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McCain’s Mrs. Right

Gov. Sarah Palin came out of nowhere to win the John McCain veep sweepstakes. Well, not quite nowhere.

By Evan Thomas and Karen Breslau | NEWSWEEK
Published Aug 30, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Aug 9, 2008

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  • Posted By: Payday Loan Advocate @ 10/18/2008 7:01:25 AM

    Comment: The current presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain, supported an anti-payday loan bill in 2006. The bill, which took effect in October 2007, put a 36 percent cap on the interest rates that payday loan stores charge military personnel. The basis behind the bill was the increasing number of American soldiers that found out that loans had been taken out in their names without their consent. Many of these loans were either given to identity thieves or to their spouses. More often than not, the loan recipients borrowed money, but did not repay the loans. A majority of the loans should never have been approved in the first place because the applicants didn???t meet the qualifications. Military personnel as a whole are generally considered low-income and sometimes, unfortunately, considered to possess very little financial knowledge. The government wanted to prevent identity theft of military members because it would also prevent security breaches. Therefore, the government ruled in favor of the measure. Barack Obama would like to employ the measure nationwide. If the same interest cap is imposed throughout the U.S., the payday loan industry will be wiped out. Take time to think about who you???re voting for because your financial liberties are at risk in this election.
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  • Posted By: kristinspack @ 09/10/2008 3:26:13 PM

    Comment: Correction: Juneau is the capital of Alaska, not Anchorage. C'mon Newsweek, amateur mistake. Please fix it! Thanks.

  • Posted By: kristinspack @ 09/10/2008 3:25:01 PM

    Comment: Correction: Juneau is the capitol of Alaska, not Anchorage. C'mon Newsweek, amateur mistake. Please fix it! Thanks.

  • Posted By: No Way No McCain No Palin @ 09/09/2008 5:08:35 PM

    Comment: Palin's father's car has a sticker or something on it saying vegetarian is a name for Bad Hunter...
    which century do these guys live in? Unbelievable.
    She shoots the mean she and her children eat?? I'm flabbergasted

    She's a Christian, God forbid I should judge her - but what comes out of her mouth is shocking for a Christian!! My bible tells me to be humble, live peacefully with all men, be kind etc.
    Does she have to be so insulting and cynical to prove she has what it takes?

  • Posted By: dmacy_DC @ 09/09/2008 2:54:18 PM

    Comment: When did Newsweek turn into a partisan cheerleader and Sarah Palin's own public relations organ? I read this piece all the way through, expecting that at some point it would redeem itself as a legitimate piece of journalism, i.e., dig below the surface of the spurious self-agrandizing claims that comprised Ms. Palin's acceptance speech. Instead, what I saw was an almost exhaustive regurgitation of her own shameless self-promotion - a recounting based almost entirely on a 2007 interview, of how she "stood up to the good ol' boys," and other claims. Given the vintage of the interview, it's not like there wasn't plenty of time to investigate these claims and present an objective set of facts. In fact, many of her claims have been questioned by the public and the media. This piece was absolute fluff! The part that was totally unbelievable to me was the close of the article, though... I am speechless. Here it i: <<...But later, Obama told reporters, "She seems like a compelling person, with a terrific personal story." He seemed to dismiss his own spokesman's "hair trigger" comments. Obama may have just been playing the good cop. Or maybe he was just telling the truth.>>

    Is this for real? How can you print this absolutely boot-kissing piece of propaganda? I might expect this from People or one of the other pieces of grocery stand garbage, but not from Newsweek.

  • Posted By: newsweek59 @ 09/09/2008 9:17:13 AM

    Comment: I am no stranger to death. Having been able to rationalise the situation, death has never bothered me. The body of a dead gang member I walked past - survival; the burnt bodies of two children left alone by a teenaged mother too immature for the task - tragedy, the broken body of an accident victim I stopped to look at - misfortune, and when I hugged and kissed the bodies of both my parents - life.

    Then I opened the pages of Newsweek and saw the head of that bear, a trophy for the woman sitting next to it. It was death for pleasure-I named it evil. Then I cried.

  • Posted By: newsweek59 @ 09/09/2008 9:16:54 AM

    Comment: I am no stranger to death. Having been able to rationalise the situation, death has never bothered me. The body of a dead gang member I walked past - survival; the burnt bodies of two children left alone by a teenaged mother too immature for the task - tragedy, the broken body of an accident victim I stopped to look at - misfortune, and when I hugged and kissed the bodies of both my parents - life.

    Then I opened the pages of Newsweek and saw the head of that bear, a trophy for the woman sitting next to it. It was death for pleasure-I named it evil. Then I cried.

  • Posted By: TruthForward @ 09/08/2008 8:19:53 PM

    Comment: Comment: This is what POWs say about McCain. In their own words.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KjsEs46C70

  • Posted By: mowinegal @ 09/06/2008 6:02:24 PM

    Comment: I am disappointed with this fluff piece about Sarah Palin. Is this Newsweek or People Magazine? Where is the investigative reporting into the statements taken as fact by the candidate? Most of the reporting in this piece seem to be regurgitations from other reports, with no attempt to delve into the truth of the statements or her record. Come on, Newsweek, I expect more from your reporters.

  • Posted By: Floridave @ 09/06/2008 4:35:19 PM

    Comment:



    Obama is an excellent orator who enjoys a Harvard law degree along with fantastic wit and timing. He's arguably handsome, worldly, and has chosen an extremely experienced and talented vice president.

    But yet, he can't seem to distance himself from this cranky old man and his inexperienced cheese cake sidekick that liberals seem to hate... not even with 3 times the budget.

    Maybe it's because about half the country thinks Obama is a fraud. Maybe they fear blacks. Maybe he's just TOO new. Maybe they think he's a socialist.

    What ever the reason may be, personal attacks at any of the involved parties or at other bloggers in here won't change anything. The reality is that the decision will be made by the 2 or 3 percent of America that really doesn't care about politics all that much. It might be the Nader voters that make the difference... who knows.

    The point is that none of us really know which way it will go. Even pollsters will tell you that polls are not accurate beyond a 3 to 4 percent margin of error. So let's all calm down, express our opinions and respect everyone else's. There are no idiots in here, no matter how much you might disagree. We are all entitled to our opinions. It's political discourse that started the ball rolling to create this country in the first place. Had the arguments not been civil, well stated, and convincing, nobody would have ever changed their opinion and we would STILL be trying to get rid of the British.

    Now let's all play nice.

    Hope this helps.

    Your Pal,
    Floridave



  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/06/2008 11:14:22 AM

    Comment: HEY WE CAN USE JOHN McCAIN'S MIDDLE NAME(SIDNEY) AND JOE BIDEN'S MIDDLE NAME(ROBINETTE) OR EVEN SARAH PALIN'S MIDDLE NAME (HEATH) BUT YOU BETTER NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT MENTIONING BARACK OBAMA'S MIDDLE NAME BECAUSE IF YOU DO THEN YOU ARE TRYING TO SCARE PEOPLE ! IT IS HUSSEIN ! THAT DON'T SCARE ME BUT HIS POLICIES DO !!

    • Posted By: Floridave @ 09/06/2008 2:15:12 PM

      Comment: Robinette? Sheesh.... did that guy ever NOT have to surrender his lunch money?

  • Posted By: mattcbaldwin @ 09/06/2008 11:09:42 AM

    Comment: I'd like to encourage y'all to read my comments as found on my blog (link below). In short: the media has misunderstood the WHY of McCain's choce. Palin was chosen as a fantasy girl, in order to appeal to the American Male.

    http://eschata.blogspot.com/2008/09/pit-bull-in-lipstick.html

  • Posted By: mattcbaldwin @ 09/06/2008 11:08:11 AM

    Comment: I'd like to encourage you all to read my comments as found on my blog (link below). In short I'd say that the press has continued to misunderstand WHY Palin was chosen; she's a fantasy girl who was chosen to appeal to American males.

    http://eschata.blogspot.com/2008/09/pit-bull-in-lipstick.html

    • Posted By: Floridave @ 09/06/2008 2:17:45 PM

      Comment: Matt; I would like to encourage you to read this: It really doesn't matter WHY you think he chose her because it's working.

  • Posted By: Ranger-Suasponte @ 09/05/2008 10:09:46 PM

    Comment: ABOUT SARAH PALIN:

    http://webpages.charter.net/suasponte/

    If you really want to know Sarah Palin's history (in detail) this is a "must read". It was written by Anne Kilkenny, a resident of Wasilla, Alaska.

  • Posted By: tucanofulano @ 09/05/2008 9:20:34 PM

    Comment: McCain/Palin''s high approval percentage is more than double GW Bush''s approval rating. Therefore McCain/Palin are ready now, and Bush/Cheney ought to resign today to let McCain/Palin finish the Bush/Cheney second term as a running start to their own two elected terms (the max). All AMERICANS gain this way.

  • Posted By: jojosteele @ 09/05/2008 6:14:49 PM

    Comment: The plane did NOT sell on ebay....look it up....AND when it did sell, it was with a loss..... You all are just plain STUPID,,,no other explanation for being in awe of that woman..... so many lies out there...I can't wait until they come to the forefront..... not that you'll care....she could kill your Mother,right in front of you,....and you'd just say...Well Mom was a Democrat.... WTG Sarah!!!!!!

    • Posted By: Pallisor @ 09/07/2008 12:25:57 PM

      Comment: What exact lies are you talking about? And she could kill your mother and you'd just say, well she was a democrat?

      Good grief.... Are you for real?

    • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/06/2008 11:15:29 AM

      Comment: SHE NEVER SAID SHE SOLD IT ON E-BAY SHE SAID SHE PUT IT ON E-BAY IDIOT !

      • Posted By: No Way No McCain No Palin @ 09/09/2008 5:12:56 PM

        Comment: Yeah, and gave the impression it sold there when it didnt. She should have given the full story of the plane and not leave it hanging and create an incorrect impression.

  • Posted By: Cloudosmoke @ 09/05/2008 1:00:07 PM

    Comment: John McCain said, "I voted with the President (Bush) over 90% of the time, higher than a lot of even my Republican Colleagues."

    John McCain has said, "I didn't decide to run for President to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run campaign as if it was some grand act of patriotism.

    I wanted to be President because it had become my ambition to become President.

    I was 62 yold when I made the decision and I thought it was my one shot at the prize."

    Again I say, McCain just wants the title, not the responsibilities.

  • Posted By: Cloudosmoke @ 09/05/2008 12:57:36 PM

    Comment: Article stating that McCain is sketching his blueprint on taxes and economy. This guy doesn't have his ducks in a row. What has he been doing for the past 8 months since everyone else dropped out of the Republican contest? I guess he was too busy watching Friends with Lieberman. I said it before and I will say it again.

    McCain has had since February to hone his campaign skills. McCain has had since February to form his committees and since then has been throwing people under the bus. McCain has had since February to develop his platform which he has not.

    He doesn't want to be president. If he really wanted to be president he would have made a better name for himself while he had the opportunity to do so while Obama was battling Hillary (you all remember the one that was supposed to win). McCain would have righted the wrongs on his VA stances, he would have had a chance to address voting for a war that was wrong and will go down in history in infamy.

    McCain doesn't want to be president. He just wants the title. He wants the perks that come along with it. He just wants power.

    He doesn't want to be president. If he wanted to be president, he would be giving speeches on the socioeconomic issues the country and world faces which is what the leader of the free world is supposed to do; not stand in front of a crowd of people that already has money looking for a photo op.

    If he wanted to be president he would be describing his policy on energy instead of throwing out a gas tax holiday or say he'd throw money at someone to come up with a battery idea that is already here. If he wanted to be president he would be stating his case to be president instead of attacking the person that wants to be president and perform the duties of that office.

    Obama wants the job, not the title. He has already made the case to the people. He has already formed allegiances with other countries to deter and suppress terroristic activities and extremism. Obama has put his policies on the table and has let the people see them. He listens to those around him and is willing to work across the aisle to come to agreements on issues that affect us. Just ask Senators Hagel and Bachus.

    Vote Obama for President.

    • Posted By: No Way No McCain No Palin @ 09/09/2008 5:19:23 PM

      Comment: yes, very true
      he spent all that time idling while the Democrats were battling it out
      what does he do now? he steals his opponents ideas and copies just about everything about him.

      Obama should be proud of himself, he has run and continues to run a very honourable campaign.
      He should rather lose the campaign than loose his honour the way McCain has shamelessly lost his through cribbing, amongst other things.

      He is copying everything about Obama with no sense of shame whatsoever.

      I wish someone would remind Palin how a Christian is supposed to behave and speak, especially in public.

  • Posted By: Cloudosmoke @ 09/05/2008 12:52:18 PM

    Comment: McCain's Mrs. Right is Wrong. McCain is Wrong. The GOP are Wrong. The Devil is Wrong. Bin Laden is Wrong. Al Quaeda is Wrong. Skeletor is Wrong. FOX News is Wrong. The NRA is Wrong. Wrong, Wrong, Wrong... McCain is Wrong. Wrong, Wrong, Wrong... McCain is Wrong.

  • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/05/2008 11:54:44 AM

    Comment: Also Thursday, Obama took on cable's kingpin, Fox's Bill O'Reilly, in a taped interview his show is stretching across four nights. Not only did Obama take time away from the GOP convention with his Fox appearance, he spoke to a big potential audience: Fox's convention viewership has been bigger than any network.

    The two men talked about the Iraq war, dealing with Iran and the war against terrorism.

    After the segment, O'Reilly brought two commentators on to ask for an evaluation of their performances. "You both get an 'A' in my book," said Jane Hall, an American University professor.

    For Obama, he now avoids having cable news' most popular host criticizing him for not consenting to an interview.

    "He's a tough guy, Obama," O'Reilly said. "I looked at him eye to eye, he's not a wimp. He's not a wimpy guy."

  • Posted By: Galasso @ 09/05/2008 11:52:25 AM

    Comment: Palin is a modern day representation of the type of woman who beat the odds when the country was settled. She is very much like the women who made it here on old boats and then moved the country westward and battled disease and the elements with no medical care, maintained a family, and had mutiple childbirths all in a frequently hostile environment. They were multitask-oriented in desperate survival situations and normally outlived the men and had to carry the full burden of the family long afterwards. She and McCain share a spirit of optimism that is refreshing in this politically charged atmosphere where the other side is broadcasting negative waves and neither Palin nor McCain suffers fools. The task of uniting the country in order to create the synergy in problem solving for which America is famous in crisis situations will be daunting if they are elected. We have the most dysfunctional Congress since the Civil War and a news media with polar opposites that fuels the political divisions in the country. You can see anecdotal evidence of this if you scroll down the discouraging comments on this site - some of which have psychotic hate messages- and wonder if the country will ever find the right balance.

  • Posted By: Driver of wagons @ 09/05/2008 10:15:50 AM

    Comment:

    McSame and Painlin the Clown will only be good for corporate fascist types who don't really believe in democracy only in corporate greed and domination of the American people. Repugs only support the social programs that benefit corporate America and you are all about cynicism, criticism and culture warring. you have no substance and don't have a clue as to what is ailing our great country America and its people. you use fear and division to win elections and solve no problems only create new ones.you force Middle Class Americans to foot the bill for your mistakes, lies and your corporate greed with the lives of our bravest Americans and the depleting of out Treasury. you are so afraid of change that there aren't enough Diapers on this planet to even delay your swill from leaking out from where you speak while you eject your rhetorical circus of superficialness and idiosyncraticity.

    Nice green backdrop though! What school was that?






    • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/05/2008 2:14:29 PM

      Comment: walter reed high school p.s. your a idiot !

  • Posted By: Publius Lite @ 09/05/2008 9:59:15 AM

    Comment: The fact that the GOP convention was in Minnesota just completes the flashback scenario ... 1970 I think it was, Lou Grant hires Mary Richards (after one interview) as associate producer at WJM ... Why? Because she had spunk (even though he hated spunk). Now in 2008, John McCain hires Sarah Palin (after one interview) as his veep candidate ??? for the same reason. Excuse me John, the joke was only funny the first time.

    • Posted By: Floridave @ 09/05/2008 6:01:10 PM

      Comment: The Mary Tyler Moore show was fantastic. When your comparison gets around I think it will help McCain tremendously. Thanks!

  • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 09/05/2008 9:59:10 AM

    Comment: SERVICE OF LAWSUIT CHALLENGING SENATOR OBAMA???S RIGHT TO BE A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT BECAUSE HE DOES NOT MEET THE QUALIFICATIONS HAS BEEN COMPLETED
    ( Lafayette Hill , Pennsylvania ??? 09/04/08) - Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama???s eligibility to serve as President of the United States, has received confirmation from his Process Service Company that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Senator Barack Obama were served today, September 4, 2008, with the legal documents pertaining to Berg vs. Obama, Civil Action No. 08-cv-4083. The DNC was served at 12:00 p.m. and Senator Obama was served at 1:00 p.m. The U.S. Attorney???s Office accepted service on behalf of the Federal Elections Committee (FEC) on or about August 22, 2008.

    NOBAMA!!!

    • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/05/2008 12:07:58 PM

      Comment: I AGREE WITH YOU "UN-HOLY ROLLER"

      PALIN HAS GONE FROM COLLEGE TO COLLEGE AND HOLDS A JOURNALISM DEGREE OF SOME SORT, UNRELATED TO LAW OR POLITICAL SCIENCE...


      NOR DOES THE COLLEGES SHE CLAIMS TO HAVE ATTENDED (5) CAN DOCUMENT HER ADMISSION NOR HER TEST SCORES...

      WELL AT LEAST SHE AND JOHN MCCAIN HAVE LOW GRADES IN COMMON.

      WHERAS OBAMA & BIDEN HAVE LAW DEGREES FROM HIGHER INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING, WITH DEGREES TO MATCH IN LAW. AS WELL AS BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON AND MOST SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN-WOMEN.

      IF OBAMA HAD PALIN'S CREDENTIALS, YOUR LOW LIFE A!! WOULD SAY, HE'S "UNQUALIFIED" AN RIGHTLY SO, IN SUCH A CASE....

      BUT THATS NOT THE CASE AT ALL...IS IT ??

      SAY HELLO TO YOUR NAZI, KKK CHRISTIANS, ARYAN NATION AND OTHER WHITE HATE GROUPS THAT WILL EAT UP, THIS BULL-SH!T YOU ARE SPEWING ALL OVER THE PLACE.

      • Posted By: Floridave @ 09/05/2008 6:03:48 PM

        Comment: Palin became a governor on a bachelors degree and Obama went through the Ivy League machine and came out teaching kids to play golf at the YMCA or some other form of community nonsense. What's you point?

    • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/05/2008 12:00:05 PM

      Comment: THATS IT FOLKS...THE SECRET SERVICE ARE INCOMPETENT AND THIS A!! HOLE SHOULD REPLACE THE SECRET SERVICE, THE FBI AND THE CIA, FOR INCOMPETENCE DURING FEDERAL CLEARENCE OF A PROSPECTIVE PRESIDENT.

      UM...I'D LIKE TO SEE WHERE HAWAII HAS SECCEDED FROM BEING THE 50TH STATE IN THE UNION ?

      I WONDER HOW YOU SUPPOSEDLY KNOW WHERE OBAMA WAS BORN AND WHAT RELIGION HE WAS (BORN AS) WHEN NO CHILD IS BORN ANY RELIGION...DUMB A!!

      OK GOLD STAR FOR YOU....

      OBAMA HAS PULLED OFF THE CON OF THE CENTURY !!

      THE FBI, THE CIA, OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE, COLUMBIA & HARVARD UNIVERSITY, THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE CITY OF CHICAGO, THE ILLINOIS STATE SENATE & THE FEDERAL SENATE & THE USA IDENTNTIFICATION PROCESSORS IN AMERICA ARE VERY, VERY BAD AT THEIR JOBS AND YOU ARE VERY VERY GOOD AT YOURS...

      I HOPE YOU BELIEVE THAT, REALLY I DO !!

      YOUR SAVIOR OF THE FREE WORLD JOHN "SEMI-SENILE" MCCAIN IS THE ONLY FOREIGN BORN PERSON, RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT OF THE USA...THE ONLY ONE..

      THE PLACE OF JOHN MCCAIN'S BIRTH IS (PANAMA) NOT ALARMED BY JOLTIN JOHN MCCAIN..HUH

      I KNOW MCCAIN'S RACE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR BLIND EYES, REGARDING MCCAIN'S PLACE OF BIRTH...HUH (PANAMA)

      SO I'LL HELP YOU WITH THAT...JOHN MCCAIN WAS BORN IN PANAMA !!!

      I WONDER WHEN SARAH PALIN ADMITS SHE WAS PART OF A ALASKA SECCESSIONIST GROUP, SEEKING TO MAKE ALASKA A SOVEREIGN NATION UNTO ITSELF !!

      THE AP HAS ALREADY OUTTED HER HUSBAND AS A 7 YR CARD CARRYING MEMBER AND THAT SARAH HAS ATTENDED MEETINGS AND AS GOVERNOR VIDEO TAPED HER SUPPORT OF THIS GROUP DURING HER PRESIDENCY !!

      NO PROBLEM....MCCAIN AND PALIN ARE WHITE...WOW, WHAT A SNOW JOB !!!

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/05/2008 9:47:57 AM

    Comment: Part 1 Who got Obama started in his political career? William Ayers, of course, is the Weather Underground bomber. And Obama began his career, his coming out party in 1995, and Ayers and Bernadine Dorns home.
    And then for, you know, some 20 years, Obama has been working with Ayers, certainly since 1995, on a series of foundations: the Annenberg Foundation and the Woods Foundation. The boards of directors together, or in the Annenberg Foundation, Ayers created it, and Obama was on it. And together they spent the money of these foundations to implement their radical socialist agenda.
    A lot of people say, no, they just know each other. They???re not friends. Just because -- you know, just because they worked on boards together.
    Obama was in 1995 going to take the seat of Alice Palmer, who is also an extreme socialist. She???s an African-American who had actually gone to Russia and had attended communist party meetings and reported on them. And it was all very much of a leftist gathering.
    Ayers and Dorns were like the stamp of approval on Obama, introducing them to their click of leftist friends for funding and for advancing his candidacy. So that very beginning was a chosen intentionally association with Ayers and Dorns to launch Obama`s career, and Obama knew exactly what he was doing picking him.
    Senator Obama is the one who???s saying, "This is just another guy in my neighborhood," but in fact, that???s not true at all. It may turn out to be that they had a much closer relationship through their work together on the Annenberg Challenge to create their ideas to control the government and its people that???s the challenge!
    His agenda -- I believe, in 2001, in which Ayers was unrepentant, saying that he wished he bombed more. And obama???s greatest influence is
    Saul Alinsky he was a radical socialist organizer. His main book was "Rules for Radicals." His methodology was you go in as a community organizer. That means, really, a rabble-rouser.
    You rub raw the discontent of the community, almost in a communist sense. You find class antagonisms. You learn to speak the grievances in the people???s own logic and language, and then you go for radical redistribution of income and wealth through gaming power and mobilizing the community. Making them think that your working for them by doing small stuff that seems to help but ultimately you gain far more than the people you help it???s a trick to get them on your side because it seems you care about them and in turn they move you to the top of the political ladder!

    • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/05/2008 9:52:49 AM

      Comment: Part 2???
      The -- the connection to Saul Alinsky. In
      Fact, Alinsky had change as his mantra. And by it, he meant radical socialist redistribution of income from the haves to the have-nots. That was the primary purpose.
      Alinsky dedicated "Rules to Radicals" to Lucifer, whom he called the first radical. And he said it was a Machiavellian approach, which means you???ll lie, do whatever you need to do to get power, because the haves were going to lose to the have-nots, who were being championed by this community organizer. (Obama)
      The theme is common that Senator Obama made in San Francisco about people are bitter, clinging to God and to guns. That is actually a paraphrase of something Saul Alinsky wrote in that same book, in "Rules for Radicals."
      A very condescending view that he has of the middle class as people who are lost, who -- he says that they turn bitter, because they cling to certain fixed points that are elusory, but very real to them. They ask questions that Alinsky considers meaningless, like what does our flag mean to you? Interestingly, something that was just said at the Republican convention. That???s Alinsky. You know,obama???s his influence coming through.
      Just take a look at his taxation policies. He wants to increase capital gains, because he says they???re unfair.
      The point is that he clings to this relationship. And he???s even defending Ayers now. His campaign is defending Ayers, despite the fact that he???s an unrepentant terrorist who set bombs and may, according to congressional testimony, may have even been involved or had knowledge of a bombing that killed somebody. That???s the important thing.
      Alinsky taught to say whatever is necessary to get power. That???s the Machiavellian approach. When Obama articulates policy positions, especially moving to the center, it may be completely calculated. We will not see the real Obama until its too late then we are going to be stuck in a radical system that will take a civil war to get out of !

      • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/05/2008 12:14:39 PM

        Comment: OBAMA'S POLITICAL CAREER STARTED AT COLUMBIA & HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

        BILL AYERS IS A PROFESSOR AT SOME COLLEGE AND IS NOT ON THE TERRORIST LIST.

        OBAMA WAS 7 YEARS OLD, WHEN BILL AYERS AND HIS CRONIES, COMMITTED SUCH AN ACT.

        OBAM SAT ON THE SAME FOUNDATION AS BILL.

        WHAT IS OBAMA GOING TO DO, WHEN HE BECOMES PRESIDENT...BLOW UP THE CAPITAL FOR BILL AYERS...HAHAHAHAHAHA !!!

        OR YOUR GREATEST FEAR COME TRUE AN THAT IS THAT HE MIGHT SEND YOU BACK TO EUROPE...HAHAHAHAHA !!


        YOUR FEAR & HATE MONGERING WILL NOT HELP YOU, AT ALL

        • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/05/2008 2:19:23 PM

          Comment: no he won't blow up anything he'll just make this country into his social playground and weaken it to the point of no return ! p.s. obama did not get his start into politics in college he go them in chicago w/ayres there's a difference between studing and practicing ! he will destroy this country look up saul alinsky and you tell me what his agenda is !!

  • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/05/2008 9:07:14 AM

    Comment: Jr. Senator Barack Obama has had Laws Passed and Confirmed, with his Name on them...

    Has Sarah Palin ?

    Nooo

    Name One executive Order or Military Command by the Alaskan National Gaurd..You can't, Neither can McCain, his Spokesman Tucker Bounds or the rest of those McCain Clowns Last Night.

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    For a Jr. Senator and a Person as Un-Informed as Sarah & Rudy "Mr. 911" Giuliani, who called Obama a "Social Activist" & "He's Done NOTHING..NADA" Bull-Spit

    The Jr. Senator will PROVE, he's done Much More than What Sarah Palin & R. Giuliani Described & Demeaned last Night !!

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    109th Congress

    Obama took an active role in the Senate's drive for improved border security and immigration reform. In 2005, he cosponsored the "Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act" introduced by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).

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    He later added three amendments to the "Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act", which passed the Senate in May 2006, but failed to gain majority support in the U.S. House of Representatives.

    In September 2006, Obama supported a related bill, the Secure Fence Act, authorizing construction of fencing and other security improvements along the United States???Mexico border.

    President Bush signed the Secure Fence Act into law in October 2006, calling it "an important step toward immigration reform."

  • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/05/2008 9:05:57 AM

    Comment:
    SARAH PALIN IS A FAKER...SO PLEASE, DON'T MISTAKE HER !!!

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    ???PALIN: "I fought to bring about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history. And when that deal was struck, we began a nearly $40 billion natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence.

    That pipeline, when the last section is laid and its valves are opened, will lead America one step farther away from dependence on dangerous foreign powers that do not have our interests at heart."

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    FACT: That infrastructure project has not yet been approved by federal regulators. The proposed pipeline would ship natural gas from the Alaska's North Slope to homes and businesses across the United States. In June, the Alaskan legislature, with Palin's prodding, agreed to pay Canadian energy company TransCanada $500 million as an incentive to build the pipeline.

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    ???PALIN: "And I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending: nearly half a billion dollars in vetoes. I suspended the state fuel tax 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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    FACT: While serving as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, Palin hired Steven Silver, a former chief of staff for Sen. Ted Stevens, to lobby Congress for earmarks. Wasilla received around $27 million in federal money, about as much as Boise, Idaho. Boise has a population of 200,000 people, compared with Wasilla's 10,000. Earmarked funds went to sewage improvements and improving roads connecting the town to a local ski resort.

    -------------------

    As for the Bridge to Nowhere, Palin initially supported using federal funds to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to Gravina Island, which has 50 residents and a small airport.

    It was not until the plan was ridiculed that she withdrew her support. Critics contend she still supports using federal money to build a 3.4 mile Road to Nowhere on the island for $26 million -- from the funds for the bridge.

    -------------------------

    ???PALIN: While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over the top. I put it on eBay. I also drive myself to work.

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    FACT: Soon after entering office, Palin put the state-owned Westwind II jet that her predecessor Frank Murkowski purchased amid much criticism. When the deal fell through with the sole eBay bidder, the plane was sold offline.

    Alaskan businessman Larry Reynolds paid $2.1 million for the jet after learning about it from Republican John L. Harris, speaker of the Alaskan House of Representatives.

    Palin, as she said, drives herself to work. In July, her Chevy Suburban was rear-ended while driving from Wasilla to her office in downtown Anchorage.

    The Associated Press contributed to this rep

  • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/05/2008 9:01:41 AM

    Comment:
    SARAH PALIN IS A FAKER...SO PLEASE, DON'T MISTAKE HER !!!

    ???PALIN: "[Obama] is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word 'victory' except when he's talking about his own campaign."

    FACT: On July 15, in a speech in Washington, D.C., Obama twice used the word "victory" in reference to Iraq.

    "In fact," he said, "true success in Iraq -- victory in Iraq -- will not take place in a surrender ceremony where an enemy lays down their arms. ...

    I want Iraqis to take responsibility for their own future, and to reach the political accommodation necessary for long-term stability. That's victory. That's success. That's what's best for Iraq, that's what's best for America, and that's why I will end this war as president.

    --------------------------

    A week later in Berlin, Germany, on July 23, Obama used the word "victory" three times to describe Allied successes during World War II. And in a June speech about the prospect of universal health care, he said Sen. Hillary Clinton "will be central to that victory."

    ----------------------

    ???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."

    -----------------------

    FACT: The meaning of "major" is open to debate, but Obama worked with Republicans, including Sen. Richard Luger of Indiana, to pass legislation that would expand efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to destroy conventional weapons stockpiles.

    While a state senator in Illinois, he sponsored two contentious bills, one that studied racial profiling by police and another that ordered interrogations in potential death penalty cases to be recorded.
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  • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/05/2008 8:59:07 AM

    Comment: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/johnmccain/2667214/John-McCains-running-mate-Sarah-Palin-was-in-Alaskan-independence-party.html

    John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin was in an Alaskan independence party

    Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, was once a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, its officials have said.

    By Jon Swaine

    Last Updated: 3:46PM BST 02 Sep 2008

    News of Mrs Palin's former membership comes as the latest in a string of potentially embarrassing disclosures about her past.

    The party has lobbied since the 1970s for the right to hold a referendum on whether Alaska should secede from the United States. Its motto, "Alaska First", Contrasts sharply with the John McCain campaign slogan: "Country First."

    -------------------------------

    BIG NOTE: It seeks "the complete Repatriation of the public lands, held by the federal government, to the state and people of Alaska" and aims to be "self-sufficient" by using profits from Alaskan OIL and GAS RESOURCES. It claims that the vote held in 1958 which led to Alaska becoming the 49th state of the US was CORRUPT and did not offer a PROPER CHOICE.

    -------------------------------------

    While it is thought that Mrs Palin officially left the party to become a Republican in 1996, she recorded an address for its convention earlier this year in which she said: "I share your party's vision of upholding the constitution of our great state" and told members to "keep up the good work".

    Lynette Clark, the chairman of the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP), confirmed to ABC News that Mrs Palin and her husband Todd had both been both members and attended at least one party convention.

    ---------------------------------

    "When she joined the party our platform was right under her nose," Mrs Clark said. "I can't understand why in God's name she has aligned herself with a candidate who opposes the development of our republic and Alaska's resource wealth," she added.

    ------------------------------

    BIG NOTE: In a video recorded at this year's party convention, Dexter Clark, the party's vice chairman, can be seen telling delegates: "The situation is completely out of hand, the decay of the federal government is totally complete."

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    BIGGEST NOTE: He tells them that in order to propagate AIP policy they "should infiltrate" mainstream parties. "Whichever party in that area [in which] you can get something done, get into that Political Party, even though it does have its problems," he says.

    --------------------------------

    The latest disclosure is likely to add to concerns among some Republicans that Mrs Palin was not adequately vetted before being asked to become Mr McCain's vice-presidential candidate

  • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 09/05/2008 8:52:28 AM

    Comment: UH OH....looks like HolyRoller was right again.....wonder what the BarackStar is thinking right now??

    Is Rezko working with the feds?
    SOURCES: | He's been back at courthouse numerous times

    August 28, 2008 Chicago Sun Times

    "As his sentencing nears, pressure is mounting on Tony Rezko to cooperate with federal investigations into some of the highest-profile politicians in the state -- including Gov. Blagojevich.

    Two more trials -- one in Chicago next spring, one in Las Vegas -- hover over the Wilmette businessman and onetime prolific political fund-raiser for the governor and BARACK OBAMA.

    Tony Rezko was inside the federal courthouse as recently as Aug. 14, sources for the Sun Times say.

    Now, sources tell the Chicago Sun-Times that Rezko has been seen at the federal courthouse as many as a dozen times since his June conviction. He's been held since then at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago.

    Rezko hasn't had to be back in court since a jury convicted him of corruption charges involving state deals. And his scheduled Sept. 3 sentencing was recently pushed back to Oct. 28".....ONE WEEK BEFORE ELECTION....hmmm...just a coincidence???

    WITNESS PROTECTION PROGRAM FOT TONY = FEDERAL CHARGES FOR HUSSEIN

    I told ya'll this months ago.....Hussein Obama IS A CROOK AND A FRAUD.

    NOBAMA!!!

  • Posted By: cferns1530 @ 09/05/2008 6:09:33 AM

    Comment: Palin's speech just oozed sarcasm. No substance, no issues, just plain sarcasm. What will be interesting is to see how she stands up on issues, against Biden. Being mayor of an Alaskan small town and convincing everyone that your different from Washington doesnt justify anything. She has been deployed to get the right wing(and women) vote because the conservatives werent sure themselves on McCain's pandering over the years.

  • Posted By: NewsWkDickG @ 09/05/2008 1:05:09 AM

    Comment: The hoopla is over and now we are left to contemplate our choices. It would seem that:

    If you want an attack dog, as she says, ???a pit bull with lipstick???, a feisty individual waiting to take over, then Sarah Palin will fill the bill. However if you want a Vice President with all that entails, with the appropriate qualifications, capabilities and stature, then Joe Biden superbly meets those requirements.

    If you want someone who has flown an airplane, someone with a patriotic and influential military ancestry, someone who is unquestionably patriotic and who has been a heroic POW, someone who has a history of supporting Washington as it is yet who advocates the need for change, someone who admits that his party has ???lost the people???s trust???, someone who challenges the people to create the change, then John McCain answers your needs.

    However if you think what is needed is someone with the stamina, the intellect, the compassion and understanding to implement change, someone with the clear thinking, someone experienced in fighting for the average person, someone who won???t just bore you but instead sincerely feels the meaning behind the words, someone who is not only patriotic but capable of and committed to being President for all Americans, then Barack Obama is ready.

    In any case, it at least has been very clearly identified and completely admitted by all parties that we desperately need change and that we just can???t have more of the same!

  • Posted By: msnicole @ 09/04/2008 11:59:58 PM

    Comment: RE: Posted By: Driver of wagons @ 09/04/2008 7:13:10 PM

    Okay "Nut Job #1" what is your point? Yet another McCain supperter who is so "dumb struck" that your only resort is to use use profanity. Didn't you learn in grade school that those who cuss do so because they lack the ability express themselves.

    Write your point and back it up. If you can't do that, I suggest you take a intermediate or remedial Writing class.

    On the other hand, you may very well just be in middle school using the word "Du fuss?" Are you serious? If so, stay out of grown folks conversations. You're obviously not ready to engage in these discussions.

  • Posted By: msnicole @ 09/04/2008 11:41:37 PM

    Comment: McCain may believe that he made a strategic move by chosen this "Pitbull with Lipstick" so to speak, to win H. Clinton supporters when infact he actually p'd many of them off, as well as non-Hilary supporters. This country is concerned about who is going to step in and take on his role as President of the United States in an event that he can not perform this great responsibility. It seems he didn't give this much thought. McCain suffers from serious tunnel vision "Winning the Presidency" . This fact alone convinces me that McCain is not as concerned about the future of this country as Barack Obama is.

  • Posted By: msnicole @ 09/04/2008 11:21:07 PM

    Comment: I'm going to go online and look for credible, non-biased bio's on Palin. Everything I've read about her thus far is negative and I'm sure they are generated by individuals who oppose her. The only compliment I've read was one she made about herself as a self acclaimed reformer and that can be bad in many ways. I am turned off by the countless jabs she makes Senator Obama. Maybe there are some vendictive Republicans who enjoy watching Obama receive a good tongue lashing; but, many of us who are really are concerned about our futures would like to hear her ideas on how she plans to address the many issues and crisis this country is suffering from. Self acclaimed "Tough Reformer" and crap talking is not going to move many undecided citizens. She only appeals to people who already supports her and McCain. I am also turned off by her cheap shots about how Senator Obama reached out to impoverished communities. The message in this is "These people are not worth MY time" and "Their votes don't mean anything to me". Although this says more than enough about her, I still plan to read up on her.

  • Posted By: mfenwick @ 09/04/2008 10:55:41 PM

    Comment: McCain picked her to win the woman vote after he saw that Obama didn't pick Hillary as his running mate, plain and simple. She will never become president because a woman having any authority over a man runs against Republican Party values. Republicans also believe that homosexuality is against natural law and therefore will not legalize gay marriage. The Christians are too stupid to realize that Republican Party values are based on their interpretation of natural law, not on Biblical morality. This is why evangelicals vote Republican instead of Democrat.

  • Posted By: mrzoid @ 09/04/2008 10:38:12 PM

    Comment: I never thought I'd see the day i would say these words, "Bush is not the most inept speaker to ever run for President", enter the new champion, John McCain.

  • Posted By: neos @ 09/04/2008 10:15:40 PM

    Comment: Comment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1lCMH8rlHE

    Rove and O'Reilly on Palin Hilarious

  • Posted By: neos @ 09/04/2008 7:17:46 PM

    Comment: McCain blew his chance to roll out his VP choice in a positive light. Geat for the right-wing Limbaugh listening base, but not so great for the majority of Americans who are tired of divisive Rove style partisanship and gridlock. After a brief attempt at an upbeat bio, someone cried havoc, and let loose this self-described pitbull with lipstick. Palin came across as stubborn, narrow-minded, mean-spirited , sracastic, smug - well, essentially a female version of George W. Bush. Speaking of W., his party kept him at satellite length and gave him less than eight minutes of their time - how pathetic is that.

  • Posted By: Driver of wagons @ 09/04/2008 7:13:10 PM

    Comment:

    Posted By: Concerned Ctzn @ 09/04/2008 18:47:23

    Comment: Hi Ho .. Hi Ho ... Hi Ho ... it's off to Barry's I go ... we smoke some crack ... my baby's got ...(well you know the end) LOL!


    hey Concerned Citizen You are a right wing nut job piece of work whose ideas and opinions are antiquated at best. You have got to love it though. nothing with substance in your party and no clue as to what is ailing the American people no solutions to put forth so you just regurgitate your party's platform of cynicism and culture warring. So 80 ish. so lets roll out the barrel will have a barrel of fun. I thought you would like that since you live in the early 20th century and really you are as thick as a brick.

    And I and probably most of the bloggers on this page don't have a phuching clue what in the phuch you are talking about. But you keep going with that and you might get some other du-fuss to latch on to your antiquated spew.


  • Posted By: garyward @ 09/04/2008 7:01:40 PM

    Comment: Heck, I thought the Honorable Rev. Wright was given that speech of hate and anger, but as I looked a lil closer, it was this little white girl from a small country town in Alaska. Pretty lil thang too, I must say.

    Thought the crowd resempled Rev. Wright's church as well, but the convention center was full mainly of old white folk. Looked like a depends party going on up dere.

    Hmmm?

    Obama wants to bring the country together by hope.

    McCain wants to seperate us by using a lil' white woman.

    Guess that McCain feller, the war hero, is to old to get things done fer himself anymore. I thought he tried to use Cindee befer when she told us how proud she is to be a Jerk-merican. Guess she can't get the job done either. She's kinda long in the tooth, now.

    Wonder when he's gonna ask the lil' white gal to accuse Obama of touch'n her somewheres private?
    Why heck, it worked in the Tulsa riots, it worked in Missippi with Emmit Teal, and it worked in Floreeda at Rosewood. Just a few sampl'ns of our grand ol history. Blam'n da black man gets white fellers all riled up an all. Kind a like mob or somethin.

    Lil' white gals been lynch'n black men fo yers now. Ain't noth'n new.

    Yall come back now, ya hear.

    I'm a leader, you can follow.

  • Posted By: josemarti @ 09/04/2008 6:23:25 PM

    Comment: Senator Obama responded today to the sudden increse in the incidence of Clinging to Guns and Bibles Syndrome (CGBS). "My running mate and I are deeply concerned about the spread of CGBS. The etiology is unknown. Many theories have been proposed. My friend and pastor Reverend Wright believes that it may be caused by a virus developed by the CIA. My campaing manager is impressed by the strong epidemiological overlap between CGBS and Mad Cow Disease. They both affect primarily rural whites. I don't know what causes CGBS. I just know that if it continues to spread, my chances of becoming Commander in Chief will be seriously undermined. In an effort to curtail the spread of this scourge, I have asked the owners of the major hotel chains in the US who are by chance principal contributors to my campaign to remove all Gideon Bibles from hotel and motel rooms and replace Bibles with copies of my favorite novel Invisible Man by Ellison."

    • Posted By: NewsWkDickG @ 09/05/2008 1:10:23 AM

      Comment: Hope you broke off to watch McCain's speech because I am sure you would want to come back and erase all the garbage you posted and just say, 'GO ALL THE WAY OBAMA'.

    • Posted By: Concerned Ctzn @ 09/04/2008 6:52:15 PM

      Comment: Good one ... funny.

  • Posted By: Concerned Ctzn @ 09/04/2008 6:01:42 PM

    Comment: Wow! Mrs. Hottie knock 'em dead at the RNC last night. Great job Mrs. Alaska!!!! You got my vote!

    • Posted By: Kboogie @ 09/04/2008 6:09:54 PM

      Comment: She is hot for a woman who dropped a litter over the past 17yrs. Maybe she'll start posing online w/ a liquor bottle in one hand, and tounge-kissing her girlfriend, too.... Just like her daughter did.

      http://www.mediatakeout.com/2008/26330-explosive_pics_vp_candidate_palins_daughter_is_wilder_than_britney__pics_of_her_and_her_girls_getting_drunk_and_kissing_each_other.html

      • Posted By: Concerned Ctzn @ 09/04/2008 6:15:57 PM

        Comment: Now you're talkin' boogieshoes.

        • Posted By: Kboogie @ 09/04/2008 6:42:33 PM

          Comment: If she does, god forgive me, i'll vote for her too!!!!

  • Posted By: Kboogie @ 09/04/2008 3:43:28 PM

    Comment: September 03, 2008. So the mainstream media seems to now be letting up on the Palin baby drama, but we're not. MediaTakeOut.com just received evidence that calls into question whether Gov Palin's alleged son Trig was born when and where she claims.

    We conducted a preliminary search of the Mat-Su Regional hospital's website (where baby Trig was supposedly born on April 18th), and the website DOES NOT show any record of Trig's birth. Instead, the site shows that only 2 baby's were born in the hospital that day - an Isaiah Travis and a Kayden Lexus.

    It's still not enough for us to CONCLUSIVELY say that Gov Palin is full of it, but we're getting there. So now let's go with what we know AS FACT:

    1. Palin hid her pregnancy from the media. When she finally announced her pregnancy (in March) she was not showing any obvious signs of pregnancy despite being 7 MONTHS PREGNANT - Source.

    2. Gov. Palin mysteriously took her daughter Bristol out of school a few months before the March pregnancy announcement. The "official" reason for Bristol's removal from school was because she caught a serious case of Mononucleosis.

    3. During the time that Bristol was out of school with that "serious case of mono", Trig was born.

    4. No record of Trig's birth is readily available from the hospital which Palin claims to have delivered.

    5. And here is the kicker. Since Bristol is supposedly 5 months pregnant now, she must have conceived her child while she was out of school with that supposed serious case of mono.

    Stay tuned............

    • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 09/04/2008 5:36:35 PM

      Comment: Hi KB,

      Great Post, thanks for keeping us informed. I am wondering how Sen. Clinton's female supporters think of her, I am getting very mixed feelings from the news media.

      • Posted By: Kboogie @ 09/04/2008 5:53:59 PM

        Comment: Hey sj, I took a short time off from blogging, only to come back and see the idiots are still here. The great thing is, they're getting angrier. WOW!! I love it.

  • Posted By: raddave @ 09/04/2008 3:24:21 PM

    Comment: I find it rather funny that McCain calls Palin a "reformer," but while she was mayor of Wasilla, the town received almost $12 million in earmarks. As mayor she hired Steven Silver, former Chief of Staff for Sen. Ted Stevens, as a lobbyist for Wasilla. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-earmarks3-2008sep03,0,6851593.story

    The only thing Palin will change in Washington are her baby's diapers.

  • Posted By: kle5507 @ 09/04/2008 3:16:33 PM

    Comment: The GOP Politburo forced McCain into choosing Palin so an Ultra conservative will be in-line in case McCain croak or for the next election. She's just a puppet for WingNut like J. Dobson who is the biggest phony in the molds of Robertson ..etc. To win this election, McCain has whored himself to the darkest element of our society which is otherwise known as the religious right.

    If Palin gets into office, this is what will happen:
    1. The 3 retiring justices will be replaced by ultra right-wing Scalia/Thomas/Alito clones.
    2. The Education department will be abolished. Evolution will be banned from public institution and replaced with creationism. And they won't have to disguised it with that phoney "intelligent design" crap.
    3. The EPA department will be abolished.
    4. Abortion will be abolished. Pro-choice avodcate will be prosecuted and put in jail.
    5. No more endangered species list. Hunt everything, save nothing.
    6. Drill, Drill, Drill. God Damn the Environment! You think Smog is bad in BeiJing. You hadn't see anything yet.

    The Truth is the WingNut are pushing for armageddon so their souls can be save. And Earth is disposable since they will be all in Paradise.

    • Posted By: Concerned Ctzn @ 09/04/2008 6:19:32 PM

      Comment: That's exactly why I'm voting for the McCain/Palin Ticket. Thanks!

  • Posted By: Mimi13 @ 09/04/2008 1:55:43 PM

    Comment: Is this the year that the people of this nation -- who are genuinely hurting because of lose of jobs, lack of health care, failing public eduction systems, rising college costs, flat incomes -- will vote for their own self-interests instead of falling for a lot of rheortic and phoney cultural divide questions? What will the McCain-Palin ticket do to provide health care, assist with college costs, or build good-paying jobs. McCain's program of vouchers for all will destroy the public education, the bedrock of this country's strength., Although income for 90% of the country is flat, the Republican tax cuts will still favor the upper 5-10% of earners. What is there in the McCain-Palin ticket that will do anything to make life better for the middle class?

    • Posted By: Concerned Ctzn @ 09/04/2008 6:34:03 PM

      Comment: Let's face it ... if you're at the ladder end of the "upper 10% crowd" you're NOT RICH! I got news for you ... you're middle-class.

      • Posted By: Mimi13 @ 09/05/2008 10:46:39 AM

        Comment: By definitrion, middle class is in the middle. The upper 15-10% is not the middle -- it's the top.

  • Posted By: ziaislam @ 09/04/2008 1:55:01 PM

    Comment: Palin has become an instant celebrity. She is a MUCH MUCH bigger celebrity than Obama. It is a shame that in this country of 300 million people, GOP could only have this moronic person as a VP. Here is why she
    is an abomination to society:

    1. She is a traitor. Watch her address to Alaska Independence Party which wants independence from USA. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwvPNXYrIyI
    2. Palin painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic affair(What!!?!) in which the United States could act out the will of the Lord. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/02 /palins-church-may-have-sh_n_123205.html
    3. Palin said she is for limited Government, but she increased the size of the City of Wasilla payroll by hiring a CIty Manager as SHE WAS INCOMPETENT TO RUN IT ON HER OWN. Her predecessors did not need anyone to run the city.
    4. She said she will change Washignton. Well, she hired Jack Abramoff's firm to lobby for the city. For a city of 6000, she could get ear-marks for $27 million!!
    5. She said she will cut cost, well she ran her city to debt when she left
    6. She has a pregnant 17 y/o daughter who has CHOSEN to keep the baby. But as she is ADAMENT TO REVERSE ROW V WADE, she DOES NOT WANT THE CHOICE FOR MY DAUGHTER. GOVERNMENT WILL IMPOSE IT ON HER THAT SHE KEEPS THE BABY OR GO TO JAIL.
    7. She has a baby with down syndrome, BUT SHE CUT THE SPECIAL EDUCATION BUDGET for Alaska. I guess she did not know tha GOD WILL PUNISH HER THIS WAY.
    8. SHE IS WRONG IN EVERY WAY for America. Last night, she did not utter a SINGLE WORD ON ECONOMY and HOW WE WILL GET OUT OF THIS ECONOMIC MESS.

    • Posted By: RetiredMarine @ 09/04/2008 10:03:13 PM

      Comment: The way the Supreme court had to "Decide" if the second ammendment was a right nakes you wonder if maybe sesession from the Union wouldn't be justified. I have fought my A$$ off for the country and have friends who died serving and about as patriotic as you can get, but when the government becomes so corrupt that it starts taking rights away from its citizens and starts to be oppressive - it is time to think about getting the bastards out of office or leaving the group.... By the way, Montana was talking about sessesion as well if the Supreme Court violated our rights with the wrong decision... (Too bad more states didn't speak up - sometimes these jerks need to loudly hear from the people)

      Huffington Post isn't necessarily the end all be all of objective journalism. Basing your views of her opinion on the war from that source simply means you have no credibility.

      As for increasing the size of Wasilla government by hiring a city manager, I guess you have never heard of delegating authority (a leadership trait) which allows leaders to tackle other issues. You also fail to mention the corruption of some of her predecessors

      You mention earmarks, how about the earmarks your heros receive for their state? I guess that is ok by your book right? Earmarks are wrong, but so is your attempts to shed light on one side og the political parties while ignoring the other.

      If you are going to make allegations, at least try to provide examples. You are doing nothing more than perpetuating gossip

      What her daughter does is her daughters business - not yours, your parents chose to keep you, right? You cry about her views on rowe vs wade, what about Obama flat out comments about FORCING his plans on everyone? Why is that ok in your book? By his way of thinking, you and I will obey his command or go to jail.

      She has a baby with down syndrome - and she manages, what is it to you? Should she just do what Obama says and make it legal to kill the child after birth? Are you now a prophet or spokesman for God that you feel justified in saying that "GOD WILL PUNISH HER THIS WAY". I thought you liberals wanted God out of the picture, why use him now??? How convenient.

      OBAMA IS WRONG IN EVERY WAY for America. During his whole campaign he has not uttered a SINGLE DETAIL PLAN ON ECONOMY and HOW WE WILL GET OUT OF THIS ECONOMIC MESS. - But in an answer for you - if we can get the politicians to keep their hands out of it, our economy will repair itself. There are plenty of businessmen and women out there much more qualified than any politician. - bottom line is you aren't looking for answers, you are looking for a government to tell you what to do, when to do it, how to do it, etc.... You don't want choice, you want socialism or even communism

      • Posted By: Mimi13 @ 09/05/2008 11:14:45 AM

        Comment: Obama did not -- could not -- make it okay to kill a live born infant. For the past 20 years, Illinois has had state law on the books that requires medical personnel to provide medical care to any live born infant. Nothing in the anit-abortion legislation that Obama voted against would change that valid law. Obama voted against the legislation because he believed that it could be interpreted as banning all abortions in Illinois. You may disagree with his interpretation, but you cannot validly charge that he voted in favor of killing infants born alive. This was, is , and will continue to be illegal in Illinois and anyone who refuses medical care to a live born infant -- even one who survives and botched abortion -- is guilty of a felony. Anyone who observes such a thing and does nothing to intervene and does not report this crime, is also guilty.

    • Posted By: Floridave @ 09/04/2008 7:53:19 PM

      Comment: She will be good for most of America, but she won't be so great for you liberals and your entitlement programs. The lines for your free cheese might start getting longer.

      • Posted By: Mimi13 @ 09/05/2008 11:05:32 AM

        Comment: She also won't be all that swell for:

        women who want to make their own reproductive choices (she opposes contraception as well as abortion),

        people who seriously want to reduce the number of teen pregnancies (and know, as research has shown, that abstenance programs do not work)

        people who would like their children and grandchildren to live in a world with polar bears in their natural habitat,

        the planet Earth which is subject to global warming even if she dosen't believe it's real and that "God's plan" is for humans to extract all the natural resources of the Earth. ,

        people who don't necessarily believe that the Book of Genesis is a the basis of human biology

        people who prefer that politicians don't lie (as in "I said "thanks, but no thanks" to the Bridge to Nowhere)

        people who think earmarks are bad for EVERY mayor and governor -- not just OTHER mayors and governors.

        DITTO regarding lobbiests.

        people who want a balanced budget (she left Wasila is debt and she balanced the state budget thanks to earmarks and the money she kept when she cancelled the Bridge to Nowhere)

        people who believe that shooting endangered wildlife from planes and helicopters is not a sport

        people who believe that Alaska is not a "self-sustaining" state, but part of a union of states

        people who might prefer that the contract for the "largest single infrastructure" project in the United States be negotiated with a company based in the United States that would provide good paying jobs for U.S. citizens, rather than with a Canadian company.

        people who do believe that the Iraq War is a Bush-Cheney folloy rather than "God's plan"

        Israeli-U.S. relations since she supports Jews for Jesus which preaches that terrorism is God's punishment for rejecting Jesus.

  • Posted By: AskPlus @ 09/04/2008 1:10:44 PM

    Comment: The snarky Ms Palin wants the media to report on her undereducated teen son going to Iraq, but would prefer that they leave her HS drop out whiskey-swillin' daughter and her HS drop out drunk boyfriend out of it. She also doesn't want the media to get too close to the fact that the Lady Bristol is having a baby after being impregnated at 16. That's bad of the media - they should leave it. She does wants the media to report her opposition to the Bridge to Nowhere - after she supported it with deed and money. But, she does not want the media to report she left her little small town broke while mayor, but please do talk about the 80% lovefest-rate as a 1 1/2 year Gov. The media should steer clear of oil talk, oil-job hubbies, oil conflict of interests, murdered dogs and Library books.

    The media should stay far away from her being under investigation by a bipartisan state legislative body. And Ms. Palin really promised to cooperate with a legislative inquiry, but this week she hired a lawyer to fight to move the case to the jurisdiction of the state "personnel board" - which Palin anoints and appointed. In her cloud of rhetoric musings and snaps, Palin said speeches are just a "cloud of rhetoric." Which the media should ignore altogether. And for God's sake - for the religious right - don't talk about the lobbyist hired and ear marks received, squandered and hidden. Instead talk about how she was vetted two week ago in three hours.

    But she's apparently a good AIP hockey wife, who should be forgiven. A bit nasally though like Fran Drescher. I bet those glasses cost more than a haircut too. Stylish. She'll look good giving her sister's ex the boot.


    • Posted By: RetiredMarine @ 09/04/2008 10:04:45 PM

      Comment: wow, I guess your family is PERFECT huh? Congratulations

    • Posted By: Floridave @ 09/04/2008 7:56:20 PM

      Comment: I can't disagree with ALL of that, but I just wanted to say that the Fran Drescher reference made me laugh. I enjoyed her speech, but I was thinking the same thing last night.

      Beats having a presidential candidate that looks like Irkle.

      • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/05/2008 1:02:21 AM

        Comment:
        Actually, Floridave, not sure how far back you go with Saturday Nite Live, but Sarah Palins voice sounds exactly like that woman that played PAT in the skits on SNL (you know, the PERSON that no one could ever tell if she ws a male or female?). What the heck was her name . . .Julia Sweeney.


        • Posted By: Floridave @ 09/05/2008 9:43:47 AM

          Comment: Pat..... lol. I always liked that one, still refer to her/him/it from time to time. Good stuff.

      • Posted By: RetiredMarine @ 09/04/2008 9:44:29 PM

        Comment: Hell, I guess since you started it, we can simply refer to Obama as Eddie Murphy, since when he talks he makes us all laugh. Unfortunately it is because of the stupid things he says rather than actually being funny.

  • Posted By: AskPlus @ 09/04/2008 1:10:02 PM

    Comment: Comment: Here's what Ms. Palin said in her emails that "didn't" prove she tried to get her sister's ex fired.

    "This trooper is still out on the street, in fact he's been promoted," said a Feb. 7, 2007, e-mail sent from Palin's personal Yahoo account.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090303210.html?sub=new

    It's damning but falls in line with her little Alaskan soap opera.

  • Posted By: Floridave @ 09/04/2008 1:00:55 PM

    Comment: I looked it up and I guess I was wrong. As it turns out, Obama is NOT the same guy that played Irkle. My mistake. They sure seem like the same guy. I bet he hears that all the time. I wonder if the REAL Irkle is a socialist with a middle name that pays tribute to a mass murderer.


    Again, my mistake. Sorry for the confusion.

    • Posted By: raddave @ 09/04/2008 2:55:23 PM

      Comment: Obama's middle name does not pay tribute to Saddam Hussein. Obama was born in 1961, Saddam did not become the president of Iraq until 1979 and no one really heard of him until the 1980s.

      • Posted By: Floridave @ 09/04/2008 3:22:49 PM

        Comment: You're right. It was just a lucky coincidence.

    • Posted By: chindognyc @ 09/04/2008 1:08:35 PM

      Comment: Hey floridave, you also forgot to talk about Sarah Palin hating America. Since she use to be a member of the AIP

      • Posted By: Pallisor @ 09/04/2008 5:16:46 PM

        Comment: There he goes again... the broken record. You're becoming laughable with the aip thing.

        • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 09/04/2008 5:40:00 PM

          Comment: I'm sorry I do not understand the fact that Palin and her husbands association with this organization when Rev. Wright made his statements I am sure that you jumped on the lynch wagon.

          So what is the difference between Goddamn America and I have no use for America and her Rules?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

          • Posted By: Floridave @ 09/04/2008 7:57:36 PM

            Comment: That sure is a lot of question marks. Are you REALLY that confused?