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Are Voters Feeling Alienated by Palin?

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  • Posted By: drewand @ 09/02/2009 1:30:54 PM

    I find it intriquing how conservative, religious zealots can make determinations for other people. You can not dictate morality! It is ridiculous for anyone, no matter how enlightened, to force their beliefs on other people. Example, IRAQ! Stop trying to run everybody's life and just be content to run your own.

  • Posted By: marbur @ 09/28/2008 9:47:18 PM

    Mrs. palin is an embarassment to women who think. Mr. McCain has insulted the intelligence of woman by selecting a female candidate who is totally unsuitable, unintellgent & downright lacking in a thought process.
    Wake up republicans before it's too late & resolve this disaster. Country is a priority not excitement or platitudes.
    I'm an American first, female second. Please send Mrs. Palin back to Alaska, I'm sure she will be happy there.

    • Posted By: mcgreen @ 10/09/2008 8:19:56 PM

      I'm a volunteer for Obama's campaign in Tampa Bay - I have to share that even Republican doors I knock on have people determined to tell me that can't stand Palin. I've learned all the other alternative candidates names that some republicans are voting for - and we have a number who are stumping for Obama.

  • Posted By: think4yourself @ 10/08/2008 3:50:54 PM

    When the media did everything from get yet another Democratic supporter like Tom Brokaw to "hand pick the questions from the audience of "undecieded voters" in phony townhall style setting of course Obama was going to look competent. That's the only way he could.

    Everyone knows or should know that McCain has not only been doing townhalls all over the country this whole time even when Obama refused to do any when invited by McCain "several times" the media had to move "heaven and earth" to make sure that this debate was fool proof. And Obama was the Fool!

    The only feed back I got out of this last debate was that Obama is going to tax us to death like his poor constituents in IL with high sales and gas taxes. And when he raises capital gains on companies everyone will be on Welfare because all of the compaines will leave US and leave us with even fewer jobs.

    He wants everyone to be poor. That way we will all be "the same" and the liberal media is none to happy to help. And stop thinking about how this is going to hurt the rich. The rich are already covering their hides. The second it gets too hot....Their Gone! And I mean out of the Country gone. And dont think you can move out of the country either because the rest of the world hates us more than any Republican could.

    But no worries b/c Obama will lose b/c all across this country states are relizing what ACORN under the Obama campaign is doing (10 states and counting investigating them for voter fraud) and Obama will not only ruin his life but also drag down the entire Democratic party. This is going to bad.

    Finally Good news! You cant stop the truth!

    After much protesting - Hulu.com brought back the Saturday Night Live Congress Bailout skit back. CHECK IT OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!


    http://www.hulu.com/watch/38041/saturday-night-live-washington-approves-the-bailout#s-p1-st-i1

  • Posted By: janet12345 @ 10/03/2008 11:56:02 AM

    This woman is not only uncurious, uninformed, and dangerously ignorant (and, seemingly, incredibly, unaware of her complete lack of readiness for the job at hand). However, what is scariest to me is her MORALS. She lies if it will make her look good, with a cheerful smile on her face. She has poor judgment; she supported an expensive hockey rink in her town when roads were falling apart. She tried to censor books. She kills animals for sport, and calls killing wolves from planes "pest control" check out a disturbing youtube vid about this). She make rape victims pay for their own rape kits. She is rigid and power hungry. I could go on, but should I have to????

  • Posted By: Nins @ 10/01/2008 2:03:43 AM

    Sarah Palin is a fraud. She was pregnant before she got married, has had an affair with one of her husband's friends, her 19 year old son is rumored to have serious drug problems, her 17 year old unwed daughter is pregnant, and she has used her political power to get even with people who disagree with her, yet all she talks about is being a "good Christian" and doing God's will. As a Christian she is a hypocrite who can not walk her talk, and as a politician she is completely unqualified to be Vice President. Her interview with Katie Couric showed her to be a woman with a disorganzied mind, a woman who is in over her head, utterly unprepared for the twist her fate has taken.

    Even committed Republicans who support McCain have to ask themselves if they really would take the risk of putting our country into Palin's hands. Sure, being VP doesn't necessarily take a lot of skills, but being President requires great intelligence and a clear-eyed world view, one untainted by religious fanaticism. Look at the mess we got with the under qualified Dubya, and even he seems smarter and less fanatical than Palin. McCain is 72 years old, with high cholesterol and high blood pressure; his father and grandfather each died of heart attacks at age 72. McCain's Vice President HAS to be ready to lead. And by lead, I am not referring to a full speed charge into Armageddon.

    For those of you who don't know, Palin belongs to a fundamentalist church that believes the end of the world is near: that war, financial distress and famine will kill off the sinful non-believers, and that when this holocaust occurs all good Christians will be taking refuge in Alaska. Furthermore, her church conducts witch hunts -- they actually use prayer to locate "witches" in their community, then publicly brand them as witches, and hold them responsible for everything that goes wrong in town. (Honestly, I think the long winters must be getting to their minds.) You can go on YouTube and watch videos of Palin participating during sermons like this. She stands on the altar facing the members. The congregation stands with outstretched hands, trancelike, speaking in tounges while the priest prays to "keep Sarah safe from all forms of witchcraft."

    Could you REALLY feel comfortable knowing that a woman who holds these beliefs would have the power to declare war and deploy nuclear missles?

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 09/27/2008 5:39:18 PM

    An absolute and total joke. Shame of John McCain for putting his campaign and his country at risk. The October suprise should be Mr. McCain's announcement that Palin has stepped down for the good of the campaign and is being replaced with someone experienced and capable.

    Wendy Keene
    Bellaire, MI

  • Posted By: Julez47 @ 09/27/2008 12:32:44 PM

    Sarah Palin is a step backward for all women. She doesn't seem to understand the truth from lies, or maybe she just rationalizes it to fit her needs of the moment. If McCain isn't scary enough, having Palin a heartbeat away from the Presidency is absolutely frightening!

  • Posted By: SunDeigo @ 09/27/2008 2:19:47 AM

    SHE IS HER WEAPON OF MASS DESTUCTION. CHECK OUT HER FAMILY HER KIDS IN JAIL BAILED OUT. HER UNDERAGE DAUGHTER PREGNANT BY AN ADULT AND YOU PARADE YOU FAMILY AROUND. YOU THINK YOU ARE ABOVE THE LAW NOT SHOWING UP WHEN SUPEONA WHO DO YOU AND YOUR HUSBAND THINK YOU ARE. NOTHING I SAY NOTHING. I LIVE MY MEXICO AND CAUSE I SEE THEM I HAVE ALL THE QUALIFICATIONS FOR FOREIGN POLICIES PROBOLBY MORE SO THAN YOURSELF. GO HOME

  • Posted By: SunDeigo @ 09/27/2008 2:16:27 AM

    SARAH PALIN IS A DISGRACE TO ALL WOMAN. SHE IS THE DUMBEST WOMAN I CAN'T BELIEVE SHE WAS EVEN CHOOSEN. WHEN SHE SPEAKS I LAUGH, I SHALL LIVE 8 YEARS LONGER JUST WATCHING HER WELL I'LL GET BACK TO YOU ABOUT THAT KATIE. OMG WHERE DID SHE COME FROM. SOMEONE SHOULD ASK HER TO STEP DOWN. McCAIN WILL NOT WIN WITH HER. SHE IS TO DUMB. NOT QUALIFIED WHAT SO EVER. SHAME ON YOU McCAIN YOU LOOSE

  • Posted By: DavidMcK @ 09/24/2008 8:09:59 PM

    Yawn, Did anyone mention a Palin?

  • Posted By: DavidMcK @ 09/24/2008 8:09:11 PM

    Yawn, Did anybody say something about a Palin??

  • Posted By: rockye @ 09/24/2008 5:34:55 PM

    THE FACT THAT PALIN IS GETTING A CRASH COURSE IN FOREIGN POLICY FROM McCAIN'S CRONIES AND FROM MEETING WITH HEADS OF STATE AT THE UNITED NATIONS IS LIVING PROO THAT SHE IS NOT...I REPEAT NOT...QUALIFIED TO BE ELECTED VP. SHE IS TOO MUCH OF A RISK IF SHE WERE TO ELECTED AND SOMETHING SHOULD HAPPEN TO McCAIN WHILE IN OFFICE, GOD FORBID. A CANDIDATE SHOULD BE WELL PREPARED WITH THE KNOWLEDGE SKILLS THAT IT TAKES TO HOLD YOUR OWN IN ANY INTERVIEW BY THE PROFESSIONAL AND COMPETENT MEDIA, NOT THE CLOWNS AT THE FOXNEW CHANNEL. KNOWLEDGE SKILLS ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY ARE NOT GAINED AND UNDERSTOOD IN DEPTH OVERNIGHT OR BY TAKING A CRASH COURSE. YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND AND STAMINA SUCH AS BEING AN ATTORNEY WITH EXPERIENCE IN OFFICE IN WASHINGTON, NOT IN ALASKA, TO BE AN EFFECTIVE LEADER.

    PALIN DEMONSTRATED INCOMPETENCY AND INEXPERIENCE WHEN SHE WAS INTERVIEWED BY CHARLES GIBSON, AN EXPERIENCED AND PROFESSIONAL JOURNALIST. I BELIEVE, MY OPINION. THAT HE IS WORRIED ABOUT PALIN'S READINESS TO BE A VP.

    HANITY FROM FOXNEWS GAVE HE AN INTERVIEW TO HELP HER RECOVER FROM THE DAMAGE THAT SHE CAUSED HERSELF TO HER INFLATED IMAGE AS THE SUPER GOVERNOR OF ALASLKA, A STATE WITH LESS THAN 800,000 POPULATION. IN MY OPINION, I COULD TELL THAT THE INTERVIEW WAS PLANNED, AND UP TO CERTAIN POINT PRACTICED BEFORE HAND. THEY LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE INTERVIEWING MY GRANDMOTHER! ISN'T THAT THE MASTER OF DECEIT AT WORK? HANITY GOING OUT OF HIS WAY TO PUT THE UNITED STATES AT RISK BY INFLATING PALIN'S IMAGE. ... HE MUST THINK THAT THE AMERICAN VOTES, MEN AND WOMEN, ARE STUDPID! HE HAS ANOTHER THING COMING IN NOVEMBER. WHAT? AM I GOING TO VOTE FOR PALIN? HELL NO!...THANKS, BUT NO THANKS!...SHE IS LIABLE TO LEAD US TO NOWHERE. VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN...WHEN THE DEMOCRATS WIN....THE PEOPLE WINN.

  • Posted By: catinkona @ 09/24/2008 4:25:19 PM

    Okay, so the right gets away with calling Newsweek a "liberal" magazine. Really? The article about Palin sure painted a pretty picture of her. In regard to the Wooten case(I refuse to use Troopergate), during the custody battle the Superior Court judge told Mayor Palin to back off. Why is there no reporting of that in the article?
    Why on earth was there no coverage of the anti Palin rally held in Alaska? There was a larger turnout for the anti rally than her return to Alaska rally. Really?
    Liberal media? How about informative media? Does it just end with Helen? Since when is common sense a lberal term?
    Fareed Rocks!!!!

  • Posted By: rbuzz2jessie @ 09/24/2008 3:15:43 PM

    Regaring When Atheists Attack article referencing Sarah Palin :
    I was offended by the suthor's putting Sarah Palin down because she was a beauty queen. It is my understanding that Sarah Palin participated in a beauty pageant to earn Scholarship money. As the mother of a daughter who is attending a private university with a pricetag of $47,000. a year, I would support my daughter if she entered a beauty pageant in an attempto to help with tuition expenses. You insinuate that it is not possible ot be beautiful and intelligent at the same time. Thiis is small a small minded and discrimatory attitude.

  • Posted By: rbuzz2jessie @ 09/24/2008 3:11:45 PM

    Regarding What's wrong with Elitism?

    It is my understanding that Sarah Palin was in a beauty pagent because she wanted to earn sholarship money.As the parent of a child attending a private college with a price tag of $47000 a year, I would support my daughter if she wanted to earn some scholarship money by being chosen a s a "beauty queen" . It is small minded to think that one cannot be very smart and at the same time beautiful. So its okay to belittle someone for being attractive but politically incorrect to say that someone is overweight?

  • Posted By: dae00 @ 09/24/2008 1:45:35 PM

    Regarding Michael Isikoff's report on Davis and Freddie Mac,
    Who at Freddie Mac paid on invoices for services NOT delivered?

  • Posted By: rocketspad @ 09/23/2008 8:55:31 PM

    Senator McCain, you have climbed down into the same gutter as George W. and Karl in So. Carolina in 2000, when I supported your candidacy. You seemingly have learned the lessons well, but in the process you have dishonored your service to our country. Maybe if some of your advisors could not comb their own hair, they might have thought twice about leading you down the road of deception. It's a shame, but I must desert you and cast my lot with Obama.

  • Posted By: cuppa jo @ 09/23/2008 6:04:58 AM

    The press has alienated me with their preferential tratment of Sen Obama. Sarah is refreshing and is like me, many of my friends, and female relatives.

    • Posted By: benkrapf @ 09/23/2008 5:25:21 PM

      So you believe that if a woman is raped she should carry the rapist's child to term? How about if there are complications in the pregnancy and the doctors recommend abortion to save the mother's life?

      You believe that Alaska should secede from the U.S.? In that case, do you believe that we should do away with our republic altogether?

      You believe that church and state should be wed, and that our Judicial Branch should rule according to the Bible?

      You believe that the end is near?




      Palin would alienate any American who is not a fundamentalist.





      GOBAMA!!

  • Posted By: benkrapf @ 09/23/2008 5:21:11 PM

    Most people aren't feeling alienated by Palin, since most people won't vote for her or McCain.

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