F mccain he can try to garner press by going to the zone and constantly bringing himself press about the devestation, and dont worry thats not politics though... thats just john... ol regular john who is a pow.

if this hurricane wasnt going on john would be bashing obama on his experien.... oh wait he picked an unvetted women in what seems like hte most hastily picked vp in the history of vp picks...

i dont see why biden shouldnt be talking politics... hes involved in a campaign. If i were him, or obama id be doing it...

and even though mccain can say hes not doing politics he is.. so even pow is doing it

Palen has more class and decency in her ring finger than Obama has in his entire body and campaign. End of the story.

Shut down the smear machine, Obama.

Face It: They Didn't Vet Her

Earlier I noted Andrea Mitchell's reference to reports that the McCain camp had just sent a team of GOP lawyers up to Alaska to do what I guess you'd call a post-vetting of Sarah Palin. Now George Stephanopoulos appears to have more. George says the McCainers are sending a "rapid response team of about ten operatives that includes lawyers" to do the aforementioned deeper vet. A lot of attention is being given to Gov. Palin's daughter's situation. The much bigger deal is the expanding trooper-gate investigation, the fact that Palin lied in her Friday speech about her purported opposition to the Bridge to Nowhere, her apparent former membership in the secessionist Alaska Independence Party, and more. Individually, you can come to your own judgment about how consequential these stories are. What they show pretty clearly now -- in addition to the news that the McCain campaign is only now sending in a vetting team -- is that John McCain didn't do any serious vetting of Palin before he invited her to join his ticket and, he hopes, become Vice President of the United States.

Fundamentally, of course, this is about John McCain. And the real issue here is what this slapdash decision says about his judgment.

--Josh Marshall

If you're going to defend someone it's important to spell her name right. Palin. Also, McCain thought he would be able to use Gustav as a campaign ad but, guess what? You can't rely on mother nature. Just ask the focus on the fa,ily folks who prayed for a storm to mar Barack Obama's wonderful acceptance speech full of ideas and energy. Thank goodness, Gustav turned into much less than expected. Now John McCain has a convention to attend to just like his campaign...bereft of anything beneficial.

Looks like Palin is another Larry Craig: opposes sex education and then is 'proud' when her unmarried teen age daughter comes home pregnant. So what if she doesn't have an abortion. Someone should explain to the VP nominee that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Typical republican family values: unprotected ignorant teenage sex, deception about her daughter's condition, and change the subject when asked.
John McSame knew about this and chose Palin anyway. Once again he's shown very poor judgment. Neither one of these two is ready to president.
No wonder god sent hurricanes to disrupt the republican CONvention!

And what about Rove, who also attacked both Obama and Biden, in very unflattering terms, this morning at a breakfast? Why is that not mentioned?

And what about Rove this morning at a breakfast attacking both Obama and especially Biden in very unflattering terms? Was that not politics on this "unpolitical day?"

John McCain talks "Country First". He used political calculation to pick an unvetted, unqualified, VP only to try and get Clinton voters. How irresponsible to put the not just the US but the world in harms way. Shame on the GOP!

The GOP convention was noted as having trouble getting people to attend long before the weather issues because of poor brand issues with George and Chaney. Now Gustav is being used to down play that for political advantage.

McCain has voted against education benefits for disabled, against fair pay for women, against the right to choose and Obama has voted for these rights. Who puts the country first?

mary

im sorry but this is what happens when you dont vet someone, the reporters vet that person. Mccain made a mistake this clearly shows his lack of judgment

"Either Barack Obama's claims of bipartisanship are empty or he is unable to control his running mate."

It is the latter. That was one of the main reasons for choosing him, remember?

Biden is Biden. And a pretty decent running mate so far.

I ilke Biden's reference to going back home. Maybe as a country we're headed back in that direction after eight years of being lost. I also like how he included Thomas Wolfe's, You Can Never Go Home Again, to being home with his mother. He's folksy and literate at the same time, a great combination.

So many accusations from people who live in glass houses.

WHAT ABOUT THAT BRIDGE TO NOWHERE ANYWAY??

McCain has bragged that Palin opposed the famous "Bridge to Nowhere," only to learn now that Palin supported the project and even told residents of Ketchikan that they weren't "nowhere" to her.

After the national outcry, she decided to spend the funds allocated to the bridge for something else. Actually, maybe it's more fair to say that coincident with the national outcry, she changed her mind. The story shows her political judgment, but it is not a reformer's credential...

Likewise, though she did cut property taxes as mayor of Wassila, she raised the sales tax, making her hardly a tax cutter...

The Republicans and McCain can Hide behind this "minor hurricane" (now downgraded to a CAT 1 and missing New Orleans) for another day or two...

But as the wind and rain goes away, the "Palin VP Pick Storm" is only going to grow! It will grow into the biggest disaster for McCain and the Republicans in the last 50 years!!!!

Bye, bye Mr. McCain!!!!

How dare he think that we who live in the region are so gullible or "uninformed" as to think the whole world thinks McCain is incapable of leading America? Please. This type of information is fed to us locally but the Obama fiscal analyst who "explained" Obama's tax plan states persons with incomes between 150,000-200,000 are America's "middle class". When asked to explain (this was on a Fox News interview) that Obama has determined, and "believes rightly so" that the OBAMA-determined middle class will get the tax cuts and the payments will be made by those over 250,000, although he clarified that to say they may not feel it is real significant, and "of course the balance will be paid by those with earnings under 150,000. Even the commentator was astonished by the blatant disregard for the vast vast majority of Americans who have now been placed in below middle income status. We, the most hard working, probably with wages and salaries between 30,000 and 100,000 are now "low income" status. This frightens me that Obama has no understanding how we work and live despite his platitudes to the opposite, and Mr. Biden was very careful to not allude to this part of the plan. In fact, almost no one mentions this when pushing for Obama to win, I guess WNEP included. Perhaps this comment will go nowhere because of its questioning nature of a fact that should become well known and explained to the masses (it'll never happen politically). Add to that my personal concern about Mr. Obama's unwillingness to cover his heard for the Pledge of Allegiance, dislike of the National Anthem (his wife included who was found to say it should be done away with) as included on an interview at the convention. And also add the grandiose belief, almost god-like of using a platform, in the center of a stadium to greet his people and save them and Mr. Obama truly makes me nervous. He fooled no one by inviting in "the masses" to break bread and drink. Knowing the youth of today, many of those off the streets probably did just that. A Party is a party is a party. Mrs. Obama does not seem to be able to truly relate to what I consider "middle class" women, and appears very uncomfortable in having to dialogue with them on everyday problems. She can also mingle with the masses and offer the comfort of the upper class to those without fairly well, but speaking with individuals does not seem to have appeared very much. I don't normally communicate on these issues, but I truly don't remember an election that brought so many of these types of issues come to the fore. I could go on but won't. Thank you for this opportunity to at least be read by one person.

I feel bad about the Palin's family having to deal with a Down's Syndrome child that Sarah had as her fifth child at the age of 44 (why take that risk at her age with four kids...I know people who try for a kid in their forties b/c they don't have one, so they roll those dice?);

Kids have sex at 17 (which Sarah apparently doesn't believe in); no big deal...her daughter will marry at 17 years old and I am sure that marriage will last...

If McCain knew this, why didn't he think gossipy americans were going to feast on this news, especially the voter base she was going to gain for him, which are traditionally the people who scoff at the parents of kids who get pregnant pre-18 years...

My hunch is she will step down, as other Moms I have talked to are repelled by Ms. Palin's abandoning of her 5-month old child for the next 70 days...as a male this doesn't bother me becausethe father will be taking care of the Down's Syndrome baby, but what do I know...

John McCain needs to cut his losses like W. did with Harriet Meirs...McCain is losing independent voters as I write this...

I pray for the Palin family. Thanks. John

Biden is one tough experienced S.O.B...

Excellent pick Obama.

if i was bidens son id slap him not a patriot bone in his body he is having a good ole time campaining while a national tragedys going on i wonder what he did on 9-11 pop champaine and watch a foot ball game

I love the phrase..."my word as a Biden.' That's funny coming from a guy who plagiarized and had to bow out of his first campaign for president because of it.

OBAMA BEING AN ILLEGITIMATE should not be a campaign issue.

The fact that his brother and law lives in a mud hut on $1.00 per day.

The fact that he would not help his homeless highschool friend

The fact that Obama until this year only donated 1% of his income

do bring to question if he practices being his brother's keeper. (instead of taxing everyone to take care of his brother)

When is someone going to vet Obama and his family?

Obama is a Chicago con and the world is finally waking up........

Obama never won the primary. Obama stole it from Hillary.The world watched as the DNC handed the nomination to Obama by silencing voters.
The media can say what they want about Obama winning the primary but voters know the truth, especially Clinton supporters. Obama ignored voters. Florida and Michigan will never forget it.

Obama and Michelle were given a second chance to put Hillary on his ticket, but instead chose to hog the glory and embarrass the Democratic Party.

Obama could have won these women over. He should have taken advantage of the Clinton’s popularity and the love still felt for them throughout the world. Instead, he lost more respect from women across America. McCain is winning the Hillary women with his VP pick.

Obama is risky, radical and not a great patriot. Remember: Rezko, (the criminal), Reverend Wright (the anti Semitic racist) and William Ayers ( Obama’s coworker = domestic terrorist)
The list of his ugly friends with radical beliefs are endless.

God is watching and the world is laughing at our unfair voting process in the Democratic Party.
Obama should step down.