A Teachable Moment

quote= Her goal should be to not make news. And that means when Biden attacks, or the moderator's questions are detailed, she should not respond at length. Instead, she should focus on her personality. She should want that lead to be: Palin came across as a likable, caring person who believes what she says."


REALLY??? Come on.. I didnt know we voted for the President and VP based on personality (caring and likeable). If that is the case, I got a few of my dogs here that could easily be VP because they are soo likeable and loving, and they dont need lipstick!

"Instead, she should focus on her personality."

Are you kidding me?!?! We are NOT electing her to be Miss Congeniality. It must be about more than just a pretty face and nice personality. I hope to God we are not that superficial!

All Joe has to do is talk policy. Address George Bush's failed presidency and talk policy. As long as he looks Ms. Palin in the eye and says "that hasn't worked, that failed, that's been tried and didn't work...." Attach John McCain to the torpedoed Bush Admin....Palin has no policy manipulation. She can be smarmy and play to her base, but thats not what middle America is looking for. She is ill equipped to give middle America what they are looking for....a way up and out of these last eight years.

Here is the problem: We need substance, We need someone who can take over the Presidency if the need arises. Stevens advice that Palin "should focus on her personality. She should want that lead to be: Palin came across as a likable, caring person who believes what she says" does not convince me she is a leader. The McCain camp has done everything it can to hide her. We need to know what she is all about, and that means substance, not whether she is likable.

i am waiting for the day when we all wake up, indpendents, democrats, republicans, WHATEVER...when are we going to stand up, and i mean STAND THE F**K UP AND FIGHT BACK! more than voting, we need some kind of physical viewable action to let these politicians remember that they work for america, we dont owe them any favors by the looks of things... im waiting for a Martial law police state to happen, which will be the end result of...reformation or bust's post below...

"The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:



From Bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."

the meat(america) is prime right now for such a happening...we are doing ourselves no good but just "being informed voters", and posting on message boards...that doesnt stop crooked politicians and legislators from making money off our hard work, that doesnt stop illegal wars, that doesnt stop poor decisions made by the few affecting the masses...why dont more people feel sick when they think about how much money bush (and any president and politician for that matter) is earning off of the american public while the people that are giving him his income suffer? i work hard for what i have and it aint a whole lot...

dont get me wrong, im not an anarchist, or commie, or anything. government is necessary, but reformation needs to happen. we are working on an old an outdated system. we wouldnt ever allow our computers or cars to become outdated...why do we allow our government to do so on a daily basis?

ill say one thing, if they ever plan a police state/martial law/or dictatorship, they made a big a** mistake by letting millions of pride driven americans to own guns...everything from small arms to automatic assault rifles...

to invade (foreign or internally) america is to be met with a gun behind every blade of grass

Palin should do the Republican party a big favor and say something to the effect that, "Hey, I just remembered I have to take Bristol to a parenting class! Sorry, gotta go." and withdraw from the campaign. She is not qualified. However I for one can't wait to hear the debate and all the dumb and hilarious stuff I's betting she'll say. I'm beginning to think that McCain is throwing the election!

Sarah Palin should continue with the talking points, be cute and folksy. She's done quite well without substance and quite poorly when she tries to bring substance to the table. She needs to stay on script, waive the flag, and hammer at the Dems as socialists, tax-and-spend, un-American elitists. She should continue with the GOPer code to bring attention to the fact that Obama is "different" from the "majority." (celebrity, unpatriotic, would rather loose the war, etc.) Unfortunately for her, she is far too much like George W. Bush, in "lipstick," to try and campaign as something different.

It really will be a comedy hour! Joe Biden will mop the floor with Palin, whom as we have all seen on those now imfamous interviews, has NO IDEA what the reporters were asking of her! Those interviews were a test to what she will get at the debate. Candidates shouldn't worry about how hard they come at an opponent, after all, when in office, it will be even tougher! Can't take the heat, Palin/McCain, (which goes to show you, who she secretly thinks is going to run the show, if elected) oops, lol, McCain/Palin, stay out of the kitchen! After laughing all night, I too will vote for Obama!

I totally disagree with Stevens strategy- not that I want to help out the Palin camp at all- I am waiting in earnest for Palin to fall directly on her face come Thursday- America has already heard her sob story, they connect with her- we get it, she is a hockey mom. But that does not mean she understands how to fix these issues. If most people are like Palin they should be asking themselves, yes we are all facing this crisis, but do I know how to fix it? What would be the first thing I should do? And if you cannot answer that question, you should not be voting for yourself, and you especially should not be voting for Palin. What Stevens should have said, is that Palin empathizes with Americans, but here is her and McCain???s plan- unfortunately there is not much in the McCain economic policy and strategy arsenal, so it looks like all she may have to go off of is, Im a hockey mom too- vote for me.

I hope we'll have a CPR emergency unit close to the debate podium. If Palin can last 3 minutes, she will win the debate. My concern is she will hyperventilate and fall into a cardiac situation. Her big-eyeballs in these debates, indicate clearly, hypertension. This is no joke!

Democracy



At about the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in the year 1787, Alexander Tyler (a Scottish history professor at The University of Edinborough) had this to say about "The Fall of The Athenian Republic" some 2,000 years prior:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:



From Bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."

retthompinKY: Palin is a political lightweight and it will be apparent to the nation that she is in this way over her head.

It seems to me that the bush white house played in the hands of the terrorists. The terrorists attacked the wold trade center. The center of the US economy. The US government got involved with a war that the enemey is vage. An enemy who is like a ghost. Guess what? Our economy got hit hard.... And that what seems to me what the terrorists wanted.