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What's really going on is that people are freaking out about Palin. 1 in 3 VPs have gone on to become President. She has a 1 in 3 chance of becoming President and people in her own party have never met her. Didn't even know how to pronounce her name!

So the media is vetting her, literally. People are scrambling to find out who she is so they can feel safe with her being a heartbeat away from the Presidency.

anon,
the Iraquis did NOT agree with Barack's original plan. And we didnt implement it. Wake up and think for yourself.

It is truly sad how we have all descended into a battle of red vs blue, left vs right, republican vs democrat. People, the game is rigged, the fix is in, and it doesn't matter who gets elected, the American people get hosed. While we argue over who is correct, and call each other names, the government of the wealthy, by the special interests and for big corporations is laughing all the way to the bank. Think I'm wrong? Write a letter to your senator and see what happens. Maybe a form letter response if you're lucky. More likely no response, unless you included a large "campaign" donation with your letter. Go ahead. prove me wrong, if you can.

Obama has no foreign policy experience or executive experience.

Palin has run a business, a city and a state. Obama has run his mouth.

Notice during the Dem convention that not one person could get up on stage and talk about what Obama accomplished as a community agitator.

"Did you attend school with Obama?"

That's not fair.

Not everyone can get their BA in journalism from the venerated Univ of Idaho.

Or finish in the literal bottom five of their graduating class.

Oh wait. That's the Republicans.

"Real men like McCain aren't intimidated by strong women"

How would McCain even know? He met her once before picking her as VP.

We aren't there her because it is evident her policies are not there for us. Feminists are intelligent women that care about the direction of our country, are concerned with the legacy we are leaving our children, and embrace motherhood and career knowing that there is a delicate balance between the two for neither area to suffer. Maybe the Feminists have this one figured out already...despite her gender, she is bad for our nation and our future!

look, if all the supposed controversies that obama had to go through were condensed to five days it would look a lot like this--but probably even worse. how long was the media stuck on reverend wright? "proud of america?" i hope journalists understand that the reason scrutiny is so high is because no one knows anything about her, so everything is coming out fast.

The media and blogger attacks on Palin will backfire if they continue.

I think Palin is great, even if I don't share every single belief she has. We agree on the big picture.

I do look forward to 2012, and an exciting presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin.

Wouldn't THAT be historic?

Real men like McCain aren't intimidated by strong women.

Pretty much sums up why Obama didn't choose Hillary.

Oh Brady. The writer is a well-known Palin critic, who took sides in the Palin vs Librarian issue. Not exactly an innocent bystander.

anon:

Don't you mean "Lower 48?"

Did you attend school with Obama?

Naveen:

Good thought. And, I agree. The social conservatives see Sarah Palin as the future of the party. They're enthused because McCain chose someone who's a radical pro-lifer like they are.

Corsi is not ok. But just because he repeated pre-existing information doesn't discredit the factual basis of that information.

If Corsi says the sky is blue, does that mean the sky isn't blue?

If Palin has closed the "enthusiasm gap", doesn't that mean that conservatives aren't voting for McCain, but for Palin? SHE is essentially the head of the ticket now. What does that say about John McCain?

Samantha Brown

is the Travel Channel Queen, a perky blonde with a whacked sense of humor.

Campbell Brown

is the CNN anchor who went into the tank early for Obama and has yet to crack a single joke that is funny.

The real question isn't where are the feminists, where's the decency? "Babies Lies & Scandals" says Lies ... what lie has been told? Jan Wenner & crew's liberal bent is showing through - they could have just said "Babies & Scandals" and left it that. Instead, they're at the forefront of a liberal stampede that's implying the woest, spreading allegations as fact, actually calling for paternity testing on Sara Palin's baby, release of confidential medical information, poring over photos to size baby bumps at different times. For anyone who thinks they are for human decency, privacy rights, and compassion - why aren't you more outraged that this is the state of your mainstream media?

The Obama bias was always in the air because it made for a great story (and that sells), but frankly, its beginning to stink up the room.

Why does Sarah Palin's husband hate America?

I can't wait for Obama to be president so I can quit my job and get free things! Free health insurance finally!

So posting racist and anti semitic comments and appearing on white nationalist radio is ok?

Corsi was the only person to identify the Iraqi Billionaire - Rezko - Obama connection? That information didn't exist prior to his just released book?

Strange. About as strange as insisting that the act of running for President makes you qualified to be President.

me: I'd like to be a doctor at your hospital.
hospital: What are your qualifications?
me: Well, I've been talking about being a doctor for almost 2 years, my friends think I'm qualified for it, and I've applied at over 30 other hospitals.
hospital: But what are your qualifications?
me: I am The One I've been waiting for!
hospital: Bye.
me: Hope and Change!

If running for President makes you qualified, then George Bush is 2x as qualified as Obama for President!

Palin will be delivering
her withdrawal speech
tonight and heading back
home.

That's the best thing
Ms. Incompetent can do
and get out of the
Lower 49.

Ryan:

That is an outright lie:

"McCain is the one who canceled because Samantha Brown asked Tucker Bounds a question about Palin that Tucker could not answer. "

I WATCHED Samantha pushing Tucker with pointed questions about Sarah which were intended to show her in poor light.

I WATCHED as TUCKER nobly extricated and acquitted himself with honest and unbiased answers which gave an a more truthful picture of the vice presidential candidate.

I do not know what it is McCain was supposed to have cancelled B U T

I D O know that whatever it was, there was NO reason for it to be based on this this particular issue!

BHO & Biden are toast! Love to see all the hate-posts here - shows just how scared you are! Love it, love it! You are all saying that Sarah is just like BHO - so why don't you just vote for her!

Yes, Mc Can, and Sarah, Sarah, Sarah!!!

This is getting funnier by the day. The republicans sound like a bunch of whiners. They are kidding themselves that this ticket will help with the women independents out there. All the polls out show women just aren't buying into this. It has nothing to do with working mothers. It has to do with the economy and the supreme court. The repubs are pushing this story line, not the dems.

The Who said it best, "won't be fooled again."

If Palin has the experience
that Republicans are attributing
to her, they also to have to
explain why she could not even
describe the duties of the
vice president in a recent
tv interview.

Running on and on about experience
when you cannot even answer an
elementary question about the
job for which you have just been
selected does not wash.

"Corsi's racist rants on FreeRepublic were considered par for the course. "
Posted by: Ryan C | Sep 3, 2008 12:54:33 PM
___________________
hmmmmmmm
Anything anti- B O is automatically labeled "racist".

We should add this mis-begotten anomaly to the new book of political change!

Where are the feminists?? Seriously, funny.

The feminists are voting for a ticket that actually believes in feminism. Not a ticket that tried a ridiculous pandering gimmick with a woman who holds no feminist values whatsoever.

"Why is Larry King afraid of John McCain?"

He isn't.

McCain is the one who canceled because Samantha Brown asked Tucker Bounds a question about Palin that Tucker could not answer.

Palin has yet to speak with any reporter outside of People magazine.

McCain is giving his 1st national interview (other than Leno) tonite since going into hiding from the press after his houses gaffe.

Meanwhile Obama is going on O'Reilly on Thurs.

Her office in downtown Anchorage sits beside the ConocoPhillips building. "When I look every day, the big oil company's building is right out there next to me, and it's quite a reminder that we should have mutually beneficial relationships with the oil industry," she said recently. Most people in the Alaskan environmental community see her as an ally of Big Oil, willing to set aside both science and the public good to benefit the industry.

Ryan C

Why is Larry King afraid of John McCain?

Why is John McCain afraid of Larry King?

Dear Mayor Noun...Verb...09/11 -

We should all be afraid of a potential President who makes the most important decision of his campaign on information provided the day before and then blames the media when the truth about his nominee starts oozing out. We've been here before and look where it's gotten us. It's pure Bush administration...screw something up and then lie, distract, and divide. Enough.

"Thats just like believing that the act of running for President makes you qualified for President."

Actually it does. Its not the only act certainly but otherwise how does one qualify for the Presidency if one does not run for it?

McCain has ran and had his qualifications vetted by a primary process.

Obama and Joe Biden have done the same.

Palin's qualifications are handed out as GOP talking points.

And even those aren't very good because they just started to vet her on Wed last week.

McCain 1st executive decision was a rushed and uninformed one. Probably because he was in a panic about his campaign. You don't change the game if you think you are winning.

Debra I am bitter because this country has gone to hell with the republicans running it.

So the act of Corsi mentioning it makes it untrue"

Considering he is thoroughly discredited liar and bigot and you rely upon him as your main source(or rw simply repeating his charge), I would say yes.

Its funny how the left blogosphere was cast as mean recently.

Corsi's racist rants on FreeRepublic were considered par for the course.

Sarah Palin will do well with those small town Americans that Obama thinks are bitter and clinging to guns and religion, AND Hillary supporters who saw them gang bang her too.
I see BACKLASH coming, if the Obots, paid and otherwise keep it up.
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN/PALIN!

So the act of Corsi mentioning it makes it untrue?

Thats just like believing that the act of running for President makes you qualified for President.

Way to rely on thoroughly discredited Corsi for your continuing Rezko scandal!

Meanwhile John McCain's foreign policy adviser is a registered foreign agent paid to lobby for Georgia.

A more cynical version: there's some jealousy in play here.

Thanks for posting actual facts Samantha.

Though two things should be noted:

The Obama's made more than one offer and their last offer was accepted. This was June of 2005 (months after the peak and the start of price declines) and the house had been on the market for awhile.

The Obama's paid 1/6 the price of what Mrs. Rezko paid for 1/6 of the land.

Rezko's wife could afford it because for some strange reason some Iraqi billionaire decided to loan them $3.5M just prior to the deal. Why would an Iraqi billionaire be funneling money to a known political-fixer that was under federal investigation?

Could it be because that billionaire knew he was indirectly buying favors from a sitting US Senator?

"Also note, that some how magically, Rezkos wife had 30k cash on hand and a net worth of -30k."

Net worth is probably like the McCain set up, ya know where's hes the kept man but nothing is in his name.

"But yet she managed to snag a 600k piece of property, just to flip it back to Obama for a huge loss."

She sold 1/6 of the property at 1/6 of the price she paid.

Why do the media have to pull out the kid gloves for Palin and why should she be cut a break? The media has beat Obama up from day one and he and his family are continuously scrutinized. So we can jump all over him but it is sexism if people ask questions about this woman's past and political stance? What hogwash! This is all so hypocritical. If she is so ready then she should be able to get into the rink with the heavy weights! Her credibility is in question and our country is at stake, I don't think this is a time to bottle feed, burp and change Palin's baby diapers! You want to role with the big boys; you get the big boy questions and leave the sexism at home. Didn't she say all of Hillary's and PUMA's whining doesn’t help women? So let her live up to her comment! The Republican so called evangelicals are a bunch of self indulgent hypocritical imps!

Obama/Biden 08-16

"Find some neutral press and she probably will!"

So she's ready to be President and face down people like Putin but needs a friendly venue in which to answer questions.

Obama is going on O'Reilly.

McCain runs away from larry King.

Also note, that some how magically, Rezkos wife had 30k cash on hand and a net worth of -30k. But yet she managed to snag a 600k piece of property, just to flip it back to Obama for a huge loss.

Samantha-If you are not a"partybot", why are you so defensive about the facts? You don't know who I am and would be shocked if you did. America has watched Obama on the National/International stage for over 2 years, 22 debates, countless interviews and enormous vetting. Over 18 million people voted for him and almost that many more for the Democratic platform. McCain PICKED Palin. I plan to watch her tonight, but it does not change her record or the fact she has not been vetted.

From Amy D. Goldstein

It's fascinating to me that it's the Democrats, and especially Democrat women are attacking John McCain's choice of Gov. Sarah Palin. Their criticisms boil down to three tangential categories

1. Criticizing her choice to have a down syndrome baby
2. Casting dispersions on her because her 17-year old daughter is pregnant and will keep the baby and marry the father
3. Objecting to her being a mother and Governor or VP

What happened to women's liberation? What happened to choice (that usually means A or B, not just A)? What happened to equality?

It seems that the Republican Party is more accepting of mothers who work and of not-so-perfect family situations. The Democrats seem to be stuck in a 1950's time-warp where mothers must necessarily stay home (perhaps to live off welfare checks?), all children must be perfect (or hidden from society), and unplanned pregnancies must be quickly and quietly terminated.

"He made a real estate deal with Rezko while he was under indictment."

Obama bought his house in June 2005.

Rezko was indicted in Oct 2006.

Simple facts that are easily verified.

Debra: So your a Hillary supporter now for Palin. What does Palin represent on abortion,birth control, sex education,that would even come close to what Hillary stands for?

There is going to be a huge backlash against both the Dems and the media for their misbehavior during this election, just as the antics of Bush has caused a backlash against the Repubs these past years.
The Dems aren't doing themselves proud, but instead actually outdoing even the Repubs for seeing who can behave the lowest, while the media actually makes Pravda look like a stalwart of the truth.

"If that is now the new threshold can someone tell me what McCain's Executive experience is?"

Start with his stint as commanding officer of the Navy's largest squadron, the Replacement Air Group in Jacksonville, Fla. after his time in physical therapy on being repatriated after the VietNam war. The Florida unit was sub-par when he arrived. The men who served with him in that command refer to his skills as nearly 'magical' in taking an accident plagued unit with half of its fleet disabled to its first meritorious unit citation with all ships in the air.

There's more if you want to read.

@Paige

Co-sponsor != Sponsor

@Ryan C
It's a shame it took so long for the Obama campaign hot-line to get you your talking points. Tell them they need to chop-chop!

I see that there is proof that the libs can be broken down to 2 groups - Drones and Elitists
Of which Obama is an Elitist and the drones are those that accuse the Republicans of things that the Dems do in the wide open!

The Republicans have done more for Minorities and Women then the Dems could dream of.

I am going to ask a non-political question. Can someone please tell me what it means and does when someone post a stop post with a time and * ?

I don't know about you, but I'd love to have some of whatever it is that the WSJ editorial board has been smoking to give them such a distorted, unrealistic view of reality!

From lifelong democrat Susan Estrich ...

What they’re doing to her………..and I mean friends of yours and mine….what they’re saying, second guessing her prenatal care……..with her youngest child….. even going so far as to suggest she took unnecessary risks………..maybe she was even responsible for the Down’s Syndrome………this whole business of saying maybe she was covering up for her teenage daughter’s pregnancy….they are dumping all over the daughter…..I find it Really offensive….and I think a lot of women in particular….who ended up supporting Hillary because they were so offended by the sexism may well be offended by what they see as the piling on of Sarah Palin.

"Palin blew the whistle on her own party chairman that resulted in him being fined $12k."

For months, she had been receiving complaints about Ruedrich from staff, from a fellow commissioner and from the public, and she had been making her own observations as well. But though she carried the title "ethics supervisor" over the AOGCC and chaired the commission, she said she had little authority over the other two commissioners, who serve six-year terms and can only be fired for cause. She had been unable to affect Ruedrich's behavior, she said.

Much later, when Ruedrich settled state ethics charges June 22 by paying a record $12,000 civil fine and admitting wrongdoing, Palin said she finally felt some measure of vindication for bucking Ruedrich and members of her party. Over the months leading up to the settlement, Ruedrich had been saying the accusations were overblown, while other Republicans, including Murkowski, complained Ruedrich was unfairly targeted, primarily by the news media.

Originally muzzled by the confidentiality provisions of the state ethics law and unable to explain publicly what she had tried to do about Ruedrich, Palin found herself attacked from both sides: Ruedrich's opponents accused her of complicity with him, and his allies said she was providing ammunition for Democrats. She quit the commission in frustration on Jan. 16, months before the state's secret investigation and its formal charges became public.

IOW, Palin had little to do with it.

When it got hot in the kitchen, she quit.

I pretty sure that instead of a "bounce" the GOP will be getting a dip in the polls.

The GOP's bright young history making star can only come out and regurgitate stale old GOP talking points; More Government regulation of a woman's uterus, more guns, less taxes, and by the way since 2006 we are now against earmarks and special interest money. She was for it before she was against it. Hmmm....Why does the GOP convention seem like an old Lawrence Welk re-run?

Ohio - All of them.

Samantha-Obama has met with the heads of state of countries in the Middle East and Europe. He's met with our commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan. He's traveled with Sen. Lugar to secure loose nuclear weapons in Russia. We all know his policies regarding the Middle East, Russia, Venezuela, etc. We know nothing of Gov. Palin's foreign policy experience, we don't know her thoughts on foreign policy, and neither does she - in a recent interview, she said she hadn't given Iraq much thought.

Palin as a reformer is all image and little reality.

Word coming out of Alaska today is that Gov. Palin filed an ethics violation against herself. Now while a funny headline, the reason is more insidious. Right now there is an independant commission looking into the abuse of power charges against her, and by making the charge against herself she wants the state ethics board to rule on the matter. The kicker - all ethics board members were appointed by Sarah Palin.

She's now stonewalling the independent committee saying that the official state ethics board (filled with her appointees) should be the only body looking into this matter going forward.

She's trying to work the system.

Many Obama supporters are still living home with mommy and daddy or even older supporters are living with mommy and daddy yet they think they know who should be President. How about them learning not to sponge off of mommy and daddy first! lololol

Posted by: Mary Anne | Sep 3, 2008 12:02:28 PM

You really think so. LOL Oh, ok. You just keep on thinking that.

"How many corrupt pols do you think Obama turned in while he was in Chicago?"

He made a real estate deal with Rezko while he was undeer indictment. Judgment to lead? Had to get the million dollar mansion whether he could afford it or not.

"Some of its 8000 members may get a little carried away with their rhetoric, but that happens in most churches. Reality may not always be the same as the picture you have formed in your mind with very little evidence."

The problems with TUCC are not related to their excellent community work but to their official endorsements of Black Liberation Theology and radical separatists such as Louis Farrakhan.

Whatever you may think about Palin's positions on Creationism and abortion, they pale in contrast to the positions of the liberation theologists and the hate filled rants of Farrakhan.

@Paige

How many of those did he sponsor? It's a well known fact that he's quite the show horse when it comes to other peoples legislation...

The republics motto has also been to divide the country up any way possible in order to win an election. They do it with social issues all the time.

THEIR GOAL IS TO CRY SEXISM AS LOUD AND OFTEN AS POSSIBLE IN AN ATTEMPT TO CALL TO WOMEN.

"And when will Gov. Palin be made available for a press conference or interviews by neutral press?"

Find some neutral press and she probably will!

Tell them like it is Rudy!

Samantha asks :So can anyone tell us what reforms Obama enacted to fight corruption besides getting Rezko to buy him a house at below market value?
__________________________________________

I am happy to help - this should get us started:

Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act
Honest Leadership and Open Gov. Act
Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimadation Act
Ethics Reform

I wonder if Palin is more or less qualified to be VP than Edwards was when he ran for VP or even President for that matter?

OBAMA SUPPORTERS ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES WITH CELL PHONES. I am supporting John McCain and I have a cell phone. So, I think you are right. When the cell phones are counted in the polls we will see the true results.I have to laugh. Many Obama supporters are still living home with mommy and daddy or even older supporters are living with mommy and daddy yet they think they know who should be President. How about them learning not to sponge off of mommy and daddy first! lololol

Wasn’t it Gov. Palin that called Senator Clinton a “whiner” for complaining about allegedly sexist treatment from the press and from Obama supporters? Why has the McCain/Palin campaign wrapped itself in the sexism flag now that her own positions and ethical conduct are under scrutiny?

And when will Gov. Palin be made available for a press conference or interviews by neutral press? That hasn’t happened since she was nominated (unless you call People magazine the “press”). If she's ready to be President on Day One, I would assume she's not afraid to answer journalists' questions, like the other three candidates on the ticket.

The 'Republican talking points" to sell Palin is her 'Executive Experience" - They are attempting to use that against Obama ( hi straw - meet grasp). If that is now the new threshold can someone tell me what McCain's 'Executive experience is?

The only way McCain could live up to the term "maverick" was to pick Lieberman. What a shake up that would have been. And there would be no way that people could compare him to Bush after that. But no, he had to pander to the women. He gave in to pressure. What a woose.

The press is being unfair to Palin and that is definite. The press was unfair to Hillary clinton and when Katy Coruic had the AUDACITY to state so that skank Olbermann crucified her for it. All of you Obama people won't put up with one crumb of this kind of treatment towards your candidate otherwise you scream like someone is slamming your foot in a door. But it is okay for his machine and his supporters to pick on anyone they want to and everyone has to accept it and feel that that is the way it is in politics. Talk about double standards! I guess if Hillary and Palin were born with a fruit basket between their legs than everything would be fine. Obama says that families are off limits yet he is running a commercial now that claims McCain represents Country Club Politics because he could not give a definitive answer as to how many homes he owned. The reason he could not give the answer was because the homes are his wife's homes and wife's families homes. Her father came to this country with nothing, much like Obama, and built up a huge business for himself. McCain wanted to be sure whose name the homes were in before answering and he was crucified for saying he had to check on it. Did any of you Obama supporters ever see the inside of Obama's house? It is like a museum inside so for him to point the finger at McCain and say Country Club Politics, etc. is very hypocritical. Obama and his wife try to act like one of the common people and they are no more common people than anyone else running for office in politics! I hope he loses big time in November!

Debra,

John McCain applied for a marriage license for his mistress while still married to his 1st wife.

Palin blew the whistle on her own party chairman that resulted in him being fined $12k.

How many corrupt pols do you think Obama turned in while he was in Chicago?

Good Morning America had a piece just this morning talking about McCain's first wife and their three children.

Apparently one of his older sons works in the "Family" beer business.

Can't be too much feuding going on.

SandyB

The media sent journalists to Indonesia and Kenya many months ago. All that is done. The only reason we are hearing so much about Palin now is because it was such a surprise pick amd none of these things had been talked about before. I think it is all a bit silly, myself, but the media will go after anyone, usually urged on by rumors being spread by extremists.

"Why is it the only stories we find about Obama's family residing in Africa seem to come from European markets?"

Why don't we hear stories of McCain's first wife or Cindy McCain's half siblings?

And why can't anyone tall me some of Palin's accomplishments at fighting corruption

how did mccain think palin would be a smart choice to handle foreign affairs when she just got her first passport LAST YEAR! in fact, she had to finally get her passport because she had to go to Kuwait and Germany as a part of her Gubertatorial duties... in other words, she was forced out of her alaskan comfort-zone after 44 years. she hasn't even been to Russia... even though she's BY it (which is the McCain campaign's selling point).

apparently republicans are enamored with mediocrity and defend it. just look at the last 8 years.

The Dem libs are scared to death....a qualified female Governor more qualified than their top of the ticket community oranizer. Dems and their attack media/bloggers spreading rumors and slime better start thinking of BACKLASH with 54% of the female population. This used to be a generational election to me, but now I'm thinking it may come down to a battle of the sexes. And for those who are so excited to vote for the unqualified black man, now there will be