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Obama And Governor Sarah Palin’s Alaskan Natural Gas Pipeline!!!

By NancyA on September 3, 2008 at 11:54 AM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Obama

pipeline.jpgAfter the talking heads have been running their mouths for the last few days about Governor Sarah Palin’s inexperience, it turns out Obama added Governor Palin’s Alaskan Natural Gas pipeline to his own energy “policy”. The pipeline requires the Alaskan governor to work with the Canadian government to ensure the completion of the project. Obama is touting a part of Palin’s energy plan and admired the energy policy so much he decided to add the pipeline to his energy plan. It is important in that it shows that Obama acknowledges that Palin’s administration has taken a step toward improving the environment and creating jobs.

So tell me why are all the talking heads incuding Obama’s campaign running their mouths saying Governor Sarah Palin is too inexperienced at anything? Here are some of those articles about Palin’s inexperience.

The National Journal Online had this to say,

“Extremely weak and inexperienced,” said one man. “Not a presidential possibility,” said another. “Limited background,” “a very surprising choice,” “big mistake,” “danger,” and “totally unknown” all seemed to sum up Palin’s initial challenges in adding heft to the GOP’s ticket. One participant laughed and said she struggled with finding a way to react to Palin: “I’m at a loss for words,” she said. “All I can think of is polar bears.”

And then there is this from the Associated Press,

She is younger and less experienced than the first-term Illinois senator, and brings an ethical shadow to the ticket. A governor for just 20 months, she was two-term mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, a town of 6,500 where the biggest issue is controlling growth and the biggest civic worry is whether there will be enough snow for the Iditarod dog-mushing race.

And of course the Obama campaign is smearing Palin left and right. Obama’s campaign has this to say,

From Obama spokesman Bill Burton:
“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. Governor Palin shares John McCain’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush’s failed economic policies — that’s not the change we need, it’s just more of the same,” said Bill Burton, Obama Campaign Spokesman.

Governor Palin must be doing something right because Obama is using the natural gas pipeline in his “own” energy plan. Me thinks he has stuck his foot in his mouth! I guess Obama is developing hoof and mouth disease like Biden has….Could it be contagious? Yes, the Obama/Biden ticket steps in doodoo again.

Remember this, people in glasshouses should not throw stones!

  • http://NoteToSelfDontDie.com/members/ gerard “Barracuda” Nedich

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCY5sUsEM7E

    yes, and Obama couldn’t even get a garden built in the big city of Chicago…

    you would think with all that free tax payer’s money and his great leadership skills it would have gotten done…

    oh well…

    i think he blamed the racists in Chicago for his failure…

    anyone see a pattern here?

    a. hillary
    b. mccain

    america first!

    • http://www.youtube.com/user/PaulFVillarreal Paul F. Villarreal

      BRAND NEW, HOT OFF THE PRESSES, McCain ad defending Palin and crushing Obama:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhO-9WGbbl8

      Please pass along and favorite. Spread it far and wide — Palin’s resume kicks Obama’s in the butt.

      • ^NQ McPopcorn, McChocolate & McIce Cream Concession

        Excellent ad! Since that coward Ohitler of Borg wishes to run against Palin and not directly against McCain the ad is very appropriate. Barky is a gasbag and total phony.

        McCain/Palin ‘08
        Hillary ‘12
        McPUMA member # 11 of 12
        Alleged right wing troll and faux Democrat

      • PewL

        Why are the ratings disabled? Is this another scrubbed video by Obama??

        It won’t go too far if the ratings are scrubbed.

        I;ll Pass it on though

        Excellent Video,and so true

        • http://www.youtube.com/user/PaulFVillarreal Paul F. Villarreal

          I disable the ratings to frustrate the O-bots, PewL.

          They love to ‘game’ polls and ratings, and I won’t let ‘em.

          ;)

    • Hope Floats

      Well, well, well… No wonder “Sarah Palin Supports ‘Barack Obama’s Energy Policy!’” It’s hers. I wonder which of the plagiarists on the Democratic ticket got the idea to begin with.

  • schmog

    Hello Michelle!

    Sen. Grassley Seeks Records from Michelle Obama’s Employer

    In his letter, Grassley asked the center how it selected and set the salaries for two senior management positions: executive vice president and the vice president of community and external relations. The current executive vice president is Eric Whitaker, a close friend of Obama’s. The current vice president of community and external relations is Obama’s wife, Michelle. She has been on leave from her job, where she earned up to $317,000, since January.

    • schmog

      The letter also asked the center for details on its payments to PR firms and documentation on how they were selected. In 2006, the center retained ASK Public Strategies to help build support for the Urban Health Initiative. ASK is co-owned by Obama’s chief campaign strategist, David Axelrod.

      Without naming a specific company, Grassley also asked for documentation showing how the center selected a contractor to upgrade its internal computer network. A center annual report shows computer contracts went to Blackwell Consulting, a company run by Obama contributor Robert Blackwell Sr.

      Hey Obama and friends, you want to talk ethics? Let’s talk about it!!!

      • http://NoteToSelfDontDie.com/members/ gerard “Barracuda” Nedich

        as John Kass (the anti-corruption journo in chicago) always says…

        there are no coincidences in chicago politics…

        a. hillary
        b. mccain

        america first!

    • schmog
      • Kim

        Thanks for the link schmog.

  • http://home.comcast.net/~vincep312 Vince P

    This is interesting..

    http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDI3ZjE0OWNkMTk1Njg1YThhODdiNDE3NGMxODhiMzk=&w=MQ==

    In 1999, Hillary Clinton — feminist champion whose claim to fame was riding her more politically gifted husband’s coattails — was scheming a run for the legendary Pat Moynihan’s U.S. senate seat. Rudy Giuliani, New York City’s fabulously successful but then-reeling Republican mayor, loomed as a potential opponent. Rudy would eventually drop out, but the Clintons couldn’t resist: Despite a terrorist onslaught that had just claimed over 200 innocent lives in Kenya and Tanzania, the Clintons decided Hillary’s prospects could be advanced if Bill pardoned terrorists.

    To appease Democrat activists, who somehow seem always to have a soft spot for assassins, Clinton pardoned 16 members of the FALN terror organization who’d set off scores of bombs in the United States. How better to lock up the Puerto Rican vote …. in an election Hillary could have won with no Puerto Rican votes?

    That, though, was little-league stuff. On the last day of his presidency — that is, on his way out the door, with no debts to pay and no groundwork to lay — Bill Clinton decided it was time to use his raw, unreviewable power to make his bones with the Communist radicals he’d always admired but lacked the courage to join.

    The embassy bombings were almost a distant memory. Not three months had passed since terrorists bombed the U.S.S. Cole, murdering 17 American sailors and nearly sinking a U.S. destroyer. No matter. Clinton’s last official acts in office included the pardons of Susan Rosenberg, a Weatherman terrorist serving a richly deserved 58-year sentence, and Linda Sue Evans, a Weatherman terrorist serving a richly deserved 40-year sentence.

    Barack Obama has an inexplicable relationship with Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers — and Ayers’s wife, the equally disgusting Weatherman terrorist Bernadine Dohrn. It’s a disqualifying relationship. All that needed to happen was for Obama’s opponent to point it out.

    Hillary Clinton couldn’t point it out.

    You don’t need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

    • jwrjr

      The National Review appears to be factually challenged.

      • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

        You know maybe they do have it right…read and think.

  • wodiej

    I started laughing as soon as I read this….cripes…what a despicable piece of shit….stole Hillary’s plans now stealing Palins.

    • Hope Floats

      I hope something comes of Jeremiah’s revelation that the baby smears were traced to David Plouffe. Obama is a real POS, worse than Bush and Nixon put together.

  • LindaA1

    You know, I’m a passionate Hillary supporter who will vote for McCain and Palin. I’m in opposition to just about every issue Palin stands for…

    BUT – Palin is the real deal. She’s authentic. She puts fairness and country ahead of politics. She gets things done no matter who tries to stand in her way.

    The Democratic thugs (of my party) are dispicable in their media-aided attacks on Palin. I feel a backlash in the making. Yea!

    I’m tickled pink to see Palin on the Republican ticket and will gladly vote for her as a strategy to defeat Obama. Then I’ll work my buns off to keep her from implementing any of her extreme right social policies. But I’ll listen objectively to any of her ideas on energy, corruption, fiscal responsibility, etc. I’m also curious to hear her position on immigration – hoping she is rabidly against amnesty of any form.

  • Lin

    Obama…the gift that keeps on giving…to the Republicans.

  • sproutingly

    Gov. Palin has the energy reserves. The oil and the gas. She’s really at ground zero and they all–Democrats as well as Republicans–know it.

    • http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/pledge-to-vote-against-obama-in-the-general-election Mary Cusack

      I would not be surprised if Alaska breaks Away from the rest of us if The Country does dirty to Palin. She may bypass VP and be head of her own country.

      • sproutingly

        I really don’t think so.

        • Hope Floats

          Her husband is half-Inuit and not a Republican. It would be nice to see a profile on the First Dude and his political views, his career and hobbies, his views on parenting. It could help with a lot of the pressure Sarah Palin is facing now – like if she is a right wing nutjob who forced her teen to keep her baby as the Obama camp suggests. From all evidence, Todd Palin has liberal opinions that are refreshingly different from his wife’s.

  • bert

    This is rich. Obama is such an idiot. Great research nancyA.

  • elsie

    Obama is known to steal other people’s ideas and claim it to be his own.

    This is just another one of those he is stealing right under our noses..

    NO NO NO to Obama

    • Perry Logan

      NO NO NO, I will tell it to his NOSE.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu4IFSGIUFU

    • Firefly

      He got that from Axelrove and John Kerry – Kerry stole absolutely everything from Wes Clark and his other Dem opponents in 2003/2004.

    • Boxer Mum 06

      I guess he picked the right VP then!

      Occupation: Politician, US Senator (Delaware)

      Allegations: Repeated instances of plagiarism since the “stressless scholarship” of his college days

      Results: Circulation of “attack video” by Dukakis campaign torpedoed his presidential aspirations in 1987

      Known for: Glib oratorical skills and speechmaking

      Overview: Joe Biden’s history of plagiarism and “stressless scholarship” gave plenty of ammo to his enemies, one of them choosing to circulate a so-called “attack video” to demonstrate Biden’s outright plagiarism of a British politician’s speech. But this appropriation from Neal Kinnock was not the first occurrence of unacknowledged lifting by the senator from Delaware.

      In 1965 Biden plagiarized while writing a paper as a student at the Syracuse University Law School in a legal methods course which he failed because of that copied paper. Such “stressless scholarship” as it is euphemistically called has become all too common in the modern Internet era with countless cheatsites and “research services” offering to sell students papers on topics from A to Z.

      Biden’s case demonstrates that student plagiarism is nothing new. Only the methods of cheating have changed. Today, cheating has gone digital with the proliferation of Internet based paper filing and distributions systems, but the principles—or lack thereof—are the same. And as the Biden case illustrates, getting caught for such academic dishonesty may have serious ramifications for one’s political career. Joe Biden’s failed bid for the Democratic ticket is a case in point.

      “Stressless scholarship” may seem like a pretty good idea at the time that many students make that decision to ‘crib’, copy, or dowload a paper off the Internet, but in Biden’s case the plagiarism of his student days came back to haunt his bid for the democratic presidential nomination like a spectre from his past.

      In an article entitled “Biden’s Belly Flop”, Newsweek printed Joe Biden’s yearbook picture from his college days and a copy of his law school transcripts with the big “F” in his transcripts circled. Biden was given a chance to repeat his legal methods course, and above the “F” his retake grade of 80% was eventually penciled in. Being a repeat offender when it came to plagiarism made things much, much worse for Biden than they might have been otherwise in his failed bid for the Democratic presidential ticket in 1987.

      Senator Biden’s plagiarism of a speech by British Labor Party leader Neal Kinnock took place at a campaign stump at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. In closing his speech, Biden took Kinnock’s ideas and language as if they were his very own inspired thoughts, prefacing Kinnock’s ideas with the phrase “I started thinking as I was coming over here . . . “. Little did Biden suspect that video footage of this speech would be spliced together with footage of Kinnock’s speech in an “attack video” which would be distributed by members of the Dukakis campaign.

      Making the headline news in the New York Times, and the evening news on TV, the video was a stab in the back for Biden by his democratic competitor, and although he insisted that “I’m in this race to stay. I’m in this race to win,” the resulting publicity surrounding his unacknowledged use of Neal Kinnock’s speech was what eventually forced him out of the race. Name recognition was no longer a problem for Biden, but not the kind of name recognition which would assist his campaign for the democratic presidential nomination. His name was now a byword for plagiarism. His situation became a classic example of plagiarism for high school teachers and college instructors across the nation lecturing on the evils of unacknowledged source use.

      Biden initially denied any wrongdoing, claiming that this was just an inadvertent lack of acknowledgement. Yet there were other instances of rhetorical borrowing from speeches made by Robert F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey. And the fact that Biden had given other speeches using the Kinnock passages without acknowledgment suggested that the lifting was more than just an inadvertent oversight.

      As with Al Gore’s case, the perception existed in the public mind that Biden just wasn’t the real thing. He wasn’t authentic, didn’t have thoughts and ideas of his own, and was a malleable piece of clay being molded by his handlers to suit the political whims and fancies which they thought would appeal to voters. A Time magazine article by Walter Shapairo was pretty much on the money in offering the speculation that “In the end, Biden may be remembered as the candidate who truly offered the voters an echo and not a choice.”

      William Safire, former speechwriter for Richard Nixon, gloated in the New York Times over Biden’s demise, quoting a supposedly “embittered Democrat” who said, “I’m going back to Gary Hart . . . At least he didn’t steal that girl from some far-lefty in England.” And he concluded his op-ed column with a swipe at Biden’s ability to think apart from his speechwriter: “So my advice to candidates like Joe Biden is this: Do justly, love perorations and walk humbly with thy speechwriter. (I forget where I got that, but it has a nice ring to it.) ”

      With all the press he was receiving over his Neal Kinnock plagiarism courtesy of the Dukakis “attack videos”, Biden was quickly becoming the “most famous political plagiarist of our time”, as Thomas Mallon describes the unfortunate Delaware senator. It was just a matter of time before Biden would have to bow out of the democratic primary.

      Biden himself thought that all the attention to his rhetorical borrowing was “frankly ludicrous”, and the media analysts generally agreed, stating that is was “hardly a capital offense”, but as William Safire put it, “times have changed; you can’t get away with borrowing anything these days – not even an oratorical technique, much less a phrase or paragraph – unless you are willing to give the attribution.” If Gore’s loss of the presidency to George W. Bush in 2000 was more indirectly related to plagiarism, it is evident that Biden’s case is without question a direct result of his unacknowledged use of Kinnock’s speech as if it were his very own. This instance of plagiarism and the public exposure it received cut short the presidential aspirations of an otherwise gifted orator and statesman.

      http://www.famousplagiarists.com/politics.htm

      • http://NoteToSelfDontDie.com/members/ gerard “Barracuda” Nedich

        Biden is a joke…

        look how he answers a question in the presidential debates no less on his plaigerising and gaff making:

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XberX_t-WvI

        a. hillary
        b. mccain

        america first!

    • http://NoteToSelfDontDie.com/members/ gerard “Barracuda” Nedich

      more ideas Obama stole:

      http://notetoselfdontdie.com/members/node/498

      a. hillary
      b. mccain

      america first!

      • http://NoteToSelfDontDie.com/members/ gerard “Barracuda” Nedich

        Obama lies again…
        After weeks of arduous negotiations, on April 6, 2006, a bipartisan group of senators burst out of the “President’s Room,” just off the Senate chamber, with a deal on new immigration policy.

        As the half-dozen senators — including John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) — headed to announce their plan, they met Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who made a request common when Capitol Hill news conferences are in the offing: “Hey, guys, can I come along?” And when Obama went before the microphones, he was generous with his list of senators to congratulate — a list that included himself.

        “I want to cite Lindsey Graham, Sam Brownback, Mel Martinez, Ken Salazar, myself, Dick Durbin, Joe Lieberman . . . who’ve actually had to wake up early to try to hammer this stuff out,” he said.

        To Senate staff members, who had been arriving for 7 a.m. negotiating sessions for weeks, it was a galling moment. Those morning sessions had attracted just three to four senators a side, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) recalled, each deeply involved in the issue. Obama was not one of them.

    • http://NoteToSelfDontDie.com/members/ gerard “Barracuda” Nedich

      The Audacity of Stealing…

      a. hillary
      b. mccain

      america first!

  • http://elect2009.wordpress.com Cindie

    Did you guys know that BIDEN’s daughter had been arrested?
    http://elect2009.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/biden-has-his-own-private-moments/

    • http://NoteToSelfDontDie.com/members/ gerard “Barracuda” Nedich

      and circumstantial evidence proves that she is now PREGNANT and in jail!!!!

      note: when i say “circumstantial evidence” that means i just made it up…

      a. hillary
      b. mccain

      america first!

  • Deelee

    I watched Glen Beck last night airing an Obama statement (commonly known as agrandiosed lies)where he compared HIS experience to Sarah Palin’s. He smirkingly touted the number of people on his campaign (2500) to her 500 and his budget of $36,000.000 per month to her $5,000.000 per year.

    Of course the clown prince forgot that she is the Govenor of Alaska with 77,000 state employees (31:1 ratio)and a budget of $9.9 Billion (23:1 ratio). Therefore, if experience translates into numbers of bodies and dollars, who’s the rookie?

    If I worked for McCains campaign, I’d make the biggest poster I could with these stats, just to show the people of America the stupidity of this empty shell.

    To add to that, I bet she did not syphon off one dime into some phoney company set up in New Orleans like Obama has.

  • olivia1998

    :)

    I support Gov Palin

  • dems4barr

    LOL. you know you’re arguments aren’t working when you need to write a detailed explanation of them.

    • Ferd McBerfle

      That depends on how sophisticated the argument is and how smart the proponent of the argument is. Obamabots use gainsay as an argument. It is very short but quite ineffective.

  • PewL

    Bennet and Carville interviewed on CNN..Bennett said if the media wants to bring up Palins family,,than its only fair to bring up Obama’s releationship with Ayers..Since he did bomb the Police station,and Pentagon, I think this is more news worthy, than a pregnant 17 year old woman sho is planning on marrying.

    Mccain/Palin

  • Dany

    That’;s just it Obasma has taken Hillary’s policy’s and now a peice form Palin work.He has done that to many other as well in the senate.Obama has no policy’s.I wonder whay he feels he has to stael others work.

    Go to hell DNC-OBAMA-MEDIA-PRESS YOU MAKE ME SICK!You are doing the ame as you did to Hillary.we will not take it.!!!!!!!Get lost we don’t want you now DNC nasty cheating dnc

  • Tony&Val McCain,Palin 08

    Who would even think about the DNC in the way they throw the people out who voted for Hillary.They had their closed doors meeting and their closed door roll call.That was to threatrn the delegates as they as well told Hillary supporters to sit down and shut up. (Party Unity My Ass) never will I fall in line.The media and press and the nasty DNc can say what they want to they mean nothing to me.They like to destory lives and Hillary was running did they care of their dughter?No and they don’t care of Palin children they just want to use what ever they can for their selected one.Well we are not buying into you unity! Go find a hold and put yourselves into it you low life democratics.What the media is still doing is talking about Palin daughter and Palin.That is really low while Obama is enjoying what his msnbc-cnn-today shopw-the view and his press is doing.Onama is in this as much as they are.Really Obama comes what clean.Necer.He is a liar a flip floper and a user of all people.

    McCain-Plain 08

    NO Obama the two sided face.

    McCain Palin 08

  • http://Tammy@aol.com Tammy

    I support McCain GoV Palin.

    I will never fall in line to what the DNC tells us to shut up and fall in line.The Democratic trashed their own party when they did what they did to Hillary and the people who supported Hillary.

    NOOBAMA EVER!

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