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He was for oil before he was against it. He thinks she's pretty. That's not what I thought when I read the headliine. I gave him too much credit.

Pickens: Somebody worth listening to!

The dems will attack anything that moves. Won't they? Anything that hints of a divide between them and the shallow one brings quick backwoods style justice to the one who dares speak his mind.

Obama and his lemmings - ignorant and bad for America and the freedom to speak!

The Wall St Journal now reporting that a team of 30(!) lawyers has decended on Anchorage Alaska to dig up dirt on Sarah Palin. Heck, you send a team of 30 lawyers to Calcutta and they could make Mother Theresa look bad. This election is going to be won by Obama sliming Sarah Palin. When they dig anything at all up, their surrogates in the mainstream media will gladly do the dirty work and run with it. The press have had the Rezko slime under their noses for a year and done absolutely diddly squatabout it. Thery simply hate her with white heat intensity. The McCain campaign should highlight this preemptively on the campaign trail in speechesand force slimeball Obama on the defense.

Any time a billionaire invests in a project and states "it's not about money"...sure. This guy isn't going to publicly endorse either candidate because he wants to work with the candidate who wins the election. I do believe the part about not wanting this country to spend billions on foreign oil. And one last thing; you can be sure when he gets in the voting booth, he'll pull the McCain lever.

dl ---- I've seen your numerous posts, and quite frankly, you sound as though you spit off a bunch of emotion. If you really want people to listen to you, stick to facts. Present the facts. Otherwise, your comments are worthless.

She is a freaken crook look at her expence report from Alaska,she charged the state will mega monies for her family ....

The attacking is coming from the republican side. The republican convention was nothing but a slanderfest. They didn't talk about issues. They talked about 911(again) and McCain's military service. But what are they going to DO? This country has been in a downward spiral for almost 8 years. And now with the Iraq war ending, Afghanistan is back in the picture. Al Qaida has moved from Iraq back to Afghanistan. And when we enter Afghanistan who's to say they won't go back to Iraq. I don't see the victory or the fact that the surge worked as a very good talking point.The surge just changed the scenery.

Pickens like Gore owns the right (i.e. has a monopoly on) this new technonolgy. He is doing this to continue his control of energy resources. He is covering his own butt, he could give two shakes for you or the enviroment. (CO2 has nothing to do with warming... Solar flares, El Ninio, La Nina is a much higher factor, not to mention that the highest source for CO2 is the ocean NOT carbon MONOXIDE, let aone carbon dioxide which promtoes and has been proven to accellerate plant growth. (otherwise known as the "REAL" Greenhouse effect) If CO2 was bad then wouldn't your vegetables KILL YOU!!! But then again "Let those who choose to be decieved, be decieved." There is no such thing as a philathropic millionaire. (i.e the pursuit of federal grants and handouts/reimbursments for their private industry, while they themselves routinely FAIL to pay a penny in taxes!!!) They all have motives far more sinister than what they seem. But if you look beneath their spin you will see the truth of the matter. That is if you even bother to look at all. Reporters just repeat what somebody tells them. And you in turn repeat what the reporters tell you. Quite frankly if you wanted to set or sell an agenda, corporate media is by far your most effective tool of propaganda and disinformation. Why do you think they want to regulate and destroy the free alternative media. Don't you think if it was a bad source of information they would keep it running unregulated since it was serving their aims??? But yet the alternative is true. Don't believe me, just think how many times you have been censored writing on this blog yourselves... Case in point.

At least he only said she 'looks' good. He was honest enough not to say she will 'do' good.

Looks, What does "Looks" have to do with the Facts. "Fact "ss that this Lady PTA person from Little town Alaska does not qualify to be " President of the United States", should John Mc..not make his first sixty days in Office..Only a lunatic would make such a statement without reading this womens resume.

Palin had the State of Alaska donate $25,000 to her home church. Seperation of Church & State???

You go, T. Boone! (We need this guy in McCain's cabinet, after he is elected president.

AS AN OLD REPUBLICAN...I just can not bring myself to vote for such a poor REPUBLICAN ticket. After the mess George W Bush put us in. I can not see giving the REPUBLICAN PARTY 4 more yrs to f*** up this country. I am just as American as the next country hick, but I have not lost my freakin mind or conservative family values...and right now the DEMOCRATS make a lot more common sense....OBAMA 2008 & 2012...

Pickens: You in a direct way funded the Swift Boat campaign against John Kerry and in an indirect way you are partially responsible for the lives lost in the Iraq War.

He has had a hand in getting Bush elected which was definitely not good for America. He's old when he dies he will have to answer for what he has done, we'll see if God agrees with his purpose in life...

As I read these responses to Pickens, I am struck by how Black and White they are. Children see everything in Black and White because they are not yet mature.We live in a complex world and we have a better chance of dealing with our complex problems by sharing ideas and working together like mature adults. We do not have to agree on everything to work together. If you want ego strokes, get them at the end when you have accomplished somthing by working together.

Old T boone still has an eye for the ladies :-) He is right. She does look good, especially having popped out 4 or 5 kids, whichever the real number is. But does that mean I want her negotiating with Putin over SDI issues or trying to fix medicare or God forbid dealing with the aftermath of another terrorist attack on America? Umm NO!!!!

September 10, 2008
Palin Aides Defend Billing State for Time at Home

By MICHAEL LUO and LESLIE WAYNE
Responding to criticism from Democrats, campaign aides to Gov. Sarah Palin on Tuesday defended her practice of billing Alaska taxpayers for more than 300 nights she spent at home in her first year-and-a-half in office.

Ms. Palin received a “per diem” expense allowance for 312 nights she spent at her home in Wasilla, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.

The $60-a-day allowance is available for state employees when traveling on official state business to cover meals and other sundry expenses. Ms. Palin’s per diems, which included some charges for partial days, totaled $17,059, from Dec. 4, 2006, when she took office, through June 30, 2008, the most recent data available, according to Sharon Leighow, a spokeswoman for the governor’s office. Ms. Palin’s salary is $125,000 a year.

Ms. Palin was able to receive the allotment while she was at home because her official “duty station” is listed as Juneau, the state capital, aides said. That allowed Ms. Palin to file for per diems while she was working out of her Anchorage office and commuting from her home about 45 miles away in Wasilla. Juneau is nearly 600 miles away.

The practice of billing for staying at home seems to be unusual. Many officials said it would not be allowed in their states, including California, Pennsylvania and South Carolina, as well as other jurisdictions. On the federal level, officials said members of Congress do not get per diem allowances for routine home visits.

“To charge the citizens of any state for home visits is somewhat beyond the pale,” said Chuck Ardo, a spokesman for Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell, a Democrat who supported Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the primary.

Democrats immediately seized on the revelation on Tuesday to challenge the image of fiscal discipline that Ms. Palin, the Republican running mate of Senator John McCain, has sought to convey as part of her message of bringing change to Washington. Mr. McCain and Ms. Palin have frequently cited her record in Alaska as proof of her willingness to shake things up, saying she rid the state of a personal chef in the governor’s mansion and put the state’s private jet on eBay. (The plane did not actually sell on eBay but was sold at a loss later to another buyer.)

Senator Barack Obama’s campaign circulated the Post article to reporters on Tuesday. Ms. Palin’s staff and the McCain campaign said the charges to the state were entirely appropriate under Alaska rules.

“Every action taken by Governor Palin was open and transparent,” said Maria Comella, a spokeswoman for the McCain-Palin campaign. “It is only logical that if she is traveling for the government, that her expenses be paid for.”

Ms. Comella said that Ms. Palin’s travel expenses were “80 percent below” those of her predecessor, Frank H. Murkowski, and that she had achieved this savings by selling the state’s plane, flying coach when traveling on the state’s business and driving herself to work.

“Her actions mirrored her promise when she went into office of assuring accountability and transparency in government,” Ms. Comella said.

Ms. Comella declined, however, to release the details of Ms. Palin’s travels as governor and the per diems that she had received.

Rules for reimbursing lawmakers for official travel vary by state. New York, for example, seems to allow for the possibility of an arrangement similar to Ms. Palin’s, but Gov. David A. Paterson does not receive a per diem allowance while he is at home in Harlem because that is designated his “official station,” or his primary residence, said Errol Cockfield, a spokesman.

When he is in Albany, the capital, Mr. Paterson stays at the governor’s mansion and does not receive any allowance, Mr. Cockfield said.

Mr. Paterson technically could have designated his official station as Albany and filed for a per diem for his nights at home, but that “would raise some real questions,” said Dennis Tompkins, a spokesman for the state comptroller, Thomas P. DiNapoli.

The comptroller’s office scrutinizes, for example, the per diem requests filed by state legislators, said Mr. Tompkins, because their official stations are supposed to be their residences in their home districts, so they should file for allowances only when they are in Albany.

“If all of a sudden you’re collecting per diems for more than half a year, we would redesignate your official station as that place,” Mr. Tompkins said.

Members of Congress can be reimbursed for travel expenses if they return to their home states for official business, but do not get any kind of per diem when they are simply at home.

Ms. Leighow, in the governor’s office, said Ms. Palin had not received a per diem since being selected by Mr. McCain as his running mate.

I think Palin (if she does what she says she will) will be a very good Vice President. T.Pickens is right, we need to have zero oil from foreign countries.
But when he says we have no oil in Ameica he is wrong, we have more oil then the foreign countries, we just need to put Americans to work getting at it. Look at Pakistan, Millions if not billions of dollars in aid every year and they are threatening our troops. What a bunch of bull. No more money to foreign countries and quit letting foreign countries buy American companies. America is going to be very sorry when foreign countries own every aspect of it. Obama just wants to keep everything the same.