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September 03, 2008 9:40 AM

ABC News' Matthew Jaffe reports: Barack Obama's vice presidential nominee Joe Biden might be campaigning against presumptive Republican nominee John McCain, but he can't stop emphasizing that he is close friends with his GOP rival.

"He is my good friend," said Sen. Biden, D-Del., of Sen. McCain, R-Ariz., speaking Tuesday in West Palm Beach, Florida. "We go back 33 years. If John McCain picked up - I get in trouble for saying this with some real strong Obama supporters, but you gotta - it is what it is. If John McCain picked up the phone today and said, 'Joe, I need you to get in a plane and fly out to Missoula, I can't tell you why', I'd get in a plane and I'd go. And I believe he'd do it for me."

Of course, while Biden calls McCain "a good guy," he is always quick to add that, when it comes to key issues, "John doesn't get it."

When he's not telling everyone how close he is to McCain, Biden also loves to describe what a great relationship he and his family have developed with the Obamas.

"I don't know whether you can notice," Biden told the south Florida crowd at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. "But there is a a genuine, a genuine chemistry. There is a genuine, genuine affection and there is a genuine bond between Michelle and Jill and me and Barack. And it's real. It's real."

The Delaware lawmaker fondly tells the story of his grandchildren having a sleepover with Obama's daughters on the second night of the Denver convention.

"Every once and a while something happens totally unexpected that you didn't anticipate. That makes you realize something, a perspective you didn't walk in with," he said.

To Biden's surprise, his granddaughter Finnegan - "she better turn out to be smart and beautiful handling that name" - approached him and asked his permission to have a sleep-over.

"We're standing there and said, you know, she said, 'Pop, we want to have a sleepover.' And I said, 'You do?' And they said 'yeah'. And the end result of this was, we cleared out one of the rooms, took out the beds. Seriously".

"And they put down mats on the floor, and Barack's two daughters and my four granddaughters - actually my oldest one who's 15 did not. But the three youngest granddaughters and until he got a little rowdy my 3-year-old grandson, we had pizza brought in and tapes of the various shows they like to put in."

The spur-of-the-moment slumber party might have seemed minor, but it left an indelible impression on Biden.

"I didn't want to be vice president," he admitted. "But as I walked away from that, I realized what I suspect a lot of you who are dedicated to Barack becoming president feel. I walked out of there realizing why I'm in this. It sounds corny. I'm in this for my children and my grandchildren. I'm in this for the people I grew up with in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware. I'm in this for all the people who you know, all the people who you know, who success or failure is the very measure, the very measure of whether or not the American dream still persists."

September 3, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (70)

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What a piece of crap biden is, His wife is killed and he runs off leaving his children in grief and motherless so he can campaign. WHAT A LOWLIFE

Posted by: hilly-billy | Sep 3, 2008 9:55:51 AM

What a piece of crap McCain is. His wife is injured and disfigured in a car crash and he runs off with a 22 yo heiress leaving his children in grief and without financial support. WHAT A LOWLIFE

Posted by: April Campbell | Sep 3, 2008 10:03:54 AM

Biden is so full of it.
Biden slipped the other day and blurted out he was running for POTUS while on the stump for Oz.


Want to know when to check if Biden is lying?

Everytime he opens his mouth.

Well - Oz wnet for the penultimate insider in his "quest" to change Washington...........riiiiiiight.

Posted by: few | Sep 3, 2008 10:05:29 AM

hilly-billy: you are a LOWLIFE... the man was sworn in at his childrens hospital bedsides. He was dropping out but was talked into staying.. WHY... because WE THE PEOPLE NEEDED HIM ON OUR SIDE.. You are a piece of crap..... people like you should be made to seek help....

Posted by: beck | Sep 3, 2008 10:10:01 AM

The only ones FULL OF IT are the GOP and McCain. To actually think that most women of this Nation will vote for him because he chooses a woman...who has very little to offer a woman of the 20th century is totally out of touch with everything and everyone. Unless you are wealthy and hauling in our hard working money.

Posted by: beck | Sep 3, 2008 10:12:40 AM

Using the tragic death of Biden's wife and daughter to smear him? You are beyond reprehensible. And it just shows how desperate you Republicans are that you can't get him on the issues.

Posted by: Mary | Sep 3, 2008 10:23:37 AM

The reason Sarah Palin is attacked so visciously by liberals is because she has more experience than the top of the Democratic ticket. When the Democrats whine about her lack of foreign affairs experience, all the Republicans have to do is point to Obama's similar lack of foreign affairs experience. The Democrats forced Joe Biden on Barack Obama to shore up his lack of experience. It's now clear to the entire country that the wrong man is at the top of the ticket. Dems are embarrassed, and Repubs are laughing.

Posted by: Disappointed by not Surprised | Sep 3, 2008 10:27:12 AM

That means all republicans are in the "crook " of my elbow and my friends are next to my heart. remember "I am not a crook" and the "texas mafia" which candidate is going to work for the USA not big oil, drug, and insurance companies, certainly won't be the maverick and the beauty queen.

Posted by: Rose Szymanski | Sep 3, 2008 10:28:01 AM

You Zero-bama bonehead-supporters, leave Biden alone. It's only Zero-bama the liar.

Posted by: d0 | Sep 3, 2008 10:29:11 AM

Joe finally got it! NOT ALL AFRICAN-AMERICANS ARE BAD or like P-Diddy. I noticed his negative comments were placed on this web page. WHY??? Was it to unite the Republican base? Was it to show causations that they need to back John MCBush so that he could protect the country from people like P-Diddy? I think so. There were so many other prominent African-Americans who could have given an intelligent comment however, the media never misses an opportunity to project Africans Americans as low life thugs and hoodlums. There are many middle class African Americans who work everyday, strive to educate their families in a Christian environment and live law abiding lives. Just because the media wants to play the race card, it doesn’t mean we have to fall for it.

Posted by: y.sister | Sep 3, 2008 10:31:58 AM

Wow, what a hard hitting news story!! Not one mention of Biden's so called "childhood asthma" that he fabricated to get 5 draft deferrals from Vietnam. Nor is the details of his 2 brain aneurysms -- gee, doesn't it say something about Obama's judgment that he picks a VP with massive medical issues? What about Biden's ethnic smear against Indian-Americans? Or Biden's son's problem with a corrupt hedge fund? Or his other lobbying son? Or Biden's embellishment of his academic honors?

Posted by: Karen | Sep 3, 2008 10:38:12 AM

I like him. Sounds like a person who has compassion and cares. I've yet to hear a Republican say a sensitive caring concern for anyone, except unborn fetus's but that's only if they aren't gay, of course.

Posted by: Brenda | Sep 3, 2008 10:38:34 AM

Get the facts straight- Biden had already been elected to the Senate when his wife and child were killed. He was sworn in at the hospital next to the hospital beds of his boys. America has citizens that are truly consumed with with hate and ignorance. Wow.

Posted by: Jackson in NC | Sep 3, 2008 10:40:05 AM

Biden and Hillary are both McCain's friend, only Obama is not.

It's totally wrong choice to pick Obama as Dem. nominee, he can not cross party line, he can not work with Rep. who has different opinion than him, he always thinks he is always right and McCain is always wrong. Such an arrogant, ego person can not be president.

Posted by: golfgirlusa | Sep 3, 2008 10:42:10 AM

I was pretty impressed with Biden's story during the convention. I didn't know a lot of that stuff.

That said, I realize we got the convention-sanitized best case version of the story, and the reality with everyone from either party is usually a mixed bag.

Take McCain, for instance. Thompson last night said McCain refused medical help for a confession. I know for a fact that's 180 degrees from truth. McCain held out for about three days, and then agreed to "confess" for movement to a local hospital - and he did get hospital treatment.

Does that take everything away from his story of suffering at the hands of his captors? No, of course not.

Back to Biden, I'm sure there was some spin there, too, but I was pretty impressed that he was willing to not take the oath of office for the Senate to take care of his family, and had to be talked into accepting the job he had been elected to.

Posted by: Paul | Sep 3, 2008 10:45:52 AM

Disappointed: "The reason Sarah Palin is attacked so visciously by liberals is because she has more experience than the top of the Democratic ticket."

Not true on many levels.

First, she's facing media inquiries; not attacks.

Second, her current political opponents aren't saying anything about her at all. The media is mostly picking up on information coming from former opponents in Alaska and crisis-control attempts from the McCain campaign.

Third, her experience. Sigh. In December 2006, I remember everyone wondering if Obama would run. For some odd reason, I don't remember anybody asking that same question about Palin.

Now, I'm not attacking her experience. She's a governor, and voters will decide for themselves whether she's qualified, based on her views, her temperment, her demeanor, and her performance in office.

Posted by: Paul | Sep 3, 2008 10:50:55 AM

Hey, hilly-billy, I have a feeling Senator Biden did far more for his deceased's wife spirit than you could ever imagine ... or do for any member of your own family.

Posted by: newz4i | Sep 3, 2008 10:52:09 AM

Senator McCain threw a temper tantrum when he couldn't have Lieberman as his running mate. In his anger, he reached into thin air and thrust Governor Palin into the public arena And whether its liberal ABC or conservative FOX, the news media is vetting her. McCain didn't. His tantrum antics of, "I'll show you," is not the correct way to run a presidential campaign...nor a country.

Posted by: newz4i | Sep 3, 2008 10:54:03 AM

That part about voters having to decide if she's qualified... of course that assumes she's on the ticket come that first Tuesday in November.

The ethics investigation and her reported involvement with a secessionist fringe party could force her to drop from the ticket.

Posted by: Paul | Sep 3, 2008 10:54:57 AM

Everything the media puts out is designed to make the voters lose focus on whats really important, and thats the real issues....
Okay 17 year is pregnant, no the first or last time in history this will happened, what about the girls who made a packed to get pregnant at the same time???? So what Obama picked a man instead of a women, not the first or last time in history this will happen, Bidens wife and her untimely death, non of your business, people mourn in there own way....MccCain 20 some years ago cheated on his first wife with his second, who cares...
what are the real issues,
Over priced Gas, Home Foreclosures, the Education of our future, crime, wars, poverty, jobs....

Posted by: Cicly | Sep 3, 2008 10:56:40 AM

Barack Obama spent 20 years in a racist, anti-Semitic, un-American church, and the Democrats don’t see that as a problem. These same Democrats trash Sarah Palin worse than they ever trashed Hillary, yet they expect women in the party to line up like good little soldiers and vote for Obama. Not happening in my family, and there are quite a few of us. NOT ALL DEMOCRATS ARE LEFT-WING NUT CASES. SOME OF US ARE MODERATES. AND WE VOTE!!!!

Posted by: Mod Dem | Sep 3, 2008 10:58:18 AM

Paul u are full of crap that never happened. where's your reference. I also know for a fact that bloggers are on obama's payroll and are instructed to say anything to convert the masses, so all this pro obama talk is just crap , cant believe half of it.

Posted by: Big TX | Sep 3, 2008 10:59:06 AM

The reason Sarah Palin is attacked so visciously by liberals is because she has more experience than the top of the Democratic ticket.

Are you serious Mary? Your own candidate, McCain, doesn't have "executive" experience. What experience does she have that qualifies her as commander in chief? No governor has command over the national guard in cases of national security. When has she commanded her national guard for anything? Obama is on the Foreign Affairs committee- the same committee that legislates and debates foreign affairs. He is on the Homeland Security and Veterans Committee. Obama has had face time with presidents of France, Germany, Afghanistan, Iraq, the prime minister of England and Isreal, the King of Jordan etc...Palin has been out of the country one time? Maybe twice. Does she know who the president of Iraq is? She has already stated publically she doesn't know much about Iraq or what the VP does. Get informed.

Posted by: Jackson in NC | Sep 3, 2008 10:59:16 AM

The reason Sarah Palin is attacked so visciously by liberals is because she has more experience than the top of the Democratic ticket. When the Democrats whine about her lack of foreign affairs experience, all the Republicans have to do is point to Obama's similar lack of foreign affairs experience. The Democrats forced Joe Biden on Barack Obama to shore up his lack of experience. It's now clear to the entire country that the wrong man is at the top of the ticket. Dems are embarrassed, and Repubs are laughing.

Posted by: Disappointed but not Surprised | Sep 3, 2008 11:00:16 AM

And here's my reference:

according to FOX News (EDITED TO CLARIFY: FOX News information scroll running during FOX News broadcast, NOT FOXNews.com), the Obama campaign has hired 400 bloggers to influence the public discourse and sway Hillary voters to "remember we are all Democrats", to give up Clinton's cause, and to become dutiful citizens of the Obama Nation.

Posted by: Big TX | Sep 3, 2008 11:01:12 AM

Mary, yeah, it's a shame we're not going after Biden on the issues, cuz that's certainly what has been playing out in the last few days....going after Palin on the issues.

Lol. You're kidding, right?!

Posted by: Jo | Sep 3, 2008 11:01:12 AM

so everyone arguing with these obamanations should note , were arguing with paid employees!

Posted by: Big TX | Sep 3, 2008 11:02:18 AM

If the Republicans are trying to play the gender card, it certainly is working on me. I've been a Democrat all my life. I was sickened by the way Democrats treated Hillary, and I am sickened by the way they are attacking Sarah Palin. Why do I owe loyalty to a party that clearly shows little respect for women? I realize the Republicans are trying to exploit the anger of Democratic women. At the same time, I applaud the fact that Republicans don't seem to have a problem with a woman in the White House. Conservatives have treated Palin with far more respect than many Democrats treated Clinton. I was going to stay home in November. With the nomination of Sarah Palin, I will cast my vote for the Republicans.

Posted by: Another Sarah | Sep 3, 2008 11:02:59 AM

Mod Dem: "Barack Obama spent 20 years in a racist, anti-Semitic, un-American church, and the Democrats don’t see that as a problem."

Give me a break. Obama took plenty of hits over the church.

And let's face it. Obama's church is accused of promoting liberation theology. Palin's church is accused of promoting the creation of a Christian army to rid the planet of non-Christians. Which is worse?

But I don't care about either. Nor do I care about your faux indignation over sexism that isn't there.

She's a surprise pick; a governor under investigation with some connection to an un-American fringe political party that advocates Alaska leaving the U.S.

And the media following up on this is what you call sexism? If they didn't follow up, that would be what I call dereliction of duty.

Posted by: Paul | Sep 3, 2008 11:03:32 AM

Dems attacked Palins children whats up with that. a truce was called during the storm and the Dems still attacked . They have no morals just paid employees

Posted by: Big TX | Sep 3, 2008 11:04:43 AM

Paul go get your pay check somewhere else. Im sure Obama will let you

Posted by: Big TX | Sep 3, 2008 11:05:19 AM

Big TX, you're right, paid Obama bloggers are all over the Internet, trying to convert the masses and trying to make it appear as if an Obama victory is inevitable. Wonder where all that money is coming from? It sure didn't come from blacks and college kids. My guess is that it came from the Muslin world. . .

Posted by: Another Sarah | Sep 3, 2008 11:05:36 AM

Big TX: "so everyone arguing with these obamanations should note , were arguing with paid employees!"

If so, I'll be pissed. Because I think I make as much sense as any of 'em, and more than some. And I'm not getting a dime.

A little help please. Who can I get in touch with to get on this Obama payroll?

Posted by: Paul | Sep 3, 2008 11:06:01 AM

Another Sarah,

if you go to you tube type in arab and obama and you can see videos of the arabs getting together to contribute illegally to his campaign. He is corrupt , heck he's from Chicago you have to be corrupt just to get in office there.

Posted by: Big TX | Sep 3, 2008 11:07:02 AM

Paul ,

your paid , you make crap up , you have no refernces its ok to say otherwise , i know your boss is looking. ;) wink wink.

Posted by: Big TX | Sep 3, 2008 11:07:54 AM

Big TX: "Dems attacked Palins children whats up with that. a truce was called during the storm and the Dems still attacked . They have no morals just paid employees"

Oh, now we're seeing another of those drive-by posts, not pertaining to anything written in the thread, meant to play the victim card.

And I'm pretty sure this campaign of distraction is coordinated by the McCain campaign. Huck started it with his convention speech, and almost immediately yesterday we saw all these posts showing up whining about how the poor daughter has been victimized (when it was McCain who alerted the media to the fact, lol).

So fess up Big TX - its you who is the staffer, participating in this coordinated campaign of distraction, right? You can tell us. Confession is good for the soul.

Posted by: Paul | Sep 3, 2008 11:11:08 AM

drive-by posts, not pertaining to anything written in the thread

really now , and what have you been writing about??

you started off the mark to begin with , now you come full circle to call the kettle black. just like a Obanite!

Go get your coffee and paycheck please, your making yourself look bad.

Posted by: Big TX | Sep 3, 2008 11:12:56 AM

Paul is a PAID OBAMA BLOGGER. They’re all over the place. Their mission is to make it appear as if an Obama victory is inevitable, same mission as the Obama whore$ at MSNBC, CNN. Waste of money. I know too many Democrats voting Dem down ticket, and McCain-Palin for President. I know too many Democrats thrilled with Palin as VP, don’t care about the “scandals.” I know what I see on TV and in the Polls, and it doesn’t jibe with what’s going on with my friends and family. MSM tried to paint the Democrat convention as one big happy family. I don’t believe it. I’m not happy with the Democratic ticket, and I know lifelong Dems who feel the same. So go ahead, Paul. Argue your case until the cows come home. Most of us have made up our minds, and we find your arguments laughable.

Posted by: Another Sarah | Sep 3, 2008 11:16:21 AM

If anyone is paid, it has to be McCain supporters.

Why? Because Obama supporters are educated, and also smart enough to figure out these message boards have never changed a single voter's vote, lol. And we support a campaign that is smart enough not to spend money on this.

Actually during the primaries, only one campaign got caught with staffers pretending to not be staffers and posting messages on a message board. That was the Clinton campaign, on the BlueHampshire blog. Unlike most, BlueHampshire actually tracked down computers and found seven user IDs that were usually computers registered to the campaign.

And, hey, we know McCain supporters are integrity challenged. So if they are charging Obama with using paid message board posters, it most likely means that its McCain who actually is.

What I'm saying is I can be bought. So please pass up your chain that if the money is right, I'll start posting for McCain, lol.

Here's a free sample:

Damned sexist, liberal, evil media. They're all in the tank for Obama! Every last one of 'em!

See, I can do it.

Posted by: Paul | Sep 3, 2008 11:16:51 AM

in other news joe bidden is full of it.

go to you tube and type in :

Joe Biden On Barack Obama

he says it in his own words.

Posted by: Big TX | Sep 3, 2008 11:18:13 AM

Paul, the PAID OBAMA BLOGGER, doesn't care about the Messiah's membership in a racist, anti-Semitic, un-American church. Well, this Dem DOES care about it, and I'm pretty sure millions of Dems feel the same way. We're not all white-guilt liberals, you know.

Posted by: Another Sarah | Sep 3, 2008 11:18:36 AM

Another Sarah: "I know what I see on TV and in the Polls, and it doesn’t jibe with what’s going on with my friends and family."

Um, okay, you do realize that your friends and family are probably not a statistically relevant sample, right?

But let's see. If I follow your argument, its the damned sexist, liberal, evil media that's faking the poll numbers?

Posted by: Paul | Sep 3, 2008 11:19:18 AM

My god paul , I even gave you a refernce and your still in disbelief!!! It must be that obama kool-aid you drank. You people just never give up. well i guess if your paid to blog you have to keep going right?


lol

Posted by: Big TX | Sep 3, 2008 11:19:29 AM

just type in your search engine
"obama pays bloggers"

Posted by: Big TX | Sep 3, 2008 11:20:04 AM

Big TX: "drive-by posts, not pertaining to anything written in the thread. really now , and what have you been writing about??"

Try to keep up Big TX. No one here is victimizing the Palin daughter.

I know McCain takes pride in being ignorant, but try not to stoop to his level.

Posted by: Paul | Sep 3, 2008 11:21:08 AM

Big TX - you mean Fox as a reference? Um, okay, lol.

Posted by: Paul | Sep 3, 2008 11:22:03 AM

Another Sarah: "Argue your case until the cows come home."

What is it with these McCain supporters and their sexism? Why is it always the cows who are out late, trolloping around? Why no mention of the bulls?

I'm offended by this blatant sexism!

Posted by: Paul | Sep 3, 2008 11:23:49 AM

Huh. Another Sarah and Big TX stop playing at the same time. I guess they're off to another blog for the moment.

Posted by: Paul | Sep 3, 2008 11:29:22 AM

Big TX, thanks for the tip on the Arabs and you tube. BTW, I’m from Illinois, grew up in Edwardsville in Southern Illinois. There are no honest politicians in Illinois. Like Obama, they are all Chicago thugs (as Bill Clinton calls him). Obama is one of the worst. He just comes in a slicker package.

Posted by: Another Sarah | Sep 3, 2008 11:29:28 AM


Type in BLOGS FOR MCCAIN.com


Blogger/Adviser Payment/Expenditure Candidate Campaign
Peter Daou $60,000 (by way of FOH/HILLPAC) Sen. Hillary Clinton NY SEN incumbent
Michael Brodkorb $55,200 Rep. Mark Kennedy MN SEN open
Mindy Finn $52,800 Sen. Rick Santorum PA SEN incumbent
Luke Bernstein $51,600 Sen. Rick Santorum PA SEN incumbent
Laura Packard $44,400 Sen. Debbie Stabenow MI SEN incumbent

LOOKS LIKE ALL OF THEM DO IT...

Posted by: Cicly | Sep 3, 2008 11:40:12 AM

What is it with these McCain supporters and their sexism?

maybe the same as the clinton supporters and sexism? Hmm thats strange they both claim the same thing , i wonder why?


and yet you sweep it under the rug?? kool-aid I smell kool-aid.

Posted by: Big TX | Sep 3, 2008 11:41:54 AM

cicly were not talking about people who have a blog/news site. We're talking about people who roam around on blog sites to convert people.

Posted by: Big TX | Sep 3, 2008 11:44:41 AM

Big TX - I'm guessing you didn't understand that last sexism post, huh.

By the way, if anyone is interested in some local detail on Palin, someone named Christopher on the "Palin caught in image war" article just posted a lot of it.

Now, Christopher explains he and Palin are a bit distant because of a disagreement over a librarian, so as he says take it for what its worth.

Posted by: Paul | Sep 3, 2008 11:53:13 AM

Big Tx and Another Sarah...... The only reason I can think that McCant picked Sarah "hypocrite" Palin is he looked at the polls and they were too close... he was scared to death he might actually win. This choice puts it in the bag for Barrack. I donated my $$$ to Hillary but I am with her when she says we have to elect Barrack Obama! McSame and Sorry Sarah cannot run our country further into the ground!

Posted by: Chipo1965 | Sep 3, 2008 11:53:30 AM

Big TX: "We're talking about people who roam around on blog sites to convert people."

Again, until someone can show me any voter who has changed his or her mind about who to vote for based on these internet message boards, I'll maintain the notion of paid staffers roaming around on these boards is pretty silly.

Posted by: Paul | Sep 3, 2008 11:55:34 AM

hmmm quick to defend Bidens decision to not quit and go take care of his kids, but quick to point out the Palin has 5 kids and she supposedly should be home taking care of them. Sexist Pigs

Posted by: Kim | Sep 3, 2008 11:59:25 AM

Paul - nobody wants to accept the fact that other people dont agree with them based on priciple. The neo-con's have turned our system into a joke, the only way they win is by dragging everyone into the muck... The Repug's are just one big "reality" TV show

Posted by: Chipo1965 | Sep 3, 2008 12:00:20 PM

Kim - open your eyes and your mind. Sorry Palin has put her career ahead of her family.

Posted by: Chipo1965 | Sep 3, 2008 12:02:11 PM

Then I would say again that is everyone, ESPECIALLY THE NEWS, CNN MSNBC, FOX, ABC, CBS, ALL OF THEM.... whose to say that I am not a paid blogger or even you for that matter, anything that takes the focus of the real issues, is a distraction, people are using these forums (paid or unpaid) to voice their sometimes angry and bigot, sexist remarks, anytime you dont agree with an individual on here the real them stands up, and you get to see how AMERICA, real American... Since yesterday on these different blogs, I have seen our fellow americans say (and I qoute) "Obama and his fellow "Brother", if it wasnt for slavery they would still be in africa, living in mud huts...., "no blacks in Alaska, Im there".....
to me its scary, the type of hate and anger on both sides, black and white, Its very scary...

Posted by: Cicly | Sep 3, 2008 12:03:48 PM

Okay, now I'm reading that Palin's husband was actually a member of this secessionist party.

This kind of puts the campaign's claims she never attended those conventions for the fringe party in doubt.

What's the consensus - is this survivable?

Posted by: Paul | Sep 3, 2008 12:03:57 PM

Chipo - all these national office holders put the office ahead of their families. That's nothing new. I'm sure if she needs a nanny now, as governor, she has one. And I'm equally sure she would have a nanny as vice president.

Non-issue, I think.

But I'm not sure of the same about this Alaskan Independence Party thing. I think this could be lethal. It kind of cuts into the campaign slogan of "country first" when she might not be all that interested in even being an American.

Now its not as bad; her husband being a member instead of her. But initially they denied all involvement, including attendance at multiple AIP conventions. So there's a cover-up aspect, too.

And of course the ethics investigation will be an ongoing thorn for the McCain campaign.

Posted by: Paul | Sep 3, 2008 12:12:26 PM

I can't wait for Obama to be president so I can quit my job and get free things! Free health insurance! No taxes 'cause I'll have no income above poverty! Hey, no incentive to work feels great - thanks Mr. O!

Posted by: greg | Sep 3, 2008 1:53:25 PM

U.S. to Pledge $1 Billion to Rebuild Georgia
U.S. Will Announce Aid Package to Boost Economy, Reconstruct Infrastructure
The Bush administration will announce a $1 billion aid package to help rebuild Georgia, the former Soviet republic that battled Russia last month....

These are the type of Issues that i was refering to.. If we have this type of clot where we can go and help other countries, why do we have so many issues with poverty, schools without money so they cannot properly educate our children and why after 2 years are people in Louisana, Alabama and Mississippi still living in FEMA trailors and not in their homes....

Posted by: Cicly | Sep 3, 2008 1:53:46 PM

How about some discussions about the issue differences between the two parties. A comparison of the accomplishment of all individuals. Compare the bills sponsored and passed by each. How have they impact your life? How will they impact your life in the future?

Posted by: Jim | Sep 3, 2008 3:09:18 PM

It seems to me that both parties have there flaws neither one of them is going to staisfy ALL of your needs...well i geuss yall think yall are perfect yall had a past and your going to continue to have one...do you make bad desiscions? because please tell me if you do this is ridiculous that you would sit here and argue about issues to each other and sit at home and bitch about them but you wont get up and do anything about it either...so unless you get your ass up and say something about this issues then i believe you have nothing to worry about...because ever person in our government and senate and else where is coropted and will continue to be until the end of time!!!

Posted by: Amanda | Sep 3, 2008 5:29:26 PM

Sarah has EXECTUTIVE experience *running a government* (something NONE of the other candidates can actually boast, even John McCain as Governor of Alaska and got there by defeating the *incumbent* Republican Governor, who was definitely part of the “old school” and who WAS very much in the pocket of the big oil companies. We in Alaska wanted change – and we got it in the person of Sarah Palin!

Sarah Palin is everything she looks to be and more. Her approval rating as Governor of Alaska has been as high as 95% and is currently leveled out consistently in the upper 80 percentile throughout the state (and in both parties) - the HIGHEST approval rating of ANY sitting Governor.

Posted by: GoUSA247 | Sep 3, 2008 8:57:20 PM

I am a veteran, a woman, and proud of my country, but this is just ridiculous. There were far more qualified women who John McCain could have selected, but he didn't. As an Independent voter I know exactly who I will not be voting for!!!!!! At a time when our nationis facing war in three countries, an energy emergency, disparities in healthcare and wages, as well as a larger gulf between the haves and have nots, John McCain selected Sarah Palin as his running mate. That is one step from the presidency! This position takes more than being a hockey mom or even field dressing a moose, but someone who can get in there and get the job done. This is not a personality contest. This is how we got in this mess 8 years ago.

I will not jeopardize the future of my family on John McCain's whim of a choice. I love this country too much!

Posted by: FemaleVeteran | Sep 4, 2008 12:59:34 AM

hahaha Palin is a redneck hockey mom !

Posted by: James | Sep 4, 2008 6:37:36 AM

I am quite suprised to read what you lot are arguing about on here, you all sound like a bunch of kids with no real cause,even though some of your critisisms make sense most of it is petty. i thought this election ment something,what happened to the real issues? i was happy to see that a woman has been elected vp for reps,but in actuallity there are somethings that just shouldnt happen,i know everybody saids family issues should be kept out of politics but hey what impression is the reps giving,that its ok for a 17 years old to get pregnant and if scutinised have the girl marry the man who got her pregnan?where are our values and believes? my understanding of the whole situation and correct me if i am wrong is that go to school,get no education,have no prospects,find a man at 16 or may be even 15 get yourself pregnant and get married by 17.as much as i will like to see a woman vp in the white house, i do not think Pelin is the right candidate,the bloody woman cant even manage her own family how much more a whole nation as great as America? i think someone is having a laugh here and taking being in charge of this country lightly. my advice to you all is look around you what is wrong with our society,security,future and all we believe in,where is our dream as americans,how did we come to be this low,how did we lose our respect as a nation,are the trends we,ve followed for the recent past years done us any good. judge for yourself and vote with the believe that change is good and the time for change has come.God Bless America.

Posted by: Coxie | Sep 4, 2008 7:52:45 AM

As a woman, I am amazed with the ignorance of "Another Sarah's" comments, and the like, on how she doesn't like the way the "gender card" is being used. Hellooo!?!? Aren't you using it when you mention how Sen. Clinton was treated and now Gov. Palin because they're women. How about the disrespect Obama is getting with the discussion of him being an anti-semite, and more...? How about the disrespect Biden is getting when saying he "left his children's side" when he went to the Senate after his wife passed? Why because they're men?! It's all B.S. And, these women are NOT getting a harder time because of their gender. Grow up and welcome to real world. You want to get on a national stage... you deal with all the nonsense. That's the unfortunate mess of politics today; it has nothing to do with gender. It's what we should call: Equal Opportunity Disrespect. There should just be a call for better treatment of those that put their neck on the line and have the courage to represent us. But, how ignorant that the majority don't see that. Men & women!!!

Posted by: Lisa | Sep 4, 2008 11:28:15 AM

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