Conservatives Embarrassed About Palin (A Continuing Series)

It sounds like Sarah is trying to salvage what may be left of her political career. Distacang herself from Mcain, telling Rush and all of America "I have nothing to lose" .Does a True winner speak like that? Do they keeps diagreeing with their running mate. Lately it seems like Sarah is finding more things to disagree about with Mccain than Obama does

Look at the liberal logic.

Sarah palin running for the Vice President is inexperienced.

Obama who even Biden thinks is inexperienced and who has less than 2 years working experience in Senate is more experienced.

Great Liberal logic.

I'm not appaled by Sara in the least. What appalls me is that we have a terroists loving, won't put his hand over his heart during the National Anthem socialists on the verge of the being the left wing Liberals President.
Even Joe Biden has stated that the office of Commander In Chief isn't one for on the job trining. It's a miracle how a man's opinion changes when he is offered the position of Vice President

I agree with Karen. Just went by the Palin rally in CO. There were 'thousands who loved her' there. Each one wearing their own little cattle bell...standing in the field, chewing their cud and listening intently to the empty words and meaningless gibberish coming out of Sarah's pie hole.

I don't understand anyone saying Palin will do a good job because she's 'one of us'. I know more about international relations and economics than her but I wouldn't ever say I should be v.p. We need someone very knowledgeable and very intelligent as our leader. Someone much smarter than the 'average Joe'. Let's face it Bush was an average guy. Look at all the trouble that has resulted from letting an average person be the 'decider'.
A president or vice-president should need details told to them (like details about current trade negotiations) but not how things in general (like the economy) work.
It would be like when you needed a surgeon so you hired the nice guy next door, because he would have someone next to him explaining stuff. In truth you've got to know an incredible amount of detail before you operate, much more than you can cram in during a campaign. If you don't understand thoroughly how the economy works, you've got no business running for office. Read Obama's second book and you see he really understands all the subjects a President needs to know.
It's simple. Both McCain and Obama are loyal public servants. Both of them want to do the right thing. But you've got McCain who admits he doesn't know much about economics (which to me is criminal if you are a senator for 26 years and you don't learn about a topic you are affecting with your votes!) and Obama with a lot of knowledge. McCain graduated near the bottom of his college while Obama was near the top.
McCain has been rich for the twenty something years he has been married to Cindy, with no real idea of how ordinary people live. Like Bush, his base are very wealthy people.
Obama took out student loans. He knows what it is like to worry about money and affording a house. His base are ordinary people, the poor and the middle-class who have made over half of his donations collected, one twenty dollar bill at a time.
McCain has trouble communicating unless he is reading a speech. Obama can communicate extremely well. (This really comes in handy when negotiating.) McCain is known for an anger management problem while Obama has a calm demeanor even when those around him are losing control.(again crucial in negotiations, dealing with your staff, leading during emergencies)

Obama is the better choice.

wonder what they would say about palins calendar circa 1984----they would flip their lids.

Peggy Noonan is dried up and bitter. Her day came and went and she has let her bitterness take over her objectivity that people used to enjoy reading and hearing. It is sad really! Why does she question Palin's ambition? She has stooped to cranking out articles that any tabloid could produce in seconds. That's ambition at it's worst. Just writing to pander to the highest bidder....

Republican past and present catch phrase
Past
If someone said Iraq war wrong, they were
unpatrotic
Were the WMD?
unpatrotic
Tax Cut for the rich, non for middle class.
unpatrotic
Wall Street Regulations
unpatrotic
Present
No more tax cut for the rich
unamerican
Palin not qualified
unamerican
Not voting for Mccain
unamerican

Hey Republican it looks like your catch phrase not catching on this time.

Obama/Biden-08

Oh abcnews, abcnews--you and your lot keep trying to undermine Palin but I just returned from a rally with her here in CO and i can tell you there are thousands who love her.

The truth they say is bitter. Of all the endorsements so far, Gen Colin Powell's reasons for his endorsement of Obama is the most objective and reasonable analysis of how the US Presidential campaign has been run thus far.When the US sneezes, Europe catches a cold.Although europeans do not have a right to vote in US elections, they are equally affected by Wall Street problems sometimes even more so. Open your eyes, ears and hearts. Sarah Palin is simply NOT qualified for the office McCain wants her to hold. God knows what McCain was thinking when he made that choice! God help you when you make that choice come Nov 4, 2008.

Julie, with all due respect, one's reason for voting for someone is that person's business...and his or hers alone. The criteria used in making the decision is ALSO that person's own business. The U. S. Constitution does not prohibit an individual from voting for or against someone based on their "race, religion, creed, age, etc..." OR even based on just one issue, or even a flip of a coin. The U. S. Constitution only forbids excluding a person from being on a ballot based on "race, religion, creed or maximum age (there are certain minimum age requirements for some offices).

re: Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | Oct 20, 2008 4:43:07 PM

the neo-cons may be apalled, but the neanderthal-cons are pretty revved up

btw ... WJP, appreciate your insight on gubernatorial matters

McCain's famous "poor judgment" of the Keating scandal days continues unabated. Consider:

Campaign manager Rick Davis--paid lobbyist for Freddie/Fannie
Sarah Palin--even the neo-cons are appalled
Economic advisor Phil Gramm--called us a nation of whiners
Advisor William Timmons--paid lobbyist for Saddam Hussein after first gulf war
Convention Manager Doug Goodyear--paid lobbyist for military junta in Myanmar
Advisor James Loeffler--lobbyist for Saudi Royal family

I'm a progressive and I'm embarrassed by Obama - and "his" media. For him to pretend that he was antiwar just to beat Clinton was horrible. But the left bought it. Then he picks pro-War Biden as a running mate, and the hypocritical liberals and media said nothing. Now he's gushy over getting Powell -- who fraudently sold the war for Bush -- to endorse him , and you are writing about conservatives feeling embarassed about Palin. Give me a break. Palin isn't running for President.

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No progressive would ever say anything remotely like you just did. Go back to Rush's website and stop pretending to be something you're not. You can't be a progressive and believe in the big, bad librul media conspiracy.

By far, the funnest part of the campaign has been watching conservatives eat their own. Go to the freeper sites and watch them hang Colin Powell in effigy in the comments, along with Peggy Noonan, The Chicago Tribune, Christopher Buckley, Chuck Hagel, the list gets bigger every day. I think the word is schadenfreude.

I'm a progressive and I'm embarrassed by Obama - and "his" media. For him to pretend that he was antiwar just to beat Clinton was horrible. But the left bought it. Then he picks pro-War Biden as a running mate, and the hypocritical liberals and media said nothing. Now he's gushy over getting Powell -- who fraudently sold the war for Bush -- to endorse him , and you are writing about conservatives feeling embarassed about Palin. Give me a break. Palin isn't running for President.

Why don't you ask the question how a supposedly antiwar and anti-Bush candidate can be gushy over a former military/Sec. of State who went before the UN and made the case for intervention based on evidence that was a forgery but which was easily verfiable as inauthentic. He also was instrumental in blocking Clinton's efforts to end the ban on gays in the military -- which gave us the horrific "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. Yet - you say nothing of this. No wonder 55 percent of Americans believe the media is biased. It's so blatantly obvious.

What I'm finding out in this election is that at least 1/3 of Americans are basing their choice as to whom they would elect for President on one issue only, and then running with it. We all should consider every issue that is out there, test all accusations and information thoroughly, and keeping in mind that we need a President who will know how to deal intelligently with the current economic crisis and the wars in Iran and Irag.

If we judge either candidate on race, religion, creed, age, etc...it is unconstitutional. I actually hear one American say that she wouldn't vote for Obama because of his name and another said he wouldn't vote for McCain because he is too old. America needs to wake up and take our right to vote seriously. This shouldn't come down to hearsay that hasn't been tested. It should come down to who is the best and most prepared person for the job. If you only make that judgement based on your biases for either candidate, you aren't practicing your civic duty as an American citizen.

Birth certificates are public records and Obama's birth certificate has been copied and can be seen by anyone who can surf the internet. He was born in Hawaii in 1961; Hawaii became a state in 1959 and before that was a territory (same thing as being born in a state for political purposes). McCain was born in the Panama Canal and had to have Congress issue a decree or whatever they call it, to declare that he is natural-born citizen eligible to run for President. Don't any of the Obama haters ever check their facts?

Blue, Frank Marshall Davis WAS a communist. In fact, he was an agitator and a recruiter for the Communist Party USA during the five years that he was mentoring and being a father-figure to young Barry Obama.

Saul Alinksky WAS a Communist and the founder of modern community organizing in America. It was his principles that Barry Obama studied and practiced when he was a community organizer.

The fact that Sen. Obama has continued to surround himself with radicals means either Sen. Obama holds at least some of their beliefs (i.e., birds of a feather flock together) OR Sen. Obama has shown a true lack of judgment in selecting his friends.

James Danley

with all due respect....
suggesting that Obama is a communist is a lil bit much....

len...
good buddy re: " Have you listened to an Obama speech lately?

yes.... speaks about McCain being 'out of touch' with what's needed for the country, he speaks of disagreements McCains polices
and chastises McCain for the low road campaign tactics...

your point is ?