Is it too much to hope that people are coming to their senses?

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her total lack of knowledge concerning foreign policy is almost endearing next to John "Spain Is In Latin America, Verdad?" McCain. Yes, Johnny, the U.S.S. Arizona is at the bottom of Pearl Harbor, get the fuck over it, already! Eight years of no discernible foreign policy outside the Pentagon followed by four years of these shit-for-brains? Spare me.

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could drag down McCain? When upon examination they're both so banged-up?

This World is truly upside down.

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McCain has a history of making poor choices.

In high school, he had a choice of getting along with other students or antagonizing them. He chose the latter and was nicknamed "McNasty."

At the U.S. Naval Academy, facing a choice of following regulations or not, he violated them. Said Academy graduate Phillip Butler, ex-Navy pilot and former POW who spent eight years in North Vietnamese captivity:

"John was intent on breaking every regulation in our four-inch-thick USNA Regulations book. And I believe he must have come as close to his goal as any midshipman who ever attended the Academy. I could tell many other midshipman stories about John that year and he unbelievably managed to graduate though he spent the majority of his first class year on restriction for the stuff he got caught doing. In fact he barely managed to graduate, standing 5th from the bottom of his 800-man class."

As a stateside Navy pilot before going to Southeast Asia, McCain could have flown recklessly or professionally. McCain chose to fly recklessly, crashing five airplanes before deploying overseas.

In 1970, while a POW and no longer being physically abused by his captors, he agreed to be interviewed by Cuban journalist Fernando Barral. McCain could have refused. Instead, not only did he meet with Barral who exploited the occasion for propaganda purposes, McCain voluntarily conversed in Spanish and accepted special favors from the enemy -- hot coffee and cigarettes -- all blatant violations of the Code of Conduct for U.S. prisoners of war.

Afterwards, the Hanoi Hilton's U.S. commander, SRO Jeremiah Denton, issued an order forbidding POWs to be interviewed by visitors. Said McCain on page 305 of Faith of My Fathers, “[Denton's] decision was a sound one, even though it deprived me of further opportunities to demonstrate my psychic equilibrium… not to mention the [loss of] extra cigarettes and coffee."

After returning home to freedom and his faithful wife who'd spent nearly every waking hour trying to make life easier for him in Hanoi, he chose to commit adultery and then divorce her to marry the "other" woman.

As a senator, McCain chose to involve himself in the S&L scandal known as the "Keating Five." He also elected to be chummy with lobbyists and special interest groups throughout his entire political career.

But John McCain's worst choice was picking Sarah Palin for his running mate -- a decision based on winning votes instead of what was good for America.

He should be ashamed.

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I'm completely convinced that the US is made up of largely brain-dead idiots who vote based on what their horoscope says, or what they heard at the local bar after they've had 24 beers. The very fact that Palin was or is taken seriously by anybody is proof to me that there's something seriously wrong with America's collective mentality.

No, wait. I actually came to this conclusion when Ronnie Raygun, a cheesy movie actor, became president of the United States. And when no matter what he did, people thought he could do no wrong.

And then, of course, George W. Bush came to power and has done every conceivable thing to destroy this country, while everyone went on eating their Big Macs and driving their SUV's and tuning in to American Idol (or reading about it the next morning in the newspaper oh sheeeesh, instead of reading about the casualties of the wars or the abuses at Gitmo). The anti-intellectual, proud-to-be-stupid movement is in full swing now, and every moron who can't even find Alaska on a map is touting the wolf killing hockey mom as our next Dear Leader.

I gotta get out of here.

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McCain flip-flopped on every issue he ever supported, and now shows so much indecision, it's almost laughable he EVER accomplished anything besides selling our the POW/MIAs and getting all the Pentagon files on POW/MIAs sealed, and turning his back on his brothers in arms!

He's a half witted, half nut with a half assed agenda!

The people of Arizona should sue the fuck-stick, for fraud! He hasn't been seen in the Senate since he started his campaign!

And those are his GOOD points!

Don't get me started on his bad points, like backhanding a lady in the hallway of the Senate, and raising his hand as to strike an eighty-year-old grandmother in a wheelchair, with an oxygen bottle immediately afterward. I don't want to get banned again!

However if you do want to get my unexpurgated view, go to "http://stoneysrage.blogspot.com".

I wouldn't advise it for Lionheart. His head would explode, and his neck bone would slide out his ass!

I'm just joking Lionheart! Don't go tripping on me! I know how all you Republicans got no sense of humor!

(Heard y'all can't dance neither!)

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First Palin was a masterful choice for McCain. Here is a guy that nearly ran out of money and couldn't get any conservative media behind him.

Some even vowed to back Hillary instead. Now he's running pretty much neck and neck with Obama, the darling of the dems and more importantly the media! Some weeks he's up and some he's not.

It should never have gotten this close and it says something about the democrat party. It's a do nothing party and it's 9% congress is dragging it down!

Palin just did an interview with Hannity which debunked all the left wing bashing being leveled at her. Watch her numbers go up after that gets some air time.

It makes sense that her numbers dip some after she was burst onto the scene with incredible acceptance in "Obama like" fashion. She's not done yet in spite of the democrats army of investigators trying to dig up dirt on her!

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They hoped that a supine media wouldn't look past the marketing and actually sample the product. Now that the "fourth estate" has grown a new limb here online, the political establisment can no longer count on that assumption.

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With "Senile old fart/Bimbo 2008". Why hasn't anyone made one yet?

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Pollster.com is showing the R's leading in total electoral college votes by a small amount, with the entire upper midwest from Virginia thru to Minnesota now within the margin of polling error and thus up for grabs.

When you look at the graphs of these tossup states, the red trendline is ascending faster than the blue trendline in all these states except Indiana and West Virginia. So I question the claim that "McCain/Palin" is losing it. The trendline data would seem to suggest the opposite. Maybe this will change in a week or two -- the polls are undeniably behind realtime.

Instead of looking at national approval/disapproval ratings, perhaps it would have been helpful to look only at independent and swing and undecided voters in tossup states, because they're the only ones who matter at this point. A certain fraction of the electorate will vote R no matter what, just like a certain fraction will vote D no matter what; these two groups together swamp the signal one is looking for in the data.

It would also be helpful to know whether the VP pick is any sort of determining factor in people's minds. Conventional wisdom says it isn't, but that position is more difficult to argue after the last several weeks. Love her or hate her (or merely find her amusing), Palin seems to have changed the political landscape.

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Palin's getting stale. I knew the Palin shit would fizzle out. Besides, the economy and foreign policy are far more important than this silly sex craze !

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McCain should marry Palin and move her and Cindy to Colorado City, Arizona where corrupt FLDS polygamists will revere them up for all time and eternity.

BANKING ON HEAVEN . COM

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The more folks are informed re Palin and her resume the deeper her poll numbers plummet. Not unexpected. Rudy Giuliani had faced the same fate. He was riding high at first, but as voters were more privy to his character and history, his numbers steadily tanked as well.

McCain and Palin has nothing to offer the country except more of the same garbage that we had suffered from the Repugs for the last several years. They will soon disappear.

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He announced yesterday he is going to disregard the subpoena issued by the Alaska legislature and will not answer their questions on his role in Troopergate.

We all know he visited Monegan personally. He has never denied that.


Todd Palin Refuses to Testify in Troopergate.

This is total crap. Anyone who votes for McPalin will lead this nation right over a cliff.

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Don't let up now!

It's working!

We need to keep up with the embarrassing exposes, tales of corruption, info on power-crazy firings, the facts on the lies -- keep it up.

And we need to rag the mainstream press to cover the details of these important stories, especially the lies.

Jan VanDenBerg

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I think McBush is doing a fine enough job of dragging himself down. constant lies, making things up as he goes along. Maybe the Sheeple are starting to wake up! My God I hope so.

Jiff
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The Sarah Palin choice had Karl Rove's fingerprints all over it. Once again, they managed to drag the red herring "values" issues that are the only thing the Republicans have to run on into center stage.
I'm glad to see Dems finally realizing the only way to fight this is also in the Rove manual: attack her "strengths," and let her weaknesses manifest themselves.

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McShame was converted to really loving his country while he was a POW, really! Give me a break, this man made it thru the Naval Academy because his daddy was an Admiral (pure & simple)! He didn't even graduate at the top of his class! He was caught up in the S&L scandals of the 1980's - they said he had bad judgment! Well it's what 20+ years later and his judgment hasn't gotten any better! His pick of Paleface was because: (1) she is a woman, (2) the religious right love and approve of her, (3) who he really wanted would not have passed the religious right! That so many non-thinking sheep went behind her (as though she is really a substitute Hilary), just shows how really dumbed-down this country has become!

Now that the fog of first blush love has come and gone, and the reality of Wall Street collapsing and Main Street is starting to ask a few questions of her the love affair is starting to wane! Here is another Barbie, that cannot answer questions, has no experience, and field dressing a moose only counts in Alaska! Those few questions asked by Charles Gibson weren't difficult, she just didn't have a clue! What she can do is read the telepromter well, that's not even a qualifier! Haven't we had enough ignorance and bullying in the Executive to last a lifetime! We need reasonable, thinking, articulate, considerate adults in charge! Thank you America! I knew if I lit enough candles and prayed real hard you all would wake up! Thank you America!

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People I have known for their entire lives are wanting McCain. Nothing I tell them gets through. I am the old fuddy duddy that can't be trusted because I am senile, I have alzheimers and I am a born liar; at least this is what I hear about myself.

I am fourth generation Irish the last generation acceptable to the Consulate for an Irish Passport. I have my papers and they are Valid. I was in the military of this Nation when I was a kid and didn't agree with policy then either.

I should have run but I hoped the scurrilous assholes would be defeated and America would stop war mongering, fat fucking chance. Human misery is well deserved. If you believe McCain, Pelosi, Palin, Obama, or any other of these war mongering ass holes you are going to deserve the screwing you get for the screwing you got!

Me, if Obama or McCain are elected to the Highest office of this country, I am going back to Ireland. The Irish may be fucking crazy but at least they know the enemy is them own selves. You can have the Child killing, back stabbing, father raping, ravening cannibalistic canine killers for your own, just don't get between me and the damned door or you may find out if God really does love murderers and raptures them straight to heaven!

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This is from today's LA Times.

GRAVINA ISLAND, ALASKA — The 3.2-mile-long partially paved "road to
nowhere" meanders from a small international airport on Gravina Island,
home to 50 people, ending in a cul-de-sac close to a beach.

Crews are working to finish it. But no one knows when anyone will need
to drive it.

That's because the $26-million road was designed to connect to the
$398-million Gravina Island Bridge, more infamously known as the
"bridge to nowhere." Alaskan officials thought federal money would pay
for the bridge, but Gov. Sarah Palin killed the project after it was
ridiculed and Congress rescinded the money. Plans for the road moved
forward anyway.

Some residents of Ketchikan -- a city of 8,000 on a neighboring island
where the bridge was to end -- see the road as a symbol of wasteful
spending that Palin could have curtailed. Some of them even accuse her
of deception.

"Surely we won't have to commute on the highway if there won't be a
bridge," said Jill Jacob, who has been writing and calling the
governor's office for the last two years to protest the road. "It's a
dead-end highway, a dead-end road."

Since Palin was named the Republican vice presidential nominee two
weeks ago, she has been boasting that she told Congress that Alaska
didn't want the hundreds of millions that had been earmarked for the
bridge.

But in 2006, Palin stood before residents in this region during her
gubernatorial campaign and expressed support for the bridge. It became
apparent after she was elected that the state's portion would be too
costly, and Palin ordered transportation officials to abandon the
project.

She held on to the $223 million in federally earmarked funds for other
uses, such as the Gravina road, approved by her predecessor.

"Here's my question," said Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein. "If Sarah
Palin is not being truthful on an issue like the Gravina bridge
project, what else is she not being truthful about?"

Alaska transportation officials say construction of the road began in
June 2007 because the state was still hoping to build a bridge, and
"you need that highway access," said Roger Wetherell, a department
spokesman.

But Weinstein, who backed the bridge project, said that Palin should
have redirected the money. "If the bridge was canceled, give the money
back, or get the earmark removed, or redesign the road so it's better
for development," he said. "Especially if you're opposed to earmarks,
and now you're telling the world you're opposed to earmarks."

His frustration came to a head after he heard Republican presidential
nominee John McCain and Palin tout her reputation as a reformer focused
on saving taxpayer money. He didn't feel much better when a campaign ad
called them "the original mavericks," and said: "She stopped the
'bridge to nowhere.' "

Weinstein need only glance across the salmon-rich waters separating his
city from Gravina Island to see what he believes are millions of
dollars being spent unnecessarily. Why, he asks, didn't she stop that?

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There's a clear reason why Sarah Palin's popularity is now tanking, and that reason can be summer up in three words: TROOPERGATE, TROOPERGATE and TROOPERGATE. . .

The outright stonewall being conducted by the McCain campaign against the Alaska Legislature's investigation of her alleged abuse of power in firing the state's top cop for his refusal to fire her former brother-in-law from the state police has obviously has many coming to the conclusion that Palin has something to hide.

And if the National Enquirer is to be believed, there are other skeletons in the Palin closet that are about to be exposed big time.

The Palin episode is certain to play right into Barack Obama's questioning of McCain's judgment.

What was McCain thinking when he chose a vehemently anti-choice woman to be his running in an attempt to woo Hillary Clinton supporters when the vast majority of them are pro-choice?

It now turns out that the big shift in support for McCain among white women reported in the polls last week neglected to mention that the shift was almost exclusively among white REPUBLICAN women.

Palin has failed to attract support from INDEPENDENTS -- who are mostly moderates. Needless to say, her selection has made DEMOCRATS even more determined in their support for Obama.

And Palin has done nothing to stem the tremendous fundraising advantage that Obama has over McCain. On the contrary, the gulf has only grown wider, with Obama having shattered the single-month fundraising record in August with $66 million and on track to raise anywhere from $80 million to $100 million by the end of September.

Not since Lyndon Johnson in 1964 has the Democratic candidate for president out-fundraised his Republican opponent -- and NEVER BEFORE by this wide a margin.

At this point, the only thing that stands in the way of an Obama victory in November, to put it bluntly, is flat-out racial bias against him, for the GOP already has conceded that there's no way they can win back control of Congress -- and freely admit that it will be miracle if they don't lose more seats to the Democrats.

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McCain got a boost when Palin first made her appearance and the novelty has worn off. He's right back where he started from, seriously damaged in the process. The initial enthusiasm is gone but Palin in her obnoxious attempt to soldier on now refers to "Palin/McCain", with husband Todd in tow. McCain was never loooking all that good and Palin appears to have destroyed him. It's an embarassment to McCain and an assault on our poliitical process. Thanks, ANNA

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While Mayor of Wasilla Fucking Sarah Palin made rape victims pay for their own rape kits and forensics to prosecute their rapists. Wasilla was the only city in Alaska that did that.

She fired someone for trying to to get federal funding to prosecute rapists, including CHILD RAPISTS. Alaska is the rape capitol of the America.

In my book her name has changed from Sarah Palin to Fucking Sarah Palin and that is how I will refer to her from now on.

She claims to be an advocate for disabled children because of her five month old down's baby, home with a baby-sitter cause mama is running for president. But Fucking Sarah Palin cut funding for the Alaska's Special Olympics in half.

Every time she is caught in a lie Olbermann, bless his heart, is calling her on it and donating $100 to the Alaska's Special Olympics.

BARACK THE VOTE BABY, YES WE CAN & WE BLOODY DAMN WELL BETTER!

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Republican Senator Chuck Hagel said she isn't qualified to be VP. Here's just a piece of his interview the the Omaha Herald when he criticized Palin:

"I think they [the McCain campaign] ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, 'I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia,'" he said. "That kind of thing is insulting to the American people."

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According to the latest Internet buzz, pro-McCain Web sites are starting to drop their support because Sarah Palin has made him radioactive.

Here is an example: McCain4President2008.com

Enjoy.

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John McCain sought to repair his frayed relations with religious fundamentalists by choosing the Governor of Alaska as his running mate. The idea was to select a working mother with Christian family values to be a heartbeat from the presidency.

“Values” voters have now been faced with the task of determining whether Sarah Palin’s values are the same as theirs. We all want our children to read widely, but Mayor Palin attempted to fire a Wasilla librarian for refusing to ban books that were approved by the American Library Association. We’re now producing fewer scientists than China and India, but Palin wants creationist theology taught in our science courses. We all expect a governor to show high standards, but Palin bent the rules and charged the State of Alaska per diem for nights spent at home. We all expect our leaders to be fair-minded, but Palin fired her Public Safety Commissioner because he wouldn’t fire her former brother-in-law. We all expect mothers to be mindful of the health of their unborn babies, yet Palin dashed to political events instead of to the hospital when about to give birth. As Gertrude Stein reminds us, “… it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.”

Maybe this is why Palin's numbers are down and are continuing to drop.

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I posted this earlier but it got buried so it's repeated here - it's kind of on topic.

Here's what I think is going on in the control room of the apparently brainless and ridiculously self-absorbed republican faction:

These primitives are many things - virtually all negative - but unfortunately stupid isn't one of them. Nor are they desperate, which is a common explanation for very strange, seemingly counter-intuitive actions. I believe they know they're going to lose in November; I mean, anyone can figure that out with a little digging beyond the complicit main stream media. It's just obvious.

So what's going on then? Well, think back to high school sports, or even modern professional sports. What happens when one team is so far ahead that the other simply can't win? Usually that's the time to practise tactics and strategies that you wouldn't dare try if winning were possible - it would be far too risky. But if you've no chance then there's nothing to lose because, well, you've already lost. So why not try all the crazy stunts and half-baked ideas that you've always wondered about; the things that you're pretty sure won't work but you would like to see what happens anyway. Put in the kid with the weird, underhanded jump shot, try letting the center hike the ball to a wide receiver, aim a pitch at the bat to get a strike or have a player pretend to come off the field but actually stand on the sidelines in-bounds, so the other team doesn't cover him (something my late father-in-law did in Canadian professional football. He actually scored a touchdown, and prompted a league rule change).

Trying out apparently stupid tactics 'in the field' is a great way to observe the actual results - which can sometimes be very surprising - and assess their potential. So the chushrovians think "Why not do it while we have the chance". It's something the sad goon rove and his minions are well aware of, and often why very unlikely things come about. Things like mccain, palin (particularly), Spain's unknown leader, fundamentally-strong economy, flip-flopping, continuous blatant lying, sabatoging voting machines, coercing election officials, threatening voters, pressuring police and stealing the future from your children for themselves, and on and on and on.

And if you continue to let them do these experiments without severe and immediate response - even though it won't get them a win this time - you're bound to see some of them in used in the next election cycle, when they just might have a chance of winning. So be(a)ware.

Cheers from Canada.

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Palin is a disaster for the GOP brand/ticket. I knew she would weaken McShame the moment I heard her shrill, vapid, lying speech at the Convention. Just hearing her screechy barn owl voice drives me to distraction. I'd rather hear chalk on a blackboard. She's a serial liar, a fundamentalist ideologue, and a mindless twit. Want to be McShame suspects he made a BIG mistake? It won't be his first.

Now, let me tell you what I REALLY think of Palin...

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"By promoting runaway development in her hometown, say locals, Palin has "fouled her own nest" -- and that goes for the lake where she lives.

"Every morning she's at home here, Sarah Palin wakes up to a postcard view from her lakeside home. Out the windows of her two-story wood-framed house stretch the serene, birch-lined waters of Lake Lucille. Ducks go gliding by the red-and-white Piper Cub floatplane docked outside. With the snow-frosted Chugach and Talkeetna mountains looming in the distance, the scene seems to define the Alaska that Palin celebrates: rugged, majestic, unspoiled.

"And, yet, the lake Sarah Palin lives on is dead.

"Among the environmental casualties of Wasilla's frenzied development was Palin's own front yard, Lake Lucille. The lake was listed as "impaired" in 1994 by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, and it still carries that grim label. State environmental officials say that leaching sewer lines and fertilizer runoff caused an explosion of plant growth in the lake, which sucked the oxygen out of the water and led to periodic fish kills."

Sarah Palin Lake Lucille | Salon News
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/19/palin/

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All this post says is that our massive strategy to dig up anything at all, even make much about Palin's private email is working. What these kinds of tactics really say is that the Dem candidate cannot stand up to real scrutiny, the only way to help him along is to overwhelm any opposition to his popularity.

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Predictably the DLC losers (going for 0 in 3) don't want to deal with the real heavy duty stuff we have on the Repubicans least we offend their water carriers (in) the MSM. By all means tell the truth starting with the worst of it. Eventually it will get past the media censors to inform the public about who these people really are, liars and opportunistic exploiters of the middle class, their constituents, conned into voting for them. Eventually we may even begin to believe our "lying eyes" and discover Palin never gave birth to Trig, her daughters first child out of wedlock thanks in part to Palin"s radical views on birth control.

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Given enough rope... Sarah Palin has enough skeletons in her background and current methodology of governance in Alaska that she'll hang herself. Secrecy, arrogance, circumventing the law... all those don't look too attractive on a politician.

Now that the dirt is starting to come out, look for the numbers to continue heading south.

"I can see the bottom of SP's popularity from my house!"

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Can I go with you?

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You can put lipstick on her, but she's still a pig (it's OK, I'm female). I was insulted as a woman that the Republicans would think that they could win the woman vote by putting an X-chromosome on the ticket. But I was doubly insulted to think that they would put someone so wholly unqualified, were she a he, that a "he" would have been laughed off the ticket. Adding insult upon insult was learning about her positions, her religious extremism, her basic ignorance on so many issues, and her propensity to lie and abuse her powers. I would hope no voter would be stupid enough to vote for a ticket that places that woman one heartbeat from the office of president. Personally, I don't think Alaska is far enough away -- let's send her to Russia -- it's one place she claims to know so well.

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It's painfully obvious that Sarah Palin is totally unqualified to be Vice-President. Meritocracy my ass; the woman is an embarassment to ALL women, regardless of political affiliation. Far better for McCain to have chosen someone of strength and substance like Kay Bailey Hutchinson or Condeleeza Rice.

Her being chosen speaks volumes to the endless hypocrisy of the right. Affirmative Action is only "wrong" when it benefits people of color, especially blacks. They are "protecting" her from the "hostile" press, even though she's supposed to be "tough" and "no-nonsense". If she's "equal" to men, then one would think she could defend herself just fine, thank you.

If Barack Obama had the same lack of credible experience, the right-wing blogsphere and radio jocks would be screaming their pea brains out over his being an "affirmative action baby" and that he got to where he is because of "preferential treatment".

Let's compare the two, shall we:

Obama graduated from Harvard Law School;
Obama spent THREE years as a community organizer;
He become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review;
He created a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters;
Spent TWELVE years as a Constitutional Law professor;
Spent EIGHT years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people;
Became Chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services Committee;
Spent FOUR years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees.

In glaring contrast Sarah Palin:
"Attended" FIVE different small colleges before graduating;
Was a local weather girl;
Spent FOUR years on the city council and SIX years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people;
Just recently got her passport and...

That's it. VP material??? Nice to see that people are starting to wake up--hopefully.

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I'm personally sick of insane (Bottom Line) and racist (Karl) trolls on Alternet. I know I've done my fair share of responding to these people, but what if we quit responding? Or better yet, what if we all started using that little button that says "report comment" when these people post blatantly rude, racist or insane (vampire) comments?

I don't mind debating people on the issues, but these conversations aren't about the issues. How can you debate someone who calls people cockroaches or someone who believes Al Gore is a vampire?

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MC PAIN NO GAIN
repubs suppressing voters already in fla new york and wisconsin
this means mano a mano on election day
bring three people and your cameras
amy goodman man handled not an anomaly
welcome to the clampdown

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Palin is a front for the Religious Right, there is no doubt about that. They love her, she has all of the RR's excited and breathing hard.

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Whenever someone tells you that if you investigate a popular politician's career or family, you'll be a small-minded excuse for a human being, maybe as a reporter you should get suspicious. Those who got suspicious got a story.

For my early Governor Palin writings on Alternet, I picked up at least one choice helping of winger guilt-laying invective early on. Worth it!

Summing up, Governor Palin's political plusses are her rock hard abs, her mascara and her hair stylist. Her biggest minuses are her inability to maintain a C average in college, her amoral character and her possibly criminal actions as a public official. None of the adult or teen members of her family are exactly helping her make a case for character.

I'm glad I wrote what I wrote but at this point, I feel that I should now leave the investigation to the real reporters. It's their job, and they've woken up now. I'll try not to write very much about Governor Palin from here on out.

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The recent change in the polls, shows that the public is waking up and will not take another 8 years of lies and falsity. We need to know the real truth behind Palin. Please check this out ... the most comprehensive page of information on Sarah Palin on the Internet ... including videos of her saying her proposed $30 billion pipeline is the “will of God,” her saying a month ago she doesn’t know what the vice-president does, and her complaining four months ago that Hillary Clinton was whining about “sexist media” coverage -


http://dailysource.org/palin


It has in-depth research, audio clips, videos, and links to hundreds of articles, including many from newspapers and TV stations in Alaska. It has rare footage, including her telling the ‘08 convention of the Alaska Independence Party, whose aim is to give Alaska a vote on seceding from the U.S., to “keep up the good work.”


The level of research is unparalled. The site’s editors and volunteers include an Emmy-award winning CNN reporter, the former operating editor of the Monitor’s web site, the former head of NPRs News Blog and the Executive Director of the Online News Association -


http://dailysource.org/about/team


Please tell anyone about this who might want to know more. People deserve to know information about who they are voting for.

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It's not really that hard to spot a dead parrot even if it does have beautiful verbiage, sorry plumage!

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Here are some of the teachings of the Pentecostal church. Tell me how Palin fits in with this type of thinking. This was easily found by googling "Pentecostal Doctrine" and is from this website: http://www.jimfeeney.org/bibleteachings.html



"The command that women not speak in the churches is not situational or cultural."

"I concluded that study by listing two primary ministry areas that the Lord has specifically reserved for men: that is, (1) teaching men, and (2) leading or having authority over men. This is unequivocally stated in 1 Timothy 2:11-12 — "A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent."

" Likewise, a Christian woman’s spiritual gifts and abilities are not authorization to teach and lead men contrary to 1 Timothy 2:11-12 and other verses that we will examine. In sum, being qualified to do something is not the same as being authorized to do it. God has given a wide variety of spiritual gifts to women of faith. But none of those spiritual gifts grants permission to violate the clear statements of Scripture that the roles of leading men and teaching men are reserved biblically for men."

"Pastors, please! ... obey the word of God and do not facilitate the antibiblical practice of women teaching men and leading men in the churches."

"•• 1 Corinthians 14:33b-37 As in all the congregations of the saints, [34] women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. [35] If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church. [36] Did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only people it has reached? [37] If anybody thinks he is a prophet or spiritually gifted, let him acknowledge that what I am writing to you is the Lord’s command."

"We see there that the man Adam was created by God and exercised dominion over the creation before Eve was even created. Based on that original design of God, Paul delivered the inspired Scriptural principle that women are not to have authority over men in the Lord’s work, because in the Garden of Eden God established the man in authority over the creation, then created the woman to be a “help meet” to the man (see Genesis 2:18, KJV, with 1 Corinthians 11:9)."


Haven't most of us seen the videos of Palin speaking in church? And haven't we see countless examples of her taking leadership over men? How do you believe in people who don't even follow the teachings of the churches they use as an example of why to vote for them?

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Thank you, Tina - I'd say that that skit made Palin fair game in the eyes of the celeb-driven media.

jdfu!

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The day after the poll that counts. The election will be over and I am sure the McCain Palin ticket will win.
I will gloat.

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The farcical patty-cake babbling on Fox Newstwister Channel between Hannity and Palin was something to behold. She is clueless, and he, with no academic credentials,fancies himself, preening and posturing for the camera, as a competent political analyst and commentator. Through the bilge at one point both were smirking and chuckling over the crowd coming into Alaska "to look for dirt". Many of these are legal teams coming in to suppress troopergate on behalf of the Plutocracy and try to save face for McBush. Others are main line reporters.

Only a few viewers were likely reminded of the influx of rightwinger teams against Democrats over the years especially those working for years around Clinton's Little Rock. But that was not a problem for Hannity the Super Flunkey, because he knew that in this patty-cake session that the mostly dimwits and Dupes bereft of critical thought who listen to him never would have made that connection.

Of course, there was no discussion of Palin's African witch-hunting pastor, whom she credited in a talk with her congregation, for her successful election as governor. He had accomplished this through anointing her by the ritual of his laying-on-of-hands with prayer. The media accounts of this did not say whether Palin, as a penecostal for many years, began "speaking in tongues" as the anointing occurred.

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Meteoric rise, meteoric fall. McCain's VP choice lost him the presidency. Who in their right mind - if they think about it - could push the lever to elect him or any Republican for that matter?

The Republicans elect their candidates using deceit and gimmicks and I really have to wonder whether Putin was right and Georgia provoked Russia to start a conflict just to put McCain in office. Wonder what October will bring!

The stakes are too high the future of this country is teetering on a precipice. We simply cannot afford to elect Republicans into office at any level!

Throw the bums out!

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Keith Olbermann is writing a check every Friday evening for the Special Olympics of Alaska. The amount is $100 times the number of lies or misrepresentation of facts that Palin or the McCain campaign makes about her. Last night he wrote a check for $3700! And that was just for the period through last night since she was nominated!

Maybe we should all write checks every week for $5 times every time they lie about her, and send them to either the Obama campaign, the campaigns of our local Democratic representatives running for re-election or the Alaska Special Olympics or state Special Olympics programs. It is your choice, but it would make a hell of a lot of difference and it would send a real message to the Palin's and McCain's that we do not buy the package and we want to show we are a better nation than the one they seem to think we are!

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Thanks, but NO THANKS!

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Has anyone ever wondered if Obama is so far ahead of McCain that the reporters are fudging some of the polls? Or perhaps the people who are polled are giving false information. When I was polled, I said I was voting for McCain-I'm not but it's none of their business. You can't have a race with only one horse is my view for what it's worth.

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The very best thing about McCain's choice of /acquiescence in Palin's selection is that it has somehow finally broken the MSM's utter silence on the topic of McCain.

Finally, he is getting called on his grosser flipflops and lies, and he seems to have lost the free pass that has let his craziness be brushed off -- and ignored -- as some kind of colorful good-guy-ness. So, as far as I'm concerned, the tank in Palin's popularity, while hugely pleasing, pales when compared to the fact that it seems to have snapped the total cone of silence the media has given McCain for the past 20 years.

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The only ways Palin is going off the ticket are if she is indicted in troopergate or if Cindy finds bottles of Viagra and ginseng in John's luggage.

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I am not a young man, but never in my lifetime have I seen anything as reminiscent of Hoover's Great Depression as America today--banks failing and hundreds of thousands of Americans losing their homes. For the first time in my lifetime, people are worried about whether the money they have in the bank is safe.

This nation cannot afford four more years of Republican rule. And there's one big reason.

Forget personalities, inexperience. racism, sexism, and war hero talk. It's the ideas that the candidates and the parties cherish that really matter.

The same ideas that produced the Hoover Depression are alive and well in today's Republican party--no taxes for the rich, subsidies for big corporations, no government regulation by the federal government, and the supremacy of states rights.

Change the name from Hoover to McCain to Palin on the economy, and the answers they give are interchangeable.

I’ve shortened my comments here because I know I’m blogging, but if you want to see more on this subject, go to a great website I found with the url www.howtotalkback.

I personally heard Rush Limbaugh say that it was his goal to undo everything that FDR did.

Now it's no secret that nobody has more influence over Republican thought than Rush. And it's no secret what Rush believes: government is bad and federal regulation is a plague.

But I wonder if Rush realizes that the FDIC--a program of the federal government put in place by FDR--is the main thing right now that's keeping America from an economic collapse.

One of my friends asked me why I wasn't voting Republican. "Don't you want to keep more of your money?"

My answer? If Republicans continue to rule, and they follow the Hoover, McCain, Palin script, AND THE BANKS FAIL, neither she nor I will have any money to keep.

What we need is a President who sounds like FDR, not a Hoover sound-alike.
--Will C. Justice

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With McCain needed in Washington, it is only prudent that Sarah Palin take his place at the debate this Friday in Mississippi. All in favor?

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an albatross with lipstick. Tick tock...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v59mXowK2t8

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