She has a good effect on Democratic fundraising as well.

When are you going to report that it took Sarah 5 colleges and 6 years to get a degree. Also Obama just went over 10 million since her speech last night so Sarah has had a positive affect on fundraising.

Unknown Alaska Governor. Exactly.

A pretty face gives one speech & they fall for it...how shallow is that.
How about 4 years and18 months of Americas battering ram after that speech.
Let the vetting begin

Of course when Palin was announced for McCains VP - Obama got more money. The Dems are scared to death! It takes Tons Of Money for Obama to Barely Stay even !
where is Obamas money Really comming from? Those poor and middleclass out of work homeless folks? I don't think so... Something Stinks!

What a pair! Mcain finished 894 out of 899 in his college class and Palin goes to 5 schools in 6 years. Just like Bush dumb is as dumd does!

Obama 08

John McCain was forced into choosing Sarah Palin, and she is being soooo used! Since McCain has become the candidate he has so obviously become a puppet of the Repubs, it's spooky. I get no human vibes from this man whatsoever. Just weirdness. I still have not heard anything of substance from any of them.

Hey Jen,
I'm not sure why your statement that Palin went to multiple colleges over multiple years to get her degree is an insult. To me it shows a rare persistence and a person that continues to strive to get ahead despite situational challenges. You and Obama are not going to win with that kind of attitude.

Fact is, McCain reached the convention and instead of just selecting a run-of-the-mill VP, he selected a stick of dynamite. Its no accident that Obama raised 10 million dollars the day after the arrival of Sarah Palin to the stage. There is reason to sweat, and your cheap insults are not going to garner any votes. Please use an appeal that Obama would sanction instead. I don't think that was it.

Like they say: The A student's are retained to teach the B students how to work for the C and D students. I hear very little logical remarks from liberals, only jabs at folks who support someone other than their candidate. That not the American way.

A little late but there are more charges against her now from the police department.

This stuff isn't over by a long shot common guys where are you at?

Hey folks, we have a contrast.

Sarah is optimistic, Barrack is Bitter.

Sarah managed a state, that has hundreds of community orgnisations. Barrack was a petty commmunity organizer.

She managed, Barrack pandered.
Sarah loves and believes in God, Messiah thinks HE IS THE GOD.

Saranh fought corruption, Barrack is a child of corruption.

Sarah is attractive, Barrack is ugly.

Sarah vetoed bills, Barrack voted PRESENT.

I could go on and on.

Those trashing Barack Obama and praising Sarah Palin ought to learn how to spell their names.
Is that being elitist?
I won't bother suggesting checking facts before making sweeping opinion assertions and accusations.
That would be asking too much.
Start with the spelling.

Why are Obama supporters whining like BABIES over the community organizer joke? Obama started it when he and his campaign mocked Sarah Palins 6 year tenure as a Mayor. They opened the door. Here is a KLEENEX for the OBama supporters who love to dish it out but cant take it, just like their community organizer daddy.

McCain says he is going to cross the aisle, but we should know better by now. McCain of 2000 has sold his soul to Karl Rove and the swift boat lobbyists. McCain is NOT a reformer, unless you are in the off-shore drilling business...trying to reform your balance sheet.

I'm an American, neither white nor black just an American. We should stop supporting candidates because of similarity in ethnicity, race, religion, color, or creed. Lets judge a candidate purely by his character alone because it will define the purity of his goals and intentions in governance. Ambition is good but only if self-sacrifice far outweighs self-interest.

I'm told that people are canceling their subscriptions to US right and left. At the moment the number is 10,000. Good for them. If I had one it would be cancelled and the cover will be turned around backward on every grocery store Isle I go down from now on. Shame on you for the Sarah Palin cover and the limp story inside. Never again will I trust you.

Barack is ugly? Yes, that is one reason to choose a Vice President/President: Their hotness factor.

FYI: I think Barack is gorgeous. But for the record, does this EVEN matter?

Sarah Palin is an undereducated, Moose hunting, hippocrite (is against sex education and has a knocked up daughter!). And academics do matter.

I have a Ph.D. I was top of my class. I come from immigrant working class parents. I have fought hard to EDUCATE myself. My family valued education as a high ideal. Why is the American public supposed to accept a C student (Bush), a D student (McCain), and a B.A. graduate (Palin). Are THEY presidents of the Harvard Law Review? Can they rise up to that challenge?

I am ready for an intelligent, handsome, yes handsome, multicultural positive person to take over. I am done with the closed mindedness that this country has embraced.

8 IS ENOUGH!

Lily

PhD? So what? Harvard Law Review? So what? Did any of our greatest presidents go to Harvard, or have a PhD? (see Lincoln, Reagan, Roosevelt, etc). Since when is a PhD or being an attorney qualify you for the presidency. I'd much rather have a war hero who has character than a slick-talking attorney who has an empty resume. McCain HAS risen to the occasion, refusing to be sent home early as a POW, enduring 4.5 more years of torture...I cannot envision BO ever doing that as he is a self-serving, self-proclaimed messiah.

And just for the record, I'm an M.D....but just as is with your phd...so what.

McCain outfoxed the Obama camp ... stole the march on Obama right after his coronation with a brilliant announcement of a relatively unknown VP.

1. Media went into a frenzy trying to covering that news less than 12 hours after the DNC Convention; firing up GOP base, Palin's hockey / soccer mums and all.

2. Media went into another feeding frenzy trying to uncover scandals, mudsligging; firing up GOP's social conservative base rising up to the defence of Palin's daugther.

3. Media had a pleasant surprise on DAY 3 of Convention: Palin is really no push-over, she bites back with vengeance and lipstick !!!

Vintage McCain ~ this will be a new textbook benchmark on how you can outgun an opponent who is outspending you in campaign dollar.

Palin Surge ... Palin Effect ... YEAH !

Dems are in a denial mode. They forgot that they have been riding on Obama KoolAid for a little while.... I think they are beginning to realize that there is little fine-print at the end of the label to that bottle. It reads :

"Expiry date : Sep 3, 2008"

Sarah Palin makes the leftists so scared they're willing to lie about her life and accomplishments. Oh,wait. That is what they usually do to accomplished women even in their own party if they don't follow lock step with the socialist doctrines espoused by their "brilliant" leaders. The leftist elitists will demolish any person who exposes their hypocritical lies. Now we read that Sarah Palin is apparently barely more intelligent than the average high school graduate while Barak Obama is highly educated and, therefore, brilliant. I taught public and private school elementary students for thirty-six years, and I don't recall one of them who thought there were "57 or so" states of the United States. I bet even Sarah Palin knows there are 50, but Obama isn't exactly sure how many there are! If he wants to govern them, he should at least know a little more about them than the average fourth grader, don't you think? I'm also willing to bet that the only reason for the elitists' overrated opinion of Obama's intelligence is because he agrees with their warped world view.

My fourth graders know there are fifty states in the United States. Obama said he had visited fifty-seven or so states and had a few more to visit. I expect my president to know at least as much as my average fourth grader!

My fourth graders know that a governor runs a state. They aren't too sure what a community organizer organizes but think he or she probably does not have as much responsibility as a governor.

And I, a typical classroom teacher, expect my students to answer questions and solve problems when presented with them. They cannot vote "present" in my classroom. I expect no less from my president.

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Meanwhile, both this year and last year, she has used her line-item veto to slash state funds for programs providing precisely the kinds of resources Feminists for Life supports for at-risk mothers on the fence about abortion. She cut by 20 percent the funding for Covenant House Alaska, a state program that includes a transitional home where new teenage mothers can spend up to 18 months learning money management and parenting skills. Critics have jumped all over that decision, arguing that the decision looks especially bad in light of the news that Palin's 17-year-old daughter has since become pregnant.

Palin has also voided funds for two other similar programs during her tenure as governor. One, the WIC (Women, Infants, Children) Program, would have provided breast pumps and nutrition support to low-income rural women, for a total cost of $15,480. Another, the Cook Inlet Housing Authority's student housing and daycare facility project, would have built a childcare facility and family-style housing units for students pursuing vocational education in Anchorage, most of whom come from rural areas.

Even Palin's commitment to pro-life legislation has been questioned back home. In April, the governor denied the state legislature's request for extra debates on two controversial anti-abortion bills, one requiring minors to obtain parental consent before having abortions and another outlawing partial-birth abortion except to save the life of the mother. After state senators failed to reach agreement, the chamber's president tried to attach them to the agenda of a special legislative session being held on Palin's top legislative priority: a new natural gas pipeline. Palin demurred. "Alaskans know I am pro-life and have never wavered in my belief in the sanctity of every human life," she said in a statement. "These issues are so important they shouldn't be diluted with oil and gas deliberations."

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hopes have been dashed by a lack of follow-through, these activists say; Palin has taken a laissez-faire approach to the issues they discussed, including children's health care, domestic violence shelters, sex education and breastfeeding in the workplace.

In Alaska, there's no shortage of work for a concerned politician to do. The state's domestic violence and sexual assault rates are over twice as high as the national average. More women are murdered by men there than in any other state in the country. Alaska also has the highest Chlamydia rate in the nation, with 681.8 cases per every 100,000 people (the national average is 347.8 per 100,000). Activists point to a dire shortage in funding for domestic violence shelters, which have waiting lists despite the fact that the state boasts a $7 billion budget surplus. Amnesty International joined the chorus in April 2007, slamming both federal and state authorities for creating "a maze of tribal, state and federal jurisdictions" that effectively allowed sexual assailants impunity.

In response, Palin has requested—and secured—a $436,000 increase in state funding for the public safety department's Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. The year before, too, she'd bumped up funding by another $300,000. But the organizers of the Women's Summit, Clover Simon, head of Planned Parenthood Alaska, and Geran Tarr, a former state legislator who heads up the affiliated Alliance for Reproductive Justice, point to the overflowing shelters and say much more is needed. And Alaska might be able to afford it, given the council's total budget of nearly $11.5 million.

Could Palin have done more? Her critics agree that the natural gas pipeline project has monopolized the governor's political energy for the past two years, leaving little for the social issues she champions. At the same time, Right to Life Executive Director Karen Lewis points to achievements outside the legislative arena, such as judicial appointments, to buttress her faith in Palin as a pro-life leader. Likewise, in Alaska Right to Life's newsletter, former president Bob Bird commended her for "ask[ing] for public support in her efforts to reshape the judiciary." In her time as governor, Palin has appointed one Supreme Court justice and 10 lower-court judges.

But some critics think Palin has cynically hyped her personal story for political gain—a move that helps mask a flimsy record of accomplishment on the social issues that matter most to the GOP's religious conservative base. "This is what always happens in politics, and what I expect they will do in her run for vice president. She'll be going into churches and meeting with those types of groups and saying what they want to hear," says Tarr. "Her priority was the gas line. And that's fine that that was her priority, but she can't go ahead and claim to be active on women's and children's issues too."

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Meanwhile, both this year and last year, she has used her line-item veto to slash state funds for programs providing precisely the kinds of resources Feminists for Life supports for at-risk mothers on the fence about abortion. She cut by 20 percent the funding for Covenant House Alaska, a state program that includes a transitional home where new teenage mothers can spend up to 18 months learning money management and parenting skills. Critics have jumped all over that decision, arguing that the decision looks especially bad in light of the news that Palin's 17-year-old daughter has since become pregnant.

Palin has also voided funds for two other similar programs during her tenure as governor. One, the WIC (Women, Infants, Children) Program, would have provided breast pumps and nutrition support to low-income rural women, for a total cost of $15,480. Another, the Cook Inlet Housing Authority's student housing and daycare facility project, would have built a childcare facility and family-style housing units for students pursuing vocational education in Anchorage, most of whom come from rural areas.

Even Palin's commitment to pro-life legislation has been questioned back home. In April, the governor denied the state legislature's request for extra debates on two controversial anti-abortion bills, one requiring minors to obtain parental consent before having abortions and another outlawing partial-birth abortion except to save the life of the mother. After state senators failed to reach agreement, the chamber's president tried to attach them to the agenda of a special legislative session being held on Palin's top legislative priority: a new natural gas pipeline. Palin demurred. "Alaskans know I am pro-life and have never wavered in my belief in the sanctity of every human life," she said in a statement. "These issues are so important they shouldn't be diluted with oil and gas deliberations."

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hopes have been dashed by a lack of follow-through, these activists say; Palin has taken a laissez-faire approach to the issues they discussed, including children's health care, domestic violence shelters, sex education and breastfeeding in the workplace.

In Alaska, there's no shortage of work for a concerned politician to do. The state's domestic violence and sexual assault rates are over twice as high as the national average. More women are murdered by men there than in any other state in the country. Alaska also has the highest Chlamydia rate in the nation, with 681.8 cases per every 100,000 people (the national average is 347.8 per 100,000). Activists point to a dire shortage in funding for domestic violence shelters, which have waiting lists despite the fact that the state boasts a $7 billion budget surplus. Amnesty International joined the chorus in April 2007, slamming both federal and state authorities for creating "a maze of tribal, state and federal jurisdictions" that effectively allowed sexual assailants impunity.

In response, Palin has requested—and secured—a $436,000 increase in state funding for the public safety department's Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. The year before, too, she'd bumped up funding by another $300,000. But the organizers of the Women's Summit, Clover Simon, head of Planned Parenthood Alaska, and Geran Tarr, a former state legislator who heads up the affiliated Alliance for Reproductive Justice, point to the overflowing shelters and say much more is needed. And Alaska might be able to afford it, given the council's total budget of nearly $11.5 million.

Could Palin have done more? Her critics agree that the natural gas pipeline project has monopolized the governor's political energy for the past two years, leaving little for the social issues she champions. At the same time, Right to Life Executive Director Karen Lewis points to achievements outside the legislative arena, such as judicial appointments, to buttress her faith in Palin as a pro-life leader. Likewise, in Alaska Right to Life's newsletter, former president Bob Bird commended her for "ask[ing] for public support in her efforts to reshape the judiciary." In her time as governor, Palin has appointed one Supreme Court justice and 10 lower-court judges.

But some critics think Palin has cynically hyped her personal story for political gain—a move that helps mask a flimsy record of accomplishment on the social issues that matter most to the GOP's religious conservative base. "This is what always happens in politics, and what I expect they will do in her run for vice president. She'll be going into churches and meeting with those types of groups and saying what they want to hear," says Tarr. "Her priority was the gas line. And that's fine that that was her priority, but she can't go ahead and claim to be active on women's and children's issues too."

© 2008

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After 16 years of Harvard educated cocaine heads, do we really need four more years of them. At least McCain is coke free!
William