Jay Bookman

By GodHatesTrash

October 14, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this

This post has been pulled. — Jay

And Trash, if you don’t like the rules here, go play somewhere else.

By No Bookman Fan

October 14, 2008 6:12 PM | Link to this

Okay, I’m not going to write a dissertation about what Bookman has written today, but fact of the matter is he’s a liberal jerk…always has been, always will be. Liberals are so pitiful and miserable. Guess that’s the way they were raised. Tough.

By getalife

October 14, 2008 6:16 PM | Link to this

Keep talking Sarah.

Talk about troopergate and the Alaska Independent Party.

By AJC/DNC Management

October 14, 2008 6:19 PM | Link to this

Aahhh, yes, the Sarah Derangement Syndrome has struck again, we went, what, two whole days without an insane outbreak?

Sarah is out speaking to the base, duh, why would she want to spend her time convincing a bunch of brainwashed dimwits?

Maybe that is what you are so frightened of?

By RW-(the original)

October 14, 2008 6:20 PM | Link to this

Since when do VP candidates do formal press conferences?

I bet Sarah’Cuda would be more than happy to get in the ring with Biden a few more times, though. Speaking of Biden, is he still even running?

By sus

October 14, 2008 6:23 PM | Link to this

Yes, Sarah, speak!

I think you should go on every sunday morning show and really give your views.

Do more interviews. Do a press conference. We really do want to hear what you have to say.

Don’t let ‘em hold you back. .

By @@

October 14, 2008 6:26 PM | Link to this

Well jay, since I am of the opinion that the media has injected itself waayyyyy too much into presidential campaigns, I wouldn’t give them the time of day were I Governor Palin.

The MSM sells their preferred candidate like their advertisers sell soap.

Governor Palin is the 20 Mule Team Borax product.

OBlahMa is the common lye.

For those of you who are looking for an awesome soap this stuff is to die for. Go with the palm oil, it smells better. Makes your skin so soft.

By @@

October 14, 2008 6:32 PM | Link to this

Heeyyyy! I thought ACORN was supposed to be non-partisan.

Busted!… Ohio ACORN Hired ‘Get Out the Vote’ Workers to Canvass For Obama & Even Advertised It

A picture’s worth a thousand words that DON’T matter.

By AJC/DNC Management

October 14, 2008 6:34 PM | Link to this

You know, kookman might be right, let’s hear the woman speak:

GOVERNOR PALIN: Absolutely! You know, people on November 4th, they’re going to have the choice. You can either support the ticket that will support policies to create jobs — we do that by reducing taxes and reining in government growth and allowing our country to be energy independent — or you choose the ticket that’s going to kill jobs by increasing taxes, just like Barack Obama is purporting today.

GOVERNOR PALIN: I do. I see it. I mean this. On November 4th, we’re going to set a course for the future of our great country. We’re going to go one direction or the other, and you understand that our ticket, what we’re all about is pro-growth, pro-private sector. We’re tax cuts. We’re reining in government. We’re proponents of the culture of life that would make America better off. We’re adamant about winning the wars with the strongest military in the world. All those things that we stand for that I think are so clearly articulated with our message, with the plan that’s been expressed, we can go that direction or we can go in the complete opposite direction of all those aforementioned goals that we have in mind if you choose the other ticket.

GOVERNOR PALIN: Well, you know, there just aren’t enough hours in the day I think to get out there and (cell garbled). Rush, I’ve got nothing to lose in this, and I think America has everything to gain by understanding the differences, the contrasts here between Obama and McCain. So, you know, I’m going out there and I’m just simply speaking. So be it that I’m a simple talker, but I’m just going out there and letting people know the differences and how absolutely paramount it is that voters are paying attention and that voters are understanding candidates’ records, their associations, their plans for the future; instead of being kind of wrapped up into all this rhetoric of Obama’s and buying into it and not holding him accountable for the things that he’s done, the things that he’s said, his associates, and where he wants to take America.

GOVERNOR PALIN: Well, yeah, I guess that message is they do want me to sit down and shut up. But that’s not going to happen. I care too much about this great country. Now, yes, speaking of some of those associations — and you’re right; mainstream media is not holding Barack Obama accountable — let’s talk quickly about ACORN and the unconscionable situation that we’re facing right now with voter fraud. And given the ties between Obama and ACORN and the money that his campaign has sent them and the job that he had with them in the past, Obama has a responsibility to rein in ACORN and prove that he’s willing to fight voter fraud. We called him on it.

I got more if you can “stand” it.

By @@

October 14, 2008 6:36 PM | Link to this

Sorry, meant to say non-partisan. ACORN is supposed to be NON-PARTISAN.

IHB

By Paul

October 14, 2008 6:39 PM | Link to this

Jay

At first I was going to get on your case for setting up a joke (Rush Limbaugh claimed that the mainstream media was trying to shut Palin up because she is too effective in making her case) this late in the afternoon. But after reading your piece, please let me offer another angle on this:

Sen Obama received much credit for ‘going around’ the traditional methods of campaigning, obtaining funds, etc. He bypassed the ‘establishment’ and got his message out through a grassroots organization (although he did, I think, subvert himself to the hardcore party activists while he was winding up).

So could not one say Palin is doing roughly the same? Bypassing the ‘traditional establishment’ and going directly to the voters? Can she not state that ‘the media’ played an important function, pre-Internet and 24-hour cable, in getting a candidate’s message out, but now, they are not nearly as critical, and, in fact, may be perceived as skewing the message?

So just as Sen Obama bypassed much of the traditional money-raising venues and took his plea directly to the people, so, too, has Gov Palin bypassed much of the traditional “get the message out” establishment and taken her plea directly to the people.

By Just_Me

October 14, 2008 6:41 PM | Link to this

Since when do VP candidates do formal press conferences?

Don’t recall Jay asking about those..but…

Joe Biden: Most Recent- Meet the Press: 9/7/08

During the last year, he’s been on all of the political talk-fests..from GMA to Meet the Press, Face the Nation…Joe’s been out there-and has done the round of shows…

Whereas, Palin? Dismal showing w. Charlie Gibson; horrific showing with Couric; creampuff interview with faux news hack, hannity-and of course, limbaugh….that pillar of objective journalism.

Sarah’s hiding..and is so stupid, she’s criticizing her running mate about that fact (as well as disagreeing with her running mate’s strategy re: pulling out of MI.) She’s an amateur, plain and simple.

www.adn.com-Anchorage Daily News.

Interesting-they are truly fed up with St. Sarah and her co-governor by marriage, Todd….interesting to see how fast the McCain campaign drops their support for her ongoing struggle…

By @@

October 14, 2008 6:43 PM | Link to this

Oh my goodness!

Isn’t this special?

Proudly claims to be a liberal, he does.

What say you jay?

By Paul

October 14, 2008 6:48 PM | Link to this

@@ 6:26

Thanks for the recommendation. I think. Bath soap is one of my irrationalities in purchasing. Rather like some food items. Connection with other cultures and locations, I think. One Christmas I ordered my mother a sample of soaps from around the world. Individual purchases. Cost me more in shipping than product, most likely. Anyway, I’m getting ready to place an order.

Another different one that’s great - Finnish sauna soap. Scents of pine, birch, lilac. Even found a site with free shipping.

Is this a great blog or what?

By RW-(the original)

October 14, 2008 6:49 PM | Link to this

Just_Me,

Do you know the difference between a chat show and a press conference? Just because the show is called Meet The Press, you’re really only going to chat with Brokaw and only about what he wants to talk about. That’s a real waste of time when you can spend that time talking directly to the voters.

By MDR

October 14, 2008 6:50 PM | Link to this

The ACORN comments are ignorant at a min. Employee fraud happens, especially when you are paid based on performance. Do you think ACORN encourages employees to turning in false voter registration forms, since the pay is performace based. That is just like saying Sun-Trust is happy to pay mortgage brokers for submitting false mortgage documents. Hey, it makes thier numbers look good for the shareholders. But then, you may blame account holders for trusting their money to an institution that does not “rein in” the fraud. Think people……

By AJC/DNC Management

October 14, 2008 6:52 PM | Link to this

TIM MAHONEY, democrat, Florida: And let me tell you something else. If I find out you say anything else, you won’t get your last paycheck.

What is there to investigate?

By professional skeptic

October 14, 2008 6:53 PM | Link to this

Yes, keep talking, Sarah. I crack up every time I see Tina Fey’s impressions of you!

By sus

October 14, 2008 6:55 PM | Link to this

Either party could have hired ACORN to register voters. The only problem with that is the workers got paid per registration. So… some of them forged them. Not so good. But, it’s not like the phony registrants could actually vote. What the workers are guilty of is scamming Obama. Not Obama scamming voters. see? It would be like a small business hiring some people to walk up and down streets handing out fliers. How do you know if they’re just going to actually do that or just pitch them in the closest trash bin? Terrible… but… it happens.

By Mrs.Godzilla

October 14, 2008 6:59 PM | Link to this

Funny.

Gee, our old LaSalle ran great. Those were the days.

It seems to me that Senator McCain is a combustable engine. Governor Palin supplys the fuel.

She’s a smoke filled room, an ambitious politician, just like the old-school ward chairs in Chicago. She’s beautiful and has that pageant system mostly unflappable veneer of grace.

She is, however, an empty vessel.

If the McCain camp did not know this before they selected her, they aren’t bright enough to run our government.

If the McCain camp DID KNOW this and selected her anyway, they aren’t worthy of running our government.

They are hiding the fact that she just does not have the depth required for the job she’s appplying for.

She’s Edith, with one bullet in her pocket.

By Just_Me

October 14, 2008 7:02 PM | Link to this

RW

Once again, your patronizing attitude is hilarious-truly….

You responded to Jay-but in an incomplete manner. If you LOOK at what he’s written,you will see he cited the same shows I did, as well as press conferences.

Bookman:

If you want to go on Meet the Press, Face the Nation, This Week, Late Edition, if you want to hold your first actual press conference, if you want to join the free-for-all tomorrow night spinning the aftermath of the presidential debate, the media would welcome you with open arms.

However, I am sure you only read as far to see that once again, Jay has correctly identified a HUGE problem with McCain’s pick (hell, even GOP folks are saying it out loud).

BTW: St. Sarah, who is currently under fire in her own state, because they can understand that violating ethics laws is, in fact, unlawful (www.adn.com). Can you really, really, REALLY defend her? Once that report came out, instead of doing the ‘duck and run,’ she should have stood in front of the press to take questions.

Also: this isn’t about “defending a piece of scum trooper.” This is about the shady firing of a state employee….and the undue influence she allowed her hubby to engage in. Yet, you and your ilk choose to cloud the issue, screaming, “how you can defend that scum?’ Monegan scum?

Whatever else you can say about Biden, he is not a shrinking violet. Face it, the campaign has your girl muzzled, lest she continue to expose her ignorance.

Tell me, are you one of those pitiful 28%ers????

By RB from Gwinnett

October 14, 2008 7:02 PM | Link to this

Jay, Thanks for the editorial boards comment on the last thread.

Questions. What part did you play in writing it?

Why didn’t the editorial board demand resignations from those involved a’la Don Imus?

Again, Jay. The people of this city deserve better than this partisan crap from it’s only newspaper. If you’re not up to the task, move on.

By JNoble

October 14, 2008 7:02 PM | Link to this

Sarah Palin is afraid of the media as is the Republican Party. The so-called mainstream media should be ashamed of not making this front page news. As an American citizen I want to know who this woman is and as in any relationship this requires a back and forth not just stump speeches. She simply cannot be trusted to assume the important job of VP if she can’t stand up to the American media. Obama does as does McCain as does Hillary. It is a tough world out there and if you fail with Katie Couric, you will certainly fail with Putin and other hostile foreign leaders. This is a dismal choice by McCain.

By GodHatesTrash

October 14, 2008 7:03 PM | Link to this

Mahoney had sex with an adult consenting female -

that is so un-Republican!

Duh.

(Bookman, quit your whining.)

By citizen

October 14, 2008 7:04 PM | Link to this

That ‘first dude’ is just sooo cute!!

By Just_Me

October 14, 2008 7:04 PM | Link to this

Acorn- Yep, voter fraud…because, I KNOW someone with the name of “Peter Pan, “Daffy Duck,” and “Mickey Mouse” were going to show up and try to vote, RIGHT?

ACORN people were paid for the number of registrations they acquired. No one checked them-they paid them by the number-plain and simple.

These clowns were not in the business to solicit votes-they were trying to up their income.

Of course….that’s now how the Grizzled Old People will see it…

By Ray

October 14, 2008 7:06 PM | Link to this

GENEVA - The world’s poorest people will be hungrier, sicker and have fewer jobs as a result of the global financial crisis, and cash-strapped aid agencies will be less able to help, aid groups are warning.

Yes! It’s working!

McCain/Palin- Finish the Drill!

By GodHatesTrash

October 14, 2008 7:07 PM | Link to this

Now this, my friends, is consorting with terrorists…

William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.

The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein’s government.

During the same period beginning in 1992, Timmons worked closely with the two lobbyists, Samir Vincent and Tongsun Park, on a previously unreported prospective deal with the Iraqis in which they hoped to be awarded a contract to purchase and resell Iraqi oil. Timmons, Vincent, and Park stood to share at least $45 million if the business deal went through.

By RW-(the original)

October 14, 2008 7:10 PM | Link to this

Just_Me,

That was an investigative report and the report proceeds to the personnel board and/or the Alaska legislature. Why should Sarah call a press conference before hand? Some might call that tampering.

By Paul W

October 14, 2008 7:13 PM | Link to this

I amazed when I see the people who believe Obama is cutting taxes for 95% of the people when 40% don’t pay taxes on hear calling someone else “stupid”.

By GodHatesTrash

October 14, 2008 7:14 PM | Link to this

The SS GOP is sinking - the rats are jumping ship, my friends…

Matthew Dowd, a prominent political consultant and chief strategist for George W. Bush’s reelection campaign eviscerated John McCain on Tuesday for his choice of Sarah Palin as vice president.

Dowd proclaimed that, in his heart of hearts, McCain knew he put the country at risk with his VP choice and that he would “have to live” with that fact for the rest of his career.

“They didn’t let John McCain pick the person he wanted to pick as VP,” Dowd declared during the Time Warner Summit panel. “When Sarah Palin got picked instead of Joe Lieberman, which I fundamentally believed would have given John McCain the best opportunity in this race… as soon as he picked Palin, that whole ready versus not ready argument was not credible.”

Saying that Palin was a “net negative” on the ticket, he went on: “[McCain] knows, in his gut, that he put somebody unqualified on the ballot. He knows that in his gut, and when this race is over that is something he will have to live with… He put somebody unqualified on that ballot and he put the country at risk, he knows that.”

By AJC/DNC Management

October 14, 2008 7:14 PM | Link to this

Liberals, they cover up extortion and they can’t balance their overblown welfare heavy budgets:

CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports that Mayor Daley says he’s facing a budget shortfall of nearly a half-billion dollars. He’s already moved to cut 2,500 jobs from city hall’s payroll. Now he’s going to shut it down - along with other non-essential facilities on the day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. That will save $20 million.

Got calculator?

By Just_Me

October 14, 2008 7:15 PM | Link to this

Mrs. G, ‘Evening…

Interesting-but “old” in a news-cycle sense:

From the Washington Post-not known for its “liberal media” bent….

“”Aides Say Team Interviewed Palin Late in the Process”“

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/02/AR2008090203462_pf.html

Relevant…You betcha! (in Palin-speak)…it goes to his J-U-D-G-M-E-N-T.

It sounds as if i got to know my DOG better before adopting her than McCain got to know Palin!

By getalife

October 14, 2008 7:16 PM | Link to this

“POLITICO | Sarah Palin, once seen as a huge plus to the ticket, is now increasingly emerging as a liability. John McCain’s campaign doesn’t seem to be able to control her.”

Let her speak if she has the guts.

Do all the Sunday talk shows like a real politician.

By RW-(the original)

October 14, 2008 7:16 PM | Link to this

Why does the left keep saying ACORN was paying by the card? I believe they’re probably right but ACORN swears they don’t do that.

I guess we’ll find out a little more as this RICO suit proceeds

By Paul W

October 14, 2008 7:17 PM | Link to this

I amazed when I see the people who believe Obama is cutting taxes for 95% of the people when 40% don’t pay taxes on hear calling someone else “stupid”.

By @@

October 14, 2008 7:17 PM | Link to this

The ACORN comments are ignorant at a min. Employee fraud happens, especially when you are paid based on performance.

Well duh! Why does OBlahMa support an organization that pays people to register voters. Who pays for the bills and smokes? They’re operating with government grants for crying out loud.

What the workers are guilty of is scamming Obama.

Thppppbbbbtt!

The ACORNS don’t fall far from the tree.

OBAMA CAUGHT SAYING ACORN AND FRIENDS WILL SHAPE HIS PRESIDENTIAL AGENDA

Paul:

You’re welcome. It’s unsightly in the dish but ooo la la.

Off to Stratfor. If there’s anything worthwhile, I’ll bring it back.

By Just_Me

October 14, 2008 7:19 PM | Link to this

RW-

Anyone else in that position would have-should have-stood her ground and ANSWERED QUESTIONS.

We, the great, unwashed masses, are at least due that basic courtesy.

After all, aren’t we basically ‘interviewing’ these people to work for us?

Think about it- wouldn’t you want to know about possible ethics violations?

The same way she gave her ‘duck and run’ answers (a la your god, Ronnie), she could have STOPPED, faced the cameras and reporters, and gave real answers.

Instead, she took the coward’s way out-answered on the run with sound bites.

I am glad to see that that tactic isn’t working anymore. People WANT TO KNOW MORE.

www.adn.com Anchorage Daily News- read the editorial. They are embarrassed by her behavior.

By MikeB

October 14, 2008 7:20 PM | Link to this

She may have fired someone in troopergate, but given the circumstances if any of us were in that situation, I am sure we would do whatever we could to protect our family from an out of control Trooper, and a superior who refused to clean his own house of him.

If this is all the Obama fanatical lawyers came up with on their recent “smear trip” to Alaska, then All of you shouting about it should go sell stupid somewhere else.

Sure she has made minor mistakes speaking as has Biden, McCain, and oh yea the Messiah of the brainwashed Obama, but she does not hang around with divisive race baiters, and extremists masquarading as college professors or others who hate what a great country this is.

Sorry Jay, but I hope you get what you ask for. Palin speaking her mind is a good thing for America, regardless of if she garbles a few words like we all do.

By Paul

October 14, 2008 7:21 PM | Link to this

sus 6:55

I’ve heard ” But, it’s not like the phony registrants could actually vote ” a lot. Seems an effort to minimize the seriousness of fraud. And for Sen Obama, it’s a problem.

But as far as just a scam and not a voting problem, particularly in areas with lots of electoral votes and tight races:

” Investigators probing ACORN have learned that an Ohio man registered to vote several times and cast a bogus ballot with a fake address, officials said yesterday, as they revealed that nearly 4,000 registration applications supplied by the left-leaning activist group were suspect.

“The vote of Darnell Nash, one of four people subpoenaed in a Cuyahoga County probe of ACORN’s voter-registration activities, was canceled and his case was turned over to local prosecutors and law enforcement, Board of Elections officials said yesterday.

“Nash had registered to vote repeatedly from an address that belonged to a legitimately registered voter, officials said during a hearing at which the subpoenaed voters were to testify.

“Board officials had contacted Nash this summer, questioned his address and told him to stop repeat registering.

“But still, he breezed into Ohio election offices - the state allows early voting for president - reregistered with a fake address and cast a paper ballot, officials said.

“He came in on 9/30 and Mr. Nash again registered to vote at [someone else’s] address, and he cast a ballot,” said board official Jane Platten.

“Nash did not turn up for the hearing. “

By Just_Me

October 14, 2008 7:22 PM | Link to this

RW-

Anyone else in that position would have-should have-stood her ground and ANSWERED QUESTIONS.

We, the great, unwashed masses, are at least due that basic courtesy.

After all, aren’t we basically ‘interviewing’ these people to work for us?

Think about it- wouldn’t you want to know about possible ethics violations?

The same way she gave her ‘duck and run’ answers (a la your god, Ronnie), she could have STOPPED, faced the cameras and reporters, and gave real answers.

Instead, she took the coward’s way out-answered on the run with sound bites.

I am glad to see that that tactic isn’t working anymore. People WANT TO KNOW MORE.

www.adn.com Anchorage Daily News- read the editorial. They are embarrassed by her behavior.

Additionally, it still doesn’t answer the question..sarah won’t go public unless she’s in friendly territory…fine, DON’T discuss “troopergate” (ridiculous moniker-let’s ‘gate’ everything after watergate??)— I don’t think Jay was asking her to even come talk about that…at this point, her moving away from her scripted talking points would be a breath of fresh air.

WHY NOT????????

Don’t confuse the simple issue/question……why won’t she go on any of those chatfests on sunday? everyone else has!

Campbell Brown has called for the Free Sarah Palin movement.

hmm, she might have something.

By MaggiesDad

October 14, 2008 7:28 PM | Link to this

Jay, you did a great job with this today…I am amazed at the responses of a majority of those who responded…many make no sense whatsoever…speaking a language all their own.

Your point is well taken…Sarah can go on any show you named and they would be thrilled to have her. Speak up Sarah, Speak up.

By MaggiesDad

October 14, 2008 7:28 PM | Link to this

Jay, you did a great job with this today…I am amazed at the responses of a majority of those who responded…many make no sense whatsoever…speaking a language all their own.

Your point is well taken…Sarah can go on any show you named and they would be thrilled to have her. Speak up Sarah, Speak up.

By Just_Me

October 14, 2008 7:29 PM | Link to this

**Mea culpa on the duplicated posts.

When you have long nails, they tend to hit keys without you realizing.**

;-)

By Just_Me

October 14, 2008 7:30 PM | Link to this

McCain and Acorn

there’s even a LOVELY picture of him at one of their functions…..

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/13/acorn-mccain-and-gop-usedn134284.html

By Just have to say...

October 14, 2008 7:30 PM | Link to this

You all are very stupid people, Democrats and Republicans.

By RW-(the original)

October 14, 2008 7:32 PM | Link to this

Just_Me,

Not to be condescending or anything, but all you have to do is read.

By getalife

October 14, 2008 7:35 PM | Link to this

Troopergate is growing bigger legs

By Mrs.Godzilla

October 14, 2008 7:35 PM | Link to this

Oh and did you see the

The Anchorage Daily News piece on Palin….”“ignorant or Orwellian”.

By Paul

October 14, 2008 7:42 PM | Link to this

Just_Me

I love Campbell Brown.

As long as the tv’s on mute.

By AJC/DNC Management

October 14, 2008 7:43 PM | Link to this

Go to this page, click on the audio button and listen to this wonderful woman talk:

Rush Talks to Governor Sarah Palin

If I were a liberal, I’d be freaking out just like kookman is.

SHE IS SO GREAT!

By G

October 14, 2008 7:46 PM | Link to this

McCain is a fool.

He is an angry, self centered man, has tantrums, makes unstable decisions, and ultimately puts himself first.

He is also quite the hypocrite.

Talks of ethics yet selects the most unethical as his running mate. Talks of ethics but himself has a checkered past. Talks of ethics and a clean fight yet runs the dirtiest one of all.

Hypocrisy is thy name in the GOP.

Obama/Biden ‘08

By Jon L

October 14, 2008 7:49 PM | Link to this

Speak, Sarah……about that $30,000.00 tanning bed you had installed in the governor’s mansion. Was that a freebie from taxpayers (earmark?), or a gift from a corporate client??

ps: You sound more and more like a female version of Dan Quayle.

By Jon L

October 14, 2008 7:51 PM | Link to this

Speak, Sarah……about that $30,000.00 tanning bed you had installed in the governor’s mansion. Was that a freebie from taxpayers (earmark?), or a gift from a corporate client??

ps: You sound more and more like a female version of Dan Quayle.

By ByteMe

October 14, 2008 7:54 PM | Link to this

Paul: FYI, there have been 660,000 new registrations in Ohio in 2008 alone. 4000 seems like small change.

As for the guy who registered multiple times with multiple addresses… could he have been a political plant? Let’s see who pays his legal bills.

By Analchord

October 14, 2008 7:55 PM | Link to this

Please dont waste our time apologizing for duplicate posts, mispells, or missing words or phrases from you comments.

If we read them at all, we got the point, with or without your apology.

Try to advance the discussion.

Thank you.

Have a nice day.

PS. Duhng is correct, sirs, Sarah is something special. I’m just so nutz about her that I’ve really got it bad. I cant believe she’s real. I’ve met many new women lately, all in Palin’s age range, and they’re all magpies and, well, why ruin a nice comment….a woman like that comes along once in a country’s life. Lets ease up on her. She’s not Nixon in drag, or J Edgar Hoover in a dress, okay?

Partisanship is easily neutralized by babe lincoln.

By MikeB

October 14, 2008 8:01 PM | Link to this

If Trooppergate has any credibility at all which it does not, then the William Ayers-Barrack Obama relationship must be a real show stopper…….

Sorry liberal media… Can’t have one without the other. How about Rezko-Obama……

How about after 2 years at Occidental College who financed his world travels and made impressions on him that shape his policies today? Can anyone say Khalid Rhashidi???? And Rhasidi’s ties to Muslim extremists???

Lets not be selective folks…. Go after Palin only if you are willing to apply the same due dilligence to Obama, Biden and McCain……..

Guarantee’d McCain-Paling will come out of a complete vetting process much better than Obama-Biden. The media knows this already and therefor will spend the remaining days avoiding the opportunity to recapture their lost relevance with intelligent Americans.

The ones who are left cannot afford newspapers like the leftist AJC or a computer to blog on, so I guess we can kiss this goodbye if Obama God forbid, gets elected.

Unless Cox Communications turns it into a propaganda rag……… Wait a minute… With Mr. Bookman, and Ms. Tucker stacking the deck at every opportunity. That is exactly what the AJC is now.

By Mrs.Godzilla

October 14, 2008 8:03 PM | Link to this

CBS NEW YORK TIMES POLL

OBAMA 53 McCain 39

and it’s not too far out of line

dKos/R2K: 52-41 Gallup: 53-43 Battleground: 53-40 ABC/Post: 53-43

Firm double digits and climbing.

We need a massive turnout to prevent the GOP from stealing this one.

Check your voters resistration status and vote early.

By Goldie

October 14, 2008 8:04 PM | Link to this

Sarah and Todd need to come clean about their involvement with the John Birch Society and the Alaska Independence Party. They’re just dragging down McSame’s failing campaign even further by trying to avoid talking about their extremist background.

By Danny the red

October 14, 2008 8:06 PM | Link to this

Open wide, Sarah.

Say AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Down the hatch with your candor pill.

Now, slowly, tell us about the secessionists.

Tell us about Todd’s role in the firing of Walt Monegan.

And, above all, please tell us exactly what you mean when you say that “Obama doesn’t see American the way you or I do”.

By professional skeptic

October 14, 2008 8:10 PM | Link to this

Christopher Buckley leaves National Review after Obama endorsement

“While I regret this development, I am not in mourning, for I no longer have any clear idea what, exactly, the modern conservative movement stands for,” Buckley wrote.

“Eight years of ‘conservative’ government has brought us a doubled national debt, ruinous expansion of entitlement programs, bridges to nowhere, poster boy Jack Abramoff and an ill-premised, ill-waged war conducted by politicians of breathtaking arrogance. As a sideshow, it brought us a truly obscene attempt at federal intervention in the Terry Schiavo case,” he also wrote.

By getalife

October 14, 2008 8:10 PM | Link to this

Acorn manages to find the fraud and now it is a big issue? BS.

Good for them for having the oversight to find it but I am sure there are republican checked on those registrations too.

Ayers, backfired.

Acorn, nope.

Obama bin Laden, stupid.

Is that it?

Come on gop, pitiful.

By Paul

October 14, 2008 8:14 PM | Link to this

ByteMe

[[4000 seems like small change]]

Until one considers the vote difference in Florida in 2000 -

Talk with you tomorrow, it’s dinnertime.

By RB from Gwinnett

October 14, 2008 8:14 PM | Link to this

You people who think this ACORN stuff is a laughing matter are a danger to this democracy. I get the laughs over Micky Mouse and the Dallas Cowboys not showing up to vote, but how many people with average names are they helping cheat the system? Is that funny to you? I don’t care if it’s 4,000 or 4. Any level of voter fraud is dangerous on either side of the aisle. It’s just not funny at all.

By Goldie

October 14, 2008 8:17 PM | Link to this

In contrast to John McSame back in 2002, Barack Obama said that “regime change” of Iraq would be a difficult mission, that many lives would be lost, that it would cost BILLIONS of $$$ for many years, and that we would be further fanning the flames of hatred throughout the Middle East.

And John McSame has said the following while beating the drums for war:

{{“I believe that the success will be fairly easy,” McCain told CNN in September 2002. “We will win this conflict. We will win it easily,” he told MSNBC the following January.}}

AS WELL AS: “We will be greeted as liberators”…

AND regarding Sunni vs. Shia, McSame stated that “there is no history of disagreement”…

McCain: Sunni and Shia No History of Disagreement

John McSame: Unfit To Be President.

By G

October 14, 2008 8:17 PM | Link to this

Forget about the fact that Palin doesn’t have enough experience to be VP.

She’s too dumb to be VP.

She makes George Bush look like a genius.

Anyone who thinks “what newspaper do you read?” is a “gotcha” question should not be VP. Anyone who thinks that Alaska being the closest state to Russia and “Putin rearing his head over Alaska” is foreign policy experience is not qualified to be VP.

She is very dangerous because she doesn’t even care to try to learn. At the debate she basically declared that she was not going to answer the moderator’s questions and would just spew her memorized lines.

There are many reasons McCain is not qualified to be President, one of them being his picking Palin for VP.

Obama/Biden ‘08

By Midori

October 14, 2008 8:18 PM | Link to this

Maybe ACORN has been getting tips from this guy

ya think????

By Mrs.Godzilla

October 14, 2008 8:20 PM | Link to this

Mike B

Since your so fond of old viral e-mails we’ve all seen….can we see the one about Obama being a muslim too? Or please can we see the Madrassa file?

Perhaps some flag pin, or hand over the heart stuff? How about that angry Michelle meme? I won’t be able to sleep if you don’t show us the one about Obama being anti-semetic or the picture if him in a turbin.

Our day is not complete without being reminded of the terrorist connection.

Perhaps you should give the FBI or the CIA a holler….imagine them lettin’ a terrorist in the United States Senate.

What with the NSA hearing the troops pillow talk, you’d think they’d a picked up on that Senator O’Terrorist.

I imagine The Department of Homeland Security would love for you to pop in and bring them up to date on the clear and present danger that is Obama.

Yes, sir.

You go right ahead and do your duty.

You march yourself right up to the Immigration Department and show them that birth certificate you downloaded.

By Dmitriy

October 14, 2008 8:20 PM | Link to this

Jay, Why don’t you report on Mahoney? Or Obama-Rezko property purchase?

By Goldie

October 14, 2008 8:20 PM | Link to this

I can’t wait to hear John McSame come to the defense of his advisor, William Timmons, for his past lobbying for SADDAM HUSSEIN…

BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

By Goldie

October 14, 2008 8:22 PM | Link to this

RB— I think ACORN is equally as funny as DIEBOLD being owned by a Repugnant operative…

By @@

October 14, 2008 8:23 PM | Link to this

Just in case Paul returns:

From Strator — Iran’s request for talks comes amid rumors that the United States is discussing building a “coalition of the willing” of “like-minded countries” that would target Iran’s energy and financial sectors. Such a coalition would operate outside the U.N. Security Council, thereby bypassing the Russian and Chinese vetoes that have traditionally given Tehran a cushion.

The Iranians have become quite adept at smooth-talking their way out of sanctions through negotiations with the United States. As long as Iran can demonstrate engagement in the diplomatic arena, it will become harder for Washington to get unanimous support among its allies for hard-hitting sanctions.

But the Iranians must know that there is no one to negotiate with seriously at the moment in Washington. With the U.S. presidential race coming to a close, Washington is in transition, and it is unlikely to have the political capacity or patience to entertain Iran’s offer for negotiations. Any serious talks between Washington and Tehran will thus have to wait until the next U.S. administration takes office. In the meantime, Iran can attempt to skirt sanctions through talking about talks.

(snicker)

Also an article (very lengthy) about the difficulties that the next president will face on the Afghan/Pakistan border — terrain, tribal, security, long borders. Far more difficult than Iraq was.

(snicker)

Is OBlahMa up to the challenge? Nope!

By Frederick Douglass

October 14, 2008 8:26 PM | Link to this

Old lady: I’m afraid of an Obama presidency, he’s, he’s—-well he’s an arab.

John McCain: No maam he’s not. He’s a fine young man that loves his family. He wants to be president, I just want it more, and I’m prepared to do a better job.

What a sorry discourse, and what about the many Arab-Americans that were slandered in the exchange. Here are but a few: Barbara Dooley, Ralph Nader, General John Abizaid,Doug Flutie,Marlo Thomas,John E. Sununu,Paula Abdul,Jamie Farr,Paul Anka,Jeff George,and Kristol McNichol. The last time I checked, Ralph Nader was running for the same office as Obama and McCain.

By Goldie

October 14, 2008 8:26 PM | Link to this

Midori @ 8:18 — as always, you have the best links that get right to the point! And thanks for that link earlier to the Obama sign-printing site — that one’s gonna come in very handy for hand-held sign-waving on the street corners in the next couple of weeks!

By AJC/DNC Management

October 14, 2008 8:34 PM | Link to this

TOM BROKAW: This is not an overnight sensation we’re going through. There are lasting effects here. There’s a kind of systemic quality in many ways and people are going to have to reorder their priorities. It doesn’t mean we’re going to have to wear sackcloth, you know, and go around and just eat gruel every day. But there has to be a reordering — of our financial system and our attitude about debt, about credit card debt and how big a home do you need — and how much leverage are you going to [be] prepared to play with.

Got tiny hut?

By Danny the red

October 14, 2008 8:38 PM | Link to this

I get the laughs over Micky Mouse and the Dallas Cowboys not showing up to vote, but how many people with average names are they helping cheat the system?

But there is no evidence of this happening a single time. Nada. And don’t you think that’s strange considering that ACORN’s been around for decades?

And even if it had happened, why are we suddenly hearing this chorus now?

Which means, it looks an awful lot like we’re hearing this outcry now is because this is an organization who brings in more people with swords to gore YOUR ox than not.

Wrong issue! Try again.

By Midori

October 14, 2008 8:39 PM | Link to this

thanks very much, Goldie :) (about the GOP criminal link). He was just on Olbermann and in his opinion, this crap about ACORN is just another attempt by THE GOP to change the subject from the economy.

As for the signs, I printed signs for myself (for the house and my pickup) and several more for my neighbors.

Glad you like them.

By getalife

October 14, 2008 8:42 PM | Link to this

Red State comes thru

Where ya at LGF, free repube, mm, etc..

Is that it?

Come on, where is his illegitimate white kids?

By Nerd

October 14, 2008 8:42 PM | Link to this

Yes Sarah keep talking and do not shut up; it’s your right. But first tell us about Troopergate and Alaskan Independence Part; these will be your talking points after which you can go back to Alaska, open your windows and keep an eye on Russia.

By Midori

October 14, 2008 8:45 PM | Link to this

Postpone The Election.com is up & running for test (and your critiques) Postpone The Election.com ^ | October 14, 2008 | Stayfree

Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 6:41:27 PM by Stayfree

This is a grass-roots effort to petition the U.S. Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, the President, the U.S. Dept. of Justice, the Federal Election Commission, all affected political parties, the state officials responsible for overseeing elections and other interested parties to postpone the election because of thousands of felonies committed in the acts of rampant voter registration fraud across the nation perpetrated by agents of ACORN as a purposeful criminal conspiracy to deprive American citizens of their voters’ rights and their rights to due process under the U.S. Constitution in order to steal the election for Barack Obama.

must be friends of Andy, Mike, Bud and RB

By "The Corporal"

October 14, 2008 8:48 PM | Link to this

* Obama to Mrs. Obama: “Hide Yourself!” *

By GOPs got to go

October 14, 2008 8:50 PM | Link to this

Oh Dear God is there no end to her stupidity?

By Goldie

October 14, 2008 8:54 PM | Link to this

F.Douglas @ 8:25 — and let’s not forget about our great American hero, General Omar Bradley:

Barack Hussein Obama, Omar Bradley, Benjamin Franklin and other Semitically Named American Heroes

The ignorance of American history that comes from the mouths of right-wingnuts is truly astounding.

By AJC/DNC Management

October 14, 2008 9:02 PM | Link to this

As of today, we already know that the effect of thousands of bogus Democrat voter registrations would absolutely deny thousands of bonafide Republican and independent voters their constitutional right to participate and be heard in an honest election. This criminal ballot box stuffing puts the entire integrity of the election in serious jeopardy, and there is not sufficient time before the election to assure the American public that the outcome of the election will be not be a total fraud upon the American people. Unlike the “hanging chad” questions resulting from the 2000 Florida election where grave concerns about the validity of the election outcome arose after the election had already been held, this time there is strong evidence of rampant fraud occuring prior to the actual date of the election which clearly requires that the election be postponed to avoid an election that we know in advance will be clouded with severe unreliability. Given the fact that Congress basically ignored the overwhelming public objection to the Wall St. bailout bills, it is even more certain that serious legal action will be needed to postpone the election.

Real Americans concerned about the rights of real Americans.

Thanks for the link, i r o diM, I just joined them.

By TN Gelding

October 14, 2008 9:08 PM | Link to this

RW-(the original)

October 14, 2008 6:20 PM

He’s still out there.

By Rob

October 14, 2008 9:08 PM | Link to this

I’m a lifelong alaskan resident and ashamed to say Sarah Palin is our governor. If you know alaskan politics you know that Sarah pushes for what she wants, not what her constituents want. The recent news reports that show she violated the state ethics law only confirms this fact. I hope that my fellow alaskan residents stand togethor and ask that she resign.

By Mrs.Godzilla

October 14, 2008 9:09 PM | Link to this

Palin as President - Point and click

Make sure to open the door.

By Midori

October 14, 2008 9:13 PM | Link to this

Well Andy — I just knew they were “your” kind of people.

Do you guys order your strait jackets by the bulk?

By RB from Gwinnett

October 14, 2008 9:14 PM | Link to this

Goldie, if you have some evidence where Diebold’s leadership has programmed their machines to cheat dems in elections, please feel free to post the evidence here. I’m sure we’d all love to see it. Short of any evidence, we’ll just assume you’re a moron.

By Mrs.Godzilla

October 14, 2008 9:15 PM | Link to this

open the door a few times….

By Goldie

October 14, 2008 9:16 PM | Link to this

Rob @ 9:08 — how about we work on asking Sarah to resign from the McSame campaign first, and then y’all in Alaska can have her cadaver???

By Goldie

October 14, 2008 9:18 PM | Link to this

Mrs. G @ 9:09 — LOL! Love that “Maverick” poster next to the door, too! And I heard someone say recently that the only Maverick ever was James Garner…

By Mark

October 14, 2008 9:18 PM | Link to this

Sarah Palin, the biggest political mistake she ever made was accepting the VP nomination. She will be dragged down by her own party, because although they want to parade her around like a princess, the reality is they treat her like a pit bull with a muzzle own for good reason.

She is finished on the national stage, a one hit wonder that doesn’t have the credentials to run for higher office. McCain thought he could pull a fast one on the country and it backfired. Now, down by as many as 15 points in the polls he has sealed his fate and her political future.

At best she will be remembered for her wonderful interviews and Tina Fey’s dead on impersonation on SNL. The first episode that they didn’t actually need to change the original dialog. You can hate liberals, but we will run this country for the next eight years and you can all eat crow.

If John McCain and Sarah Palin couldn’t win an election running against using their own words, “a black radical Muslim terrorist” I think that by itself speaks volumes to what America as a whole thinks of McCain/Palin. Remember when you loose the election, you will be in the minority.

It’s time for change in America, and Obama is the best choice hands down.

By AL

October 14, 2008 9:20 PM | Link to this

HELP! HELP! I’m so afraid of Sarah Palin! HELP! HELP!

By RW-(the original)

October 14, 2008 9:21 PM | Link to this

Biden spoke to about 1,000 high school students and union members at an amphitheater in downtown Warren, a park-like setting starkly different from the boarded-up restaurants, closed gas stations and half-vacant shopping plazas on the city’s outskirts

As I said gelding, is Biden still running? I bet he was looking through those boarded-up restaurants to see if Katie’s Restaurant had been a chain when they closed 20 years ago.

By Goldie

October 14, 2008 9:23 PM | Link to this

Loves it! Sen. John Kerry was just on Rachel Maddow’s show and he mentioned that McSame’s is just asking for trouble when he accuses Obama of “palling around” with Ayers and then McSame has his advisor who has lobbying ties to Saddam Hussein… LMAO!!!

By Do the Math

October 14, 2008 9:23 PM | Link to this

Yes, I would like to hear Gov. Palin speak about tropergate and her abuse of the tax code. Conservatives, if there is such a person, should demand more information on her abuses of power.

I also wonder how much Mr. Palin’s snowmobile small business is loosing, and we are paying for, this year.

By Mike D.

October 14, 2008 9:24 PM | Link to this

Speak, Sarah, Speak. PLEASE!!! You’re a late night talk show writer’s fantasy.

By RB from Gwinnett

October 14, 2008 9:27 PM | Link to this

Danny, Be honest. Would you be this cavalier if it was a right wing group signing up phoney voters? You’d be screaming “stolen election” like you did back in 2000 and still are with all the rest of the liberal nut cases. You’ll cry foul from the highest rooftops if Obama doesn’t win like the polls show he will even though the same pollsters botched a fair number of the Dem primary predictions.

Don’t be a fool, Danny, voter fraud is a danger to all of us.

By Gaias Child

October 14, 2008 9:28 PM | Link to this

oh no, she’s eager to speak but the campaign is too smart to let her get off into her word salad displaying her colossal confidence in speaking out on issues with or without knowledge or experience. she’s famously inner directed and not at all dismayed by information contrary to her worldview. somebody called it Palinopsis which must be some sort of stew of synthesis, solipsism, and glib conviction. the whole world will weep if this woman ever represents our shining city on a hill.

By Goldie

October 14, 2008 9:29 PM | Link to this

RB @ 9:14 — you really make it too easy… for your education about Diebold, because you’re too damn lazy to educate yourself:

COLUMBUS - The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is “committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.” — The Aug. 14 letter from Walden O’Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc. - who has become active in the re-election effort of President Bush - prompted Democrats this week to question the propriety of allowing O’Dell’s company to calculate votes in the 2004 presidential election.

O’Dell attended a strategy pow-wow with wealthy Bush benefactors - known as Rangers and Pioneers - at the president’s Crawford, Texas, ranch earlier this month. The next week, he penned invitations to a $1,000-a-plate fund-raiser to benefit the Ohio Republican Party’s federal campaign fund - partially benefiting Bush - at his mansion in the Columbus suburb of Upper Arlington.

By Midori

October 14, 2008 9:29 PM | Link to this

LOLOL!!

MRS. G — HIT THE PHONE!!!

ROFL!!!!

By Goldie

October 14, 2008 9:32 PM | Link to this

Apparently there is a little bit of karma for Diebold’s CEO:

“After numerous ethical lapses and much controversy, Diebold CEO, Wally O’Dell resigned to the applause of the markets. Diebold’s price improved more than 5% today, as the story broke. Business Week is reporting that O’Dell is leaving for “personal reasons”, although the news blog Raw Story cites board action on imminent securities fraud litigation, and legal challenges by states claiming fraudulent certification of Diebold voting machines. Latest vulnerability tests show an impossibly negligent attention to vote security and privacy.”

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

October 14, 2008 9:36 PM | Link to this

Polls indicate McCain is down fourteen points. The election is lost and there’s only one thing left for Bush to do: TERRORIST ATTACK. It’s coming, and soon!

By Goldie

October 14, 2008 9:41 PM | Link to this

Mrs. G & Midori — love that dinosaur background outside the window, too!

By Goldie

October 14, 2008 9:43 PM | Link to this

Don’t be a fool, Danny, voter fraud is a danger to all of us.

Yeah, RB — and look where your Diebold election rigging got America today… thanks a bunch for your ignorance.

By CwnBt

October 14, 2008 9:44 PM | Link to this

The biggest disappointment for Hyde Park’s liberal Democrats was Mr Obama’s failure to oppose the political machine of Richard Daley, the powerful Mayor of Chicago, or to condemn its excesses and abuses. Indeed, he endorsed the mayor for re-election in 2007 even though Mr Daley’s administration had suffered a string of indictments and corruption scandals. Weeks later Mr Daley reciprocated by backing Mr Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Nobody accuses Mr Obama of acting illegally or — with the possible exception of his house purchase — even improperly during his Illinois years. His defenders argue, with justification, that he did what was required of any aspiring young politician with few connections in Chicago to succeed. Some Chicagoans, however, find his present efforts to portray himself as a champion of political change a little rich. “If you fail to speak out on issues that affect people here in Chicago, what would make me feel you’re going to speak out for the American people on issues of substance when you become president?”, asked Ms Cobb, the strategist. “He’s a very pragmatic person,” Ms Preckwinkle said, choosing her words with care. — The Times

By Midori

October 14, 2008 9:46 PM | Link to this

Goldie: “where’d Russia go???”

LMAO!!!

By AJC/DNC Management

October 14, 2008 9:47 PM | Link to this

Can you just imagine what would be going on if it had been Sarah who said she hung out with average people in a restaurant that had closed it’s doors twenty years ago?

As it is now, these liberals don’t have squat on Sarah and they still natter on like a bunch of magpie’s.

Freaks.

By AJC/DNC Management

October 14, 2008 9:49 PM | Link to this

Aahhh, yes, these Devil Rays are lots of fun, aren’t they?

By RB from Gwinnett

October 14, 2008 9:49 PM | Link to this

Goldie, even you aren’t that stupid (I think…).

I asked for evidence Diebold machines were programmed to defraud elections. Do you have any evidence or don’t you? Put up or shut up.

I don’t care who the CEO supported or when. The fact is, the CEO of every company supports somebody and to assume the company’s products are questionable because of it is just plain stupid. Not surprising coming from you, though.

By justmyopinion

October 14, 2008 9:51 PM | Link to this

You liberals are a very evil and scary bunch, much more scary than Obama, Biden, McCain or Palin.

By TN Gelding

October 14, 2008 9:53 PM | Link to this

RW-(the original)

October 14, 2008 9:21 PM

Randy Evans has respect for him.

By RW-(the original)

October 14, 2008 9:56 PM | Link to this

Just your average Joe

Why doesn’t Team McCain have an ad called American Dream featuring Joe on the air right now?

Mrs. G.,

Be sure to spin the globe a few times too.

By RW-(the original)

October 14, 2008 10:11 PM | Link to this

geelding,

A trial lawyer that’s impressed with a Democrat that also happens to be a lawyer??? Stop the presses!!!

Geez.

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

Sixth Circuit orders Ohio to implement new system to verify voter registrations

Ohio is fast becoming a laughingstock. Quick! Better find another baseless Sarah’Cuda rumor to dangle out there for cover.

By TN Gelding

October 14, 2008 10:13 PM | Link to this

RW-(the original)

October 14, 2008 9:56 PM

Most of us need to have our taxes raised, then Joe wouldn’t have to take such a big hit.

By Andrew

October 14, 2008 10:16 PM | Link to this

Why isn’t the ‘liberal media’ reporting on Bill TImmons or Anti-American Alaskan Independence Party?

Why isn’t the ‘liberal media’ reporting on Bill TImmons or Anti-American Alaskan Independence Party?

Why isn’t the ‘liberal media’ reporting on Bill TImmons or Anti-American Alaskan Independence Party?

Why isn’t the ‘liberal media’ reporting on Bill TImmons or Anti-American Alaskan Independence Party?

Why isn’t the ‘liberal media’ reporting on Bill TImmons or Anti-American Alaskan Independence Party?

Why isn’t the ‘liberal media’ reporting on Bill TImmons or Anti-American Alaskan Independence Party?

By AmVet

October 14, 2008 10:26 PM | Link to this

It is likely that Sarah BarraCluelesswill be the final nail in Senator McCain’s coffin.

I was hopeful he would not blow the biggest choice he had to make in this election, and it appears that he did that very thing.

What a shame that he did this to himself for such a small time hack…

By Keeping It Real

October 14, 2008 10:28 PM | Link to this

I do not believe that the McCain campaign is keeping Ms. Sarah under wraps. It is Todd. This guy is creepy and I do believe that it is unwise to get him anywhere close to the White House. This group that he has some history with has put more emphasis on how dangerous Ms. Sarah is to America. She is not stupid and I would like to hear her talk more to see where she really is in her thought process. Beware of wolves from Alaska wearing lipstick in sheep clothing. She is a very dangerous person who knows how to shoot a gun. Anarchy comes to mind.

By TN Gelding

October 14, 2008 10:30 PM | Link to this

RW-(the original)

October 14, 2008 10:11 PM

He’s one of Newt’s supporters.

And general counsel of the Georgia Republican Party. I was struck by his objectivity for a partisan. Something few on this site display.

By Caroline

October 14, 2008 10:32 PM | Link to this

I find it comical that no Sarah fan on this blog can bring themselves to admit that she is a lousy speaker in the worst way. Come on, you may love McCain but he chose a joke for a running mate.

The truth hurts!

By Mike K.

October 14, 2008 10:32 PM | Link to this

Jay,

I’ve been a Republican all my adult life, but I have to say I’m embarassed with this ticket.

The campaign’s been terrible and unfocused and — let’s face it — Palin’s cute but a ditz. If she has to stop and think about what newspapers she reads (and still can’t answer) what’s she going to do when a general barges in and says someone’s firing nukes? Can you say “deer in the headlights”?

Yup, this ticket’s a dud. I’m embarassed for my party.

By AmVet

October 14, 2008 10:40 PM | Link to this

Christopher Buckley, son of the late conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr., is one of a small group of conservative writers who have abandoned John McCain over the last two weeks. Others include David Brooks, the house conservative at The New York Times, and Kathleen Parker, who also writes for the National Review Online as well as newspapers. On Monday, they were joined by Heather Mac Donald, a columnist with the conservative City Journal, a leading urban affairs think tank and magazine.

Like the others, Mac Donald was especially critical of McCain’s selection of Palin, who she described as inexperienced and inarticulate.

“I know, it’s elitist to expect a candidate for president or vice president to speak like an adult,” Mac Donald wrote in a column Monday entitled “Gettin’ All Mavericky.”

“There was a time, however, when conservatives upheld adult standards — such as clarity of speech and thought — without apology, even in the face of the relentless downward pull of adolescent culture. But now, when a vice-presidential candidate talks like a teenager, mugs like an American Idol contestant, and traffics in syntactical dead-ends and non sequiturs, we are supposed to find her charming and authentic.”

By Mr. Snarky

October 14, 2008 10:44 PM | Link to this

Sarah does a great job of motivating her base. To bad that’s like 30% of the country. The rest of us are not impressed. Constant attacks on the media get tiresome pretty quick.

By "The Corporal"

October 14, 2008 10:46 PM | Link to this

To Mike K.

I’m not all that fond of the ticket either. But that’s not the point. As bad as they may be they are still far better than a Socialist/Marxist ticket. If you can’t see that Mike - sorry, but you may be in the wrong party.

BY THE WAY:

**COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered Ohio’s top elections official to set up a system by Friday to verify the eligibility of new voters and make the information available to the state’s 88 county election boards.

The full 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati upheld a lower court ruling that Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner must use other government records to check thousands of new voters for registration fraud.

A three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit had disagreed last week, but the full court’s ruling overturns that decision.

Ohio Republicans had sued Brunner, a Democrat. Her spokesman had no immediate comment Tuesday.**

By jonny2cash

October 14, 2008 10:47 PM | Link to this

McCain owes us an apology for Palin. An obviously unqualified individual who is exactly what Republicans gave us with Bush and what a disaster he has been. Palin President, only thing worse is McCain.

By UNREAL

October 14, 2008 10:47 PM | Link to this

What is so difficult about voting — if you don’t have an approved ID you don’t vote; if you’re an illegal immigrant you don’t vote (or have access to ANY other US programs); and, if you’re a felon you don’t vote!!! How can we allow ACORN to get away with their voter fraud??? This is worse than voting in a third world country!!!!

By RW-(the original)

October 14, 2008 10:48 PM | Link to this

gelding,

I may have gotten lost in the juvenile triviality of your posts, but do you have a serious point to make?

I believe this started because I mentioned that Biden was less visible than Claude Rains these days.

By jonny2cash

October 14, 2008 10:49 PM | Link to this

McCain owes us an apology for Palin. An obviously unqualified individual who is exactly what Republicans gave us with Bush and what a disaster he has been. Palin President, only thing worse is McCain.

By jonny2cash

October 14, 2008 10:49 PM | Link to this

McCain owes us an apology for Palin. An obviously unqualified individual who is exactly what Republicans gave us with Bush and what a disaster he has been. Palin President, only thing worse is McCain.

By Mr. Snarky

October 14, 2008 10:50 PM | Link to this

Palin is authentic. Authentically stupid. If she’s ever in the White House, I’m moving to Australia.

By jonny2cash

October 14, 2008 10:52 PM | Link to this

McCain owes us an apology for Palin. An obviously unqualified individual who is exactly what Republicans gave us with Bush and what a disaster he has been. Palin President, only thing worse is McCain.

By jonny2cash

October 14, 2008 10:54 PM | Link to this

McCain owes us an apology for Palin. An obviously unqualified individual who is exactly what Republicans gave us with Bush and what a disaster he has been. Palin President, only thing worse is McCain.

By jonny2cash

October 14, 2008 10:54 PM | Link to this

McCain owes us an apology for Palin. An obviously unqualified individual who is exactly what Republicans gave us with Bush and what a disaster he has been. Palin President, only thing worse is McCain.

By Tinsel

October 14, 2008 10:58 PM | Link to this

Good, we don’t want snooty liberals here in our America snarky. Nothing but Joe the Plumbers for us hard working Americans..

Got your passport ready?

By TN Gelding

October 14, 2008 10:59 PM | Link to this

professional skeptic

October 14, 2008 8:10 PM

A courageous, honest man.

By Tinsel

October 14, 2008 11:00 PM | Link to this

Obama owes you an apology for playing you as fools.

By RW-(the original)

October 14, 2008 11:01 PM | Link to this

Heather Mantovani is a design student who sent us her ideas for helping folks in this politically charged season to better understand fundamental differences in sociopolitical ideals. The first is called “Fish or Fishing Pole?” (.pdf) Heather suggests you fold the card in half and stand it on the TV while watching political debates. After each candidate offers a plan or idea or response, the card reminds you to evaluate whether the candidate is offering you a fish (something to help you only briefly) or offering you a fishing pole (to help you to sustain yourself better from now on). Great idea!

Downloadable props for tomorrow’s debate if you will. It certainly beats the OBlahMa printable signs we saw earlier.

By Delta is ready

October 14, 2008 11:01 PM | Link to this

Mr Snarky, why wait? You and Baldwin can leave ANYTIME! I’m sure you won’t be missed.

By AmVet

October 14, 2008 11:01 PM | Link to this

Caroline, I may be wrong about this, but I don’t expect the neo-cons to change one iota. Even after they get humiliated again in this upcoming election.

Yes there are a tiny few independent thinkers in the once Grand Old Party but they are going to have one h&lluva time trying take over the reins from the remaining Bush/Rove thugs.

The faux conservatives have demonstrated time and again, that their awful agenda trumps everything - ration, reason and results.

Mix that with a barely educated base, that believes the earth was created in six days, and hubris so astounding they actually feel like they’ve done nothing wrong at all, and you have the recipe for another forty years of the GOP being on he outside looking in.

By Tinsel

October 14, 2008 11:02 PM | Link to this

Dictators rule third world countries. Obama’s dreams are to dictate.

By Tinsel

October 14, 2008 11:04 PM | Link to this

Constant attacks by liberals on our military get tiresome pretty quick.

By Rest on the 7th

October 14, 2008 11:09 PM | Link to this

AmVet, You’re off the subject, but do you have PROOF it wasn’t created in six days? I thought NOT!

By RW-(the original)

October 14, 2008 11:10 PM | Link to this

Caroline,

As usual Blowhard is a verbose and clueless windbag. If it wasn’t for Palin, McCain would be down about 75/25 to the Marxist.

By AmVet

October 14, 2008 11:14 PM | Link to this

McCain’s problem, of course, is that the RINO gave the scumbags pretty much a free pass back in South Carolina in 2000.

And rather timidly let them smear him with vile and scurrilous untruths. It simply ran contrary to his image as a fighter.

So, many Americans, I suppose, lost a lot of respect for him when he capitulated to BushCo and their despicable “agents of intolerance”.

Then, of course, he had no real option but to play relatively nice with the creeps and thus ultimately connect himself to them in a way that he could not get around.

The choice of the empty dress, Palin just formally ended his chances.

By O-Dam-a!

October 14, 2008 11:15 PM | Link to this

“I’m voting for Barack because….”

WTF?

By Mr. Snarky

October 14, 2008 11:16 PM | Link to this

Snooty liberal educated elites vs. Joe the Plumber. Joe doesn’t need elites until he has a heart attack or wants to sue somebody or wants an education. But then who needs education when you’ve got the conservative echo chamber to help you nurse your grievances and conspiracy theories. Don’t blame Obama for the state of the military. Bush attacked the military by sending it on multiple wild goose chases and stretching it thin. Enough deployments to Iraq will test anybody’s patriotism.

By Red, White & BLUE

October 14, 2008 11:24 PM | Link to this

Mr Snarky, with NObama we WON’T have a military, just soldiers doing Katrina type missions!

By Mr. Snarky

October 14, 2008 11:25 PM | Link to this

Unfortunately, Australia might not be far enough is Sarah “end all be all” gets her finger on the button. Antarctica might be the only safe place from that grammatically challenged nut. On the other hand, polls show that most Americans see her for what she is, an overly ambitious empty vessel who thinks she can win their support by scaring them. As w says…fool me once shame on you…won’t get fooled again. Get ready to taste the bitterness of defeat, you angry people.

By Tinsel

October 14, 2008 11:25 PM | Link to this

Liberals would be knee-deep in s** without Joe the Plumbers.

By TN Gelding

October 14, 2008 11:26 PM | Link to this

RW-(the original)

October 14, 2008 10:48 PM

*Just that you have blinders on.

I didn’t realize I was in such sophisticated company. Sorry.

By AmVet

October 14, 2008 11:26 PM | Link to this

Rest, the earth has been scientifically PROVEN to be about 4.5 billion years old.

Pick up a science book, sometime. You’ll see, it’s all in there.

Ricky retardo, right on cue. Speaking of scientifically clueless idiots, have you counted all those holes in the fossil record yet? (or is it Albert Hall?)

And, how did it feel giving away that $200,000 to charity. ROTFLMAO!!

Let me guess - Save the Whales?

Go vote for Sarah and Saxby, ballerina…

By Rest

October 14, 2008 11:35 PM | Link to this

AmVet, sorry for you, but when that day comes and it WILL, you’ll be like the other non-believers “roasting and toasting” and wishing for another chance…Say hello to Adolf and Ted Kennedy!

By Mr. Snarky

October 14, 2008 11:35 PM | Link to this

Of course plumbers are needed as are elites. Do you want Joe the Plumber driving your 757? But don’t listen to me, you’ve got the right wing radio to feed you myths about “elites” who look down on you. It’s really the Rush Limbaughs of the world who look down on you, feeding you garbage and making millions in the process. Bill O’Reilly is looking out for you! That’s a laugh.

By crudmudgeon

October 14, 2008 11:36 PM | Link to this

I find it interesting that Sarah Palin somehow claims to have negotiated the gas pipeline project in Alaska for the betterment of America. What she did was screw American companies out of a huge payday and thousands of jobs. Instead she gave the project to a Canadian company! 30 Billion of America’s money down the rat hole to a Canadian firm. So much for believing in America, right Sarah?

By DING DING DING

October 14, 2008 11:36 PM | Link to this

HOWARD IN HARLEM

GOBAMA GOBAMA

TOO FREAKIN FUNNY!

By RW-(the original)

October 14, 2008 11:38 PM | Link to this

Blowhard,

As we both know you failed on both counts so how did it feel to cough up that four bits? Assuming you’ve checked enough gutters to find the coin.

Not only that but you ran away and hid once I offered you the bet which I suspect is your first inclination in all circumstances of confrontation. Show me the proof, loser, and I’ll hold up my end of the bargain. Will you when you can’t?

/Not bloody likely, or in your case even possible.

By TN Gelding

October 14, 2008 11:39 PM | Link to this

Futures are down.

By O-Dam-a!

October 14, 2008 11:44 PM | Link to this

How about those Harlem voters?

Are they elites?

Didn’t Bill, the first black president set up shop in Harlem?

Didn’t do much to educate them did he?

By AmVet

October 14, 2008 11:51 PM | Link to this

Right-ee-o, Rest.

Thanks for the heads up.

I’ll get my snowballs ready. Or maybe marshmallows and wienies!

And thanks for the faux concern that is generally reserved for your fellow bigots, I suppose.

But you can continue to look for redemption in that goofy superstition and mythology of yours, OK?

Ricky Rich Man, I’m positively shocked, shocked I say, that your offer to give away 200 large, as you so quaintly put it, to charity, was not authentic.

I’ll say it again, ballerina, I’m still laughing my arse off at that one! I mean, who the h&ll wouldn’t?!

You’ve given up ALL pretenses at being something other than a TOTAL fraud, haven’t you, you Reich-wing tool?

Get some rest, ricky, you’re gonna need it. The next three weeks are going to get real ugly for you Palineolithic flat earth boys.

By TN Gelding

October 14, 2008 11:53 PM | Link to this

Testing.

By Mr. Snarky

October 14, 2008 11:55 PM | Link to this

No, and I don’t want those folks in Harlem performing surgery on me either…or fixing my pipes for that matter.

By O-Dam-a!

October 15, 2008 12:04 AM | Link to this

I don’t want them voting but Obama’s ACORN sure does.

By MikeB

October 15, 2008 12:22 AM | Link to this

Sarah Palin is alot less scary as VP, then Barrack Obama is as President.

Sarah Palin is alot less scary as VP, then Barrack Obama is as President.

Sarah Palin is alot less scary as VP, then Barrack Obama is as President.

Wow that liberal blog tactic looks good. I think I’ll steal it and call it my own.

Kinda like what Barrack Obama does with Deval Patrick speeches.

Dems break out every tactic in the book and expect all to look the other way. They collude with people who despise what America stands for and then go hide behind the freedoms this country provides all citizens vs. taking the next train out to the place that does it better….

What place is that? Its nonexistant, so the liberal Democrats want desperately to erase the advantages we the hard working ambitious Americans enjoy.

They want the power, so they can make everybody else cookiecutter and generic. Reliant on the democratic machine for all of their needs….. Something out of a Sci/Fi novel……. We will tell you when to do what, and how to do it, and you will be happy with it.

Lazy Atlantans rejoice! Your ship has come in…….. Unless Obama does not win….Then where will we see you??? Marching down Peachtree St. tipping over cars?????

Most Americans I know, want to work, and want to keep more of what they earn. Giving it to the government so they can provide wellfare in return for votes is not an option. Anyone who wants the opportunity to make more money and is willing to work hard to make it happen is seeing right through the Obama hype with no substance brainwashing of lazy, dependent Americans. Funny how of all the people I know from all over the country, none have been contacted by a pollster.

It aint over till its over, no matter what you believe.

McCain-Palin 2008

By Tinsel

October 15, 2008 12:23 AM | Link to this

November 4, 1997 Ayers will be joined by Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama, Senior Lecturer in the University of Chicago Law School, who is working to block proposed legislation that would throw more juvenile offenders into the adult system; Randolph Stone, Director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic at the University of Chicago; Alex Correa, a reformed juvenile offender who spent 7 years in Cook County Temporary Detention Center; Frank Tobin, a former priest and teacher in the Detention Center who helped Correa; and Willy Baldwin, who grew up in public housing and is currently a teacher in the Detention Center.

Just a guy in his neighborhood.

By RW-(the original)

October 15, 2008 12:30 AM | Link to this

Run and hide, Blowhard!

Give me your proof and I’ll happily give the 200 large to the Leukemia Foundation in your name. I figure that even if you were man enough to admit you lost the best you could come up with would be about a half dollar so I’m not asking you for any evidence of your contributions.

It ain’t rocket science. Prove your point and I’ll issue proof of my donation.

By zeke

October 15, 2008 12:36 AM | Link to this

Jay, you are about as ignorant as that witch I saw on msnbc tonight! She could just not help herself gleefully speaking down about McCain and more than gleefully praising Obama! No biased media! LOL!! You ignorant cusses would sell the freedom of the country down the drain just to satisfy your socialist agenda! Mark these words! IF YOU IGNORANT LIBERALS ELECT THIS SOCIALIST, WITHIN 2 YEARS YOU WILL BE BEGGING TO IMPEACH HIM FOR THE RAMPANT CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS HE WILL MAKE IN ORDER TO TURN THE USA INTO AN IMAGE OF THE SOVIET UNION, CUBA OR VENEZUELA!

By AJC/DNC Management

October 15, 2008 5:30 AM | Link to this

Bruno flatly rejects idea of running again-Urinal/PMS

Hillary Clinton puts the chances of her running for president again at near zero —- slightly higher than the chances she gives for becoming Senate majority leader or a Supreme Court justice.

Yeah, right.

Every time this woman opens her mouth she lies.

They’ll be campaigning for Bruno 12 on Nov. 5th.

After McBushie wins.

By AJC/DNC Management

October 15, 2008 5:34 AM | Link to this

Did Queen Pinko really denounce race baiting and then one paragraph later go right back to race baiting?

By AJC/DNC Management

October 15, 2008 5:42 AM | Link to this

Those Republicans who stood against the bailout bill aren’t seeing similar drops. In fact, some House members who remained against the bailout were seeing five to seven point gains in their district polling.-AmSpec

It just goes to show you that “bipartisanship” will get you thrown out of office.

Go for their throats, Repugs.

By AJC/DNC Management

October 15, 2008 5:49 AM | Link to this

If Sen. Obama were truly looking for a kind of deregulation that might be responsible for the current financial crisis, he need only look back to 1998, when the Clinton administration ruled that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could satisfy their affordable housing obligations by purchasing subprime mortgages. This ultimately made it possible for Fannie and Freddie to add a trillion dollars in junk loans to their balance sheets. This led to their own collapse, and to the development of a market in these mortgages that is the source of the financial crisis we are wrestling with today.

In the summer of 2005, a bill emerged from the Senate Banking Committee that considerably tightened regulations on Fannie and Freddie, including controls over their capital and their ability to hold portfolios of mortgages or mortgage-backed securities. All the Republicans voted for the bill in committee; all the Democrats voted against it. To get the bill to a vote in the Senate, a few Democratic votes were necessary to limit debate.

Instead, by his own account, Mr. Obama wrote a letter to the Treasury Secretary, allegedly putting himself on record that subprime loans were dangerous and had to be dealt with. This is revealing; if true, it indicates Sen. Obama knew there was a problem with subprime lending — but was unwilling to confront his own party by pressing for legislation to control it. As a demonstration of character and leadership capacity, it bears a strong resemblance to something else in Sen. Obama’s past: voting present.-Wall Street Journal

By Analchord

October 15, 2008 6:07 AM | Link to this

I’m surprised Bookman accepts Rush’s credibility. (sarcasm)

The little old hag from John’s Townmeeting, who claimed to read, said Obama was an Arab. McCain winced, and although he’s no actor, his expression said it all. This is what’s left of conservatism folks. This is the vestige of the Evangelical Bush Base who extorted patriotism for war, who deformed education into superstition, and whose national policies are now being exorcized as so much projectile.

No so much Old Reaganism as Old grey mare-ism.

By delerious

October 15, 2008 6:19 AM | Link to this

Say, Sarah, speaking of voter fraud? What about the “Reps” in FL in 2000? The news about hanging chads and people who didnt “smell right” being turned away at the polls probably didn’t make it all the way to Alaska. Admittedly, it’s a long distance.

By AJC/DNC Management

October 15, 2008 6:31 AM | Link to this

Not only would Oblahma bring back the draft, he would subject women to it:

In a roundabout way, Obama’s campaign staff has acknowledged that Obama favors full-blown women in combat. “Women are already serving in combat [in Iraq and Afghanistan] and the current policy should be updated to reflect realities on the ground,” Wendy Morigi, Obama’s national security spokeswoman, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “Barack Obama would consult with military commanders to review the constraints that remain.”-Nuemayr, AmSpec

By AJC/DNC Management

October 15, 2008 6:45 AM | Link to this

The FBI has reportedly begun its own preliminary investigation into an ABC News report that West Palm Beach Congressman Tim Mahoney (D-FL) hired an alleged mistress to work on his official staff and then paid her $121,000 to keep her from going public and filing suit after she was fired.-ABC

By GaLiberal

October 15, 2008 7:26 AM | Link to this

This is a typical tactic of Rethuglicon candidates. They claim the “left-wing media” (whoever they are the Rethuglicons never say) is in a conspiracy to shut them up. They repeat this over and over at rallies so the seed has been planted. Then, of course, they don’t hold any press conferences, or appear on shows, or do anything that would disrupt the illusion. People then start believing the lie. But it’s still a lie. A manipulation of people. So why do the Rethuglicons resort to lies and manipulation? Because that’s all they have; they can’t win on the issues. I’ll remember in November. Will you?

Let’s not forget that a BIPARTISAN (that means both Democrats AND Rethuglicons) commission found that she abused her authority in firing the state’s top trooper. She violated the state’s ethics laws and her oath of office. Will she be impeached for this? Probably not. The Rethuglicons control Alaska with an iron fist so she’ll get a free pass. I wouldn’t want someone willing to use the Office of the VP for personal gain (a la Dick ‘Chicken’ Chaney), but obviously the Rethuglicons think that’s ok.

When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And Sarah Palin’s lies are living proof.

By jedclampette

October 15, 2008 7:38 AM | Link to this

Obama Once Confessed That He Is A Radical - In his book “Dreams from my Father”, Obama confesses that he harbors the same negative racial stereotypes as Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his mentor for 20 years. On pages 198 to 204, Obama says that black nationalism, a steady attack on the white race would be justified if it could deliver. On page 100, Obama says he went out of his way to choose Marxist professors as his friends. Obama wrote: “To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully, the more politically active black students, the foreign students, the Chicanos, the Marxist professors and punk rock performance poets.”

By Copyleft

October 15, 2008 7:43 AM | Link to this

Yep, Mahoney apparently had a mistress. And already, the right-wing morons are comparing this to Mark Foley’s homosexual overtures to underage Congressional pages.

Because an affair is the same thing as illegal pederasty, you betcha!

By GaLiberal

October 15, 2008 7:56 AM | Link to this

This is a typical tactic of Rethuglicon candidates. They claim the “left-wing media” (whoever they are the Rethuglicons never say) is in a conspiracy to shut them up. They repeat this over and over at rallies so the seed has been planted. Then, of course, they don’t hold any press conferences, or appear on shows, or do anything that would disrupt the illusion. People then start believing the lie. But it’s still a lie. A manipulation of people. So why do the Rethuglicons resort to lies and manipulation? Because that’s all they have; they can’t win on the issues. I’ll remember in November. Will you?

Let’s not forget that a BIPARTISAN (that means both Democrats AND Rethuglicons) commission found that she abused her authority in firing the state’s top trooper. She violated the state’s ethics laws and her oath of office. Will she be impeached for this? Probably not. The Rethuglicons control Alaska with an iron fist so she’ll get a free pass. I wouldn’t want someone willing to use the Office of the VP for personal gain (a la Dick ‘Chicken’ Chaney), but obviously the Rethuglicons think that’s ok.

When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And Sarah Palin’s lies are living proof.

By hillbilly ragger

October 15, 2008 7:59 AM | Link to this

Poor thing-posting-as-jedclampette @ 7.38.

Reduced to recycling lies emailed to him. or maybe he surfed to a hate site…Hey, did you get this latest hate-mail clip from this joint?

It’s got a “chilling video about the indoctrination of public school children in Kansas City, showing them marching in camouflage uniforms and chanting mindlessly about Obama.” OOOH! teh SKARY!!!

You Republicans, you know, there are less than three weeks left. You could emerge from this thing with some semblance of class and dignity intact. You really could. Ever think about trying that, for a change?

By Shawny

October 15, 2008 8:08 AM | Link to this

I would like to hear about troopergate too, the big non-event that it is. How about lets talk about something important. Like how you do not want a super majority and a same party president.

Excerpts: “…the Democrats can, with a super-majority, change the rules of the game. They can make the District of Columbia the 51st state with two new senators (guaranteed to be Democrats in perpetuity). “

“Nearly all economists agree that two moves by the Hoover administration deepened and prolonged the panic of 1929 and turned it into the Great Depression. One was raising taxes and the other was imposing protectionist trade policies. Senator Obama proposes to do both of those things. “

“While Obama is killing jobs by taxing the productive, he proposes to “renegotiate” NAFTA and other trade deals thus putting the one bright corner of our economy, the export sector, in his crosshairs. “

“Obama has a million schemes to redistribute the wealth of the top 5 percent, (who by the way, already pay more than 50 percent of the taxes in our steeply progressive system). “

Nobama

By Goldie

October 15, 2008 8:19 AM | Link to this

Let’s hear some more about McSame “palling around” with a lobbyist who loved Saddam Hussein!

Who’s a terrorist-appeaser now, huh, HUH???

By Peter

October 15, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this

Well we want Sarah to speak………..put another Pump in her mouth…….

She is Sooooooooooooooooo Intelligent !

By ESR

October 15, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this

I can wait out four years of Obama; I have a fixed pension that’s only pennies away from six figures (military officer-35 years)not predicated on my 401, that’s just gravy…added on top. I have less than zero expectations of Obama or Congress or whomever Obama brings to the table in the form of his cabinet. However, I think the unrealistic lofty goals others have of the man will fall light years short of their goals. The same folks that failed during the Bush years will continue to slide, fall and fail under Obama. Their credit scores of 400-500 will remain the same. They’ll continue to make poor lifestyle choices that will only serve to galvanize their rung on the soci-economic ladder. They’ll still be bottom feeders. When they look up to the heavens in a year or two and see that The One The Only Obama didn’t deliver what was expected and their earnings, low in the first place, will be subjected to higher taxes…..order in the world will be restored and all the pieces will fall back into place. Yessir…I can ride this out. Can you?

By E

October 15, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this

There actually is a candidate for president who associates himself with terrorists…

And it’s McCain!

Wonder if Obama might bring this up tonight when McCain pulls out the Ayers card?

Obama/Biden ‘08

By TN Gelding

October 15, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this

ESR

October 15, 2008 8:42 AM

You didn’t get where you are by being that pessimistic.

Cross that bridge to the 21st century with us. It was another bridge to nowhere under Bush.

By Dagny and John's Love Child

October 15, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

Here is the fundamental issue in the election - If you offer any reason that you disagree with Obama, you are branded a racist - so, most Americans are so deathly afraid of that label that they dare not speak their mind.

I saw a hysterical bit where Howard Stern went out on the streets of Harlem and asked the random man on the street who they were for - Surprise, surprise, they were for Obama - he then asked what they liked most about him, but offered up McCains positions, not Obama’s, and no one called them on it - Oh, I agree with him that we should stay in Iraq, or I agree that Stem Cell Research is bad - Even agreeing that he made the best choice if picking Sarah Palin for VP - these are the morons who are voting strictly on race, and no one calls them on it -

My buddy has it right, he has an 18 year old who is voting for the first time, and voting for Obama - he told him that every dollar that Obama takes from him in extra taxes are coming out of his kids pockett - less money for food, clothes, and college - you want to vote for him, you pay the consequences - this is the same position I am taking with my employees - the Obama supporters will be the first to go - - - believe me, they are not that difficult to spot.

I wonder how Obama picked his cut off for screwing tax payers - what number can we throw out that will offend the fewest people? I wonder what’s going to happen if he gets his policy of collecting 45% on all death taxes above 3.5M - that sounds great right, screw those evil rich b******* - but, at the end of the day, when all of the farmers are no longer able to keep the family farms generation after generation, who is going to feed you lazy asses? You don’t want to have guns, so you can’t hunt - you are not smart enough to grow you own food, so you willl simply die - or beg your almighty savior to force those who can to take care of you whilst you continue to blame those who can for your failures.

By misterearl

October 15, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

Game Recognizes Game

… is an expression used commonly on the urban landscape - and is a perfect explanation why most women are turning away from sarah palin in droves.

Women have a strong intuitive radar which trumps everything noisy, glamourous and superficial. It can spot a lie a mile away. Ask any man who dared to challenge it.

Plain has yet to prove anything of substance to gain the trust of women - who are not distracted by the winks, the legs or the sexy hair.

Whether it is Rachel Maddow, Katie Couric, a REAL working mom, or Andrea Mitchell - ms palin is not willing to have that conversation. Not now. Not ever.

It ain’t that deep

By Lee

October 15, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this

I agree that Palin should hide from the world and speak only to her base. After all, if she ever did became president, she wouldn’t represent the whole country, just her base. The bankers. The nutcases. The government contractors. The racists. The Alaska Independence folks. Bush thinks that way. So does Cheney. So does her sidekick (aka “the Maverick”).

Yah! Sure! Doggoneit! You betcha!

By Peter

October 15, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this

Poor Jim Whooten talking about the Great Depression…….

That will be coming into play November 5th…….

Hopefully he and his Blog will be up and running after that……..

He can double up on his meds then !

By "The Corporal"

October 15, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this

To Mike K.

I’m not all that fond of the Republican ticket either. But that’s not the point. As bad as they may be they are still far better than a Socialist/Marxist ticket.

If you can’t understand that Mike - I’m sorry, but you may be in the wrong party.

By Peter

October 15, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this

Hey……..By “The Corporal”

Have you read this……….

HONOLULU, Hawaii (CNN) — Bobby Maxwell kept a close eye on the oil industry for more than 20 years as a government auditor. But he said the federal agency he worked for is now a “cult of corruption” — a claim backed up by a recent government report.

Bobby Maxwell, a long-time auditor of the oil industry, says his former agency is corrupt “top to bottom.”

Maxwell, a registered independent, said the shift in attitude at the agency began about seven or eight years ago, about the time the Bush administration came into power. He said he was discouraged from aggressively auditing oil companies.

Yes we all need 4 more years of Corruption with the REPUBLICAN’s in office !\

By the way ……do you think Sarah Palin wears Pumps, when she is in a Helicopter shooting Wolves and Bears ?

By Dagny and John's Love Child

October 15, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this

By Lee

October 15, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this

I agree that Palin should hide from the world and speak only to her base. After all, if she ever did became president, she wouldn’t represent the whole country, just her base. The bankers. The nutcases. The government contractors. The racists. The Alaska Independence folks. Bush thinks that way. So does Cheney. So does her sidekick (aka “the Maverick”).

And Obama isn’t going to pander to his base? You know, the shiftless, the losers, the “it’s not my fault my life sucks”, the “I’m not old enough to understand how politics work, so screw mom and dad”, the true racists, you know Jeramiah Wright and his crowd, the Muslims who are getting him elected?

You MUST be joking, right? You think having 30% less in your bank account is going to make things better? How can you cut taxes for the 40% who don’t pay a friggin dime?

By Copyleft

October 15, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this

Heh. Corporal is always reliably amusing with his little “socialist/Marxist” tantrums.

As if the Democratic platform or Obama were even LIBERAL, let alone “socialist!” Clearly he has no idea what the word means… probably because Hannity and Coulter haven’t bothered to define it for him.

By David

October 15, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

Andy said, “Sarah is out speaking to the base, duh, why would she want to spend her time convincing a bunch of brainwashed dimwits?”

She is doing just that by speaking to her base.

By Maniac is accurate

October 15, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

Your only goal Bookman, I suspect, is sport. You would delight in what you expect would be Palin wilting under tough but, ahem, “fair” questioning from the now-nearly-unabashedly leftist media. You and they are no longer public servants, but a pack of jackals. Hope you’re happy about that.

By TN Gelding

October 15, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this

Dagny and John’s Love Child

October 15, 2008 9:18 AM Thanks for paying more than your “fair share.”

By she's a dimwit (but hot)

October 15, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this

sit, sarah, sit rollover *now here’s a treat.

another $1700 per person from the rest of the US for the 600,000 malcontents in your wack-job state.*

AJC/DNC Management can’t you do anything better than cut-n-paste? if you insist on cut-n-paste, at least, provide something more compelling than punditry drivel, you tool.

By Keep it real!

October 15, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

To AJC, @@,

I guess the economy will is still the issue since the stock market had one great day! It must be tough for you guys nothing seems to be going right!

We need Governor Palin more than ever, Mrs. Palin is represents the comedy side, flirtation side and the I have no clue what I am talking side of this president election process!

By John

October 15, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

Ms. Palin is playing a dangerous game with the American people. The “base” needs to use the same measuring stick on her that they have used on Obama. Of course they will never do that.

FYI. ACORN is not a “Black” organization. They are not being investigated for voter fraud, it is for registrations. There is a difference. It is the responsibility of the states to weed out the bad registrations.

By she's a dimwit (but hot)

October 15, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

sit, sarah, sit rollover *now here’s a treat.

another $1700 per person from the rest of the US for the 600,000 malcontents in your wack-job state.*

AJC/DNC Management can’t you do anything better than cut-n-paste? if you insist on cut-n-paste, at least, provide something more compelling than punditry drivel, you tool.

By Howard

October 15, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

Tell it like it is….if ever there was someone crying wolf it is Sarah Palin. As you say, the media is more than willing to give this airhead airtime. All she has to do is hold a press conference and she’ll get plenty of play…on news shows, fake news shows and comedy shows. The funny thing is, and its sad but true, she’s going to make a mint as the darling of the conservative speaking circuit after this election. Imagine the speaking engagements she’ll get because conservative women want to be like her and conservative men want her. McCain’s loss is her gain. She should, at the very least, pay him a finder’s fee….

By MikeB

October 15, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

Sarah Palin is alot less scary as VP, then Barrack Obama is as President.

Sarah Palin is alot less scary as VP, then Barrack Obama is as President.

Sarah Palin is alot less scary as VP, then Barrack Obama is as President.

Wow that liberal blog tactic looks good. I think I’ll steal it and call it my own.

Kinda like what Barrack Obama does with Deval Patrick speeches.

Dems break out every tactic in the book and expect all to look the other way. They collude with people who despise what America stands for and then go hide behind the freedoms this country provides all citizens vs. taking the next train out to the place that does it better….

What place is that? Its nonexistant, so the liberal Democrats want desperately to erase the advantages we the hard working ambitious Americans enjoy.

They want the power, so they can make everybody else cookiecutter and generic. Reliant on the democratic machine for all of their needs….. Something out of a Sci/Fi novel……. We will tell you when to do what, and how to do it, and you will be happy with it.

Lazy Atlantans rejoice! Your ship has come in…….. Unless Obama does not win….Then where will we see you??? Marching down Peachtree St. tipping over cars?????

Most Americans I know, want to work, and want to keep more of what they earn. Giving it to the government so they can provide wellfare in return for votes is not an option. Anyone who wants the opportunity to make more money and is willing to work hard to make it happen is seeing right through the Obama hype with no substance brainwashing of lazy, dependent Americans. Funny how of all the people I know from all over the country, none have been contacted by a pollster.

It aint over till its over, no matter what you believe.

McCain-Palin 2008

By Tell it all, Bookman

October 15, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

Hearing Sara speak is both funny and frightening at the same time. She either tries to slime Obama with false accusations and innuendo or she lies about her own record. That right, she lies. For example, she LIED when she said the bipartisan legislative report found she had done nothing unethical. To the contrary, the report expressly stated that she had acted unethically.

The bottom line is that Sara is a right wing nutjob and totally unqualified to be Vice President. She’s not a populist. She’s just stupid.

By word salad

October 15, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this

i, for one, am looking forward to another hysterical serving of sarah palin’s word salad.

it is truly funny watching and listening to her try to say “something.” what that something is….? she will keep us guessing.

mmmm… delicious word salad.

By RenaP

October 15, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

I like Sarah Palin a lot. To me she seems like a great mom, she seems to have a very good marriage, and she is a really funny lady. She is also a strong lady and has made great accomplishements.

I don’t believe however that she is ready for Washington.

By Keep it real!

October 15, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

Please, McCrazy unleashed the Palin bulldog, Palin pitbull and Palin german shepard .

Americans are hurting and we need to laugh!

I see why so many are calling the Republican party or conservative party is a racist party. We all know that acorn is representated by all races but yet fellow conservatives/republicans claim this organization represents minorities.

Sometime during the next decade everyone will realize we have to work together to continue be the best country in the world!

We cannot be considered a great nation if we are divided!

By Dino

October 15, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

WAKEUP, People!!!

LOOK AT THE ISSUES (THE TRUE ISSUES, NOT OBLAHMA’S VERSION):

• HE DOES “PAL” AROUND WITH A KNOWN TERRORIST, AYERS (TO TO SPIN IT ALL YOU WANT LIBERALS….THE MAN STARTED HIS POLITICAL CAREER IN AYER’S HOME) AND THOSE SUBVERSIVE TO AMERICA (REV. WRIGHT COMES TO MIND). AFTER SPENDING 20 YEARS IN THE MAN’S CHURCH, HE NEVER HEARD HIM TALK DOWN ON AMERICA…..RIGHT, OBLAHMA, RIGHT (WHAT A BUNCH OF BS!!).

-THE ECONOMY IS IN SHAMBLES DUE TO FANNIE MAE & FREDDIE MAC, WHICH I BELIEVE WAS CHAMPIONED BY THE DEMOCRATS AND WHEN MCCAIN WAS TRYING TO PUT REGULATION ON THEM TO REIN THEM IN (SO WE WOULD NOT HAVE THIS ECONOMIC DISASTER), THE DEMOCRATS VOTED HIM DOWN!!!

-THE PRESIDENT JUST SIGNS BILLS OR VETOES THEM AND TRIES TO GET CONGRESS TO PASS HIS BILLS….THE CONGRESS IS THE ONE WHO SETS POLICY AND PUTS THE PORK INTO THE BILLS THAT HURT THIS ECONOMY…..SO, THE ONES YOU SHOULD BE BLAMING RIGHT NOW FOR THIS CRISIS ARE THE LEADERS IN CONGRESS….LET ME SEE…WHY, THAT WOULD BE THE DEMOCRATS!!!! (SO, GIVE IT A REST….PELOSI, REID, AND EVEN THE ANOINTED ONE, OBAMA ARE TO BLAME FOR THIS MESS, NOT BUSH). THE LAST 4 YEARS HAVE BEEN A SHAMBLES….EVER SINCE PELOSI AND THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER THE HOUSE (SORRY, IF YOU DO NOT LIKE THE TRUTH, BUT STOP SPREADING FALSEHOODS ABOUT BUSH WHO CANNOT SET ECONOMIC POLICY - IT WAS PELOSI/REID AND THEIR CRONIES & THEIR EFFORTS OR LACK THEREOF)

-OBAMA IS TIED UP WITH ACORN AND HAS FUNDED THEIR PLANS (SO, THEREFORE HE IS SUPPORTING THIS CURRENT RASH OF VOTER FRAUD…LIKE IT OR NOT, DEMOCRATS IT IS THE TRUTH)

-OBAMA IS INEXPERIENCED AND YOU CAN MOAN ALL YOU WANT ABOUT IT….THE MAN HAS BEEN CAMPAIGNING FOR THE LAST 2 YEARS (BY THE WAY, YOU ARE WORRIED ABOUT PALIN AS THE VICE PRESIDENT WITHOUT EXPERIENCE…..WHY WOULD YOU NOT BE WORRIED ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC CHOICE FOR THE TOP JOB AS PRESIDENT BASED ON YOUR SAME ARGUMENTS OF INEXPERIENCE?….I MEAN SHE MIGHT BE A STEP AWAY, BUT HE COULD ACTUALLY BE THE TOP GUY….THINK ABOUT IT PEOPLE!!)

By Keep it real!

October 15, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

Wow Dino,

I guess you did not attend business school.

Since the government gave Fannie and Freddie $200 billion. They are giving banks and investment banks $1.4 trillion.

Dino you should never post when you are lacking real knowledge about the economics of America.

Since Mr. McClain works accross the aisle and the Republicans had control of the Senate in 2005.McClain only signed onto the bill he did introduce the bill himself.

Can you please tell the world why this bill did not pass thru the senate finance committee?

A REPUBLICAN WHITE HOUSE A REPUBLICAN CONGRESS A MAVERICK ALIENATES HIS OWN PARTY LIMITED REGULATIONS= A VERY BAD ECONOMY WORKING AMERICANS

By TN Gelding

October 15, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this

Dino

October 15, 2008 11:26 AM

Have the courage to cross that bridge to the 21st century with us.

FL back to tossup.

By Jim

October 15, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this

They’ll hide that lying sack of sh@t Palin long enough to lose the election. Then she’ll become an evangelist for some creepy church. She has nothing to intelligent to say, so they just want to muzzle her and just have her looking pretty - very McLame and I can’t take it seriously at all.

By Jim

October 15, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this

They’ll hide that lying sack of sh@t Palin long enough to lose the election. Then she’ll become an evangelist for some creepy church. She has nothing to intelligent to say, so they want to muzzle her and just have her looking pretty - very McLame and I can’t take it seriously at all.

By Jim

October 15, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this

They’ll hide that lying sack of sh@t Palin long enough to lose the election. Then she’ll become an evangelist for some creepy church. She has nothing to intelligent to say, so they want to muzzle her and just have her looking pretty - very McLame and I can’t take it seriously at all.

By glenn

October 15, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this

One thing is for sure…I will be putting an “O” The President sticker on all of my cars in 20 days!!!!

By Lynnie Gal

October 15, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

Jon Stewart’s Daily show Monday featured Sarah Palin running from reporters who were shouting questions, begging for something, anything, that would show that she can actually form words that are coherent without preparation or teleprompters. Stewart surmised that Palin is always late for something and doesn’t have time for reporters questions. She has never given a press conference, never sat down on a Sunday news talk show, and has only taken softball questions from Katie and Charlie that she failed to answer intelligently. Sorry, but this blame the press idea is just lame.

By Dagny and John's Love Child

October 15, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this

By glenn

October 15, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this

One thing is for sure…I will be putting an “O” The President sticker on all of my cars in 20 days!!!!

And I will make a mint marketing FU-BO stickers for everyone elses cars…. When you get lemons you make lemonaide - when you get communists, you have to make more money so that you can afford to at least keep your kids in the schools where everyone knows that O adds up to zero.

By Captain

October 15, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this

You liberals in the so called mainstream media are beside yourself with anger over McCain picking Palin. Never has there been so much bias and venom spewed towards a female candidate. Jay, Sarah Palin’s biggest mistake is she isn’t a Democrat. If she was a Dem then you, ABC Katie Couric, the kooks at MSNBC, the CNN crowd, NBC, NY Times, the Hollywood lefties would be fawning all over her every word. She would be lauded and proclaimed as a GREAT leader, a woman of vision, the poster woman for NOW, she would be, as the kids say, the Bomb. But she’s not worthy in any of your eyes for one reason, and one reason alone….she’s not a Democrat.

Joe Biden is a Democrat.Joe can suggest people visit a diner where his constituents are discussing every day how bad the economy is, how desperate they are for help, where McCain and Palin might find out how ‘real’ Americans feel. Unfortunatley, that diner closed for 12 yrs. ago. Or, you might listen to Joe tell Katie Couric how Franklin Roosevelt went on TV to calm the nation’s fears as the Depression began. There was no TV in 1929 or 1930 and FDR was yet to be elected. Joe has made numerous, multiple totally false and often goofy statements. However, since he’s a 30 yr Democrat U S Senator he is given a “FREE PASS”. Geez, Jay, wouldn’t you rather hear Joe talk more? Everytime Joe talks he misspeaks, but you so conveniently forget that.

I would like to hear more about Obama’s tax plan. I wonder how it is that the Top 5% of wage earners already pay over 50% of Fed Inc taxes yet they aren’t paying enough? I wonder how it is of the 95% that Obama says will get a break on taxes, over 35% PAY NO TAXES now, how will get a tax break? If you aren’t paying taxes, you can’t get a tax cut. Unless, Obama is going to send them checks. IN that case, wouldn’t that be Welfare? Sure it would. Small businesses are going to be hammered by the Big O Tax. People who pay no taxes will get checks, tax money they’ve not earned nor paid to the Treasuryout of the pockets of those who “EARN” what they make. That’s just plain wrong.

Robin Hood was the most respectable Socialist in history. He stole from the Rich to give to the Poor. Barack Obama is today’s Fairy Tale Robin Hood, unfortunatley he’s for real. Make no mistake, taking from those who already pay high taxes and have paid the price to be successful and earn a good living to give to those who pay no taxes is a form of robbery, it’s better known as Socialism. Barack Obama’s tax plan is redistrubution of the wealth, a plan favored by Lenin. Jay, how about discussing that Fact instead of fretting over Sarah not answering enough of your questions.

By MikeB

October 15, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this

To Glenn- You very well be putting an “O” sticker on your car after the 4th….. A year from the 4th would be the time to celebrate, but if Obama does get in you probably won’t be able to afford the celebration because your paycheck was chewed up to pay for $1.3 Trillion in socialist programs.

Lynnie- John Stewart’s daily show is a hack job….. If you consider that show “objective”, in its coverage then I’m Bill Gates and I’m going to donate my entire fortune to the Obama campaign….

Do you really think Sarah Pailin will get treated fairly by George (Lil Bill Clinton)Stephanopolis? Get real……. None of the Sunday morning shows are unbiased and impartial and everyone knows it(Thats why Libs & Dem’s flock to them and why conservatives and Republicans avoid them) so why go there and get attacked by Obama surrogates masquarading as mainstream media.

Please…. Go sell stupid somewhere else.

By it's pathetic...

October 15, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

it is so obvious by the tone and content that of the arguments from the right, that this election will be landslide democrat year. the republican arguments are hollow and no one cares about all of the hannity/limbaugh/rove generated crap.

By Ed

October 15, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

ACORN is not black organization, per se. However, it’s entire reson for being is to help black people. True, many white (young) people help within the organization as volunteers. The white kids are usually from upper middle class liberal backgrounds. ACORN is the primary reason for the banking nightmare. Suddenly home owmership became a right and not a privilege. ACORN demanded in hostile and threatening ways; they staged sit-ins and demonstrations at banks, even showing up at the homes of bank officials. They demanded banks give loans to blacks who had credit scores that otherwise would not qualify for a department store credit card, yet they received loands in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for homes. The large majority of these loans ended up in foreclosure. For a bank not to give a home loan to a high risk black with a credit score of under 400 was considered, byt ACORN to be racist. Obama wanted the 750 billion dollar bail out passed. Obama called each member of the black politcal causus over and over on the day of bail out vote asking his fellow black political allies to go along with the vote. He assured each menber of the black polical causus help with the loans that ACORN helped to secure. ACORN has a very, very close friend in Obama. ACRON is under voter fraud investigation in several states and already sixteen ACORN officals have plead guilty to voter fraud. Obama has to win or ACORN fails. ACORN has a very, very good friend in Obama. We’re doomed.

By glenn

October 15, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this

To MikeB…$1.3 trillion in programs???Thats just the beginning of the spending to right all of the wrongs of the worst 8 years in US government history…how can you still be a repugnant after these past 2 terms…wait a moment,you are a koolaid drinker arent you?

By atlSeeker

October 15, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this

God please I never want to hear that ignorant woman speak again. That awful accent is like nails on a chalk board. She is a crazy as all the right wing simpletons. It doesn’t matter now anyway. Their “savior” Mr. Bush has created a socialistic nation like Europe, and ensured the Republicans are a washed up group in need of a new name and brand. Perhaps they could drop the Elephant and use something more in line with their totalitarian views like…..a swastika!

By Williebkind

October 15, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this

JIM; Obama’s momma is white trash….How does that compare to Sara Palin.

By MikeB

October 15, 2008 3:02 PM | Link to this

Glenn- I suppose you think we should have just roled over and played dead after 9/11???

Who’s drinking the Kool Aid now……….

I have family in the military, as well as personal friends throughout our armed services…. 95% thought the invasion of Iraq was justified. Never will you hear those kinds of endorsements from the lib. media tho…….

Iraq was run by a Dictator some in our governemnt thought we could control. He was embarrising us and gassing his own people. Their may not have been Nuke WMD’s, but there were plenty of Chemical WMD’s found, and plenty of gravesites where Iraqi people had been buried as a result of their use.

Was I happy my relatives were going to Iraq and AFG? No ….No way..

Did it need to happen absolutely. For any other reason than it kept people fighting there.. vs. coming to American soil and perpertrating other acts.

Not fear mongering, just the truth. My older brother was in the Special Forces up until he retired. He could tell you plenty of stories about situations here in the U.S. that could have gotten out of hand post 9/11 but were squashed, because of good intel gathered in Iraq and AFG.

I know you libs don’t want to hear that, but just because its not blowing up in front of your face, it does not mean that there was not a plan being worked on to do it…… If you think for a second that there are not schemes being tossed around by those extremists in Iraq or AFG today, then you are just plain naive.

It costs money to deal with this… Lots of money to protect the a*’s of unappreciative American citizens…. George Bush understood that he would not be popular once the 9/11 effect wore off…. He went forward anyway, because he beleived it to be the only way to take the fight to terrorism.

Did he make mistakes? Hellyea….. Did some of his cronies benefit? Hellyea…. Would other Presidents take care of their friends in the same situation if they could? Hellyea… Has he done his best to protect Americans from another 9/11 ABSOLUTELY…. You should thank God it was not Al Gore that won the Presidency back in 2000……. The world would be way more screwed up than it is at present.

Secondly Not a President, but look at what Nancy Pelosi, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank and others were going to make us swallow with the bailout bill, look at how they ignored the signs of trouble in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while sitting on their hands for 3 years… This BS contributes just as much to the financial mess we are in as does the war. WEhile Bush is responsible for the war, Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, and Frank should be ashamed of their lazy do nothing congress that they ran for 3 years. That is criminal….Especially when their cronies pocketed millions, and are now advising the Obama campaign.

By TN Gelding

October 15, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

* MikeB*

October 15, 2008 3:02 PM

Almost 90% think war is retaliation for Saddam’s role in 9/11, most don’t blame Iraqi public for insurgent attacks

Troops ready to come home in 2006?

By MikeB

October 15, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

Never said Bush or the Military blamed the Iraqi public TN…. You are twisting things if you imply that I did.

Under a dictator or socialist state, the citizens are always going to be at the bottom of the barrel, while the powerful enjoy 500,00 sq. ft. Palaces like Saddam did.

He was an ally once…..Our foreign aid intended for the Iraqi ppl. built those palaces. Some thought he could be an ally again, but after all the collusion with Bin Laden and his minion, the only thing to do was get rid of him and his funding of these extremists with American foriegn aid money from the Carter Administration..(Remember the Iranian Hostage Crisis……. Saddam got boatloads from Carter and Reagan during that time period. One of Reagan’s few mistakes).

Bottom line pragmatically speaking it was not the American population suffering…… It most certainly would have been if Al Gore was in office at the time. he would have delt with things just like “Wild Bill”….. Toss a missle at it and forget it…. Send warriors to perform humaintarian/diplomatic/political missions(Somalia) vs. sending warriors to do what they are trained to do, what they should have done…….

If this is what you want, you will get this under Obama, and you will be sorry, but by then, it will be too late.

McCain-Palin 2008

By jj

October 15, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered..LOL

By TN Gelding

October 15, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this

MikeB

October 15, 2008 3:49 PM

No, it was the almost 90% think war is retaliation for Saddam’s role in 9/11, and that most of them were ready to come home in 2006.

I just don’t understand why they don’t see they were used as bait to draw jihadist into Iraq that would have been home making babies otherwise. 1993! 2001! 2009? Look for al Qaeda to try something during the confusion that comes with a new administration.

Bush WAS on duty on 9/11, altho he was missing in action.

By jmpfjoy

October 15, 2008 7:27 PM | Link to this

I don’t think they are “holding her back” as much as they are realizing that, without a prepared script, this woman cannot put together a lucid thought. To let her answer questions or have a press conference would be the final death blow for any chance McCain may still have in this election.