The Palin Problem

Oh my, little gillca! You are certainly told alot of things. May you actually think for yourself? I assume you are about 17 years old.

Has anyone found out why Palin took more than 7 years to get a simple BA in Journalism? A course that has no Math, Physics or Chemistry Courses. I 'm told McCain was almost last in his class at the military college. Any knowledge about that? If this is true, could it be the reason why most of their followers confused. Palin when she talks sounds very unprofessional and excited like a kid a Disney.

That's a trick question?

There isn't any!

Ha, ha! Gotcha!

John McCain Gave Khalidi more than 400,00 Thousand $$ yet tries to Soley Tie Obama to Khalidi
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John has some Explaining to do...Financing Terrorism, with over 400,000 US Dollars too.
For the past two months, a major American magazine and an allied news...

Mccain is going to have an Upset Stomach, when his A!! is outted for giving [Khalidi] More than 400,000 $$$ and McCain's Tax Papers Prove it as well !!!

John McCain is an Ole Semi-Senile Fool.....can't wait til this hits all Mass Media !!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/mccain-funded-work-of-pal_n_138606.html

Note: McCain Financially supported Khalidi and is now trying to tie Obama to Khalidi, though McCain himself was Closely tied to the Palestenian and backed him withover 400,000 $$$
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The McCain camp gambit comes after conservative writers have repeatedly pressed for media outlets to write about the rather tenuous connections between Obama and Khalidi, an outspoken advocate for Palestinian rights.

Specifically, National Review writers want much more attention paid to the association, given that the LA Times has reported that Khalidi lavished praise on Obama at a farewell party in Chicago at which Bill Ayers was also present. (Other writers have accused Khalidi of being an aide to Yasser Arafat, a claim which Marc Ambinder and Ari Berman have suggested is not credible.)

In regards to Khalidi, however, the guilt-by-association game burns John McCain as well.

During the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McCain distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including one worth half a million dollars.

Big Note: A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-led group shows a $448,873 grant to Khalidi's Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank. (See grant number 5180, "West Bank: CPRS" on page 14 of this PDF.)

The relationship extends back as far as 1993, when John McCain joined IRI as chairman in January. Foreign Affairs noted in September of that year that IRI had helped fund several extensive studies in Palestine run by Khalidi's group, including over 30 public opinion polls and a study of "sociopolitical attitudes."

Of course, there's seemingly nothing objectionable with McCain's organization helping a Palestinian group conduct research in the West Bank or Gaza. But it does suggest that McCain could have some of his own explaining to do as he tries to make hay out of Khalidi's ties to Obama.

John McCain Gave Khalidi more than 400,00 Thousand $$ yet tries to Soley Tie Obama to Khalidi
----------------------------------
For the past two months, a major American magazine and an allied news...

Mccain is going to have an Upset Stomach, when his A!! is outted for giving [Khalidi] More than 400,000 $$$ and McCain's Tax Papers Prove it as well !!!

John McCain is an Ole Semi-Senile Fool.....can't wait til this hits all Mass Media !!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/mccain-funded-work-of-pal_n_138606.html

Note: McCain Financially supported Khalidi and is now trying to tie Obama to Khalidi, though McCain himself was Closely tied to the Palestenian and backed him withover 400,000 $$$
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The McCain camp gambit comes after conservative writers have repeatedly pressed for media outlets to write about the rather tenuous connections between Obama and Khalidi, an outspoken advocate for Palestinian rights.

Specifically, National Review writers want much more attention paid to the association, given that the LA Times has reported that Khalidi lavished praise on Obama at a farewell party in Chicago at which Bill Ayers was also present. (Other writers have accused Khalidi of being an aide to Yasser Arafat, a claim which Marc Ambinder and Ari Berman have suggested is not credible.)

In regards to Khalidi, however, the guilt-by-association game burns John McCain as well.

During the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McCain distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including one worth half a million dollars.

Big Note: A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-led group shows a $448,873 grant to Khalidi's Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank. (See grant number 5180, "West Bank: CPRS" on page 14 of this PDF.)

The relationship extends back as far as 1993, when John McCain joined IRI as chairman in January. Foreign Affairs noted in September of that year that IRI had helped fund several extensive studies in Palestine run by Khalidi's group, including over 30 public opinion polls and a study of "sociopolitical attitudes."

Of course, there's seemingly nothing objectionable with McCain's organization helping a Palestinian group conduct research in the West Bank or Gaza. But it does suggest that McCain could have some of his own explaining to do as he tries to make hay out of Khalidi's ties to Obama.

I think the Republicans have figured out how to turn the Palin Problem into a Palin Positive. I've been watching the various shows the last few days, and I am surprised at how much press Sarah Palin is getting --and the point is that she is getting more attention than anybody since she is at the center of this supposed rift in the McCain campaign. McCain's own people are labeling his VP pick a "Diva" and a "Whack Job"? It's just not believable that the McCain campaign is in the dysfunctional state that we are being led to believe. I seriously wonder if McCain's camp is not purposefully putting out the schism idea because they know the media won't be able to resist it. It seems to me that more attention is being given to Palin and this pretend meltdown within the McCain campaign than is being devoted to the important issues from either side. Obama's message is being drowned out, which works for the Republicans, who didn't find a consistent message until the plumber fell into their lap. From what I can tell in my small world, I think the Palin diversionary tactic is working. Michael Moore got it right when he said last week on Larry King that the Democrats will either figure out a way to lose or the Republicans will simply outsmart them.

Anybody wonder why McC can't come up with a smear, fear and hate propaganda machine that appeals to the informed, thinking, majority?

A lot is said, mainly being offered to discredit the candidates, with most of it being emotional or exaggerated garbage and even intentionally deceptive. The credibility of the facts offered, being always out of context and without complete information, is totally questionable and actually often meaningless. Each of us has to put our own biases, prejudices and emotions aside to be objective and rational to not allow ourselves to be manipulated by the garbage aimed at us and then make our own decision. When people push their preferred choice by referencing a fact, the ???truth???, an article or website, to be really and equitably informed we should go to the opposing website and find the information to counter, clarify, debunk and / or disprove what is offered. I guarantee another position will be available but that is really an unending process. One thing we can lean on is our own impression of the candidates' character and personality void of the labels, others' opinions and the BS and then decide how we each think they would act if at the helm. It is an easy read and decision for me, which I feel is fully supported by the candidates??? history, but then everyone needs to decide that for themselves.

If they can keep us concerned about problems of being too ???liberal???, then they have us distracted and looking the wrong way. The drastic problems we now have are because of the greed and dishonesty of a few, because of our government???s focus on benefit for Special Interests and a select few, because of our government???s deceptive and irresponsible neglect of any concern for the majority, and with all of it being because of the power and pressure from a few, rationalized as ???conservative??? thinking. If it takes someone with a more ???liberal??? view to turn things around, then we better bring them on. We need to realize McCain and Palin simply don???t offer anything but more of the same. They talk of change but offer nothing specific, only empty rhetoric. What McCain does change is his position frequently. First he brags that he shares Bush???s philosophy and that he voted with Bush 90% of the time and in-between he says that he isn???t Bush, that Bush???s policies failed, that he is different and will provide change from Bush. We have actually seen him change multiple times almost each day as the economic crisis unfolded, always worried about political advantage instead of finding real answers. McCain is really not convincing as he is either unsure and tentative or impulsive and poorly thought out without any real answers and only criticizes Obama who in contrast does confidently present detailed plans. McCain vacillates between his need to convince his ???conservative??? base and trying to manipulate the voters with the most likely result being that he would just provide more of the same; the same Bush-Cheney style failed ???conservative??? policies that he has supported all along. We really can???t take more of the same, whatever you want to call it!

i would like to know where senator mccain gets the gumption to say that he knows how to win a war. i hope he is not referring to vietnam. his history knowledge is really cloudy. he also calims he knows where to find bin ladin. its been over 6 years, sowhere is he ?

I LOVE IT! Step 1) Bash the new person. Step 2) Don't bash her opponent. Step 3) Call it "The Palin Problem" because look! She's getting all the bad press, she must be the problem! For every mis-statement the Gov. Palin has made, I can show you 2 that Sen. Biden also made - that he wasn't called out on. This doesn't even include the encyclopedia questions asked of Palin that were NEVER asked of Biden (see Couric interview). At leasr Gov. Plain says 'I'll get back to you'. Biden just lies through his teeth: 'Let me just set the record straight. Sen. Obama NEVER said he would sit down with leaders of terrorist states!" Oops. Nice try Joe. Even my kid saw that you were full of horse hockey.

FIRST WATCH VIDEO (Link below) - Obama - On the Job Training on Day One?:
Past comments from fellow Democrats (e.g. Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, John Edwards and Joe Biden) about Barack Obama: Obama, ready to lead? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Re0Z5xOC6w


THEN READ THIS: Joe Biden says he will be Obama's foreign policy mentor? Biden: "I've forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know, so I'm not being falsely humble with you. I think I can be value added, but this guy (Obama) has it."

After saying the above, Biden saw that there was a reporter in the house. So he went on to say: I probably shouldn't have said all this (given he spotted the media being present). (Oops! He did it again. . . )


THEN READ THIS
BIDEN SAID TO THE PRESS SUNDAY 10/19/08:
Mark my words, the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama . . . Watch, we are gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.

Is Obama perceived by leaders around the world as being soft. . .? . . .untested. . . And weak?


Is anyone else not feeling real warm and fuzzy about Biden being Obamas Foreign Policy guru, never mind Obama as POTUS?