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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


    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: Davole @ 09/16/2008 10:37:26 AM

    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

      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

        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

          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

            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: willnotvoteobama @ 09/15/2008 7:54:14 AM

    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

      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

      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: pezled @ 09/11/2008 7:29:13 AM

    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

      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

      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 @ 09/18/2008 5:19:27 AM

    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

    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

    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: desertclair @ 09/16/2008 8:13:02 AM

    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

      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: desertclair @ 09/16/2008 8:18:26 AM

    If Hillary were the democratic candidate, the election would not be so close. She was the best "person" for the job! But that is history. Now we must vote for Obama 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: willnotvoteobama @ 09/16/2008 8:11:57 AM

    BREAKING NEWS ............Obama taps Barbra Streisand

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

    Interesting Article

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


    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: the_shelton @ 09/15/2008 12:38:09 AM

    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

    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: willnotvoteobama @ 09/13/2008 10:15:20 AM

    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

      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: AmericanIdol1224 @ 09/14/2008 11:05:43 PM

    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: Partoftheplan @ 09/12/2008 10:04:09 AM

    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

      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

        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: HolyRoller @ 09/14/2008 4:42:11 PM

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

    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

      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: willnotvoteobama @ 09/11/2008 9:19:52 AM

    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

      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.

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