Palin, McCain and the Weeks Ahead

"Comment: Karl Rove might not be the best looking guy in the world, he might not even be the best Hip-Hop dancer in the world, but when it comes to Brains, he makes all of you Anti Karl Rove people look like Neanderthals!"

sorry, Brain Washed, but you misspelled neandertals. there's no H after the T.

Obama and terrorist bomber Bill Ayres just neighbors? lol

Just imagine the outcry if McCain was known to be associated with or previously associated with terrorist bombers like Tim McVeigh or Terry Nichols.

Obama didn't get appointed as Chairman of Ayers Anneberg project ($100,000,000 foundation) by happenstance. Obama has written two memoirs and mentions not a word of this 5 year association.

EXCUSE ME!!!!!! Mister "Divide the country", keep the Blacks and Browns in there Place and if all that fails, its the Gays Fault, now tries to lecture us on who's the better American and Whos best for the country...Its certainly not some evangical from a small town in Alaska, who doesn't pay enough attention to whats going on in her own Family, and she's the better on person... I'm waiting for America to send this piece of garbage back to TEXas.

Karl Rove is deceitful. Karl Rove is George Bush, is John McCain, is Sarah Pailn: the same exploitative and shameless A-clowns that got America into the dire financial and social predicament it is in today.

How have Karl Rove and Geroge Bush benefited middle Class America? Rove, Bush and Cheney have raped America of its integrity and its greatness.

After 8 years of George Bush, the social fabric in the US is about to unravel. And as the economy struggles, crime rates will soar. A McCain/Palin administration will be more of the same Bush/Cheney exploitation. The middle class will struggle and, ultimately, all Americans will be affected because a healthy state is good for all. Under McCain/Palin, Bush/Cheney the state will be anything but healthy!

Palin is not qualified to be Vice President. Its an insult to Americans that John McCain and other Republican hacks back and promote this sham candidate for V-P.

Bush/Cheney have squandered America's goodwill and wealth for their own, personal enrichment. How much of the America's wealth -- capital that could have been invested in education, health, infrastructure -- has been wasted in Iraq? How many innocent people have been killed? And to think that Bush/Cheney lied about the intel to get the country into this mess...

Sheesh... Bush/Cheney - McCain/Palin, its the same lies, mediocrity and deceit... what a low point... wake up America!

If the presidential race is a zero sum game, voter responses to the debate performances of Biden and Palin must be compared. Each generated approval, but the net benefit appears to have moved in Biden's favor. Polling by CBS, Fox, and CNN all judged Biden to be the debate winner by substantial margins. The CBS poll is most relevant, because it involved independent voters. These judged Biden the winner, 46% to 21%, but more telling is their conclusion, by a strong margin, that Biden and not Palin is qualified to be president - 87% saw Biden as qualifed, but fewer than half (42%) judged Palin qualified. In the waning days before November 4, with the number of undecideds dwindling, the negative perception of Palin's qualifications is likely to be a handicap, despite her appeal to committed McCain supporters. Conversely, Biden, who was not well known to most viewers earlier, has become a strong asset.

Fred Moolten

There was a time when I was seriously considering voting for John McCain, back when I thought it would be McCain vs. Hillary. My belief was that Hillary was far too polarizing, and McCain could heal some of this country's rifts so that the country could start to work on some of its huge problems together.

Whatever respect I had for McCain evaporated when he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate. Is there any person -- male or female -- in the world who is less qualified to be President of the United States? She has obviously never wasted one second of her life reflecting on any of the important issues facing this country -- she gets by on affability and folksiness -- on winks and shout-outs. Her record shows that she is willfully, proudly ignorant and viciously vindictive as well.

In short, she is George W. Bush with lipstick. No wonder Rove likes her so much.

Why should anyone listen to the words of a man who has spent his career distorting the truth?

I wonder where the evidence is of Palin's "ability to inspire" the public. The polls indicate that people viewed her as "more likeable" than Biden -- but she lost the debate, by any objective measure (exclusing pundits) (excluding Karl Rove, a category unto himself).

How Admiral McCain's son will be able to portrary Obama, raised by a single mother, as a "class warrior" boggles my mind. But it doesn't boggle Karl's, obviously, because it's all over the news. Brace for smears, character assassination, and wedge politics.

If the Republicans didn't have some teensy weensy concern about Palin's "I'm one of you" act and reality, I wonder why her financial information wasn't released until after the debate. That $2 million figure, I expect. This is not to criticize her asset accumulation -- merely to point out the divide between her rhetoric of "feelin' our pain" and the reality.

Why does anyone who refuses to respond to Congressional subpoenas; subvert the Constitution; steal votes in Ohio for George W. Bush -- why does someone this-close to being a convicted felon (nobody's naming names here, in case of libel, though that person IS a public figure, so that speech is protected under the same Constitution he has so forcefully shredded) -- how in the name of all things true and right get so much space in a creditable journal?

Biden was right to oppose Reagan and the surge.

Iraqi sectarian leaders are responsible for the reduction in violence.

We paid the price of Reagonomics until Clinton took office.

Rove was wrong, is wrong and always will be wrong.

I must say, when I read an essay with the name "Karl Rove" attached to it, I laugh. Karl, you have a reputation for being a lying, cheating snake in the grass and your association with the worst administration in the history of the USA does not exactly score you any bonus points with people. Why on earth would ANYONE take this piece of blather seriously? The only people who agree with you are ignorant neocons, and they are an endangered species. Go crawl back in your hole, Karl. Leave us alone. We are sick of you and your ilk.

People talk about fearing if something happens to McCain, and Palin takes over.

With Obama already having threats on his life, what if Biden has to take over? Remember, he had some huge lies in this past debate.

USA, and France never chased Hamas out of Lebanon, where did he get that from?!

If I could make up stories and not be held accountable, I would look like an expert all the time!

Biden was right in his opposition to Reagan and the surge.

Rove was wrong, is wrong and always will be wrong.

Goodness, what a one sided article! I'm surprised there were no opposing viewpoints mentioned--usually with respected publications like newsweek, it at least presents both sides. I wonder what's going on...


Oh, it's written by Karl Rove.


No wonder.

Palin, you may be able to weasel your way into governorship in Alaska, but you can't fool everyone. You abuse power, you are a lobbyists dream, you are the best friend of oil companies and their rich execs.

You are not for the common people, you use scare tactics just like the rest of the republicans for personal gain. I am 100% sure you will be a step worse than Bush.

So... THANKS FOR THE COMEDIES, BUT NO THANKS, WE DON'T WANT YOUR CHANGE TO NOWHERE.

Palin, you may be able to weasel your way into governorship in Alaska, but you can't fool everyone. You abuse power, you are a lobbyists dream, you are the best friend of oil companies and their rich execs.

You are not for the common people, you use scare tactics just like the rest of the republicans for personal gain. I am 100% sure you will be a step worse than Bush.

So... THANKS FOR THE COMEDIES, BUT NO THANKS, WE DON'T WANT YOUR CHANGE TO NOWHERE.

The problem is, with McCain's age and previous bouts with cancer, more scrutiny is naturally shoved over on the VP choice. Palin hasn't been in her position long, she's been held hostage from the media, and the reports of that executive experience have been largely mixed reviews. I wish Couric would have spent more time questioning her about some of her decisions as mayor and governor, rather than trying to give her a pop quiz.

Personally though, I don't care about having someone that is "just like me" in office. I don't think I'm qualified to run a country, so I want someone that is more competent and well-versed in issues. If it wasn't for Palin, I would probably vote for McCain. I think Obama should have had more experience before he ran, but Palin's presence is largely throwing that out the window. Statisticians saying McCain only has a 1 in 4 chance of not finishing 8 years in office does not reassure me. Palin getting out there for a debate and not being able to answer numerous questions reassures me even less.

I'm still undecided, but luckily for McCain, I don't live in a swing state.

Mr. Rove, how can the sagacious and perceptive councilor of the rational right we see now, and the lawless, Constitution defiling, unethical and vicious political operative be the same person?

According to the Bush White House's response to a subpoena in March 2004, Karl Rove chaired the White House Iraq Group (WHIG), a collection of eight Bush admin officials who started planning the Iraq War EIGHT months before it started (you know, just in case). It take TREMENDOUS balls to call Joe Biden's foreign policy record "atrocious." Thanks for getting my cousin killed in Baghdad, you piece of garbage. My uncle still hasn't left his house in three months.lef

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