The Palin Problem

The usual elite liberal media bias we come to expect from this rotten mag. Many times one can substitute Obama for Palin and it would read much the same.

Unfortunately, for the Obama backers Palin has more experience and a broad record of achievement where Obama has none.

While Obama was community organizer Governor Palin was cutting taxes and balancing a cities budget. Palin was making executive decisions while Obama was organizing a soup kitchen.

While Obama has been running for President Governor Palin has cleaned up corruption in her own party by first defeating an incumbent Governor in a primary. She cancelled the former administrations oil royalty contract and signed a new one that increased the royalties paid.

What was Obama doing about the notorious corrupt Chicago democrat machine while a state senator? Best we can tell is that he was doling out political favours in the time honoured Chicago political tradition and feathering his nest with Rezko money.

The contrast is stunningly clear.

I remember not too long ago, the promise that was the "New Politics" and of "Hope." Like everything Obama says, its all for show, not meant to mean anything but just to get him elected.
Voter fraud thanks to ACORN.
Using the same excuse for Wright, Rezko and Ayers just doesn't fly.
Obama doesn't know anything about the people that helped him in his political career, yet his supporters still think he is smart. That Harvard degree really did come in a cracker jack box.

The GOP is grasping at straws. They have nothing substantive against Obama, but boy are they good at making up lies. This is the leading Karl Rove tactic for years, and if America falls for this again we should be ashamed of ourselves. Not to mention the obvious fact that this is all a smokescreen to keep the focus off of the fact that Palin and her Alaska associates are in contempt of court for refusing to testify in the Troopergate hearings. After Nixon and Clinton, Americans are to some extent jaded, but really, would you want a VP who refuses to attend hearings in her own defense, and instructs her employees not to testify? That smells like guilt. It surely doesn't give the impression that she has done no wrong and has nothing to hide.

This year, the GOP offers you an angry old man and a woman who, while personable, is desperately uniformed about national and international issues. Both of them are far right politically. McCain used to be a maverick, but since 2004 he's voted 90% with Bush. McCain's policies are not original or reformist, despite how he's tried to co-opt Obama's popular message of change. Please go to the websites of both of the candidates and read their platforms. Obama's Blueprint for Change has more good ideas than McCain's plan. Compare them yourself. Obama's basic premise is that tax dollars should be spent to make America stronger and to improve the lives and well being of our people. For example, he uses education programs to train a new technology workforce, contributing to energy independence, creating jobs and improving the economy. When you read McCain's plan you will find no over-arching design to get America back on track. Instead you'll find more tax cuts for the wealthy, de-regulation of the health care industry, and a stated intent to overturn Roe v. Wade.

I'm a Republican. Although I embrace some forward-thinking social values, in the past I've rarely voted Democrat. My thinking was that since Republicans grow robust economies, by voting Republican I'd be endorsing a plan that would grow wealth for our nation, and then we'd be able to afford social programs. It was a good strategy for a couple decades, but I have to say that the tenure of W. Bush has changed my mind. Not only is there nothing fiscally responsible about today's GOP, the insidious alignment of the party with religious intolerance has really turned me off.

On the other hand, the intelligent luminous thought of Barack Obama has ignited my patriotism. I want a President who puts America first and can get the economy back on track. In my mind, values voting takes a back burner when we are faced with a meltdown of the economy. It is time for a change, a real change. The Republicans have controlled the Presidency for 28 of the past 40 years, but they have fallen down on the job. The Democrats have a stellar candidate this year, and I am voting for Obama.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDofbll86dY&feature=iv&annotation_id=event_922988

To: DanfromAlabam - You can't even spell "loser" correctly! Now, who is the loser, really?

It is interesting and yet disturbing, really even scary, to see what is happening today on the political stage, with so much of it being strictly theatrical and totally scripted and obviously intended to misrepresent (deceive), and then to see the differences in the public???s reactions to those creative performances. Consider the confusing fact that the presidential race is even close, with what the Bush-Cheney administration has done over the last eight years and the drastically negative impact that it has had, and it is then really hard to understand. Possibly, as some say, it is a reflection of racial bias but really that can???t explain all of it. Take Senator McCain and not only his obvious, when all of the camouflage is put aside, commitment (and history) to continue with more of the same (Bush-Cheney) and the failed Republican policies/attitudes that are aimed to patronize Special Interests and a select few, but also McCain???s desperate and irresponsible selection of Sarah Palin for his running mate. Now you may like her personality, find her good looking, a real ???cutesy??? and even agree with a few of her views but there can be no denying that she is extreme, bazaar and, most importantly, totally unqualified and just aggressively trying to disguise her inexperience and simply push a bold and belligerent presentation to manipulate public opinion. Her whole purpose is apparent as an ???attack dog??? as she boldly criticizes with exaggerated and mostly irrelevant accusations while totally avoiding the real issues. Being a ???hockey mom??? and a ???pit bull with lipstick??? may make her interesting but it sure doesn???t qualify her to be vice-president or, most totally not, to be president. That should then be completely scary, yet many still rationalize that she is acceptable. It isn???t as if she is applying to be a next-door neighbor and come over for a barbecue, she wants to help and maybe even individually run the country. The real truth should be apparent to anyone that is willing to check their emotional ties, prejudices and biases, including their political affiliations, that we simply can???t withstand any further focus on Special Interests and a select few, that we can???t survive continuing with the same philosophies, that whether poor or middle class or upper middle class we are currently loosing substantially, and we desperately need real change (not just someone who claims to be a ???Maverick??? but actually never did more than just adjust in his own best interests). If too many of us are sold on ignoring the facts, the truth, on accepting the subterfuge offered, we may just end up with more of the same, with literally continuing in the same direction we are currently going. This country can???t take that, this country desperately needs real, drastic and honest change! And really, common sense dictates that those who have taken us to where we are today should be prosecuted and not congratulated by electing other

Barack Obama has opened up a nine-point lead over John McCain, 51% to 42%, in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking. That matches Obama???s largest lead of the campaign to date.

This goes in agreement with Rassmusen report's poll that I posted earlier. If McCain does not win tonight's debate, it will become curtains for him.

Electoral College projections now show Obama leading 217-163. However, when ???leaners??? are included, Obama leads 300-174. A total of 270 Electoral Votes are needed to win the White House.

Voters now trust Democrats more than Republicans on all ten key issues tracked regularly by Rasmussen Reports. Other polling shows that voters overwhelmingly believe the United States is the best nation in the world.

This election cycle reminds me of the book "Brave New World". The news media controls what candidate we are supposed to support, and knocks of Hillary, the most qualified candidate in 40 years. The public gets dumbed down by the media and elites. Now we are stuck with two horrible candidates, and the public is walking around like zombies. If Obama loses, I can;t wait to see Nancy Pelosi lifted by her surgically altered buttocks and thrown from the Speaker's chair, along with Reid and Dean