Sliming Palin

While the media is trumpeting Sarah Palin's book, which sounds like a very bad soap opera, they are ignoring a report by Goldman-Sachs about health insurance stock. According to the Goldman-Sachs report, if the proposed health care reform contains no public options, stock earnings would grow 5% a year from 2010 to 2019. If health insurance companies kill health care reform, the stock earnings would grow 10% a year and by 2019, the value of stock in health insurance companies would rise 59%.*

The folks who will pay for this financial bonanza are the tea-baggers who make up Sarah Palin's fan club. In addition to paying stock dividends, Sarah Palin's fans will also pay the salaries for CEO's, lobbyists, advertising campaigns, and right-wing organizers. They'll make generous campaign contributions to politicians because 2010 is an election year. They can expect their health insurance rates to skyrocket. Many companies will off-shore to avoid insurance costs, precipitating an exodus of American jobs - or they will offer crummy insurance policies that really do not cover anything, so that when a tea-bagger gets sick, he or she also has to file for bankruptcy.

Needless to say, if tea baggers gain too much weight, get diagnosed with breast-cancer, or if one of their children gets asthma, they will get dropped by their insurance companies and left to die. After call insurance companies really invented the death panels, except it's called "controlled utilization." (Term courtesy of Humana, and I got the info from David Sirota.)

Why doesn't any one in the media ask Sarah Palin these questions? The answer is simple. As a rogue, which by definition means a crook, a charlatan or an con-artist, The Queen of the Rogues, Sarah Palin gets to pick and choose the questions she wants to answer, and as rogue, she also gets to pick and choose when she's going to tell the truth.

* Source, The Progress Report, November 13 by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Colrey, Benjamin Armruster, pat Garafolo Zaid Jilani.

In 2008, Sarah Palin was hailed as the world's top energy expert. She promised a trans-Canada natural gas pipeline from Alaska, to the energy hungry lower 48. It seems therefore appropriate that the media would ask Sarah Palin a few questions about her field of expertise.

They could ask her what happened to the trans-Canada pipeline. They could ask Sarah Palin why she quit her job rather than completing this project, especially when she claimed that she's to original "no quitter."
They could ask if it might be more economically viable to get methane from landfills. They could ask about the energy potential of miscanthus, or how Moore's Law would apply the development of solar energy.

I could answer these questions, and I'm not an energy expert. I've just read Our Choice by Al Gore. Wouldn't an energy expert like Sarah Palin be familiar with Al Gore's work? And as an energy expert, why doesn't Sarah Palin accept the most fundamental scientific truth of the 21st century - that global climate change is REAL and that it man-made? Sure, Sarah Palin doesn't have to believe in global warming - and she doesn't have to believe in the law of gravity either. Sarah Palin can believe whatever she wants, but she shouldn't go around telling her Tea Bagger fan club to drive off a cliff - and that in a way is precisely what she is doing.

Why doesn't anyone in the media ask Sarah Palin these questions? The answer is simple. As a rogue, which by definition means a crook, a charlatan or an con-artist, The Queen of the Rogues, Sarah Palin gets to pick and choose the questions she wants to answer, and as rogue, she also gets to pick and choose when she's going to tell the truth.

The far left has nothing to complain about except that she doesn't believe what they do. They should do as they said during the election and stick to the issues.
Bush policy? Which one? There were 4. Palin talked about the last one the 4th one, Gibson was talking the 2nd one. So if anyone was stupid it was Gibson for not knowing the 3rd and 4th.
Newspapers she reads? Huh? To ask a VP presidential candidate such an irrelevant question was disgusting to begin with,, why didn't she ask about any issues? It was an insult, like people in Alaska don't read.... the VP is what ever and merely talking to child on their level doesn't cut the criticism jwtrotman claims...

While this "sliming" article seems BENT on DEFENDING moose mama, why didn't they report on obvious matters such as her NOT KNOWING THE NAME OF A NEWSPAPER SHE READS? THere is no mention of her not knowing what her republican president's "DOCTRINE" IS. No mention of knowledge by a governor of the second amendment of the US Constitution as it relates to the respopnsiblites of the US VP. No mention of foreign affairs knowledge as it related to her personal dealings with trade with Russia. HOW ABOUT TELLING TRUTHS ABOUT BOTH SIDES OF PALIN AND HER SO-CALLED "READINESS? Very digusting article!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If Palin somehow found herself president , would citizens have to take "loyalty tests" ?
Since when did we allow political witch hunts in this country ? Ohh yeah Mccarthy . . . . She sounds a bit like hitler . . .

I find the stories about creationism especially emblematic of Sarah Palin's positions. Of course she doesn't believe in man and dinosaur roaming the Earth, she just won't deny it. The reason she got picked for the vice-presidential spot was to qualm the religious wing of the Republican party. She is trying to play both sides of the fence. She built her career on this electorate without ever explicitly agreeing with them. The rapture, dinosaurs, teenage abstinence, book banning the list goes on. Her electorate likes all of the above and takes the deserved ridicule. If Sarah Palin wants to rid of all this stories just go out say she doesn't in all that nonsense. Of course, she will also have to admit she played her supporters for fools. Fine for me either way.

This story is weak. The ONE thing America IS sure of, Shes a dunce.

John McCain is using Palin's idiotic statements to distract America from himself. Throwing her out there with CRAZY statements so we talk about that instead of how him and his good ol' buddy Bush have ran the economy into the ground! McCain also knows there are enough CRAZY bigoted Americans who will follow this mess as well. Its not like its the first time people have gotten behind someone insane, Hitler had alot of followers as well.

Sarah Palin: "John McCain knows how to win a war."

Harking back to the glorious day when McCain led US troops in a victory parade through Hanoi's main boulevard.

No reaction from Joseph Biden. American politicians regardless of generation can't shake off the ghost of Vietnam. Both sides seem to be arguing over who they are going to bomb next just to "support the troops". Is the any hope then?

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 Mack.

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?

Good, balanced reporting. You even cite your sources! Wow! its alarming that more reporters do not do that, even on the internet, where column space is not an issue.

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 !

It's funny how people are so willing to believe the internet rumors about Obama but act outraged when the same thing happens to Palin.

JM

As a woman, I am afraid that Palin's religious fervor and her belief that the government should make the rules governing my body, may affect my hard-won gender freedom. I see her as a pit bull with lipstick where I would rather see a woman with all her nurturing, sensitive and assertive values intact. S.R. Green, NYC

So far as John McCain being a POW, while I respect that, how about my father and 5 uncle's spending some 80 years between all of them in the armed forces and still having to come home to racism and seperatism in the country that they fought and were wounded for? Now that's some patriotism for you! Let anyone of them run for President if that's all it takes!

Who said the Obama campaign was the one putting all this stuff out? You'd better blame the media. Obama's been under the same scrutiny for two years, he weathered, so shall she, equal rights remember?

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.