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DEL.ICIO.USRepublicans dodged the bullets
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Republicans have been on a high for days — certainly since last Friday when John McCain picked Gov. Sarah Palin to be on the ticket. Across the board, she’s been a wildly popular choice, erasing doubts conservatives had about a McCain presidency. Besides with the Number One (Barack Obama) and Number Three (Joe Biden) liberals in the U.S. Senate making up the other ticket, conservatives were ready to get on board.
The mood-change that kicked in Friday with the Palin selection was dampened Sunday and Monday by the prospect that Gustav would inflict major damage on the Gulf Coast, and New Orleans in particular. The coast dodged the worst — and so did Republicans in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
An awfully close election is expected. Small things, therefore, are made large. President Bush and Vice President Cheney were scheduled to speak here Monday. Protesters were at the ready. Some 50,000 were expected — though security here is so well developed that it’s really difficult for protesters to interrupt anything. Some were apparently intending to inflict harm. Police over the weekend raided homes and other areas where they were gathering and confiscated shrapnel and other material that could have been used to inflict bodily injury.
With President Bush in Texas, all of the visuals, all of the small things that could have conveyed the messages that Republicans feared, largely evaporated. The protests were small, in the hundreds, and not particularly violent: a few broken windows, a bit of tear gas and bent nails thrown into the roadway.
The other visual Republicans feared was one of them festive and conducting partisan business as usual while the coast suffered. They carefully avoided that by making Monday essentially a business-only day, though Cindy McCain and First Lady Laura Bush addressed the convention, but just to discuss ways to help those in need on the coast.
Their worst fear on the partying visuals was that the Louisiana delegation would be partying with a famous New Orleans drink called the “hurricane,” which is an extremely sweet concoction made of rum, passion fruit syrup and lime. One visual of that could have wiped out the Republican Party in Louisiana and might have cost John McCain a state or two. There were no parties featuring that particular beverage. Instead, McCain made a plane available for any delegates who wanted to return south.
So Monday was no partisan business, no Bush or Cheney, no crass or excess frivolity and, best of all for Republicans and for the nation, no repeat of a Category 5 hurricane like Katrina.
The only news of the day was the announcement that the Palin’s 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, is pregnant and will wed the baby’s father. That was buzz for a slow day — but there’s no reason to expect that to be a consequential story. The baby will be born with a mother and father in the home.
The days that matter most here are still to come. Delegates can’t wait to see and hear Palin. And, oh yes, McCain too.
Comments
By Ray
September 2, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this
Let’s hope John and his group did their homework. This could get nasty.
By Huh?
September 2, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this
but there’s no reason to expect that to be a consequential story. The baby will be born with a mother and father in the home.
The pregnancy of 16 year old Jamie Lynn Spears certainly was a consequential story. And the baby was born with a mother and father in the home. How is this Palin situation different?
The hypocrisy is killing me. At least the Repubs stick with the same stupid script tho. Stepford politicians.
By GMAN
September 2, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this
Bush/McCain - Gambling with our children’s future!
By Churchill
September 2, 2008 9:26 AM | 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 hillbilly ragger
September 2, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this
Churchill, ya know, I hadn’t made that particular McCain-Spears connection until now.
But Wooten says “no reason to expect that to be a consequential story.”
Reason being, of course, that this is a white girl. Had it been Obama’s daughter, Jim would be on top of Cox HQ with a friggin bullhorn.
By bearcasey
September 2, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this
Bristol’s mess up would be no big deal if the Republican base weren’t a bunch of hypoocrites. I wonder how long thhat marriage will last?
By findog
September 2, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this
Jim, Maybe God really is a Republican! I mean keeping the probably most unpopular President, and Vice President leading only Spiro Agnew in the all-time loser category, away to do what they did not do three years ago is nothing less than divine intervention.
Now quit talking up how good of a family the Palin’s are to support their daughter because children should be off limits; positive and negative equally.
And Senator McCain not only made the plane available for the Louisiana delegates to go home, he helped the delegates get their families up to Minnesota.
Finally, I think that your 100,000th post should be kicked out to at least 110k since you have five to ten percent double posts on any given day…
By Churchill
September 2, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this
ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 1 — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin employed a lobbying firm to secure almost $27 million in federal earmarks for a town of 6,700 residents while she was its mayor, according to an analysis by an independent government watchdog group.
This Story EARMARKS: Palin’s Small Alaska Town Secured Big Federal Funds GOP Running Mates Rework Message, Put Accent on ‘Change’ Tuesday, Sept. 2 at 2 p.m. ET: Election 2008: Republicans in Hollywood McCain and Palin Begin Joint Campaign Cindy McCain Encourages Gustav Relief The Trail: McCain Raises Record $47 Million, Thanks to Palin View All Items in This Story View Only Top Items in This Story There was $500,000 for a youth shelter, $1.9 million for a transportation hub, $900,000 for sewer repairs, and $15 million for a rail project — all intended to benefit Palin’s town, Wasilla, located about 45 miles north of Anchorage.
In introducing Palin as his running mate on Friday, Sen. John McCain cast her as a compatriot in his battle against wasteful federal spending. McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, hailed Palin as a politician “with an outstanding reputation for standing up to special interests and entrenched bureaucracies — someone who has fought against corruption and the failed policies of the past, someone who’s stopped government from wasting taxpayers’ money.”
McCain’s crusade against earmarks — federal spending sought by members of Congress to benefit specific projects — has been a hallmark of his campaign. He has said earmarks are wasteful and are often inserted into bills with little oversight, sometimes by a single powerful lawmaker.
Palin has also railed against earmarks, touting her opposition to a $223 million bridge in the state as a prime credential for the vice presidential nomination. “As governor, I’ve stood up to the old politics-as-usual, to the special interests, to the lobbyists, the big oil companies, and the good-ol’-boy network,” she said Friday.
As mayor of Wasilla, however, Palin oversaw the hiring of Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh, an Anchorage-based law firm with close ties to Alaska’s most senior Republicans: Rep. Don Young and Sen. Ted Stevens, who was indicted in July on charges of accepting illegal gifts. The Wasilla account was handled by the former chief of staff to Stevens, Steven W. Silver, who is a partner in the firm.
Palin was elected mayor of Wasilla in 1996 on a campaign theme of “a time for change.” According to a review of congressional spending by Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan watchdog group in Washington, Wasilla did not receive any federal earmarks in the first few years of Palin’s tenure.
Senate records show that Silver’s firm began working for Palin in early 2000, just as federal money began flowing.
In fiscal 2000, Wasilla received a $1 million earmark, tucked into a transportation appropriations bill, for a rail and bus project in the town. And in the winter of 2000, Palin appeared before congressional appropriations committees to seek earmarks, according to a report in the Anchorage Daily News.
Palin and the Wasilla City Council increased Silver’s fee from $24,000 to $36,000 a year by 2001, Senate records show.
Soon after, the city benefited from additional earmarks: $500,000 for a mental health center, $500,000 for the purchase of federal land and $450,000 to rehabilitate an agricultural processing facility. Then there was the $15 million rail project, intended to connect Wasilla with the town of Girdwood, where Stevens has a house.
By RealityKing
September 2, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this
Yes, Bristol is a terrible role model for teenage girls.
But the Palin’s are terrific role models for parents. They have shown undying love for their teenage daughter by welcoming her home, even when she ignored everything they taught her.
By Bruce becker
September 2, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this
PALIN was PARTY SECRETARY of a separatist organization called Alaska Independence Party.
Its purpose is to secede from the union.
You suppose that’s why she wears a flag pin the size of Texas? The pledge of allegiance says, ONE NATION INDIVISIBLE.
She was not just a voting member. She was an operative, whose role grew to PARTY SECRETARY. Her actions supported a group whose intent, even today, is to secede from the union. Her efforts, even if they were entirely egoic and self centered, to find a small party to support her run for mayor, were simultaneously aiding and abetting a separatist movement, counter to the OATH OF OFFICE.
By Churchill
September 2, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this
Palin’s Small Alaska Town Secured Big Federal Funds
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In fiscal year 2002, Wasilla took in $6.1 million in earmarks — about $1,000 in federal money for every resident. By contrast, Boise, Idaho — which has more than 190,000 residents — received $6.9 million in earmarks in fiscal 2008.
This Story EARMARKS: Palin’s Small Alaska Town Secured Big Federal Funds GOP Running Mates Rework Message, Put Accent on ‘Change’ Tuesday, Sept. 2 at 2 p.m. ET: Election 2008: Republicans in Hollywood McCain and Palin Begin Joint Campaign Cindy McCain Encourages Gustav Relief The Trail: McCain Raises Record $47 Million, Thanks to Palin View All Items in This Story View Only Top Items in This Story All told, Wasilla benefited from $26.9 million in earmarks in Palin’s final four years in office.
“She certainly wasn’t shy about putting the old-boy network to use to bring home millions of dollars,” said Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense. “She’s a little more savvy to the ways of Washington than she’s let on.”
Silver, reached by phone at his Vienna home, declined to comment. Wasilla’s town offices were closed Monday for the Labor Day holiday.
Maria Comella, Palin’s campaign spokeswoman, said Palin sought the Wasilla earmarks because she was “working in the best interests of Alaska, working within the confines of the current system.”
Palin became a staunch reform advocate after her 2003 appointment to the state’s Oil and Gas Commission. She accused another commissioner — Alaska Republican Party Chairman Randy Ruedrich — of raising campaign contributions from industries he was regulating. “She realized that the environment around her was no longer what it once was, and elected officials were abusing their power,” Comella said.
Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, used to secure earmarks for public nonprofits in Illinois, but he announced last year that he would no longer seek earmarks for any entity. Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Del.), Obama’s running mate, co-sponsored $85.6 million in earmarks for 2008, according to one study.
The Palin earmarks came when Stevens was chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Young was a senior member of the House transportation committee.
In hiring Silver, Wasilla found someone who was a member of each lawmaker’s inner circle. Silver has donated at least $11,400 to Stevens’s political committees and $10,000 to Young’s reelection committee in the past decade, according to Federal Election Commission records.
Sliver’s firm employed Stevens’s son, Ben Stevens, in the late 1990s as a federal lobbyist, according to multiple media accounts. Ben Stevens was not listed on lobbying disclosure forms as having worked on Wasilla earmarks.
The firm became ensnared in the wide-ranging federal investigation of corruption by Alaska Republican officials. Federal agents reviewed records about its other municipal clients, as well as fishing companies represented by Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh that were close to Ben Stevens.
The investigation has increasingly focused on Veco, a now-defunct energy services company whose chief executive, Bill Allen Jr., pleaded guilty in May 2007 to bribing Alaska officials.
Ted Stevens is awaiting trial on charges that he accepted more than $250,000 in unreported gifts from Allen. Ben Stevens, who has not been charged, has been identified in court documents as having accepted more than $240,000 in consulting payments in exchange for legislative favors while he served in the state Senate.
A Veco executive testified last year in a criminal trial that Allen had ordered him to arrange annual fundraisers for Young. The congressman has not been charged with any crimes.
After becoming governor, Palin became a critic of Young and the Stevenses. She endorsed Young’s opponent in a Republican primary last week that is still too close to call, and last year she demanded Ben Stevens’s resignation as Alaska’s member of the Republican National Committee. She has also criticized Ted Stevens.
In addition, Palin has reversed course on at least one major earmark: After initially supporting the $223 million bridge, which was to connect the town of Ketchikan with a remote island, she reversed course last year and canceled the project because of cost overruns. Critics have dubbed the project the “Bridge to Nowhere.”
But her administration remains eager for many other earmarks.
In February, Palin’s office sent Sen. Stevens a 70-page memo outlining almost $200 million worth of new funding requests for Alaska.
By Bruce becker
September 2, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this
PALIN was PARTY SECRETARY of a separatist organization called Alaska Independence Party.
Its purpose is to secede from the union.
You suppose that’s why she wears a flag pin the size of Texas? The pledge of allegiance says, ONE NATION INDIVISIBLE.
She was not just a voting member. She was an operative, whose role grew to PARTY SECRETARY. Her actions supported a group whose intent, even today, is to secede from the union. Her efforts were aiding and abetting a separatist movement, counter to the OATH OF OFFICE.
By Davo
September 2, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this
You’re delusional, Wooten. From one day to the next your standards shift like a windsock, the only thing certain is that the wind is blowing from your republican talking points.
I’m curious as to how the republican party will convince voters that their platform is superior. You no longer seem to care about small govt, privacy, personal liberty. Your leaders seem to think they are immune from following the constitution and for being accountable to the people they should represent.
McCain is showing the same lack of sound judgement that we have seen for the past 8 years from Buschco. How anyone can accept the fact that Palin was ‘the best choice’ for VP is staggering in it’s stupidity.
I’m truly sorry you think of yourself as a republican over thinking of yourself as an American. Times will change, however, and the first thing you will (hopefully) re-learn is personal responsibility and your duty as a reporter and not as a party hack mouthpiece.
By fustoni
September 2, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this
Who really cares about her daughter being pregnant? She’s not getting an abortion. I think this has happened to a lot of good families. Obama’s mom was also a teenager when he was born.
By Ricecakes
September 2, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this
All I have to say is…If this was one of Obama’s daughters, Jim and all the other reporters would have a different tone. It’s funny when it’s one of their daughters it’s okay and society forgives. JIM you are full of horse pucky and so is Gov. Perdue. Keep up the good work McCain and Palin. THE PRESIDENCY IS SEALED!
By baffled@theGOP
September 2, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this
Sarah Palin = Dan Quayle II
By Shawn G.
September 2, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this
Poor Jim Wooten and the Republicans….so excited about McCain’s choice for VP that they once again show their hypocritical colors. They twist the story of an unwed, pregnant minor child into one of inconsequence. They berate Obama for weeks on lack of experience yet choose a VP candidate with little. They praise Bush and Cheney for dealing with Gustav yet privately exhale a sigh of relief that those two disasters (Bush and Cheney) will not be at the convention to remind America of why it would not be wise to elect McCain to a third Bush term.
Change is coming Wooten and friends. Your failed partisan politics are coming to an end. As an independent voter, I am tired of the hypocrisy and twisted truths from your party. Remain oblivious to the elephant in the room (pun intended) if you will, but we, the voters, are on to you and we want change this time. Change in the name of Obama/Biden.
By Algonquin J. Calhoun
September 2, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this
Jim, this is a serious question and I’d like a serious answer. Do you now, or have you ever, received payment of any kind from the Bush administration or the Republican Party? I’m willing to bet you have!
By Huh?
September 2, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this
Obama’s mom was also a teenager when he was born.
She was also married! Who knows if Bristol’s union would have ever happened if it wasn’t under the pressure of pregnancy. If she is 5-6 months along, she could have had a quiet shot gun wedding MONTHS ago, just like her mother did when she married! (simple math will illustrate that Gov. Palin was probably pregnant with Track when she eloped).
Bristol Palin had no immediate plans to marry, until this whole VP thing happened to her mother. Get real folks.
By Churchill's Mom
September 2, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this
“Evangelical Christianity (in most modern forms) is not about the achievement of perfection, it is about the acceptance of forgiveness and healing.”
Tell that to the millions of gay Americans that Evangelical Christians have denied health care, visitation rights, survivorship benefits, and hundreds of other basic survivorship tools to.
Evangelical Christianity, in modernI day America, has a huge stain of hate about it.
This girl shouldn’t have to go through this. But her mother made the decision to hide her pregnancy, then launch a campaign for VP. Her mother made this an issue. And it’s her mother’s judgement that is the issue here.
Leave the daughter alone.
But ask the mother why she mislead everyone, claiming the daughter had mono for five months.
That’s the real issue here. Why is it ok for Governor Palin to lie to voters that way?
By v racer
September 2, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this
The Palin family is handling this correctly. Now switch to how it would not be handled correctly in many an Obama voter family. First, it would be a miracle if the girl knows who the father is. It would be miracle if she didn’t get AIDs from the father. It would be miracle if the baby was not cocaine dependent. It would be a miracle if the father stepped up. It would be a miracle if the girl’s family gave a flip. It would be a miracle if the mother and child didn’t apply for welfare. It would be a miracle if the child didn’t grow up to be a criminal. It would be a miracle if the child graduated from high school. It would be a miracle if their weren’t a handful of future brothers and sisters who would share the same fate. The Palins are doing it right, don’t you wish the hordes of Obama voters would too?
By Dave
September 2, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this
So I guess all of you who are ready to use this against McCain aren’t going to cry no fair, when the Michelle’s “whitey” video shows up next month.
By Uh-huh
September 2, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this
“Across the board, she’s been a wildly popular choice, erasing doubts conservatives had about a McCain presidency.”
Wishful thinking! A year ago most Republicans had little respect for McCain. (Never mind the Dems and Independents who used to respect him until he sold out on the promise that he’d one day get his turn if he sucked up as instructed.) Now they’re choking on their stick-together-no-matter-what party mandate.
Remember how Giuliani was the man, despite his “family values” issues? When that soured, they were SO DESPERATE they practically begged Fred “plays one on TV” Thompson to be the next Reagan. “Please? Please? Just read the teleprompter!” Romney was probably the most qualified to handle our economic woes, and fell right in line with the modern GOP “I support the war, but none of MY five sons will be fighting….” hypocrisy. At least he managed to honor his marriage vows while flip flopping on related rights for consitutents. McCain was gassing up his RV on credit, all but counted out.
Now Wooten proclaims this boneheaded stunt erases doubts that conservatives have about McSenile’s ability to govern in times of economic trouble and two wars? HAHAHA! Yeah, right. I supposed you’ll be able to retire soon after this Nigerian man you’re helping pays you a tidy sum for your troubles, too.
By Bruce becker
September 2, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this
The prenancy can be seen in the context of PALIN’s opposition to the availability of contraceptives and to Palins choice and opposition to abortion.
PALIN represents Tennessee Taliban, a return to 1927, when Snopes was in a trial because he taught that geology was real, even though the townspeople were all true believers in the 5000 yr old planet, as the Bible preaches. Palin’s support of the literal Bible makes it impossible to create a sensible plan to end global warming. There is no global warming if the world was CREATED only 6000 years ago.
END THE REPRESSION OF OUR SOCIETY BY THE FUNDAMENTALISTS. REGISTER AND VOTE. THEY DO.
By fearless fosdik
September 2, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this
Had this been Chelsea Clinton you can bet the homestead Faux TV, the so called religeous right, and all the right wing talk shows would be going ballastic 24/7.
Rush would be drooling all over his self…Hannity would be given extra time to spout endlessly how the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. You’d have Coulter spewing piously about family values…
Special guests such as Dr Laura, Pat Robertson, and Tony Perkins would be brought on board to discuss family planning and how the Clintons had failed!
Oh the hypocrisy…
By Bruce becker
September 2, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this
The prenancy can be seen in the context of PALIN’s opposition to the availability of contraceptives and to Palins choice and opposition to abortion.
PALIN represents Tennessee Taliban, a return to 1927, when Snopes was in a trial because he taught that geology was real, even though the townspeople were all true believers in the 5000 yr old planet, as the Bible preaches. Palin’s support of the literal Bible makes it impossible to create a sensible plan to end global warming. There is no global warming if the world was CREATED only 6000 years ago.
END THE REPRESSION OF OUR SOCIETY BY THE FUNDAMENTALISTS. REGISTER AND VOTE. THEY DO.
By Redneck Convert
September 2, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this
Well, nobody’s talking about that boy that is the daddy of the baby. Just think how he must feel. He can’t even go to the bathroom without looking down and cussing his private parts. His mommy and daddy are telling him he will have to marry that girl because they don’t want that woman taking after them the way she took after the state trooper that she got fired for divorcing her sister. And he will be getting dirty looks from his in-laws the rest of his life.
One minute the boy is just a carefree school kid. The next minute what he done is all over the headlines and his picture is all over the place. Now after he marrys the girl he will be kept on the bus with the girl he got in a Fambly Way while the rest are out talking to people.
It just goes to show the man is always blamed no matter what happens. And only God can help the boy if he decides to divorce the girl later. He will be chased to the end of the earth like hounds going after a wounded deer.
So there’s a big lesson here for all boys. If you decide to do You Know What with some girl, make sure she’s not the dotter of a guvner or a president. You may think what you are doing is on the sly, but you never know when you will show up all over the news shows. Get yourself snipped if you can’t control yourself.
By Jim Wooten
September 2, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this
Algonquin J. Calhoun @ 10:02. You’d lose.
By Get Real
September 2, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this
Just call it how it is Wooten. “The most unpopular President and Vice President maybe in America’s history were scheduled to speak at the Republican convention, but only by a miracle a hurricane threatened the Gulf Coast. The President therefore had to ‘appear’ to be doing his job was unable to attend. Same for the unpopular Vice President. Maybe this is what Bush should’ve been doing 3 years ago, instead of blowing out a birthday cake with McCain. Wonder if the same happened under a Democrat would you have written a piece about the 3 year anniversary of Katrina. Being that this is the last couple months of a Republican administration and none in sight to come, I’m sure retirement has crossed your mind. Time has passed you by, and what worked before just ain’t working anymore. Just go ahead and retire Wooten, no one will fight it. You’re just your everyday partisan hack that doesn’t have a clue on what is really going on.
By CAS
September 2, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this
dave..if they had a “whitey” video that Michelle is suppose to had said, it would have certainly been used by now..Like Forest Gump said ” Stupid is what Stupid does”..and you are certainly stupid..grasing for straws..
By Maniac is accurate
September 2, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this
D Johnson, there’s something strange about Palin’s family? I’ll tell you what it is … it’s like a lot of Main Street America’s. She’s one of us. A lot of schmoes like me will be attracted to a pair of reformers who pledge to end business as usual in Washington. Hey, that sounds like … change.
By buster brown
September 2, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this
Palin ethics investigation: She claims to have heard her ex-brother-in-law threaten her father’s life—so Palin went to a meeting and never mentioned the supposed threat to anyone.
If someone threatened a parent’s life, a friend’s life or the life of a stranger—how many people would ignore it and head off to a meeting? Sarah Palin did just that after supposedly overhearing her ex-brother-in-law threaten her father’s life. There is a stink, a Bush-Cheney-like stink emanating from Sarah Palin’s life
I think this woman would do ANYTHING to advance her career!
Read the good stuff here:http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/?p=1776
By Bruce becker
September 2, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this
The Alaskan Independence Party’s goal is the vote we were entitled to in 1958, one choice from among the following four alternatives: 1) Remain a Territory. 2) Become a separate and Independent Nation. 3) Accept Commonwealth status. 4) Become a State.
PALIN was party secretary. She worked to help Alaska secede from the union.
By 2BFREE
September 2, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this
Let’s see. Obama has already declared that if his daughter became pregnant as a teen he would support her having an abortion because a “mistake” should not prevent her from the future she deserves. Yeah, I can see how some of you can see that as a better role model for the youth of America…NOT!!!
First, was the Obama camp that screamed bloody murder when it was even hinted that Ms. “America is a hateful country” was in the public light. Saying his family was off limits. Funny how fast those same people starting digging so hard to find something on the opposition’s family.
“DON’T DRINK THE KOOL-AID” -
“OBAMA IN 2008..AND WE ALL WILL BE ASKING FOR CHANGE ON A STREET CORNER”
By findog
September 2, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this
v racer @ 10:02 It would be a miracle if you had a functioning brain…
By Frost
September 2, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this
Trailer Trash coming to your white House!!!
Noone is taking care of the Palin household that is why their kids are running wild.A DNA test needs to be done to determine who are the parents of that little kid in the Palin household.Its going to be a shocker,folks.Are they willing to do it?
By CMS
September 2, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this
WOW v racer what shrouded racist thinking you have … my, my. So a mother who is an expecting grandmother who also has a son that’s about to go off to war, and a baby with Downs Syndrom has to time to be VP? Are you serious!? Money may be able to buy decent day care, but I know dysfunction when I see it … and the Palin’s are dysfunctional! Its cool that Bristol is going to keep the baby and get married … nothing wrong with that. Still, depublicans don’t fool yourselves, because everyone is not buying what you all are selling.
By dittohead
September 2, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this
The NASTY is coming from the expected suspects. As a conservative…my faith in McCain/Palin will only grow stronger with every arrow. Liberals…BRING IT ON.
By Truth Be Told
September 2, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this
Liberals are the ones that just don’t get it! The Democratic Party, the one that claims they “understand” and are compassionate about the average American, consistently shows they are the ones out of touch with reality and extremely hostile at every turn of event.
McCain picks a successful and experienced person as his VP candidate. A person that also has admitted flaws - a real person. Palin is the perfect running mate, a successful female in touch with today’s average American and their problems.
Plain and simple, the Democratic party is scared - and they should be! Their candidate (Obama) NEVER had a chance of becoming President. Their only Ace, Hillary, is one of THE most hated, power hungry, out of touch WOMEN out there.
Palin obviously knows what American families struggle with everyday because she LIVES it! The Liberals, being what they are, have shown they will try and use this “disgraceful” revelation to their advantage. Again, the Party that claims to be the most tolerant can’t stand to lose! They try and paint the entire Republican Party as a bunch of bible thumpers with double standards. That scenario of an elitist party has NEVER been an accurate one - they know it - and now the average American is starting to see what the Liberal game book is all about.
So, Liberals. Go ahead with your confusing message of hatred, intolerance and Change. The Republican Party has never bought it, now the average American is waking up to your load of bull! So go right ahead, sit there on your fat unemployed butts and blog away, see what your hate filled speech gets you in November … an even bigger McCain/Palin victory!
By Captain Freedom
September 2, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this
THE Captain refuses to even entertain a comment about Sarah Plain’s daughter. It is utterly different than when slatternly roundheels like Jamie Lynn Spears gets knocked up at a tender age.
THE Captain wishes to highlight the real scandal of this election, the one that the islamoliberals of the MSM refuse to acknowledge…
Ready? Hold onto your hats, because this will lock the election for McCain and Plain.
Sitting down yet?
…..
…..
…..
sshhhhhhh… Barack Obama has fathered two — not one, but TWO — black children. Pass it along. Unlike the rumor in 2000 that McCain had fathered a mere one dark child, this one trumps that one because i) it is double the trouble and ii) Obama has acknowledged that the girls really are his.
Game, set and match. Wooten, you can thank THE Captain later.
By fearless fosdik
September 2, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this
By 2BFREE 10:21 AM
2BFREE..Please, could you translate your second paragraph into something that makes sense?
It would be most helpful!
By dittohead
September 2, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this
The NASTY is coming from the expected suspects. As a conservative…my faith in McCain/Palin will only grow stronger with every arrow. Liberals…BRING IT ON. Bring it on…DEMs like their women & blacks…but you have to pass their litmus test.
By Get Real
September 2, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this
Sorry Wooten, but based on your scary allegiance to the party that has produced nothing in 8 years, many believe you’re nothing more than a paid shill. You had to have received some sort of ‘reward’ for your unwielding love for the Republican party. This was your response verbatim just last week:
“It’s true that unmarried women are drawn to the Democratic Party. For many, government is the supporting husband — if not directly, then in providing the back-up financial security that marriage once represented.”
Does the same hold true for Palin’s daughter since technically she ISN’T married, and we sure know that this so called marriage was the only way they could save face about the whole situation? The thing that gets me is in your world there are one set of rules for the well-connected and well-off, while yet another set of harsher rules for the part of society that your party likes to rail against and holds no empathy for.
How about you and Bush, and the rest of the Republicans OWN UP TO YOUR MISTAKES OF THE LAST 8 YEARS!! Thats what an honorable, trustworthy person would do. You’re just a hack mouthpiece for the Republicans. I hope when you look back on your career, as many older people do reflect on their lives, you can say with a straight face that you actually contributed in a meaningful way to solve society’s ills. And not in a way that only caused more division amongst your fellow man.
By marko
September 2, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this
Good grief, Wooten are you paid by the Constitution, or the Republican Party? Perhaps you’re being paid by both. Would’nt that be a sweet gig? Palin’s daughter a non-item? Maybe you ought that one by the boys at the National Enquirer; I’m not so sure they’re going to see it your way. Of coarse it won’t get much play in N.Y. Times, but we all know that real god fearing Americans don’t read the N.Y. times.
By actonjoe
September 2, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this
What’s astounding to me is that McCain met her ONCE before offering her the VP position. Once. You pick a person with as little tangible experience as she and you base it on a single meeting 6 months earlier??!!! Does that sound like a considered, reasoned decision? I wouldn’t use that slight of a selection process to hire a front-line supervisor in my office, let alone the Vice President of the United States. I now seriously question McCain’s judgment.
By M. Huckleberry
September 2, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this
Dittohead at 10:28: because politics is about FAITH, not facts. Faith that grows and strengthens over time, despite what anyone knows, says, or does. Thanks for regurgi-, I mean, repeating our most important talking point:
FAITH! We’ll tell you all you need to know.
By fearless fosdik
September 2, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this
TRUTH BE TOLD 10:27 AM
Yea them average folks..
McCain who doesn’t know many houses he owns, or flies around in a jet his wife owns are they just average folk?
Bush, and Cheney are not average…unless you think the average household income is in the millions of dollars range!
I know a lot of women who struggle every day…They are smart and successful in the corporate world, but none would think of themselves as qualified to be the vice president! Which Sarah Palin is NOT!
By Bruce becker
September 2, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this
Palin is 44. If Mcain dies at age 80, she will serve 10 years if she wins later on. She must be submitted to full consideration before we find her choosing 100’s of federal judges.
By Bruce becker
September 2, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this
FAITH! We’ll tell you all you need to know.
I love that post. Thank you. LOL!!
check this out! www.pocm.INFO
By Captain Freedom
September 2, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this
THE Captain wishes to point to another factor that supports Sarah Plain’s preparedness for sitting a faint heartbeat away from the Oval Office.
At first, THE Captain was concerned at the apparent cooperation the comely Guverness was exhibiting in the Troopergate affair. (You know, the incident in which she used the power of her office to attempt to crush an estranged family member and fired a decorated police chief for refusing to go along. Salutary stuff that, very impressive.) At any rate, Sarah Plain and Tall announced her willingness to cooperate fully with the special investigator. This made THE Captain question her fitness for the Chair of Cheney.
But today, THE Captain is heartened to learn that she has lawyered up bigtime, and the main tactic of her lawyer is to stall and maneuver until she and St John are able to declare executive privilege to shut the investigation down completely. Talk about your leadership bona fides!!!
But THE Captain would suggest an even bolder approach, one that will establish once and for all that McCain and his Gal have the complete lack of shame that makes for truly great leadership. We all know that Our Leader and His Cheney have been superbly inventive in their invocation of executive privilege. Indeed, it will be difficult for anyone to exceed their lust for power and determination to thwart legal statutes.
McCain must call a press conference today to invoke pre-Executive Privilege that shuts down any and all investigations into either candidate’s activities (everything from Plain’s involvement in a treasonous “alaska first” party, to the mystery of her being for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it, to St John’s widely acknowledged alcoholism). He must merely claim that these investigations are interfering with their pursuit of their God Given right to run Our Great Nation, and therefore are disallowed ipso cogito ergo forte. He could even toss in a pre-Signing Statement or two just for good measure.
Supporting the Cranky White Dude and his Redneck Trailor Gal….it is THE Right Thing to do.
By fearless fosdik
September 2, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this
here’s the fun part…
Aides to Mr. McCain said they had a team on the ground in Alaska NOW to look more thoroughly into Ms. Palin’s background. A Republican with ties to the campaign said.
NOW they are looking into her background?
I was under the impression one did this before the fact!
What a total CLUSTERF**K
By Bruce becker
September 2, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this
Republican John McCain, whose running mate disclosed that her unmarried 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, has opposed proposals to spend federal money on teen-pregnancy prevention programs and voted to require poor teen mothers to stay in school or lose their benefits.
By Ray
September 2, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this
This has already gotten too nasty. As Mr. Wonderful said, the candidates children are off the table in this election process. All of you firebreathing libs are rejoicing at a teenagers mistake like she was secretly some kind of hooker and that her mom was some kind of non-caring, hypocritical bible thumper without a clue. This is a part of America, plain and simple. Happens every day to hundreds of teenagers, many of the entitlement persuasion. Don’t hear any of you lily whites talking about that today. Some of this has just come home to roost in that household. Be careful when you criticize. The next time it might just be you.
By Dennis
September 2, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten writes, “The only news of the day was the announcement that the Palin’s 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, is pregnant and will wed the baby’s father. That was buzz for a slow day — but there’s no reason to expect that to be a consequential story. The baby will be born with a mother and father in the home.”
Here we have another example of Jim Wooten’s twisted conservative journalism.
On any other day, Mr. Wooten, you would be screaming about realistic liberals who realize that teaching abstinance only doesn’t work, wouldn’t you?
On any other day you would be on your conservative soapbox about teenage pregnancies and the need to teach abstinance only in sex education classes, wouldn’t you?
In this case, that doesn’t fit your narrow conservative agenda, does it?
So, we’ll try to give it a journalistic makeover; try to make the conservative voters think that in this case this teenage pregancy is not so bad, in fact, acceptable, since “The baby will be born with a mother and father in the home.”
Yeah, sure….
But, it’s all politics anyway, isn’t it?
And twisting the facts around is all a part of journalism.
Forget ethics.
Yeah, sure….
You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.
By Bruce becker
September 2, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this
Thank you Captain Freedom. Please publish your clever musings in PA and OHIO too. You can make the difference in the swing states.
Happy day. You made my day. LOL!!!
By dittohead
September 2, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this
Consider...there are thousands of female-soldier MOMs serving in Iraq & world wide, gone for months....leaving kids with parents & other relatives........yet.......governor Palin is being attacked for doing the same thing.. She would be home every night. The criticism of her is a joke.By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 2, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this
Good morning all. If Mrs. Palin is half as good at the convention as she was in Columbus last week, she will take the country by storm. My mother – not as old as McCain’s mom, but getting up there - told me this weekend, firmly, that she is voting McCain, and that was certainly in doubt before Mrs. Palin was added to the mix. (My mother was a Hillary partisan, and voted twice for Bill.) She is comfortable that she knows where Mrs. Palin stands on every issue, and she has expressed reservations about Obama’s blank slate all along. Based on my family sample of three, I think Mrs. Palin will bring the 70+ seniors into the McCain camp.
By 2BFREE
September 2, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this
For fearless:
Obama was highly upset when media reports came out linking Michelle(spl?) to known terrorist and quoted her past stating that “America was a mean and hateful country”. He immediately denounced any attack on his wife or family stating they were off limits since it was he, not them running for the Office of President. Now, his same people and the media have been trying to find any smiggen of dirt they can on Palin’s family. Digging up little stuff like her husband’s DUI in 1986 to a liitle bigger stuff like a pregnant teen age daughter. But all of this pales in comparasion to being married to someone that associates with people that claim “bombing the Pentagon and NY police stations was not enough and the only thing I’m ashamed of is not doing more”. Of course this is a personal friend of Obama’s as well, but it seems Michelle is closer to the heart of the attacks since she sees America as a “hateful and mean country”. Sounds like the cries of a terrorist before an attack to me.
By Captain Freedom
September 2, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this
Bruce
Please feel free to re-post THE Captain’s trenchant analysis and insight wherever it might serve the cause of Common Sense Conservatism in the manner it deserves. There is only so much a lone Konservative Keyboard Kommando can accomplish on His own, even for one as verbaly virile as THE Captain.
(It is especially difficult for this Godly American to be heard, as Mr Wooten singlehandedly blocked THE Captain’s appointment to the AJC Editorial Board out of jealousy at His prosaic prowess. Bitterness is such a sad state. But THE Captain digresses.)
Keep up the good fight Bruce. Might I suggest that you openly mock a pregnant LIBERAL teenager today to make things even?
Affectionately yours, though not in a Lindsay Graham/Ralph Reed kind of way,
Captain Freedom
By Captain Freedom
September 2, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this
Bruce
Please feel free to re-post THE Captain’s trenchant analysis and insight wherever it might serve the cause of Common Sense Conservatism in the manner it deserves. There is only so much a lone Konservative Keyboard Kommando can accomplish on His own, even for one as verbaly virile as THE Captain.
(It is especially difficult for this Godly American to be heard, as Mr Wooten singlehandedly blocked THE Captain’s appointment to the AJC Editorial Board out of jealousy at His prosaic prowess. Bitterness is such a sad state. But THE Captain digresses.)
Keep up the good fight Bruce. Might I suggest that you openly mock a pregnant LIBERAL teenager today to make things even? Perhaps we can find one whose mother has deliberately placed her in the limelight?
Affectionately yours, though not in a Lindsay Graham/Ralph Reed kind of way,
Captain Freedom
By Dusty
September 2, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this
My sympathy, Jim Wooten,
You have attracted almost every limp brained liberal in these parts. The rest are over at Bookman’s. But we learn a little.
Several long post libbers work for the PARTY of Democrats. They are gleaning Alaska news for everything from a nosebleed to a traffic ticket. Good ol’ Dems!!
The Captain works for the National Inquirer.
PoFo is using Algonquin J. Calhoun today.
RedNeck Convert uses undercover “corn” for ammunition.
The Republican Convention was a small get together. But…the AJC said there were thousands of anti-war protestors there. Wouldn’t you know they would be attacking Americans instead of terrorists?
Well, better luck tomorrow, Jim. Maybe Hannah will blow the liberal smog away..Gustav just stirred it around a bit.
By dirty harry
September 2, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
RAGNAR .. So happy your mom knows where Mrs Palin stands on EVERY issue. How comforting!
And, I doubt she was straddling the fence, and I seriously doubt she voted for Clinton!
If Your family sampling of three is about as reliable as the Zogby poll you quoted last week..
Obama in a landslide!!!!!!
By Ray
September 2, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this
Marco,
And you have the ba**s to state that Wooten is on the wrong payroll. He is the only sane voice among a whole deranged staff at the AJC who would not know a good candidate if hit over the head by a two X four. Tucker, Luko, Bookman ….. all over the top and so biased that it must make you happy every time you write a post. It must make all of you feel really good to rejoice over someone else’s misfortune. Again, wait until it happens to you.
By time for **INSTANT** DEATH TO LIBERALISM
September 2, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this
I see the deranged witless windbag, the putrid coprophagic MoRoN Lance Corporal Syphilis has slithered out of its local Full Frontal Lobotomies For Leftist Scum Depot and is back to endlessly puking up its trademark rabidly envious of its conservative betters bile. Poor old Syphilis, its been sucKKKered by the fetid vapid surrender monkey the half-black black racist Hussein Obama as easily as the average inbred food stamps abusing possum is barbecued by the psychotic stolen beer truck fantasist inbred redneKKK at its familial double wide FEMA trailer. These pathetic long time ’ lobotomised residents @ Milledgeville” are archetypal examples of worthless maggot brained liberal hatepigs, which sadly seem to encourage other similarly sick and twisted genetically challenged far left moveyourbowels.org klones to infest this bit of cyber space.
As the old Zen Buddhist saying goes - the ONLY good leftist scumbag is an expired leftist scumbag. If nothing else the far left cut and run Bush Derangement Syndrome vermin on here make that old adage as relevant and apposite today as its always been.
Watching the hysterical manic screeching and bleating and ranting and incessant commie illegal leech loving bloviating when the venal spineless black racist Hussein Obama and its narcissistic white trash windbag sidekick lose to Sen. J McLiar and Gov Sarah Palin in Nov will be the funniest thing since … well the America hating Vietnamchickensh*t coward Kerry lost to Bush!!
LMFAO!!! … huge I PROUDLY hate leftist scum snigger
By dittohead
September 2, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this
Why is it??? Palin critics pushed ,to let female-soldier MOMs serve in Iraq & around the globe...They are away from kids for months on end...Yet Palin critics say she should be home in the kitchen...AMAZINGBy Ray
September 2, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this
Interesting to hear Robert Segal from PBS’s All Things Considered at the Repub convention yesterday. It was like listening to a PETA member at a Michael Vick dogfight. So obviously biased and not even caring what anyone would think or feel about his asinine blather. And we pay tax dollars to support this crap. You would have thought he was from the AJC…… wait a minute, maybe he is.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 2, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this
Dear Davo @ 9:54, after reading your post I am persuaded someone here is delusional. Maybe you ought meet Churchill for coffee and to swap venom.
Dear Churchill’s Mom @ 10:02, how did you determine that Mrs. Palin did not talk with Bristol before agreeing to accept the nomination for vice president? (Or, like all leftists, did you just make up the facts to suit your evil heart?)
Dear beavis @ 10:04, actually we conservatives are heartened by the series of intelligent positions and decisions radiating from the McCain camp since July 1. In all fairness Fred Davis is responsible for most of that surge in our opinions, but we credit McCain with knowing how to delegate intelligently. Have not seen any evidence of that from Obama, have we?
Dear HIDT @ 10:20, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington? You are right, and I did not see it. Remind me to invite you to lunch the next time Glenn and I meet at a deli.
Dear ditto @ 10:27, I can understand the lunatics here on the blog repelling you, but you need to try to separate you view of Obama from your view of these idiots. Obama is not nearly so evil as the leftist posters on this blog. I respectfully urge you to make you decision on policies proffered. Of course, I also think McCain wins that rational vote.
Dear Actonjoe @ 10:38, were I in McCain’s position I would have selected Thomas Sowell. I have never met him. You leftists are too easily taken in by smooth talkers, and you would do well to get to know people by their arguments and achievements instead. By the way, what are Obama’s arguments and achievements?
Dear Bruce @ 10:44, name two people Obama will name to a court. Your post @ 10:54 suggests Mrs. Palin knows the value of government programs better than you. (Or maybe you are merely a wasteful sort?)
By fearless fosdik
September 2, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this
dittohead 11:28 AM
DITTO.. Did Rush inform you that it was the liberal left that “pushed for MOMS to serve in Iraq?”
For your own mental health turn off the radio immediately!
I think .. of course, I could be mistaken, but, wasn’t it George and Company who invaded Iraq?
And, Ditto how do you know that they were Palin critics? Did Rush give you that message?
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 2, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this
Dear TFTT @ 11:26, welcome back. The lunatics have run wild in your absence – almost no rational thought from the left now. Even Southern Democrat and Shar appear to have abandoned us.
By Captain Freedom
September 2, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this
THE Captain wishes to make one final brilliant observation until He returns.
The MSM is fostering the damnable lie that young Britney Lynn Plain “made the choice to keep her child”. This is slander and contumely. Governor Palin is firmly on record stating that women should never ever ever double-crack no way be allowed to have any choice over the workings of their unmentionable girly woo plumbing tubes.
To suggest otherwise is to denigrate the Chrunchy Christian Goodness of the Godly Governor. What next? Will someone suggest that knowledge of birth control methods and the fact that men’s ding-dongs make babies when they go into a girl’s pleasure pouch might have spared the family this all too typical American Family heartache that results from ignorance of basic reproductive science? THE Captain, if He understood the question, would offer an answer.
What next, after the previous what next? Will some stinky breath liberal say that Gov Plain must have been out of her mind to knowingly subject her up the pole youngun to this all too predicatable publicity? That is typical permissive liberal claptrap. Gov Plain is smart enough to know that public shaming is an essential component of every young girl’s sexual education, far more important than tedious facts about ovulation and contraception, and she was not about to let a good parenting opportunity pass her by.
As the Bible says: Love the slut, but shame the sluttiness. THE Captain agrees, but insists that this story is out of bounds. Shame on you.
By dirty harry
September 2, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this
In a nutshell I give you Sarah Palin..Who Ragnars mother will be voting for. What a suprise!
She is inexperienced, knowing little or nothing about foreign policy or national issues; she is really an anti-feminist, wanting the government to enter women’s lives to block abortion, but not wanting the government to guarantee equal pay for equal work, or provide adequate child health coverage, or child care, or early childhood education; she shills for the oil and gas industry on drilling; she denies the scientific truths of global warming and evolution; she misuses her political authority; she opposes sex education and her daughter is pregnant; and, rather than being a maverick, she is on the whole a radical right-wing ideologue.
Any and all Hillary Clinton supporters should think again about voting McCain/Palin.
By Ralph
September 2, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this
Wow! The NASCAR Repubs are here in strength today. Moose-Munchin Mama from Alaska brings em out. 3.8 hours-in-combat McCain makes another Heroic decision by picking a backwoods hillbilly and Jesus-stroking family values guru and evengelical Grand Cyclops. When added to the Bushdrunk/Cheney record, this could well be great history. And now Papa “Levi” will soon be added to the family fold. With “Tracker” and “Trigger.” Downright impressive. Go Levi, go! Ohh, I guess Levi already…went.
By marko
September 2, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this
Years ago, Pat Robinson proposed that evangelicals take control of the Repubican Party and use it as a tool to take control of America. At the time I thought it was funny. I’m not laughing anymore. A few more Liberty U. grads in state department, and a few more Judges using Leviticus to rewrite the constitution, and we’ll have ourselves a first rate theocracy. I support Bristol’s choice, and would have been disappointed if she had made another; The bottom line is that it’s really none of our damn business.
By reebok
September 2, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this
For Dems, Palin is the gift that keeps on giving. Did the McCain team vet this girl at all? Or did he just decide “She’s hot, she likes to shoot things, and one woman’s about as good as another for luring female voters?”
By fearless fosdik
September 2, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this
By reebok
September 2, 2008 11:55 AM
reebok .. did you not see McCain checking out her rear-end during her little speech?
Did that answer your question?
By holdingAJCaccountable
September 2, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this
From the Jim Wooten archives, circa 1972:
In more buzz on a slow news day, the liberal media is still trying to push the story of the inconsequential break-in at the Watergate hotel.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 2, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this
Rush is making a pretty good argument today. Sarah Palin threatens the leftists, as she shows women they do not have to be moonbats to serve her country at the highest levels. Much like the demonization of Clarence Thomas two decades ago, who threatened the civil rights coalition by showing conservative blacks can succeed, so Sarah is punished by the moonbats, as a warning to those women who try to get off the leftist plantation.
By TW
September 2, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this
Dodged the bullets, Jim????
Yesterday was Webster’s definition of the ‘shattered glass house.’
It’s over. It’s sooooooo over.
By Inspector Clouseau
September 2, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this
holdingAJCaccountable
I luv good detective work..
By Renny J. Caulder
September 2, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this
Jim, I truly believe that the Obama will have to come up some earth-shattering marketing scheme to go up on McCain in Nov.
The Palin choice shows the intelligence and shrewdness of McCain and highlights the politics-as-usual nature of the Obama campaign.
Frankly, I think Pelosi should run.
Pelosi/Fonda 2016 - ‘Cause Obama Didn’t Visit as Many Communist Leaders as We Would.
By Ga Values
September 2, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this
2 weeks ago I decided to vote for McCain because Obama was just a black Jimmy Carter. Today I am back to Bob “None Of The Above” Barr. McCain simply makes too many bad decisions to be President.
Maybe this is just a plot to make Bush look competent, if so IT HAS WORKED.
By peerless fauxdick
September 2, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this
See reebok, I almost missed him checking her out, because I was checking out his caboose.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 2, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this
Dear Marko @ 11:54, I may owe you an apology. I thought you sounded like one of the lunatic leftists in your earlier posts, but your note here suggests that you oppose people as judgmental as our leftists are here today.
By Davo
September 2, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this
Ragnar,
“Dear Davo @ 9:54, after reading your post I am persuaded someone here is delusional. Maybe you ought meet Churchill for coffee and to swap venom.”
What venom? Calling out Wooten as a shill for the GOP is hardly out of bounds compared to some of the other ‘views’ expressed here— on both sides of this debate.
While your posts seem to be tame compared to others, at least I don’t resort to ugliness to try to make a point. Apparently you are immune to the right wing variety of venom while being quite sensitive to the lefts. Perhaps you should try to build up your immunity more so that you too can make a reasoned arguement.
By holdingAJCaccountable
September 2, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this
More from the Wooten archives:
In a story the liberal media is trying to surpress, analysis of Obama’s GPS navigation devices indicate he made several left hand turns from his hotel on the way to his acceptance speech at Mile High Stadium. If he’s willing to move dramatically to the left just to get to the convention, what will he do when he gets to the White House?
By Ray
September 2, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this
All you libs out there……. got news for you and yours. Your “towers of virtue” that have either run for the white house or occupied it have yet to win many prizes. Case in point… slick Willy in the oval office, munching on a pizza, talking to some general about troop deployment and getting a BJ, all at the same time. Now that’s class. And how about Ambulance John with a cancer stricken wife running for VP. Media hid behind their bias and didn’t think America ought to know because it couldn’t be “substantiated”. What a crock.
Palin is a saint compared to these two and you know it. She has been honest, upfront and has not tried to sneak into any hotel rooms at 3:00 AM to see the love child, or went on national TV and lied to America about the stain on Monica’s dress. And a lot of you libs excuse this type of behavior as acceptable, part of America’s culture and OK because a Demo did it. Sick, just friggin’ sick.
By The Way
September 2, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this
In a CNN interview aired moments ago, John McCain just explained how he picked a woman veep. He was at a low point in his campaign and didn’t know if he’d make it through to November when one of his staff workers showed up wearing a cross (your heart bra), and the Eureka moment happened: Pick a woman.
Of course the same thing happened to Solzhenitsyn during a book tour but that was in Vegas, and what comes off in Vegas……
Rush Limbaugh is having a field day mimicking the Down Syndrome symptoms like he done to Michael J. Fox and his disease. Rush is such a funny guy. Even though it’s radio, Rush put on the helmet and everything. Rush! lol. He’s the clown prince.
that’s 4 sure, that’s 4 dang sure.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 2, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this
Dear Davo @ 12:24, “Calling out Wooten as a shill for the GOP is hardly out of bounds compared to some of the other ‘views’ expressed here— on both sides of this debate.” Of course it is out of bounds. Invective and name calling are not “arguments” and they reveal you for the petty soul you are. Get an education. We can talk policy here, without calling names, but I think you will acknowledge that inflating tires and corporate welfare have a limited appeal as cures for the energy crisis caused by democrat refusal to drill. I think you will acknowledge that kum-ba-yah is unlikely to move the Russians, and that unilateral surrender would have been a bad idea in addressing Islamists. But I would respectfully receive your opposing view.
By time for **INSTANT** DEATH TO LIBERALISM
September 2, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this
Cheers jbm … its kind of pointless posting everyday on here - the leftist arsewipes take NO notice of actual facts that effortlessly shred their treasonous hate America, Bush hate agenda!!
The economy EXPANDED by 3.3% last quarter … SO MUCH FOR THE despicable, incessant BARE FACED LIBERAL LIES about an imaginary recession.
Most of the losers and morons losing their houses are deadbeat ignorant blacks exploited (largely) by grasping fellow blacks in hellholes like Cleveland OH and other black/northern yanKKKee cesspits. Many others who moronically/slavishly signed up for an ARM were doubtless victims of the execrable cancer wife cheater the greasy slimeball lie like a Klinton @ sex Edwards and his “two Americas” hedge fund. Or the plug ugly Chelsea Klinton and her hedge fund and all the other elite liberal scum who work in “grasping” hedge funds with their liberal snouts deep in the trough pillaging the working folks they give not a toss about!!
Funny ha ha ha ain’t it how Chelski Klinton looks so much more like the bloated sleazeball Web Hubbel and not the pardon selling Arkansas rapist itself!!
Hilarious to see that black as Kentucky coal Detroit only manages a 15% high skool graduation rate!! Can’t blame whitey for that - can they??? Hopefully Atlanta will soon catch up with the academic excellence of Clayton County … snigger snigger smirk snigger!! Still with such an upstanding black mayor as Fitzpatrick what does one expect in Detroit??? Must have had lessons from the black bigot Bill I’m in the jailhouse now Campbell and that coke sniffing felon Barry up in D.C.
By Ga Values
September 2, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this
Jim this is what a REAL Republican, Dick Brooks, thinks..he makes big $$ you make minimum wage.
John McCain is not a normal conservative. He has instincts, but few abstract convictions about the proper size of government. He’s a traditionalist, but is not energized by the social conservative agenda. As Rush Limbaugh understands, but the Democrats apparently do not, a McCain administration would not be like a Bush administration.
The main axis in McCain’s worldview is not left-right. It’s public service versus narrow self-interest. Throughout his career, he has been drawn to those crusades that enabled him to launch frontal attacks on the concentrated powers of selfishness — whether it was the big money donors who exploited the loose campaign finance system, the earmark specialists in Congress like Alaska’s Don Young and Ted Stevens, the corrupt Pentagon contractors or Jack Abramoff.
When McCain met Sarah Palin last February, he was meeting the rarest of creatures, an American politician who sees the world as he does. Like McCain, Palin does not seem to have an explicit governing philosophy. Her background is socially conservative, but she has not pushed that as governor of Alaska. She seems to find it easier to work with liberal Democrats than the mandarins in her own party.
Instead, she seems to get up in the morning to root out corruption. McCain was meeting a woman who risked her career taking on the corrupt Republican establishment in her own state, who twice defeated the oil companies, who made mortal enemies of the two people McCain has always held up as the carriers of the pork-barrel disease: Young and Stevens.
Many people are conditioned by their life experiences to see this choice of a running mate through the prism of identity politics, but that’s the wrong frame. Sarah Barracuda was picked because she lit up every pattern in McCain’s brain, because she seems so much like himself.
The Palin pick allows McCain to run the way he wants to — not as the old goat running against the fresh upstart, but as the crusader for virtue against the forces of selfishness. It allows him to make cleaning out the Augean stables of Washington the major issue of his campaign.
So my worries about Palin are not (primarily) about her lack of experience. She seems like a marvelous person. She is a dazzling political performer. And she has experienced more of typical American life than either McCain or his opponent. On Monday, an ugly feeding frenzy surrounded her daughter’s pregnancy. But most Americans will understand that this is what happens in real life, that parents and congregations nurture young parents through this sort of thing every day.
My worry about Palin is that she shares McCain’s primary weakness — that she has a tendency to substitute a moral philosophy for a political philosophy.
There are some issues where the most important job is to rally the armies of decency against the armies of corruption: Confronting Putin, tackling earmarks and reforming the process of government.
But most issues are not confrontations between virtue and vice. Most problems — the ones Barack Obama is sure to focus on like health care reform and economic anxiety — are the product of complex conditions. They require trade-offs and policy expertise. They are not solvable through the mere assertion of sterling character.
McCain is certainly capable of practicing the politics of compromise and coalition-building. He engineered a complex immigration bill with Ted Kennedy and global warming legislation with Joe Lieberman. But if you are going to lead a vast administration as president, it really helps to have a clearly defined governing philosophy, a conscious sense of what government should and shouldn’t do, a set of communicable priorities.
If McCain is elected, he will face conditions tailor-made to foster disorder. He will be leading a divided and philosophically exhausted party. There simply aren’t enough Republican experts left to staff an administration, so he will have to throw together a hodgepodge with independents and Democrats. He will confront Democratic majorities that will be enraged and recriminatory.
On top of these conditions, he will have his own freewheeling qualities: a restless, thrill-seeking personality, a tendency to personalize issues, a tendency to lead life as a string of virtuous crusades.
He really needs someone to impose a policy structure on his moral intuitions. He needs a very senior person who can organize a vast administration and insist that he tame his lone-pilot tendencies and work through the established corridors — the National Security Council, the Domestic Policy Council. He needs a near-equal who can turn his instincts, which are great, into a doctrine that everybody else can predict and understand.
Rob Portman or Bob Gates wouldn’t have been politically exciting, but they are capable of performing those tasks. Palin, for all her gifts, is not. She underlines McCain’s strength without compensating for his weaknesses. The real second fiddle job is still unfilled.
By The Way
September 2, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this
A: Sarah Palin, Bristol Palin, John McCain
Q: Name two hockey moms and a puck.
I guess the RNC didn’t do a very good job cherry-picking veep candidates, eh?
By dirty harry
September 2, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this
The TOP TEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT PALIN!
1) She is presently under investigation in Alaska for abuse of power
2) She believes creationism should be taught in public schools
3) She is opposed to abortion even in cases of rape and incest
4) She strongly supports big oil (her husband works for oil company BP)
5) She has no federal or international experience. Prior to being governor (for less than two years) she was only the mayor of a small Alaskan town and a beauty queen!
6) She believes global warming is a farce and is opposed to listing the polar bear as an endangered species
7) She supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and anywhere else big oil wants
8) She supports Pebble Mine which will destroy the richest salmon run in the world
9) She supports aerial shooting of bears and wolves even though Alaskans voted twice to ban the practice.
10) She used $400,000 of state money to fund a media campaign in support of aerial shooting of wolves and bears.
That’s the TICKET…Let’s kill all the wildlife…I need a bear coat, and some more antlers hung on my mantle!
For the safety of my dogs and cat I would slap a restraining order on this woman!
By fearless fosdik
September 2, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this
By Ray
September 2, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this
Ray you write this……….
“slick Willy in the oval office, munching on a pizza, talking to some general about troop deployment and getting a BJ, all at the same time.”
Where I come from Ray they call it MULTI-TASKING!
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 2, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this
Dear GA Values @ 12:38, the Dick Brooks essay is well drawn, but has a conceptual flaw – the role of the vice president. He writes as if the vice president is the chief of staff, and that is not correct. One retains a smart organizer as chief of staff, to perform all of the duties Brooks would assign to the vp.
Normally the vp is a cipher - does anyone really think Obama will listen to Biden on anything (or the other way around?) Here McCain has selected a potential successor who is arguably his intellectual clone - how better to ensure an orderly succession of your policies?
By Davo
September 2, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this
Oh ragnar! You are a bit sensitive. I’ll try to be easier on you…
“I think you will acknowledge that inflating tires and corporate welfare have a limited appeal as cures for the energy crisis caused by democrat refusal to drill.”
To the extent that inflating your tires to help reduce dependance on foreign oil, albeit small, shows personal responsibility and a degree of patriotism. I think these are conservative values; I guess they are not republican values like ——> Corporate Welfare. And the oil drilling thing is really just a distraction fielded at a politically convenient time IMO…but much has been said by others on that point. “I think you will acknowledge that kum-ba-yah is unlikely to move the Russians, and that unilateral surrender would have been a bad idea in addressing Islamists” Well lets see here…If I were to tell you that it was actually the Georgains who provoked Russia ( under the assumption that W would stand by them and that they were moving toward joining NATO) would that matter? MSM is too shallow to report the full story but perhaps you can look to see what Pat Buchannon has written about that whole mess. As far as Islamists go…ya they are crazy, but why do we need to go over there and stir up the crazy pot by subsidizing Isreal (McCain and Obama’s policy are the same on this). I’m also so very tired of this administrations utter fear and cowardess in dealing with countries that are at best medieval and at worst our ‘only’ energy partners…they sell, bush buys, we die for their fiefdoms.
As to getting an education…if your so inclined, left or right, take a look at this site http://southernavenger.ccpblogs.com/
By TJ
September 2, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this
Does my heart good to see those anti-American pukes getting a snoot full of mace. Hope all arrests will be followed by brusque, thorough strip and cavity searches.
By Old NCO
September 2, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this
Ragnar Danneskjöld @12:51 PM
I think Dick Brooks knows much more about the Government than you ever will, but you certainly are less bad than Jim.. I’d support you for HIS job.
By fearless fosdik
September 2, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this
After reading this
http://www.grizzlybay.org/SarahPalinInfoPage.htm
If there was a doubt in my mind about voting for the McCain/Palin ticket…
There is no doubt any longer!
By time for **INSTANT** DEATH TO LIBERALISM
September 2, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this
FAO ALL GUTTERSNIPE LIBERAL SCUM ON HERE …
How come you maggot brained leftist pukes have NOT denounced the shameless lying PLAGIARISING narcissistic windbag Biden’s son and brutha (sic)for being the defendants in TWO COURT CASES in a major hedge fund fraud/corruption case?
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/bidens-brother-son-accused-of-fraud
Funny also how windbag Biden’s snouts in the lobbyist trough family have NOT been investigated either!! Biden is human scum … The half-black racist turd Hussein Obama is even viler!!
The verminous liberal media is strangely silent on all this!!
But yet endlessly screeches and pukes up typical empty leftist sneers and smears about a 17 yr old teen pregnancy, solely because its a GOP candidate,
DEATH TO LIBERALISM!!!
By Captain Freedom
September 2, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this
THE Captain wishes to further express his support for Sarah Plain with his discovery that she attempted, as Mayor of the Thriving Matropolis of Wasilla (pop. vanishingly small) she attempted to fire the town librarian for insufficient zealotry in banning offensive books.
Not only is this Hot Babe Governor a firm champion of the Creation Science approach to biology education; not only does she (eveidently) practice what she preaches in re: abstinence-only sex ed (though apparently little Britney Lynn missed the “only” part); not only does Our Gal With the Assault Rifle sneer at the idea of global climate change or wildlife protection — no, though any of these alone are sufficient to swell THE Captain’s man parts with pride and tumesecence — but Our Sarah Plain and Tall also seems to have a taste for good old book burnin’.
Cower and cringe, islamoliberesbiasexual eggheads. Sarah Plain is comin to get ya. Cause if it’s not The Good Book, it’s a bad book. Period, end of debate.
Now, THE Captain needs to go lie down and savor this moment of pulsing excitement.
By ghost rider
September 2, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this
fearless fosdik 1:46 PM
FEARLESS .. Good post, good link!
As one who flew for the BLM, back in the 70’s, I can attest to how easy sniping is!
A sniper out each door…Hey! You can run, but not hide! Bye, Bye Coyote!
We also used to sling wild mustangs…If they didn’t suffer from heart failure they were shipped off to be auctioned or most to be slaughtered….
It’s called living in the west, where you would think they would care about the ecology, the mountains, the great outdoors, and the pristine wilderness?
But, they don’t all these people such as Sarah Palin, Dick Cheney and the rest of the lot care about is self gratification…What a Sorry lot!
By Political Forescam
September 2, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this
Whats up man! hey yo whats up! Yeah whats goin on here. Sick an tired of five-oh runnin up on the block here. You know what Im sayin? Yo snow, they came around here lookin for you the other day. Word? word! bust it!
God, I love Snow!!
By sour grapes
September 2, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this
Joe Lieberman will be speaking at the RNC convention. Just eight years ago he spoke at the DNC convention as The veep candidate. Back then, he voted 90% in line with Democrats. McCain has voted only about 45% with Bush on the situations that matter to America; voting with Bush for a Cub Scout honoring isn’t exactly household shattering. But the left continues to portray him as Bush II or McBush or whatever. My how times change.
By Bud Wiser
September 2, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this
I agree with the point that one reason not to accept McCain’s offer was that Sarah Palin would never burden her daughter with the knowledge that she was the reason her mother would not be able to be Vice-President. Can you imagine hanging that one on your kid?
The Palins have shown nothing but love and support for a child who has gotten herself in a very difficult situation.
The liberals are spinning themselves into the turf because Sarah Palin did not murder her Down’s Syndrome child as any one of them would have done, plus she was not seeking to murder her daughter’s unborn baby either.
It appears that the libs are into ‘ethnic cleansing’ or some such. Also, it appears that they do not like the idea of a career woman holding down a job, while having children at home? (that almost sounds Republican!) At least it seems that way unless of course, the woman is a Democrat, which takes us back to the issue of if you murder your unborn children because they are not ethnically, physically, or mentally pure, you wouldn’t be in this situation in the first place.
By Bud Wiser
September 2, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this
(sorry in advance if this is a duplicate…don’t know if first one went through)
I agree with the point that one reason not to accept McCain’s offer was that Sarah Palin would never burden her daughter with the knowledge that she was the reason her mother would not be able to be Vice-President. Can you imagine hanging that one on your kid?
The Palins have shown nothing but love and support for a child who has gotten herself in a very difficult situation.
The liberals are spinning themselves into the turf because Sarah Palin did not murder her Down’s Syndrome child as any one of them would have done, plus she was not seeking to murder her daughter’s unborn baby either.
It appears that the libs are into ‘ethnic cleansing’ or some such. Also, it appears that they do not like the idea of a career woman holding down a job, while having children at home? (that almost sounds Republican!) At least it seems that way unless of course, the woman is a Democrat, which takes us back to the issue of if you murder your unborn children because they are not ethnically, physically, or mentally pure, you wouldn’t be in this situation in the first place.
By Turgid Terry
September 2, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this
THE Captain was finished with his … er … business at 1:54.
By crazy eddie
September 2, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this
INSTANT DEATH TO LIBERALISM 1:51 PM
Hey man…Take a chill pill!
Your screed concerning a suit against Bidens brother and son is still pending.
How about a case of a son and brother that has been decided? Huh!
Neil Bush was a member of the board of directors of Denver-based Silverado Savings and Loan during the 1980s’ larger Savings and Loan crisis. As his father was Vice President of the United States, his role in Silverado’s failure was a focal point of publicity. Silverado’s collapse cost taxpayers $1 billion.
The US Office of Thrift Supervision investigated Silverado’s failure and determined that Bush had engaged in numerous “breaches of his fiduciary duties involving multiple conflicts of interest.” Although Bush was not indicted on criminal charges, a civil action was brought against him and the other Silverado directors by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; it was eventually settled out of court, with Bush paying $50,000 as part of the settlement.
Two can play this game..MORON!
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 2, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this
Dear Davo @ 1:08, “To the extent that inflating your tires to help reduce dependance on foreign oil, albeit small, shows personal responsibility and a degree of patriotism. I think these are conservative values.” Unfortunately personal responsibility cannot overcome the injury inflicted by the democrat prohibition against sufficient drilling. The problem with the Obama policy is that it is a distraction, it will do nothing to address the problem.
“Corporate Welfare. And the oil drilling thing is really just a distraction fielded at a politically convenient time IMO…but much has been said by others on that point.” Let’s face the facts – the democrat plan is merely to take money from taxpayers and to give it to preferred friends of leftists, who will pocket the money then regretfully advise us that they were unable to work any miracles to reverse the know limits of physics. The republican plan is to drill everywhere. Why don’t more democrats abandon the silly position and embrace the obviously correct one? It would even be politically convenient to do so, would it not?
“If I were to tell you that it was actually the Georgains who provoked Russia (under the assumption that W would stand by them and that they were moving toward joining NATO) would that matter?” It would, just as you could tell me the victim provoked the rape by dressing scantily. That does not excuse the rape, and Kumbayah – the Obama policy – does not make the world safer. Putting missiles in Poland will make the world safer, and a long term radar agreement with Ukraine will make the world safer.
By time for **INSTANT** DEATH TO LIBERALISM
September 2, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this
@ deranged eddie
And FOUR venal grasping demoNcrat senators were in the Keating Five … funny how U noxious liberal pukes NEVER mention that IRREFUTABLE fact!!
The point U snivelling dishonest moronic leftist dickweed is that Gov Palin’s family are being sneered at and smeared by hysterical noxious leftist abortion bucket escapees for a wholly private matter where NO illegality/corruption is involved.
Yet windbag Biden’s despicable lobbyist snouts in the elite liberal trough maggot son/brutha are DEFENDANTS in a major fraud case because of their typical liberal venality and greed. AND THE LEFTIST MEDIA SCUM ARE IGNORING IT!!
Answer the blindingly obvious point @ liberal hypocrisy and vile double standards U liberal dogturd
was that direct enufff .. I could be a tad more robust if U like bubbaturd!!
Wrong … U aint intellectually honest enuff to play this game!!!
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 2, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this
Dear Crazy @ 2:27, I don’t think you read TFTT’s Biden story very closely. The alleged Biden theft is obviously more egregious than the Silverton case, and should be easily proven if the allegation is true. Bush was undoubtedly a member of a board of a failing institution, but he did not cause the failure and he did not get a $1.2 million salary. Young Biden was appointed president with no prior experience in the field. Politics notwithstanding, he’s getting in the Duke Cunningham territory there – it smells bad.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 2, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this
Dear Davo, I inadvertently left off part of my answer to your inquiry:
“MSM is too shallow to report the full story but perhaps you can look to see what Pat Buchannon has written about that whole mess.” Pat also was against wiping out the Islamists in Iraq – why would I trust his judgment since he was so wrong on that issue?
“As far as Islamists go…ya they are crazy, but why do we need to go over there and stir up the crazy pot by subsidizing Isreal (McCain and Obama’s policy are the same on this).” I was shocked – and I suspect in your heart of hearts you were too - that Obama said he would stand behind Israel; I think most of our BDS leftists do not support that Obama position. My hypothetical of the month: assuming Israel attacks the nuclear program in Iran, how will Obama react? I say that is a lose-lose-lose case for Obama, and a winner for McCain.
By fearless fosdik
September 2, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this
Is it halloween or April Fools day?
Tonights convention is hi-lighted by these illustrious word-smith’s
Fresh from Law and order we will be bored to death with ol droopy eyes FRED DALTON THOMPSON!
Then the independent Joe Lieberman
FANFARE EVERYONE……
And next VIA satelitte, The bumbling, fumbling, tongue tied moron…do I have to make an introduction?
I don’t think so!
By crazy eddie
September 2, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this
By time for INSTANT DEATH TO LIBERALISM
Oh…Sorry Mr INSTANT DEATH TO LIBERALISM was I supposed to include the Keating Five. I would have thought you would want to keep this HUSH HUSH..
After all, as I recall all four of the democrats are no LONGER in office but the lone REPUBLICAN is still in office, and I believe he is the REPUBLICAN nominee for president…
A man of integrity, and moral values. No doubt!
By The Way
September 2, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this
In a CNN interview aired moments ago, John McCain just explained how he picked a woman veep. He was at a low point in his campaign and didn’t know if he’d make it through to November when one of his staff workers showed up wearing a cross (your heart bra), and the Eureka moment happened: Pick a woman.
Of course the same thing happened to Solzhenitsyn during a book tour but that was in Vegas, and what comes off in Vegas……
Rush Limbaugh is having a field day mimicking the Down Syndrome symptoms like he done to Michael J. Fox and his disease. Rush is such a funny guy. Even though it’s radio, Rush put on the helmet and everything. Rush! lol. He’s the clown prince.
that’s 4 sure, that’s 4 dang sure.
By time for **INSTANT** DEATH TO LIBERALISM
September 2, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this
POST OF THE DAY SO FAR … TO A VILE LEFTIST THREAT!!!
This is just one of the almost countless witty responses to some despicable far left race baiting paki/blackbitch hilariously called fatimah ali who puked up an unbelievably insane black Hitler like rant about race wars etc if Hussein Obama don’t win like in Nov. in todays Philly Daily News (philly.com).
Posted by hairy hidden hand 11:35 AM, 09/02/2008 Fatimah; Are you saying you want to kill me? Want to throw a brick at the back of my head/ or do you want to tie my hands behind me back, put a tire around my head, douse the tire with gasoline and then light the tire on fire, with your two gal pals, Michelle Obama and Winnie mandela? Hey Ms. Chemical ali- Do you know what will happen if your gang tries to take down whitey? What will happen is that a round will be fired at your brothers at a rate of 2000 feet per second, striking the base of their skulls, thus we will not be dead, only your brothers, thus I ask you ms. Ali, WHAT IS IT GOING TO BE SPORT???
Posted by OBOMBABINBIDEN 10:12 AM, 09/02/2008 I actually wasted 3 minutes of my life reading the most Ignorant Vile story from a major city newspaper,Hey Fatimah Ali go back to Afghanistan and get fitted for your new Burqa. You were a definite AFFIRMATIVE ACTION HIRE. Clinging on to my locked and loaded Glock & Bible.
Posted by michaelR 10:45 AM, 09/02/2008 Fatimah cheer up. It could be worse. We could all be living in Africa.
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/opinion/20080902FatimahAliWeneedObamanot4moreyearsofGeorgeBush.html?viewAll=Y&text=#comments
link to this Goebbels like leftist hate is also on Drudge.
Fittingly there are virtually NO posts in defence of this unspeakable leftist black racist threats!!
ENJOY …
By Davo
September 2, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this
Anyone up for a real conservative convention?
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/
Happening now, streaming feed…RP on @ 8 pm
By mm
September 2, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this
Wingnut morons,
You would have cheered if McCain had picked Lizzy Borden. And you would have blamed the Dems for overhyping the ax incident.
Mindless sheep.
By AmVet
September 2, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this
Though being laconic is generally not my strong suit, I have one word for today’s “analysis” by Mr. Wooten - pathetic.
What next? A column by Dustbag or Time for the Rager?
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 2, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this
Dear MM @ 3:51, certainly, and if republicans nominated the pope for president you moonbats would find faults.
By GMAN
September 2, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this
I used to think that Bush/McCain was ignorant but I’ve changed my mind. Bush/McCain is just plain stupid. I don’t care how you Wingnuts try to spin this, this dog (excuse the pun) just won’t hunt.
Bush/McCain - Stupid is as stupid does!
By Lisa
September 2, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten you are HILARIOUS! Not sure which reality you are living in but I am not even mad at you. You know that your Publican party is a mess but you will NEVER admit it. You are loyal to the end; no doubt but FYI the Republican Party is a mess. I’m a Democrat but I would vote for Bush before I vote for McCain. Good luck with that though!
By D'OH!
September 2, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this
if republicans nominated the pope for president you moonbats would find faults.
Um, Sparky…. did you miss the Reformation?
By Captain Freedom
September 2, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this
jbm at 3:57 is correct. Leave it to moonbat islamoliberals to criticize the prospect of an aging ex-Nazi who wears ermine collar trim, believes in the magic of dead bodies rising to life after days of putrifaction, and condones providing safe haven to child molesting priests.
Crazy lefty dimwits will criticize anything.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 2, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this
Dear Lisa @ 4:07, of course you would vote for President Bush before you would vote for John McCain. President Bush proved he can spend like a democrat with his education and agriculture bills, and that on trade he can regulate with the best of them (viz. the steel import quotas.) McCain has been the enemy of the earmarkers and consistent on free trade.
By Devastator
September 2, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this
Today, the thoughts and prayers of all Americans are with those in the path of Hurricane Gustav — and many of you are asking what you can do to help.
We do not yet know what the impact of Hurricane Gustav will be, and we hope with all our hearts that the damage will not be as great as it was three years ago.
But we know there will be damage, and there is something you can do right now.
Your financial support will strengthen organizations like the American Red Cross that are evacuating Gulf Coast residents and planning to help communities get back on their feet.
Make a donation to support the American Red Cross today.
At times like this, it is our compassion and resilience that define who we are as a nation.
Please give whatever you can afford, even $10, to make sure the American Red Cross has the resources to help those in the path of this storm:
https://donate.barackobama.com/redcross
Thank you for your generosity, and I hope you will join Michelle and me in praying for the safety of those in the path of the storm and the first responders who are doing all they can to ensure the safety of their communities.
Barack
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 2, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this
Dear Captain @ 4:10, they prove it here daily.
By steve-o
September 2, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this
Wow. TFTT is a bonafide racist as evidenced in his 336 post. What type of vile idiot takes joy and glee in race war and genocide?
By Bush go away
September 2, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this
Can someone please put a chair next to the one Shaun Hannity is sitting in? He needs another one because he is literally beside himself in angst with his “leave the children out of it.”
Obama has left the children out of it. Maybe he should have told that to John McCain when he was telling folks that “Chelsea Clinton is so ugly because Janet Reno is the father.”
How do you spell hypocrite? H-a-n-n-i-t-y. Or is that how you spell “partisan hack”? Pays well, you gotta admit that; the mouthbreathers just love him.
By Get a life
September 2, 2008 4:37 PM | Link to this
Ragnar Danneskjöld, do you have a life? or are you the secret life-partner Jim has been talking about in his private circle.
By @@
September 2, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this
Now I’m seeing the left’s feigning concern for Governor Palin’s son with Downs Syndrome? If any of you were familiar with such children, you’d know that they thrive in large families such as hers. Were he an only child, I too would be concerned, but he’s not.
His siblings will be the best teachers for young Trig. Children with Downs Syndrome rejoice in meeting challenges. He will possess the same independent streak as that of his Mom. It will serve him well.
The more he’s exposed to the hustle and bustle of living in the Whitehouse, the more willing he will be to adjust to the real world.
I can just see Cindy McCain embracing young Trig as though he were her very own. She’s done it before with Bridgette.
Two remarkable women will take up residence in the Whitehouse this coming January 2009.
By Captain Freedom
September 2, 2008 5:16 PM | Link to this
THE Captain wishes to offer one more piece of evidence as to why Sarah Plain is a boon to GOP fortunes. She really knows how to campaign and WIN. In her first campaign for mayor of Wasilla AK (pop. not so much), she was up against an entrenched incumbent, and many thought she had bit off more than she could chew. But she proved she knows how to swallow the big one when she prayed her way to a 616-413 final vote tally. LANDSLIDE BABY!!!!!! That kind of electioneering experience is pure gold!
By Hockey in Alaska
September 2, 2008 5:22 PM | Link to this
So the daddy’s a hockey player eh? (Warning hockey terms ahead)
Well maybe if the Momma Palin hadn’t tried to pretend that hockey doesn’t exists and instead educated her on defending her goal she would have had some protection for the five hole and he wouldn’t have been able to put the buscuit in the basket
Not even a Zamboni going to be able to clean up the ice on this one.
By The Way
September 2, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this
Bush may surprise the RNC convention with an appearance yet.
Is Iraq to end with a whimper?
By Little RIcky
September 2, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this
@@ you mean the Republican ticket is a bunch of swingers who are all going to shack up together in the White House? Whoa, that’d be some good reality TV right there.
By catlady
September 2, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this
I don’t think many people fault Ms. Palin for not aborting her Down’s syndrome baby. I think they DO fault her for not having enough sense not to get knocked up with 4 children already and she is in her mid 40’s. THAT, my friends, shows a great lack of judgement.
That she can also be faulted on other moral/ethical/legal grounds remains to be seen.
Her daughter has needed and still needs someone to supervise her. So do her other kids. If she didn’t have a handicapped child and a pregnant child, I doubt too many people would worry about her family life all that much. But she shows a great deal of lack of judgement. And we NEED someone with some judgement.
And about the “young man.” Why hasn’t he stepped up to the plate in 5 months? Have they got him on the rack to try to convince him? Is she waiting till she regains her figure? Surely he is not another representative of the moral,conservative, Christian youth of today?! Could he be…(gasp) one of those godless heathen Democrats??
She had no business being offered the VP candidateship, and she certainly shows no love of her family in accepting it. Case closed.
By Jim
September 2, 2008 5:36 PM | Link to this
What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception (Hardcover) by Scott McClellan (Author)
Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters (Hardcover) by Richard A. Clarke (Author)
Study: False statements preceded war By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL, Associated Press Writer 19 minutes ago WASHINGTON - A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks. The study concluded that the statements “were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.” The study was posted Tuesday on the Web site of the Center for Public Integrity, which worked with the Fund for Independence in Journalism. Four more years – John (George Jr) McCain
White House spokesman Scott Stanzel did not comment on the merits of the study Tuesday night but reiterated the administration’s position that the world community viewed Iraq’s leader, Saddam Hussein, as a threat. “The actions taken in 2003 were based on the collective judgment of intelligence agencies around the world,” Stanzel said. The study counted 935 false statements in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them or had links to al-Qaida or both. “It is now beyond dispute that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction or have meaningful ties to al-Qaida,” according to Charles Lewis and Mark Reading-Smith of the Fund for Independence in Journalism staff members, writing an overview of the study. “In short, the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003.” Named in the study along with Bush were top officials of the administration during the period studied: Vice President Dick Cheney, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and White House press secretaries Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan. Bush led with 259 false statements, 231 about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 28 about Iraq’s links to al-Qaida, the study found. That was second only to Powell’s 244 false statements about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 10 about Iraq and al-Qaida. The center said the study was based on a database created with public statements over the two years beginning on Sept. 11, 2001, and information from more than 25 government reports, books, articles, speeches and interviews. “The cumulative effect of these false statements — amplified by thousands of news stories and broadcasts — was massive, with the media coverage creating an almost impenetrable din for several critical months in the run-up to war,” the study concluded. “Some journalists — indeed, even some entire news organizations — have since acknowledged that their coverage during those prewar months was far too deferential and uncritical. These mea culpas notwithstanding, much of the wall-to-wall media coverage provided additional, ‘independent’ validation of the Bush administration’s false statements about Iraq,” it said
By Sarah Palin
September 2, 2008 5:39 PM | Link to this
I’ll decide when the case is closed you leftist shrew.
By catlady
September 2, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this
I don’t think many people fault Ms. Palin for not aborting her Down’s syndrome baby. I think they DO fault her for not having enough sense not to get knocked up with 4 children already and she is in her mid 40’s. THAT, my friends, shows a great lack of judgement.
That she can also be faulted on other moral/ethical/legal grounds remains to be seen.
Her daughter has needed and still needs someone to supervise her. So do her other kids. If she didn’t have a handicapped child and a pregnant child, I doubt too many people would worry about her family life all that much. But she shows a great deal of lack of judgement. And we NEED someone with some judgement.
And about the “young man.” Why hasn’t he stepped up to the plate in 5 months? Have they got him on the rack to try to convince him? Is she waiting till she regains her figure? Surely he is not another representative of the moral,conservative, Christian youth of today?! Could he be…(gasp) one of those godless heathen Democrats?? How old is he, anyway? Was this statutory rape? And why did she miss school for “mono”? Is it safe to have “mono” when you are actually pregnant?
She had no business being offered the VP candidateship, and she certainly shows no love of her family in accepting it. Think of how her daughter will be devastated when the GOP lose, and it looks like her “indescretion” had a role in it? Would a good, conservative, Christian mother do that to her child? Case closed.
By AmVet
September 2, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this
These awful neo-cons really have given up ALL pretenses of lucidity and honesty, haven’t they?
The mulatto runs for the White House and they scream, in unison, “HE HAS NO EXPERIENCE!”
A no-name, no-time 2 year governor with absolutely no relevant experience, none, nada, zip is chosen to quite possibly replace a VERY old candidate and they say nary a word.
Personally I think the experience factor is vastly over-rated. Especially given the state of affairs with this major league screw up currently in the White House.
To me character is vastly more important. And again look to the current commander-in-chump for evidence as to what befalls the nation when the people elect a man with exceedingly little.
The bible thumping theocrats practically speak in tongues when a non neo-con fornicates outside of marriage. Yet an apparently trampish teenager of one of their own is “off limits”. And her mother is practically canonized for “supporting her daughter”.
Complete unadulterated rubbish.
Yet to watch the right’s lunatic fringe spin and twist in the political wind on every topic is at least fodder for much fun.
Republican Bloodbath, Part Deux. Coming to an election everywhere this November.
By TW
September 2, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this
She had no business being offered the VP candidateship, and she certainly shows no love of her family in accepting it. Case closed.
Well said, catlady.
It’s over. It’s soooooo over.
By Bush go away
September 2, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this
Ah but AmVet Palin does have foriegn policy experience. This can’t be even questioned because the Republican hack on WSB last night told us Alaska is the closest state to Russia! To bad she left out that Palin’s name is closer alphabetically to Putin than either Obama’s or Biden’s; that would have really sealed the deal.
Yep, Vladimir you better fall in line. Like the Rupublican hack said, Alaska is the CLOSEST state to Russia and as soon as that global warming subsides, well Dubya might have seen your soul in your eyes, but you’re gonna see Palin’s sole when she sticks her boot up your a$$.
Wait, is that the sound of Putin doing a complete fallback and offering Georgia an apology? By God that Palin does have foriegn policy experience.
By @@
September 2, 2008 6:19 PM | Link to this
Case closed. catlady?
Are you now the authority who tells everyone when they can begin and when they should stop having children?
Odd, very odd indeed……you being all anti-fascist and such.
And I see you’re still eagerly guzzling the gossip.
WWOD? Support your efforts? Did he send you as his emissary…….errrr missionary?