She's tackled tough problems like energy independence and corruption,"
Energy independence: Palin wants to drill drill drill. Oil is jesus juice in the ground to make our SUVs go, and it's our job to get it out.
Corruption: After trying to tackle corruption for years, Sarah Palin finally feels like she's got a handle on how to be really good at it. Fire anybody who disagrees with you, and once you have the federal money you never give it back.

and they are saying Palin is going to do a few softball interviews "maybe"

but for the most part none ion the near future...

here we go again...a governemnt in secrecy who covers up when they make mistakes...

calls the press unpatriotic and sexist...

points to a woman who reads other people's words with no answers and "factual misstatements".. with the right intonation as showing that mccain did not just make the worst decision for the country's security, economics and stability and progress...

by a presidential candidate in our nations' history...so now they are going to do like the continuation of the last 8 years ... and take the hiring of the most illequipped and lacking of any knowledge of ANY of the major issues we are facing ...VP Choice our nation has ever seen...

shut the press down and cover it up.

I also noticed an image in his bio video exploiting the NYFD on 9/11.

McShame, McSame.

Great McCain, the Republican against 8 years of Republican control of Government, doesn't even know how to pic a photo of Walter Reed HOSPITAL. That tells you all you need to know about republican incompetence.

Photos of the Walter Reed school can be seen at http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/213806.php

John McCain looked like a mound of cottage cheese on a bed of green jello.

Generally he is not a great speaker. We know this. But yesterday was OK for me and good at least for viewers. But his VP really hurting him. It was really overshadow by her. All people talk about her. Seems he is going to be forgotten. Anyways it is a good work. I gave over all A for McCain A++ for Obama.

I will make my mind up soon after I know who Sarah is .

Mistake or Not it was horrible.

Thought Cindy had been shopping again.

Am I alone on this one? Is this one of the worst Presidential campaigns in recent history?
They want us to forget that they ran on experience for months, then throw a newbie a heartbeat away from the Presidency.
They want us to forget that they tried to paint Obama as too liberal, and then act like they are bipartisan.
They want us to forget that he voted with Bush 90% of the time, and then not mention Bush like we don't know that he is President.
They want us to forget that Bush flew over New Orleans a few years ago to go celebrate a birthday with McCain as hundreds died and they could not get water into the Superdome.
They want us to forget that he looked ridiculous and robotic in front of the Green Screen a few months ago.

Maybe they don't want us to forget, but they just can't remember themselves.

Do we elect a VP to run a job of US President at day one? Apparently, Americans will pick Biden over Palin if this becomes truth.
Palin will have a job training for President as the role of VP if McCain wins the election while Obama will have to lead the country in January next year if he is elected.
Wakeup Americans and media. Let focus on the top of ticket.

"Am I alone on this one"?

No MikeNJ, you aren't alone on this. I live in a red state (Texas) and I'm seeing a big change going on here. When the GOP start running ads in a supposedly solid red state like Texas, they have big problems.

Despite Obama's claims of deep concern for Galesburg's proletarian victims, however, Maytag union members told Secter that Obama had done remarkably little to save the Galesburg workers' jobs. Those workers belonged to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, whose president noted that "Obama's support for Maytag workers was more show than substance."

This will absolutely blow your mind. One more reason why you never hear the details of Obama's "community organizing" activities in the mainstream media. People, we are being duped on an unimaginable level.

Michelle's Boot Camps For Radicals

http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=305420655186700

I believe the first picture when he came on stage was one of his 7 houses.

I believe the first picture when he came on stage was one of his 7 houses.

Ever notice that Republicans ALWAYS have a waving American flag behind them?

Carl Rove knows you can take dogsh&%, wrap it in a flag, and many American lemmings will salute it no matter how much it stinks.

Which "old boy" network are the Republicans going to change? THEY ARE THE OLD BOY NETWORK. The "media" and the "liberals" didn't cause the mess we're in now - THEY DID! And McCain and Palin are more GOP clones.

McCain helped the GOP CAUSE the problems in Washington! Republicans want to pretend the last 8 years never happened. McCain even said he supported George Bush on all the major issues. Now he wants to retract that statement and pretend it isn't true? His policies are a replica of the Bush administration's and they want us to believe that's "change"?

Palin's pork barrel politics (like her bridge to nowhere that she SUPPORTED and then just kept the money when it became unpopular), her hiring of lobbyists (for a town of only 9000) to get MILLIONS in federal pork, her misuse of publc power for personal vendettas, her RAISING of taxes (she DID NOT lower them, she RAISED them!), and her spending that left her little town MILLIONS in debt when she left as mayor prove she is just MORE OF THE SAME! We've had 8 years of this kind of politics.

The GOP spin doctors are trying to put out preemptive strikes against the media. All week they've been trying to send the message that if we question anything McCain's VP choice has done in her lack-luster career, we are sexist.

McCain did NOT want Palin. He wanted Liberman. Then he was told he couldn't have Liberman as a VP. WHO IS ACTUALLY RUNNING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY? It's obviously NOT "Maverick" John McCain. Doesn't he stand up for his own beliefs over those of his party? It's simply more BS.

So WHO WOULD RUN OUR COUNTRY IF McCAIN WERE ELECTED?

NO MORE CLOSED DOOR SECRET GOVERNMENT OPERATING WITH IMPUNITY!

Hillary releases a statement at the close of McCain's speech:

“The two party conventions showcased vastly different directions for our country. Sen. Obama and Sen. Biden offered the new ideas and positive change America needs and deserves after eight years of failed Republican leadership. Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin did not.

“After listening to all of the speeches this week, I heard nothing that suggests the Republicans are ready to fix the economy for middle-class families, provide quality affordable health care for all Americans, guarantee equal pay for equal work for women, restore our nation's leadership in a complex world or tackle the myriad of challenges our country faces.

“So, to slightly amend my comments from Denver: NO WAY, NO HOW, NO McCAIN-PALIN.”

A good match for Palin and Obama, they both have no experience and same in age. They should run the show together as “Beauty and the Beast”. May be it will rock our local theaters.

This sums up the RNC Convention better than any of the words spoken there.

Four more years of stupidity and incompetence!

If you're going to steal your stories from Talking Points Memo, please give them credit for the original reporting.

IF YOU MENTION THAT THE MCCAIN CAMPAIGN SCREWED UP THE WALTER REED IMAGE YOU ARE ATTACKING SARAH PALIN BECAUSE SHE'S A WOMAN!!!! AND YOU ARE ATTACKING A 17 YEAR OLD PREGNANT TEEN!!!! THE PRESS IS SOOOOO MEAN TO HER. AND IT'S A FEEDING FRENZY. AND IT'S MEAN TOO. AND ALSO, POW.

I agree that McCain is not a great speech-maker. But that's one of the things I like about him. He humbly talks to the people. Obama lofty tones are obviously aimed at history. I started listening to McCain's speech as someone voting AGAINST Obama. I ended up as someone who will vote FOR McCain.

Washington DC's football team got their butts kicked in a game that ended right before McCain spoke.

By design or accident?

Documents released Tuesday by the University of Illinois at Chicago shed some light on Barack Obama’s relationship with William Ayers, a founding member of the 1960s and 1970s radical group the Weather Underground.

Obama’s association with Ayers, who now teaches at the university, has become an issue in the Illinois senator’s presidential campaign. The Weather Underground took credit for several nonfatal bombings on targets that included the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, and critics accuse Obama of rubbing elbows with an unabashed 1960s radical.

Obama has said that, although he knew Ayers as a professor involved in community outreach efforts in Chicago, he doesn’t share Ayers’ extreme views.

The massive collection of newly released documents — 140 boxes full of them — includes agendas that clearly put Obama and Ayers in the same room for meetings of Chicago Annenberg Challenge, an educational initiative that Ayers was instrumental in starting and that Obama chaired in the 1990s.

stock_craft - I AM focusing on the top of the ticket and it's Obama for me all the way.

Tim in OH

so you are against people doing community service?

It seems the author sure thinks so...

I think obama is correct in getting people to do community service and be rewarded with other things... like completeing so many hours of community service will give you extra cash for college...

why is it so bad or wrong?
why are you republicans such flip floppers this year?

I mean you make fun of the governors obama was going to pick because htey are from small towns of 200k or less and have been governors only for 6 year

palin calls hillary clinton a whiner, mccains strategist says hillary needs to buck up because world leaders arent going to cut her a break...

and now they all cry sexism when people ask palin why shes qualified

Credit where credit is due, perhaps? I think Talking Points Memo was the FIRST site to make the connection between Walter Reed and McCain and Walter Reed.

outtahere, it's good for a straight talk unlike your candidate who flip and flop all the time.

stock_craft - yeah, only Obama's the beauty and Palin is the beast, aka pitbull with lipstick.

The Anchorage Daily News confirms its authenticity and describes her as a "stay-at-home mom, letter-to-the-editor writer and longtime watcher of [Mat-Su] Valley politics" who has been deluged with e-mail as she become's Palin's leading local critic.

She says she clashed with Palin over her 1996 "attempt at censorship," a reported suggested to ban books at a local library, which Palin later said wasn't a serious proposal.

The letter mostly contains undisputed facts, and while it's occasionally positive — "she's smart" — it offers a bit of an alternate, and mostly hostile, history to the campaign biography.

A sample: "They call her 'Sarah Barracuda' because of her unbridled ambition and predatory ruthlessness."

In any case, the full, viral anti-Palin e-mail after the jump.

ABOUT SARAH PALIN

I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992. Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her father was my child's favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the residents of the city.

She is enormously popular; in every way she's like the most popular girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and won't vote for her can't quit smiling when talking about her because she is a "babe".

It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. She kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents for seven months.

She is "pro-life". She recently gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby. There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby.

She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.

She is savvy. She doesn't take positions; she just "puts things out there" and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.

Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin's kind of job is highly sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything like that of native Alaskans.

Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters.

She's smart.

Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000 (at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about 670,000 residents.

During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had given rise to a recall campaign.

Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a "fiscal conservative". During her 6 years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over 33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation (1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they benefited residents.

The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration weren't enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece of property that the City didn't even have clear title to, that was still in litigation 7 yrs later--to the delight of the lawyers involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.

While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office redecorated more than once.

These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city.

As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.

In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today's surplus, borrow for needs.

She's not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren't generated by her or her staff. Ideas weren't evaluated on their merits, but on the basis of who proposed them.

McCain wants to keep Palin away from the Press, but Sarah Palin is a Celebrity now and just like Paris Hilton and Britney Spears will be pursued by the Press. As you can see, Sentaor McCain, what goes around, Comes Around! God's Hand of Judgment is Swift!

And, You know, Jesus was a Community Organizer and Pilate was a Governor (Hah!) so was George Bush, so much for Executive Experience...

"Breaking News.....

We will have breaking news regarding an ongoing story around 10am Alaska time on Friday......"

AndrewHalcro.com, Alaskan Blogger

Charlie 35

some people believe that a president who is eloquent and shows outstanding judgment is far better then someone whos only idea is to drill, and to fight anyone anytime...

mccain doesnt speak well because mccain doesnt know how to talk... thats not a crime... but as president you want someone whos going to use diplomacy instead of power

you cant just fight everyone, you need to talk things out

mccain cant do it... having military experience and being beaten in a cell everyday doesnt make you qualified to be a president, it makes you more likely to have mental issues

Other notable "Community Organizers"

Mother Teresa

Ghandi

The Dhali Lama

McCain is a great POW. His experience as POW will serve him well in the White House. Once he's POW, we'll all be in a much better POW. After POW, the POW will POW and POW. POW to POW, POW POW POW.

In POW POW POW POW, POW POW POW.

POW POW POW POW POW POW.....

POW.

Good Message!

Palin has has own serious Pastor problem and she's actually in the videos to boot. Just posted at THE ATLANTIC.

I hope Sarah will lose about 15 pounds of chunk and will make a swimsuit calendar! That's her true celebrity calling!

I love America. This gal will soon be rolling in dough thanks to her affiliations with the Republican party.

Vote Republican, it could happen to you too!

McCain still thinks Hussein was behind 911. And was pushing for the invasion of Iraq ON 911! What a coincedence! What a MORON!!!

Obama is going to implement his secret agenda for change after he becomes president.

First he will force us all to become communists. Then he will force all of us to convert into muslims.

Next he will round up all our children and force them into re-education camps where they will be indoctrinated into liberl commie muslims.

Later he will send government officials accross the country and force everyone to pay half of their net worth to the new communist muslim democratic militant party.

After that he will send black men into every home in America to rape all women over 13 in each household. He will then collect the babies from this procreation and train them to be the elite black guard militant wing of his newly founded black muslim communist democratic militant party.

He will then outlaw being white. White folk will need to pay a tax based on how white they are.

He will then remove all government officials through out the entire country, all the way down to local assemblymen and replace all of them with his black militant communist democratic soldiers (see 2 paragraphs above).

In order to feed his black militant muslim democratic army, he will force all parents to surrender their children under the age of 12 so he can roast them alive to feed to his army.

He will then force all white people who already pay the white tax to go and shine the shoes, clean toilets, collect garbage and cook meals for his elitist black militant communist democratic army of supporter.

Finally he will force mandingo style sex upon all our white women whenever he sees fit.

Forever!

Think carefully of who you vote for this election!

"Obama is offering a very different presidency"

Yes one of lies.

Obama is a liar. I will post information that hopfully will lead others to seek the truth. whether these stories are biased or not at least you can seek the answers for yourself.

My cousin worked for Maytag. Obama did nothing for them. What followed was a story that was ignored by the media after Obama claimed to have helped the Maytag workers in a stump speech.

Despite Obama's claims of deep concern for Galesburg's proletarian victims, however, Maytag union members told Secter that Obama had done remarkably little to save the Galesburg workers' jobs. Those workers belonged to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, whose president noted that "Obama's support for Maytag workers was more show than substance."

"Maytag union members said Obama had done remarkably little to save the Galesburg workers' jobs."

Maytag employees and former employees were particularly rankled by Obama's inaction because he possessed a special relationship with a leading Maytag decision-maker. Between 2003 and 2008, Obama received tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the family of Lester Crown, one of Maytag's directors and largest investors. The Crowns and employees of their family-managed holding company (Henry Crown Investments) gave at least $195,000 to Obama's senate and presidential campaigns between 2003 and 2008. According to Crown, however, Obama never once raised the fate of Maytag's Galesburg workers with him.

Bhrandon said:

"some people believe that a president who is eloquent and shows outstanding judgment is far better then someone whos only idea is to drill, and to fight anyone anytime..."

Words are easy, eloquent or not. Was it outstanding judgement to sit FOR 20 YEARS in a church headed by Reverend Wright and not realize that not only did you not agree with the Reverend's views but that you could not disown him...until he called you a politician?

I heard the Obama BLOGsphere is a abuzz with speculation that they may drop Biden for a women candidate to check the Palin effect ...

...if that this is true, it would make for a VERY interesting run-up to Nov 4.

I'm absolutely disgusted by how the Republicans exploited 9/11 last night. Have they no shame?

Change we can believe in and Xerox !

Out of curiosity : is possible for the DEMs to swop the OBAMA/BIDEN ticket for say a Hillary/Edward one at this stage of the race ?

It's really a very nice picture of Walter Reed Middle School once you get above the grass-level where McCain was standing. I wonder who took it. Did the RNC violate copyright in pulling this picture from the web and using it in a nationally televised convention?

"a little googling" did not reveal the true name of the building, Talking Points Memo did. if you are going to surf blogs to get stories you should credit them.

I guess it's been awhile since McCain has visited any wounded troops at Walter Reed.

Sarah Palin and McCain are just gifts that keep on giving.

What a bunch of idiots

Hey..I ate at ihop this weekend..I wanna be foreign policy advisor

roflmao

"A little Googling reveals that the photo appears to be the exterior of Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood, California."

Oh, come off it, ABC News, be honest. You can't Google a photo. You can Google the description of the photo, but you have to know what your looking for.

You outright stole this story from talkingpointsmemo.com plain and simple who did the legwork on it last night/early this morning. Without credit. In the news business, this is called plagiarism.

How can you hold politicians to a standard of truth when you when you are clearly, blatantly lying yourselves?

The GOP is a clownshow at this point.

Walter Reed Middle School?!?

These idiots didn't even have enough respect for vets to check and see if they had the right building for the backdrop of McCain's speech.

Incompetence, thy name is Republican.

This mistake is a classic metaphor for his campaign and his choices in the Senate to support the fraudulent Iraq War and cuts in healthcare benefits for veterans.

This really speaks volumes about the competence of the people McCain surrounds himself with. Obama's team is going to be laughing all the way to the White House.

Pat Kelly,

Welcome to the 21st Century... are you learning about the Intertubes today?

Google has an image search function, genius.

Bhrandon,

Yes, of course, Bhrandon. I'm against all forms of community service, even my own community service that I do on a monthly basis.

You are apparently so blinded by your anti-American bias and irrational love of your radicalized candidate that you can't even comprehend the implications of what's written in that article.

Given the rants I've seen by Obama sycophants in these blogs, I'm not in the least surprised.

You are ample proof of why liberalism is called a mental disorder.

Many Americans in their gut know that something is not quite right about Obama, and in time, they'll learn why.

As a law student at Syracuse, Biden had plagiarized a law review article , In September 1987, his campaign ran into trouble when he plagiarized a speech by Neil Kinnock, at least we can always tell when he speaks his mind

Speaking about Obama: the Presidency should not be a place for "on the job training"
When asked again about his statement during the debate he said " I stand by the statement"

Biden - "John McCain is a personal friend, a great friend and I would be honored to run with or against John McCain. "

"There’s a gigantic difference between John McCain and Barack Obama and between me and I suspect my vice presidential opponent,” Biden said.

“She’s good-looking,” he quipped.

Obama shows off his great judgement with his VP choice

"I am a Hillary supported that after hearing the Palin/McCain speeches will be now voting for blah blah blah blah blah..."

Like that's going to fool anyone but yourselves.

These pathetic Republican "pseudo Hillary people" think they can stand and post everywhere, in front of real Hillary supporters, and pretend their shallow logic has now made them McCain/Palin supporters.

You fools don't even come close to getting it. You people are such obvious victims of the sexist nature of your political party's policies on women that you think we support Hillary because of her tits and shinny white smile.

We support Hillary not only because she is a woman with highly capable intellect, experience and abilities, but because SHE HAS BALLS!!!

Posted by: Dom | Sep 5, 2008 11:47:08 AM
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LOLOL, Don't forget the phony African-Americans voting for the bloated white presidential ticket, LOLOL!

Poor McCainites, they are resorting to the most pathetic tactics...

The joy I feel the most is that they will now suffer for 8 years+!!!!

RIP Republican Party!

Hey...what happened to Joe Biden these days ...not heard about him in LONG while.

One wonders if he is still on the ticket ?

Sorry, James. I took images.google.com into account. I've used it regularly myself.

The Google Image search is TEXT based. You can't use Google to say "Hey, I've got this picture. Can you tell me what it is?" But you can say "Find me a picture of Walter Reed."

So, if ABC used Google to find what that building was, then please give us the query that brought up that result. Remember: You can't use "Walter" or "Reed" if you don't already know what the picture is.

No comment from the campaign says ABC. No wonder. They're still trying to figure out how to spin it. "We can tell them it was part of our education policy. Every child in the country will attend a beautiful school like this."

test

McSame Speech - A Noun, a verb and "POW".

8 is enough!!!

Go Obama/Biden!!!

Good lord. The McCain campaign is incompetent. If he is elected President, we'll just be trading one incompetent President for another. Please, lets not make the same mistake three times.

Ooops again, these McCain helpers sure aren't doing a bang up job here are they? First they pick a "who" to run as VP, undercutting the experience arugument. Then they parade out the little loser that impregnated new VP candidates little girl as a hero when the puke should be beaten with a sand filled rubber hose. Then they give him a school backdrop that looks like one of his houses instead of Walter Read. Unbelievably pathetic. The shined knob that is Steve Schmidt must be in trouble with ubergropenfuhrer KKKarl Rove for being so bad at launching slime balls. This is laughable.

why does Palin refuse all interviews? Something to hide obviously

RIP Republican Party

Obama sentence
18 nouns, 17 verbs, 29 uhs, and no point.

George is such a one way - regardless of the facts - Democrat, that anything spewing from his little peverted lips is not even relevant to anyone's common sense!!

Oh yeah! That's the truth and you know it!

Liberal windbags! ALL fluff no substance .. another day - another goofball, limp wristed, girly men, need to bathe, handout taking, don't know how the economy REALLY works, we want "change" but we don't know how or why, if you make a lot of money GIVE ME SOME because I don't wanna work, save the whales, don't drill anymore figure out how my car can run on a can of beans, I need a bigger piece of government cheese LOSERS!!

I wouldn't give them enough credit to say they mistakenly chose it for Walter Reed Hospital. I'll bet some GOP intern thought it was the White House!

It symbolizes the envy he has for Obama.

McCain/ Palin
Ready to rely on inept techies on day1...
This is looking more & more like more of the same.
I guarantee they're looking for some way to spin this gaffe. Um, Um, Um we meant to do that...

What can you say. McCain's a regular guy. Green goes with regular. That's what we love about him. None of these Greek columns and over-the-top staging to cover over a lack of experience. He's real. That's why it doesn't matter if he's the best speech-maker. We respect and know him.

Who is B.O.? Why can't most Americans get a handle on B.O.? Does B.O. "get it"? I'm afraid I just don't know what a B.O. administration would look like. B.O. is not the kind of change I'm looking for :-)

The daughters boyfriend is bound to have a gun held up so close, he cannot move with out asking Big Mama Palin if he can.

My mistake, I had thought the Walter Reed school was one of the 9 or 10 McCain homes. It was landscaped very nicly and much nicer than the schools in my home town.

Did you know that McCain was POW?

Few republicans know what Walter Reed Hospital looks like, b/c they don't go there.

Mistake or not, I'm sure the Net geeks out there will be having a ball using the green-screen to create more video spoofs. This goes to show that people today should be careful not to let yourself be filmed in front of a green-screen. ;D

Jim in OH

That link is to an op-ed piece. Its an opinion piece and it has no sources to back up its claims.

You all on the right have been whining for a week that the press is "biased" because they have been reporting the facts of Palin's record and publicizing the "facts" about the lies in her speech, and the "fact" that McCain has shifted all of his positions so that they are now in line with W and the rest of the Republican party, but somehow you think that an OPINION column conveys factual truth?

I think the Republican litmus test for a "fact" is that it does not contradict ideology.

In the real world, a fact is something that is independently verifiable and the reflects reality.

Is there going to be one positive story on ABCNEWS today about McCain? I swear, after the Democrat Convention, it was "Obama Sets The World On Fire!!" and other Obama love stories...Today it's been nothing but negative stories about Palin and McCain...Of course, what more do I expect from writers, editors and reporters that lean more towards the left than most news agencies...