Palin in the Green Room

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

    McCain made a very erroneous mistake. As a republican i am feeling i feeling a little bit overwhelmed 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: ciltep @ 08/29/2008 2:59:31 PM

    Hillary must be tired of taking second stage to the "other woman" so often in her life.

  • Posted By: tony316 @ 08/29/2008 2:58:57 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: OMG123 @ 08/29/2008 1:52:04 PM

    This has to be the biggest pathetic ploy from the GOP I have ever seen:
    John McCain's judgment is that the 2 year Governor of Alaska is ready
    to be President of the US.
    Women everywhere should be offended.
    There are wonderful, experienced Republican women if you wanted to
    bring a woman to the ticket.
    This is no Hillary Clinton.

    A heartbeat away from the Presidency of what would be the oldest
    candidate to take office should he win.

    • Posted By: hmmmmm @ 08/29/2008 2:44:35 PM

      Thank God that she is no Hillary Clinton!

  • Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 08/29/2008 1:46:25 PM

    I think Sarah Palin is a wonderful pick for vice President. She has the knowledge and experience to help attain John McCain goal of achieving energy independence for the United States. She also demostrates that longterm Democratic leadership hostility and policies toward United States owned energy companies have caused our current energy crisis. Her husband works for British Petroleum and instead should be working for the former American owned Arco Oil Company. Arco Oil Company developed and explored the Alaska North Slope and formerly owned eighty percent of our proven Alaskan reserves. With its substantial oil reserves Arco Oil Company should have bought British Petroleum instead of British Petroleum buying out Arco Oil Company during the second Bill Clinton administration.

    • Posted By: Barack2daBone @ 08/29/2008 2:12:45 PM

      Yes a truly wonderful pick, given that her husband is an executive with British Petroleum. Besides the obvious pandering to Hillary supporters, who are now coming back into the democratic party fold, this thinly veiled attempt will fall flat on its face, just like the argument that Barack is inexperienced has. The nation is sick and tired of the thievery of you republicans, and will turn out in force to vote you out, and vote Barack/Biden in.

      • Posted By: arcsc @ 08/29/2008 2:41:06 PM

        Her husband is not an executive. He is blue collar.

  • Posted By: benluclar @ 08/29/2008 2:40:39 PM

    FABULOUS NEWS!!! HOO-RAY!!!!!
    Thank you, God, and thank you, John McCain.
    Obama-BOTS BE GONE!!!!!
    Here come the WOMEN with the BRAINS and SUPPORT!

  • Posted By: Spacer @ 08/29/2008 2:17:16 PM

    I guess we'll see how many Hillary supporters were single-issue voters who's only concern was seeing a white woman elected president. Palin is more like an anti-Hillary.

    • Posted By: mw10ac @ 08/29/2008 2:38:39 PM

      Righttttt. Because none of the black vote for hussain si due to color only. SHEESH talk about hypocricy

    • Posted By: neocon @ 08/29/2008 2:38:32 PM

      So are you a racist or sexist?

    • Posted By: mw10ac @ 08/29/2008 2:36:41 PM

      RIGHTTTTT, Because none of the black vote for hussain will be due to color alone. Sheesh, Talk about hypocricy

  • Posted By: Spacer @ 08/29/2008 2:36:41 PM

    Looks like Palin's ethics problems could be more trouble than McCain realized when he decided on this pander. This is from an Anchorage paper:

    http://www.adn.com/monegan/story/492964.html

    Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday revealed an audio recording that shows an aide pressuring the Public Safety Department to fire a state trooper embroiled in a custody battle with her sister.
    ...

    (more at link)

  • Posted By: hmmmmm @ 08/29/2008 2:35:58 PM

    greenie27, with your comment that Palin should be a stay at home Mom instead of a working woman makes me question something. You don't sound like a Democrat. With that attitude, why on earth are you voting for Obama? What do you see in him besides his ability to give a rousing speech read from a teleprompter (where almost every phrase begins with "I")?

  • Posted By: neocon @ 08/29/2008 2:02:57 PM

    What a smart pick, the 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: Millipede @ 08/29/2008 2:27:00 PM

      I've seen similar posts on other sites, neocon. Often repeated word for word. Is your constant commenting a sign or your passion--or is it your job?

      • Posted By: neocon @ 08/29/2008 2:34:06 PM

        I love seeing DEMs with thier nickers in a knot, haha.

  • Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 08/29/2008 1:44:13 PM

    Democrats talk at the Denver convention about creating and keeping American jobs. Ironically the building that housed the largest research and development division of Arco Oil Company in Texas was sold by British Petroleum to Perot Systems and now serves as its headquarters. Perot Systems was founded by Ross Perot who previously created EDS Electronic Data Systems and who most importantly has been credited with throwing the 1992 Presidential election to Bill Clinton by drawing off many independent voters who would have voted Republican for George Bush senior. Perot Systems derives a significant amount of its business from state and federal contracts. A building that used to house American engineers, geologists, scientists, logistics people and ordinary employees who worked for an American owned oil company that strived to fill the gas tank for the average American now houses a company that focuses on giving computer support on state and the federal government social service contracts. This is the Democratic Party version of a success story. Outsourced government work under Bill Clinton replaces a former American owned world admired jewell of the oil industry that had provided gas for the American gas tank and many good American jobs for many years. So if you need reasonably price gas for your car, contact Bill Clinton and Perot Systems and ask them to give you a gallon of gas. This is the Democratic version of a success story, outsourced government work replacing a real American owned company that produced a real needed product at a reasonable price for the average American household.

    • Posted By: mcrochip @ 08/29/2008 2:29:17 PM

      Your comment makes no sense... an American company was bought by another American, provides jobs to Americans on contracts with the American government. How do you consider this outsourcing of American jobs?

  • Posted By: infogiant @ 08/29/2008 2:13:01 PM

    Wait until McCain cheats on his second wife with her like he did his first.

    • Posted By: neocon @ 08/29/2008 2:16:49 PM

      If your going to play that card don't forget Mr. Clinton amd Edwards.

      • Posted By: Spacer @ 08/29/2008 2:25:20 PM

        "If your going to play that card don't forget Mr. Clinton amd Edwards."----------------Two problems with your argument:

        (1) The Democratic Party isn't the party of sanctimonious "values voters."
        (2) Neither John Edwards nor Bill Clinton are up for election this year.

  • Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 08/29/2008 1:44:52 PM

    Barack Obama complained at his acceptance speech in Denver about oil company tax breaks and praised the alleged jobs created under the administration of Bill Clinton.
    The following story should shed light on Obama???s praise of the economic policies of Bill Clinton.
    While camping and attending a bluegrass music festival, I took a tour of Comanche Peak Power Plant, the last nuclear power plant built in the United States. The plant is unobtrusive and is at perfect harmony with its environment. It is located near Glen Rose Texas a beautiful area that has bluegrass band festivals in the summer. It is a wonderful scenic country area and home to Dinosaur World and a state park. There are dinosaur tracks from 100 million years ago along the riverbed that can be seen in the water due to erosion and some say that the tracks are heading in the direction of New York City. The Brazos River flows through the area and the place is an environmental heaven. There used to be an old green Sinclair Oil Company dinasour statue that stood at the park. Ironically most of the stations and assets of Sinclair Oil Company was bought by Arco Oil Company. Arco Oil Company was considered the jewell of all American oil companies for having explored and developed the Alaskan North Slope and at one time owning eighty percent of our proven Alaskan oil reserves. Arco Oil Company was subsequently bought out later by foreign owned British Petroleum during the second administration of Bill Clinton. The point of this comment is twofold. The long-term hostility of the Democratic Party leadership toward United States owned energy companies has led to the sale of United States oil companies to foreign interests and that nuclear power plants can even be located next to wonderful wildlife and park areas and make good unobtrusive neighbors. Arco Oil Company with its substantial Alaskan oil reserves should have bought out British Petroleum instead of the other way around. Comanche Peak in Glen Rose the last nuclear power plant built in the United States symbolizes the death of the American owned nuclear power industry and the decline of United States owned oil companies due to the hostile business environment created by Democratic Party leadership.
    Sinclair Oil Company and Arco Oil no longer exist, British Petroleum has replaced them under the second Democratic administration of Bill Clinton.

    • Posted By: bongoman @ 08/29/2008 2:21:47 PM

      Dude you're about as relevant as Rush "Vicodin-man" Limbaugh! All the screaming in the world about how great a she is doesn't change the fact that she's a poor choice. No experience, and she's being investigated for ethics violations. Sounds familiar...Alberto Gonzales anyone?

  • Posted By: csu773 @ 08/29/2008 2:20:17 PM

    After viewing the interview and seeing who could be our next VP I feel very good about our country and that McCain is the right person to be our President. She's just a real person and has no pretense or agenda that I can see.

  • Posted By: jhenry896 @ 08/29/2008 2:04:21 PM

    oh oh mccain is at it again. cindy is injured and we know your past sir.... old dog old tricks Obama/Biden 08/12

  • Posted By: MassVoter @ 08/29/2008 1:58:56 PM

    Palin didn't praise Hillary, she used Hillary's hard work and experience to pander to women. How insulting! I would never, ever vote for someone based on their gender. Shame on McCain for picking her - if Palin were a man McCain wouldn't have made this selection based on the extremely thin and light resume. McCain is desperate. I just can't wait to see the debates! Gotta buy some popcorn.

  • Posted By: MaryFromAlaska @ 08/29/2008 1:24:44 PM

    One word for Sarah Palin...FABULOUS. As an Alaskan and a Democrat I did not vote for Sarah but I have come to love her. First and foremost she fights for the people of Alaska. She just gave us a $1200.bonus to help us pay for gas and food. She fights corruption in her own party. She's very tough, very straight road and very brilliant.. I was a Hillary supporter and I'm so excited about McCain's choice.

    • Posted By: sue000 @ 08/29/2008 1:56:37 PM

      Cool - will she work to giver everyone in the US a $1200 bonus to help us all pay for gas and food?

    • Posted By: loriw @ 08/29/2008 1:49:04 PM

      Thank you MaryFromAlaska for telling us your experiences with Sarah Palin as your governor. We here in Indiana know what a difference a strong governor can do for a state. INDIANA has one of the lowest unemployment rated of any state in the United States! It is not the state that Obama tried to portray with Barney Smith. I just cannot stomach the "sky is falling" propaganda that the Obama campaign is trying to shove down our throats. My inc ome has gone up every year for the last * years. Running the state as governor is good experience. She is tough and has the right ideas AND has inacted them in her state. She will do the same in Washington.. This is NOT the kind of woman that just sits around and looks pretty...she has brains and guts!

  • Posted By: cj8n @ 08/29/2008 1:56:34 PM

    With McCain's advanced age it will be good to have someone experienced at changing diapers by his side.

  • Posted By: wildlifeusa @ 08/29/2008 1:50:52 PM

    I CANNOT WAIT FOR OBAMA AND BIDEN TO GIVE YOU THE BIGGEST SLAP IN THE FACE, YOU GREEDY BASTARDS!

  • Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 08/29/2008 1:47:45 PM

    Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and John McCain understand that Obama and the Democrats would never consider government loan guarantees or tax breaks for a sure thing that will produce energy for the American gas tank. Democrat loan guarantees and earmarks are only reserved for off the wall improbable future technologies such as hydrogen power that offer no short term chance of solution for our energy problems. Democratic disdain for energy production by US companies is evident with the current ownership of former US energy companies. Is it any surprise that the jewell Arco Oil Company which owned 80 percent of our Alaska Oil Reserves was bought out by British Petroleum Corporation at the end of the second administration of Bill Clinton due to the hostile Democratic attitude toward energy companies. It is no accident that the largest US builder of nuclear power plants, Westinghouse Nuclear Power Construction Division was bought out by Toshiba Corporation of Japan. While 80 percent of France electricity is generated by nuclear power, only twenty percent in the US is generated due to the successful efforts of Democratic party to kill the US nuclear power industry. Significantly, nuclear power is not considered a mainstay of Democratic plans to address our energy crisis.There is also a worldwide shortage and backlog of orders for oil drilling platforms and oil drilling ships but US shipyards are not building these ships. Only one percent of the world's commercial ships are built in US shipyards. Hold your breath for the Democratic outcry and push for government help to US ship builders to build oil drilling ships in the US.

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