Palin, McCain and the Weeks Ahead

Ugh, why do you even bother to publish Karl Rove's opinion on your Web site/magazine?
Predictable, boring, exactly what you would have thought he'd say. Badmouthing your opponent's character is the last resort of a team who have nothing more to offer. And saying so in Newsweek tells the world you're on your last legs.
Americans aren't as dumb as Rove thinks. Palin is an attractive woman being used as a gimmick--it's all too transparent. If the Republicans truly had anything to offer to ordinary people, we wouldn't be in the pickle we''re in now.

If Palin is not ready, then you would have to admit Obama isn't either. McCain is right on the issues. Cox should be fired for lax regulation. Frank was in bed with Fannie (so to speak). While the economy is a pebble in the shoe, work in America is sound. Security (and understanding the problems in the world) is McCains strength.

Karl Rove has done more to polarize American politics than anyone in our lifetime. It is largely because of him that statements like "American VOTING for this piece of crap???" has become the standard rhetoric (and grammar) one hears from the conservative right. Why, after eight years of failed American policy in every arena imaginable, would anyone listen to him about anything?

Enter Your Comment So you trust a Lawyer like Obama to fix this economy? Someone who has only spent a ridiculously short time in the Senate, most of which was spent on campaigning for Pres.

Sure the US economy is hurting, and might get worst, but the World economy is hurting big time! Banks in Europe are in Bankruptcy, Russia had to shutdown it's Stock Market a few weeks ago, China is hurting from it's manufacturing fallout.

Everyone is struggling right now, but the advantage that we as Americans have proven to have is our Free Market System. American Innovation is a direct product of our Free Enterprise System. We have, in the past, given businesses, especially small business, more flexibility, less taxes, so they can spend on product development, and higher workers to help this process.

If we vote for the candidate that will move in this direction, then America will be great again, if we vote for the candidate that raises taxes, and thus stunts innovation, then things will truly get dreadfully worst!

Karl, your strategy worked twice. First time, shame on you. Next time, shame on us. But, this time the American people are not going to fall for this. You can continue to feed the same stuff to McCain & Palin as much as you want, but we have figured you out.

A guy who went from Hawaii to Columbia to Harvard law school? His wife from working class to head of her class at Princeton? I don't have any persistent doubts about Senator Barack Obama or his family. They epitomize the American Dream for me, and he seems to have strong values, and demonstrates calm amid the financial and political storm. Another four years of failed Bush policy and this ship will sink. Time for a change.

Yep... the more we see of Sarah Palin, the worse it gets for McCain. True, she did better at the debate than most of us thought she would. But that isn't going to help her, it's just going to make people more scared of her! The debate only proved how driven and narcissistic she really is!

It makes it WORSE that she WON'T quit! A woman who is that driven by lust for power is very scary indeed. A woman who thinks that if her own daughter was raped by say, Todd, and got pregnant, that the girl should go through with the pregnancy and not have an abortion. That is just SICK, folks. Just Plain Sick. If a girl is raped by her own father and becomes pregnant, Sarah Palin doesn't believe that should be a reason for aborting that pregnancy.

McCain has shown the worst judgment of all by picking Christian Crusader Barbie as his running mate.

I don't have to read this article to know what it says. The fact that Newsweek is publish anything from this slime bucket is a nightmare at best. Karl Rove has been a major player in what has gone dreadfully wrong in America over the last eight years. Now he sits on the sidelines and pretends to be a real reporter while he's still holding the strings. He is just as bad as Cheney and perhaps worse. What a disgrace.for Newsweek to sell us this garbage. You're credibility has sunk right in the toilet.

The hypocrisy of this piece comes down to this 'What do people who see Obama as unqualified have to hang on to?'

Exactly. It seems to be ok for half of the McCain ticket to be woefully unqualified and standing on personality while Obama's ???lack of experience??? seems to be a real sticking point.

Let's put aside, for a moment, the numerous reports out of Alaska that suggest Palin may not be as congenial as she would have you believe, though frankly that's a big thing to put aside seeing as it's the only thing she offers. But if that common touch is actually genuine, are you seriously prepared to say it???s enough?

She steadfastly refused to be engaged on political issues. She did very little other than repeat catch phrases ad nauseam, while tying it all together with a few pithy remarks and familiar gestures. Has the USA electorate become a psychology experiment? Are you prepared to have history judge you as victims of body language...flattered into extending an already catastrophic eight-year mistake by another four?

And do you not find her constant reference to ???hockey mom??? and ???joe six-pack??? patronising?

Heck, if the Dems were as shallow as the Republicans, they could just put a comedian on the other half of the ticket. The comic could refuse to engage the issues too but what great entertainment the debate would be and oh, how witty and charming.

Even if McCain-Palin loses this, there have already been enough disturbing noises around this campaign to suggest the dumbing down trend will continue. I'm beginning to wonder if the USA electorate can be trusted with the world's biggest economy and military.

Sara Palin should go back to Alaska her family needs her. It is quite evident that her family comes second and the country is not first, what does come first is Gov. Palin's political ambition. Family values, give me a break. The Republican's want to win so bad that Family values means nothing to them other then to garnish votes when it is convient for them.

Mr. Rove writes as if he were a distant observer and commentator rather than a McCain adviser. Don't be surprised when McCain follows Mr. Rove's "advice" in the weeks ahead.

Newsweek is just playing you all like fiddle. (Me too I admit). The editors at Newsweek know that if we even SEE the name-which-shall-not-be-named, we will get ALL riled up and read the ads on the page over there to the right-------------->>>>>>>

Everyone knows that Karl Rove is Bush's Brain. How would you like to be a weasel like THAT? To be written down in History Books as the brains behind one of the worst presidents in all of history, George Bush?

Why would America REWARD complete Republican failure ?

We wont.

Bookending a bad couple of weeks? Hardly! The polls have not stabilized or moved in McCain/Palin's favor. To the contrary, McCain has conceded Michigan and polls (non-Newsweek biased polls apparently) indicate 10 of the 12 battleground states are in Obama's court. Women voters have moved into Obama's camp since she has been announced as McCain's running mate. The debate demonstrated only Palin's ability to regurgitate the sound bites spoon fed her while ushered away in one of McCain's compounds. Seems quite a few folks are in denial about the facts. But, hey, eight years of pretending everything is alright is a hard thing to give up, but given the deep recession America now faces, America wants no more McSame (voting the Bush line ~90%), and is rightfully willing to give Obama/Biden a chance.

Comment: The Bush Depression

In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide the largest morgage bank in the world,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms. Also, Fanny and Freddy Mae which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States.
The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt.If they didn't the entire financially system would virtually shut down, the stock market would crash and we would suffer beyond what any of us have seen before.

McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.

Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He either didn't care or didn't realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime.
It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a tanking economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit.Bush created a national debt larger then the first 42 presidents combined
If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
So why are the polls even close then ?
The chairman of McCains campaign recently said that people don't vote on issues they vote on a personality composite. Which means he is trying to sell you personality instead of results.
Let's teach him we are smarter than that .

31 states are voting now, dont wait
Elect Obama Biden 2008




Check out this video of sarah palins interview before you vote


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4i

Neanderthal - Neandertal

Both are acceptable and widely used in English. The "tal" version is German.

You go nmauricer! I totally agree with you!

2008 will seen as a year when America woke up, when the old media died, and a New Media arose, one that will be more fair and honest in reporting news, one that will put the welfare of the American People first and not Politicians, and their own agenda first. We already see a massive amount of people moving away from this Old Media, and finding alternative sources.

I live in Hawaii which should go to Obama, but a lot of my friends are figuring out the bias in the media, and are turning to other sources of news, When Kerry and Edwards were running in the last election, you could not help but notice Kerry/Ewards bumper stickers all around the place, but now I can go a whole day without seeing a Obama/Biden stickers.

With the awakening of the public to Media Bias, I know America will be better, and stronger for it!

There will however still be people stuck on the Old York Times, and watching ???See B.S.??? News!

I'll tell you what, Karl. Some of what you say makes sense, but oh what a VILE messenger you are.
The part that makes sense is that you realize John McCain is toast. What you fail to mention is the REAL reason McCain is toast. Why, it's because he abandoned his "straight talk" in favor of a Rovian campaign. And here you are, GIVING ADVICE?????

You do realize that you will go down in history as a major VILLIAN, don't you Karl? Coming here and acting like a respectable member of the Main Stream Media.... it ain't going to work. You have TRUE evil in your heart and in your soul, Karl Rove. I don't think you quite "get it". I think you are too far gone to ever repent.

YOU, Karl Rove, are part of the reason our country is now in such dire straits. Good riddance to you and to your ideology. I hope Republicans can heal their party, but it won't be easy.