A Maverick Misleads

I pity the Republicans, not because of their constant bashing of the Democrats but because they do it knowing that McCain is overshadowed by party-doll Palin. And to use a woman when all hope fails just to break the glass-ceiling as Palin mentioned is cheap.

Its funny that they choose to believe in McCain when he talks about change in Washington but still needs Bush's approval. And agreeing with Bush on 90% of the issues is not bi-partisan, it's called pandering.

The Repig's say they have the right one to guide us threw this mess that ;THEY MADE;.If you want more of the same vote for Mcsane.

As obvious as the republicans are in their efforts at deception and their relying on the ignorant voter, Dems must not rest feeling certain that the American voter will finally wake up do what has become necessary. After all the "american" voter reelected george w.??? Dems keep the momentum going, and no holds barred!

McCain shook Obama hand and told him that he thanks him for not running a smear campaign, then he runs one himself. I can't help but think or a scene where one guy shake the hand of the opponent then out of nowhere hits the guy over the head with a bottle.

As for Palin, I think of a western scene when the lady says " you wouldn't shoot a lady would you', and blast the guy as he's walking away.

I hope Biden kisses his wife and mother and apologizes for what he HAS to do.to Palin. He'll have to keep saying to himself she is a VP candidate not a woman because she thinks she's like a pit bull with lipstick. You know she will rip his arm off and hand it back to him, while smiling the whole time..

McCain might think she's safe, well let's say this, walk past a hungry pit bull with a steak in your hands, that's how safe McCain is. SHE GETS WHAT SHE WANTS.

I guess Alaska will get a serious chance to separate from the US after all , that will be another first.

Since she likes to take the Obama's words out of context; she did say she;s Alaskan first right? .

no john mccain lied! i can't believe it. the real surprise would be if he ran an accurate ad EVER

Look. They are lying again. Can't wait for the speech fact check.

If McCain were elected, Palin could be President within a couple of years, or even a couple of months. Thats the whole point of the job of Vice President (the weight of the office ages the President... we've all seen this... and McCain is already old). If Obama hasn't enough experience to be President, as McCain has argued, then what of Palin, with LESS experience yet? McCain's campaign arguments are now becoming hopelessly entangled with inherent contradictions.

While Sarah Palin's stance on a woman's right to choose and what kind of information she most likely does not want to be in the hands of kids like her daughter and future son-in-law bothers me a great deal, it can be argued that that is a personal family matter. It does bother me that she would surely advocate that the entire country follow her family's lead on such matters. Worse, this is a party that repeatedly avow a desire fo government to stay out of our business and personal lives, but has said nothing that I know of concerning taking more than a few ounces of shampoo or shaving cream, or even bottled water onto an airplane, being una fraid that you will secretly be put on a useless watch list or get off it if you suspect such is true, be X-ray searched, not have your electronic doo-dads be confiscated without cause or a warrant at the airport with no guarantee that you will get them back, be wiretapped illegally, be declared an enemy combatant on the prez's whim, or be sure of the right to speak your mind in a public place as long as you are not inciting to
riot or other crime,make sure that basic rights of humans are garanteed, such as habeas corpus, freedom from torture, and all the rest of the mangling of the Constitution we have seen during the Bush-Cheney-Gonzales, et.al. years. This is not to mention that the McCan Palin ticket seems to have a very different idea of middle class from most of us. and the wars and so forth and so on (as a military step-mom I whose stepdaughter has lost friend in Iraq,, I feel somewhat qualified t speak on that issue, even "small things" loke the couple of months one of those private contractors couldn't get any food to her FOB except cranberry sauce. Boy, did we send care packages! I hope for Sarah's son's safety and more than cranberry sauce and MREs to eat). Her speech? Rousing to a certain segment of the population, I guess, but toally lacking in substance. I won't even start with the economy or the family I know with their own teen-age daughter who is pregnant and hardly has the resouces to support her, since she chooses to keep th baby instead of adopting out, and was until recently temporarily homeless, though both parents work and my husband tried to help financially (which we cannot afford: bye-bye stimulus check!). Sure Sarah got 37 million viewers. We knew next to nothing about her, and still don't on the issues. I am not willing to judge her on personal matters, except that parading her daughter in front of the cameras was very bad taste and very political. Dems, get busy. Their supporters do not listen to reason. We have ounumber thm at the polls, period!.

Her speech was sarcastic, bitter, and divisive; but most importantly it was utterly empty of any content. (The regressives have nothing to say on the economy!) Despite a journalism degree from idaho (we're talkin' intellect here!), and an ability to lip sync to the words of Bush's speechwriter (with phonetic spellings, no less (new-clear!)), she sounded like a high school student giving a class presentation. It was an embarrassment to this country. (Not to mention that she's a right wing nutcase who believes the world was created 5,000 yrs ago and that the Iraq war was called forth from God!) And now the media just going bonkers over her, merely because she can pronounce words. What a crock. If we American's foolish enough to let her and McCain run our country even deeper into the ground, look around and enjoy a superpower's dying breath. History and the world will laugh at us, with only a small amount of pity.

Obama voted for the bill because IT WAS THE ONLY WAY TO GET SOME FUNDING THROUGH FOR ALTERNATIVE ENERGY IN A REPUBLICAN OWNED CONGRESS AND PRESIDENCY

I can't claim that one party or the other has a perfect record on telling the truth but it would seem as though the Republicans have made the decision to go negative and go for division and fear this election cycle. I suppose when you have a winning strategy you should stick with it, but it does have long term cost for the American people. When Obama says that they isn't a red America and a blue America he really means he wants for there to be only one America. The divisive politics of the past several decades has created a rift in America that will take decades to close again.

As a long time independent voter I have never been impressed with either party's record on trying to make all Americans feel as though they are part of the same America but it does seem as though the past 8 years in particular, especially since the Rove era, have been the most divisive in history. McCain in the past had been a politician who seemed to try and avoid that divisiveness, but now he seems to be going party line and trying to mislead America that voting for Obama would mean that we would be handing America over to the liberal elite. I truely believe that Obama is the one Presidential candidate in a long time who genuinely doesn't want to see America remain a divided country, but Palin is not cut from that cloth. Every comment her speachwriter had her make last night was designed to instill fear (mostly of other kinds of Americans) rather than brotherhood.

Sad, more of the same....