Palin Zings Obama for Not Picking Hillary

Jake,

You are giving Sarah Palin a free ride on the legislative investigation against her in Alaska as Governor for over reaching her duties. The FBI has been investigation Alaska Republican Political Corruption since 2004. And Alaska government is not doing this. Only the FBI is conducting investigation. Alaska government are ones being investigated. FBI to date has indicted 11 Republican officials.

Jake, why is this not being addressed?? Americans have a right to know. Is it fair not to let Americans know when a candidate for Vice President is currently being investigated??

Whether we are Republican or Democrat everyone should know what is going on!!!

Moderate writes, "Well, we have no idea what sort of grades Obama had as an undergraduate, as he will not release them. His years at columbia are rather a mystery."
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Are you kidding? Obama was only able to go to Columbia with SCHOLARSHIP money. You have to maintain at a minimum a "B" average to KEEP your scholarship in most cases. Knowing that FACT, please tell all of of us (who actually went to college) what so "mysterious" about that?

Better yet..Considering he had to use those same TRANSCRIPTS to get into Harvard Law School I think it is safe to say they were pretty exceptional, right? By the way...he graduated with honors.

Please...Don't embarrass McCain by trying to compare him academically to Obama. There's no contest.

Festygreat,

I'm sorry you are so concerned that McCain would make the world less safe. I cannot possible disagree with you more. As he said in his acceptance speech at the convention, and has said repeatedly in the past, having been intimately involved in war, having suffered and having witnessed suffering caused by war, McCain has a clear knowledge of what war means and why it must be avoided as the last option at all times. That is his philosophy and that is how he would govern. He would not rush to war, but if war became necessary, he would commit to it with sufficient resources to ensure quicker, more decisive victories than the slog we had in Iraq. In addition, McCain has spoken out against Guantanamo and the torture of prisoners. He would not feel the need to prove his toughness through the use of military force. He would concentrate on creating an efficient, well-equipped military and on working to make sure that military was used sparingly around the world. That's the sort of balance I find reassuring and that strengthens my support of McCain as commander in chief. I'm sorry you do not share my confidence.

gluvnast,

Nice talking to you. People can disagree without getting ugly about it and I enjoy engaging on that level.

I am curious about your statement that McCain overlooked other Republican women for the VP slot who would have been better picks than Palin. This is something I have thought about a lot, because I wanted all along for McCain to pick a female VP for strategic reasons. But when I looked at the possibilities, Palin kept topping my list, although I thought that she would turn down such an offer because of her new baby.

Here's my take-- the Republicans don't have a strong bench of female contenders. Condi wants to head back to Stanford and is sincerely disinterested in elective office. Liddy Dole and Kay Bailey Hutchinson seemed older than the ideal, since McCain was looking for some youth. They are both also a bit too establishment for the purpose. I know KBH got a lot of buzz toward the end, but that was never going to fly, given the disdain she and McCain share for one another (witness her snippy, less-than-helpful comments in the early hours after the Palin pick was announced). Then there's Carly Fiorini and Meg Whitman-- fabulous businesswomen and I actually thought he might go in that direction. I do think, however, that Palin edges out these businesswomen in usefulness to the campaign.

So who did you have in mind as stronger Republican women?

Leonard Peltier have you read the new york times report on palin, its tasteful and interesting to me

T,

Forget Hillary unless she gets into this fight like it's her own.

The thing to do is concentrate on NOW.

BTW, I agree completely and that is precisely how I decided on Obama.

Why does everyone forget how much negative baggage Hillary Clinton would have brought to the ticket? The Republicans have a thousand page dossier of information they would have used against her if she had been on the ticket in either position. Not to mention Bill's sketchy financial dealings... She has escaped serious scrutiny, because she did not win the nomination. She has very high negatives, probably even more after the primary season...

Why would Obama regret not picking Hillary? Because she's a woman? Are female politicians an interchangeable commodity? The question is foolishness underpinned by some degree of sexism in the unspoken assumptions. As long as the conversation is about sex, race, personality, etc, it isn't about the issues and how the candidates' policy proposals would impact working class and middle class Americans. McCain and Palin are seeking to distract you, and it's working.

Thanks,

That's both interesting and funny.
We have a publication of the same name and everyone would assume that it came from there.

Well written and an excellent, impartial analysis that might get through some of the chatter, but some will discount it without a read I am sorry to say.

Thanks Again festygreat.

Can that article get a wider circulation, I will be glad that majority of Americans read this. As a Nigerian who lean towards American global leadership, it will be so painful to have as an elected leader of great Nation someone who would make the world less safer than Bush is leaving it. Thats my fear about John McCain

Its a Nigerian Newspaper "The Nation"

No, thank YOU festygreat.

Can you provide the source of this article?

festy,

No argument there.

Leonard Peltie i don't care what your poll says,i just care about having a safe world. McCain is as dangerous as Osama Bin Laden. I say NO to violence whether in America, Afganistan or Iraq

I meant to say that I believe Gibson erred on the side of the fourth estate.

Okay,

Now back to our program.

Disambiguates,

There are two Charie Gibsons and while I'm not crazy about either of them I think the one who showed up took his job seriously. I think many who follow these things were expecting tea and cookies with that interview. So while no one is perfect I think he Gibson on the side of the fourth estate.

No one will ever again agree on what constitutes "unbiased" media. Once news departments became financially accountable to the shareholders, that high ground was lost forever. So in my view Gibson represents the first tentative steps at relocating a place where the mainstream media can claim some degree of impartiality without being used as a vehicle for propaganda.
I expect it to be a long road with a lot of unhappy campers along the way.

PALINS AN IDIOT SHE IS NO HILLARY CLINTON...

MCCAIN IS SEXIST AND IS A CLONE OF BUSH!

REPUBLICANS ARE CHANGE ? YEAH RIGHT GIVE ME A BREAK 8 YEARS THEY HAVE CONTROL THIS COUNTRY AND MADE IT A MESS!
KNOW THE WANT TO BE THE PARTY OF CHANGE!

WHAT A JOKE!

THE REPUBLICANS MUST THINK WE ARE ALL IDIOTS!

VOTE FOR TURTH VOTE FOR SOLUTIONS NOT LIES. VOTE DEM 2008

Mary K - I agree with you on the media's snobbery. Charles Gibson with is academic glasses came off as if he were some high achieving super human who knows what is right for America. And what has he ever done? He certainly has never produced anything of value nor was he ever in political office. I am a democrat, but I was appalled at his demeanor.

Mary,

Either way we will get the one that half of us deserve.

Many of the news media behave as if they were sitting on a throne looking down upon those of us who may have far more education that they do and have have had many more experiences that they. As mother of five who supported an ill husband, sent five children to college and earned 3 degrees while taking care of my family, teaching Sunday School, attending Little League games, gymnastic meets, cooking for the family, and teaching school for 29 years simultaneously, I challenge the media gods to be able to multi-task in the way many women do. Sure Sarah Palin is qualified to be president. I believe our next president will be God's will whether it is Obama or McCain. We will get the one we deserve.