McCain Beats Obama in TV Ratings [Updated x2]

I’m thinking that maybe we should stay on the offense and make them fight to get the ball back.

If we just stick to the facts and listen to what Obama is torting instead of answering the torte torte back louder with facts that Obama and his followers can’t handle.

i.e. look at the two articles regarding the high unemployment rate in Chicago and the gun shot deaths in Chicago. These are facts and Obama should be held accountable.

dream on.

I really hope it stings.

You are one of the most unrepentant liars against Obama. DKOS is not all over this story.

But you do know that. Just like you know there hasn’t been an obama smear you haven’t pushed and/or made an insanely hateful video about.

Some of the most hatefully sexist thing said about Michelle Obama were said by you.

I hope these rumors about your WonderCon Princess make you furious, and cause your blood pressure to go through the roof.

The best part Villarreal is that it has just begun.

Damn the race card. Did not see that one coming.

I am one of the Chicagoan for McCain. I was a major supporter of Hillary and knew when I made my decesion to support Hillary in my politically charged circle of friends and associates; I would be an outcast. Which I am. But what has happended in the last few weeks has surprised me. Many of the people I worked with for the last 18 months have gone over to BO. They have encouraged me to join them, but I can not. I carefully made a choice to support HRC and her platform and I find nothing that has been written srong enough to change my view.
Believe me in January, 2008 they were people on the line here, but after Iowa they went to the other side, but kept in touch. Now these people have totally drank the kool aide or should I say touched power. Now that the DNC has moved here, he is the head of the party.
The people here are totally convenience that they have secured their future. They also think that if you are not on their side, you are on the wrong side of history. Just today, Okry said she would not have Gov. Palin on her show. And, local media have appauded her decesion.
I have an opportunity to move to Texas and if McCain is not elected, I will move because I am an outsider in my own sity. I now know how Texas Democrates have felt for years.

Here’s 50 cents. Go call someone who cares.

It’s DEBBIE….under yet another name!

Frightened, you are, Debbie–and you should be!

For an old geezer like McCain to beat a slick con-man in tv ratings is big news. The other way around, not so much. BO is not so media-savvy after all, but that was obvious when he used the text message gimmick to hype up his VP pick and then bored everyone to death with the Biden announcement.

I predict that he will start looking for a way to take his ball and go home before he has to give a concession speech. Having to admit he lost would be unthinkable for him. Although the suit update, downthread, offers some other hope.

I told people in Chicago back in Octoner, 2007 that HRC could not call him “black” that would be offensive. I also told them that there would be accused of using code words, but the 527’s would call him out as Affirmativve Action canidate, which is correct. Hillary tried to tell them, but they would not listen. Anyone with his experience and who was created by an apperance by Opbo on Larry King, would be exposed. They were hoping it would not get there, but it did. I kept raising my hand saying John Thune. Thune who defeated Dashall would have been more in line for a star had BO not been Black.

Did you stick a thermometer in him? LOL

Oh yes it did.

Psychopath behavior #5 – deceitful and manipulative

With their powers of imagination in gear and beamed on themselves, psychopaths appear amazingly unfazed by the possibility—or even by the certainty—of being found out. When caught in a lie or challenged with the truth, they seldom appear perplexed or embarrassed—they simply change their stories or attempt to rework the facts so they appear to be consistent with the lie. The result is a series of contradictory statements and a thoroughly confused listener.

I love the way he stands behind her like a proud father that’s presenting the future to America, he has no problem taking back stage to her. Allowing her to shine. Just as her husband doesn’t, two strong men.

I use to think, that guy was a old fart and I still do, but I admire his brain more and more, I would not want that guy after me. BE AFARID, BE VERY AFARID OBAMA.

Yeah, and he didn’t need to spend six million plus rental of his CONTRIBUTORS’ money on a stadium and a phony set that has become an object of ridicule made by Britney’s stage manager, either!

“Temple Man” Messiah–a hubris laden scold!

LOL !!! Glad glasses are making a come back…Contact lenses are great but get pretty uncomfortable after a few hours…

Biden leaves the microphone on the podium smelling like alcohol.

If the statements below are true, we are being conned once again:

ABOUT SARAH PALIN

I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992.
Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a
first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her
father was my child’s favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a
first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more
City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the
residents of the city.

She is enormously popular; in every way she’s like the most popular girl
in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and won’t
vote for her can’t quit smiling when talking about her because she is a
“babe”.

It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. She
kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents
for seven months.

She is “pro-life”. She recently gave birth to a Down’s syndrome baby.
There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby.

She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.

She is savvy. She doesn’t take positions; she just “puts things out
there” and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.

Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a
champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin’s kind of job is highly
sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his work
schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or so in
summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their
major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything
like that of native Alaskans.

Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters.

She’s smart.

Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000
(at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about
670,000 residents.

During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running
this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been
pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had
gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had
given rise to a recall campaign.

Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a “fiscal conservative”. During her 6
years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over
33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the City
increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation
(1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a
regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she
promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they
benefited residents.

The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration
weren’t enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed
money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it
with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage
the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said
she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a
new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a
multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece of
property that the City didn’t even have clear title to, that was still
in litigation 7 yrs later–to the delight of the lawyers involved! The
sports complex itself is a nice addition to the community but a huge
money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it would be. She also
supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that could have been done in
5-7 yrs without any borrowing.

While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office
redecorated more than once.

These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city.

As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus
in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will make
us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she proposed
distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.

In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she
recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while she
proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today’s surplus,
borrow for needs.

She’s not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas
or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren’t generated by her
or her staff. Ideas weren’t evaluated on their merits, but on the basis
of who proposed them.

While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected
City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from
the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents
rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin’s attempt
at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew her
termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the Librarian
are on her enemies list to this day.

Sarah complained about the “old boy’s club” when she first ran for
Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of “old boys”. Palin
fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as
Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people,
creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally
grateful and fiercely loyal–loyal to the point of abusing their power
to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the
case of pressuring the State’s top cop (see below).

As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla’s Police Chief because he “intimidated”
her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska’s top
cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure and
she had every legal right to fire him, but it’s pretty clear that an
important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn’t
fire her sister’s ex-husband, a State Trooper. Under investigation
for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen contacts
were made between her staff and family to the person that she later
fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to
replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded
for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew her
support.

She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in
help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town
introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council
became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She
abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn’t like
the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.

Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything
publicly about her.

When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah got
the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission: one
of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid. She had no
background in oil & gas issues. Within months of scoring this great job
which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in the press about the high
salary. I was told that she hated that job: the commute, the structured
hours, the work. Sarah became aware that a member of this Commission
(who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party)
engaged in unethical behavior on the job. In a gutsy move which some
undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah solved all
her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and
garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics and as a
gutsy fighter against the “old boys’ club” when she dramatically quit,
exposing this man’s ethics violations (for which he was fined).

As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from
Senator Ted Stevens. Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel
politics and publicly humiliated him. She only opposed the “bridge to
nowhere” after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.

As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget
guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing
projects, calling them pork. Public outcry and further legislative
action restored most of these projects–which had been vetoed simply
because she was not aware of their importance–but with the unobservant
she had gained a reputation as “anti-pork”.

She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party
leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated
them. Other members of the party object to her self-description as a
fiscal conservative.

Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah.
They call her “Sarah Barracuda” because of her unbridled ambition and
predatory ruthlessness. Before she became so powerful, very ugly
stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made
point guard on the high school basketball team. When Sarah’s
mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and
experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.

As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of package
of legislation known as “AGIA” that forced the oil companies to march to
the beat of her drum.

Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge. She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked to
global warming. She campaigned “as a private citizen” against a state
initiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from
pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the
state (depending on who you listen to). She has pushed the State’s
lawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior’s decision to list polar bears
as threatened species.

McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be a
heartbeat away from being President.

There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more
knowledgeable and experienced than she.

However, there’s a lot of people who have underestimated her and are
regretting it.

CLAIM VS FACT
*”Hockey mom”: true for a few years
*”PTA mom”: true years ago when her first-born was in elementary
school, not since
*”NRA supporter”: absolutely true
*social conservative: mixed. Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a bill
that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships
(said she did this because it was unconsitutional).
*pro-creationism: mixed. Supports it, BUT did nothing as Governor to
promote it.
*”Pro-life”: mixed. Knowingly gave birth to a Down’s syndrome baby
BUT declined to call a special legislative session on some pro-life
legislation
*”Experienced”: Some high schools have more students than Wasilla has
residents. Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska.
No legislative experience other than City Council. Little hands-on
supervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city
administrator to run town of about 5,000.
*political maverick: not at all
*gutsy: absolutely!
*open & transparent: ??? Good at keeping secrets. Not good at
explaining actions.
*has a developed philosophy of public policy: no
*”a Greenie”: no. Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores
and disconnected parking lots. Is pro-drilling off-shore and in ANWR.
*fiscal conservative: not by my definition!
*pro-infrastructure: No. Promoted a sports complex and park in a city
without a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system. Built
streets to early 20th century standards.
*pro-tax relief: Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax burden on
residents
*pro-small government: No. Oversaw greatest expansion of city
government in Wasilla’s history.
*pro-labor/pro-union. No. Just because her husband works union
doesn’t make her pro-labor. I have seen nothing to support any claim
that she is pro-labor/pro-union.

WHY AM I WRITING THIS?

First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed
voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting
programs in the schools. If you google my name (Anne Kilkenny +
Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local
government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.

Secondly, I’ve always operated in the belief that “Bad things happen
when good people stay silent”. Few people know as much as I do because
few have gone to as many City Council meetings.

Third, I am just a housewife. I don’t have a job she can bump me out
of. I don’t belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I am no
fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will
cost me somehow in the future: that’s life.

Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100
or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah’s
attempt at censorship.

Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to
say anything because they were somehow vulnerable.

CAVEATS
I am not a statistician. I developed the numbers for the increase in
spending & taxation 2 years ago (when Palin was running for Governor)
from information supplied to me by the Finance Director of the City of
Wasilla, and I can’t recall exactly what I adjusted for: did I adjust
for inflation? for population increases? Right now, it is impossible
for a private person to get any info out of City Hall–they are
swamped. So I can’t verify my numbers.

You may have noticed that there are various numbers circulating for the
population of Wasilla, ranging from my “about 5,000″, up to 9,000. The
day Palin’s selection was announced a city official told me that the
current population is about 7,000. The official 2000 census count was
5,460. I have used about 5,000 because Palin was Mayor from 1996 to
2002, and the city was growing rapidly in the mid-90’s.

Anne Kilkenny
annekilkenny@hotmail.com
August 31, 2008

Thing is, Palin won’t care if he flips her off and not only that, she could whip his skinny ass.

After hearing Palin’s speech, I’m not worried about her caring too much what Bozo does. Hillary isn’t a racist and didn’t want to be labeled one. I don’t think Palin gives a rat’s pattuti what the obots call her.

I was entertaining that very thought today.

Oh yeah, one more thing KO will need to do and that’s polish the bottoms of his shoes.
That’s all we’re going to see during the interview anyway.

I wonder if they’ll do a man hug.

Does anyone remember when he interviewed Bill Clinton last year?

KO had to keep his notes over his crotch so no one could see the wet spot.

Haha. LOL

In a thong no less. scary

Right! I forgot about that! good work!

Oh God not only will we have Spitty Matthews but KO with a tingly leg.

rofl

LOL

He’s a mediocre speaker. He’s also the second worst candidate for president among those offered by the major parties.

Actually, I thought it was pretty good. He got a slow start, but he nailed it at the end with the personal story about his POW days, and then got really fired up, working the crowd into a frenzy. I’ve never seen him do that. I guess he was excited.

seattle slough and Steve M: wow, you two sound like you know what you’re talking about! You belong on MSNBC! So scoot your butts over there. Oh, and did I say don’t let the door hit you in the ass?

I dunno. I didn’t watch it. I heard he got back up on the cross.

He ascended upward toward the heavens!

Clinton in four.

That’s my focus!

McCain and Palin can placehold, and clean up GWB’s mess in the meantime, until 2012!

Good point.

If that. Remember Pennsylvania.

If the DNC think it’s helping to use Bill and Hillary like this, they’re wrong the more I think about how they’re still abusing her. The angrier I for one get!

You’re right on the money.

Obama only bribed them with money. Clinton’s got the drawing power, and she can bring in those votes. And those pols will OWE her.

Particularly with the “bread and butter” local yokel, working class voters in those tough tossup races, where she is so very beloved.

Okay, I get it.

There used to be a HUGE restaurant chain back in the dark ages known as Sambo’s–it had a Denny’s-like menu.

Sambo was originally an African cartoon child; later, they “PC’d” him (not much, but a bit) into an Indian child replete with a jewelled turban.

http://www.sambosrestaurant.com/

When my brother was a small boy in the 1930s, he loved that book, Little Black Sambo, and wanted my mother to read and re-read it to him. No one had any idea that it was a racist story. It was just something about a boy chasing a tiger around a tree so fast that the tiger melted into butter or something like that???

My brother’s nickname was Sambo, because of that book. He used to cry when the tigers turned to butter, so Mama and Daddy called him Sambo until he was in grade school.
I guess I should be scarred for life because my parents made a racial slur against my brother.

I think he’ll be sentenced a week before the general election.

I really think the ad will be effective. Kilpatrick is loathed in the Tri-County area. Kilpatrick spoke last night after his plea deal, and he was as thuggish and petulant as ever.

Brutal ad.

Hussein Obama must be jailed if his BC is found forgery.

BO is just hoping he can stonewall any and everthing until he gets elected. Then he and the the other crooks in power will fix it all.

Maverick/Barracuda, it has to be.

Now I am not a sports fan but someone told me that he probably would not have to high of viewers because it was the opening game of the NFL(?). hmmm gotta wonder how many more viewers he would have had if there wasn’t any football competition on another channel. I gotta wonder how many of those football watchers are bleeding heart liberals too

Dare I say BO needs a surge of his own.

Hate to break it to you, but odds are he is going to win. You are not going to be saved by a court declaring him ineligible to run. I know how you feel because I went through it twice with Bush. You should start preparing yourself so you don’t have a nervous breakdown when it happens.

Shake, Obama, Shake. Haha.