Let's face it: While she may be shaky as a candidate in terms of experience, as a "brand" she couldn't have been better unless she had plopped out that Downs Syndrome baby by virgin birth.
;D
From deep within the files of the Mccain campaign, it has been unearthed. Sarah Palin's resume....
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/8/30/134821/488
Does this require a login ID? I can see the comments but not the file?
I am not a republican, but I cannot stop smiling about McCain's choice! It's pretty exciting about picking a woman to get back to what the Democrats did not dare do. More so with the "experience" this lady has. It's so fun and getting so much attention that it's like a reality show, "oh, it is reality!" Who knows, if they win maybe she'll give us a big surprise at those who laughed! :o
I do congratulate McCain for his bravery in breaking the Republican norm! ;D Maybe he is showing a different personality now so people will stop comparing him to Bush!
Some commentator on FOX news said "well she does have some foreign relations experience; she lives in Alaska and isn't that right next to Russia?" SERIOUSLY.
I scanned some of the liberal blogs and it seems they are trying to find anything and everything to throw at her and see what sticks. The conspiracy theory that her daughter really had her last child made me shake my head - people really need to know when to land the ship. And it reeks of knee-jerk panic.
Seems like the wider media is giving Palin pretty good reviews. My Republican friends seem really pumped up. Having the right-wing grassroots and noise machine fired up is a plus for McCain alone. Once again the Republicans will control the narrative as they are so adept at doing in these presidential elections.
And a CNN poll today has the race tied and the tracking polls are all deflating back to closer levels. And Laura Bush today warned the Democrats about sexism against Palin. They are playing this choice like a violin while the left is throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks and is lucky the MSM isn't running with some of this conspiracy junk as it will just tarnish Obama.
Doesn't surprise me though...I'm an optimist generally, but not when it comes to Democrat's ability to win presidential elections. It's gonna be a nail biter IMHO.
Seems the daughter is pregnant.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080901/pl_nm/usa_politics_palin_dc_3
The conspiracy theory that her daughter really had her last child made me shake my head - people really need to know when to land the ship. And it reeks of knee-jerk panic.
What wine pairs best with a Mooseburger?...
Just 20 months ago, she was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, a town of 6,500 where the biggest issue is controlling growth and the biggest annual worry is whether there will be enough snow for the Iditarod dog-mushing race.
They are stuck with their bad choice.
PALIN WAR: TEEN PREGO CRISIS
Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin attempted to quietly have her daughter Bristol get married before news of her pregnancy leaked out, the NATIONAL ENQUIRER is reporting exclusively in its new issue.
Palin planned for the wedding to take place right after the Republican National Convention and then she was going to announce the pregnancy.
But Bristol, 17, refused to go along with the plan and that sparked a mother-daughter showdown over the failed coverup.
The ultra-conservative governor’s announcement about her daughter’s pregnancy came hours after The ENQUIRER informed her representatives and family members of Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol’s child, that we were aware of the pregnancy and were going to break the news.
In a preemptive strike Palin released the news, creating political shockwaves.
The ENQUIRER has also learned that Palin’s family is embroiled in a vicious war that is now exposing her darkest secrets, threatening to destroy her political career.
Palin’s ongoing war with her ex brother-in-law Mike Wooten, a state trooper, has caused multiple sources to come forward with shocking allegations about the governor.
Details of those allegations, the family feud, and Palin’s attempt to cover up her teen daughter’s pregnancy are in the new issue of The ENQUIRER.
I also wanted to add that I'm a fan of Palin and of James Dobson.
I don't understand the argument that Obama isn't fit to be an executive because he doesn't have executive experience (like being a small town mayor/governor for 20 months). Doesn't that mean McCain, who also has only been a Senator/Congressman, is also not fit to be in the Executive branch of government?
I also wanted to add that I'm a fan of Palin and of James Dobson.
Republicans just want to divide us, and that doesn`t work. It hasn`t and never will.
Sorry, it does and it will. Hopefully America will see through their game this time. Hopefully.
(PS - I have decided NOT to buy Goodyear tires for my car, since they discriminated against a woman in management and would not give her back pay equal to men's who did the same job; this was upheld in the Supreme Court, but Ruth B. Ginsberg gave a very sternly worded dissention) Equal pay for equal work is a MAJOR sore spot with me, as all my working life I have seen people paid unfairly or 'differently' for a variety of reasons. If they install Palin as VP, perhaps she'll be willing to work for less than Biden would....... >:(
This was a brilliant choice.
she is terrific, charming, funny in a "can easily turn mean" kind of way. She had the women in the crowd cheering. It was like 2004, when the same women mocked Kerry's war records by wearing the band-aids with the purple hearts on them.
She swept up the under-educated, anti-intellectual, anti-individualistic, sheep mentality demographic in a way Mccain never ever could.
Those people DO NOT WANT a smart person in the office. They DO NOT WANT a Nobel laureate. They do not want someone intellectually or culturally superior to them as a leader. IN their reality television, world-wide wrestling, cowneck sweater, frosted hair world, they want what they got in Bush: One of their own.
Never, ever underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers. This election will be close. very close. And in the end, it will be the vapid, snooty intellectuals who have thus far been under-affected by the collapse of our government who decide our fate. The idiots who vote for Ron Paul to "send a message" will determine our fate. The Arses who can't pull themselves out of Starbucks long enough to stand in line at a voting poll will decide our fate.
The people who say they love us and support us, but secretly despise our HIv "lifestyle" will determine our fate.
The people who are racist will determine our fate. And there are so many of them, dressed up just like human beings.
Unless we, who actually read, who actually understand the process and it's failures, act. Mobilize. Take our friends who are crippled with neuropathy with us to the polls. Take the ghosts of those who have died serving a country that did not serve them back, take whatever spirit we have and go vote.
This is not the time to be passive. because there are far more of them than there are of us. I know, I am related to several. My own brother voted for Bush twice, and will vote Republican this time with his stupid, nasty wife. Even though it's a vote that will endanger his children's future, physically and financially. Because at the end of the day, he is a mean, selfish person who would rather be head sheep than just another Shepard.
Those of us who absolutely cannot get out to vote should use this powerful tool, the internet, to arrange absentee voting.
And those of us with families who teeter on the edge should remind them that our medical futures, our Ryan White funding, our Medicare, our housing and our expensive medications are at serious risk. Have been for almost eight years. We should remind our families with children that abstinence-only education directly leads to an earlier sexual experience, ignorance of proper condom use, an the rise in HIV among young people which should not be happening.
*edited to add
Those of us with limited incomes are struggling as food prices soar. They do so artificially, and this trend can be reversed. The insanity of using corn for fuel (which is only a limited success) at the expense of feeding cattle and humans is evident each time we see eggs, milk, bread prices skyrocket. Nutrition is the single most important element when it comes to surviving HIV. Without proper nutrition, we weaken, our immune systems collapse, and all the meds in the world cannot take the place of decent food. Add to that the dietary restrictions the meds place on so many of us (low sodium, low cholesterol, high fiber/protein) and the choice becomes clear. We simply cannot afford more of this trend, a trend which will not abate if Mccain is placed in office. Do I have my doubts about Obama? Of course I do. But someone who is willing to try is, in my opinion, better than someone whose record of voting has placed us squarely where we stand today.
* end of edit.
Dark ages or Renaissance? Its our call this time. We have to save ourselves. And yeah, its that important.
just saying.
Every time I hear about the ten million dollars Obama raised immediately after her speech, I think, hey they're talking about me.What a great way to look at donations. Tonight I am going to send a little change. And that is saying something since I didn't even do that for Hillary.....:)
Never, ever underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers. This election will be close. very close. And in the end, it will be the vapid, snooty intellectuals who have thus far been under-affected by the collapse of our government who decide our fate.
And I'll spare everyone my personal observations on the politics of our neighbours to the south.
There is a God. ;D
More please.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=955Y3NJTRIE
More please.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=955Y3NJTRIE
Wasn't that great?! Biden found his groove yesterday.
As for Palin, see this must read from the cover of today's NY Times:
In Palin’s Life and Politics, Goal to Follow God’s Will
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/us/politics/06church.html
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a "per diem" allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state business.
The governor also has charged the state for travel expenses to take her children on official out-of-town missions. And her husband, Todd, has billed the state for expenses and a daily allowance for trips he makes on official business for his wife.
Palin, who earns $125,000 a year, claimed and received $16,951 as her allowance, which officials say was permitted because her official "duty station" is Juneau, according to an analysis of her travel documents by The Washington Post.
The governor's daughters and husband charged the state $43,490 to travel, and many of the trips were between their house in Wasilla and Juneau, the capital city 600 miles away, the documents show.
The Republicans gained control of the narrative the moment they nominated Palin. The tone and tenor of this campaign will no longer be about issues (if it ever was). The Republicans could very well ride this strategy all the way into the White House. They know what they're doing and they know they never have to underestimate the gullibilty of the American voter to do the wrong thing. It's sad, but true.
Bingo, Hal. It's all so depressing. Bush won twice because the typical uninformed voter thought he sounded more like them, and he'd be fun to have a beer with. Gore, Kerry and Obama have all been painted successfully as elites, and "not like us." Policies and abilities don't matter anymore.
Very, very sad.
when the self-professed "pitbull with lipstick" will run up against more experience and talent than she's ever run up against in her life.
I was frustrated by the election anyway but Palin has put me over the edge. America is a democratic republic-- citizens don't make the decisions we chose the people to make decisions for us. Therefore you want the smartest, wisest, most experienced people to lead the country.
If those attributes are now carrying negative connotations, does that mean that underachieving dumbfucks have attained some glamour I'd never previously noticed?
I don't expect anyone here understands much better than I, but I truly wish someone would explain to me why "elite" and "intellectual" have been used as pejoratives in this campaign. If those attributes are now carrying negative connotations, does that mean that underachieving dumbfucks have attained some glamour I'd never previously noticed?
What I read are Vague ideas? promises... but, neither canidate has shown who will pay for this?
I don't expect anyone here understands much better than I, but I truly wish someone would explain to me why "elite" and "intellectual" have been used as pejoratives in this campaign. If those attributes are now carrying negative connotations, does that mean that underachieving dumbfucks have attained some glamour I'd never previously noticed?
It's all part of the general and complete dumbing down of our life and culture. Look at the crappy movies that are the most popular, the highest-rated TV shows, the disgusting and ludicrous so-called music, etc., etc. Our politics has been dumbed down as well, because so many of the voters are dumb. Kids mock anyone of their peers with any signs of intellect. What books are the most popular? Comic books have become the source of common "wisdom." Anyone "intellectual" has become an effete nerd. Any male interested in the arts is a fag. Dumb fucks identify with other dumb fucks, and they vote for them. All kids today are told by their parents that they are brilliant and can do and be anything. Everyone thinks they can be on "American Idol," and look who wins that contest. Paris Hilton is the new "elite." We are surrounded by complete mediocrity. That has become the new elite. Why should our politics be any different?
From a new Associated Press poll:
Sarah Palin ranked higher, at 42 percent, than either McCain or Obama when white women were asked which candidate shares their values and principles “a lot.” ???
Looks like our Democratic PUMA's just haven't "healed" yet.....
Seems the press has uncovered yet another huge Sarah Palin lie (http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/09/13/palin_camp_clarifies_extent_of_iraq_trip/).
Seems the press has uncovered yet another huge Sarah Palin lie (http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/09/13/palin_camp_clarifies_extent_of_iraq_trip/). This all reminds of the Bush administration where they'd overload the press with so many lies, that by the time they were corrected there were already 3 more lies in the press so nothing ever gained a bit of traction until it was all too late. Totally what the lead up to the Iraq War was like. It's most distressing.I'm more concerned that this trip to Kuwait (and mythically to Iraq) is being used to tout her foreign policy expertise and yet she appears to have spent her time overseas speaking almost exclusively to Alaskans. How does that add to her foreign policy expertise in the slightest?
From a new Associated Press poll:
Sarah Palin ranked higher, at 42 percent, than either McCain or Obama when white women were asked which candidate shares their values and principles “a lot.” ???
Looks like our Democratic PUMA's just haven't "healed" yet.....
I'm more concerned that this trip to Kuwait (and mythically to Iraq) is being used to tout her foreign policy expertise and yet she appears to have spent her time overseas speaking almost exclusively to Alaskans. How does that add to her foreign policy expertise in the slightest?
And, FWIW, the Boston Herald is a Murdoch-owned tabloid that's meant to be a splinter in the eye of the overwhelmingly progressive population there. I really wouldn't believe 3/4 of what they print.
OMG...
I can not believe this, but then again I can. So silly.....
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/16/palin-allies-sue-to-halt-trooper-probe/
Considering how many right-wing fundie christian men have been busted for gay sex over the last year or so, maybe one of us could get caught fucking Todd. He is kinda hot actually. I'd volunteer, but Norm would never allow it.....
<Bucko raises hand to volunteer for the challenge, tub of Elbow Grease in one hand, remote control for required porn viewing in the other>
"Lie back and think of England"
Another point: Lately, it seems that our lovely (Thanx to God and a series of painful operations) Ms. Palin has been saying that Obama is nothing more than a "community organizer" Methinks it would be well of her to avoid using this description. CaptCarl
"God made dinosaurs 4,000 years ago as ultimately flawed creatures, lizards of Satan really, so when they died and became petroleum products we, made in his perfect image, could use them in our pickup trucks, snow machines and fishing boats."
-- Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin in an interview with the Anchorage Daily News in 2006.
Please tell me that is a joke and she didn't actually say that. I'm serious.
"God made dinosaurs 4,000 years ago as ultimately flawed creatures, lizards of Satan really, so when they died and became petroleum products we, made in his perfect image, could use them in our pickup trucks, snow machines and fishing boats."
-- Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin in an interview with the Anchorage Daily News in 2006.
I do, however, believe it's within the voters' rights to know if a VP candidate believes that dinosaurs and man walked the earth at the same time.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/15/bess/index1.html
Here's a quote from the above Salon link:
Another valley activist, Philip Munger, says that Palin also helped push the evangelical drive to take over the Mat-Su Borough school board. "She wanted to get people who believed in creationism on the board," said Munger, a music composer and teacher. "I bumped into her once after my band played at a graduation ceremony at the Assembly of God. I said, 'Sarah, how can you believe in creationism -- your father's a science teacher.' And she said, 'We don't have to agree on everything.'
"I pushed her on the earth's creation, whether it was really less than 7,000 years old and whether dinosaurs and humans walked the earth at the same time. And she said yes, she'd seen images somewhere of dinosaur fossils with human footprints in them."
I said when everyone was up in arms about Bill & Monica that what a politican did with his dick really didn't matter to me and I stand by it today with one exception, what a politician does with her vagina really doesn't matter to me. Whether it is a republican or democrat my belief is the same. Hyporcisy aside, what matters is how they govern or will govern. I think we know enough that no matter what Palin does and with who either in her bedroom or local rent by the hour motel to know that on the issues she is not qualified and her views are way to extreme. As an example I present this:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=5881256
I Masturbated To Sarah Palin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=C0kGc6UEGVc)
And you can too! ;D
http://www.palinaspresident.com/
;D
click here bitches (http://homepage.mac.com/bedstuy65/.Pictures/debate.jpg)