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  • Posted By: fccFH @ 10/10/2008 11:14:09 AM

    This is total BS. This country makes fun of Bush for being a complete idiot, and he is a he. Palin is made fun of, rightly, for being a complete idiot- thats all- it is not because she is a woman, it is because she just does not have a clue. So regardless of sex, if it were a man making those comments he would be beat up on as well. Look at Dan Quayle, he still gets crap. And, you know what, it really is narcissistic of people to side with Palin, simply because they can empathize with her. Sorry if this is harsh, but maybe you are just not VP material, and you know what, Palin definitely is not VP material. So I am glad that if she were to win it would be your Oscar moment, but it would an atrocity to this country, and a very selfish thing to do. Please, if you really are smart, you will see through the thin veneer that is Palin, and more especially McCain, and you will realize that they simply do not have the countrys best at heart. McCain will continue what Bush has started; he will spend more, and eventually have to tax more, because we cannot continue this deficit spending when we are broke. Both he and Palin have admitted that they know nothing of the economy, and have even admitted that they will steer their campaign away from it. A vote for McCain and Palin is a vote for the destruction of this country.

    • Posted By: sportlock009 @ 10/10/2008 11:29:49 AM

      Could you please share your expertise on what would be good for the country then? After all, a highschool sanitation engineer as you like to call yourself is far more qualified to know whats best for this country then a GOVERNOR!

      Clean up on aisle 4! We have a dipshyt

      • Posted By: fccFH @ 10/10/2008 3:25:54 PM

        What is good for this country is someone that is not going to continue on the path Bush set. Someone that is going to bring back regulation to our financial markets, and someone that understand that we cannot alienate and ignore our allies and world leaders if we expect to accomplish anything in this continually changing global atmosphere. What I want for this country is someone who will focus once again on putting financing into our education system that will help propel us back into the number one position as leader in technology, scientific research, and medicine. What I want for this country is an effective social security system that will neither deplete our current resources or strain the finances of generations to come. What I want is for the US to no longer be stuck in a war with Americans dying every day. What I want is someone who will not spend more money on buying up $300 million in mortgages that this country cannot afford only to force the bill on tax payers later, what I want is a health care system that is paid for by my tax dollars, not by a refund check that I know, based on the fact that I pay over ten thousand a year, will not cover it. What I want is a President who is respected by world leaders and will sit down for rational conversation and who will not immediately turn to our military every time a situation erupts that they cannot handle within the Oval office- what I want is an America that is not spiraling out of control, and I feel Obama is the person that can do that. Now you moron- I do not know where you got this self-professed high school (two words) sanitation engineer from- I would like to hear your argument, rather than just mindless slander. By that way, I never claimed to know more than anyone else, but given that I do have my MBA, something Palin is lacking, and given that I work in the international finance and real estate sector, I would actually say I know a lot more than she does!

  • Posted By: taubekat @ 10/10/2008 1:47:44 PM

    Sarah Palin and the word smartest in the same sentence is a joke. She and Mr. Looney Tunes are out of their minds. The attacks and hatred coming from their camp is horrible. Each time they attack I am more certain Obama/Biden should be in the white house. Stay above this kind of middle school bully on the playground kind of BS. What is wrong with the American people why all this trash talk does it really make you feel good about yourself and the candidates that are spewing garbage? She is simply McCain's puppet. I am a mother, wife, and I have a successful career and I do not believe Sarah Palin should be Vice-President of the free world.

    • Posted By: sportlock009 @ 10/10/2008 3:25:05 PM

      Joke? Kinda like a registered voter/Obama supporter believing the elected president come Nov. will be the leader of the "FREE WORLD" LMAO

      Uhhhhh, I think the election will only be for the U.S.

      A joke right? lol

    • Posted By: paproudmom @ 10/10/2008 1:53:00 PM

      What a hateful post. Hopefully the kind of hate you espouse will not rub off on your children. You must have been the bully on the playground.

  • Posted By: paproudmom @ 10/10/2008 1:32:45 PM

    to krempep - I don't know who your question was directed to. Why not Nancy Pelosi - if she gets her parties nomination go for it. While I do not agree with her politics I won't stoop to the tactics of those who are not intelligent and call her names. She has as much right to run as Sarah Palin.

    • Posted By: fccFH @ 10/10/2008 3:07:25 PM

      I have a question for you and I mean this one earnestly- based on your remark that you would not stoop to the tactics of those calling her names- do you find the tactics being used by both McCain and Palin appropriate? Do you feel it is okay that during a political rally, when people scream out Kill Him and Terrorist, and that they do nothing to correct this, that this is appropriate on this level? Do you feel how they are labeling him is fair? If you are as fair and balanced as you say, I would be very interested in your perspective on this.

    • Posted By: AskPlus @ 10/10/2008 1:42:38 PM

      No. Sarah Palin is not qualified on any level. And that's more than popular opinion. She's pretty awful, and by the looks of it - she doesn't care.

  • Posted By: maryna1 @ 10/10/2008 2:52:08 PM

    I wish the candidate would discuss global poverty more. According to The Borgen Project:
    $30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
    $540 billion: Annual U.S. Defense Budget

  • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/10/2008 9:04:38 AM

    The old rancher said, 'Well, ya know, Palin is a post turtle.'

    Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a post turtle was. The old rancher said, 'When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a post turtle.' The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to explain.

    'You know she didn't get up there by herself, she doesn't belong up there, she doesn't know what to do while she is up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put her up there to begin with.'

    • Posted By: benluclar @ 10/10/2008 9:32:28 AM

      Well, at least you KNOW who the ''dumb ass'' is, because he is visible.
      Obama's ''dumb asses'' who have propelled him to stardom are HIDING .... for the time being.

      • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/10/2008 9:51:55 AM

        Rolling Stone Magazine: Make believe Maverick, A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty.
        By TIM DICKINSON
        http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain?commentPage=8#rate

        • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/10/2008 9:54:44 AM

          - Keating Five, just google it , there are tons to read and see....
          - McCain linked to group in Iran-Contra case. Organization had ties to former Nazi collaborators, right wing death squads: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27062761/
          - McCain & Pastor John Hagee, just google it , there are tons to read and see....
          - McCain ties with Gordon Liddy : <http://mediamatters.org/items/200810040004>
          - The Silver State bank and the role of McCain???s son, google it.....

          • Posted By: edjones65 @ 10/10/2008 10:27:41 AM

            Not trying to be a "smart- A**", but thats covering McCains career and looking over 26 years of service and comparing it to Obama's 2 year stint. Obam's list of questionable associates is even longer and yes , there is a lot to be said about how close they were. So why is it that the Obama supporters are so quick to dismiss them and cling to dead issues such as Keating 5, it's over get over it. However, Obama's associates, Barney and co. will probably end up in court eventually. The Repubs have a good reason to question his association with Ayers, first it was "we just work on a committee together", then it was "I thought he was over that and was rehabilitated", coming from a graduate with honors from Harvard, that is highly unlikely. and now we find out his wife has associated with Ayers more than 10 years ago. My point is, I do believe that Obama has made some poor choices as well as McCain did, could that mean that they are both Human after all, if you judge one , you must judge the other as well.

            • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/10/2008 1:53:21 PM

              LET S INVESTIGATE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

              ???My government is my worst enemy. I???m going to fight them with any means at hand.???

              "The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government and I won't be buried under their damn (American) flag."

              Vogler, who always carried a Magnum with him, was fond of saying, ???When the [federal] bureaucrats come after me, I suggest they wear red coats. They make better targets. In the federal government are the biggest liars in the United States, and I hate them with a passion.

              The violent-tempered secessionist vowed to McPhee that if any federal official tried to stop him from polluting Alaska???s rivers with his earth-moving equipment, he would ???run over him with a Cat and turn mosquitoes loose on him while he dies.???

              The quotes are from Joe Vogler, the raging anti-American who founded the Alaska Independence Party. Inconveniently for Palin, that???s the very same secessionist party that her husband, Todd, belonged to for seven years and that she sent a shout-out to as Alaska governor earlier this year. (???Keep up the good work,??? Palin told AIP members. ???And God bless you.???)
              AIP chairwoman Lynette Clark told me recently that Sarah Palin is her kind of gal. ???She???s Alaskan to the bone ??? she sounds just like Joe Vogler.???
              Vogler???s greatest moment of glory was to be his 1993 appearance before the United Nations to denounce United States ???tyranny??? before the entire world and to demand Alaska???s freedom. The Alaska secessionist had persuaded the government of Iran to sponsor his anti-American harangue. (yes you read well IRAN!!!)
              Let s investigate the Palins ties with the secessionist Alaskan Independence Party...............
              (full article on salon.com)

              • Posted By: edjones65 @ 10/10/2008 2:51:44 PM

                Apparently you didn't read my post, too busy cutting and pasting the same message over and over again. Yes , let us investigate both( do you hear me now, both of them, not one or the other but both candidates.I think if you investigate one you should investigate the other that would be fair don't you think). I am also talking about the Presidential candidates not the "VP's.

          • Posted By: neocon @ 10/10/2008 10:53:04 AM

            Obama's membership in the Democratic Socialist of America. Just google it, tons of reading.

            http://wordpress.com/tag/dsa/
            http://sooshisoo.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/obama-acorn-new-party-and-the-democratic-socialists-of-america/

  • Posted By: josemarti @ 10/10/2008 2:50:49 PM

    The Grateful Dead released a statement today. "We are really flattered that Barack wants our vote. But we have never voted and are not about to start now."

  • Posted By: paproudmom @ 10/10/2008 12:48:21 PM

    Coming from a family that has a small business I am tired of taxpayers writing in claiming they are owed our money. It takes many years to build up a business. It is a lot of pressure and responsibility. There is no leaving the job and going home. You are not just responsbility for yourself and family, but those who you employ. With that extra pressure and responsbility comes benefits. We both came from blue collar families and worked hard for what we got. We never ask who is going to be taxed to pay for us. This spoiled view is sad. If you want others to work to pay your bills SMcGinnis why don't you move to a socialist country where you can be lazy and taken care of.

    • Posted By: Democrat-Hillary @ 10/10/2008 1:58:43 PM

      Socialist my A$$!!! Have you seen more CORPORATE WELFARE than this last 8 years. Before it was 5 to 6 time greater than all social programs combined, now it is like 1,000's more time. What about the 5-6 TRILLION surplus evaporated and the new 11 TRILLION in debt by this administration and the latest 700 BILLIONS to help wall street. It is not the poor who has gotten all this money. Are you blind or what??!!!!

      • Posted By: paproudmom @ 10/10/2008 2:46:23 PM

        Oh please spare me your liberal crap. Any company that breaks the law should be prosecuted the fullest extent of the law. Most companies and small business are not like you describe. I'm talking about small businesses. You or no one else is "entitled" to what others work hard for. This sense of entitlement is one of the reasons we are in the financial mess we are in.

  • Posted By: db82 @ 10/10/2008 2:02:58 PM

    While I am not a Palin fan, I do admire her resiliance in a time when she has been attached so blatantly. HOWEVER, she is running for the vice presidency of the most powerful country in the world...should she really be treated with kid clothes?

  • Posted By: Earnestine @ 10/10/2008 1:33:52 PM

    wHAT THE SILENT WOMEN SAY:

    That's the Way Things Are

    We have no time to take things as we see them.
    It's bad enough to take things as they are.
    How nice -- you're working as a banker.
    We hear these days that women can go far.
    But what about the woman scrubbing floors down by your feet?
    Do you see anything besides the dirt she must clean up?
    Have you told her that she's waxing floors on night shift
    'cause that's the way things are?
    How can we raise the bar?

  • Posted By: krempep @ 10/10/2008 1:22:05 PM

    You never answered the question, is she qualified? Why not ask Nancy Pelosi?

  • Posted By: josemarti @ 10/10/2008 12:52:18 PM

    Who cares? Who cares about Rezko, Ayers, Wright, Pflagel, Merman, Jones, Blagojevic, Farrakhan, Kilpatric, and Mifune? Who cares? None of these characters is in a position to influence our amigo Barack. Rezko is in prison. Ayers teaches at a third rate university, Wright stepped down from Trinity, Pflagel was disciplined by his Cardinal. Merman is in a nursing home. Jones is leaving the Illinois Senate. Blagojevic is running from the Feds, Farrakhan has a small following. Mifune has resigned from the Obama campaign. Who cares about all these people?. Move On. Move On. Move On people.

    • Posted By: AskPlus @ 10/10/2008 1:16:00 PM

      I agree with you. And since these people are a figment of your imagination, you're right.

      Now here's some solid people: Chuckie Keating, Rosario, Perez, Ayatollah, Contra, Every single bank lobbyist, Palin, Carl H. Lindner Jr, $1.7 million to a Colombian paramilitary group that is today designated a terrorist organization by the United States, United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, U.S. Council for World Freedom - all McCain buddies for you people too stupid not to look at the economy.

  • Posted By: tiredoflies @ 10/10/2008 12:57:52 PM

    After the recent McCain/Palin rallys, and the radical behavior and unrest they are trying to incite, it looks like McCain/Palin are actually becoming the very people they decry.

    THEY, THEMSELVES, ARE ACTUALLY BECOMING THE RADICALS

    And for the old republican on TV at a McCain/Palin (so called) rally in Wisconsin who said he was mad yesterday, we are mad too.

    WE ARE MAD AS HELL AT WHAT THIS ADMINISTRATION AND THE REPUBLICANS HAVE DONE TO THIS COUNTRY IN THE LAST EIGHT YEARS.

    And, again, to the guy in Wisconsin, (and I hope you are reading this) it was very apparent what you actually said.

    You said WE ARE ACTUALLY IN DANGER OF A BLACK MAN WINNING THIS ELECTION AND BECOMING PRESIDENT.

    I am a member of this clowns generation, but I most certainly DO NOT share his views and hatred.

    I really hope lots of young people join the rest of us in voting this time because they are largely unbiased and unaffected by this culture of racism from the past. They represent the future.

    It is time to end this in America and put all of this garbage behind us. And, as is evident in these recent McCain/Palin rallies, there are two candidates in this campaign who will work to make that happen.

    Obama/Biden

  • Posted By: brianna17 @ 10/10/2008 12:50:19 PM

    Sarah Palin should never be next in line to run this country, she shouldn't even be considered. Palin is a poor choice to represent women in politics. If McCain is elected, and Sarah Palin is VP, women in America will have a hard time overcoming the "Palin" stereotype in politics, after her seemingly uninvietable reign of terror.

  • Posted By: Babe @ 10/10/2008 7:42:18 AM

    When I read comments that are so disgusting as Obamayeswecan's it convines me to vote for John McCain. This is an example of the mindset we can look forward to in an Obama administration. Sarah Palin strikes me as a common sense, quick learner. Remember the criticism that Jerry Ford endured and yet when his moment came and we needed him..he was just what this country needed.

    • Posted By: laurenb @ 10/10/2008 12:40:20 PM

      You were obviously always going to vote for McCain if one comment (albeit disgusting and distasteful) swayed your decision. There have been other comments directed toward Obama that have been just as shameful, but those did not seem to have any effect on your voting decision. Don't say one comment made up your mind. Besides, not voting for someone because one of their supporters said something you don't like makes about as much sense as moving out of your house because there was a spider in the bathroom. It in no way reflects the value of your house and you may never have to see that spider again, and yet you made a life changing decision based on it.

    • Posted By: benluclar @ 10/10/2008 8:26:56 AM

      Yes, please keep in mind when voting that Mitt Romney is a Republican with economic strength, who will be called upon accordingly for his strengths

  • Posted By: josemarti @ 10/10/2008 12:40:09 PM

    Obama supports registering the dead to vote. "It is perfectly consistent with my support of the Death Tax. No taxation without representation. That is what our Founding Fathers said and that I what I say." said candidate in Detroit. Reporters were very impressed with his knowledge of American history.

  • Posted By: SMcGinnis @ 10/10/2008 12:39:59 PM

    I wish we could do away with Repubs and Dems all together. This year should prove beyond any other that these two men running for President have completely difference views on the way America should be run. I personally feel that Sarah Palin will be great in 10 years. It's a shame that she decided to jump on a sinking ship and I hope she and her family do not regret it. This election will come down to where you think the country needs to go. I don't know why the US buys the "trickle down" effect. Bottom lin is if the middle class cannot afford to go shopping the small business's along with the large companies will all suffer as a result. Middle America needs relief and I don't feel like the Republican views align with helping me. If the rich want to make more money and not pay more they need to move out of the counrty and stop complaining. I am a former Repub that voted for Bush 2X but this year... Obama/Biden 08!

  • Posted By: neocon @ 10/10/2008 11:48:25 AM

    Think about the six degrees of separate of an Ayers/Obama??? living around the corner from each other in New York, with Obama a member of a party the DSA/New Party that is a Weather Underground offshoot??? and somehow magically meeting in Chicago. A time when Ayers and the CAC tapped a supposed ???unknown??? newbie community organizer for ACORN, Barack Obama, to distribute millions of dollars of funds for an educational experiment headed up by Williams Ayers, the ???social injustice??? advocate.
    Think back to the cut and paste Saul Alinsky phrases in both Obama???s and his wife???s campaign speeches ???The world as it is' and 'The world as it should be???. In Artful Dodger style, Barack Obama, plays down his mentorship with Communist author Saul Alinsky. But Alinsky???s son, L. David Alinsky, credits Obama for ???learning his lesson well??? from the Communist guru.
    Just how coincidental is all this? And just why the media hasn???t noticed that the issue is not that Obama hangs out with an admitted domestic terrorist. It???s that he actively works, and endorses Ayers??? educational philosophy, founded on unbridled socialism.
    Then ask??? is this what you want for your children or grandchildren?

    • Posted By: sportlock009 @ 10/10/2008 12:16:25 PM

      Dems will take anything over someone they're are insanely jealous of. In the primaries it was the Clintons and their dynasty. Vicious lil chihuahua's arent they?

  • Posted By: LLiving10 @ 10/09/2008 9:02:45 PM

    If being an unsuccessful leach is your thing in life, fine, but if nothing else, vote for McCain to keep out defenses strong. It's the only useful function of the government you should be concerned with.

    If you knew how close certain terrorist countries and people are to obtaining nuclear and mass destruction weapons, you would fall over. They are striving for them and plotting. Plotting all day, everyday. They will succeed. All so they can kill you. Carter, Clinton, etc. have proven the dems weakness on defense. Clinton could have stopped 9/11 numerous times, but it wasn't a priority. We know what his priority was.

    Clinton never once insisted hussein adhere to the sanctions that caused the Iraq war. The WMD thing was way after the fact that he repeatedly didn't allow inspections. You wouldn't know that, because you were probably out boozing with the other dipshits. It took someone w/some balls, Bush, to put an end to it..

    When you do things to be successful in life, like me, then staying safe is the only thing you want the government to do for you. They are getting so close to having the means to end you, and you don't even realize it. BOOM, you're gone. How anyone could watch the 9/11 shows, or live through it, and vote democrat should be studied.

    I will certainly take more of the same in terms of staying on the offensive against evil countries and people. Give me a lot more of the same.

    • Posted By: chris s. @ 10/10/2008 9:50:13 AM

      Enter Your Comment
      I feel sorry for Palin. She is being used and she is either unaware or not bright enough to stand up for herself.

      Oh, and here we go on that whole scary HUSSEIN thing again. For the umteenth time it's an ethnic middle name. Nothing more or less. If it were say, Gunther, you'd say he was a nazi.

      • Posted By: edjones65 @ 10/10/2008 12:14:05 PM

        He was not talking about Obama, he was referring to the upteenth sanctions placed opon Iraq by the U.N. before the Iraq War and if I remember correctly they even shot at one of our planes in the No- Fly zone( do not quote me on that one, I could be wrong on that last part).

  • Posted By: IDon'tUnderstand @ 10/10/2008 12:05:42 PM

    I'm always amazed how how quick the "right" jumps to defend one of their own. Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska, is not qualified to be the Vice-President of the United States. If I had mangled the English language as she does when I was in school, my teachers would have failed me. This woman's perceived experience may be great for Alaska, but not the entire Nation. She may be cute and intelligent, but she has shown repeatedly that she is not ready to be on the "national stage." I know the right will should about my "nose being up in the air," however, I want the leaders of the U.S. to be more than mediocre. I want someone smarter than me. I don't want my next door neighbor or "Joe SixPack," running this country. Sarah Palin was a bad choice from its inception. She should not be Vice-President. We should expect better from our leaders.

  • Posted By: LDO_Commander @ 10/09/2008 10:14:15 PM

    Gov. Palin is definitely an accomplished woman and I applaud her for what she has done. I think she is very intelligent. I just think Mr. McCain put the nail in the coffin when he nominated her. My reasons are simple, if it were a man that was the Gov of Alaska and Mayor of a small town and then picked to possibly be President of the United States everyone would be screaming at Mr. McCain "What are you thinking?" This is like taking the person who has been the Principle of an Elementary School and puting them in position to be the Dean at Harvard. That person may have experienced the same types of activities but on such a scale that no one would say that experience prepared them for such a massive job. I am in the military and have voted Republican for every election since I started to vote in 1980. We have a practice in the military called Operational Risk Management. If you analyzed the risk that Ms Palin would become President and Commander in Chief; a job that I truly think she is not ready for you would say that the probability is at least moderate and the consequences are disasterous hence you would not accept this risk.

    • Posted By: edjones65 @ 10/10/2008 12:05:27 PM

      That was a good point

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