Jay Bookman

By Midori

September 24, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this

where’s Andy with his nonsensical, unrelated, partisan post of the day?

By "The Corporal"

September 24, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

Assorted “Vents” from “The Corporal”

You know slick Willy thinks Sarah is “hot”.

Can you imagine the incredible outcry if Saturday Night Live had produced a skit insinuating that Obama was “doing” his daughters?

The so-called bigotry directed at Senator Obama pales in comparison to the pure vitriolic hatred directed at Governor Palin.

Pedophile Woody Allen says he’s voting for Obama. Well, that settles it for me.

If Palin is such a bad choice, why are the liberal loonies so afraid of her ?

The main reason liberal feminists don’t like Palin is that she is attractive. It figures.

The pundits are saying if Obama is not elected that will prove the United States is still a racist nation. What does that make Hillary for trying to keep him from getting the nomination?

By Copyleft

September 24, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this

You’re just being MEAN, Jay. It’s SEXIST to expect Sarah Palin to actually answer reporters’ questions and do interviews!

She needs to be protected from the mean ol’ media—and you’re a big bad meanie for suggesting otherwise!

Sarah Palin: The Republicans’ idea of feminism—in a pretty pink box!

By AJC/DNC Management

September 24, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this

Right here i r o diM.

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October 2nd you goofy liberals will be absolutely sick and tired of seeing Sarah Palin, horrified of her even, have patience.

By Mike

September 24, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

Wahhhh. Obama is notorious for controlling every interview and had a long stretch where the press corps complained about his lack of availability.

Of course, Bookman has never had any such complaint about Obama because Bookman is a mindless partisan who can only bleat “them bad, us good”. Lame.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 24, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

Well, how do you like this, the libs took a poll asking 28% Repugs and 72% dhimmis who they would vote for as president.

And Oblahma came out only up by 9%, bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, my goodness, can it get anymore ignorant?

By Swami Dave

September 24, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

Gee Jay, if you guys in the media would promise to give the kid-glove, political-softball, might-as-well-be-an-unpaid-arm-of-the-obama-campaign style questions to the Governor, then I’m sure she would find the time to spend with you guys.

As it is, you guys have been covering Obama for over 2 years with the only person who has asked him question #1 about Resko, Raines, Wright, Johnson, Daly, Palmer, Flanagan, et all was Bill O’Reilly.

Why should there be any expectation that the media would do their job objectively? Lacking any logical answer to that one, why should the Governor waste her time talking to them? Since their mind is already made up, their already opposed to her anyway, and the conversations would only serve as their vehicle to justify their preconceived notions and original biases, her time is better spent campaigning and talking to the American people.

-Swami Dave

By Midori

September 24, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

hahahahahahaha Andy,

you never disappoint. :)

Are you now training the Corporal to be your back up?

ROFL!!!

Looks like we don’t have to wait until Oct. 2 to be sick of her!!

snicker

By Bosch

September 24, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this

What a funny sarcastic rant. Campbell Brown is great!

By Mike

September 24, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

If Bookman is so in favor of a free exchange of ideas, why doesn’t he criticize Obama for refusing to dow informal town hall meetings instead of a highly controlled debate format. I mean after all, Obama is the guy running for President after all, something obsessive Palin bashers like Bookman seem to forget.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 24, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this

This post was pulled because it contained a sexually explicit proposition directed at i r o diM, hahahaha.

By Swami Dave

September 24, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

Need more evidence?

It was a CNN anchor voicing the complaint! Not a commentator……not a guest….an anchor!

No wonder these guys are losing viewers by the minute.

-Swami Dave

By getalife

September 24, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this

The Witch Hunter Anoints Sarah Palin

Hilarious.

By Bosch

September 24, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this

Um, wingnuts, there are wingnut media outlets out there; yet, we still don’t see Sarah on them either.

Chirp, chirp, chirp.

Nada, nothing. If she’s scared of the media, how’d ya’ think she’d do against Putin? Or Ahmadinejad?

I don’t think they’d be too interested in swapping mooseburger recipes, or discussing the correct way to gut a moose, or the benefits of abstinence only education, or that the Iraq War was God’s mission.

By Dusty

September 24, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

Well, it looks like PoFo wrote Bookman’s latest subject. PoFo is a little more humorous but Bookman IS rediculous.

Reprints of a liberal kook trying to make “playtime” because Palin is female… Chuckle chuckle giggle giggle !!!

Why don’t Bookman and Brown grab a teddy bear and head for the thumb sucking corner in the nursery? That’s a good place to sulk over McCain’s successful campaign. B & B, the broken babies of booboo lib time.

By "The Corporal"

September 24, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this

To Mike

Sir: You forget the basic difference between liberal democrats and conservative republicans. Liberals will almost never say or point out anything critical of their candidate or party no matter how severe.

Jay is the embodiment of that law.

Conservatives will generally (but to be fair not always) point out faults with their party or candidate as I have often done with Bush (tactics in the war) and even McCain (immigration).

It’s just the basic difference in honesty and integrity in who we are as political animals.

Just watch - they will rant and rave on this one but in their hearts they know it’s true.

By Wyld Byll Hyltnyr

September 24, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this

Jay, the better question than “Why can’t Sarah come out to play, Mr. McCain?” is “Why does Obama spek of the high road, but take another path with his actions.

At Camelback, one of the many faces of Obama thus spake, ” …the greatest failure of America is not to take seriously the injunction in the Gospel of Matthew that “Whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me.” Why then does the mediea spend so much time topics such as: a) can Sarah some out and play; b) Mr. Palin’s two decade old DUI; and c) being able to see Russia from certain locations in Alaska, but not ask Obama how he can say, that the greatest failure of America is not to take seriously the injunction in the Gospel of Matthew that “Whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me.” while you allow your half brother to live in a 4 x 6 carboard shanty when you could better his life for pocket change. Maybe you can answer that on behalf of the two faces of Obama, Jay.

By Lewis

September 24, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this

Conservatives can’t answer your question Jay, so instead the engage in their usual lame attacks on Obama. The reason they can’t answer your question is that they’re in mortal dread that Palin will be exposed as mere facade, sort of like the town they built in a day in “Blazing Saddles”.

By BS Aplenty

September 24, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

Jay @ the top of the blog

When Sarah Palin cries “sexism”, I might take notice.

When you cry “sexism”, it just sounds like, uh, well, crying.

By Midori

September 24, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this

Alaskans love the job their first-term governor, Sarah Palin, is doing. But when it comes to having the experience to be a good president or the ability to handle an international crisis, they give the nod to Delaware Sen. Joe Biden.

By BS Aplenty

September 24, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this

This comment has been pulled because it’s about the 10th time BS has posted it on this blog.

By MH

September 24, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

It’s simple. Palin won’t answer questions because she is not on the ball enough to stand on her own two feet. The people who think she is ready to be VP (or possibly POTUS) are either kidding themselves or they are liars! Everything she says is scripted.

Sad thing is…the same thing is true for McCain…only difference is he’s been allowed to put his foot in his mouth quite often!

By Jennifer

September 24, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

It’s almost like Palin’s being pushed around on a hand cart with a muzzle over her mouth ala Hannibal Lechter.

If I knew it would only take a week at the U.N. to get a certificate on foreign relations, I’d have done it straight out of high school.

Palin and McCain are both jokes.

By Heather

September 24, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this

The reason they don’t want Palin to speak to the press is because she’s a loser bozo who can’t talk, let alone think.

How stupid is she when she believes the sh*t she does. No wonder they want to hide her, she’s a right wing religious extremist who wants Armageddon.

By Lewis

September 24, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this

She’s a pit bull with lipstick, shoots wolves from planes and can skin a moose…but she needs, what is the word…deference?. How is she going to take on the lobbyists and Congress if she can’t even have a 5 minute press conference?

By hillbilly ragger

September 24, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, who ragged on John Edwards’ $400 haircut owes the man an apology…

By tiff

September 24, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

Corporal, We all know that BS about the democrats being afraid of Sarah Palin was put out by the McCain people to make her look tough. That’s why they try and liken her to a pit bull. I take that back, Obama is probably afraid, afraid that this woman may end up in the white house. Now that I think about it, I’m afraid too. This woman is not even allowed to speak her mind, who would be afraid of any one like her, she is told to shut up and look pretty. She has set women back 100 years. She follows McCain around like a puppet on a string. Even the press has been singing that old Marvin Gaye song lately “WHATS GOIN ON”. Besides Barack has never looked more calm, cool and collected. This lady is so lame, when she met with an official head of state yesterday, the McCain team would only let her talk about baby names. But I guess when you name your kids (Track, Piper, Trig, Bristol, Sleepy, Dopey, S**, etc.)you become an expert on baby names.

By GodHatesTrash

September 24, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

Hillbilly, they had to pay her so much because she was working with a cadaver.

By GodHatesTrash

September 24, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this

Palin - Fundamnentalist, Armageddonist, and just plain batcrap Crazy

By Taxpayer

September 24, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this

All right, Mr. Jay Bookman,

I didn’t feel like commenting over here any more, given the likes of Andy drooling all over people’s efforts at decent and intellectual exchanges (with a few other exceptions that simply are not worth the effort to type no matter how much I type), until now. And, all I can say is,

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA,

I just can’t stop,

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA,

It’s just that good. Kudos to whoever came up with this one. Now, excuse me while I continue my laughter elsewhere and have a good day.

By demwit

September 24, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this

Errrr.., didn’t Oprah just turn down a Sarah Palin interview? Surely Campbell and Jay don’t think their up to O’s level now do they??

By Mark W

September 24, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this

Fox’s “hardhitting interview” with Palin was a joke. Hannity should be doing “Entertainment Tonight”, not news. When the really conservative media outlets who “are in the tank” for McCain won’t ask the hard questions it seems unfair to castigate the rest of the media when they do ask the hard questions. For all those out there who consider themselves social conservatives, be honest, ask yourself the following question.

“What if it was Obama who had a 17 year old daughter who was pregnant by a thug; and whose running mate had no foreign policy experience?”

Do you really believe you would be kind to them ?

Please don’t be hypocritical.

How about McCain’s responsbility for 132 deaths on the USS Forrestal when he tried to do a “wet start”, screwing around. Google it. It will shock you. His Karmic debt was 5 years in a Hanoi prison.

By Bosch

September 24, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this

Well Bush is facing the nation tonight to tell us how bad this financial crisis is - as if we don’t know.

Who wants to bet me that his speech will only be a slam against the Democrats in Congress - and he’ll get up there and be a whiny butt about how the mean old Democrats are ruining our country by not giving him the money he wants to save the people. Hell, he might even slam his fists on the podium.

I HOPE whoever airs this whiny butt speech will have a response team ready afterwards.

Seriously, who wants to bet me?

By GodHatesTrash

September 24, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this

I see the usual Bush and Hensley-McCain butt and bootlicker crowd is still hard at work at the Bookman blog, still trying to spitshine the many many turds of the GOP maladministration.

By RT

September 24, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

Bosch at 1:47, you nailed it.

By Dennis

September 24, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this

Jay: You used the correct description, Play. Playing at journalism is exactly what you and so, so many of your peers do.

All one needs to do is read the introductions to your Palin blogs to determine how you play at this game.

My memory is that Governor Palin made it clear in her acceptance speech that it was not her job or her plan to suck up to the likes of the NYTimes, the AJC and persons like you.

The Media effort to entrap Palin continues in full force. Which would be o.k. if you weren’t at the same time protecting Obama. Sad, sad.

By demwit

September 24, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this

And oh yeah…, who’s watching Eli, Campbell!? How is the little nipper?? You know it seems pretty stupid of you, a mother working at CNN, to be throw stones at other working women!!

By Lisa

September 24, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this

Obama - 1 car. McCain - 13 cars, yet he accuses Obama of being an elitist.

Obama - 1 house. McCain - too many for him to remember.

Obama - wants tax break for the middle class. McCain - wants tax break for the rich.

Obama - wants to remove the political lobby system. McCain - claims to be against earmarks and corruption but has lobbyists running his campain. He had to remove them after being pointed out.

Obama - Biden (Extensive record. VP ready to be president) McCain - Palin (Flaky cheerleader type with fake glasses, Shoots animals, Lies a lot)

By "The Corporal"

September 24, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this

*HA, HA, and Double HA ! *

BIDEN QUOTE:

“When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened,’” Barack Obama’s running mate recently told the “CBS Evening News.”

Except, Republican Herbert Hoover was in office when the stock market crashed in October 1929. There also was no television at the time; TV wasn’t introduced to the public until a decade later, at the 1939 World’s Fair.

By TW

September 24, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this

It’s actually real simple, Jay. The Republicans think women should be seen and not heard. Women who agree will vote for her. Women with brains won’t.

By Marshall

September 24, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

Obama was under intense media scrutiny for the past two years. It has slowed down somewhat because most of us know who he is by now. The same can be said about Biden, and McCain.

Palin, on the other hand, is completely new - an unknown. We need the media to scrutinize her, and to do it quickly. The election is only weeks away.

It doesn’t help that the McCain (Bush) campaign managers are keeping her hidden from the press. They seem to be afraid of something she might say. What we have learned about her record so far is pretty disturbing. She has been dishonest about her background in many ways, and she and her husband are flouting the law by disregarding a subpoena.

I applaud the media for asking tough questions about all of the candidates. Without them we simply would have no way to make an informed choice.

By RealityKing

September 24, 2008 2:14 PM | Link to this

Meanwhile…, in real news.

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s parliament overwhelmingly approved a provincial elections law Wednesday, overcoming months of deadlock and boosting U.S.-backed national reconciliation efforts.

By The Wire

September 24, 2008 2:17 PM | Link to this

Washington - The McCain Camp announced this morning that after Sarah Palin watches ER tomorrow night she will be a qualified brain surgeon.

By Catherine

September 24, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this

I can’t see Russia from my house, but I can see the moon. Thus, I might be qualified for a NASA position.

Polar bears are resorting to cannibalism as a result of diminishing ice. God’s choice, I suppose (as told by Palin). Palin relaxes on a sofa, flanked by a great dead bear. Her infant swings before wolf hides. Palin embraces Alaska’s environment. Her five children may know otherwise, as they emerge into adulthood.

Palin shoots wolves from a helicopter, a game which involves exhausting the prey until the shot is easy. I implore the “Press” do the same with Palin. Circle her. Circle her bulldog handlers. Hover and hover and cover and cover her frantic attacks to hide until she, too, is exhausted. But, perhaps we are too “bleeding heart” to bear that pain. Perhaps the “bleeding heart” conservatives (you paint “liberals” with a brush; I’ll do the same) will let her run back into the woods until she’s sworn in and ready to howl.

The Media is by proxy our only Human Resources department. Like it or not. Palin, Biden, McCain, and Obama are our candidates for hire. Were I an employer, and I was told that I would only be allowed to interview should I show “deference,” that candidate would be hit by the door before it shut.

And, by the way, for all of you “Liberal Haters” (what is a “liberal,” by the way?), what is McCain’s middle name? Yeah, we know Obama’s. Why don’t you figure out his middle name, and use it as freely as you do Obama’s?

Hmmm.

By getalife

September 24, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

Watching President Clinton on the Daily Show saying how we got into this mess and laying out conditions for the 700 billion bailout. Good stuff.

He states when he left, the economy invested in housing instead of green energy.

By ByteMe

September 24, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

Bosch: I would take your bet. Bush is going on air tonight because Pelosi is insisting on cover and won’t move forward without a serious effort on the White House’s part to encourage Republicans to get on board the request for the money to string out the problem (I can’t see how this will solve it without better regulation that no one wants to tackle).

Catherine: his middle name is Sidney.

By Truth

September 24, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

Catherine…. I wouldnt hire someone who suggests if it came down to it, he would take the side of my biggest competitor… “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

By @@

September 24, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this

But that mean ol’ Mr. McCain won’t let Sarah come out and play.

You’re one sick dude jay.

Since you’re male, shouldn’t you prefer to play with your guy friends?

What the FARC Was Obama Talking About?

I actually agree with you though……Sarah should be turned loose. She’s bound to have learned from 20 months of your guy’s mistakes.

I can just see it now. They’ve got Sarah sequestered in a room where she’s reviewing videos from all of OBlahMa and Biden’s foreign policy gaffes. At the bottom it reads Don’t try this on the campaign trail!!! Don’t blah blah blah!!!! Know what you’re talking about first and foremost.

I’ve read that Sarah’s a quick study.

And another thing…….if having a media editor on site was so dang important, why did he/she/it exit after 29 seconds? Could it be that the “resistance” WAS the story they were looking for?

Turn her loose!!! The only thing the dem candidates have over Governor Palin is their arrogance. The American public has no use for political arrogance.

By Jim F

September 24, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this

getalife@2:28

The Clinton years, ah, those were the good old days.

By ByteMe

September 24, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this

Truth: Your sentiments are those of someone who hasn’t been the subject of intense discrimination for no other reason than what you looked like or the God you worship. You need to look deeper.

By Paul

September 24, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

I believe the reason is: it’s referred to as setting the agenda, controlling the flow, defining the person.

Why was Palin an unknown? Because the media charged with covering the campaign deemed her a long-shot, unworthy of extensive investigation early on. Instead, they concentrated on the ‘conventional wisdom’ choices and, quite frankly, got blindsided.

I still think there’s a bunch of sour grapes, there. Regardless, the choice for the McCain camp was to either present her in a way that worked to their advantage, or have her presented by a caught-off-guard media in ways that could lead down any one of a number of paths.

They made the correct political move. It was also influenced, I think, by the immediate, personal, nonissue-related attacks on her. What an amazing gift provided by the opponents. In general, Americans like fair play and tend to root for the underdog, especially when the underdog is perceived as receiving unfair treatment. Stories of adopting her daughter’s illegitimate, disabled son; questions if a mother should have such a job, especially when she has so many children (put forth by other women); the sense of a woman being selected for the number two slot yet receiving questions of suitability not applied for men selected for the number one slot (Carter, governor of a small state - less than one term? Clinton, governor of another small state).

Just a few examples, but they took the focus off who she is and what she thinks. Instead, the focus was on what others accused her of - and that just worked to the ticket’s advantage.

It also provided great opportunity for the ticket to ask the types of questions I just related - why the unequal job qualification questions to the woman? Why ask if a mother ‘should’ run? Brings up not only bias, but sexism charges against her opponents. Again, it keeps the focus off Palin’s ideas and on what and how the questions are coming.

I wonder if Team McCain learned from Team Obama. Take a relative newcomer, let him define himself (change agent), watch the attention and line of questioning that resulted (very little backwards-looking record examination or definition of legislative results, was predominately forward-looking), see how he defined himself, not how the press was permitted to define him. The fact it was stretched over two years simply illustrates how long one can keep such a scheme going.

Gotta give them credit - Team McCain knows how to play the political game.

By ByteMe

September 24, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this

@@: the reporters were all kicked out after 29 seconds. They didn’t choose to leave. It was a photo op. No real news. The media needs to grow a spine and stop covering her “glamour shots” activities until she is allowed to talk with them.

By ByteMe

September 24, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this

Paul: except they’re losing.

By Bosch

September 24, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this

ByteMe,

I hope you win our bet.

I was under the impression that many Republicans are against the bail out as it stands now.

By Paul

September 24, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

ByteMe

Sure. But think what the spread would be if Team McCain hustled her from one group of reporters to another group of reporters and said “have at it.” I don’t think many of the states would still be in the margin of error.

By BDAtlanta

September 24, 2008 3:02 PM | Link to this

McCain’s choice of Palin shows how short-sighted his whole campaign is.

She was chosen to win the election. She wasn’t chosen because McCain was putting the country first.

They need to trot her out because obviously some people haven’t figured out she’s as nutty as she is ambitious.

So all of you right-leaning guys who were scared to death of Hillary are able to support this woman? She doesn’t intimidate you or deflate your manhood like Hillary did? Interesting…

By Midori

September 24, 2008 3:02 PM | Link to this

BREAKING: John McCain asks for debate postponement!

Says he needs to work on bailout bill.

By ByteMe

September 24, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this

So better that we only suspect she’s scary instead of having her open her mouth and we find out that she’s really worse?

By getalife

September 24, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this

McDeregulator cut and runs from campaign and debate to finally show up in the Senate.

Obama should said no.

The have Senator Bunning leading.

By BDAtlanta

September 24, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this

Mmmmwwwwuahahahahaha.

Run McCain Run! Postpone the inevitable.

Obama is gonna chew Johnny Mac a new one when they do finally debate.

Hey, Johnny, how about late November??

By getalife

September 24, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this

Jim F,

Yes they were. We should listen to him on this meltdown.

BTW, he predicts Obama wins.

By ByteMe

September 24, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this

Weighing in on the breaking news: I think it’s the right idea, considering that the first debate was on foreign policy and that’s sooooo not on anyone’s mind just now. I don’t think the delay hurts or helps either, but it does make the debates more important later because time will be short for any major mis-statements to be overcome. Like declaring war on Spain.

By Paul

September 24, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this

ByteMe

Doesn’t it depend upon who finds her scary? I’d wager from their calculation it’s those who would be opposed to any Republican in any circumstance, or the traditional feminists as defined by the Democratic Party who find her scary, not the blue-collar Democrats they see as not yet convinced of Obama, or the few percentage of undecideds who could determine the election.

Another factor has to be the treatment they think she’ll receive. We’ve had a few people here link to the kinds of questions, not just Obama, but Edwards or any other vice-presidential candidate received. My guess is Team McCain thinks “the media” is generally out to ‘get’ her and is responding to that threat.

Valid or not? Just thinking about what’s happening and why it’s happening as it is.

By @@

September 24, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

I brought this up from downstairs for consideration with an addendum for Bosch.

Having recently learned that he harbors leftist sentiments, I’m highly suspicious of Paulson’s insistence that this crisis be handled quickly.

Then to see Buffett invest in Paulson’s (former CEO of) Goldman-Sachs, I couldn’t help but recall an article I read at Stratfor (subscription only).

These 50-plus billionaires poured their own cash into the system so the government would not have to, according to Stratfor sources. This was kept out of the public eye but showed just how much control Putin has over the oligarchs. Moreover, it showed how different Russia’s current oligarchs are from the oligarchs of 10 years ago, who would have balked at the Kremlin’s authority.

However, Stratfor has learned more about the oligarchs’ financial transactions. Sources involved in the situation have said the oligarchs are not just pouring spare cash into the Russian system; they are sending billions upon billions of dollars. Many oligarchs are putting between 10 and 30 percent of their wealth into the markets to prop up their own companies, along with other firms — which props up the system. Furthermore, the oligarchs are not being treated equally; some are being pressured into giving much larger portions of their wealth than others. Their treatment seems to depend on their relationships with Putin, their firm’s ability to handle the current crisis, and their personal goals of impressing the Kremlin for favors in the future.

Then I find out that Buffett (Obama supporter) has promoted Mayor Bloomberg (Net Worth: $20 billion endorses OBlahMa’s entire economic plan) to oversee the government bailout?

Wiki: Post-Soviet business oligarchs includes relatives or close associates of government officials, even government officials themselves as well as criminal bosses who achieved vast wealth by acquiring state assets very cheaply (or for free) during the privatization process controlled by the Yeltsin government. Specific accusations of corruption are often levelled at Anatoly Chubais and Yegor Gaidar, two of the ‘Young Reformers’ chiefly responsible for Russian privatization in the early 1990s. According to David Satter, author of Darkness at Dawn, “what drove the process was not the determination to create a system based on universal values but rather the will to introduce a system of private ownership, which, in the absence of law, opened the way for the criminal pursuit of money and power.” In some cases, outright criminal groups in order to avoid attention assign front men to serve as executives and/or ‘legal’ owners of the companies they control.

Oh lawdy! OBlahMa may be America’s Putin.

Bosch:

Are you a Buffett fan because of his philanthropic efforts? I appreciate philanthropists as much as the next, but Buffett’s Goldman Deal Is No Charity

I’m going on record as opposed to this bailout. Let everyone who contributed to it suffer under the weight. No pain no gain!!!!

I had a little chat with our new minister who proclaims himself to be socially liberal and fiscally conservative. My response to him was that “I, too once considered myself as socially liberal, but in light of where it’s gotten us, can no longer be THAT sociable.” Loving my fellow Americans into the arms of government provokes me to say………Sorry, no can do.

Can’t believe I just linked to Huffington Post.

By getalife

September 24, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

McDeregulator, for country first should concede this election to Obama.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 24, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

Gee, I thought Sarah wouldn’t come out and “play:”

Katie Couric: If this doesn’t pass, do you think there’s a risk of another Great Depression?

Sarah Palin: Unfortunately, that is the road that America may find itself on. Not necessarily this, as it’s been proposed, has to pass or we’re gonna find ourselves in another Great Depression. But there has to be action taken, bipartisan effort – Congress not pointing fingers at this point at … one another, but finding the solution to this, taking action and being serious about the reforms on Wall Street that are needed. -See B.S.

Not only are you libs overblown once again, she sat down with one of the most vicious and stupid animals the pinkkko media has to offer.

Ate her up, too.

bwa

By "The Corporal"

September 24, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

To Tiff

My point was instead of trying to get Palin out of her shell you liberals should be trying to HIDE Biden for all of his recent gaffes! What an embarrassment.

By ByteMe

September 24, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

And we shouldn’t see how she would hold up when it’s just hostile questions from the media, compared to… say, hostile actions from an enemy?

Even the lightweight questions from Charlie G. made her look like she was trying to bluff badly.

Yes, Republicans will see what they want, Democrats will see what they want. It’s the independents that swing elections. What will they see? Will they see someone under attack who can’t take it or someone who is calm under serious questioning? Even Obama sat with the Bloviator-in-Chief himself and convinced BillO that Obama was a “tough guy” (yes, I about fell out of my chair with that one).

By Truth

September 24, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this

ByteMe… So you must be a muslim sympathiser. I am not… not one bit!

By Bud Wiser

September 24, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

The left wing outcry over Palin is very simple, and I will explain it to you liberal morons now:

1) Palin has more governmental experience than even their presidential candidate, therefore is a major target. She was not a community organizer.

2) Biden is out of the mix because everyone knows he is a shoot-from the-mouth political cowboy.

3) Palin is smart and attractive and being a woman, the self described ‘party of the people (Democrats), her party pulled the ultimate coup when the Dems dissed Hillary.

4) Reference point 2, the hags of the liberal left are just that, hags, and their jealousy of her attractiveness versus their general homeliness is just too much for them to bear.

5) reference point 5, the left is only for women if they are liberal hags such asthemselves.

The Democrats are something like the sci-fi Borg of Star Trek fame. becoming a mass collective of individuals who as single units are, though, are becoming the anti-Borg, assimilating themselves into not a smooth unit seeking perfection, but instead a mass collection of dysfunctional individuals each wanting the largest piece of the govt handout pie solely for themselves. Palin’s beauty, brains, and common sense approach to life as well as government, is a threat to their very existence.

Obama/Biden ‘08 - making it easy to be stupid

By BDAtlanta

September 24, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this

Katie Couric? hehehe. Yeah, that’s hardball stuff. Too funny.

By Paul

September 24, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

ByteMe

And the number of times BOR defended Obama against detractors on his show means you need to put pillows on your floor!

I think Team McCain will stick with their strategy. From their perspective it likely will produce better results than the other scenario.

‘nuther topic:

From McCain’s press release regarding the debate:

[[ Tomorrow morning, I will suspend my campaign and return to Washington after speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative. I have spoken to Senator Obama and informed him of my decision and have asked him to join me.

I am calling on the President to convene a meeting with the leadership from both houses of Congress, including Senator Obama and myself. It is time for both parties to come together to solve this problem.

We must meet as Americans, not as Democrats or Republicans, and we must meet until this crisis is resolved.]]

Not only is this a counter to the Democratic “he doesn’t know anything about the economy” attack, it’s an area in which Team Obama needs to tread carefully. If they go on campaigning they’ll open themselves up to the same kind of sound bite McCain used regarding the surge: “I’d rather risk losing an election than [lose a war/not doing what I thought was best for my country].”

And all the pundits will say “That’s twice - Iraq first, now this.”

By BDAtlanta

September 24, 2008 3:37 PM | Link to this

ByteMe, That’s their whole strategy - to not let the undecided voters learn about her.

I agree, they are going to throw tough questions at her. But that’s to be expected because being President of the US is a little more difficult than being President of the PTA. Hard questions are going to arise. Let people see how she handles them

By gaypastor

September 24, 2008 3:37 PM | Link to this

Why on earth should McCain trust the mainline press with anything or anyone? They were blantantly biased - and sexist - against Hillary and now they COMPLETLY IGNORE certain stories ALREADY related to Palin. Why aren’t the following stories headlined as “Top News” by the mainline press today?:

All signs point to state Dem. rep’s son as Palin ‘hacker’ - State Rep. Mike Kernell confirmed Thursday that his son, a University of Tennessee-Knoxville student, is at the center of heated Internet discussion into the hacking of the personal e-mail of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin

Tenn. Dem. Steve Cohen: Jesus was a community organizer and Palin is Pontinus Pilate (the governor who killed Jesus!!)

Greta Interviews the “First Dude” (Todd Palin)

Have you even heard of any of these stories yet????? Why should McCain - or any of us - trust such selective, biased, pro-Obama reporting???????

By CJ

September 24, 2008 3:42 PM | Link to this

“Stories of adopting her daughter’s illegitimate, disabled son; questions if a mother should have such a job, especially when she has so many children (put forth by other women); the sense of a woman being selected for the number two slot yet receiving questions of suitability not applied for men selected for the number one slot (Carter, governor of a small state - less than one term? Clinton, governor of another small state).”

Questions about Palin’s inquiries about banning books from the Wasilla public library (rhetorical exercises?); questions about whether Palin fired the Wasilla librarian for refusing to ban books; whether she fired the state’s police commissioner because he refused to fire her ex-brother-in-law; whether she lied when she claimed, over and over, to have said “thanks, but no thanks to that bridge to nowhere”; whether she’s been illegally using her personal e-mail account to hide state correspondence that would be subject to open records laws; whether Palin lied when she implied that she had the idea of selling the governor’s jet on e-bay; whether it was appropriate to charge Alaskan taxpayers for travel expenses for her husband and children; whether it was appropriate to charge Alaskan taxpayers a per diem when she’s sleeping in her own house; whether Palin’s husband, while acting as an independent agent on behalf of the Governor, is an active member of an Alaskan secessionist party; whether it was appropriate for Palin, as mayor, to hire a lobbyist to bring more federal pork to Wasilla; whether it was appropriate for Palin to begin her first term as mayor of Wasilla with no debt and leave her last term as mayor with record debt ($3,000 per person); whether, under Palin, Alaska is the largest benefactor of federal debt (per capita) than any other state (no wonder she’s so popular up there);…

Yup. Gotta give them credit - Team McCain knows how to play the political game.

By Bosch

September 24, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this

@@,

No, I’m not giving Buffet kudos for his philanthropy, I’m giving him kudos for putting his own personal wealth on the line, unlike many of the pansy executives wanting a government check.

As it was presented by the Bush Administration, I’m opposed to their terms for a bail out too. I believe the chips should lie where they fall, and we can take it from there.

We’ll see what the comprimise is.

Have a pleasant evening.

By BDAtlanta

September 24, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this

Delaying a two-hour debate isn’t gonna fix the Wall Street problem.

If he really wanted to help with the Wall Street problem he would of have been in those chamber meetings the past three days - when it counted.

Johnny is flat-out skeered. Run away, Johnny Mac, run away!!!

By Citizen of the World

September 24, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this

I like what MH said at 1:19 because I’ve been saying the same thing — anyone who says Palin is a great choice for McCain’s running mate is either uninformed or lying.

And that kind of describes Palin herself, doesn’t it?

By 247liberal

September 24, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this

Why is it that “conversative” republicans never argue their case without spitting on Obama? If you’re that confident in your candidate then act like it. I support my candidate and can argue his case. You fools don’t have a case so you just keep on ranting. This country has become a joke. Why don’t you people just go back to church (that’s always the answer). Fools!

By @@

September 24, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this

O.K., whoever the heck up ^^^ there responded to my press access comment, you’re right. I misunderstood a commentator on one of the news channels. It’s not as though OBlahMa hasn’t, at times, restricted press access or wished he had. I know……that’s weak, but the whole whine thingy is in my opinion. I noticed you neglected to address OBlahMa’s foreign policy faux paus. Anyway, onto something I find much more interesting!

Paulo:

Just for you. It’s (Open Access) from “THE REAL WORLD” of Stratfor:

Part I

Part II

Enjoy, I’ll try to track you down when Part III and IV arrive.

By @@

September 24, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this

Bosch:

I believe the chips should lie where they fall, and we can take it from there.

Do you promise not to whine when the big guys and little guys are left to fend for themselves? I won’t.

I’m ready to take it on the chin and smile, cause I’m living my life debt free with no regrets.

By Paul

September 24, 2008 4:03 PM | Link to this

@@ 3}55

Bless you, my child.

And Thanks!

By Paul

September 24, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this

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Just from this bit of analysis some here will take Stratfor as a partisan site. More’s the pity…

[[The decisions a president must make once in office are neither scripted nor conveniently timed. They frequently present themselves to the president and require decisions in hours that can permanently define his (or her) administration. Ultimately, voters must judge, by whatever means they might choose, whether the candidate has the virtue needed to make those decisions well.

Virtue, as we are using it here, is a term that comes from Machiavelli. It means the opposite of its conventional usage. A virtuous leader is one who is clever, cunning, decisive, ruthless and, above all, effective. Virtue is the ability to face the unexpected and make the right decision, without position papers, time to reflect or even enough information. The virtuous leader can do that. Others cannot. It is a gut call for a voter, and a tough one.]]

By CJ

September 24, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this

Washington Monthly: “*Apparently, as McCain sees it, 10 days after the Wall Street crisis began, now he wants to head back to Capitol Hill to do some work. Of course, lawmakers and administration officials have been working quite a bit, but McCain, who has played no direct role in the negotiations thus far, wants to swoop in and tell everyone what they need to do. This from a man who hasn’t shown up for work at all in literally months.

What’s more, after whining incessantly for months about the need for one-on-one debates, McCain has decided, just 48 hours before the first official debate, that everything should be postponed. And Barack Obama should go along with all of this, because McCain says so.

I’ve never even heard of a presidential candidate acting in such a reckless, compulsive, and ultimately haphazard fashion. McCain just decided to “suspend” campaign activities? This rivals picking Sarah Palin for the ticket on the list of desperation moves.

McCain spoke at some length yesterday about the nature of the economic crisis, and what he’d like to see happen. But at the time, it apparently never occurred to him to get actually get involved in the process. That is, until today.

The Republican nomination has apparently gone to some kind of man-child who believes stunts and gimmicks are the way to the White House. It is nothing short of breathtaking to see someone so manifestly unserious seek the highest office in the land.

The moment the winds shifted and Obama had a growing lead in the polls, it’s time to suspend the campaign. Good lord, McCain really does think voters are idiots.*”

I’ll just add that this move is a classic Rovian campaign tactic: when things look bad, change the subject. McCain was about to get beaten up in the polls because of the revelation (from Newsweek, The Hill, and the NYTimes) that his campaign manager’s (Rick Davis)lobbying firm has been receiving, until just last month, $15,000 per month from Freddie Mac for…get this…doing nothing (kind of a lay-away plan for future access). Either McCain didn’t know or lied about this connection (either way, it’s bad). Of course, this revelation comes out just after McCain ran commercials falsely accusing Obama of seeking advice from former Freddie Mac CEO, Franklin Raines. As I said, classic Rove maneuver.

By Jeff A

September 24, 2008 4:18 PM | Link to this

The reublicans will let her out only in the safe havens of Faux News. They are afraid she will be exposed, if she is asked a few mild questions by the media. When she does open more mouth its all lies: Lies about the Bridge to Nowhere she was very much forit, until she realized Congress was not going to approve it, then she was against it. She lies about being against earmarks she took all 200 million dollars for the bridge and used it elsewhere. She has zero foreign policy experience, she got her passport only last year probably has never visited another country. Before the campaign she had barely traveled within the United States itself.

By RW-(the original)

September 24, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this

Since when do Vice-Presidential candidates do traditional press conferences?

The Vice-President isn’t the decision maker on the ticket.

In any event, she gave Charlie Gibson two days of access, she’s now done an interview with Katie Couric, she gave Hannity a couple of hours, Oprah told her no, Democrats forced the hand of the Jewish protest group she was going to speak to on Monday to pull her invitation, and on and on it goes.

Obama, the Presidential candidate finally agreed to go on with O’Reilly, but demanded it begin airing on the night of McCain’s acceptance and gave O’Reilly a grand total of thirty minutes.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

For what it’s worth I think McCain should agree that they can work on this bill and still do the debate, but they should switch the debate topic to domestic issues. That was the original plan anyway.

By @@

September 24, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this

You’re welcome Paulo.

I remember establishing those virtues as criteria that a candidate must possess before I’d vote for him or her. That was early on in my blogging days. The leftists were shocked that I would accept them as worthy.

Our enemies (Putin in particular) possesses them. Our leader(s) would be well served to possess them as well.

человек, котор нужно укомплектоватьть личным составом

That “Man to man” in Russian. I found that last word, COCTABOM rather amusing. I’m weird that way. (ISH)

By Lolly

September 24, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this

The real question is why Sarah Palin hasn’t revolted at being silenced by her own running mate.

By Midori

September 24, 2008 4:40 PM | Link to this

bwahahahahaha

Obama about to come on live on CNN.

Word is he’s not having Chickensh*t McCain’s crap.

By Am

September 24, 2008 4:47 PM | Link to this

“Liberal loonies afraid” of Sarah Palin?

You should be, too.

If 70-something McCain should die — she would be president.

Seriously? Think that she can prepare for such a job within the next 41 days?

She wants to reverse Roe v. Wade, ya know…

She’d seek to allow Georgia into NATO…

She’d go to war with Russia.

I think that you should probably be afraid of her, too. Not because she’s a “pitbull” or “hockey mom,” but because she has NO IDEA OF WHAT SHE IS DOING and is completely delusional.

By Smarty

September 24, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this

That is just about the stupidest rant I have seen a news anchor go on.

Is it really so hard to imagine causes other than sexism for them separating her from the media? Sarah Palin has severe issues with experience, knowledge base and creative mis-direction. Any time she gets thrown in front of the camera’s, she does damage to the McCain Campaign. She is a symbol to the campaign, not a part of it. While historically the vice presidential candidates are an acutal part of the presidential process Sarah Palin was not picked because she is an economic genious or because her movements towards universal health care are renowned. No. None of these at all. She is a symbol and keeping the symbol out of the spotlight is the only way to make it useful. It has to compliment the campaign without being obvious. (Here the McCain campaign failed because she is far to noticable to be useful to them)

They have already put her in front of camera’s without a teleprompter and she fell on her face. Worse than the fact that she has limited knowledge base and experience is the fact that she has no abilities of mis-direction what-so-ever. She gets asked something she doesn’t know or understand and all she does is fall on herself.

McCain isn’t keeping her from the camera’s because she’s a woman, he’s keeping her from the camera’s because SHE’S DAMAGING!!

By Retired Navy Captain

September 24, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this

The McCain camp surely has presented Palin in the light of their choosing.

The only problem I have with that is that no one will really know this woman who will be one heart beat of a 72 year old man away from the oval office.

To not present her to the American public in an open and free wheeling manner is to deny the American public the opportunity to make a very informed choice for this critically important office.

How dumb can we be??

With all the truly competent and qualified people in this country, how do we get ourselves into this mess.

No way McCain gets this retired Navy Captain’s vote.

By Non Issues

September 24, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

Anybody notice while your worrying about Ms. Palin, our congress is trying to steal 700 billion dollars?

By "The Corporal"

September 24, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

Someone previously said something to the effect of “why do Republicans always spit on Obama”?

Having almost no experience along with the most liberal voting record in the Senate (when he bothered to show up and vote) is not figuratively spitting on anyone. It’s just who you are.”

By Paying attention

September 24, 2008 5:30 PM | Link to this

Obama~~Oprah~~Dr.Phil~~-Oprah~~James Frey’s bogus book~~Oprah HMmmmmmmmm She seems to have a bit of a credibility problem…Does she use the same criteria to endorse all these miss-fires??? Kind of makes you remember of the flock who followed Martha S UNTIL they discovered she had her hand in the cookie jar doesn’t it!!! THINK for yourselves people…Our future is at stake here!!!

By Paying attention

September 24, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this

Obama~~Oprah~~Dr.Phil~~-Oprah~~James Frey’s bogus book~~Oprah HMmmmmmmmm She seems to have a bit of a credibility problem…Does she use the same criteria to endorse all these miss-fires??? Kind of makes you remember the flock who followed Martha S UNTIL they discovered she had her hand in the cookie jar doesn’t it!!! THINK for yourselves people…Our future is at stake here!!!

By Lee

September 24, 2008 5:38 PM | Link to this

I would just like to know if she can pronounce the word “nuclear”. If so, she will prove that she is smarter than a Yale grad.

By Robert

September 24, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this

Please! If Palin can’t handle a bunch of cub reporters playing gotcha with her paper-thin resume, how’s she going to handle the apparatchiks from Moscow, the Eurocrats, the Mandarins out of China and the brinksmanship out of the Middle East, let alone the vets from her own party who are clearly skeptical of her chops? This delaying the inevitable is both childish and dangerous. With our country on the brink of a chasm as huge as the Great Depression, she’s taking her ball home because the nasty boys are being mean. Please, Ms. Palin, grow up, and face the music - however discordant it may seem to your ears.

By NoParty

September 24, 2008 5:44 PM | Link to this

Near as I can tell, virtually all of you people that are commenting are nuts.

Get a clue…it makes no difference which party you vote for…they are all the same.

Bob Barr for president! Yeehaw! LOL.

By JoyK

September 24, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this

Jay, you know that Sarah is unqualified. That’s the reason they don’t want her to talk to the press. Every time she opens her mouth, she sounds less informed than Paris Hilton.

By mimi362

September 24, 2008 5:53 PM | Link to this

Do you think people are stupid. Everyone knows how biased all the reporters have been. We are on the other side of the screen watching while you and your cronies make News Reporting into an embarrassment .
I don’t know how you call yourselves Reporters or Anchors its a joke.

By BKrause

September 24, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this

I would tend to disagree with Ms Brown. Palin is manufactured out of pure will and cynicism. A canoe without a paddle. A horse without a saddle. A ranch without any cattle. If I were the alpha males within the Republican Party, I’d be terrified of letting this horrible mistake out of sight, anywhere on her own.

By Juan

September 24, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this

If McCain has to cancel the Friday debate, surely Biden and Palin could swap their vice-presidential time with it on Friday, as the level of short notice’s effect seems less so compared to the economic matters McCain needs to cater to, according to his logic.

By Wizard

September 24, 2008 5:59 PM | Link to this

I can not believe anyone with even a low level IQ is voting for a political party that has this woman a a VP candidate. Hell if she somehow gets to the Presidency….we”ll have Jethro as First Husband. We would become the joke of the entire civilized world! We would be ridiculed and laughed at. Anyone who equates creationism with science…and believes it should be taught alongside of it needs to have their head examined. Additionally femminists should be screaming their heads off about her ideas on abortion…I fail to see why there is not outrage and condemnation from them.

By Willis

September 24, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this

Palin can’t come out to play because she’s a f*cking moron, that’s why.

If she were to debate anything beyond moose butchery she would put both of hers and one of McCain’s feet in her mouth and have the entire Republican Party in jail.

Hell, if McCain hadn’t run off to singlehandedly fix America’s economic problem, he might’ve done all that for himSELF at the debate.

By anon

September 24, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this

In today’s world, a capable woman can put sexist questions to rest simply by displaying her competence.

Defending Palins press avoidance as being a consequence of sexist attacks from the media is a complete red herring.

Political candidates have to capably handle tough and unfair questions because the job of governing involves successfully dealing with dirty tricks while leading and getting things accomplished.

That Palin needs to hide from the media amply demonstrates her unsuitability to be VP or, heaven forbid, POTUS.

There is no defence for a candidate’s hiding from the media in a democratic election. A leader has to demonstrate the ability and the strength to deal with both the fair and the unfair.

By Robert

September 24, 2008 6:09 PM | Link to this

Mimi362: She doesn’t want to play because she thinks the journos are unfair? Grow up. You think the hardliners from Russia, China, South Asia, Europe, the Middle East are going to play fair? Politics is rough. Get used to it Ms. Palin. For someone who didn’t blink at taking the VP job, she’s sure doing a lot of blinking now.

By NoParty

September 24, 2008 6:36 PM | Link to this

Demagogues, Repugnantcans, they really are one and the same. Isn’t it about time we outlawed political parties? (oh no!…now who can I hate??)

Wake up…before it’s too late.

The 2 party political system is slowly but surely tearing the country apart, and I fear, as with all great empires, that our time and place in the world is near an end.

It is a sad but true fact, that people by nature are always looking for a scapegoat, and seemingly must always have an enemy. It’s us vs them. We are good, they are evil. I’m right, you’re wrong. Red vs. Blue, right vs. left.

When will we ever learn?

George Washington had the foresight to see the inherit problem with political parties.

“All obstructions to the execution of the Laws, all combination’s and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They [political parties] serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels, and modified by mutual interests.

“However combination’s or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government; destroying afterwords the very engines, which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”

Now is the time for statesmanship, not partisan politics. Good luck all…we’ll need it.

By Frederick Douglass

September 24, 2008 9:58 PM | Link to this

CJ @ 3:42, you left out her dalliance with her husband’s friend and business partner Brad Hanson, and her mockery of a cancer survivor on a radio program. She’s a great American patriot though,and she can see Russia from land in AH-LESS-KA.