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  • Posted By: Cannonball @ 09/22/2008 1:09:06 PM

    What are these deepest conservative values that Palin is supposed to represent? Rugged individualism? What does that mean when it comes to foriegn policy? More Bush-style swagger? Another war? What about education? creationism in the classroom, false science?

    Why do we celebrate and compensate elitism (being the very best at something) in athletics (millionaire professional athletes in the Olympics, NBA Finals, the Super Bowl), in science and literature (Harvard and Yale graduates winning the Nobel, the Pulitzer), in business ($100 million salaries for Harvard and Princeton MBA's named CEO of Fortune 500 companies), and denigrate elitism on politics? Why on earth would you want an average joe as president, because she is a "mom" who understands your trials and tribulations or a guy you can drink a beer with? Anti-elitism is a joke perpetrated by the wealthy Republican's on the ignorant, the evangelical, and the xenophibic, who "cling" (yes, I said it) to their own fictional superiority, vote against their own economic interests, and dream of somehow entering the most elite group of them all, the selfish wealthy.

    • Posted By: jwaldrop3 @ 09/22/2008 2:03:08 PM

      "What are these deepest conservative values that Palin is supposed to represent". Well, she's against the murder of innocent babies (no, that isn't a choice when it involves another life). And don't give me that choice about "The government can't tell a woman what to do with her body" That's a lie and all of you know it. A woman can't take illegal drugs, that's telling her what she can and can't do with her own body. A woman can't (legally) be a prostitute in 99% of this country; a woman can't sell her organs. You people love to spread that lie about a woman's body being out of the government's control. Abortion is the murder of an innocent baby that can't fight for itself. I've heard you morons say that that is why it's not a "life". Then why not kill babies when they're 1 month old? Same thing. There are many other reasons we need someone like Sarah Palin in office but just this one is a lot!!!

      • Posted By: Young Hickory @ 09/22/2008 3:03:56 PM

        The majority of conceptions never make it to birth. Is your God killing all these innocent human beings? Why would God kill the majority of human beings conceived before they were even born? Should frozen embryos have the same rights as you? They are probably about as intelligent. Maybe we should give frozen embryos voting rights? I am sure they would vote Republican because you guys would wait until they are 18 to kill them.

        • Posted By: jwaldrop3 @ 09/22/2008 4:06:18 PM

          Hey dipstick, He is God, you are not. What a loser you are!!!

          • Posted By: River.Bird @ 09/23/2008 9:02:30 AM

            Younghickory,
            YOU ARE THE BEST. That's exactly the sort of comment a person as politically retarded as jwaldrop3 deserves. But hey, he wouldn't get it.

      • Posted By: AskPlus @ 09/22/2008 3:08:09 PM

        Yeah! She can shoot and can see Russia.

        • Posted By: jwaldrop3 @ 09/22/2008 4:07:36 PM

          I'm not trying to be mean but, are you mentally disabled? I guess they haven't told you yet. At least learn how to read!!

  • Posted By: gruntledman @ 09/23/2008 6:10:07 AM

    President of the USA is still the most important job in the world . That we are even discussing the qualifications of this lightweight is mind boggling. It appears that ability to irritate "liberals" is qualification enough for some people.

  • Posted By: jwaldrop3 @ 09/22/2008 2:28:59 PM

    The bottom line is that you should vote for someone based on what you know (or at least feel that you can know) what they will do based on what they've done. Obama hasn't done enough for anyone to make the intelligent choice to vote for him. Most of the people that I hear on TV or at rallies, when asked why they are voting for him say "I want to be a part of history, voting for the first black president". The ones that don't say that say "he promises change and hope or hope and change". They can't say WHAT kind change or HOPE for what (neither can Obama). He has no substance. I've hardly heard a single person give an intelligent reason as to why they are voting for him. I know that several of you are now going to try. If you???re successful, that will make it 175,000 with no smart reason and 14 (give or take a few) WITH a smart reason.

    • Posted By: Borignal @ 09/23/2008 2:11:14 AM

      Sen. Obama's "experience"

      Sen. Obama's "experience" and preparation for National Office:
      1. (12 yrs in elected office - state & national)
      - State legislator, 1997???2004
      - U.S. Senator, 2005???present

      2. BILLS SPONSORED AND CO-SPONSORED BY SEN. OBAMA...As Illinois Senator, he gained bipartisan support for legislation reforming ethics and health care laws:

      - In 2003, Obama sponsored and led unanimous, bipartisan passage of legislation to monitor racial profiling.

      - In the US senate, Obama has sponsored "136 bills since Jan 4, 2005 and co-sponsored 619 bills during the same time period.

      - With Republican Sen. Coburn, he co-sponsored the "Coburn-Obama Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006"

      - Co-sponsored the "Lugar-Obama Cooperative Proliferation Detection, Interdiction Assistance, and Conventional Threat Reduction Act of 2006" with Republican Sen. R. Lugar.

      3. Education: 2 yrs Occidental College, 2 yrs Columbia Univ.- studied Pol. Sci. w/a speciaization in International Relations & graduated with BA , graduated with honors from Harvard w/ Juris Doctorate (Law) degree.

      4. Worked 1 yr at Business International Corp. (the premier information source on global business).

      5. Worked at New York Public Interest Research Group ( one of the largest of the Public Interest Research Groups)

      6. Community organizer for three years (director of the Developing Communities Project) - good experience for someone who will need to understand the struggles of middle America and direct new economic policies to get the country working again.

      7. TAUGHT CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 12 yrs at Univ. of Chicago Law School. And since we are a country built upon the "rule of law"....it woud be nice to have a president that "knows" and respects the constitution.

    • Posted By: AskPlus @ 09/22/2008 3:03:48 PM

      Actually his color and history have nothing to do with it. His brain and his energy have a lot to do with it. His 61 page initial plan for the economy, his environmental plan, his proposed plan to help soften the effects of the Rep deregulation monster, and his ability to communicate. Mr. McCain just lies. All day every day McCain lies. Right now he spends 25 percent of his time keeping his VP choice on a leash.

      • Posted By: jwaldrop3 @ 09/22/2008 3:17:33 PM

        He doesn't have the ability to communicate. Without a teleprompter he stutters and stammers all over the place. It's amazing. So basically you're saying he makes bad choices (keeping his VP choice on a leash).

        • Posted By: California Kate @ 09/22/2008 3:24:27 PM

          perhaps we are voting for someone new because we know the old guard (McCain) will do nothing different. I would rather take a flyer on someone new than stick to what i already know isn't working.

          • Posted By: paproudmom @ 09/22/2008 4:37:56 PM

            New is often worse. Right now we do not need worse. McCain is not Bush 3.

          • Posted By: jwaldrop3 @ 09/22/2008 3:30:15 PM

            Good luck on that.

  • Posted By: California Kate @ 09/22/2008 3:22:02 PM

    I can't believe that Republicans openly denigrate higher education the way they are currently doing. Since when is it appropriate to sneer at an ivy league education? Don't we want that for our children? I wager every single republican currently sneering at Obama's Harvard education wants his or her own childrne to attend a good college and become well-educated. Being poorly educated with no knowledge or interest in other countries and cultures is not a positive thing.

    • Posted By: jwaldrop3 @ 09/22/2008 3:36:01 PM

      Bush went to Harvard and got higher marks in college than John Kerry, yet all you people do is denigrate his education. But, I'm a conservative and I don't want to start defending Bush, he's no conservative. It's great that Obama got a Harvard education. He's not qualified to be dogcatcher, let alone president but it's great that he got a decent education.

      • Posted By: Borignal @ 09/23/2008 2:04:17 AM

        Yes...it's true....George Bush graduated from Yale. Somehow, he managed to receive an MBA. He was a cheerleader......

      • Posted By: EveryoneHasBias @ 09/22/2008 5:11:43 PM

        Bush went to Yale, not Harvard.

        • Posted By: Hillaricee @ 09/22/2008 11:09:36 PM

          If you believe Sarah Palin is qualified to be VP heaven help us all. Obama is more than qualified to be president. His only probem is the bigots in America like you.

        • Posted By: ErinMc @ 09/22/2008 7:13:56 PM

          And he was barely a "C" student. One does not get into Yale or Harvard without good grades, unless you have a family legacy like Bush Jr. Obama had no such connections. I have no problem with a difference of opinion based on policy and facts, but tyring to spread fear through supposition and inuendo isn't going to sway me. And since you seem to be intimating that Obama got into Harvard because of affirmative action, here is a fact: Obama did not reveal his race on his application.

    • Posted By: paproudmom @ 09/22/2008 4:36:14 PM

      There is nothing wrong with a Harvard education. Although Harvard is well known in the academic community for grade inflating. Education alone does not qualify a person to be President of the United States. There is judgement, perception, empathy, common sense, steadfastness, character, experience, etc. It is better to look at a person as a whole not just assume because one has a degree from an ivy league school they are qualified. Many people who have looked at Obama have deemed him lacking in many of the above criteria. Others see him as qualified. Intelligent people can disagree. There is more than one opinion. My what a boring world if we all agreed on everything.

  • Posted By: Iota1963 @ 09/22/2008 3:42:55 PM

    A. Columbia University, Degree in International Relations. Harvard Law School Graduate
    B. 5 colleges in 6 years culminating with a degree in Journalism

    To be honest, if I was trying to hire someone for dogcather, I would definitely hire candidate "B"..

    • Posted By: pearsoncrz @ 09/22/2008 6:40:10 PM

      He did not get a degree in international relations, it was simple political science. And he did not graduate with any honors. He won't even release his college transcript. Probably because it reflects some problems he was having with his cocaine addiction at the time.

      • Posted By: Borignal @ 09/23/2008 2:00:01 AM

        FactCheck: Obama graduated from Columbia in 1983, earning a BA in Political Sience with a specialization in International Relations. He graduated with honors from Havard Law with a Juris Doctorate degree in 1991.

    • Posted By: jwaldrop3 @ 09/22/2008 3:49:37 PM

      Your opinion might hold more weight if only you could spell "dogcatcher".

  • Posted By: Pogge @ 09/22/2008 5:24:27 PM

    George Bush was an "elite", not an intellectual and look what that brought us. Palin may not be an "elite" whatever that means, but she doesn't seem to be anymore introspective or curious about the world than Prince George.
    Give me Obama with his single mom, middle class grandparents and crackerjack education. That is my kind of elite.

    • Posted By: Borignal @ 09/23/2008 1:46:36 AM

      You Obama haters are such idiots...always looking for something that's hidden. The man is brilliant..... get over it.....don't hate. I support Obama, but I don't need to hate McCain in order to vote for Sen. Obama. He's successful, intelligent, is a good father, has an intelligent and accomplished wife.....just give it a rest! If you don't like him, don't vote for him...but stop wasting your time digging for dirt.

    • Posted By: pearsoncrz @ 09/22/2008 6:38:04 PM

      Obama's background is not middle-class. His grandmother was a bank Vice President, and he went to very expensive schools. Most middle class youth go to local junior colleges and state schools because they can't afford the elitist Harvard and Yale and Columbia, and they certainly do not attend prep schools.

      BTW, how did Obama get into Harvard? He apparently didn't have the grades to make the cut on his own since he did not graduate with honors from Columbia and will not release his college transcript.

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  • Posted By: jwaldrop3 @ 09/22/2008 12:48:24 PM

    Obama c an't even give a decent speech without a teleprompter. He'll crumble when being forced to face down Putin. He's just a baby. We need someone with experience. This job is too important to have to rely on on the job training.

    • Posted By: Hillaricee @ 09/22/2008 11:14:08 PM

      Yes we need a senile old fart who can't throw 2 sentences together without reading a script, "my friends." He is pitiful.

    • Posted By: Young Hickory @ 09/22/2008 1:01:39 PM

      Experience? McCain doesn't know the difference between Shiite and Sunni. McCain supports Bush who wet his pants when Putin invaded Georgia. McCain is not willing to take the fight to Bin Laden in Pakistan. McCain does not know the difference between our ally Spain and Latin America. McCain is so out of touch he would not know how to use this computer. He lives in a bubble. He thought the economy was great and now wants to use one billion of your taxpayer money to bail out wall street fat cats with the biggest socialist expansion of the United States government in history. What alternate universe are you living in? How could anyone be more socialist than what Bush and McCain have done over the past month much less the past 4 years?

      • Posted By: jwaldrop3 @ 09/22/2008 2:14:39 PM

        The moron said: "Experience? McCain doesn't know the difference between Shiite and Sunni."
        Ok you're going to that put out there about McCain when Obama doesn't even know how many states are in the USA!!!! He said that he's been to ALL 58 STATES. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

        • Posted By: AskPlus @ 09/22/2008 3:09:21 PM

          Talk about moron. Wow, you actually believe that. But you guys normally do.

  • Posted By: Iota1963 @ 09/22/2008 4:13:17 PM

    None of this back and forth matters. The truth is regardless of who wins, they will automatically draw from a select pool of personnel to fill key slots, whose number one qualification is that they adhere to the same orthodoxy of the candidate. A second sad truth is, regardless of who wins, the American People will still lose in the end. Palin will be surrounded with leftovers from the Bush Administration, or Obama will be surrounded with leftovers from the Clinton Administration. It is the same revolving door. Enact policies to favor a particular group, leave government when your the party out of power to work for that group, then come back again. Sad.

    • Posted By: DavidCA @ 09/22/2008 11:00:18 PM

      Excellent point, Iota1963. I'm concerned that 1) Hank Paulson is asking for a "clean bill" that gives the SecTreas control of $700B financial bailout with no oversight or review and 2) the McCain campaign will not rule out Phil Gramm as SecTreas next January. As we learned all too well from Bush, the people who will serve in the administration (I'm thinking Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz) can be poisonous. Phil Gramm is a deregulation ideologue who thinks most of us are whiners and imagining a recession. He would be truly scary as a SecTreas with the power Paulson wants.

  • Posted By: ashabee113 @ 09/22/2008 8:29:47 PM

    Sorry, didn't mean to post 2 comments, just got a little fired up and the enter button wasn't working

  • Posted By: cowen123456 @ 09/22/2008 10:19:55 AM

    Dems screams against the status quo and the old boy network just to turn and chastise a woman who does not know all the washington jargons.

    Dems screams against governement power disconnected from the people just to turn and chastise a woman washington outsider who has govern closest to the people.

    Dems screams independence and choice just to turn and chastise a woman who has chosen an unsual path to lead her state by owning the independent choices of pointing out the corruptiosn within her own party.

    Dems screams equality for woman and minority just to turn and chastise the first viable woman vp candidate as unworthy for not holding the same ideology.

    Dems screams that their presidential candidate is qualified even without any exectutive experience and minute foreign policy experience dripping from a legislative role just to turn and say that a woman gop vp candidate is unqualified due soley to no direct foreign policy experience. All this while selectively ignore the executive experience she has as mayor-governor and minor military knowledge via leading the states national guard troop.

    Dems screams and turn against what they have been screaming for. And they wonder why this election is so close with all that is going on right now. Here's a clue, voters are not gullible, they have enough sense to see hyprocrisy.

    • Posted By: son_shine @ 09/22/2008 10:51:57 AM

      You've got to be joking. So tell me how Sarah Palin is qualified to be the President. How in truth with facts is she qualified?

      • Posted By: pearsoncrz @ 09/22/2008 6:58:05 PM

        How many governors have become presidents? A lot of them in the 20th Century:

        Reagan, Clinton, Carter, George Bush, FDR, Coolidge, Wilson,and Theodore Roosevelt.

        I'd say Palin was in pretty good company, maybe better qualified than that Chicago trained pay to play politician with his pockets full of money and his connections with Rezko, Ayers, ACORN, and Wright.

  • Posted By: son_shine @ 09/22/2008 10:42:52 AM

    I can hardly believe that there are people who think that merely raising five kids counts as experience. How has she done raising those kids? It appears not a good job at all. Track off to war right after high school because he's been a bad boy at home. Bristol, pregnant at 17 and being forced into marriage. I know nothing about the other three. It's sad that Americans think that putting a simple-minded person like Sarah Palin into the highest office in the land at such perilous times is a good idea. This country is at a very serious time and Sarah Palin is in no way ready to deal with it. I'm a woman, married, professional with two children with no serious illnesses. I'm fortunate. However, my daughter had a bout with a chronic illness and it took both myself and my husband to deal with the hospital visits, staying by her bedside, working out medical issues with her pediatrician and providing her with a solid, stable home life so that she could heal. I wonder who will be doing that for little Trig while mom and dad are busy seeking power. Is that a sexist question when Sarah gives a speec with Todd always there? Who is with Trig and with Bristol while she goes through what might be the most difficult time in her 17 years of life? Who? Is that a sexist question?

    • Posted By: pearsoncrz @ 09/22/2008 6:53:28 PM

      yes, it is a sexist question.

      The first dude will be there, and so will Palin's extended family, and nannies and day care are wonderful resources for working parents.

  • Posted By: ErinMc @ 09/22/2008 6:44:08 PM

    Populists can also be astoundingly wrong. As an east coast elitist liberal that grew up in a small town, I am really, really, tired of having my values assumed, or questioned, by people who think they are, by virtue of where they live, superior. All of our social ills... lets call them the seven deadly sins... are just as prevelent in small towns east and west as they are in big cities. This is a fooish argument. And a foolish way to choose a president.

  • Posted By: Pogge @ 09/22/2008 5:22:49 PM

    George Bush was an "elite", not an intellectual and look what that brought us. Palin may not be an "elite" whatever that means, but she doesn't seem to be anymore introspective or curious about the world than Prince George.
    Give me Obama with his single mom, middle class grandparents and crackerjack education. That is my kind of elite.

  • Posted By: zenoreo @ 09/22/2008 4:37:53 PM

    OKAY EVERYONE STOP USING FACTS in stating your opions, I am REPUBLICAN so all I need is the news media to tell me what is true.

    Heck if I was smarter, I might have graduated from college , got a better job and become an elitist Democrat.

    SO join me in keeping AMERICA the DUMBEST NATION THE WORLD, and VOTE REPUBLICAN !!

  • Posted By: eatnutmeg @ 09/21/2008 10:32:34 PM

    What do we know about Palin?
    She raised taxes in Wasilla. She raised spending. She put the town in debt. Another tax-and-spend Republican. She said yes to the bridge to nowhere until Congress pulled the plug. She took the $200+ million earmarked for the bridge anyway. Under Gov. Palin, Alaska has more earmarks per capita than any other state. She has been hidden from media questions. McCain/Bush advisors are afraid to let her do Q & A with reporters.

    This is reform? I saw this tag: Quaylin!!

    • Posted By: SurferMom @ 09/22/2008 4:02:03 PM

      This is a great comment and true all around about Palin. She is a spendthrift Republican and has left a wake of deficits.She is the very last person we need to vote into office at this decisive point in our American history! Well said!

  • Posted By: pugs @ 09/21/2008 4:44:54 PM

    Sarah is real like many of us you know AMERICANS!

    • Posted By: California Kate @ 09/22/2008 3:54:20 PM

      Enter Your Comment: Real what? Real uninvolved? Real ignorant? Real smart? Real experienced? How do you think she will handle Putin or The Iranian Guy with the Long Name or even the president of France for that matter? Please tell me how this is going to work.

    • Posted By: fccFH @ 09/22/2008 11:24:01 AM

      Well I do not know how you live wherever you live, but an average day for me does not consist of waking up and helping my knocked up teenager get over morning sickness, then go to the office, ignore mandated rules set by the SEC and conduct myself in a way that could be detrimental to my company landing us in an ugly legal battle that could be rather embarrassing to both myself and company, then go to Church and tell the congregation to pray that my company???s stock increases because it is God???s will, go home, pick up my gun, shoot a moose and feed my five children. You know what, I???m sorry, I just don???t relate. And you know what else- I am just an average American.

      But I do hold an executive position, I have traveled all over the world, I did graduate from an Ivy league school, and even with all those supposed bragging rights I can honestly say, I am in no position to be President, or Vice President for that matter. And I can also honestly say, neither is she!

    • Posted By: son_shine @ 09/22/2008 10:56:01 AM

      So silly! I can only imagine how a meeting with Sarah Palin and another head of state will go. It is a very scary thought. McCain forgets that Spain is an ally and then jeopardizes our relationship with them because he's not "mavericky" enough to admit he was wrong. Imagine what Ms. Sarah Palin might do if she actually met the president of Spain. "Gee, this is nice. I'm a hockey mom! I'm an American!" Intelligence matters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Posted By: susanmn @ 09/21/2008 8:33:20 PM

      So does that mean you, too, are qualified to be President of the United States? That's awesome, because I wouldn't want our leaders to actually BE leaders. I'd rather elect a PTA/Soccer Mom who's a former pageant contestant and journalist major from 5 crummy schools who can see Russia from her window. Then I could watch her on TV and say to myself, "That could be me up there!" and feel all warm and content at my own mediocrity. Leaders who are actually smart and more accomplished than me are elitist jerks!

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