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  • Posted By: ApostasyUSA @ 09/04/2008 9:59:45 AM

    "Americas Zena...The Warrior Princess."

    Sure....great....that's what we need.

    Chimerical leaders.

  • Posted By: JeffC2008 @ 09/04/2008 9:59:27 AM

    before the election she was praising Obama's energy plan - funny how things change. "Comment: With gas at over $4 per gallon, and America's elected officials dithering over what to do about it, Sarah Palin, in less than two years, has launched the largest energy infrastructure project in the nation. That's more substance than I see from Obama, Biden, or McCain. Le'ts get out of her way and turn her loose on Washington! She's all action. Obama's all talk."

  • Posted By: sekhemkhet @ 09/04/2008 9:58:56 AM

    So is it scarier to have a person with only a little experience elected as the VP or President. It seems to me that if Palin spent three or four years in office and then McCain did pass on, wouldn't that be better to give her a few years to learn, rather than throwing a man into the pot with very little experience. And I don't care if he's black, white, woman, man, it seems that it would be better to have someone with experience in there now.

  • Posted By: nicolergomez @ 09/04/2008 9:58:27 AM

    Sure, if leading by example means indulging in corruption and big oil money to finance your career, then Palin does a great job. By contrast, the Obamas have exhibited hard work and a dedication to helping disadvantaged communities from their earliest days, and attained their sucess though their own efforts. The "something wrong" that they address is the failings of an ineffective government, and the hope they inspire belongs to the American people in the form of a belief that through us (government by the people, for the people.. remember that?) the government can do better. If this isn't a great example to follow, or moreover the stuff of American legend (From the Log cabin to the White House), then you've got me. Isn't the definition of a leader one who tells those whom he or she leads WHAT TO DO. Perhaps Sarah Palin doesn't tell us what to do because she has nothing to say.

  • Posted By: AJinMaine @ 09/04/2008 9:54:25 AM

    I cannot fathom why the MSM organizations are fawning over Palin and bleating that she did a great job in her speech last night, when I would expect a former sportscaster to be able to give a good delivery of words that were spoonfed to her by the RNC and their speechwriters. Her delivery, including the horrible diction, lack of addressing any real issues, and condesceding tone does nothing to change the fact that she is unqualified, un-American, and represents the right-wing fringe group that Rebublicans now represent and America is about to reject fully and completely.

    It is quite telling that the vast majority of their convention attendees are male, over 35 and white, because this demographic is going the same way as the Rebulican Party, which is not able to connect to the true America I live in.

  • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/04/2008 9:35:24 AM

    FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."

    THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.

    FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: "We need change, all right _ change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington _ throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin."

    THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.

    • Posted By: josh22 @ 09/04/2008 9:52:10 AM

      Obviously, you don't understand a joke. Without a doubt, someone who runs for president in several states gets a whole lot more votes than someone running for mayor of a small town -- even if they were to grab only 5% of the vote. It was a joke. . . Hyperbole. If you can't figure that out, I don't know what to say. Wow, you sure are brilliant to figure out that isn't literally true!

    • Posted By: tippology1 @ 09/04/2008 9:50:27 AM

      Facts: Democrats have labeled George W as everything from not being smart enough to be president, to making a complete mess of our economy and boldly show his approval ratings of 28% but fail to show the Democratic Control Senate approval ratings of 13%. I think if you are going to be one sided then you should include all the FACTS before you judge.....

  • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 09/04/2008 9:50:18 AM

    America has met her newest heroine. The glass ceiling is CRASHING in a loud crescendo, and the stereotypes of a strong American women will be no more. We have been introduced to the !st Female POTUS. The lady has been annointed by the Most High God, and If God be with you...who can stand against you. Bring it on Kool-Aide Kids.

    The sad thing about it though, is this......the very same "champions". of womens equallity...those LOUD voices who have demanded an event like this.....have been revealed to be covetous and two-faced. This will be remembered as the time, when the FEMINAZIS were unmasked and made irrelevant, for eternity's sake. Equality is not their goal. Domination is. They truly fear a REAL AMERICAN WOMAN.

    God BLESS America....Land of the free....and Home of the brave.

    NOBAMA!!!

  • Posted By: Omaar @ 09/04/2008 9:34:54 AM

    Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.

    He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.

    MCCAIN: "She's been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply ... She's responsible for 20 percent of the nation's energy supply. I'm entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America," he said in an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson.

    THE FACTS: McCain's phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she's no more "responsible" for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state _ by population.

    MCCAIN: "She's the commander of the Alaska National Guard. ... She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities," he said on ABC.

    THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under "federal status," which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska's national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.

    FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."

    THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.

    • Posted By: pinkvik @ 09/04/2008 9:50:02 AM

      Agree... typical GOP rewriting history where convenient for them to win votes from those who are completely uninformed. I actually saw a McCain ad claiming that "liberals" have had "years of deficit spending." It made me laugh. Is Bush liberal now? Because he's the one who has been deficit spending like crazy (after Clinton left him with a SURPLUS).

      People need the facts. So thank you for posting this.

  • Posted By: Mwalimu @ 09/04/2008 9:14:45 AM

    Appalled.
    That???s the first word that comes to my mind after vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin introduced herself to the American people.
    First she claims to be an outsider. Then she brags her status as an average hockey mom who signed up for the PTA and ran for city council.. This automatically makes her qualified for vice president.
    What she did not mention was the truth. . According to an article by Peter Wallsten in the Los Angeles Times (September 2, 2008) Palin frequently on lobbying trips to Washington. As mayor of Wasilla, she netted $ 26.9 worth of earmarks from 2002-2003 As govenor she requested 31 earmarks worth $ 197 million. She also originally supported infamous ???Bridge to nowhere.??? which McCain uses as an egregious example of outrageous pork barrel spending.
    Considering that Palin got the endorsement of former crook and indicted Speaker of the House Tom DeLay, I would not be surprised if Palin has found ways to help herself to some of the money she earmarked to Alaska.
    In addition, Palin???s energy proposals are also made up of deceptive advertising. Her priorities do not promise clean energy. Instead, they reflect the wishes of the lobbyists for the nuclear power industry who are financing McCain???s campaign,
    More drilling will not bring cheaper gasoline; it could pose severe environmental risks. Nuclear power, which Palin promotes, is not renewable. It also has severe environmental risks - and Palin has not come up with a sound, way to dispose of nuclear waste, which will be a multi-billion dollar tax burden for future generations. Palin shows no understanding about the environmental risks of global warming, probably because she refuses to believe that global warming comes from carbon-based, fossil fuels. These are dangerous misconceptions for future generations. Palin again has lied to the American people.
    Palin's debut, complete with its lies, merely prove that Palin and McCain are not mavericks. They're merely clones of George Bush & Co.

    • Posted By: Donna1000 @ 09/04/2008 9:49:49 AM

      I only wish that the mayor of my town was as effective in Washington D.C. as Sarah Palin was for Wasilla.

  • Posted By: el rob o @ 09/04/2008 9:49:43 AM

    A note to zigzag... You're wrong. I know of one impact point Sarah earned last night. ME! I'm calling the local RNC and I'm signing up to do EVERYTHING I can to get them elected.
    So, there's at least one person impacted by her speech last night. (And for all the moderate democrats I work with... well, they're on board too).

  • Posted By: JeffC2008 @ 09/04/2008 9:49:41 AM

    Comment: Sarah Palin's and Rudy Guliani's comments about Barack Obama were self defeating.

    Sarah Palin has NOT lived a normal American life. She is charismatic in an optimistic, inspirational TO EVANGICALS way. She doesn't TELL us what to do just what "values government should force on us". She just goes out and does it the opposite of what she says (earmarks, bridge to nowhere etc...). Where Barack and Michelle lead by example. She us what to do without doing it herself.

  • Posted By: JeffC2008 @ 09/04/2008 9:49:28 AM

    Comment: Sarah Palin's and Rudy Guliani's comments about Barack Obama were self defeating.

    Sarah Palin has NOT lived a normal American life. She is charismatic in an optimistic, inspirational TO EVANGICALS way. She doesn't TELL us what to do just what "values government should force on us". She just goes out and does it the opposite of what she says (earmarks, bridge to nowhere etc...). Where Barack and Michelle lead by example. She us what to do without doing it herself.

  • Posted By: ApostasyUSA @ 09/04/2008 9:47:46 AM

    Why is Sarah qualified to be VP? I it just becasue she has some views?

    Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- By now, many Americans know Sarah Palin's views on guns, gays and abortion. When it comes to matters like trade, immigration, Social Security and Medicare, her record is mostly a blank slate.

    Palin, 44, nominated last night to be the running mate of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, has dealt with few of the economic issues that concern Americans the most, focusing during her 20 months as governor of Alaska on energy policy above all else.

    The reasons: Alaska, whose population of 670,000 is smaller than that of all but three states, has no income or sales tax, few manufacturing jobs and even fewer illegal immigrants. And its economy is based almost entirely on natural resources and tourism.

    ``She has a limited amount of experience, so we don't know what her stances are'' on larger national issues, said Alaska state House Speaker John Harris, a Republican supporter of the governor.

    The McCain campaign yesterday sought to strengthen Palin's hand on the economy. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the former director of the Congressional Budget Office who is a top McCain economic adviser, will now also advise Palin.

    The next presidential administration will have to grapple with challenges such as taxes, reining in federal spending and the loss of manufacturing jobs abroad.

    Great.....Bush advisors? That who Palin is learning from?

  • Posted By: mjtx @ 09/04/2008 9:47:28 AM

    Has everyone forgotten that she was a broadcast major? The pundits make it sound like no one in Alaska has audio equipment. And as for telepromters--she probably has been reading them since she was 19. Get a grip and start talking about the issues.

  • Posted By: rzdmother @ 09/04/2008 9:47:04 AM

    Of course Palin mocks community work - she hasn'ta clue what it is. She expects God to provide a pipeline for Alaska. She used her daughters pregnancy to protect hersef so she didn't have to produce her own medical records -why? She delivered a speech written by the Bush team full of insults, and nothing else. I'm a working mother and I am thrilled to have nothing in common with this power-hungry, self-righteous, scheming governor of an outpost state that uns on guns and the most expensive gas in the country. That's about all she has to offer.

  • Posted By: josh22 @ 09/04/2008 9:23:14 AM

    I think Biden will do well at the debates, but I wouldn't underestimate her. I think that has already been done. Also if it is so easy to spit out a speech, how come Biden didn't give a better speech at the DNC. It is not easy to be under the pressure she has been under the last few days, and give the speech she did last night.

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