A Teachable Moment

Veteran strategists offer advice to Joe Biden and Sarah Palin.

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  • Posted By: TruthForward @ 10/22/2008 9:33:10 AM

    RoboHate.

    The McCain/Palin campaign is now combining our analog (or digital, cell) telephones with computers, and has produced RoboHate calls against his opponent, to enliven hatred wherever possible.

    Hate is not good for the country. And McCain/Palin uses hatred too often. However, McCain/Palin stumbles grossly on unity.


    This country needs unity in difficult times. Yes We Can. Obama/Biden is right for this country right now.

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/09/2008 7:33:12 PM

    They harassed her until she registered to vote six times!:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3145562&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/08/2008 11:40:42 PM

    "Not all Democrats agree with Mr. Frank that such policies are off-limits to criticism. Last week Rep. Artur Davis of Alabama said in a statement: 'Like a lot of my Democratic colleagues I was too slow to appreciate the recklessness of Fannie and Freddie. I defended their efforts to encourage affordable homeownership, when in retrospect, I should have heeded the concerns raised by their regulator in 2004. Frankly, I wish my Democratic colleagues would admit when it comes to Fannie and Freddie, we were wrong.'

    "Mr. Davis is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus."

    'Rank snobbery'

    Camille Paglia, who supports Sen. Barack Obama, has nothing but scorn for the way the media has treated Sarah Palin.

    "The mountain of rubbish poured out about Palin over the past month would rival Everest. What a disgrace for our jabbering army of liberal journalists and commentators, too many of whom behaved like snippy jackasses," Miss Paglia writes at www.salon.com.

    "The bourgeois conventionalism and rank snobbery of these alleged humanitarians stank up the place. As for Palin's brutally edited interviews with Charlie Gibson and that viper, Katie Couric, don't we all know that the best bits ended up on the cutting-room floor? Something has gone seriously wrong with Democratic ideology, which seems to have become a candied set of holier-than-thou bromides attached like tutti-frutti to a quivering green Jell-O mold of adolescent sentimentality."

  • Posted By: LudwigVanBeet @ 10/07/2008 12:43:33 AM

    Harleyis Here , makes a lot of sense and knows what the Repig's have done to our Great Country.

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/06/2008 5:59:25 PM

    The Antichrist!:
    When George Soros failed to obtain the election of his candidate, John Kerry, in 2004, he brooded for a while, even said he might get out of politics altogether, but he just couldn???t stop himself. He has stated publicly that he wishes to burst the ???bubble of American supremacy,??? because he says our preeminence in the world is a detriment to global ???equilibrium.??? So far, he has failed, but he keeps on trying.

    And Mr. Soros has made no secret either of the fact that he sees the shortest way to effect political shake-ups, what he terms ???regime changes,??? is through very difficult economic conditions.

    America has not yet felt the full force of Soros style economic shock treatment. But others have.

    Soros made his first billion in 1992 by shorting the British pound with leveraged billions in financial bets, and became known as the man who broke the Bank of England. He broke it on the backs of hard-working British citizens who immediately saw their homes severely devalued and their life savings cut drastically in comparative worth almost overnight.

    When the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 threatened to spread globally, George Soros was right in the thick of it. Soros was accused by the Malaysian Prime Minister of causing the collapse with his monetary machinations, and he was branded in Thailand as an ???economic war criminal??? who ???sucks the blood from the people.??? Right in the middle of this crisis, Soros dashed off his book, The Crisis of Global Capitalism, which demanded a ???third way??? toward economic stability.

    Wake up, America, before it is too late!!!!

    • Posted By: LudwigVanBeet @ 10/07/2008 12:40:13 AM

      We have woke up and now we are determined to rid the World of the Vermin that follow Crazy Rupert Murdoch , the true Anti -Christ. Rupert Murdoch the owner of over 125 Conservative Newspapers and owns Fox has done more to destroy America than George Bush.

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/05/2008 8:23:42 PM

    he ACORN does not fall from the tree:
    http://justsaynodeal.com/acorn.html

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/05/2008 12:56:40 AM

    This is one of the few Democrats that I am proud of!:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR5ekEuGyvk

  • Posted By: LudwigVanBeet @ 10/04/2008 12:16:36 AM

    A recent study was completed by The American Health Institute, here are the finding s and facts. Reasons for Republican excessive OBESITY, is attributed to Stuffing themselves of excessive Pork, Stuffing their obese putrid bodies with Pork du Jour, Pork a la Commode,Go Pork Yourself,,Pork n Barrel, ,Pork n Butt,. The only cure is Cut and throw out RePIG's.. Howard leave your hair alone, at least you have some. We like you the way you are. Steve T.

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/03/2008 8:51:53 PM

    Day 5 of stealing Ohio's election!:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3130656&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: Martyz @ 10/03/2008 8:18:10 PM

    Howard, first off happy new year.... and Howard, you are a GREAT reporter, a GREAT wit as well as intelligent & likeable, HOWARD !!!!!!!! Leave your har alone already... Look at yourself from Countdown for 10/3/08, PLEASE Howard we will all love you for being real & down to earth, LEAVE you hair alone & be who you are, you are great, live with it... Marty

  • Posted By: Martyz @ 10/03/2008 8:14:59 PM

    Howard, first off Happy New Year... @nd HOWARD, PLEASE stop what you are doing with your hair... Look at Oct. 3rd Countdown, PLEASE Howard STOP... You are intelligent, witty & a great reporter & writer, let your hair alone & be REAL, we will all still love you.... Marty

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/03/2008 3:33:08 PM

    EVEN MORE ON THE VOTER FRAUD THAT IS GOING ON IN KEY BATTLEGROUND STATES!:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3129737&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/
    DON'T SAY THAT I NEVER WARNED OF OBAMA'S NEFARIOUS CAMPAIGN!

  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/03/2008 7:52:42 AM

    Here we go again. Fineman still thinks he knows what he is talking about. Anyone that holds conversations with Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann couldn't possibly have much to say and especially anything important to say. Fineman is a biassed liberal with his head up Obama;s ass! LOL!!

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/03/2008 12:59:06 AM

    You may not like Bill, but sometimes you have to love him!
    http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/03/2008 12:58:51 AM

    You may not like Bill, but sometimes you have to love him!
    http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/02/2008 6:22:17 PM

    Dick Cheney notwithstanding, and discounting the very slim chance that the "heart beat away" will become relevant an any first term, remember what the real job is that Palin and Biden are campaigning for. The vice presidency has been more a target for jokes and ridicule than a sought-after job. George Clinton, who became Thomas Jefferson's Vice President in 1805, called the job a "respectable retirement," after 18 years as Governor of New York. In 1848, Senator Daniel Webster turned down an offer to be Zachary Taylor's vice-presidential running mate, saying, "I do not propose to be buried until I am really dead." And John Nance Garner, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Vice President for his first two terms (1933-41), said the job wasn't worth a bucket of warm spit. (Actually, he used a cruder word than that.) John Adams, the country's first Vice President, famously called it "the most insignificant office." Al Gore described the job as that of "the nation's mourner," as one of his main functions was to attend the funerals of deceased world leaders and dignitaries. And McCain correctly stated that the constitutional duties of the job were to cast votes in the Senate in the rare case of a tie and to enquire every morning as to the health of the President, a fairly accurate description. In fact, from a Constitutional perspective, the VP has no other duties or powers. You hear it said in the news all the time: people vote for the top of the ticket.

    The media is making more of it this time because they think it works for Obama by distracting from his own total lack of experience. Problem is, as both H. Clinton and J. Biden pointed out, with Obama, that lack of experience is out of control on day one. Indeed, as Biden stated when addressing Obama's total lack of qualifications, "the Presidency does not lend itself to on the job training." But Palin is not running for the Presidency, and according to Walter Mondale, the VP slot does in fact amount to on the job training. As Mondale, Carter's VP, once notably said when subsequently running for the Presidency, "I learned an awful lot as Vice President that I didn't know as a Senator."

    See also:

    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/55_say_media_bias_bigger_problem_than_campaign_cash

    55% Say Media Bias Bigger Problem Than Campaign Cash

    http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2008/cyb20080819.asp

    Media Credibility Plummets, Just 30% Believe 'Most Trusted' CNN

    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/51_say_reporters_are_trying_to_hurt_palin_39_say_she_has_better_experience_than_obama

    51% Say Reporters Are Trying To Hurt Palin; 39% Say She Has Better Experience Than Obama

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/02/2008 2:33:06 PM

    More on the voter fraud in Ohio:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3128354&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/01/2008 10:41:01 PM

    voter fraud in Ohio:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3126975&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/01/2008 10:40:43 PM

    voter fraud in Ohio:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3126975&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: Monetfan @ 10/01/2008 10:19:52 PM

    To me the question is how low is the media's bar for Sarah Palin?? Will the commentators evaluate her as they would have someone like Romney, for example? Or will they judge her against herself??! Will her recent gaffes with Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson, etc. be the "Palin Standard" she will be measured against? I certainly hope not. This is very, very serious. Sarah Palin has a higher probability than most VP nominees of becoming President Palin if she and McCain are successful. With his age, cancer history, and paternal family history of sudden heart attacks Palin should be judged accordingly. If she does slightly or even moderately better than her disasterous Couric appearances that is just not good enough. She must be held to the same standard as would any other Republican. If she is protected and excused by the media that will be shameful. Judge Palin as you would have Mitt Romney or Tim Pawlenty or Kay Bailey Hutchison.

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