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By None votes in Georgia

September 3, 2008 9:05 PM | Link to this

Dem machines is rigged by private corporations we cain’t even see the computer code because its protected by the repubs

By Casey Cheyanne

September 3, 2008 10:41 PM | Link to this

Oh. My. God. Are facts completely irrelevant to this Giuliani guy? They’re just making #%$^@! up! What a load of hooey.

Somebody needs to tell McTwinkie that Grampa McGrumpy called his wife the c-word in public before she prattles on about “character.” That’s worth a load of buckshot in the face. Where’s Cheney when you need him?

By Casey Cheyanne

September 3, 2008 10:46 PM | Link to this

Oh. My. God. Are facts completely irrelevant to this Giuliani guy? They’re just making #%$^@! up! What a load of hooey.

Somebody needs to tell McTwinkie that Grampa McGrumpy called his wife the c-word in public before she prattles on about “character.” That’s worth a load of buckshot in the face. Where’s Cheney when you need him?

By Where's my hat?

September 3, 2008 11:05 PM | Link to this

The cheering throng of whitebread zombies act like they didn’t just spend 8 years supporting the biggest failed policies in US history! AS IF it’s Obama’s fault, and not their own, that the bill of rights has been shredded, we’re NINE TRILLION dollars in debt, and our soldiers are dying in the wrong country while Bin Laden remains free. HELLLOOOOOOOO? These weren’t Obama’s failures. REPUBLICAN VOTERS: YOU failed. Stop cheering like you’ve been asking for change all this time, and McSaintly is going to save you from the evil doers. YOU ARE THE EVIL DOERS. You.

By The Way

September 4, 2008 7:28 AM | Link to this

Great Speech! Palin’s only gaff came when she failed to thank her husband’s pit crew.

Her magnanimity became obvious when she told the throng how she forgives her husband for his clubbing (baby seals).

By Churchill

September 4, 2008 7:40 AM | Link to this

She’s nasty and childish. I can’t believe my once great party would even joke about entrusting the security of our nation to this person. Republicans used to be the party of national security. How could this have been allowed to happen?

By The Way

September 4, 2008 8:08 AM | Link to this

Palin’s husband races snowmobiles? Then why was Palin’s daughter watching submarine races?

oh, that’s good. Am I the best? No really. Am I?

By Left

September 4, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this

Why do I get the impression Sarah Palin was the only one of the many asked by McSame to be his Veep that said “yes.”

She is a total joke and you people should be ashamed and embarrassed by her.

I’ve moved from going to vote for Obama. To going to vote for, campaign for, and send money to Obama.

By The Truth Comes Out

September 4, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this

Great speech by an impressive woman who made great points about the dumbocratic tickets inexperience.

By Churchill

September 4, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this

PALIN: “I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending … and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress ‘thanks but no thanks’ for that Bridge to Nowhere.”

THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a “bridge to nowhere.”

PALIN: “There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform _ not even in the state senate.”

THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.

PALIN: “The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars.”

THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama’s plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain’s plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.

Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.

He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.

MCCAIN: “She’s been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America’s energy supply … She’s responsible for 20 percent of the nation’s energy supply. I’m entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America,” he said in an interview with ABC News’ Charles Gibson.

THE FACTS: McCain’s phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she’s no more “responsible” for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state _ by population.

MCCAIN: “She’s the commander of the Alaska National Guard. … She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,” he said on ABC.

THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under “federal status,” which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska’s national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.

FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin “got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States.”

THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor’s election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.

FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: “We need change, all right _ change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington _ throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin.”

THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.

By The Truth Comes Out

September 4, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this

Great line: I guess being a Mayor and Governor is sort of like being a community organizer except you have real resposibility. Tell em Governor Palin! McCain/Palin 08! NObama done nothing - fat mouth Biden NO 8!!!

By Churchill

September 4, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this

McCain campaign honcho Rick Davis has confirmed that the speech written specifically for the VP nominee has been re-written to tone down the masculine tone. Because it was written, you see, before the speech writers knew who would deliver it.

Sarah Plain is an experienced on-air personality, just like Willard Scott but not all fat and stuff. Her mad teleprompter skillz will serve her well, and all of America will at last know just what kind of woman will sit a faint, skipping heartbeat away from the Oval Office.

Yes indeed, just another straight talking mavericky Republican who speaks from the heart. Just not necessarily her heart.

Supporting the Old White Guy and his foxy Sock Puppet. It is the Right Thing to do.