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I find Palin extraordinarily stupid.
Contrary to the slogan "you can't fix stupid," I disagree. An education will fix stupid. What you can not fix is mean. Palin and McCain are both mean, rash and rude. Americans are waking up. The only people left in their rag tag camp are the truly loathsome. That Christopher Buckley came out for Obama speaks of the impossibility of this vile duo being elected, thank God.

Palin can not be trusted, the outrages
character and stupid action using her
authority to crush individuals just prove she not only can not be trusted,
she will further cause dangerous decision, especially in the countries
crisis. Instead of helping the people
she use her unauthorized authority to
out right step on individuals. This type of actions is not good for our country and the people who live in it.
Also, after finding out she further has
ties with the Alaskan Independance Party
was further shocking. I have no idea why McCain picked her. She really need to step down from her current position
because her actions are horrible. You
would think she would have consulted her legal staff rather than her husband
who do not have any legal ground to take advantage to confidential records;
he is not an elected official period.
How many other confidential records he
reviewed? This is very damaging knowing
the feeling an authorized person having
a green light to review confidential
records that are to be protected under
the privacy act and other fereral guide-
lines within the constitutinal laws that
govern our country.

Palin is playing a more dangerous game than she realizes. She has surrounded herself with right-wing extremists and sees the bias very clearly there. But she doesn't bother to see that there are a large group of voters for whom Obama is hope in otherwise dispairing lives. Hatred can foment on both sides, and it has before. To make it clear, Gov. Palin, if something happened to Sen. Obama, he could be martyred and it would be pinned onto you for your careless support of hate-mongers. That means that you would be very high on the list of likely targets for retaliation. History has told us that an eye for an eye is a disastrous a concept but yet it usually does win support when something tragic happens to divide groups of people. I don't want anything tragic to happen at all to any of the candidates. Besides it being a waste of life, it would open a Pandora's box of social problems and pent-up frustrations in our society. Whether you win or lose the election, try to do the right thing for our country!

BTW, shame on you, all you folks that imply the 9/11 victims may have deserved what they got. The ones in the Twin Towers, just like you and me, they were out working a job. Most of them were office staff, many were young and had young kids. And what about the random group of folks on the planes - you can't say they were doing something that was exploitative - they just boarded the wrong plane. Or the firemen... Keep your thoughts on what's really wrong here, don't dilute it with crazy stuff.

Aussie: I didn't watch Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric but I did watch her first interview with Charles Gibson. She told Charles Gibson that you can see Russia from an island off the coast of Alaska in the Bering Sea. She did not say that she had ever been to the island though! She DID NOT tell Charles Gibson that you can see Russia from her house! I don't know what she told Katie Couric but she told Charles Gibson the truth!

Last October, at a gathering of various anti-U.S. groups in Chattanooga, Tenn., called the Secessionist Convention, Clark’s husband, Dexter, expressed hope that Palin’s political rise was a positive sign for their independence movement. “Our current governor, who I mentioned at the last conference, the one we were hoping would get elected, Sarah Palin, did get elected,” Dexter, a homespun-looking man in jeans and suspenders and a ZZ Top beard, told the assembly of secessionists. “There’s a joke — she’s a pretty good-lookin’ gal — there’s a joke around, that we’re the coldest state with the hottest governor. And there’s a lot of talk about her moving up. She was an AIP member, before she got the job as the mayor of a small town. That was a nonpartisan job. But to get along to go along, she eventually joined the Republican Party, where she had all kinds of problems with their ethics … And she’s pretty well sympathetic, because of her former membership.”

Hey Jimmy what about Sarah's Ties to the AIP?
Palin addressed the AIP convention, stating that she shared the party’s “vision.”
“Keep up the good work,” Palin told party members. “And God bless you.”
Whether or not Palin herself was an AIP member, Clark makes it clear that the GOP vice presidential candidate is a kindred spirit.
“I’ve admired Sarah from the first time I met her at the 2006 (AIP) convention,” which Palin also addressed, says Clark. “She impressed me so much. She’s Alaskan to the bone; she’s a damn good gal.
“As I was listening to her, I thought she sounds like what we’ve been saying for years. I thought to myself, ‘My God, she sounds just like Joe Vogler.’”
Vogler was the craggy, fire-breathing secessionist who founded the Alaskan independence movement in the early 1970s. Among the colorful Vogler quotes now in circulation are “I’m an Alaskan, not an American. I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions.” Then there’s “The fires of hell are glaciers compared to my hate for the American government.” And “The problem with you John Birchers is that you are too damn liberal!”
Vogler ran unsuccessfully for governor three times between 1974 and 1986, on a platform promoting an “Independent Nation of Alaska.” By the 1990s, Vogler had built party membership to about 20,000, and the party scored its first major electoral victory when former Republican Governor and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Wally Hickel joined the AIP and won the gubernatorial race.
By then, Vogler was close to achieving one of his major goals: speaking before the United Nations (despite his antipathy toward the international body) on Alaska independence. According to the AIP, Iran had offered to sponsor Vogler’s appearance — which surely would have been an unsettling moment for the United States in the U.N. assembly.

"Doc Rene"
I hear what your saying about the lies that Biden had told during the debate but what you failed to mention is that the source that both CNN and The Sly FOX used in those statement also found that in that same debate Palin lied 12 times like the one about Obama voting 94 times to increase taxes on the middle class which one week after that debate McCain again said I don't understand why when it has already been said that it was a lie he would come out and say it again did he just not want to be called a flip flopper even on a lie.
As for your statement about small businesses being taxed to the point that they have to cut jobs I wonder how your ears work do you only here what McCain/Palin say and not what Obama or Biden say because that same source that checked the facts for CNN and FOX News said that those statements were also lies. I am a republican and am starting to be embarrassed to say that because the people in my party are way to often practicing selective hearing and tunnel vision. Why is it that people in both parties have such a hard time being what FOX News says the are supposed to be FAIR AND BALANCED. Some don't have so much of a problem of being fair to their own side but it it the BALANCED part of that phrase that people don't seem to understand. Both campaigns have told some lies and thats that not just one side lies. By the way the fact that we are in an economic crisis started long before any of the candidates even anounced their canidacies. And when it got really bad more people changed their minds and went to Obamas side so if what you are saying was true wouldn't the McCain campaign have seen the surge of supporters instead of Obama. Ron Paul 08. I say write him in on your ballot.

"mildly dangerous" isn't that what Cheney and Ashcroft said when they wanted to stifle criticism? And DEMs criticized them for it. What's dangerous about speaking one's mind?

It took Hillary almost 2 years to shatter that glass ceiling into 18 million pieces. It took Sarah Palin not even 2 months to glue them back together.

If anyone is unpatriotic, it is McCain. If he knows how to turn around the economy, knows how to get bin laden, and has not shaired that with the Army generals or the president, then that is the height of someone not patriotic. Americans should hold Mccain responsible for allowing our country to waste so much money in Iraq nad Afghanistan, while bin laden still wonders around and Mccain knows how to get him.

The only thing missing from a McCain/Palin rally are people actually wearing their sheets.

CNN and Fox News proved that Biden did not tell the truth 11 times during the recent Palin/Biden Debates. What is know is that Biden like Obama are liars. What is known, just like the world markets are reacting to the "fear of Obama may win the presidential race", we have lost our investment in three weeks that took us decades to save. So don't worry about Obama's capital gains plans. Record losses don't give you profits to report. Obama's tax plan will for small businesses to get rid of employees to pay more taxes and those of you that work for small business which is most Americans, will soon not have a job.

The events of 40 years ago are not irrelevent but they are not relevent to Obama's canidacy. And I find it strange that the first person in the McCain campaign to bring up the past was palin who during her debate with biden she said there you go again Joe looking at the past. I think she just revived another canadian's career Alanis Morisett can write a sequal to isn't it ironic about the McCain campaign alone and tie the record for longest song ever with the song that never ends yes it goes on and on 'my friends' which is McCains favorite phrase.

About Sarah Palin saying she could see russia from alaska.
She said from an island and tina fey said from my house but she has never seen russia at all because she has never been to that island.

By the way she talks about creating jobs for Americans but when she chose who would build the pipeline that has been proposed (not already under construction as she said in the debate) she did not choose an american company that would have provided more Americans and Alaskans with job she chose to give the contract to a canadian company with candian workers. OUTSCOURCING rears its head again. And her 80% approval rating is dropping because of this choice. I know this because I'm one of the people calling alaskans and asking what they think of her. Before she did this they loved her but since she made this choice the tide has turned.

If anybody believes Obama that events 40 years ago are irrelevant, you should search John Murtagh on the web. He was 9 years old when Bill Ayers' terrorist group targeted his family home with 4 bombs. Bill Ayers says he does not regret setting bombs - that he did not do enough. I shudder to think that a presidential candidate would form a relationship with such a person and that portions of the American public would think that inquiry into the relationship is out of bounds.

It will danger if Obama become president of the USA. Obama will hold the key of USA nuclear, and his friend ayer will ask obama to push that button.

I think that the Secret Service should censure Palin and Company. To threaten the life of a government official is a federal offense, as is inciting to riot over racial matters. Put that stupid woman in prison, please.

The McCain Camp is a disgrace to American, to incite violence by not telling supporters it is not ok to go around saying kill him in referring to Obama or anyone for that matter. But this is Just the GOP being the GOP, that is why you see such hate on this blog. They hate to lose and will pay you back with cut throat underhanded dirty deeds, look at Wall Street and the Big Companies, you think they are run by the average Joe Six pack, or Soccer Mom's nope they are run by the Good Old Boy Network. Tax Credits, Bail outs, Loop holes, no penalties, Large pay outs even if a company is failing. Why are there are no jobs here because they let companies off shore jobs, and make you train these people while you know the pink slip is coming, no new job in site and long unemployment lines, our own country is falling apart, look at the Bridge collapse and the levees breaking, roads are messed up can't even clean up the messes nature is making here (good Job Brownie). When they should be fixing the United States infrastructure and creating jobs, the GOP would rather play GI Joe and spend money in other countries that are making billions and are not contributing. The GW Bush will not even let Iraq make its own decisions about its future, they want to micro manage it, at the cost of Afghanistan the Place Osama Bin Laden has been since 9-11. Does the GOP care, no as long as they get thier perks $$$$$.

Honestly,

Obama's "bitter" comments were not wisely chosen, but it must be noted he was not going out of his way to incite people's anger- he'd said it at a private fundraiser. It was careless, and he should not have said that, but that's different from McCain and Palin who are making such divisive remarks on their STUMP SPEECHES.

McCain now refers to his fellow Americans as "fellow prisoners."

What's up?