the interest of the petroleum industry. Or should we call her a "protectoress"?

    • Posted By: oneamerican @ 08/29/2008 3:12:35 PM

      What about all the people that work in USA for Honda, Toyota Volkswagon? Are you saying that they aren't of any value? Or do you support those American companies like Walmart that get stuff made cheaply in some third world country?

    • Posted By: neocon @ 08/29/2008 2:44:14 PM

      Palin's husband, Todd, is a commercial fisherman and is one-eighth Yup'ik. Outside the fishing season, Todd works for BP energy corporation at an oil field on Alaska's North Slope. He's blue collar, he works for a living.

  • Posted By: cj8n @ 08/29/2008 1:57:55 PM

    Given McCain's advanced age it will be good to have an experienced diaper changer by his side, or is that back-side.

    • Posted By: jblackwell88 @ 08/29/2008 3:11:03 PM

      Maybe it would be a good thing to have someone who is family oriented. All you Dems ( white ones anyway ) aren't having enough babies, so you aren't invested in the future anyway.

  • Posted By: loriw @ 08/29/2008 3:09:18 PM

    Did anyone besides me hear the female commentator on CNN refer to the speech that Sarah Palin made as
    "the little speech she made.."
    Who in the CNN world hired that moron to comment on Sarah Palin's speech?
    I can't wait until the conservatives get ahold of that sound bite and demonstrate how much CNN is in the tank for Obama. CNN can't even hire women who respect women that have actually ACCOMPLISHED something other than blabber into the camera. I hope she (the female commentator) loses her job over that "little" word of hers.
    Find it the comment was made at just about 2pm Indiana time

  • Posted By: dmihailescu @ 08/29/2008 3:08:43 PM

    Palin would have been the best choice if Hillary/Obama split was still around.
    With those primary bitterness largely gone, it looks more like a 'me too' choice to trumpet ' true diversity and feminism'.
    This is just just a lame atempt to outdo the democrats on values not embraced by the GOP and just turns McCain in something that he is not, and also off the window goes the argument of experience.
    I think Romney was still the best choice for McCain.

  • Posted By: loriw @ 08/29/2008 3:07:52 PM

    Did anyone besides me hear the female commentator on CNN refer to the speech that Sarah Palin made as
    "the little speech she made.."
    Who in the CNN world hired that moron to comment on Sarah Palin's speech?
    I can't wait until the conservatives get ahold of that sound bite and demonstrate how much CNN is in the tank for Obama. CNN can't even hire women who respect women that have actually ACCOMPLISHED something other than blabber into the camera. I hope she (the female commentator) loses her job over that "little" word of hers.
    Find it the comment was made at just about 2pm Indiana time

  • Posted By: Mr.tutto @ 08/29/2008 2:10:00 PM

    They are scrambling to give Sarah Palin some credentials. I dread the thought of something happening to John McCain and we get left with Miss Alaska as our President.

    • Posted By: jblackwell88 @ 08/29/2008 3:05:36 PM

      Actually, I think I could do better than any of them, so why disparage Palin? I think the truth is that you're a Dem at heart and it wouldn't matter who the GOP picked. Here's an [X] in your box.

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