And what does Obama know about economics and foriegn policy? What would Obama do if Joe Biden should die?

What is exactly the problem with Palin?

NONE.  All her answers are rational. Even her warning of the possible Great Depression is true.  The affirmative action in housing mortgages, health care insurance, and insurance policies in general are the main the culprits in this financial crisis.  And if it is not immediately solved, many people will lose jobs and many students won’t continue from their studies.

Compared to Biden’s gaffes… Parker is the one with a problem… blind-sided by her own Democrat religion.

<<<<<<<Quick study or not, she doesn’t know enough about economics and foreign policy to make Americans comfortable with a President Palin should conditions warrant her promotion.>>>>>>

Yes, and we can say the last two Presidents, and the present candidates know (as they were in a position to do something or bring it to the nation’s attention).

Can we say that all those overpriced CEO’s know?

If they are the ones who KNOW – give me someone who doesn’t know.

I don’t know enough about her one way or the other, but I find many of the negative arguments about her just have no substance.

I would trust Sarah Palin long before I would trust either Barack Obama or Joe Biden.

I agree with Dixie! what will happen to Obama if Biden dies? What has Obama EVER run, except his campaign? I bet even Michelle takes care of the checkbook at home.  At least with Palin I see a real woman, a real American and someone like me, and I know I am not an idiot!

I find this quite amusing the talk of Sarah Palin not being qualified to be VP. If that is the case, Barack Obama isn’t qualified to be President. Neither of these candidates have a large resume to offer but the liberal press gave Obama a pass on his qualifications. If these same questions from the media to Sarah Palin had been asked to Obama you would have the same answers most likely. The liberal media would not even engage in any tough questions to Obama. It took Obama 2 years to go on The Bill O’Reilly show, why? Obama was scared to death of having to answer tough questions. The media jumped all over Palin, like a dog on a soup bone, totally unfair. More people saw that in the media. Look at the Hollyweird crowd, they don’t know Sarah Palin but they can sure call her names though. I noticed the double standard from the media, I know I’m not the only one. Vote for McCain/Palin.

I watched her interview and she seemed really open and honest.  Which is more that I can say about the Dems..

Given Biden deal with Resko; Obama’s deal with Fox’s Murdoch before being interviewd by O’Reilly.
Doesn’t being a Carterite/Clintonite liberal mean never having to answer for anything.

I might not mind having a relatively uniformed VP vs a well-documented liar for POTUS.

135 lies and counting:

http://obamawtf.blogspot.com/2008/05/documented-lie-50-obama-claimed-he-had.html

That’s why we have advisor’s right?

In judging sufficient qualifications in matters of national security, foreign policy, ecomonics, none have yet to define those qualification.  Saying Palin isn’t and Biden is or Gore was simply begs the question on how one judges this equally.  Oops I knew that word equality would stop the whole conversation.  Would a JD degree, different gender, more time oversees and fluency in French make her qualified or is it that she knows more that Bama but is just not of the right party?  As with all politicians, what she doesn’t know she’ll learn quickly no less than what JFK learned during the Cuban Missile crisis. She still brings way more record than BHO

I would vote for Hitler’s bones before voting for Obama, whose sole qualification for office is his race (or half of it at any rate)!

He does read prepared text very well, however. We’ll see tonight (today is the 26th) if Obama has been weaned from the prompter yet.

Uh, uh, uh, I’ll bet, uh, uh, uh, that he, you know [he’s picked this “you know” up from Hillary, who’s used it twice in every sentence she’s uttered in 12 years…with the possible exception of her cussing her husband up one side and down the other on many occasions], that he hasn’t.

Uh. You know?

Anybody notice that Palin says “nuke-u-lar” just like Bush? Not a major (or even minor) concern, but simply an observation.

GO ‘CUDA

I read through the entire article. I think this is just someone being honest with themselves and their readers. It’s finally time for that. If we’re at all honest with ourselves, we must admit that she was chosen very, very quickly, and was supported mainly because she was McCain’s running mate. People were rooting for her, of course. We like to see people get their due. But she comes across as less articulate than Bush. She is just going to be a laughing-stock. Her answers to questions lack any depth or insight; she is clearly just inserting words like “executive” and “America” in key places (and sometimes confused ones) within her discourse merely in an attempt to convey her party’s message. Not being honest in our assessment of her weaknesses is just going to damage the country.

The way both of them are looking this week—so erratic, so unsure, so destabilized and confused—that voting for them comes across as a much more genuinely subversive act than voting for Obama (how many saboteurs have we really seen emerge from Harvard? Yale is where things actually get wacky.) You have to admit, when George Will says you don’t come across as presidential, you’ve really got problems.

Ah, its nice to have 11 posts in a row, where we disagree with Kathleen Parker, who may be considered by some to be Conservative, but leans more left than Conservatives would like, and certainly has the biases of the liberal.

Sadly, fellow Palin lovers, I am sure we will really soon be accosted by the left that has diseased the main AIM comments sections so much, they had to cut off those comments.  And the liberal – we hate Conservatives/Republicans – worms will probably and soon stick their foulness upon this thread.

Yes, Palin is like what we think our fellow Americans are and what we always were like before the left started their social exsperimentation, and that is the reason she is successful, but unfortunately, it is the reason they hate her so much, and yes, that means they hate us also.

Barracuda

Whoops, sorry, we only made it through 10 as I did not type fast enough before the Palin hater had a chance to #10 in before me.

I would normally have no problem with someone having an opposite view of Palin, but every single one of them can “see” Palin’s faults but can NOT “see” Obama’s faults.  And one thing is for sure – if Palin is unqualified to be VP, then Obama is also unqualified to be VP, and he is running for P and not VP.  I cannot have any respect for anyones opinions when they so hypocritically can not be so open to actually really see and only see with their leftist biases.

I’m trying to figure out what ‘more genuinely subversive act than voting for Obama’ really means?

So Obama is a black man and he’s for change (we don’t know what kind of change – just change) – so what’s to vote for there.

None of the above is my choice – but let’s don’t fool ourselves or be fooled, Obama is nowhere near a good choice.

Sure, Sarah has had some adjustments to make in entering the national scene, but she hasn’t had 300 advisors to vet her every word like Obama has.

As for sounding presidential, well, uh, uh, you know, well, uh, uh… Without his teleprompter Obama is worse than GW Bush.  I think she’ll do fine as she gets to talk to the people more and the attack dogs of the press gain respect for her.

If you truly want to vote for B. H. Obama, I suggest you read Some of Saul Alinskys work or go to Google and look up Mike Klonsky.
“As more comes out seeming to indicate that Barack Obama was nothing more than a lip-synching puppet for Bill Ayers funneling tens of millions of dollars in grant money to Ayers, Mike Klonsky, and other former radicals it seems only one conclusion is possible.
You Leftist Liberals will destroy this country yet just as Lenin and his group predicted “take them when their young and keep telling the lies until the become truths.”

The one qualification I want in a candidate is that they truly care about this country and they will work for it’s survival.

I don’t care if they went to college, or dropped out of Podunk Elementary.

I don’t care if they have 6 kids or 6 wives.

I don’t care if they are are black or peagreen with purple spots.

I don’t care if they scream when they see a mouse or hunt bears.

I don’t care if they are religious or pray to trees.

I want them to love this country, be passionate about it’s continuing as a free nation, and don’t think

all the answers to the problems are ‘too complex’ -

or that all the answers is to let the government take over -

or that or that the answer to our foreign policies are ‘let’s nuke ‘em’

or that business should decide how things are run in this country

or that people who come here illegally, break our laws, cause untold destruction, should be given the keys to the country.

What I meant by “comes across as a much more genuinely subversive act” is just that it seems really destructive to vote for her ticket. I mean, think about it. McCain wants to unite people across Party lines—which he’s actually often good at doing when getting bills put together. But maybe his choice was more hasty than they’re letting on. As I think the nationwide reaction makes clear, Palin in nothing if not polarizing. Her views make it impossible for her presence to be anything but that. So already this sets the stage for a lot of national grief.

Right now we’re in the process of interviewing a candidate for a job. Whether or not you’re Right of the Right or Left of the Right or wherever, I don’t really understand how one can really listen to her answers and not feel like you’re being almost completely BS’d. I deal with unprepared students all the time, and that’s what she sounds like. I’m willing to put up with a couple of hedging “hms” if at least the sentence on the other side makes sense.

B. Hussein Obama has more skeletons in his closet (as well as prior friends under his bus) than even Hillary.  The media has been totally disinterested in exposing all the communists, Marxists, terrorists, Chicago crooks, perverts, racists and anti-Americans that have surrounded Obama since his college days.  They omit all mention of his years at Columbia University where he barely got through and yet was quickly accepted into Harvard.  His drug use is rarely mentioned, but could account for some of his mental lapses as he tries to put together a coherent sentence.

Yes, I’d say Obama is a nightmare of bad associations, bad judgments, bad people financing him and probably directing him, bad domestic policies, bad foreign policies, weakness of character and inability to lead.

David,

We survived for 8 years with Gore as VP.  That man can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.

David Goodis – you wre doing so good not showing your liberal bias, and now you are back to being just that.  Sarah Palin is polarizing to you, but she has NEVER been polarizing to us.  If you are honest with yourself, you will admit that the MSM attacked her before they even heard one word out of her mouth, and have attacked her constantly since then.

Certainly a woman that became the Governor of the largest state in the union, has said just “one” word that you and the left could agree on and say something good – yet you people are completely unable to find that one word.

I can find good things to say about Obama, even though I feel that he would be the absolutely most worse thing that could happen to America if he were elected.  He has some qualities.  And that is the difference between your side David and our side.  We can see the good and the bad and make a judgement based on that.  On your side you can not see even one thing good about Palin, and if you did, you would not point it out, you would turn it around and make a good thing into a negative.  And that David is the reason we have a hard time seeing eye to eye.

Anyone who voted for Bush and believed he would be a great president should not be allowed to vote again or at least express their opinion on another presidential candidate. It’s not like you have a good track record. So please this time leave the decision to adults who won’t chose the worse US President of all time.

Hello Jack,

Good to ‘see’ you.

Anyone who voted for Al Gore and/or John Kerry should have to sit this one out too.

GW Bush was never expected to be a great president, as he has too many liberal leanings.  He was, however, a far sight better than the alternatives.

Same with McCain this go around – The alternative is unthinkable!

<<<<<<<<GW Bush was never expected to be a great president, as he has too many liberal leanings.  He was, however, a far sight better than the alternatives.>>>>>>>>>

And we know that, how?

Would we be involved in a useless, unnecessary, expensive, destructive, unholy war?

Would our financial institutions be federalized?

As to immigration – maybe – but we don’t know.

They would have been worse – I’m trying to think how?

Because they wore the label Democrat???

Most things would have been disastrously worse under a Democrat, especially given the Democrat majorities in the House and Senate.  At least there is some semblance of balance when the president is from the GOP and one or both houses of Congress are Democrat.  Neither side gets its way on everything.

As far as the war – Yes, it was inevitable, and fortunately with the Bush Doctrine we didn’t sit here and wait for them to hit us again but took the fight to the terrorists in the Middle East.

The ‘fighting them there so we don’t have to fight them here’??? Is that it?

I really didn’t anyone was still repeating that.

What exactly are we doing over there to keep them from coming here?

We do have an open, inviting border.  The entire world is aware of that.

So terrorists whose only desire in life is to harm America are flocking to Iraq to face the baddest soldiers are on the planet?

Terrorists are going to stay there and fight an army, when they and the entire world knows all they have to do is walk across the border, wade the Rio Grande and they can do whatever they want in this country.

I’m sorry, but that concept is truly laughable.

hey dixie – to answer your really stupid question:

Barack Obama:
  * Occidental College – two years
  * Columbia University – Bachelor’s degree in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations
  * Harvard University – Juris Doctorate, first year Harvard Law Review, second year, President Harvard Law Review.  Graduated Magna Cum Laude.
  * University of Chicago – taught Constitutional Law for 12 years
  * University of Chicago – Lecturer for four years, Senior Lecturer for eight years
  * Illinois Senate – Eight years
  * United States Senator – Four years

Joe Biden:
  * University of Delaware – double major, History and Political Science
  * Syracuse University College of Law – Juris Doctorate
  * St. Joseph’s University – Honorary degree
  * Widener University School of Law – Teaches Constitutional Law
  * United States Senator – 28 years

thank goodness we’ll have some brains at 1600 for a change.

the competition:
mcsame graduated from his class at the academy 894 of 899. so there are 5 people from that class stupider than he is. caribou barbie attended 6 colleges in 5 years to get her BA in journalism. but… she can see russia from her state. the more people see of her the scarier it gets – she is clueless. she was exciting to the naive and the depressed for a moment, now reality pierces the bubble of hype and you realize just how pathetic the GOP ticket is. the VP debate will go down in comic history – your grandchildren will be laughing at it years from now…
i say thanks, but no thanks, to these morons.

Is Palin Out of her League?

No.

She is WAY out of her league.
And if you’d stop lying to yourselves you would admit the same.

Palin: 6 schools in 5 years to get a BA in journalism.
McCain: class rank 894/899 at the Naval Academy.

Wysiwyg: What inevitable war are you talking about?

The one wherein we attacked and invaded a sovereign nation that DID NOTHING TO US and killed tens of thousands of their citizens?
THAT Bush Doctrine?
or do you mean… his world view?
Yeah – thank heavens for that, huh?

Does the mcsame campaign think they can keep caribou barbie locked away forever? It’s been nearly a month and she has done 3 softball interviews and answered like 3 unscripted questions. Badly.

It’s surreal.
The debate will keep your grandchildren’s grandchildren laughing for years.

smirking baboob – isn’t the left getting really cute?  Where is BS when we need him?

LadyTexan, laugh all you want.  We have won in Iraq and Al Qaida has dwindled to a minuscule problem there.  We have not been hit here since 9/11, because GW Bush stood up to the terrorists and showed them we were no longer going to sit by and let them wipe out our citizens.

Sure we still have border security problems, so there is a continual need for more attention to that issue.

Obama’s naivete’ showed during the debate last evening.  He misquoted Henry Kissinger on a very important issue, again threatened our ally Pakistan with invasion, and proved why we need another strong leader who understands the world.

Smirking Baboon:  “Palin: 6 schools in 5 years to get a BA in journalism.
McCain: class rank 894/899 at the Naval Academy. “

Here we go again with class warfare.  Sarah Palin had trouble with finances.  Never been there?  Her family had several children to educate.  It wasn’t until she won the beauty contest that she got a big enough scholarship to finish her degree.  I’d say her determination to get an education is an asset, not a detriment.

McCain admits that he was a goof-off in college.  Were you never young?  How about Obama, who won’t say a word about (and the media ignore) his drug-crazed years at Columbia U where he won’t even release his transcript?  McCain doesn’t hide his failures – He learns from them.

I see the trolls were out all night.
Back to the smirking one:

The war we ended with a cease-fire attached to many conditions including 14 resolutions in the U.N. that were signed by Saddam and he refused to comply with.  We needed no further authorization to resume hostilities and take out a terrorist who proved he would use WMD against his neighbors and his own people.  Do you think we should have waited until the sanctions were lifted and he could use them on us?  Maybe your family, friends and country are not worth defending by taking out threats before millions of us are killed, but to a president, his job is to protect this country from those threats.  The Bush Doctrine will be this country’s defense policy from now on.  Just be thankful.

You should be complaining about the Democrat VP candidate Biden talking publicly too much – He is a gaffe a minute, and should be debating Obama.  I’m getting a lot of laughs over him.

smirking,

Truly, I’m not defending this lady.  It’s that the attacks are so odd. 

I’m wondering what league, though?
Obama, McCain, & Biden?  Now, that’s a league to aspire to – ?????

Or the League of VP’s – Cheney, Gore, Quayle, etc., – those are all really great example of bright humanity.

Or all those people in WAshington that thought up this war, illegal immigration, the financial debacle? The ones who have run this country into the ground in the last few decades?

If those people are ‘in’ the league, the best we can hope for is that she is ‘out’ of that league.

Wysiwyg,

No, I don’t think the designers of the invasion of Iraq could wait for sanctions to be lifted.

Saddam had and would have control of, I believe, the 2nd largest pool of oil in the world.  He had already made deals to sell his oil – and not to this country.  He had made deals to sell in Euros.

They also were great growers and developers of wheat – non GMO wheat.  Europe doesn’t want GMO products, including wheat. Monsanto has just about destroyed or gotten control of all other indigenous wheat and other products through either patents or cross pollination.  Iraqi law did not allow patents of biologicals.  Think of the potential of possibly being the only exporter of non-GMO wheat and wheat seeds in the world.  Food is fast becoming more valuable than oil, especially chemical, non engineered food.

Who got to buy the rights to Iraq’s underground water? The next ‘range’ war will be over fresh water.

They have portrayed Iraq as just some nation of goatherders with a vicious dictator.  The latter is true, we helped give them that.  The former is not.  Many are educated, accomplished people. 

The old UN sanctions??  Why, then, wasn’t it a UN force?

Why did Colin Powell have to destroy his integrity by going to the UN and lying about ‘we know how much, we know where, and ‘x’ marks the spot’?

Respectfully, I’m surprised that anyone is still repeating those things. 

As far as the ‘Bush Doctrine’ being ours forever.  You may be right – at the rate we are going, we won’t be a free country long – so it certainly may be the last doctrine we have.

What else would happen?  Once Saddam got strong again, would he have tales to tell?  You know he was our junkyard dog for many years?

Wysiwyg,

I’m not laughing.  It isn’t a laughing matter.

Exactly why did we invade Iraq?  Al Queda attacked up 9/11.  They came into our country and did damage to our people.  We make a half-hearted attempt to find Bin Laden – then he became unimportant, so our President said.

Then suddenly Iraq, no strong ties to Al Queda, nothing like our friends the Saudis, under sanctions, nothing to do with 9/11, and suddenly right then we simply had to invade Iraq.  I mean our very security depended on right then.  It depended on our attacking Iraq, because Bin Laden attacked us????

We were going to be attacked by terrorists, so we go half way round the world, attack a country who had little or no connection to this group, and leave our borders open just in case more terrorists wanted to come here.

Al Queda is just one name for the hatred they have for us for our meddling in their part of the world.  Al Queda is a symptom.  They could bomb Iraq back into the desert and it would not stop the hatred.  As long as we continue meddling over there, and as long as we back Israel, with no homeland for Palestinians, there will be hatred.

Why haven’t they attacked?  Now that is one very, very good question, isn’t it?  Because the answer is NOT that we have done anything to dissuade a terrorist attack on this country. In fact our war has created more hatred.  There are plenty of people here legally who hate us enough to do bad things if they desired.  We have an open and inviting border, a fact known to the entire world.

So you tell me, why haven’t we had another attack?

The Bushes, Cheney, etc., through their companies have won billions.  They’ve won. 

Our grandchildren and greatchildren have lost – big time.

We have lost because we, the people of this country, had nothing to win.

“Border security problems” – That is possibly the biggest understatement of the problem I’ve heard in 30 years.

We have 20-50 million people here – illegally.  We don’t know who they are, where they are, what they are doing. They are negatively impacting every aspect of our life – healthcare, education, crime, drugs, infrastructure, jobs, taxes, illegals, and yes our security we are supposedly fighting for,  had many of the subprime mortgages, and on and on.

For those who think Al Queda is our biggest enemy, I can’t fathom why they think an open border is a good idea or just a ‘problem’.  If you truly believe Al Queda is out to get us, an open border should keep you awake nights.

A ‘border security problem’ – not hardly.  It is not a border security problem.  It’s a ‘our neighborhood security problem.’

As far as I’m concerned Obama is dangerous – but to be slammed for misquoting Henry Kissinger!!!

What we need is a president who knows THIS country and cares about it.  Not one that will be expending our men and women, our money, our credit, our good will in some attempt to grab the resources of other countries.

We do not need a leader – we are not followers.  We need a strong, honest, honorable, intelligent executive that will following the Constitution, see that our laws are enforced in this country.

We have been followers for far too long. Words have meaning.  We need to quit considering ourselves followers.  We are supposed to be the head of this company, the politicians are our employees. 

With our country in the shape it’s in, what in the world makes us think we can tell everyone else how to live.

We have interferred, installed, and propped up bloody, vicious dictators, causing murder and mayhem to millions of innocent people through our machinations.

Corporations can find their own way in the world, we don’t need to be buying their way into, nor fighting their way into other countries.

Anyone who voted for Carter and believed he would be a great president should not be allowed to vote again or at least express their opinion on another presidential candidate. It’s not like you have a good track record. So please this time leave the decision to adults who won’t chose the worst US President of all time.

“And what does Obama know about economics and foriegn policy? What would Obama do if Joe Biden should die?”

This is really hard to pull off, considering the competition, but you have successfully posted the single most idiotic message ever.

Congrats.

vox not so populi-

“Anyone who voted for Carter and believed he would be a great president should not be allowed to vote again or at least express their opinion on another presidential candidate.”

You’re probably not old enough to remember the national shame that enveloped us after the lying scheming anti-Semitic creep who preceded Carter resigned in disgrace. Many votes for Carter were votes against Ford for pardoning Nixon, denying us the pleasure of seeing the cretin get what he truly deserved.

“So please this time leave the decision to adults who won’t chose the worst US President of all time.”

I’ll overlook your apparent lack of understanding of how a democratic system works to point out that the worst president of all time will be leaving office shortly. Carter didn’t even come CLOSE!

Jack, I hear you. But all I’m saying is I think Kathleen Parker was just being honest. I mean, listen to the Katie Couric interview. A lot of what she said on key issues is just garbled non-information. How can people really continue to support that? And we have to remember that neither Dan Quayle nor Al Gore (dumb guy and stiff guy) served under a 72-year-old president; probability really wasn’t an issue there.

But let’s just for a minute agree that she has more experience than anybody else on the ticket. A lot of arguments are made about this. Just for the sake of understanding the implications of such a claim, I’m willing to say she does. But: whatever experience she has had, it DOES NOT COME ACROSS in her answers. To me, this gives the lie to all experience-related issues arguments that are made, because they conceal a hidden premise. Mainly that having had experiences means automatically that you’ve LEARNED from them, and that you can communicate coherently on the basis of those experiences And make sound judgments.

So even if she’s had more experience than anybody else up there, it’s washed off her like water from a plate. It’s left no marks. In the end, it’s like supporting amnesia.

DG-

“But: whatever experience she has had, it DOES NOT COME ACROSS in her answers. To me, this gives the lie to all experience-related issues arguments that are made, because they conceal a hidden premise. Mainly that having had experiences means automatically that you’ve LEARNED from them, and that you can communicate coherently on the basis of those experiences And make sound judgments.”

very cogent and insightful point. What are you doing on AIM’s site?

David Goodis:  Were there two interviews with Katie Couric?  I only saw the one, and I thought she did fairly well in that.  Started out a bit unsure of herself, but after the interview with Gibson, and he was trying to trip her up and she was mean, I would guess she was prepared to be bashed by Couric – which is understandable.

When she was through that and figured she might get a decent shake, I though she did pretty well for someone that has not been on the national stage, just her state’s stage.  And besides then the MSM ala Couric had changed their tactics.  They waited till after the interview, then slyly edited it for TV to make her not as good, and then turned things around and attacked her afterwards based on the edit and not the full interview.

Even then Couric managed to sneak in a question and when she answered it, they attacked her for answering it – and I had no problem with her answer, but they sure made a big deal about it.  But between Congressional Democrats and the White House, and Paulson etal, they were running around like chicken little with the sky falling down, so her answer was not anything different than what others were saying, but you would have never known that by what Couric said.

And by the way David, have you thought of one good thing to say about Palin yet?

“… I would guess she was prepared to be bashed by Couric – which is understandable.”

Yeah, that Couric is a pit bull in lipstick!

Once again, in WAshington, we’ve pretty much got experience – loads of experience.

How’s that working for us?

I guess I’m wondering why everyone is so worried about her.  She seems to be the least frightening.  I mean I don’t think her background is murky, her past friendships scary.  She doesn’t seem, yet, to be one of the good ole boys.

How many things that a candidate says in a campaign have to do with what he/she does after getting elected.

If all these utterances were promises or truths, we could sue any politician that has been elected in my lifetime.

Do we remember ‘we are not in to nation building’?

How does she feel about this country?  Does she truly want it to survive?  Does she care about protecting it and the people?

Or are we worried that she doesn’t know everything about foreign policy – (do we have a policy?)

“Once again, in WAshington, we’ve pretty much got experience – loads of experience.

How’s that working for us?”

Good one, Lady T!

“I guess I’m wondering why everyone is so worried about her.  She seems to be the least frightening.”

So you didn’t see the snake-wiggling witch damning preacher laying hands on her and getting God to hand her the vice pres nod? I did.

<<<<<<So you didn’t see the snake-wiggling witch damning preacher laying hands on her and getting God to hand her the vice pres nod? I did.>>>>>>>>>

Now see that’s what I’m talking about.

Lady Texan – I haven’t heard that new one from dave.  Must be the latest made up rumor from one of those Daily KOS types sites.  And they call us gullible here?  What ya think dave is smokin?

I think Palin would be a fine candidate, does she have perfect answers, of course not. Did the left leaning media go after Obama for his lack of experience? We saw what the media darlings did with Obama, gave him candy coated questions, nothing with any substance. If the media is against you and hollywood hates you, I’m definitely voting for that person. I know at least they stand for something good and has great moral clarity to boot. Tell me what Mr. Obama’s experience is that is superior to Palin’s? Obama has never run anything, at least she has been a mayor and a governor. The comparison some folks are doing is just making Obama look just as unqualified, yet he’s running for President not a VP slot.

Regarding the phony “preacher laying hands on” Sarah Palin (also a phony actress), those of you who fall for this stuff are the ones who have fallen for the “messiah” message of Obama who without any qualifications other than being of age and probably an American citizen, deems to be “The One” who will stop the oceans from rising, heal the planet, and make all the countries of the world do his bidding.  The fake video is just one of the many false charges the Obama campaign is using to destroy all who oppose him.

Heaven help us all if you blinded millions elect this puppet of George Soros to join with the corrupt heads of Congress, Pelosi and Reid, to destroy this country.

Make no mistake, this financial crisis that the Democrats in Congress caused and have made millions from, is only the beginning of our downfall.  Many foreign countries are just lying in wait for the neophyte who knows nothing about love of country to take it over.

McCain may not be the greatest president we’ve ever had, but there is no question about his love and dedication to serve our country.  Those who vote against him and in favor of the slick Chicago thug who learned all his tricks from the communist instruction book, will be responsible for the downfall of what is still the greatest country on earth.  I don’t know why Obama and his followers hate this country like this, but I see how you are working to destroy all that is good.

Jack—

Sarah Palin seems to be a nice enough person. She seems tenacious, ambitious, and a passionate believer in things. But her ability to hold the highest office in the country is another matter entirely.

In the second part of the interview, which can be seen at YouTube and many other sites, Sarah Palin is questioned about the bailout. Couric asks her whether or not 700 billion dollars might be better spent taking care of the middle class, rather than to bail out the people who brought us this havoc in the first place. Here is a transcription of her answer:

“That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, were ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health-care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the—it’s got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health-care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans. And trade, we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, scary thing. But one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today, we’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that.”

Get a really close look at this. Katie Couric didn’t badger her, and didn’t look down on her; she’s a pretty sympathetic interviwer. She didn’t corner her or put her unreasonably on the spot. You can’t say this is spun in some way, or taken somehow out of context. It’s not a setup, and it’s not a hit-job. This is simply her answer to our most urgent current event; this represents her best take on it.

And it’s why Kathleen Parker and others are asking her to step down. You have to admit that most people writing on these message boards show more insight than this. (You and I might disagree on some things, Jack, but I can’t say you haven’t done your reading, or can’t put together a persuasive argument. In my book that makes you more qualified.)

Her answer reads like a collage, or a passage some 20th century writer—Orwell, Huxley—would cobble together as an example of meaningless political doubletalk. It’s almost a parody. This is the 21st century, and we’re all painfully aware of the lies and evasions of politics. We have certain expectations of our politicians, and we ask them to transcend the stereotype demonstrated here: the pointlessly talking head.

Now, saying this, I don’t think she’s a bad person. She might just be an intelligent, daring woman on the craziest ride of her life. Who knows? If her side loses, she might even be relieved.

Take a final look at her answer. This is why people want her to go.

That reply sounded exactly like any other politician I have ever heard.

It is sad, and I am not defending her.  I just think she is no worse than any that we have had in the last few decades and certainly as good her running mate and opponents.

That’s isn’t saying much, but it’s fact.

wizzy wig-

“Regarding the phony “preacher laying hands on” Sarah Palin (also a phony actress)…”

Wow. Pure and simple denial. A phony actress, eh? Not even a real actress?

Palin is denying nothing. She credits Muthee with helping her attain the governorship. Educate yourself and you’ll look like less of a dope/dupe.

“Make no mistake, this financial crisis that the Democrats in Congress caused and have made millions from, is only the beginning of our downfall.”

Holy christ almighty. You are a loon.

“… “Make no mistake, this financial crisis that the Democrats in Congress caused and have made millions from, is only the beginning of our downfall.”

Holy christ almighty. You are a loon. …”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5tZc8oH—o

<<<<<<<<Make no mistake, this financial crisis that the Democrats in Congress caused and have made millions from, is only the beginning of our downfall.  Many foreign countries are just lying in wait for the neophyte who knows nothing about love of country to take it over>>>>>>>>>

Make no mistake, the Democrats in congress were not alone in causing this.  The Republicans went right along.  REmember our executive officer has been a Republican for 8 years now.

You know it’s funny when the supporters of this President speak of the war, they talk of Pres. Bush as a Goliath.  When they want to blame something on the Democrats, they speak of this President as if he was just a helpless child.

The Republicans are just as much to blame as the Republicans and will benefit just as much.

It looks like this President may have our financial market sold, given away, or taken over before anyone else has the chance to get in the WH.

If we want to talk of those who have no love of country, – we need look no further than 99% of those in Washington.

So right, ladytexan

Bush has shown himself to be as dangerous and disastrous a president as Carter, Johnson, and Clinton. And this was with a Republican majority in both Houses for most of his two terms.

Obama has not embarrassed himself yet.  He has the CREDENTIALS.  Political science degree from Columbia, top of his class at Harvard Law.  Instead of getting a 6 figure job, chose to work to improve conditions for the less fortunate Americans.  What would Obama do if Biden died??? Unlike Bush & Palin, who don’t believe in “blinking”, Obama would stop & assess the situation, then surround himself with experts in the international arena.  Palin seems to think she already knows everything.  Maybe she should have read a book instead of just trying to ban them.

Janet Greene:  I can understand when you disagree with others, what I do not understand is why those on the left, liberals, ALWAYS have to lie!  Can’t you even tell one truth about Sarah Palin?  She did not try nor did she ban books, and you know that.  Besides that is a real old one from the left, they have had a whole lot of new lies since then.

Not only is Palin out of her league, which clearly she is, but she is a viscous lying politician that makes no distenction between personal and political.

She will step on anyone that gets in her way. She did not get the nickname Baracuda in high school for her basketball skills.

The fact that she wanted to censor the books in the library is scary enough. Add that she does not belive in the teaching of science, and she is clearly the wrong choice to put in the likely position of inheriting the office of president of the US.

MaxT, since you obviously believe everything that you hear from the Democrats, leftists, liberals, or MSM, or wherever you get what you so easily believe, I have some Rain Forest land in Arizona that you can pick up for a song – really cheap!  Bring an umbrella!

So being called Baracuda, because she is tenacious to win in Basketball, has now become vicious? And against science?  And that old tired leftist line of book banning?  Oh, by the way, I have a really large statue in NY Harbor that I have for sale also.  Newly refurbished!

The fact that the attacks are so vicious and so odd is quite telling, on Gov. Palin.

Obama has ‘credentials’???

“Community activism” has always been a very lucrative endeavor for politicians, particularly the black politicians.  It can get very juicy government grants, to keep on in a nice standard of living – think Rev. Al and Jesse.

It has also been a springboard for entering politics.  He was just paying his dues, so to speak.  He wasn’t working for the plight of the poor blacks, or anyone else.

It can’t be portrayed as anything more.

He may have a degree in political science, that should make us feel better – right? I would rather he had a degree in American History – real American History and a complete knowledge of the Constitution, and a belief in this country and the Constitution.

Just as a reference point: a link to the original article from The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, the paper that first ran the Palin “book-banning” story.

http://www.frontiersman.com/articles/2008/09/05/breaking_news/doc48c1c8a60d6d9379155484.txt

I’m still not a fan, but I think there are better reasons not to be.

The ‘book banning’ is just silliness.

All libraries make decision concerning which books are in their libraries.  To that end, lots of books are ‘banned.’

Decisions are made because of cost, some content, some because people request them to be included.

Most of the libraries are stocked to please the community – especially small towns.

Everyone acts like every book in the world is included in every little podunk library in the country.  Nonsense!!!

‘Book Banning’ is almost as overused and abused as ‘racists’.

Boy, I don’t know much about this woman, but goodness, she must be really something – if all they can find is ‘book banning’ and bear hunting.

The story actually clears up misconceptions about book banning. I thought it might be useful to have as a reference on this page.

But, this is really more interesting. Further transciption of the Couric/Palin interviews. Sarah Palin has just come from a rally where she’s poked fun at Biden’s age. Couric says,

Katie Couric: You made a funny comment, you’ve said you have been listening to Joe Biden’s speeches since you were in second grade.

Gov. Palin: It’s been since like ‘72, yah.

Katie Couric: You have a 72-year-old running mate, is that kind of a risky thing to say, insinuating that Joe Biden’s been around awhile?

Gov. Palin: Oh no, it’s nothing negative at all. He’s got a lot of experience and just stating the fact there, that we’ve been hearing his speeches for all these years. So he’s got a tremendous amount of experience and, you know, I’m the new energy, the new face, the new ideas and he’s got the experience based on many many years in the Senate and voters are gonna have a choice there of what it is that they want in these next four years.

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Correct me if I’m wrong here: but is Sarah Palin drawing a distinction between Biden’s long experience and her own lack of it? Or is she trying to say he’s too old? What does she mean here? It’s never resolved.

How will we know that Sarah Palin is not wearing electronic equipment, so that McCain or some republican speechwriter can coach her through the debate by speaking in her ear? Can the candidates be frisked before the debate? Otherwise, Sarah will have a microphone in her ear. I suppose if she says anything coherent, it will prove that the McCain camp is cheating using electronic equipment.

Otherwise, it should be a trivial matter for Biden to demonstrate that Palin knows zip, nada, nothing about history, politics, the United States, the world. She blabs on and on and on when caught in her ignorance. Then she complains that journalists and anyone who wants to know her views is just trying to attack her.

Sarah Palin is far funnier than the people who try to carricature her. She sounds like Bridget on Bridget Jones’s diary.

Sarah Palin has some good qualities, but is right out of her league and lacks the humility to have a clue about how ignorant she truly is.

Andrea Jones, why don’t you hating liberal scum leave someone that has done you no wrong well enough alone.  And stop getting your world view from the lying criminals of MSM.  Do the world a favor, put your lip over you head and swallow.

I would commit suicide if I was a leftist liberal criminal like you.  Man you people hate and lie. Whatever happened to tolerance?  I know, we are supposed to tolerate you, while you tolerate nobody.  America, I see, can only return to its former greatness when we have the Civil War that is coming and we take all you people out.

Andrea Jones,

I’m confident that if Governor Palin was given the same ‘softball’ questions that Democrats routinely get during MSM interviews, she would do just fine.

Come on, admit it, it’s not her intellect or her experience that has you concerned…..it’s the possibility of Roe v Wade finally being eradicated.

That’s what’s driving all the paranoia and hatred from the MSM and ‘entertainment’ industries.

Andrea J

You’re in for a surprise. Sarah Palin, while woefully inadequate as a potential president, is a formidable debater, especially when she’s well prepared, and there is every reason to think she’ll be well prepared tonight. In fact (dare I say it?)she’ll be loaded for bear. I think all the pressure is on Biden.

Pizcaj-

In a McCain/Palin administration, Roe v Wade would be unaffected by Sarah Palin. She has gone on record, by the way, as agreeing that a “right to privacy” is guaranteed in our Constitution.

Jack-

are you a comedy writer now? You write “Do the world a favor, put your lip over you head and swallow.” and “I would commit suicide if I was a leftist liberal criminal like you.” A sentence later you hilariously ask “Whatever happened to tolerance?”

Not bad as comedy, Jack, not bad at all…

No one is going to change Roe v. Wade.  Both parties love to pretend either they will or they won’t let it happen.

It works for them – it draws in big contributions.

Abortion is a bug from Pandora’s box that won’t be put back in the box.  We can contain it, if we take it out of the political realm and put it into the moral and legal realm,  but it won’t go away. 

If Gov. Palin thinks abortion has anything in the world to do with right to privacy – I’m saddened.

It may not be abortion or fear of it being overturned, it’s that she didn’t choose it for herself or her daughter and that upsets a lot of people.

They just don’t want an example of strong womanhood, who didn’t think children were just an impediment to be destroyed.  She managed to succeed in spite of several children, a child with Down’s Syndrome and a pregnant teenage daughter.

Some people want ‘choice’ – but only if it is their choice.

LadyTex-

“It may not be abortion or fear of it being overturned, it’s that she didn’t choose it for herself or her daughter and that upsets a lot of people.”

that is a strange comment. I think it’s the fact that if a woman is raped and becomes pregnant as a result, Sarah would “counsel” them to “choose life”…

“Some people want ‘choice’ – but only if it is their choice.”

that’s more true of those who are opposed to abortion rights than those who support them. I really don’t know of anyone who, as per your first comment above, says they are upset because she didn’t choose to terminate a pregnancy…

Dave,

When abortion is discussed, we always hear ‘what about rape victims’?

Should all babies created by rape be aborted?

LadyTex-

“Should all babies created by rape be aborted?”

Is that a trick question? Regardless, I think that a pregnant woman is the one who should make the decision to take said pregnancy to term or not.

Do you have as much problem with someone counselling a rape victim to have an abortion?

dave -

“In a McCain/Palin administration, Roe v Wade would be unaffected by Sarah Palin. She has gone on record, by the way, as agreeing that a “right to privacy” is guaranteed in our Constitution”

That is certainly true, however, the MSM and Hollywood are worried that should something happen to a President McCain, then a President Palin would emerge and she is far different in her views on abortion than from his views.

Even though I’m anti-abortion, I have to admit that my exception would be in cases of rape. I couldn’t imagine the trauma that a rape victim would go through if she had to bear the child of the monster who violated her. That’s just too much for the mind of most victims to endure and would probably drive most of them over the brink.
Palin though, is even against that exception.

Not that the MSM and Hollywood aren’t advocating abortion for any scenario, (they are, in fact), which is why Clinton wanted ‘health of the mother’ included in abortion legislation during the 90’s. They just feel that her strident attitude on this issue would certainly put Roe v Wade in serious jeopardy should she become President.
This is why they are in such a panic.

If she did agree to ‘right to privacy’, I would still be skeptical. Remember, she’s running under the behest of the presidential candidate and must, therefore, parrot his positions. That will, most likely, be displayed in tonight’s debates.

Finally, should McCain survive two terms as President, Palin’s likely rise in popularity among the general electorate may shoo her into the Oval Office in the 2016 election.

I am not discounting the pain of rape – I’m trying to understand why the statement was made that she would try to counsel a rape victim to have the baby. 

It just seemed as if it was saying she would be totally wrong as all babies created by rape should be aborted.  The statement wasn’t that she would deny the woman an abortion, only that she might counsel her to have it.

We have always had mechanisms for abortions in case of rape.  It as a decision between the person and her doctor.  It was done in hospitals, by a doctor and reported as a D & C.  Those who support abortion want to pretend abortions were not available.

They always bring up rape.  As if all abortions must be kept legal in order to have it available for rape victims.  How many abortions are actually done because of rape?  Few, I’m thinking.

That a diversion, spin.

The old ‘coathanger in the back alley’ type thing.

Keep in mind that abortion for rape victims has been available, at least as long as I can remember and knew what it was.

A baby created by rape is no less a human than anyone else. It certainly would be the child of a monster – but also of the mother.

Would I discuss with a rape victim the possibility of giving that baby life?  Yes I would, if she were willing to discuss it. I would not push it, but I would discuss it and offer help.  It would be nine months of her life, that’s true.

After the birth of the baby, however,  she could give it up for adoption and continue the healing without the knowledge she had destroyed a human being.

I don’t believe the idea that an abortion is no more than having a wart cut off.  I don’t think a woman can walk away from that without emotional scars and sometimes physical problems.

So why not weigh the scars of having a abortion against the scars of carrying a rapist’s child for nine months.  Either way, the mother is going to suffer – it just depends on what form she wants the suffering to take.

So why is it worse to ask a woman to consider giving life to that innocent child that had nothing to do with the rape and bears no blame for it – than to tell her the best thing is an abortion?

I truly believe that carrying a baby conceived in rape would certainly be a hard thing.  I truly believe as well that destroying that baby would be hard.

I also believe that it is a decision the mother and her doctor would have to make – they have to answer for what they decide and I could not judge her whatever her decision.

To think it is wrong to present all options seems strange.

ladytexan,

I agree that a rape victim who is unsure of getting an abortion should have access to counseling in order to help her to weigh the inevitable emotional scars that either decision would produce.

You’re so right about the media bringing up only extreme cases where a decision about abortion has to be made; As if rape, incest, and the life of the mother are the only scenarios the Katie Courics of the world would advocate abortion for.

pizcaj-

“That is certainly true, however, the MSM and Hollywood are worried that should something happen to a President McCain, then a President Palin would emerge and she is far different in her views on abortion than from his views.”

that’s pretty far reaching…frankly the notion that the mainstream media and Hollywood have unanimity and serious clout is a fragile one indeed. But the bottom line is that even a President Palin would have a difficult time overturning Roe if she was inclined to try to do so…