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The GOP's Natural

For at least one night, Sarah Palin showed the Republicans a star power to match Obama

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  • Posted By: Navarro-2008 @ 10/23/2008 7:58:53 AM

    And to think Bobbie told me you were smart!
    Another deluded individual.

  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/16/2008 8:04:18 PM

    Obama's view of the future of America - Socialism which is the next step to Communism!!


    Under socialism a ruling class of intellectuals, bureaucrats and social planners decide what people want or what is good for society and then use the coercive power of the State to regulate, tax, and redistribute the wealth of those who work for a living. In other words, socialism is a form of legalized theft.

    The morality of socialism can be summed-up in two words: envy and self-sacrifice. Envy is the desire to not only possess another's wealth but also the desire to see another's wealth lowered to the level of one's own. Socialism's teaching on self-sacrifice was nicely summarized by two of its greatest defenders, Hermann Goering and Bennito Mussolini. The highest principle of Nazism (National Socialism), said Goering, is: "Common good comes before private good." Fascism, said
    Mussolini, is "a life in which the individual, through the sacrifice of his own private interests??realizes that completely spiritual existence in which his value as a man lies."

    Socialism is the social system which institutionalizes envy and self-sacrifice: It is the social system which uses compulsion and the organized violence of the State to expropriate wealth from the producer class for its redistribution to the parasitical class.

    Despite the intellectuals' psychotic hatred of capitalism, it is the only moral and just social system.

    Capitalism is the only moral system because it requires human beings to deal with one another as traders--that is, as free moral agents trading and selling goods and services on the basis of mutual consent.

    Capitalism is the only just system because the sole criterion that determines the value of thing exchanged is the free, voluntary, universal judgement of the consumer. Coercion and fraud are anathema to the free-market system.

    It is both moral and just because the degree to which man rises or falls in society is determined by the degree to which he uses his mind. Capitalism is the only social system that rewards merit, ability and achievement, regardless of one's birth or station in life.

    Yes, there are winners and losers in capitalism. The winners are those who are honest, industrious, thoughtful, prudent, frugal, responsible, disciplined, and efficient. The losers are those who are shiftless, lazy, imprudent, extravagant, negligent, impractical, and inefficient. [What about the role of luck­being in the right place at the right time or the wrong place at the wrong time? R. R. Pope}

    Capitalism is the only social system that rewards virtue and punishes vice. This applies to both the business executive and the carpenter, the lawyer and the factory worker.

  • Posted By: good conscience @ 09/19/2008 12:21:31 PM

    To Jeremy McCarter: Although you make a couple of good points in your story, I think that all the praise you're giving Palin is a little thick and sugary. She truly did have a few moments of glory in her initial speech at the convention, but let's remember a few other points. A) The speech was written by some of the smartest political speech writers out there, ones who have been around for yrs and yrs, and who have a great deal of experience in their chosen fields. B) She was ordered to be as nasty and vitriolic as she was, something that you don't find in Obama speeches. Just because she found a way to adequately deliver her very scripted and rehearsed performance doesn't make her the mover of mountains that you're touting. C) I am highly insulted that you imply that no matter how sickening Rudy is, he's still great to watch. Just having his hideous visage on my TV screen is like chugging an entire bottle of ipecac on an empty stomach! So please spare me any ploy you may launch at colluding with everyone on the Rudy issue. He stinks.
    For those who've shrieked that Sarah had almost as many viewers as Barack did they forget that the only good reason for it was because she is very new, and everyone wanted to see what the brouhaha was about. It's very unlikely that even now, the McShame/Failin' ticket could muster a group of 84,000 and fill a huge sports arena.

  • Posted By: desertclair @ 09/16/2008 8:23:53 AM

    If Hillary were the democratic candidate, the election would not be so close. She was the best "person" for the job! But that is history. Now we must vote for Obama to keep this old man and hockey mom from creating even more problems for us. This country has gone completely self-destructive with this cult of personality that has captured so many minds! Our problems are too big right now. Please wake up!

  • Posted By: dking312 @ 09/16/2008 3:30:15 AM

    Yeah everybody...that's a great idea!!! Let's elect a liar (God doesn't likes lies, does he?) who makes strange choices on the fly and loves the mere thought of drafting all of our kids off to war - as opposed to a Harvard grad who taught constitutional law, worked with REAL people on REAL issues, and actually uses his brain and his ability to compromise.

    Screw the economy, so what Mccain is stupid if it ain't about war. 894 out of 899 isn't THAT bad.
    Oh, and Palin will be so perfect, George W. in a skirt.....

    Wow, what an America we will continue to have, where on branch of our govt will continue to do what they want to do and not have to answer to you or me or anybody else.

    Isn't a non-honest White house what got us into this big mess in the first place?

    I'd love to see some responses. Todd Palin (first dude) will be imposing himself on our govt the same way he did in Alaska, but you people are worried about old ass folks Obama met. He doesn't just run around doing what others tell him to do like Mccain...so why is this an issue and Phil Grahmm isn't? Phil, the guy who was the key player in deregulating everything so that the rich could get over on us without checks and balances......

    This is what you all are rooting for?

    WWJD?

  • Posted By: informed 1 79 @ 09/14/2008 12:03:51 PM

    Are U serious. This woman is an amateur, compared to Obama. She has been in the spotlight maybe 10 mins. Its an insult to compare her to him. Wow! getting crowds to 20,000 is so stimulating, I'm impressed. I have seen nothing original about her since she got in the spotlight. I'm still waiting for my 15 mins. Hers seems to be a waste of time

  • Posted By: TruthForward @ 09/13/2008 12:34:50 PM

    Well, here is some information on Obama's tax cuts for the middle class. And the tax code will not be thousands of pages long with Obama.
    http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/18/obama.taxplan/index.html

  • Posted By: TruthForward @ 09/13/2008 12:34:34 PM

    Palin has disgraced her entire family with all her lies. It's sad.

    By the way, Biden has an excellent family: Very happy and stable: Dispite the enormous tragedy they have had in their past.

  • Posted By: trazer @ 09/12/2008 2:35:40 AM

    Match? Sarah Palin is a true leader given her governor role and mayor role. She has also been a community organizer given her PTA role. Obama has done good things as a volunteer effort in helping his community and should be thanked. Millions of American youth do excellent service work, such as Peace Corps. Does this quality them for the president? Per HIllary Clinton, Obama does not even know how to make a decision given his voting Present instead of Yes-No. Wow - Wish I could do that at work. Just show up and talk talk talk....and nothing and get paid from your and my wallet.

  • Posted By: slimpundit @ 09/11/2008 8:51:20 PM

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  • Posted By: ConservativeChick @ 09/11/2008 3:28:54 PM

    DMJMomo3....take an antidepressant....Obama is a black radical racist reared in a Muslim school in Indonesia during his youth....his mother was a "possible slut"....drooled over black men and the taboos there....died from ovarian cancer or such (my understanding is that this most often happens from multiple sex partners)....so, let's not put Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter in an unfair category.

    Give me a break!!!!!!!!!Hang in their Republicans....we cannot allow the Dems to win in November...

  • Posted By: jordan c. fan @ 09/09/2008 6:13:42 AM

    Sarah Palin, The Paleontologist or Palintologist?

    By: Jordan C. Fan, Prophet Of Environment.

    If you think Sarah Palin is a Paleontologist or Palintologist, then you are "dead" wrong. Sarah Palin is very young and beautiful, and certainly no dinosaurs. Therefore my study and subsequent analysis of Palin should not be called Palin-tol-ogy or Paleontology, although I still think Hollywood, California and New York should endorse Palin. It is because the TV Series "Friends" gang's Rachelle, Jennifer Aniston, Monica, Courtney Cox, Joey, an Phoebe will all vote for Palin because Ross or David Schwimmer was an Paleontologist. By the same token, New York and California should also elect Palin too. How can Obama win without New York and California?

    While Newsweek's campaign slogan could be: "Sarah Palin the Paleontologist or Palin-tol-ogist!"

    But my slogan will always be: "Electing Sarah Palin is like putting a PAL IN the Whitehouse!"

    My discussion here was inspired by Newsweek, September 15, 2008 issue, cover story, "Palin-tol-ogy, The Real Sarah. How Palin sees the world."

    • Posted By: DMJMom03 @ 09/10/2008 7:51:37 AM

      First of all people, Sarah Palin in not running for the presidency. She is merely a trophy of the Republicrites (republican/hyporcrites). John McCain has chosen another trophy as he did when he selected Cindy. He courted several Republican candidates and when Obama did not choose Hiliary, McCain so the opportunity to dump those he was courting during his horrible ratings and pick Palin. He did the same with his first wife. A woman that stood by him, sitting at home wonder if he would ever return alive from Vietnam. He returned and during family trials, cheated on her with Cindy an eventually left the family to marry the millionaire and addict.
      He has now selected the young, pretty, 'conservative' Palin with the pregnant daughter and challenged baby and she is a maverick. The same hypocritical republicans that are praising Palain and her unwed pregnant daughter roasted Jamie Lee Spears and demanded her firing from Disney. 'How can we allow a children to watch that show or Disney after such a horrible,sinful act from this little gir who is suppose to be a role model. Then they parade irresponsible Bristol and her baby's daddy across the RNC stage and compliment Palin and her family for being courageous and true to their conservative belief. Why is Bristol not the 'tramp' and other names Jamie Lee was called? Why is Palin a wonderful mother but the Spears' mom irresponsible and not supportive.
      Give me break!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: LMAO @ 09/05/2008 7:28:18 PM

    Yes - you got. Palin is like a mirror to the American people to help expose what a fraud Obama really is. I am black and extremely disgusted when my supposedly smart black friends can get beyond blackness and see the Truth. So God made it easier by inspiring McCain to select Sarah. So let me see how many people will flunk this test. I dare to tell all my friends that Hillary was cheated for I place fainess well ahead of my blackness. And I am proiud to say I was not one of the millions who tuned in to watch that fraud get the nomination. More to the point I have resigned the Democratic Party before I even submitted my membership.

    • Posted By: mccaincursingonyoutube @ 09/07/2008 8:26:29 AM

      Palin lied about the Bridge to Nowhere. She already lied about at least twice since being picked as the VP nominee. She claims she said, ???No thanks??? for the Bridge to Nowhere. That is a lie. The federal government blocked the project and later Palin pulled state funding. Prior to that, she supported the bridge. The ???No Thanks??? claim is perhaps the biggest claim she has made in trying to establish her credibility as a reformer. But it is a lie. She should be given an opportunity to explain what she did to block the project. Was it a letter? A phone call to whom?
      Also, if she was so opposed to earmarks, why didn???t she return the bridge project money to the federal government? Now her Alaskan government is using the bridge funding for other highway projects.

      Palin is a FRAUD, and it's just been a week. You have got to be kidding me.

      • Posted By: Morgan2008 @ 09/09/2008 11:55:02 PM

        Barack Obama is afraid of Sarah Palin because she is the real deal and everyone can see it. No one has to ask Sarah Palin if she has ever been a Muslim. Sarah Palin is the modern day American Pioneer Woman who has the guts and courage to stand up to political power for all of the right reasons..to make her town and state a better place for her family and the citizens of Alaska. She has had the courage to make tough decisions. Barack Obama talks the talk but he has not stood up to his own party ever and he has absolutely zero foreign policy experience and zero military experience. Sarah Palin is not running for president but if she was running for president, I would pick her above Barack Obama. John McCain made a wise choice when he selected Sarah Palin as his VP running mate. You don't have to be a republican to know that a pair of Mavericks beat a "spinning Chicago political machine phony" like Barack Obama and his choice of a Washington insider like Joe Biden, especially since Obama's campaign has been against Washington insiders. I don't believe in any kind of Change Barack Obama might promise because you can't trust Obama anyway. A democrat ofr McCain Palin. NOBAMA!!

    • Posted By: Jazz43 @ 09/07/2008 9:27:00 AM

      I think you are a fraud.
      Please take your vile attempt to spread hatred some place else. I don't believe you are a black person. You sound like a paid TROLL to me.

  • Posted By: jordan c. fan @ 09/09/2008 7:03:37 AM

    The One and only issue in this election is: Whether The U. S. Naval Academy should remain in Annapolis, MD?

    The whole American election boils down to only one Battle Ground State -- Maryland.

    It is futile to discuss whether Sarah Palin is GOP's Natural. As Prophet of Environment, I have no choice but to put an end to this election right here and now. Democracy, American style, has generated enough controversies, worldwide instability and environment damages to warrant an immediately haul to your political sytem. The following argument of Mine should be sufficient to end this election:

    An important presidential election record will be broken this year, it is not the first time a woman or Black person will be elected to the Executive office. We will be seeing the greatest American tragedy unfolding right before our eyes. It is one of the rare occasions when a native son will not be elected by his own state. To make it worse, such native son is the greatest hero in an area which has always been the pride and joy of that state. Correct me if I am wrong. I have hardly heard any one at the Repulican Convention or during their campaign mentioned the Annapolis Naval Academy, not even McCain himself. Being born in Panama to a naval family and travel all over this country and the world, McCain really does not have a true home. Arizona is a state he used for election to Congress which he has not visited frequently. The Navy Academy is the only place McCain can really call his home in which he had spent the happiest time of his college life with his navy friends. Maryland should welcome her naval son with open arms and elect him as president.

    But, no! Maryland have 1.6 million Black or approximately 30 % of the state's population making it the "Black Capital" near of the real Capital of the nation. It was 36 % to 61% (almost double) in favor of Obama over Hillary during the primary here. All media and people in Maryland have expressed the sad fact that little or no Marylanders will vote for McCain. I personally don't like McCain very much but my conscience forced me to campaign for him. This episode is not only the greatest disgrace of all Americans but also of that of the human race. It is an unforgivable sin committed by all Marylanders especially its Black racists. People will ashame to live in Maryland. I am making suggestion to our Government to relocate its Naval Academy out of Maryland. The true and only battle ground states, for this election, are not OH, FL or MI but MD. The decision is not who is going to become president? But whether God had made a mistake in creating man? All of you should know that it will be impossible for Obama to win without MD.

    With this discussion I, as Prophet of Environment, have ended this American president election right here and now! I am sorry, if your manic ego devoted to this highly extravagant election have not been fully satisfied. Stop now or face imminent disasters created by

  • Posted By: jordan c. fan @ 09/09/2008 6:17:08 AM

    The Puritan Religious Values Of Sarah Palin. The Most Complete Political Incorrect Political Analysis Of Sarah Palin.

    By Jordan C. Fan, Prophet Of Environment.

    Since Palin is from the West, those battle ground states such as Alaska, Oregon, Hawaii and Washington State can be won more easily by Republicans. There are great potentials for a California victory which will definitely be decisive on the whole election. Obama was born in Hawaii, Obama's defeat there will be his greatest humiliation. Alaska is on of the biggest oil producing state. When oil drilling is the nmber one issue in this election, being a governor of Alaska will certainly help. Alaska is also the last remaining wilderness of the U. S. A. It will be a good opportunity for the Republican to show their concerns of the Environment by using her. Palin is a woman therefore will attract women voters. She is young, very pretty with great sex appeal to straight men and lesbian women. Her pregnant teenage daughter will draw sympathy from those who were teenage unwed mothers and pro-life anti-abortion voters. Single mothers will also be attracted to the Republican Party. She represents traditional White families of Puritan values as opposed to those predominately single parent unwed mother type Black families. Neither McCain nor Palin are political correct. They only speak the truth and are very "genuine, what you see is what you get!" as quoted from the Alaskan Republican Convention delegates. She represents White people who have been displaced from the lower 48 states due to crimes and harassment from Blacks there. Those White people have little or no choice but to seek Northern Exposure living in Alaska for peace and quiet. They will certainly revenge Black intimidation and harassment. McCain's situations is quite similar. After the Civil War, the U. S. was destabilized by its Black minority. The only way to unite this country was to destabilize other nations and the world. To achieve that goal, the U. S. had to invade other countries such as Vietnam. McCain was a pawn and victim of such U. S. aggression. He certainly will blame African American for that. Palin was the military commander of the Alaskan Air National Guard which are useful experience for a future Commander-in-Chief of this country because Alaska is bordering Russia and near China and Japan with one fourth of all U. S. nuclear missiles located in that state. McCain who was also a professional soldier himself will feel comfortable working with Palin. Among both Republican and Democratic Party tickets Palin is the only one with executive and administrative experience . All other candidates McCain, Obama and Biden have only legislative experience.

  • Posted By: Yes! We ALL Can @ 09/08/2008 2:34:41 PM

    Hopefully "Softball" Gibson will ask Sarah Palin the tough questions that the American voters need to know and understand about her qualifications to be VP - which being a gritty mother of 5 is not one of them - respectful and demainding in it's own right - but certainly not a qualification to be VP of the United States!! Let's hope you write about this first I'm sure of many under experienced and unqualifed Sarah Palin will make. See below...
    McCain's judgement should be seriously questioned! He made a terrible mistake in picking Plain. Obvious fact: in the wake of the government taking over Fannie Mae and Freedie Mac - here's what Sarah Palin had to say below. Sarah Palin is seriously under-qualified for a job that McCain (should he win - which I don't see it happening) that she has ABSOULTELY NO KNOWLEDGE of national or foreign policy and lacks the understanding for a wide array of issues right now!! Palin is not ready to be VP for anybody!!
    Gov. Sarah Palin made her first potentially major gaffe during her time on the national scene while discussing the developments of the perilous housing market this past weekend.

    Speaking before voters in Colorado Springs, the Republican vice presidential nominee claimed that lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had "gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers." The companies, as McClatchy reported, "aren't taxpayer funded but operate as private companies. The takeover may result in a taxpayer bailout during reorganization."

    Economists and analysts pounced on the misstatement, saying it demonstrated a lack of understanding about one of the key economic issues likely to face the next administration.

    "You would like to think that someone who is going to be vice president and conceivable president would know what Fannie and Freddie do," said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. "These are huge institutions and they are absolutely central to our country's mortgage debt. To not have a clue what they do doesn't speak well for her, I'd say."
    Even conservative analysts acknowledged that the statement simply did not hold true.

    • Posted By: mccaincursingonyoutube @ 09/09/2008 1:27:28 AM

      Stay tuned

  • Posted By: NotFooledByDistractions @ 09/06/2008 12:19:36 AM


    Yeah, its quite an accomplishment when you're reading someone elses words from a teleprompter to an audience of angry narrow thinking buffoons. She's starting to make GWBush look like a regular Einstein. It's disgusting to watch her be patronized by the gop,

    • Posted By: McCainCursingYouTube @ 09/06/2008 1:07:33 PM

      Finally some people with a brain! The press was praising how well she did, "she knows how to deliver a speech." Are you kidding me! Sure she is better than McCain, but she was far from great. More importantly on the stump the next day, she was finger reading line after line of her script in front of thousands of cheering fans people.

      Now I see why the McCain Campaign is hiding her.

    • Posted By: Pallisor @ 09/06/2008 1:53:09 PM

      You are misinformed. The teleprompter was down and not operating but about half the time during Palin's speech. And or course you are also not aware that every speech given by all the candidates and guest speakers as well are all written by professional speech writers.

      And of course, never any patronizing from the democrats! Naaaahhhhhh.

      • Posted By: McCainCursingYouTube @ 09/06/2008 5:23:21 PM

        The Teleprompter was not down, but running slow. That is way she sounds like an idiot.

        • Posted By: Pallisor @ 09/07/2008 1:26:24 PM

          Running slow? Whatever. Sen. Biden and Obama didn't think she sounded like an idiot at all. In fact, both said the exact opposite.

  • Posted By: white trash @ 09/04/2008 8:25:49 PM

    I think Palin is reflective of the least conscious, sub-intellects of America, whose heroes and role-players are hee-hawing cowboys with rifles posted on their swaggering hips, dripping sweet tater pones and their stiff boots crunching cracker crumbs. This kind of intellect appeals to the brainwashed drones.

    Conversely, Obama's superlative mind and extraordinarily gifted IQ would whoop Palin's IQ any day of the week. Tragically, those out of the center of the bell curve and are gifted, like Obama, are in the minority, and it is the good ole joes in the middle of the bell curve that are this nation's societal voices and worldview.

    In my lifetime, I have recognized a dumbing down of the collective conscious level and intellect in America. So, America will probably vote for those least qualified, an old, one issue war fanatic and a caveman intellect woman whose consiousness level is below those of the animals she butchers and is helping to push extinct. Yep, a real free thinker! The one freedom the majority of Americans do not possess is a free mind and the ability to use it effectively. All of it is controlled by slogans, propaganda, little labels and brainwashing.

    • Posted By: mccaincursingonyoutube @ 09/08/2008 5:32:11 AM

      I totally agree.

  • Posted By: Morgan2008 @ 09/07/2008 8:55:44 PM

    Yes, the game is on. When McCain/Palin get through punching the hot air out of Obama there will be nothing left of Obama. That is what Obama is...a bunch of rhetoric hot air with no substance to him.

  • Posted By: NotFooledByDistractions @ 09/07/2008 5:47:37 PM

    We'll see...I want to hear her speak on the issues without a script. The debate with biden will be very telling. I personally think she's a desperation token pick by mccain. That, in and of itself is insulting to women. She's all image and no substance.

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