In office, Palin hired friends and hit critics

Boy you are so MSNBC! You all know the press is out to kill her. Contrary to Obama who the press just "loved". It is so sad. You know there are things I like about Obama, and some I don't. Vise versa with McCain. The press is so Pro-Obama, well, except Fox, but that is one national network against four. I love your MSNBC talking points. Again, you are sooooo MSNBC!!!!

Truth hurts, huh nbk7. The truth about the Bush/Cheney agenda is killing me!!!!

You must be doing something really wrong, killerb. I've THRIVED under Bush/Cheney. Just like most people who don't look to the government for handouts, live within their means and support their families.

Try working for a living. Taking a little responsibility, maybe. Then you can stop blaming Bush and Cheney for your 'near death' life.

rjs, you ARE aware that Obama voted along party lines 97% of the time, right?

Her mother-in-law, Faye Palin, has been asked not to speak to reporters, and aides sit in on interviews with old friends.

At a recent lunch gathering, an official with the Wasilla Chamber of Commerce asked its members to refer all calls from reporters to the governor's office. Diane Woodruff, a city councilwoman, shook her head.

"I was thinking, I don't remember giving up my First Amendment rights," Ms. Woodruff said. "Just because you're not going gaga over Sarah doesn't mean you can't speak your mind."

Not the person who even needs to be in government

Did you know that Obama supported Bush 80% of the time?

Not much difference, is there?

RJ, Superlative post. Thank you for sharing reasoning and logical deduction. And, Logdump, it doesn't take an Einstein to comprehend why the Repubs are terrified of the Palin Neanderthals uttering even a sentence fragment! They aren't even permitted to utter, yawl, come have a few cracker crumbs while I butcher and shred me a few of dem dar moose and wolfies. Yawl, come. Leave your brain caps on dat dar hat tree with all dem dar brainwashing. Don't dar think and don't dar say a verd.

Some really funny stuff - both in the article and posted here. One conservative poster writes that Obama voted with his party 97% of the time - and only a few posts down another conservative poster writes that he voted with Bush 80% of the time. You guys might want to get your talking points straight before airing them publicly.

The higher taxes scare tactic is a good, tried and untrue method. Especially when it has been repeatedly debunked since the majority of taxpayers would pay less under his policy. but, by all means, keep doing what has worked in the past - like deceptive ads and smear campaigns. Oh, and blaming the media. You conveniently forget that Obama has been in the public eye for more than a year since the campaigns began and was under scrutiny for everything from lapel pins to his pastor. now, it has been like four weeks, and it is Palin's turn. Of course the press is going to "vet" her. Especially an unknown entity.

In the story, I am most amused by a couple of things. She had a campaign manager for mayor of a town of less than 10,000 people? I don't know if any of you have lived in towns that small before (I have) and the job is often part-time and with little pay. The city manager is a professional that does most of the daily work and is just directed by the mayor and city council. The couple of small towns I've lived in (both even a little larger than Wasilla) the mayor was either a retired person or a business person doing it in addition to their full-time jobs. Secondly, to get a city vehicle? I cannot imagine explaining that to the taxpayers of a town that small.

Basically, this all sounds a lot like the way the current administration has dome its business so I can see why they liked her so much.

Go ahead, conservatives, rip me a new one. I'm sure we'll hear more about how unfair the media is to question your candidate and how they give Obama a free pass. Ad by the way, the per diem story didn't go away. It is still ridiculous to pull in a per diem allowance when you are at home.

Well I can tell you that in my experience, each time a Democrat has been elected president, my tax burden has gone up DRAMATICALLY. It went up under Carter, and it went WAY up under Clinton.
I'm not a big Bush fan, but can anyone tell me the last time a Democrat EVER gave tax dollars back to the people who ACTUALLY PAID THEM, and not the welfare bums?

Michael, you must be making lots of money! I am a teacher, and my taxes have gone up under Bush, and my salary has not kept up with inflation. I make 10 dollars a month more than I did last year, and just the cost of eggs eats that pitiful amount up. I don't know of anyone that has improved their lot since Bush took office, unless it's the big insurance companies, the rich doctors, or big business.

You're STATE taxes went up. Under Clinton we ended up w/a surplus. Surplus reflects a governement that has overburdened taxpayers.

keeps on giving to the Conservatives.
My prediction is that this story will suddenly dissapear. Similar to the phony uproar about her taking a per diem. Thanks for boosting McCain's poll numbers a little higher. The libs obviously haven't learned their lesson about freaking out over non-issues.

"My prediction is that this story will suddenly dissapear. Similar to the phony uproar about her taking a per diem. Thanks for boosting McCain's poll numbers a little higher. The libs obviously haven't learned their lesson about freaking out over non-issues. "

Baby, it hasn't disappeared. It is just covered by mounds of other scandals. The pile just gets bigger and bigger. This bi*ch will break under the heavy load!!!

so proerb, does that mean you like to smoke POT? Obama supporters are such stoners!

It wasn't pot that Obama admitted to. It was cocaine.

Obama supporters are such stoners!

And the McCain/Bush folks are pill poppers and alcoholics!!!

Its interesting that so many people ( killerb for example ) can't look at this election with any detachment and they're playing out a dream scenario in their heads, that X is an issue or that the media will do Y. They're trying to talk themselves out of the prospect of a tight race. The Republicans have been pretty somber since day One - they never expected to win, so all this Palin business looks like Hope to them. The left on the other hand have gone from a political high to dread, and its interesting to watch them self-destruct on the blogs. Its almost like watching Alec Baldwin in Team America start blathering about "corporate America" toward the end.

Jennifer, very well put. They really are beginning to implode.

You almost have to feel sorry for Barack (I said 'almost')...He personally, hasn't said a whole lot. But his constituents, mostly the whacked out far left have made him look horrible. Gives new proof to the old saying "You are judged by the company you keep." I'm betting Obama retires in the evening saying to Michelle.."Ya know hon...I bet I could win this thing if it weren't for the stupidity of my supporters."

We are laughing at you stupid trolls. Get your money before its too late.

Wow do I love Sarah Palin and her fantastic list of appointed friends! She's so wonderful compared to Barack Obama and his long list of despicable associates, "church" friends and Obamaites.

I, one voice of over 18 million other Hillary supporters, will do whatever it takes to ensure that anyone OTHER THAN BARACK OBAMA is in the White House next year. If we can take 2 million of the 18 million away from Obama - it will be over for him!!! I think it already is based on what we are seeing in the polls.

God Bless Sarah Palin - we have hope to have a woman, a real American woman with her own mind, in the White House someday. Hillary couldn't do it but Sarah just might.

NOBAMA in '08

I agree Pat N. The GOP is enjoying an infusion of support if you look at the polls, but those people don't seem to be the angry ones motivated to come load the blogs. They've been very quiet the whole time, and I expect they'll quietly go vote in November. If I learned anything from Ron Paul, its that the Internet is not an accurate indicator of what happens on election day, and Yes, some supporters are unfortunately used to characterize the candidate. I think the bottom line is that many minds are set and none are being changed on the blogs. People are going to vote according to their convictions.

Jennifer,
Your post got me thinking...

I think it would be an interesting statistic to find out how many people that 'vent' on the blogs actually go vote. Or are they just angry isolationists that never leave the house? (OK...most probably aren't quite that extreme)

I'm not so sure minds have been made up. Our County Supervisor lives 3 doors down. He's a staunch Democrat, but not a liberal. He said he disliked BOTH candidates in the beginning but is now leaning more toward McCain for a couple of reasons. One of those reasons is that he doesn't want to be associated with the behaviour exhibited by the left in this election.

Why would anyone think that we have to feel sorry for Obama when he will be the next President of United States. Most of us now recognize what the Republicans are about: nothing but selfishness.
Sure, they promote right to life, and then make sure I have to pay for raising their children. How many staffers will be hired to take care of the Palen kids. Sure, they are all for war but most of them never went and never will be under fire. Their children will get Bush and Cheney like exceptions. Sure they will be bring God back into American life; you know the White Guy with the beard. The God of our understanding is ok as long as she approves.
No thank you. I didn't believe Obama could look so good a year ago or that McCain could look so bad. Well, I got a feeling the White House is in for a change.

Some of the most respected journalist have commented on the "misrepresentations and lies" of the McCain Campaign. I never thought he would stoop so low.

I wonder Elithian, is she not married...just checking. Why is her children such a huge issue....if it is then why isn't anyone asking Michelle Obama why SHE isn't with her children while stumping for her husband....you double standard libs.

None of the respected journalists have reported anything unfair to the "second coming". Explain to me this wise guy....how is it that it took 18 months for the story about Reverend Wright to make it to mainstream media and it only took two days for NBC to post a story about Palin and her church?

As for war or even serving, I have given up 11 years of my life so you can freely spew your delusional filth from your mouth....how many have you given.

Yes, 3sheets, I can't say I'm surprised either. But I am disgusted. The Republicans jumped too quickly picking Palin, and now there will be hell to pay. She is an idiot.

Pat N
My wife and I vote and I will vote for Obama just like a lot here who you say "vent" and probably will not vote. I will also bring a lot of the "venters" to the polls with me. I think there are too many people like you who try to make a bad name of people by calling them the "left" or "those liberals". Fact is those are just labels and not issues. When someone diagrees with something that comes out about Mccain or Palin the Repubs say "They are to the left" which is silly. All this labeling is just clouding the issues. The facts speak for themselves and stout Republicans will not be able to stop people from seeing the truth this time. People like you with your one liners telling us that we are better off under Bush will be a small voice after the election. So keep on blogging that somehow the media is to the "left" this time and putting labels on people because obviously that is all you can do. By the way polls have Obama leading but it will not matter because Obama and Biden will tear Mccain and Palin up in the debate. I mean is a couple of women on the "View" can tear his reasoning to pieces imagine a honed politician. I guess this makes me "left" because I disagree with you. That is why I left the Republicans because the stout ones just do the Rove politics and dilude the issues. What ever happened to the good Republican canidates? I mean is this the best the party could do?

In other words, "if y'aint fer me, then youse agin' me." That leaves no room for any contrary view, Pig-headed, IMO

My question is everyone
Why should the Government bail out those dead beats that don't know about credit or mortagages? I say if you can't pay your bills, sucks to be you.

Right, you mean like the mortgage brokerages, investment firms and banks they have bailed out for, what, not knowing how to do their jobs (that the CEOs earned multiple millions doing poorly and yet still have)? Welfare isn't welfare if it is corporate welfare? Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac are not two people getting food stamps - they are private corporations getting government bailouts.

gottalovem:

You say you were a Hilary supporter but now a McCain supporter primarily because of Palin. Please explain to me why that is. Other than sharing the same gender, they are almost diametric opposites. Palin supports almost everything Clinton does not.

So, if you support Palin only now that Hilary Clinton is not in the race, please explain why other than gender that would be true. Or, and I am innocently asking this, are you just saying you are a former Hilary supporter in the hopes other Hilary supporters will blindly follow you that far to the other side?

Mike, I suggest that you take a good long and close look at who all those Wall Streeters are supporting. Better make sure that you are sitting down when you do. They overwhelmingly support Obama and his buddies.

Jennifer- FU Beeatch!!!

Its interesting that so many people ( killerb for example ) can't look at this election with any detachment and they're playing out a dream scenario in their heads

I am looking at what the Repugnants have done to ALL of us in the last 7+ years. Are you a blind woman or what??? I know for sure that you are not making six figures. Be for real woman!!! Why are we OCCUPYING a country we have no business being in??? It is not a war, it is an OCCUPATION. WE are beneath the law. Bush/McLame should be hanged!!! You are a sheep, lemming puppet. I was brought up in a Catholic household, but just as they are hypocrites, so will I be in saying this...you and your like should and shall wither...and if you don't... I hope the so called "elitists" find another place and your feared Muslims find you and finally put you to rest...and an unhappy one!!!

You can be free before it is too late...take responsibility for your own life and quit blaming the ebb & tide of life on the government. Be thankful that you are not in a totally communist regime like North Korea, China, or what Russia still is.

M K Estes, "You can be free before it is too late...take responsibility for your own life and quit blaming the ebb & tide of life on the government. Be thankful that you are not in a totally communist regime like North Korea, China, or what Russia still is. "

Isn't that the mentality of a dictatorship. Shut up and don't criticise the failings of the government.

This the conservative pack mentality and why most societies in history were tyrannies. People by instinct, like their pack ancestors, long to submit to power. They are wolves in democratic clothing.

Yeah the administration would be much better run if it was packed with people disloyal to the President. Is that the lesson we're supposed to learn? How many employers actively hire saboteurs to their company, or refuse to fire people who argue with the boss? You guys act like Palin is doing something odd or improper when in fact ALL executives in business or politics try to surround themselves with people they can count on.

Real Odd and real improper that is not the way to run a business. It also show less than the required amount of executive skills for a low level manager.

logdump, since when is state government a 'business'?

since when is state government a 'business'?

How about since the government was founded. It is a balance of profits and debits just like any business or household. The difference in Republicans minds is that they like to spend but their eye is not on what is coming in...or in the current situation...like to spend while borrowing from foreign countries that we like to hate and they like to hate us.

What's COMPETENCE got to do with it, say you Jennifer ????

We need loyal people but we need them to be loyal to the constitution. We need people who can keep secrets but secrets like who our covert operators are; not about people who committed treason in revealing them. We need loyalty, but loyalty to the American people; not big business and special interests. We need people who are loyal to the American dream; a dream that doesn't mean you can hire your friends for jobs that are unqualified for, but a dream where merit and achievement come first.
This is loyalty the Republicans haven't delivered since Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford's theatre.

Your kidding right if what you said is true we have a choice between destroyed government by the people or reduced liberties by the other side . I'll take the destroyed government over the loss of my freedoms.You start to removing my freedoms, those people responsible will be headed for a beat down, period.

killerb, you haven't read the Constitution lately, have you? To say that government and a business are the same thing is laughable.

Let's suppose just for a minute that your theory is right. We'll have to scrap the Bill of Rights to make this work...along with the Constitution...but hey, we'll do what we have to do to try and fit your logic.

1) Where are my stock options?
2) When do I get my annual review? If it's good, do I get promoted to a gov't post?
3) If Government is a Business, why didn't you vote for Steve Forbes? He's a successful business man.
4) If Obama cuts taxes (gives a raise) to 95% of the 'employees', won't that hurt the 'companys' bottom line?

Sorry killer b...if you want a country that's run like a business, try China or Russia. They would be happy to tell you what your job will be, how much you will make, how many kids (direct reports) you will have and they will be happy to manage your P&L for you.

Pat--just because government is a business doesn't mean that we are its employees. We are its shareholders, and the government is the board of directors. Where's your stock options? You are not an employee, so you don't get any. Where are your dividends? Look at your SSI statement. If you live to the current average life expectancy, your initial investment will be returned many times over. In fact, current statistics state that you get your investment plus interest in about three years. That was fine when SSI was established, as most men only made it a year or so past their retirement date. today it is closer to 15 for men and more for women. Will giving raises affect the bottom line? Of course. When was the last time yo got a raise? For those earning the federal minimum wage, it is nearly once in a decade. And the problem with the communist countries that were purely socialist is that they were not run like businesses. Or to the extent that they were, the profits were being drained off by corrupt officials and managers, a problem with which China struggles mightily to this day.

Pat N- Ok...ask that of your socialist (I love this part cuz you guys always call Democrats socialists) Repugnant party...who now owns the homes of the American people after the Fannie and Freddie bailout??? Hmmmm, I think that's the government. The bailout prompted by the Repugnants. Hahahaaha. No more calling us Socialists. You lose. Not only are your words ugly...but the picture you post is too.

Cynical to the core.

Government is more than a business. It is a sacred pact between the people, the government and the divine. That is what all these MBA pres. fans don't understand.

Republicans are run by big business that think that the system is there to maximise their profits. Trickle down economics. Robber Baron economics. The sheep under them know only how to follow blindly. Parrot the party line.

What they don't understand is that this government has to protect and serve the welfare of the people. To protect our sacred rights. To allow us to reach our potential. To be the heroes of our lives.

We can either be cattle or heroes.

Enuf, I believe the article says she was doing things "the old way".

It was the "good ole' boy way" she is a pro at using it.

You know, in an election secrecy is not a good thing. Please come to your senses and demand truth and everything to be out on the table. Even if you do not vote for Obama demand to know the truth. Our country is extremely vulnerable.

Reply to Enuf Already -
... you say Palin is what she claims to be, a Reformer? Do you want your government censoring what you can and cannot read, know only what they want you to know, as the Bush Administration has done! She is a radical christian conservative. This country is made up of more than just Christians so stop imposing all of these radical, anti-abortion, God help us build a pipeline beliefs on the rest of us Americans. Republicans claim they want less government, well why don't you look into all of the bills that GWBush has passed over the passed 8 years to impose his authority over the US Citizens and impede the our rights!!!! McCain and Palin and not more of the same.........they are worse!!!!

Obviously, she is spending more time a her home than at the governors mansion, also does not show up and do not respond to emails or requests!!
She just want the money and impose her dictatoship on everyone... anyone against her ideas is an ennemy... I am surprised she has not built a concentration camp, yet.

Enuf....Couldn't agree with you more. A directo quote from the article:

Still, Ms. Palin has many supporters. As a two-term mayor she paved roads and built an ice rink, and as governor she has pushed through higher taxes on the oil companies that dominate one-third of the state's economy. She stirs deep emotions. In Wasilla, many residents display unflagging affection, cheering "our Sarah" and hissing at her critics.

"But," he added, "her governing style raises a lot of hard questions."

The liberals claiming to want change are smoking something. Sarah IS change. They'd love her if she had a 'D' after her name.

Pat N - thank you. Why do the Dems not see that the press is out to get her? It really is sad.

nbk7...They always lash out at those who intimidate them. I think they may have low self esteem.

I feel for Sarah and her family with all the potshots taken at them. But in the end, it will only get McCain/Palin elected. People are sick of the liberals slime.

Last week proudliberal you guys were making the argument she should be staying at home with her kids. Now you're attacking her for staying at home instead of the Governor's mansion.

I think the bottom line is that the facts are irrelevant because you guys are going to manufacture some BS to justify your world view. You don't come to blogs to learn anything, just to spew partisan vitriol.

Depends on what you call a reformer. Reforming for good is good. Reforming for your own benefit is reform.

Her record looks more like "same old, same old". She hires her friends even if they are unqualified, she muscles people who disagree, she abuses power in office in serving personal interest, and goes after money like some old party boss handing out favors stolen from hard working tax payers.
She would have censored the Librarian but her advisors and lawyers prevailed by informing her she would would not get away with it. She violates the separation of powers and will continue do so as long as it serves her interest and she can get away with it. In this violation she perverts our constitution and violates her oath of office.
So how is this different from old fashion corrupt politics?

Eli - good points. To me, it is not much different than what they've got down South, way South, as in Mexico. Just no heads being rolled into crowded discos.

palin is not a reformer - she is just the latest version of Britney Spears or Paris Hitlon and she too will fade from history.

If you have to be at home that much of the time, don't take the job. Most corporate jobs would not allow you to work from home that much. I don't have the answer to this so - unlike others - I will not state it as fact. I don't know where to get the information but maybe someone else does. Please look at the Governor's from the other 49 states and compare how much time they work from a private residence in a city outside the Capitol to Palin's. Maybe this is common practice. I can only say it wasn't in Michigan when I was a reporter there, but I can't speak for the rest.

I agree with e-nough already. Gov. Palin will be a breath of fresh air in our nations capitol. Hilary could not accomplish this, but VP Palin will.

Just so typical. Not a word about issues raised in the article. Just attack the messenger, and try to turn it to your opponent instead. What ever happened to taking responsibility for your actions?

Please, anything said about Palin is sexist and people are treating her unfairly. Give me a break. She is George Bush in a skirt. Same policies, same principals.

"way to go, Brownie"

How much more "crony-ism" should the American people have to withstand. We have just endured 7 1/2 years of leaders that would not listen or change their position even when wrong. They surrounded themselves with "friends" and stopped all questions of the administration by crying "anti-patriotism". I for one have had enough. Let's select a new type of leader.

And give up the Resko/Ayers garbage. Let's let Sarah explain her husbands membership in the ALASKA INDEPENDENCE PARTY for almost 10 years. (factcheck that one) He hasn't said he is "so proud" of his country, he belonged to a party that wants to secede from the US. "ALASKA FIRST, ALASKA ALWAYS". Explain that one.

The Republicans are schooled in telling lies....it's a qualification to be part of their Party. There's a lot more to Palin than has come out so far. The investigation of her corruption while in office and the theft of the Peoples tax money will indict her in the early part of October. Others loyal to her 'school buddies' are also guilty and will turn against their friend Palin to avoid felony convictions. This is the beginning of the end for Ms. Palin.

Poor Princess Sarah! All these liberal meanies trying to find out about you and saying bad things about you. How could they...you are so pretty, and vivacious, and charismatic. You are a supermom and conservative superhero. They should let you be coranated without investigation. After all, the Republican Party says that you are the best....and we must take their word for it because the Republican Party and their conservative bloggers are the only repository for truth (AhhhMennnn) All liberal bloggers and Democrats should be caught and thrown into the deepest darkest dungeons!

Man, you guys on the right are so amazingly desperate. Hey, I hear that this one guy who was a friend of a guy that Obama once met at a party totally killed some people! Why won't the media report on that! It's because the media is a big 'ol Obama lovefest obviously.

When will the American people realize that if we need to know something about Sarah Palin, John McCain and his campaign staff will tell us! He's a straight talking maverick, remember? We all just need to shut up and stop asking questions that make them look bad.

Hey there's that little problem Obama had with the gay man who came out of the closet and started talking about Obama having an affair with him...next thing you know someone kills him!! Or there's the other problems Obama has with socializing with terrorists, taking money from those less fortunate, and being mentored by a racist.

US Freedom could you please post where you found that info on Obama? I like to have my facts before repeating.

Ayers and Resko need no explanation at all Alan Keyes ran through all of that before but since you insist go dig up the dirt and post it if you can find any instead of postin inuendos.

Whats wrong Vonnie you cant take your own style of politics.
You better get use to it!

Satire, hmmm, yet people are so ignorant that they don't even realise. The Germans were wooed into silence and compliance with Hitler's agenda. It was all for some higher good. When ever I see the people riding in the limos gets out and tell me, between bites of caviar, they are wanting to serve me I get my back to the wall and tighten my sphincter muscle. That is especially true when they add a "Praise the Lord" or "In Jesus' name ,Amen". It's not that I am against God, but I am reminded of Mathew, Chapter 6. The Pharisees made a good show too. Again, i looks as if nothing has changed.

Actually logdump I have no intention of posting inuendos, I'm just tired of seeing these outrageous posts and I'm hoping my questions would prompt some of these folks to think before they write this dribble.

Angie - didya have to paint THAT picture? She is George Bush in a skirt - now that funny AND gross.

Out Raged White Male : After all we've learned about Shara Palin How Can Anyone Vote For Her. Her And Her Husband Joining The ALASKA INDEPENDENCE PARTY, The Group That Wants Alaska to be Its Own Nation And No Longer Be Apart Of The United States. Her Failure As A Parent Not Taking Care Of Her Sixteen Year Old Daughter To The Degree She Gets Pregnant. Her Saying She'll Be A Advocate For Special Needs Parents When Before She Had A Special Needs Child She Cut Funding F or Special Needs From 8,000,000 To A Meir 3,000,000. Allowing her sisters husband to drive his police car while drinking and drunk, abusing her sister ,tazing his son but not reporting it until there going through a divorce what care rector. then there's her reputation a her school of being called Shara barracuda because of her oral skills and the soft-core porn flick. yea this is the perfect woman for the republican party. final straw seeing her on Charley Gibson she looked so out of her league only a fool would chance her having to Dael with Putin or Iran.

Why is it when McCain attacks Obama - that's ok? Or when McCain lies to the American people - that's ok? But when Obama responds - he's playing dirty?

To me, the mark of true desperation is when you start reading outlandish lies trying to link someone to a murder. Hey! I remember you! you were the person who posted that stuff about McCain fathering a baby with a black prostitute in 2000! You're back! Of course, now you are working on behalf of McCain, not attempting to stop his election.

Rojack, She has an approval rating greater than 80% by the people she serves. And one of 0% from you. From there you conclude that she is a fraud.

I think you are a baseless bomb thrower!

It is proven who she has hired (family and friends, unquzlified), she waivers on issues, she lies, and in her interview with Charles Gibson, can't answer questions that she should be able to answer very easily. If it looks like a fraud, smells like a fraud, its a fraud...And read up on her, not everyone in Alaska like her!

Of course she is a fraud! an uneducated one. Hahaa.

She wants the MONEY!!

Yes she is and with her act she would not make it to dogcatcher in the lower 48. In Alasaka it may work but in Ny Calif NJ she would not get a smell.

What a sleazy dictator she is, and what a crazed, narcissistic czarina she would be if she ever became presidunce! "The Wasilla High School yearbook archive now doubles as a veritable directory of state government"? She's taken cronyism to appalling new depths. And the pressure she placed on the Wasilla library to ban some of its collection is deplorable! Seems she wants to take modern civilization and its attendant information sources and redo them to fit some 14th-century model of Her Majesty's own choosing. How about that year of home-based per diem? Guess that white "mayormobile" she bought herself with state funding got little use that year! Her laundry list of malfeasance is proof positive that she would be a nightmare of a vice president, perilously close to the presidency herself if McShame kicks the bucket.

You mean the Republicans couldn't do better than THIS??

To the person who said all of the heroes in this article were Democrats and all of the villains were Republicans thus it is a hatchet job. Sorry, but your selective reading skills are showing. Most of the quotes from elected officials - good and bad for Palin - were from Republicans. Keep spinning...

Sambo beat the bitch, Sarah Palin upon hearing Obama beat Hillary.

I know many repubs feel the same way, but I know Hillary voters arent voting for an extreme right-wing brown shirt. Independents, unless they were already leaning hard Right will do their homework and vote Obama.

IF DEMS VOTE DEMS WIN.

BUT WE NEED EVERY DEM VOTE to ensure JEBB the traitor BUSH throwing Florida vote away will not matter.

God is helping us. He exposed Obama and his affiliations.

Cindy please elaborate. What has been exposed?

I don't know if it is God or the Devil. Obama is squeaky clean compared to the guys in the White House now.
I think God is God and what we need in the White House is someone who is on God's side and not the reverse. Unfortunately, it didn't work out that way the last time. Maybe Obama has enough humility to follow Jesus into peace instead of George into war?

Cindy,

If you believe your bible and your God, the bible says all liars will burn in the lake of fire. To me that doesn't sound like God condones lying, which is what the McCain/Palin camp have being doing. LOLOLOLOL.

I think that all of the Republicans' "God talk" is going to backfire on them (and I am probably going to vote Republican). There is supposed to be a separation of church and state in this country but the two are becoming alarmingly connected. The song "What's Love Got to do With It" keeps running in my head except the title becomes, "What's God Got to do With It." Mitt Romney would have been a strong leader because of his economic experience but people couldn't get past his religion. Obama was roaring along when suddenly his relationship with his minister became headlines. Hey! Maybe Hillary would have succeeded if she had made her religion more of a focus. McCain and Palin are bashing us over the head with God and Jesus.

It's time to take religion out of the equation of who will lead this country the best!

Nancy, you must understand that church and state we one for most of the last 6000 years. What has come to be called religion for most of the West is not a way to enlightenment but a chain of submission to the church/state.

You don't seek enlightenment and think you submit and become "saved". This salvation gives the same endorphin rush as a member of the pack submitting to an alpha leader. It's the same principle that dog trainers use to make pets behave. They train them to see their owners as the alpha leader.

This is why salvation religion is so useful for tyrannies. It provides perfect obedience.

She buys her friends....wouldn't you take a job offered by a governor if you could make 3 times the money you're making in the private sector? Of course you would no matter what party you are affiliated with. Bought friends are NO friends and she will learn that very soon.

Trying to simplfy the story in that ways only proves you are ignorant or cant read and everyone will get a laugh at your expense.

She will bring people she can trust just like Cheney and Bush; unfortunately that would mean the rest of us would continue in distruct of our leaders.

Barr is a Republican nut job like the rest with a new coat on.

Between Bill Clinton having sex in the White House and the last 8 years of Bush the idiot going to war with a country that had nothing to do with 9-11 or 4 years of McCain - I will take Clinton.

People have sex all the time...some of us, several times a day...whats the big deal??? If you were married to Hillary, wouldn't you seek another??? Ok, maybe she was a chubby substitute, but she probably didn't backtalk.

Anyone who supports Osama Obama needs to stop drinking the Kool Aide.

I do not need to support her McCain is bad enough.

"This woman" is governor of our largest state and has a long list of accomplishments in the 2 years she's been in office. Why would anyone question her ability to make decisions when she has done it every day in her job as governor? Can't say the same for Crock O'Drama, the celebrity of inexperience and lack of judgment himself, the man who voted "PRESENT" over a hundred times on key issues instead of taking a stand.

Give me a break... We should be talking about Hillary at this point in the campaign, not dorky O'Drama.

NOBAMA in '08

Methinks Jimmy Hunter is intimidated by strong, smart women.

I bet Jimmy Hunter wears wife beater shirts and his wife has his din-din on the table right at five o'clock when he comes home!

Sarah Palin has an 80+ approval rating in Alaska.

The guy she defeated for governor was interviewed yesterday and even HE said what a great governor she is.

Of course, the people interviewed here admitted to being Obama supporters. It has been my experience that Obama supporters lie, lie, lie about everybody. Including Obama. They TRY to make him sound good but it just isn't working.

To: US Freedom - I think you are proof that no child left behind - didn't work

Largest state? By size, sure. That is hardly the same as population. Obviously, this is just conjecture, but I wonder if there is any other state in the union where a person could go straight from mayor of a town of less than 10,000 people to governor. Take that however you want, it is just a thought.

US Freedom-

drinking the Kool Aide.

That quote and your name are SOOOO yesterday...they might as well be McLames spent jizz on that barren, second ugly bird of a wife. Yucck!!! But I guess she would rather pop the pills than drink the Kool-Aid. The pills ease the pain of the verbal and mental abuse.

where is Sarah Palin a strong woman? If she was so strong why does she have a teenager who is pregnant? I consider myself strong and none, I repeat, NONE of my three girls were pregnant before marriage and guess what? I am a single parent! I progressed and got promoted in my job, still worked with my 4 kids on their homework and outside activities. All four went to college and are now responsible adults.

That is strong! Get over yourself calling her strong for she is not! Also my mother had a handicap child in 1954 and she did not ABORT and she was not singled out as STRONG or SPECIAL but a mother with a handicap child.

So nice to see that republicans now completely believe in polls, after all these years of dismissing and mocking them. It wouldn't depend on the results now, would it? LOL

I hate to break it to you but I am not a republican. Just glad to see the media's strategy backfiring. Keep up the great work!

Learn the facts. vote with an open mind. Where do you want our country to be? Information is vital. Demand the truth.

Jeff - You're kidding yourself. You seem to post some hopeful comments. Unfortunately for you....you lose.

I lose? Did you come up with that all by yourself or did you seek outside help? Merely calling out the NYT for what it is has nothing to do with party affiliation.

They won't be for long!! Haahaa

What polls are they leading in

They didn't like celebrities either a few weeks ago but now they can't quit fawning over glasses and beehives. Too funny...

Jeff,

It seems to me like the biased news media has gone off the deep end since Palin came on the scene. Where before they masked their lies a little bit, now they are in full-fledged mode. They lie constantly about McCain and Palin.

Why is it that not one person interviewed on camera had a bad thing to say about Palin?

How deep did these MSNBC idiots have to dig to find one disgruntled jealous sould to say these things? How much did they pay to get somebody to say this crap?

Sara has a 80+ approbal rating.

By the way....when will the biased news media go to Chicago and ask about Obama?

I am quite sure there are people there who would like to tell about Obama and his buddy REzko. Like maybe the people who had to live in the slums that REzko built with the money that Obama got him!

No, actually the media is finally doing their jobs. Palin got a pass for two weeks now it is time to meet the really Sarah Palin. I understand you don't like what you see, so you have to criticize the media for doing their job and result to name calling and character bashing. The truth hurts but once you face reality everything will be alright. Facing reality is the first step to admitting there is a problem. Come in from the dark. It is okay.

S.Heath: I have no doubt that the press is biased. For example, in the 1860 election, they portrayed Abe Lincoln as a rube and as a great hairy gorilla. But how does putting people on TV who support Palin constitute left leaning bias? Further, the NYT has generally taken rather conservative positions on its editorial pages (I mean where it puts its opinions up, not the opinions of its readership), and is accused of being the liberal media only when it criticises administration policies. For most of us, Palin is complete unknown. Under those circumstances, where she is running for the second most powerful office in the most powerful country in the world today, don't we, as voters, have the right to ask pointed questions of and about this candidate, instead of being subjected to the carefully managed nonsense speak of her handlers?

I think Palin's true character is being exposed: she is an arch-conservative, right wing fundamentalist christian, who would turn the clock back sixty years on civil liberties. She is the true dream girl of the once famous Moral Majority. She was appointed to protect the party, to find a source of unity in a party fractured by internal dissent at the lack of agreement with the ultraconservative bent of the leadership.

And what is most dangerous about her is that she just might indeed become President. If you think at all that any (even just one) decision of the current administration was ill-advised, based on false and misleading data supplied solely for political purpose, or the result of cronyism, corporate greed, and insider special advantage (e.g., the now infamous no-bid Iraq contracts that have cost US TAXPAYERS literally billions of dollars), then you must understand that a Palin administration will be just as bad if not even worse. I personally fear the consequences of a McCain/Palin imperial presidency.

she is a waste of time to talk about.

whre have you been? The first thing the press had to say about Biden was his ties to the credit card companies. That's quite a wart if you were to ask me.

The Republicans spring a veritable unknown person on the public a few days before the RNC. They say all of these wonderful things about her and she repeats them. And you expect the media not to check into it? It has been what, four weeks? Of course they are going to check into her background. If they do a better job than your party, complain to them, not the media.

It would be nice to publish ANYTHING but Sarah Palin but that is where they love affair is and where it will stay. For the ones who keep the same lie that this is a LIBERAL MEDIA get your facts straight. Go research who owns these things and comes down to RUPERT MURDOCH as the largest owner of several tv stations, papers, magazines, etc but hey that is ok since he is a republican or large supporter.

But, but, what about George Sarros! He is a millionaire who supports democrats but guess what he does not own the press therefore keep the lie going about liberal when in truth is you the republicans who lie tell half truths and blind the people.

Remember anyone who said a word against George Bush was listed as TRAITORS, UNAMERICANS, UNCHRISTAINS (for God only spoke to repubs) and all the lies you people told. How is Iraq working for ya? Hey Krista have you been yet? Did you leave anything behind, your brain?

Now there are 4 large bailouts but according to repubs that is great and better than chocolate cake! But hey for people who have lost their homes, jobs, lives...well too bad for you since you are not a republican you don't deserve to live...but don't forget to have that baby! For life is precious as long as it is in the womb but once born...guess what DIE.

Joe Biden seems to have become a non-entity in this election. He has a lifetime of service to his country in Congress and no one even cares. How sad. Of course, he dresses conservatively, makes no waves, smiles a lot, talks nicely to everyone. The press must not find him front page newsworthy.

amen, someone who actually gets it!!!

I wonder why CNN did not do a documentary on Biden being in bed with credit card companies.
Disdain for science?? I guess you are referring to the fact that scientists can't agree on global warming, cooling, climate change, or whatever it is being called right now.

Well said, Jessica. You have hit the nail right on the head. I pity those poor conservative hypocrites who are going to be forced into a Small section of our country so they can cry on each others Bibles.

Calm down, go easy on the caffiene. Now, take a deep breath and think!!!!

I don't trust any of the candidates. It would be fantastic if the politicians would hire people who are honest, decent, no ax to grind and know what they are doing instead of friends.

Friends of the present president have helped him ruin this country and it's going to take years to turn this economy around. The entire world is suffering from their stupidity.

We may not own this country if we keep selling out to foreign investors.

Osama figured it out a long time ago on how to destroy the USA. He probably paid some citizens to stuff the ballot box's.

I know very little about Biden and I hear next to nothing by way of bad remarks from the competition. Does that mean he's the good guy?

I feel we should elect a professional business man who can really run this country and that person could hire a pro on foreign affairs if that business man isn't qualified. How much more trouble can we get in than what's out there now?

Jessica, you summed it up perfectly. She's not fit as governor, let alone for the vice-presidency.

Jessica,

WOW you watched a CNN (Constantly Negative News) documentary to get valid information, a network owned and operated by known liberal , conspirator and womanizer Ted Turner. What else would you expect them to say about a woman who threatens THEIR ONE Barack Obama, the candidate CNN is clearly in the tank for.

Obviously, you have got to be joking. You won't see CNN doing a documentary on Barack Obama - how truthful would IT be with all of his skeletons coming out of the woodwork?

Sarah Palin has credentials and it has the likes of Ted Turner running scared. Look what CNN did to Hillary - now they are trying to do it to Sarah Palin.

NOBAMA in '08

You watched it on CNN? The one that people call the Obama news network?

HA! HA!

This is what I don't get. You saw it on t.v. so it must be true, right?

Wow. You know, my mother always told me to not believe anything I hear and only half of what I see.

I think you are just an Obama supporter who WANTS to believe the crap that is being put out there.

Sarah Palin has an 80+ approval rating in Alaska. How about that?

It's a cute saying, "Nobama in 08" Well 08 was reserved for Bush anyway.

Obama in 09-12!

Only the un-informed and uneducated are being mislead by Palin. The people living in reality already seen through the smoke screen and nasty tactics of McCain's campaign.

No way, No How No McCain and his Paleontologist (He's old as the dinosuars)

I am curious, what did Biden do with the credit card companies? I haven't heard much on this. Until Palin, I was still unsure who I was voting for. Now I am behind Obama. She is not a person I would want as a friend, much less a governor, and certainly not as VP with the old guy. She's a weird, weird person, and I think anyone who is swayed by her words.....(well, you can't really say that since she has had no words), needs to really examine their reasons for supporting her. I've been around a long time, I remember Kennedy, and I have never been so scared of a person running for public office as I am Sarah Palin. Republicans have complained about some comparing Obama to the Messiah, the difference is....Obama doesn't consider himself to be anything but a human who cares, whereas Palin clearly believes she is the second coming. Just watch her. "They" are grooming her to be "their" puppet, just like McCain. Why did anyone in the Republican party think he'd make a good president? Makes you wonder just who is really in control. There is something really scary going on in the Republican party.

Calling Obama "Osama" - so very clever. You must be popular at your Middle School where you change people's last names to sound like bodily functions.

And now CNN is also biased? Wow. By the way, I don't think Ted Turner even owns CNN anymore, but I could be wrong. Scientists can't agree on global warming? Which ones? Even GW Bush admitted it is happening.

I think Palin having an 80% approval rating after less than two years is great. However, how does that in any way diminish the allegations she has consistently misused her elected offices, played heavy-handed politics (exactly like the Justice Dept. firings), and has completely misrepresented the facts about her being against earmarks while taking more per capita than any other state?

The biggest problem with this entire scenario is it keeps the public talking about her instead of comparing McCain and Obama's policies and campaign tactics.

exactly,
and see how mccain has put his "COUNTRY FIRST" by rolling over to the religious right with this pick. His judgement is not sound and lets us know he is more interested in the power of the presidency than the good of America.
POW- er
POW-er
that is what he is interested in, not helping everyday americans.

Oh please! Charles Dink Gibson had it out for her just like all the other think-they-know-it-all DEMOCRAT REPORTERS do. Of course they're going to air her worst moments! You're a fool if you believe otherwise. (I have a feeling you will though)!

Please, everyone, look at where our country is as a result of just this type of political cronyism. How can we forget what we have been through, the lies we have been fed, the rights we have lost, ours sons and daughters dead in an unjust war, our citizens left on their roofs for a week waiting for rescue by a absent government agency created by GWB. All the while we listened to propaganda spoon fed to us by the sheepish press who were too frightened to speak the truth.

Please do not let the treats and abuse of the real "haters" silence the truth we deserve to know about who is running for the second highest position in our land. This woman makes Cheney look straight forward.

Krystal how should we judge our candidates? I would think they should all be put under a microscope. I want to know every little detail there is to know about all four of the candidates good or bad. I want to know where they stand on the issues and I truly believe that church and politics DO NOT and I repeat DO NOT belong together. So enough about the religious aspect and more on the issues. America is in bad shape and if the wrong person gets into office and from what I'm seeing, the Republican party hasn't done ANYTHING for the middle class we are doomed. So please stop looking at this with your heart and start using your head and what affects you and yours most of all. As for the interview with Charles Gibson, what questions would you have liked him ask her?

Please, lets not forget what happened to our country on 9-11. Lets not forget that if we quit, we'll be attacked again by the terrorists who hated us on 9-11 and that still hate us now. I'm dumbfounded by people like you, people who think if we surrender, things will just go away. I don't like that our soldiers are being killed. Unfortunately, however, it's a fact of life. One that you democrats just can't seem to comprehend.

Who says surrender?

Same diff. You want the troops to be pulled out of there. It's giving up. In my book...well, and the dictionary too--- that's surrendering.

Hey Krystal,
It's a new world. You can sign up too. There are women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. It a fact of life. You can go too. The guns are not that heavy and we all die some day. So give it up Krystal, go enlist and don't forget 9/11. Send your sons too to go kill our enemies in their own back yard. Hell, we can kill the children too. Kill em all before they leave their tents, sheep and camels, and come and get us.

Are you kidding me Krystal!!!!! You're still unable to admit that Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11? WTF!?!?!?! You're just the uneducated type that thinks she's great for the job. Yeah, lets pull anything that might have a bad word in it from the library....I cant even type right now reading all this stupidity from the RIGHT!!!!! All of you damn christian freaks make me sick!!!! You have no ability to understand ambiguity, everything is either pure right or wrong. Its @!$%#ing terrifying what these people think. They're just as whacked out as the muslim extremist's and they can't even see it.

Krysta - so when Nixon pulled out of Vietman - that was surrendering? When Reagan pulled out of Lebennnon in '83 that was surrendering? And Krysta - how many in your family served in Iraq????

We lost in Iraq the minute we went in there. Now, it is not a matter of how to "win" that war; it is how to get out of there leaving the least amount of damage. Obviously, Saddam was a tyrant, but he had nothing to do with 9/11 and any implication that our invasion of Iraq somehow made us safer is ludicrous and irresponsible. We have lost too many lives and too many tax dollars to not own up to that fact. We absolutely owe it to those who died there to be honest about that.

Krystal, there's only one way that going into Iraq has saved this country from terrorist attacks on our own soil. We sent some people from our country ( the troops ) into an area much closer to the terrorists and easier for them to reach for their attacks. That's it. Deterrence or disruption of Muslim extremism is not a factor. It's just more convenient to use IED's to kill Americans in Iraq than to drive an explosive U-Haul into the Statue of Liberty. This is the only way the President's claims of our safety at home have any truth.

Gulf War II was built on lies and willful distortion of facts, from what the Bush regime told us to Colin Powell's statements to the UNSC. The only tie to Al Quaeda developed after we invaded and they thought if they could cause problems for us they'd gain favor in the power vacuum we created there after Hussein was ousted.

Manufactured character assassination.

If the SAME woman was on the Democratic ticket running on a liberal platform, you'd be singing her praises, and to be fair, there would be some Republicans making a caricature out of her as well. People like this add nothing to the debate. I think its dishonest that so many partisans come to blogs and try to float a partisan question in a non-partisan way, feigning real concern.

Amen!

Amen, it is good to know some people see through this charade of piety. Sheesh, it makes me sick.

And you're not partisan Jennifer? Let me guess, you're a good subserviant "christian" wife? Afraid to think differently than what your husband tells you?

stop at NOTHING? Do you think---dare I say it--stoop to offing McCain?

If the rebumlicans had picked Hilter - they would still say he was qualified and ready to lead.

Why do you people think that if Palin were on the Democratic ticket we would love her? The woman is a moron. Just because she is a woman doesn't make her someone I would vote for, give us a break...... please. She is anti-everything the Democratic party stands for. I wouldn't vote for her for any reason, the least of all is because she is a woman. Now I understand why the Republicans are such idiots, they think that we all think like they do. Nothing could be further from the truth. I guess if Obama was a member of the Republican party, you'd vote for him, too? Hopefully people nowadays don't vote based on color or gender or religious belief but on the candidate that will do the best for this country....and that's not McCain and Palin.

If the Democrats had picked "this same woman" to run on their ticket we would be singing her praises? Why would that even enter your thought process? Her belief system is the opposite of the basic Democratic platform. Her views are slightly more right wing than McCain's current views, and way further right than his views of a few short years ago.

Singing her praises? They would be in out-and-out revolt.

Machiavelli in heels.
Someone get her a copy of "The Prince" and a mirror.
She might gain some insight and self-awareness.....no wait...she's already way too self-aware....

Maybe we're the ones who need to learn self-awareness. After 8 years of be relegated to groundling status are we going to allow for another 4 possibly 8?

Damn, what are we so afraid of.

Enuf - Where do you dig up this biased information. You're just as false and phony as the rest of the Republican hypocrites.

Fisherman, I hate to confuse you libs with reality.....but, even you can check my facts at: www.realclearpolitics.com.

It must be sad to be a lib, behind in the polls and now even your old school VP says your messiah blew his first big decision.

You might try to stay away from sharp objects for a few days.

Yup. McCain has this election in the bag Enuf.

You know what. I have an idea. Since this thing is a landslide for McCain, I don't even think you need to vote. Why waste your time? Just sit back and maybe enjoy a tasty beverage on election day. Watch the great drama unfold without ever leaving your house. Maybe even go out of the country for a while on vacation.

I mean these polls are *always* right. This game is indeed over. Congratulations!

I do not know about over, but three weeks ago McCain was twenty points behind. Something has happened and folks on my side are finally excited about our future and ready to fight for what we believe in.

Unlike your Mr. "I am committed to Public Finance, before he was against Public Finance." We stay committed! We may lose but you are going to know that we fought.

Um, I think Obama supporters are fighting too....

And, objectively speaking, the Obama campaign itself (I am not talking about the media or anything like that) has run a way more honorable campaign than has John McCain -- and coming from someone who respected John McCain back in 2000, I am saddened.

Jeff-524161 Enuf Already

Oh and by the way, Hopefully she will be thrown out of the governor's mansion!

Only a democrat could consider, claiming that Sarah's new son is really her daughter's, is an honorable campaign.

Please, you may want to check your self claimed "objectivity." It seems to have some chinks in the armor.

Does she get mileage reimbursement for driving her kids to school?

Last week Obama had 310 Did not believe that do not believe it now. Since we have not had one debate and two of the candidates are hiding in the closet how could they be accurate. Obama had a 9 point lead before now they are tied so what.

Enuf Already,

You have completely lost all credibility and as such I will not have any logical debate with you.

The Obama campaign NEVER, and I mean NEVER, claimed that Palin's daughter wasn't hers. And for you to insinuate otherwise is a lie. Plain and simple!

Problem with the polls is that they are based on flawed demographics. There are millions of new voters that are not accounted for: voters registered by the Obama campaign. Here is a news flash; there are not many rew Republicans. Quite a few have left the party or perhaps it would be better said< "The Party left them".

There will be nashing of teeth come Nov. I doubt it will be Democrats this time.

rebumlicans why get the White House but they going to get spanked hard in House and Senate...

The flaw in your polls logic is in your own statement. You say Obama was leading by 20 a few weeks ago and is now behind. So, it would seem obvious, that either the polls are not overly accurate or that the same swing can happen back the other way. We are far more than a few weeks from the election so I am keeping my faith in the American people's willingness to look at all of the information that comes from now until November - including watching the debates.

Just as we are counting upon no major blunders from our candidates, you are counting on none from yours. You also have to hope the Bush doesn't do anything horrible in that time that causes more undecided voters, or even Republican voters, to say they don't care who is running, they will not risk another four years with a Republican at the helm.

No, you grow up and gain a little sense. Ego is an ugly thing. this is not a popularity contest. think long and hard before you push that button. Demand to know facts.

And besides, you sound like the child here. If you are a psychic, you should be getting paid.

you mean sarah? she is the biggest messiah/ celebrity! or is that now a good thing>
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Public school educated voters. I'll tell you what. Raise my marginal tax rate for my small business to 52% so you can feel better about the poor while you drive your 1992 Volvo station wagon to your moveon.org phone party rally.

Shared....You are now qualified to move to Cuba. There's a place for you there. They might even give you one chicken a week to eat.

Love u US Freedom! Keep it up. Palin 1 Obama 0 Regan conservitives are back. F the liberal elite!

we will after you learn how to spell

excuse me US freedom if your going to post put the site you got that from so we can all check it out or else is Smear and garbage.

Obama's family are not runing his election but Charlie black is McCain manager look at the beautiful record he hold.

John McCain's Iraq Policy Is Good For Lobbyists & Defense Contractors
Progressive Media USA
PUBLISHED: June 26, 2008

Senator John McCain's support for spending trillions of dollars in Iraq over the next century would bankrupt America, but his proposals would mean billions in profit for the nation's top defense contractors. Already, big defense firms have lined their pockets with lucrative contracts for infrastructure projects and security in Iraq. Another group that has profited handsomely from the Iraq war is the crop of Washington lobbyist insiders who represent the defense contractors and have made millions securing contracts for their clients. McCain has recruited these lobbyists, who wholeheartedly support continuing a war that has earned them so much money, to run his campaign. And the defense firms and their executives know who their friends are. Realizing a McCain presidency will continue the war that has made them rich, the defense contractors have given hundreds of thousands of dollars to McCain to bolster his bid for the White House. Having been in Washington for 25 years, McCain knows how to return a favor. McCain repaid his defense contractor pals by voting against efforts in Congress to investigate defense contractor waste, fraud and abuse

There you go criticizing Jesus. What has he to do with this? Don't you think we should keep the separation of church and state for the campaign.

I say it again - rebumlicans are living proof that "No child left behind" didn't work

If you ever have wondered about a concerted effort at misinformation, watch these blogs. This is my own observation so dismiss it if you wish. The completely ridiculous information that has been debunked by sites like factcheck.org are getting cut and pasted on every thread by different conservatives. The exact same stuff. Not just word for word, punctuation, bold letters, everything.

The liberals will also cut and paste the same thing on these threads, but it is usually something like the actual wording from the so-called sex-ed bill that is refuting another post. Not these unsubstantiated smears. However, to be fair, now and then there will be one of those types showing up against McCain or Palin, but not only is it much, much more rare, it is often from the same exact poster every time.

Just an observation.

I hate to confuse you libs with the facts but see: www.realclearpolitics.com. If you are a Florida democrat, you may need to get a friend to help you with the big words, but you will get it. McCain 227, BHO 217.

yeah, because we all know that www.realclearpolitics.com is the only realible website for the polls. At this stage of the game, polls mean nothing, regardless of which party they say is leading. Just wait until the debates,,,election day will tell the tale.

Yes - The 'dead' in heat is McShame. Sarah can't rescue him from himself. The American People aren't stupid.....they can see right through the Republican lies.

Like I said above Enuf....

Yup. McCain has this election in the bag.

You know what. I have an idea. Since this thing is a landslide for McCain, I don't even think you need to vote. Why waste your time? Just sit back and maybe enjoy a tasty beverage on election day. Watch the great drama unfold without ever leaving your house. Maybe even go out of the country for a while on vacation.

I mean these polls are *always* right. This game is indeed over. Congratulations!

Yeah, I can hardly wait for the debates. In fact why hasn't there already been a debate? Oh I know why! Because Obuma can't debate without the teleprompter! He's lost without his prepared speech! He is going to hu, hum, and ah through the debate and Mccain is going to kick butt!

Mccain/Palin 2008!

that would be afte McCain's brain transplant right

Okay, now you are talking sh*t that you obviously have no clue about.

I have seen this man debate without a teleprompter, and If you would of known that, without just saying it, then you wouldn't of said this. YOU are wrong.
NOW, Sarah on the other hand, you can only be coached so much. I saw how she did on her interview, and she sucked. So, I can imagine her telling Biden that she can see Russia from Her home land Alaska, and traveled to Canada. YES, that is comforting. Just a minute away from the red button, because she think that she can see Russia from Alaska.

YOU people are a joke! WHEN you know that you are wrong, you have to much pride to admit that she is a dimwit, and john is too old! WE as women have came along way to be turned back a 100 years! Sarah, want to teach creationism in school, instead of math and science. WE don't want our daughters forced in a situation that they don't have the option to make their choice, that is how she raise her kids, but NOT MIND! freedom of choice. SHE SAID NO to stem cell research, WHY? when she have a kid that have down syndrome? It makes no sense. I know that it is families out there, that is hoping for stem cell research, they want to save their children lives. I don't know about you Republicans, I don't want to go to war. If you want to go to war, sign up. But we are losing too many lives overseas. WE barely have enough men to fight! WAKE UP

Here is a little fact on Polls they are incorrect because they do not reflect the new voters in them so that being said the numbers are not shall we say and exact science. No body really know who is really ahead.

Sugarwalls - You go Girl.

The rebumlicans may keep the White House, but they going to get spanked in House and Senate.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but it's McCain 227 and Obama 240. Check it out.

That whole Obama can't debate without a teleprompter thing is kind of funny. After all, didn't the Democrats and Republicans have a debate seemingly every week during the primaries? I watched about four of each and didn't notice a single teleprompter.

the democrat point of view runs the polls...there is the real smear

Let me let you all in to one part of polling that can't be taken or published....The Cell Phone user. There hasn't been a poll that includes them. It is also a very important fact that those who are technologically savvy and users of modern communication and educational devices will vote for the truth and can see that lies aren't going to carry a very sick party's representatives to succeed. You conservatives are only posting to hear yourselves spout garbage.

That is a lie about the cell phone users not being called.

Look it up. They don't get phone numbers from telephone books. they get it from voter registration and they said they call the house phone if one is listed. If not they call the cell phone.

That is just a fantasy that some Obama supporter made up back when Obama was behind Hillary in the polls! The Obama people like to lie -- both to themselves and to others.

Ross,

You are SOOOO right. Cell phones schmell phones. yes they are losing and yes they will say their victory was stolen by the evil republicans.

But you left out their secondary excuse: Voters are brainwashed or retarded.

Don't believe those polls because they may disappoint you. The real issue will be the younger folks that have never voted before coming out in support of Obama.

"That is just a fantasy that some Obama supporter made up back when Obama was behind Hillary in the polls! The Obama people like to lie -- both to themselves and to others."

So, since Obama won that election, I guess it proved the polls really don't mean that much.

I am so fearful that her vendettas will include anyone who believes that women should have an uncensored choice in all areas of their lives, or everyone who believes that we all have a right to define what a life partner is, and heaven help anyone who believes in evolution!

I have to quote a line from Kingpin on that one.....didn't the bible say it was against it? Come on....I'm tired of religion. Ive asked so many church-goers a very simple question that they all have ZERO answer to....what went on prior to Christ? If the religion is based on that "man", and he lived and died approximately 200 years ago, there were humans here LONG before that. So what of all those before? And that ends the discussion.

Your fearful of her vendetta? Heck - her ex brother in law might as well reserve a cell at Gitmo

I am going to recommend to the People of the USA that since Mr. Obama has:
#1 Only REPUBLICAN ENEMIES and EX-IN-LAWS working for him NOW.
#2. If elected, HE WILL NOMINATE ONLY REPUBLICANS AND PEOPLE HE HAS OFFENDED (i.e. pissed off in white trash language) TO EVERY DEPARTMENT IN HIS ADMINISTRATION.
#3. HE WILL FIRE EVERYONE WHO HE HAS ANY FONDNESS FOR.
#4. JOSEPH BIDEN, HIS RUNNING MATE IS A LIFE-LONG REPUBLICAN
HE SHOULD BE UNANIMOUSLY ELEVATED TO SAINTHOOD, BYPASSING THE PRESIDENCY

Thanks for the gory details of Palin's neverending nepotism and cronyism! So we'd get a champion snowmobiler along with his egomaniacal wife...

Evangelicals all believe that the true and only head of any family is the husband and that his wife is subservient to him. Of course Todd would be included in her daily life and job...he is the head of his household and of Sarah. The power behind the throne is obviously Todd. She appears to be the window-dressing and he may well be making all of the decisions. What other job does he have, or did he give it up to back her?...or run things behind her false front?!!!

I like Todd better already! Hockey mom 4-Hypocrats 0

Hey Obama fans........Get a clue!!! Sarah Palin is NOT running for president!

She may not be running at all. But since McCain is here is a little something about him.

McCain aka (Pinocchio)

McCain claimed that Obama's health care plan would "force small businesses to cut jobs" and would put "a bureaucrat ... between you and your doctor." In fact, the plan exempts small businesses, and those who have insurance now could keep the coverage they have.

McCain attacked Obama for voting for "corporate welfare" for oil companies. In fact, the bill Obama voted for raised taxes on oil companies by $300 million over 11 years while providing $5.8 billion in subsidies for renewable energy, energy efficiency and alternative fuels.

McCain said oil imports send "$700 billion a year to countries that don't like us very much." But the U.S. is on track to import a total of only $536 billion worth of oil at current prices, and close to a third of that comes from Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom.

He promised to increase use of "wind, tide [and] solar" energy, though his actual energy plan contains no new money for renewable energy. He has said elsewhere that renewable sources won't produce as much as people think.

He called for "reducing government spending and getting rid of failed programs," but as in the past failed to cite a single program that he would eliminate or reduce.

He said Obama would "close" markets to trade. In fact, Obama, though he once said he wanted to "renegotiate" the North American Free Trade Agreement, now says he simply wants to try to strengthen environmental and labor provisions in it.

Maybe they will all take off like the "lemons". Get on their snow mobiles and follw Todd into the tundra ,strait to the coast and over the edge. Boy, the world would have been better off is a bunch of the world leaders did that in 2001.

Many of your statements may be true... depending on the day you heard them (Obama's)

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Obama want to nationalize insurance modeled after Europe. Both Obama and Hillary favored this model over what we have now. The insurance you have now will not exist there would be a bureaucrat between you and your doctor.
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This wasn't an error... the majority of congress voted for this welfare. If you raise taxes on the oil companies - do you really think they'll take the hit? Any expenses will be picked up by you.
It's a great way to take more money out of your pocket and think it's evil oil. Neglected in the report of the Big Earnings of the oil companies is that for ever dollar made they pade a little over 3 dollars in taxes. (Those profits are from "world sales" not at the gas station alone). The oil companies made about 8 cents per gallon - the Federal Govt. about 24 cents per gallon. The ROI was low for such a large outfit.

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Not sure where the 770 billion came from (could be the govt figures - I'll check myself) BUT T.Bone Pickens uses this number on his TV commercials with the same saying "to countries that don't like us..."
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Not sure - can't say right or wrong here... maybe allowing it to happen is all that's needed. Edison and his projects weren't funded, nor Wright brothers, and many of the great investors.
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Some failed programs just need new leadership. We were loosing in Iraq... then Petraus stepped in... soon Iraq will belong to the citizens.
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Obama said three things here... One to the audience he was addressing in a depressed state. Then, in a whisper to someone he said he would touch it. Then he said what you quoted, the problem is Canada would love it to be re-opned, the y want to renegotiate the energy they are selling us.

Can you trust either? Maybe - maybe not... Bill Clinton in his first run (and won because of Ross Perot as third party) Promised the middle class a big tax cut. He won, got into office not only did he not give a tax cut - but in increase. Why would I trust McCain over Obama ? Obama has more than two positions on almost every issue. Obama is a Chicago politician. with them you sleep with one eye open and the finger on the trigger.

Hey " get a clue guy". I guess you haven't read that part in the constitution where the VP becomes the president if something should happen to the old geezer president, say like a reoccurrance of melanoma. The acturial tables say he has a one in three chance of dying in his first term.
Well, "Get a clue Guy", she's not up to replacing him and I don't think she is a real leader. She is more like a "cheer leader". I don't mean that in a sexist way. I just don't think she'll stick her neck out in real way for the rest of us. She'll sit back while the rest of us do it and then say "Look what I did".

Hey Keeping score Guy, the voting is still seven weeks off.

In the end there will be another similarity between Hockey moms and Pitbulls; neither of them will ever be Vice President or President of the United STates.

You don't enter into agreements to later say do over, lets renegotiate. If creating green energy was so easy don't you think the private sector would had jumped on it?. The farming subsidies really helped the people. Food prices in the poorest countries increased dramatically because farmers planted corn and wheat not for human use but for "fuel. It had triggered massive protest because of hunger, but that is OK.

Out Raged White Male : After all we've learned about Shara Palin How Can Anyone Vote For Her. Her And Her Husband Joining The ALASKA INDEPENDENCE PARTY, The Group That Wants Alaska to be Its Own Nation And No Longer Be Apart Of The United States. Her Failure As A Parent Not Taking Care Of Her Sixteen Year Old Daughter To The Degree She Gets Pregnant. Her Saying She'll Be A Advocate For Special Needs Parents When Before She Had A Special Needs Child She Cut Funding F or Special Needs From 8,000,000 To A Meir 3,000,000. Allowing her sisters husband to drive his police car while drinking and drunk, abusing her sister ,tazing his son but not reporting it until there going through a divorce what care rector. then there's her reputation a her school of being called Shara barracuda because of her oral skills and the soft-core porn flick. yea this is the perfect woman for the republican party. final straw seeing her on Charley Gibson she looked so out of her league only a fool would chance her having to Dael with Putin or Iran.

That would be cool! I can almost see Washington from Idaho! Heckuva job Brownie!! Isn't God getting sick of you Repiglicans using His name to justify your hatred??

A Repiglican with lipstick is still a Repiglican.

I live in Washington State. I like our Democratic Governor. She's cool. I'm glad to hear you like it here, too. I'm not sure about seceding from the nation, however. That is more of an Alaska thing.

Regarding innovation being mostly spurred by industry, not always. Some of the greatest technological and medical advances have come through government grants and NASA research.

That would be cool! I can almost see Washington from Idaho! Heckuva job Brownie!! Isn't God getting sick of you Repiglicans using His name to justify your hatred??

Mrsoul,

You are incorrect, God is offended by the use of His name in vain in your ignorant and foolish remarks.

Also your spelling of Republican (Repiglican) is sadly atrocious.

A Republican with lipstick is the next VPOTUS Sarah Palin.

Elithian,

Don't worry about McCain's health, sounds like you have problem of your own, an extreme shortage of brain cells that's affecting your political logic and intelligence. Better get a brain cell infusion to correct that malady or maybe a skull replacement.

kimkat-
In response to Mr. Palin being with Sarah Palin-
you say evangelicals believe that a woman is subserviant to her husband and he controls her? Are you an evangelical? No- because what you said is not true...period-
But- wait- maybe I am wrong about whether you are an evangelical or not.
an evangelical believes in the great commission to preach the Gospel to all. The acceptance of the message or lack thereof is not the evangelicals responsibility- they believe that part is "above their pay grade"- isn't that how a dem would say it? That is all that is required to be considered an evangelical. If a repub says otherwise, they are wrong. Based on a Princeton studay, over 70% of the country will state that they are member of a Christian denomination that is considered to be evangelical.
Evangelical started in England during the time of Luther and was also used to describe a protestant. Some have added the following to the definition: belief in a personal relationshop with God, belief that you can be saved from you sins through the death and resurrection, the belief that the bible is the truth.

Man, She did do a lot in her 18 months as governor. Hired all her buddies, made 230 millions dollars of earmarked(bridge to nowhere) money disappear, and fired people who didn't serve her will. She's gonna make Chaney look like a boy scout! I can't wait until she releases her tax returns. When do you think that will be? Nov. 5th?

What country's flag does Palin wear as a lapel pin ??? Israel's - That shows you what country she puts first

This is just awesome. The more McCain whines about the media being mean to him and Palin, for simply reporting the facts about the serious error in judgment he made in picking this nutjob to possibly be the president of the United States of America, the more the media finds and reports. The latest thing I read is that Cindy is all up in arms because The View was mean to poor little Johny. Grow a pair Johnny, if you can't take the heat from the gals on The View you have no business in the White House!