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Sliming Palin

False Internet claims and rumors fly about McCain's running mate.

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  • Posted By: tinker thinjer @ 01/02/2009 3:23:23 PM

    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...

  • Posted By: jwtrotman @ 11/12/2008 3:31:58 PM

    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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: Ankhorite @ 10/16/2008 12:20:40 AM

    So the Associated Press said on September 3 that her kids are in public school? Then what are they doing following her around on the campaign trail? Not just Bristol, but the younger kids too? (Not the newborn, obviously). Bristol's boyfriend has dropped out of high school. Has Bristol dropped out too? I'm not trying to insult Palin, I really want to know.

  • Posted By: palinsucks @ 10/11/2008 11:33:41 AM

    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 . . .

  • Posted By: edantes-usa @ 10/09/2008 9:17:00 PM

    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.

  • Posted By: trazer @ 09/19/2008 10:32:23 PM

    The media - of which Newsweek is a very bad example - has failed to ask hard questions of Barrack Obama, who has a whole lot of explaining given his racist comments, his hatred of women (Hillary Clinton slam), his taxiing seniors hard earning savings accounts. Barack Obama hates Parent Teachers League and their presidents and has implied they are pigs per his comment on pigs and lipstick., Ugh...what a leader he is!

    • Posted By: roland thick @ 10/06/2008 12:55:40 PM

      Calm down. You use the word hate like you know him. Hush, you sound like a maniac!

  • Posted By: roland thick @ 10/06/2008 12:52:08 PM

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

  • Posted By: roland thick @ 10/06/2008 12:49:43 PM

    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.

  • Posted By: edantes-usa @ 10/03/2008 10:36:12 PM

    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?

  • Posted By: Davole @ 09/17/2008 7:06:48 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 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?

  • Posted By: 916124 @ 09/16/2008 3:03:53 PM

    Who said it was the Obama campaign, you think the Obama campaign has something against her? There are a lot of folks who just disagree, it's America. Obama has been under the gun for 2 years now and he weathered it and so shall she, equal rights remember? There are a lot of people who don't agree with her and they are not Obamicans!

    • Posted By: Davole @ 09/17/2008 9:57:49 AM

      916124 -

      Yes, "Obama has been under the gun for 2 years", but now Sarah Palin actually has her finger on the trigger, and Obama is sighted - KBOOM!

  • Posted By: ekraft @ 09/17/2008 9:29:10 AM

    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.

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/17/2008 7:58:01 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: joe_mama @ 09/16/2008 9:33:45 PM

    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

  • Posted By: srg13 @ 09/16/2008 3:39:10 PM

    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

  • Posted By: 916124 @ 09/16/2008 3:07:24 PM

    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!

  • Posted By: 916124 @ 09/16/2008 3:00:16 PM

    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?

  • Posted By: Davole @ 09/16/2008 10:32:36 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: willnotvoteobama @ 09/16/2008 7:50:51 AM

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

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/15/2008 7:50:32 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: Huberc @ 09/15/2008 11:17:09 AM

      I am one of the millions who is paying for Obama to run. My husband and I are middle class and have donated roughly $100 to Obama's campaign so far this year. Most of my friends who donate give 25 or 50 to the campaign when they can. We are not able to give alot, but we are the middle class the republicans are destroying.

      • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/15/2008 2:22:36 PM

        Obama says I have the best plan to cure the Mortgage Crisis ??? this is a Lie. He and his campaign buddy Penny 'Sub Prime Bank Collapse' Prizker have had your little fingers full of subprime cash - Obama has taken $1,180,103 from the top issuers of subprime loans: Obama received $266,907 from Lehman, $5395 from GMAC, $150,850 from Credit Suisse First Boston, $11,250 from Countrywide, $9052 from Washington Mutual, $161,850 from Citigroup, $4600 from CBASS, $170,050 from Morgan Stanley, $1150 from Centex, and last but certainly NOT LEAST - Obama received $351,900 from Goldman Sachs. I am sure that cash all came from folks who knew the subprime loan they had was a dream, eh? And in case you haven???t noticed Lehman is now bankrupt and the Freddie and Fannie fiasco is now our problem! That is the taxpayers!

      • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/15/2008 1:59:12 PM

        save your money you are going to need it for his tax plan remember he's a politican not your freind he is lying about the tax plan he supports there is no way possible to run this country on 5% of the population's taxes no way and just think he came up with this long before the 4 trillion dollar bail out of freddie and fannie did you know that for the last two yrears he has be supporting these two companies and that the ceo's of these companies are both democrats and have given huge donations to his camp ! and he voted to give them thier bonus even after the bail out hmmm yep he's got your best intreast in mind ! shhhess some people !

    • Posted By: Mimi13 @ 09/15/2008 9:52:03 AM

      Cabinet members are rarely chosen from the ranks of the Congress, or even from among the governors -- so "reaching across the aisle" is a bogus contention. I don't know whom Obama would select for his cabinet, but judging from the way he has operated his campaign, I would guess he will mirror John Kennedy and reach out to the best intellects in each field without consideration of party. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a Warren Buffet, ofr instance, running economic policiy, with a T. Boone Pickens at he energy post?

      • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/15/2008 2:16:28 PM

        Raila Odinga, David Axelrod, Ali Abunimah, Nadhmi Auchi,, Rev. Wright , Professor Khalidi, william ayres , and Bernadine Dorn these could be cabinet members of obama???s after all he feels very strongly about these folks !

      • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/15/2008 2:01:39 PM

        what about william ayres as his chief of staff ?? that sound good to ya ??

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