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DEL.ICIO.USMcCain’s choice of Palin erases doubts
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The only question now is the spread, the over/under.
Vice presidential candidates rarely affect election outcomes. The selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will.
On the Friday it is announced, the sun is gloriously bright in Atlanta, appropriate to the mood of the Republican Party. In one morning, it becomes entirely clear: John McCain can be elected president of the United States. He can win and in the process make history.
The first woman on the winning presidential ticket won’t be a liberal Democrat. It’ll be a conservative, a working-woman conservative, a mother of five married to a commercial fisherman.
With her selection, it is possible to begin to fully understand the devotion most blacks have to Barack Obama and to the prospect that he could be the first black to occupy the Oval Office.
Sarah Palin is that historic figure for women and for the conservative movement.
Conservative women in politics often find themselves without the support network that the good ol’ girl network represents for Democratic women or the good ol’ boy network represents in both parties.
When women of the left speak of “women’s issues,” they speak always of women as though they are of one mind, and it is theirs. When they complain that not enough women are in high places, it’s not conservative women they seek to promote. In fact, I can never remember in the Georgia General Assembly or elsewhere women of the left objecting to the perceived mistreatment or glass ceiling that affects women of the right. More commonly, they are vilified in the same way that most blacks of the left vilify Justice Clarence Thomas.
Two decades ago, when women were just beginning to move into judgeships and other important political positions, I thought they would revolutionize public service, primarily because they were outsiders. They were not of the good ol’ boy networks. Unaffected and uncorrupted by an inherited culture, they could therefore be reformers. They could promote ethics and transparency and accountability because they were not invested in the system.
Truth be told, women in power have been changed by the culture more than they have changed it.
But Sarah Palin, perhaps because she came to power as an outsider in a state with an ingrained culture of political corruption, is still the fighter, still the reformer, still committed to ethics, transparency and accountability in government. She’s a fiscal conservative with the courage to cut the budget and tell Alaskans to lessen their dependence on federal largesse. She’s fresh. She’s real. She’s the Washington outsider untainted by the culture that exists there.
Any misgivings I had about John McCain as the Republican standard-bearer are erased by his boldness in choosing Palin.
When successful in November, she will give the nation an opportunity to see a confident conservative woman who knows what she believes, and who practices what she preaches. She is pro-life, for example, and nobody in American can question her convictions. When faced with the option of aborting a child she and her husband knew would be born with a condition that would require their lifelong care, she chose life. It’s not an abstract with her, nor is it a political power game. It’s life. She’s genuine.
Yes, she’s inexperienced on national security and foreign policy issues. Yes, she most likely won’t be able to name the prime minister of some obscure Third World nation and can be tripped up in the “can-you-name” games that journalists play. Yes, Alaska’s a small state. Yes, she has only two years’ experience as governor — though that’s two years more of actual decision-making experience than any of the three men the two parties will nominate.
But as the number-two, the seasoning will come. And while Alaska is small, she has demonstrated that she can make decisions that taxpayers see as in their best interests, which is why her approval numbers are through the roof.
This week’s the Republican convention. There’s no need there to harp on the choices the Democrats have made.
Instead, remain upbeat and introduce America to Sarah Palin. They will love her. Oh, happy day.
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By alan
August 30, 2008 6:33 AM | Link to this
I agree that Palin has a good stand on many issues that I believe in as a conservative voter, I don’t believe we can overlook the fact that she is totally unqualified to be Commander n Chief if anything happens to McCain. He is 72 and has had cancer four times. This scares me to death that someone this raw could be leader of the free world.
By Sue Bee
August 30, 2008 6:48 AM | Link to this
Jim—
Don’t put Sarah Palin’s home state,. Alaska, as a small state. It is quite small in its population base, but big in territory and resources. While I had always planned to vote for Sen.McCain, Gov. Palin is the icing on the cake. She knows what it is like, I believe, to be concerned with every day things: the cost of groceries and school clothes,helpng out with fund raisers for school and children’s games, being sure that everybody has something clean to wear tomorrow, etc. On another front, time, she has taken on her fellow Alaskan Republicans and won. Big John surprised us all and he couldn’t have done better!
By Jim
August 30, 2008 6:59 AM | Link to this
….and this is who you want to be President if the 72 y.o. cancer survivor dies????????
By Vincent
August 30, 2008 7:14 AM | Link to this
You are right on the money, Jim. Choosing Sarah Palin was brilliant. A smart, tough, woman with principles that she’s not afraid to put into practice, both in office and in her private life, and someone who shares McCain’s prolife convictions and passion for reform. She will galvanize conservatives, attract moderates, and charm everybody. Attacks on Palin for any alleged lack of experience will backfire, since she has more executive experience than Obama. This a ticket with character, a ticket with a passion for reform, a dream ticket….a winning ticket! The leftists, the press, and Democratic operatives are understandably testy about all of this. Too bad for them!
By jon
August 30, 2008 7:15 AM | Link to this
Since when did the Obamaniacs become worried about experience.
They are just upset because she’s prettier than he is.
By Harry
August 30, 2008 7:16 AM | Link to this
It’s ironic that the Dems don’t realize that they have nominated someone just as inexperienced for the top slot in Barack Obama. At least Gov. Palin will be in a job that will give her the experience to be President should something happen to McCain.
By marko
August 30, 2008 7:17 AM | Link to this
I like what Little I know about Palin, but I don’t know much about her. She is obviously popular with the pro-life anti- freedom crowd. Those folks are certainly entitled to their opinions, and bless their little hearts, they feel that were entitled to their opinions as well. They love America it’s just Americans they can’t stand.
By BS Aplenty
August 30, 2008 7:29 AM | Link to this
Listen to the liberals howl about inexperience. But wait, Jim, maybe they’re correct.
Sarah Palin doesn’t have nearly Obama’s experience with America-hating leftists like Wright, Ayers and Pfleger, that Obama does.
And for that kind of “inexperience”, the leftists think her unqualified to lead the America.
Sarah Palin is the breath of fresh air that the country is looking for.
McCain/Palin ‘08 - The Right Kind of Change
By catlady
August 30, 2008 7:29 AM | Link to this
“McCain’s Choice of Palin Erases Doubts” Boy, that’s the truth. It erases doubts that the Republican party will do ANYTHING to pander and pimp.
By Cynthia_Tucker_Racist
August 30, 2008 7:30 AM | Link to this
Cynthia Tucker is a Racist. Thank god for you and your articles though I’m not sure how you like working for such a liberal news paper! Tucker reminds me of oprah ….only voting for obama becasue he’s black or half atleast.
By Paul
August 30, 2008 7:35 AM | Link to this
Oh, happy day!
Democrats have been put in “check” on virtually every major issue.
By catlady
August 30, 2008 7:37 AM | Link to this
“She knows what it is like, I believe, to be concerned with every day things: the cost of groceries and school clothes,helpng out with fund raisers for school and children’s games, being sure that everybody has something clean to wear tomorrow, etc.”
If these are the credentials to be a good vice president, there are a lot of nannies (even illegal alien ones) that are ready to step into the role!
By OpinionsMatter
August 30, 2008 7:40 AM | Link to this
Republicans are praising Palin for making the decision to keep a child she knew would be born with Down Syndrome. Yet, how can she care for her five-month-old child while on the campaign trail? So much for family values. This points out the fundamental hypocrisy with the Republican approach on pro-choice and abortion: all they care about is whether the baby is born, not what kind of life the child will have afterward.
By OpinionsMatter
August 30, 2008 7:44 AM | Link to this
Republicans are praising Palin for making the decision to keep a child she knew would be born with Down Syndrome. Yet, how can she care for her five-month-old child while on the campaign trail? So much for family values. This points out the fundamental hypocrisy with the Republican approach on pro-choice and abortion: all they care about is whether the baby is born, not what kind of life the child will have afterward.
By Think Rationally
August 30, 2008 7:48 AM | Link to this
Harry: “At least Gov. Palin will be in a job that will give her the experience to be President should something happen to McCain.” Are you serious, a woman that you never heard of two days ago who was mayor of a town of less than 8,000 two years ago should be vice-president of the United States and gain her experience to be President of the United States on the job? All this hoopla because she is woman with alleged ideals that are as far right wing as you can get - a hockey mom who is pro NRA, anti-abortion even for cases of rape and incest (make a child raped by an uncle who is pregnant at 14 a criminal - is that our values now?) Republicans cannot be so knee jerk and desperate to want a second runner up beauty queen who is documented to have the least experience in national and international issues than anyone nominated as Vice President of the United States in the history of the country. This speaks more of give me a reason to cheer than what would happen if she was called on to decide to invade or not invade Iraq. This is not a choice between her and Obama, this is a choice between her and any number of qualified women in the Republican Party - an experienced black women would have sealed the deal. Doesn’t anyone think rationally anymore? And guess what, I’m a Cobb County Republican tried and true. American politics has become a joke that the whole world is laughing at people and every day we give the world more reason to believe we do not have a clue.
By Mytwocents
August 30, 2008 7:48 AM | Link to this
Finally, a breath of fresh air in the political arena. Someone who is an outsider of the same old Washington politics. I say give her a chance. She will have opportunities to learn and shadow. We need an independent voice instead of the tired old Washington politics and selfish agendas by both political parties. I am glad McCain chose Palin. It is interesting to think about Hillary’s year of 2012 and her possible contender of Palin. Hillary might be slighted again this time by Palin who began as a relatively unknown Washington outsider. Let the fun begin!
By CJ
August 30, 2008 7:53 AM | Link to this
Once again, Republicans have demonstrated that they have two standards—one for the Dems and another for themselves.
Palin, a governor of a state with a smaller population than Dekalb County’s for less than a year and a half, is a fine choice for the far right: anti-choice, pro-environmental destruction, anti-science, pro-assault weapons, supports the borrow and spend policies of Bush, pro-100 years in Iraq,…
On the other hand, after repeatedly bashing Obama’s lack of experience (so-called), McCain picks, and Republicans hail, a person who has one ounce of experience for every pound of experience that Obama has and one ounce of experince for every ton of experience that Joe Biden has.
In short, according to Jim Wooten and associates, lack of experience is a liability if you’re a Democrat, but it’s okay if you’re a Republican.
And to think that there are people who still take these clowns seriously.
By spankmonkey
August 30, 2008 7:59 AM | Link to this
Visionary? or gratuitous? Do any of you nutsacks think she would’ve been selected if Hilary and Obama hadn’t of done so well? McSame was scared into this “historic” selection. If there weren’t so much clucking out there about the prospect of a “minority” being elected to the presidency, McSame would’ve picked another corrupt, rich, white, old man to be his running mate.
As usual you interpret political expediency (on the GOP’s part) as political acumen. This was a choice forced of McSame by the actions of Hillary and Obama…
And this flaming liberal is seriously considering punching that ticket. I’ve been dissappointed by McSame time and time again, but I still like him. His VP choice may be gratuitous, and I am not one of those ends justify the means types, but it looks fairly solid (so far…).
When I look at Obama closely, I see an unproven quantity, brilliant (but empty) rhetoric with no solutions (not that any campaing promises really matter), and disturbing ties to black supremacy and perpetual victimhood. The man seems to love himself more than anything. I do like his wife, however.
Don’t even get me started on his VP pick. When look at Biden’s picture, I see a used car salesman/televangelist. he’s been a beltway insider for too long to bring what we need to the ticket.
Unlike you sheep, I will cross the party line to vote for the other guy, since my party won’t bring anything fresh or solid to the party. That doen’t mean I’m compromising my principles, this is an election my vote has to be earned.
By K_Chub
August 30, 2008 8:01 AM | Link to this
Are you kidding me Jim? You don’t even write columns for yourself anymore do you? You just put some ridiculous positive spin on whatever nonsense the GOP is up to and call it great. You are such a hack - do have any common sense or any intelligence or are you just a loyal GOP line toting moron?
I suspect someone else writes your columns for you - or at the very least someone in the GOP is telling you what to write because you are just too much of a tool. You are such a garbage writer and I seriously doubt you care about this country. The only thing you care about is the GOP and if it means you have to forget about the well being of America to tote the party line then you go all out. If you actually think this was a good choice for McCain you don’t deserve to have your own column.
Are we living in an episode of the twilight zone…the GOP knock on Barrack Obama has always been that he is inexperienced, but you counter that by selecting quite possibly the least experienced person to ever be a candidate for political office? She brings nothing to the table. She isn’t even remotely qualified to take over the office of Presidency if something happens to McCain. She is a joke - a gimmick. It shows how desperate McCain is and the Republican party is at this point. I can’t wait until she debates Biden - what a bonehead move. McCain met her once before and thought that was enough for her to be qualified - are you kidding me? This isn’t for some low-level staff position or to hire someone to pass out yard signs - this is for Vice President of the United States of America. I am outraged. I just can’t believe how stupid McCain is and how bad his decision making is.
This seals the deal for Obama - not like he wasn’t going to win anyway - but this does it. People see right through this gimmick. I realize McCain isn’t one to be considered intelligent, but this is just lunacy - the old man has lost what few marbles he had left.
By Jim Philips
August 30, 2008 8:02 AM | Link to this
This just confirms my worst impression of McCain: That when confronted with new situation, he’ll do something weird and ill-considered. If he wanted a woman, there are a number of experienced Republican women who would have fit the bill. He is just dreaming that there is still some coalition with the religious right that can salvage the Republican party. Fat chance.
By GMAN
August 30, 2008 8:03 AM | Link to this
McCain/Bush - More Destructive Than A Hurricane!
By CJ
August 30, 2008 8:09 AM | Link to this
One other thing.
Wooten described Palin as a “fiscal conservative”. She just joined the ticket of a man who’s tax proposals are calculated to, conservatively, add $5 trillion to our national debt over the course of two terms in office.
Our government’s unsecured debt, analogous to credit card debt, is already 355% of our government’s annual income ($9.6T/$2.7T). Imagine having credit card debt over 3.5 times larger than your annual salary. That’s the situation Bush has gotten us into and that’s the situation the McCain intends to exacerbate—with the help of his “fiscally conservative” VP pick.
And to think that there are people who still take these clowns seriously.
By AL
August 30, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this
Jim …it is a far cry better than a community organizer and junior senator that has accompished nothing. What’s wrong with surviving cancer you idiot? Liberals hate all people that don’t buy into their wacko idealogy, even if they are decorated veterans and have had the courage to fight a deadly disease. Disagree with his politics but to question McCains character and devotion to his country and his fellow POW’s is assanine. I by the way disagree with alott of McCains accomplishments in Washington. However, at least he has some. Wacko Socialist Libs should love half the stuff he’s done. But they are so hyped by their “mascot” candidate they attack McCains character. Typical Wacko crap
By spankmonkey
August 30, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this
The only way for the Republican party to be salvaged would be for it to split off from the religious right. It would open the doors for many disaffected and center of the road dems and independents to come join in the fun.
The overall numbers would probably stay fairly consistent, the only advantage the religious right holds is it’s ability to direct the votes of it’s constituency through the clergy. When you have a captive audience of simple minded folk every sunday, it’s easy to manipulate the votes they will cast, especially if you tell them they’ll go to hell for voting liberal.
By One Voice
August 30, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this
Jim, this article erases any doubts that you’re the clown that the AJC keeps around so that they can say they’ve got a conservative columnist on staff. One that provides a good bit of humor to boot. Don’t worry Jim, we’re laughing at you, not with you. Even the biased pundits at FOX (that’s your side) are comparing Palin to Dan Quayle. And you’re falling all over yourself for the female incarnation of Dan Quayle. But this job is perfect for you; it’s the only one where you can flaunt how obtuse you are without ever having to provide evidence or support for your irrational beliefs.
As a Democrat, I love, love, love McCain’s VP pick of Sarah Palin. These are her credentials:
She was the mayor of a town of 9,000 people. That’s not even half the size of most school districts. It’s barely a town. She was the mayor of a strip mall.
Then for two years she was the governor of the state with the 4th smallest population in the U.S., with less than 700,000 people. That’s barely a state. 16 U.S cities have more people than Alaska. By comparison, the metro area of Atlanta has nearly 6,000,000 people.
Republicans gripe about Obama not having enough experience. Chicago has 2,800,000 people. Illinois has 12,000,000 people. Why am I quoting population numbers? There’s a huge difference in dealing with the dynamics of massive states like Illinois and small ‘towns’ like Alaska. In larger cities and states you have vast differences in ethnicity, economic status, huge public education systems, police forces, etc. Experience on that level is good preparation for the national level. Being the mayor of a town of 9,000 and the governor of a state of 700,000 for two years is not.
And then we have the kicker: Palin is currently under investigation for abuse of power, which is corruption. A pundit gleefully mentioned tonight that this was her “only” scandal in her two years in office.
This speaks the most about whether she’s ready to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. She believes that it is appropriate to run government by using her authority to call in favors pertaining to personal vendettas. When the public safety commissioner in Alaska refused to fire her ex-brother in law, who was a state trooper, she fired the commissioner. If there was evidence that her brother in law had done something unlawful or unethical, there are review boards and hearings available. There is a systematic process to terminate officers.
But Palin used her power as if she was a mafia boss, calling in a hit. To her, that was the right way to do things in her “official” capacity. Does this show her preparedness to be president? Really?
And what does it say about McCain that he chose her? Only a man who was completely out of touch with reality would pick someone of her stature, in her predicament, to be vice president. And McCain has repeatedly shown the symptoms of memory loss and senility.
At this point I am really not worried that McCain will be elected. He won’t be. But if by some strange twist of circumstances he was, this country would need to be prepared for incompetence on a scale equal to what we have had for the last 8 years. It is truly bizarre.
Thank you, John McCain. With every decision you show us the depth of your “judgment”, or better yet, lack of.
By David
August 30, 2008 8:31 AM | Link to this
Whoever wrote this article is an idiot!!!
By CJ
August 30, 2008 8:33 AM | Link to this
Sorry, but I can’t help myself this morning…
How stupid is the religious right? They come to the polls, time and again, to get played by the Republican Party. A Party that has demonstrated that their devotion to the causes of the Pat Robertsons of the world is limited to election years.
Palin will fire up the religious right, yet again, and get them to show up to vote for McCain…only to be disappointed when he sits her in a corner and instructs her to keep her mouth shut until the next election.
It’s almost as if the religious right likes to be lied to.
By Ga Values
August 30, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this
Talk about a roll of the dice. And a presidential election like no other. John McCain’s daring pick of Sarah Palin will shake up the race once again. Where Obama went for safety and experience in picking Biden as his running mate, McCain went for the unconventional. The Alaska governor is younger than Obama, has been in office only two years and has no foreign or national security experience. The choice may help McCain beat charges that he’s a candidate of the past. It adds youth and vigor to the ticket, giving Republicans a better opportunity to connect with a younger generation of voters and making it hard for Democrats to paint the GOP as the party of rich white men. Plus putting Palin on the ticket is an inducement to women who backed Hillary Clinton and feel cheated of the chance to vote for one of their own to switch allegiance. But Palin is no champion of issues that are dear to many women voters…the right to have an abortion, for one. There’s a downside to his pick, too. It’ll blunt GOP attacks on Obama as lacking the experience necessary to be president, since McCain picked someone with an even shorter résumé, especially in foreign affairs, to be a heartbeat away.
The choice of Palin is sure to enliven the Republican convention,giving the media something fresh to talk about and taking some pressure off McCain. But McCain still must rebut two tough challenges framed by the Democrats: The impression that he’s out of touch with middle-class economic woes. And the Bush factor. Obama & Co. will continue to paint McCain as a clone of the unpopular president…someone who will tread the same path in coming years. To combat that, look for McCain to emphasize his history as an independent… a maverick who took on GOP presidents and leaders on global warming, torture, the conduct of the war and campaign finance reform, a signature issue for him. But backing too far away from Bush risks losing the conservatives McCain needs.
McCain’s acceptance speech will likely be dominated by foreign policy,stressing that Obama’s judgments, particularly on Iraq, Iran and Russia, are wrong. “Risk” will be the GOP touchstone, much as “change” was for Democrats. There’ll be plenty of emphasis…in speeches and videos…on McCain’s military record. The nominee will leave it to others to talk about his bravery as a prisoner of war, although he does it often himself on the campaign trail. It’s a powerful story, but one he risks overplaying. He can’t let voters think he’s milking it for sympathy.
Obama left Denver feeling very good about the smooth running convention. In fact, he couldn’t have asked for more. The week’s events brought unityto the fractured party and stayed on message. Obama fleshed out his policies, made progress in explaining who he is and where he comes from, countered charges that he is elitist and showed he’s willing to take on McCain in a hard-hitting contest. Most important, Democrats demonstrated their edge in enthusiasm, Obama’s big advantage. The party has never wanted to win more fervently… in part because Obama has struck a chord with many voters, especially young ones, and in part because Democrats and others feel the U.S. has gone badly off course. All that will help Obama reap huge benefits in fund-raising and turnout.
By luangtom
August 30, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this
Gov. Palin has already trumped the Democrats on the Commander-in-Chief issue. She made her trip, as Governoer of Alaska, Commander-in-Chief of the Alaska National Guard, to the Mideast to visit HER troops. She did this a YEAR before the Dems sent Obama there for his media-circus. She HAS experience in command….and she eats moose-burgers.
By Mo
August 30, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this
Mayor and Governor are both executive experience positions albeit at much smaller levels of government. This for VP position is much more experience than Osamabama’s (less than 6 months if you discount his time “off his paid job” for his campaign activity)for the number one slot. Oh yeAh, I forgot his vast experience as a community organizer. Happy days are here again. Hitlary is toast and Osamabama can go back to his friends Rev? Wright and Ayers.
By Steve-O
August 30, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this
The choice of Palin is Hail Mary pass. He is desperate to lock up a few more votes and he needed a woman to do it. He needed a woman- a conservative woman and one not from the Bible belt (see even Republicans are tiring of Southern conservatives) and the only conservative, non-Southern woman he could find was Palin. So he had to settle for someone who has next to no experience which has totally negated his argument that Obama doesn’t have enough experience to be President. He will have to move on from that criticism. McCain is a 72 year-old man who could die tomorrow so don’t tell me that Obama’s lack of experience is important and hers isn’t. That is hypocritical. If McCain had been in a more secure position there is no way he would have chosen this woman but he needed to appease the base with a conservative choice and he needed to try to win over some Hillary supporters with a woman. Pure and simple. The only reason a person who has been governor of Alaska for a year and a half is on the ticket is because she has a uterus. I am sure conservatives are pleased and good for them but if you think pro-choice Hillary supportors are going to fall for this pro-life nutcake then you are crazy!
By Mo
August 30, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this
Mayor and Governor are both executive experience positions albeit at much smaller levels of government. This for VP position is much more experience than Osamabama’s (less than 6 months if you discount his time “off his paid job” for his campaign activity)for the number one slot. Oh yeah, I forgot his vast experience as a community organizer. Happy days are here again. Hitlary is toast and Osamabama can go back to his friends Rev? Wright and Ayers.
By Lauren
August 30, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this
You Republicas kill me with your rationalizations. In 1992 I remember very well Republicans saying Bill Clinton was not ready to be President because he had only been governor of a small state. But that’s okay for Palin. She’s different! You also say Obama does not have the experience to be President but someone whose only experience is to be a mayor of a town of 9000 and governor for less than two years of a state with less people than Dekalb County is fine. You guys are such hypocrites!
By Mo
August 30, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this
hmmm… So Osamabama has experience to be president but Palin has no experience to be VP. Logic only a demoncrat could utilize.
By RealRep
August 30, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this
Real Conservatives see past this ‘maverick’ move for what it really is - a sign of the Senator’s instability.
The Senator’s actions of the last nine months don’t reflect one who bucks the system, but rather one who’s decisions reflect no cohesive rational thought - a character flaw we cannont afford to have again in the White House.
In choosing Palin over any one of the highly qualified Governors he vetted, Senator McCain makes it clear he is more concerned with the Hillary voter than he is the needs of the true conservative.
This election will now result in a significant shift to the left - regardless who wins.
By One Voice
August 30, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
By NotaAtlantafan
August 30, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this
By alan
August 30, 2008 6:33 AM | Link to this
I agree that Palin has a good stand on many issues that I believe in as a conservative voter, I don’t believe we can overlook the fact that she is totally unqualified to be Commander n Chief if anything happens to McCain. He is 72 and has had cancer four times. This scares me to death that someone this raw could be leader of the free world.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Alan, it should scare you to death that someone so raw and with Obamas background could be leading the country. That is truly scary!
By Devastator
August 30, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this
McCain’s VP pick is a bone. A bone thrown out to women thinking they are gullible enough to fall for his pandering.He’s saying “Here girls, here girls”. When was the last time you heard McCain speak out on women’s issues and concerns? He doesn’t care about women.
If he wins the nomination, you will see what I’m talking about. She will have no clout or input in the white house because everybody, especially McCain, will know why she’s there, for votes and not policy.
This is furthur example of the manipulation and deceitfulness that the repugnants are famous for.
By Frank
August 30, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this
How can you tell McCain made a good choice? By the response of the democrats in this tread. Rip, bash, and trash all you want. McCain did what Obama failed to do. This is a brilliant selection. Gov Palin has more executive experience than Obama and Biden combined, but don’t let the facts get in the way of a tear down. Democrats are just mad that the McCain did what they didn’t do and they are scared. 54 million woman voted in the last election. Game. Set. Match.
By Country Mouse
August 30, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this
Palin is nominated to be vice president. Obama is nominated to be president. Do you not see the difference? Sure, McCain could die tomorrow. So could you. So could I. So could Obama.
By Devastator
August 30, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this
Frank,
You just posted the dumbest post I’ve seen on here. More executive experience? Mayor of a town with 8000 people? 2 year Gov of Alaska with 600,000 people? The two gentleman you just derided have presided over policies and issues that affect 300,000,000 people and have been doing it longer than her. She’s a biscuit being used to court women voters, that’s all!
Can you add?
By Devastator
August 30, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this
Country Mouse,
If something happened to Obama, the country would still be in the hands of a capable leader.
Do you see the difference?
By Looking forward
August 30, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this
Nov 5, 2008
The day when White privilege and Black victimhood both takes a swift kick in the nuts!!!!
Oh happy day!
All of the truly progressive people in this country will rise up and celebrate. We will tell all of you polarizing bigots on all sides to STFU!!!
By Bill Baxter
August 30, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this
You put a dress and lipstick on a pig of a ticket, but that wont make it pretty. Attempting to make it seem that women are interchangeable can disenfranchise the masses.
By Rufus
August 30, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this
Those folks are certainly entitled to their opinions, and bless their little hearts, they feel that were entitled to their opinions as well. They love America it’s just Americans they can’t stand. - “marko” 7:17AM
Funny, I say the same thing about mindless liberals who call US soldiers nazis (Dimwitocrat senator Dick Durbin) and eco-nazi fascist Algorebots who torch someone’s SUV or McMansion just because they have one and have worked towards the American dream of freedom (for you slow-witted Dimwitocrats, Google it).
Marko, your post rings so true.
By Devastator
August 30, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this
ST. PAUL - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama begins airing an ad Saturday that responds to rival John McCain’s selection of a running mate, carefully avoiding any direct criticism of Sarah Palin, the Alaska governor whom McCain chose for the GOP ticket.
Obama’s campaign promptly created the spot in advance of next week’s Republican National Convention. The ad, called “No Change,” sought to sustain the theme that Obama and Democrats worked to cultivate at their own convention this week — that McCain represents a continuation of the policies of an unpopular President Bush.
“Well, he’s made his choice,” the ad states. “But, for the rest of us there’s still no change. McCain doesn’t get it, calling this broken economy ‘strong.’ Wants to keep spending ten-billion-a-month in Iraq. And votes with George Bush 90 percent of the time.”
The ad continues: “So, while this may be his running mate…” as an image of McCain and Palin appears on the screen. The image then shifts to a shot of McCain with Bush. “America knows this is John McCain’s agenda. And we can’t afford four more years of the same.”
The ad illustrates the Obama camp’s careful reaction to Palin’s addition to the Republican ticket — a groundbreaking move that reintroduced gender into the presidential race just as the Democrats worked to resolve a rift between the Obama camp and supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, both called Palin to congratulate her on Friday. They also issued a joint statement that said her selection was “yet another encouraging sign that old barriers are falling in our politics.” They called her “an admirable person and (she) will add a compelling new voice to this campaign.”
Earlier, however, Obama spokesman Bill Burton issued a statement calling Palin an abortion-rights opponent and “the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience.”
By Bill Baxter
August 30, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this
You put a dress and lipstick on a pig of a ticket, but that wont make it pretty. Attempting to make it seem that women are interchangeable can disenfranchise the masses. Let’s just pray she doesn’t accidentally shoot her hunting partner.
By Bill Baxter
August 30, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this
You put a dress and lipstick on a pig of a ticket, but that wont make it pretty. Attempting to make it seem that women are interchangeable can disenfranchise the masses. Let’s just pray she doesn’t accidentally shoot her hunting partner.
By Bill Baxter
August 30, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this
You put a dress and lipstick on a pig of a ticket, but that wont make it pretty. Attempting to make it seem that women are interchangeable can disenfranchise the masses. Let’s just pray she doesn’t accidentally shoot her hunting partner.
By Rufus
August 30, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this
Republicans are praising Palin for making the decision to keep a child she knew would be born with Down Syndrome. Yet, how can she care for her five-month-old child while on the campaign trail? So much for family values. - OpinionsMatter 7:44
Congratulations, mindless liberal hysteric. That is perhaps the dumbest post I have ever read on any blog anywhere. Is your mindless hysterical liberal self going to sit there with a straight face and tell us that “family values” means sitting at home and not going on a campaign trail - kid or not? Show me where that is mentioned in the neocon book of “Family Values.” Yeah, like we all know that poor kid will be left on the door step in freezing Alaska until Sarah comes home.
What a jackass.
Boy, you mindless hysterics on the left are P!SSED OFF for some reason.
Good.
I love it.
Threatened are we, pansies?
By allison
August 30, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this
All you have to do is listen to Gov. Palin for 5 minutes and you realize why McCain chose her as his running mate.She’s smart. To question her credibility based on years of governemental experience can be summed up in one statement . It’s not the number of years of service but what’s accomplished during those years.
By whatacrock
August 30, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this
Fine people of America, look clearly at this point. The conservatives are trying to sell you a crock of goods. Palin is in because she is woman. Period. Not because she has “executive” experience. A man would not be looked at with the kind of experience she has, not for a moment.
Someone has pointed out that she can be president because she has cute shoes, shoots a gun, is a member of the NRA, oh how wonderful she is, yatta, yatta. People, this is a potential president we are talking about! And so on January 1, the secret service hands her a brief case with the codes to all of our nuclear arms and says, make the decision to use these arms based on… what? Being the mayor of a 9,000 person town and a govenor? Raising a family of 5?
Oh, but wait, she has cute shoes. She was runner up in the Ms. Alaska pagent. She has a son going to Iraq. She killed a moose and eats moose burgers. And she is drill drunk and wants to drill in the arctic wildlife refuge.
If you are happy with your life under Georgie Porgie puddin & pie, vote for McCain and Palin. Period. But please don’t vote for her because she is a red shoe wearing, moose hunting, flute playing, NRA card carrying member. Brilliant? Are you serious?!
Whatacrock!!!
By Devastator
August 30, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this
Allison,
Thanks for proving our case for Obama.
Obama/Biden in ‘08!!!!!!!
By Chris
August 30, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this
I’m an issues guy. I couldn’t care less about experience. I care about judgment.
As an issue-oriented liberal, I’d vote for convicted masturbator Pee Wee Herman before I’d vote for McCain if Pee Wee he had the good judgment to get us out of Iraq, increase troops in Afghanistan, give us a choice on health care other than the policies that are gouging us today, invest in solar and wind, balance the budget, etcetera.
So, I couldn’t care less about Palin’s lack of experience. On the issues, she’s the “Christian” right’s wet dream. Good for them.
But the right has been pounding Obama on his experience level, and this pick puts their hypocrisy on display for all to see…again.
By Rufus
August 30, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this
We will tell all of you polarizing bigots on all sides to STFU!!! - looking backward
Does that include that hate monger pastor of Obama’s? Do tell, mindless liberal hysteric.
By charles
August 30, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this
but I thought Obama was too young and inexperienced? Sarah, who would be 1 heartbeat away from being president isn’t?? A pro-life family woman - who rushed back to work after having her latest child (a child who should be receiving perhaps even more care due to downs syndrome) - a mom who has babies but doesn’t want to stick around to play mom is a great example of family values? and I thought Obama was too inexperienced on the international stage - her experience consists of leading the Alaska National Guard and having a soldier son. can she even name the countries of the world on the map (back when I was in elementary school many decades ago we had to learn them as part of our geography class - but you think it’s okay if she doesn’t know the name of some third world country?). Isn’t there the risk that she could be as big of an international dufus as Bush. of course she was runner up for Miss Alaska however and won Miss Congeniality - so she must be pretty and also likeable. just the roll model the women of today are looking for I guess - but then I don’t pretend to the an expert on what the women of America are looking for in their leaders - unlike you of course. I had no idea you were the spokesman for the women of America. In fact I had no idea one person was even capable of knowing what the women of America (how demeaning to act as though their interests could all be boiled down into some simple minded issues that anyone person and you in particular who time and again has shown himself to be both racist and sexist, could enumerate). you have proven yet again that your stupidity Jim is exceeded only by your hipocracy. yes she may be an awessome leader, and may be a great and wise vice president if elected, but for you to claim she IS JUST THAT based upon her accomplishments (and shortcomings) thus far in life is just more of the same, endless and boring Jim-babble. by the way, while daddy is off on his 1,900 hundred mile snowmobile races or out working hard as a fisherman and mommy is off being governer (or more demading yet, the Vice President), who is parenting the kids?? isn’t it kind of important that they have some significant amount of time in their formative years with at least one of heir parents? maybe Sarah can do what a number of the mothers I work with do when they have children - work part-time. a part-time Vice President or President is okay isn’t it? she can always be available by cell to make decisions as to whether or not to push the button on the deployment of nuclear weapons. a woman with real experience as a mom but whose children have grown to at least their teen years, a woman who has significant experience governing, a woman who knows the in’s and out’s of the intricacies of world politics and who can be available 24/7 to deal with whatever comes this way for the most important job in the world would be a wonderful political advancement for this country and I believe there are many qualified women out there who are capable of doing just that. in fact I believe that someone other than a white male really may be just what this country needs - it seems to have worked for most of the rest of the world’s non third-world countries. sorry Jim, but your McBuddy had probably many good options if he wanted to be bold and choose a female or a minority running mate, but instead chose someone who, to this point in her career, is totally unqualified in every respect.
By Rufus
August 30, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this
Uhm, “charles,” do you know what paragraphs are?
Please stay home in November and don’t contribute to the stupidity pool of America. I’ve had my fill of watching stupid people this week in Denver.
By Captain Freedom
August 30, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this
THE Captain agrees with Mr Wooten (of course) and salutes St John for his bold and visionary selection of this not-man person as his second in command.
First off, what better way to snap the V@gina-American voters into line than to offer up one of their own as a candidate? This virtually ensures that all Americans with pen!s envy (ie, all women) will vote GOP!!
Secondly, Gov. Palin is exceptionally HOT. Nothing makes THE Captain’s little soldier stand up at attention than the idea of a comely not-man person fondling the stock and barrel of a high-powered firearm. Indeed, THE Captain and Mr Wooten have already purchased an extra case of lotion and several new Nerf footballs so as not to be caught short during next week’s convention. (Not that THE Captain or Mr Wooten are afflicted with shortness, no not at all! And why is Mrs Freedom doubled over in laughter? Dammit, THE Captain demands respect!!)
Finally, there is the matter of Gov Palin using the power of her office to punish her former brother-in-law. Surely, there will be some liberal namby-pamby limp wristers who will bemoan this as an “abuse” of power. To the contrary, THE Captain feels a further tingle in his loins as he ponders the notion of this Godly Woman manipulating the levers of Her power to smite an underling who dares to thwart her familial devotion. THE Captain says, and indeed speaks for Mr Wooten, when he poses this question: What good is power if one is not willing to use and even abuse it?
Our Leader has proven time and time again that abuse of power is the very bedrock of Godly Christian Governance. THE Captain is certain that a VP Palin would be more than willing to compromise undercover CIA operatives or to instigate sham prosecutions against Democrats like that governor with the jewy name from Alabama. As Our Leader’s Cheney has amply demonstrated, abusing power is the number one job of the Veep. Verily, Palin is the right man for the job, even though she lacks the Rod of Redemption that those of us made in God’s image were endowed with to guarantee Our Dominion.
Yes, it is a glorious day when an unapologetic believer in the Creation Story stands a heartbeat away from the Presidency.
Thank you, St John, for making this bold choice that will lock up both the V@gina-American AND the Onanist-American voting blocs in one bold “stroke”.
By southern
August 30, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this
goodby obama, with McCain’s v.p. pick i feel that god has given this country a great blessing, now we need to finish the job by ending roe-wade, affirmative action, same sex pervert marriage, lets abolish the N.E.A. outlaw the unions, shut down our borders,lock up all the enviromentalist, lets drill and build, lets finish the job of destroying the democrat party and send them to the trash heaps, the party of no morals no principles no honor or no dignity are in a panic today, I love it.
By dirty harry
August 30, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this
Frank 9:53 AM
Frank you’re right in the assessment this was a brilliant selection.
Brilliant in the fact that he hopes these so called PUMAS will vote totally against every thing they stand for, and instead vote for a novice, and one who supports everthing they hate.
Simply because Hillary is not there.
Brilliance in the fact that he realizes after Bush won the presidency twice that we are a nation of STUPID!
She was for the bridge to nowwhere before she was against it!
She is under investigation.
She wants to take the Polar Bear off the endangered species act, and have open hunting on wolves.
She’ll have Yosemite Park looking like Anchorage…Snow-mobiles forever…fouling the air, peace and quiet!
By Devastator
August 30, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this
ATTention Republicans:
Women are not this stupid!!!!!!!
get it?
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
August 30, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this
Dear marko @ 7:17, you err, it is just marko and similar goofballs we cannot stand.
Dear irrational @ 7:48 and Crock @ 10:19, it’s the ideology, stupid. Your guys are wrong on the issue, Palin is right in every respect.
Dear spankmonkey @ 7:49, bizarre that you and I, from wholly different political perspectives, reach the same electoral conclusion using essentially the same methodology.
Dear CJ @ 8:09, and the sad thing is that Captain Queeg’s spending increases pale in comparison to those of Chauncey Gardener.
Dear Spankmonkey @ 8:18, yes, and the only way to save the democrat party is to split off from the moonbats. Neither will happen.
Dear One Voice @ 8:30, I agree that the Quayle analogy is apt, but I do not attach the opprobrium you do. Quayle’s only mistake is that he would not embarrass his hosts over their mispelled “potatoe” cue card. He is/was a thoughtful conservative, typically demonized by the loony-left. Certainly you cannot accuse Quayle of manufacturing a phony hype over freon around the time DuPont’s patents were lapsing, and compelling the entire US economy to switch to the new DuPont patents. You cannot accuse Quayle of manufacturing a phony hype over global warming, thus to force the economy into a government controlled “cap and trade” scheme designed to benefit friends of democrats. Honest brokers, like Quayle and Palin, are rare and to be appreciated.
Dear Steve-O @ 8:55, looks like a touchdown, the way the left is moaning.
Dear Lauren @ 9:02, we might agree that there is a difference between the parties here. Republicans nominate good people with questionable experience to the back-up training position, and Democrats nominate questionable people with questionable experience to the top job. The former is willing to risk failure for the sake of future development, but the latter is willing to guarantee it. (Perhaps you will recall that the republicans were right about Bill, that the country suffered so mightily in his first two years that the American public put some adults in charge of Congress.)
Dear devastator @ 9:48, similarly the Obama nomination is a bone thrown to keep black folks on the plantation. You post reminds me of the puzzling disparity in democrat analysis. Any black person who votes against Obama is, in democrat eyes, a traitor to his race, even if he disagrees with Obama’s views on death taxes and military service and abortion and welfare spending. Yet any person who demonstrates sexual pride in the nomination of Ms. Palin, notwithstanding personal disagreement over issues, is a tool of the right? Democrat logic is dazzling, indeed.
SpamAlert @ 10:10.
Dear Bill @ 10:07, 10:11, 10:111, and 10:13, repetition does not enhance the brilliance of a lame post.
By RufusPantiesInWad
August 30, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this
By Rufus August 30, 2008 10:43 AM I’ve had my fill of watching stupid people this week in Denver.
Glad you tuned in Rufus!
And look….I’m using paragraphs! Happy?
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
August 30, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this
Dear devastator @ 10:58, but black folk are?
By Devastator
August 30, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this
Ragnar,
Grow a brain please. Obama decided himself that he would run for president, he wasn’t a bone picked by someone else. Palin was chosen by a presidential candidate to use her so that HE could win.
Obama being president doesn’t keep black folks on the plantation because the last time I checked, black folks weren’t allowed to vote or own property on the plantation, much less become president of the United States.
Try again idiot.
By buster brown
August 30, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this
By dirty harry 10:53 AM
Harry, That’s what republicans do best.
If a tree is still standing. Chop that sucker down!
If an animal still has a habitat. We need that land for a shopping mall!
Global warning…SCIENCE? Baloney it’s a democratic hoax!
I also, notice the Palin cheerleaders think she is some kind of wonder-girl…One who took on Murkowski..But, Now his daughter serves in the U.S. Senate!
Stevens and Young both corrupt crooks…but, both still won their primaries!
Tells one something about the voters of Alaska!
By Rufus
August 30, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this
PoFo - I always enjoy watching clowns at a circus and a dog & pony trick. Thanks for being glad for me!
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
August 30, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this
Dear devastator @ 11:14, have you ever heard of George Soros? You are truly a convenient idiot.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
August 30, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this
Dear Devastator @ 11:14, my apologies, I called you a “convenient idiot” when I meant to call you a “useful idiot.” Perhaps your are convenient also, but I cannot affirm same.
By Devastator
August 30, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this
Ragnar,
I didn’t say there aren’t any financial backers dumba$$. You should be proud of the fact that someone backed the possibilty of a black president. That sure didn’t happen on the plantation did it?
Also Soros isn’t running for president and he doesn’t have to back Obama to get what he wants.
By McCan't
August 30, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this
On August 10, Karl Rove went on “Face The Nation” to argue that Senator Obama would make an “intensely political choice” for Vice President without regard for the “responsibilities of president.”
At the time, Rove believed Obama would choose Tim Kaine, and argued against him by saying this:
With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he’s been a governor for three years, he’s been able but undistinguished.
I don’t think people could really name a big, important thing that he’s done. He was mayor of the 105th largest city in America. And again, with all due respect to Richmond, Virginia, it’s smaller than Chula Vista, California; Aurora, Colorado; Mesa or Gilbert, Arizona; north Las Vegas or Henderson, Nevada. It’s not a big town.
So if he were to pick Governor Kaine, it would be an intensely political choice where he said, `You know what? I’m really not, first and foremost, concerned with, is this person capable of being president of the United States?
So is Rove now concerned that Palin is capable of being president as he was with Kaine on August 10th?
More republican hypocrisy to continue….Stayed tuned.
By catlady
August 30, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this
Actually, I don’t believe McCain himslef picked this woman. I think it was one or more of his “handlers” (for examples of “handlers” see Ronald Reagan, George Dumbya Bush, etc).
This “pimp my candidate” is not even ready for late nite TV. Too obscene.
Dear Gawd! The wheels are loose on the bandwagon!
By Carolyn Wilder
August 30, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this
I think this vp pick will garner a lot of Hillary voters to McCain. I’m not very familiar with her, but she made a great 1st impression yesterday with her speech. And to the people saying what if McCain dies-do you want her for president? I say to them, what if Obama doesn’t die, do you want him for president? Oh, never mind, I forgot -I don’t want Biden either.
By McCan't
August 30, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this
Rove argues that Kaine’s mayorship of Richmond (pop. 200,000+) is insignificant and that his 3 years as Governor of Virginia (pop. 7,712,091, GDP $383 million) has been “indistinguisahable.”
If Rove was intellectually consistent, wouldn’t that mean Palin’s mayorship of Wasilla (pop. 8,000+) and 20 months as Alaska governor (pop. 683,478, GDP $44.5 million) makes her even less qualified than Kaine?
So, Karl, who made the “intensely political choice”?
By Devastator
August 30, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this
Carolyn Wilder,
The only Hillary supporters this will garner are the ones who where going in the first place.
But I wholeheartedly disagree because they would be turning their back on Hillary and supporting someone who disagrees with her on every issue. I’m not quite sure that women are that gullible, but I’m sure you would know that better than me.
By catlady
August 30, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this
It is not howling you hear from the left. It is LAUGHTER.
By Rufus
August 30, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this
Is Karl Rove still a political figure out there? Someone help get the mindless liberal hysterical fart bags up to current events, please.
Thank you.
By Devastator
August 30, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this
Rufus,
To answer your dumba$$ question @11:47 is yes. The RNC and McCain camp are using his techniques and he is a frequent Fox News contributor. He is on everytime I accidently turn to Fox News criticizing and giving his analysis.
Thank You.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
August 30, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this
Dear Catlady @ 11:46, sounds like cat-slapping to me.
By Rufus
August 30, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this
Numbnutator:
Provide some links to prove that McCane is using the Rove playbook or STFU. Thank you, mindless liberal hysteric.
The fact that Rove is on Faux News as a political COMMENTATOR CONTRIBUTOR is irrelevant - about as irrelevant as Geraldine Ferraro on This Week with George Steppedonanoctopus on Sunday morning.
Mindless liberal idiot.
By janet
August 30, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this
I think that John Mc Cain is older than his 72 years. His real age is somewhere in the mid -80’s. If he hadn’t been a POW he would have never been a Senator. It was the patriotic thing to do…elect a former POW to give the war in Vietnam since sense of meaning. He was at the bottom of his class in the military so he didn’t distinguish himself academically or with his flying skills. So thank God he was a POW or he would have had to look for another job. I think his time in the Hanoi Hilton has dimmed his ability to see the world in the 21st. century. And his choice of Mrs. Palin wasn’t really his choice. He says he met her once and was impressed. How could anyone make a decision about someone’s qualifications for Vice President of this powerful, globally engaged country with one brief meeting? I think that the same people who gerry mandered George Bush into office for their own agenda have done the same with John Mc Cain and now Ms. Palin. As an ardent feminist for most of my adult life, I think that the campaign should disregard her gender and go for her as if she is any other male candidate. Does anyone know her educational accomplishments? She was Miss Congeniality - thats an accomplishment. If I recall, George Bush was a great social chairman of his fraternity. Look where that has gotten this country. As for her choice to have a baby with disabilities, that was her CHOICE. I say that because it was a CHOICE she made. I think it would be nice if she gave other women the right to make a CHOICE also. She does however seem to be PRO BIRTH - Not PRO LIFE. Otherwise she would have said “no” I have a newborn who needs me right now and the baby’s life is more important. Obviously she is not breastfeeding….an inconvenient truth. Women are not this stupid and once again the Republican machine has relegated us to the “pretty but trust us” position. Not this woman and not most women I know.
By janet
August 30, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this
I think that John Mc Cain is older than his 72 years. His real age is somewhere in the mid -80’s. If he hadn’t been a POW he would have never been a Senator. It was the patriotic thing to do…elect a former POW to give the war in Vietnam since sense of meaning. He was at the bottom of his class in the military so he didn’t distinguish himself academically or with his flying skills. So thank God he was a POW or he would have had to look for another job. I think his time in the Hanoi Hilton has dimmed his ability to see the world in the 21st. century. And his choice of Mrs. Palin wasn’t really his choice. He says he met her once and was impressed. How could anyone make a decision about someone’s qualifications for Vice President of this powerful, globally engaged country with one brief meeting? I think that the same people who gerry mandered George Bush into office for their own agenda have done the same with John Mc Cain and now Ms. Palin. As an ardent feminist for most of my adult life, I think that the campaign should disregard her gender and go for her as if she is any other male candidate. Does anyone know her educational accomplishments? She was Miss Congeniality - thats an accomplishment. If I recall, George Bush was a great social chairman of his fraternity. Look where that has gotten this country. As for her choice to have a baby with disabilities, that was her CHOICE. I say that because it was a CHOICE she made. I think it would be nice if she gave other women the right to make a CHOICE also. She does however seem to be PRO BIRTH - Not PRO LIFE. Otherwise she would have said “no” I have a newborn who needs me right now and the baby’s life is more important. Obviously she is not breastfeeding….an inconvenient truth. Women are not this stupid and once again the Republican machine has relegated us to the “pretty but trust us” position. Not this woman and not most women I know.
By dirty harry
August 30, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this
It seems in all the haste to get PALIN’s Name front and center. The McCain camp forgot to vet her. The result!!!!
The July firing of Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan by Gov. Sarah Palin, who was announced as John McCain’s running mate on Friday, has unearthed a stream of soap-opera-like details about Palin, her husband, her family and top state appointees. The controversy has also cut against Palin’s reputation for holding an ethical line and standing up to colleagues in the Republican Party over matters of principle.
The GRAND OL PARTY of family, moral, religious and yes ethical issues…As always shows their true colors!
One of corruption and greed…..
By GOPs got to go
August 30, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this
Don’t get too exited yet GOPers. My husband, who is an Independent, came home to say “Now I will never vote for McCain. Who is that woman, and she has NO experience”.
SO at least you know who will be President with Obama. McCain being so old and a heart beat away is this Ex-beauty queen with even LESS experience than Obama, is this really who you want Jim?
What a liar if you say yes. You would never have endorsed this woman.
I can not wait for the video of her beauty pageant talent segment to come out. Please let her beauty pageant platform include “World Peace”
I think this choice is great for Democrats.
By Common Sense
August 30, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this
Check some of McClain wokrers in his campaign has already been proven they are from the Karl Rove camp.
Do conservatives believe in the truth.
Mr. Obama has 2 degrees from our most reknown universities and some of you think you know something about the intellect of this man! You most be kidding.
Palin was not a good pick. Putin,Putin She is not ready to step up to that.
Running alaska is like running Henry County. Let’s not get to far ahead of ourselves.
You conservative keep thinking ROE/WADE Will be overturn in all these years it has no happen yet! So let’s try to educate,convince, counsel and adopt these unwanted pregnancies.
We have to have solution and you dummies keep falling for something that is not going to change instead of using prevention.
By McCan't
August 30, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this
By Rufus
August 30, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this
Is Karl Rove still a political figure out there? Someone help get the mindless liberal hysterical fart bags up to current event.
And you call other people idiots?
Speaking of idiots ——-
Republican VP candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin told Larry Kudlow less than two months ago that she can’t answer whether or not she would accept the VP offer because she has no idea what the Vice President does.
“As for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does everyday?”
That’s a direct quote from your VP candidate. You know, the one that’s “ready to lead.”
My God, you can’t make this stuff up and it be any funnier.
By janet
August 30, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this
Dont forget “and a jacuzzi”.
By SWhitted
August 30, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this
For all of you who want to disqualify Palin for not having enough experience, specifically because of the size of Alaska’s population and that their government is too small compared to most of the other states and major cities. Then you have truly discriminated against the citizens of Alaska.
I thought this was the land of hard work and opportunity? That any American can have the chance at reaching the highest levels of their abilities and aspirations?
There are some small business owners who are more capable of managing a multi-million dollar business than some of these inept corporate CEOs. That’s America’s true problem; the government has gotten too big that it can’t function efficiently FOR THE PEOPLE. We need smaller government and more self-reliance.
All American’s need to see the I.O.U.S.A. documentary to open their eyes to where our nation is really headed. We will either cut and control spending or taxes WILL HAVE TO BE RAISED.
Both parties have done major damage to this country and really don’t deserve to run the nation, but unfortunately there is no viable third party at this time. It’s insanity and self-destruction that we elect a party until they screw up and then elect the other party until they do the same. This country is not shielded from failing and collapse. No country and government is.
Therefore, we must work hard to ensure that it lives on and that the politicians never forget who has the REAL POWER. So much of America worries about job security, but those who should truly worry are more secure. They depend upon our apathy for not keeping their feet to the fire and working for us. By the way, in case America has forgot, the Democrats have been running the Legislature for the last year and eight months. What have they done to show they FEEL your pain?
Alas, ask yourself this. What would these politicians do if they did fix all the major problems we as a nation face? What would be their party platform if America was flourishing? One party wants you discouraged and depressed to get your vote, while the other hopes you believe their way is not as bad as the other. How disgusting. America keep your pitchforks sharpened and at the ready.
FAIR TAX!!! It puts more money and power back where it belongs, IN THE PEOPLE.
State mandated compassion only breeds hate and resentment. (Libertarian Party website)
America’s problem is our uncredible and inept media and journalists not doing their duty to hold all politicians and power accountable to the people and remaining unbiased in their news reporting.
By Rufus
August 30, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this
Don’t get too exited yet GOPers. My husband, who is an Independent, came home to say “Now I will never vote for McCain. Who is that woman, and she has NO experience”. - by GOPs got to go
Is it just me, or does this remind you of some fake sob story like Dimwitocrat politicians bring up on the campaign trail so often to make a point?
Liar.
And you call other people idiots? - by Cain’t
I knew you couldn’t whip out that page of the neocon Rove playbook, jackass - IT DOESN’T EXIST.
Why do you completely MINDLESS hysteric-driven liberals lie so much?
By janet
August 30, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this
Dont forget “and a jacuzzi”.
By Common Sense
August 30, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this
Can anyone of the Replublican side tell the truth?
You ask them about when are we going to to get Bin-laden and you don’t get an answer?
You ask them about who is creating the 400 trillion dollar deficit and you do not get answer!
You ask them about corruption and scandals and you do not get an answer?
You ask them why you have forgiven McClain who dump his wife( a sign of lack of moral principles and Associations with Charles Keating who cause the saving and loans collapse) but you hold Mr.Obama feet to the fire about his associations.
Not a single one of you can prove Mr. Obama is a radical, quit listening to Rush lie about Mr. Obama!
You ask them about why we invaded Iraq and they changed their answer each time!
2 millions manufacturing jobs have left under Bush’s watch and you do not get an answer.
See folks I do not believe in any of these parties, but I do see this country needs to go in a different direction!
Let’s not kid ourselves Mrs. Palin is in a scandal herself.
You
By dirty harry
August 30, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this
By Rufus
August 30, 2008 12:46 PM ..
RUFUS, maybe the hysterics come because idiots such as yourself have voted for the worst president EVER twice!
You need to get a new schtick! Instead of name calling perhaps explaining why you vote the way you do, in spite of the dismal REPUBLICAN performance over the last 8 years!
But, you have no answer other than your usual BS, and name calling
By Jackie
August 30, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this
Notice how everyone is talking about Gov. Palin, the VP choice of the Repub nominee, John McCain.
Sen. McCain cleverly used this nomination as a deflection technique. Everyone is going on about Gov. Palin and not paying attention to the policies of Sen. McCain.
This “buzz” will last about two weeks, then, when the real campaign begin, “the bloom will begin to fall from the rose.”
By CommunistAJC
August 30, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this
What Palin Does
Steps on the story of Obama’s speech (and convention), and possibly the bounce coming from them, and wipes them off the news cycle. The Sunday news shows will be all-Palin, all of the time.
Sends Republicans into their convention on a huge head of steam.
Wipes out the image of McCain as the crotchety elder and brings back that of the fly-boy and gambler, which is much more appealing, and the genuine person.
Revs up the base AND excites independents, which no one else in the party, or perhaps in the world, could have accomplished.
Puts youth, change, and history on both of the tickets.
May detach some young people, especially women.
May attach some women p** off about Hillary.
As a pro-life super-achiever, puts feminists in a tizzy.
Revives some of the double-edged nature of the Democratic primary, which featured a black vs. a female trail-blazer, and put both sides on notice on sensitivity issues. Democrats used to raising charges of racism against Obama’s critics may face charges of sexism and/or condescension if they try to diss her.
Steps on Obama’s claims to have been a reformer, as he reformed nothing (much less the corrupt mare’s nest of Chicago arrangements), while she was a dragon-slayer up in Alaska.
As a mother of five, one a Down Syndrome baby, helps her side take on the Democrats on abortion extremism and the Born Alive bill.
Reignites the deep and unhealed stresses inside the Democrats, some of whom will now wonder more loudly than ever why they didn’t pick Hillary.
Counters Michelle in a way Cindy couldn’t.
Counter-intuitively, makes the issue of Obama’s light resume more potent than ever. Her lack of experience is no more than his is. And he’s—to use a term from Alaska, and the Iditarod—their lead dog.
Found the post on Weekly Standard.
Goodbye Democrat Socialist party!!!!!
By McCan't
August 30, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this
Provide some links to prove that McCane is using the Rove playbook or STFU.
I knew you couldn’t whip out that page of the neocon Rove playbook, jackass - IT DOESN’T EXIST.
Just what exactly do want me to provide there, rufus runt? Since when do we have to provide footnotes to go along with our opinion?
Just pretend this is a Corsi book….you know, it really doesn’t matter if it’s true!! As long as it’s out there in print, that’s all that matters.
Just can’t figure out why you want to discount Karl Rove all of a sudden, the God of your party.
Maybe it’s all that stupid stuff he said about a VP pick that’s unqualified because he’s governor of a small state (Virginia, pop 7.7 mil compared to 700,000 for Alaska) and he was mayor of a such a small city, ONLY the 105th in the nation (Richmond, pop 200,000+ compared to Wasilla, pop 5,600).
I’d have my panties in a wad this morning too, just like rufus, if I had to wake up this morning knowing this woman was the VP pick for my party.
I’m telling you, rufus, Michael Moore couldn’t make this stuff up!
Hilarious.
By Happy Conservative
August 30, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this
I for one am very happy with the choice that Senator McCain made. When I got the word on who he choose, I did not know what to think. But then when I did my research, what a wonderful, brillant, choice. All you “Demonuts” are just angry that you have been out played!!! Obama only have 140 days in congress and this makes him qualified to be President? But Palin has 8 years as mayor, 2 years as Govenor of Alaska but she is not qualified to be VP. That’s like saying that even though I am a veteran teacher with a Masters Degree does not make a teacher with a Masters Degree with two years of teaching capable. Get a grip on yourself. Jimmy Carter was Govenor of Georgia and he was qualified to be President and made the biggest mess ever of Georgia and the U.S. but a women who has cleaned up corruptions, made gains fiscally, veto bills that ruffle feathers, and not afraid of change is not qualified to be VP. How does a teacher become a teacher? She becomes prepared in his/her education and then IS UNDER A ANOTHER TEACHER TO LEARN HOW! ISN’T THIS HOW VP’S SHOULD BE TRAINED! NOT JUST TO BE PUT IN AS A PUPPET LIKE OBAMA THAT DOES NOT KNOW SQUAD ON HOW TO RUN A COUNTRY! I DO NOT CARE IF HE IS MULTIRACIAL (WHICH IS WHAT HE REALLY IS) AND NOT EVEN GIVING HIS WHITE MOTHER CREDIT FOR HIM BUT HIS DAD WHO HAS ABANDONED HIM IS GIVEN THE CREDIT! Can’t understand that logic. I would truly vote on any person in any party who had my beliefs. I do not care what race or gender they are. You guys are just sore losers that Obama picked someone who said himself that Obama wasn’t qualified to be President and made the poles drop after being name VP choice. But Ms. Palin is doing just the opposite! Let the races begin!!!!!! McCain/Palin 08
By Keeping It Real
August 30, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this
The real issue is do we want a 72 year old man with mental flash backs from Viet Nam and a 44 year old beauty queen with five kids and a gun running the country and appointing members of the Supreme Court for the evangelical right who unknowingly facilitate power to the rich 5% that control America. Forget about the phony issues of liberals vs conservatives, democrats vs republicans, lower taxes vs higher taxes, foreign policy vs no foreign policy,oil vs wind power,stem cell research vs. no stem cell research, limited immigration vs no immigration, economic recession vs economic prosperity, race vs race etc.
America is no different from the rest of the world when it comes to those in power. Those in power prosper while those not in power seek to gain it so that they can prosper. Communism, socialism, capitalism,imperialism etc. all subscribe to power and rule over those without power.
No one will change Washington and the political system set up there. The constitution was set up to gurantee its existence. The issue now is who will come out with power in November. I hope it is Obama because he can better meet the threat of globilization and the impacts it has to us 95% of Americans who must work daily. The Clintons, the Bushes and all the democrats and republicans in Washington are rich yet we dumb Americans have to pay taxes to support them(security, health care, etc.) We non rich Americans keep fighting amongst ourselves for the crumbs tossed from their table on the basis of race, religion, income, social status, etc.
Additionally we keep educating all our compeititors(China, India, Iran,Russia, Iraq) in our best schools then these people go back to their native countries and offer their services at a cheaper rate at the expense of us dummies. I know that they do because I witness it daily. Our business interests are so directed to profit for investors and those at the top that they will sell their souls. Why do they keep sending their operations to Mexico, China(one fifth of the population of the world), India, etc ? Guess who allows this to happen? Those rich democrats and republicans in Washington do.Do you really believe that T Boone Pickens does not see profit and power in wind energy that is flamed by our fear.
All of us need to wake up before America becomes weaker and loses its power in the global market because the 5% want more money and power. We 95% need to speak up and get involved. We can start November 4.
By Common Sense
August 30, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this
This pick means nothing except for those who do not understand the nature of this climate.
26 years in the Senate and Mr. McClain has done nothing for the American People.
Does Campaign finance help you? Does sending your kids to the wrong war help you?
Does sending our troops to war with-out body armor help you?
While sitting in the Senate for 26 years he did not support any energy policy does that help you?
Women Mr. McClain has not supported and legislation to support equal pay for equal work does that help you?
Mr. McClain does not have any plan to keep or create jobs for AMERICANS
Everyone cannot work on an oil rig!
Free trade cannot work for us because the corporations want to make the cheapest and worse products and expect us to buy them.
We need some in office to support companies at home and make quality products.
I want QUALITY ALL THE TIM NOT SOME OF THE TIME!
I can go on and on! But you have to decide
By dirty harry
August 30, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this
By Common Sense
August 30, 2008 1:01 PM
COMMON SENSE…Good points all, but I bet RUFUS has an answer .. it goes something like this….
“Why do you completely MINDLESS hysteric-driven liberals lie so much?”
“Liar.”
“I always enjoy watching clowns at a circus and a dog & pony trick. Thanks for being glad for me!”
Sounds to me like a person who was the last one picked for all the school ground games, and one who is socially unexceptable…
LOSER!!!!
By Tom
August 30, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this
Well folks, the selection of Sarah Palin for VP has made the positions of the two parties clear. The Republicans are definitely conservative with the best interest of the country and its people well in view. The only voters left to the Dems are the racist who will vote for the most unqualified candidate because he is a black man or the special interest wonk that look to the government to take from others and give to them.
By Hillbilly Deluxe
August 30, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this
Remember Francisco Cabrera? A lifetime .254 hitter with a total of 351 Major League at bats. Not very impressive numbers but he came up big in the clutch one time back in the 1992 NLCS. Hit a 2-1 pitch through the left side to send the Braves to the World Series.
Some men are born to greatness, others have greatness thrust upon them. The same goes for women. Time will tell us how this all plays out.
Bob Nardelli, Leo Mullins and others have lots of experience. Would you really want them running your company though?
And Harry Truman went to the Vice Presidency with little experience. Although quite unpopular when he left the Presidency he is now highly regarded by many.
By Commander Guy
August 30, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this
Gotta hand it to St John Metamucil…nothing makes a decrepit old man look vibrant and youthful better than having a hot t!ts MILF at his side. It works even better than a combover.
I have a little pity for the GOP deadenders this year…before this is all over you’ll be longing for the high energy campaign of Bob Dead Dick Dole.
A personal note of thanks to Rufus, who demonstrates that dumbphukkkery knows no limits.
By McCan't
August 30, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this
By Happy Conservative August 30, 2008 1:15 PM
Obama only have 140 days in congress and this makes him qualified to be President?
Fact: He served in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. (that’s 7 years)
He was elected to the Senate in November 2004 with 70% of the vote. (that’s 4 years)
But Palin has 8 years as mayor, 2 years as Govenor of Alaska but she is not qualified to be VP.
Fact: Before becoming governor, Palin was elected mayor of Wasilla, a city with a population of just over 5000, twice, in 1996 and 1999. She lost her race for lieutenant governor of Alaska in 2002. (that’s 6 years)
Palin was elected governor and assumed office in December 2006. (that’s 1 year, 8 months)
Where do you get your information, Pillhead Limbaugh?
That should pretty well discount anything Happy Conservative has to say……
By Common Sense
August 30, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this
Tom:
Look at Mr. Obama campaign stategy compare to all the other campaigns.
McClain was practically out of money! Romney in the whole to the tune of $41 millions!
Clinton deficit!
Obama surplus of $43 million. Well ran campaign fiscally responsible.
Alaska is running a deficit!
I do not blame Mrs. Palin!
A campaign is like running a business remember that folks!
By McCan't
August 30, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this
Since Palin didn’t know what the VP does on a daily basis less than 2 months ago, I’d thought I would help her out. Here you go:
1 Leaves undisclosed location for the White House.
2 Tells the President what to do.
3 Orders Chief of Staff to obstruct a series of investigations.
4 Snarls a few times.
5 Returns to undisclosed location.
Glad I could be of help.
By Happy Conservative
August 30, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this
I don’t listen to “Limbaugh”. But according to news reports he had only 140 days of being a senator for the U.S. before he went “AWOL” with his campaign. He was elected in 04 did not start serving until 05 and then went awol. Even so whatever length of time he served he did not accomplish anything!!! Plus he has shady friends, he agree to kill a baby after a botched abortion. The only senator to agree to this bill!!! Sad but true! Read the Facts! Fox News Sean Hannity. He went to a racist church! You are know by the company you keep! Steve Forbes of Forbes Magazine was asked this morning on the news who would make us worse finacially if elected. He gave both sides by their record and what they have said they would do and Obama would make us a lot worse. Vote for who you want, this is America. That is what I love about this country! Do your research! I learned how to do this in grad school where did you learn it? MTV? Hollywood? You have the right to believe what you want and vote what you want but you can not discredit what I say because it is a FACT.
By Happy Conservative
August 30, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this
A couple more thing your facts are wrong, she was mayor of town that had 9,000 people. And what does losing a race for Lt. Gov have to do with “the cost of tea in china” My friend, your logic does not make reason. Different opinions great but facts need to be facts!
By CapCurt
August 30, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this
John McCain made experience the cornerstone of his run for the office as much as Obama made change his cornerstone. I was critical of Obama when he selected a long time insider as his running mate. That does not appear to be change. As an objective independent, I must question this decision by my guy John McCain. I have to question his judgement on this matter ONLY because he made it such a big issue. The Obama nut have the right to criticize this move as much McCain supporters questions the choice of Biden. This worries me deeply.
By McCan't
August 30, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this
By Happy Conservative August 30, 2008 1:51 PM
you want but you can not discredit what I say because it is a FACT
This is so fun….
Obama was sworn in on January 4th, 2005. By your accounts, or “facts” as you call it, Obama has been “awol” from the Senate since May 24th, 2005. Has he been running that long? Over 3 years?
Actually, or “factually” as I should put it, Obama announced on February 10th, 2007, that he was running for president.
McCain announced April 25th, 2007. Has he been “awol” too?
Read the Facts! Fox News Sean Hannity.
Ahhaaaa. That explains it all………
By CapCurt
August 30, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this
John McCain made experience the cornerstone of his run for the office as much as Obama made change his cornerstone. I was critical of Obama when he selected a long time insider as his running mate. That does not appear to be change. As an objective independent, I must question this decision by my guy John McCain. I have to question his judgement on this matter ONLY because he made it such a big issue. The Obama nut have the right to criticize this move as much McCain supporters questions the choice of Biden. This worries me deeply.
By DJ
August 30, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this
Jim -
I’m glad you think Palin is a good pick for McLame. It proves yet again that you are as out of touch with average Americans as the shell of what used to be called the Republican Party is. Bravo.
You can’t actually think that more than about 17 women who were Hillary supporters are going to gag up their lunch to pull the lever for McLame just because he picked a woman to buy votes - er - I mean as a running mate. Please - they would rather elect a tree stump than John McLame, regardless of who his running mate is, and that goes for a lot of moderate Republicans who will say the right things to pollsters, but will not be able to stomach pulling the lever for Bush Lite when they actually get in the privacy off the voting booth (the majority of Republicans are moderates - not zealots like you and your neocon ilk).
But hey - thanks for (A) removing any argument about Obama’s experience, (B) putting abortion and the Supreme Court back on the agenda, where this time it will help the Democrats not the Republicans, and (C) highlighting just how close to senility or death John McLame actually is, and why having Suzy Homemaker one breath from the red button is a bad idea.
NO WAY, NO HOW, NO McCAIN.
Nice try though - but what else could we expect from someone who gets’ paid to shill for an ideology, instead of actually analyzing and discussing policy. Of course you have to put your game face on and make any excuse you can for why continuing four more years of the last 8 years worth of catastrophic Anti-American policies is a good idea. I’ll give you a little hint - the majority of america - by large margin, by the way - doesn’t think it’s a good idea to continue in the direction we are going, with the policies that we have been living under. And we’re going to vote the bums out. Criminals is more like it, but whatever. Crawl out from under your rock some time and visit America - all of it, not just the “red” areas. You’ll find a lot of disgust with Bush and his cronies. And a hell of a lot more people are motivated to see the end of the Bush era than want to see it continue.
You all are going down, and no matter how close it looks, and no matter how nasty the Republicans get (it’s not liike they can really run on their accomplishments over the last eight years), when the dust settles on election night, there is going to be a record turn out, and McLame and the neocon ideology are going to get stomped. Decisively.
By dirty harry
August 30, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this
By Happy Conservative ..
Mr. HAPPY: “You don’t listen to Limbaugh?’
Yea, you do! Where did these so called news reports come from? The one with all those NUMBERS.
Oh I know! BOORTZ!
Did Obama miss 48% of his votes…Or like McCain miss 63% of the votes.
Did he like McCain write an immigration policy…Then vote against the immigration policty he WROTE?
Are you kidding me .. you author a bill then vote against it!
Some jokes just write themselves!!!!!
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
August 30, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this
Note to all, hope you have seen the new jibjab video. Whichever is your side, you will enjoy the video. http://sendables.jibjab.com/
By McCan't
August 30, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this
According to their own website (www.cityofwisilla.com), their population is 6,715. Tell Pretty Boy Hannity to get his facts straight.
By DJ
August 30, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this
Jim -
I’m glad you think Palin is a good pick for McLame. It proves yet again that you are as out of touch with average Americans as the shell of what used to be called the Republican Party is. Bravo.
You can’t actually think that more than about 17 women who were Hillary supporters are going to gag up their lunch to pull the lever for McLame just because he picked a woman to buy votes - er - I mean as a running mate. Please - they would rather elect a tree stump than John McLame, regardless of who his running mate is, and that goes for a lot of moderate Republicans who will say the right things to pollsters, but will not be able to stomach pulling the lever for Bush Lite when they actually get in the privacy off the voting booth (the majority of Republicans are moderates - not zealots like you and your neocon ilk).
But hey - thanks for (A) removing any argument about Obama’s experience, (B) putting abortion and the Supreme Court back on the agenda, where this time it will help the Democrats not the Republicans, and (C) highlighting just how close to senility or death John McLame actually is, and why having Suzy Homemaker one breath from the red button is a bad idea.
NO WAY, NO HOW, NO McCAIN.
Nice try though - but what else could we expect from someone who gets’ paid to shill for an ideology, instead of actually analyzing and discussing policy. Of course you have to put your game face on and make any excuse you can for why continuing four more years of the last 8 years worth of catastrophic Anti-American policies is a good idea. I’ll give you a little hint - the majority of america - by large margin, by the way - doesn’t think it’s a good idea to continue in the direction we are going, with the policies that we have been living under. And we’re going to vote the bums out. Criminals is more like it, but whatever. Crawl out from under your rock some time and visit America - all of it, not just the “red” areas. You’ll find a lot of disgust with Bush and his cronies. And a hell of a lot more people are motivated to see the end of the Bush era than want to see it continue.
You all are going down, and no matter how close it looks, and no matter how nasty the Republicans get (it’s not liike they can really run on their accomplishments over the last eight years), when the dust settles on election night, there is going to be a record turn out, and McLame and the neocon ideology are going to get stomped. Decisively.
By buster brown
August 30, 2008 2:26 PM | Link to this
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
RAGNAR you are full of it….
You don’t have a sense of humor so I’ll opt out of watching said VIDEO!
Thanks for the invite though!
By get out much?
August 30, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this
Methinks Senator NcCain could have chosen a potted plant and Mr. Wooten would have praised the choice.
As for qualifications for president? All we need to know is which candidate does the best job of ki$$ing Saudi a$$ to support our oil addiction and which one does the best job of ki$$ing chinese a$$ to support our deficit spending addiction - since we are incapable of cutting spending or increasing taxes.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
August 30, 2008 2:29 PM | Link to this
It should be painfully obvious to all that virtually all democrats oppose Mrs. Palin’s presence on the ticket, and well above 90% of the conservatives approve. That is the way the world should be, is it not?
By Jams Nilly
August 30, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this
If McCain is such a maverick and care about the disgruntled Hillary supporters, why did he made the ultimate bold move and ask her to be her running mate??
You may think a mother of 5 will support all that are dear to women, paid leave after birth, equal pay, women’s right, but no, she more interested is supporting the “big-boys” ideas.
Jim Wooten is a no body. If Obama has selected a running mate with Palin’s experience, Wooten would be writing negative comments without end. Very predictable.
By get out much?
August 30, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this
victory in iraq. I see that Iraq just signed a $3 billion oil deal with China.
By Tom
August 30, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this
Thoughtful conservatives (unlike Jim Wooten) realize that this choice sends an important message from McCain: panicky desperation. Read today’s comment from Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post, where he calls the selection of Sarah Palin “near suicidal.”
By Ted Striker
August 30, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this
Dude. Get real.
Stories about UGA VII are getting more clicks and media views than stories about McCain’s VP.
Two observations: Did you notice McCain momentarily going blank trying to remember her name during the announcement?
Second Observation: Do you think he’s going for the Mafia vote in choosing a running mate who looks like Dr. Melfi from The Sopranos?
By Jackie
August 30, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this
A review of the electoral map shows Obama has 235 electoral votes that include CA, NY, NJ, MI, WI, IL, OR, WA, PA and all of the NorthEast states except NH.
The electoral map also shows there are 16 battleground states, including VA, NC, GA, FL, OH, SC.
If Obama wins just one of those battleground states, which the experts proclaim VA and NC trending toward Obama, the pronouncements by the Repubs will not matter. It only requires 270 electoral votes to win the election.
This time around, the Repubs will not be able to “manipulate” the count and swing the election.
If you give it consideration, our system does not allow for an “experienced” President. They are all rookies when it comes to job.
By buck
August 30, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this
Picking Palin means only one thing. McCain is desperate. She is unqualified for VP.
By marko
August 30, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this
Picking a woman you hardly know to become the vice president of the United States hardly shows sound judgement on the part of McCain.The NFL does a better job checking out guys that only have to kick footballs on Sunday. This makes Bushes ill fated selection of Harriet Myers ,for the supreme court, look positively brilliant. John clearly made this desperate move to attract the votes of the christain right. Poor John can’t win with the fundamentalist and win without them.
By marko
August 30, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this
I meant to say Poor John can’t win with the fundamentalist, and can’t win without them. Sorry about that. By the way, a totally inexperienced woman could’t possibly be any worse than Chaney and Rumsfield. After all you have a brain to benifit from experience.
By marko
August 30, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this
I meant to say Poor John can’t win with the fundamentalist, and can’t win without them. Sorry about that. By the way, a totally inexperienced woman could’t possibly be any worse than Chaney and Rumsfield. After all you have a brain to benefit from experience.
By NATIONAL ENQUIRER
August 30, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this
FROM THE PEOPLE WHO BROKE THE JOHN EDWARD’S STORY.
[Governor Palin’s] oldest girl is rumored to have actually been the one who had the last baby, the one with Down’s Syndrome. She was taken out of school the last 4 or 5 months of her mother’s pregnancy.
On March 5th, 2008 Alaska’s Republican Governor, Sarah Palin, announced to the media that she was 7 months pregnant with her 5th child. She is currently 44.
Palin’s daughter Bristol is 16 and attends an Anchorage high school. Students who have attended class with her report that she has been out of school for months, claiming a prolonged case of mono.
Palin does not appear pregnant in any recent photographs. The announcement came as quite a shock to people who had worked closely with her, and have been quoted as saying that she did not appear pregnant whatsoever during the prior 7 months.
By K_Chub
August 30, 2008 4:41 PM | Link to this
Ok - now I get it Jim. You figure that by writing this sensationalist crap that you call a column promoting McCrappy’s laughable VP pick you’ll get a lot of blog traffic. Bravo Mr. Wooten - you are a complete hack and have no business even writing in the Vent section of the AJC, but hey at least for a day you can say you attracted lots of bloggers. That counts for something right?
Wooten you are the biggest joke of a writer I have ever seen. Why does the AJC employ you? I mean you offer nothing - why not just employ some low-level staffer working for the GOP to write this crap. No matter what the GOP does you have head stuck so far up your own bu tt that you don’t think about what you write. It’s same thing every time with you. Do have any ability to think for yourself? I know the AJC needs a token conservative, but they could at least hire someone with a brain.
By TW
August 30, 2008 4:41 PM | Link to this
So, is the Palin Corruption Investigation going to play our before the election? Or will we perhaps add to this debacle of a VP selection by having to replace her at a later date?
And if McSame kicks off right after he is sworn in, will the current investigation of Palin be an impeachable offense if it is not yet resolved?
By Dusty
August 30, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this
OBVIOUSLY Republicans have made a wise choice. No wonder McCain is smiling like a fox in the henhouse. He’s got it MADE.
The most obvious sign of success at present is the overbearing, voluminous, obnoxious, untruthful, hateful, discriminating, lies and outraged envy by our dear compatriots THE LIBERALS.
This is their third tsunami of pure bitterness. In the beginning, it was George Bush on the first election. Then it was convulsions on the second round of George W. Bush. Still producing prickly “heat” over the President, now liberals are doing their production of “JAWS”.
Above it all stands a strong man and a smart woman of leadership. Neither one has fear of administering harpoons to predators.
So have fun while you can, harpies. Your days of butterflies and daisy chains around the Obama throne are coming to an end. The real folks of steel are ready and you DO NOT HAVE A CHANCE.
Adios, amigos, maybe there is someone available who can show you how to leave gracefully. You never did before.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
August 30, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this
Dear TW @ 4:41, the Palin “corruption” investigation is dead, nothing there, but the October sentence of Rezko may initiate an interesting and timely review.
Dear Jackie @ 3:23, I think I would call Michigan and Pennsylvania battlegrounds, and I would not call NC a battleground. I agree that Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania will determine the election. I also acknowledge that Colorado and New Mexico are leaning your way, both also too close to predict.
By ron
August 30, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this
Mrs Palin’s lack of experience should point out that Obama is really less experienced than she.This should now be glaringly obvious.
Mrs.Palin has a problem with an Alaska trooper.This will probably be resolved in her favor.Will it be a campaign issue?It’s about the only thing the Dems dare to bring out.They don’t dare to mention lack of experience.
I don’t think I’m as agog with her as Jim is,but she’ll do.Should she have to take the reins due to some unforseen circumstance,she’ll have the same advisors as McCain.She’ll listen.
By John
August 30, 2008 5:22 PM | Link to this
You are right on the money. How refreshing, a person with INTEGRITY,who “walks the walk and talks the talk. She has actually been in politics ,city council etc., 16 years. She has proven she can get things done.Go to the Alaska Govenor ‘s website and see for yourself. Once she gains experience as VP, I think she will be the next President of the United States. People who vote on one issue only (abortion) are missing 99% of Sarah Palin. A patriot willing to serve for the common good of all Americans.
What a GREAT choice.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
August 30, 2008 5:22 PM | Link to this
Dear K-Chub @ 4:41, that is an amusing concession on your part. Jim Wooten knows how to push the buttons of the leftists and they always respond like slavering dogs?
By Dusty
August 30, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this
Surely this came from the National Inquirer but who knows…it doesn’t matter. Could be the “gospel truth”.
A dinosaur egg was found in a melting glacier in Alaska. It hatched out near the Palin property. It turned out to be BigFoot nicknamed Little Gore. Liberals were so entranced by LIL GORE, they kidnapped him and sent him to the States to replace OBAMA.
Rumors had been flying that Obama was really a pineapple. Several people noticed. When his birth certificate was found on the Dole Plantation…sure ‘nuff…you’ve guessed it… he’s sliced, tidbits and crushed.
But of course, this story is true. Why not? The Inquirer might have written it. You just NEVER KNOW….
By Political Foreskin
August 30, 2008 5:39 PM | Link to this
I’m voting for McCain. His Veep looks like Angelina Jolie. I know the liberals are going through her past with a fine tooth comb and I’m praying for a Girls Gone Wild Video cameo. Please. I’m begging here.
Looking like Angelina and being from Alaska is why Sarah Palin has adopted three snowflake babies. (sorry)
McCangelina 08: A nice rack trumps Iraq and Barack, and she makes Hillary look like a potatoe sack.
I’m trying to figure out how RW managed to pick Sarah Palin. What criteria did he use, the “purdy mouth” standard? No, if RW had relied on that, he would have picked Barney Frank or Sen. Craig, being the gay cabalero he is, but credit must be given where credit is due. RW was paying attention on a level no one else was.
That’s 4 sure, Thats 4 dang sure.
McCain 08: All America needed was a pretty face.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
August 30, 2008 5:50 PM | Link to this
The WSJ Report obviously opened with the Palin nomination tonight. The crew unanimously calls it a great choice. John Fund affirms the choice is a game-changer. He noted that he attended one pre-convention conference, and that Mrs. Palin got a standing ovation, and she wasn’t even in the room. The moribund base has come to life.
By Political Foreskin
August 30, 2008 6:06 PM | Link to this
Sarah Palin proves that any american can be president. Bush proved it first.
We are all qualified 2B president.
CNN announced that The GOP Convention, already a pagent, will have it first bathing suit contest, and Sarah Palin’s interview will confirm that she wants “world peace”, she likes the Bee Gees, and indulges in chocolate occasionally.
Oh, and she thinks she’s fat.
The opening ceremonies will include 10 thousand synchronized bra burners.
The conservatives dont know what they have wrought. Not by a long shot.
McCangelina 08: A nice rack trumps Iraq, Barrack, and that Clinton potatoe sack.
By lamont
August 30, 2008 6:25 PM | Link to this
Sarah Palin is a proven can do Governor. Here is a list of former Governors you may have heard about. During their time many (if not all) of these people were considered too inexperienced for the job at hand.
Experience is like IQ, it all depends on how you use it.
Following governors from Virginia, other presidents were governors first from a variety of other states: 1. Martin Van Buren: Governor of New York in 1829 2. James Polk: Governor of Tennessee, serving from 1839-1841 3. Andrew Johnson: Governor of Tennessee from 1853-1857 and then appointed by Lincoln to serve as military governor of Tennessee from 1862-1864 4. Rutherford Hayes: Governor of Ohio from 1868-1872 and again from 1876-1877 5. Grover Cleveland: Governor of New York from 1883-1885 6. William McKinley: Governor of Ohio from 1892-1896 Numerous presidents were governors first in the 20th century. The list begins with
By lamont
August 30, 2008 6:29 PM | Link to this
Sarah Palin is a proven can do Governor. Here is a list of former Governors you may have heard about. During their time many (if not all) of these people were considered too inexperienced for the job at hand.
Experience is like IQ, it all depends on how you use it.
Following governors from Virginia, other presidents were governors first from a variety of other states: 1. Martin Van Buren: Governor of New York in 1829 2. James Polk: Governor of Tennessee, serving from 1839-1841 3. Andrew Johnson: Governor of Tennessee from 1853-1857 and then appointed by Lincoln to serve as military governor of Tennessee from 1862-1864 4. Rutherford Hayes: Governor of Ohio from 1868-1872 and again from 1876-1877 5. Grover Cleveland: Governor of New York from 1883-1885 6. William McKinley: Governor of Ohio from 1892-1896 Numerous presidents were governors first in the 20th century. The list begins with
By lamont
August 30, 2008 6:29 PM | Link to this
Sarah Palin is a proven can do Governor. Here is a list of former Governors you may have heard about. During their time many (if not all) of these people were considered too inexperienced for the job at hand.
Experience is like IQ, it all depends on how you use it.
Following governors from Virginia, other presidents were governors first from a variety of other states: 1. Martin Van Buren: Governor of New York in 1829 2. James Polk: Governor of Tennessee, serving from 1839-1841 3. Andrew Johnson: Governor of Tennessee from 1853-1857 and then appointed by Lincoln to serve as military governor of Tennessee from 1862-1864 4. Rutherford Hayes: Governor of Ohio from 1868-1872 and again from 1876-1877 5. Grover Cleveland: Governor of New York from 1883-1885 6. William McKinley: Governor of Ohio from 1892-1896 Numerous presidents were governors first in the 20th century. The list begins with
By lamont
August 30, 2008 6:29 PM | Link to this
Sarah Palin is a proven can do Governor. Here is a list of former Governors you may have heard about. During their time many (if not all) of these people were considered too inexperienced for the job at hand.
Experience is like IQ, it all depends on how you use it.
Following governors from Virginia, other presidents were governors first from a variety of other states: 1. Martin Van Buren: Governor of New York in 1829 2. James Polk: Governor of Tennessee, serving from 1839-1841 3. Andrew Johnson: Governor of Tennessee from 1853-1857 and then appointed by Lincoln to serve as military governor of Tennessee from 1862-1864 4. Rutherford Hayes: Governor of Ohio from 1868-1872 and again from 1876-1877 5. Grover Cleveland: Governor of New York from 1883-1885 6. William McKinley: Governor of Ohio from 1892-1896 Numerous presidents were governors first in the 20th century. The list begins with
By Roger
August 30, 2008 7:04 PM | Link to this
You’re right, it erases doubts that McSame is going to lose, he’s definitely going to lose now.
How can you think this rediculous choise is going to help. She believes the opposite of what women fight for. What a joke.
**The Anchorage Daily News is reporting that many of Palin’s local colleagues, even Republican, were rather stunned by her being chosen as McCain’s vice president.
State Senate President Lyda Green said she thought it was a joke when someone called her at 6 a.m. to give her the news.
“She’s not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president?” said Green, a Republican from Palin’s hometown of Wasilla. “Look at what she’s done to this state. What would she do to the nation?”**
By Commander Guy
August 30, 2008 7:13 PM | Link to this
“McCain’s Choice of Palin Erases Doubt”
A perfectly true headline. There is no doubt that McCranky has the judgement of an undercooked turnip.
Sarah Palin is the Tom Eagleton of the new millenium. You youngsters can look him up on google.
bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
By Dan Griffin
August 30, 2008 7:35 PM | Link to this
Republicans love inexperienced governors. Look at how the last one they elected screwed everything up!!
By Joe Dawg Alumni
August 30, 2008 7:59 PM | Link to this
I have a big question that no one asks the overly critical press. Why is does the governor of Alaska have less experience than Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush had when they were elected. Carter was a one term failure in Georgia and he obviously had enough experience to please some of you. None of the above had one single day of foreign policy experience, unless you buy GWB’s claim that he had a long border with Mexico. I believe Sarah has a long border with Canada and is about 75 miles from Russia.
By GOPs got to go
August 30, 2008 8:18 PM | Link to this
Ah but Rufus/Dufus,
Oh happy day because I told the God’s honest truth there buddy. And I should add that he never pays attention to politics, except when a really stupid thing happens. The last time was when hearing Vernon Jones debating. Ask Jim, he remembers.
And Jim knows in his heart that he does not want this lady to EVER be President.
Like someone else said he would proclaim the intelligence of picking a toaster or ficus tree for VP to help the GOP party.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
August 30, 2008 8:20 PM | Link to this
Dear Dan @ 7:35, everything except the war against Al Qaeda - his military wiped out Al Qaeda. And he also was smart enough to push for tax cuts when the economy was weak. I note Obama is not so smart, as he would have unilaterally surrendered against Al Qaeda, and would have pushed for tax increases to “bolster” the economy. Yep, you leftists have a clear vision of how to win. Just keep quiet and you might.
By GaLiberal
August 30, 2008 8:46 PM | Link to this
Yea, right Moron Jim. Good pick. Of Obama and the Democrats. Can’t wait to watch you and your Rethuglicon goose stepping boot licking ilk crap your pants come November.
By DD
August 30, 2008 8:53 PM | Link to this
Putin Wooten also thought W would make a great president. ‘Nuff said.
By GaLiberal
August 30, 2008 9:08 PM | Link to this
Yea, right Moron Jim. Good pick. For Obama and the Democrats. Can’t wait to watch you and your Rethuglicon goose stepping boot licking ilk crap your pants come November.
By Republican Bob
August 30, 2008 9:47 PM | Link to this
Hillary’s supporters and the rest of America’s women will vote for McCain because they want to see a woman succeed. We gave them the woman on the ticket and the Democrats did not. Woman are interchangeable, and can easily be traded for another. Our women know this, that’s why they behave, because they don’t want to end up like Carol McCain, Regina and Donna Giuliani, Jackie and Marianne Gingrich, Phyllis Dole, Gail Barr, Penelope D’Amato, Ann Allen, and four former Mrs. Limbaughs.
The women of America will vote with us because they know what’s good for them. We are.
By Bob Ryder
August 30, 2008 9:54 PM | Link to this
“and this is who you want to be President if the 72 y.o. cancer survivor dies????????”
YES! Someone outside of Wshington that is not a Clinton or Bush. Someone with some common sense.
By Bob Ryder
August 30, 2008 10:02 PM | Link to this
“As for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does everyday?”
That’s a direct quote from your VP candidate. You know, the one that’s “ready to lead.”
Can YOU tell me what a VP does?
By Hillary
August 30, 2008 10:10 PM | Link to this
“Picking a woman you hardly know to become the vice president of the United States hardly shows sound judgement on the part of McCain”
Good Grief Marko, you libs want to elect a President that thinks we have 57 States and does not think Iran is a threat! A man who thinks the way to help the economy is to raise taxes and tax you why you die! Talk about bad judgement. Are you libs brain dead or what?
By Forrest
August 30, 2008 10:32 PM | Link to this
Liberals are so funny. Palin has one and a half years experience as a chief executive, Obama zero, yet is is OK to nominate him for president. Obama has no foreign policy experience just like her. Obama has no substantive accomplishments in the Senate. Palin has taken on corruption in her own party and the oil companies as governor. Obama is good at speeches and that’s it. She has done more in her one and a half years as governor than he has in almost four years in the Senate. As for all this essential “national experience” how did Reagan and Clinton make it without it? That is all Washington think.
By Forrest
August 30, 2008 10:38 PM | Link to this
Liberals are so funny. Palin has one and a half years experience as a chief executive, Obama zero, yet is is OK to nominate him for president. Obama has no foreign policy experience just like her. Obama has no substantive accomplishments in the Senate. Palin has taken on corruption in her own party and the oil companies as governor. Obama is good at speeches and that’s it. She has done more in her one and a half years as governor than he has in almost four years in the Senate. As for all this essential “national experience” how did Reagan and Clinton make it without it? That is all Washington think.
By Algonquin J. Calhoun
August 30, 2008 11:22 PM | Link to this
Forrest can’t see for the trees! Palin has taken on corruption alright. Like so many other Republinazis she’s being investigated for corruption. give us a break dogbreath. McSwine and Vice-President Twinkie will never take office. McIdiot has assured the election of Obama. You and Jim better get used to it!
By Shan
August 30, 2008 11:48 PM | Link to this
Choosing Palin was the worst political move I have ever witnessed in my life!! If McCain felt the urge to gamble, he should have packed up and went to Las Vegas. We are talking about the United States people, not a small town in Alaska!! This is not the time for our poltical figures to gamble on our way of life. We need for them to make logical decisions. Lets take a look at this situation closely: 1. McCain met Palin ONLY ONCE before choosing her as VP! He has no formal knowledge of her work ethic nor do they have a working relationship! 2. She has not 1, not 2 but 5 kids! And this was not taken into consideration at all! Come on people, do you really think she has the time? 3. Being a soccer mom and PTA member does not qualify you for a political office. I am sorry. I know it sounds great but it doesn’t. 4. What happened to Purdue, Patel, Condellezza, hell Jeb Bush would have been better!lol
By IndyPendant
August 31, 2008 12:06 AM | Link to this
Seems like a lot of expected hand wringing about Palin since the pick was announced - mostly from folks who would have voted for McCain otherwise. What’s funny is how ‘disappointed’ these folks are with the situation - like they wanted McCain to pick HRC.
I’m still not sure why these folks find it OK that HRC was bypassed in favor of Biden [Joe Biden ? Huh ?]
Fact is both contenders picked running mates to shore up their ticket. Again, HRC would have been the right pick for BHO but no, he wants change so much, he picks Biden.
Palin is a fantastic pick - she’s basically eclipsed all the radiance from the DNC which is what should have been talked about since the DNC finale.
I guess this is symptomatic of things to come - panic on the left.
By algonquin J. Calhoun
August 31, 2008 12:26 AM | Link to this
Panic? Elation! McFool has not disappointed. Vice-President Twinkie won’t be taking office. She’s under investigation for corruption, like so many other Republinazis, and her nomination is a joke of epic proportion! Time to turn out the Republinazi party and restore liberty to this nation.
By Davo
August 31, 2008 1:05 AM | Link to this
I can’t believe some of these comments…how some of you can defend party line over national defense is mind-blowing. It’s so completely obvious that this is a political move but you ignore the implication that this woman of limited experience could be POTUS.
Looking outside the beltway is one thing…this choice is just wrong on so many levels. Tell me no one else would accept the VP? What other explanation is there?
Republicans deserve to lose and they deserve to lose badly…Remember personal responsibility?
I am a conservative…where is my representation in this election? I’m tired of this stupid party and the dems.
Keep floggin on the worn-out elephant Wooten…I;m all done with this ride.
By Davo
August 31, 2008 1:40 AM | Link to this
Holy Freakin Crazy!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/30/121350/137
What an accusation!
By Klauber
August 31, 2008 2:33 AM | Link to this
Palin has so little experience that the very thought of her having to take the President’s place (McCain WOULD be the oldest president EVER in office if he is elected…) makes me truly terrified for the world. Isn’t it obvious that his campaign is merely trying to snag as many undecided Hilary supporters as possible?
The REALLY sad part is, Palin’s politics are so vastly different from Hilary’s (180 degrees on EVERY ISSUE), that these undecided women will essentially be tricked into voting for the candidate they “relate” to, instead of the one they actually agree with…
It’s also wildly hypocritical of McCain to choose someone with so little experience as VP after running the entire campaign thus far based upon Obama’s lack of experience. Everyone I know, even my UBER-conservative family, think McCain has become a desperate child.
By Say what?
August 31, 2008 3:15 AM | Link to this
I’m a lib and I think it might be interesting to have Tina Fey as VP.
By Stone
August 31, 2008 6:02 AM | Link to this
For the last time people McCain will not be the oldest president ever if elected!!! He will, however be the oldest person elected to his first term. Ronald Reagan was older than McCain when he was elected to his second term and thus older when he served it. Check the facts before running your mouths, for it exposes your ignorance.
By dirty harry
August 31, 2008 7:38 AM | Link to this
By Bob Ryder
August 30, 2008 9:54 PM
Uh…BOB how do you know Ms Palin has common sense?
Are you a swami, or do you have some inside information that 99.5% of the U.S. population does not have! Including John McCain who previous to there meeting in Dayton had only talked to her ONCE!
I guess he did the Bush thing…looked into her eyes and could see her soul…
My bet is that you just made it up….
But she does have foreign policy experience .. Just ask Steve Doofy of FOX.
And, what is that foreign policy experience you ask? Why she lives in Alaska a mere 75 miles from Russia!
It’s only 7:30 A.M. and I think I need a Bloody Mary!
http://www.crooksandliars.com/Media/Play/32320/1/TDS-Colbert-PalinPick.wmv/
By Tom Ga Hunter
August 31, 2008 8:11 AM | Link to this
Although I hate Barnes, he is dead on with this.. Barnes is NOT the solution but I don’t see 1 in the RINO party.
Barnes talking like a candidate for governor Athens Banner-Herald | Story updated at 6:45 pm on 8/30/2008
Former Gov. Roy Barnes may have thrown more red meat on the table against Republicans than all the national Democrats put together at the Denver convention.
Maybe that’s why Barnes didn’t get much TV time. He sounded as tough as Zell Miller talking about Democrats. But Barnes didn’t get around to challenging anyone to a duel as Miller did four years ago.
A newsletter report and interview on Barnes’ performance this year will have to suffice. At a gathering of the Georgia delegation in Denver last week, “Barnes delivered a stemwinder to wake up the delegates at their breakfast meeting, excoriating the Republican-majority legislature for the ‘stench’ it has caused at the Capitol, and slamming Gov. Sonny Perdue for mismanagement of the state budget,” reported Tom Baxter of the Southern Political Report newsletter.
When I called Barnes to confirm his remarks, he poured oil on the fire.
“If (legendary former House Speaker) Tom Murphy were still alive and speaker, he would have asked Sonny Perdue, ‘Are you drunk or what? Don’t you know we’re headed into a recession?’” Barnes said, referring to Perdue’s most recent official estimate of 6 percent growth in state revenue. The state budget, based on that forecast, is headed for a $1.5 billion to $2 billion deficit, causing Perdue to slash spending across state government. Education has been hit especially hard.
Barnes ripped Perdue for moving to take away a tax break for homeowners to try to reduce the looming shortfall. He noted, however, that the Republican governor has done nothing to eliminate special-interest tax breaks that have benefited Perdue and his pals.
To hear such a fire-breathing speech and interview, one might think Barnes is preparing for liftoff as a candidate for governor in 2010.
“Some people have asked me to run,” he says. “But, right now, I’m leaning against it.”
His leanings did not dilute his remarks at the breakfast, which included a couple of would-be gubernatorial candidates, at least one of whom is noted as a get-along kind of guy.
Barnes said GOP lawmakers have become so beholden to special interests that they should be required to “wear patches like NASCAR drivers, with logos of the interests that have bought them out.
“The only problem is, they may not have a coat big enough to put on all those patches,” Barnes said. The breakfast crowd was delighted, Baxter reported.
Barnes also delivered the obligatory plug for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. He asserted that Democrats have to win the state for Obama “because it is the beginning of us taking the state back for ourselves.”
An Obama victory in Georgia would signify more than a return of Democratic power. It would constitute the beginning of the age of political miracles. We shall see.
Barnes’ last presidential hoss, John Edwards, didn’t run too well in these parts. And that contest occurred before Edwards was exposed as a lying, two-timing, hypocritical scoundrel.
However, Barnes sounds like a guy who is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore, at least not on his home turf.
Perdue has done little as governor, except dismantle Barnes’ programs and blame Georgia’s misfortunes on the former governor from Cobb County, whose administration vanished nearly seven years ago.
If your lowly correspondent were a gambling man, I’d say the chance of Barnes running for governor are about one out of five. Some people close to Barnes put the odds nearer to 50-50.
He already has the fire in his belly to make the race, but he probably needs more pushing and pledges of cash.
In any event, Barnes’ little breakfast speech may have set the tone for the next campaign - an attack on a corrupt General Assembly and a do-nothing gubernatorial administration.
We haven’t heard from Republicans yet. The Georgia crowd will undoubtedly have some harsh words for local Democrats when they convene in Minneapolis to nominate John McCain.
By Political Foreskin
August 31, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this
Gustav has hit Cuba and has caused over a billion dollars in improvements.
Luckovich missed a home run by an inch. The cartoon should read, “Sorry, Rudy, but I’ve already made my choice”.
I thought it was Rudy at first. It looks like Rudy. In fact, without a caption, it would be funnier. Let the reader decide who it is. Just having a “conservative” in drag trolling for Veep in front of McCain is funny enough. Let the faces tell the story. Bulging expectant eyes, mona lisa smile, body posture screaming “pick me”. McCain, expressionless, taking it all in. What a homerun you missed, pal. Mitt is too far removed from crossdressing to make sense. sorry.
Even though You missed, Mike, I like the idea. I’m telling you, Luckovich, run these things by me. My sense of humor is exemplary and sans pier. My take on the VP choice, (after Bookman noted that RW (the original) had predicted Sarah P.) was that RW’s criteria must have been the “Purdy Mouth” standard, but if that were true, RW would have picked Barney Frank or Sen. Craig. I wish to Abraham that I had thought of Rudy. Rudy is the homerun here. He’s the wrong party, and that makes his musky-bluster even funnier. Every knows, but forgot about his drag cameos. It was the callback of the year, man. This was where it was needed.
So we both came close, but no cigar.
Thomas Friedman in today’s AJC was so impressed with China’s Cirque du Soleil style Megashow, and their Disney Park style infrastructure improvements, that he wishes we were them in a “The way we were” essay. He’s wrong, as usual. China would be better off simply connecting their cities with highways and forcing people to drive hybrids. China spent 100 billion on the spectacle. You’d have thought they got a spouse-friendly divorce from Beatle Paul, or something.
China, instead, is distracting the world from the fact that they are building a vast modern navy. China will soon be everywhere. Imagine the Georgia crisis with another task force anchored in the same harbor the Russians and Americans are facing off in.
The world’s about to get real complicated. To say the US is the only superpower is super foolish. We say the word “super” alot. I dont think it means what we think it means. It’s inconceivably inscrutable.
George Will’s column today is simply the most obvious projection he’s ever unwittingly written. “Where’s the derisive laughter,” he asks, (over Obama’s campaign pledges)? Mr. Wills, the laughter is in your reader’s reaction to your failed attempt to straddle the fence of being opposed to the handling of the Iraq War, yet staying Conservative Base on every other issue. You’ve lost all credibility and you didn’t earn the right to mock the new political tithings, especially in the face of your constituency’s vestments-free accord to withdraw troops on a surrender timeline. No need for ceremony; you cant dress up a surrender monkey. Right?
Go soak your head, George Wills. You’re last year’s story.
McCangelina 08: All America needed was a pretty face.
By GOPs got to go
August 31, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this
I love how Republican Bob,(unless this is short for Roberta) thinks he has his finger on the psyche of the American Woman.
Keep dreaming Bob.
By ron
August 31, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this
It’s Sunday.All you all git off to church now and leave this to us non-believers.
Mrs.Palin has an 83% approval rating at home as Govenor.Even a couple of Democracts must like her.That’s 83%George.That’s like your anti number.
Someone actually thinks he understands women?Dreamer.
Gustav is coming to the Gulf.Nagle thinks it’s going to visit New Orleans.If I lived there I’d believe him.I’d be gone inland.At least to Montana.
Last night I turned the tv on.It gets a PBS station.There weren’t any raving politicians on.No Olympics either.Sanity has returned temporarily.The Republican Convention will be a blow out.
By JayBookmanSucksDonkeys
August 31, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this
I’m sorry, but she just isn’t embarrassed enough by America. She also doesn’t have two years experience running for President or abdicating one’s duty as a U.S. Senator. Also, she waited way to long before starting to run. The 3 months of experiece Obama had in the Senate before beginning his run is more than enough experience to qualify him for President.
I love how you liberal pukes are whining about experience. Just shows one what double standard hypocrites you really are.
By Just Thinking
August 31, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this
To all those who question Sarah Palin’s lack of experience. Is it more important for the number one person on the ticket to have experience, or the number two? Liberals who are whining about Palin’s lack of experience have failed to see the same flaw in their own candidate. How typical.
By Daddy Lippersneer
August 31, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this
Ron, you have an 83% approval rating for the notion that you’re a moron.
By dirty harry
August 31, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this
WOW! Ron you get PBS on your TV how fortunate for you.
As for myself I went to the Alabama/Clemson game!
This just in Ron: Sarah Palins mother-in-law says this “I’m not sure what she brings to the ticket other than she’s a woman and a conservative!” Kinda says it all…Don’t ya think?
By the way there is no NAGLE of any importance that I am aware of in NOLA..Did you mean Ray NAGIN?
By red adair
August 31, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this
HEllo Bitter democrats—-The winery called and they want their sour grapes back. I went to the Rodeo last night and I saw a lot of BULL there, but this “democratic defensive logic is Tired and SAD and this is the Most BULL ever!
By red adair
August 31, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this
HEllo Bitter democrats—-The winery called and they want their sour grapes back. I went to the Rodeo last night and I saw a lot of BULL there, but this “democratic defensive logic” is Tired and SAD and this is the Most BULL ever!
By whatacrock
August 31, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this
Last week, one of the chief haunchos at Focus on the Family, you know, James Dobsons group, said that he was praying for rain on the democratic convention when Obama was to give his acceptance speech in an outdoor areana.
Isn’t it quite ironic that the republican party gets a hurricane to deal with this week? Hmmm- whatacrock!
By TW
August 31, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this
So much for a close game. All the money in Vegas continues to go on Obama.
I guess it’s only fitting we follow up the worst president in the history of the US with the worst VP selection we’ve ever seen.
Time for John to get himself a brain scan.
By Chemcat
August 31, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this
Palin is the only one in the race with executive experience and she has done a wonderful job in that roll. She’s took on corruption at the top in both the parties and beat them.
The only thing Obama has done for his constituents is to grab his share of earmarks. Far from fighting the corruption in the Chicago he’s joined hand in hand with them.
Heck yeah, I’d much rather see Gov. Palin as POTUS than Bill Ayer’s good buddy Obama. She comes across as potentially the next Margaret Thatcher, he looks more and more like Neville Chamberlin.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
August 31, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this
Dear PoFo @ 8:30, your essay is worthy of the late Art Buchwald, my compliments.
To the less balanced leftists among us, I know you are pleased with the latest Zogby results, which have Obama/Biden trailing McCain/Palin by only two points. Not that it matters.
By Pat Napolitano Marietta. Ga.
August 31, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this
Before you turn her into “Mother Theresa” the right choice if your are “Thinking Right” is to say I have to stay home and take care of my special needs baby. They need special love not only from the father..they need Mom at 3 a.m. to hold and coddle it. I think she put her career ahead of the child.
By Cherokee
August 31, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this
Pat at 11:10 - right on - a conservative person of character would stay home with her child at least for a few months, not run around the country with McCain
And as to troopergate? Here’s a good link - another demonstration of her character…
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/211769.php
By Keeping It Real
August 31, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this
I agree totally with Tom GA Hunter. The point is that all politicians are controlled by special interests who want to remain powerful and wealthy. In America and the world, wealth and power are synonymous. All the false issues in the campaign are diversions from the reality of special interests and their pursuit of even more power. Now we are all debating the experience of a multi racial male,a 72 year old POW, and a white woman and their ability to run the country. I will take the law school grad from Harvard because he reflects my special interest.
Barnes, Obama,the Clintons,Reagan, the Bushes, McCain, etc. are all products of special interests. I bet you that every special interest group threw big money into back room parties in Denver while we were focused on the convention. The same will be in place in St. Paul. The reality of this is that the fabric of America is based on capitalism,special interests, power and wealth and is guaranteed by the constituition. The upcoming election only decides who will get the booty from us tax payers and global business partners.
By Borat Obama
August 31, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this
God Bless the Dims and their double standards. Wow, attacking her ‘experience’ when she has more experience running things than the Dimokrauts presidential candidate. Unless you want to consider running a community service board with a known terrorist as experience. Oh yes, Pat, but tell me when did Hillary put Chelsea ahead of her ‘career’? Hahahahahahahaha.
By Borat Obama
August 31, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this
OMG, the feminist, a-hole, hypocrites, criticizing her for having a career. What a joke you and your party have become, and that’s exactly why you losers are going to lose again this November.
By ryan
August 31, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this
Are Georgia Republicans really this naive?
Presidential elections are won and lost based on the PRESIDENTIAL nominee, not the VP. If the only reason you’re excited about your ticket is because of the VP choice then you’re probably already losing the race.
By Tina Trent
August 31, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this
You know, as a Democrat who won’t be voting for Obama because the DNC took away my right to vote in the primary (in Florida), I have to say that the other thing I worry about isn’t his lack of experience but his experience — all of the race-baiting-urban-grant-money-and-dirty-politicking stuff. Oh, and hanging out with people who try to kill cops. Saw too much of that in Atlanta — and the harm it’s done to “the poor” they’re always prattling on about helping.
As a feminist, I think people need to understand that there are a lot of us of a certain age who already routinely work across the political aisle with our conservative sisters on sex trafficking, domestic violence, child protection, Islamic oppression of women. And we’ve been doing it for years. We’re the real feminists, and I count many conservatives among my peers on these issues. So instead of putting your energy into damning all things feminist, take a look at Palin, a self-identified feminist, and think about what that really means. It is a good day for women, Jim.
By buster brown
August 31, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this
I understand that Larry Craig has set up a meet and greet BUFFETT in the Minneapolis/St. Paul airports Men’s restroom, 4th stall on the right! Must be eighteen or over to enjoy the goodies!
On an other front Bush and Cheney are not expected to attend the convention. Cheney has been moved to an undisclosed location to wait out Gustav, and Bush will observe the damage from 35,000 feet in airforce one.
The Washington Times, Wall Street Journal, and Fox News are predicting McCain/Palin in a landslide!
By JayBookmanSucksDonkeys
August 31, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this
Hahaha Buster Brown, it’s nice to know most Dims are as ignorant as you. You might as well bend over yourself if Obama is elected, because he’s going to give it to America right up the pooper. Hell, I guess most Dim men would actually like that, though.
By Daddy Lippersneer
August 31, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this
The roundtables today have arrived at a consensus about Sarah Putin: We’ll have to see how it plays in Peoria.
That’s their take on every issue: “We’ll see.”
Real Pundits!
We’ll see, eh? That’s all they ever say. We’ll see.
George Wills, what do you think about the impact of Gustav on the GOP convention? “Duhh, we’ll have to see”.
(note to readers, George Wills prefaced his duhhwe’llhave2C with about 500 words of parlor parse torture that basically restated the question with overly structured syntactical sheeyit)
By Borat Obama
August 31, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this
Very interesting. Democrats HAPPY the hurricane is heading to New Orleans. Gotta love the humor. I’m sure those that live there are thrilled to death, too. No pun intended.
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/absentee/2008/aug/30/fowler-fouls-hurricane-is-gods-favor-to-dem
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080830000004.aspx
By buster brown
August 31, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this
By JayBookmanSucksDonkeys
August 31, 2008 12
JAY…YAWN!
Well Jay if you are in the 20 percentile who still thinks Bush is doing a tremendous job…Then vote for McCain!
Me on the other hand, one who thinks Bush has been the worst president ever will cast his vote for Obama.
By Tina Trent @ 11.54
Ya, Tina .. Is that the script they gave you to write at the RNC? Did Ralph Reed hand it to you personally?
If you are a democrat which I seriously doubt..Probably not even a woman! Why would you vote for someone who opposes everything, that women are for?
By dirty harry
August 31, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this
JayBookmanSucksDonkeys
Jay, you seem to be consummed with perverted thoughts, from oral sex with donkeys to anal sex with Barak Obama!
Perhaps a talk with a sex therapist will benefit one and all!
You don’t lurk in a donkey stable somewhere do you?
By JayBookmanSucksDonkeys
August 31, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this
Buster Brown, I don’t recall saying that Bush has done a tremendous job. For someone with his head up his azz you need to learn to read a little better.
By Reasoned Centrist
August 31, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this
Dear Charles @ 10:27,
President Gump has taken (so far) 536 days of vacation—the equivalent of over two years—since taking office, so to the Repugnicans, a part-time president is just fine and dandy.
Dear Rufus @ 10:43 et al,
Supporting a candidate who will continue 8 years of failed policies is the very definition of stupid. That, and saying “mindless liberal hysteric” over and over again…
By JayBookmanSucksDonkeys
August 31, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this
Sorry Diry Harry but your sister wasn’t available at the time.
By buster brown
August 31, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this
By JayBookmanSucksDonkeys
August 31, 2008 12:24 PM
Donkey…
It’s called reading between the lines…
And, Jay I understand where there are a few mules who are looking for play mates this afternoon…INTERESTED?
By Rufus
August 31, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this
Reasoned Centrist @12:24 (yeah right, whatever). I haven’t posted on this blog today, so I’m not sure who you are referencing.
Supporting a candidate who will continue 8 years of failed policies is the very definition of stupid.
First of all, I am better off now than I was five years ago…or ten years ago when your beloved skirt chaser was in charge…or twenty years ago. See how that works?
Stupid indeed:
Gallup: 14%
NBC/Wall Street Journal: 15%
FOX/Opinion Dynamics: 19%
CNN/Opinion Research Corp: 22%
An average of 17.5% between the four. This is how much Americans approve of the Democrats running congress.
By JayBookmanSucksDonkeys
August 31, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this
buster brown, yea Im’ interested, but I didn’t realize your wife was available.
By Rufus
August 31, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this
President Gump has taken (so far) 536 days of vacation—the equivalent of over two years—since taking office, so to the Repugnicans, a part-time president is just fine and dandy.
And another thing you mindless liberal hysteric: the president NEVER truly takes a vacation. Even grade school children know that.
You mindless liberal diseases are so easy…
By Reasoned Centrist
August 31, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this
Dear Happy Conservative,
You cannot claim your assertions as “fact”, and then reference “Fox News Sean Hannity” as your justification. Otherwise, you are simply refuting your own point.
By Obama Man
August 31, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this
Well it looks like everyone just returned from church services based on the latest posts.
By dudley do right
August 31, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this
By Rufus
August 31, 2008 12:50 PM
RUFUS…
I doubt too many grade school children know that the president works even while on vacation, with the exception, perhaps of those kids who had to listen as Bush bumbled through “MY PET GOAT” on 9/11!
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
August 31, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this
Daer HIDT, I neglected to credit your genius. You were the first to write that Mrs. Palin would immediately reverse Obama’s convention bounce. You were obviously spot on. I salute the blog’s version of Dick Morris.
By Hannah
August 31, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this
Hmmm.
If the “risky” Palin selection has so clearly doomed McCain, if Palin as potential VP is such a disaster for the Republican party… then why are so many staunch supporters of Obama-Biden suddenly in full panic mode, excoriating McCain (and McCain-Palin suporters) over his selection — and not just here, but everywhere this topic is raised?
Just wondering. ;)
By Rufus
August 31, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this
Dud, you may be right. America is dumbing down. I learned in grade school our presidents are always in charge of things no matter where they are, and that includes that little black brief case holding codes for The Button.
Again, you may be right. Today’s ignorant youths know more about Algore’s junk science than how our own government operates. We are cranking out such fine future little liberal Dimwits, aren’t we?
By Hannah
August 31, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this
Many thanks to Mr. Zogby (quoted in today’s Washington Times) for having provided the answer to my musings above.
Mr. Obama won 86 percent of Democrats and Mr. McCain 89 percent of Republicans in a poll question that didn’t mention their running mates. With Mr. Biden and Mr. Palin added, the Democratic support remains at 86 percent but Mr. McCain’s jumps to 92 percent.
—From the article titled Zogby poll puts McCain-Palin in lead:
By Bip
August 31, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this
Whatever drugs you are on, they make you mighty happy.
By Obama Man
August 31, 2008 4:27 PM | Link to this
Refus,
Judging from your posts, you do not know much about the operations of our government either. If you think that the president is the ultimate decision maker, then you should sue your school system for failing you in your educational pursuits. President Bush has been on vacation for 8 years. Thankfully, none of the special interests have seen fit to direct him to provide the codes in the black brief case. Your ignorance is astounding…even for a elephant worshiper.
By Jay
August 31, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this
Before people were just voting AGAINST Obama. Now after the Palin VP pick, They’re voting FOR McCain. The McCain campaign just hit their afterburners, enjoy the jet wash Obamaniacs.
By Rufus
August 31, 2008 5:36 PM | Link to this
Judging from your posts, you do not know much about the operations of our government either. If you think that the president is the ultimate decision maker,
Oh, I see how you liberals play, Dud. I called out you dumasses on that mindless comment about Bush’s “vacation” and then you spin it into “well the president isn’t the ultimate decision maker.” No sh!t. Is that what congress is for or something? Well make up your effin’ minds already on how important the job of president is - can he not take vacation or is he too important to take vacation or is he not truly the important decision maker and can take vacation? You hysterical liberals never fail to not impress with intellectual debate.
By Keeping It Real
August 31, 2008 7:09 PM | Link to this
Hey Dufus(sorry…Rufus),
I am actually a conservative just like you. It just that your idiotic posts make our position look absoltely stupid while making the liberal position plausible. Please keep your thoughts to yourself and not create more cross over votes for the democrats.
By Over55
August 31, 2008 10:06 PM | Link to this
All you affirmative action haters listen up! Talking about an affirmative action move! John McCain, who opposes affirmative action, just pulled off the affirmative action move of all times by nominating Sarah Palin as his vice president over all of those experienced men and women in the Republican Party. Affirmative action is okay for some but not for others and so it goes.
Stop comparing Obama to Palin? He is running for president not vice president. Compare Obama’s decisions to McCain’s decisions. Sara Palin to Joe Biden.
“She’s exactly who this country needs to help me fight the same old Washington politics of me first and the country second,” “McCain said at the announcement in Dayton, Ohio.” Well, Mr. McCain the best way to fight the “same old Washington politics” is to put time limitation on the senate and house of representative positions. 4 to 8 years in office and back home you go. Mr. McCain has been in Washington how many years? How can an insider fight the “same old Washington politics” when he has been a part of it for 30 years? His affirmative action pick, Sarah Palin won’t change Washington politics.
By mt
September 1, 2008 12:16 AM | Link to this
Pls. stop talking about John Mcain being a POW. Just think that maybe if he was a better leader, him and his troops might not have been POWs.
By mt
September 1, 2008 12:18 AM | Link to this
Pls. stop talking about John Mcain being a POW. Just think that maybe if he was a better leader, him and his troops might not have been POWs.
By Kacha
September 1, 2008 1:42 AM | Link to this
And why should it scare you if she should become leader? OBama chose a VP with experience, since he has none. If Palin should become President, can she not do the same thing—select a VP with experience, also? Maybe she’ll choose Biden, who knows?
By janet
September 1, 2008 8:21 AM | Link to this
I have seen the comments that say that John McCain seems to have his “fighter pilot swagger” back and a happier face since he chose Ms.Palin as his running mate. I think the contrast between his visibly very old demeanor and her young person is going to be his demise. Maybe he found her interesting like he found Cindy McCain at the cocktail party interesting and literally “chased her all over the room”.(Mrs.Mc Cain’s words not mine). He is a pathetic old man who sees himself as a young fighter pilot…but what I see is an old man who is all flaps and no throttle.
By Chris, Atlanta, GA
September 1, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this
As an Obama supporter, I’m overjoyed at McCain’s choice. He’s shown (again) that he does not have a chance of winning without pandering to the extreme right-wing of the Republican Party. Fortunately, those same folks don’t represent the majority of the American people.
Here’s the million dollar question: Would McCain have picked Palin, for all her lack of experience, had she been a MAN???
By picking a glorified small town major and PTA mom, McCain took away the main argument he had against Obama. He also showed that he puts winning the election ahead of the country (so much for country first!). Obama by picking Biden, chose to bridge the main weakness in his resume i.e. foreign policy.
If something happened to Obama as President, the country would be safe in Biden’s hands. If something happened to McCain if he became President, our country’s security would be in the hands of a neophyte, glorified PTA mom. A very “comforting” thought!
Some things most folks don’t know about Palin:
1) She was FOR the “bridge to nowhere” before she opposed it. 2) She’s in danger of being impeached as governor for a scandal involving her former brother-in-law (troopergate) 3) She opposes birth control and condoms in ALL circumstances including for married couples. 4) She opposes abortion in all circumstances including rape, incest and to save the life of the mother.
Yes, we liberals couldn’t have asked for a better VP pick by McCain. The first VP debate should be entertaining. Perhaps Palin can show she can digest a lifetime of experience and knowledge in a few short weeks.
Thank you John McCain. You showed us all that you’re a politician after all!
By Chris, Atlanta, GA
September 1, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this
By The Way: Where do you Republican wackos hear that we’re running scared because of McCain picking Palin??? My first reaction (and I’m by far not alone here) was WTF??? followed closely by President Barack Obama has a GREAT ring to it and THANY YOU JOHN MCCAIN!
Maybe ya’ll should stop listening to Hannity and Limbaugh too much. Those folks have been the ones trying to put a positive spin on this. One argument I heard was that being in a PTA is great “executive” experience. Another line I heard was that Palin minored in political science so she will know how to handle Washington politics!!! Oh the best one yet: Since Alaska borders Russia, she’ll know how to handle Putin! LMAO
No, we’re not running scared. We CAN’T wait November now.
By Steve C
September 1, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this
How pathetic is the Republican Party? Obviously “very”. Penning their hopes on a neophyte, female politician. It’s only goes to show you, that John McCain can’t be trusted at all. Never listen to that garbage coming out of his mouth about, “Country First”. If he were really serious, he would have chosen a serious VP canidate. Republicans are just full of it! Gov. Sarah Palin, is not qualified to be a Vice President. Americans all over this country will see right through this lame scheme coming out of the the McCain camp. Come on, from Mayor of a town 9,000 to being Govenor for 18 months, to becoming VICE PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES. GET REAL!!! Most Republicans must know this was not a “COUNTRY FIRST” selection. Nothing but pure “patranizing polictics, win at all cost, country be damned.
By yesiamworried
September 1, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this
She has a 17 year old daughter who is about to be an unwed mother. If she was a democrat, the Republicans would be up in arms. I suppose this can be rationalized because she is keeping the baby, but please… just what this country needs another baby born to an unwed mother.
BLECH. Come on, this is the best we could do… I am very disappointed.
By yesiamworried
September 1, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this
She has a 17 year old daughter who is about to be an unwed mother. If she was a democrat, the Republicans would be up in arms. I suppose this can be rationalized because she is keeping the baby, but please… just what this country needs another baby born to an unwed mother.
BLECH. Come on, this is the best we could do… I am very disappointed.
By cj
September 1, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this
Come-on Jim, this lady brings no substance to the table. She has a 17-years old daughter thats knock-up which shows what kind of VP she’ll make. If you can’t control your own kids, how in the heck are you going to control a nation! MORAL VALUE?(oh pleaseeee)! This kid is just another additon to welfare role..Oh wait-news-flash: Her 44-yrs old SOCCER MOM will be Vice President- She is safe!! Palin is a BIG JOKE compared to Hillary, and other knowledgable women that would have made a great VP for McCain. McCain is insulting women intelligence!! He just don’t get it! Now, if this was Obama daughter knock-up at 17, all your news would be about him being an unfit parent - CUT THE CRAP!!
By Dan
September 1, 2008 4:27 PM | Link to this
I’m disappointed in this choice. Gov. Palin got huge mileage out of her “Thanks but no thanks” line, indicating she had declined the millions of dollars originally earmarked for the Bridge to Nowhere. Great, everyone thought (as we were intended to think); this person will stand up to absurd government pork earmarks. Then we learn she not only supported the Bridge to Nowhere at the outset, but then she actually accepted the money, although she put it to other uses. So she’s no more an opponent of government pork than our current president is an opponent of government deficits. Very disappointing.
By Keeping It Real
September 1, 2008 7:35 PM | Link to this
I just saw the special interests groups and republicans partying in St. Paul despite McCain’s plea to do otherwise out of concern for the hurricane victims on the gulf coast. Looks like its business as usual for the 5% in control. It also seems like the little lady governor from Alaska has very close connections to the currupt Ted Stephens. What other little secrets are out there? With all this going on, expect some really nasty attacks on Obama over the coming weeks.
By Churchill
September 1, 2008 8:00 PM | Link to this
Here is why foxnews, and their conservative supporters, are so sad:
“On the pinhead front, 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant. The sister of Britney says she is shocked. I bet.
Now most teens are pinheads in some ways. But here the blame falls primarily on the parents of the girl, who obviously have little control over her or even over Britney Spears. Look at the way she behaves.”
Thanks Bill O’Reilly. You can read this at: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317577,00.html
Let’s see what Rush Limbaugh had to say: (http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2007/12/spears-pregnancy-news-annoys-talk.html)
“CALLER: Would you tend to think that a family in this position, though, wouldn’t you think that there would be a more watchful eye as a parent to be watching over these kids so this doesn’t happen to them?
RUSH: I would certainly hope so, but it’s long past time for this to happen. The parents here are the culprits!
CALLER: (chuckles)
RUSH: I mean, the parents, they’re infected with this disease, this addiction to fame themselves. Look at Britney’s mom, for crying out loud. “Put me on TV, too! Put me on TV!” You know, celebrity parents, they can go both ways, and some of them lose whatever grounding they had as adults when their kids get famous. They want to be part of it. They like the money themselves. It’s very rare to have celebrity parents that remain grounded, but who’s going to get this family in line?”
By Chris, Atlanta, GA
September 1, 2008 10:08 PM | Link to this
Now that its been confirmed that Sarah Palin’s daughter is pregnant.
Can you imagine if it was revealed that Obama had a 17 year old unwed pregnant daughter??? The right-wingers would have had a field day. Liberal family values would have been their unified slogan. Setting a bad example for all families would have followed closely behind that!
Sorry but if Sarah Palin can’t control her own house, McCain thinks she’s still a good fit for the White House?
Hey Sarah, still believe in that “Abstinence Only” policy???
It doesn’t work very well does it? Just ask Bristol!!!
By stephen
September 1, 2008 10:56 PM | Link to this
Based on the latest GOP comments out of St. Paul, it’s good to know the family values party has loosened up a little and a pregnant teenager is no longer such a big deal.
By Chris
September 2, 2008 4:57 AM | Link to this
As a lifelong Republican, I am appalled by the Palin pick. I hold GOP values, but I vote Republican because the party produces competent, experienced leaders who can handle unforeseen crises. What experience does Palin have making life and death decisions under pressure? Surely such meaningful decisions don’t cross the desk of the mayor of a town of 7,000 people.
While I applaud her values, how can anyone think she is ready to lead this country if needed?
By Pat
September 2, 2008 7:08 AM | Link to this
McCain’s decision erases all doubt, all right. With a host of experienced Republicans to choose from - yes, experienced GOP women to boot - he picked a right-wing nut with zero foreign policy experience. Sure, Sara Palin has the know-how to be President. She slept in a Holiday Inn last night. With one stroke, McCain lost his last, best argument against an Obama presidency.
By Pat
September 2, 2008 7:24 AM | Link to this
I’ll give Jim this: I’ve always believed that yes indeed, the first black and first woman presidents would be from the GOP. Why? Because Repubs and working class Hillary-Dems (whites who deep-down can’t stomach blacks) prefer a black man who reassures them that blacks are to blame for all their ills, and an accomplished woman who reassures them that she’s not threatening, that her accomplishments pale besides her mom-card and who assures the GOP base she’ll work to ensure other women won’t be able to control their own reproductive organs or receive equal pay for their labor … all when genuflecting to GOP Alpha males and giggling girlishly. Think Colin Powell or now, Sara Palin. Well, Ok, except for the “accomplished woman” part.
By POed Lib
September 2, 2008 7:27 AM | Link to this
She lied about the “bridge to nowhere”
She lied about earmarks
She lied about her experience
She is a member of an extremist group devoted to treason
She has abused her power ALREADY
She cannot keep track of a single 17 year old
She is the worst pick in US history for VP
McCain is either senile (very likely) or stupid (also very likely).
By POed Lib
September 2, 2008 7:35 AM | Link to this
She was FOR pork-barrel earmark sleazy spending before she was AGAINST it.
I believe I understand why. She didn’t realize that “earmarks” were under discussion
You see, in Alaska, they call it “moose-barrel spending”
By Maniac is accurate
September 2, 2008 7:43 AM | Link to this
Obama is the only smart leftist. To hear and read the hissy fits of his accolytes, you sense deep fear and they are expressing it in most ugly terms toward Sarah Palin.
And he has accolytes in the media as well. Did they put Biden under an electron microscope the same way Palin is being examined? No. And, don’t give me the “he’s been in the national spotlight for 30 years,” argument. Biden’s never been put under the type of scrutiny Palin is under now, even when running for president.
McCain has the Democrats scared. This was going to be their year. The independents are leaning toward the Republican ticket. The leftists are shaking in their sandals.
By Keeping It Real
September 2, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this
I wonder where Dick Chaney is with Stevens and the lady governor. There is a link to the bridge to nowhere. I would bet that there is a link to oil someplace too. How did Stevens get the bridge earmark without offering something. I hear that Chaney wrote letters to some of the Alaska legislators in regards to a pipeline(oops!!!). I wonder who forced McCain to select this lady with all her loose ends.Ever wonder why Condy Rice, Colin Powell or another qualified female governor and congresswoman were not selected. Something does not compute. I am now very intrigued with the RNC, Linbaugh, Hannity, Keys, Boortz and the evangelical right onslaught. Political drama at its best with money and power being the defining issue.
By Chris, Atlanta, GA
September 2, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this
Hey Maniac:
We love the Sarah Palin pick. As an independent and Obama supporter here are how I viewed it, in order:
WTF??? Who the hell is Sarah Palin??? You’ve got to be kidding??? Was he smoking crack??? THANK YOU JOHN MCCAIN!!!!!!!
So where do you get the idea we’re running scared??? LOL.
Hey, just wait when the stuff about Palin being a member of the Alaskan Independence Party comes out.
You ain’t seen nothing yet!!! As Hillary once said: Let the fun begin!
By cal
September 2, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this
I have read several articles recently about how the vice presidency is too important for the choice to be left in the hands of one person and his/her political handlers. I think that the choice of Sarah Palin as the running mate of a 72-year-old cancer survivor underscores this point. Palin seems to be a very attractive, intelligent, and energetic person. However, even if one grants her the highest marks for her executive experience, she is manifestly unqualified in the realm of foreign affairs.
By Lee Sterne
September 2, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this
The selection of Sarah Palin says more about McCain than it does about Palin: his principal argument for his election has been his “mature judgment”; this demonstrates not mature judgment but shows him to be rash and reckless. I don’t for a minute believe Sarah Palin was extensively vetted: even Republican politicians in Alaska say they were not questioned about her. By comparison, it is Sen. Obama who appears to have made the more reasoned, responsible and considered choice. If “Mature Judgememt” is McCain’s suggested basis for comparison, he has failed miserabaly.
By Lee Sterne
September 2, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this
The selection of Sarah Palin says more about McCain than it does about Palin: his principal argument for his election has been his “mature judgment”; this demonstrates not mature judgment but shows him to be rash and reckless. I don’t for a minute believe Sarah Palin was extensively vetted: even Republican politicians in Alaska say they were not questioned about her. By comparison, it is Sen. Obama who appears to have made the more reasoned, responsible and considered choice. If “Mature Judgememt” is McCain’s suggested basis for comparison, he has failed miserabaly.
By James
September 2, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this
Thank you John McCain for your gift to the Democratic Party! Wow, this lack of judgement has given the democrats a gift that keeps on giving! * Parental mismanagement * Ethically challenged and under investigation * and? next, next….keep it coming! Thanks John McCain!
By Reality Check
September 2, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this
Sure, it’s fair to criticize people about experience or lack thereof. However, if you’re going to make this issue a cornerstone of your campaign, you better make sure you practice what you preach. This being said, McCain’s choice of beauty pageant queen Palin is ridiculously hypocritical and irresponsible. I mean really.. is this the BEST he could do? Are you telling me that there aren’t any other more qualified candidates for VP, either male or female that he could have selected? Aside from Palin’s woeful lack of experience, she is intellectually average at best. A bachelor’s in communications is all she has?? Not even a master’s degree? Give me a break. On top of that, she fires someone because he wouldn’t fire her sister’s ex-husband?? Oh yeah, she’s a real poster child for the GOP. What a joke.
By Mark D
September 3, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this
So many have stated that Bristol Palin’s pregnancy is a non-issue and should be dealt as a family matter. Then why have the Republicans decided to march the father into the spotlight in St. Paul?
If we are to believe that Palin was not McCain’s first choice for Vice-President, then WHO dissuaded the Maverick from putting his foot down and WHO has such control over McCain.
By candide
September 3, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this
Yes, the choice of Palin erases doubts. Now we know McCain is an opportunist and a gambler. He is gambling with the welfare of this country.
By Pat Nap Marietta. Ga.
September 3, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this
Cynthia Tucker was right on today in her column. Republicans can be rightous except when it applies to them. They would have criticized any other mother of an unwed teen as not being a “good mother.” How come it does not apply to Sarah Palin? Double standards? She is now 5 mo. pregnant….why the wait to get married? Give the child a name before it arrives….give me a break…Mc Cain.
By cal
September 3, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this
People are correct to focus more on what the selection of Palin says about McCain than on Palin herself. His judgment is at issue here. I’ve heard David Brooks—a conservative commentator more in the McCain than the Palin mold—address this issue with, it seems to me a somewhat conflicted view.
Last night, I heard Brooks say very disturbing things about McCain’s temperament. Everyone has heard of his explosive temper. Until last night, I had not heard that, as Jim Lehrer put it, McCain explodes at equals (at this time, fellow senators), but not down at underlings (I don’t know where the media fit into his hierarchy since there are famous stories of his blow ups with them).
So who would a President McCain’s equals be? World leaders…and just went we thought our standing in the world couldn’t get worse.
By ncgreybr
September 3, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this
McCain’s choice of Palin erases doubts
What a perfect headline! It’ sure erased any doubts I had of McCains competency! It’s Obama in November for me!
By ncgreybr
September 3, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this
then why are so many staunch supporters of Obama-Biden suddenly in full panic mode, excoriating McCain (and McCain-Palin suporters) over his selection
Panic mode? PANIC MODE? That’s not panic mode you’re seeing, that exultation! That was the best thing that ever happened to Obama-Biden! You can’t talk about family values! You can’t talk about foreign policy experience! You can’t talk about ANY experience! You can’t talk about “abstinance only” programs in sex education! You can’t talk about lobbiests! You can’t talk about earmarks! You can’t talk about “liberal” attitudes in Hollywood to sex! You can’t talk about the environment!
Hell, the Pakastani lady down the street at the 7-11 has more experience dealing with foreign policy that Palin!
By Peter
September 3, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this
We have to admire her convictions. When faced with a teen/unmarried daughter who is pregnant, she continues to hold to the abstinence message (rather than consider sex education as an option) to avoid teen pregnancies.
The Bush Administration continues to favor its approach to international relations with a military posture (rather than exhaustive diplomacy and dialogue) in spite of dismal failures.
We would be in for more of the same debacles and quagmires with a McCain - Palin future.
By Keeping It Real
September 3, 2008 7:52 PM | Link to this
I just heard the insult of all insults. I already knew that the Bush administration had sent billions of dollars to Iraq to rebuild the infrastructure and Iraqi army that our military destroyed on his command. Now we are proposing to give $1 billion to the country of Jordan to rebuild what the Russians destroyed. Can we stop them from doing it again? Then we they brag about the millions of dollars sent to New Orleans for the Katrina fiasco. Do you think that we have another billion dollars lying around to help people in Louisiana and Mississippi as a result of the latest hurricane? Question…Where is the money coming from to fund this and the ongoing war without increasing taxes? Are we borrowing from China and increasing our debt? How many social programs will be cut that impact our own citizens in order to take care of other countries?
Based on this, I am in agreement with the Palin supporters. She needs no experience in foreign policy to be vice president or president. Decisions are made by the oil companies and big business. Why else would we need foreign policy to squander our tax dollars at the expense of our own citizens? Voting for McCain means that this stupidity will continue. Obama needs to hit on this during the debates and suggest that the oil companies be taxed to support this effort.
By E. Thompson
September 4, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this
Excuse me sir, but which planet did you say you were from????? If Palin believed what she says she would be barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen. She is allowed choices but other women are not? Proven facts are to be discarded for hocus-pocus. Wow, I am amazed, astounded and ashamed we are members of the same species.
By ga_tech_92
September 4, 2008 8:19 PM | Link to this
CynthiaTuckerRacist = correct