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DEL.ICIO.USSouthern women (and men) know Palin
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Southern women — and the men who love them — will identify instantly with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
Her speech last night was brutally effective. Democrats do not know how to react today. They’re stumbling all over the place trying to construct an appropriate response, but they’re always a phrase or a Joe Biden smirk away from overplaying it. They can’t ignore her, but they can’t trash-talk her either.
In a soft, inquiring-minds-want-to-know fashion, she delivered devastating lines.
On Barack Obama: “This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word ‘victory’ except when talking about his own campaign. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed, when the roar of the crowd fades away, when the stadium lights go out and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to the studio lot, what exactly is our opponent’s plan?”
This is a woman who speaks as “the mother of one of those troops” determined to bring victory to Iraq. One week from today son, Track, will “deploy to Iraq with the Army infantry in the service of his country.”
As she points out, she’s not some Washington insider. She’s the mother of a serviceman sitting across the aisle at the country church in small-town America who’s exasperated with the way things are getting done — or, more precisely, not — in Washington, a good, Southern country woman who temporarily hands over the newborn to her husband or daughter, saying “Hold this baby while I go to Washington and whup some butt.”
We all have seen her, if not the whupping kind, certainly the fed-up kind, or the take-charge kind who’s convinced that everything’s falling apart and 100 people expecting to be fed are due within the hour.
They’re polite and well-mannered. But in this state of mind, they’re not to be messed with.
This woman just closed off Barack Obama’s openings in the South — and throughout small-town America.
She looks sweetly into the gaggle of guests and muses aloud: “The American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery; this world of threats and dangers is not just a community, and it doesn’t just need an organizer.”
Ouch. Barack Obama’s just been whupped.
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By The Way
September 4, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this
Sarah Crabcakes 08: Baked Alaska
By The Way
September 4, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this
Sarah Putin’s husband races snowmobiles. then why is her daughter only interested in Submarine Races?
Sarah’s only gaff last night was that she forgot to thank her husband’s pit crew.
Reagan said to America, “RU better off today than 4 years ago?” I say to Sarah Crabcakes, “RU486 four years ago and Bristoll would be better off!”
Bwa
By The Way
September 4, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this
Sarah Putin’s husband races snowmobiles. then why is her daughter only interested in Submarine Races?
Sarah’s only gaff last night was that she forgot to thank her husband’s pit crew.
Reagan said to America, “RU better off today than 4 years ago?” I say to Sarah Crabcakes, “RU486 four years ago and Bristoll would be better off!”
Bwa
By Maniac is accurate
September 4, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this
Not all talk radio is conservative or liberal. In Chattanooga the talk station is very much small town, middle of the road beauty shop and barber shop talk. In other words, the hosts and callers are like the small town, middle and working class that makes up a huge part of this country.
Jim’s assessment of how Palin played there was evidenced in the comments on The Morning Press of WGOW this morning.
They were talking about how impressive Palin was, how smart and tough she seems. And, they were enchanted with the children, especially the touching shot of the youngest daughter licking her hand and slicking down young Trig’s cowlick.
McCain just unleashed his own celebrity – one that shows more middle America substance than Sen. Obama. She will indeed play well in the South, the Midwest, the Mountain West and everywhere there are families who look like hers. There are a lot of them.
By GOPs got to go
September 4, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this
This Southern Woman sees a woman not ready for the VP or President role.
Maybe she should have mentioned that when she told the Feds,”Thanks but no thanks” for the bridge to no where, she kept the money for Alaska, just did not build a bridge with it.
By The Way
September 4, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this
McCangelina 08: A nice rack trumps Barrack, Iraq, and that Clinton Potatoe Sack!
By dittohead
September 4, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this
Sarah Palin brought conservatives back to the Republican Party & saved it...Dear God......the party just got a shot of Palin adrenaline...She just might save America from the Marxists.By GOPs got to go
September 4, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this
Since John McCain has had Melanoma a number of times, he should have chosen his VP far more carefully. Melanoma is a very BAD actor and when it comes back the first symptom could be a seizure from brain mets. Do you REALLY want an Annie Oakley wannabe in the White House?
By Dutchman
September 4, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this
GOPs got to go,
Maybe Palin would appeal to you if she had aborted her kids alone the way to a career.
Yes, she kept the money, hard to give it back(anyone who has dealt with the VA knows). She used it on needed infrastructure repairs and construction.
Maybe if she was a raving liberal she would appeal to you?
I guess real folks will identify with her better than the Mid-Town crowd.
By Neoconnisseur
September 4, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this
Actually, GOPs got to go, I think you lose your Southern card when you cross the threshold at Emory. Thanks for playing though.
By The Way
September 4, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this
Annie Oakley! Good one, sir. By George I think the blog’s getting it!
By GOPs got to go
September 4, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this
Dutchman,
She does not appeal to me because of her stance on other issues, not abortion. Although I am pro-choice, I do not personally believe in abortion. I do however think that 44 year old women should maybe use birth control. Probably a good choice since the age of the woman greatly increases her chances of birth defects. Maybe 17 yr olds should think of that too.
By Peter
September 4, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this
I’m puzzled every time they open their mouths the topic raises more questions.
Sarah says she was against the bridge to nowhere …
… and that her team won’t talk one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.
By Eric
September 4, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this
Yeah, she was a secessionist… so you may be right about Southerners loving her.
By deegee
September 4, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this
How did McCain know she would hit a home run? Now we know what McCain knew. Last night they tied up the “grumpy old men and their b*** old ladies” vote. For your Fears!!! For your Fears!!!
By GOPs got to go
September 4, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this
Actually all I was born in Macon Ga. and did not go to Emory, nor do I work there.
I do not know any raving Liberals. The only ones I have come in contact with are highly educated and open minded. I have witnessed a large amount of narrow minded, self proclaimed moral conservatives though. Might you be one of those too? I am sure you are very Christian, own numerous guns and think that you are always right on every subject.
By GOP"S got to go
September 4, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this
Oh, and I do not live in Mid-Town, rather Suwanee.
By Mike K.
September 4, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this
I am shocked, SHOCKED that Jim Wooten loved Palin’s speech. About as shocked as I was when I noticed that Cynthia Tucker loved Obama’s speech last week or that Terrence Moore suggested that Shockley should replace Ryan at QB if Ryan struggles.
By CONSERVATIVE VOTER
September 4, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this
This is one conservative that will not vote for the McCain/Palin ticket.
Southern women and men can relate with an out of wedlock daughter. (THINKING WRONG)
YOU HAVE LOST ALL CREDIBILITY AS A CONSERVATIVE.
Real Southern women and men won’t parade their unwed daughter for sympathy(personal gain).
By REPUBLICAN INCEST
September 4, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this
I AM DISGUSTED to hear that Sarah Palin’s daughter plans to marry the father. He should not have done that to her, and besides, isn’t he already married to her mother?
By Just Call Me Fred
September 4, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this
I didn’t hear her speech, although I heard parts of Huckabee’s and Rudy’s speeches, but I’ve read some of the things she’s said, both last night and in the past.
I had been undecided. In fact, I contributed to the McCain campaign during the primary, and I was leaning toward McCain at one time. But there is no way I can vote for a ticket that could end up making her President.
By BlackberryCobbler
September 4, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this
GOP’s Got To Go—
You obviously didn’t hear a damn thing that was said last, did you?
Although her political career is short to be sure, Sarah Palin already has more leadership and decision-making experience than Obama, Biden, and Clinton combined.
If Obama is truly qualified to be Pres, Palin damn sure is qualified to be VP.
18 million US citizens voted for Billary— who has no leadership and decision/administrative experience. Her only claim is occupying the White House with her adultrous husband and a few years in the Senate. Palin is already more qualified than Billary so all 18 million of Billary’s supporters should support Palin.
By JW
September 4, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this
Why do you always make southerners out to be stupid? A pretty face and smooth talking does not put food on the table, fill the gas tank, or buy medicine. No substance. It will not work.
By Tuffy, the Airborne Soldier
September 4, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this
Effective attack on the machine that is Obama/Biden. Unfortunately, quips are soon forgotten, Jim. Isn’t that what you’ve said about Obama for all this time? Ohhhhh, I get it. If its from the lips of a qualified candidate, it’s “rhetoric.” But from the mouth of a Repucklican, it’s “Fightin’ words.” If we ask the question what is her major acomplishment(s), what is her take on foreign policy, then its “sexist.” Hmmmm…I wonder if our allies will want to contend with that? Our enemies would not give a flying pUCK about her “sexist protection rule.” This is such a non factor.
By Cynthia M
September 4, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this
I am an Atlantan, born and raised! I absolutley loved the column this morning on future VP Palin! The comparison to southern women was very well done! Thanks for the smile this morning!
By REPUBLICAN INCEST
September 4, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this
I AM DISGUSTED to hear that Sarah Palin’s daughter plans to marry the father. He should not have done that to her, and besides, isn’t he already married to her mother?
By GApeach
September 4, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this
For years I voted Democratic … then I came to realize … voting for party makes one narrow-minded. I began listening to both parties and independents and came to realize, it is more important to vote for the “person” who most aligns with my thinking. That is not to say that anyone person will be totally on board with my way of thinking. However, after listening to the Democratic convention and now the Republican convention . . I’m on board with McCain & Palin. Those who keep referring to not wanting 8 more years of the same need to broaden their knowledge of the candidates and the issues. The only way it will be eight more years of the same is for Bush to stay there and the majority (Democratic) congress to remain there …with them gone, we stand a good chance of moving on. BTW, everybody was on board with the War until the economy starting go downhill, then they had to look for somewhere to put the blame so they started wanting to war to end. The biggest factor in the economy going down was and is the mortgage crisis!!! I’m sure they think ending the war is going to be the cure for the economy; that is until we are attacked by terrorist again.
By threedeep
September 4, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this
So 1525 people out of 300 miillon people in the United States helped to qualify this lady as a potential vice-president? How many votes made her president of the PTA, 10? The RNC have made their bed, now they are going to have to sleep in it.
THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor’s election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.
By hotlanta
September 4, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this
McCain is playing the Disability Card. He can’t move his left arm all the way up to his body and he picked her because she has a baby with Down Syndrome. Smart move.
By hotlanta
September 4, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this
McCain is playing the Disability Card. He can’t move his left arm all the way up to his body and he picked her because she has a baby with Down Syndrome. Smart move.
By The Peoples for a Nuked Amerika' Century
September 4, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this
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Yes your right Wooten, a dumb ol’ hick will easily fall for Palin’s plastic beauty queen looks, her custom written hollywood style script written by the same speechwriter that wrote Dubya’s “wave the flag” speeches - and her gossipy fence talk about that (N-word). The reality is that race generally becomes the only issue in this election debated behind closed doors here in the south.
Palin is very weak on constitutional issues such as seperation of Church/State and the issues that affect the common American in the street today. She speaks only to the elite and wealthy people. She hasn’t spoken about or debated real world social issues. Just those that tug at the heartstring and the slogan issue of the day. This woman should not have been selected as VP, and would be a disaster as a Prez’… God help us all!
By Dutchman
September 4, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this
GOPs got to go -
Isn’t that why they call it a “choice”?
By GOPs got to go
September 4, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this
Blackberry,
Oh I heard what she was trying to sell, I just am not buying.
LOL, you would be TEARING her to pieces if she was not Republican.
By Tim
September 4, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this
Old McCain’t pandering to the Christian Taliban - if Dobson likes her - then run! That’s what I want in a VP, someone who believes the world is 6000 years old and the bible is all true - yes, let’s make our country go backwards and then eventually they’ll be ideologically the same as the taliban and as ignorant but hey, y’all can have public stoning parties together. Just what we need…..
By Dutchman
September 4, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this
GOPs got to go -
Isn’t that why they call it a “choice”?
They make the Choice before a child is conceived and then live up to their responsibilities after - unlike the lefties. Nothing like disposable babies - right?
By RTM
September 4, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this
I find Sarah Palin absolutely refreshing. Finally we have a candidate on a ticket that IS a Washington outsider. When she was speaking last night, I felt like this is a woman that I could have sat next to at my home church in the North Georgia mountains. Even though she is an Alaskan, she could have just as easily felt like a Southerner (as Jim states). She obviously has the interests of rural America at heart, and I feel like she isn’t just talk - she is someone who will get things done. Until this point, I was wholeheartedly supporting Obama, but Palin has shifted this Southern Democratic male voter back to undecided.
By the way - I’m appalled to read By the Way’s post that focuses on the Vice Presidential nominee’s “rack” - it is absolutely insulting to women, men and Governor Palin.
By GApeach
September 4, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this
For years I voted Democratic … then I came to realize … voting for party makes one narrow-minded. I began listening to both parties and independents and came to realize, it is more important to vote for the “person” who most aligns with my thinking. That is not to say that anyone person will be totally on board with my way of thinking. However, after listening to the Democratic convention and now the Republican convention . . I’m on board with McCain & Palin. Those who keep referring to not wanting 8 more years of the same need to broaden their knowledge of the candidates and the issues. The only way it will be eight more years of the same is for Bush to stay there and the majority (Democratic) congress to remain there …with them gone, we stand a good chance of moving on. BTW, everybody was on board with the War until the economy starting go downhill, then they had to look for somewhere to put the blame so they started wanting to war to end. The biggest factor in the economy going down was and is the mortgage crisis!!! I’m sure they think ending the war is going to be the cure for the economy; that is until we are attacked by terrorist again.
By MV7
September 4, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this
Funny how the liberals on this blog keep reposting the same thing over and over. Reminds me of the media and every little thing that they can dig up on her background. Buck up for what it was last night, an A** Kicking by Palin. Sit down and take your meds. Finally a candidate that can relate to the silent majority. Liberals need to learn, just because you yell the loudest, it doesnt mean you will win in the end. America can see what Obama stands for (or should I say doesnt stand for). While most conservatives and independants are not exactly thrilled about McCain and previous dealings with liberal policies, this woman breathes air into the leanings of us who are silent. We now have a voice. I cant wait to see her and Hillary go at it in 2012.
By GOPs got to go
September 4, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this
Yes, that is why they call it a choice. And it should remain a personal choice. I am assuming since you go by DutchMAN that you do not have a uterus, thus you should not have to make that choice. So is it fair to say that if you keep your opinions out of my uterus that I will keep mine out of your gonads?
By Native Atlantan
September 4, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this
“Here’s how I look at the choice Americans face in this election. In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers. And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change.”
Priceless
McCain-Palin 08
By Rod
September 4, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this
Sarah smile smile. I love the support Sarah’s daughter is getting. I’m sure Brittany Spear’s family and others have gotten the same support from the right wing.(not)Funny how things are different when it’s one of your own. Hypocrisy at it’s best. Palin has sunk McCain. I love that he pick her. Women are behind this pick(not). Just like blacks were for the Clarence Thomas pick(not). I love it Reps and ClintonDems your fate is seeled. Your out with this last strike.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 4, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this
Dear HIDT @ 11:10, you were the first to cite Sarah as a Jimmy Stewart in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” You called it, and I salute your genius.
Dear Got to Go @ 11:25, “Do you REALLY want an Annie Oakley wannabe in the White House?” Yes. Especially if the alternative is a metrosexual elitist. @ 12:02, “you would be TEARING her to pieces if she was not Republican.” You err, we admire conservative democrats too, it’s just that you guys have exiled all of them.
Dear “Conservative Voter” @ 11:51, you fall into the leftists’s “cult worship” trap when you talk about credibility of the speaker instead of focusing on arguments. If the argument is false, you rebut it; you do not disparage a speaker merely for offering an idea contrary to your own perspective, unless your own basis for belief has a weak foundation.
Dear peoples @ 12:02, you speak of “constitutional issues such as seperation of Church/State.” As there is nothing like that in the US Constitution, which constitution are your discussing?
By ShanghaiATL
September 4, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this
We are a nation in decline, it seems from afar. I look around me here in China, and I see a country of division between very poor and very rich, a country with an appalling political system—-but, I also see a gigantic, expanding middle class, who have an energy and enthusiasm and can-do spirit that unites them, makes them happy, and minimizes the pettiness that I see in last night’s speeches. There is an earnestness here, an idealism, a lack of entitlement, and a respect for others. It seems the U.S. has dumbed itself down in the past decade or so with its preoccupation with celebrity, with vapid people like Spears or Hilton—or at least its fascination with skewering them. Carry that over to politics, where it seems so surreal how the president and McCain and, now, Palin (and of course, their crafty speechwriter) can use logical fallacies and obfuscations and rabble-rousing to sidetrack from intelligent discussion of issues. It’s a page out of Limbaugh’s playbook, once again. It’s like watching a movie, but twice as frustrating, because the loose ends won’t be tied up at the end, the truth won’t prevail, and we could be stuck in another exasperating, insipid Act II for another 4 years.
By Matt
September 4, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this
That is the biggest bunch of crap. You should really think about retiring… gone with the wind…
By ShanghaiATL
September 4, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this
We are a nation in decline, it seems from afar. I look around me here in China, and I see a country of division between very poor and very rich, a country with an appalling political system—-but, I also see a gigantic, expanding middle class, who have an energy and enthusiasm and can-do spirit that unites them, makes them happy, and minimizes the pettiness that I see in last night’s speeches. There is an earnestness here, an idealism, a lack of entitlement, and a respect for others. It seems the U.S. has dumbed itself down in the past decade or so with its preoccupation with celebrity, with vapid people like Spears or Hilton—or at least its fascination with skewering them. Carry that over to politics, where it seems so surreal how the president and McCain and, now, Palin (and of course, their crafty speechwriter) can use logical fallacies and obfuscations and rabble-rousing to sidetrack from intelligent discussion of issues. It’s a page out of Limbaugh’s playbook, once again. It’s like watching a movie, but twice as frustrating, because the loose ends won’t be tied up at the end, the truth won’t prevail, and we could be stuck in another exasperating, insipid Act II for another 4 years.
By edge770
September 4, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this
I think the overall view is there is more grit than grittle, I don’t think it’s a flashiness ala obama. But someone that goes and leads, and can communicate. As for the constitutional issues, that is developed over time, and that’s where advisers come in. I see a lot of Harry Truman and Theodore Roosevelt, something needed to shake the country club and church pews. Be interesting to see if she move from the Naval Observatory or deals with the drunken losers of Reid, Kennedy, Byrd, Kerry Biden Feinstein. Congressional “decorum” is what has excerbated the mess, along with Bush’s ineptness. I’m looking for someone beyond the loathes of yesteryear.. Sure there are some inexperience issues, but is anyone truly prepared for the Presidency? I don’t think so.. main thing is attitude and passion and having the right people in the circle. and no I don’t see Palin as a vp Jimmy Carter..
By Vince
September 4, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this
I am an independent voter and rarely read Wooten’s rantings because I consider him a poorly informed ultra-conservative. However, he was right on target with Palin’s speech. As a Southern man I do know the exact type of woman he is talking about…and she does fit the bill.
The choice of Palin was a brilliant move by McCain. Her speech last night was flawless and I seriously cannot see any faults with the woman. I find it humorous that feminists are asking, “Who’s going to take care of her kids?” I’s funny that social liberals are incensed at her daughter’s pregnancy. Who cares?
I had just about decided that I would vote for Obama as the only slightly better of two weak candidates. Palin’s speech has me leaning the other way now.
By Barney Strickland
September 4, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this
Blacks can no longer afford to live inside the perimeter in Atlanta and are migrating to Clayton county. That’s why they elect such luminaries as Victor Hill as sheriff and the excellent school board. It;s estimated in 12 years (three, yes three mayoral elections) Atlanta will have another white mayor and city council. Thank god I will live to see that. This apartheid is not racial, it’s economic. Say goodbye to the Bill Campbells, Myron Freemans, Vernon Williams, John Lewis’s and Hartsfield/….. Ira/MaynardJackson? (who calls it that anyway?) airport. By electing Barack Hussein Obama as your president …. you will give us a socialist/marxist in the White House. The only reason the blacks are voting for him is he looks black. Add in a bunch of stupid, idealistic college kids who have never worked a day in their lives and you get “change you can believe in”……..if only it wouldn’t be such a nightmare !! I watched as the class warriors and welfare pimps destroyed Fulton/Dekalb county and forced good communities to secede from Fulton county (Sandy Springs/Johns Creek)….. That’s what a group of disenfranshised voters always does when confronted with a lack of voice in the current corrupted system…. they vote to separate. Sarah Palin is just what we need…… no more catering to guilt……. we can now claim “You People” had your shot at the top slot and chose a total idiot. Too bad…… now conserative/white america can back to work fixing the real problems in our goverment.Along with sensible folks of other races and ethnic backgound we can drive out the welfare cases, black bigots and sodomites who are attempting to destroy the city I love so dearly (I cite Grady hospital, OMG!!). Thank god this fish wrapper of a paper isn’t the only place to get news…… however, I still read the sports section every now and then. Everyone check out the book “Obamanation” ….. it’s a fine account of what we can expect if we end with this commie/islamic sympathizer as president. If that happens, God help us all !!
By marcus
September 4, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this
Palin is patently unqualified to be the VP, and completly unfit to be president.
Have we not had enough of Bush’s policies the last 8 years?
By ron
September 4, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this
Good afternoon,I feel sorry for those of you who can’t get by the pregnant teen.You need to grow up.We’re talking about voting for the President of the United States and you’re going to let a pregnancy stand in your way?
last night I watched a woman give a masterful speech.One of the best I’ve ever heard.Delivered in a way I’ve never seen before.She was brilliant.She has beliefs that I don’t agree with,but they’ll be put aside for the moment.
She is,as I’ve said before a real person. She knows the price of gas.She knows the price of groceries.She has lived among her constituents in a rural state and they approve of her wholeheartedly.That is some accomplishment.Her approval rating keeps going up.
In Alaska,everyone knows everyone else.You can’t hide there.To be approved at an 83% rating,you have to be doing it right.
By Tim
September 4, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this
Oh Hilary’s not going to wait to 2012 to ‘get into it’ - she’ll skin Sarah with her own knife and tack her to her Senate wall - if Sarah Sue’s around that long…
By deegee
September 4, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this
It was a very convincing “I am woman hear me roar” speech. She kinda reminded me of Tootsie. She’s got those doe eyes. Wonder what they are going to look light when they shine the headlights on them.
By Vince
September 4, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this
I am an independent voter and rarely read Wooten’s rantings because I consider him a poorly informed ultra-conservative. However, he was right on target with Palin’s speech. As a Southern man I do know the exact type of woman he is talking about…and she does fit the bill.
The choice of Palin was a brilliant move by McCain. Her speech last night was flawless and I seriously cannot see any faults with the woman. I find it humorous that feminists are asking, “Who’s going to take care of her kids?” I’s funny that social liberals are incensed at her daughter’s pregnancy. Who cares?
I had just about decided that I would vote for Obama as the only slightly better of two weak candidates. Palin’s speech has me leaning the other way now.
By YES
September 4, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this
I think Palin is great. McCain too. But, I would vote for anybody before I would vote for someone with purple lips who thinks the people in Europe are more important that the people in the USA.
By timthebrave
September 4, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this
A great job of slinging mud. All that I heard was the democrats this…Obama that….I don’t care what you think of Obama? I am more concerned with how you stand on issues. If she refuses to talk about issues she is useless to me.
By scrappy
September 4, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this
I agree, she is impressive. She is a strong woman, a great role model, and very well may make history as the first president (due to McCain’s health).
As a woman I would be glad to vote for her, if only I shared her views.
I also can’t believe the praise she is getting for NOT having an abortion. What is that? Does this imply that all women, upon finding out they are pregnant, first thoughts are for abortion!?! No! I think I will tell my pregnant co-worker - hey! way to go on not having that abortion! This is the oddest thing I heard in politics in a long time.
By Dutchman
September 4, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this
GOPs got to go,
Close. I am christian, I do own guns - there is an old saying - “if you know how many guns you own, you don’t have enough”.
As to the liberals I have come across in Mid-Town - I use to work there - I really liked the spectacle put on by the “Peace Niks” at 14th and Peachtree. Very open minded. I look at the videos from St. Paul and see the peaceful protesters - what a bunch of loons.
I see the tolerant liberals that will not listen to something they do not believe in - Watch Bill O’Reilly lately?
I have heard tolerant liberals tell me that the US military will kill my son if he enlists. Very open minded.
I have been in hostile work places where every form of oddity is allowed unless you are over 55, male and like women. They did not like my “Straight Pride” wall hanging. Very tolerant.
By Vince
September 4, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this
I am an independent voter and rarely read Wooten’s rantings because I consider him a poorly informed ultra-conservative. However, he was right on target with Palin’s speech. As a Southern man I do know the exact type of woman he is talking about…and she does fit the bill.
The choice of Palin was a brilliant move by McCain. Her speech last night was flawless and I seriously cannot see any faults with the woman. I find it humorous that feminists are asking, “Who’s going to take care of her kids?” I’s funny that social liberals are incensed at her daughter’s pregnancy. Who cares?
I had just about decided that I would vote for Obama as the only slightly better of two weak candidates. Palin’s speech has me leaning the other way now.
By GOPs got to go
September 4, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this
And I am still waiting for the Beauty Queen platform of “World Peace” to come out.
By Barney Strickland
September 4, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this
Blacks can no longer afford to live inside the perimeter in Atlanta and are migrating to Clayton county. That’s why they elect such luminaries as Victor Hill as sheriff and the excellent school board. It;s estimated in 12 years (three, yes three mayoral elections) Atlanta will have another white mayor and city council. Thank god I will live to see that. This apartheid is not racial, it’s economic. Say goodbye to the Bill Campbells, Myron Freemans, Vernon Williams, John Lewis’s and Hartsfield/….. Ira/MaynardJackson? (who calls it that anyway?) airport. By electing Barack Hussein Obama as your president …. you will give us a socialist/marxist in the White House. The only reason the blacks are voting for him is he looks black. Add in a bunch of stupid, idealistic college kids who have never worked a day in their lives and you get “change you can believe in”……..if only it wouldn’t be such a nightmare !! I watched as the class warriors and welfare pimps destroyed Fulton/Dekalb county and forced good communities to secede from Fulton county (Sandy Springs/Johns Creek)….. That’s what a group of disenfranshised voters always does when confronted with a lack of voice in the current corrupted system…. they vote to separate. Sarah Palin is just what we need…… no more catering to guilt……. we can now claim “You People” had your shot at the top slot and chose a total idiot. Too bad…… now conserative/white america can back to work fixing the real problems in our goverment.Along with sensible folks of other races and ethnic backgound we can drive out the welfare cases, black bigots and sodomites who are attempting to destroy the city I love so dearly (I cite Grady hospital, OMG!!). Thank god this fish wrapper of a paper isn’t the only place to get news…… however, I still read the sports section every now and then. Everyone check out the book “Obamanation” ….. it’s a fine account of what we can expect if we end with this commie/islamic sympathizer as president. If that happens, God help us all !!
By Barney Strickland
September 4, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this
Blacks can no longer afford to live inside the perimeter in Atlanta and are migrating to Clayton county. That’s why they elect such luminaries as Victor Hill as sheriff and the excellent school board. It;s estimated in 12 years (three, yes three mayoral elections) Atlanta will have another white mayor and city council. Thank god I will live to see that. This apartheid is not racial, it’s economic. Say goodbye to the Bill Campbells, Myron Freemans, Vernon Williams, John Lewis’s and Hartsfield/….. Ira/MaynardJackson? (who calls it that anyway?) airport. By electing Barack Hussein Obama as your president …. you will give us a socialist/marxist in the White House. The only reason the blacks are voting for him is he looks black. Add in a bunch of stupid, idealistic college kids who have never worked a day in their lives and you get “change you can believe in”……..if only it wouldn’t be such a nightmare !! I watched as the class warriors and welfare pimps destroyed Fulton/Dekalb county and forced good communities to secede from Fulton county (Sandy Springs/Johns Creek)….. That’s what a group of disenfranshised voters always does when confronted with a lack of voice in the current corrupted system…. they vote to separate. Sarah Palin is just what we need…… no more catering to guilt……. we can now claim “You People” had your shot at the top slot and chose a total idiot. Too bad…… now conserative/white america can back to work fixing the real problems in our goverment.Along with sensible folks of other races and ethnic backgound we can drive out the welfare cases, black bigots and sodomites who are attempting to destroy the city I love so dearly (I cite Grady hospital, OMG!!). Thank god this fish wrapper of a paper isn’t the only place to get news…… however, I still read the sports section every now and then. Everyone check out the book “Obamanation” ….. it’s a fine account of what we can expect if we end with this commie/islamic sympathizer as president. If that happens, God help us all !!
By Famuan
September 4, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this
Yes, this is the southern strategy of the 60s, welcome back DIXIECRATS Go ahead Jim, say what you really want to say. You have prayed for this day, when the strange fruit could once again swing from the poplar trees….go ahead, embrace your feelings of aura at the possibility that you can “get your life back”. Well, go ahead, because Nov 5th is your wake-up call that we aren’t going back to that. Now you want to get the Jethros and Bo Lukes to think those uppity coloreds in college are their enemy…well Jethro and Bo Luke can’t afford gas for the Ford 150 and they’ve got DSL now. They aren’t buying what you’re trying to sell either.
By Dan
September 4, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this
Obama already has the beauty queen platform of world piece sewn up.
By Dan
September 4, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this
Obama already has the beauty queen platform of world piece sewn up.
By Dan
September 4, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this
Obama already has the beauty queen platform of world peace sewn up.
By Sam
September 4, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this
Palin came off as fantastic. Clinton was governor of a small state similar to Alaska. She is beautiful and stands for good values. GOP has a winner
By Famuan
September 4, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this
Yes, this is the southern strategy of the 60s, welcome back DIXIECRATS Go ahead Jim, say what you really want to say. You have prayed for this day, when the strange fruit could once again swing from the poplar trees….go ahead, embrace your feelings of aura at the possibility that you can “get your life back”. Well, go ahead, because Nov 5th is your wake-up call that we aren’t going back to that. Now you want to get the Jethros and Bo Lukes to think those uppity coloreds in college are their enemy…well Jethro and Bo Luke can’t afford gas for the Ford 150 and they’ve got DSL now. They aren’t buying what you’re trying to sell either.
By Just Nasty and Mean
September 4, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this
Good Afternoon Jim, et al,
All this howling, acronomy and the gianormous firestorm against Palin coming from the left and the press just verifies McCain has picked a winner.
This down-home knockout conservative speaks her mind, knows who she is and what she believes and is just what we need! She don’t take sh*t from NOBODY!
Palin didn’t have the luxury of hiding behind voting “present” for the tough decisions she faced in her executive level positions in small-town city and state government. She took it on!!
She has no radical racist, no socialist preachers, no Capital or police precinct bombers, no connections to crooks in her background—and doesn’t have a blank period in her career as a so-called “community organizer”.
Palin is REAL. She is not an empty suit of zero accomplishment and compressed smoke and hollywood mirrors.
Liberals and the press are attempting to KILL her politically with everything they have. Palin is a SERIOUS THREAT and they know it.
Go ahead! Make my day!
By GOPs got to go
September 4, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this
Bill O’Reilly?
LOL, you can not be serious? Well why not Rush and Hannerty too?
Like I said, I do not have contact with any raving liberals, But I duly noted Barney Strickland’s little diatribe above.
By Kaput
September 4, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this
Sarah conveyed eloquently, honestly and candidly her position and support for McCain’s GOP candidacy. She’s well aware of the challenges, issues and needs of our country. She demonstrated leadership, candor and courage throughout her speech last night. She got the attention of many and gain the confidence of many McCain supporters. As for her families presence, she wasn’t looking for sympathy; her family were demonstrating a committment of support for their daughter and future son-in-law while also showing unwavering love, and family strength/unity. Her presence as running mate, former governor & mayor, woman and pioneer as John McCain’s running mate has brought dignity, strength, and pride to many of our smalltown families throughout our great Nation! I commend her and wish her and John McCain the best as they embark on they’re journey to Washington. BEWARE Countrymen of a Man that does not share in our values of allegiance to our flag, open/strong stance to resist and fight terrorism, finally our National Anthem.
By jwatl
September 4, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this
Authentic! Clear and Concise! Caring! Competent!! Courageous! Intelligent! And even appeared to possess WARRIOR ETHICS!! A winner! Hope John McCain can do half this well on Sep 4!!
Biden would do all a favor to just keep his mouth shut, especially after suggesting that a vote for Obama-Biden would result in a war crimes tribunal for George W Bush. The democrats just can’t get over 2000 — they got BEAT!
By The Peoples for a Nuked Amerika' Century
September 4, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this
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Dear Ragnar Danneskjöld - September 4, 2008 12:16 PM
This may help you learn a bit about our sacred and patriotic document titled “The Constitution” and the founding fathers (you would call them traitors) that wrote it.
Thomas Jefferson: “Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man & his god, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state. [Congress thus inhibited from acts respecting religion, and the Executive authorised only to execute their acts, I have refrained from presenting even occasional performances of devotion presented indeed legally where an Executive is the legal head of a national church, but subject here, as religious exercises only to the voluntary regulations and discipline of each respective sect.] Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.”
By Erin Pruitt
September 4, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this
As an avid supporter of Hillary Clinton, I applaud McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin. While I may not agree with her stance on all issues, the time has come.
To the boys in Washington. Your time was then; our time is now. S** or get off the pot. Your potty training time has ended.
MCCAIN/PALIN ‘08
By Chuck
September 4, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this
If you listened closely last night, you could hear all the air coming out of the Hillary 2012 campaign.
By timthebrave
September 4, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this
Why can’t people talk about the issues instead of dumbing down this campaign. Slogans are great but what you plan to do to create jobs would be a better discussion. All I hear about is how the other person is not qualified to lead but nothing about how they are qualified to lead. It seems to be saying I’m not as bad as this person instead of I am qualified because… More of the same….Who cares? What changes exactly? What exactly do you plan to do aboout health care? Victory is fun to talk about. I mean who likes to lose? We should be talking about what do you plan to accomplish in Iraq? Why are we in Iraq? Why Iraq and not Afghanistan. What exactly do you mean by victory? If they can’t talk about the issues in specifics than neither party is qualified to lead this country. In the debates I am hoping for better from both sides. I don’t want to hear that you plan to create jobs I want to hear about how you plan to create jobs!
By findog
September 4, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this
The Palin comments from the right sound so much like the, “He’s well spoken,” comments on Powell. There is absolutely no way you can spin that she is the most qualified republican available to be a heartbeat away, which is the absolutely only legitimate question concerning her choice as a running mate. Many millions selected Obama for the democrats, one senator selected Palin to be the republican VP.
By deegee
September 4, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this
Sam, you missed something in your comparison of Palin and Bill Clinton, see below. Yes, they have governed a state but that’s where the comparison ends.
” Clinton graduated from high school in 1964 and enrolled at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he majored in international affairs. He was elected president of his class during his freshman and sophomore years. As a junior and senior he earned money for school expenses by working as an intern for the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, which was chaired by Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat. Clinton greatly admired Fulbright, who was a leading critic of United States involvement in the Vietnam War (1959-1975). Clinton was also deeply moved by African Americans’ fight for equality in the 1960s. In April 1968, a few weeks before Clinton graduated, the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., set off rioting in several American cities, including Washington, D.C. Clinton volunteered to work with the Red Cross and took clothing and food to people whose homes had been burned in the riots.
During his senior year, Clinton won a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford in England, and he spent two years in Oxford’s graduate program after graduating from Georgetown. In 1970 Clinton enrolled at Yale University Law School, where he studied for a law degree. He paid his way with a scholarship and by working two or three jobs at the same time.”
By Shawny
September 4, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this
Palin was masterful.
If you are whining about her not speaking to individual issues, particularly social ones, give it a rest. She made a 30+ minute speech. Not quite enough time to learn everything there is to know given that she is a newcomer to the national stage.
I loved her comments comparing her experience against Obama’s, in that as an executive (vs. a short timing senator), she had REAL RESPONSIBILITIES.
Obama has done nothing in the 3+ years he has been a lawmaker (note: not an executive). Her claim to fame is taking on the establishment (methinks that is ‘change you can believe in’) and cleaning house. D.C. needs an enema and McCain / Palin are far better suited to do that than the other boys.
By GOPs got to go
September 4, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this
Too bad about the “Just what does the VP do all day” (said in Fargo dialect) video.
Don’t cha know….
By timthebrave
September 4, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this
Why can’t people talk about the issues instead of dumbing down this campaign. Slogans are great but what you plan to do to create jobs would be a better discussion. All I hear about is how the other person is not qualified to lead but nothing about how they are qualified to lead. It seems to be saying I’m not as bad as this person instead of I am qualified because… More of the same….Who cares? What changes exactly? What exactly do you plan to do aboout health care? Victory is fun to talk about. I mean who likes to lose? We should be talking about what do you plan to accomplish in Iraq? Why are we in Iraq? Why Iraq and not Afghanistan. What exactly do you mean by victory? If they can’t talk about the issues in specifics than neither party is qualified to lead this country. In the debates I am hoping for better from both sides. I don’t want to hear that you plan to create jobs I want to hear about how you plan to create jobs!
By Dutchman
September 4, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this
timthebrave,
Then it would appear you did not listen to the speech, and if you did, your mind was already closed. Don’t worry about it. President McCain will do a grand job.
By mommychristi
September 4, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this
I am not even sure what made me watch Sarah Palin last night. I am not one to really watch those sort of things and I do not condsider myself a Republican or Democrat. In my opinion, Sarah Palin did an amazing job with her speech and she just possibly earned another vote for McCain/Palin. She was someone I could relate to. I think that everyone should stop judging her pregnant teenage daughter. That is ridiculous. I liked what she said about how her family has it’s ups and downs and is just like a normal family. I think she’s great!
By Shawny
September 4, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this
Hillary vs. Palin in ‘12 is way too premature, and would probably depend on Palin spending 4 years in the WH first. However, if she was VP, a matchup against Hill in ‘12 would be Palin routing Hillary. Listening to Hillary is like fingernails on a chalkboard.
By Peter
September 4, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this
Sarah mentions that “victory” is not a word that comes easily to Barack. The comparison is drawn to the Republicans who have five years of success in Iraq (Mission Accomplished) with nothing to show for it. Heck, in a few decades we can have a death toll of American soldiers that rivals the Vietnam conflict. (If we are engaged long enough, at least we can say we haven’t lost YET.)
By Hill
September 4, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this
What issues facing America did Paline address last night. She only touched on the war….And even then she did not state a plan of action. Come on people are living in America Today or are you reading Dickens?
By Do the Math
September 4, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this
Troopergate won’t be resolved by November, more time is needed before putting Palin second in line to the presidency (now she is third).
Good speach, yes, but it was written by someone else and delivered by a journalist. Is being a good speach reader enough to get Republicans to vote for her?
She needs a harder test to get my independant vote. Ms. Palen also comes from a wellfare state and the GOP has a huge credit card problem. Can’t find the change on this ticket.
By Do the Math
September 4, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this
Troopergate won’t be resolved by November, more time is needed before putting Palin second in line to the presidency (now she is third).
Good speach, yes, but it was written by someone else and delivered by a journalist. Is being a good speach reader enough to get Republicans to vote for her?
She needs a harder test to get my independant vote. Ms. Palen also comes from a wellfare state and the GOP has a huge credit card problem. Can’t find the change on this ticket.
By Shawny
September 4, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this
D…you are right about Clinton being more qualified than Palin. However, good thing for the republicans that the opponent is Obama and not Clinton 42.
By Ashlee
September 4, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this
From a southern gal:
I love you Jim Wooten.
By timthebrave
September 4, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this
Shawny, sure she didn’t have time to talk about issues….all that talking about how Obama is not qualified because(insert joke) left little time to talk about issues. Same old tactics of dumbing down politics to get people thinking about us versus them instead of talking about REAL issues. She isn’t the only guilty party (the democrats are just as guilty); but I expect better from anyone going for the 2nd most powerful position in the United States. Just my honest opinion from an undecided voter
By tcoach
September 4, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this
Do you dems not remember Biden’s speech all he talked about was how bad the rep. were and how they ae GWB. But now when the shoe is on the other foot Gov. Palin is wrong and asked to lay out her plan. Well she did some I would wan to know more. Your saving grace the one who will hand you the golden ticket has yet to truely give an account of how he will do what he says he wants to do. I know that is hard, with all the flip flops of his, if you do not know what you believe. Is he for drilling against drilling? So stop saying she did a bad job when she did a better job at the same thing as your candidates you were fondling yourself over. I used to be an independant with liberal views now with the misguided and uniformed attacks that make no sense you folks make I am now going to be voting with the party I grew up disagreeing with. I guess that makes sense though they say with age comes wisdom.
By Drew
September 4, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this
Tim, job creation is not the job of government, it is the job of the private sector. It is the job of government to get out of the way and let the private sector do its job. High taxes, tariffs and ever-increasing regulation are sending jobs overseas, not ‘corporate greed’… if it makes sense to do business in America, business will be done in America. Ireland’s economy is booming because they cut taxes, tariffs and regulation. The example is clear.
The point is, if your looking to goverment to give you a job, take civil service exam. For the rest of us, look to the party calling for lower taxes, tariffs and regulations. It’s easy.
By Just Nasty and Mean
September 4, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this
Good Afternoon Jim, et al,
What’s got the liberals and left wing media so whipped up and in a frenzy, is that Palin is REAL!”
In her service as mayor and governor, she didn’t have the luxury of voting “present” on tough and controversial decisions like the empty suit of ZERO accomplishment made up of compressed gases (mostly smoke) and Hollywood mirrors.
She has no associations with radical racist preachers, extreme socialists Obla-bla-ma writes about but fails to identify, criminals that blew up the capital and NY police precinct, or jailbird scammers to finance her home.
Palin is a straight up unquestionable American without this dark baggage that follows Obla-bla-ma.
This decision seems simple to any common sense, level headed person.
By GOP RETARDS
September 4, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this
Exploiting the retard baby is a genius move by the McCain campaign - they are appealing to the majority of Republicans, who are severely mentally retarded.
By Muslim Obama
September 4, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this
Obama has links to terrorist’s..Do we really want a Muslim terrorist in the white house? he also has ties to another terrorist William Ayers…..This man is a closet terrorist ..for the sake of your family please don’t vote this man into presidency…..McCain/Palin 08…they will fight terrorism and protect your family
By haha
September 4, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this
I want all of you to listen to her speech close your eyes and really listen…Now imagine if that came from Michelle Obama! She would be labeled and angry black woman etc she had to worry so much about people perception of her its not sexism its a cultural war. And if your black you better not come off as bitter or angry cause they will swear your just another “angry whateva” But this lady unleashed the dogs on him and it would be well within his rights to do the same without the tiptoeing and worrying about sexism and racism
By GOP RETARDS
September 4, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this
Exploiting the retard baby is a genius move by the McCain campaign - they are appealing to the majority of Republicans, who are severely mentally retarded.
By GMAN
September 4, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this
As we watch the continuing saga of “The Washington Hillbillies”, we ponder on these facts…
PALIN: “I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending … and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress ‘thanks but no thanks’ for that Bridge to Nowhere.” THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a “bridge to nowhere.”
PALIN: “There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate.” THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.
PALIN: “The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars.” THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama’s plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain’s plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded. Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families. He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.
MCCAIN: “She’s been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America’s energy supply … She’s responsible for 20 percent of the nation’s energy supply. I’m entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America,” he said in an interview with ABC News’ Charles Gibson. THE FACTS: McCain’s phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she’s no more “responsible” for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.
MCCAIN: “She’s the commander of the Alaska National Guard. … She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,” he said on ABC. THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under “federal status,” which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska’s national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.
FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin “got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States.” THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor’s election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.
FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: “We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin.” THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.
It is quite obvious that the GOP thinks they can sell Jed & Granny to the American People. But although the Grand OLD Party acts like Milburn Drysdales & Jane Hatthaways, we the people of the United States refuse to be fooled!
Bush/McCain - Gambling away our children’s futures!
By ShanghaiATL
September 4, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this
**Erin Pruitt:
I am also a woman but would never stoop to vote for someone just because their chromosomes are the same as mine. That is shallow, as are your childish insults to men. I am proud of being a woman and have worked as an executive in a major company for years, even agreed to lead their Asian office recently. But I know that if my husband or son talked aloud about women the way you surely speak of men, they’d be skewered. These are double-standards and your attitude is not what the original feminists had in mind. Trust me—I came of age in the 70’s. Grow up please!**
By ShanghaiATL
September 4, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this
**Erin Pruitt:
I am also a woman but would never stoop to vote for someone just because their chromosomes are the same as mine. That is shallow, as are your childish insults to men. I am proud of being a woman and have worked as an executive in a major company for years, even agreed to lead their Asian office recently. But I know that if my husband or son talked aloud about women the way you surely speak of men, they’d be skewered. These are double-standards and your attitude is not what the original feminists had in mind. Trust me—I came of age in the 70’s. Grow up please!**
By Muslim Obama
September 4, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this
Obama has links to terrorist’s..Do we really want a Muslim terrorist in the white house? he also has ties to another terrorist William Ayers…..This man is a closet terrorist ..for the sake of your family please don’t vote this man into presidency…..McCain/Palin 08…they will fight terrorism and protect your family
By Muslim Obama
September 4, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this
Obama has links to terrorist’s..Do we really want a Muslim terrorist in the white house? he also has ties to another terrorist William Ayers…..This man is a closet terrorist ..for the sake of your family please don’t vote this man into presidency…..McCain/Palin 08…they will fight terrorism and protect your family
By timthebrave
September 4, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this
Dutchman, I was listening with an open mind. I haven’t decided on Obama or MccWhat issues did she cover? What was her solution to the issues? Maybe I missed her saying something instead of tough talk about nothing. That is what you might expect from your leaders. Reminds me of a boss I had once that used words like synergy to impress me except she didn’t know what they meant. Great catch phrases and a good speaker but what did she actually say. Big fat nothing. If you disagree tell me what she said that was a solution.
By Muslim Obama
September 4, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this
Obama has links to terrorist’s..Do we really want a Muslim terrorist in the white house? he also has ties to another terrorist William Ayers…..This man is a closet terrorist ..for the sake of your family please don’t vote this man into presidency…..McCain/Palin 08…they will fight terrorism and protect your family
By JB
September 4, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this
OBAMA!!!!!!!!! ALL THE WAY. Beauty Queen are not welcomed —- GOP are lossers. If Obama had a daughter pregnant they would eat him alive!!! They are so double standard!!!!! I am sick of this Country!!!!!
By ShanghaiATL
September 4, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this
**Erin Pruitt:
I am also a woman but would never stoop to vote for someone just because their chromosomes are the same as mine. That is shallow, as are your childish insults to men. I am proud of being a woman and have worked as an executive in a major company for years, even agreed to lead their Asian office recently. But I know that if my husband or son talked aloud about women the way you surely speak of men, they’d be skewered. These are double-standards and your attitude is not what the original feminists had in mind. Trust me—I came of age in the 70’s. Grow up please!**
By Dutchman
September 4, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this
timthebrave,
I guess her stance on the military in Iraq, how she dealt with the oil companies, the new Natural Gas Pipeline and the future VP’s pet project being an advocate for mothers with special needs. Your right not much.
Someone said that Alaska is a welfare state, I don’t know about that, but each resident does get a share of the oil royalties.
I thought her contrast between BHO and McCain was spot on and showed that she has some familiarity with the positions of the two.
Regarding the private sector pipe line, I wonder how many folks are working and earning a living on that project?
By HUssein Obama the NASTY black vapid supercilious racist
September 4, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this
FAO VICE PRESIDENT ELECT PALIN
You Go Girrrrrrrrrrl!!! Your superb, merciless Hussein Obama-Binladen skewering speech was an hysterically funny breath of fresh air.
Clearly Sarah knows how to “field dress” elitist imperious OUT OF TOUCH far left surrender monkey scum
I haven’t laughed and laughed and laughed so much since … well not since Rudy’s almost as brilliant EQUALLY FACT FILLED preceding masterpiece a few minuted before Sarah’s deadly serious, fabulous rib tickling ‘updated’ Gettysburg Address!!!
The GOP are on the march folks … and sullen half-black black racist cut and run scum and worthless narcissistic white trash plagiarising windbag vermin better be ready to eat the kind humble pie and beaten lberal crow that the obese eco-hypcorite LIAR AlBore and the chickensh*tcoward the Heinz’-Kerry gigilo Kerry choked on in 2000 and 2004.
P.S.
The vile windbag Biden better check out that VP thang and get it in flowery cliche spewing writing…. Hussein Obama might have lied about that too!!! ….. snigger snigger
By Qn77j34
September 4, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this
The McCain/Palin plan for the economy is the same as their energy plan. They will provide jobs through clean energy technology, the same plan the dem candidate is offering. Palin already has the ball rolling on the pipeline up in Alaska. The big difference is that McCain/Palin know the threat that exists right here, right now from foreign oil dependence. Drill here, drill now for jobs and national security. Tack on the alternatives and we’re on the move to a better future. In the meantime, keep the tax cuts in place to ease our burden. Another difference is not burdening our business, our providers of goods, services, and jobs with higher taxes resulting in higher prices and lower salaries. Don’t drive them away or into bankruptcy. It’s the people of America that will pay for that mistake.
McCain/Palin 2008
By McRly?
September 4, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this
Barney, my friend, my generation retired racism right after the last episode of “Different Strokes,” or didn’t you get the memo? Let that hate go man, it’ll bunch you up inside no matter how much fiber you work into the diet bro.
That being said, I think Obama’s speech was masterfully given and eloquent but pretty much fluff. Everyone was waiting on about 20 minutes of straight talk from Obama, and I didn’t really get it. It was more of the same ‘Change, Change, Down with Bush’ stuff that’s already been established but doesn’t have any meat on it anymore. It’s getting a little tired.
I thought Palin won a lot of votes tonight with her strength, demeanor and down-home charm. I remember noone questioning the credibility of an established Margaret Thatcher, and I see the same stamina and wit in Palin, only wonderfully Americanized. Can’t buy that kind of apple pie likability anywhere. McCain’s still gotta give a good speech tonight, then it’s on to the debates. Palin will have her hands full with a seasoned pro like Biden. If she can pull off a strong response to Foreign Policy questions then Biden will have a fight on his hands. Obama is certainly the strongest giving speeches, but he could flounder in debates against a strong willed, straight talking McCain. Plain talk wins votes, and Obama has been guilty of hem-hawing around the issues in the past. MCRLY is still officially undecided, LET THE BEST CANDIDATE (not party) WIN. AND VOTE, PEOPLE!!!
By JB
September 4, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this
OBAMA!!!!!!!!! ALL THE WAY. Beauty Queen are not welcomed —- GOP are lossers. If Obama had a daughter pregnant they would eat him alive!!! They are so double standard!!!!! I am sick of this Country!!!!!
By Forrest
September 4, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this
“Oh Hilary’s not going to wait to 2012 to ‘get into it’ - she’ll skin Sarah with her own knife and tack her to her Senate wall - if Sarah Sue’s around that long…”
Hillary would look like an old sack next to Palin. Palin would then cut up Hillary, with a smile, in a debate and Hillary would combust in her frustration.
By Susan
September 4, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this
I ecstatic to see a strong, Christian woman with values taking a stand against the “good ol’ boys” network. It’s long overdue. I was voting for McCain anyway, and Palin just sealed the deal for me. Women (R or D) can indentify with her. I love it that she has Obama’s camp flustered! The poster talking about a terrorist-associated president is NOT what we need hit the nail on the head. Do your research, people, and check out his background. He is bi-racial, yet seems to denounce his white heritage, and calls himself black, when he isn’t. He is using that to get the black vote, and has them all fooled.
By Hussein Obama the NASTY black vapid supercilious racist
September 4, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this
FAO VICE PRESIDENT ELECT PALIN
You Go Girrrrrrrrrrl!!! Your superb, merciless Hussein Obama-Binladen skewering speech was an hysterically funny breath of fresh air.
Clearly Sarah knows how to “field dress” elitist imperious OUT OF TOUCH far left surrender monkey scum
I haven’t laughed and laughed and laughed so much since … well - not since Rudy’s almost as brilliant EQUALLY FACT FILLED preceding masterpiece a few minutes before Sarah’s deadly serious, fabulous rib tickling ‘updated’ Gettysburg Address!!!
The GOP are on the march folks … and sullen half-black black racist cut and run scum and worthless narcissistic white trash plagiarising windbag vermin better be ready to eat the kind humble pie and beaten liberal crow that the obese eco-hypocrite LIAR AlBore and the chickensh*t_coward the Heinz’-Kerry gigolo Kerry choked on in 2000 and 2004.
P.S.
The vile windbag Biden better check out that VP thang and get it in flowery, cliche spewing writing…. Hussein Obama might have lied about that too!!! ….. snigger snigger
My utterly disingenuous apologies liberal abortion bucket escapees …. I was cheerily sniggering so hard I almost forgot to correct couple of typos.
By lo
September 4, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this
I am so embarassed to be living in the south when I read the claims that southern (women) will relate to Palin. As a woman, I definitely do NOT relate to her and am insulted by this broad-sweeping generalization. I really hope the rest of the nation and world do not think that Palin represents the views of us living in this region. If the GOP’s win this year, I’m ready to throw in the towel and move overseas. This country will be in the crapper.
By Fulton Resident
September 4, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this
Muslim Obama, stop it with that rhetoric. If you want to be real about all of this, I don’t know if this country is ready for a President that could snap at any time. You can’t tell me that being beaten and isolated for 5 years didn’t do any irreparable damage to that man’s mental health. You guys that Bush was bad??? By the way, people keep saying that Obama doesn’t have any plans for the things that he wants to do, but I haven’t heard anything from the McCain campaign. At least Obama knows that change is needed, all McCain and Palin want to do is scare the public into voting for them and it seems as if it is starting to work. If and when McCain wins, it will be by default.
By More annoying facts
September 4, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this
Obama: B.A in political science from Columbia University, with a specialization in international relations J.D. in Law from Harvard, graduated magna cum laude; President of the Harvard Law Review 12 years (92-04) teaching constitutional law 7 years State Senator: sponsored more than 800 bills 4 years Senator for Illinos, a state with 12.8 million people
Palin: Bachelor’s in journalism from University of Idaho 4 years Wasilla City Council (8000 people) 6 years Wasilla mayor (8000 people) 1 year “Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission” 20 months governor of a state with 660,000 people
Going by experience AND education, Obama’s got it in the bag.
By Erin Pruitt
September 4, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this
ShanghaiATL, is full of the s** men have been selling her for over thirty years. Your feminists are in bed with the washington boys. The washington boys spanked their asses in May.
An executive huh? sure you are.
Better get back to work air brushing your brain femlackey. I’m planning to use mine for something besides the washington boys hat rack.
By timthebrave
September 4, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this
Dutchman, her stance on the military is to win the war. Wow. AMAZING. By keep on keeping on. How much money of ours have they spent on that? What is considered a victory? When do we remove troops? Why are we at war with Iraq? I agree with the need to drill but if you look it up it is not even close to a SOLUTION and even she admitted that. I just think the name calling is old politics instead of saying what you plan to do. I’m looking forward to a debate with plans instead of slinging mud. I understand that it is a convention and they just want to get their fan base excited but to undecided voters neither party has said a lot
By doc
September 4, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this
The Peoples for Nuked American Century:
You cited Jefferson’s speech regarding the separation of church and state, but you failed to mention the context. Jefferson gave this speech and warned against the establishment of a state sponsored church like the CHurch of England. Jefferson stated that the wall of separation should exist to keep the state out of the affairs of the church. Finally, Jefferson was giving an opinion in a speech. There is no Constitutional requirement of a separation of church and state, only a prohibition against the establishment of a state church.
By Tigers03
September 4, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this
I am sure no one is reading this far down but I just read someone comparing Palin’s votes with Biden’s. Palin ran for mayor in one city!!! Biden ran for president and got 76,000 votes in 23 states. That is what threedeep said. Well I damn sure hope Biden got more than 1,500 votes in 23 states!
By GOPs got to go
September 4, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this
Well Susan,
I can not blame Obama for trying to deny his whiteness, so I am, and I and a Swirish, (Swedish/Irish) red head.
I may have to pack it up and move back to the old country with “lo”. At least the Euro is stable and doing well.
By deegee
September 4, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this
There is no question that Palin gave the viewing audience a very entertaining 40+ minutes of political speech making. She also gave the republican base a cheerleading session. But, she was very confrontational, accusatory, and partisan. This is exactly why 85% of the American people disapprove of Congress. I want to elect someone that is interested in working with their political counterparts in a conciliatory manner in order to develop a viable energy policy, health care policy, economic policy, foreign relations policy and immigration policy. I heard a lot from her about how the other guy isn’t credible but I heard nothing from her on what she wants to do except drill for oil in Alaska. BTW, if she is so naive to think that her azz does not now belong to the RNC then she really isn’t qualified to go to Washington.
By reebok
September 4, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this
Like a southerner…yeah, Palin’s got a knocked-up jaibait daughter, she’s mean and sarcastic, and her idea of a great weekend is going huntin’ and fishin’…I’d say she’s about sewn up the hillbilly demographic.
By Filster
September 4, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this
Oh the irony of it all. Palin is a strong, accomplished woman poised to become the VP of the U.S., and all the liberal pundits can complain about is who will care for her family. Like during all those beginning years of women’s lib, those same liberals decried women who chose to stay home and take care of their family. Can we say double stnadard boys and girls. On the question of experience, Palin was correct about Obama and Biden. Niether have any “CEO” type experience. Mayor of a small town in Alaska and 2 years in the governor’s chair does provide ample opportunity to make real decisions about real problems. “Community organizer?” I found myself laughing regardless when Guiliani harped on that. What the heck did that involve? Face it folks, Obama is a real lightweight when it comes to leadership, and if you’re talking qualifications to lead, a 2-term mayor, 2-year governor has more of the type of expereince that counts that a community organizer, junior senator who has spondored no legislation of import, and, as aprtly pointed out last night, while in the Illinois state senator voted 130 times as “present.” Not yes, not no, just present. I think the one thing almost everyone can agree on, and the one thing that makes Obama so appealing,is the overwhelming sentiment for change. And, if you really look at records, research past votes, etc., you will see that McCain is not BushLite, and it is both inaccurate and unjust to label him as such (remember McCain-Feingold and how Obama first agrr3ed, then changed his mind) Nov 08 can indeeed be the beginning of when the general public retook Washington from the lobbyists, corporations, special interests and so on. Obama is simply too inexperienced, and Biden is too much of an elist snob. Talk about someone who does not get it. here’s to McCain’s speech tonight. I’m betting it’s a doosie! And, a winner! Go AMERICA in 2008!
By Dr. R
September 4, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this
Just saw where Jesse Jackson’s in the hospital with stomach pains. He must have been watching last night. Sarah Barracuda is going to be the GOP’s new Reagan, just you watch. She’s … something.
By whatup
September 4, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this
when are you liberals going to get a grip and stop your whining. Obama is nothing but a flash in the pan blowing sunshine and pie in the sky rhetoric to give you libs your warm and fuzzy feeling. In the world we live in you have to have a strong leader not a wimp like obama. If Obama wins and our taxes all go out the roof you better not complain.
By Devastator
September 4, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this
A message to @@:
“That surprises me coming from you Devastator.
If you were in doubt, let me make it perfectly clear.
The whole of my heart is invested in children.”
I am aware of your work with special needs children. Selectively showing your heart, however, is not prudent.
The majority of the people you support don’t even believe that autism exists and they certainly don’t care about children or adults with disadvantages unless they can send to war or nominate them for VP.
The hole in my heart can be attributed to irresponsible adults.
By midget
September 4, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this
This is one southern woman who is ecstatic to vote for John/Sarah…can’t WAIT for November! Because whether or not you agree with everything they propose, they tell it like it is…I trust what is said more than the snake Obama…he’s DANGEROUS. there is more integrity in a handful of John/Sarah than Obama/Biden combined. That, and more firmness…they’ll be able to stand down the Arabs
By SickOfIt
September 4, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this
Hey Gman,
Since you pointed out that until 2 years ago, Congress was controlled by Republicans so Bush and Republicans are responsible for all our problems, thought I might point out that since the Dems have controlled Congress, the housing market has crashed, hundreds of thousands of people have foreclosed, 10 banks have failed, oil prices have skyrocketed, the economy has completely tanked. All these things are blamed on Bush, but all happened under the Dems watch in Congress.
It is time for the Dems to go…they lied when they said they would change things…no, I take that back. they did change things…FOR THE WORSE!!!
By Just Curious
September 4, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this
deegeez @12:42
Thanks for the bio on Bill Clinton. At what stage of his education did he acquire his skill with a cigar and in which of his classes at Georgetown did he learn to take a “hummer” in the Oval Office.
Kind of reminds me of Obama drinking the racist kool-aid from Wright for twenty years. Apparently, they can’t teach sound judgement at Columbia either.
Real class, those two. Real class. Of course, Ivy-league education notwithstanding.
By hotlanta
September 4, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this
Somebody should have asked the girl on Top Model last night where was her Alaskan subsidy since she has never has any running water or electricity. Yall are killing me with the Democrates are running skurred. PLEASE. She is gonna start crying just like Hiliary. I am ROTFLMAO the way that Barney is talkig about African Americans when it looks like the VP child and grandchild will be celebrating their 1st Christmas together.
By Devastator
September 4, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this
@@,
The last sentence in my 1:36 is from you. My cut and paste skills are screwed up.
By hotlanta
September 4, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this
Somebody should have asked the girl on Top Model last night where was her Alaskan subsidy since she has never has any running water or electricity. Yall are killing me with the Democrates are running skurred. PLEASE. She is gonna start crying just like Hiliary. I am ROTFLMAO the way that Barney is talkig about African Americans when it looks like the VP child and grandchild will be celebrating their 1st Christmas together.
By AJC is DOOMED
September 4, 2008 1:41 PM | Link to this
Right Jimmy the Idiot, Southern Trailer Trash, via Alaska Trailer Park…..Your ignorance is showing once again….I would vote for Hillary ten times before I would even lower myself to spit on Palin, and I hate and dispise Hillary. But not as much as I hate and dispise you and the neocon scum who have hijacked American foreign policy to benefit a certain p** foreign country.
By Da Truth
September 4, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this
While she was bitterly clinging to her guns and her religion, I was snorting blow and shooting hoops. I ax you which is the real America.
By onefreeman
September 4, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this
republican - the party that loves to hate.
By Devastator
September 4, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this
FACT CHECK: Sarah Palin’s Speech PALIN: “Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America’s energy problems – as if we all didn’t know that already. But the fact that drilling won’t solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.”
REALITY: PALIN SAID SHE WOULD BEG TO DISAGREE WITH ANY CANDIDATE WHO SAID WE CAN’T DRILL OUR WAY OUT OF OUR PROBLEM
Palin Said She Would Beg to Disagree With Candidate Who Said We Can’t Drill Our Way Out of Our Problem. Asked by Invester’s Business Daily “Some politicians and presidential candidates say we can’t drill our way out of our energy problem and that drilling in ANWR will have no effect. What’s your best guess of the impact on prices?” Palin responded, “I beg to disagree with any candidate who would say we can’t drill our way out of our problem or that more supply won’t ultimately affect prices. Of course it will affect prices. Energy being a global market, it’s impossible to venture a guess on (specific) prices.” [Investor’s Business Daily, 7/11/08] PALIN: “Senator McCain also promises to use the power of veto in defense of the public interest – and as a chief executive, I can assure you it works.”
REALITY: PALIN OPPOSED CRUCIAL EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE AND SENIORS FUNDING
EDUCATION/CHILDREN Total: 396,000.
Anchorage – Fire Lake Elementary School Replacement of Unsafe Sports Equipment. Palin vetoed $10,000. [FY08 Budget] Tanana City School District – Repair School Bus. Palin vetoed $36,000. [FY08 Budget] American Lung Association of Alaska – Asthma Control Program and Champ Camp. Palin voted $350,000. [FY08 Budget] HOSPITALS/HEALTH CARE Total: $4,527,500.
Ketchikan General Hospital Surgical Suite Expansion/Relocation. Palin vetoed $4,400,000. [FY09 Budget] Ketchikan General Hospital – Replacement of Outdated Equipment. Palin vetoed $70,000. [2007 Legislature Supplemental] Sitka – Community Hospital – Medical Equipment. Palin vetoed $31,000. [2007 Legislature Supplemental] Kenai Peninsula Borough – Diagnostic Hospital Equipment. Palin vetoed $26,500. [2007 Legislature Supplemental]
By ND
September 4, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this
Note to Jim Wooten: Not all Southern men and women are white. Please rethink your headline.
By Fulton Resident
September 4, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this
Just some food for thought, but what do people think would have happened if roles were reversed and he had an unwed, pregnant, 17 year old daughter?
By Devastator
September 4, 2008 1:48 PM | Link to this
PALIN: “Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown.”
REALITY: UNDER PALIN, WASILLA GOVERNMENT SPENDING & DEBT SKYROCKETED.
Total Government Expenditures Increased 63 Percent Under Palin. In fiscal 2003—the last fiscal year Palin approved the budget—the total government expenditures of Wasilla, excluding capital outlays, were $7,046,325. In fiscal 1996—the year before Palin took control of the budget—the expenditures were $4,317,947. The increase was 63 percent. [Wasilla Comprehensive Annual Financial Report 2003, Table 1] Palin Supported Increasing Wasilla Sales Tax From 2 to 2.5 Percent to Build $14.7 Million Sports Center. “Wasilla residents have given the go ahead to building a new multiuse sports center in town and to raising the city sales tax to pay for it. With the final votes counted Friday, residents voted 306 to 286 in favor of a measure to raise the city sales tax from 2 percent to 2.5 percent to pay the estimated $14.7 million cost of building the center…Mayor Sarah Palin, who supported the measure, said the tight vote will motivate city officials to keep a close eye on the budget for the center.” [Anchorage Daily News, 3/9/02] Palin Left Behind Almost $19 Million In Long-Term Debt, Compared to None Before She Was Mayor. In fiscal 2003—the last fiscal year Palin approved the budget—the bonded long-term debt was $18,635,000. In fiscal 1996—the year before Palin took control of the budget—there was no general obligation debt. [Wasilla Comprehensive Annual Financial Report 2003, Table 10]
By GOP=disaster
September 4, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this
Wooten’s words…*As she points out, she’s not some Washington insider. She’s the mother of a serviceman sitting across the aisle at the country church in small-town America who’s exasperated with the way things are getting done — or, more precisely, not — in Washington
Reality…we’ve had a Republican in the White House for almost 8 years, Republicans have been the majority in Congress for 12 out of the last 14 years. Exactly who is to blame for nothing getting done in Washington? In a democracy the people vote in the government they deserve for better or worse. You and your party do nothing but complain about “the gubment” yet when you have the power you completely screw everything up and make things worse. You should really buy a clue…I can loan you some money.
By Maniac is accurate
September 4, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this
Hey Doomed, spitting is rude. And if you did it to Sarah Palin you’d likely be picking up your teeth after she, her husband and children got a hold of you. That’s what I – and I expect millions of others – like about her.
So, go commit voter fraud on behalf of Sen. Clinton. Hope you get caught.
By Devastator
September 4, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this
PALIN: “It was the spirit that brought me to the governor’s office, when I took on the old politics as usual in Juneau … when I stood up to the special interests, the lobbyists, big oil companies, and the good-ol’ boys network.”
REALITY: PALIN HAS A LT. GOVERNOR WHO IS A FORMER OIL LOBBYIST, HIRED WASILLA’S FIRST FEDERAL LOBBYIST (A FORMER STEVENS STAFFER) & HAD THE SUPPORT OF ENTRENCHED ALASKA POLITICIANS DURING HER 2006 RACE.
Palin’s Oil & Gas Appointee Is Former Lobbyist for TransCanada. “Marty Rutherford, who leads Gov. Sarah Palin’s gas pipeline team, made $40,200 in 2003 while consulting in Juneau for a pipeline subsidiary of TransCanada. TransCanada is one of the companies bidding for a state license to build a pipeline to carry gas to market from Alaska’s North Slope. It’s not a disqualifier, but the past connection deserves a second thought.” [Anchorage Daily News editorial, 12/15/07] Palin “Counting on Her Lieutenant Governor Candidate… Former Oil Lobbyist” to Help Win Oil Industry Support. “The defiantly grass-roots nature of the campaign may have distanced her from certain traditional centers of power in Alaska. The oil industry is one — but the campaign says it is counting on her lieutenant governor candidate, Parnell, a former oil lobbyist and legislator, to help there.” [Anchorage Daily News, 10/24/06] Palin’s Former Chief of Staff is Stevens’ Campaign Manager. “Monegan says pressure came from those around Palin, including former Palin chief-of-staff Mike Tibbles, Department of Administration Commissioner Annette Kreitzer, and director of boards and commissions Frank Bailey. Tibbles, who is now the campaign manager for Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, said Friday he couldn’t comment on whether he spoke to Monegan about Wooten.” [Anchorage Daily, 7/19/08] As Mayor, Palin Hired a Washington Lobbyist to Help Get Earmarks for Wasilla – Lobbyist Was Former Chief of Staff for Indicted Senator Ted Stevens. “And as mayor of the small town of Wasilla from 1996 to 2002, Palin also hired a Washington lobbying firm that helped secure $8 million in congressionally directed spending projects, known as earmarks, according to public spending records compiled by the watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste and lobbying documents. Wasilla’s lobbying firm was headed by Steven Silver — a former chief of staff to Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, a key proponent of the bridge project.” [USA Today, 8/31/08] The Usual Alaska Suspects – Ted Stevens, Don Young, And Lisa Murkowski Fundraised For Palin. “Will we see Ted Stevens stumping for Sarah Palin? Palin said this morning that Stevens appeared at a fund-raiser for her in Ketchikan and gave a speech about ‘moving Alaska forward.’ But does that mean he’ll pop up in any advertisements? (Remember his arguably pivotal role at the end of the Knowles and Murkowski Senate race?) Palin said she doubts it and hasn’t asked… She said Don Young came to one of her fund-raisers two days ago, and she expects Lisa Murkowski at an upcoming event. Tonight she planned to talk with John Binkley, who she says is writing a letter to his supporters on her behalf, and she planned to meet with Frank Murkowski tomorrow morning.” [“The Trail” blog, Anchorage Daily News, 10/13/06] In Her 2002 Campaign for Lieutenant Governor, Palin Raised ‘About 10 Percent Of Her Campaign Fund’ From Veco, An Oil Company At the Heart of Federal Investigation. “While mayor of Wasilla, Palin ran for lieutenant governor in 2002. She gathered $5,000 — or about 10 percent of her campaign fund — from Veco officials or their wives along the way.” [Anchorage Daily News, 9/6/06]
By Bummed
September 4, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this
I was really disappointed. I really wanted to like her but she came off as snarky to me. I did not hear anything from her that I could not hear on talk radio. She seemd to be playing to that crowd because the speech had no real substance. She talked about stopping corruption but she is still under investigation! She had a chance to reach out to undecided voters but instead she played to the people who were going to vote for her anyway. Truly dissapointing.
By Goldie
September 4, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this
As a southern woman and a recovering Baptist, I know Sarah Palin and that religious fruitcake should not be allowed near the White House!
By Maniac is accurate
September 4, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this
Note to ND: Not all African Americans are Democrats. Some are Republicans, Independents, Libertarians, Communists, etc.
Please reset your brain. Just push the scar where your left testicle used to be to return to startup mode.
By AJC is DOOMED
September 4, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this
Yo Jimmy the Idiot: Obama might pursue criminal charges against Bush administration· Biden says criminal violations will be pursued · Democrats have issued subpoenas to Bush aides · 3 staffers have been held in contempt of Congress. Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said earlier this week that he and running mate Barack Obama could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration if they are elected in November.
Biden’s comments, first reported by ABC news, attracted little notice on a day dominated by the drama surrounding his Republican counterpart, Alaska governor Sarah Palin.
But his statements represent the Democrats’ strongest vow so far this year to investigate alleged misdeeds committed during the Bush years.
When asked during a campaign event in Deerfield Beach, Florida, whether he would “pursue the violations that have been made against our Constitution by the present administration”, Biden answered in the affirmative.
“We will not be stopped from pursuing any criminal offence that’s occurred,” he continued, going on to praise congressional committees for the deliberate pace of their inquiries into alleged Bush administration misdeeds.
Members of Congress are “doing the right thing, they’re not making false accusations about anything … they’re collecting data, subpoenaing records, they’re building a file”, Biden said.
“If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation, they will be pursued – not out of vengeance, not out of retribution, out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no attorney general, no president — no one is above the law.”
Obama sounded a similar note in April, vowing that if elected, he would ask his attorney general to initiate a prompt review of Bush-era actions to distinguish between possible “genuine crimes” and “really bad policies”.
“[I]f crimes have been committed, they should be investigated,” Obama told the Philadelphia Daily News. “You’re also right that I would not want my first term consumed by what was perceived on the part of Republicans as a partisan witch hunt, because I think we’ve got too many problems we’ve got to solve.”
When asked about his comments by Fox news today, Biden said he has no evidence that criminal charges would be warranted and no intention of pursuing action against the current president.
“What is true is the United States Congress is trying to preserve records on questions that relate to whether or not the law has been violated by anyone,” Biden said, adding: “But, you know, there’s been an awful lot of unsavoury stuff that’s gone on. And the mere fact … that it occurred in a previous administration doesn’t mean [a subsequent] Justice Department, if, in fact, there’s evidence, shouldn’t pursue them. “But I have no evidence of any of that. No one’s talking about pursuing President Bush criminally.”
Congressional Democrats have issued a flurry of subpoenas this year to senior Bush administration aides as part of a broad inquiry into the authorisation of torturous interrogation tactics used at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
Three Bush White House veterans have been held in criminal contempt of congressional committees for refusing to respond to subpoenas in an inquiry on the firing of federal prosecutors: former counsel Harriet Miers, former political adviser Karl Rove, and current chief of staff Josh Bolten. The battle over Miers’s and Bolten’s testimony is currently before a federal court.
I CONSIDER YOU AN ACCESSORY BEFORE AND AFTER THE CRIMES OF THE NEOCON SCUM….EXPECT TO BE ARRESTED SOON, YOU IDIOT….I WILL VOTE FOR EXECUTION OF ALL TRAITORS….
By vantari
September 4, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this
Yup, she sure is nice, and what a nice family too. The kids seem to be so well behaved an all, and her husband is good looking, sure looks like he loves her. You just know she is a hard working woman who takes good care of her family, just like my mom did. That is just what we needed, someone in the Whitehouse who can be trusted, someone that knows what it is to be a working mom and all. =====> Level 2: What a strategic move from the focus groups used in the McCain campaign, no one will want to vote against mom and apple pie! Let’s put her in the White House, so that we will all get a daily helping of good old ig pie.
By haha
September 4, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this
I want all of you to listen to her speech close your eyes and really listen…Now imagine if that came from Michelle Obama! She would be labeled and angry black woman etc she had to worry so much about people perception of her its not sexism its a cultural war. And if your black you better not come off as bitter or angry cause they will swear your just another “angry whateva” But this lady unleashed the dogs on him and it would be well within his rights to do the same without the tiptoeing and worrying about sexism and racism
By klyn
September 4, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this
When did getting “higher” education become elitist? How do we compete with the rest of the world? Palin is truly “dumbing down” America. She wants to be the VP of the US with two high school drop-outs in tow? What standard will she set for the rest of American’s children? WOW!
By Bummed
September 4, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this
I was really disappointed. I really wanted to like her but she came off as snarky to me. I did not hear anything from her that I could not hear on talk radio. She seemd to be playing to that crowd because the speech had no real substance. She talked about stopping corruption but she is still under investigation! She had a chance to reach out to undecided voters but instead she played to the people who were going to vote for her anyway. Truly dissapointing.
By AJC is DOOMED
September 4, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this
Maniac is accurate - I’ve delt with trailer trash before, stupid, and they like to be spit upon….it turns them on. And they all fight like girls…much like you stinking neocon scum….consider yourself bi tc h slapped, you K un T.
By mike
September 4, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this
What makes you think Southerns and small town folks can identify with her. Have you forgotten that small town folks are hurting more than anyone. Small towns normally have 1 or 2 major companies in town. Now at least 1 or all are gone. The only thing that we can identify with her so far is being country as hell. Other than that, we have nothing in common with her.
By JackC
September 4, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this
Ah Ragnar.
To quote you: “Dear peoples @ 12:02, you speak of “constitutional issues such as seperation of Church/State.” As there is nothing like that in the US Constitution, which constitution are your discussing?”
By this reasoning there is no constitutional right to privacy nor to a fair trial as neither of those are specifically mentioned in the U.S. constitution.
However, the absence of specific words does not mean that there is also an absence of these ideas. Thus the reason we have judges and courts to “interpret” the ideas and decide what is a “constitutional right”.
I know, I know…damn radical judges!
By mike
September 4, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this
What makes you think Southerns and small town folks can identify with her. Have you forgotten that small town folks are hurting more than anyone. Small towns normally have 1 or 2 major companies in town. Now at least 1 or all are gone. The only thing that we can identify with her so far is being country as hell. Other than that, we have nothing in common with her.
By Disgruntled
September 4, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this
A Journalism degree from University of Idaho? That’s it? Call me a snob, but at least George W. got Cs from Yale. She got them from Idaho? McCain really could not find anyone better?
By elcid81
September 4, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this
I am tired of all of the Washington crowd. Gov Palin is a shot of fresh air. Having spent years in Washington dealing with Congress and the Senate, my only hope is that the McCain team will have an immediate impact. If Obama is elected, I see no way ahead. They have no true plans only concepts. It briefs well and might look good in papers. Take for instance his plan for alternative fuel….investment in research. Does this fill your tank? Not mine…it just costs me more taxes. Now let’s review Palin’s suggestion of off shore drilling and expansion of the pipeline in her state….seems as if it has a chance of maybe lowering my gas burden. I can go on. Folks take time to review the betting. This comes from a dude who voted for Kerry/Edwards last time. Peace to you all. God Bless.
By Maniac is accurate
September 4, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this
A gnat just brushed lightly against my face. Tickles.
By Fulton Resident
September 4, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this
Bummed, that was the BEST point of this whole pi$$ing contest of a blog. I don’t classify myself as democratic, republican or independent. I am liberal about some things and conservative about others. Both candidates have strengths and weaknesses, but at least Obama and Biden are talking about the issues. I can respect that because they are not talking down to me, even though some people will say they are because they think they are elitist. All McCain and Palin are doing to trying to scare me into voting against Obama.
By AJC is DOOMED
September 4, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this
As an American citizen, I just executed a deed of trust, granting my fair share of Alaska back to Russia…I have sent a Notice to Vacate to everyone in Alaska….Ivan wants his land back….The fair value I asked and recieved from Ivan was to execute 1,000 pro israel things in Russia….My request was granted…
By tiff
September 4, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this
Democrats don’t be dupped, people like Wooten have to say stuff like this. They say it to build up their candidate. I like Obama/Biden, because they build us up instead of the other way around. I tell you none of the republicans are happy about this selection. Listen to Peggy Noonan, and believe me they all feel the same way she does. They are as dissapointed as I was last Friday when I didn’t hit the lottery. They tried to put on a happy face for the rest of the world, but it didn’t work. When we put on a happy face about Obama/Biden it is sincere. They kept showing this one lady last night pretending to cry the way all the people where crying when Obama/Biden gave their different speeches. I could not find one single solitaire tear on her face. My point is theirs is fake, our belief in Obama/Biden is real and from the heart, hence all the tears and pride at our convention. I love seeing all the people ride around town with stickers on their cars “REPRESENTING” for our party. McCain called Palin a breath of fresh air, well who wouldn’t be a breath of fresh air to a man that played golf with Moses. Don’t fall for the Okie Doke the republicans don’t even like this pick, they are just trying to save face. I will stay true to my promise not to say anything negative about Palins family, even Barack or Biden won’t say anything bad about them. But wasn’t it funny how she and old Botox face Cindy McCain kept bashing Obama. And Rudy “Gangster” Gulliani had the nerve to try and get in on the act. As for Wooten I prayed for last night after yesterdays article you wrote, but no more, today you broke the bank, you showed the whole world that you are exactly what most thought you were, a racist with no morals or decency.
DEMOCRATS ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By AJC is DOOMED
September 4, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this
I do not consider a degree in journalism to be a form of higher education….more like a waste of time, effort and money…teaching half witted monkey’s to type….
By Tom
September 4, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this
It is amazing how one speech can bring out all of the left wing loonies. Obama has tried to keep them in their cages, but with things getting close it is hard to keep an eye on them.
When the typical American voter sees the insanity of the Kos wing of the party they will enter the voting booth with confidence they are choosing the right Presidential team, McCain and Palin.
By Jim is a caveman
September 4, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this
To steal one from the GOP playbook from 2004, Palin was “for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it”. And she took the money anyway and used it in Alaska. She was also “for earmarks before she was against them”. In addition to the lobbying firm she hired, she gave a speech in 2006 where she vigourously praised the Alaskan Congressional Delegation for their ability to bring the money back to Alaska. She particularly praised Don Young, the godfather of the bridge to nowhere. By the way, using the GOP logic from last night, McCain isn’t qualified to be president either. He hasn’t made any executive decisions in his many, many years in Washington.
By tcoach
September 4, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this
To inform you that may not know or do not want to know. Gov. Palin is under investigation because the individual fired requested it the same way you can request an investigation if you are firesd from any job. To add to that the person she fired had threatend to shoot her father in the head, he had multiple DWI incidents and one incident in which he was drunk in a state trooper car. So easy with the investigation. There are many politicians that are investigated for this or that over the course of their career, most of teh time nothing ever comes of the investigation. To those of you who disagree, should she not have fired a cop who threatend to shoot her fdad and was a drunk? yes or no.
By Southern gal
September 4, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this
levi you dawg. you couldn’t ignore those humungous breasts on Sarah could you? I saw those brestes maself last night. Young man you did alright nailing that heffer.
dude I do not blame you. You did her a huge favor. With udders that huge her hormones must have been running wild.
Atta boy.
Just keep tearing that kitty kat up and the republithugs will set you up for the rest of your life.
sarah pailin = UGA with lipstick.
OMG. aww Shucks.
You done did it now.
By SickOfIt
September 4, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this
So, Klyn, according to you, we can only have candidates whose children are college educated, perfect, children? If someone has a child who is not of the perfect mold, they somehow are not qualified to be in office?
Why then, do we have a deified senator (Ted Kennedy) who helped murder a young women (Mary Jo Kopechne in the Chappaquidick River)? Apparently, having a pregnant daughter makes you a bad candidate, but being a coward who leaves someone to die makes you a good one? And, how about Joe Biden, who committed plagiarism the first time he ran for president. Lying is good, but having a pregnant daughter is bad?
Somehow, we seem to have really screwy priorities.
By Filster
September 4, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this
How desperate is the left to attack Palin? I just read about her husband, her husband mind you,not her, having a DUI 22 years ago. And this effects HER how? of course if your a democrat, you can get drunk, drive off a bridge and kill a young woman decades ago and get re-elected bunches of times to the Senate. Remember Chippaquiddick [sp?] boys and girls? What a double standard the left has.
By Mediawatch
September 4, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this
Today’s media love affair is to pave the road for the pending dismantling of Sarah Palin. Already in the que is enough keep People Magazine busy for the next year. Good thing she’ll have plenty of time for interviews ;)
By Pure Peach
September 4, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this
Please, I was born and raised in GA and a lot of women will agree with me that she does not represent us. She is an embarrassment. I am conservative and the way she leads her personal life will bleed over into her political life. Talk about a walking hypocrite. Experience she lacks, her education compared to Obama or even his wife is laughable, and the women of the South are too educated to be won over by a “hick” in a suit. Being a hockey mom is your claim to fame? God help us all. When did starting off as a community organizer become a dirty word? I am sure that went well over a lot of stay at home mom’s who give back to the community everyday.
She seems more fit to be a cast member on Bravos “Real Housewives of Atlanta”. She described herself as a pit bull with lipstick. Nice. She is another under qualified overzealous social climber who will scream sexism when the obvious (horrible VP pick) is discussed.
Try again.
By Captain Freedom
September 4, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this
THE Captain emerges from his Closet of Redemption to point out that Our Nation’s Business Leaders have responded to the soaring oratory of Sarah Plain by sending the stock market up over 300 points today!!! That’s what THE Captain calls a ringing endorsement by the People Who Count in Our Nation.
Suck on that, liberal community organizer types!!!
By da truth
September 4, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this
While she was bitterly clinging to her guns and her religion, I was snorting blow and shooting hoops. I ax you which is the real America.
By Filster
September 4, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this
How desperate is the left to attack Palin? I just read about her husband, her husband mind you,not her, having a DUI 22 years ago. And this effects HER how? of course if your a democrat, you can get drunk, drive off a bridge and kill a young woman decades ago and get re-elected bunches of times to the Senate. Remember Chippaquiddick [sp?] boys and girls? What a double standard the left has.
By Gary
September 4, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this
She talks a bout Obamas experience…..go look her record up folks! She was a mayor of a small town before being elected Governor, which she hasn’t even completed her first term as. The small town she was Mayor of………she left them going broke! She wants to drill for oil in Alaska and kill her own states Natural resources and protected wildlife.
**” Palin has shocked Alaska residents with the reckless level of her corruption. The actions of Governor Palin has helped destroy the Alaska Republican Party.
Voters in Alaska remain angry with Palin over corruption charges that indicate that Palin used the influence of her office and taxpayer money in an attempt to destroy the career of a law enforcement officer over a personal dispute over family matters. Palin has admitted that her administration pressed for the firing of a state trooper who was formerly married to her sister, and for the firing of a superior who would not abide by the request. According to charges, the requests to dismiss the state trooper were solely rooted in personal grudge on behalf of Palin that had nothing to do with the performance of his duties.
When Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was indicted this year on his own corruption chargers, Palin took her name out of consideration for the Republican nomination for Senate because of her own personal corruption according to Alaska media. The FIRST piece of legislation signed by Governor Palin was done at the request of radical, anti-LGBT groups.
Palin squandered over $1.2 million of taxpayer money to place an anti-LGBT “vanity” vote before voters at the request of radical anti-LGBT activists - including Focus on the Family, the Concerned Women of America and the Family Research Council. The ballot language asked voters if they supported Republican efforts to strip existing benefits for LGBT state employees. As a non-biding initiative, the measure had no influence on Alaska law. As the only question on the ballot, Palin willingly wasted over $1.2 million in state money to promote the talking points of anti-LGBT activists.”**
Also, considering that she’s part of the “Conservative” party and their animate about things like abstinence etc. It’s amazing how quickly they accepted her pregnant daughter and that situation saying it’s okay. Why because she’s a the VP Nominee?? Isn’t that a bit hypocritical! Well there ya go what does that tell you? Just remember what the past 8 years have been like when you vote in November!
By SickOfIt
September 4, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this
Another thing, I am amazed at all the people here who think it is horrible that Palin and the Republicans are taking Obama to task, and are trying to say Obama and Biden were so nice and did nothing except talk about the issues.
At the Democratic Convention, all they did was attack McCain. Over and over and over and over. all the speakers attacked him. They misrepresented his policies, continually try to say he has the exact same policies and plans as Bush (he does in some areas, but in key areas such as economics and domestic policy he does not at all). So don’t get so high and mighty when the Republicans just repay the favor the Dems paid them last week!
By AJC is DOOMED
September 4, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this
McCancerFace fights like a girl too, just ask the NVA….they laughed at his crybaby plea’s to just call my daddy, he will send a medic….ha ha ha, I spit on McCancerFace and his whole family…a great big goober…splatt…Oh, so very brave while dropping napalm on defenseless villages, and oh such a crybaby when shot down….
By Pure Peach
September 4, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this
Another thing Mr. Wooten,
Please refrain from speaking on the behalf of Southern Women because its obvious you do not know us.
By SickOfIt
September 4, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this
Another thing, I am amazed at all the people here who think it is horrible that Palin and the Republicans are taking Obama to task, and are trying to say Obama and Biden were so nice and did nothing except talk about the issues.
At the Democratic Convention, all they did was attack McCain. Over and over and over and over. all the speakers attacked him. They misrepresented his policies, continually try to say he has the exact same policies and plans as Bush (he does in some areas, but in key areas such as economics and domestic policy he does not at all). So don’t get so high and mighty when the Republicans just repay the favor the Dems paid them last week!
By TKO
September 4, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this
What were her issues/political stance(s) again? I must have missed it.
By Bill
September 4, 2008 2:26 PM | Link to this
Hey Wooten-
Thanks for your assertion that this was a brilliant speech by Palin. However, don’t you think she might have included some of these words in her content?
Bush Cheney Republican Wages Mortgage Housing Poverty Afghanistan Bin Laden Torture Guantanamo Veteran Environment Global Warming Health Care Abortion Abstinence Moose
She did mention Hockey, though, so the world knows she can prioritize…
By SickOfIt
September 4, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this
Gary, maybe you should check your facts. If Alaska voters are so angry, why does she have a 85% approval rating?
By SickOfIt
September 4, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this
Gary, maybe you should check your facts. If Alaska voters are so angry, why does she have a 85% approval rating?
By tcoach
September 4, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this
TKO what exactly is Obama’s political stance? You can answer now or whenever he decides what he believes in. I think some more polls come out next week so should I check back then.
By rc
September 4, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this
sshe read from script prepared by a bush speechwriter…need we say more
does the south have more dummies per capita than the rest of the nation?
By Yeah Right
September 4, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this
Jim, What southern people are you referring to I wonder? You don’t strike me as an all-inclusive type of person.
The fact that some people are so desperate to be sold by a bs speech within a few days of ever hearing of this lady shows many peoples true colors. All of the things you accused Obama of (experience…etc) you’re willing to overlook because hey she’s a young white woman. So that’s okay with you. I’ve never heard you give any person of color the benefit of the doubt on anything.
By REPUBLICAN HILLBILLY ALERT
September 4, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this
Sarah Palin is a HO with a retard baby and so is her HO daughter. Her father is probably the real baby daddy anyway. This gang of inbred redneck hillbillies is a laughable disgrace to the GOP and a clear sign of why Obama is going to win the Presidency. You GOP retards can spin till you’re blue. but Obama and Biden are going to eat your lunch and puke it up all over you.
Sarah Palin is a retard’s momma - no wonder retards love her.
By REPUBLICAN HILLBILLY ALERT
September 4, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this
Sarah Palin is a HO with a retard baby and so is her HO daughter. Her father is probably the real baby daddy anyway. This gang of inbred redneck hillbillies is a laughable disgrace to the GOP and a clear sign of why Obama is going to win the Presidency. You GOP retards can spin till you’re blue. but Obama and Biden are going to eat your lunch and puke it up all over you.
Sarah Palin is a retard’s momma - no wonder retards love her.
By Gary
September 4, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this
SickOfit The name says it all LOL!
** A reporter for the Anchorage daily, Gregg Erickson, even did an online chat with the Washington Post, in which he revealed that Palin’s approval rating in the state was not the much-touted 80%, but 65% and sinking — and that among journalists who followed her it might be in the “teens.”
His paper found a number of leading Republican officeholders in the state who mocked Palin’s qualifications. “She’s not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president?” said Lyda Green, the president of the State Senate, a Republican from Palin’s hometown of Wasilla. “Look at what she’s done to this state. What would she do to the nation?”**
So what were you saying about checking facts??? Go look at the Anchorage Daily newspaper web site, go look up FACTS before posting a comment as I did. It’s amazing that you can actually surf this thing called the Internet to find information out there.
By Do some homework
September 4, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this
Sickofit
Helllo….that is what politicians to do get the public’s attention! It is called public scrutiny. If you can get past all of the bashing, what you need to do is focus on the agenda of the politicians.
I could not help but be afraid for my life….since the republican convention seem to only represent “largely” one section of the american population.
By SickOfIt
September 4, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this
Hey Devastator, you must obviously be a Democrat since like all Democrats you only tell part of the story. I saw your post where you talked about VECO and Palin’s “involvement” with them, trying to alleges some type of corruption on her own. All your quotes was from news articles in 2006.
Why don’t you move forward to 2007. THREE top officials with VECO were indicted for corruption by the Gov. Palin administration!!!
You are a typical Democrat mudslinger and liar.
You have no credibility with anything you say, much like Obama has none.
bye bye.
By deegee
September 4, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this
Just Curious, I know that personal lives are off limits in the political arena but since you asked, it doesn’t take a PhD to figure out how to use your good looks and elevated status to get some. Just ask Levi Johnston.
By Lon
September 4, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this
Looked more like a Klan rally to me. No diversity in sight (except for one or two paid fools). And we’re supposed to believe the Republicans represent all of America.
By AJC is DOOMED
September 4, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this
good news, the stock morket is down over 300 points, the stinking repukes are losing money like water out of an over flowing toilet….tax em heavily on their losses….make em pay….
By SickOfIt
September 4, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this
Gary, you will jump on one journalist bandwagon who works for a very liberal news organization and take that as fact? Check the Gallup poll taken about 3 months ago. her approval rating was right at 85%.
Oh, but wait…if a journalist tells you what you want to hear, then that is the truth and we don’t need to go any further…right?
By SickOfIt
September 4, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this
Forgot to add…I actually did see the article you are referring to. the “leading republicans” referred to was one republican who does not have a good relationship with Palin because Palin did not defend her when questioned about her on a talk show.
I don’t give that a lot of credibility.
By KJ
September 4, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this
For all of you tearing into Sarah Palin for not going into the “issues” of the campaign, back off. Or do you NOT realize that it’s the Presidential candidates job to expound on the issues and how he (or she) plans to address them? It is NOT the VP’s job. Funny how much liberal media (and liberals in general) go off on Bush/Cheney, but use them when they feel it suits their purpose, as Cheney has been the only VP to actually step out of the traditional role.
Remember one thing, that as much as you toss out how McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time and 10% change isn’t enough, your boys Obama and Biden voted with the Dems 95% of the time, so how is 5% change better? Do the math. Go ahead, we can wait.
By Beat Up a Repulican Everyday
September 4, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this
Republicans have no credibility…they said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, Iraq did not; they said collatoralized debt instruments were safe, they were not; they said asset inflation (houses) was a good thing, it was not. Why would anyone believe one word that comes out of a Republican mouth?
By Kelly Ray
September 4, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this
Sarah Palin is the real thing. Genuine and smart and tough. She definitely has tha Southern spirit. Michelle Obama likes to guilt trip us into voting for her husband. You can tell Michelle Obama has no ounce of patriotism. That’s why she is no model of the American woman.
By Joe Schmoe
September 4, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this
The Obamabots are out in full force, watch out they are scared!
By Gary
September 4, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this
SickOfit Here is an interesting article posted by Anne Kilkenny. She is In the Editors words: “a homemaker and education advocate in Wasilla, Alaska. Late last week, Anne Kilkenny penned an e-mail for her friends about vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, whom she personally knows.
[http://www.crosscut.com/politics-government/17341]
Please have a read why don’t you. It’s only more Facts about Palin, hope that doesn’t scare you away.
By carl
September 4, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this
Why do you think Palin is less qualified to be VP than Obama is to be the Pres? You just want to advoid talking about the truth. The truth is you all are scared. And you should be! He is not a “Jimmy Carter” type of dem and he will cave to the Washington way of doing business as usual. The Joe Sixpack’s, as often refered to by the far left, will be heard from this year and if Obama wants to wear new shoes he better change his old socks!
By No Longer Curious Only Amazed at the Idiocy
September 4, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this
Deegee, I smell i-d-i-o-c-y and f-e-a-r.
Keep gasping Dems, everyone knows to stay away from the drowning…especially Ted Kennedy.
By Beat Up a Repulican Everyday
September 4, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this
How can you tell when a Republican is lying? Their lips are moving.
By Jessup
September 4, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this
As a Southern Man I have known lots of Palins. Plan on getting to know a few more in Athens Saturday night after the Dawgs kick some butt.
By GOPs got to go
September 4, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this
For those who like to check actual facts go here. Jim does not speak for this Southern Peach either.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/aponelpr/cvnfact_check
By Beat Up a Repulican Everyday
September 4, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this
I consider ALL Republicans to be sub humans…closer to the monkeys than to real men…
By Beat Up a Repulican Everyday
September 4, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this
Jessup’s money question on Saturday night in Athens, “Your trailer or mine, honey.”
By JoeyD
September 4, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this
Well..it is the south isn’t it? Nuff said.
this pretty much sums up Miss Palen’s appeal:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080904/cmthenation/45354172;ylt=AngsiL1hcrraMDctgps9uZf9wxIF
By Kelly Ray
September 4, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this
I’m glad McCain-Palin is exposing this community organizer thing on Obama’s resume. Sounds like he simply brought a bunch of donuts to people sitting around. Obama has been running for president even before he finished reading his freshman senator handbook. Palin on the other hand is the real story. Unassuming, she took this opportunity handed to her by McCain and will rally the real America whose voices have been subdued by Obamania over the past two years.
By Gary
September 4, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this
For all of the people that know how badly we’ve been hosed for the past 8 years please read this article!
(http://www.crosscut.com/politics-government/17341)
Republicans will probably try and says it’s all a load of you know what but, that’s to be expected.
By Jassie
September 4, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this
KJ and SickOfIt
The economy had more positive growth and stimulation when Clinton was in Office. Why would you vote for another Republican with the SAME AGENDA!!!!! Are you not tired of the way things are currently…or maybe you are among the wealthy….or maybe you geniuely are afraid of change???
By tcoach
September 4, 2008 3:10 PM | Link to this
I think I may be republican and I am no where near an ape. But since you are so tough to use a screen name like (beatup a republican everyday) I wish you could find me it may be a little more than you bargain for. Just get a job and quit hoping they tax me more so you can live better.
By Peter
September 4, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this
Jim you are soooooooooo “RIGHT” on this one…….Southern women (and men) know Palin.
Yes the pics on the internet show her all dressed as a Ho, and her kids underage drinking…thus leading to DRUNKEN SEX !
Gotta Love the Pic of her in the Bikini with the rifle at the pool…….
Pure Redneck Values JIM…….. I am sure you really do Know this type of WOMAN…….
By joe
September 4, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this
McCain/Bush - twins of deception. They brought this country down together. At least 95% of the bloggers on this subject who own homes, can’t get the value. If you don’t believe me, try to refinance and see what happens. 99% of the blogger most likely don’t know what’s going to happen to their jobs each day they go to work. Probably half of the bloggers have been laid off. Whites/Blacks/Hispanic etc. are suffering today. Some might want to ignore the obvious because of party loyalty, but a McCain/Palin ticket is just another Bush/Cheney ticket. We all know that the Republicans are using Palin to get votes. If she’s voted in, she will be asked to go play in her igloo. She won’t have a voice in Washington. The Republican fat cats won’t let that happen. They’re not ready for a woman to be in charge.
By Beat Up a Repulican Everyday
September 4, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this
Change you can count on: Indite ALL Republicans on Fraud charges….Beat the crap out of them is they resist….Speaking is considered resisting….
By joe
September 4, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this
McCain/Bush - twins of deception. They brought this country down together. At least 95% of the bloggers on this subject who own homes, can’t get the value. If you don’t believe me, try to refinance and see what happens. 99% of the blogger most likely don’t know what’s going to happen to their jobs each day they go to work. Probably half of the bloggers have been laid off. Whites/Blacks/Hispanic etc. are suffering today. Some might want to ignore the obvious because of party loyalty, but a McCain/Palin ticket is just another Bush/Cheney ticket. We all know that the Republicans are using Palin to get votes. If she’s voted in, she will be asked to go play in her igloo. She won’t have a voice in Washington. The Republican fat cats won’t let that happen. They’re not ready for a woman to be in charge.
By SickOfIt
September 4, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this
Gary, thanks for the link. Interesting reading. Also interesting that the writer admits she doesn’t like Palin, and even more interesting that she admits making up all her numbers and that she cannot verify her numbers at all, she doesn’t even know where she got them from!
so, basically, a disgruntled person trying to make Palin look bad by laying out a groundless framework to discredit her.
sorry, I don’t buy it. find some real facts actually supported and not just alluded to or alleged by an enemy or liberal with an axe to grind, maybe I’ll listen.
By Will it work?
September 4, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this
So has anyone thought about the fact that maybe this feisty pit bull of a women isn’t going to be happy being number 2?
I mean, what does the VP do anyway? Pretty much whatever the prez says to do?
Does anyone think that McCain and Palen are going to sit up there in the White House and have intense conferences where she gives her advice and he actually takes it?
C,mon people…she’s just a human campaign sign…an “I approved this ad” in 3D. I think this is a bad career move for her.
By Beat Up a Repulican Everyday
September 4, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this
If that kunt Palin is the best you stinking Repukes can do, ya better start stocking up on vasoline, because you are gonna need it real soon…
By Carl
September 4, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this
Hey…How do you keep a liberal in suspense?
By SickOfIt
September 4, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this
Jassie, what I am afraid of is a man who does nothing but talk about what he will do but nothing in his entire life has proven he can do anything. Go to Obama’s website. His own website lists his accomplishments, and they are NOTHING! He did nothing in Illinois and nothing in the Senate. And he promises nothing to America except higher taxes which I personally cannot afford, doing nothing to help the oil crisis (maybe he is trying to help the Middle East more than us?), caving in to terrorism, opening our borders to illegal immigration, and following the usual Democratic line of giving everything to those who want to live for free and keeping minorities slaves to government.
Why would I vote for someone like that?
By Carl
September 4, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this
Hey…How do you keep a liberal in suspense?
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 4, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this
Dear got to go @ 12:37, you are surely aware that The One is on O’Reilly tonight?
Dear timthebrave @ 12:39, I would respectfully add to the well-drawn answer by Drew @ 12:55. There is no more important domestic issue than energy, an issue punted by the Congressional majorities. That single issue will affect job creation in the country more than anything else, other than the level of taxation, over the next ten years. Mrs. Palin addressed the energy issue cogently, without once magnifying the virtue of tire inflation.
Dear Peter @ 12:46, “Heck, in a few decades we can have a death toll of American soldiers that rivals the Vietnam conflict.” Sure, from old age. Just as the Nazis no longer terrorize our troops in Germany, we now have a quiet in Iraq.
Dear TFTT @ 1:08, well said, your analysis mirrors mine, just a bit more colorfully.
Dear QN77j34 @ 1:10 and Filster @ 1:34, excellent analysis.
Dear JB @ 1:11, Michelle got into trouble saying something like that.
Dear doc @ 1:28, I had set up peoples @ 12:38 for a severe taunting, but you blew him away better, more efficiently, than I had conceived (I was planning to mock him for what he included in the quotation that was eventually left out when Madison wrote the Constitution.) Well done.
Dear got to go @ 1:29, you might check out the recession in Europe first. A real recession, now, not the phony “leftist-purported recession” in the US.
Dear doomed @ 1:55, thanks for info, sounds likely. The loonies were unable to lose the war while Bush ran it, so they will persecute him for not losing it.
Dear JackC @ 2:00, assuming one agrees with the leftist reading of the 9th Amendment (i.e., it does not exist, generally) all would agree with you. We would agree that leftist justices make up whatever they think should be there, instead of faithfully interpreting the words therein.
Dear disgruntled @ 2:01, you sound like an elitist, angry that McCain did not validate the perspective of the ruling class.
Dear doomed @ 2:08, I have the same view of PoliSci.
Dear peach @ 2:16, I have been wondering for the past 15 hours how Jasper, my pit bull, would look with lipstick. Re @ 2:23, every southern woman I have spoken with is as impressed as I.
By DJ
September 4, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this
All of this dialogue about Palin is fascinating. As of today, all I know for certain is given a few days to prepare she can deliver a speech that was likely crafted by a room full of speech writers. Do we really know anything about her vision for America?
Her earlier comment about the Vice Presidency is telling. She saw it as a job that would be defined by daily tasks as opposed to a position from which she could help craft a future vision for America. This isn’t a strategic thinker.
America is facing some daunting challenges. We must overcome our dependence on foreign oil by developing a new energy infrstructure. We must reprioritize the importance of education so we can continue to develop the engineers and scientists to develop new sources of energy and to maintain a technolgical lead over the Chinese and the Indians.
Is Palin going to help inspire us to greatness? If her family is an example, the answer is clearly no.
By april
September 4, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this
Sarah Palin is an affirmative action addition to the ticket - affirmative action in its most ugly sense as frighteningly described by all those Republican politicians (see Jesse Helms, et. al). No way would she have been selected to be on this ticket if she had an “outtie” rather than in “innie”.
By deegee
September 4, 2008 3:30 PM | Link to this
Oh no you didn’t, Just Curious! You didn’t pull out the Ted Kennedy card, did you? That’s it, I’m done. Nothing else matters.
By LA Dem
September 4, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this
Be very careful my fellow democrats, last night you witnessed the national introduction of the next Ronald Regan.
By Jim is a caveman
September 4, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this
How is it that this woman who most people had never heard of before last Friday is now suddenly the most qualified republican to run for veep and be a heartbeat from the presidency? She is more qualified than anyone else in the Republican party? Really? Or is it just a political calculation?
By Maniac is accurate
September 4, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this
Dear jbmlaw (I can’t spell that new handle) “Mrs. Palin addressed the energy issue cogently, without once magnifying the virtue of tire inflation.” Well said.
Energy is the key to security and the next wave of American prosperity.
By Gerry
September 4, 2008 3:37 PM | Link to this
Since when do we make a decision on a election and or a party when someone else wrote the speech for the person! The only issue that I heard discussed last night was energy and a lot of name calling of the other candidate There are so many more issues facing this country. Let’s see what this candidate and this party has to say over the next couple of months. I hope people will vote on the issues and not because of the race or gender of the candidate….we have to much to loose
By Peter
September 4, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this
GMAN - well said !
By LRD
September 4, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this
captn.. on stock mkt.. as of 337pm today.. not exactly positive bounce eh?
Stocks Plummet After Retail, Unemployment Data- AP Wall Street dived sharply lower Thursday, sending the Dow Jones industrials down more than 300 points as retailers and the Labor Department added to the mountain of dismal economic news that has all but dashed investors’ hopes for a late-year recovery.
By Gary
September 4, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this
SickOfIt If you’re going to respond to items in the article then clarify this for others reading this blog, instead of covering over the facts (WMD’s, Terrorist links) like most of the past 8 years has been.
Fact:
You stated: “the writer admits she doesn’t like Palin,”
Read the article it clearly states the following:
“Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100 or so people who rallied to support the city librarian against Sarah’s attempt at censorship.”
She is saying the Palin Hates her not vice versa. Of course the GOP is pretty good at trying to turn the tables in their best interests.
Another Fact, you said, “even more interesting that she admits making up all her numbers and that she cannot verify her numbers at all, she doesn’t even know where she got them from!”
Qote from her article: “Caveats: I am not a statistician. I developed the numbers for the increase in spending and taxation two years ago (when Palin was running for governor) from information supplied to me by the finance director of the City of Wasilla
I can’t recall exactly what I adjusted for: Did I adjust for inflation? For population increases? Right now, it is impossible for a private person to get any info out of City Hall — they are swamped. So I can’t verify my numbers.
True not verified because the stats have changed since then but considering she got the original numbers from City finance director is enough accreditation. Not to mention that you can find the articles and information on her time as Mayor and moneys spent all over the web. It backs up everything this woman wrote in her article about the numbers and money spent and wasted. Gee just like the Govt has been doing to us for the past 8 years.
By War Eagle
September 4, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this
Cynthia Tucker will have her chalked up as a racist real soon..why, she is a threat to Obama and Hillary?
By Jassie
September 4, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this
SickOfIt
Here are just some of the reasons why I support Senator Obama (including the fact that he is able to work with other party leaders). The bully mentality that is often portrayed by the Republican Party is old! If you say a person who works hard from a grass roots perspective and rallies for change among the common people….is someone that lacks in qualification, then you certainly have no idea what is truly a requirement for change.
Obama passed legislation with Republican Senator Jim Talent to give gas stations a tax credit for installing E85 ethanol refueling pumps. The tax credit covers 30 percent of the costs of switching one or more traditional petroleum pumps to E85, which is an 85 percent ethanol/15 percent gasoline blend.
After a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Ob More..ama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.
His first law was passed with Republican Tom Coburn, a measure to rebuild trust in government by allowing every American to go online and see how and where every dime of their tax dollars is spent.
Obama created the Illinois Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income working families in 2000 and successfully sponsored a measure to make the credit permanent in 2003. The law offered about $105 million in tax relief over three years.
Obama joined forces with former U.S. Sen. Paul Simon (D-IL) to pass the toughest campaign finance law in Illinois history. The legislation banned the personal use of campaign money by Illinois legislators and banned gifts from lobbyists. Before the law was passed, one organization ranked Illinois worst among 50 states for its campaign finance regulations.
As a member of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, Senator Obama has fought to help Illinois veterans get the disability pay they were promised, while working to prepare the VA for the return of the thousands of veterans who will need care after Iraq and Afghanistan.
He traveled to Russia with Republican Dick Lugar to begin a new generation of non-proliferation efforts designed to find and secure deadly weapons around the world.
Obama has been a leading advocate for protecting the right to vote, helping to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act and leading the opposition against discriminatory barriers to voting.
In the U.S. Senate, Obama introduced the STOP FRAUD Act to increase penalties for mortgage fraud and provide more protections for low-income homebuyers, well before the current subprime crisis began.
Obama sponsored legislation to combat predatory payday loans, and he also was credited with lobbied the state to more closely regulate some of the most egregious predatory lending practices.
Barack Obama introduced the Patriot Employer Act of 2007 to provide a tax credit to companies that maintain or increase the number of full-time workers in America relative to those outside the US; maintain their corporate headquarters in America; pay decent wages; prepare workers for retirement; provide health insurance; and support employees who serve in the military.
Obama worked to pass a number of laws in Illinois and Washington to improve the health of women. His accomplishments include creating a task force on cervical cancer, providing greater access to breast and cervical cancer screenings, and helping improve prenatal and premature birth services.
Obama has introduced and helped pass bipartisan legislation to limit the abuse of no-bid federal contracts.
Obama and Senator Feingold (D-WI) took on both parties and proposed ethics legislation that was described as the “gold standard” for reform. It was because of their leadership that ending subsidized corporate jet travel, mandating disclosure of lobbyists’ bundling of contributions, and enacting strong new restrictions of lobbyist-sponsored trips became part of the final ethics bill that was signed into law.
By SickOfIt
September 4, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this
Gary…and why do you think a letter written by some unknown person is true? do you personally know this person? Have you checked her alleged facts? have you contacted the finance manager at the town? What have you done to verify ANYTHING said by this woman?
YOu don’t like Palin, so you take anything bad someone says about her verbatim as fact.
and that is a fact.
By Carl
September 4, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this
Yea and Oprah’s an expert on the political qualifications needed to run the most powerful country in the world. Maybe she can recommend Tom Cruise for Obama’s current seat if he wins the election.
By lrd
September 4, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this
Hey Captn.. not the bump I think people are looking for….
Stocks Plummet After Retail, Unemployment Data- AP Wall Street dived sharply lower Thursday, sending the Dow Jones industrials down more than 300 points as retailers and the Labor Department added to the mountain of dismal economic news that has all but dashed investors’ hopes for a late-year recovery.
By SickOfIt
September 4, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this
Oh, and by the way Gary…”Palin hates me because…” read between the lines Bubba. this is her way of getting back. She can’t stand Palin, and she is taking her shots now. You can’t see that? No, because you don;t like Palin either.
by the way…Why don’t you do research on your buddy Obama?
FACT - as an Illinois legislature, he did nothing to help the state of Illinois except talk.
FACT - as a Senator, he managed to have one bill passed, to allow Americans to see online how taxes are spent.
FACT - That is all he has accomplished in his illustrious career, except for a lot of talking about how great he is.
Tell me why he is a great choice for President.
By timthebrave
September 4, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this
KJ, you do realize that Palin would be a heart attack away from the presidency so it is important to know how she stands on the issues. I wish that their was a candidate that would be liberal on some issues and conservative on other issues. That way they could maybe compromise and get something done. 1. Republicans-get over the fear tactics and name calling. I’m not stupid enough to vote based on fear 2. Democrats-more government is not better government. People need to depend on themselves I hope Mccain will be more optimistic and talk about what HE plans to do. I don’t need Mccain to tell me what Obama is going or not going to do.
By Jassie
September 4, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this
Here are just some of the reasons why I support Senator Obama (including the fact that he is able to work with other party leaders). The bully mentality that is often portrayed by the Republican Party is old! If you say a person who works hard from a grass roots perspective and rallies for change among the common people….is someone that lacks in qualification, then you certainly have no idea what is truly a requirement for change.
Obama passed legislation with Republican Senator Jim Talent to give gas stations a tax credit for installing E85 ethanol refueling pumps. The tax credit covers 30 percent of the costs of switching one or more traditional petroleum pumps to E85, which is an 85 percent ethanol/15 percent gasoline blend.
After a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Ob More..ama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.
His first law was passed with Republican Tom Coburn, a measure to rebuild trust in government by allowing every American to go online and see how and where every dime of their tax dollars is spent.
Obama created the Illinois Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income working families in 2000 and successfully sponsored a measure to make the credit permanent in 2003. The law offered about $105 million in tax relief over three years.
Obama joined forces with former U.S. Sen. Paul Simon (D-IL) to pass the toughest campaign finance law in Illinois history. The legislation banned the personal use of campaign money by Illinois legislators and banned gifts from lobbyists. Before the law was passed, one organization ranked Illinois worst among 50 states for its campaign finance regulations.
As a member of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, Senator Obama has fought to help Illinois veterans get the disability pay they were promised, while working to prepare the VA for the return of the thousands of veterans who will need care after Iraq and Afghanistan.
He traveled to Russia with Republican Dick Lugar to begin a new generation of non-proliferation efforts designed to find and secure deadly weapons around the world.
Obama has been a leading advocate for protecting the right to vote, helping to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act and leading the opposition against discriminatory barriers to voting.
In the U.S. Senate, Obama introduced the STOP FRAUD Act to increase penalties for mortgage fraud and provide more protections for low-income homebuyers, well before the current subprime crisis began.
Obama sponsored legislation to combat predatory payday loans, and he also was credited with lobbied the state to more closely regulate some of the most egregious predatory lending practices.
Barack Obama introduced the Patriot Employer Act of 2007 to provide a tax credit to companies that maintain or increase the number of full-time workers in America relative to those outside the US; maintain their corporate headquarters in America; pay decent wages; prepare workers for retirement; provide health insurance; and support employees who serve in the military.
Obama worked to pass a number of laws in Illinois and Washington to improve the health of women. His accomplishments include creating a task force on cervical cancer, providing greater access to breast and cervical cancer screenings, and helping improve prenatal and premature birth services.
Obama has introduced and helped pass bipartisan legislation to limit the abuse of no-bid federal contracts.
Obama and Senator Feingold (D-WI) took on both parties and proposed ethics legislation that was described as the “gold standard” for reform. It was because of their leadership that ending subsidized corporate jet travel, mandating disclosure of lobbyists’ bundling of contributions, and enacting strong new restrictions of lobbyist-sponsored trips became part of the final ethics bill that was signed into law.
By Jan Moss
September 4, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this
Great article. Thanks for being fair to Sarah Palin. So many are not being fair. This article was wonderful.
By say what?
September 4, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this
Ok, I am offended about her tart sarcasim, why not take the higher road? It is as if we Americans look forward to a knock down drag out fight at all costs. What’s the point of giving the media the red meat they want? Only to show that the media really does have control of every part of our lives. So stupid are we that we name call, and put each other down and our leaders.
Grow up regardless of right or left.
By say what?
September 4, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this
Ok, I am offended about her tart sarcasim, why not take the higher road? It is as if we Americans look forward to a knock down drag out fight at all costs. What’s the point of giving the media the red meat they want? Only to show that the media really does have control of every part of our lives. So stupid are we that we name call, and put each other down and our leaders.
Grow up regardless of right or left.
By Copyleft
September 4, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this
Finally, the evangelicals have a candidate they can get behind and truly support!
And best of all, she comes with her own unwed teenage mother to help cement those “family values” they love to babble about!
Say goodbye to the moderates, McCain… and they were your only hope.
By SickOfIt
September 4, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this
Jassie, first of all, remove from all content anything that says Obama “passed” legislation implying he personally did it. All that means is he voted for it. Nothing more. so did lots of other people.
He “worked with” law enforcement officials to require videotaping. Whoopdedoo. this is not a state law, this is something law enforcement in Illinois require of themselves.
He did NOT introduce any bill in 2007…he was running for President, or weren’t you watching the news?
“working to pass bills”, another euphanism for showing up and voting.
He is a lazy legislator who did little to nothing and now wants to be rewarded by being president. Dont be fooled by the spin of his website. Read between the lines to see what it really says.
By Luv 2 hate Me
September 4, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this
REPUBLICAN HILLBILLY ALERT that’s not right to talk about her child. You must be very young because you sound very ingornant. I’m a Democrat and father. She has no control over gods work. You must not have kids (LETS HOPE NOT) for your sake because one day you may plain to have kids and lets hope your child doesn’t come out retarded like yourself. Some people don’t need to blog.
By say what?
September 4, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this
Ok, I am offended about her tart sarcasim, why not take the higher road? It is as if we Americans look forward to a knock down drag out fight at all costs. What’s the point of giving the media the red meat they want? Only to show that the media really does have control of every part of our lives. So stupid are we that we name call, and put each other down and our leaders.
Grow up regardless of right or left.
By carl
September 4, 2008 4:03 PM | Link to this
Your right..I’m sorry Oprah…It’s not like you outed Tom.
By Jassie
September 4, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this
SickOfIt You are hopeless….see you in November!
By KJ
September 4, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this
Jassie
Surely you are not tying the housing crash to the Bush administration? Did they force the mortgage companies to prey on people unable to qualify for a standard mortgage and get them to take out ARM’s and interest only loans? Well, did they? For people to reach beyond their means (knowing full well that with an ARM, the rate can, and most certainly DID, go up) then to turn around and blame that on politics instead of their own short-sightedness and plain stupidity, is just another example of those that will vote in someone unqualified, based on what they are promised.
And your Democratic congress has been in office for almost 2 years now, exactly what have they done to stimulate the economy? Hmmmmm?
Change, I believe in change, I WELCOME change. Show me, please, how putting Obama/Biden in office will be GOOD change. Really, show me, enlighten us. After-all, you have ‘the Chosen One’ on your side, greek temples and all.
By nypeach
September 4, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this
First Rudy Giuliani gets up to tell the world what is wrong with the Democratic party. This from a guy who needed a judge to tell him that it was wrong to parade his mistress in his HOME where his wife and kids still lived. Then we get the same old politics from Palin. She was rude, divisive, talked in generalities and nicely skated around her pregnant teenage daughter. I was incredibly disappointed by her speech. It was so school yard, petty and pointless. I waited with baited breath to hear her ideas on healthcare, the economy, the war. All I heard was a lot of sabre rattling and putdowns. She definitely appealed to the baser qualities, but she didn’t show any true leadership skills. If she and McCain get into office (and I believe they will because none of you will vote for a black man), I personally will send the man vitamins and colonics. I am terrified that he’ll die and we’ll have this yokel, redneck, hockey mom running the country.
By Hannah
September 4, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten:
Yet again, you are right, i.e., correct! You have won another fan of the column; however, I should admit that I now skim through the pages of the comments that follow primarily to enjoy Ragnar Danneskjöld’s thoughtful observations and his pithy replies to a few knuckleheads (as well as to the deliberately malicious ones).
“Ouch. Barack Obama’s just been whupped.”
Yes, indeed!
Congratulations to John McCain for a fine selection. Sarah Palin was - and is - AWESOME. I am more proud than ever to be both Republican and a woman.
By Lisa
September 4, 2008 4:27 PM | Link to this
By Mike K. September 4, 2008 11:51 AM | “I am shocked, SHOCKED that Jim Wooten loved Palin’s speech. About as shocked as I was when I noticed that Cynthia Tucker loved Obama’s speech last week or that Terrence Moore suggested that Shockley should replace Ryan at QB if Ryan struggles.”
Don’t be shocked because Palin could have said “Kiss My Axxxx America” and Wooten would have praised her for her guts and brashness. Wooten knows that aside from the pomp of her speech, there was no plan, no stance and no substance (pretty much what we’ve had for the last 16 years). My point; Wooten is all Republican no matter what. Personally, I think Wooten knew her speech lacked substance which in turn lacked a clear vision of what she stands for. After Palin was done with her speech Wooten probably said “what a dumb axxxxx; now I have to figure out how to spin this for tomorrow’s column.” Wooten is all about keeping a Republican in the White House. As such, we’ve been getting all these phony, fluffed up, bull crap commentaries from him talking about how the GOP is on the right path and are making all the right moves instead of the obvious; the GOP are their own worst enemy and are self destructing by their own hands. Palin, thank you in advance for inching Obama and Biden that much closer to the White House. McCain, I know that you won’t disappoint and will follow suit since you are definitely a follower and not a leader; Thanks!
By Bud Wiser
September 4, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this
The Dimwitocrats are festering in their own swill.
a) They think G W Bush is running for re-election.
b) Their smear groups are going hard after a 17 year old girl, who made a very big mistake and is now pregnant. I guess the grown men and women (like Sarah Palin herself) candidates themselves are much too scary for them to handle.
c) They castigate Palin (like Hairless Joe Biden did) for not using her speech last night to talk about health care, the economy, etc, etc. Once more they seem to have forgotten that it is the presidential candidate who will be making policy, not his Veep.
d) All the things they say they have stood for over the years about sexual equality in the workplace, and feminine rights, have been trashed as fast as you can say Barack Obama. It started with Hillary, and now they are focusing on Palin. It proves that the Dimwits will try and say anything to get elected.
e) They shamelessly use their female media connections to trash Palin, like that ignorant twit Maureen Dowd of the NY Times, and the Miller woman (her name is so forgettable, just as she is) from Washington Post, I think. These women are so stupid as to not realize that they are in fact demeaning themselves and their sex by the smear crap they say. But, I have always said that the Dimwits use their media ho’s like puppets anyway, so what’s the deal?
The Dimwitocrats are running scared, they cannot focus on issues, just try to smear and trash their opponents, but that is ‘Ops Normal” for them. They probably will not realize that America knows more about who is the Republican nominee, McCain, than these idiots are trying to make believe, G W Bush.
They’ll know it in November.
Obama/Biden ‘08 - making it easy to be stupid
By LB
September 4, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this
Palin’s lame (and grossly inaccurate) slams on the Dems and Obama made her sound like she was on stage for amateur night at the local comedy shack.
As far as her pregnant daughter is concerned, funny how acceptable it is when it happens to the neo-con, evangelical Repubs. Of course, we shouldn’t be too surprised after hearing about W’s and Jeb’s drunken daughters. Makes me sick how the right boasts how they’re the party with morals and family values. What a crock! Nothing but hypocrites!
By Jeff
September 4, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this
Oh Wooten, be serious! The whole thing is like a cheap re-run of “The Beverly Hillbillies.” With Moose-Killin Mama Sarah, Chuck, Todd, Track, Trig, Levi, et al. Lots of typical Repunk ignorance, hatred, bitterness, intolerance packed into that auditorium. Non-hero McShame being worshipped. Usual crap re “patriotism, flag, military, Geesuss” being waved. Wide-eyed, grinning goons lapping it all up. Psychotic Sarah and McShame will appeal greatly to the uneducated masses within our dumbed-down society of ne’r-do-wells. Republicans always need to find something to hate - more than they hate themselves.
By CB
September 4, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this
What is wrong with you people. Are you incapable of picking a candidate to vote for without ripping someone else apart? I have chosen my candidate for my own reasons. I do not now or have I ever felt the need to gossip about, take cheap shots at or insult the intelligence of the candidate I do not intend to vote for. It scares me that some of the people expressing themselves in this blog have such vindictive minds and are even allowed to vote. People read what you are writing! You sound mean, petty and just all around like horrible specimens of mankind. Sarah Palins daughter is just a teenager in spite of being pregnant. Her youngest son is a special needs child. Why do you want to drag their names through the mud and sling your insults and innuendos at them? People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones@
By Jassie
September 4, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this
KJ I agree the ownership falls on everyone that knowly entered into subprime loan agreements, but it is very short sighted to say the Government should not have taken responsiblity in controling the Financial Institutions that allowed these loans???? Why wait until things came to a critical mass to take corrective measures???? We need a pro-active government…one that will have true interests of the AMERICAN people….. I don’t want another BUSH/CHENEY representation. For example, the fiasco that happen in New Orleans following Katrina!!!!
By Jim Wooten
September 4, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this
Welcome to the blog, Hannah @ 4:19 and others here today for the first time.
You have a good eye, Hannah. Ragnar Danneskjöld is a prized contributor who regularly offers substance to the discussions underway.
By CB
September 4, 2008 4:37 PM | Link to this
What is wrong with you people? Are you incapable of picking a candidate to vote for without ripping someone else apart? I have chosen my candidate for my own reasons. I do not now or have I ever felt the need to gossip about, take cheap shots at or insult the intelligence of the candidate I do not intend to vote for. It scares me that some of the people expressing themselves in this blog have such vindictive minds and are even allowed to vote. People read what you are writing! You sound mean, petty and just all around like horrible specimens of mankind. Sarah Palins daughter is just a teenager in spite of being pregnant. Her youngest son is a special needs child. Why do you want to drag their names through the mud and sling your insults and innuendos at them? People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones@
By Thespis
September 4, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this
I won’t claim the mantle of the Democrat but I feel compelled to respond to Mr. Wooten’s pejorative statement that “Democrats do not know how to react today”.
Finding an appropriate response to last nights speech is actually rather easy and I can do it one sentence:
There was no “there” there.
For the simple minded what I mean by that is what does the woman stand for other than she doesn’t like the Democratic ticket. It’s nice that she isn’t going to Washington for the media’s approval, it’s great that she claims the mantle of a reformer (even in the face of evidence to the contrary), it’s pretty cool that she sold her plane on E-Bay, it’s even admirable that she said no to the “bridge to nowhere” (even if she, to paraphrase John Kerry “voted for it before she voted against it ” and apparently did keep the money ) but what exactly does she stand for in terms of economics, foreign policy or international affairs.
It makes good press and riles up the faithful to go on the attack against the big bad ole’ media and the horrible democrats but where does she stand on anything….anything at all (other than the obivous of course seeing as we know she is anti-abortion, pro-creationism, obviously anti sex education and does not believe we have any role in global warming).
All I had heard going into this speech was that she was a woman of substance and there was more to her than met the eye. Then…..silence on things that matter, just a bunch of nasty attacks.
It’s the last night of the RNC and we have not heard ONE PEEP about the economy and what they intend to do about it. I think that is telling.
By The Way
September 4, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this
Fox News just reported that the baby presented as Palin’s newborn was not the real baby she mothered. A substitute baby was presented because the real Palin child didn’t look conservative enough.
By @@
September 4, 2008 4:47 PM | Link to this
Devastator @ 1:36:
Nice shot for partisan politics. NOT!
I believe I’ve given you more credit than you deserve.
Selectively showing your heart, however, is not prudent.
Pray tell Dear Devastator…..what has been the return of showing my heartfelt efforts on behalf of disabled children gotten from the leftists here? Frequent use of the word RETARD? Accusations that I am but a TARD, teaching TARDS? Nothing more than a babysitter for TARDS? That mine is a waste of effort teaching TARDS who will eventually have nothing productive to offer society? That my education is such that I am only qualified to teach TARDS?
No Devastator, I CAN be selective? ANYTHING, truly heartfelt is wasted on the likes of leftists here. The leftists with whom you have apparently joined ranks.
The majority of the people you support don’t even believe that autism exists and they certainly don’t care about children or adults with disadvantages unless they can send to war or nominate them for VP.
What a petty little person you’ve become Devastator. If you’re talking about Michael Savage’s recent rant, I will say that the messenger should have been slapped for his delivery, but there was some truth in what he said. I had a discussion on Savage’s comments with Jay Bookman, who has a sister that works with disabled children. When pointing out the obscured truth in Savage’s statement, Bookman agreed based on his sister’s shared experience.
One of my pet peeves, is to see people who are clearly not disabled, parking in handicapped spots.
Now granted, when I see only a car, no handicapped license plate, no handicapped access pass, I have no way of knowing whether they vote Republican, Democrat, or at all. But when illegally parked cars are sporting campaign bumper stickers for the Democratic candidates, I have to question the sincerity of Democrats like yourself when they speak of concerns for the disabled.
I have never……NOT ONCE!!!!!! seen a car illegally occupying a handicapped parking space that was sporting a Republican candidate’s sticker.
George Bush actually has a pretty good record when it comes to implementing programs that assist the disabled. I’ve always found that most presidents do.
Right now, the administrators at my school, are very concerned with the outcome of the elections. In our case a big tax on big business could have a devastating impact on our ability to function. The greater bulk of our funding comes from some of Wall Street’s major corporations.
Have a good day Devastator, not that you deserve one.
By findog
September 4, 2008 4:51 PM | Link to this
Ragnar Wait a minute. When we had the oil crunch after Katrina I am pretty sure Saudi Arabia said increasing production would not help the US because we do not have the refining capacity. The supply and demand curve for the cost of a barrel of crude is part of the recent increase; the other element is the commodity exchanges that get a case of the vapors if Iran or Russia orders extra rounds of vodka shots. The real problem is environmental extremists blocking the construction of refineries and nuclear plants while the oil companies merged and reduced capacity by shutting down refineries to manipulate demand of fuels. Neither candidate is addressing refining. Have a nice evening.
By Jassie
September 4, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this
Bud Wiser
I’m sure most women are happy to have a female running for VP, but that is the MAIN reason why she is on the ticket…..her gender (come on…it is that obvious). Did you not see how uncomfortable and awkward McCain’s introduction was of his running mate? Hilary Cliton stood for somethings other than potentially being the first female in office.
My 6 yr old nephew would have done a better job at showing confidence….
By The Way
September 4, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this
I agree with @@. Everybody parks in the handicapped spaces. I saw this one guy walking out of Walgreens, and he was getting in his car, which was right in front of the door, what a parking place. “Hey! That’s for handicapped people!” I shouted. He looked at me, and said, “F-f-f-f-f-f-FA-QUE!”
Guess he told me.
Wooten, you didn’t fall for that Hannah bit about being new to the blog, did you. What a fallguy. What a maroon. You, sir, are also a Naive American, just like jay Nookwood.
bwa.
morons.
By TW
September 4, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this
Ouch. Barack Obama’s just been whupped.
Being that a guy who lives in a cave made a freakin’ fool out of the Republican leader of the free world, it’s safe to say the GOP knows even less about ‘whuppins’ than they do about hard work.
God I miss the real Republicans.
By Jay Black
September 4, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this
Seems to me the republicans are scared and intimidated. They’ve never run into a machine like Obama. All she did was denounce Obama. Obama this, Obama says that. It’s like when your spouse is upset at something you did and your only defense is to say what they did wrong instead of taking responibility for yourself. What will she do in office? WHAT IS HER POSITION ON THE ISSUES? I bet McCain will follow suit. What exactly is her stance on the issues?
BTW- I’m hearing that she also had an affair with her husbands friend and business associate. Some conservative!
By Clint
September 4, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this
Dr. R. (1:34). Oh yeah!! That’s what we’d need in life. Another pluckin Ray Gun. This one without the actor’s ability to memorize lines, without that touch of decency - but rather one from the deep woods of raw ignorance and hay-shaking. But hey! She loves killin animals. She was on the high school basketball team! She’s a hockey-mom! That’s all that should really count, right!? And she believes in her ability to translate that changed-hundreds-of-times-Bible to pick out her own special favorite dysfunctions and opinions - and apply them to ALL of us. Looks like you must have your jackboots on backward again! But hang in there - non-hero McShame will be playing the “hero” role again tonight and the ignorant, rancid masses will lap it up. Look deeply at their faces, into their eyes, their laughter and grins. Therein you shall witness Amuricuh’s greatest single nightmare. Alas, I am deeply over your head here - and will leave you to your own unexamined life.
By KJ
September 4, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this
Jassie
Ok, so you admittedly want more government, if your comments above are any indication. You do realize that more government equals more money spent by said bigger government, right? And just WHERE is that money going to come from? Surely not the 5% Obama says he’s going to tax, and if he taxes big companies, who are those additional costs going to be passed along to?
Oh, and one more thing, it’s McCain/Palin in ‘08, not Bush/Cheney. Basic civics lesson says the President only gets 2 terms, not 3. If your argument is simply that you don’t want another Republican in the office, say so. McCain and Palin are not Bush and Cheney, but you have to actually read about them to understand that.
As for the fiasco following Katrina, I agree, it WAS a fiasco. Bear this in mind though, all of the blame cannot be laid at the feet of the Bush administration. If you’re a learned person, you would know this.
By Jay Black
September 4, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this
Seems to me the republicans are scared and intimidated. They’ve never run into a machine like Obama. All she did was denounce Obama. Obama this, Obama says that. It’s like when your spouse is upset at something you did and your only defense is to say what they did wrong instead of taking responibility for yourself. What will she do in office? WHAT IS HER POSITION ON THE ISSUES? I bet McCain will follow suit. What exactly is her stance on the issues?
BTW- I’m hearing that she also had an affair with her husbands friend and business associate. Some conservative!
By Get Real
September 4, 2008 5:05 PM | Link to this
The responses on this blog just show that there are some really stupid Americans. The republicans started a war that they said was ‘mission accomplished’ on 5/3/03l; we’re still there. Republicans fought and passed legislation at the end of Clinton’s term that deregulated home loans; ARM loans popped up, lenders and homeowners lost money and cash. Bush AND McCain have both said that the economy is fine; meanwhile millions have lost their jobs, hours cut back.
Yet, they want four more years in power??? Please! One speech by an unknown governor whose total state population is less than Fulton Co. (just a fact) does not change the failures of the last 8 years. McCain says that he’s different, but he has the same people running his campaign as Bush did (fact). Just call it what it is. You people just needed a reason to vote against a black man, who graduated from Columbia University and was President of the Harvard Law Review. I could see if McCain was an Admiral or something in the Navy, but he was a POW for 5 years. While extremely respectful, that doesn’t mean he’s more qualified to run our Armed Forces than anyone else. You same people that voted for Bush, now want to turn around and vote for 4 more years of very similar policies. I’ll agree with you that McCain may stray from republicans here and there, but for the most part he’s a hardcore conservative. Not one speech about the economy yet!
Why should you get another shot in power after the last 8 terrible years? McCain maybe different from Bush on simple matters of policy, but everything else he is right there with him.
By @@
September 4, 2008 5:07 PM | Link to this
The Way:
He looked at me, and said, “F-f-f-f-f-f-FA-QUE!”
Must have been a case of Turrets. A syndrome with which you can empathize.
As usual, thanks for the chuckle.
By Whatever
September 4, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this
KJ, you have to be joking right? Bush had the biggest expansion of government in the history of the United States; Homeland Security ring a bell? taxes went up on the middle class in the last 8 years. Stop the lying and present honest facts man.
By Bud Wiser
September 4, 2008 5:10 PM | Link to this
BTW, congratulations Mr Wooten. I just did a quick count comparing the total number of posts on your last five columns vs Bookman, and you are slaughtering him.
Total count: Wooten - 1109 Bookman - 730
I think that your bet is also a sure thing about the election.
It appears that a vast majority of readers still want to read what’s right about America from you, as opposed to what’s left (left over, or left wing, or wrong, your choice) from Jay..
By TW
September 4, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this
Palin had an affair with her husband’s business partner? That’s ridicluous - she’s not even married to that other guy…
Jerry Springer’s not gonna have enough room on his set…
By Hannah
September 4, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this
Thank you, Mr. Wooten.
To “By The Way”:
I’m guessing that the AJC blogs record IPs, so no need for paranoia. Jim Wooten doesn’t seem like a moron to me. If I thought that he was a moron, I wouldn’t read his column nor the commentary that follows.
This is certainly not the first of Mr. Wooten’s columns that I’ve read, but I am participating here for the first time this week.
Sarah Palin inspires me. :)
In fact, I’ve commented about three times on Thinking Right this week — always about McCain-Palin (so far) and only as Hannah.
By The BIG question
September 4, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this
Will McCain’s speech have more blatant lies than Palin’s?
Is that possible?
By Peter
September 4, 2008 5:48 PM | Link to this
By Jim Wooten
September 4, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this
Welcome to the blog, Hannah @ 4:19 and others here today for the first time.
You have a good eye, Hannah. Ragnar Danneskjöld is a prized contributor who regularly offers substance to the discussions underway.
Quick question Jim………
How Old is Bristol Palin ?
Is she 5 months past 17 ?
Did she have sex and get pregnant at 16 ?
Do you remember the Black guy who went to Jail for 10 years here in Atlanta for have oral sex with a 16 year old ?
Are you sure this was not RAPE by law ?
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 4, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this
Daer Hannah @ 4:19, thanks, I’m flattered. Welcome to the blog, we look forward to reading your thoughts. If I may recommend a few of my favorites here, look for my ideological friend @@ and the moderate conservative MidSouth Philosopher. Not all of our friends on the left are loonies, and I particularly enjoy the thoughts (opposing mine) of Southern Democrat and Shar. And if you can discern the wicked humor of HIDT (“Maniac is Accurate” among many others) and PoFo (also many identities, often closes with “muff said”) they make the visit fun too. And our mysterious Glenn is the most cerebral, albeit infrequent, visitor here.
By Bush go away
September 4, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this
Wooten,
How can I be discreet and delicate here? You know that ad for the popular prescription med that says “seek medical assistance in cases lasting more than four hours”?
Well you need to go to a St. Paul emergency room STAT because Palin seems to have given you a “serious medical condition” that has lasted for at least three days.
Go to the emergency room NOW Jim. Believe it or not, some things are more important than the convention.
By TW
September 4, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this
So, Governor Palin said ‘No Thanks’ to Washington about the Bridge to Nowhere, but she still accepted the $223 million for it?
And the anti-earmark Republicans applauded this?
Morons?
By Churchill
September 4, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this
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By marko
September 4, 2008 6:03 PM | Link to this
In all fairness, it was a pretty good speech. Did you notice that half the delagates woke up? Impressive considering how far it was past their bed times. I don’t think Sarah’s got a thing to worry about from the pinko liberal media. However the National Enquirer is another matter altogether.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 4, 2008 6:04 PM | Link to this
Dear Jim @ 4:34, thanks.
Dear findog @ 4:51, I fully agree with your entire argument, well said. I will join your campaign to make it easier to open a new refinery, as I am reasonably certain it has been nearly impossible to build one in this country since EPA came online.
By Peter
September 5, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this
Ragnar - 9/4 15:22
Can we afford to have the troops to die of old age in Iraq? (Republican tax cuts will not pay the tab. Where’s the accountability? It’s immoral to leave the costs for the next generation.)
We’ll see if the toll exceeds Vietnam when the Depleted Uranium tally comes in. (Remember how long it took to acknowledge the effects of Agent Orange.)
Veteran suicides that result from PTSD should also be factored in.
Your shallow, glib response indicates little reflection.
By Maria A. G.
September 5, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this
How is it that McCain/Palin will be any better then what we currently have in office, this is a man whom left his 1st wife and three kids, reports say because she was no longer as pretty due to a major car accident. Just five weeks after the divorce was final he married his current wife. We must stop and think about that, when the time got rough or not as you envisioned you are able to not only leave your spouse when she most needed you, but also your three children by your first wife. Former mayor Giuliani has had several mistresses and lets not forget how long Newt Gingrich had a mistress all while trying to impeach Bill. How many of the republican men have not showed any family values by leaving their wives for other woman. Palin, does not have the experience or the knowledge/know how to meet with other governments and to do the job. Let’s get real and do some investigation that 5th child is the daughter who is expecting now. When you had your child did you go to work 3 days later and was your daughter at home for 5 months while you supposedly gave birth. People if they can lie/hide this what else will they hide. Also if we are so proud to be American why were she and her husband part of a party that wanted to NOT be a part of the USA. This is not about race, this is our future people and that is why we must vote for Barak/Biden.
Now McCain and Ms. McCain are worth millions, how can they relate to the everyday person that is out working trying to make a better life for themselves as well as their children. McCain thinks that someone making 5million is middle class. Are you part of his middle class? We now have reports that the social security that we have been paying into may not be available in the future. I say people we cannot base our decisions on fear or what we want to say family values. How can we have family values when we cannot even afford a family?
Change we must have and if we live in fear by bringing about false allegations based on fear of someone having faith and believing that change is possible. It is amazing to me that it is stated Obama is a Muslim, someone who was raised mainly by his Caucasian grandparents in Hawaii be Muslim. I say use common sense and not fear that someone may look different, may not sound like your typical politician and because of the current state of this country we try to put the fear that he must be Muslim. Their has been no evidence of this, the only evidence is that people want a change and many in this nation who had lost faith due to the past eight years think just maybe that unknown man can make a change.
I ask in this email that each and everyone take the time to read, do your own research. If we should be fearful of anything it should be the fact that we have spent trillions of dollars on a war based on fear, but we are paying that same country over $100 + for oil per barrel, that we have borrowed trillions of dollars from China, because we don’t have any. Why do you think more sanctions are not being placed on China as far as the bad pharmaceuticals, products, etc. that come into our country. Why do you think China told Bush the week of August 6, 2008 he needs to mind his own business when Bush spoke out against some of China’s policy?
Think people Think
By Maria A. G.
September 5, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this
How is it that McCain/Palin will be any better then what we currently have in office, this is a man whom left his 1st wife and three kids, reports say because she was no longer as pretty due to a major car accident. Just five weeks after the divorce was final he married his current wife. We must stop and think about that, when the time got rough or not as you envisioned you are able to not only leave your spouse when she most needed you, but also your three children by your first wife. Former mayor Giuliani has had several mistresses and lets not forget how long Newt Gingrich had a mistress all while trying to impeach Bill. How many of the republican men have not showed any family values by leaving their wives for other woman. Palin, does not have the experience or the knowledge/know how to meet with other governments and to do the job. Let’s get real and do some investigation that 5th child is the daughter who is expecting now. When you had your child did you go to work 3 days later and was your daughter at home for 5 months while you supposedly gave birth. People if they can lie/hide this what else will they hide. Also if we are so proud to be American why were she and her husband part of a party that wanted to NOT be a part of the USA. This is not about race, this is our future people and that is why we must vote for Barak/Biden.
Now McCain and Ms. McCain are worth millions, how can they relate to the everyday person that is out working trying to make a better life for themselves as well as their children. McCain thinks that someone making 5million is middle class. Are you part of his middle class? We now have reports that the social security that we have been paying into may not be available in the future. I say people we cannot base our decisions on fear or what we want to say family values. How can we have family values when we cannot even afford a family?
Change we must have and if we live in fear by bringing about false allegations based on fear of someone having faith and believing that change is possible. It is amazing to me that it is stated Obama is a Muslim, someone who was raised mainly by his Caucasian grandparents in Hawaii be Muslim. I say use common sense and not fear that someone may look different, may not sound like your typical politician and because of the current state of this country we try to put the fear that he must be Muslim. Their has been no evidence of this, the only evidence is that people want a change and many in this nation who had lost faith due to the past eight years think just maybe that unknown man can make a change.
I ask in this email that each and everyone take the time to read, do your own research. If we should be fearful of anything it should be the fact that we have spent trillions of dollars on a war based on fear, but we are paying that same country over $100 + for oil per barrel, that we have borrowed trillions of dollars from China, because we don’t have any. Why do you think more sanctions are not being placed on China as far as the bad pharmaceuticals, products, etc. that come into our country. Why do you think China told Bush the week of August 6, 2008 he needs to mind his own business when Bush spoke out against some of China’s policy?
Think people Think
By Tman
September 6, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this
I am a white male Obama supporter and wonder what would the Republicans have done had Obama picked a Black Woman Vice president with a 5 month old black child and her black teenager daughter was pregnant by an 18 year old black high school basketball star. Its funny with the republicans if white teenagers get pregnant by a white teenager the family is overly supportive and family values are intact. I have learned allot about some of my friends this election. When they say that cant vote for Obama with no good argument, I sense a racial bias on their thinking.
Iowa is 98% black and Obama is a heavy favorite to win. Georgia is supposedly 50% white and McCain is favored That tells it all as to why southern whites wont vote for Obama.
I support Obama even more now than ever , the race card has to be played so that black people understand there are plenty of white people like me who want equality for all, but not many live in the south. Once again I am white and some of my best friends are not black.
Oh by the way John McCain met his first wife while she was still married in Annapolis, but he wasn’t so that is ok because he met his second wife while he was married but that’s ok too. These are facts but overlooked by the family values driven GOP
Harvey
By Churchill
September 6, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this
I would like some of our Republican friends to respond to the following. You say you love Palin. Does that mean you favor: - making it a felony to have an abortion in cases of rape and incest -requiring the teaching of extreme Christian doctrine, such as Creationism, in public schools - banning all sex education other than “abstinence only,” a proven failure as a program to prevent pregnancy and venereal disease - in general, installing a theocratic government in America - doing nothing about global warming - doing nothing to prevent the extinction of ANY species (polar bears are not exactly snail darters) endangered by human activity - continuing to funnel large Federal “earmarks” to pet local projects based strictly on legislative pull rather than merit - banning books from public libraries on the basis of a Christian litmus test - using executive power to get rid of effective public servants who will not do a senior executive’s personal bidding - continuing the Iraq war so long as one subjectively believes it is “God’s will” (thereby ignoring the fact that one of al Qaeda’s main recruiting points is that the war in Iraq, since it makes no sense as part of a war strictly on terror, is a new Christian “crusade”)
Furthermore, loving Sarah Palin appears to mean that you do not care whether a candidate has a stated opinion on or any visible knowledge about (among many others) the following issues: - the war in Afghanistan - the reasons for the war in Iraq - the nature and operations of al Qaeda - international politics in general, excepting only U.S.-Canadian politics (the easiest of all U.S.-international relationships) - the current state of the American economy - the federal deficit - financial markets in stocks, bonds, commodities, futures and currency - the mortgage crisis - the federal regulation of banks and other financial institutions - fiscal policy of any kind other than taxing abundant raw materials and distributing the booty to voters
As near as I can tell, you have made her unfortunate personal situation into a substitute for actual qualifications. Note that now I am not talking about that recent campaign illusion, “experience.” I am talking about the fundamental tools of the trade she seeks to try, something the other three candidates have revealed abundantly. Revealing my age a bit, the Palin candidacy reminds of nothing so much as a “Tooter Turtle and Mr. Wizard” episode. Young’uns might find googling Tooter Turtle to be instructive
By Churchill
September 6, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this
For those who picked up on the lightweight/phoney’s Harry Truman comparison the other night, I offer the following:
“Any analogy between Palin and Harry Truman is preposterous. Truman was 60 when he became the vice president for Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s last term in 1944 and had been a U.S. senator for 10 years. He had achieved national prominence as head of a Senate committee that investigated economic aspects of the U.S. effort in World War II. It is estimated that this committee’s efforts saved billions of dollars and the lives of countless military personnel put at risk by the shoddy work of corrupt military contractors.
Before serving in the Senate, Truman served three successful terms as a Jackson County, Mo., judge — actually an executive position — in which he efficiently oversaw much road construction and the construction of a new county courthouse. In World War I, before he entered politics, Truman led an artillery battery in combat in France and did not lose a soldier.
But Truman’s full biography is pretty much forgotten. So, in addition to the current joke about Palin being no Hillary Clinton, we need to add that she’s also no Harry Truman.”
By Churchill's Mom
September 6, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this
Speech, smeech! Her only input to her acceptance speech was her husband and children’s names and ….oh yes, the name of her soon to be son-in-law-by-shotgun.
After being isolated for four or five days with twelve speech writers and practicing the delivery for hours, she is being touted as a grand orator because she was actually able to come up with some words of her own when the teleprompter was too fast for her to follow. What a talent!
She was selected for one reason and one reason only, to once again call the abused, and often misused, Christian Coalition to the aid of the Grand Old Party. She represents the epitome of the anti-abortionist. She wants abortion in any form, for any reason, OUTLAWED. Christian Fundamentalist, she wants creationism taught in the public school system and books banned from public libraries that “are too liberal.” And, just when you think that it can not possibly get any better, we find that she is a long term member of the NRA and is farther to the right than Dick Cheney and Karl Rove put together. Even Rushbo is now in love again after trashing McSame.
Sarah Palin is being used to garner support for the one issue that is left to the GOP, ABORTION. They can’t say “it’s the economy, stupid”….they are responsible for this lackluster economy. They can’t say “it’s the war, stupid”, they are responsible for the war. They can’t say “fiscal responsibility”, they have taken us from surplus budgets, paying down the national debt, to huge deficit budgets that have resulted in a FIVE TRILLION DOLLAR NATIONAL DEBT. They can’t take the moral high road after being wracked with scandal after scandal for the past eight years. You no longer hear poor old Murphy Brown being castigated for depicting a single mother on television, I wonder why?
No issue left but ABORTION, very sad………….”
By One Voice
September 6, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this
I find it ironic (and hypocritical) that a Republican who values “liberty” and the constitution, as Jim Wooten supposedly does, would be so persistent in trying to suppress information. He makes sure that links to legitimate news sources such as the Anchorage Daily News and AP do not appear in the blog if they have anything critical about Palin in them. I don’t respect journalists much because their standards for research and objective information tend to be very low, but journalist” is too flattering a word for Wooten. I think “propagandist” is more appropriate.
By getalife "whiners"
September 6, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this
Like the old man admitting being broken as a pow, she is a bush repube.
It is disgusting they spew country first when they destroyed our country.
It is a damn shame Americans will vote again to continue the destruction.
Gullible fools.
By Churchill
September 6, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this
Palin is NOT qualified to be vice president. Her experience is so limited that she actually asked a reporter “what does a vice president do?”
Palin is TOO extreme in her views on abortion, abstinence only sex education, creationism, and denigrates community service and organizing.
The GOP believes that American voters are so stupid that they will vote for McCain’s latest beauty queen. He is pandering to the far right for their votes and pandering to women for their votes.
Why?
Because McCain has NOTHING new to offer America except more of the same Republican crap we’ve been living through for nearly 8 years. McCain pretends to be a maverick after all those years in Washington DC at the taxpayers’ expense. He offers change? From what? Himself? He has voted with Bush 90% of the time.
What does Palin offer?
No abortions, none, for no reason. To heck with a 12 year old girl who has been raped, to check with a woman who will die trying to give birth, to the families, to all the emotional, mental, and physiological damage it may do. No science — let’s have creationism and really leave our children behind in education and the future. Abstinence only education — never mind the colossal failure in Palin’s family. Energy crisis? Drill, drill, drill so Palin’s oilman husband can make more money!
What has the GOP done for America?
The economy: home foreclosures at record highs, unemployment soaring, costs of living soaring, the war on terror in Afghanistan left to simmer while Bush, Cheney, & McCain started a war in Iraq for Bush’s ego and the oil industry, a war costing American lives and money for the greed of Bush and Cheney.
McCain has stood with them as they have gutted our Constitution, ignored the Geneva convention, and allowed secret prisons to operate with our complicity.
What does McCain do?
Wrap himself in his same old hairshirt “I was a POW, I was a POW, I was a POW.” He cares so much about our troops that he voted against an improved GI bill while wanting to keep the troops in Iraq for ?? years?
America, if you want our economy to keep going downhill, our jobs to go overseas, to lose your homes your savings, and not be able to afford food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and the cost of energy — keep voting Republican.
GOP = geriatric out-dated policies GOP = greedy oil producers
By Burtnor
September 6, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this
I am sick to death of people claiming they are more “real” and more “American” than anyone else. You can’t actually believe that people with different political views do not love their country, do not send their children to war, and do not want good government. Why can’t you disagree politically without the self-serving, oh-so-righteous, name calling BS?
As for Palin “temporarily” handing her baby over so she can go whip butt in DC, I don’t know any “good country,” city, or suburban mom who would leave her 3 day old newborn, as Palin did, so she could go back as quickly as possible to being a political pitt bull with lipstick. And by “temporary” do you mean four years or eight in Washington? Doesn’t sound like my kind of family values. When men take equal or primary childcare responsibilities, then I’ll believe that women can truly have it all.
And as for polite and well mannered, she was as sarcastic, contemptuous, and downright nasty a person as I have ever seen in the national spotlight. A sad spectacle in American politics and a HUGE insult to women in general.
By miles coleman
September 6, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this
Being a black person in America never ceases to amaze me. Now having a dick sucking pregnant w******* for a daughter is seen as an asset by the so called Religious Racist Right. lol
By Renny J. Caulder
September 6, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this
Jim, I couldn’t agree with you more. Gov. Palin is middle America, common sense and all. Her experience as governor will stand her well as Vice President and, if necessary, President. She holds conservative values and that’s why she’s the Republican VP candidate.
I wrote that last sentence so your Democrat posters wouldn’t be so confused.
By miles coleman
September 6, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this
YeAah,i guess middle American values equates to having a pregnant teen daughter. Would u think the Same of a black family?.I highly doubt it.
By @@
September 6, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this
Getalife @ 11:05:
Like the old man admitting being broken as a pow, she is a bush repube.
You couldn’t be more wrong!
I had the privilege of watching some videos of Palin in a roundtable discussion with her opponents (2) in the 2006 gubernatorial race. The objective was to get the participants to address Alaska’s problems. One of her opponents was the sitting governor seeking re-election.
She has a unique way of remaining silent while the other candidates displayed their hunger for power of the office. After they were finished tearing each other up, she stepped up to offer solutions — always speaking to the taxpayers desire for the same, not bickering, not accolades.
Anyhoo, at the end of one of the videos, the mediator asked if each of them would support the newly elected governor if they lost? Quickly, and without thinking, the two men said “Yes!”
Sarah, on the other hand, pointed out that the guys were too quick to offer their support for leadership that may prove to be incompetent. The Governor turns to Palin and says something like “I’m not surprised, when I had so-and-so contact you looking for support, you refused.”
Her response was “I, did……you wanted me to support George Bush.”
Hellooooooooooo independents!
Hellooooooooooo Reagan Democrats!
Hellooooooooooo disenchanted Republicans!
By Churchill
September 6, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this
No Palin/RNC convention bounce. Here are today’s results from the daily tracking polls:
Gallup: Obama 47% McCain 45% Obama +2 Rasmussen: Obama 49% McCain 46% Obama +3 DiaGeo/Hotline: Obama 46% McCain 40% Obama +6
This is bad news for McCain. They were hoping for a grandslam with Caribou Barbie but looks like they got a bunt.
By Churchill
September 6, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this
All the adulation of Palin is irrational. The public really knows very little about her, except for the sketchy official biographies put out by the Republicans. There is enough negative information coming out to suggest that these bios. may be overblown, and, while not prima facia evidence that she is a crook and an ambitious opportunist, she is shown to be at least human and not a selfless reformer. If a man or an unattrative woman with her credentials had been chosen, McCain would have been laughed out of the convention. What we have here is really the celebrity factor; she is being carried by her looks and a fantasy hardy pioneer story worthy of Davy Crockett; exactly how relevant is eating mooseburgers to running the government of the world’s only superpower? The adulation is an indication that they are willing to grasp at any straw to stave off the Democrats. From what this article says, Palin is enegizing the Republican base and rural voters, who would have voted for McCain in spite of whomever he had chosen to be his running mate, or at least wouldn’t have voted for Obama. If McCain thought he would attract Democratic women or many idependent women that supported Hillar, he was mistaken. There is still 60 days of hard campaigning left, which is enough time for the bloom to leave the rose. More than enough time for her condescending, smarmy, smirking attitude to get under many peoples skin; she is more of the same. If you are not a closed minded, bigotted Republican, it is doubtful she would appeal to you once the initial novelty wears off. She is a thug, you know, a pit bull without lipstick; she is a female version of Chaney.
By Churchill
September 6, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this
I love watching these liars scramble like roaches. And watching them quibble over whehter their right wing nutjob of a VP nominee sold or listed a plane on eBay. I actually applaud her for getting rid of it. But what at first turned out to be a smart move is now soiled like a pair of white underwear after a wet f@rt with touting this is her “executive” experience.
The Repooplicans made a bad move trying to tar and feather Obama for his lack of experience, which to be sure is a fair and legitimate question (although for my money his judgment vs. McCain’s is a no brainer).
But to watch these morons bray about how experienced Gov. Palin is with these moronic anecdotes shows just how low they have sunk. Trying to argue that she is more experienced and better prepared than Obama is laughable. To say she has foreign policy experience because she governed next to Russia, to say she’s a world traveler and has visited Ireland, when in fact she never got off the plane, well you see just how pathetic this is.
The luncay of the hypocrisy of the GOP is full throtle now. Back in August, none other than Karl Rove said that had Obama picked Tim Kaine it would show to him he was more interested in politics than in governing. Well, Tim Kaine is a one term Governor with three years experience, he was a former Lt. Governor, he was mayor of the Capital of Virginia (pop 200,000 but as Karl Rove points out, smaller than Chula Vista, CA) and was also a member of the Richmond City Council. Where have you seen this resume before?
Back when Fux News and Rush Limbaugh were obssessed with Jamie Lynne Spears being an unwed mother at the age of 16, they both railed not against her, but HER PARENTS. Bill O’LIEly even went so far as to blame the birth on Spears’ parents and called them PINHEADS. I guess Gov. Pinhead’s lack on interest in raising her child is directly to blame for Bristol being statutorily raped by an 18 yo redneck that likes to shoot s**. Beautiful!!
By Bemused Humanist
September 6, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this
I couldn’t quite remember the origins of Mr. Wooten’s argument in favor of a patently unqualified far-right fanatic for the Vice Presidency. Then it came to me. Roman Hruska, a US Senator, defending Richard Nixon’s nominee to the Supreme Court, one G. Harrold Carswell, a man who made Harriet Miers look like John Marshall. Roman’s quote:
“So what if he is mediocre? There are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they? We can’t have all Brandeises, Cardozos, and Frankfurters and stuff like that there.”
Redneck Convert would be proud. It is the “you can have a beer with George W Bush” approach to evaluating individuals for high office: we don’t need none of them fancy educated Harvard Constitutional Law scholars to guide our republic. We need second-rate nobodies like Carswell, Bush, and Palin – because they represent, if not the worst our republic produces, at least the most benignly (but egregiously) unqualified and undistinguished.
Of course, the dead and maimed victims of the war in Iraq might disagree, like the best of the US Senate did in 1970.
Carswell’s nomination was rescinded.
Roman Hruska quickly became a national joke.
Just like Ms Palin is already.
To paraphrase a great conservative politician: bigotry against Jerry Springer types in high office is no vice.
By Churchill
September 6, 2008 2:29 PM | Link to this
Where’s Sarah?
That’s all everyone is asking, as Gov. Sarah Palin has become the hot ticket item for all the news programs, as well as for any TV interview. Despite her electrifying debut at the Republican National Convention, she will not complete her introductory rollout as the vice presidential nominee for the G.O.P. ticket on one of this Sunday’s morning news programs — appearances that were derided by none other than former Senator Fred Thompson in his speech this past week at the gathering in St. Paul. (Even though Mr. Thompson — and Senator John McCain himself — have never been strangers to the Sunday news program circuit.)
The Times’s Monica Davey reported today that McCain campaign aides suggested that she’ll be largely shielded from mega-press interviews — perhaps for a while. She’ll be campaigning and speaking to the “American people.”
To us, that seems topsy-turvy after the G.O.P. boasted all week long that Governor Palin is a force unto herself, independent, dogged, reformist and quite capable of not only being vice president but of taking on big special interests. So what’s the upshot of not booking her? What message does it send that the first G.O.P. woman to land the No. 2 slot — the one who energized the base, who totally kicked up the McCain enthusiasm meter and stepped confidently onto the national stage at the convention with a speech that was well-received and tough on her Democratic opponents — won’t be available for interviews? That she’s not ready for the glare of the national media? (The McCain campaign, throughout the past week, set up the MSM as her nemesis.) Or is this a protective move on the part of Senator John McCain’s advisers?
We’ll let you decide …
Meanwhile, here’s the lineup for Sunday, and it’s chock-full of the other candidates and their surrogates. Senator Barack Obama will appear on ABC News’ “This Week.” His opponent, Senator John McCain, will be the guest of Bob Schieffer on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” And the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., takes the stage at NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Fox News Sunday brings out the main campaign thinkers, Rick Davis, campaign manager for the McCain campaign and David Axelrod, chief strategist for the Obama campaign. Fox also plans a documentary tonight on Governor Palin, with interviews of her family. (In case you missed it, the former brother-in-law of Governor Palin and the protagonist of “Troopergate” in Alaska spoke to The Washington Post for an article today, expressing regret for some of his behavior and also seeming to want to put the past behind him in the interest of Ms. Palin’s candidacy.)
CNN’s “Late Edition” has a slate of talkers and senators, including Obama strategist Robert Gibbs.