Palin Reignites The Culture War

Eleanor, you're a hack and a bull-***. Palin RULES!

HappyDay41--

You are right. People shouldn't vote for Obama because he is black. They should vote for him because he is intelligent, good/calm under pressure, cognisent of his surroundings, exellent problem solving skills, above average business accumen, good character, and great interpersonals skills. Even though character should be a factor in your decision, the ability to handle the war and the economy ( #1 issue in my book) should way more or just as much. Beyond that, how can you say that Obama doesn't have good character? What do you know of him beyond with Right/Conservatives tell you. Have you done some research youself. Or, are you listening the Right. McCain has great character, but he gambles to much with major decisions (VP pick, suspending his campgain) and he demonstrated that he isn't well versed in the economy (i.e. the economy is strong; and we both know he wasn't talking about the American people). So, just think for a second. Republicans are raising the question about Obama that we don't know him, he is risky, he isn't like us. I have heard those type of statements bofore to justify irrational decisions. I for one would say that this tactic has an underlined racist base to it. It is not the outcome Republicans want to protray, but it is a hidden side-effect. So, when you strip all the subjective grabage for both sides and you are left with the candidates (all four of them), I chose Obama. Palin isn't ready and has some potential character issues herself. All in all, all four candidates probably are good people. I think we should look at their policies and make a informed decision. So, once again, I chose Obama. I don't think he will help my situation (I do alright) but he will help the less fortunate and I commend him on that. In my eyes that is good character.

Well, Ms. Clift Obama certainly IS an elitist. That is why you and your kind are so deep i the tank for him. I will give you Obama's intelligence, but his accomplishments? Please, he has NONE. He is also the smoothest politician since Bill Clinton. He should be since he earned his stripes at the birthplace of gold old dirty American politics, Chicago. That "working-class constituency" as you call us, is AMERICA. We are the engine that runs this country while you and your kind go along for the ride, feed us this partisan "gibberish", and hope we will buy into what you want us to believe. The true culture war that needs to be fought is we the people against what was once journalism. I for one find this type of slanted "gibberish" disgraceful.

yeah she would say anything to get in the white house.she is like most struggling american, hockey mom, joe sixpack. and whats so funny these *** buying into it calling gov palin the real deal.i would'nt give sen mccain and gov palin a chance if the american economy was in good shape.and these rasict fools trifflin with their future with four more of the same.wake up people, look beyond color..

looking from the outside i was shocked to know that america had so many uneducated people that sarah palin represents. i listen to that debate and i am a bahamian, living in the bahamas and i could have handle that debate better than gov palin did, she never answered the questions directly, and the fact that she is more of a feiry fighter with words rather than speak the facts scares me. and still she say she wants to be the change in the white house, take a seat in your brother's 3rd grade class, you might be ready in 20 years

Happy Days,

Keep convincing yourself that everyone you talk to is voting for McCain. It just isn't so.

Most likely, they keep their real feelings to themselves, as I do, becasuse they don't want to have you ranting and raving at them. It is bad enough hearing you rant and rave about Obama.

And I don't see that many Obama signs either, however, I live in a overwhelmingly republican area. I like my neighbors and they like me. But I am not going to put an Obama sign in my yard that will just make them upset. I'll just go to the polls and vote with the rest of the majority of Americans... for Obama.

And please help me understand something. Why do you guys HATE so much? What is wrong with giving Obama a chance to turn the country around? The republicans sure haven't done a good job at it.

Is it possible, that in reality your biggest fear is not that Obama would become elected and ruin the country, but that he would turn things around and bring HOPE back to America. I love this country too. I even spent six years of my life defending it during the first Iraq war.

But at some point we have to give hope a chance. At some point we have to say that the world has changed, and more importantly, our enemies know the Republican game plan. They know what we are going to do, before we do it. What sense does it make to keep playing from the same playbook that our enemies have learned forward and backward. If anything, Obama would throw our enemies off balance, because they would have no idea what he will do.

One thing I liked about Palin was her straight talk. So let's talk straight for a moment.

Republicans can't stomach voting for Obama, because his fiscal and social policies are at odds with the Repubican/conservative mantra. And regardless of what people say, I don't think it is a Race thing for most Republicans, it is a philosophy thing. Plus the fact that Republicans take great pride in the fact that the vast majority of Presidents have been Repubican. I can't think of the last time a Democrat was President for more than eight years straight. How can they when they are attacked and vilified by the right, every waking moment.

So all I ask is that if Obama does get elected, that the Right uphold their promise of putting America First, by supporting the President and helping him get back on the right track.

But sadly, I think that possibility might be beyond hopng for.

You write:

"I'm not saying that's Biden's usual public mode by any means: Man-off-his-meds can be more his style. But last night on the stage next to Palin, he was a guy in a dark suit who calmly confounded a script that's getting awfully tiresome."

"Man-off-his-meds" is right on the money. But you do not mean it. That is an incredible error.

Joe Biden shows an incredible inability to focus on the matter at hand. Web blogs are counting his howlers at 24 and climbing. Some of them should disqualify him for the VP position. The most frightening was his claim that Hezbollah and been kicked out of Lebanon, that they had been kicked out by the USA and NATO, that the USA and NATO had refused the advice of Biden and Obama to place NATO troops in Lebanon to fill the vacumn, and that Hezbollah is now part of the government of Lebanon for the first time. Are you aware that each clause of Biden's claim is false? Do you care? Are you willing that this man should be one heartbeat from the presidency? If he were to become president, he might recommend that the USA and its allies resolve the dispute with Iran by cutting a deal in which Iran stops its nuclear program in exchange for the USA selling them nuclear weapons.

Biden suffers from a lack of focus. In a job interview, he would lose the job because, when asked "Why do you want this job?" he would start talking about himself. He simply cannot focus. That characteristic disqualifies anyone from the presidency.

Biden suffers from an acute form of "senatorial megalomania." When he does not know the answer or the relevant facts, he gives the answer that he likes and makes up facts and positions to support it. For the MSM not to call him on this matter is a crime against humanity. We really do not want to engage in nuclear war because Biden cannot focus. Gwen Ifill called him on nothing. Just what I expected. Her pro-Obama stance kept her quiet through endless blunders by senator nofocus.

By the way, Palin supplied him with the relevant context for his remark that our commanding general in Afghanistan said flatly that the surge would not work there. In doing so, she showed focus, intelligence, and gentleness. Republicans, especially McCain and Palin, have a duty to remove the gloves. Otherwise, Biden's inability to focus on the matter at hand will land us in disaster.