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  • Posted By: Yes! We ALL Can @ 09/08/2008 2:33:24 PM

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

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

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

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

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/08/2008 2:02:32 PM

    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: bwilson46 @ 09/08/2008 11:35:34 AM

    Typical NewsWeek bias...

    Conveniently Isikoff left out any mention of Wooten's threatening of Palin's father's life. That may have impacted the complexion of this story, no?

    NewsWeek is as unreliable as The New York Times in terms of eliminating bias from their stories.

    B. Wilson

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/08/2008 9:44:36 AM

    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 9:21:00 AM

    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: LindseyW @ 09/08/2008 9:08:45 AM

    doug I was also scared when mccain was talking about being a pow becuase he said that the guy in the cell next to him told him it was okay that the enemy broke him but I don't think it's safe to elect someone who gave in to the enemy. If he is president, could give in to the enemy again if something triggers post trauma disorder. I read that he has flashbacks when he hears the sound of jangling keys because it reminds him of his captors coming for him and he freaks out and gets irrational. He has a track record of giving secrets away to the enemy so I can't vote for him. I am also scared because he looks much older than he is, and i read that people involved in his campaign say that this election race is taking a toll on him.

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/08/2008 8:57:44 AM

    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: LindseyW @ 09/08/2008 8:57:26 AM

    Why is everything so secretive about Ms Palin. They should not try to hamper an investigation into abuse of power or they are just like Bush and Cheney. Why do they always try to get rid of anyone who disagrees with them. It is scary. Ms. Palin does not speak in her own words it makes her look suspicious.

  • Posted By: faminchin @ 09/08/2008 8:35:30 AM

    Talk about not getting it....lol

    We have now had two straight weeks of nothing but negative press about Sarah Palin. Doubt that? Just take a look at the list of stories available in the Politics section of Newsweek!

    So for the media's efforts to destroy Sarah Palin, McCain has erased a 8 pt lead that Obama enjoyed, and now has taken a 10 pt lead in the race among likely voters. If the media's negative coverage of this women continues, republicans are likely to win this election by a landslide!

    And now Obama is going to seek Bill Clinton's advice...lol Anybody in the Obama campaign check Clinton's poll numbers lately...lol

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/08/2008 8:11:08 AM

    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: lordmi @ 09/08/2008 1:41:08 AM

    From childhood we know our own habbit to hide things we are not much proud about.
    Here we can see exactly that case.
    The more the hide- the dirty it is. And You may propose how, when McWar send "help" to cover it all up.

    Could it be ANY good reason for this action?
    can You trust this couple after all?

    For me the answer is clear.

    In 300 mln population country there is no necessity to cound uneducated, false, angry Pit Bull to be VP for very health-weak President.
    The ticket is weak.
    ( I am not saying - non-productive, which is also obvious).
    So - Youir choise, for Your country, that You also put first - that is not the privelage of just McCain.

  • Posted By: SaboPike @ 09/07/2008 9:51:53 PM

    Is this really the way we want our leaders and their minions to behave? Is that really what America has become?

    Thank you, Newsweek for trying to get the story.

  • Posted By: SaboPike @ 09/07/2008 9:48:02 PM

    Is this really the way we want our leaders to behave? Is this really what American has become?

  • Posted By: Duck Soup @ 09/07/2008 9:36:01 PM

    Frank Rich has been writing about the right-wing reality SHOW for a long time, and his editorial today is particularly tuned in:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/opinion/07rich.html?hp

    "We still don???t know a lot about Palin except that she???s better at delivering a speech than McCain and that she defends her own pregnant daughter???s right to privacy even as she would have the government intrude to police the reproductive choices of all other women. Most of the rest of the biography supplied by her and the McCain camp is fiction.

    She didn???t say ???no thanks??? to the ???Bridge to Nowhere??? until after Congress had already abandoned it but given Alaska a blank check for $223 million in taxpayers??? money anyway. Far from rejecting federal pork, she hired lobbyists to secure her town a disproportionate share of earmarks ($1,000 per resident in 2002, 20 times the per capita average in other states). Though McCain claimed ???she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,??? she has never issued a single command as head of the Alaska National Guard. As for her ???executive experience??? as mayor, she told her hometown paper in Wasilla, Alaska, in 1996, the year of her election: ???It???s not rocket science. It???s $6 million and 53 employees.??? Her much-advertised crusade against officials abusing their office is now compromised by a bipartisan ethics investigation into charges that she did the same.

    How long before we learn she never shot a moose?

    Given the actuarial odds that could make Palin our 45th president, it would be helpful to know who this mystery woman actually is."

    And

    "As The New York Times reported last Tuesday, Palin was sloppily vetted, at best. McCain operatives and some of their press surrogates responded to this revelation by trying to discredit The Times article. After all, The Washington Post had cited McCain aides (including his campaign manager, Rick Davis) last weekend to assure us that Palin had a ???full vetting process.??? She had been subjected to ???an F.B.I. background check,??? we were told, and ???the McCain camp had reviewed everything it could find on her.???

    The Times had it right. The McCain campaign???s claims of a ???full vetting process??? for Palin were as much a lie as the biographical details they???ve invented for her. There was no F.B.I. background check. The Times found no evidence that a McCain representative spoke to anyone in the State Legislature or business community. Nor did anyone talk to the fired state public safety commissioner at the center of the Palin ethics investigation. No McCain researcher even bothered to consult the relevant back issues of the Wasilla paper. Apparently when McCain said in June that his vice presidential vetting process was basically ???a Google,??? he wasn???t joking."

    • Posted By: anon_64 @ 09/07/2008 9:47:18 PM

      Your source would be more meaningful if it didn't have "opinion" in the URL.

      if you would rather find some facts, head here...
      http://www.factcheck.org/

  • Posted By: BrentfromChicago @ 09/06/2008 11:24:01 AM

    "She is there for the ignorant white trash vote"

    I think this illustrates all you need to know about our elite liberal overlords in the Democratic party and the media: They see average, middle-class and blue collar Americans as "white trash" who "bitterly cling to their guns and their religion." And they wonder why they can't win the White House with that kind of rhetoric?

    • Posted By: oross1226 @ 09/07/2008 9:44:33 PM

      Brentfromchicago,
      I see average, middle-class and blue collar Americans as hater of Blacks who bitterly clinging to Racial attitudes of the past.

  • Posted By: jbald72 @ 09/07/2008 9:42:10 PM

    Here we go again throwing mud on both sides! and making comments that are disgusting
    What is it they say those who have done no wrong let them throw the first stone.

  • Posted By: jbald72 @ 09/07/2008 9:40:12 PM

    I see people have nothing better to do than bash candidates on all different sides.
    What is it they say? Something like those that have done no wrong throw the first stone.

  • Posted By: lordmi @ 09/07/2008 9:17:59 PM

    hey guys, here in comments, when You can clear Pit Bulls dirt - what is a reason to talk about Obama and Biden?
    it would not make Your female Pit Bull cleaner.
    it show just , that you are Idiots with female Pit Bull on the top as President of Idiots.
    Congrats.
    I guess that is enought shame of you for nest at least 3 your generations.

  • Posted By: OBWan @ 09/07/2008 7:39:35 PM

    As my daughter would say, "Liar, Liar, skirt on fire".
    Lie - about selling plane one e-bay for profit. (Not sold on e-bay and sold for a loss)
    Lie - about being against the "bridge to nowhere" was for it in 2006 and then kept the federal monies (your and mine tax dollar).
    Lie - about being against earmarks, has more earmark money per state capita than other state - talk about a nanny state.
    She is just a typical Republican (Do as I say not as I do - against everything for anybody else)
    When will Fox News show her pastor problem - yes she has a pastor problem.

    • Posted By: anon_64 @ 09/07/2008 9:16:50 PM

      Sort of.

      Palin never said she sold it on ebay for a profit, only that she put it up for auction on ebay. McCain, who might not know what ebay is, along with some of her aids, then claimed it was sold on ebay for a profit. As for the loss, storing and maintaining the jet was costing about $50,000 a month even though it wasn't being used. She sold it at a $300,000 loss. Good deal? I don't know.

      She did, as you mention, support the bridge to nowhere while it was funded by a federal earmark. It was even a large part of her platform when she was running for governor. She dropped her support for it when the earmark was replaced by a grant that could be used for discretionary spending.

      Earmarks. By state, Alaska is actually tenth. California is first. Per capita, Alaska IS first, due mostly to its small population. Arizona is last, per capita.

  • Posted By: lordmi @ 09/07/2008 9:14:12 PM

    That is GOP Change NOONE should believe in.

    I guess, this Pit Bull has enough dirt to cover McWar also with it.
    just watch.

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