Palin doesn’t wear religion on her sleeve.

Palin isn’t infallible. But she has a record of integrity that is admirable. I wish people bashing her intelligence would simply study her record. Reading her book would be a good start.

Can we add a few?

If George W. Bush had thrown a pitch out at the All-Star game that landed 10 feet from home plate, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had quashed a Congressional investigation into an apparent terrorist act against our troops on our own soil, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had attempted to raise taxes in a recession, would you have approved?

Obama cannot do this, and as a Democrat he sadly will cost the Party bigtime, but the Democratic leadership had a choice and chose Obama for which they will pay bigtime.

Sad.

There is no passion,sense of urgency,or clear idea as to the kind of President he wants to be. I don’t feel the aspirations, and don’t hear policy details. Nuthin’. Lots of White House leaks do not a President make.

This is a trainwreck.

Words have meaning. I was very irritated during the last campaign when Obamunists frequently claimed “McCain said he didn’t know anything about the economy.” Not only was it a misquote, it was taken grossly out of context. While answering questions in the presence of Phil Graham, a long time Senator and ECONOMICS PROFESSOR, McCain deferred an economic question to his economic adviser by saying, “I’m not the expert here, I’ll let Senator Graham answer that”. 16 years from now, if somebody claims that McCain admitted ignorance of the economy, they’ll get the same stubborn refutation from me that you’re getting now. Accuracy matters, if only to prevent things from wildly evolving into urban myths, like Clinton was mostly responsible for a balanced budget.

…or could, balance the budget…

I believe you’ll find that saying he’s already done so 11 times is saying he could do it.

I’m not sure why you are so adamantly opposed to entertaining a suggestion of accomplishment by Bill Clinton, but I suspect you despise the man and perhaps even the President. If that’s the case, then no matter how much we parry semantics, (because it truly does come down to interpretation – as you also did in your quote from Time magazine), you will not be persuaded to think differently of him. In that case, perhaps the wisest course is, as you mentioned above, to go with the flow.

So if it assuages your sense of righteousness, then I bow to your greater intensity in this matter.

He may have been implying that he would be better than Bush with the budget, but he never made the clear, declarative, campaign promise, “I promise to balance the budget!” He would never have so foolishly committed himself. It would be almost like A-Rod bragging that he’ll hit 4 home runs in the first game of the World Series. It’s possible, two other players have hit 4 homers in one game, but as arrogant as A-Rod is, he would never be so brash as to publicly boast about doing it.

I do NOT concede the point, you haven’t, nor will you ever be able to, find Clinton PROMISING TO BALANCE THE BUDGET DURING EITHER CAMPAIGN! ! !

Of course, if you provide a credible quote from BEFORE 1994 from Clinton claiming he promised to, or could, balance the budget, I’ll concede the point

Remember this one?

“He’s never balanced a government budget, but I have 11 times.”

Now will you concede the point as you promised?

The only sector where there’s job growth is in the realm of repossessions, and foreclosures.

Maybe FF considers every discrete job that we do as a separate job. “I had a dozen jobs today, from taking out the garbage to vacuuming the cats (my favorite)” Multiply that by 365 and Obama may have saved me 4,380 jobs in a year! Multiply THAT by the amount of people in the US and Obama may have saved our country 1,314,000,000,000 jobs! See. WHAT A GOD!

I won’t even consider the “other” type of job, the one that rhymes with snowjob.

Around 300 million people live in the US – which includes children and retired people (who, to be clear, don’t have jobs).

So I guess he saved ALL of our jobs, plus a bunch in other countries. What a guy!

It would have been HUGE HEADLINE news at the time if ANY candidate were foolish enough to make such a hugely bold and definitive promise, which is why I know he never did. It would have been potential political suicide to make such an unpredictable promise. Remember Bush’s disastrous “Read my lips”? Clinton is far too politically savvy to make such a promise, and he doesn’t do so in any of your citations.

And your last two sentences are a non sequitur. They provide no logical linkage to a proof that Clinton promised to balance the budget. What could be more straightforward than that?