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  • Posted By: wme123 @ 09/04/2008 6:45:42 PM

    Her speech was powerful.
    But how could it not be?.......It was written by a long time Republican political fear monger, rehearsed to the smallest detail and addressed to a crowd of people who will cheer at the slightest mention of negative democratic words. who tone was negative and personally I DO NOT CARE about her family. I want to know what she stands for. Lets face it McCain is Old. What will she do as President, thats what I want to know. I will wait an see how she does without a script and a well rehearsed plan.

  • Posted By: kouassi @ 09/04/2008 6:45:34 PM

    You can see the same hypocrisy on her face during the speech. There was substance on what matter, the economy. Nobody ever experience the White House; so do not bullshit anyone about your experience as governor. We know the kind of experience the governors bring to Washington, just ask George W Bush. A disaster, after governing the second largest state in the Union. What can we expect from Palin, nothing but make the

  • Posted By: wme123 @ 09/04/2008 6:38:31 PM

    Her speech was powerful.
    How could it not be......it was written by a long time Republican fear monger. It was without fact, without respect , and a slap in the face to hard working community leaders in this country. Lets face it her speech was so well rehearsed that you could almost see her counting the timing of each word. I will wait until she is in a situation where she is without script and pressed with hard questions about her beliefs and politics to make my decision.

  • Posted By: 3amy @ 09/04/2008 6:19:07 PM

    From the reactions I have seen on the internet comments and around town, it seems to me that the pundits and media liked the speech more than citizens did. People are talking about how arrogant and mean it sounded

  • Posted By: Kboogie @ 09/04/2008 3:47:25 PM

    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: ashleycat @ 09/04/2008 5:34:12 PM

      kboogie-very rare to have a teen mom with down;s. That is usually for older women like Palin. You obamanicacs are so vile it is almost nauseating. Yeah, you are "pro woman" but you will throw this young teen mom to the wolves cus she is keeping her child and marrying the kid's dad. You onjly care about single moms if they abort or take welfare programs so you can have these women become loyal democrats. How many working single moms get childcare help> Not many, cuz you guys dont want women to succeed. You want them to think they cant survive without feminists and gov. Same thing you guys do to minorities. Vote democrat, you get werlfare. You folks support the "choices" of women only when they serve your big gov, abortion obsessed "beliefs." I was not married when my kid was born, and I did not abort. I am tired of femiists acting like abortion and single parenting with the help of gov. are the only good choices women can make. Most single moms work without the help of democrats. Many single moms and teen moms do get married. Many single and teen moms do not abort. Some do, some dont. Either way, I applaud single moms everywhere and feminisist, man hating abortion obsessed obamaniacs can shove it. You pander to black folks and you keep them dependent on gov. You dont care about poor folks or single moms. You "care" about the cause, not the actual women. You just want women and blacks to think they cant live without democrats and I am insulted. I am pro choice, but I am nto looking at that as the only issue. We have tons of free birth contorl and wmen have made major progress, but feminisist keep scaring women. You will throw this teen mom to the wolves with your sexims in order to get Obama elected. Yet you guys say mccain doesnt care about women cuz he is pro life. I got news-you obams nuts are treating Palin with the same sexist bs you treated Hilary with. And you will pay in Novmeber when Obama the Savior loses. Actually, Obama has more class than many of his cult like supporters. Hilary was thrwon to the wolves to appease the politically correct crowd.

  • Posted By: MickNCt. @ 09/04/2008 5:32:26 PM

    if she's all for the environment, why does she keep popping babies, that isnt ecologically sound. why have amneosentisis if you have no plans of aborting a pregnancy? to place this woman in a position of being a "heart beat" from the presidency is an outrage to the american people. heading up the alaskan national guard is NOT military experience.mccain has melanoma, it recurs and is fatal. do you really think he showed great decision making by choosing her? her religious stands are more cultish than christian. she calls herself a christian, yet she shows no love for gays, lesbians and ts, also god's children. what a
    hateful person. she prays for an oil pipeline? is god going to dig it. she believes in creationism, and wants it taught in schools. fine, teach it in your right wing non-thinking , non-scientific schools, but leave the rest of us american's with some brain power alone with what science has proven to be fact. evolution isnt a theory.
    oh and by the way, if it wernt for us LIBERALS she would never have had the opportunity to serve as mayor of a small town, governor of a small in population state and run for vice president. now that is what i call hypocracy.

  • Posted By: sam alser @ 09/04/2008 5:26:31 PM

    While it is expected that the VP candidate's job at a convention is to throw red meat to the audience,one would expect a more gentile approch from a lady and hockey-mom. (mayb she thought that is where she was; in which she should be penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct.)

    Be that as it may , she was competent in her delivery and speech bold if that is what social consevative family value persons value and want.

    However it was appaling to see her 5 month old baby to be passed around like a beer bottle from the lap of Cindy MCain to her pregnant teenage daughter then to her putative partner and then to Mr. Palin nd then back again ad nauseum All this in evening hours in a raucus hall with powerful lights beaming in the poor baby's face. Exhibit 1 for Family Values

  • Posted By: ashleycat @ 09/04/2008 5:19:14 PM

    tonn-so you pro woman and "pro choice" folks for Obama will drag her kid through the mud unless Palin leaves her home? If she did that, you libs would accuse her of hiding her teen daughter as a disgrace. If she had the girl abort the kid, you guys would have it all over the national enquirer as an exmaple of Palin being a hypocrite pro lifer who forced her kid to abort. The only "choice" many of you like for teen moms is to be single, remain on welfare and vote democrat. Or abortion is good, according to feminists. Personally, I support singel moms, moms who choose abortion, and moms who adopt. I also support those who marry the baby's dad, like Bristol. Better him to raise the kid than the state. She is pro life and pro family and she is proud of her kid, desptite the fact that you pro woman Obamanites think she is scum for having a teen preggo daughter.

  • Posted By: DUMPLIN @ 09/04/2008 5:18:31 PM

    THOSE THAT SUPPORT OBAMA ARE THE REAL PARROTS. YOU SPEW LIES BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BELIEVE WHAT THE LIBERAL MEDIA TELLS YOU (FABRICATIONS MOSTLY) SHE IS REAL AND WILL BE AN EXCELLENT VPL

  • Posted By: tonn @ 09/04/2008 4:53:05 PM

    GOOD SPEECH BUT DONT EXPECT THE MEDIA TO LAY OFF DAUGHTER IF YOU KEEP BRINGING HER UP IN THE PUBLIC ABOUT HOW SHE KEPT HER PREGNANCY!!! HYPOCROSY

  • Posted By: Jackscorner @ 09/04/2008 4:51:16 PM

    Palin's speech was delivered in a very rigid manner and lacked any spontaneity. She is good a delivering simple lines but is really challenged when faced with a grammatically complex sentence. I give her a C+ but confess that I am biased in favor speakers who have some intellectual content to backstop their speeches. I also don't get it that she blasts Obama and Biden for lacking executive experience but conspicuously overlooks the fact that her own presidential candidate, McCain lacks any executive experience and never had a command position even in the military.

  • Posted By: clueless @ 09/04/2008 4:06:55 PM

    Lets face the truth of it not the media hype,Palin's is not a very good speaker with a rather irrating voice,her speech was as flat as any I have heard outside of Joe Liberman's.While the press and media try to make a case for her the facts remain she should have left the "bridge to nowhere" remain there for its to easy to prove she's being untruthful about it,the pipeline which she gave to a company from Canada rather than work for American workers she should have stayed away from,over all her speech rates nothing more than a C- and thats the truth...

  • Posted By: Debunked! @ 09/04/2008 8:13:05 AM

    Bravo Sarah, job well done! You've won the HIll gal over!! You FARRRRRRRRRRR exceeded my expectations!!

    Very well done!!!

    McCain/Palin 08

    • Posted By: mholmes @ 09/04/2008 4:06:01 PM

      Best quote of the night: "What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? The lipstick!"

  • Posted By: ALLEAS @ 09/04/2008 8:58:05 AM

    THE ONLY THING THAT PALIN DID DURING HER SPEECH WAS LAUNCH A TIRADE OF ATTACKS AGAINST BARACK OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS. I DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING ABOUT SOLUTIONS ON HOW TO PUT OUR COUNTRY BACK IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. IF THE REPUBLICANS THINK THAT WOMEN ARE GOING TO BLINDLY VOTE FOR THE McCAIN/PALIN TICKET BASED ON SOME TOUGH TALK FROM THIS BIMBO ,THEY ARE SADLY MISTAKEN.

    • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 09/04/2008 9:09:26 AM

      There will be an uptick in the female vote, BUT...the HUGE effect will be in middle, small town America. All those "bitter, bible reading, clinging to their guns" VOTERS. McCain/Palin will win this election in a LANDSLIDE. But I told ya'll that months ago.

      NOBAMA!!!

      • Posted By: TheVigil @ 09/04/2008 3:45:59 PM

        Good to see you, Nostradamus.

        Wait, no.

        Still making eager predictions, I see...

      • Posted By: ALLEAS @ 09/04/2008 9:25:11 AM

        PLEASE, GIVE WOMEN MORE CREDIT THAN THAT

        • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 09/04/2008 9:32:57 AM

          Give women more credit??? Did you not just call our next VP a bimbo??? Kool-Aide KILLS. Choose LIFE.

          NOBAMA!!!

          • Posted By: avg joe25 @ 09/04/2008 2:49:47 PM

            people like you are the reason why our country is in such a bad shape.
            I am sure you believe we are winning the war in Iraq too?

    • Posted By: BexHi @ 09/04/2008 11:00:20 AM

      I guess you failed to LISTEN to the rest of the speech!

  • Posted By: ALLEAS @ 09/04/2008 3:44:42 PM

    I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT SOCIALIST VIEWS PEOPLE THINK THE DEMOCRATS STAND FOR. FAIR WAGES, CIVIL RIGHTS, EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN, THE RIGHT TO WORSHIP AS WE CHOOSE, THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, ENDING AN UNJUST WAR, WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, REAL PROTECTION AGAINST FUTURE TERRORIST ATTACKS, AFFORDABLE COLLEGE,-DO SOME PEOPLE REALLY BELEIVE THAT THESE IDEAS ARE SO FAR LEFT THAT THAY ARE SOCIALIST POLICIES? WAKE UP PEOPLE AND STOP VOTING AGAINST YOU OWN ECONOMIC INTERESTS.

  • Posted By: bluebloodedLV @ 09/04/2008 3:42:43 PM

    http://www.bi30.org/wordpress/flipflopper.htm

    Master list of McCain flip flops.

  • Posted By: J. Weldon @ 09/04/2008 11:53:48 AM

    Waldman and bennettsusan--your analyses were spot on.

    I, too, wanted to hear something substantial from Palin on policy. She squandered the opportunity to discuss real solutions for the economy and Iraq, instead spending her 45 minutes insulting and degrading the Democrats with mostly personal attacks, as well as reviving the Republican fear mongering of 2004.

    Okay, so she was able to get hoots and hollers out of her fellow convention attendees, but this country needs a leader, not a court jester. She had a country watching and listening, and all she could do was to waste more time slinging mud and rhetoric. I could never vote for a ticket that's comfortable being so smugly negative and disrespectful at a time when the country needs unification and hope. I pray the majority of voters agrees.

    To accentuate the positive: no matter what, at least Bush will soon be out of office.

    • Posted By: chehil @ 09/04/2008 3:40:49 PM

      I agree with you. Those attacks and lies were so horrible they put Satan to shame. For people to be calling themselves Christians, it's a wonder the church houses are not full until America is attacked. Don't get me wrong, I like my country, but notice I did not say Love, because I love nothing before God. For them to use God in the same breath, it's blaspheme and sounds like someone was not paying attention in Sunday School. Peace

  • Posted By: trini @ 09/04/2008 9:07:00 AM

    When McCain gets in trouble, he pulls out the P.O.W. card. Now Republicans are pulling out the sexist card.

    • Posted By: mholmes @ 09/04/2008 3:36:55 PM

      Hey, if you're tired of the POW card, just pull out a favorite Dem, like "Hanoi" Jane Fonda

    • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 09/04/2008 9:10:29 AM

      Did the BarackStar lose his race card???

      NOBAMA!!!

  • Posted By: mjkoch @ 09/04/2008 12:19:16 PM

    Why are the liberals attacking Palin as a member of the radical right? Are all people who belong to the
    NRA radical right wingers? If so, men and women who hunt or who own hand guns to protect their homes and children would not agree with the far left. Is Palin a radical because she is pro-life? What exaclty does choice mean? She was told her baby would be born with Downs Syndrome and she CHOSE to have the baby. Does choice only mean you have to terminate a pregnancy? Is she a member of the radical right because she wants to defeat the Islamic terrorists that are determined to destroy us rather than read them their rights as Obama wants? This moderate Democrat is now voting for McCain/Paln.

    • Posted By: bluebloodedLV @ 09/04/2008 3:30:14 PM

      You'd be surprised, every liberal I know owns multiple firearms. Also, she couldn't have found out about her baby's down's syndrome until at least 4-5 months into her pregnancy (I know, I am 5 months pregnant) so it's not some act of heroism that she made the choice she did. I don't think too many could live with having an abortion that far along - even us liberals (sarcasm) Besides, the better choice would have been not to get pregnant at 43-44 years of age when the chances of having a baby with down's syndrome are dramatically increased. Oh, excuse me, I forgot she doesn't believe in birth control. She already had 4 kids for heavens sake. But, that is her RIGHT to choose. That's what it means. It means the government can't tell you what to do with your uterus.

    • Posted By: Mr. October @ 09/04/2008 1:24:59 PM

      And your an idiot...if you want to make a coherent argument don't start with classifying all liberals and democrats as far left. CHOICE means exactly that, you can choose with the consul of your family and doctor what to do...exactly like Palin did for her son and her daughter is choosing to do now. Where is your pro-life stance when it comes to war? You believe only in pro-life before birth and at death, not during life.

  • Posted By: ALLEAS @ 09/04/2008 3:29:13 PM

    WHY DOES JOHN McCAIN FIND IT NECESSARY TO USE HIS FEMALE RUNNING MATE AS HIS ATTACK DOG? DOES ANYONE OUT THERE KNOW OF ANY REPUBLICAN HARVARD LAW GRADUATE WHO BE CAME A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER INSTEAD OF TAKING A JOB ON WALL STREET? BARACK OBAMA HAS FOUGHT FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS ALL OF HIS ADULT LIFE. JOHN McCAIN HAS FOUGHT FOR BIG BUSINESS DURING HIS YEARS IN THE SENATE.

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