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Women in the Spotlight

Palin's speech -- and this year's intense focus on female voters.

By Suzanne Smalley and Steve Friess | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Sep 4, 2008 | Updated: 6:31  p.m. ET Sep 4, 2008

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  • Posted By: Phoenix AZ @ 09/18/2008 10:33:17 PM

    Comment:
    http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/525510.html (see photo link)

    I want Sarah Palin to go back to Alaska. Although it appears (see link above & photos (link above) it is questionable if some Alaskans want her back at all. The magnitude of today's politics is much to large for her. She is most certainly out of her league. I think it's egoistic of her to think she is capable of what's ahead in our country and the world. Sigmund Freud once said "Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.??? Though she's not a child it definately relates to Sarah Palin. She seems like a nice enough lady, and even though I disagree with her on many issues, she isn't educated enough to command our country. She really isn't. She's a small town girl. I'm a small town girl, too, and wish I still lived in a small town. But the experience she does have won't be enough and it's quite scary to visualize her actually sitting in the White House or possibly becoming Commander in Chief. Her smile and charisma and small state experience will NOT be enough.

  • Posted By: sherry31 @ 09/18/2008 5:19:27 AM

    Comment: HEY I WANT ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO WILL BLOG ON THIS WEBSITE TODAY TO PLEASE CHECK ALL OF THE POLLS OBAMA IS UP ON TOP. I SAW SOMETHING REALLY FUNNY TODAY. I WAS DRIVING ON MY WAY TO WORK AND I SAW A HOUSE THAT HAD A FORECLOSURE SIGN UP IN FRONT OF IT, AND THEN RIGHT BESIDE THE FORECLOSURE SIGN THEY HAD A MCCAIN PALIN SIGN ARE YOU KIDDING ME HA HA.

  • Posted By: Davole @ 09/17/2008 7:17:27 PM

    Comment: John McCain knew that Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac would collapse, and thereby unjustly burden the American public!

    In 2005, Senator John McCain cosponsored the Federal Housing Enterprise Reform Act to regulate the powers and procedures of Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac.

    These 2 massive federal finance agencies had been operating without controls in a blatant irresponsible manner, and had been found guilty in court of falsifying financial records and statements in order to provide supposed justification for bonuses to be given to their higher echelon administrators.

    These 2 organizations had been coerced by Democrats, who because of political opportunism, wanted them to grant mortgages to individuals who would be unable to make their required monthly payments. That would be in accordance with the irresponsible Democrat belief that everyone should be entitled to have their own home, irrespective of their actual ability to afford that luxury.

    Both of these mortgage lending institutions have contributed massive financial sums to support the political aspirations of Chris Dodd and Barack Obama.

    Senator John McCain realized 3 years ago that fraudulent transactions were rampant within these 2 enterprises, and that they would soon collapse if remedial action was not undertaken.

    Their bankruptcy would result in the American taxpayers having to go into debt to resurrect or ???bail-out??? these fraudulent Congress protected entities.

    As was to be expected, this proposal to institute meaningful financial reform measures was obstructed by the Democrats in the Senate, and the proposal failed to be adopted.

    This year, due to the Democrat furor over the collapse of Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac, the American taxpayers are burdened by having to pay a minimum of 450 billion dollars to ???bail out??? these 2 recklessly managed lending companies.

    John McCain exposed and opposed the corrupt lending practices of Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac.
    Barack Obama ???milked the system??? and profited by obstructing reform of their corrupt lending practices.

    Democrats have demonstrated that they can wreck the mortgage industry.
    Are you willing to vote them into office, and give them a blank check to mismanage the American economy, security, and health care?

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/17/2008 8:02:00 AM

    Comment: i remember when hilary tried everything to knock obama down even the kitchen sink and it did not work! now the obama camp is trying everything including the kitchen sink on palin and its not working ! she gets bigger crowds at her rallies and he gets small ones his ego is crushed and he is worried that he will lose the white house ! and he should be ! McCAIN / PALIN 08 ! >>>>>>>>>> OBAMA / BIDEN BACK TO THE SENATE !
    as history suggests issues of policy will ultimately trump the politics of identity. obama is all about who he is and nothing about what he has done ! McCain is all about what he has done not who he is ! the choice is clear !

  • Posted By: Davole @ 09/16/2008 10:37:26 AM

    Comment: The Obama Campaign Sinks to a New Low in Decency

    The Obama campaign, as it continues to flounder and sink in the polls, has descended to a new low, even for itself.

    Recently it has launched a new TV ad in which a mocking narrator alleges that John McCain is so out of touch with the current generation because of his inability to use a computer.

    The narrator does not admit that the reason John McCain doesn???t use a computer is because 5 and a half years of torture as a POW in the Vietnam war cause him to experience severe pain by attempting to do many of the day to day menial tasks which most of the American population take for granted.

    Obviously the Obama campaign does not demonstrate any appreciation and respect for the veteran and current members of the US military!

    The obamabot ship is sinking, and the crew are sure grasping at straws in their pitiful attempt to deceive the voting public. Yes, Obama approved that deceitful ad - it is consistent with his decrepit morally corrupt standards.

    Obviously that empty suit has no heart, courage, sincerity, honour, and respect!

    Do you expect a presidential candidate to be truthful in striving to win the election?
    If so, Obama just doesn???t ???measure up??? in that consideration!

    Obama is an unscrupulous do-anything community agitator who has revealed his true previously hidden self!

    On November 4, you, the legal American voting public, have the opportunity and ability to cast Obama back to that slag heap of Chicago manipulators who permeate the slum areas of that city.

    • Posted By: sherry31 @ 09/17/2008 6:48:12 AM

      Comment: davole yes mccain has sink to a new low. he lied about not saying that if it were up to him he would keep troops in iraq for 100 years. obabama is not sinking they are not eben polling the reak people that wil matter on election day. i can't wait until they sent palin back to lying country she doesn't know if she was against the bridge to nowhere or not? hey she even sold out alaska saying hey obama got earmarks but when she was asked she said i didn't get the earmarks for alaska they wanted them. ha she had to sign for them such a dumb ass. obamam will win in a lanslide. he has alll the young people white and other races he has black people of course and a lot of white people when he has rallies alll you see are white people i am black and i see more white people there than black its amazing. so yeah i guess that mccain is really relying on white women to win. white woman are smarter than that. hey mccain doesn't want women to have equal pay. its dumb. he forgot about the men i guess he don't care about your votes.

      • Posted By: Davole @ 09/17/2008 10:17:09 AM

        Comment: sherry31 -

        Due to your numerous spelling and grammatical errors, it is somewhat difficult to realize what you are trying to say.

        It sure appears as though attention to detail is not one of your abilities.

        Don't worry - that same trait is evident in most of the rants by other obamabots.

        It's no wonder that the teachers' unions are some of the heaviest supporters and lobbyists for Obama - he doesn't require any accountability and standards of performance.

        And in that regard - your blog serves as undeniable proof!

        • Posted By: sherry31 @ 09/18/2008 5:13:38 AM

          Comment: DEAR DAVOLE, DID YOU CHECK THE POLLS TODAY OBAMA IS UP ON TOP ONCE AGAIN. I GUESS THAT EVERYONE NOW HAS SEEN THE TYPE OF LIARS AND FRAUDS MCCAIN AND PALIN ARE. HA HA. REPUBLICANS ARE STUPID. MCCAIN DENYING THAT HE IS NOT A REPUBLICAN HOW COULD YOU NEGLECT YOUR OWN PARTY? JUST TO GET VOTES. HEY WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME HE SAID REPUBLICAN IN HIS SPEECHES AND BUSH? COME ON NOW. PALIN APPROVAL RATING WENT DOWN IN SEVEN DAYS. OH AND OBAMA GOT UP TO 10 POINTS IN SEVEN DAYS WITH WHITE WOMEN. WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOING ON COULD I HAVE YOUR OPINION ABOUT THAT. PEOPLE ARE GETTTING SMARTER.

          • Posted By: Davole @ 09/18/2008 12:10:55 PM

            Comment: sherry31 -

            Must you really shout (capitalization)?
            That is so shrill of you! Just try to calm down.

            No, I didn???t check the polls today. Which ones are those?

            It wouldn???t surprise me if you were referring to any commissioned by the main stream media which is doing everything that it can beyond responsible honest journalism to resurrect the Obama campaign.

            What were the statistical controls, if any, that applied to those polls?
            It wouldn???t surprise me that the biased drive by media would resort to conducting the supposed surveys in many if not all of the 10 most bankrupt and destitute American cities - you know, the ones which are controlled by often corrupt democrat mayors and councils, and which have not had any Republican government for up to the past 50 years.

            Loose statistical controls and the knee-jerk reaction of the deluded perpetual victim block of obamabots and some disillusioned independents would account for the temporary obamabot spike.

            But after the population realizes that it is the democrat Congress which caused the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage crisis, and learns that Obama milked the contributions from those corrupt democrat protected companies, new polls will reflect a sizeable drop in obamabot support.

            What do you mean by your statement alleging ???McCain denying that he is not a Republican????
            What are you trying to say, and what facts do you have to support your bewildered statement?

            To comment on the balance of your rant - computer programmers have a saying - ???Garbage in - garbage out???!

            That sure sums up whatever biased polls would be conducted by the in the tank for Obama biased main stream media.

            You asked for my opinion, and you sure got it! Now do you actually ???get??? it?

  • Posted By: desertclair @ 09/16/2008 8:18:26 AM

    Comment: 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 just to keep this cute little girl from being next in line to run this country if something happens to McCain. Unbelievable that the cult of personality has taken over this country!

  • Posted By: desertclair @ 09/16/2008 8:13:02 AM

    Comment: This country has gone completely self-destructive if they elect an old man and a hockey mom to handle these economic problems and this war that the Republican philosophies created for us. Please people wake up!

    • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/16/2008 8:59:13 AM

      Comment: THE DEMOCRATS CREATED THIS PROBLEM IT JUST LOOKS LIKE THE REPUBLICANS DID DO SOME CHECKING AND YOU WILL SEE THAT THE HOUSING CRISIS WAS CREATED BY CLINTON AND WAS BEING REGULATED SOFTLY UNTIL THE DEMOCRAT CONTROLED CONGRESS GOT THIER GREEDY PAWS IN TO IT AND THE BANKING CRISIS IS PART OF THE CLINTON PLAN AS WELL REMEMBER THE S&L LOAN PROBLEMS DURING CLINTON'S REIGN ? HE'S THE ONE WHO HAD IT DE-REGULATED AND IT HAS CAUSED A RIPPLE EFFECT INTO THE STOCK MARKET NOW WERE BAILING OUT FREDDIE / FANNIE WHEN WE SHOULD HAVE LET IT FALL BECAUSE THE PRIVATE SECTOR HAS A WAY OF FIXING ITS SELF AFTER THE MONEY BACKERS OF THE INVESTMENT BANK SAW THE BAIL OUT OF BEAR STERNS AND FREDDI / FANNIE THEY SAID WE CAN PULL IT OUT AND THE GOVERMENT WILL STEP IN AND HELP NOW A 150 YR OLD BANK IS GONE ! BUT WATCH THE MARKETS THEY WILL COME BACK RATHER QUICK TOO BAD WE THE TAX PAYERS HAVE TO ACCEPT 4 TRILLION FROM FREDDIE / FANNIE ! DID YOU KNOW THAT BOTH CEO'S WILL GET THE BONUSES FROM THE FAILURE ? DID YOU KNOW OBAMA APPROVED THEM TO GET IT ? YEP ITS TRUE 12-15 MILLION EACH !!

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/16/2008 8:11:57 AM

    Comment: BREAKING NEWS ............Obama taps Barbra Streisand

  • Posted By: JGarbarino @ 09/15/2008 3:38:52 PM

    Comment: Interesting Article

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/15/2008 11:54:54 AM

    Comment:
    Delaware Newspaper Calls Out JOE BIDEN For Drunk Driving Lie
    Saturday, September 06, 2008

    TVs Inside Edition ran a story last week replaying Sen. Joe Bidens claim that Curtis Dunn, the truck driver who struck the car driven by his first wife in 1972 and which killed her and his daughter, was drunk at the time of the accident, bringing tears to the surviving daughter of the innocent truck driver. The Wilmington News Journal writes about Joe Biden's false claim that a drunk driver killed his wife and daughter:

    Since his vice presidential nomination, Joe Bidens 2007 statement that a guy who allegedly ... drank his lunch and drove the truck that struck and killed his first wife and daughter has gained national media traction.

    Alcohol did not play a role in the 1972 crash, investigators found. But as recently as last week, the syndicated TV show Inside Edition aired a clip from 2001 of Biden describing the accident to an audience at the University of Delaware and saying the truck driver stopped to drink instead of drive.

    The senators statements do not jibe with news and law enforcement reports from the time, which cleared driver Curtis C. Dunn, who died in 1999, of wrongdoing.

    FULL STORY: http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2008/09/delaware-newspaper-calls-out-biden-from.html

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/15/2008 7:54:14 AM

    Comment: McCAIN HAS BEEN RUNNING ON CHANGE FOR 30 YRS.. HE HAS GONE ACROSS PARTY LINES TO GET THINGS DONE (IE;CHANGE!) HE HAS WAITED A LONG TIME TO HAVE THIS CHANCE TO MAKE REAL CHANGE IN WASHINGTON! IF ELECTED HE WILL HAVE A CABINET OF DEMOCRATS AND INDEPENDANTS AND REPUBLICANS THAT HE HAS WORKED WITH OVER THE LAST 30 YRS! HE KNOWS THOSE IN WASHINGTON THAT WANT CHANGE BUT WERE TO AFRAID TO SPEAK UP FOR FEAR OF THIER PARTIES REPRISAL.. SO THOSE FOLKS WILL BE APPOINTED TO HIS CABINET ! NOW A QUESTION FOR YOU WHO WILL OBAMA PUT IN HIS CABINET ? WHO HAS HE WORKED WITH IN HIS SHORT TIME AS A U.S. SENATOR? AND WHO DOES HE KNOW IN WASHINGTON THAT WANTS REAL CHANGE ( NOT THE LIBERAL VERSION OF IT ) WHO ? IF YOU WANT A NSWER TO THIS YOU HAVE TWO OPTIONS (1) GO TO MOVE ON .ORG AND SEE WHO IS PAYING HS WAY INTO THE WHITE HOUSE ! OR (2) LOOK AT THE COMPANY HE HAS KEPT FOR THE LAST 20YRS ! THAT???S WHO HE WILL APPOINT TO HIS CABINET MAYBE NOT THOSE FOLKS .. BUT ONES EXACTLY LIKE THEM !

    • Posted By: sherry31 @ 09/18/2008 5:43:40 AM

      Comment: HEY WILL NOTE VOTE FOR OBAMA DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT JOHN MCCAIN WAS SCARED TO SPEAK UP ABOUT STUFF ABOUT THE REPUBLICANS ARE YOU KIDDING? HE DID NOT GO AGAINST PARTY LINES. HE JUST WANTS EVERYBODY TO BELIEVE THAT OH I AM AN ANTIREPUBLICAN ARE YOU SHITTING ME? HELL, HE EVEN HAVE SOME OF BUSH OLD PEOPLE WORKING IN HIS CAMPAIGN. HE ACTS LIKE HE WASN''T FOR ANYTHING THAT THE REPUBLICANS STOOD FOR. YOU ARE RIGHT HE WAS IN SENATE FOR 30 YEARS AND WENT ALONG WITH EVERYTHING. ALL OF A SUDDEN NOW HE IS FLIP FLOPPING PEOPLE SEE THAT *** NOW, CHECK OUT THE NEW POLLS OBAMA IS UP ON TOP AGAIN PEOPLE CAN SEE RIGHT THROUGH THE BULLSHIT THAT THE REPUBLICANS ARE DEALING OUT WHEN HE VOTED WITH BUSH 90% OF THE TIME. DIDN'T THAT SAYING COME OUT OF HIS OWN MOUTH? WHAT DID HE MEAN BY THAT ?

    • Posted By: sherry31 @ 09/17/2008 7:04:25 AM

      Comment: HEY WILL NOTE VOTE FOR OBAMA , YOU MUST BE KIDDING TO THINK THAT HE WILL CHANGE ANYTHING, HELL, THE PEOPLE ON HIS CAMP ARE ALL PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR BUSH. HEY IF HE DIDN'T CHANGE ANYTHING IN 30 YEARS HE AIN'T CHANGING NOTHING NOW. HE HE SAID THAT HE WILL EXPOSE LOBBYIST AND ANYBODY WHO USES EARMARKS. OKAY SO I GUESS HE WILL EXPOSE SARAH PALIN AND HIS WHOLE CAMPAIGN WHICH HALF OF THEM ARE LOBBYIST. I AM CONFUSED. HE WON'T CHANGE ***. MAKE IT WORSE. I GUESS WWE WILL GET 10% OF CHAMGE. YOU ARE RIGHT. HE WAITED 30 YEARS TO CHANGE HA HA YOU MUST BE KIDDING.

  • Posted By: the_shelton @ 09/15/2008 12:38:09 AM

    Comment: I only have one question for the Palin, "If you are such a staunch hater of handouts and pork, why haven't you returned the 40 some million that you received for the bridge to nowhere, after you said you didn't want it"?????

  • Posted By: the_shelton @ 09/15/2008 12:34:41 AM

    Comment: I see the HolyRoller is still on the payroll, you getting your money from McCain now or are you still paid by the lobbyists for a fair society? Jeez, you ideas and expressions are right out of the McCarthy era, full of hate, fear and stupidity. I wish you would go to one of the posts about what we should do about plastic bags, I'm sure you have some sort of arguement in favor of them

  • Posted By: AmericanIdol1224 @ 09/14/2008 11:05:43 PM

    Comment: NYT And WaPo Deconstruct Palin
    The New York Times and The Washington Post are both out today with profiles of Sarah Palin, and they are must-reads. The total picture that emerges of Palin is very clear: She is a megalomaniacal, vindictive right-winger who serially uses her offices for her own personal benefit, to harass political opponents, and to pursue personal vendettas against people she dislikes.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?_r=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/13/AR2008091302596.html

    McCain/Palin = More Failed Right Wing Politics. Is that really change? Or just more lies?

  • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 09/14/2008 4:42:11 PM

    Comment: As just about everyone knows by now, Charlie Gibson of ABC News had the first interview with Gov. Sarah Palin since her acceptance of the VP nomination.

    If you think that there is no double standard in the media, just compare the questions Obama was asked by Gibson to the ones Gibson asked Palin, courtesy of Nancy Kallitechnis:

    Obama interview:

    How does it feel to break a glass ceiling?
    How does it feel to win?
    How does your family feel about your winning, breaking a glass ceiling?
    Who will be your VP?
    Should you choose Hillary Clinton as VP?
    Will you accept public finance?
    What issues is your campaign about?
    Will you visit Iraq?
    Will you debate McCain at a town hall?
    What did you think of your competitor's [Clinton] speech?


    Palin interview:

    Do you have enough qualifications for the job you???re seeking? Specifically have you visited foreign countries and met foreign leaders?
    Aren't you conceited to be seeking this high level job?
    Questions about foreign policy
    -territorial integrity of Georgia
    -allowing Georgia and Ukraine to be members of NATO
    -NATO treaty
    -Iranian nuclear threat
    -what to do if Israel attacks Iran
    -Al Qaeda motivations
    -the Bush Doctrine
    -attacking terrorists harbored by Pakistan
    Is America fighting a holy war? (misquoted Palin)

    2008....the year that will be remembered as the year jounalism died........and it has cost Hussein the election...

    NOBAMA!!!

  • Posted By: averagemiddleclassmom @ 09/14/2008 11:53:53 AM

    Comment: Absolutely! I don't want a cheerleader for VP and I think as a white middle class middle aged married mother, it is important for us to remember that yes, we want a woman in the white house, BUT the RIGHT woman! Sarah Palin looked exciting at first, but after closer review, she is not getting my vote and I am offended at the way the McCain Campaign has literarily dressed her up as a trophy wife, oh, I mean VP.

  • Posted By: TruthForward @ 09/13/2008 12:32:03 PM

    Comment: 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 12:30:50 PM

    Comment: 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.

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/13/2008 10:15:20 AM

    Comment: It is difficult to understand Obama???s claim to ???good judgment.??? When has any modern major party presidential nominee so frequently changed his positions on so many important issues or blamed his staff for so many problems? If Obama can???t consistently hold positions on important issues, how can he claim that he has such good judgment? Possibly Obama can come up with some other way of showing "good judgment," but so far he hasn't succeeded using the standards that he wants to be judged by.

    • Posted By: AmericanIdol1224 @ 09/14/2008 11:11:57 PM

      Comment: So McCain has never Flip-flopped? Not according to the Army Times.

      http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/defense_mccain_FCS_091208/

  • Posted By: rube @ 09/12/2008 6:55:44 PM

    Comment:
    It never ceases to amaze me that philosophers, scholars, and writers in droves write about the current fleecing of our constitution our nation, and of the American middle class.

    All the while conservatives continue to flock to right-wing evangelists, tabloid pundits and GOP theology!
    After 7 and a half years of GOP subversion what does the nation have to show? An economy in shambles, unfinished wars more on the horizon and debt so enormous China and other foreign countries now own much of our nations remaining equity!

    Conservatism is a dismal failure, the proof is in your house equity, your bank accounts, your paycheck, it???s on Wallstreet, its on the shelves of your supermarket, its on the corner gas station, its in Job loss,
    on the streets and deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan.

    It???s in the defiance of our present GOP leaders by Pakistan, Russia, Venezuela and now China!

    And so the same old personal song and dance about character, vision and dignity play out across the nation. Remember this, ???Bush has character, he has vision, he is honest, experienced!??? We all know the truth of this aberration.

    We all know conservatives want to plug in the same theology the same ideology from yet another legislator that represents the betrayal, the greed and the duplicity that has buried us to this point!

    Great nations are upheld and wars are won or lost by the rightness and decency of the participants!

    As our nations history goes we have never lost a war when we were right but now we have lost wars because we were ideologically wrong!
    It???s not just about strength its about wisdom and justice.
    Such American qualities that have been inactive during the past seven plus years due to conservative politics!
    It right in front of you open your eyes and read!

  • Posted By: Perusing-through @ 09/12/2008 6:13:06 PM

    Comment: I'M SHOCKED!!

    Barbara Walters got bigger b@11$ then CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, Lou Dobbs, and Glen Beck; MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, and most all of FAUX News!!

    YOU GO GIRL!!

    - - - - - -

    In 55-days at least 135 million Americans will make a very important decision. The decision is whether:
    - - (a.) - we reject a Bush 3rd-term of failed economic, domestic, and international disasters, or:
    - - (b.) - do we stop the lobbyist from bleeding us dry and set the nation back on track for the middle-class prosperity.

    IT IS A PATHETIC SHAME THAT MAIN STREAM MEDIA 'COWARD' UNDER JOHN McCAIN, KARL ROVE, and the BUSH ADMINISTRATION AT A TIME WHEN THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA ARE STRESSED BY POLICIES THAT McCAIN and BUSH PLOWED THROUGH CONGRESS FOR SIX OF THE LAST EIGHT YEARS.

    AT THE LEAST THE MEDIA CAN DO FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IS:
    - - (a.) - INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING OF ALL THAT McCAIN and BUSH ARE TRYING TO HIDE, INCLUDING SARAH PALIN and;
    - - (b.) - MAKE THE McCAIN CAMPAIGN ANSWER THE HUNDREDS UPON HUNDREDS OF CRITICAL QUESTIONS RELATED TO REAL ISSUES CONCERNING AMERICANS.

    SARAH PALIN SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED WITHIN A HEARTBEAT FROM "COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF" WITHOUT GOING THROUGH THE SAME PRESS VETTING AS OBAMA AND BIDEN HAS ENDURED!!

  • Posted By: Perusing-through @ 09/12/2008 6:06:20 PM

    Comment: I???M SHOCKED!!

    Barbara Walters got bigger b@11$ then CNN???s Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, Lou Dobbs, and Glen Beck; MSNBC???s Joe Scarborough, and most all of FAUX News!!

    YOU GO GIRL!!

    - - - - - -

    In 55-days at least 135 million Americans will make a very important decision. The decision is whether:
    - (a.) - we reject a Bush 3rd-term of failed economic, domestic, and international disasters, or:
    - (b.) - do we stop the lobbyist from bleeding us dry and set the nation back on track for the middle-class prosperity.

    IT IS A PATHETIC SHAME THAT MAIN STREAM MEDIA ???COWARD??? UNDER JOHN McCAIN, KARL ROVE, and the BUSH ADMINISTRATION AT A TIME WHEN THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA ARE STRESSED BY POLICIES THAT McCAIN and BUSH PLOWED THROUGH CONGRESS FOR SIX OF THE LAST EIGHT YEARS.

    AT THE LEAST THE MEDIA CAN DO FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IS:
    (a.) INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING OF ALL THAT McCAIN and BUSH ARE TRYING TO HIDE, INCLUDING SARAH PALIN and;
    (b.) MAKE THE McCAIN CAMPAIGN ANSWER THE HUNDREDS UPON HUNDREDS OF CRITICAL QUESTIONS RELATED TO REAL ISSUES CONCERNING AMERICANS.

    SARAH PALIN SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED WITHIN A HEARTBEAT FROM ???COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF??? WITHOUT GOING THROUGH THE SAME PRESS VETTING AS OBAMA AND BIDEN HAS ENDURED!!

  • Posted By: Perusing-through @ 09/12/2008 5:59:04 PM

    Comment: MARK PENN IS AN IDIOT FOR TRYING TO PLAY THE REFS BY CLAIMING THE MEDIA IS TO HARD ON SARAH PALIN. PEOPLE DON'T BE BAMBOOZLED BY THIS CR@P!!

    (1.) Joe Biden has been on the national political stage for 35-years and has 35-years of vetting.

    (2.) John McCain has been on the national political stage for 26-years and has 26-years of vetting.

    (3.) Not including his 8-years with Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama has been on the national political stage since his famous DNC convention speech of 2002, and he has been vetted for the pass 6-years.

    *** (4.) *** Now Sarah Palin just popped on the national stage 2-weeks ago and she may be a heartbeat beat away from Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful country in the world. SO THE PRESS NEEDS TO FIND A WAY TO CONDENSE THE REQUIRED YEARS OF VETTING INTO 55-DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION!!

    SARAH PALIN DOES NOT GET A FREEPASS BECAUSE SHE IS A GIRL!! THERE IS WAY TOO MUCH AT STAKE FOR SARAH TO GET A PASS OVER THE BOYS JUST BECAUSE SHE IS A GIRL. THE CHALLENGES FACING THE U.S. ARE NOT DISCRIMINATORY TO THE GENDER OF THE PRESIDENTS.

    DO YOU IDIOTS UNDERSTAND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR THE PRESS TO DO THE JOB THAT McCAIN???S HIGH-PAID LOBBYIST DID NOT "EFFECTIVELY" DO??

    THINK PEOPLE, THINK!! DON'T BE BAMBOOZLED BY McCAIN'S LOBBYIST, WHO SEE THEIR GRAVY DAYS AS NUMBERED!

  • Posted By: Perusing-through @ 09/12/2008 5:47:58 PM

    Comment: FOR THE IDIOTS CLAIMING CHARLIE GIBSON WAS TOO CONDESCENDING IN HIS INTERVIEW WITH SARAH PALAIN . . . . . . DUHH!!

    Did you people even see the few snippets that has already been released?!?!?

    Sarah Palin did act like a high school child trying to convince an adult that she can pass the University entrance exam. It was not that Charlie Gibson was condescending , , , , it was Sarah's eager child like eyes trying to determine whether she passed ABC's "Press Test"!!

    THINK PEOPLE, THINK!!

    JOHN McCAIN IS GAMBLING WITH THE UNITED STATES FUTURE JUST TO WIN AN ELECTION!!

  • Posted By: mccaincursingonyoutube @ 09/12/2008 3:09:33 PM

    Comment: Sarah Palin is a mom of 5, a soon to be grandmother, and loves to hunt. She is the Governor of a state of 600,000 and was the Mayor of a town of 6000. She hired a lobbyist to bring in earmarks over 28 million dollars, and as Governor has requested more earmarks than any other state per ca pita.

    She is tough. When the news media keeps telling everyone that she did not sell the state jet on ebay, or that she was not always against the bridge to nowhere, she sticks to her scripts. In the face of truth, she is able to repeat her stomp speech and not change a thing. Not many politicians can say that.

    She stood up to Charlie Gibson in her interview and said, "Yes, I am ready to be president." She is ready. How many people can say they are ready to be president. Why do the liberals want to ask her questions about her past or what she believes in? This is not fair. She has a right to be VP without explaining herself.

    She also stated that she did not blink when McCain asked her to be VP. This is proof that she is a patriot. She will take on Russia, and go to war if necessary to protect our great US of A. She is ready to be VP and even President.

    McCain knew it after meeting with her twice that she was his soul mate. McCain's gut told him- now that is the kind of guy that I want leading the country. A man that tosses reason and logic out of the window and goes with his gut. Unlike that wimp Obama; who want to talk or use diplomacy first.

    Proven by all of the things I have listed. Who cares about The Bush Doctrine? She is a mother of 5, not a baby killer. She looks like the girl next door, and has a comprehensive energy plan that includes only drilling. She will not drill in Indiana, Ohio or Michigan, but there will be lots of jobs in Alaska- Americas Last Frontier.

    • Posted By: Perusing-through @ 09/12/2008 5:46:28 PM

      Comment: Good job:-) This is hilarious!!

  • Posted By: Partoftheplan @ 09/12/2008 10:04:09 AM

    Comment: All this talk is laughabe, if Palin becomes VP or god forbid President. There will be no dissenting voices around her. She has already proven that if you aren't with me you are Satan, oh and your @## is fired.

    • Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 09/14/2008 8:22:27 PM

      Comment: It is no coincidence that revelations of police misconduct from the Rodney King beating to CBS news Katey Couric recent expose on corruption in Chicago City Police drug task force involves video camera documentation of misconduct including separate incidents of beating up of innocent bar patrons and a female bartender by the officers involved. A Chicago Police officer implicated was audiotaped later conspiring to murder his fellow officers to prevent further investigation of wrongdoing that included multiple and systematic thefts of drugs and money from drug dealers and falsification of police reports and sworn affidavits. The revelation of misconduct did not come from so-called good officers coming forward to report on the misconduct of their co-workers. Only when there is videotape footage documenting police misconduct or dead bodies turn up as in the Atlanta wrongful drug bust and shooting murder of a 95 year old grandmother in her own home does a successful investigation and prosecution go forward.

      With Sarah Palin sister there will not likely be any videotape and no bodies found so it not likely that any of her brother-in-laws co-workers are going to come forward on their own to document any misconduct. Sarah Palin should not have had to wait until her sister disappeared before she intervened.

      Ten domestic violence related deaths in four different states involving four different sworn law enforcement officers is more than enough reason for Governor Sarah Palin to not have had to wait until her sister disappeared before she intervened. Alaska in the winter is a big state in which it is easy for someone to disappear. In light of the recent murders of spouses and girlfriends by police officers in four other states, any alleged intervention by Governor Sarah Palin involving her ex-brother-in-law was not unethical or unreasonable, rather it was probably the more prudent course of conduct. Sarah Palin should not have had to wait until her sister disappeared before she intervened.

      • Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 09/14/2008 8:24:52 PM

        Comment: There is likely no merit in the ethics complaint against Governor Sarah Palin and Sarah Palin should not have to wait until her sister disappeared before she intervened. Even if there was any merit to the complaint one could argue convincingly that it would have been prudent for her to intervene in this case given the recent publicity regarding the disappearance and death respectively of the last two wives of former and now retired police Sergeant Drew Peterson in Bolingbrook Illinois a Chicago suburb, the apartment shooting deaths during a homecoming party last October of six young adults including the former girlfriend of a 20-year-old Crandon Wisconsin deputy and Crandon police officer Tyler Peterson who took his own life before his apprehension, the death of the nine-month pregnant girlfriend of convicted former Ohio police officer Bobby Cutts whose two year old son broke the case with the statement that mommy is in the rug, and the pending murder trial of Pennsylvania State Trooper and homicide investigator Kevin Foley for the stabbing murder of the soon to be dentist ex-husband of his live-in girlfriend that occurred two days before the effective date of the final divorce decree. Sarah Palin should not have to have waited until her sister disappeared before she intervened in the trooper case. In the Foley case, Pennsylvania Trooper Kevin Foley lived with the estranged wife of a dentist who was viciously stabbed to death and thrown through the window of his own home two years ago. Pennsylvania State Trooper Foley specialized in homicide investigations and allegedly had been quoted as repeatedly stating in a State Police barracks break room in front of other State Troopers and supervisors as wishing that the dentist ex-husband would be killed in a car wreck or would otherwise die. Reportedly, his fellow state troopers did not take his threats seriously although they told him to stop making the threats against the now deceased dentist. Remember also in the Drew Peterson case, there were 18 eighteen separate domestic disturbance calls to the Drew Peterson residence outside Chicago.

        In the eighteen separate domestic disturbance calls to his home, Drew Peterson was never arrested or charged by his fellow officers with whom he worked. The only person ever charged by his fellow officers in all of Petersons domestic violence cases was his now deceased ex-wife. Any investigation into the conduct of her ex-brother-in-law trooper by his own department, the Alaska State Police and Pubic Safety Commissioner, should have been viewed with the same skepticism as the eighteen separate investigations into the conduct of Drew Peterson by his fellow officers. It clearly can be argued that the prudent course of action was for Governor Sarah Palin to intervene given the almost near universal blue wall of silence that often prevents investigation of police misconduct by their fellow officers, superiors, and even other outside law enforcement agencies.

  • Posted By: slimpundit @ 09/11/2008 8:56:54 PM

    Comment: Comment: Find out how Palin compares to Stalin and what real untrained pitbulls can do to you or your kids at:
    http://slimpundit.wordpress.com/

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/11/2008 10:00:38 AM

    Comment: SARAH PALIN IS NOW BEING JUDGED FOR ALLOWING ARIEL WOLF HUNTS IN ALASKA ! SHE HAS SIGNED A BILL THAT WILL ALLOW WOLF HUNTS AND THE PETA PEOPLE ARE GOING NUTS ABOUT IT AND THE LEFTIST LIBERALS TOO !! ITS NOT OKAY TO FLY A PLANE IN A STATE THAT IS ALMOST ALL WILDERNESS TO HUNT DOWN WOLFS THAT HAVE BEEN DEPLETEING THE OTHER WILD LIFE IN THE STATE ! THESE WOLFS HAVE GROWN IN POPULATION SO MUCH THAT THEY ARE NOW COMMING INTO CITIES AND TOWNS TO HUNT THEY ARE KILLING OFF LIVESTOCK AND DOMESTIC DOGS AND CATS PLUS LAST YEAR IN THE STATE THERE HAVE BEEN 19 REPORTS OF HUMANS BEING ATTACKED 14 OF WHICH WERE CHILDREN ! (GOOD THING SOMEONE WAS THERE TO HELP THEM ) SO THE LIBERALS AND PETA ARE IN A UPROAR !! BUT IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT LIKE I DO YOU WILL COME TO THIS ......... WOLFS HAVE AS MANY AS 12 PUPS AT A TIME BUT NO FEWER THAN 5 AND IN A PACK 85% OF THE PUPS SURVIVE ! SO THAT BEING SAID THE WOLF POPULATION IS VERY HEARTY NOW MOST PEOPEL HAVE 1 KID AT A TIME SOME TIMES 2 OR 3 RARELY MORE ! WHY IS IT WRONG TO KILL OFF SOME WOLFS THAT ARE NOW BEING REAL BOLD AS TO ATTACK HUMANS BUT ITS OKAY FOR THE LIBERALS TO SAY HEY IF YOU DON'T WANT THAT KID GO GET RID OF IT ! SO WHAT I SEE IS ITS OKAY TO KILL BABIES IN THE LIBERAL POINT OF VEIW BUT IF YOU KILL A WOLF THEN YOUR A BAD PERSON !

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/11/2008 9:59:04 AM

    Comment: SARAH PALIN IS NOW BEING JUDGED FOR ALLOWING ARIEL WOLF HUNTS IN ALASKA ! SHE HAS SIGNED A BILL THAT WILL ALLOW WOLF HUNTS AND THE PETA PEOPLE ARE GOING NUTS ABOUT IT AND THE LEFTIST LIBERALS TOO !! ITS NOT OKAY TO FLY A PLANE IN A STATE THAT IS ALMOST ALL WILDERNESS TO HUNT DOWN WOLFS THAT HAVE BEEN DEPLETEING THE OTHER WILD LIFE IN THE STATE ! THESE WOLFS HAVE GROWN IN POPULATION SO MUCH THAT THEY ARE NOW COMMING INTO CITIES AND TOWNS TO HUNT THEY ARE KILLING OFF LIVESTOCK AND DOMESTIC DOGS AND CATS PLUS LAST YEAR IN THE STATE THERE HAVE BEEN 19 REPORTS OF HUMANS BEING ATTACKED 14 OF WHICH WERE CHILDREN ! (GOOD THING SOMEONE WAS THERE TO HELP THEM ) SO THE LIBERALS AND PETA ARE IN A UPROAR !! BUT IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT LIKE I DO YOU WILL COME TO THIS ......... WOLFS HAVE AS MANY AS 12 PUPS AT A TIME BUT NO FEWER THAN 5 AND IN A PACK 85% OF THE PUPS SURVIVE ! SO THAT BEING SAID THE WOLF POPULATION IS VERY HEARTY NOW MOST PEOPEL HAVE 1 KID AT A TIME SOME TIMES 2 OR 3 RARELY MORE ! WHY IS IT WRONG TO KILL OFF SOME WOLFS THAT ARE NOW BEING REAL BOLD AS TO ATTACK HUMANS BUT ITS OKAY FOR THE LIBERALS TO SAY HEY IF YOU DON'T WANT THAT KID GO GET RID OF IT ! SO WHAT I SEE IS ITS OKAY TO KILL BABIES IN THE LIBERAL POINT OF VEIW BUT IF YOU KILL A WOLF THEN YOUR A BAD PERSON !

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/11/2008 9:19:52 AM

    Comment: Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 09/09/2008 01:18:09
    Comment: Palin brought on victory herself when she laid claim to "18 million supporters" whom were betrayed by Obama! Women. everywhere said. It is not about Palin; it???s about Hillary! How could Obama care less, about women sure he knows that if he picked Hillary he would be winning right now! But he picked biden who said that Hillary would have been a better pick! But because Obama is a sexist fool who can???t come to terms with having a woman on the ticket even if it costs him the election! Too bad we as women of this great country will stand behind Palin for support of women all across this land!

    • Posted By: bcrawf2033 @ 09/14/2008 3:30:20 PM

      Comment: Your statement is too broad. Not all women support Sarah Palin just because she's a woman. I'm horrified that she might become President if something happened to McCain. I 'm a disabled woman veteran. There is no way I would want her over me as Commander-in-Chief. Both she and McCain are too quick to go to war. And we really can't afford to be in wars all over the world any more.

  • Posted By: pezled @ 09/11/2008 7:29:13 AM

    Comment: I'm unsure about Palin until she's had some time in the spotlight. But I am sure that the lipstick on a pig remark made by obama is sexist. If you're not sure, try imagining Palin saying that obama is just nappy hair on a pig and what kind of racist uproar that would start. So Obama is sexist. Can't have that. If he thinks Palin is lipstick on a pig, imagine what he thought of Clinton being his VP. Easy to see why he made the choice he did. I'm not voting for someone who discriminates against women.

    • Posted By: sherry31 @ 09/18/2008 5:31:39 AM

      Comment: HEY PEZLED. I JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW SOMETHING, HOW COULD YOU CALL OBAMA A SEXIST WHEN MCCAIN SAID AND VOTED AGAINST THE BILL FOR WOMEN TO GET EQUAL PAY FOR THE SAME JOB AS MEN HE ALSO VOTED GAIANST EQUALITY FOR A LOT OF ISSUES FOR WOMEN. ITS SAD THAT THAT IS THE ONLY REASON WHY YOU ARE VOTING JUST BECAUSE SHE IS A WOMAN. OBAMA DID NOT HAVE TO PICK HILLARY. I AM A WOMAN AND I RESPCT THAT HE WON THE PRIMARY BY THE PEOPLE . AND HE HAD 20 MILLION MORE PEOPLE THAT VOTED FOR HIM IN THE PRIMARY SO HE COULD HAVE PICKED ANYBODY HE WANTED FOR VICE PRESIDENT. HE HAD TO PICK FOR HIMSELF. MCCCIAN IS THE SEXIST YOU NEED TO SEE THE RALLY TOWNHALL MEETING HE HAD YESTERDAY MCCAIN WAS ASKED BY AN EX HILLARY SUPPORTER ABOUT GIVING WOMEN EQUAL RIGHTS AND HE DID NOT ANSWER IT HE HAD PALIN ANSWER IT . AND IT WAS AN ODD BALL ANSWER DEFLECTING FROM THE WHOLE QUESTION HE TURNED HIS BACK. ON THE LADY THAT WAS ASKING THE QUESTION. THEY SHOWED THE WHOLE THING ON TV. IT WAS IN MICHIGAN. I GOT REALLY OFFENDED BY THAT HE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT WOMEN.

    • Posted By: dsqard @ 09/12/2008 9:20:42 AM

      Comment: In 1986, Texas Agricultural Commissioner Jim Hightower used the phrase to criticize Ronald Reagan???s farm policy. During the 2004 presidential campaign, both Dick Cheney and John Edwards used it to attack the other guy???s running mate. Earlier this year, Democratic Congresswoman Linda Sanchez of California gave a speech on trade policy. ???You know the old saying about putting lipstick on a pig? Well, I smell bacon,??? she groused.

      Obama and McCain both have used the expression.

      In September 2007, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson quoted Obama using the phrase to discuss Iraq policy:

      ???I think that both General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker are capable people who have been given an impossible assignment,??? Obama said. ???George Bush has given a mission to General Petraeus, and he has done his best to try to figure out how to put lipstick on a pig.???

      In Iowa on Oct. 11, 2007, McCain panned Sen. Hillary Clinton???s health care plan, calling it ???eerily reminiscent??? of the plan that failed during Bill Clinton???s administration, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.

      ???I think they put some lipstick on a pig,??? McCain said, ???but it???s still a pig.???

      On Feb. 1, 2007, McCain blasted a senate resolution that would have criticized President Bush???s strategy in Iraq. Some had praised the resolution as a compromise measure, but McCain disagreed. ???It gets down to whether you support what is being done in this new strategy or you don???t,??? McCain said. ???You can put lipstick on a pig, [but] it???s still a pig, in my view.???

  • Posted By: sherry31 @ 09/11/2008 5:13:47 AM

    Comment: I AM VERY VERY WORRIED ABOUT THIS NOMINATION BECAUSE I AM WORRIED ABOUT THE TACTICS THAT THE REPUBLICANS ARE DOING. IF SHE IS GOING FOR VICE PRESIDENT SHE HAS TO PUT HERSELF OUT THERE. IF SHE IS SO GREAT AND BRILLIANT THEN WHY DOESN'T SHE DO INTERVIEWS THE PEOPLE WANT TO LEARN STUFF ABOUT HER INSTEAD OF THE SAME OLD SPEECH. SHE HAS BEEN SAYING FOR TWO WEEKS. I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY SHE DOESN'T WANT TO TALK TO THE PUBLIC ON TV? DOE SSHE HAS SOMETHING TO HIDE OR THE PARTY KNOWS THAT IF SHE IS ASKED A QUESTION SHE WON'T BE READY? ANOTHER THING THAT I WAS REALLY MAD AT WAS AT THE REPUBLICAN COVENTION HOW THEY EXPLOITED THE 911 ATTACKS AND USED IT TO SCARE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR THEM. I WAS DISGUSTED.

  • Posted By: jolio1212 @ 09/10/2008 8:17:52 AM

    Comment: No need to pride of a mistaken VN war. The poor experience will not be wiser by the poor war.

  • Posted By: okmama @ 09/10/2008 7:56:07 AM

    Comment: Women don't want anything from Palin because they know they are not going to get anything from her . She is the biggest joke the Repugs have ever tried to pull off. Total hypocrisy....a female that is anti-women.

  • Posted By: EoGuy @ 09/09/2008 9:42:47 PM

    Comment: Since I'm voting for Bob Barr this does not affect me in any way.

  • Posted By: BeWise @ 09/09/2008 9:29:00 PM

    Comment: I'm a woman. Well educated, successful, divorced and putting one child through college and raising a teenager at home. I'm a little disturbed at the news I'm reading about, regarding women voters flocking to Palin because she's a woman. Why alone would that be the determining factor. Is our sex so irrational as to make these accounts true? When I interview a potential candidate for a job, I don???t just hire someone because they are a woman. I look at their credentials, experience, personality and back ground in order to make an intelligent decision on whether or not to hire them. Why would voting for one of the most important positions in our U.S. Government be any different?
    I want to know facts. Who is this person, what is their back ground, experience, credentials and how they stand on the issues, of our country, that are important to me and the future of my children and the future of the U.S. Yes, I would have loved to seen a woman in our top office, but I would hold her to the same standards I would hold any potential candidate that I plan to vote for. My vote is too precious and I wouldn???t waste in on anything, so trivial, as a gender preference. I would pray that most of my sex would do exactly the same.

  • Posted By: BeWise @ 09/09/2008 9:28:00 PM

    Comment: I'm a woman. Well educated, successful, divorced and putting one child through college and raising a teenager at home. I'm a little disturbed at the news I'm reading about, regarding women voters flocking to Palin because she's a woman. Why alone would that be the determining factor. Is our sex so irrational as to make these accounts true? When I interview a potential candidate for a job, I don???t just hire someone because they are a woman. I look at their credentials, experience, personality and back ground in order to make an intelligent decision on whether or not to hire them. Why would voting for one of the most important positions in our U.S. Government be any different?
    I want to know facts. Who is this person, what is their back ground, experience, credentials and how they stand on the issues, of our country, that are important to me and the future of my children and the future of the U.S. Yes, I would have loved to seen a woman in our top office, but I would hold her to the same standards I would hold any potential candidate that I plan to vote for. My vote is too precious and I wouldn???t waste in on anything, so trivial, as a gender preference. I would pray that most of my sex would do exactly the same.

    • Posted By: not-fooled-by-slick-talking-charlatans @ 09/12/2008 2:45:38 PM

      Comment: I agree a 100%. Although I am not an Obama supporter (my name says it all), I will be voting for him this election. Sarah Palin is an insult to women in history who have fought for reproductive and civil rights, as well as the women who now benefit from their victories.

  • Posted By: ALLEAS @ 09/09/2008 9:08:13 PM

    Comment: Thank God journalists are now vetting Sarah Palin and exposing her for the fraud and liar she really is. She is just like the rest of the Republican party. God help us all if McCain somehow manages to win this thing. Palin is the perfect example of how Republicans continue to mislead this country into thinking that they are the true change agents. These Palin shenanigans are such a perfect example of what liars Republicans are. They will do and say anything to gain and hold onto power. They don't have one ounce of concern for the average American. She makes our current vice president look like a Boy Scout.

  • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 09/09/2008 5:52:46 PM

    Comment: What is really pissing me off about this is that all of the articles say "Women" when the republicans are on CNN and MSNBC (I do not watch Faux Noise) they state Middle Class White Women. They are clear about exactly who they are pandering to with Palin. it has absolutely nothing to do with anyone else, white women that is who Sarah Palin is campaigning for.

    I am sure that the PUMAS and those women who are PUMA like are very very happy with their candidate. i would really like the president of the US to actually give a damn about me, as I too am an American citizen and I do pay taxes, that's right no welfare no out of wedlock babies and surprise surprise I grew up in a household with BOTH parents!

    This BS is getting tiresome!

  • Posted By: paulte @ 09/09/2008 12:43:04 PM

    Comment: I'm happy to see that Palin has brought enthusiasm to the Republican ticket. I'm also glad that she is pro-life and conservative but I don't think she is presidential material by a long shot. Hopefully, McCain will last out his term and then who knows what will happen. I see McCain as a bad-aid to patch over a bad time in political history and save us all from Democratic control of the whole government. The spectre of an Obama - Pelosi axis is too frightening to contemplate!

    Will we be back to the drawing board with Obama & Hillary duke-ing it out again? Or will these two be ancient history with the diversity card played out by a successful vp win by a woman?

    Although I hope the Republican ticket wins and I think it will with Palin on it, I have my reservations about her. Besides her lack of experience for the position, there are questions about her mothering role. Do women really successfully combine family and career? I think the evidence is that they don't and that the society suffers in consequence. Although Christian Evangelicals are jumping on the Palin bandwagon, other conservatives like traditional Catholics are not so enthusiastic about women who place careers above family. What kind of message does this send the nation? What kind of mother would be willing to expose her daughter's plight to the world just so she could advance her career? Palin's brand of Christianity is not to my liking.

    I think McCain made a strategic choice in picking Palin, not a specifically diversity pick in choosing her. And in the final analysis the alternative of Obama & Biden two ardent pro-choicers are far worse than the two evils of McCain & Palin.

    • Posted By: progressn2008 @ 09/10/2008 4:52:31 PM

      Comment: Women have been working outside and inside the home for many many years now. I just am astounded that Republican's are just now celebrating our flexability, skills, and talents that enable us to do both. As a woman I am not at all impressed with Palin. Her accomplishments are no greater than any working woman in this country with children and a family. She's actually lucky that she also has a husband and most likely instant baby sitters to help. Hockey mom??? Who cares!!!
      I just cannot believe how many people in this country are falling for McCains lies and attempts for sympathy for past suffering. He is just such an obvious opportunist who's primary goal is to hold the title of President. And has this country forgotten about the war and economy!!!? Don't vote another Bush into office. We simply cannot afford another four years of nothing. It is so obvious that McCain is setting up a daddy and mommy office just for show. Obama is honest and sincere and speaks the truth - his changes will make the difference.

  • Posted By: myjibril @ 09/09/2008 12:07:39 PM

    Comment: The republican trick is to keep the Obama/Biden campaign's hands tied because they do not want to be accused of sexism. That is the only reason they picked Sarah. But Sarah herself said she is a pitbull with lipstick. Good, because the world is run by pitbulls with ties! So, if Sarah is a pitbull with lipstick and she gets ripped by Biden, a pitbull in a tie, and her fans cry sexism, then Sarah is not fit to run this country let alone protect us from the pitbulls in ties that run the world! So when they cry sexism does that mean we need a man, a pitbull in a tie, to come to Sarah???s rescue because she is the victim of sexism, the damsel in distress? Let???s keep it real. World wide, internationally, the pitbull in lipstick will be the ???victim??? of sexism and the pitbulls in ties are not going to care less about her complaining about sexism. Get over it, it???s a trick that is not going to work. Give her hell Biden, just remember, she???s a pitbull with lipstick.

  • Posted By: sherry31 @ 09/09/2008 12:00:13 PM

    Comment: COULD SOMEONE ON THIS WEBSITE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY SARAH PALIN HAD SAID THE IT WAS GODS WILL THAT THE TROOPS HAD TO GO TO IRAQ? COULD SOMEONE ALSO EXPALIN TO ME WHY SHE SAID THAT THE PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH HAD TO PRAY BECUASE IT WAS GODS WILL THAT THE PIPELINE HAD TO BE PUT IN ALASKA GOD WOULD WANT THEM TO PRAY AND PUT MONEY INTO IT? ALSO COULD SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME IF JOHN MCCAIN IS AGAINST EAR MARKS AND PORK BARRELL SPENDING AND IF HE KNEW IF ANOYONE IN HIS PARTY TOOK EARMARKS THEN HE WOULD CALL THEM OUT. WELL I GUESS THAT HE WILL HAVE TO CALL OUT SARAH PALIN BECAUSE SHE TOOK EARMARKS ALL THIS YEAR. ANOTHER REASON TO SHOW AMERICA THE ONLY REASON WHY HE PICKED HER. THEY GO AGAINST EACH OTHER VIEWS.

  • Posted By: Melinn @ 09/09/2008 10:45:23 AM

    Comment: I too am looking forward to see how Palin does this next 2 months.

    I already know what the other three have to offer.

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/09/2008 10:36:45 AM

    Comment: Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 09/08/2008 21:41:51
    Comment: YUP MICHAEL VICK TO A WOMAN CLAIMING TO BE A "PIT BULL" or a female dog, whats the word for a female dog, can't quite remember it, female dog...oh yeah PALIN!

    Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/09/2008 10:33:28
    Comment: hey dumb ass the pitbulls won he's in jail and the dogs are getting belly rubs and dog chow! you really must have lost it after the polls started slipping from obama!! poor lady please go talk to someone about all of this before you have a brain hemmorage !

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/09/2008 9:34:45 AM

    Comment: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BRIDGE ! http://www.retireted.com/category/real-estate/gravina-bridge/

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/09/2008 7:41:13 AM

    Comment: 130 LAWYERS FROM THE OBAMA CAMP IN ALASKA GOING THROUGH EVERYSCRAP OF PAPER THAT SARAH PALIN HAS LOOKED UPON ! AND THEY SAY THIER NOT WORRIED ...... AND IT HAS BEEN 10 DAYS AND THEY HAVE ( AS RUDY WOULD SAY ) NADA ! ZIP, ZERO, NONE, AGAINST HER THAT WOULD MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE THE OBAMA CAMP IS DESPERATE YESTERDAY THE OBAMA CAMP SAID THAT SHE JUST KEEPS MAKING THE SAME OLE SPEECH (WHILE OUT STUMPING ) DO THEY REALLY WANT HER TO GIVE A DIFFERENT SPEECH ? AFTER ALL HER FIRST ONE WAS REAL GOOD AND THE NEXT WILL MORE THAN LIKELY BE EVEN BETTER ! McCAIN / PALIN 08 TRU 16 PALIN / ? 16 TRU 24

    • Posted By: sherry31 @ 09/09/2008 11:32:33 AM

      Comment: hey will not vote for obama? the democratic are not desparate . sarah palin does not know anything else to talk about that is why she is saying the same old speech. what else does she have.. even her speech that she is saying is a bunch of lies like gthe bridge to no where yeah right. and she got earmarks too. 197 billion in one year. the only reason why she says nothing else is because of the same old speech. she says is that all she knows knows nothing about our issues. only thing she talks about alaska and her life what about the people what about the issues. that will be her and mccains downfall in november. i am tired of hearing maverick and what she has done in alaska and how many kids she has each day. she is not the only one in politics swith kids. hell i am on the pta. she also lied about being in charge of the national guard in alaska she speaks lies i am so tired about hearing about the snow mobiling family. this should be about politics

      • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/09/2008 2:05:26 PM

        Comment: you are an idiot ! turn off your t.v. get some rest...... you have no clue about the issues that you just wrote about ..........your just spouting off the msnbc talking points! its people like you that make it easy for obama to fool the masses !

        • Posted By: sherry31 @ 09/10/2008 6:59:42 AM

          Comment: HEY WILL NOTE VOTE FOR OBAMA. YOU ARE SO RIGHT. I DON;T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE ISSUES GUESS WHAT I AM JUST LIKE SARAH PALIN THEN SHE DOESN'T KNOW ISSUES ABOUT ANYTHING OVER HERE. AND IF THE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN IS FINALLY TEACHING HER ABOUT FOREGN ISSUES? AND THEY ARE GETTING HER UP TO SPEED ABOUT THE ISSUES OVE HERE? IF SHE IS READY THEN WHY HAS SHE HAS TO BE TAUGHT. ITS LIKE GETTING HER CLIGG NOTES BEFORE SHE GOES ON A DEBATE AGAINST BIDEN? COME ON GIVE ME A BREAK ITS BIASED.

  • Posted By: jordan c. fan @ 09/09/2008 2:42:36 AM

    Comment: Sarah Palin, The Paleontologist or Palintologist?

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

    If you say Sarah Palin is a Paleontologist or Palintologist, then you are "dead" wrong. Sarah Palin is very young and beautiful, and certainly no dinosaurs. My study and 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!"

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

  • Posted By: jordan c. fan @ 09/08/2008 11:45:38 PM

    Comment: The Puritan Religious Values 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 is also 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 one of the biggest oil producing state. When oil drilling is the number one issue in this election, being a governor of Alaska will certainly help. Alaska is alo 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 also. 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. It is impossible for Obama to survive the harish punishments from God.

    • Posted By: bcrawf2033 @ 09/14/2008 3:47:18 PM

      Comment: All women do not support Palin. As a woman who served proudly in the US Armed Forces for 20 years because I love my country, there is no way I would want her over me or my children as Commander-in-Chief. Both she and McCain are too "hot-headed" and quick to go war. Besides, we can not afford to be engaged in wars all over the world. Our economy is shaky, our infrastructure crumbling around us and I hope voters will seriously focus on the issues instead of Palin's personality.

  • Posted By: Ezana @ 09/08/2008 9:46:42 PM

    Comment: I could care less about her personal life (her and her daughter popping out babies). The fact is she is a right wing fanatic! She was for Alaska succeeding from the United States (the Alaskan independence party). The rhetoric from this party makes rev. wright's diatribe look tame! She is against abortions even in conditions of rape and incest. She is also a liar. She has been on the campaign trail saying she is against earmarks when she took 27 million in earmarks for her town of 6000 people! She said she was against the bridge to nowhere, when she was for it and took the money (after it was a national joke) and spent on other p projects. She is corrupt!

  • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 09/08/2008 5:15:47 PM

    Comment: I am watching Chris Mathews grill a Republican Strategist about why exactly does McCain believe that women who voted for Sen. Clinton will vote for Sarah Palin.

    He is stumbling all over the place. I remember a poster on CNN replying to a comment from a woman claiming to be a Former Clinton Supporter and stating that she is so glad that there is another woman that Clinton supporters can feel good about voting for. The poster lost it stating "How can you call yourself a Clinton supporter when when Sarah Palin stands for everything that Sen. Clinton fought agains all of her political life"

    Just wanted to share!

  • Posted By: mccaincursingonyoutube @ 09/08/2008 2:35:56 PM

    Comment: Can anyone confirm that Palin not only has a pregnant teenage daughter, but her oldest son is a high school drop out? I don't believe the liberals. I want a Conservative to confirm. So far I can't.

    • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 09/08/2008 5:19:31 PM

      Comment: This information is on the net. I am sure it is listed on some uber right wing ultra ultra evangelistical site, so you could "TRUST" them LOL!

    • Posted By: jmd8888 @ 09/08/2008 3:21:32 PM

      Comment: Her daughter is pregant, I dont know about her son. I am happy her daughter made the right choice.

      • Posted By: elizabethpaige @ 09/08/2008 8:19:55 PM

        Comment: Get a brain.

        The right choice for a 17-year-old girl is don't get pregnant by an18-year-old boy who describes himself on his web page as a 'f---in' redneck' and says, "I don't want kids.'

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/08/2008 2:04:53 PM

    Comment: man my eyes are going bad and i'm starting to get paranoid these liberals don't care!! they keep using these big words that i can't understand. don't they know i suffer from Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia ?


  • Posted By: jmd8888 @ 09/08/2008 1:15:16 PM

    Comment: I cant wait until McCain is our next president. Im sick of hearing selfish pro-choice feminists speak. Go away already and go back to being good women and mothers. No one that calls themselves a Christian should be voting for a pro-choice president. Only the others are expected.

    • Posted By: feefee @ 09/08/2008 7:22:17 PM

      Comment: You maybe waiting a long time. Don't hold your breath... Christians shouldn't be judging each other now should they?? You better check yourself!

    • Posted By: mccaincursingonyoutube @ 09/08/2008 2:22:51 PM

      Comment: I am sick of selfish oil men taking advantage of American and running our country into the ground to fatten their pockets.
      Selfish... McCain's first wife was in a horrible accident and he left her and married the richest women in town. That's selfish.

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/08/2008 9:42:53 AM

    Comment: ATTN; HERE IS THE OBAMA PLAYBOOK ! GO TO THIS SITE AND READ ALITTLE ABOUT WHERE HE GOT HIS PLATFORM ! http://www.tysknews.com/Articles/dnc_corruption.htm NOT ONLY IS THIS OBAMA'S PLAYBOOK BUT THE WHOLE D.N.C.'S THIS IS WHAT THEY HAVE IN STORE ! ITS NO SURPRISE THAT THE CLINTON'S AND POLOSI WORK OUT OF IT ! READ AND THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHAT OBAMA IS TRYING TO DO !

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/08/2008 9:15:35 AM

    Comment: EVERYONE SHOULD READ SAUL ALINSKY'S BOOK " RULES FOR RADICALS" IF THEY WANT TO KNOW WHERE OBAMA GOT HIS POLITICAL PLATFORM TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT ! IT SHOWS HOW TO BE A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER.. TO GET PEOPLE ON YOUR SIDE MAKING THEM THINK YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING FOR THEM.... ALL THE WHILE YOU ARE GETTING THEM TO PUSH YOU TO THE TOP THEN ONCE YOU HAVE CONTROL YOU USE THE CHANGE MANTRA BUT IT'S NOT THE CHANGE THEY WERE HOPING FOR ! GOOGLE IT !

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/08/2008 8:54:54 AM

    Comment: EVERYONE SHOULD READ SAUL ALINSKY'S BOOK " RULES FOR RADICALS" IF THEY WANT TO KNOW WHERE OBAMA GOT HIS POLITICAL PLATFORM TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT ! IT SHOWS HOW TO BE A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER.. TO GET PEOPLE ON YOUR SIDE MAKING THEM THINK YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING FOR THEM.... ALL THE WHILE YOU ARE GETTING THEM TO PUSH YOU TO THE TOP THEN ONCE YOU HAVE CONTROL YOU USE THE CHANGE MANTRA BUT IT'S NOT THE CHANGE THEY WERE HOPING FOR ! GOOGLE IT !

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/08/2008 8:10:39 AM

    Comment: LMFAO McCAIN GOT A BIGGER BOUNCE! THE ROCK STAR OBAMA IS WISHING HE HAD PICKED HILARY FOR VP AND WILL REALLY WISH IT IN NOVEMBER WHEN HIS RUN TANKS! OR IT COULD BE ALL THOSE AMERICAN FLAGS THAT WERE THROWN IN THE TRASH AT MILE HIGH! WHO KNOWS BUT ITS CLEAR THAT THE POLLS SHOW McCAIN WITH A 4 PT LEAD AND HIS BOUNCE STILL GOT 2 DAYS TO GO UNTILL WE SEE IT ALL! HMMM BYE BYE OBAMA!


    • Posted By: sherry31 @ 09/08/2008 2:22:07 PM

      Comment: WHY DID OBAMA HAVE TO PICK HILLARY. HE WAS THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE HE COULS HAV EPICKED ANYONE HE WANTED. HE WANTED TO PICK SOMEONE THAT KNOWS EXPERIENCE. HE WANTED SOMEONE TO HELP CHANGE. UNLIKE MCCAIN WHO JUST WANTED SOMEONE TO GET WOMEN VOTERS. THINKING WOMEN ARE STUPID JUST BECAUSE A WOMAN WHO DOESN'T KNOW NOTHING IS ON THE TICKET?

    • Posted By: sherry31 @ 09/08/2008 2:18:36 PM

      Comment: HEY WHAT ABOUT THE TIMES WHEN JOHN MCCAIN HAD SLIPPED AND SAID THAT HE DID AGAINST THE MARTIN LUTHER KING HOLIDAY AND WHEN HE SLIPPED AND SAID THAT IF HE HAD IT HIS WAS THE TROOPS WOULD BE OVER IN IRAQ FOR 100 YEARS IF HE HAD RTHE POWER. HEY BARACK WILL WIN MCCAIN CAN;T RIDE PALIN CAOTTAILS FOR LONG SO SAD. POLLS WILL CHANGE STATE BY STATE POLLS ARE WHAT REALLY MATTER OBAMA UP IN ALL OF THOSE. HEY OBAMA HAS STILL 55% OF WOMEN, MORE BLACKS AT LEAST HALF WHITE PEOPLE, YOUNG PEOPLE, AND LATINOS BY 60% . SO IT DOESN'T MATTER. MCCAIN ONLY HAS OLD PEOPLE. YOU COULD SEE THAT AT THE CONVENTION.

    • Posted By: mccaincursingonyoutube @ 09/08/2008 8:23:59 AM

      Comment: That was before everyone found out that Palin is a fraud, untrustworthy and a coward.

      • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/08/2008 8:50:03 AM

        Comment: OR IT WAS AFTER OBAMA SLIPPED AND SAID MY MUSLIUM FAITH SEE LINK BELOW !

        • Posted By: mccaincursingonyoutube @ 09/08/2008 2:19:41 PM

          Comment: Are you insane. I went directly to that link and watch the whole minute and 59 seconds. He was talking about others (Republicans and the ilk) saying he was a Muslim, but that John McCain was not directly involved in accusing him of having a Muslim Faith.
          Palin is still on the trail talking about selling the jet on ebay, and that bridge to nowhere. Palin is a Fraud. These lies have been proven and she still is using them for political gain. Has she not done anything else noteworthy?

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/08/2008 7:57:13 AM

    Comment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQqIpdBOg6I THIS IS GONNA MAKE THEM POLL NUMBERS DROP EVEN MORE WEATHER ITS A MISTAKE OR NOT !

    • Posted By: feefee @ 09/08/2008 7:26:31 PM

      Comment: Don't you know those polls mean absolutely nothing.

    • Posted By: not-fooled-by-slick-talking-charlatans @ 09/08/2008 2:53:13 PM

      Comment: Somebody buy this ill informed blog poster a dictionary. I believe the word you wanted to type is WHETHER, not WEATHER. The speaker of the house is PELOSI, not POLOSI. Ability to articulate your point accurately illustrates your credibility. Also, in case you have not figured it out, using ALL CAPS in your postings gives you the appearance of being a raving idiot.

  • Posted By: mccaincursingonyoutube @ 09/08/2008 6:15:38 AM

    Comment: Why? She has no Foreign Policy experience.
    Obama's foreign policy experience includes graduating from Columbia University with a degree in political science with an emphasis on international relations. In the U.S. Senate Obama is unique among Senators in that he serves on three of the four Senate Committees dealing with foreign policy issues including the Foreign Relations; Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; and Veterans' Affairs committees and is the Chair of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Relations which is responsible fore U.S. relations with European countries, the European Union, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (i.e., NATO). He has lived abroad and his backgound qualifies him to approach the international community with an open and discern