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  • Posted By: RO in Reno @ 09/30/2008 10:58:36 AM

    "A likeable, caring person who believes what she says"

    Yep she believes what she says, she will be the first true evangelical in the white house, Bush was kind of a hal fassed evangelical much too confused.

    An evangelical is the perfect person to solve many of the countries problems.
    Education, we don't need it all these people study dinosaur bones, when we KNOW they were put here by God to test our faith, the world is only 12,000 years old. So you only need about a 7th grade education.
    Health care, sheesh just pray, thats all you need to do and we can get rid of the witches at the same time.
    The war in Iraq, it's a mission from God and they are the ones responsible for 9/11, so that war is more than justified, just stay the course.
    The Middle East crisis, we won't second guess Israel so if they want to bomb bomb Iran, go for it.
    The economy, just give the wealthiest, and the larger corporations a bigger tax break and things will be rosy.

    But I do have one question, now that McCain has suspended his campaign until the economic crisis is over, which should take quite a few years, probably more than he has, is Palin now the Presidential candidate?

  • Posted By: pearsoncrz @ 09/30/2008 10:39:03 AM

    Hey Fineman, did you see that Rezko is talking with prosecutors?

    http://www.newsweek.com/id/161581

  • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/29/2008 10:21:16 AM

    Too bad Obama didn't have the good judgement to put Hillary on the ticket. Palin would be on a dog sled, and Hillary would be debating some old windbag McCain would have been forced to put on the ticket. Palin is no Hillary, Hillary could eat her for breakfast. However, Palin reminds us all of the grave error in judgement Obama made by selecting gaffe prone, Washington insider, career legislator Joe Biden

    • Posted By: Braes @ 09/29/2008 10:37:04 AM

      Clinton, whom I voted for. lost.
      Her baggage did her in. The spectre of Bill in his pajamas back in the mansion would have been enough to do Obama in. There is 0 upside to reopen the fights of the 90's, except the windfall of cheap shots the GOP had lined up.

      • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/29/2008 10:47:10 AM

        Her baggage didn't do her in, the DNC and party elites did. We're in an economic crisis, the republicans especially the president are loathed, and yet the presidential race is a statistical tie. Had Obama picked Hillary he'd be up at least 15% now. FL OH PA MI would not be battleground states, they would be blue. VA and CO would likely be blue, and there would be a chance of AK and TN going blue. If Obama is elected president, he will have to work day in and day out with people he doesn;t like. The fact he couldn't pick Hillary and put the country's interests ahead of his own is a mark against him.

        • Posted By: Braes @ 09/29/2008 10:55:51 AM

          No, Hillary would have brought the Clinton baggage into this.
          Fox/Murdoch have 8 years of that to spew. Picking Biden was smart.

          • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/29/2008 11:35:01 AM

            we'll find out on November 4th

            • Posted By: bradsbabe @ 09/29/2008 12:45:17 PM

              Get over it! Hillary did not want the VP spot. She has said it, her closed advisors have said it. She did not want the Clinton business dealings since Bill has been out of the Oval Office picked over and over like a discarded Thanksgiving carcass during the vetting process.

              • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/29/2008 1:04:57 PM

                There is nothing to get over. Obama made a terrible decision and he needs to be held accountable for it. There is no basis to say Hillary didn't want to be VP. Your turkey remark is a complete turn off to someone who is considering voting for Obama.

                • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 09/29/2008 2:55:50 PM

                  Um....he's up almost 10 points in national polls. He doesn't need Clinton to win. Her negatives are too high.

                  By the way, Bill Clinton on The Daily Show himself said Hil didn't want to be VP.

                  • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/29/2008 3:49:03 PM

                    National polls don't mean much at this point. A victory would have been a lot easier for Obama had Hillary been on the ticket. Of course a month later the Clintons are going to say she didn't want to be on the ticket. She would have accepted though, and we all would have been better off

                    • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 09/29/2008 4:19:25 PM

                      You are wrong. Hillary's negatives were too high, something the Clintonistas kept ignoring during the primaries.

                      • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/29/2008 4:31:55 PM

                        No, I am not wrong. I'm not interested in rehashing the primaries, but since you are, Hillary was gaining ground when the DNC and party elites handed Obama the nomination.

                        • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 09/29/2008 4:44:16 PM

                          What about independents? How do you dispel the fact that she was a very divisive character? Her negatives were very high. She may have still defeated McCain, but Obama was a much better choice.

                          • Posted By: RavenMaven @ 09/30/2008 9:47:54 AM

                            Sorry Johnson, not the opionion of someone on the right has a place in this argument, but I would have had more respect for the dem ticket if Hillary had won. Same amount of inexperience. Same amount of "I'll do whatever it takes to be President" pandering, but somehow Hitlery comes off a bit more like a real leader and not some flowery speech giver with the party's marianette strings in full view.

                          • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/29/2008 6:10:10 PM

                            Hillary was winning the moderate democrats that one needs in order to win OH PA FL MI, and maybe AK and TN

                          • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/29/2008 6:09:16 PM

                            Independents and republicans should have no right to vote in a democratic party. Hillary was winning the more moderate democrats

                • Posted By: muffinb @ 09/29/2008 4:09:57 PM

                  I believe it was on Larry King or the View...I'm not sure which, but Bill Clinton said Hillary or he did not her to be the VP. Nuff said!!

                  • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/29/2008 4:32:24 PM

                    i watched both and he never said that. Not nuff said.

                    • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 09/29/2008 4:42:55 PM

                      He said it on The Daily Show.

                      • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/29/2008 6:08:29 PM

                        when and in what context?

  • Posted By: thehappyamerican @ 09/28/2008 9:04:30 PM

    The very best thing Palin can do is simply avoid the Americans suck first THEMEOLOGY the liberals like Biden WILL be doing! And coast to coast before Americans!
    Obama and Biden have a singular platform of only Left-wing/liberal! And the need to be the moth light to draw in the party faithfull with Americans Suck First! Thier resonance is with America Haters coast to coast.
    Palin is not encumbered by this need to resonate with America Haters in the news media or under rocks threw out our great land!
    She should be certain to focus on OBAMA and debate against the failed liberal direction in our leadership! and to attack Biden as SOFT ON CRIME because he is!


    • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 09/29/2008 3:02:57 PM

      Why are nutjobs on the right so incapable of constructing a cogent argument?

      • Posted By: RavenMaven @ 09/29/2008 4:10:22 PM

        OK, I'll bite. Because the nut jobs on the left have stolen all their construction tools to give to "less fortunate" nut jobs on the left?

        • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 09/29/2008 4:27:24 PM

          Wow! What incoherence. Should I say that was Palinesque?

          • Posted By: RavenMaven @ 09/30/2008 9:37:51 AM

            It was a ridiculously stupid statement. It deserved such a response. You can not characterize everyone who does not share your view as a nutjob. You can not characterize every argument that challenges your view as flawed. You fail to recognize your own elitism and refuse to believe that you could possibly be wrong. Unfortunately, you share these traits with many of those who also share your opinions. I find that curious.

  • Posted By: Ian in LR @ 09/28/2008 8:47:30 PM

    Sadly, I don't think that Governor Palin could say or do anything during the debate to lose the support of those who are already in her (McCain's?) camp. This person could start speaking in tongues during the debate and her true believers would say its a sign from God that she should be president, ah, I mean vice president. In the few times she has spoken to the press since she was picked she has gone from giving superficial answers to almost incomprehensible babbling. I don't think this is the learning curve her handlers / tutors had in mind, but the overload from having to learn EVERYTHING that matters outside of Alaska in a few weeks would certainly explain this.

    I agree with Stevens' assessment that the only way for her to make it through the debate is to "focus on her personality and come across as a likable, caring person who believes what she says". (The last part scares me the most as I'm sure that she believes what she says.) Translation: she will be so lost on giving substantive answers to most questions that she will be better off saying as little as possible in directly addressing the topic at hand and will instead need to talk as much about how she is an ordinary person with the same problems and concerns as the rest of us. (Maybe she can offer all Americans a check from a tax on the windfall profits of the oil companies! Certainly better than a chicken in every pot and it no doubt helped with getting her those stellar approval ratings in Alaska.) I know I will take great comfort in imagining the cashier at my grocery store or the nice lady from the a/p department at work facing off with Biden. Understanding the problems of the nation and the world be damned - she sure is likable!

    We have almost made it through, i.e., survived eight years of the president everyone thought they would like to have a beer with - please, not again. Cleaning up after Bush will probably take two or more years. Palin is a bad joke inflicted on us by a man who has given up his honor in a desperate attempt to grab the ring. I would feel sorry for her except that she is a willing participant in this fraud so deserves to go down with the captain and his ship.

    I still wonder if something will "come up" that will preclude the governor from even making it to the debate? That or we'll get a Tonya Harding moment where she cries to the moderator that the questions being asked aren't the same as on those on her cheat sheet or that there is a problem with her ear piece and she can't hear the answers she is being given. Just go home and kill something already, you'll feel so much better.

    • Posted By: jennifer12033 @ 09/29/2008 12:11:18 PM

      It is worse if you are routing for Obama. The guy is totally unqualified. And if one more person insinuates that I won't vote for him because of his race and I should because of it, I'm gonna SCREAM!

      • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 09/29/2008 3:03:46 PM

        I doubt your vote is racial. It sounds more like willful ignorance to me.

        • Posted By: RavenMaven @ 09/29/2008 4:16:40 PM

          Yes. She chooses to be ignorant of the fact that Obama has never run anything in his life except for a campaign. He is a professional job applicant, who has accomplished NOTHING in his "Career". Less than 3% of the bills he sponsored as a senator have been written into law. He voted "present" the majority of the time in the Illinois senate rather than committing to a position on the issues. He is NOT A LEADER, AND WILL NOT BE MINE.

          • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 09/29/2008 4:28:41 PM

            You are a copy and paste magician. Once again, those talking points will not win you one vote. It may make you feel better, but it's not working.

            • Posted By: RavenMaven @ 09/30/2008 9:31:50 AM

              Just stating facts. Again, I am not trying to win your vote. Just rebutting your arguments. You have not stated anything but left wing propaganda. Those independent voters you are trying to convince with your line of bs deserve to see the counterpoint to your ideological but unsubstantiated arguments.

  • Posted By: Charlie A @ 09/30/2008 7:18:56 AM

    Oops - browser back button got me - someone delete the duplicate please.

  • Posted By: Charlie A @ 09/30/2008 6:47:39 AM

    After 28 years as a Democrat I have registered as a Republican. Barney Frank, Franklin Raines and the rest of that disgraceful crew of liars and thieves are the straws that have finally broken this donkey's back. McCain/Palin may not be a dream ticket but I believe that they are at least honest and honorable. I'm voting straight Republican this year on the whole ticket, I won't even look at the names. I hope that people realize that congress has a lot more to answer for in regards to the economy than the Bush administration does. But they won't, will they?

  • Posted By: Charlie A @ 09/30/2008 6:44:24 AM

    After 28 years as a Democrat I have registered as a Republican. Barney Frank, Franklin Raines and the rest of that disgraceful crew of liars and thieves are the straws that have finally broken this donkey's back. McCain/Palin may not be a dream ticket but I believe that they are at least honest and honorable. I'm voting straight Republican this year on the whole ticket, I won't even look at the names. I hope that people realize that congress has a lot more to answer for in regards to the economy than the Bush administration does. But they won't, will they?

  • Posted By: sharkman @ 09/30/2008 12:16:14 AM

    Our monitary system has turned our democracy into a dictatorship.Let the monitary system fall and we will see the real leaders of this country surface to the top,We will see the weak pukes run to the closet.This country desperately needs this clensing

  • Posted By: mittzdad @ 09/29/2008 11:46:49 PM

    "A likeable, caring person who believes what she says" - Hmmmmmmm; didn't some voters already buy that with George Bush? And aren't the rest of us still paying for it?

  • Posted By: bluesgutter @ 09/29/2008 2:46:21 PM

    Posted By: wcor242 @ 09/29/2008 2:24:33 PM
    Comment: "I am going to tell you something. McCain would be a far greater and able leader than Obama on a number of levels. Way more experience,XXX EXPERIENCE DOES NOT MAKE A GREAT LEADER. GOOD JUDGEMENT DOES, AND MCCAIN DOES NOT HAVE THAT (WITNESS HIS SELECTION OF S. PALIN AS VP PICL) Would cut government spending, (MCCAIN HAS NEVER CUT GOVERNMENT SPENDING IN HIS ENTIRE 28 YEAR SENATE CAREER. Would lead by example and not speaches, 9MCCAIN HAS NEVER IN HIS LIFE LED BY EXAMPLE XXX his actions in the past speak for themselves XXX WHAT ACTIONS? A POW DOES NOT A GOOD PRESIDENT MAKE XXX . Campaign Finance Reform, Warning about Fannie and Freddie Mac XXX 3 OF MCCAIN'S HEAD PEOPLE IN HIS ELECTION CAMPAIGN ARE LOBBIESTS FOR FANNIE MAE AND MAKE ABOUT $20,000 A MONTH EACH OFF OF THEM XXX, Agains Ear Marks XXX EARMARKS ARE HOW YOU GET BILLS PASSED IN WASHINGTON. F COURSE NO WANTS TO GIVE MONEY TO BRIDGES TO NOWHERE EXCEPT FOR SARAH PALIN BUT THAT IS THE EXCEPTION NOT THE RULE XXX and corruption XXX MCCAIN'S MIDDLE NAME IS CORRUPTION XXX, Has not taken one Earmark himself in 26 years in the Senate XXX YOU DO NOT TAKE EARMARKS IF YOU ARE A SENATOR, YOU GIVE THEM- AND MCCAIN HAS GIVEN HIS FAIR SHARE XXX, I trust McCain when he says something that he will do it and someone doesnt like it he will tell them where to put it. I think Palin is the same way.XXX ANOTHER WAY TO PUT THAT IS TO SAY THEY ARE BOTH IGNORANT XXX To me Obama seems like a University Professor who likes giving lectures but are not a leader whatsoever and are weak and would fold under pressure". XXX TO ME MCCAIN IS AN ANTI-AMERICAN TRAITOR WHO SOLD OUT HIS COUNTRY AND POOR PALIN IS TO OUT OF HER LEAGUE TO KNOW SHE IS OUT OF HER LEAGUE. XX

    • Posted By: RavenMaven @ 09/29/2008 3:22:03 PM

      How liberating it must be to be able to just say whatever you want without the shackles of the the truth or the facts of the issues weighting you down. Your slanderous rebuttal could only come from someone so devoid of actual knowledge, and so dependent on left wind blog sites populated by other similarly dimwitted diatribe spewwing Michael Moore wanna-be's. I strongly suggest that when you finally are old enough to vote, that you do actual research of the facts before forming any conclusions as to what is true and what is best for our country.

      • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 09/29/2008 3:33:10 PM

        If the fellow said something incorrect, I'm sure you would point it out. Your content-less response is telling.

        • Posted By: RavenMaven @ 09/29/2008 4:35:42 PM

          Everything he said was incorrect. Everything he said was slanderous. Only an insane person would think it true. No matter how much I oppose Obama, I do not ever reduce myself to making slanderous statements that are so obviously not based on reality. I don't need to. The facts are evidence enough.

          • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 09/29/2008 4:39:11 PM

            Name one "slanderous" statement he made and we'll analyze it together.

            • Posted By: AnthonyAfterwit @ 09/29/2008 6:52:40 PM

              McCain is on the road to failure. The thing people will remember most from this election is the Sarah Palin stunt. She has already made history as the most unqualified and bumbling VP pick in history.

      • Posted By: xanabella @ 09/29/2008 4:19:05 PM

        "say whatever you want without the shackles of the the truth or the facts of the issues weighting you down".

        Sounds like the Republican mission statement???What's interesting to me is that you yourself don't offer any facts to back up your position, you just offer insults and condescension???by the way slander is verbal, when it's written it's called Lible.

        Thanks for the "strong suggestion", I realize you assume that anyone not sharing your opinion is an uninformed idiot but I'm here to tell you that no one is as smart as you think you are, and no one is as dumb as you think everyone else is.

        BTW: What's a "Left Wind Blog" is that like a neo-con blowhard?

  • Posted By: pdxkevin @ 09/29/2008 6:25:37 PM

    The best way for Palin to prepare is to not show up or bake some cookies to hand out to the audience.

  • Posted By: Cazador1972 @ 09/29/2008 1:29:46 PM



    Two words: Test balloon. That's what the interview hastily planned by the McCain campaign for Palin tomorrow (10/1) is:

    1) During the interview Palin will hunker down, speak slowly and not much and try to change perceptions about her before Thursday night, which right then kills the argument made by every other pundit in CNN that the "low bar expectations" people have of her would actually help her. The McCain campaign KNOWS she is now endangering the ticket.

    2) If Palin does a repeat of the Couric interview (and if you've seen footage of her there have been -albeit not as bad- several moments like that during the campaign) during either the interview or the debate the McCain campaign is going to drop her, even if she can not legally take her name off the ballot for November. She'll need to "spend more time with" her family. Mitt Romney will then dance like a monkey to be put on the ticket. If the past month taught us anything is that McCain is not above wild, poorly thought-through campaign shake downs.

    • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/29/2008 3:43:13 PM

      Romney has never been on McCain's radar screen. Romney would have been worse pick than Palin, becuase he is a complete phony, and everyone in Massachusetts hates him

      • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 09/29/2008 5:34:44 PM

        I agree. I knew McCain was sunk if he had picked Romney. I hadn't considered Palin. I guess McCain knew he had only one shot, even if it was a long-shot. Looks like he gambled again, and lost. How Maverick of him.

  • Posted By: joelth @ 09/29/2008 12:55:23 PM

    I believe Biden can and should criticize Palin's lack of experience, specifically comments about "seeing Russia" as being foreign policy experience. Saying things like, "With proper respect to Mrs. Palin, residing near Russia does not constitute foreign policy experience. Were John McCain elected, God forbid something should happen to him, Mrs. Palin is seriously underqualified on several levels to be president of this country." This is entirely respectful, NOT an attack, and an extremely valid point. It is sexist to NOT be able to make this sort of statement.

    • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/29/2008 3:44:32 PM

      Problem is, the more attention you give to Palin's expereince, the more attention you give to Obama's. Let Palin sink or swim on her own. The criticisms have worked in her favor

      • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 09/29/2008 4:31:57 PM

        I don't care about her experience. I have no government experience and I could have answered Couric's questions better. If she had been as informed as Barack on the issues, then the issue of experience would have faded away.

        • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/29/2008 4:38:33 PM

          That's why I said let her sink or swim on her own. There isn't any need to accentuate her lack of experience. Thusfar she has slowly been proving herself to be incompetent. Let's see how she does in the debate, and over the course of the next several weeks. If there isn't a dramatic improvement, she will do herself in without any help from Biden or anyone else.

  • Posted By: Harvybing @ 09/28/2008 12:03:46 AM

    PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON SAYS DEMOCRATS TO BLAME FOR FANNIE MAE MELTDOWN

    Clinton told ABC News That the blame for the Fannie Mae Meltdown Lies squarely at the feet of DEMOCRATS who blocked efforts to regulate and investigate Fannie Mae. You have to admire his candor -

    See The Jim Angle Report Which Links To The Clinton Interview--
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHj8-HSi5AA&eurl=

    Watch The Clinton Interview On ABC News ---
    http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/bill-clinton-do.html

    Hear Barney Frank On Video "There Is No Crisis At Fannie Mae"
    http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/194210.php

    The New York Post Agrees -- http://www.nypost.com/seven/09242008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/house_of_cards_130479.htm?&page=1

    Now If You REALLY Want To Know How We Got Into This Mess In The First PLace, Watch This Video:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5tZc8oH--o


    There are 2 former CEOs of Fannie, a former assistant CEO, an Interim CEO, and at least Four United States Congressmen and Senators who should GO TO JAIL for BRIBING members of Congress to block investigations of Fannie Mae Abuses.

    • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 09/29/2008 3:30:44 PM

      Wow. They bribed Democrats? That was stupid considering the Repubs have been in control of Congress for over a decade.

  • Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 09/28/2008 1:57:09 PM

    Senator John McCain picked Governor Sarah Palin because he intends to follow through and make his Project Lexington for United States energy independence the dominant issue in this campaign. Governor Sarah Palin is a strong supporter of increased offshore drilling and she knows that Alaska has an offshore coastline greater than the rest of the country combined and is also comes in second among the states in oil production. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and John McCain understand that Obama and the Democrats would never consider government loan guarantees or tax breaks for a sure thing that will produce energy for the American gas tank. In fact Democrats are trying to put together a so-called windfall profits tax which will have the effect of discouraging future investment in the United States oil industry. John McCain also knows that Governor Sarah Palin family situation also illustrates that longterm Democratic leadership hostility and policies toward United States owned energy companies have caused our current energy crisis. Her husband works for British Petroleum but instead should be working for the former American owned Arco Oil Company. Arco Oil Company developed and explored the Alaska North Slope and formerly owned eighty percent of our proven Alaskan reserves. With its substantial oil reserves Arco Oil Company should have bought British Petroleum instead of British Petroleum buying out Arco Oil Company during the second Bill Clinton administration. With the right business environment and support from both political parties in the United States, Arco Oil Company might have been more successful and been able to buy out British Petroleum instead of British Petroleum buying out Arco Oil Company. Look at Apple Computer and Microsoft. Their success in the computer world have made them bullet proof to corporate takeovers. Longterm Democratic hostility and opposition to offshore drilling and periodic talk of windfall profits taxes contributed to the takeover of Arco Oil Company.

    • Posted By: SBfromCA @ 09/28/2008 3:21:33 PM

      Sarah Palin as VP! LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE! You REALLY believe she can handle the job if Mccain dies before the end of his term. COME ON! Be honest with yourself for once in your life. I know you support Mccain, but that does not mean you have to be so stupid as to believe in Palin's qualification as a VP canidate.

      • Posted By: wcor242 @ 09/29/2008 2:07:00 PM

        I remember good ole John Kerry picked John Edwards for his VP pick
        What qualifications did he have, besides being a lawyer ?

        • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 09/29/2008 3:20:42 PM

          He was a Senator and he demonstrated that he understood the issues of the day.

  • Posted By: martin_gray @ 09/28/2008 7:54:33 PM

    McCain has had stage two melanoma four times. Actuarily, he has a 2 in 7 chance of surviving his first term. That is why around 3,000 doctors have asked him to make his medical records open for inspection.

    Sarah Palin is hardly a Ronald Reagan, actually they live in separate galaxies. Ronald Reagan was an eloquent speaker. Sarah Palin couldn't answer the most basic questions asked her by Gibson and Couric.
    Palin is totally incapable of running this country.

    I fail to understand your comment, "Let's get to bottom line and Obama flim flam." The bottom line is simply this: McCain is a tired, old man who has had many potentially deadly illnesses. Sarah Palin is incapable of running this country as evidenced by her lack of knowledge in the interviews with Gibson and Couric. The only viable and other candidate is Senator Obama unless you expect Ralph Nader to spring forth from the shadows.

    Obama appeared young, vital, knowledgable and presidential in the firt debate. McCain simply looked like a tired, angry old man. It is time that he retired instead of running for president of the United States. We are in the midst of many serious foreign and domestic issues of which Palin has absolutely no knowledge.

    • Posted By: wcor242 @ 09/29/2008 1:57:40 PM

      Actuarily ?
      You probably dont even know what an actuary is and I find that funny that you want to give odds on people.
      How about your life. I bet you do something like drive a car, smoke or are fat so you might die too. Actually the government will save money on your sorry ass if you died earlier !

      • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 09/29/2008 3:05:42 PM

        Aging is one of the leading causes of death.

    • Posted By: BunchofChemies @ 09/29/2008 12:36:07 AM

      I'm wondering how angry McCain will look after Palin pulls him down another 5 points with her debate performance. I think he squandered his negative attacks earlier in the election. Now, if he goes negative big time again, he'll merely push up his own negatives.

  • Posted By: fredric22 @ 09/29/2008 2:55:36 PM

    I saw some stars in the sky last night. I must be qualified to work at NASA.

  • Posted By: fredric22 @ 09/29/2008 2:53:02 PM

    To wcro242: your grammar errors in your last sentence are a telling sign you need a "university professor" (no caps needed for U and P, by the the way). If you believe the story line you have been fed about McSame not taking earmarks, you would believe anything and cannot be helped. He's taken them. Sometimes this country gets the leaders it deserves for being fooled by rich special interests into believing the republican party is your only option.

  • Posted By: radiantenergies @ 09/29/2008 2:44:55 PM

    Palin is just another victim along with the American people by McCain infected by the arrogance disease.
    Do a search on arrogance disease and you find a wealth of psychological studies and a listing of causes, symptoms, behaviors, and this is incurable, and the only solution is to avoid and all will be hurt. These people do not care about others and they display an over concern about others in group settings. If you take all the psychological factors and match them to McCain, you get a perfect match. Palin is a victim people and we all are for McCain ignoring the American people with disregard and war hawk mentality and many flaws in the normal mental functioning and think a few minutes about the Presidency and all of them displayed a concern about others, I think. Last thought is I see so many in my work and personal life over the years and have formed labels like devil incarnate, evil, demon ghosts, and I feel they should be banished from mankind.
    Extend this arrogant disease infecting McCain to the position of President and that is the nightmare and a disaster that is horrific and will hurt others. McCain loves the military and is a war hawk and puts on a show that builds a false sense of security and all of this is confirmed in this profile of arrogance disease. As a Vietnam era veteran I never saw anything heroic and do question the over 120 servicemen killed and that it was a hot dog backfire routine that McCain performed that started the fire on the jet behind him and he was quickly transferred and have to realize his Dad was the top brass and so questions there and who cares but my military service was with teams and working together and a hot dog pilot flies alone. The truth though is McCain has lost his right to be known as a human being and just look it up for yourself and enough said.

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