Columnist on Gov. Sarah Palin [Updates]
By SusanUnPC on August 29, 2008 at 10:11 AM in McCain/Palin 2008
I’m astonished — it sounds like the McCain team played the cleverest of media games, even leaking that the Romney family had been screened by the Secret Service. Now we know it is Gov. Sarah Palin, the second woman to be selected to run for the vice presidency. [UPDATE 2: Check out the flood of stories and blog posts about Gov. Palin at Memeorandum.com. In a short while, I will post a new story with a "blog round-up" to give you a sampling, pro and con, of first impressions. E.g., The Moderate Voice says this is John McCain's "desperation" choice. (Huh?) What McCain's selection HAS accomplished is to have pushed Obama's speech OFF the radar as the top story of the day! What a move by McCain.]
[UPDATE 3: At the end I am posting the "official" announcement I just received from John McCain's press office.]
This morning, a reader sent me this column by Jack Kelly in June 2008:
McCain Should Pick Sarah Palin for VP
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There is one potential running mate who has virtually no down side. Those conservatives who’ve heard of her were delighted to learn that McCain advance man Arthur Culvahouse was in Alaska recently, because they surmised he could only be there to discuss the vice presidential nomination with Gov. Sarah Palin.
At 44, Sarah Louise Heath Palin is both the youngest and the first female governor in Alaska’s relatively brief history as a state. She’s also the most popular governor in America, with an approval rating that has bounced around 90 percent.
This is due partly to her personal qualities. When she was leading her underdog Wasilla high school basketball team to the state championship in 1982, her teammates called her “Sarah Barracuda” because of her fierce competitiveness.
Two years later, when she won the “Miss Wasilla” beauty pageant, she was also voted “Miss Congeniality” by the other contestants.
Sarah Barracuda. Miss Congeniality. Fire and nice. A happily married mother of five who is still drop dead gorgeous. And smart to boot.
But it’s mostly because she’s been a crackerjack governor, a strong fiscal conservative and a ferocious fighter of corruption, especially in her own party.
Ms. Palin touches other conservative bases, some of which Sen. McCain has been accused of rounding. Track, her eldest son, enlisted in the Army last Sept. 11. She’s a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association who hunts, fishes and runs marathons. A regular churchgoer, she’s staunchly pro-life.
Kimberley Strassel of the Wall Street Journal said Sen. McCain should run against a corrupt, do-nothing Congress, a la Harry Truman. If he should choose to do so, Gov. Palin would make an excellent partner “The landscape is littered with the bodies of those who have crossed Sarah,” pollster Dave Dittman told the Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes.
Sen. Barack Obama’s support has plunged recently among white women. Many Hillary Clinton supporters accuse him — I think unfairly — of being sexist. Having Sarah Palin on the ticket could help Sen. McCain appeal to these disgruntled Democrats. [...]
PHOTO: Wikipedia bio
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UPDATE 1: From the Wikipedia bio summary:
Sarah Louise Heath Palin (born February 11, 1964) is the current Governor of Alaska, and the presumptive 2008 Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States.[1] She is expected to be the second female Vice Presidential nominee representing one of the two major American political parties.[2] Palin was selected as the runner-up in the 1984 Miss Alaska contest, and received a scholarship to the University of Idaho where she received a degree in journalism. After working as a sports reporter at an Anchorage television station, Palin served two terms on the Wasilla, Alaska, City Council from 1992 to 1996, was elected mayor of Wasilla in 1996, and ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor in 2002.
After charging ethical violations by state Republican Party leaders,[3] she won election in 2006 by first defeating incumbent governor Frank Murkowski in the Republican primary, then former Democratic Alaskan governor Tony Knowles in the general election.
On August 29, 2008, presumptive GOP nominee John McCain chose Palin as his nominee for vice president.
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UPDATE 3: This is John McCain’s official announcement:
JOHN MCCAIN SELECTS ALASKA GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN AS VICE PRESIDENTIAL RUNNING MATE
For Immediate Release
Contact: Press Office
Friday, August 29, 2008
703-650-5550
ARLINGTON, VA — U.S. Senator John McCain today announced that he has selected Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate and to serve as his vice president.
Governor Palin is a tough executive who has demonstrated during her time in office that she is ready to be president. She has brought Republicans and Democrats together within her Administration and has a record of delivering on the change and reform that we need in Washington.
Governor Palin has challenged the influence of the big oil companies while fighting for the development of new energy resources. She leads a state that matters to every one of us — Alaska has significant energy resources and she has been a leader in the fight to make America energy independent.
In Alaska, Governor Palin challenged a corrupt system and passed a landmark ethics reform bill. She has actually used her veto and cut budgetary spending. She put a stop to the “bridge to nowhere” that would have cost taxpayers $400 million dollars.
As the head of Alaska’s National Guard and as the mother of a soldier herself, Governor Palin understands what it takes to lead our nation and she understands the importance of supporting our troops.
Governor Palin has the record of reform and bipartisanship that others can only speak of. Her experience in shaking up the status quo is exactly what is needed in Washington today.
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A first-term governor of Alaska, ready to lead on “Day One”?
Well so much for McCain’s “inexperienced” argument.
Biden will tear her apart in the VP debates.
Joe Biden, who was a C and D student and fourth tier University of Delaware? Who plagiarized a law school paper (before he did the same when he stole the Kinnock speech)?
Washingtonian Magazine does a poll every year of Congressional staffers. Guess who was biggest drone? (after Robert Byrd) Joe Biden.
Her Wikipedia entry is sterling. And unlike Obama, who except for his failed tenure as head of the Annenberg Challenge in Chicago has never managed anything, she has been a highly successful manager of her state. Her approval ratings have been in the 80-90% range.
This is exciting.
Alyssa’s argument doesn’t wash: even if true (which I doubt), that wouldn’t make Sarah any less sterling in the pulic’s eyes. After all, Kerry clearly won all the debates against Dubya, and Hillary demolished Barack in their head-to-head debates.
Try another tack, Alyssa.
She has more experience running things than BO… Governor, Mayor, City Councilmember, owner of 2 businesses, Chair of National Governor’s Assn Energy Committee and the list goes on.
The only experiences BO has running anything are:
1. Chicago Annenberg Challenge (and we now know how that ended)
2. Subcommittee on Afghanistan….he’s never held a meeting.
She also represents change, unlike Biden.
You are absolutely right she is a change. A change to overthrow Roe vs. Wade. No Thanks.
Get real. NOBODY is going to “overthrow” Roe v. Wade, much less a VP.
First, a VP has ZERO do with ANY change in the law…that is the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction. And IF, by some long shot chance, a vote came before the Supreme Court to “overturn” it…it would only go back to individual states to make their own laws about it.
The more you hit Palin over the head with Roe v. Wade, the sillier you look, and the better she appears for standing up in a personal way for what she believes.
the issue jana is not what she did with her child but what she would tell you to do with yours ..are you unable to see that
Maybe you should have thought about that before you helped beat Hillary down with sexist tactics. Maybe you would have some credibility now. Oh, well.
Regardless of how you feel about Palin she adds a compelling voice to the mix. She represents women who do not often have a voice on the national stage.
Many of us are not pro-choice because of how we feel about the nature of life.
It is time that we make a law, a good one, that defines the uses of abortion for the best interests of the nation as a whole. Because right now it is just plain broke.
McCain has already said he supports overturning Roe v Wade. If you don’t think this is one of his main objectives, you are deluding yourself.
States have no rights if a constitutional ban is passed. So much for states rights.
We will have more Alitos, Roberts and Scalias. Period.
My right to chose will be gone. My choice, my body. Not some right wing nut jobs.
Do you actually read or listen to the promises of the candidate you are endorsing? Or are you the type of person who simply barks loudly expecting others to roll over to your point of view. McCain has said he is committed to putting a judge in the supreme court that will support overturning Roe v. Wade. In addition, he has chosen a candidate that is rabidly pro-life. Are you so blinded by your loss that you’re willing to endorse someone because they’ve chosen a female veep? Perhaps, you are the one that needs to “get real!” Obviously, you were simply looking for a female president at all costs. Hasn’t the last eight years been proof enough that the republicans have been tasking the country in the wrong direction? Do you not care about the environment, health care, our standing in the world? Are you actually are bullying your agenda at the expense of these issues.Perhaps you were simply pandering to the republican agenda all along. Well, you can keep your closet Republican views. They certainly don’t align with mine.
Lol @ “Get real. NOBODY is going to “overthrow” Roe v. Wade”…that is EXACTLY what McCain said he would do as president. But hey, don’t take my word for it, see it for yourself:
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/95b18512-d5b6-456e-90a2-12028d71df58.htm
Silly. One pro-life judge on the Supreme Court is not going to overturn Roe v Wade.
Agree, anyone who makes this argument only wants more lies to justify the current Democratic Party trainwreck. McCain hit it out of the ball park today with Palin.
Whoowhee, Obambi had this coming and 18 million Clinton supporters now can all wear orange and celbrate the new Orange Revolution to throw out the corrupt Obama hi-jacking of the Dem nomination.
The joke is now on Obama and he looks totally unprepared now that he has to run the first real contested political race in his life.
How very, very unattractive Obama and Michelle look in comparison. They can take their anger and their hissy fits back to Chicago because their faux moment on the stage of history has passed them by.
right, too bad the obamas are black. they’re really not qualified to lead like a white beauty contestant
Match up their resumes, and you’ll see who’s qualified to lead.
hmmm…Obama has an ivy league degree. Was president of the Harvard law review. Is clearly intellectual. A professor of law. A community activist. A state senator. A U.S senator. WON the primaries squarely! Can talk about issues without someone whispering in his ears…
Palin was a hockey mom, beauty queen (not in that order), mayor of a small city and well governor for 20 months. She shoots moose and likes to pop out kids.
Yeah. Quite a contest.
Yeah, and where are his college grades and link to anything he wrote as a the President of the Harvard Law review, show me any cases he argued before a court, and why didn’t he know they don’t speak Arabic in Pakistan, why didn’t he hold any meetings of the foriegn affairs committee, and why did he claim to be on the banking committee…jeez, my hand is cramping…I’ve got more questions, but let’s start with those.
Wow. You could have answered some of those questions by yourself.
1. He graduated magna cum laude in Harvard Law School, meaning he was in the top 10% of his class, and he was president of Harvard Law Review, the highest honor for a Harvard Law graduate. Since we are talking grades McCain finished 3rd from the bottom, and GWB, well….you know…
2. He didnt make the comment about arabic speaking pakistanis. It was afghanistan. Check your facts first. Also lots of muslims speak arabic. The point he was making stands.
3. The foreign relations subcommittee meetings were held as part of the larger committee headed by Joe Biden.
Now, I am not arguing that everything he did or did not do is easily excused, but I think given the alternative this guy is awesome.
This is what your referral says: Constitutional balance would be restored by the reversal of Roe v. Wade, returning the abortion question to the individual states. The difficult issue of abortion should not be decided by judicial fiat.
Yes, McCain is against abortion, in particular, late term abortion. Have you ever seen one?
I also believe this should be handled by States, there would be a lot less conflict….
You are right, the VP has nothing to do with Roe v Wade or over turning abortion. For that matter, a President rarely has little to do with that either. Yet we somehow get caught up with a Presidential candidate’s views on that. However, you should take the VP’s lack of power in that area further. The VP generally has no power period, other then being the deciding vote in a dead locked Chamber. Presidential candidates pick VPs for personalities to help them win the election. If McCain or Obama wins, they will do what most Presidents do with VPs: quickly push him or her out of sight.
You are missing the point ! McSame already said that he wants to get rid of the liberal members of the Supreme court. In addition, he lambasted the court for granting prisoners of war the right of Habeus Corpus. This is SUCH AN old provision that has been with this country since day one. Whats next for McSame, are women going to be chattel again ?
This guy is such a NEOCON that who knows what rights he will take a way from women when he gets his way. Oh, and I hope you all know what a “classy” guy McSame is ? He called his wife a Trollop and a C word. So much for being a liberated man.
Jana,
You’re right. It’s not Palin who would overturn Roe v. Wade.
It’s the Supreme Court. There are four justices on the court now who WILL vote to overturn Roe v Wade: Thomas, Scalia, Alito, and Roberts. That means the Republicans need only one more. And one of the other five will almost certainly retire or pass in this next term.
Which means if McCain wins, it is virtually guaranteed that we’ll be back to the days of coat hangers. Of course that may not matter because our economy and healthcare will be so bad that no one will be able to afford or obtain anything but a coat hanger abortion anyway.
Thanks to Hillary supporters like you who put a perceived gender snub before country or your own best interest if that happens.
You are absolutely clueless.
Yes, A VP and Most certain a McCain presidency would over throw Roe vs. Wade. They have already started appointing nut jobs such as Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Roberts who are more than happy to Kill Roe with “death by a thousand cuts”.
One more republican appointment means that Roe is over, and your devotion to Hillary will leave you with no right to choose at all.
Ever hear of the morning after pill? Dudh!
In the view of staunch conservatives, that pill is murder. Which is why they tried to block it from even coming up for a vote on the floor.
Pharmacists and doctors are now refusing to provide it. This is just the beginning of overturning my right to chose.
When you say pharmacists and doctors are now refusing to provide it are you saying that all pharmacists and doctors are refusing to provide it, or is this just another tactic of your disinformation campaign?
Wildchild,
I could not get the morning after pill from Walmart pharmacies, because Walmart’s founder opposed it. That was few years ago. I don’t know if they’ve changed their policy since then.
were there other pharmacists in town?
That is not the point. The last time I looked, I still have control over my life.
This is the same argument that people use when trying to say a hospital can refuse medical care. Is someone supposed to then drive around to find another one?
No I did not say all, but pro life opponents are trying to get this into the courts so activist judges can rule that they have the right not to provide or fill prescriptions.
Their claim is based on religion. If they can pick and chose what to prescibe and who to care for, where does this end? Can they then say they won’t care for patients of color? Or gay people? No disinformation campaign here. Just the facts. Go do the research like I did. Then come back and say I am making it up.
Or watch the Senate, you might learn something.
You are making an issue where there is non.
Obama is making decisions about people based on race and you don’t say one word about that!
Obama is a sexist and you disregard that issue.
Get a Life-GET A LIFE!
I don’t really care.
The behavior you saw in this primary is the root of rape, sexual harassment, domestic violence and hate crimes.
The Democratic party not only allowed rampant sexism and misogyny, but was a willing participant.
Just like when LBJ signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, when McCain selected Sarah Palin as his VP, he made a courageous move that spoke to me as a woman. He acknowledged the struggles that many so called progressives are oblivious to.
The fact that you are here arguing about abortion demonstrates that.
You can deal with your uterus or penis, since men seem to have a stake in this, too. (Child support?) I know how to use contraception and stand up for myself. I refuse to be bullied with RvW.
The same can be said for blantant racism and fear mongering against a supposed Muslim candidate.
Your candidate wasn’t the only person hurt during the campaign, so stop crying and pick yourself up and get back to voting with your brain and not your emotions.
No, she is spot on correct meaning that right to life Pharamicists are currently winning cases that say they don’t ahve to give out the morning after pill.
THese will most certainly make it to SCOTUS , where another McCain /Bush appointee will allow this to be settled at the state level.
The morning after pill will die very quickly.
Get a life–get a life. These wedge issues constantly being overhyped by right- and left-wing extremists are a disservice to the nation. We’ve got quite a few problems on our collective plates with which to deal and don’t need to be sidetracked by non-starter issues which don’t pass the “so what?” test
I have a life, thanks. This is an issue. I am pro choice and will not apologize for it. My point was that if the repubs have their way, including Palin, women will no longer have the choice. McCain will put up judges that will overturn Roe v Wade. That is one of their stated platform goals. If you had read the entire thread you would have seen my point. This is not a wedge issue. This is a democrat vs repub issue. You think that appointing supreme court justices is a non starter? Think again. We have already seen evidence of who republicans will appoint to the bench. With three more due to retire, what kind of people will McCain nominate? Yeah this is really so non important.
it’s a non issue if the democratic senate has a backbone.
That is a good point. Congress has the power to increase or decrease the number of Supreme Court justices. If they had a backbone, they could increase the number of justices. However, that would require a Democratic President to nominate favorable justices.
Yes, you do have a choice. You can stick a coat hanger up your twat or drive your Volvo to Canada.
Hillary was the politician that fought to make the morning after pill an over the counter drug. Another thing Hillary did to protect peoples rights.
And Obama voted present. The Democratic party has spoken. Their mess now.
Don’t reduce women to one issue alone!
I don’t give a rats ass about Roe v Wade any more!!! My generation fought for choice, pay equity, recognition of domestic labor, universal health, family leave, etc.
And what did the next generation of women do? They disassociated themselves from feminism and their hard work, refused to recognize that sexism, misogyny and gender discrimination still exist (even refused to see it this primary season!), took for granted Title VII and Roe V Wade.
How many times have I heard young women (40 & under) say, “I’m not a feminist” or “feminism is dead” or “feminism is no longer necessary”?
If these women and their male cohorts want to preserve choice, then go ahead and do the hard work because my generation is tired of carrying water for their sorry asses!
Excellent rebuttal. Game, set, match.
Thank you for saying that! I have felt that way for a long time but never quite articulated it. I think there are many of us who know exactly where we were when Thomas was confirmed – I carried the water for women at work while I was young – taking their overtime because they had families to go home to. Now, guess what – no one is there for me. I watched as BO dissed my Hil – and how his inexperience trumped her wisdom and life experience. I am a lifelong Democrat and – for the first time in my life – I am seriously considering switching parties.
Don’t switch parties for God’s sake take the DNC back. It needs to be the party of something other than “not them”. Once it was a progressive good for the people organization. Vote for McCain Palin and then be prepared to make your voice heard and DEMAND good laws for the health and well being of all citizens.
I am slightly under 40 and in my opinion, going out and defining yourself a feminist makes it harder to get equal treatment in a certain way. I was a real hard ass for awhile in my 20’s. But it separates you in a way that I personally don’t think is productive. And people want to get away from you! I feel it actually prevents the process of acceptance and integration and equal treatment which is really the goal. Plus you are always looking for slights when they may not exist. If they really do exist I wouldn’t tolerate it for a moment, but you can’t be on constant lookout for slights. If you want something you TAKE it based on your merits and performance. Similarly, I feel that African Americans would be better off using this approach as well. There are plenty of people in this world that are not sexist or racist and you don’t need to focus on the ones that are. Times HAVE truly changed. I don’t like to dwell in the past. There is a huge change for the better in racial and gender perceptions within the younger generations. Not giving others credit where credit is due actually reinforces sexism and racism.
Waaa..so you are tired fighting the hard battles such as feminism. Try fighting against Totalitarianism and Fascism. Those are real fights being fought right now by people that want to seize absolute control for corporations. This will mean that noone has power except for multinational corporations that can :
- outsource all labor to cheap places without any labor laws ( say hello to more exploitation of women in third world countries
- no whistle blower laws that protect consumers ( SCOTUS is teetering on reversing ALL of the gains made in regard to this )
- Tell you that you can’t get health care because you had a small pallup removed .
These issues are bigger than whether a woman is elected this time. A woman president is going to happen soon, but our country won’t be worth living in when that time comes if you vote republican.
…last I checked she does not vote on the Supreme Court
Oh cry wolfe -
Nobody is going to overturn Roe vs Wade. It takes an approval of the majority of the Senate to confirm a justice. Do you really believe a Senate with a strong democratic majority (some say as high as 60/40) is going to allow McCain to get a conservative bent on overturning Roe on the court?
If the Senators loss their minds and committ political suicide and do that, then it’s not McCain or the GOP or Palin who will overturn Roe, it will be Senate Democrats who no longer value their political careers.
Shove the fear tactics on Roe. It’s so disingenuous.
Senate to confirm a justice…
Did Biden vote for Clarence Thomas? I don’t recall.
No Biden did not vote for Thomas, Bork or Roberts. For that matter, he did not support Rehnquist either. He did vote for Scallia and regrets that now.
This is not a fear tactic, it is a fact. When some of you vote for McCain remember where he stands on issues. He is determined to see conservative activists judges, which is what we will get in the supreme court. There is no guarantee that that the Senate or the house will be overwhelmingly democratic. I am not willing to take that chance. That is just the tip of the iceberg with McCain and I will not be a party to the titanic sinking. We have had that for 8 years.
No way. No how. No McCain.
Hilary was my only choice. Trying to justify a bait and switch to vote for McCain is ludicrous and cannot be justified.
I wish I could understand the point of view of so many women on this topic. I’ve tried for years… in fact, nearly all my life. A couple of years ago, I saw Whoopy Goldberg at a women s rights rally hold up a coat hangar and state that at some point in near history, that coat hangar had been the only choice. I wondered about the same thing that has made me wonder for decades: What if that really was the “choice”? I’ve been on this earth for 39 years because someone loved me enough to allow me to be adopted and didn’t decide to kill me. I love my family. I love my life. I love my country. I make a difference and I count to those around me every day. I can’t find a way to understand this issue.
35.here is a note about this issue ..are you kidding try analysing before you comment ..her experience is nil
is this the blogger that put “she has a solid resume ” ? i know of no definition under which that could be remotely true ..from a self described “hockey mom ” to governor of alaska in 3 yrs . yeah thats solid .Like , my success on my high school baseball team 35 yrs ago makes me qualified to run major league baseball . this is nothing but pandering for women’s votes and if successful will only confirm old stereotypes .get a grip.. McCain and the GOP care nothing for families ,women or children unless they have a net worth over $5 mil which he defines as being beyond the middle class .. please take a look at the last 8 yrs for a litany of policies that benefited no one but the super rich ..how much support for families and women do you think there would be id the bush administration had not poured 1.5 trillion dollars down the rat hole of Iraq ? and thats only the tip of the iceberg ..so go on and be proud about a woman being nominated for VP but remember it is nothing but a cynical manipulative GOP move which i hope you are able to easily see through . McCain voted for Bush’s policies 95 % of the time ..this is the “change “you want .. jh
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I think the cynical candidate is Obama—no resume to speak of, no interest in even presiding over his current Senate committees, no grasp of what it means to be a true Democrat. The Clintons even had to outline for him core Dem principles and the Party platform!
All Obama has is the platitudes of hope and change! So much for the Neo-liberal platform and for the Obama’s Pod Dem Party!
republican talking points, through and through
No, just reality. Too bad you can’t accept that.
He was editor of the Harvard Law Review ; first black person ever at that position
After school he went back to volunteer and help inner city Chicago and taught law. He could have easily taken a 7 figure a year salary , but instead decided to help out his community.
These ain’t exactly values of someone looking out for himself first.
For those republican talking heads who insist this garbage about Senator Obama doing nothing in the US Senate, here are a few. If you want to know what he’s done in the Illinois Senate, there are over 800 Bills.I’ll list them separately.
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109 S. 1180 SAVE Reauthorization Act of 2005
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109 S. 1426 Drinking Water Security Act of 2005
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109 S. 1630 National Emergency Family Locator Act
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109 S. 1685 To ensure the evacuation of individuals with special needs in times of emergency. IS
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109 S. 1770 Hurricane Katrina Fast-Track Refunds for Working Families Act of 2005
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109 S. 1920 Renewable Diesel Standard Act of 2005
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109 S. 2045 Health Care for Hybrids Act
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109 S. 2125 Democratic Republic of the Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act of 2005
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109 S. 2154 To provide for the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp in honor of Rosa Parks.
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109 S. 2179 CLEAN UP Act
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109 S. 2201 Federal Aviation Administration Fair Labor Management Dispute Resolution Act of 2006
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109 S. 2247 Federal Employees Health Benefits Program Efficiency Act of 2006
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109 S. 2257 Hurricane Katrina Working Family Tax Relief Act of 2006
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109 S. 2259 Congressional Ethics Enforcement Commission Act of 2006
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109 S. 2261 Transparency and Integrity in Earmarks Act of 2006 IS
109 S. 2280 STOP FRAUD Act
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109 S. 2286 Equality for Two-Parent Families Act of 2006
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109 S. 2319 Hurricane Katrina Recovery Act of 2006
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109 S. 2348 Nuclear Release Notice Act of 2006
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109 S. 2358 VA Hospital Quality Report Card Act of 2006
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109 S. 2441 Innovation Districts for School Improvement Act
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109 S. 2446 American Fuels Act of 2006
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109 S. 3158 To suspend temporarily the duty on 2-Methyl-4-chlorophenoxyacetic acid, salts, and esters.
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109 S. 3159 To suspend temporarily the duty on gibberellic acid.
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109 S. 3160 To suspend temporarily the duty on triphenyltin hydroxide.
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109 S. 3245 To suspend temporarily the duty on 2,4-DB Acid and 2,4-DB Dimethylamine Salt.
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109 S. 3249 To suspend temporarily the duty on metsulfuron-methyl.
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109 S. 3250 To suspend temporarily the duty on 2,4-DB Acid and 2,4-DB Dimethylamine Salt.
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109 S. 3251 To suspend temporarily the duty on dichlorprop-p acid, dichlorprop-p dimethylamine salt, and dichlorprop-p 2-ethylhexyl ester.
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109 S. 3475 Homes for Heroes Act of 2006
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109 S. 3631 Missing Mercury in Manufacturing Monitoring and Mitigation Act
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109 S. 3694 Fuel Economy Reform Act
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109 S. 3757 To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 950 Missouri Avenue in East St. Louis, Illinois, as the `Katherine Dunham Post Office Building’. IS
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109 S. 697 Higher Education Opportunity Through Pell Grant Expansion Act
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109 S. 918 E-85 Fuel Utilization and Infrastructure Development Incentives Act of 2005
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now if only soeBOBO would release his senate records to show us if he actually did any “work” on those bills or if he was just sand baggin it for posterity.
Obama does have experience running something – HIS MOUTH! Maybe we ought to hang it up and vote for McCain/Palin…it occurred to me that those 2 are independent and both may not be all that conservative and may just be lip-synching it to their right wing. What do we have to lose? We may be pleasantly surprised that it’s not that bad after all. On the other hand, does anyone really believe Obama will be a good president? A bad Obama presidency will get him run out of office and we get 100 years of Republicans from angry voters in the whole country after an Obama mess after that. Or a bad McCain 4 years can put HRC into the White House and McCain to get the blame for the post-Bush mess. What’s better? Or worse?
Suppose he pulls a Bush and starts a war to stay in office?
Yeah come to think of it, I’ve run things too. When I was 15 I worked at Marine World Africa USA, I ran a snack hut. I also ran a lemonade stand. I was assistent manager at a hobby and craft store. Now I run a product team of about 15 people. I never realized how much executive experience that I have. I’m way more qualified to run the country than Barak Obama and Joe Biden. I’m an executive!
Palin in her convention speech:
“Some will say I am inexperienced, but I could not ask for a better running mate to expose me to the depths of sacrifice required for a life in public service. And unlike our opponents, I will be will be looking up to the President, not the other way around!”
A roar erupts from the crowd as the delegates leap to their feet and all those watching at home know this woman is right. Joe Biden, not Barack Obama, is ready to President. Unfortunately, he isn’t running for that position.
So, Joe… you’re saying Sarah Palin is ready to be president?
No you idiot, she’s ready to be VP. And that ‘looking up to the president’ line…holy crap, whiz bang…Biden had better be on his toes or she will hand him his balls. After he gets them back from Barky, that is.
So, Strawb… McCain’s most important decision to date — the choice of who would replace him as president of the United States if he were incapacitated — and he picks a woman who (you acknowledge) is not ready to fill that role.
Obama picked Joe Biden.
Game, set, Obama.
Less than 1% of Democrats thought Joe Biden would make a good President a few months ago, so I don’t see why you think he’s such a great VP. Face it, he is there to make Obama look more experienced, because Biden actualy did something with the Senate Foreign Affairs European Subcommittee when he chaired it. Obama skipped three meetings about Afghanistan and never held a meeting with the North Atlantic allies, and he *did* have NATO oversight.
Er, that’s not true. Just because only 1% voted for him doesn’t mean they are the only ones who “thought Joe Biden would make a good president”. It just means the other 99% thought someone else would make a better one…or that someone else had a chance of winning the nomination. Of oourse, you knew that, didn’t you?
That’s like saying 50% of democrats thought Hillary would be a crappy president, which is untrue, too. They just thought Obama would be incrementally better. The fact is, there are lot of strong candidates, and we can only vote for one.
For the record, McCain’s choice was a masterstroke, and it is precisely why Biden was a mistake. Obama had a chance to put any number of strong women on his ticket and picking Biden opened himself up to this strategem.
Sure, she’s pro-life and an evangelical, but she’s also an ethics hawk, and willing to criticize her own party. I’m excited.
incrementally better
You ignore the fact that it was not a question “of the people” in the Dem party, it’s a select few that decided the outcome of this Dem primary out of a combine, call it 36 million votes, it came down the cohersion of several hundred party hacks.
Hope has never put food on my family’s table. Some where in our history we had to hunt for it ourselves or perish.
Been there done that.
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Wow Teakwood..You Keep coming up
with Deep thoughts…still reading Jonathan Livingston..??
I like how you Obamatrons are all shitting your pants this morning, whining, crying about how it’s “game over” or “game, set, match Obama”. You live and breathe your own bullshit, it shouldn’t be a surprise to any of us that you’d be saying any of this crap.
Palin is gold. Obiden is toast.
Even though this pains you, I know deep down in your gut, you know McCain just knocked it out of the Ballpark with this awesome pick. Congratulations Big Mac and Happy Birthday, you’re not gettin’ older, you’re gettin’ better. BTW, this is one hot lookin’ woman (my husband pointed out) who looks just like Tina Fey! A plus for SNL fans who love Tina’s cameos on the show. Undercover, I love ya cuz you stir up the pot over here, but I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW that this is an OH SHIT!!! moment over at Team Obama/Biden HQs!
She’s better looking; and that’s not a knock on Tina, just my personal taste.
I love ya back, Liz. But I bet you a donut that, come November, this will be looked upon as a wrongheaded and ineffective choice.
And now… the Sexist Joke of the Day:
“The only way the McCain campaign will get a ‘bounce’ out of this choice is if Sarah Palin goes braless!”
Thank you… thank you, ladies and gentlemen. I’m here all week.
Undercover Black Man -
Your idiocy is exposed like a true Obama-tron.
Keep on with your stupidity, sexism, and hypocrisy – you’re digging your grave deeper and deeper.
Now every misogynistic thing that is uttered in this election will be grist for the mill, fuel to energize McCain’s campaign and his massive female base.
If we knew a good racist joke, we’d put one here.
Absent that, stick it.
I meant no offense, BB. Can’t we have a little fun with all this?
NO.
@Undercover Black Man
If sexist insults like yours are acceptable, then so are racist ones. The double standard ends.
Therefore, the only thing bouncing will be Obama’s black bubble butt back to Chicago.
Eh. Good effort.
Do any of you remember when McCain said to his wife “at least I don’t put on the makeup like a trollup you cunt?” Far more offensive than what Undercover Black Man said. And I’ve not heard Obama say anything that offensive or even close. Also funny you say that sexist and racist jokes are inappropriate and then make a racist joke. Way to stay above the fray you dummy
Under Cover Black Man you’re a sexist no brained, now should I use a black joke here? Double standard jerk!
Plenty have beat you to it here, my friend.
You didn’t learn anything,did you? This kind of remark is exactly what has the Democratic Party divided and 25% of Hillary’s supporters ready to vote for McCain. You know nothing about this woman but you are attacking on the basis of gender. Whether or not I agree with his policies, this was brilliant and my respect for him has risen exponentially. I always thought it would be a Democrat to finally have the guts to do this, but I think McCain can actually pull this off. If you want to attack this woman, find out more about her and judge her on what she has done with her life. The Dem party is beginning to look very unfriendly to women.
Yeah, notice how Obama’s historic speech got blow out of the water today? Ha! Ha!
I guess Obama just doesn’t get it — he could have had Hillary as his VP, but blew it! (I still would not have voted for him though!)
UCB.
Would you like it if someone made a joke about Obama being black?
Your post is completely inappropriate.
Obama’s NEW Democratic Party: Home of the Sexist, Misogynist,and Racist Members
You guys just keep bringing up the inexperience, that’s a winner. Just makes Obama’s COMPLETE lack of experience more of an issue. Priceless. Our VP has more, and better, experience than the head of the Dem ticket, and they want to attack on experience? Yes they can!
Forgot, O does have executive experience. He ran the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, doling out grants for terrorist Bill Ayers to folks like Acorn. Don’t want to give him short shrift.
Jealousy is so unbecoming….Deal with it. Once again Obama’s message of hope and change. Can you say PALIN? A WOMAN? Talk about an in YOUR face! I’m loving every moment of this. She has more experience than Obama, and that’s a FACT!
Once again Obama’s message of hope and change. Can you say PALIN? A WOMAN?
Diana, don’t ya see? This means McCain has allowed Obama to define what this election is about… “hope and change.” That’s a psychological defeat already… to let your opponents define the game.
That’s why this looks like a choice made from weakness.
Don’t ya see? Obama choosing Biden means Obama has allowed McCain to define what this election is about… “experience and record.” That’s a psychological defeat already… to let your opponents define the game.
That’s why this looks like a choice made from weakness.
yup, and Biden is the consummate Washington insider. Just the opposite of all that change we can believe in.
Actually, the Republicans have succeeded in defining their message. Government reform and national security will be what McCain and Palin keep talking about.
Hope and Change is depressing. It means times are bleak and call for desperate measures like electing Smug and Plugs.
When Sarah Palin spoke to the crowd at Dayton, OH today, she told them exactly what she’s done and will do. They were proud of their country and optimistic.
Big difference between confidence and arrogance and hope and optimism.
She’s more experienced than BO. If he’s good enough to be Prez, Sarah is more than qualified.
The beauty of that comment is that McCain and Palin won’t be butting heads constantly. We had that problem with Bush/Cheney and it caused a lot of problems that affected the efficiency of the presidency.
If McCain got shot six months into the job, Palin would be in hot water, However, there are always hundreds of administrative assistants, cabinet members, etc, on whose advice and experience the presidents always rely. No matter who you are and how many offices/jobs you have previously held, there is always a learning curve. Palin seems very acute. I think she would survive with flying colors.
Honestly, I am less concerned with the improbability of Palin with all her “inexperience” being president than I am with Obama and all of his “experience”.
What I find incredibly sexist and demeaning is the trivalization of Palin experience. Let’s not forget when Hillary ran for the senate we heard the same sexist comments about her qualifications. It was the same nonsense about her role and first lady and “housewife” and how all she did was “stand by the side” of her husband. So I guess her legal career did not matter, nor her board of director experience, or her congressional hearings on healthcare reform. Despite all the blatent sexism she won her senate position despite all her inexperience.
Palin faces the same sexist statements that mention her “lack of experience” What I find interesting is how no one questions how Obama will “juggle his responsibilities” as a father while at the same time holding office?
That view is so sexist as it intends to convey an image of a “neurotic woman” trying to shuttle the “litter” around and still manage to do her job!
Is this as far as we have come?
Obama picked Joe — the Potus Candidate who got the LEAST votes.
The guy who pushed the new Bankruptcy bill through Congress because it favors his buddies in the credit card industry. A Bill that has led to PREDATORY LENDING.
The same Joe whose son is a big time Washington lobbyist.
And let’s review Obama’s tendency to BREAK HIS PROMISES:
He voted for FISA after he swore he filibuster.
He voted FOR the BUSH CHENEY Energy bill and has gladly taken OIL INDUSTRY Bundler Donations after he swore he wouldn’t.
He broke his promise on campaign finance reform after he swore he would do the right thing.
Obama has a track record for breaking promises. I don’t believe any of his promises.
So, Palin who has more experience than Obama is not ready to be President, then that means that Obama is not ready to be President. Game, set and match to Obama follower.
I agree. What a boneheaded move.
First act as the nominee and he picks someone with less experience than Obama.
She has more experience.
Obama kinda had to pick Biden, now didn’t he…because he has even less experience than Palin. Palin, though certainly not a heavy weight in the experience department still has more than Obama. She is a governor. He is a senator. Governors are more powerful than Senators. Governors are executive. Senators are legislative. Governor trumps Senator. So what if she was only a mayor before, he was only a community organizer, whatever that is. It is extremely rare for a senator to be elected president without serving in another office first, such as VP. Governors or VP’s are usually elected. No doubt we’ll have a senator this year.
McCain is toast. What a stupid move. The inexperience argument is gone.
This is the person who will become President when McCain croaks? OMG what a doddering fool!
Someone who has no experience?
They think Hilary supporters will vote for her because she is a woman and has a family?
Think again! What a joke!
Palin has more executive experience than all three guys put together. She ran a city and she ran a state. Alaska borders on Canada and is close to Russia. While Biden is an expert on foreign policy Washington style, she knows about foreign relation as the bread and butter of her job.
Biden is a 30-year veteran of Washington, she is a fresh face. Tell me, who is now standing for the “same tired old Washington way”?
A Republican picking a female running mate. How conservative is that?
She is a babe and the lack of national name recognition will be history this time tomorrow. Obama would be historic? A female Veep does not look that conventional to me.
a babe? OMG are you kidding?
‘a babe’? All you female voters out there – did you hear this insult?
I bet that ‘babe’ could run circles around Obummer and Biden together! Just wait until this lady’s accomplishments and record is made public – just wait until ALL of America has heard about Palin. That is, of course, if Obummer’s love-fest media will ‘allow’ it. The media is SO in the tank for Obummer I’m sure they’ll try to squelsh all the good qualities and/or experience she TRULY has!
I love your point. To take it one degree farther; no where in the Constitution does it mandate that the President graduate from an Ivy League College. Perhaps it is time that we get a fresh perspective. Unlike Joe, Barak and even McCain she understands the needs of working class people. Child care, medical care for special needs children, and the aggrivation of watching a government that fails to serve the people. She chose to act against corruption on behalf of the people instead of turning a blind eye and going along with the crowd.
Palin is still more experienced than Obama. The Democrats put the lightweight at the top of the ticket, propped up by the balding Senator from The Corporate State (in case you don’t know about Delaware.)
Sounds like the Obamabots are scared. I bet Hillary is is knocking her head against a wall this morning.
Sarah looks like she’s McCain’s daughter, there fore he’s saying he would trust somebody like her to run the country.
Get this Obama is the one who is facing McCain with no experience not Palin.
I think HRC is smiling—even if it means that Palin might be her presidential contender in 2012. It’a time that women battled it out for the presidency.
Oh I beg you, BEG YOU, to post a factual list of what Obama has done to prove he is more experienced than Palin. BEG YOU!!! I have never heard even one accomplishment. Seriously. Even Bill and Hillary couldn’t think of one at the convention to name. They sure sidestepped that issue. I guess he’s just “the one” because he is so “special”. How can you support someone who began his political career in the home of a convicted terrorist, Bill Ayers (research it!). Ayers set off bombs at the Pentagon and the Capitol and said his only regret is not setting off more bombs. “God Damn America” indeed. You Obama supporters have blinders on. God help you idiots. Oh I forgot, we are supposed to overlook EVERYTHING he does because he is black. Associating with American terrorists who have been to jail…oh who cares, right? He’s black. That makes it ok.
Did you notice that there was no one from Baraks past except his wife at the convention?
Kerry had 12 commrads from his days in the Navy to vouch for him. Al Gore had oodles of people telling us what a fine man he is.
Not one speaker in Denver said that they had faith in the man Barak Obama.
Barak stands alone as the sole representative of his life story and this should tell us all something.
Biden had better be on his toes or she will hand him his balls. After he gets them back from Barky, that is.
orrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
jeff gannon……..
No. McCain is. Just like (from an experience standpoint) Biden is. But Biden is running for VP, and the inexperienced guy is running for POTUS.
When I see BHO and JB on stage together, it doesn’t look right. That ticket should be flipped, and I think a lot of people perceive it the same way I do.
And, if she isn’t ready, then why is BHO? She has more executive experience than anyone else in the race (even if it is only two years). She also knows what hard work is like, having lived in Alaska and helped with her husband’s commercial fishing business. Trust me, after a few weeks of getting to know her, people will be more comfortable with her running the ship than BHO.
And, if she isn’t ready, then why is BHO?
Because Obama put himself before the Democrats of America for the past two years and they decided he was ready.
And if you watched his speech last night, you can see why.
It’s not about resumes. It’s about getting out there and competing and winning.
And talk about optics… Sarah Palin looks like McCain’s daughter.
Did you twist yourself into a pretzel with that logic? That was one of the most absurd things I have ever heard. If its not about resumes, then how is she not ready? Just because he has a good campaign team that can bamboozle the people, he is ready to be President? Just because he raised more money than the next guy, he is ready to be President?
I swear, logic and reason have no place in an Obots mind. As long as they can justify it to themselves, that is all that matters. Grow up kid!!
I for one am not a kid. I am a Hilary supporter. McCain just did the most stupid thing he could have done. Everyone talks about Obama’s inexperience? Oh please. Now we have two of them. Our political system is a joke.
Talk about pandering. Wasn’t it McCain who has been blabbing about experience? Then he goes and picks a VP who was a pundit and has 1 1/2 years experience running a state? Never will I vote for Obama or McCain. They can both jump in a lake!
I wasn’t responding to your post. I was responding to undercover whatever he is. Sorry about the confusion.
I have been researching for Palin for a few months and I was hoping he would pick her. She is experienced. Executive experience is ten times more important than legislative experience. As an executive, you make the decisions. You balance the budget. You sign the orders, and you direct your staff. you can not get out of bad decisions by voting present or not showing up for a vote. As an executive, it all falls on you. So her two years, times 10, is roughly comparable to 20 years of legislative experience.
Yeah, this line to the white house worked out well for our last president
Senator McCain was brilliant today; Sarah Palin has more experience than the nOne. She took on a corrupt government and won, and she is running a whole state….. what did the chosen one do? Make a speech?
Ummmm….. you know the titanic….that unsinkable ship???? Obambi you better have your lifejacket on.
Happy Birthday Senator McCain!
Oh and did you notice her honor Hillary Clinton and us….the 18 million
very classy 
The only thing left is for President McCain to appoint Hillary as the next Supreme Court Judge
or whatever suits Hillary 
Oh and did you notice her honor Hillary Clinton and us….the 18 million very classy
Where is Paul Tsongas with that “pander bear”? As others have said, Lorie, this pick by McCain underestimates the intelligence of women.
Don’t project your disdain for smart women on John McCain.
He at least is not afraid to share decision making with one …. BO looks like a joke.
I wanted Hillary to win the nomination so badly, and was really disappointed when she didn’t. So when McCain announced Palin as his running mate, I was thrilled.
But then I thought about it–if McCain really wanted to woo me as a voter, he should have picked someone like Republican Senator Olympia Snowe, who’s much more experienced than Obama AND who represents the same ideals that Hillary fights for.
Also, Palin may have “honored” Hillary by referring to HRC in her speech, but Palin couldn’t be more different from HRC. She’s pro-life, opposes same-sex marriage (she signed a bill implementing same-sex benefits into law but said she did so only because the law required her to), she’s a member of the NRA and an avid hunter, and she doesn’t believe that global warming and climate change are man-made.
Yes, Obama betrayed us. He betrayed Hillary. But is that enough to vote for someone who stands for everything that Hillary is against?
Very classy indeed. Do you know why Palin couldn’t bring herself to support another woman for president? Because she didn’t like Clinton’s “whining” (http://www.newsweek.com/id/156190).
Everyone on this blog seems very angry, which is appropriate since you’re all going to vote for Mr. Temper McCain even though he voted against things like equal pay for equal work (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/07/mccain_on_equal_pay.html).
Back in April, McCain told reporters that he was “all in favor of equal pay” for women, but that there were better ways to help women find higher paying jobs. “They need the education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households,” he explained.
See? McCain already knows what’s best for women. Oh, unless what’s best for women is being able to sue their employer for age discrimination.
She is Vp pick. Not president. Obama is the one with no experience. She may be younger than Obama, but she’s done more with her life.
Would you rahter he pick boring Pawltry?
You assume she has no relevant knowledge or experience simply because the Obama camp said so while smearing yet another state and demographic of America ?
You will find she has more experience than the selection at the top of the Dem ticket.
Not only does Obama lack experience on paper; but he proves it with his gaffes and use of misinformation.
Just because he has a good campaign team that can bamboozle the people, he is ready to be President? Just because he raised more money than the next guy, he is ready to be President?
Good campaign team reflects very well on Obama’s managerial competence.
Record-setting fundraising reflects very well on Obama’s ability to inspire people… and therefore to lead them.
You know, Joe, there’s a reason there is such a thing as “job interviews”… and that you don’t hire employees based on just looking at the resume, without ever taking the person’s measure with your own eyes.
Obama has been on the “job interview” of his life for the past two years. If he can convince enough people to look past the holes in his resume, he will have earned the job.
I think you protest too much. Obama ran a corrupt, negative campaign employing the race card and cheating big time in the caucuses. He lost every big state but his own and he lost the popular vote. His fundraising is very suspect with proven money coming from overseas (illegal). Hillary cleaned his clock even when she was being outspent 2, 3, 4 and sometimes 5 to 1.
He is losing his core group of young people because they are not inspired – they are disillusioned by the flip flops and backtracking.
He is losing his core group of young people because they are not inspired…
Ummm… haven’t you heard, alexei? A whopping 38 million Americans watched Barack Obama throw down last night.
He’s still got some magic left.
And I just watched her speech, and she can really deliver a great speech and fire up the crowd. Now is she ready??
Ummm… her performance was Not Ready For Prime Time, dude.
I like her looks, though. It’s like a horny scientist gene-spliced Raquel Welch and Tina Fey.
Gee Mr. Undercover…I thought you were so PC???? Only that’s only when your playing the race card.
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
LOSER! Barry is a loser and he’s gonna lose in NOvember!
McCain/Palin 08 CHANGE we can BELIEVE in!!!!
REALLY!
The Democratic party bosses decided Obama was ready but more importantly that Clinton was out of fashion. That’s how the decision was made, not by elected delegates since neither Clinton nor Obama reached the required total. Not by popular vote. Not by a floor fight at the convention. Not by a fair ruling from the RBC committee. Obama received four of Hillary’s delegates and 55 from people who never voted for him, since he cynically withdrew his name from the ballot. Obama was selected. His speech last night borrowed heavily from Clintons’ (both of them), because they are REAL Democrats. He gave a boring speech about the party platform, but he delivered it well and is a historic candidate, so he gets points for that. But he did not defeat Clinton fairly, and the convention underlined that.
Now here you are making patronizing and sexist comments about the woman John McCain put on his ticket. Did you think it was racist when the Republican state Representative Geoff Davis of Kentucky called Obama “boy”? More double standards from the Democrats.
Obama was ’selected’ by the DNC not ‘elected’. They manipulated the votes, the caucuses and the delegates. They used the Clintons but dishonored Hillary and all her supporters. For that the Dems deserve to lose the GE. Besides,the McCain/Palin ticket is hot! That’s change we can believe it!
Yes, Obama betrayed us. He betrayed Hillary. But is that enough to vote for someone who stands for everything that Hillary is against?
Palin is pro-life, opposes same-sex marriage (she signed a bill implementing same-sex benefits into law but said she did so only because the law required her to), she’s a member of the NRA and an avid hunter, and she doesn’t believe that global warming and climate change are man-made.
What if the change we get is change for the worse? What if Palin takes us backwards instead of forward?
Get this straight. The Democratic party this year showed it is against DEMOCRACY with a big D followed by all caps. This principle is so fundamental to this country that all others are null and void unless it is met.
Five states broke rule 11a, and two were punished with draconian measures.
Unconstitutional measures.
You cannot deprive people of the right to vote in the US. Even in primaries.
Done. Once those rights become negotiable, all rights are. Fuck abortions and equal pay and everything else at that point.
Good night and good luck.
Get your facts straight. The Obama campaign fixed the caucuses and the DNC thought he was a golden goose. Obama will lose the GE.
Most probably Axlerod fixed the caucuses. Obama is still learning how many states there are.
Under the covers!
I can’t stop laughing! You’re so funny!
Keep up the comedy routine.
Stop the hate!
they didn’t decide squat. The DNC decided he would be the nominee. HILLARY won the Primary and the DNC stole it from her.
Oh please now, everything he said his SPEECH WRITERS stole from Hillary or movies. If BO needs Hillary’s ideas/plans then it should be Hillary up there running. NOT BO.
Then again BO has 0 problems running off the hard work of other’s does he? 25 bills other senators worked on, wrote just handed to him and he had 0 problem taking credit for the work. Too bad they didn’t appreciate it and went to the media.
The abestos in Chicago 0 problems taking credit for all the work right out from under a woman that fought her whole life for. When he came in at the end, just in time to get his name added to the list.
Campaigning in 2006 for a man that’s accused of Genocide, still has never addressed that one. Etc…etc.
The people elected him? Caucuses elected him and we won’t even talk about the 10s of thousands of complaints to voters offices around the country, accusing threats, intimidation. The AAs standing outside of the caucuses telling Hillary voters the caucus has been moved. Or that, “If they’re not voting for Obama you’re not voting here!” making elderly people go back home. I could go on all day with the problems of what you said I won’t. I’m TOO HAPPY TODAY.
Palin has MUCH more experience than BO without all the corruption. Questionable ties. The Racist Religion. How’s that FISA going for you? NAFTA? And don’t say McCain supports them. McCain never walked around for months pounding his chest saying he was going to vote against them, and how bad they were for the country!
Those are all FACTS!
GO McCAIN! Go PALIN! 2008
Clinton! 2012
Obama won by the will of the caucus, not the will of the people.
You forget her time as mayor. The Obama campaign might look down on it, but they are in no way able to match that!
Or in other words, they talk about things, she does them.
undercover whatever… Like all of you Obamabots have the facts wrong. She is and will be running for Vice President. And yes, she is more ready for VP than your Messiah.
Get the facts right, listen now to MC
The number-one qualification for a vice president is the capacity to step in and be president. You know that, right?
Then again, I could be wrong. She did run a PTA.
Give me Obama’s qualifications for President. What has he done. Name one concrete accomplishment.
Re-gerrymander his district to have richer neighborhoods.
No, she was mayor of a city (even if only of 9,000) which trumps “community organizer” … talk about running the PTA.
Then she was Governor and has a 90% approval rating. She has more experience than Obama.
UNDER COVER BLACK MAN you ase an idiot. please crawl back under your rock.
City Counsil, Mayor, Ethic Commisioner, Governor…
Your turn to show us how much more experience OB has. Senator who’s done nothing. Please don’t use any of the 25 bills handed to him. Or we’ll have to counter with his 6 oops votes when he couldn’t tell the difference between two big buttons. One that says yes, and one that says No, but you want his finger on the most important button.
Or maybe we can talk about those present votes. You know the ones that did indeed impact the people’s lives. Like when he voted to give illegal men who commit rape, crimes against children, stalking the right to become citizens of this country. Felt they didn’t need to be punished.
Or how he voted to give time off for good behavior against men that committed rape. Or how about how he voted against protecting children against porn sites, felt there was no need to put software on schools computers that protect children.
Or how about how he held up in committee for two years the Born ALIVE infant act. You know it’s where those unwanted children actually survive their late term abortion. They’re ALIVE and breathing. He wanted to just shelve them in a linen closet until they died. How long does it take an infant that doesn’t need oxygen born a premie to starve to death? Let’s ask Obama, what was it he said again? Oh that’s right! “Infants who SURVIVE their abortions are not afforded the same constitutional protection as everyone else is.”
Then we’ll go back and look at Chicago before Obama and what his neighborhoods look like now, he’s running for President not her. Once you’re done giving us all his wonderful experience, let’s go back and look at both Palin and Obama’s districts. He had one district to run, she had an entire state and let’s look at their actual accomplishments…With such accomplishments as below.
Palin served two terms on the Wasilla City Council from 1992 to 1996.
In 1996, she challenged and defeated the incumbent mayor, criticizing wasteful spending and high taxes.
Palin kept her campaign promises by reducing her own salary, as well as reducing property taxes by 60%. She ran for reelection against the former mayor in 1999, winning by an even larger margin.
Palin was also elected president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors.
Governor Murkowski appointed Palin Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, where she served from 2003 to 2004 until resigning in protest over what she called the “lack of ethics” of fellow Alaskan Republican leaders, who ignored her whistleblowing complaints of legal violations and conflicts of interest. After she resigned, she exposed the state Republican Party’s chairman, Randy Ruedrich, one of her fellow Oil & Gas commissioners, who was accused of doing work for the party on public time, and supplying a lobbyist with a sensitive e-mail. Palin filed formal complaints against both Ruedrich and former Alaska Attorney General Gregg Renkes, who both resigned; Ruedrich paid a record $12,000 fine.
In 2006, Palin, running on a clean-government campaign, executed an upset victory over then-Gov. Murkowski in the Republican gubernatorial primary. Despite the lack of support from party leaders and being outspent by her Democratic opponent, she went on to win the general election in November 2006, defeating former Governor Tony Knowles. Palin said in 2006 that education, public safety, and transportation would be three cornerstones of her administration.
Let’s talk about the fact McCain has not been on the Senate floor since April.
Although that is a good thing. No more voting with Bush.
Palin has no experience. None.
Another Republican hack.
Just like Obama.
Your circular arguments are laughable. Obama has less experience and his number one job is President, if elected.
Not circular. Factual. You want 4 or 8 more years of the same? Vote for McCain. That is the beauty of America and the electoral college.
latina, are you the GOP-Latina from Politico?
Doesn’t matter, you can be proud of McCain and deservedly so. This pick reminds me why I prefered him over Bush and Gore in 2000.
Steve. that is Latina something. I’m not that one though by you comments I believe she shares much of my thoughts
she is not ready to be president. Which is what she is in line for.
That has got to be the most stupid post ever conceived, typed, and added for all to laugh at. At least SHE has executive experience. Oblahblah’s experience is a speech that few remember and a whole lot of “present” votes in Illinois. I’ll give him credit, though, for being a dashing cardboard cut-out in the US Senate.
I’m laughing my ass off at you.
Yes more than Obama
This from someone who belongs to the new “Bros before Hos” party.
What are you talking about?
Get informed before you start attacking people you do not know.
Comments like that are the reason the repubs are finished. No respect for anyone who has a different world view.
When you can’t argue facts you resort to name calling. Reminds me of the fixed network. O’Rielly and his minions.
Your nominee’s supporters wore the tee shirts.
You are really dense, aren’t you UndercoverBM….
Sarah Palin-
“Barack Obam says I have “ZERO” experience.
Well, let’s examine that, shall we?
How many businesses has Barack Obama owned and run? ZERO
How many cities did Barack Obama govern? ZERO
How many states has Barack Obama governed? ZERO
How many children has Barack Obama given birth to and raised while running anything? ZERO
Speaking of which, how many things has Barack Obama successfully run at all? ZERO
How many hearings on Afghanistan did Barack Obama convene? ZERO
How much “CHANGE” did Barack Obama deliver while running the Annenberg Challenge with Bill Ayers? ZERO
Now that is what I call “ZERO experience. Where I come from we do not call that HOPE we call it HYPE…because it is nothing but hypocrisy.”
Yeah, and does anyone recall what Lloyd Benson did to Dan Quayle? GHW Bush still won, and no one was more surprised that I.
Alyssa, she has more executive experience than Obama. Moreover, she is really for government integrity. She could have chosen to be part of the “Alaskan politics” but distanced herself from two senior Republican office-holders, sen. Ted Stevens and Rep. Don young. Both men are under federal corruption investigations.
You should be proud of your peer, Alyssa. Very unlike your candidate who needs the backing of the Chicago politicians.
Come on, wake up already and stop fanticizing about Obama.
You must have had your head in the sand Bush killed him in the debates, that is what turned the election around. God I wish you bush haters would get off it, HE IS NOT RUNNING.
This is exciting. She was supposedly a superstar of her college debate team. They called her “Barricuda Sarah.” She handles herself well in interviews, but she can come off as ditzy sometimes.
I’m worried that with her relative inexperience, it will seem she was picked as a token female and will be viewed as arm candy.
The upside is that Clyburn has already whined which looks like McCain scored a direct hit! This could be a year where women voters are energetically courted and taken seriously. Congratulations, PUMAs!
it would be a good time for her to find out what the VP actually does…LOL…
Then there is that pesky investigation regarding abuse of power and her “creationism” background.
That’s not change I can believe in, my friends…
Get ovet it.. Not so so over it!!!
Investigate al you want. She’s a fighter, hardowrker and a doer, not a smoothtalker and ellitist like your unworthy Messiah who stole the seat one of the greatest Democratic candidate of all times, Hillary.
Supposedly, the VP politely inquires every day as to the President’s health and breaks Senate ties. And I wouldn’t vote for or against any candidate because of their age, gender, race, sexual orientation or religion. I find religious bigotry particularly disgusting, but alive and well among Obama supporters. Their nastiness doesn’t stop there.
Right. It’s above Obama’s pay grade
She was supposedly a superstar of her college debate team.
Well, that does it then. She’s my choice!
I’m worried that with her relative inexperience, it will seem she was picked as a token female and will be viewed as arm candy.
Gee, Hope… really? It might seem like that?
McCain is running scared. And he’s gonna look like her dad during this press conference coming up…
And BOOM goes the dynamite! Today is a good day.
This woman is impressive and you BHO people have to be a little freaked about this. If America falls in love with her, you guys are toast.
Wonderful pick McCain.
R U out of UR ever loving mind? This is offensive! Pandering of the worse sort! I don’t vote for Hillary because she was a woman anymore than I will vote for Obama becuz he is black but becuz he comes closest to my beliefs as to where I want to see this country go. I am pro-choice, anti-gun and against the war in Iran. This woman in no way reflects my beliefs. If you would vote for her just because she is a woman — you insult the intelligence of not only Sen. Clinton but all women. In this instance I agree with Oprah —
and tell me that I would vote for McCain just becuz he chose a woman is an insult! And someone plz tell Geraldine Ferraro to shut the hell up!
Deb.
My honest advice to you. Stay at home on election day, your negativity shows no alternative.
Falls in love with her? She could barely sting a sentence together.
She is facing an investigation regarding her sisters ex husband. Oh and let’s not forget the great Senator form Alaska Ted Stevens.
What this shows is John McCains lack of judgement. This was wholly a pick to pander to Clinton supporters who are still pissed off. They think they can bring woman over to vote. She is no Hilary Clinton and never will be.
The trooper tasered an eleven year old kid, he shoulda been fired. She has also challenged Stevens to come clean on his finances and hand picked someone to succeed Don young. She, unlike Obama, is not afraid to challenge her own party.
The trooper that fasered the kid was Palin’s own brother and he fasered his own son. When Palin found out she got pissed and wanted him fired and fired the brother’s boss for trying to coverup.
This presumptive vp nominee has balls!
What this shows is a great choice. She is someone I can relate to, as a Mom to 7, and a Football Mom, also in my 40’s, I can finally relate to someone on the ticket. I love Hillary, but she is not in this race any longer, and as a Lifelong Democrat, I felt like my teeth had been kicked in during this Election…I never wanted to see my party go low…in today’s world I guess I am becoming Conservative, I don’t want my kids to hear the stuff that’s on their favorite stations, I don’t want my daughters to swing on a poll, and I don’t need to work hard and see my husband work hard in our blue collar jobs to see celebrities influence us on how to vote when we are America! We are the people who get up and work hard every day and it’s time that we take back this election and push the Middle class Agenda. I RESPECT John McCain for all of his years of service to this country and I thank him for choosing a VP who can offer a different view point in a way that no man could ever do. Awesome choice!
Is this the same as someone I can have a beer with? Yikes, if that is your thresehold you are in big trouble. All politics is low and if you want Grandpa munster, go for it!
How could you say that about Obama? I thought you loved him?
Get back under the covers ‘blackman’
^ Witless Retort of the Day… congrats, sick of the whining!
You just keep on whistling past the graveyard, Obot.
Sarah Palin may be officially an Independant, but she’s still more of a true–albeit–conservative–Democrat that your arrogant, corrupt Trojan horse.
Say goodnight, Barack. You’re sooo yesterday.
yikes, better make that
“true–albeit conservative–Democrat than your arrogant, corrupt Trojan horse.”
The question was whether she could stand up to Joe Biden in debates and whether the Democrats could successfully use sexism against her like they did with Hillary Clinton.
Meet Sarah Palin and Palin/McCain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c441A7RPjk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fHi3atRuIQ
Thank you Katmandu!!!
McCain/Palin are the perfect leaders for America!
I’m certain Hillary is thrilled!
YYYEEEEAAAAGGGHHHHH!
Puma!
Your probable right..It was clear Clintons and Obama’s never got along…And knowing Hillary,and her fight for Woman,she’s probable dancing in the streets happy for a woman VP.
Obama is yesterday.
Mccain is such a smart man
he’s certainly had a lot of time to study
I’m with you! I was so disappointed yesterday when I read that Tim had left Denver to fly to Ohio cancelling his appointments, etc…He seems like a nice guy but I found several pages when I was researching him on his flip flops. I thought great, this will give the Democrats a lot of ammunition. I was hoping for Crist, but Palin will do nicely!!
(Doing my Hercules clap from the Nutty Professor)
GO McCAIN! GO McCAIN! GO McCAIN! and PALIN!, and PALIN! and PALIN!
Wooohooo! Ok I’m just a little over excited.
I now have my short term goal to get these two elected. Going to volunteer for them. Whatever I can do. Then in four years, I’ll get back behind Hillary. I don’t mind at all voting for this ticket for 4 years.
Another telling comparison: Joe Biden’s son is in Washington, serving special interests as a lobbyist. Sarah Palin’s son is in the Army, serving his country. And he’s heading to Iraq on Sept 11.
Actions speak louder than words. The One and his blowhard sidekick are toast in November.
Joe’s son Beau is heading to Iraq in Oct as well. He is currently the Attorney General of Delaware, which last time I looked is not in Washington or a lobbying group.
Where do you come up with this garbage? Their sons will probably serve together. Get your facts straight man.
Now you can see why people don’t believe half the garbage on this site about Obama? No facts and no sourcing. I heard it or read it somewhere does not make it so.
I am still waiting for the whitey tape.
Do your homework and have some respect for a man who lost his wife and child and still decided to serve this country with honor and raise a family at the same time, He did a good job. Joe Biden is no blowhard. He is experienced and qualified which is more than can be said for McSame/Pain= hey more of the same.
I don’t see you posting sources. How about those sources proving Bill Clinton was a racist? Oh right, that was a SMEAR by Obama and his buddies. You still believed that LIE without checking for sources. You are so full of shit. Go have your breakdown elsewhere.
Biden-one son in Iraq
Palin-one son soon to be in Iraq
McCain-two sons in Iraq
Obama-still a zero, never served, no kids serving, nada, zilch.
HAHAHAHAHA!
Are you completely retarded ? How old are his daughers ? 7 and 9
What a joke! The only reason Bush; I mean McCain picked her is to grab HRCs supporters! Republicans seem to screw up the economy some how! They never learn! We need to keep our noses out of other countries problems and worry about our own. How is it that we have all this money for an unfounded war but none for schools,roads,the homeless,etc… here at home??? I’m guessin McCain voters are gonna be the same clowns that voted for Bush twice!!! Out with the old and in with the young and new!!!
Please, please go beyond the fact that Hillary is not on the ticket. Senator Clinton seems to have accepted is gracefully and with humor. She is indeed one magnificent representative of women in America. However, Gov. Palin would trounce on a woman’s right to choose, universal healthcare, the environment, and everything that Hillary Rodham Clinton stands for. Gov. Palin is no substitute for Clinton and we must get Democrats elected as our leaders or we will loose all the ground Hillary has made. Hillary will be a part of the Obama administration as an advisor, and hopefully a Cabinet member. She’s great, has so much to offer… Do not do her the disservice of endorsing the McCain/Palin ticket.
She is under investigation for ethics violation as we speak (and as she runs), does not have the street creds of Clinton or Obama. Check out the sources and you will be amazed at what her stand is on issues important to women.
Hillary IS an amazing woman and has stated time and again that she supports Obama.
She would be a great nomination to the supreme court or a great presidential candidate in 8 years as well. PLease don’t consider voting for a Neocon (and lose the war) just because Hillary lost a battle.
She will be reborn like the Phoenix and continue to great things with the Obama administration.
McCain already showed his lack of judgment by voting with Bush 90%. Now he’s selected a city counselor to be his running mate. Obama was gaining REAL executive experience running a very successful multi-million dollar national campaign against the Clinton machine the whole time she was governor of tiny (pop) Alaska.
Really? In office less than 20 months, she already has two major abuse of power issues.
In addition to Troopergate (reminiscent of the Nixon Saturday Night Massacre, firing a public servant who would not carry out her personal vendetta), she replaced an entire board because she had an ill-conceived agenda to reverse a well made policy agenda.
“When on June 6, 2007, the Alaska Creamery Board recommended closing Matanuska Maid Dairy, an unprofitable state-owned business, Palin objected, citing concern for the impact on dairy farmers and the fact that the dairy had just received $600,000 in state money. When Palin found out that the Board of Agriculture and Conservation appoints Creamery Board members, she replaced the entire membership of the Board of Agriculture and Conservation.[25][54] The new board reversed the decision to close the dairy, but later in 2007, with Palin’s support, the unprofitable business was put up for sale. There were no offers in December 2007, when the minimum bid was set at $3.35 million,[55][56] and the dairy was closed that month. In August 2008, the Anchorage plant was purchased for $1.5 million, the new minimum bid; the purchaser plans to convert it into heated storage units.[57]”
Additionally, if 8 years of McCain is followed by 8 years of Palin, you’ll have 9 clones of Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court, and Roe v Wade will be overturned.
This will satisfy all the pro-Hillary dead-enders?
McSame was in the bottom 5 people to graduate from the Naval academy.
He has repeatedly misunderstood the differences between Shi’ite and Suni sects in Iraq and in Iran.
The fact of the matter is that with McSame you get an unhinged Neocon who wants to
1. keep the war alive that runs up 15 billion dollars a month in debt
2. Look to invade Iran which will add even more debt.
3. Roll back Habeus Corpus for ANY enemy combatant foreign or domestic ( which could mean any americans detained for even a possible involvement with a crime )
4. Won’t investigate Bush and Cheney for lying us into a war in Iraq, the Valerie Plame outing, the illegal Cheney energy taskforce , Illegal spying and wiretapping.
The danger that Mcsame brings to this country far outweighs any potential gain that having a window dressing VP could bring ( meaning VPs generally don’t contribute that much to the presidency , Cheney aside ).
“her wikipedia entry is sterling”
Except for the ethics investigation.
And it doesn’t mention the fact that the state she has been governing for a mere two years has fewer than 700,000 inhabitants.
Furthermore, until very recently she seems to have been uncertain as to what a vice president does.
I ain’t impressed. There are more experienced Republican women out there.
McCain was only partly pandering to Hillary supporters: he needed someone with major conservative credentials to bring him closer to different factions in his party.
Um, I wouldn’t bring up that ethics investigation if I were Obama…it will make him look more like a sexist, female abusing pig than he already is. Or you could look into it before you spout off.
Are you kidding? He’s never accomplished anything? What about being an accomplished writer, lawyer, and senator? He’s far more accomplished than Palin. Take a look at this:
“Sarah Palin, a libertarian and hockey mom from the fast-growing suburbs of Anchorage, began her political career — as an appointed member of the state’s Oil and Gas Commission — by hacking into the computer of another commissioner, Randy Ruedrich, chairman of the Alaska Republican Party.”
(http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/08/13/alaska/index1.html)
Also I can’t believe you rely on publicly editable source for facts.
Her Wikipedia entry is “Sterling”? It’s better after 30 changes made to sanitize it in the last 2 days. But she’s still a small town mayor who has been governor of a state with a smaller population than Memphis TN, for less than 20 months.
As for McCain, that great champion of women:
“Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?
Because her father is Janet Reno.”
Now who would make such an ugly “joke?” Obama? A surrogate?
No, it was your hero, John McCain. You can do a google search, or just go to:
http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html
But why should that be a surprise? McCain frequently drops the C-bomb on his wife in public.
So all of you who are SO offended about that misogynist Obama, go vote for that great pro-life champion of women, John McCain. He’ll be laughing at you all the way to the White House.
Alyssa – you’ve got to be kidding, right? Palin’s accomplishments leave BO in the dust. The argument against BO isn’t just about his time, or lack thereof, spent in political office. It’s about what he has failed to do during that time. Palin’s record speaks for itself.
As far as Biden tearing her apart – HA! She will talk circles around that gaffe prone fool! I can’t wait!
Exactly True Patriot,
It is Obama’s lack of accomplishment, his lack of having a record that proves he will do what he says he will do, and his willingness to embellish (putting it nicely) upon that record that paints him as the inexperienced candidate he is.
If Mrs Palin’s record appears thin, which I find as an incredible argument, the questions must be: What has she stood for and what has she gotten done in that time? Does she have a clear set of values from which she makes her judgments?
what is her record and accomplishments you boast about?
http://dwb.adn.com/news/politics/elections/story/8337406p-8233470c.html
For starters, Sarah actually runs a state as governor of Alaska.
Obama -having served less than 150 days as a U.S. Senator and less than 365 days as an Illinois state senator – runs his mouth.
Most importantly, Sarah is running for VICE-PRESIDENT. Obama is running for PRESIDENT. So stop trying to compare him with her. Had Sarah been running for PRESIDENT, she would have been underqualified – like Obama is.
Sarah will gain far more experience being vice-president when John McCain takes office in January.
Had Sarah been running for PRESIDENT, she would have been underqualified – like Obama is.
Whoa Nelly. Been hitting the paint thinner again, Newly? Mrs. Palin is “underqualified” to be PRESIDENT… so let’s put her in a position where she may indeed have to step into the job of … PRESIDENT.
And what about the “rampant misogyny” that felled Hillary Clinton? Isn’t John McCain walking into that same buzzsaw with this pick?
(Oh, right. The sexism charge was baloney.)
so let’s put her in a position where she may indeed have to step into the job of … PRESIDENT.
Now you are making the argument that many, many people believe is true about Obama. Do you understand the lack of logic it takes to vote in this way? And not for VP, for President- effective immediately.
Palin actually has more experience than Obama. Listen quietly, and read a little, you’ll find out.
And please don’t tell me that you won’t vote for her because she’s white, Undercover Black Man. That’s racist.
So you don’t even know you and your fellow Obamabot buddies were being misogynist pricks against Hillary? Really? No, really? Wow, you are dense. And here you are fishing for racism and blaming that for Obama’s criticism? LOL!
Bush had and has tons of experience and look at that road!!! What the hell are you talkin about??? Experience has little to do with the presidency! It’s about being a good speaker, being able to communicate with other leaders in a civil manner, not bullying or criticizing! Bush insults China! Boy that’s smart. The only reason China doesn’t come over here and kick our ass is cause were nuclear. McCain does the same thing, remember his comments to Russia about Georgia! Good speaker/common sense/Obama Biden!
when you’re talking about McCain who if elected will be the oldest man ever to take office, who has had 5 bouts with cancer, one life threatening, you have to evaluate the VP candidate as a Presidential prospect. Even ignoring McCains’ age and health issues, 1 in 8 American Presidents have died in office.
Can you imagine how a Palin presidency will embolden America’s enemies? Al-Qaeda will look upon as a sign from G-d that we are weak and decadent.
So. Your suggestion is we just to the chase and elect 0bama?! hahahahahahah
The hamas approved 0bama? Thanks for that intelligent line of reasoning. Please let the campaign know that that one doesn’t work. It is plenty funny, but it doesn’t convince.
Oh god, she’s can’t fight Al Quaeda because she has ovaries? What rock did you crawl out from?
For starters, Sarah actually runs a state government as governor of Alaska.
Obama – having only served less than 160 days as a U.S. senator & about 360 days combined as an Illinois state senator – only runs his mouth.
Oops! Sorry for double-posting.
Excellent choice for McCain. Neither Obama nor Biden will be able to handle someone with a governor’s experience.
The VP questions are not going to be about foreign policy, they are going to be about the home front and governance.
This leaves Obama completely alone to have to fight the foreign policy credentials of McCain. And that is the way it should be. The President makes the foreign policy decisions/direction, not the VP.
No more tickets where the Presdient has to have a baby sitter a la Bush/Cheney..Soetoro/Biden.
ha ha barky, deal with that one. you couldn’t stand a strong woman. McCain is man enough to handle it.
The governor of a State of merely 400,000 people. How many people here have spent time in Alaska to understand its truly reprehensible, far right wing politics?
Resorting to attacking a state and how many people are in it? I can smell the fear from you, and it doesn’t smell like roses.
Can’t wait until the debates!
“uhh-umm.. uh-ah.. um. um. um. uhh. I-ahhh, uhh..”
Sarah Palin stood up to Ted Stevens and the corrupt Alaskan political establishment. Obama kept real change from happening in Chicago.
Thank you. Chicago hasn’t improved at all under Obama. But then even Bushbots didn’t care how badly Bush did in Texas. Bushbots = Obamabots
Alaska Population – 47th in the US
- Total 683,478 (2007 est.)
Biden’s Delaware Population – 45th in the US
- Total 864,764 (2007 est.)
Big difference, huh? Sorry “the Real Hope” — try again!
Geographic size:
Alaska:
591,004 square miles
Delaware:
2,489 square miles
Alaska is well over 200 times larger than Delaware!
Biden doesn’t run that state. He is a senator. Sarah Palin has the executive experience of running first a city and then a state. Incidentally, she has a very high approval rating in her current position-that is also quite an accomplishment.
Honest discourse regarding the respective VP candidates requires a little more research than state population numbers.
Spoken like the elistist A-HOLE Obamacratic Party, insulting an entire state, blowing off potential voters. Is this the brilliant DNC strategy of how to win?
Piss off voters?
It sounds to me as if the New Democrats are bitter and harbor antipathy towards those who are not like them.
Obama got it wrong last night:
OBAMA JUST DOESN’T GET IT!!!!
Your just an idiot! Let me guess you voted for Bush twice huh? You just didn’t get it!
If you support Obama, you are voting for Bush 3.
VMorris is correct. Obama’s New Democratic Party members are bitter because now the world will discover that it is they who are racist, sexist and misogynist.
Dr. Kate wrote:
“neither Obama will be able to handle someone with a governor’s experience.”
Governor for 20 months of a state with a population of 700,000.
Palin, whom McCain has spent a total of 3 hours with, as leader of the Free World?
Are you kidding me? Even Greg Valliere, well-known Republican and business advocate, was saying on CNBC you can’t begin to compare Palin to Obama, she totally lacks “gravitas” in his words.
http://www.michiganmessenger.com/3349/mccain-reaches-into-the-icebox-and-pulls-out-palin
McCain reaches into the ‘Icebox’ and pulls out Palin
By LoRayne Apo-Joynt 8/29/08 10:12 AM
Multiple media outlets are confirming that Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska has been selected as the vice presidential candidate for the GOP ticket.
Palin is a first term governor, having only served since 2006; she’s also a self-described “hockey mom” and a mother of five, extremely pro-life and a proponent of Big Oil. You’re sure to hear more soon about her experience, although there won’t be much to report. The choice of a political figure from Alaska seems odd, as it will draw attention to that state’s “Icebox of Corruption”, what with the investigations into Ted Stevens and family as well as other Alaskan pols.
From the outside, it appears as if conservatives may be in shock, if CNBC’s analysts opinions are an indication.
“This is utter madness, absolutely insane,” said political analyst Greg Valliere, who then ran down McCain’s age and all of his health problems. “This woman makes Dan Quayle look reasonable.”
On the issue of a debate with Biden, Valliere said, “[the] stature gap is significant here.”
When asked about Valliere’s assessment, CNBC’s chief Washington correspondent John Harwood responds, “[it's] basically nightmare scenario for the Republican ticket.”
Stay tuned!
She has accomplished FAR more in her 2 years as governor of a state than Barry Soetoro has done as a first term U.S. Senator or even as an Illinois state senator.
Be fair – Soetoro only has 143 days experience in the Senate. (/snark) Of course he hasn’t achieved anything. He was too busy running for Emperor.
You people need to go research what you are talking about. She has had less than 1 year and half, was a pundit on a talk show and comes from a corrupt state. Next. The inexperience debate is over. Now we have two inexperienced candidates to pick from. Leave in to the GOP. Calling him Barry does not make it so.
If your contention about Palin is correct, which they aren’t, than you have to strike and foul Barry for POTUS, for some of the most corrupt politics and politicians come from Chigago, being Barry Hussein one of them, with one of the worst voting records a Junior Senator can achieve.
Your ignorance make me sad. Like you all Obamabots who only listen to your false prophet, this is my advice….. READ!!! Go to her story. Don’t let anybody brainwash Kool-Aid feed you. Then, you might then think outside the box, and see that there is a horizon not of empty chanting words, but of real people, better candidates with proven facts, and then come back and make a decent comment.
I am a Hilary suppoter not an Obama supporter. The ignorance here knows no bounds. I do think outside the box which is why I do not believe everything I read or am told to believe.
I look at the facts and source them. I make up my own mind. I am not on the Obama bandwagon nor do I follow group think when people try to tell me Obama is the devil rather than a human being.
The problem is the woman is not qualified which has been the main contention on this site regarding Obama. When the human brain starts hearing bad things about someone it is truly astonishing how the mob mentality sets in. This is known as group think. If you have ever learned critical thinking skills you would know what I am talking about.
I don’t spout hate as some of you do on this site. Rather I look at the issues and what is best for this country. Neither McCain or Obama has what it takes to bring this country back to what it once was.
We had a candidate who could do that and she caved to the DNC in favor of her political future. That is the saddest commentary of all.
You don’t know me. Have some respect for your fellow human beings. We all have something to add to the discussion. Life is not all anti Obama all the time.
Ignorance=uniformed so right back at ya!
I am a Hilary supporter not an Obama supporter. The ignorance here knows no bounds. I do think outside the box which is why I do not believe everything I read or am told to believe.
I look at the facts and source them. I make up my own mind. I am not on the Obama bandwagon nor do I follow group think when people try to tell me Obama is the devil rather than a human being.
The problem is the woman is not qualified which has been the main contention on this site regarding Obama. When the human brain starts hearing bad things about someone it is truly astonishing how the mob mentality sets in. This is known as group think. If you have ever learned critical thinking skills you would know what I am talking about.
I don’t spout hate as some of you do on this site. Rather I look at the issues and what is best for this country. Neither McCain or Obama has what it takes to bring this country back to what it once was.
We had a candidate who could do that and she caved to the DNC in favor of her political future. That is the saddest commentary of all.
You don’t know me. Have some respect for your fellow human beings. We all have something to add to the discussion. Life is not all anti Obama all the time.
Ignorance=uniformed so right back at ya!
Obama is only a one term Senator who has been running for president for the past two years and he is on the top of the ticket.
This may be a good move by McCain. If Obama or the media tries to attack McCain’s VP for inexperience they will finally have to take Obama to task for lack of experience at the top of the ticket. Obama is not prepared to lead and he will be exposed.
The Obama media is already attacking Sarah — she is inexperienced, if McCain were really a maverick he would have picked Liberman not Palin, etc.
I think McCain played rope-a-dope with Obama. He waited for Obama to thumb his nose at the woman he stole the election from and then McCain picks a woman.
Rope a dope? What a joke. I may just have to vote for Barky now. At least with Joe you get experience. Sarah is inexperienced. What a joke. Obama’s going up again in the poles I fear after this bone headed move.
Joe Lieberman has already been on a national ticket, and it didn’t help. That’s not change.
McCain doesn’t need experience, either. If Obama can run for President, then Palin will do great as VP. Lieberman would have infuriated the base.
Sounds like you were going to vote for Barky, anyway. So, do it. You’ll still lose.
A person with absolutely no foreign policy or national defense experience, a single heartbeat away from taking command? When the president would be a 72-year-old male with a history of serious health problems and a Type-A personality?
Anyone who thinks this is somehow a safer bet than Obama/Biden has either forgotten how many times VP’s have taken over for the elected president, or simply isn’t playing with a full deck.
Are you serious? What exactly do you think your voting for with Obama? If you have problems with Palin who will gain in experience or are you thinking McCain is going to die on day one? Please explain if you have such a problem with Palin why is it again you’re voting for Obama? You just described exactly to a T your candidate and why Palin was a bad choice, yet you want to vote for Obama on day one. Unbelievable!
That being the same conservative base you are a member of?
McCain doesn’t need experience?
“Sounds like I was going to vote for Barky?” Not hardly.
McCains choice for VP is a joke.
All this is much ado about nothing. Obama bashing regarding lack of experience? Then McCain goes and picks the number two spot who has less experience than Obama? Well I guess if we need someone to change McCains diapers she has the experience all right. What a farce. McCain just did the worst thing he could have. What a pandering bonehead. My vote for Hillary is not a vote for any woman McCain puts up. That is all this is about. Typical GOP thinking the rest of us are as stupid as they are.
Palin has executive and CINC credentials.
Get a life. Practice what you preach. Don’t be a two faced troll. Voting for Barky Dawg has been your lifelong intentions, you may fool sometimes but not all the time.
I am and have been a lifelong dem who fully supported Hillary. I was up until today, not going to vote for either candidate. This choice of McCain’s has made me re-think my position.
I am not a troll and if that is your best response to a thoughful post, do us all a favor and stay home on election day. This is what is wrong with this country; ignorant people who have no clue about politics thinking they have all the answers. As I said before, when this country goes further into the toilet, you will be responsible. There is no way you can claim to be a die hard Hilary supporter and then turn around and vote for McCain. He is the complete opposite on all policy issues and that is what matters. Not personality, not inuendo but policy; look it up in the dictionary.
By the way this is the definition of a troll:
An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial and irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the intention of provoking other users into an emotional response[1] or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.[2]
I would say you are calling the kettle black. I am on topic and providing thoughtful posts wheras you are trying to provoke emotional responses. Again:
Ignorance=Uninformed
I still don’t get why the Palin pick makes you “re-think” voting for Obama? Because you believe that this is a pander – so what! Obama panders to the audience of the day – that is why he is on both sides of every issue.
Because she doesn’t have enough experience to be President – well, Obama has less, so why would you vote for him?
Because you believe that Obama is good on the issues? He should have been on the Olympic Gymnastics Team with his flip flops. Obama has no core values, he has no desire to fight for his “policies” and he has no clue about many of these policies.
So, explain why you would vote for Obama now.
Alexi,
This is pandering at its finest brought to us by the Grand Ole Party that has brought this country low.
I stated I am re-thinking voting for Barky. I have not made up my mind. I will never vote for a republican. Ever.
Everyone in this country is entiltiled to change their view. Policticans do it all the time. This is not unique to Obama. It does not make it right but rather reflects policiticians as a whole. I do not know Obama. I cannot make blatant statements that he has no core values or desire to fight for his policies.
It seems he is fighting for half this countries policies.
If and I mean if I vote for Obama, I will do so after having made up my own mind.
Both Obama and Palin lack experience but I will never vote for McCain or any Republican.
I also will not be played into thinking that because Hilary is not the nominee that as a woman, I will blindly vote for McCain. That’s all this is about. This pandering is disgusting. The repubs are trying to play this as something it is not.
I believe in the democratic platform. I have all my life. I cannot get behind the repubs trickle down theory. It does not work. Just look at their record over the last 8 years.
The only pole that Obama is going up in is Larry Sinclair’s.
McCain couldn’t pick Lieberman. They are two old guys. Also The base would never stand for Joe. Sarah is a hardcore conservative.
ready to lead on day one lies on the shoulder of the POTUS idiot.
Hmmm, let’s see….boring gaffe machine Biden or young and pretty Sarah. Did I mention she hunts and used to be a miss pageant? How cool is that! I think I’ll take candidate Y (thanks again for the tip president Clinton).
Joe Biden is a masterdebator, alright.
Masturbating?
A new political term, the masturbebator.
I thought he was a master baiter.
Lol…Lol…lol!!!
ewwwww, gracie! but he does certainly enjoy stroking his ego in front of an audience.
She is a governor. The only governor on any ticket. The top of the democrated ticket seems pretty weak, don’t you think?
She’s the VP pick, not the nominee; she’s not expected to “lead” on Day One. That’s the whole point: Obama would have been a great VP pick, but he’s not ready to be on the top of any ticket. He’s still not ready to lead; rather foolishly, though, they put him in the driver’s seat.
obama is proof that experience doesn’t matter….even though Palin does have MORE EXPERIENCE THAN obama !!! lol
Yeah and Georgey and his GOP cronies including McCain had so much experience. What did that get us?
Let’s see;
Civil rights abuses
The government eavesdropping on any communications they choose
Rendering any person they deem a threat
Two more judges legislating from the bench
A war with thousands dead and wounded
Jack Ambramoff and the rest of the corrupt GOP
Katrina and the drowining of a city and our citizens
Countless unqualified cabinet leaders
Alberto Gonzales and his law breaking (pick one)
The Don Seigelman case ala Rove
Suspension of Habeas Corpus
Mounting fiscal debt and sky high oil prices
The outing of a CIA agent
9/11 and the disasterous aftermath;
like our first responders ill and dying
The mortgage crisis
More jobs going overseas
Nothing on immigration and securing our borders or ports
More Americans in poverty and without healthcare
No goverment oversight as they all rolled over and played dead
Abu Ghraib & Guantanimo
What few laws congress passes; he issues hundreds of signing statements that he does not have to follow the law
Hundreds of other examples of why I will never vote for a candidate who supported Bushy 90% of the time. By the way here is McCain’s voting record:
http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=53270
No way. No how. No McCain.
No republican ever again.
Joe Biden was just along for the ride at the time?
Not at all. He absoulutley can defend his votes. McCain cannot.
McCain is more of the same and if he wins all of you will be culpable in this fiasco.
Joe Biden tried as head of the foriegn relations commitee, to get documents and provide oversight and he was stymied at every turn. The dems were not allowed to hold hearings and if they were, they were regulated to the basement. In some case doors were locked to prevent the dems from getting in. This is your change in McCain? Are you kidding?
Some of Biden’s accomplishments/statements:
* The 1987 plagiarism bout,
* Support of credit card companies (he pushed the bankruptcy bill that Dems now hate),
* Made the statement about Obama: “First mainstream AA who is articulant, bright and clean and a nice looking guy.”
* Racial obliviousness (the comment about Indian-Americans in 7/11).
“In Delaware, the largest growth of population is Indian Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7/11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.”
Right on Brother! Or sister! lollololololol
Out of all four of them, she is the only one that has actual executive branch experience. She’s already more qualified than BO.
Ah but Obama DOES have executive experience – with four years of running the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and distributing the Annenberg contribution of $49.2 million dollars plus around twice that from public and other private contributions. He and an unrepentant, lying terrorist collaborated on that. And we all know how well it worked out. Big gun with a little flag popping out with the word “Bang!” on it, in terms of successful student outcomes, though maybe some objectives of sowing marxist ideology were achieved.
she doesn’t even know what a VP actually does. LOL
Do you know what it is to have a job? Any job?
that is your “comeback”? LOL Seriously weak, just like McCain and he VP pick. Nice that your job lets you blog.
Who needs a comeback? You support Obama, that’s a joke in and of itself!
Can’t wait until the debates!
“uhh-umm.. uh-ah.. um. um. um. uhh. I-ahhh, uhh..”
Do you know what the VP does? I doubt it. Except for being in the line of succession, the President decides the duties of the VP. Not much after that except breaking ties in the Senate.
From Wikipedia:
“The Vice President of the United States[1] is the first person in the presidential line of succession, becoming the new President of the United States upon the death, resignation, or removal of the president, serving out the balance of that presidential term no matter how much or little time remains in it. Every presidential term ends on January 20 of the year immediately after a presidential election. As designated by the Constitution of the United States, the vice president also serves as the President of the Senate, and may break tie votes in that chamber.[2] He or she may be assigned additional duties by the president but, as the Constitution assigns no executive powers to the vice president, in performing such duties he or she acts only as an agent of the president.”
hey get over it..Obama doesn’t even know how many states are in the United States..that he wants to be the leader of..not the VP of..so your point is ..what????????
I LOVE SARA PALIN AS VP FOR JOHN MCCAIN!
John McCain was brilliant for picking her to be his Vice President!
I am from Alaska and also a life long Democrat. Sara Palin is a strong INDEPENDANT! AMAZING! I am now going to contribute to MCCAIN – A vote for MCCAIN IS NO LONGER A PROTEST VOTE! I want bumber stickers and YYYEEEEAAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!
McCain / Palin
Yes! McCain is brilliant a maverick! Corruption in Washington will be rooted out without a doubt!
Go McCain! Go Palin!
Get off the fence Danny. Tell us how you really feel.
I truly love Sarah Palin!!!! She will make a great VP. I like her judgement as governor here in Alaska. She will bring Hell to Obama/Biden and will attract new blood to Washington. Wow what a surprise. Maverick/ Maverick 08!!! Too bad Hilary (& company) is under the Obama bus.
well first they need to clean up their own corruption first. May take some time out of their daily schedules…
Palin will have some splaining to do!
Her positions on issues are at odds with most Americans.
Leave it to Grandpa!
You have proven that Obama’s NEW Democratic Party is not only sexist, racist, and misogynist but also endorses ageism.
Obama’s New Democrat Party: Home of Bigots.
Along with that glass ceiling comes an age ceiling. I wonder how long before they seriously consider using a line on the wall as the cut off.
WildChild,
Obama’s New Democratic Party will try to repeal the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.
Do you just make this stuff up as you go along? How about some real discussion of the issues. Do you think if you just keep saying the same garbage that people will start to beleive it? That has been tried before and it failed.
The 19th ammendment repealed? lol
Four bouts of cancer leaves one to wonder if age will even be an issue. Then we will have this wonderful women with no experience to run our country. Then you can look in the mirror each day and be grateful that you were a part of America finally becoming a third world country. Bush didn’t do enough damage for ya? Let’s finish the job by voting for McCain and his new conservative crony.
No bigot here. Nor racist either. But then are you really pink?
You don’t know me so don’t make presumptions. The same old republican smear; when in doubt and have no coherent argument attack the person. I am not voting for Obama or McCain so don’t assume I am part of the New Party, whatever the hell this make believe party is. Last time I looked Washingon is full of the same old faces in both parties.
Yeah you need BUMMER stickers like you wrote ya tard! Bummer that another idiot(McCain) is running for SCREWING UP THE USA EVEN MORE!!!!!!!
You need to go back to DailyKos so you can feel smart again.
Sarah has more experience then Obama. The only one with executive experience is Sarah. How do you think that Biden will chew out Sarah? McCain is for Change with his VP. Obama’s pick for VP is old politics.
More like the old dog will be having a hard time speaking, what with trying to schlurp the drool back into his mouth.
Ol’ Joe does turn on the charm for the ladies.
He won’t have to chew her out. He is more knowledgable on the issues. If her speaking today is any indication of what to expect in the debate, don’t bother having one, Biden won.
Yeh..and like Biden represents the old Washington Politics that Barack has been talkin’ about being old….and stale…and not working for America. The likes of Joe Biden has been the root of all evil if you have been listening to Obamacus for the last 18 months. Not to mention Biden VOTED FOR THE IRAQ RESOLUTION which has become the cornerstone of Barack’s candidacy.
BRILLIANT MOVE!
McCain/Palin ‘08
Just wonder why idiots from Kos come here and copy & paste talking points? Guess they are just scary of Sarah the Barracuda. This Hockey Mom will kick J. Biden ass.
She’ll curbjaw old Plugs. I think McCain made a smart choice.
Ayssa,
We’ll see about that.
The Obama bin Biden team is as corrupt as there an be.
Sounds like they’re going their hands full with this spunky female…
Go McCain/Palin 2008…
A first-term governor of Alaska, ready to lead on “Day One”?
That is leagues more experience at leadership and government/economic reform than Obama ever had.
Biden will tear her apart in the VP debates.
Very sexist and don’t bet on it. She is very bright and very articulate. She was also an on-air political commentator. She will catch Biden in one of his many shifting positions. And Biden will have to watch his P&Qs or he will be another Rick Lazio (Hillary’s first campaign). Also they both have children going to Iraq.
This was a brilliant move by someone who has run so far a flawless campaign.
Isn’t this what BO’s campaign is about – “Change We Can Believe In” – “Change America”? Well, I think John McCain just bested BO and JB.
She sure cleaned house in Alaska.
I don’t think Joe has a chance in H@&* in a debate against her.
I am now definitely one of those Democratic women that will be voting Republican this year.
No Way-No How-NoObama
Switching parties means switching your beliefs completely! SELLOUT! Maybe you should close your eyes and listen rather than look and judge!!!
uh, Palin is not running for President, how long you been in your kool aid coma?? she’s better than hairplugs Biden any day…get lost
That exploding sound you heard wasn’t the confetti cannon from Obamacus’ speech last night but that collective sound of Obamabots head exploding as McCain picked Palin for VP.
Oh sure, the dems in their own feeble way will try to slime her but there is no downside to this at all. Last woman VP was Ferraro, and everytime her name comes up the Obamabots will replay their vicious attack on Ferraro exposing Baracka’s sexism all over again. She has more experience than Obama, and Biden is such a blow hard that he’ll come off brutish and assholio like.
Good call McCain!
lol
followed by the sound of Biden’s plugs popping out like champagne corks all over Chateau Country.
WOW! I’m excited for Sarah Palin. Unlike Obama, Palin actually has something to show for her “change” platform. She stood up to unethical oil business dealings (something Obama never did and would never do).
My guess is Alyssa is pissing or crapping her pants right now because Palin is a REAL agent of change (not a fake). You might want to wear yellow or brown pants, Alyssa.
She need only to point to Mr. Obama who began running for President essentially when he entered the Senate – This would most certainly score a “nuff said.”
Actually, her choice is perfect for debates. She is an excellent speaker and Biden will not be able to get red in the face nasty with her. Biden and Romeny would have turned into a shouting match which Biden is good at.
But if he tries that on Palin, it backfires just like Rick Lazio getting in Hillary’s face.
Her experience with the natural gas pipleine and other Alaske initiatives makes her so well versed in oil, drilling, enegergy issues etc. She will tear Biden apart on this issue with facts.
When he goes foreign policy, all she has to do is ask him where we would be today if they enacted his partition plan in Iraq.
I am still not voting for McCain. But his political instincts on this choice were excellent.
It looks bad with yet another pereson with a direct conection to the oil industry. We’ve had 8 years of that. If McCain had wanted a female on the ticket why not go with Kay Bailey Hutchison.
We all need gas for our cars, so I don’t want the oil industry run out on a rail. Palin has a clean record with the oil industry and has taken on reform in her state.
Kay Bailey Hutchison has her eye on the governor’s mansion in Texas. She didn’t want the VP job, but I don’t think it was even offered to her.
Alyssa,
I don’t think you know this woman yet. Just wait. She can stand up for herself. Beautiful and powerful.
I think it was a very good choice for the Republicans.
As a Democrat, I can only say. “Pass the popcorn.” the next couple of months will be interesting.
Outstanding choice for McCain, I can’t wait to work for this campaign! A women with five children and a governor and a hockey mom! SCORE!
The truth of the matter is that if you combine the experience of Obama and Palin, you still don’t have someone with enough experience to be president. But I preper the potential risk of Palin to the certain risk of Obama.
McCain/Palin ‘08
Hillary / ?? ‘12
McCain was smart to pick a Gov., and people are looking at the top of the ticket when looking for experience, they will settle for less experience in a VP choice, figuring the VP will get the experience they need before their “day 1″ – if it ever comes.
Thank you McCain, I am voting for you on Nov.
Hillary supporter
At least Palin won’t be stealing from the government as obama and his croonies have been doing with millions of earmarks to his buddies in chicago
Alyssa, I realize that’s all Obama has as an argument, even though it’s laughable that Obama is actually using the exper….exper…exper..ience argument, when that just reminds folks of his litle experience. BUT, She has much more experience than her current job even though her current job is that of EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE. lol
…She was on City Council for 4 years, then served successfuly 2 terms as city Mayor and then won election over fellow Republican as Governor, of which she has been serving and receiving a 90 percent approval rating.
…Weary Barry can just kiss his butt buh bye. lmao
Great Choice!!!! I am so excited!!!We will have a woman in the white house!!!!
actually being a governor is more executive experience than being a senator. So yes she has has experience. So biden migh be at a disadvantage. he knows how to make laws but does he know how to create policies.
“Governor Palin challenged a corrupt system and passed a landmark ethics reform bill. She has actually used her veto and cut budgetary spending. She put a stop to the “bridge to nowhere” that would have cost taxpayers $400 million dollars.”
Obama used the corrupt chicago political system to launch his political career and nurtured that corrupt system over the years. In his sole ‘management’ job experience, he spent $160million (the Annenberg Challenge)and had nothing to show for it.
Alyssa,
You’re way off base here.
Baraccuda Sarah will chew both the Skinny arrogant resume-holder Obamarama and his copy-cat Senator in one bite..and toss them to a Moose-grinder in Alaska!
Unlike clueless, self-involved COWARD OBAMA, this girl–with ideas I don’t always support–has and lives by her principles. She’s never befriended a Terrorist (to get ahead) who bombed his fellow citizens!
Shame on Barack for being such a damn coward. Had he chosen Hillary as VP the 18 million votes would be guaranteed! He felt threatened and lacked politicial instinct…he hadn’t learned how to change his political diapers…
JFK installed his Southern arch-enemy Sen.Lyndon B. Johnson as his V-P! JFK was no coward. He was a gutsy politician who knew how to WIN!
Sweetie will just have to learn how to “get over it” in November!
No way – no how – Nobama!
Ha ha ha! Can you hear my cackling now, Democrats?
99 problems and bitch ain’t one, huh? Think again. I’ll remember in November. Hell hath no fury…
lol…good one
What American Woman said…
Cackle, cackle!!! lol!!!
Yea, old Barky just thought he didn’t have a bitch problem. Palin is gorgeous, but don’t be fooled by the exterior. She is tough as nails.
GREAT choice! I honestly didn’t know if McCain would do it, but I think once he found out Barky didn’t have the “audacity” to pick a strong woman because of his super-sized ego, Mac listened and he heard us!
2 things: NEVER underestimate the GOP in GE’s and NEVER underestimate Bill and Hillary. Both masters in their own right.
Mac ‘08!
Hillary ‘12!
One more, NEVER underestimate a sly “ol” fox!
McCain / Palin 08! Yea!
I seem to recall an Obot troll saying that McCain was anti-woman and that the Republicans would never allow a woman that close to the Oval office.
Anyone care to take that statement back? Hmmm?
This was a brilliant move on McCain’s part if for nothing else than the fact that for the last hour there hasn’t been a picture or clip of Obama in sight on the news. All they’re talking about is Sarah, Sarah, Sarah. Love it, love it, love it!!
Lucinda, the bots will be here any minute now saying that McCain IS anti women and he’s only pandering to us to get the bitter old lady vote…yeah, sexist pigs always choose people they think are inferior to be a heart beat away from the presidency. Sheesh.
you can rest assured the mccain campaign wants to appeal to the hillary voters. they aren’t stupid. oh well o’s self coronation last night is so forgotten. it was supposed to be the best ever according to btd at tl. oh well!
McCain has not forgotten the ladies!!
McCain delivers on his promise to put more women in high-level positions!!
Palin will draw Repub and Dem women!
WooHoo!
Palin seeks to distance the GOP from BushCo and provides a softer side to the GOP.
But don’t they have contacts in Alaska? She’s so attractive and those glasses are so Clark Kent.
lol
When it comes to women, the Democrats area all talk and no action. WORDS…JUST WORDS…
I’ll take actions over words any day.
Nancy, Howard, Donna, et. al.–You screwed Hillary, the best Presidential candidate the Democrats have put up to run since 1992. You are still making her bend over and take it in her pantsuit.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF–the Democrats!!!
Women for Hillary will see this move for what it is – major pandering. Palin isn’t fit to sit at in the same resturant as Hillary. Could you imagine if a 72 year old plus McCain with health problems had to step down for this woman?
So, not a good indication of judgement on McCain’s part at all.
What makes her so scary – the fact that George Soros and Bill Ayers aren’t there to put words in her mouth? LOL – if Palin has the same effect on women as Obama had on blacks, Obama bin Biden is soooooooooooooo toast!
Can’t wipe the grin off my face today!
Actually I’m a woman for Hillary and I like the Palin choice. Pander away, Johnny Boy!
He’s going for the morality vote, and lot of liberal progressive women are fed up with immorality: Immorality in Hollywood, immorality on our streets, immorality in the rap music that poisons our children’s minds, immorality in movies, and — yes indeedy — immorality in the Democratic party! The immorality of coercive politics, throwing aside the old ladies of the League of Women voters so young male thugs can cheat the caucuses.
Oh yes, I’m a Hillary voter — and Ph.D. research engineer and latte drinker so please don’t bother to call me down scale.
John McCain just made it about 10 times easier to vote for him than it already was. Goodbye barky, goodbye.
There is the stupid troll again.
Get over it….. GET OVER IT, GET OVER WITH IT and MOVE ON YOU TROLLING SITE. If you’re jealous, go cry somewhere else. You had your chance with Hillary… you BLEW it, now LEAVE US alone, or maybe you’re having second thoughts?????
I predicted that Sarah Palin would run for president in 2012 and if McCain wins she will since I think McCain will only be in for one term.
We may see Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton run against each other in 2012. I would not be surprised if it would be a Palin/Jindal ticket in 2012.
But I don’t really like that thought of Hillary running against another woman in 2012.
The democrats messed up so badly. What a bunch. Thoroughly disgusted.
Hillary (actually the Clintons – all 3 of them) are the only democrats to come out of this election cycle looking classy, loyal and brilliant.
aaahhh but the thought is a good one. Both women will be challenged to lead and “we the people” will be the beneficiary’s from what they have learned.
McCain, with this choice, and if Hillary becomes the next Majority Leader has given us more change and hope that we could ever possibly believed possible.
I also like the timing of this announcement. McCain team is doing some awesome work.
Hillary for president not Majority Leader.
I’m honestly hoping McCain will appoint her to a higher office of her choosing. Over health care maybe? She’s been through enough with the DNC, without having to deal with them trying to take her seat away from her in the Senate. I just cringe every single time I think about her being up for re-election and what they’re going to try to pull on her. We all saw what they did to her in this election. How she has gone above and beyond, bent over backwards to appease these so called leaders of the Democratic Party, even after everything they put her through.
If memory and history classes serve me correctly I think only 5 Vice Presidents became Presidents in the USA: Jefferson, Adams, George Bush, and Nixon. I can’t remember the 5th. Any history majors here?
Truman.
Correction – Truman got in by succession in 1945 when FDR died but was re-elected as President in 1948.
Van Buren.
I concur. And may the best woman win!
This race just turned a lovely corner. I believe it is a refreshingly new day! smiles everyone.
Hillary needs to become the Senate Majority Leader NOW…
With McCain/Palin in the WH and Hillary serving as Senate Majority Leader, we’ll FINALLY have some true friggin leadership in this country. And yes, I left out Pelosi…her days are numbered and has served to be the greatest of disappointments to come out 2006. Enough said.
Hillary needs to be presidentnow.
I couldn’t agree with you more. Short of one helluva miracle I just don’t see that happening.
And to get rid of Harry Reid would be great. There’s something not quite right about that guy.
I always thought a Jindal / Palin ticket was probable, but I thought with the GOP it would be the other way around. They sure had Bobby Jindal on the talk show circuit often recently. I’m pleasantly surprised, and I think it would be brilliant.
Karma….. also known as paybacks are hell…
Alyssa: Actually the Experience argument works perfectly. She was ‘vice’ mayor (or whatever the official term is) of Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city for two terms and Mayor of Anchorage as well. Her experience in public office is roughly THREE TIMES LONGER than that of Obama. So yes, let us PLEASE have the experience debate. Now, more than ever.
Patrick
Um, Palin was mayor of Wasilla (pop. about 7000), not Anchorage (pop. about 200,000). She has less overall time in elected office than Obama.
And you wonder why you lot aren’t taken seriously.
But more time tending to her official duties.
One person makes a comment, and write off the “whole lot.” Maybe we’ll be taken more seriously on Nov 5. Apparently, the Republican party is listening to us.
Wasilla faired a hell of a lot better under Palin than those people in Barky’s constituency…they’re friggin’ dead.
The IL senate meets less that 70 days per year. X 8 years 560 or about the same them Palin was Gov.
I’m sure if we look at Barky’s attendance it will be less than half of that.
And we know how his Afgan hearings have gone in the US Senate – not at all. (Afganistan is kind of out there and not too important – how many people can point to it on a map??, besides Barky is still studying up on how many states there are.)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JSMcCain.
AHA!!!!!! MAC HEARD US!!!!!!!!!!!
I stated some reasons for picking a woman yesterday in this thread!!!!!!! YIPPIE!!!!!!!!
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/08/28/tonight-on-nqr-special-convention-coverage-with-patsy-sugar/
I said – It would be a WISE choice. Picking a female who was not Hillary would have hurt ob but it will help Mac. It sends a strong message. It counters the “historic” claim of ob’s AA. It squashes the Dems uterus attacks. The reps won’t balk – they will vote for Mac over bambi no matter who Mac picks. Hillary’s whole campaign has had one year of intense renewal of feminist unity due to the abuse we all witnessed. If not now, when? Was our plea. And it was answered by the GOP not the DNC! I suggested Carly Fiorina, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Sarah Palin, Meg Whitman, Condi Rice etc. and said I could vote for a Republican ticket with a female VP without having to hold my nose.
It would definitely be a media darling news story and it would fill that gap of “all white men” we have suffered under for 232 years. Talk about hitting the Dems with their own error! A woman as VP would be devastating to the party who stole the nomination from a woman in full view of God, the electorate and the world. It would be a bite in Dean’s ass and Pelosi would be forced to see the results of ignoring all the sexism all year. NBC could go on attacking a woman and further reducing their credibility. It is to me the most intelligent choice, and the women they can pick from are great choices and stand strong without the benefits of gender. And I said a win-win with no downside.
GO DONATE HILL FOLKS, show the NOBAMA love to our new president and HISTORIC VP.
GO MAC and THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. LORD this is GREAT news.
I absolutely agree with you, Karen. My biggest objection to Sarah Palin was how she pushes for drilling in ANWR. If McCain is a one-term President, and she succeeds him with an interesting veep, I am afraid of the Arctic Wildlife Reserve being destroyed.
alert to everyone!!
I just called Pelosi’s office and i said to the guy who answered the phone..that i was a lifelong dem and i had one message for Pelosi…checkmate..
he put me through to her answering device..and i said i was a lifelong dem, a former delegate in 2004..and that she and the dems didn’t just open the door for McCain..they stood there and said welcome to your white house McCain..and i said i was happy and that her new world order was over..and that i won’t be happy until i see the dem party torn apart..
I was very careful how I phrased what I was saying..
Then after I hung up..my phone rang..with no name, no number..there was no one on the line..Pelosi’s office is tracing calls..of that i have no doubt!!
Please be careful when calling her office!!
Be careful of the words you use!!
don’t worry. i have more power
i have the right in this district to vote against her with 2 hands and 2 feet.
Now, my phone has a callback feature, all I have to do is dial *69 and it will tell me who called and offer to call them back. (good to know if you are harassed and don’t have caller ID) So it could be like that. Not that I would put anything past these crooks.
reply to bemused…
I have caller ID and i used *69..it said we are sorry the last caller is not known.
and i also had another unknown name unknown number shortly after the first one ..right after calling Pelosi’s office…this time i did not pick it up and no message was left on my machine.
Quennie… you are a queen. Do not worry, you have the right of free speech and you said it wisely.
Thank you.
Let’s also not forget that some 80 yrs ago we couldn’t vote and brave correct women like you broke the ice for all of us.
I’m very happy today, for women have been always the underdog, and Maverick did what the Barkers refused: To acknowledge and give us a fair chance to work as equal, fight the fair honest battle and be represented in the highest chairs.
Go Maverick/Hockey Mom!!!!!!
You know, I condemn my fellow brother s and sisters that voted obama just because he’s black, and was feeling morally superior when I said it. but i hate to say it now. But I am definately voting for McCain now. I think it would be awesome to see a female vice. I could kiss john McCain right now.
me too!
Now this is change I can believe it. Palin is not Hillary but McCain is listening to what is going on in this country. Hmmm, so Puma, et at, is such a small insignificant group…? Gotta wonder if the democrats still think so this morning?
Not only does she have 8 years more executive experience than obama, who has zero, she actually went to visit the troops in Landstuhl Germany without a press corps in 2007 and has accomplished a great deal in her executive tenure. Unlike Obama who does nothing but promote himself and doesn’t even show up to the senate or call even one committee meeting. She is miles and miles more qualified and more presidential than Obama, so bring it on. She wins hands down. If they want to question her readiness to lead, they open up the question about obama, who obviously isn’t.
How condescending !
Does he think ANY woman can replace Hillary ?
Urgh.
No one can replace Hillary. Obama can’t replace Hillary. But here we are, about to vote for what we have on hand.
Well said. I would have voted for Hillary in a heartbeat.
So now visiting the troups qualifies one to be POTUS? Well I guess now you all have your litmus test. Never mind where she stand on the issues, which is the complete opposite of Hillary. Yes we need a VP who was a beauty pagent queen, and a talking head on a sports cast show.
This makes us all qualified to be POTUS.
This makes her more Presidential how?
How much has she accomplished for the state of Alaska with five kids to raise and a husband serving big oil interests? Of course she wants drilling in ANWR she is another big oil interest. More of the same.
No, he doesn’t. He KNOWS that choosing a successful, accomplished woman will show the American people that he is much smarter and more progressive than Oblahma.
I don’t see it that way at all. I see it as being in touch…something Obama accuses McCain of NOT being. This is brilliant on McCain’s part…Palin is smart, accomplished, and real.
Hats off to the Republicans for an incredible strategy.
Wow!
I honestly believe this was not McCain’s idea of replacing Hillary. I think McCain truly gets what we thought of Hillary. This was his way of saying I hear you and am not who everyone says I am and let’s get busy changing this country.
Exactly.
I am sure Hillary will be interviewed about this choice and am sure, since the Democrats are still making her bend over, I am sure she will have some statement about why there is too much at stake for us to take to heart that the Republicans seized the moment. Remember, we are not supposed to be in this for us or Hillary, cough, cough….wink, wink
And I hope when interviewed she wears something akin to the Orange prisoner pant suit to convey a subliminal message….like RED for REPUBLICAN!!!!
My smile is a mile wide and a mile high!
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOHN. THANKS FOR WALKING THE WALK!!!
I’m sure Hillary is smiling today. She forged the path that Dems were too stupid to take!
Palin will rally Repub and Dem women.
Very exciting!
Plus McCain nor Palin have ever called me a racist and the Repub Party has never stated they didn’t need me.
“Plus McCain nor Palin have ever called me a racist and the Repub Party has never stated they didn’t need me.”
Nobody in the Republican party has ever called me racist but I have probably been called racist 1,000 times by Obama people just because I don’t support the chosen one.
Obama is becoming soooo yesterday I am already tired of him.
The dems closed a door, and JM opened a window!
No..no one can replace Hillary. But to get her into office in 2012…we must defeat Obama…VOTE MCCAIN and return to Hillary in 2012!
You MISS the point. ANd it ain’t about Hillary anymore.
I don’t think Hillary can’t be replaced,But Palin is the next best thing now. Hil is a good Democrat who doesn’t want the party torn apart, and she knew she had no alternative but to sacrifice THIS TIME. Yet her intelligence and wisdom tells her that a later time WILL COME!!!
This isn’t about replacing Hillary. McCain who actually took the time to meet with PUMA’s promised he was going to put more women into higher offices. You know McCain who pays the women on his staff as much if not more than his counter part Obama.
IT’S ABOUT KEEPING HIS PROMISES. I’m sorry you know nothing about that, your candidate hasn’t kept any of his promises. How’s that FISA thing going for you? NAFTA?
I’m Sorry. I am seriously lagging on here today. That should have read the women on his staff as much, if not more than the men on his staff, unlike his counter part Obama. Oh plus he employees more women. Imagine that. Let me add actions speak louder than words. McCain=Action. Obama=Words. Not even his own words. Those he stumbles all over, makes a fool of himself. But, his speech writers words.
And you think McCain writes his own speeches? The man can’t even remember how many houses he owns, let alone what he is supposed to say. Pathetic, doddering old man. I can’t stand either one of them.
You think a republican is going to keep his “promises” Have you been living under a rock for 8 years?
Eight years? I only have to go back to June to find that soeBOBo doesn’t keep his promises.
Well the answer is you get what you deserve. More of the repulicans. No thanks. I would like our country back from these thugs.
Whatever made you believe that politicians keep their promises?
They all will say and do whatever they have to in order to get elected. I am a Hillary supporter and disapointed in the fact that she caved. Instead of a floor fight , she walked away to save her career in politics. That is the saddest commentary of all. I would not give two cents for any politicians promise. They all pander the stuff like the old fashioned remedies to cure the common cold.
Yes, he does. The GOP believes that we will fall for it and apparently some are gullible enough to do it. After 8 years of this garbage some people are still willing to have more of the same.
No way. No how.No mcCain.