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1st of all this bridge does not connecthe mainland to Gravina. The population of 50 is twice the actual population on that island! there is no roads that connect those people to a bridge if you built one.. This bridge is island to island only. Ted Stevens owns the land that the bridge was to be build on. He was going to make millions on the deal. Ever been to Ketchikan, Alaska? I thought not... Is Obama going to build us a bridge? NO he will not, so what is the big deal?

"If we “European” could vote Obama will win 98% of votes." - Zemra, we don't interfere in your elections, and who you would vote for dues not matter one bit. You are not US citizens, nor are most of us in America so addled, helpless, and dependent on the State that we need a mommy-state government like those found in the EU.

Barack Obama is the one accusing Palin of being soft on reform. Is he now somehow the authority on reform? He has never bucked his party and said as much on This Week. “When asked for examples of issues where he would consider breaking with his party, Obama offered three.
“I think that, on education, we do have to improve accountability. And I’ve not only supported charter schools, which the teachers’ unions have opposed, but I’ve also said that we should look at pay-for-performance,” he said. “That’s not something that’s popular in my party.”

Obama said he would also support increasing the size of the military and reducing health care litigation costs, moves he said would anger portions of his party.

Really? The Senate has passed three Defense Authorization Bills since Obama’s been a senator, and is currently considering a fourth. Where were his amendments to increase the size of the military? Considering he was running in a primary against a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, that would have been the perfect amendment to demonstrate his defense bona fides. Oh wait, maybe that was when he was busy kowtowing to the anti-war left. Oops.

Tort Reform? Med-Mal caps? Where were those amendments? Republicans have been offering amendments on those issues for years. They would have loved the support of a Democratic Senator. In

Republican Vice-Presidential nominee and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has an unusual ally backing up her claim to have killed the infamous "bridge to nowhere," a $398 million earmark pet project sponsored by Alaska Senator Ted Stevens (R). The bridge was slated to connect sparsely populated Gravina Island with the mainland of Alaska near Ketchikan. Palin has mentioned her rejection of the project at nearly every opportunity on the campaign trail, famously declaring that she told Congress, "thanks, but no thanks," on the bridge. The Obama campaign and its supporters have cried foul, claiming that Palin supported the project before she was governor and only killed it after taking office for political expediency.

But the Alaska Democratic Party disagrees, at least according to a web site that the party sponsors. The website is an anti-Stevens campaign site and it credits Governor Palin with "canceling" the project.

The bridge would have connected Ketchikan, Alaska with its local airport on nearby Gravina Island (population 50). Congress stripped the earmark after a national uproar about it but appropriated the money anyway for unspecified transportation uses. Former Gov. Frank Murkowski's administration set aside about $113 million of the appropriation for the Ketchikan bridge. However, Gov. Sarah Palin said the $398 million bridge was $329 million short of full funding, and only $36 million in federal funds were set aside for it. She said it was clear Congress had little interest in spending any more money for it and that the state had higher priorities.
Now, however, Alaska Democrats have moved the website to a more obscure location as national Democrats try to make the case that Palin is not the foe of wasteful federal spending that she claims to be. The Obama campaign went so far as to call Palin's claims on the bridge a "lie" earlier today. "Despite being discredited over and over again by numerous news organizations, the McCain campaign continues to repeat the lie that Sarah Palin stopped the Bridge to Nowhere. McCain and Palin will say or do anything to make people believe that they will change something besides the person sitting in the Oval Office. That's the kind of politics people are tired of, and it's anything but change."

The Obama campaign may have done better to have checked with the Alaska Democratic Party before making its claims. In all likelihood, Palin's role in killing the bridge is not exactly as she claims. All politicians embellish their records with respect to issues that voters care about. Sen. Obama himself has been found to have exaggerated his record as a Senator and certain aspects of his background. But "lie" is a strong accusation and requires certainty on the part of the accuser that his facts are marshaled. In this case, the Obama campaign's accusation is not even backed up by his own party.

Oh, I almost forgot. I am glad Palin kept the money. At least it went to a useful service for the Alaskan citizins.... It is not like it went to her personal account you fruit loops. The Seanate and Congress should have earmarked the funds for Katrina victims, oh, I almost forgot.... that too is Bush's fault even though he can only suggest and/ or sign legislation, no create it. So Palin, hoorah for doing something worth while with the money!

Oboma, your remark about the bridge being killed by Palin is no true. The State killed the bridge. They were $329million short on money to build the bridge.

What good decisions has Obama made?
To stupid to pick Hillary as Vice President (18 million votes)
To stupid to take public campaign financing
Tells Stephanopolis he's a Muslim
Goes to Germany to do a campaign speech

Here's to the team of Mavericks- McCain/Palin. No Obama, no way and no how. Yes, I am a former Hillary supporter and he thinks, the audacity of Obama, that he can win without Hillary. Good luck you arrogant ______!!! Thanks Obama, DNC and MSM for putting the Republicans back in the Whitehouse. Now I can see 2012- Hillary v. Palin. Two women to end the "good ole boy system", once and for all!! It's McCain/Palin for me this year. Bye, bye Barack!!!

How could any AMERICAN vote for Obama. His true history is amazing, I agree; however, it is also very very frightening!! He is without a dought anti-American. Slipping on many of his statements such as, "The American flag is a symbol of oppression for many people in the world and I dont want them to think I am taking sides!" WHAT..... The American president must take sides. THE AMERICAN SIDE! When I was young the far left were known as fruit loops. Unfortunantly, hollywood and media have increased their base through lies and wacked out conspiracy theories! It is very funny to see them turn like sharks on their own values when it comes to Palin, an plain American women who has gained much through hard work. Has the same problems as any ordinary American family unlike Indonesian schooled Obama. If he wins, which is unlikely, we may be at war in Darfur.... and they did not even support, fund or play any roll in attacking America as did Iraq and Afgan...... No lie s just straight truth!!!!

As an INDEPENDENT thinking person who was raised in a family of Republicans and married a Democrat whom somehow turned Republican... I have to agree with the post by J .."The DNC MUST be held accountable for the rampant sexism, racism, classism, voter disenfranchisement, and subversion of democracy"...

As I watched every night of both the DNC & RNC and desperately sought a candidate to believe in, at the end of the DNC when I heard McCain picked an unknown woman..I was like "whhhhhaatt the h___ is he thinking?!?"... Then I heard the stories of her pregnant daughter and was like well they are out. But then she took that stage and WON ME OVER! What is wrong with this country when a strong woman like Hillary or Palin are criticized for being ummm a woman? I think women are sometimes our own worst enemies. Gals, better go back and remember what our great grandmother's would have LOVED to see.. a woman a heart beat away from running this place! Or better yet a woman president! Why is this country so backward sometimes? Because we let the media sway our self esteem and our politics! Don't believe everything you read on the internet or see on TV folks. Today's media coverage is about ratings, not truth!

Obama voted for the bridge twice? That's surprising. I didn't know he knew how to make an affirmative or negative vote.

It makes my day to read the hysterical ravings of the unhinged left. Who could have known that a bulldog with lipstick and a boring old man could do so much damage?

Thank you for the silly, venomous, even preposterous attacks against Sarah Palin. This is giving the Republicans a fighting chance against the media-ordained "Messiah." Average americans need to see how petty, illogical and angry Obama's base is. Because Obama's supporters hate you -- that's right, you, Mr. and Mrs. average American. These elitists hate you just as much as they hate Sarah Palin and her "ordinary" life. So, left-wing hate-mongers, I implore you to PLEASE keep up the idiotic slander against this amazing VP candidate. The baseless attacks let us know what is really going on.

Obama and Biden voted TWICE for the Bridge to Nowhere - even after being given the chance to divert the funds to Katrina relief instead.

How soon before ol' Senator Joe has a "previously undiagnosed medical condition" that precludes his service as VP?

If he makes it to next Wed. I'll be amazed.
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Joe Biden needs a long long rest and 60 meetings in 60 days. AA meetings and I dont mean African American.

Obama and Biden voted for the bridge not once but twice. haha. what hipocrits.

I am writing this as a life long Democrat regarding the upcoming General Election for President of the United States. Unfortunately, my party’s candidate is not up for the job and here’s why.

Senator Obama’s word and stated values cannot be trusted evidenced by 1) his going back on his promise to the American people after winning his U.S. Senate seat not to run for President, 2) his flip flopping on countless issues including abortion, gun control, Iraw troop withdrawal, campaign financing, taxes, and FISA, while also embracing Bush’s faith based initiative, 3) being the only Senator who voted in favor of allowing babies born alive due to failed abortions to be left to die.

Senator Obama hasn’t got the experience necessary for this most awesome job of POTUS. His tenure in Congress has amounted to little more than one year. Even coupled with his term as an Illinois State Senator, he has no record of any legislative achievement. In addition, his voting record reveals two disturbing patterns: 1) Voting “present” an inordinate amount of times, revealing either an inability to make hard decisions or a desire to avoid making hard decisions, and 2) A pattern of digging in rather than finding common ground to move legislation forward.

Senator Obama has a history of affiliating himself with questionable characters, including convicted felons and terrorists. Once exposed, he either claims innocence or minimizes these relationships. But, he cannot rewrite history and no amount of words can erase the fact that he embraced as a father figure the very man who elevated Farrakhan to great heights by honoring him with a Lifetime Achievement Award, that he associated himself with Bill Ayers (a terrorist who remains unrepentant to this day), as well as Rashid Khalidi (a former terrorist with the PLO). Senator Obama also befriended Tony Rezko, the slumlord of the run down public housing in his state senate district.

Senator Obama’s campaign also appears to have engaged in election fraud in all caucus states as evidence is mounting regarding voter intimidations, ballot tampering, and voter fraud. Dr. Lynette Long is compiling this evidence which can be found at http://www.lynettelong.com/caucusfraud/ for those interested in learning more about this massive affront to democracy that has been ignored by the press.

Senator Obama has also expressed his willingness to sit down with leaders of enemy nations. In these dangerous times, we cannot afford to have an inexperienced President with no international experience and with a stated willingness to sit down with our enemies without precondition. The implications of what could happen with just one misstep, one misjudgment, one naïve, boneheaded choice are monumental and could be the end of us all.

In sum, Senator Obama has scant experience, a track record of going back on his word, a history of affiliations with dubious and sometimes violent characters, and a willingness to tolerate, if not actually nurture, a fraudulent campaign, along with an a ever-growing battery of excuses for all of it.

You all can't stand a real woman. Your Chicago styled, clear the playing field methods, will not work here. You rejected your Real woman for a fake man!

USA need a president with a healthy mind, with smart ideas, who will make changes as Obama is – NOT as McCain and old man that like to gossip along with Palin who lies.
If we “European” could vote Obama will win 98% of votes.

I don't usually respond to blogs like this but you people are all certifiable lunatics. You are great at lying even as you accuse Sarah of lying and you know nothing except what the liberal media tell you. Do some thinking for yourselves. Do some research for yourselves, and then see if you come up with the same stupid stuff you've been shouting.

How soon before ol' Senator Joe has a "previously undiagnosed medical condition" that precludes his service as VP?

If he makes it to next Wed. I'll be amazed.

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What a bunch of lieing politicians. I can't believe McCain and Palin almost got away with this, but now the Obama campaign is calling them on this. It's the same trick from the Bush playbook, if you screem a lie loud enough then people will believe it. But not this time.

Fox News Sunday is being cited as why Gallup's 10% margin Saturday is falling below 5% margin as we speak. In just a day, "Palin's Lie" as some are calling it, is eating into what was a well-branded 'maverick/reformer' package. Since coverage of 'bridge to nowhere' has yet to fade, worse, will certainly have to be covered in Palin's first serious interview, it looks like John McCain and Sarah Palin are building a bridge to nowhere indeed.

WHO CARES IF OBAMA AND BIDEN VOTED FOR THE BRIDGE.

THEY DIDN'T GET ON NATIONAL TV AND LIE ABOUT NOT SUPPORTING, LIKE PALIN.

A DOCUMENTED LIAR ON NATIONAL TV. BUSH/CHENEY 2008-2112

you should all support and vote for sarah simply because she's a major league babe. no other reason necessary

Sen. Biden and Sen. Obama voted for funding the Bridge to Nowhere, even when given a second chance by Sen. Tom Coburn, who proposed shifting earmark funds to Katrina relief.

what crap--the queen of pork is now against it-------palin is as big a hypocrite as mcdummy.

When did the democrats become so unhinged? You all are relying on the Daily Kos better know as lie central as your fact finder. NEWSFLASH they are wrong 100% of the time.

McCain/Palin have effectively swung all fo the swing states to them and now Obummer will have to defend the blue states now that they are tied in California. I can see a repeat of 1980 again with McCain and Palin as well as this turnig out to be an anti-incumbant year in Congress. There will be much wailing on the left!

And it's certainly not, "If we need a bridge, we'll build it ourselves."

More like, "If we need a bridge and YOU won't pay for it, we'll just keep your money anyway."

jd has it right. The only reason she decided not to go through with the bridge was because Congress wouldn't fund enough of it. When she realized how much her constituents would have to pay, then she decided she would just keep the federal money and use it for something else.

That's not "thanks but no thanks." That's just "thanks."

Palin GOT AN ABRAMOFF / TED STEVENS LOBBYIST to help her get TWELVE (okay...11.8 if you're a.r.) TIMES what Obama secured for Illinois.

She's a Gov. Bush is her ATM Machine.

Palin kept the money dl.

Palin lied about stopping the bridge dl.

Palin's gonna need a bigger PAIL for all the lies she's tellin. Which are not on the dl, dl.

Palin lies RIGHT TO YOUR FACE.

Palin will lie AGAIN.

"John McCain and Sarah Palin criticized Democrat Barack Obama over the amount of money he has requested for his home state of Illinois, even though Alaska under Palin's leadership has asked Washington for 10 times more money per citizen for pet projects."

Actually, at the time, it was once thought she indeed did what she said.

Then everyone found out she lied about stopping the bridge. They found out she actively promoted the bridge. Then after congress cut the funding, she kept the money.

That information is a recent discovery, due mostly to the investigation of her record since McCain chose her. I would venture to guess, by the way this discovery is affecting their poll numbers (the lost 50% of the Gallup bounce in one day, due in large part to Chris Wallace publicly slashing Rick Davis' talking point on Fox News Sunday) people understand this.

She lied.

She lied to a lot of people.

She lied in the 'maverick' ad.

She will lie again.

People get it now.

Sarah Palin lied about the 'bridge to nowhere' earmark that she absolutely supported, kept, and aggressively sought the highest per capita pork for a single state in the country. Obama? $25 last year for military earmarks. Palin? $295 per person - ELEVEN TIMES MORE PER ALASKAN RESIDENT IN SARAH PALIN EARMARKS.

You can's make this stuff up.

Obama: "PLEEZE BUY MY PRODUCT".

Ryan C - this is sweet justice. Only the Democratic party would trash their party's only two-term president in 1/2 century -- and the only democrat elected since 1976. oh well...time to create a third party. we could skim off socially liberal repubs and do some justice.

Obama is losing it.

Only Democrats are able to screw up a free lunch.

Bill and Hillary must be laughing with us.

Mary -- wouldn't Alaska Dems know more about the bridge project than you? LOL. Obama should lose. As I said all along, the liberal bloggers and media overlooked his distortions and weaknesses, but now that the race is between obama and mac, the conservatives are going to kick his booty. of course , it's all clinton's fault if he loses.

She was for it Jake... jeez, are you on the republican payroll too..

It is well documented that in her gubernational campaign, she was all for the bridge to nowhere... only when she got to be governor, did she scrap the project and then kept the money..

Get real accurate news elsewhere, this is not the place

how about that other bridge?

yes there is another bridge...
and may I add twice as expensive and just as controversil

there own"big dig" so to speak

yeah palin hasn't touched that

but that is probably because the earmark was big enough.

that bridge goes to our airport so you may say it only serve 50 people but ketchikan also because of palin saying she would support hte bridge sunk money into further developing roads and other htings over there

CC

Panic?

lol

I don't think so

it's hard to get in a panic when McCain just picked karen walker of the pharaoh set ...with the understandign of issues facing us... of a high school student who didn't really like social studies...

as the person who would be leader of the free world if the old guy couldn't finish the term...

so panic only is she was elected and he started coughing...

"Then why did she use the money to build a Road to Nowhere to the Bridge to Nowhere? Jake, you're supposed to follow the money! Journalism 101."

Obamamama,

Congress basically began shrinking the funding for the bridge and then allowed for the money to be used for other transportation projects (because Ted Stevens threw his heft around)

Congress basically killed it. Palin called the time of death.

Not thanks but no thanks but like "no more money, no more bridge"

LOL, isnt it amazing how McBush and his "campaign" can turn things around to their favor even though you KNOW and its been PROVEN a big fat lie! What a joke.

JM

Obama is a gaffomatice. Daily Kos must be doing his opposition research for him. Obama just isn't very smart.

Mary, how many people would that bridge serve? For how much money? And you're defending it?

Do we care what Alaska Democrats said? I don't even know who these people are, and I really don't care.

It doesn't change the fact that Palin initially supported the bridge, changed her mind after the project was killed, and then kept the funding for other pork projects in her state. Isn't that the critical point here?

Only the Democrats could screw up this up.
haha, I love how they are panicking. Obama was doing victory laps for months now, and that Greek movie set background was way over the top.
If you want change, vote McCain/Palin
If you want to buy all kinds of stuff with the word change, call Obama/Biden

Viva McCain/Palin

Latinos para McCain/Palin

Why on earth would Sen Obama bring this subject up? He must have a McCain mole on his advising staff. Just dumb.

Give credit where credit is due...stop lying to yourselves! If she canceled it, she did it (nobody else but her) that's all there is to it!
Stop lying to yourselves, idiot people...stop looking at things in black and white! Tell the dam truth!

Then why did she use the money to build a Road to Nowhere to the Bridge to Nowhere? Jake, you're supposed to follow the money! Journalism 101.

Perhaps we could check out The Bridge to Nowhere, using the Washington Post US Congress Votes Database.

Though Gov. Palin originally supported the earmark spending on the Ketchikan bridge (“to nowhere), she eventually killed the project, chosing to spend Federal money on other infrasturcture programs.

However, Sen. Biden and Sen. Obama voted for funding the Bridge, even when given a second chance by Sen. Tom Coburn, who proposed shifting earmark funds to Katrina relief.

Sen. McCain did not vote on the Coburn Amendment, though he is on record as opposing the Ketchikan bridge earmark.

She was for the bridge first and is just plain lying. Bottom line is she is a horrible choice one step a way from the Presidency.

After Palin lobbied for the bridge and changed her mind, why didn't she return the money?

Obama from today: "When it came to the Bridge to Nowhere, she was for it until everybody started raising a fuss about it and she started running for governor and then suddenly she was against it!"

It's not about who killed it; it's an issue of why she killed it (not liking wasteful earmarks vs. political pressure).

here we go again

same old same old even the republican posters on these comments have to do the hide and seek game of cheney and bush posing as me using my signon...lol

...just like Mccain has to hide Palin answering questions..

the dark lord has an heir...

call fire on the press...and hide all the wmd, katrina failures and chronyism, libby, judges, enron relations, and the fact that Palin can't enswer questions...lol

throw these bums out... and their hide and seek cover up bologne...

you need to follow up on details Jake. She cancelled it because she spent the money on a bunch of other pork of her own choosing and none left over for the bridge.

She was for the bridge, which was killed in Congress. But Alaska got the money anyway to spend on whatever.

Sarah Palin looooooves pork from D.C. Don't believe otherwise.

Mary - Clearly reading isn't your strong point. I will keep this simple:

Obama hasn't been campaigning as if earmarks are the scourge of the earth. McCain has. Barack is saying that presenting Palin as some type of earmark maverick is a lie--not that he is against all the earmarks that places received.

First Obama and his followers trash HRC and now they're begging for her to rescue the shallow one's failing campaign. Poetic justice at the least.

And, very funny. I'm laughing my head off.

and somehow everyone is omitting the other bridge that was earmarked for... that is twice as expensive...

so not only is this story false (and Jake it's not often I am really disappointed in a headline and story from yuo but this one is factually really off...even if it is included theat "conservative bloggers" reported...the lie.

There is not much said about the Knik Arm bridge I think it is called ...twice as expensive and just as controversial...

Palin hasn't nixed that one either...

All of you are wrong. Obama did make his first executive decision, he choose to ignore that Hillary had 18 million votes and could have put him in the White House. But his ego driven personality got in his way. Don't forget who said he didn't need Florida and Michigan to win the general election.

So his first executive decision where he used the input of many other "experts"was wrong.

If he wanted to win and unite the party he should have chosen a proven winner with 18 million votes.

So how is this ego maniac going to run a country by using experts, who were all wrong?????

I'm a registered Dem will never vote for Obama b/c he has nothing to offer, no record, no experience and a very poor understanding of politics.

He'll lose, and the DNC is to blame.

They wanted him, they can have him and once again lose the White House. Glad he has so many "experts" helping him.

Hillary 2012!!!!!

I love the screwy talking points by the right wing.

Palin has foreign policy experience because Russia is right next door.

$400M for a bridge to a tiny town in the middle of nowhere is a good use of money so people won't freeze on the ferry.

It is odd that Obama is for all the hand-outs he can get for people who are irresponsible in South Chicago and have been that way for generations but disses small town people and their needs. An easy accesible airport would definitely help those residents and many visitors. Roads are few and far between in southeast Alaska.

Even if she did stop it, it was only after she didn't think the feds gave enough, not because the bridge was useless.

JR

Your boy Obama voted for the bridge to nowhere. How do you feel about that?

jake

you need to clean up the facts of this story

they didn't give her "credit" for killing the earmarked money for the bridge to nowhere

just killing the fact that it wouldn't be enough money because the congress wasn't going to fund it enough...or at all.

this is factually not true that you are spreading...

this article does not give her "credit" for killing the bridge...

they give the credit to the congress.

Gravina Island is the location of the airport in Ketchikan and a bridge and road would have allowed people to get there without sitting in an open boat in a blizzard or rain storm. It was a good idea.
And since Alaska is a gold mine for fed. govt. in income from natural resources sales, one would think it was ok to send some of that money back.

in essence jake this link shows that she was saying the earmarked money from the congress wasn't enough!

but she kept the federal money they got

"She said it was clear Congress had little interest in spending any more money for it and that the state had higher priorities"

Yes became clear that Congress would no longer fund the project. And the State of Alaska had higher priorities. That is Alaska was not going to pay for it, but if Congress was willing so was she.

CNN has this same story. McCain response is linked to his website showing Democrat blogs thanking Palin for killing the bridge.

Team Obama is slip sliding away.

What Hillary started McCain will finish.

Hillary 2012

Senator Barack Obama does not understand that Palin made an executive decision which is something Obama will never understand.

Did she TAKE the money geevill? Did she use it to build a road to the "bridge to nowhere" even though the bridge wasn't to be built? Did she once say that the term "bridge to nowhere" was an INSULT and that she would fight for the bridge?

The lies are coming from Palin .

Jake

this is false

It gives her credit for saying the bridge was a no go because the earmark was not big enough ...but she kept the money is the point.

she din't fight the earmark money...she just said the feds still didn't give enough.

geevil, all Palin knows is fabricating the truth, it will not work this time around, the only one thing she has done best is to sell her two children for political benefit, her son with his disability and her teenage daughter with her pregnancy. That is how low republicans can go, it will not work this time. OBAMA/BIDEN08

well another blunder by the Obama campaign

"The DNC MUST be held accountable for the rampant sexism, racism, classism, voter disenfranchisement, and subversion of democracy in this 2008 campaign debacle."

Let's see who picks up the check for Bill and Obama's lunch this week.

Wrong Tapper.

Not good oppo gone bad.

It was bad oppo by the Dems. The good oppo is the truth - check out Ambinder to see a clip.

Palin was never against the bridge until, in her words, "it was clear Congress had little interest in spending any more money for it".

She was CLEARLY for it, used it to campaign for Govenor, and only left the issue once Washington said no. But she still kept the money.

In fact, she's kept a LOT of federal money in that largest per capita earmarks in the country.

Geevil,

Did Plain support the bridge to nowhere during her 2006 run for Governor?

Did the state of Alaska with Congress's permission keep the money intended for the bridge for other projects?

Still not "thanks but no thanks" and completely omits her earlier support.

IOW, she's still a liar and continues to lei everytime she recycles her conventions speech.

Polifact is actually correct. Palin was FOR bridge to nowhere before she was against it. It doesn't matter what some Alaskan Dems have said.

Again Palin is a fraud.

I told Sen. McCain, "Thanks, but no thanks on that VP from nowhere!"

The Democrats foolishly nominated the wrong candidate(s). Obama is neither qualified or electable. Let's recap, Hillary won the popular vote, winning MORE votes than ANY candidate of ANY party in history and she's NOT on the ticket???

Hillary should be the nominee. Hillary could win this election in a walk.

This Democrat, this Hillary supporter will vote for McCain in 08 and Hillary 2012.

Country first, party second.

The DNC MUST be held accountable for the rampant sexism, racism, classism, voter disenfranchisement, and subversion of democracy in this 2008 campaign debacle. To vote for Obama is to condone what has been done. Don't do it. The DNC has failed women in 2008. The very women who have been the vast majority voting block of the Democratic party for decades under the illusion that is stood for women rights. They do not. At least the RNC is smart enough to acknowledge Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton and smart enough to defend and circle the wagons around Sarah Palin. The DNC failed to do that as Hillary was relentlessly attacked 24/7 for a year and half. They must be held accountable. The attacks on Hillary and Sarah are attacks on ALL women. If we don't speak out now, WHEN??

"No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex" Susan B. Anthony