Revenge Voting
By Bud White on August 31, 2008 at 12:00 PM in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Misogyny, Race Card, Sarah Palin, White Guilt, Women
I’m going to be blunt: John McCain respects women, Obama does not. This can be taken as a purely political comment from a pro-Hillary activist. But I can say this from the vantage point of male privilege: I know that weak men fear strong women.
This didn’t occur to me until McCain selected Palin. I knew that Obama benefited from and encouraged the misogynistic narrative against Hillary. However, McCain’s nod to Hillary’s voters was exactly what Obama should have done but for which he is psychologically incapable. It shows a level of respect for our grief at the way Hillary was treated and it’s a tacit acknowledgment that Hillary should have been on the ticket. Riverdaughter writes:
McCain is only pandering to you wimmin. Truth: Yup. And??? You think we’re too stupid to realize this? Of course he’s pandering to us. He’s a f%*(ing politician. That’s what successful politicians do. They reach out to voting blocs and offer them something.
Why is Obama so afraid of Hillary that he wouldn’t even vet her for VP? What is so scary about this brilliant and beautiful woman who works 10X harder than him and who won the popular vote?
Much like George W. Bush, I think it’s Obama’s massive but fragile ego. Obama believes the press reports about his greatness, he drinks in the adulation from his adoring fans, and he sees himself as near-divine. Any crack to this facade threatens the whole construct; it would be the death of his ego. The faux presidential seal IS the Mission Accomplished banner. It’s no accident, of course, that the McCain campaign has skewered Obama for his narcissism, comparing him to celebrities and Charlton Heston’s Moses. Team McCain has done their homework. I have no doubt that they have dossier on Obama, not just on his friends, but on his habit of choices.
In a brilliant 12-part series on this issue, blogger Valentine Bonnaire, discusses Obama’s ego in detail. She sees his choices being made out of narcissism. A narcissist will
stop at nothing? Just to bask in the reflected glow of adoration, But really, the followers mean absolutely NOTHING to the narcissist. They are only a means to an end? And, the narcissist is consumed with “winning” except, once having “won” what they are after? It’s on to the next challenge…
Sam Copeland, writing in these pages, asks:
Why did Obama have to select a lower tier candidate – a candidate who has twice left the Presidential sweepstakes (in 1988 and 2008) in early rounds?
One answer that is often given is what we can politely term Obama’s ego. Top talent candidates such as Clinton and Clark would threaten his self-image as a one man crusader – the star of his own Saturday morning action-adventure cartoon series. A big ego can be a serious liability in making political decisions. It prevents one from seeing the world through the eyes of others, and that lack of realism and perspective-taking undoubtedly leads to political blunders.
And make no mistake, bypassing Hillary for the conventional Biden was a political blunder of Titanic proportions. First, of course, it further alienated Hillary supporters. Second, it made McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin that much more damaging to Obama. On the Left, it gives Hillary supporters the opportunity, in good conscience, to exact revenge on Obama and the DNC by actually pulling the lever for McCain. It neutralizes Obama’s insulting but effective race-baiting (”you’re a racist if you don’t for me”) narrative, allowing independents, women, and conservative Democrats a moral redoubt (I’m not voting against a black man, I’m voting for a woman). Lastly, by choosing Biden, Obama undercut his message of Change by choosing a man who has spent his entire life in Washington.
Hillary was Obama’s last chance to bring many of her supporters into the fold. The always astute Anglachel writes:
The real elephant (ahem) in the middle of the room is the unacknowledged fact that the DNC and their selected candidate abused the intelligence and trust of the party base and subjected the base’s preferred candidate to outrageous abuse month after month in the primaries. The blogosphere’s hysterical overreaction to the Palin selection reveals the fear that their hate-filled, explicitly misogynist tactics will backfire on them and that a significant enough percentage of this disaffected base will do more than sit out the election in November, but will actively cast a protest vote.
Obama’s narcissistic drive for power unleashed a politics so ugly that millions of committed progressives are seriously considering voting for his opponent. Palin is McCain’s love letter to Hillary’s supporters. Revenge is a bitch, baby.
For the next two months women particularly those disenfranchised victims of sexism will take center stage.
The revolution is now about women!
Comeuppance is a sweet!!
First of all, if Obama’s selection of Biden instead of Clinton was a “titanic blunder” that “alienated women,” why has he moved into a clear lead in the polls since his convention?
Second, calling this election “about women” because McCain selected a pro-life, creationist, anti-stem-cell evangelical whacko is simply deranged.
Third of all, saying McCain “respects women,” given his personal history, is also simply deranged. No need to go into his history of hideous treatment of the women in his life, or the ugly jokes he likes to tell about Chelsea Clinton, or gorilla rape, or whatever.
But hey, you’re a PUMA, so of course your opinions are deranged. That’s what makes you a PUMA.
And we know that when your proctologiest says what a huge asshole you are that he speaks the truth.
In response to your points…
1. When you say “clear lead,” you are speaking of Obama’s usual feeble, ever-dwindling lead. I think the bump came from Hillary’s speech and was almost instantly eclipsed by McCain’s VP choice.
2. Straw man argument with insult attached.
3. Ad hominem argument with insult attached.
Forsake Obama and the pain will stop, Sfhillary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu4IFSGIUFU
I think “cutting off your nose to spite your face” was written for anyone who would vote for Senator McCain based on his selection of a woman. If her gender were male, her resume would strike fear into the hearts of most Americans. Goodness, we are a nation at war, with huge financial problems, and the #2 Republican is a person who has never been out of the country in her adult life, didn’t even have a passport until last year, and is a complete unknown in the international arena. I’m sure she’s a lovely person, but looks and intelligence are not going to make up for her complete lack of national security or foreign relations experience. John McCain had many other conservative women to choose from and I believe he has sealed a victory for the Democrats with this pick.
Actually, her gender seems to be the biggest issue for most of her critics. Obama has less experience than her, and he is the Democratic presidential nominee. Gov. Tim Kaine of VA, who was being vetted as a potential VP for Obama, has much less experience than Gov. Sarah Palin of AK. yet he had the stones to bitch about her to Bill Maher.
It doesn’t matter if she’s “unknown in the international arena” since all Obama has done is take a vacation and make a campaign speech to a bunch of Germans. In fact, Sarah Palin Sarah Palin is known (and in a more favorable light) to the Canadian government. She negotiated a pipeline deal with Canada that brought significant benefit to her state.
As for national security experience, she is the CINC of the Alaskan National Guard, and those men have seen combat. Her oldest son is in the army infantry, and is in Iraq right now. She has been to Landstuhl hospital and visited the wounded troops before The Obama Blonde Ambition Tour. I look forward to her debating Joe Biden and Barack Obama in the near future.
1) Palin is at the bottom of the ticket, Bambi is at the top.
2) At least she only has one passport, under one name.
3) Bambi was a complete unknown just a few years ago. Remember, he’s served most of his time in the Senate as an absentee Presidential hopeful (who never held one hearing in his subcommittee.)
4) The bulk of Bambi’s foreign policy experience is his membership at the UCC and a speech to a bunch of Germans waiting for a concern. (Good call on that Georgia/Russia squirmish, wasn’t it?)
5) Palin has been the CEO of a private company and successfully managed that as well as her responsibilities as a governor. Her executive experience and financial accontability is demonstrable, unlike Barky’s track record with a failed charitable organization.
6) Palin has been in the hotseat, having to call out members of her own party because she was sharp enough to catch them in corruption and had courage enough to act upon that knowledge. I won’t go on about the contrast with Obama and his buddies.
7) Palin discovered that her baby would be born with Down’s but lived her values and had the child. Maybe someday Barky will face a real gut-wrenching decision, unlike his mysterious 2002 anti-war speech while with protestors.
I would match Palin up in a debate with Barky any day. She has core values and is driven by a vision and forthrightness in speech. Please, text message your buddy and tell him we’re going to demand a debate with her. Be scared, I heard she’s a Barracuda–oh, and she’s even cute!
“a person who has never been out of the country in her adult life”?
Erm, she visited wounded soldiers in Germany which is exactly what Senator Obama refused to do.
And no, Germany is not one of the 57 states of the USA. I do know because I live there
No dear…she went to Kuwait to visit her National Guard units. But that was without fanfare because it is her JOB.
She must interact with Canada and native Inuet issues on a regular basis not to mention dealing with Russian Military Aircraft violating Alaskan Air Space and Fisheries issues with Russia as well.
Let us not forget she has to interact with the Department of State because her state’s neighbors are other nations. Not quite like Illinois and Delaware.
RESEARCH WHAT A CONCEPT
“whacko???”
A productive, very highly esteemed sitting governor is a “whacko???”
These are the same people who had similar comments about Hillary. They just hate and are afraid of intelligent and powerful women. I hope the female democrat base sees this when they say their are sticking by their party because it is the only party that cares about “women”
please tell me she’s not against me getting stem cell research for my heart????
i can’t vote against my own best interests
please tell me she’s smart enough to know the science and that those eggs would be destroyed otherwise
(back to sitting it out perhaps)
:-/ this is really getting painful
In November of last year, the first scientist to isolate human embryonic stem cells, James A. Thomson and Japan’s Shinya Yamanaka announced one of the great scientific breakthroughs since the discovery of DNA, that they discovered an embryo-free way to produce genetically matched stem cells, thus ending the moral ayatollah that left wing progressives have long bemoaned. That seemed like exciting news to me, but a lot of people seemed to have missed it.
I believe McCain told Rick Warren during the Saddleback thing with Obama that he was for stem cell research but said there would soon be no need for the controversy based on what you said Hope.
Hey Dawnelle - when we decide for whom to cast our vote, knowing there are no perfect choices, I find it best to look at what that office holder can and can’t do.
The vice president doesn’t have a huge role in deciding where this country goes with stem cell research. I think stem cell is inevitable in this country…people get it mixed up with cloning and react reflexively. But it’s time will come.
As to Palin’s personal beliefs, let me share an anecdote from my own life. My husband’s partner was an “extreme” christian, and I’m being kind here. But, the man was ethical, honest, reliable, a former golden gloves boxer and a great shot. Do you think his wacky views prevented me from being grateful that he was in the squad car with my husband?
I see Palin this way. She’s brave, ethical and a good shot. And if she runs in four years against our girl Hillary, we’ll get the White House back. She’s no Hillary Clinton, but then again, who is?
Relax. Mccain supports Stem Cell Research
She is against the commodification of women. To get viable embryonic stem cells it takes an average of 700 eggs. That is a lot of harvesting and the process is not like sperm collection. It has several risks and young women are the preferred donors.
The Japanese method is much better and the stemcells they generate from the denten of a tooth is your own so there is no risk of rejection. It is much more promising and is not full of the abuse of women for the sake of science.
he has no clear lead, and if he did you’d be posting the polls.
I will enjoy casting my vote for McCain and Palin…
poor bot. you’re screaming with fear, aren’t you?
dripdripdripdrip…such a long, long fall from the pedestal, huh?
you got punked.
It called a bounce. But I think after the RNC spend a week cutting into the Obama/Ticket it would go back to either McCain leading by a few points or tied. But then again logic isn’t a Obama bot strong point.
It called a bounce. But I think after the RNC spend a week cutting into the Obama/ Biden Ticket it would go back to either McCain leading by a few points or tied. But then again logic isn’t a Obama bot strong point.
And I agree with Perry Logan’s comment (above) that some of his bounce can be attributed directly to Hillary’s speech (or Bill’s, for that matter). Really no way to tell. But McCain’s pick for VP certainly stepped all over his post-convention press!
Yeah it killed me that my beloved Bill was up there boosting Barky. I didn’t watch…too painful.
John “Maverick” McCain got his mojo back by having the guts to pick a gutsy woman to partner with. Barky couldn’t do it. And McCain really stepped on Barky’s post convention buzz. I’m loving it.
Yep, Clinton promised she would work her heart out for him and she did just that.
It wasn’t just us calling it the Clinton bounce, that’s for sure. It was them.
The funny thing is we saw this so many times, ob on his own didn’t progress, some superdelegates would vouch for him and endorse him and he would get a slight bounce. The Oprah bounce, etc.
He then stagnated after the pastor disaster and the ABC debate and never got momentum back.
There is no doubt in my mind the GOP convention and Sarah are going to start a momentum of their own and we might finally see some Presidential election bounce that is undeniable.
Those undecideds will decide as soon as they get a load of the real barack obama.
I’m pretty sure McCain cemented close to 5 million votes in one day. Obama could have picked up at least 9 million in one day choosing Clinton for a running mate. He doesn’t want our votes. He and the DNC actually want to lose. That has been the message they have sent for months. Let’s grant their wish and let them lose!
Ooooh, someone’s angry, bitter and frightened!
Don’t put women in a box. Just because we supported Hillary doesn’t mean we believe this or that. We love her and believe she is the best choice. Because we like Palin doesn’t mean we believe totally in this or that. Personally I hate abortion and am Pro-Life. I think everyone would too if they would allow the film “The Silent Scream” to be shown.
Don’t hold our reproductive organs hostage every 4 years. We own our own vote and will not use it for Nobama.
Zogby poll shows them even again the day after Palin was announced. The selection sucked the air out the room for Obama, along with his “bounce: from the convention.
It Seems That Polls Are Only Relevant When Their In Mr Obama’s Favor,The Minute They Change And They Will Change That’s Why That Creep Is Here Trying To Get Information In Order To Take Back To His Pack,Of Terrorist Cut Throats.As I See It From Where I Stand,& Many Other PUMA’s Mr Obama Is Toast,Why He’s Toast Because It’s Our Destiny To Keep Him And People Like You From Driving This Country Further Into The Dirt.
Bottom Line Their Are Two Evils Here And One Is Obama,& The Other Is Barack Obama,You Beginning To Feel The Vibes,I’d Vote For John McCain Any Day If It Would Keep Stuck On Himself Away From Our Military,And That’s What He’s After,That’s Why He Tries To Stay High,& Dry Out Of Their Line Of Fire,They See Right Through His Pompous Ass,But If He’s Elected POTUS,& That’s A Big If He Would Be In Command Of The US Military,People Imagine Mr Obama In Charge Of Our Military,& The Buttons That Could Start Nuclear Destruction, With Buttons Just Like The Ones He Admitted To Pushing By Mistake While Holding The Title Of Senator,Or His Other Excuse,(The Media Had Him Confused About The Issues)This Is A Continuous Pattern For Mr Obama That Keeps On Growing,& Growing.
Joe Biden Wanted To Get Inside The White House So Bad After Two Failed Attempts,He Were Content On Accepting The Position Of Obama’s Ass Kisser,Flunkie,Dropshot,Assbanded,Lollipop,Sucker,Run Boy,And His Back Ally Man That He Sold Mr Obama His Soul And Now He’s Indebted.
Here’s One Last Reality:I Would Rather Support A VP Without Experience Learning From The POTUS Over A President Without Any Experience Learning On The Job Training From A Two-Timed Failed Ex-Presidential Hopeful,Barack May Want To Watch His Back,Side,Middle,Front,& Top If He Wants To Keep That POTUS Job If By Some Miracle He Manages To Strong arm This General Elections Like He Did The Caucuses,& The Primary,And I Know That’s A Scary Thought,But Bidden Been Want,in That Job For A Long Time……….(AND HE’S JUST ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY)Just Something To Think About Mr Obama’s Internet Pattsy.Checkmate Can Be Obtained By Many Ways
I AM PROUD TO HONOR A MAN WITH MY VOTE THAT IS NOT AFRAID OF HONORING ME AS A WOMAN. MCCAIN PALIN 08
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here.
I for one am not excited about Palin. She is a pale imitation of Hillary. Saying that they are equivalent is an insult to Hillary.
She seems very nice, but she’s no Hillary.
I don’t think you could possibly call Sarah Palin an imitation of Hillary, since their careers are so very different. I have long supported Hillary, and I know a lot about her having lived in NYC the past ten years. Every argument put forth by second wave feminists as to whether Hillary would be an asset to the equality movement does not apply to Sarah Palin. She got where she is by whistle-blowing and being rewarded for it. She was fiercely competitive and was not overshadowed by her husband’s career in her bids for elected office. There was a natural progress in her promotions. A first term governor can certainly qualify as the VP for a legislator and even POTUS in his / her own right.
Hey Hope, you’re from NY? So am I . I wonder how many New Yorkers we have here. Let’s do a roll call some time.
You are right that she is no Hillary Clinton, but I don’t think anybody’s saying she is. And unfortunately, presumably due to Obama’s emotional issues(?), or just plain spite(?), he apparently couldn’t bring himself to pick Hillary for VP, even though he must know that would almost surely secure the White House for him.
Although Palin’s resume is short, so is Obama’s, and she’s not running for the top spot. I’ll take a qualified President with a VP who will learn as she goes over an unqualified President with a knowledgeable VP anyday - I think we’ve already lived that over the last 8 years.
No one here is saying she is equivalent to Hillary. Of course she’s not. She’s just a beautiful finger in Barky’s misogynistic, arrogant eye. And, she’s more brave than he’ll ever be.
Who said she was Hillary? I’m not sure who you were responding to. There’s nothing to get ahead of or behind, we are all individuals, but despite that most of us, a large swatch of the on-line puma blog coalition of hundreds of sites, all got a kick out of that pick and most of us are feeling strongly about it.
We went through May 31st and were changed forever.
It was traumatic, and I am not being dramatic about that. We worked our asses off, some of us for decades for that party and we wuz robbed. And insulted too!
Pretty emotional changes took place over a long time for some of us once political liberals to be actually excited about voting out of party and to the right. We didn’t come to where we are fast, for me it was slowly building up to this since January.
Lots of others here have been communicating with each other through all the twists and turns and the fury of it all.
They are not equal, Sarah is no Hillary.
But ob is no Sarah either. I’d put my trust in her over barky. I’d trust the corner deli guy over barky though. Anybody but obama, she just made it more easy to pull that lever and to even smile when we do so.
She’s much younger than HRC–she doesn’t have the life experience.
That said, she’s certainly got a number of positives. I find her impressive, even though I don’t agree with her on some issues.
Most of all, she’s engaged, energetic, and genuinely likeable. That does go a long way–we like to like our leaders.
You can’t compare SP to HRC, but you can note that McCain gave a nod to HRC’s supporters…and I give him credit for that, too.
Bud, great post, so true, I think this could very well turn around. As a woman, I am keenly attuned to degrees of hostility, fear, contempt, etc., expressed in so many ways by men. The msm and BO camp have exuded womanhating from the getgo. I think they will pay for it.
By not selecting Hillary to be his VP, Obama proved once AGAIN what poor judgment he has. If Hillary is not good enough for him, there is no way he’s good enough for me.
The DNC Democrats proved THEIR POOR Judgement also.
Propping up an AA to pander for AA votes to grow the party. Committing voter fraud like they all yelled about with Bush in 2000 and 2004 and now behaving the same hypocritical corrupted way. Disgusting on so many levels.
obamabots=bushbots=
Obama is Bush #3 and both are crack addicts. Enough said.
Country first=McCain/Palin
Funny you say Country FIrst,thats what Geraldine Ferrrro said in one of her interviews on Fox.
She was a supporter of Hillary Clinton.
Do you still agree with Ferraro that Obama’s race was an asset to him throughout the primaries and the rest of his career?
How can anyone deny that?
He won the primary because of the 90+% support of the black community.
He wouldn’t have been President of Law Review if he were white.
They changed the rules to give it to him.
It used to go to the person with the highest grades (he didn’t have those). No discussion, no exceptions. They changed it to factor in “life experience” and what have you, just in time for his selection. They were looking for a minority selectee, and he fit the bill wonderfully, but if he were white, he wouldn’t have.
Obama continues to prove he IS Bush III at every turn. Bad decisions. Rove (Axelrod) tactics. No work history.
Which reminds me of an email I received from a Republican friend:
His arrogance will do him in. Bush’s did him in, but not soon enough to save this country from the mess we’re in. And Obama threatens to keep us in the same mess for the next 4 years, while massaging his ego.
I like your comment on the 143 days. I would like to add Sarah Palin has been on the job ever day since she took office–well except for the 3 days she took off to have her son. Wow!
In addition I would like to point out that Obama is not qualified to receive a secret level security clearance were he to apply in the same way I did to work for Raytheon. His bad choice of friends disqualify him. Sarah Palin is qualified and her son is too. I am ok with her having the Nuke codes–not so much with Obama.
I prayed that the DNC would force Obama to select Hillary as his running mate, what a victory the Dems would have had. But no, there’s no way that man would do so, ego indeed, but not as bright as I wish.
I would rather walk through a door John Mccain held open than be hit in the face, with a door Obama make sure hit me head on!
Thanks for listening John : Obama had 19 months to listen and he made sure the last stab was slamming that door shut real tight on 18 million voters.
I find it interesting that the polls right now are saying that the Dem party is something like 72% united as if it’s perfection.
Yet, it was what? Just 65% before the big Obama event in Denver? Hmmm….not much improvement, if any at all.
it sounds better then saying 28% is still not united!
I’m glad it’s a drunk Biden propping up Obama instead of Crown-shooting Hillary. Apparently, even the mention of being Obama’s VP drives Dems to drink.
Calling your wife a Cunt and making a joke about rape equals respect for women? You stay classy, No Quarter!
Country First!
Not condemning a racist and sexist remark by your National Campaign Co-Chair’s shows CHANGE and a real way to UNITE people.
Oh, and another thing, Obama states he believes in equal pay but pays the women working in his Senate office less than the men working on his staff. The opposite is true of John McCain.
Obama’s Democratic Party: Home of Sexism, Misogynist, Racism and the Glass Ceiling for Women
Go ahead vote for McCain. If he is elected,do not complain about his policies on the middle east. Do not complain about Palin’s positon on abortion.A woman McCain has known for 5 minutes. Do not complain about the economy. Do not complain. Sit quietly and watch the walls come down around you. But please don’t complain about the unfairness of Barak’s choice. Are you suggesting Clinton would have picked Barak as her VP? Clinton would have asked Barak’s supporters to “consider the big picture” and accept whomever she chose you hypocrites. Spend your time on the electoral process and the Diebold voting machine controversy. It is a more constructive activity.
Criminy, you can’t even spell his name.
No child left behind identifies another victim ….
Obviously a kid in Gaza. Unnecessary “c” when there is a “k” …. hooked on phonics strikes again …. hahahahahahahaha
I don’t think we will have to complain.
And yes, I think Clinton would have been smart enough to realize 17 million voters wanted sometime and would have picked BHO as VP. If you recall she made that suggestion early one in the primary. If he was smart enough to accept we could have had a dem stronghold on the white house for the next 16 years.
No complaints about any of McCain or Palin’s policies. I think they will make a great team reforming Washington, leading our country and assuring the safety of our troops in the Middle East. They have both shown superior judgment.
Is that you Britney?
Spears, I take it from reading your post that you have no faith that Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid will be able to reign in a President McCain, even with the huge majorities we are anticipating in congress?
We won’t complain I assure you of that obot. It sure beats an Obama presidency of communistic rule; a loss of the constitution, and our citizen rights, a stock market crash and corruption in the whitehouse. Who killed State Dem chair Gwatney, Congresswoman Jones, Donny Young and the other 2 members of Obama’s church that were opposed to Obama?
Who tried to silence millions of non Obama voters and delegates? Who threatened anyone who opposes Obama? Who is trying to kill America’s right to free speech, right to bear arms, and other rights? Who has total control of Obama’s MSM?
Hell no we won’t complain. In fact we’ll be glad to be rid of the likes of Obama the Superdelegate in CA with their influence -they emailed the PUMAS that if we didn’t vote for Obama we’d go to the internment camps in the state we reside in and they’d come in the middle of the night for us! You could have had a Dem with Hillary but no..eat it!
Palin is a FRESH FACE! She’s a Washington outsider…bite me
barky!Pelosi!Women (Caucasian) have benefited more from Affirmative Action than any other minority. Spare me your pain. Shoot yourself in the foot. Vote for McCain. Cut your nose off to spite your face. Vote for McCain. Join the military and fight in Iraq and yes vote for McCain.
It’s McCain’s campaign that has women at the forefront, not Obama’s campaign. Carly Fiorina, Meg Whitmen and now Sarah Palin. Obama’s message to women is recorded for all time: He gave the most qualified Democrat the finger in a public forum and we will not forget it. Then he labels her and her husband, the only 2 term Dem President since FDR, a racist. Then he proceeds to name as his running mate, the man who has been in the Senate for 35 years who called him the first clean articulate black politician.
He never stood up against his blogger’s misogynistic abuse and continues to use it to this day.
Obama is no friend of women. Period.
Here’s John McCain talking about his excellent VP pick, Gov. Palin:
For Immediate Release
August 31, 2008 Contact: Press Office
703-650-5550
ICYMI: John McCain On Picking His Running Mate
“And of course as governor, she has had enormous responsibilities, none of which Senator Obama had. When she was in government, he was a community organizer. When she was taking tough positions against her own party, Senator Obama was voting present 130 times in the state legislature. On every tough issue, whatever it was, she was taking them on. That’s the kind of judgment that I’m confident that we need in Washington.” — John McCain
When she was competing in the Miss Alaska pageant, he was applying to Harvard Law School.
The pageant was a way for her to pay for college. Which she did. Her parents were school teachers and she didn’t have any affirmative action help so you gotta hand it to her! What a brilliant idea! Did you know she was voted Miss Congeniality? Smart woman, great judgment!!
McCain/Palin 08
Did you know she was voted Miss Congeniality?
Indeed I did. That’s my new name for her, in fact: Miss Congeniality.
a.k.a. Cinderella
a.k.a. The Moose Hunter
a.k.a. America’s Hottest Governor
a.k.a. McCain’s Folly
… she didn’t have any affirmative action help…
Well, she got some now, didn’t she? Hee-hee…
Well considering that democratic party chose to treat the primaries as a beauty pageant and choose the ditsy but good looking obama. I guess Palin is in good company. But unlike him she actually has executive experience. She will not only be voted ms congeniality, but she will get the crown as well.
Obama got to Harvard because of influence. Palin ran for Miss Alaska to get a scholarship. No one greased the entrance ramp to college for her. She earned her degree and has done more with it and gone farther than Obama by acrually working for citizens instead of talking down to us with his hopey-dopey schtick.
Obama got into Harvard on a legacy slot, just like GW Bush. Both their fathers went to Yale and Harvard respectively. That is how both got in as neither had the grades to make on merit. Obama had the additional benefit of being an affirmative action candidiate too. Kill two birds with one storm. both Palin and Hillary got into their colleges on their own merit. Women did not get preferential treatment. Actually, white women had to be better than the boys to get in. No legacy slots for women, or atheletic scholarships at that time (to speak of).
Go Sarah, hillary, see you next time.
And O wasted it like Bush doing the cocaine crack party shuffle. An addict is an addict and in my opinion DISQUALIFIES them from POTUS. Bush was a disater and Obama will be worse.
Obama is Bush 3#
That pageant got her a scholarship to attend college. Her parents were educators and she found a way to pay her way to school.
Snooty, out of touch comments that, undercover, just make it glaringly apparent the Governor Palin, in addition to being a beautiful accomplished woman, is also a regular working class gal. Someone the majority of voters can relate to…
That pageant got her a scholarship to attend college.
Hmm. Really? How much was the scholarship for? How much money?
There’s something fishy about that whole “scholarship” angle.
undercover black man… YOU. ARE. AN. IDIOT.
Mark my words… something fishy.
http://www.missalaskapageant.com/aboutus.html
“The Miss Alaska Organization is a not-for-profit corporation established solely to provide contestants with the opportunity to enhance their professional and educational goals, and to achieve those pursuits with the assistance of monetary awards and tuition-based scholarships. This scholarship program enables recipients to apply these grants towards furthering their education and training which will greatly enhance the probability that they will achieve their ultimate goals. The scholarship fund is based on a rich scholastic tradition that has been the cornerstone of the Miss Alaska program since 1958.
In 1970, House Concurrent Resolution Number 66 resolved that Miss Alaska shall serve as the official hostess for the State of Alaska.
The Miss Alaska Scholarship Program is part of the Miss America Organization. The Miss America Organization is one of the nation’s leading achievement programs and the world’s largest provider of scholarship assistance for young women. The Miss America Organization makes available more than $45 million in cash and tuition scholarship assistance every year. Based in Linwood, New Jersey, the Miss America Organization provides young women with a vehicle to further their personal and professional goals and instills a spirit of community service through a variety of unique nationwide community-based programs. On an annual basis, Miss America state and local titleholders, along with the Organization’s network of volunteers, participate in more than 9,000 community-service projects, providing in excess of 500,000 service hours to worthy causes.”
But what I want to know is… how much scholarship money did Sarah Heath win for coming in second place? Does anyone know?
I find it hard to believe that a beauty pageant was a make-or-break factor in her higher education.
How much money did Michelle Hussein Obama receive simply for her pigment?
^ You tell me, RACIST. Is Michelle Obama running for vice president?
I voted for policy, not for pigment, unlike you. Now go back to where you belong.
^ Where’s that, bigot? The cotton fields?
Your blog, you idiot, you low information voter. Take your race card somewhere else.
stupid obot. women enter beauty contests for the huge dollar prizes for the 3 top winners..WTF? what rock did you crawl out from?
How much for the runner-up in the Miss Alaska pageant in 1984? And was this crucial in her furthering her education… or is that just spin?
What appointments and stipends and other perquisites did Michelle Hussein Obama receive as a result of her race and her exploitation of affirmative action policies and the race card?
Is Michelle running for office?
yes, she hopes to serve as First Lady.
But she will not, for we will do as you did: vote for pigment. and we are the majority. HAHAHA
^ Worked for Hillary.
I worked for no one. you work for obama. and obama will lose.
HAHAHA
No, genius. The vote-for-pigment thing worked for Hillary… not.
The general election is a whole different ball game, fool. And you and your race card will lose. 14% of the population versus women and whites? Get used to losing.
And about to enlist Rev. Jeremiah as his mentor. You’ll have to do better than the beauty pageant. Palin is awesome and the Obots are frantic.
Hmm, from beauty queen to Governor, in my opinion that is quite impressive.
how else would she really get to work on world peace
Palin = from Judiciary committee for 10 years to Mayor for 8 years to governor for 2 years..pretty inpressive huh?
What’s barky done? Molest 12 year olds? uh bark um ah..”I said that I never said what you said I said and I have always said uh um bark woof bark uh uh ummmmmmmmmm.” BHO
harvard is an overated asshole factory
damn it feels good to say that
Amen to that. They turn out gold-plated turds as often as not. Looks pretty; smells bad.
So? At the age she was competing in a pageant to help pay for a college education, BO was apparently doing illegal substances and blowing off his studies, which it seems his grandparents paid for.
And she has accomplished more than he did even with his Harvard education. That should tell you who is a stronger leader.
And, she did it with no help from the Organization.
Alberto Gonzales graduated from that crappy, overpriced, “nose in the air” school, so don’t act like it’s anything other than a 44 grand a year RIP OFF for suckers and a chummy little club for overprivileged elitists….and oh, they let a few “brownies” in to make the joint look a little less pale. They’re like parsley on the plate–those special admissions–total “dressing.” When one “makes it,” they point to them and say “SEE?” but they don’t really mean it
Alberto “Dunno the Law” Gonzales…the former Atty General who should be in jail–and you have confidence in that institution, and hold it up as a paragon? You want us to be impressed with overpriced sheepskins and Afirmative Action admissions?
Please. They’ve jumped the shark.
Sorry, no sale.
When she was competing in the Miss Alaska pageant, he was applying to Harvard Law School.
And snorting cocaine!
Exactly. Obama is no friend to women. We do not need him nor do we want him.
It’s McCain’s campaign that has women at the forefront, not Obama’s campaign. Carly Fiorina, Meg Whitmen and now Sarah Palin. Obama’s message to women is recorded for all time: He gave the most qualified Democrat the finger in a public forum and we will not forget it. Then he labels her and her husband, the only 2 term Dem President since FDR, a racist. Then he proceeds to name as his running mate, the man who has been in the Senate for 35 years who called him the first clean articulate black politician.
He never stood up against his bloggers’ misogynistic abuse and continues to use it to this day.
Obama is no friend of women. Period.
And possibly the sickest irony of all:
Remember the way they pilloried Hillary for her AUMF vote?
Biden voted for it too.
Team Obama’s hypocrisy is absolutely sickening.
I’m sorry.
I forgot to say Foreign Policy Genius Joe Biden also voted YES on the AUMF.
awww…are you taking your ball and brat and going home? Good!
Ok. I’ll vote for McCain/Palin.
Britney: bring some facts to back that up, will ya? Don’t just foam at the mouth.
Vote for BO and keep us in Iraq. He flipped on his promise to end the war as soon as he took Office. Just like Pelosi flipped when they ran on ending the Iraq war in 2006 and did they get us out? No. Who brought us closer to ending the war? McCain, with his support of the surge. Now thanks to the surge we can talk about time tables and bringing home our troops.
McCain and Palin have sons serving in Iraq, I think they have a vested interest in ending the War.
YES WE CAN VOTE FOR MCCAIN AND PALIN 2008. WE ARE STILL A DEMOCRACY! FIRED UP AND READY TO GO. SAVE THE CONSTITUTION FROM A BARKY PRESIDENCY. (UM UH BARK BARK) F OBAMA..
J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC J MAC
That should be misogyny, not misogynist.
Noah, Noah, Noah ….you language expresses a comfort to who???
We are so afraid of your smears, we will vote against what is good for women??
What is good for women is for women to actually be in power….if your are not running, you will not win, right?
Palin will have a lot of curb appeal to we ladies, and I for one think the frontier woman image will be appealing to many.
John McCain picked a woman to run with, Obama should have done the same.
Who’s the classy one using that language you animal? Obots always have the same argument: vote Obama because the other man/woman is worse! Fear tactics and bullying will continue to backfire you.
People just because she is a woman(Palin) does not mean her politics coincide with mine. Her ovaries do not qualify for a reason to vote for McCain. People, angry Hilary Supporters, NEWSFLASH…. Palin did not vote for Hilary Clinton!!!!!!! She voted for McCain.
You don’t have any “politcs” to “coincide” with, idiot bot - you have rock star-type hero worship and Facebook with your BFFs and $7 an hour to trash the female anatomy. Wow - you’re soooooo impressive!
you are desperate, aren’t you? First you spend months insulting the intelligence of all women and laughing about it.
then you and your cohorts say vote for obama because he’s black.
qualifications? principles? core beliefs? don’t worry–he’s black.
I’m not voting with my ovaries, idiot. I’m voting with my brain. Get used to it.
A revenge vote, I never thought about that, but you know, I kinda like that idea too.
bye bye bambi.
So offensive, so stupid. The bots never learn. They just offend and offend and offend, losing their anointed one more and more votes.
As of yesterday, I was already getting propoganda generated by the Axelrod machine, working overnight, using their fear tactics to the max. It’s supposedly written by someone’s ‘classmate’ who went to school in Alaska. Interesting since I have received it over 10 times from people all over the country. I don’t think there’s a school that big in Alaska.
These Bots are every bit as sickening as the Swift Boaters of ‘04.
McCain blindsided them and took their thunder away, just 18 hours after their ‘toga party’ in Denver. Their knee-jerk reaction is to go viral.
Just be aware of what this crap is all about.
No. Selecting a courageous, smart and beautiful woman as your Vice President equals respect. You stay classy under your covers, black man. And Noah, your sinking rat boat is going down this November!
Noah, did you hear that with your own ears? Of course you didn’t! Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity said that and of course you believe some anonymous source. Do you really think that Cindy with all her money would put up with that? I can tell you as a women, I think not, women despise that word so go peddle your rumor mongering lies somewhere else.
Maybe you’d do better to concern yourself with why Resko helped Obama buy his house and purchased a piece of property that was worthless to anyone other than Obama. Also, do you think a guy that buys a house that he can’t afford with the help of a criminal is going to be able to grow our economy?
According to Obot logic, that comment McCain supposedly made about his wife should have as much legitimacy as the whitey tape, since it is based on unconfirmed rumor and no evidence of it ever having happened can be produced by the people making the charge. Maybe we should invade DKos and hijack every thread with, “Hey Markos, where’s the C-Word tape?”
Great idea!
Palin did not vote for Clinton. She voted for McCain. P.S. if there was some real dirt on Obama he would have been indicted by now. Try yoga.
Alberto Gonzales
George W. Bush.
Karl Rove.
Dick Cheney
touche Mr. Natural!
don’t worry, bot. he is facing two legal challenges right now. And when the republicans unleash their armory of informaiton on him–the kenyan BC, his indonesian passport, the annenburg files and Ayers, who paid for his harvard education….your head is going to be spinning so hard it just might explode.
you, and the democrats have made an error of historic proportions. the dems will never be trusted again to tell the truth–all because of your boy Soetoro-Obama.
hey, troll. if you don’t vote for Palin, you are a sexist!!!!!!
Spears, watch. The Righties haven’t even begun the discussion of Obama that he richly deserves.
She did not vote for Mccain you lying obot. she supported ron Paul, which is quite impressive if you ask me.
That’s right! She supported Ron Paul! really…
If you don’t vote for Mccain Palin you are SEXIST! BARK BARK UH UH UMMMMMMMM
And let’s not forget Obama’s good buddy, Ayers.
Obama’s scary because he’s tried to hide so much. He’s a Manchurian Candidate extraordinaire.
lol
Reality has no bearing. It doesn’t matter that Obama is still married and clearly very in love with his only wife, whereas McCain cheated on his first (beauty queen) wife and then dumped her after she stopped being hot, then gigilo-ed his way into a second (beauty queen) wife and cheated on her too once she got a little old, is famous for telling the worst possible misogynistic jokes, and now just nominated a radically underqualified (beauty queen) vice president. McCain respects women and Obama doesn’t! Reality is whatever the PUMA wants it to be! I’ll bet McCain is still leading in the polls, too?
How many lovers did Barry have before he met Michelle and how did he treat them?
No idea. Do you?
No, and I don’t care, so maybe you should stay out of McCain’s bedroom, you prying little prisspot.
heheheheh, I love it the bots are so worried they are coming apart at the seams
Totally. The bottom line is that his VP pick is just more-of-the-same Washington, while touting ‘change’. His big toga party (i.e. coronation) in Denver is over, while publically telling the Clintons to stick it. And McCain one-upped him just hours later. The Bots are at a loss as to what to do, so they’re opting for their usual tactics of bashing anyone who doesn’t agree with them.
‘S done, Bots.
whee I like that GATO!!! prisspot prisspot prisspot!
Gato! Gato! Gato! Gato!
He was two timin the woman he living with while sleazing with MO.
Lucky us. You read minds too.
Face it, philandering is part of the POTUS profile.
Our best presidents have been serial cheaters.
FDR
JFK
WJC
HRC would have broken that mold.
Find a better talking point
McCain’s first wife was a model who cheated on her first husband and father of her two sons with John McCain and continued cheating on her second husband while he was in a POW camp. Get it straight. There’s a difference between the world’s of beauty pageants and fashion modeling.
You also left out that Sarah Palin was captain of her high school state championship winning basketball team. She did very well competing for titles and scholarships.
Are you hung up on the fact that Michelle Obama is no beauty queen? No, she did have lip reduction - and you hypocritical bots go on and on about Hillary’s non existent plastic surgery - but it didn’t help her angry face much. Nor did the botox.
Michelle reminds me more of JonBenet Ramsey’s mother, STRAIGHTENING and curling her daughters’ hair, trotting out her barely ten year old daughter in dresses more appropriate for teenagers, putting her daughters on Entertainment Tonight (or was it Access Hollywood?) then saying she solicited Hillary’s advice for “keeping them out of the limelight” - yeah right.
This hypocritical “beauty queen” crap works both ways. Lower income white girls often enter beauty pageants to go to college. Palin didn’t have a father who went to Harvard, or affirmative action, helping her.
Stop talking about women’s looks. With Michelle Obama’s mug - you don’t want to go there.
Oh, and Ronald Reagan loved Nancy, so what? Ferdinand loved Imelda, Juan loved Evita, Adolf loved Eva…
These are your facts? I want you to prove these remarks you just laid out. As in no hearsay-no second hand sources; it means you read a court document that stated these facts, or you heard them from Senator McCain or ex-wives mouth. Or you have a video of either of them saying it or a certified letter of admission. IF not, guess what, you are no more in control of those supposed facts, and they are merely your opinion.
F THAT SHET. Obama and his wifey do not sleep in the same room. Michelle saif they have separate rooms and when he gets home they dread it!!!!!! hahahahaha..Michelle said so..
John McCain took sole responsibility for the end of his first marriage. With out publicly humiliating her (eg Spitzer, Clinton, Edwards et al) He gave Carol a settlement that included alimony, child support, houses in Virginia and Florida, and lifelong financial support for her ongoing medical treatments resulting from the 1969 automobile accident.
Despite the divorce, Carol McCain has remained on good terms with John McCain, and has supported him in all his subsequent political campaigns. She refused to discuss her marriage with an election opponent of McCain’s in 1982 who was seeking negative information about him, telling the opponent that “a gentleman never would have called.” She supports her ex-husband’s 2008 presidential campaign, and told The Mail on Sunday in June 2008 that she was not bitter and that, “He’s a good guy. We are still good friends. He is the best man for president.”
Listening to misogynist rap music and enacting crude gestures against women in front of an audience are just the audacity of misogyny that BO’s fans love.
To make abortion the central appeal for woman votes is just an insult to all women when it’s coming from a candidate who never did anything for women. The liberals no longer have any moral values besides feeding their hunger for power.
Your response just validates your ignorance.
Your non-response proves yours.
Y’know, while I like all types of music, I thought using ‘Soul Train’ so predominantly in the convention kind of showed the mentality of Obama’s ’strategists’.
also…”chain of fools”….lol
You know, that word is really offensive, and you shouldn’t use that word here. You could have said “C” word and all us females, as well as males,would have known exactly what you meant. Got it?
Kim, they don’t get it. Have you seen some of the things they have said about Palin’s child. In my opinion it is more disgusting then the “C” word and am unable to even repeat it.
I hope the McCain campaign is reading these blogs. I think a commercial of some of these BHO supporter’s comments would make America open their eyes and see what the democratic party has become.
obots…we couldn’t care any less what you think. go vote for barky and leave us alone..bite the bone bastards..
DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS.
Do you have documented proof or could it be a rumor like, Obama getting a blow job from a dude while he was married?
Rev Manning says he has proof about Obama’s lowdown ways.. Bill Ayers is also bi-sexual and mentioned that in his book. Obama was heavy into cocaine for a couple of years and addicts know no boundaries..
Barky’s Uncle Frank was a child molester, wasn’t he? Don’t you love rumors?
YEAH DIDN’T OBAMA MOLEST HIS GIRLS? hey an obot was talking about that.
Yea, and don’t forgot those “lost” years in NYC when he was supposedly attending Columbia and living on the streets with some Arab guy. BO even admits in his book that he doesn’t remember much about those years but does remember doing lots of drugs.
His downlow days are so obvious.
Like flipping his finger at a former First Lady on PA and playing the rap song, “I Got 99 Problems But One of Them Ain’t the Bitch,” as he made his acceptance speech in Iowa showed class.
Anybody remember how Clinton’s team went a little crazy when they first got in - Stephanopolis attempting to gin up a phony FBI investigation as a cover for moving the travel office business to a couple of rich donors?
Well, this crew at Team Obama shows all the signs of being even crazier with and for power. They’re gonna crony-up so far and so fast we’ll never get our country back. They’ll make George W. Bush’s continuing criminal enterprise look like amateur hour at the local PTA.
That never happened. Barky’s boyz just like to repeat it so they can use the word cunt on blogs dominated by strong women.
It’s a subtle way to put us back in the kitchen.
It ain’t working.
Barky is a child molester..I heard this rumor obots were sayin..Hey bot..barky is a sex addict.
Scared, I see.
That IS why you’re here, trying to sow a little dissention.
Ain’t workin’!
I’m afraid that almost all men have at one time or another made sexist jokes about women. It’s a lot bigger problem when the fate of the world hangs in the balance, and the man who potentially holds the reins might be a man who is so cowed by females (particularly his henpecking wife) that he has to indulge in an act of machismo that ignores women’s opinions and power. And don’t forget that Bobo gave Hillary the finger and brush-off.
Please. You just attacked a intelligent educated strong woman. You hypocrite!!!
This is the first time I have ever heard Barack Obama called a “woman”.
Sounds like this bot knows what’s really hidden in Obama’s birth certificate.
or “intelligent”.
tap..tap…tap..
Tap Tap…
To whom are you referring?
Hoot was talking about Obama being henpecked by Michelle. She certainly doesn’t fit your description of “intelligent educated strong woman”. (Incidentally, why would you write “intelligent” AND “educated” in the same sentence, especially side-by-side? Shouldn’t one be enough?)
Michelle is an overbearing loudmouth who, for some reason, was kept off the campaign trail for MONTHS after she’d shown little ability to do much besides trash-talk. (The first time she does make a public appearance, she reads from a prepared speech.)
Yup. Obama hadn’t planned to run for President but once he got a taste of Washington, he was all in. No wait, let me clarify. When Mee-shell got a taste of power, she wanted more. Who do you think is driving ignorant Obama? I mean, for someone so smart, you’d think he could debate. You’d think he could handle an interview. He can’t talk without a teleprompter. (Who does that remind you of, huh?)
Mee-Shell is probably the only disliked candidate spouse in memory, and I’ve been around a LONG time and seen a lot of candidate spouses.
Obama being henpecked by Michelle
That is an understament.
Michelle wears the pants in that house. said O was ’sweet and pathetic’ on the View.
Ironically, it was McCain who convinced me Hillary could be Commander-In-Chief. The former fighter pilot said these words of respect about Clnton: “You underestimate her at your peril.” At your peril! Coming from a guy who lands jets on aircraft carriers, and a Republican, these words persuaded me Hillary could command our armed forces. Sold!
There’s a reason Hillary is good friends with McCain and not Obama. Character.
Yes. Hillary likes McCain and McCain likes Hillary. Mutual respect. Says a lot to me:-)
Remember a while back when stories were circulating about Hillary and McCain’s trip together (to Iraq, I think?) and the two of them having a drinking contest?
Ha ha! Reminds me of Karen Allen in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (not comparing McCain to Harrison Ford, of course!) - where Allen drank all the men under the table.
It’s a small thing, but that story showed me a lot about the EQUALITY, the MUTUAL respect of Mac and Hill.
Me too.
You people are utterly crazy. Seriously: psycho. You think Hillary likes McCain? You think she’s never heard his famous joke about her daughter?
Q: Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?
A: Because Janet Reno is the father.
Or when his supporter, on camera, asked McCain “How do we beat the bitch?” and he smiled and said, “Good question.”
Or when he angrily called his current wife a c–t in front of several eyewitnesses, then issued an apology later, saying he was “tired.”
McCain is not just a misogynist but a vicious, cheating misogynist. The fact that he chose yet another former beauty queen as his running mate is just so unsurprising, and speaks to his contempt both for women and for the presidency itself. You are living in a dreamworld if you think Hillary doesn’t despise McCain. Or do you think it’s an accident that both Bill and Hillary came up so huge for Obama last week?
you fail to realize that we support Hillary for the office of the president. We are not an extension of Hillary. We are not an appendage of Hillary. I know that might be difficult for you soeBOBOweenies to grasp since you are an appendage of him.
Hillary and Bill Clinton and John and Cindy McCain have both gone on record about their friendship and mutual respect for one another. There are plenty of pictures of Hillary and John enjoying one another’s company and stories of their travels while serving on the Senate Armed Services Committee together.
You don’t understand the collegiality of the Senate. Clinton wasn’t a SENATOR back then. Things change, people do apologize. And politicians understand politics.
And you aren’t a fly on the wall in the Clinton-McCain relationship, either.
You’re scared, I see–that is why you’re here.
You should be — your inferior candidate is not going to win.
You aren’t helping, farting around here and thinking you’re making an impression (well, you ARE making an impression–as a desperate OBOT).
Why aren’t you knocking on doors, helping your hero, Superman? Or stuffing envelopes? GOTV? ANYTHING?
If you think this is “helping,” well–the only way it’s helping is if you are working for ….. McCAIN!
Whether you like McCain or not, you have to admit he has been strong against lobbyists and corruption, and he has worked across the aisle on many issues.
STRONG AGAINST LOBBYISTS?!?!?!?! LOL LOL LOL. McCain has more lobbyists working on his campaign than any other presidential campaign in modern American history — including his foreign policy advisor who is a lobbyist for the government of Georgia, and whose private lobbying probably helped delude Georgia into a shooting war with Russia in the mistaken belief (promulgated by both Bush and McCain, with their usual glib, shallow, dishonest bellicosity) that the U.s. would back them up if Russia decided to attack. Instead, we did nothing, of course, except McCain made a few meaningless PR statements to sound tough, and Georgia got demolished by the Russian Army.
McCain is strong against lobbyists? LOL. That’s too funny.
Obama and soros sitting in a tree
k-i-s-s-i-n-g …
sfhillary, link please. I watch the news everyday and have not once heard that load of crap. Furthermore if it were true why hasn’t Obama or Biden said something about it? Also there are good and bad lobbyist. By the way where is Hunter pay to play with dad Biden?
Yes, McCain does respect Clinton and has worked with her already. Obama talks about bi-partisanship, while McCain has walked the walk and has been at the forefront of bi-partisanship in the Senate. The only things Obama worked on in a bi-partisans way, he did with McCain and McCain was the one leading it. Btw, Obama backed out of the bi-partisan immigration bill while McCain did not. Obama effectively killed it because he was afraid of getting his hands dirty with the controversial since he wanted to run for POTUS. Obama proved to be a spineless flip-flopper even then.
And I trust that McCain will give Clinton a FAR LARGER voice in his administration than Obama will. Obama hates Clinton so much, he’ll do all that he can to silence her. So yes, I trust McCain far more than I do Obama.
You trust McCain more than Obama because you are a fool. McCain is, always has been and always will be a creature of the Republican Right. You can trust him to take his orders from James Dobson and/or Karl Rove. Or do you think it’s an accident that Steve Schmidt is now running his campaign and a pro-life, creationist anti-stem-cell evangelical is his running mate?
I see little evidence that Clinton and Obama hate each other. No doubt they were fierce rivals in one of the longest, toughest, tightest primary contests ever. But the way I see it, Obama took a chance and turned over two nights of his convention to Hillary and Bill, and in return they came up HUGE for him and may well have given him the boost he needed to win the presidency. And when he is president, you can expect Hillary to be a major, major ally, including having her name on the health care bill that will be the centerpiece of Obama’s first-term domestic legislation. Hatred? After last week, that is an awfully difficult case to make.
McCain has spent a good portion of his career speaking truth to the face of republican right. They still don’t like him for it or trust him for it.
Turned over 2 nights of “his” convention? Are you kidding me. First off the convention belongs to the “democratic party”. 2nd Hillary pulled in more then 18,000,000 votes. And 3rd and most important — Bill Clinton IS THE MOST IMPORTANT man in the democratic party. Obama did not even show up for most of “his” convention.
You see things as you will.
As a former Hillary volunteer, after what I endured during the primaries, and at the DNC disenfranchisement meeting May 31, I did not watch the convention. I had had enough.
I’m very glad she is not the VP candidate. She and Bill did what they had to do to stay alive in the party.
Biden is running simultaneously for re-election to his senate seat; he’s not taking any chances. Neither are Strickland, Randell, Warner and a host of others who didn’t want the VP slot.
I look at how O has handled being bi-racial, it’s similar to be bipartisan, No?
well my wife thinks that Palin is an insult to women and that she should not have accepted (palin). I think that this was the smartest pick McCain could have made for many different reasons. i now find it amusing that so many democrats are pointing to her lack of experience. What I would love to see would be McCain when asked during the debates about her experence (as he surely will be) ask her to come up and answer the question. She (as a mayor and governor) must have had many 3am phone calls, Obama to the toaster!
Talking about Palin’s “inexperience” is gonna backfire big-time.
It seemed to take republicans a little while to get up to speed on this one, but I think now they’re there. I saw Fred Thompson on CNN this morning and, when asked the smarmy “inexperience” question said, as ALL republicans will, “Sarah Palin, the Vice-Presidential nominee, has A LOT MORE experience than the democrats’ PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE.” Then, of course, he went into barky’s “short time in the Senate, most of it running for president.”
Add her EXECUTIVE experience to that, as opposed to barky’s (even Biden’s and McCain’s) LEGISLATIVE time and that’s one “argument” nullified.
When someone reads your comments and realizes that you refer to a grown man as “barky” know that you reveal your true intent. You are not fooling anyone. But you do not appear to be an individual with an ability or desire to reflect on his ignorance and prejudice. Oh yeah, that’s liberal speak right! No it is manners. When you are respectful of people your point has more validity.
(just a sampling from one of your bot posts above, britney)
HEAR YE HEAR YE! For those who haven’t heard everything yet, bots are now demanding “respect!”
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here…
FireFly, agree! When I give respect, it is mine to give, much like my vote. O hasn’t earned an ounce of it from me.
When you respond to a particular POINT in another’s comment, then you own point has more validity.
For crying out loud, Firefly made a VERY valid point and all YOU could respond to was his use of “Barky”? Yeah, that shows people what YOUR “true intent” is–being an Obot trolling sites which refuse to accept Barry as anything other than a second-rate choice foisted on the people by a DNC afflicted with CDS.
Tell me what Obama’s CORE VALUES are–the ones that he’s consistently stood by and defended regardless of the harm it might do to his political career. Then tell me why Obama is worthy of anyone’s respect. He’s waffled on so many principles that it’s absolutely impossible to know what he stands for all the time.
Duh. We all call him Barky. Or then there’s The One, Messiah, and a half-dozen other terms, all generated by the Bot’s unfettered, drooling adoration and willingness to ignore Obama’s many negatives and lack of experience. (Not to mention the fact he doesn’t give a damn about his adoring throngs).
And have you checked out the names your rabid Bot friends call McCain?
Manners seemed to be non-existant when Obama and his Bots began to bash Hillary and her supporters with true vicious intent, starting as early as February.
Your ‘high horse’ is laughable.
I like to call him……The Glorious One
pot, meet kettle.
show me some evidence that Obama is an adult and I’ll stop calling him Barky.
You are not being respectful to people on here yourself.
I guess your point has no validity.
Obama hasn’t earned any RESPECT!
and the hypocritical dem supporters of him have lost all RESPECT!
Actually here, Barky is acceptable, and our posters don’t have a protocol for ass kissing to express their opinion.
Typical Barky supporter: “Will he see me in the front row with my Obama ‘08 sign?!” “Will he shake my hand?!” “OMG he smiled in my GENERAL DIRECTION!!!!!” *faints*
What is insulting about McCain LISTENING to the majority of voters in this country? And she is not just a “token” as they are trying to paint her, which is just another dismissive sexist comment. She is a highly accomplished and strong woman, whether you agree with her policies or not. It’s called respect.
That’s right, end it with a brush-off and the finger
You know what is going to be bittersweet pill for me to swallow? Watching the Republicans men find their balls, their voices, and their wallets and stand up and fight against the sexism that will be thrown at Governor Palin. I predict PUMA anger will *EXPLODE* watching the republicans fight back hard and win over sexism during the next few weeks. Crap we had to endure for over a year, raising our own voices because no party leaders would speak out. Hillary was abandoned by her party. Sarah Palin will be supported by hers. Is it a wonder the Republicans win?
I’m a woman,in Canada,that loves to Fish and Hunt,snow machine,,and I’ve heard many positive vibes here in Canada,over Palin..The Men I know adore,her and have this overwhelming fondness for a frontier woman.I think you may get many hunters,outdoors people,that will Cling to Palin…Do you remember Obama’s phrase Clinging to there guns….lol… I guess Palin is one of those beautiful people that does just that,and loves it..
Mccain/Palin
She reminds me of some of the women who costarred with John Wayne.
Time for Obama to return his coronation robes.
The beauty of this woman’s character will heal a great deal of pain that a lot of us felt watching Senator Clinton disrespected.
Governor Palin’s husband is a fine example of a man who is comfortable with his manhood suupporting a dynamic woman.
This wonderful couple will be a breath of fresh air and help to give our nation the nudge it needs to respect women and men for what they bring to the table as partners.
I bet your wife’s a good cook, never complains when she irons your shirt and knows her “rightful” place.
Or maybe she dutifully leaves politics to ‘the man of the house’ and he tells her what to think? Maybe he told her she should be outraged?
Hope sleuth - read the entire post. He’s one of us.
I agree with most of your wife’s sentiment. I think Obama is an insult to women he should not have accepted.
Yeah, I’m sure she had a lot of 3:00am phone calls as Mayor. From what I’ve read, her biggest problem as mayor was reindeer overpopulation, and she torched the Wasilia budget so badly due to a mishandled land negotiation that she was almost recalled. She does have a good reformer’s reputation from her first 18 months as Governor, except for the whole possible misuse of power investigation; the attorney general’s office is scheduled to release its report in the days prior to the November 4th election. Good pick, McCain!
lol
What the S FU
Well it’s one of the three little piggy trolls back again. It must be so easy to critizie people who have actually tried to accomplish something.
What were the noted accomplishments of BO as a community organizer? Ha, Ha! Whew tough job! I’ll wait for your critical analysis.
Stop the hate little oinker!
Hours later what the S Fu and you still don’t have those accomplishments yet!
By the way BO is plagerizing McCain’s aid for Gustav plan. Always a follower and never a leader.
Stop the hate!
NObama even failed to copy McCain well. McCain told us to open our wallets for the Red Cross. NObama said well wait a couple of days and see what they need then we will use our email list to ask for help.
Big difference. McCain is a Leader and when America needs him he knows how to step up.
Jeez, isn’t sfhillary the one always begging us to keep it civil, then she starts calling people fools. Is she trying to have an argument or just annoy people with her stupid opinions?
And the people of Wasila must have hated her as the mayor so much that they kept her in office for ten years. That’s a brilliant deduction.
Desperation smells like
B O
I read something awhile ago that the average salary of women on McSame’s staff was higher than the average salary of men. McSame pays women more!
And, that Obama, the liberal who should be for women’s equality, paid women on his staff less, on average, than men.
I am sure McSame and Palin will rub Obama’s nose in this fact.
we need to make that they do!!!!!!!!!!!!
we need to make sure that they do!!!!!!!!!!
…and I and my neighbors will make sure that they do.
Friday, buoyed by the choice of Mrs. Palin out of my depression over the disgusting and embarrassing sight of the Babylonian spectacle at Invesco Field, I went to Ruby’s for din-din. I have never seen or felt such an up-beat mood of the customers, buzzing over Palin. These people, retired working class people now living in Florida, are Democrats so happy at the prospect of voting for McCain. Everyone was talking to each other, people that did not know each other, it was almost like New Years Eve. What a great evening that was.
I agree. I live in the DC area and the atmosphere was electric with shock and hope.
My dad a life long Independent, career Soldier (34 years) and college professor is so pleased with the Choice of Sarah Palin as VP for McCain he actually agreed to have a political sign in his yard for the first time ever. During his time in the military he helped to design the Air defenses of Europe and North America. He understands what it takes to “recieve that 3am call”.
And he told us that McCain is ready and he is ok with that but even more he is certain he can support Sarah Palin in the same position.
I was saddened when in Hillary’s convention speech she claimed Obama was a supporter of equal pay for women and McCain wasn’t when it’s been publicly disclosed that Obama pays his female staff less than the men but McCain pays them more.
Hillary had to know better than to continue the myth that Obama is respectful to women in any way. I get being a good party member — for her, not me anymore — but she should have avoided that point.
Politics has never been easy for anyone, except for the corrupt. Hillary and Bill have to be good soldiers if they are ever able to be able to rebuild the Democratic Party. I have faith that one day they’ll be able to bring back OUR Democratic Party… the one I’ve always voted for, not the one we’re faced with now! I’m really sad it’s turned to this, but there is no way I’m going to stand for my vote for Hillary being hijacked by corruption.
And I really wish the little obots would shut up about Roe v Wade, it’s on every site I’ve been to. I can’t have kids any more, I’ve already fought that battle, and I’m not supporting corruption by trying to save it. If somehow it’s overturned - which I doubt, even under a Rep President and Rep Congress it still stands - well let them fight for it! I’M GOING TO VOTE FOR MY COUNTRY. NO OBAMA. NO CULT FOLLOWERS…(SOMEONE PLEASE GET THEM A DEPROGRAMMER!) …
GO MCCAIN/PALIN!!!
I’m in my 20s, and I agree 100% with you. This Roe v Wade fear card will not work. Roe v Wade is not going anywhere. We’ve had numerous Repub administrations and nothing has happened. If something does and it becomes threatened, I as a young woman will be happy because it’ll wake young women up who have been taking women’s rights for granted. When young women are embarrassed to call themselves feminists because they don’t want men to roll their eyes, then they need to learn what feminism is. When young women allow themselves to be called “hos” & “sluts” on a daily basis because it’s so hip-hop cool, then they need to be awakened to the reality that sexism is alive & strong today…it’s not a game.
Besides, we need to show the DNC that Roe v Wade is not the sole issue we women vote on!!! We will not be held in bondage to one false threat! That sham roll call that the DNC had for Clinton ENRAGES ME. They could care less about the historic achievement for women she had accomplished. I care about my voice being heard and the DNC didn’t want it heard…at least, McCain was willing to hear our voices. I don’t agree with Palin on several issues, but I never agree with any politician on every issue so I’m more than willing to cast my vote for McCain/Palin 2008.
Sadly even Bill & Hillary will lie. I honestly believe Bill’s convention night speech was one big lie based on what he said the night before. It is called “politics”
ot–TWP–there was a bot here yesterday impersonating you…just fyi
I wish I could write the way some of the people on this great site do but I would be miss spelling so I thank you wonderful people for keeping me informed….
’s OK man . . . saw you in “Dark Knight” — dude, you were killer!
proving actions speak louder than words. LOL
anyway, i’m with you, Joker.
’s OK man . . . saw you in “Dark Knight” — dude, you were killer!
proving actions speak louder than words. LOL
anyway, i’m with you, Joker. there are some awesome writers on this Board, no?
Hey Joker it’s OK. I’m sure your opinion matters no matter how you spell. You are welcome here.
Regular NQ’s don’t go after spelling, unless someone makes fun of theirs, don’t worry, its ok.
Palin was a great choice, not only because she handcuffs Obiden, but because naming her energized what was shaping up to be an otherwise mind-numbingly dull campaign. Lets face it, these guys are snooze-inducing. Palin’s no Hillary, but at least, she’s interesting.
I think Palin gives Hillary a run for her money. Sorry if that’s sacrilege, but I respect Sarah Palin a great deal. I want to see how she handles Obama and his pants wetting, hysterical media pack. She will probably do just fine after shutting down the good old boys up north.
I don’t think it was just a pander to women. This is the strongest reform ticker I remember. I think it is her strong reform mindset that sealed the deal. Otherwise, why take a risk. He could have picked Kay.
Palin is an expert on energy, old and new, and all that encompasses. That should be our number 1 priority since our need for oil affects the economy as well as the security of our nation. I don’t want any more wars over oil. This should be the last one. She has some great ideas and her maverick attitude fits with McCain perfectly. Gals, I think we got us a winner and I can’t wait to vote for McCain and Palin.
It not only reaches out to disaffected dems who might feel angry over the misogyny, it reaches out to all the ones who think the party is crooked and would like someone, anyone, who cares to take on crooks.
Well I, for one, am one of those voters that the DN says (and hopes) doesn’t exist. A lifelong Democrat who will vote Republican for the first time in her life. It’s a real eye-opener to see the Democrats in this Sexist, and race-baiting mode. I never would have believed it before now.
You’re not alone, Lynn. It will be my first time as well and I’ve voted since 1972.
THAT’S what Obama has done for his party.
and I agree with you both.
As it is, the Obama run has exposed the underbelly lie of this run of the democratic party–they are more interested in power than America, and they will hide behind everything “liberal” to try to keep that power.
Now we can see clearly what they are about.
our first warning should have been when pelosi took impeachment off the table, and then voted to continue funding the war.
well, ok. I’ve opened my eyes. The “clear and present danger” to America is Soetoro/obama. He must be convincingly defeated.
Lyn & PoliticalSleuth, you’re not alone. I’ve only voted once in my life — for Kerry — and I’m already disillusioned with politics. Yesterday, I was laughing in disbelief when a Dem pundit said on TV that he’d be surprised if the Rs could find one Clinton supporter who would be willing to vote McCain/Palin. Hahaha…the Dems are so in denial and the more they dismiss us, the angrier we’ll be.
I will NEVER forgive them for the SHAM roll call vote they had for Clinton who won a historic number of votes. Neither Clinton NOR Obama had the necessary number of delegates (w/o superDs) to automatically win the nomination. Therefore, they were supposed to have an HONEST roll call vote that then went to the Supers so that the SDs could cast their OFFICIAL votes. But NO, the CORRUPT BO camp & CORRUPT DNC would not allow that because they were so worried that their coronation of BO might be overturned so they forced the delegates to vote AGAINST the will of the people!!!!!!!!!!! No thanks, I refuse to be a member of such a corrupt party!!!!
That Dem pundit should get ready to go to the loony bin, cause the R’s know there are many of us former Hillarybots who will vote McCain/Palin.
Why do you think he picked her? To hold on to us, of course.
McCain’s got my name, and my donation. No BO ever!
I am also a life long democrat. I have voted Republican before but never for such an important position. This November will be my first.
I disagree with riverdaughter. McCain is simply choosing the best “person” to both win and handle the Presidency in case of catastrophic circumstances. John loves our country and would not put it in a woman’s hands just because of gender and least of all not to pander to PUMAs!
I like he acknowledged Hillary’s mistreatment in his statements of respect, but that’s as far as his “courting” goes.
Our egos are so big.
I think McCain’s biggest reason for choosing Palin is her conservative creds. It helps solidify his base. Getting some of Hillary’s supporters is just icing on the cake.
And you can also see in this move how politically savy McCain is. He knew he was weak with his base, so he gave them something. Contast that with Obama who knows he is weak with his base and gives them nothing, instead telling them to get over it becasue you have no where else to go. Well, now we do. Obama is so dumb and inexpereinced at playing the game of politics.
This time there’s no Emil Jones to hand it to him. That’s why Obama was reduced to blatant attempts to steal credit for votes and committee memberships.
Sorry, Deano. You couldn’t quite pull it off.
Great point bert.
I don’t think Palin would be the best choice for President -I think Romney would be better. But she’s the best to poke Barky in the eye and I’m lovin it!
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1837608_1837607,00.html?xid=rss-topstorieshttp://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1837608_1837607,00.html?xid=rss-topstories
Time Magazine dubs her the new Queen of You Tube–with a collection of videos
I just came home from my local cafe where I overheard a couple of Obambots talking about what a horible choice Palin was. One guy said “I mean really, there are more people in the city of Chicago than the whole state of Alaska!” Too funny! She is so better qualified than BO. It’s just rich, really.
Palin’s experience, for starters:
Wall St. Journal:
For starters, we’d say Governor Palin’s credentials as an agent of reform exceed Barack Obama’s. Mr. Obama rose through the Chicago Democratic machine without a peep of push-back. Alaska’s politics are deeply inbred and backed by energy-industry money. Mr. Obama slid past the kind of forces that Mrs. Palin took head on. This is one reason her selection — despite its campaign risks — seems to have been so well received by Republicans yesterday. They are looking for a new generation of leaders.”
McCain summed it up.
Palin leading the charge against the corruption in her party while Bo was voting present and running for President.
She’s spent time in Kuwait with her National Guard troops that she is in charge of.
Runs the state with the largest footprint - a huge economy.
20% of our energy comes from there.
Been on the Energy Commission board - turned in the corruption.
Fought with the Senators and sitting Governor over the bridge to nowhere - she won.
Got rid of the Governor’s jet and other wasteful spending.
She has much more executive experience than Obama, managing a huge budget and staff.
Do people realize Obama’s position as State Senator only required him to work 55 days/year? He only served one year as Senator, and accomplished what exactly? before he started running for president. Remember the video clip of the representative who was asked to name BO’s accomplishemnts? Let’s hear them. He talks about bipartisanship, but has never taken on his party in an oppositional way. And news flash: HE is running for president, she is the VP nominee, and McCain looks fit as a fiddle these days.
And, lest we forget, in those “55 days” he managed to vote “present” most of the time.
Kinda reminds me of the chimp’s “hard work” statements.
Anybody happen to know barky’s number of “present” votes off the top of their head?
Chimpy and Obama are twin brothers of separate mothers.
I’ve heard 130. I’ve also heard “over a hundred.”
I figure he just wasn’t paying attention. After all, he had his autobiographies to write.
129 votes present in 8 years of state senate.
Don’t for get to finish his autobiography he spent “several” months with Michelle in Bali so he wasn’t distracted.
Must be nice.
That was a quote from Bill Maher on his show this Friday.
“new rule” ?
Keith O needs to “get over” the fact that a former Tv Sports reporter is the Rebublican VP nominee.
And Obama has done so much for Chicago!
The Obama/Biden campaign sign is a perfect reflection of O’s ego…he can’t even share equal billing with his running mate. The blued-out Biden struck me as odd when I first saw it, so I googled a website that displays campaign signs all the way back to Kennedy/Johnson, and with very few exceptions the Prez/VP names were done in equivalent size and weight. Heck, Gore even found room on his signs to do Gore and Lieberman in equal size. You can just imagine Barry telling the graphics department to make “Biden” bluer and smaller and bluer and smaller…just to make sure it is still all about him. When he said in his speech that it “wasn’t about me” I nearly died laughing…it is, always has been, always will be ALL ABOUT HIM.
LOL…I too almost died laughing when I heard BO say in his speech that it “wasn’t about me” but “it’s about you.” Maybe he’ll find a job as a comedian when he LOSES in Nov.
Are you people serious?!? I mean really?
Great post, Kelvin - “I mean really!” lol!
Poor baby - haven’t received your e-mail barky talking points yet this morning, eh?
Yeah, he’s still waiting. They’re putting the finishing touches on their women hating disgusting, vile, scumbag smears against Governor Palin as we type.
Oh, well I’ve been getting it from all over the country, described as a ‘personal’ experience email from a ‘classmate’ of Palin’s.
Shit. You Obamabots are just like Bushbots - you’ll do anything to win. And you have to be told what to think and say.
I’m going to borrow from an occasional Obamabot here on NQ… NOT THIS TIME.
The theme of the day is “ovaries”.
They can’t mention gonads, because when Jesse Jackson went to cut Barky’s out, he discovered Michelle already had. She keeps them chilled in her whine cellar.
No. But as you see they are sending those emails out rallying these ineffective posts to all of the websites.
Reading the garbage being spewed about Governor Palin’s daughter, I just made my fourth donation. $50 a pop is going to kill me pretty soon. And I cannot believe it but I am putting a Republican party yard sign in my yard … YEE Gods. Strange bedfellows.
You should read what Alan Colmes had to say about mothers of Down Syndrome babies. Uppity has a diary on it. Alan has since scrubbed his site of the vile, disgusting post but here’s a screen shot from another blog.
http://wizbangblog.com/images/2008/08/you_stay_classy_alan_colmes/AlanColmes-Sick.png
Check it out….the “new” “progressive” democratic party.
Ooh - I think that’s a good sign that he had to scrub his website of the post - republicans must be getting ON IT - quick!
For those challenged 0bamabutts for whom math was too old world …. since my $50 is no longer going Democratic, Soretoes needs to find $100 to replace me. Since he didn’t take matching funds, he’s down $200 with my simple donation of $50.
If you are tired of being pushed around, send JSM and SHP $50 and make Thug and Plugs off the campaign trail to host political fund raisers to keep their filthy lying ads on television.
Firefly,
I screen shot everyone of those filthy things I find and send them right to McCains Campaign.
Don’t forget to warn McCain camp of the Pelosi coup to steal the votes. They’ll need election monitors in every corner of America. They’ll need extra election workers to check every single new registration that comes in.
My friends Dad just said WV is going red..hahahahahaha…payback for the convention debacle.
McKatmoon - thank you thank you thank you! Me too! (btw - Love your new name!)
JESUS CHRIST!! So a woman wants to get back to her own doctor rather than have a total stanger shove his hands up her woo woo. Look, my water broke with twins at 26 weeks and I did everything right. But there’s no way I’d have anyone but my doctor, who knows me and my case plan out treatment for me. Are these men stupid? FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, just keep up the stupidity guys.
Obama says he will ask his spporters to volenteer or send out a Blast email for donations…Ya want to bet it will ask all donations be sent to Obama and not the gulf coast?
Yikes, bee bop! Don’t go that far! Tell me where you live and I’ll drive by and steal it tonight.
Friends don’t let friends display Republican signs in their yards.
Kelvin is a paid O’bot blogger. What qualifications do you think has? Not even a GED.
Kelvin is only 17 years old.
Kelvin:
Has Obama filled you in as to why he didn’t pick Clinton as his VP?
Serious about what?…wanting you to leave? YES!!!
Sarcastic Scared Troll
Do you still dine on feces and bay at the full moon?
Obots need to remember that many of us moderate and conservative Dems that got swindled and kicked out of the party were ready on May 31st to vote for Mccain……loooooooong before Palin as VP pick. NO OBAMA ever! Talking about Palin is a mute point. I remember when the radical left obots wanted OBAMA to PICK PALIN FOR VP!!!!!!!!!! They have no idea of party rules..chuckle..stupid kids who are underage are working for Soros and blasting the narrative. Palin will clean up the economy. She’s cheap like Hill claims to be.
I do not think that I have ever read such nasty remarks about anyone as I have this morning. The liberals are out in full force trashing Sarah Palin. Why do women find it necessary to perpetuate the myth that women cannot to smart, attrative, a good mother, and a geniune person all at once. At least she practices what she preaches. Alaska is “gay friendly” to put it mildly. That’s a good thing…………….she talks the talk and walks the walk. Her morals are such that she doesn’t believe in abortion, I respect that. Having said that, there is nothing about her to indicate that she would do anything to make abortion illegal. To say otherwise is plain ignorant and something that the Obamunnists plan to spin. Every time I read the inane articiles I get madder. My TV is permantely turned to FOX and even some of their liberals give me a stomach ache. At least there is always a balance.
It’s actually NOBAMA himself that made the error when picking the old plagerist with bad hair plugs.
New one. Man oh man, I have seen more names given that turkey and his turkey movement than I would have believed possible a year ago.
Palin is a pragmatist. Although she is against gay marriage (just like BO), her administration was the FIRST in Alaska to extend full benefits to same-sex partners. That says a lot to me. She is not as rigid & extremes as the Obots are trying to paint her.
Why is it “pandering” to women to put Palin on the ticket? Why isn’t it a brilliant move after the Democrats rejected the most qualified candidate for President? She’s NO Hillary, but why not show that the Republican Party does have substantive women candidates? I don’t agree with everything Palin stands for, but she is still an interesting and exciting voice for the Republicans. I like Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins and Christie Todd Whitman too. I don’t always agree with them, but they certainly seem like reasonable legislators unlike guys like Sam Brownback or Richard Shelby.
Noah…
I don’t see why you think a candidate who hangs with crooks, terrorist, and radicals who hate the US is a better choice for president than a man who calls his wife a c**t. I don’t think the later will affect his abilty to lead the country. I do think the the candidate who sat in church for 20 years why the preacher trashed america does have issues that will affect his ability to be president.
Uttering c**t once does not = years of association with Rezko, Ayers, & Wright
And they thought it would be about RACE.
The DNC has committed suicide. I am just waiting to watch Bill and Hillary rebuild it without the likes of Pelosi, Coward and Brazille.
YES! Thank you, Connie Floyd!
Yes, I can’t wait for the bloodbath that will ensue when precious BO LOSES. Hahahaha…and the media was drooling over the fact that the Clinton era was over and that the party belonged to BO now…NOT YET, honeys!! All those who betrayed the Clintons had better start looking for jobs because they betrayed good friends for a con artist! BO is going down!!! And Hillary Clinton will be the new leader of the Dem party. And Bill will be proudly at her side as she continues their legacy
american’s said over and over again we wanted Hillary…
Dean, Pelosi, Soros, Daley kept telling us we really want Obama…
We voted… primary after primary…
Dean, Pelosi, Soros, Daley and Brazil stole our votes, stole our Delegates and told us our votes don’t count…
Come November we will again tell Dean, Pelosi, Soros, Daley and Brazil that Obama is not trustworthy, not vetted, not honest, not capable and above his pay grade….
Dean, Pelosi, Soros, Daley and Brazil already have a plan in place to steal our votes again…
I hope and pray that americans turn out in record numbers for Mccain/Palin so that Obama can not steal enough votes to steal the election again…
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
She has more experience the backtrack period.
Backtrack and ayers had millions of dollars to supposedly help the Chicago schools and blew it.
She cut government waste and spending in Alaska.
He was too blind to see the people in his district without heat in his buddies apartment buildings in a Chicago winter.
She made oil companies return money to the people in Alaska.
He made money from the corrupt Chicago political machine.
She fought corruption in the republican party.
He was selected to run for president dispite what most of the democratic voters wanted.
She is running for vice president with an over 80% approval rating in her home state.
Whether you vote for her or not, she is still a better candidate for the office.
She will have a mentor who loves the country and time to learn to be president.
He has mentors who are anti-american and no interest in learning anything.
COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMAS,BUBBAS, AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE
And she does not look at babies as a punishment.
The Meet The Press discussion became transfixed on Palin. Gregory said that the campaign thought about hitting her hard with ads, but decided against it…BECAUSE THE CAMPAIGN WAS SURE THE PRESS WOULD DO IT FOR THEM….no truer words have ever been spoken on television.
The D’s don’t need to do the dirty work on Ms. Palin, they are SURE the press will trash her first….
Tom Brokaw also said that he thought it a metaphor for the R’s that a hurricane was to arrive on the start of their convention…I guess it is OK to say this kind of mean, insensitive talk when R’s are involved. My liberal husband expressed shock.
The press is so in the tank for BO they can now discuss their plans without any feeling of guilt, on Sunday morning, on Meet The Press…er ..Meet the Tank.
Funny how Gregory has all that “inside information” from the obama campaign, ain’t it?
He’s with MSNBC, after all - and Gregory’s “report” that the campaign said the press would attack Palin for them, was just a dog whistle to all the media - the ones who seemed to be coming to the party too slowly, anyway - to hurry up and pile on her.
MSNBC is the ObamaNetwork. Keith and Tweetie have a lot of brown on their faces ’cause we all know where their noses have been.
If Brokaw said it was a “metaphor” then I think he was saying the Republicans would start their convention forcefully and come on like a hurricane. That’s not the same as saying God was showing his displeasure. I haven’t watched Brokaw in a long time, though.
Kelvin, again for your edification:
For starters, we’d say Governor Palin’s credentials as an agent of reform exceed Barack Obama’s. Mr. Obama rose through the Chicago Democratic machine without a peep of push-back. Alaska’s politics are deeply inbred and backed by energy-industry money. Mr. Obama slid past the kind of forces that Mrs. Palin took head on. This is one reason her selection — despite its campaign risks — seems to have been so well received by Republicans yesterday. They are looking for a new generation of leaders.”
McCain summed it up.
Palin leading the charge against the corruption in her party while Bo was voting present and running for President.
She’s spent time in Kuwait with her National Guard troops that she is in charge of.
Runs the state with the largest footprint - a huge economy.
20% of our energy comes from there.
Been on the Energy Commission board - turned in the corruption.
Fought with the Senators and sitting Governor over the bridge to nowhere - she won.
Got rid of the Governor’s jet and other wasteful spending.
I WILL WATCH AND SEE IF THE REPUBLICANS STAND UP AND DEFEND PALIN AGAINST ALL THE SEXISM THAT IS SURE TO COME. OBAMBI AND THE DEMOCRATS CERTAINLY DID NOT DO IT FOR HILLARY. THEY HAVE LOST THE RESPECT OF A LOT OF WOMEN BECAUSE OF THAT. IF THEY DIDNT STAND UP FOR HILLARY, WHAT MAKES US THINK THEY WILL STAND UP FOR THE REST OF US?
Not only did they not stand up for Hillary, they were the source of most of it.
name one accomplishment of Barack?
uh…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixc2IHum2hg
heh heh…
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Well the comments under the videos of her friday speech are horrible. Obama’s smear machine is in full gear. Speaking of You Tube, this will give you a laugh!
Want to compare VP’s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TBNeNHHXEY&feature=email
Kelvin:
Has Obama filled you in as to why he didn’t pick Clinton as his VP?
[is it because she's a woman?] tell the truth snagger tooth!
What is so scary about this brilliant and beautiful woman who works 10X harder than him and who won the popular vote?
Much like George W. Bush, I think it’s Obama’s massive but fragile ego. Obama believes the press reports about his greatness, he drinks in the adulation from his adoring fans, and he sees himself as near-divine. Any crack to this facade threatens the whole construct; it would be the death of his ego.
Bingo Bud. The first sentence answers itself. She outperforms Obama every time they have to compete on a stage. The debates, the Convention–when they are side by side it is so obvious who is the superior leader. It makes him squirm.
And re: his narcissism. I used to work for a narcissist, and a psychologist friend of mine clarified it for me: someone who has such delusions of grandeur is deeply insecure. They have no core self, so they have to create this grandiose image of themselves and their power. This is impossible to maintain, because it is an illusion, so they are controlling and terrified of exposure. That is why they overreact to criticism, because it threatens to shatter the false illusion and expose them as frauds. Sound familiar?
fif–
This was my sense of him the first time I watched him in a debate — this is the reason he is ‘allergic’ to criticism and tries to suppress those voices rather than legitimately contronting or answering them.
The Dem convention was a shining example of Obama’s vision for this country - all perfectly choreographed with all the right faces in all the right places; voices of dissent silenced; speakers & delegates told what to say and what not to say.
Obama can’t confront or answer anything simply because he KNOWS nothing and he can’t talk without a teleprompter. Remember? He has no job experience. Period.
If he selected her, it would be confusing…
People would have trouble figuring out who is actually president…Barky or Hillary?
Katman du..
You are very nice to supply us with some hit pieces from You tube about Ms. Palin..
Please thank Time magazine, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, GQ, New Yorker, Boston Globe, Wash Post, NYT,Philadelphia Inquirer,,etc…I am sure they will follow suit, making fun of average women along the way.
Find me a paper that loved Hillary and is now trashing Palin…the rest or just another wing of the New Democratic Party.
Like I said earlier,,The Dems should start selling Crying Towels,Slogans….Could bring in some money..I’m sure people would buy them for a reminder of what could have been.lol
Should Have Been Clinton Now Mccain/Palin
this whole election is like the movie Trading Places. i wonder if there’s a randolph & mortimer duke type duo that made a $1 bet that they could turn the republicans into democrats and democrats into republicans.
Love It!
Rove and hmmmm Murdoch?
oh mannnnnnnnnn
what a comparison
I can totally understand it too as things started progressing during the campaign - you either take advantage of opportunities or let them pass and hope the other guy doesn’t pick it up right?
This was total brilliance and if Palin can moderate her stances and not go all holy war (I don’t see her doing that) and hopefully no on has any TAPE of her being wackogelical in equivalence to jerimiah gdm wright. Or her “spiritual advisor” is not a child rapist like MARSHALL (another mentor right?) or friend of his father? There is just so MUCH dirt by now I can no longer weed through it.
either I’m NOT voting or voting for McCain/Palin
depending on the next month or so
so far - I’m waiting for stem cell news
VERY VERY important issue to me personally!
And who do ya think will be the person in the Gorilla costume on the train?
I think it’s more like Gollum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLvIFRNbqOs&NR=1
Kelvin:
Another thing . . . did obama explain t you why he pays his female staff so little? (remind him that mccain pays his female staffers much, much more (maybe obama’s female staff will wise up and join the mccain/palin team)
We all know why Hillary was not even considered by Barry Soetoro, the list is simple:
1-Hillary is a worker and forces those she is associated with to work hard, Barry is a lazy do nothing politician and doesn’t want to be forced to work.
2-Hillary is hated by Michelle and Barry doesn’t want to have to deal with Godzilla Michelle.
3-Hillary is an achiever and in 4 years when she is shown to be clearly the workhorse and Barry the speech reader, Barry would be out of a job.
4-Barry needed someone useless to the American public to be in place so when he gets impeached, he wouldn’t be followed by someone the people like and respect.
“Comment by SDV | 2008-08-31 12:16:24″
Thanks for pointing that out….I really think he is more psychologically damaged than Bush. I am beginning to think that he may have psych. meltdown before Nov 4. The Repubs will go after his narcissism with a vengeance..the ridicule will the devastating to Obama’s ego.
better to devistate barky’s ego than to have devistate this country. america first and always. McCain/Palin 2008 if not hillary)
It’s funny that the NEW Democratic Party is so sure of our vote, due to their belief in our need for partial birth abortions..
We are older women who fought for the right to choose. We are not having babies now, …partial birth abortion is not something we are all hyped up about.
Younger women will have to do some of the heavy lifting @ some point. We are just trying to get women into the Oval office..where the power is.
nor do i believe in letting the baby that survived the abortion, be neglected of medical treatment.
Fear tactics, plain and simple.
Palin’s pro-contraception, and from McCain’s arguments with the religious right, so is he. In fact, I don’t think he believes contraception is any of his business. Correct me if I’m wrong.
That’s what I say. Roe v Wade isn’t going anywhere. What we need NOW are women in the Oval office. Women are not solely liberal…there are many conservative women in this country who also want their voices heard. What is important is to have MORE women in power — conservative & liberal.
THE MORE WOMEN THAT WE HAVE REPRESENTING US IN WASHINGTON, THE MORE POWER WOMEN WILL HAVE! Both parties have used abortion as a weapon to keep women obeying party line. It’s time for women to now flex their muscles and say ENOUGH! We refuse to be threatened and silenced anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hillary 2012
McCain/Palin 2008
Well stated. And yes, you are also correct that weak men are afraid of strong women. Look what Obama’s weakness hath wrought.
Excellent post, Bud. Thank you.
You keep telling yourself that Senator Obama is weak. Keep underestimating him.You must remember that you were unable to get your candidate into the position to be elected POTUS.Why? Because he was underestimated and alot more sophisticated at the game than many believed.
Instead of name calling and using illiterate verbage to attack the esteemed Senator from Illinois, you puma people should focus on not repeating the same mistakes that culminated your loser status to begin with.
Esteemed Senator from Illinois? Wow.
I live in Illinois and I can assure you Obama is called a lot of things around here, however esteemed is not one of them.
My name says it all. Obama may be a hot shot with Oprah, the Pritzkers, the Ayers, the Axelrods, Revs. Wright and Pfleger, but to most of us regular guys, he is that young guy with the funny name.
He ain’t done nothin’ for us.
Feel free to share.
LMAO Esteemed? Well, to really be a senator, he should show up occasionally. Maybe he could’ve held a few meetings of his Afghanistan subcommittee, but of course, that’s not important enough to ‘The One’. What’s important to Obamalamadingdong is what Meeshell tells him is important, I guess.
Gawd, you Bot people make me laugh!
People certainly underestimated what a ruthless and criminal organization was running the campaign, all right. If the right candidate was blindsided, it was because she expected reciprocal loyalty from her party. That speaks to her good character.
No, when they said Hillary underestimated Obama, she was told to stay on her own losing strategy and go soft on him, because the nomination was hers. She was told no way would he become the nominee with all the dirt on him.
McCain has obviously not underestimated the Obama campaign, and he has no reason to take it easy on Little Lord Fauntleroy.
We can make fun of Obama, and it is not underestimating him but employing a winning strategy. McCain’s ads worked and ave him a boost in the polls. And after the convention, the real fun begins.
Maybe Hillary just wasn’t willing to be down and dirty with the Chicago machine like he was. And cheat at the caucuses. And disrespect voters like us.
Maybe we like the idea of reformers like McCain and Palin because we so much s**t that needs to be cleaned up on the “D” side.
Obummer lost the election the day he chose Biden over Hillary.
That is how it will read in the poli sci textbooks a decade form now.
He opened the door to Palin and MAC PALIN will sweep ‘Middle Earth’ ie we moderates in America, where most of us live, a-hem, and in a few years, a factually based analysis will reflect Obummer opened the door for MAC to chose Palin when he passed over Hillary.
Period.
Hubris.
May 31, 2008 will go down as a defining moment in Democratic Party history. The day the Party died. For me, a longtime dem, that day exposed that the dems are not the party of diversity and democratic priciples. They are the party of voter fraud, intimidation, bribery of super delegates and backroom deals. The landscape has changed significantly.
May 31 - the day the party died. That about sums it up for me too.
It was like 2000 all over again only it was my own party turning on me. Damn that was painful.
after the RBC meeting MAC spoke to many of us on the conference call and promised to appoint many women to high positions. He is ALREADY living up to the promises he made us.
That is why we elect people to represent our interests and he is already doing so.
Thank you MAC.
Its amazing that the obama supporters are still insulting PUMA and Hillary supporters.
They clearly want to divide the party and lose.
This really is curious behavior but further evidence of Obama’s incredible arrogance and over-reaching pride. All you have to do is watch his expression with his nose up in the air — it telegraphs his entire personality.
Yeah - that nose in the air thing is sooooo creepy - and real - I’ve seen him do that so many times!
Reminds me of Joey on “Friends” when he was teaching an acting class - showed the students how to do it - called it “smelling the fart” - as a way to buy time when an actor forgets his lines. Anybody else remember that?
That might be part of it with barky (covering teleprompter malfunction?), but it’s mostly just snotty arrogance.
The nose in the air/chin thrust is a sign of dominance.
Obama’s chin thrust reminds me of Mussolini’s photograph.
http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t304/T304482A.jpg
That first photo is real interesting because what it shows is the dictator’s face on the facade of his propaganda headquarters. And all over the rest of the facade is the one word, “Si”
We’ve heard this a lot lately.
“Si, Se Puede.” “Yes, We Can!”
It must flip some sort of switch inside O’Bots. It sure turns them into simpletons.
THey’re far more stupid than they appear to be, aren’t they? My mother always taught me you draw more flies with honey than with vinegar.
They never were about party unity. They were all about Oblahblah. After all, he did promise them he’d win and take them to the promised land where the skies are always blue and the beer flows and the brats are on the grill 24-hours a day. And they fell for it.
When we don’t join in, they get pissy because by not joining we aren’t validating their delusions. It’s really that simple.
“What is so scary about this beautiful brilliant woman who works 10X harder than him?” That’s what’s so scary about her: she’s beautiful–he looks like a basset hound–she’s brilliant–he’s ah ah ah fried from crack cocaine–and she works 10X as hard–”Can’t I just eat my waffle?”
LARRY HITS THE NAIL ON THE HEAD! JOHN MCCAIN DOES INDEED RESPECT WOMEN! CHECK HIM OUT RESPECTING SARAH PALIN’S QUALIFICATIONS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RN5xbWtNSU
Come on the Dems have already shown that they won’t stand up for us. Which is why some of us will be crossing party lines. For me, I have a lot respect for Sarah Palin. I am one Democrat that has always been against abortion as a birth control. That is what the Democrats have made it. Its never going to be overturned, its one more wedge issue to get voters to the voting booth. I already have six children and 15 grandchildren, abortion isn’t something that matters in my family, unless its a way to make them fewer.
So now that Obama believes that a baby that survives abortion should not be saved but relegated to the trash dump. I can’t seem to remember why the hell I support this party at all. Oh! Yea! they are supposed to be the party of the working class. Hmm!!
hows that working out? Not so good since most of us are not enthused with the One.
Country before party!!
You nailed it and as women we have known that all along…
Thank you Bud White, great post.
Darn right I’m voting out of revenge. Unless some Obamabots would like to volunteer to line up so I can smack the snot out of them, my vote is all I have to register my disaproval.
First in line should be the so called “progressive” woman, (fricken woman!), who sent me the photoshopped pornography of Palin reducing her to a position less threatening to Obama supporters. Next, the Great Orange Cheetoh that is desperately trying to label Sarah Palin’s daughter “a slut” and attmepting to smear the entire family by claiming the daughter really gave birth to the baby. And third in line should be good old slimy Americablog that is currently attempting to count the days of Palin’s pregnancies in an attempt to claim her first child was conceived out of wedlock.
Hell hath no fury…
But believe it or not, when the red spots clear from my eyes and my blood pressure drops back down, I really do research the issues and invest a great deal of time into making a decision. Sarah Palin is not just another pretty face, she’s a woman with some depth, tenacity, and a resume to prove it.
And third in line should be good old slimy Americablog that is currently attempting to count the days of Palin’s pregnancies in an attempt to claim her first child was conceived out of wedlock.
What’s so hilarious is that that blog owner John is gay, so if anything he should be thanking Palin, as at least Palin supports gays rights in regards to benefits. I remember John back in 2007 going crazy on Obambi for avoiding gay rights supporters in photos with Obambi, lol. John has since drunk the kool-aid and has been in the bag for Obambi 110% while at the same time slamming Hillary at every turn he could.
That prick banned me from his blog for supporting Hillary, but that’s fine as from that day on he was forced to change his blog format/server side, as somebody, lol, brought his blog down on a daily basis. Payback is a bitch John and his eyeball numbers are WAY DOWN, karma baby, lol.
We know John has sex outside of marriage, now don’t we?
I wonder if Obama is regretting the choice of VP made by his wife?
McCain/Palin
PUMA
Strong leader surround themselves with people smarter than themselves because they can stand it. Weak leaders surround themselves with weak peolpe because they need to feel superior to someone.
Great post Bud.
last night I received an email telling me that Palin had just finished a youtube ad responding to MSNBC’s banner they were showing on Friday. The banner said, ‘How many houses does Palin add to McCains?’ Palin answered with, ‘just one, the White House’.
Woohoo, you better duck MSNbc IF YOU THINK YOU’RE GOING TO START YOUR CRAP WITH HER.
I LOVE IT. MCCAIN/PALIN in November.
I’ll never forget what Clinton said, in the Primary about Mccain.. She said,,Mccain would be ready on day one,and she herself would be ready on day One…And Obama wrote a Speech in 2002…lol
Now thats Class,and Honesty….That’s probable why Mccain used it………
Should have been Clinton..
Mccain/Palin>>>Clinton 2012
Bud White, my husband and I, boomer Dems who have never voted for a Republican, are voting McCain/Palin mostly to send a message to the DNC that we’re not buying their form of sleazy politics. Chicago thuggery makes them just like the Republicans I always hated. I must have been blind before not to see it.
And as I stated on another thread: when my friends want to scare me about Roe v Wade I will remind all of them that they said the court didn’t matter when they cast their vote for Nader instead of Gore in 2000.
My husband and I are dong the same - boomers and Dems all these years.
We’re not voting for thugs.
It seems for some on the left a strong woman who stands up for what she believes in only deserves praise… if she is on the left. I do not consider myself pro-life but I find Palin’s strong stand refreshing. No candidate is ever perfect but she is pretty damn impressive. McCain has does rather well and got this McCain sceptic on board.
Obama blew his chance to display true leadership, true dem values and his own comfort with his manhood by choosing Hillary as his VP. A smart leader and a good democrat would have viewed choosing Hillary as a no brainer and it would have made this election a slam dunk (although Hillary - Obama would have been even better). John McCain has shown with his pick that he is not afraid of strong women, that he makes smart decisions for the good of his party and that Obama had a chance to look brilliant and blew it. What a waste of taxpayers and donors money all those fireworks were after Obama’s speech. Obama is only for Obama. Obama could care less about the United States of America. At least with McCain/Palin there is a sense that these two people will fight against everything Obama/Biden and the OLD BOYS CLUB OF WASHINGTON stand for. No more Harvard Boys Club democratic nominees!!!!
This is a wonderful and insightful article. Thank you. It does make me cry………and I am a successful business woman as well as mother. I dont tear up all that easy. This horrific blunder on the part of the DNC and especially O has made it very likely that the GOP will controll the White House and Hillary will have to run agianst Palin, AFTER she has really proven herself as a qualified executive at the national level. And I will vote McCain-Palin and sent my first check yesterday.
Weak men fear powerful and strong women! How apt and true. My husband knows who he is and is comfortable with himself. He is strong….what did he need from Strength….when we met he was tired of weak women he wanted someone who could meet him halfway…..he says one of the best things about me is my strength!
I read the people article on McCain and Palin. The interviewer asked Cindy if she remembered the last time John changed a diaper….she said no….John said I remember the last time I changed a diaper, there are just some things you never forget! (paraphrased)….now that is a man much like the one I am married too. With McCain/Palin we get authenticity!
That is something lacking from Obama/Biden! and yes they are classless women bashing men!
McCain/Palin ‘08
Comment by sfhillary | 2008-08-31 12:32:47
First of all, if Obama’s selection of Biden instead of Clinton was a “titanic blunder” that “alienated women,” why has he moved into a clear lead in the polls since his convention?
… because Hillary and Bill Clinton gave EXCELLENT speeches! With that said, the bump is MINOR compared to previous Dem conventions.
Second, calling this election “about women” because McCain selected a pro-life, creationist, anti-stem-cell evangelical whacko is simply deranged.
I see a “whacko” who has done more in her short time in office than what Obambi has done. You can’t refute those FACTS. By the way, she did it without the kind of friends Obambi has, such as the terrorist Ayers or the CROOK Rezko, or even the speech writers that do Obambi’s speeches for him, lol.
Third of all, saying McCain “respects women,” given his personal history, is also simply deranged. No need to go into his history of hideous treatment of the women in his life, or the ugly jokes he likes to tell about Chelsea Clinton, or gorilla rape, or whatever.
Actions prove louder than words, after all they are just words, lol. McCain has put his political career on the line by picking a woman VP. What has Obambi done that is in the least bit risky , oh yeah he has voted PRESENT a zillion times, lol. Obambi is all about “ME”, at least McCain is about convictions of principal and the willingness to include a woman on his ticket, something that Obambi was terrified of, nuff said, lol.
But hey, you’re a PUMA, so of course your opinions are deranged. That’s what makes you a PUMA.
So women that don’t buckle under to Obambi are “deranged”, that’s hilarious because it shows even more how terrified the Obambibots are, truly pathetic.
The only deranged ones are the those that came out of the Obot machine to push this fraud on us, and are still making themselves more and more crazy and offensive to do it.
Open up the loony bins!
They’ll never understand why we didn’t have an epiphany and become a glassy-eyed follower.
They call us deranged!
Remember that scene from Caddy Shack where they are betting on Spaulding Smails picking his nose?
Do you think there was something similar going on over at MCCain campaign headquarters as they were watching the Democrat Party primary race unfold. Only the bets were on Obama, Pelosi, and Dean snubbing Hillary by denying her a spot on the ticket and or denying her a part at the convention. The bets being on when not if.
It makes you wonder, who else was John McCain for the VP slot and what scenarios would factor into that selection. I think if the Democrat Party would have selected Hillary, McCain would have gone with someone else. I also think that they were 98% sure Obama’s ego would get in the way and were hoping they could go with Sarah Palin. But then I might be full of beans.
Yup agreed..you are full of it.
McC ain had too many other reasons to pick Palin. He would have picked her even if the VP spot had gone to HRC. Palin is widely popular within the Republican party—McCain needed help with that and Palin is more popular than Romney or even Pawlenty.
Want to know how Obama treats women - look at Alice and Hillary he does not like a challenge and it is worse when it is a woman. It tells you some thing . He is not the man in the house. When men cannot rule the house , he tried to show his authority outside They behave the way he does.
Go Sarah! When Johnny Mac strokes out you’ll have your chance to put three (!) Justices on the Supreme Court who favor, like you, no abortion even in cases of rape or incest! That’ll show those patriarchal Obamaniacs! Teaching intelligent design in the schools is probably a non-starter, though, so it’s not a total victory for feminism….
Strokes out?! How compassionate of you. You do know that if Karma is real, your mother will “stroke out” and you’ll spend your 40s changing her Depends. Wait, nah, she’s old and a woman, you’ll let her die in the gutter.
yawn. if that is a new talking point, you’d better get new ones. REad up on Sara Palin.
but dude–she’s only the VP candidate. your guy obama is supposed to take on mccain.
but you know your messiah’s ego is hurt. McCain made a good choice, the side benefit is that it totally mocks your idiot obama and shows him for what he is.
game over, obama.
The only reason why the Obama folks are saying that McCain’s choice of Palin is because she is a woman, are saying so because way too many of the Obama voters are voting for Obama simply because he is African American with some oral skills. He’s black, he’s a milestone, he’s an historic figurehead representing something that an African American has never acchieved so let’s vote for him simply because of this.
I’d vote for a chimp before a voted for someone because of their gender or race. Where is the first Chinese candidate? Where is the first Japanese? Where is the first Hispanic? The first gay/lesbian? You are either a person of character — honest with voters, blind to sex or race, and have actually acchieved positive change in this nation — or you are a lost vote be you white, black, male or female. It is not complicated at all.
Take Gov. Easley from NC. He’s a strong man who loved Hillary because of her strength. McCain is a strong leader and not threatened by strong women. Gov. Palin is a perfect fit for Mccain. Mccain and Palin have character and that’s what we are voting on. This conservative Dem is tired of the beating by the radical left. Tired of being told I mean nothing to the party and to just shut up.There has been more Independent registrations this year than ever. You can see why. McCain and Palin bring much to the table to VOTE FOR. They WILL execute new energy laws, clean up spending and stop the government take over by big biz (which is backing Obama).
We have a wealth of talent in this Mccain/ Palin ticket and they WILL clean up our broken country. My vote is for them and not a protest. My party betrayed me and made me feel sick, small and unimportant. My party said they didn’t need me or my candidate. That they didn’t care about my issues. It’s no small wonder why we have radical leftists who attack like rabid dogs, the people and issues they have no idea about what-so-ever. To slam a competent person just because they are female is sinful and weak. The world desperately needs the soul and input of women. We have had a world run by men and it’s failed miserably. This tells me we need balance in all areas of life. We have had the Yin with no yang. It’s time to bring some flavor for our fare. I’m sleeping great these days knowing the Mccain Camp respects me and will see me as a true patriotic American. We have a man (Mccain) who is a moderate Republican and who has a wealth of knowledge and the wisdom to lead. I don’t feel he is pandering at all. I feel he knows what we, the American people, want and he will deliver. He has promised to bring more women into government and he has delivered so far. He is not a liar. He is an honest man. He’s not waffling or tricking the people like OBAMA is. Go buy his book-Character is Destiny. This is a man of character. The person most like BUSH is OBAMA and NOT Mccain.
It’s time to ignore the bots and go door knocking. There is nothing to worry about with a Mccain presidency but everything to worry about with an Obama presidency.
Pelosi refused to allow a floor vote for energy policy, left the Republicans on the floor when she shut out the lights and locked the door, then went on vacation for 5 weeks. This has got to stop. We need to clean up Congress.
Oh and Mccain voted for Ginsberg and will put people on the supreme court that represent the people. He’s not into doing things his own egotistical way, but for the good of all. Mccain is a fair man. As for the so-called “Mccain’s women remarks” Most of that is taken out of context and misconstrued. I saw the video’s with these statements and the guilty people are women themselves who made these intital statements against Hillary and other women. Mysogyny is upheld by many women and many radical left women are the women haters. McCain would not make these gaffes. In fact it shocks him and he doesn’t know what to say.
C-Span will air the RNC all week and it’ll be exciting. Tune in.
It’s an easy decision for this conservative Democrat. Vote for a guy who lies everytime he opens his mouth, votes against the constitution, has terrorist associations and respects no-one, while talking down to every voting group in America and always quoting Reagan and other Republicans (Obama) OR vote for man who has experience, ethics, follow through, integrity, a patriot who quotes Mother Teresa, and who respects all Americans. It’s a no brainer.
Repub for a day and all the way down the ticket for me! I want America cleaned up and I don’t want to be lied to anymore. I hate shuckin and jivin” Obama. I’m tired of the Obama lies. I’m tired of the Chicago politics and lack of patriotism. I’m tired of the threat to our constitution that Obama poses.
Mccain can count my vote. My own party didn’t.
Thank You Hillary for hanging in there so we could have time find out about this Obama facist crookery. It’s time to get rid of the crooks regardless of party.
very well said, thank you.
You brought up a good point about HRC hanging in there…even tho she knew they would try to humilate her in Denver, she still made her speech and set the bar for barry, showing everyone how far he is from democratic principles and forcing him to speak about these issues or fail…
McCain says this is a time to put aside party politics and act as Americans and open our hearts with open arms to the challenge of our country.
AND his website has a link to give to the Red Cross on behalf of our fellow citizens 2 million of them that have been displaced by this storm.
What a class act–Country First.
And thank-you to Hillary because NObama is a real stinker.
Always great points and clarity in your writing Bud.
And you are so right from the Hillary voter angle, but there is so much more than that. Palin was an all around win-win in so many ways. The lunch bucket union workers, the middle class, the momocrats, the outdoors adventurers - she is just a kick ass persona with wide appeal. She’s going to get the far right excited and the some of us, like me, on the far left, too. A crime fighter to boot and balanced budgets with surplus.
There’s something you can’t learn no matter how many years you are in office and that is personality. Her’s comes across as genuine and friendly but even more than that she is a nurturer with deep faith and convictions.
Nothing phony about her. She’s knocking the socks off of audiences and is a role model for young people.
Coupled with a stable centrist like McCain, unbeatable.
And the best part is she is about as far from the whole obamadrama sleazy association darkness as can be.
She’s a light in this dark year. Hillary carried it all the way to the finish line for her, she just has to take it the last few steps. She admits that too - how refreshing! She gave Hillary credit and it was honest and real and not the least bit pandering.
Mac chose her for lots of reasons, don’t think the PUMAs were the main reason, but we were certainly considered.
And this PUMA is very pleased.
Let’s start giving the McCain campaign some honest coup for their selection of Palin. Contrary to the Obama obsessives, this choice was not about Obama, Hillary or PUMAs. McCain needed to solidify his creds with his conservative base going into the convention and choose someone that would electrify and energize that conservative base for him. Palin absolutely has done that. (By the way, they care nothing about her “international experience”.) He needed to reclaim his reputation as a maverick, particularly his maverick reputation in challenging his own party and destroy the Obama campaign message that he is Bush III—Palin helps him do that because she has real credibility for reform and reform of her own party and is seen as a maverick. For the same reasons and in the same vein, McCain needed to change the dialogue to become the candidate of real political change in Washington, Palin really helps with that and directly plays into Obama’s own rhetoric—change does not come from Washington, change comes to Washington, Palin has been about as far away from Washington as you can get and still be in the USA. McCain needed to support his push to capture the midwest—with blue collars, blue dog dems–Palin as a hunter, fisherman, union member, hockey mom, PTO president, small town mayor, good looking woman is going to fill that bill just fine. She obviously supports the change message just by being a woman herself. If McCain picks up that 9% former Hillary undecideds, sounds like a good deal to me—but I do not think McCain chose Palin simply to pander to the Pumas—Palin is a far more complex choice than that. Also very few, if any, Presidential hopefuls have selected a VP for their foreign policy/international experience. About the only ones I can think of are Bush II and Obama.
Wait, nah, she’s old and a woman, you’ll let her die in the gutter.
Yes, exactly. Because I support a woman’s right to choose, because I support the ERA, because I agree with Hillary Clinton on about 90% of the issues, but disagree with long-time feminist hero Sarah Palin on the issues, I’m anti-woman. You’re a regular Sherlock Holmes. A less perspicacious detective would think that I’m simply a Democrat who’s not anti-African-American, but you are too clever for that!
well we are clever enough to see your Barking up the wrong tree….but it don’t matter remember the dems don’t need us bible thumping, gun toting blue collar workers…. the women who will come out in droves to make sure the ONE does not get into power. Stay up that tree see if we care it’s going to snap Nov 5th and down to earth with a bang for you …
I do not support last term abortion. Roe v Wade was never meant for that unless the woman’s life was in danger. Obama supports aborting downs syndrome babies who are born alive and left to die.
I am not a single issue voter. Abortion is a mute point when the educational system is tied up in red tape and the economy is on the brink of bankruptcy. When you go broke maybe you can eat the baby huh?
Look, abortion was to help women get ahead and not be barefoot and pregnant for their entire lives. Women can now raise families and work. We have come along way.
It seems like the Obots (OBama website) have started a new line of blame-shifting.
Taking up the neocon mantra early on in the primaries by blaming everything including the Iraq war, sunspot activity, solar flares, global warming, etc., on the Clintons, they have now switched gears to lay the blame on McCain. I think I’ve seen this picture before and it was a dog the first time around.
Obama supports aborting downs syndrome babies who are born alive and left to die.
You are a genius.
Revenge voting?
With BO in the White House, Pelosi in the House, and Reid in the Senate, I won’t be solely a revenge voter.
Frankly that scenario scares the “hail” out of me!
I don’t think those three could get in out of the rain on their own!!!!
As to respect for women, even old “W” has relied on a full complement of staffers.
I think BO’s problem with women stems from the one he’s married to!!!!
That smallness in Obama’s nature, that makes you hate him, that kept his considering the best VP for the job, will cost him the election. Period.
The same for any candidate - check out Sarah Palin’s stance on the issues first.
That’s not true. Maybe neither respect women, but McCain certainly does no. He voted against federal funds for rape kits as early as last year. He opposes the paycheck fairness act. He’s anti-choice.