How sick is it that the mainstream media have told us more about Bristol Palin's out-of-wedlock baby in the past 5 days than they have told us about John Edwards' out-of-wedlock baby for more than a year!

Women will decide this election.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME! PLEASE STOP WITH THE B.S. IF THIS WOMAN IS GOING TO BE MY VICE PRESIDENT THEN SHE NEEDS TO GO THROUGH THE SAME SCRUTINY THAT EVERYONE WHO RUNS FOR PUBLIC OFFICE GOES THROUGH. IF SHE CANT HANDLE THE MEDIA ASKING QUESTIONS, MAYBE SHE IS NOT TOUGH ENOUGH TO BE VICE PRESIDENT. SO ENOUGH WITH THE SEXIST TALK. THIS IS JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE MCCAIN CAMPAIGN TRYING TO GET HILLARY'S SUPPORTERS TO VOTE FOR HIM.

Sarah Palin is a great choice.....
I'm a man and i support Palin for the
job......Let's have a qualify female
for VP in our nation.....
Palin has a great personality and
she's ready to take on corruption...

McCAIN/PALIN '08

Let me get this straight........
Days of talk about the VP pick's daughter......but a cover up for a potential Presidential nominee's love child.

Nice and object, right?

The media is a total disgrace. If this were Obama's daughter, we'd all be accused of being racist for even talking about it.

I am a well educated woman in a high power job who happens to be a mother. The women who are calling the Obama camapign and supporters sexist are wrong and frankly they are hurting women by crying "sexism". If the McCain campaign wants to use Palin's "Hockey Mom" image as a way to sell her then they have opened the door to any question about her as a woman/mother.

Lovy,

Then please let's scrutinize PALIN herself, not her children.

Or better yet, let's scrutinize Obama's relation to Ayers. Why isn't the media reporting on that? It's far more relevant to an election.

Lets really look at the experience comparison:

Obama:
B.A in political science from Columbia University, with a specialization in international relations
J.D. in Law from Hardvard, graduated magna cum laude; President of the Harvard Law Review
12 years (92-04) teaching constitutional law
7 years State Senator: sponsored more than 800 bills
4 years Senator for Illinos, a state with 12.8 million people

Palin:
Bachelor's in journalism from University of Idaho
4 years Wasilla City Council (8000 people)
6 years Wasilla mayor (8000 people)
1 year "Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission"
20 months governor of a state with 660,000 people

Do the Republicans really think we're so stupid that we would believe she is more experienced than Obama? Give me a break…

Yes, the "liberal media" is at it again.They tried to trash Hillary while worshipping at the shrine of Obama. Now here's another woman for them to slam.I'm a Democrat and a Hillary supporter. The Democrat party may reap a bitter harvest in November for under-estimating the memory and voting power of Clinton supporters. Many extreme left Obama voters kept smirking and saying, "we don't need you". Well good! See how it goes without us!

"Asked later why it was sexist to question her political affiliations..."

So, why is it racist to question Obama's history of being a Muslim, especially when it clearly states on his Indonesian school registration that he was? How come the MSM has not addressed that issue, which is MUCH more relevant to the safety of this country, but instead has attacked Palin like hyenas?

And that clear unbalanced reporting, is sexism.

They question the experience of a woman, but let the more inexperience male get off scot-free.

A weak man is threatened by a strong woman.

I truely like Palin, don't see anything wrong with having a 17 year old girl having a baby or got prenant. In this country or around the world, there a many high girls under 18 doing that before that got married. Palin's daughter is just one of the victim. However, We should praise her for stood up and took the resposibility to keep the bady. The one who is complainning, may her some relative or their own children doing the same thing, but luckly public may not know about. Those people should be shame themselve.

Last time I checked John Edwards was not on any presidential ticket. Palin brought this all on herself. Stop making excuses for her. She could have said no.

Half of Obama's time in Senate he has dedicated to running for President. And half the time he actually was showing up to Senate he voted "present". It's not just time, but HOW YOU MAKE USE OF THAT TIME.

As far as academic credentials, that is a worthless guide to how effective you can be as a president. I know people in the Ivory Tower seem to think that academic success translates into real world success, but it really doesn't. Our best presidents weren't that educated.

elizabeth.....i am a lifelong Democrat, and even that appalls me....

The things that people do to get you to lose sight of whats important and thats the real issues of whats going on, now who got who pregnant and when, or cheated on who...If we did a poll and people were honest probably 85% of us have been cheated on lied to or cursed at. Who is the best canadate and why, why would Obama would smear her for being a women, when he is a minority
and why would McCain smear Obama when he has a women VP running mate, also in this arena considered a minority.

Absolutely. John Edwards is given the royal, discrete treatment about his womanizing affair and possibly fathered a love child.... and the media treats him with kid gloves. The democrats hold Teddy Kennedy up as an icon, and the epitome of a politician? Do you know how many DWI's he has had in his life? That in the late '90s he was found having sex, half-naked in a restaurant? Much more if you choose to look at it. And here we have a courageous, hard-working Governor, with a fantastic public political record, and the media, and democrats, are bashing her family and questioning her morals? My goodness. I guess it's politics, but I think people are smarter than to fall for this over time. Give her a chance, and then vote your conscience.

what the ignorant lemmings fail to recognize is that obama himself was not subject to such intense scrutiny and hatred as palin is, and she's only the vp candidate!

justmyobservation: as usual, you spin Obama's thin resume and you omit important aspects of Palin's. Obama's time in the US senate is minimal at best given that he started running for President from the beginning.

Palin administers and manages the state's 11 billion dollar budget. Obama: zilcho state budget management.

Palin has negotiated a pipeline with Canada, which has brought more energy needs to the US than Biden has done for energy in his entire career.
Obama: zilcho in the foreign negotiaton dept.

Palin has commandered the National Guard, which has been deployed into action. A branch of this is also responsible for the ballistic defense system, which is unique to Alaska, and therefore Alaska's NG is the only one under 24 hour guard.
Obama: no experience with security issues.

STOP bringing up silly issues like harvard grad (Bush went to Yale, you know, are you going to say now that he was "experienced"?), and state senate....that means he was just a state legislator. And no, he didn't "sponsor" 800 bills, he co-sponsored the large majority of those, which is what every other senator does.

In his time in the us senate, according to seante records, he only authored TWO bills that went into law: naming a post office, and supporting democracy in the Congo.

the fact that you are lying to buff up his resume, and lying to demean Palin's, shows more desperation as an Obama supporter than you will ever know.

Seek the truth.

McCain/Palin 2008

Isn't it obvious?!

You can be a black man and have zero accomplishments in anything, you are still a God, a God of Nothingness. If you are a woman, they worry about who takes care of the baby.

JA...you might want to check your facts. Obama's "Present" votes are common procedure in the Illinois Senate and stand for a "NO" vote under special circumstances. Please go to the Library of Congress website to compare Obama's and McCain's voting records. You will note that since the Presidential campaign started Obama has voted almost 30% more than McCain. McCain is a much bigger no show.

if it wasn't inevitable before, it is now: obama will lose in November, thanks to his horrendous judgment and hypocrisy and the ignorance, arrogance, naivete, sexism and racism of many of his supporters...."Change" is not about switching out one arrogant leader for another....

I guess now they will have to include PEGGY NOOMAN to the list of those sexists.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Noonan_Murphy_trash_Palin_on_hot_mic_Its_over.html

Oh, I guess Mike Murphy, the former McCain adviser, as well.

Hypocrisy at it best.

mike M. - "since the Presidential campaign"......i guess that means obama is qualified then....

lance....actually, hypocrisy at its best is barack obama....why is he the best? because he has the millions of you fools fooled....

Luvguv....and you would agree then:

Why won't Obama release:

-- his real paper birth certificate? Sure he has a birth certificate? And not a copy, but the real one?
-- His Illinois state senate records?
-- His full medical records?
-- Why was access to the Annenberg Challenge records initally blocked?

What is he hiding? And aren't these MUCH more relevant to our country's safety than Palin's birthing records? Have you all gone insane?

Fiorina lies all the time about Obama and McCain's tax plan.

From the POW card to the sexist card. The McCain campaign issued a press release about Bristol being pregnant, which put it open to discussion. Bristol should not be discussed, but Gov Palin's non-support for birth control and for taking support for pregnant teenagers out of the Alaska budget is open to discussion.

One reason pro-choice people are discussing the issue is because the holier than anyone else attitude of many Republicans.

Unmarried teenagers has been a problem for centuries. To bury their head in the sand and say only teach abstinence does not help reduce abortions.

Discussions about whether a woman with children should be VP/President is somewhat sexists. Being a VP/President is not a part-time job. I do think Mr Palin should become a full time dad because one of the parents need to be there for the children. I stayed home with my children when they were young by living a very meager life style. I cannot imagine having someone else being the primary care taker for my children. The children might forget who their mother is.

Michelle Obama is on a leave of absence from her job.

Weeks ago, I thought this election would be generational.....I now know that it will be male/female, and 54% of female population might very well make this a McCAIN/PALIN WIN!!!!!
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR John Sydney and Never Barack Hussein....Gov. Palin a great choice.

why did obama subject his daughters to the hateful rants of their pastor, even if they didn't occur everyday?

Gimme a break. Anytime anyone asks anything about Palin that is not cleared by the Republican Party (Rove) will be labeled as sexist. And that "liberal" media is owned by people like Rupert Murdock, about a conservative a scoundrel as has ever lived.

Mike M. -- you are grossly incorrect. Voting "present" is done, but it was unprecedented that Obama voted so many times, much more so than any of his other colleagues. He was criticized for it by his hometown newspaper, as well as his democratic opponents, including Clinton and Edwards in one debate. Obama had no reasonable defense for it whatsoever. It simply means that this is a man who refuses to commit and make a decision, in fear of offending one party or another.

Can you imagine Obama with his finger on the red button? Scary.

if the mccain camp thinks democrates will vote for him with this bs----he has another thought coming----women that supported hillary --REALLY ARE NOT THAT DUMB AND STUPID---wonder if his buddy rove thought this one up.

is that the same michelle obama who essentially implied that Senator Clinton was unfit to be President because Bill had extra-marital sex?

What about former McCain VP candidates Portman and Meg Whitman?

Today, they both said there has not been sexism in the media coverage.

Portman even praised Obama and Biden for saying children are off limits in politics.

For over a year there's been a steady stream of lies and distortions spread about both Obama and Clinton. Then the neo-cons screamed "why aren't questions being asked" now the media looks at an unqualified, extremist candidate and the neo-con's scream "sexism". Pack of hypocrites, one and all.

Hockey moms,all of you pregnant at 16 or 17, kids on the internet meeting who knows what, pierced to the hilt! Think Palin with a disabled child and one pregnant is running to be VP with out taking care of her brood. Look at the pictures of Bristol with the balnket trying to conceal her stomach, she carried that baby all day, and 5 months pregant! SHAME ON PALIN! This will stop the talk that only minorities get knocked up without marrage, and with out a HS diploma. The Palins are white TRASH! This chicken came home BIG TIME! Center stage!

JustMyObservation, are you not familiar with our three branches of government? No "experience" you listed for Obama counts as an EXECUTIVE BRANCH qualification. Let me repeat, since the Obamabots are especially slow today, Palin has more EXECUTIVE DECISION-MAKING experience at the bottom of the Republican ticket than Obama does at the top. Period. It's simply not debatable. Obama's educational "experience" does not trump Palin's. Many Washington politicians were educated at elite schools and look at the mess their "enlightened" educations have created for the rest of us. Obama is just more of the same. I know many brilliant business leaders who were educated at public universities and they can run circles around Obama. One of the wealthiest executives on the planet, Bill Gates, was a college dropout for crying out loud and look at the magnitude of his contributions to society.

"Sexism sexism (Palin) sexism"

Ha ha ha!

As McCaint's Republi-con adviser, Phil Gram, might say, "McCaint campaign is a campaign of WHINERS!" lol

Bush IS National Disaster Personified.
Name ONE thing constructive the wild bush has created in 8 years of Presidency?

And McCaint is 90% National Disaster Bush!

liberati
i have a question for you-------WHY ARE MCCAINS MILITARY RECORDS SEALED----DO YOU THINK MAYBE HE HAS SOMETHING TO HIDE------

Hillary has been given scrutinized for everything she has done by the right wing. Well, Sarah Palin, if you can't stand the heat, then GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN! This just goes to show once again that Palin is no Hillary Clinton.

obama was against off-shore drilling before he was for it; he was against NAFTA, then he was for it; he was committed to pull all troops out in 16 months before he uncommitted; he needed his church in illinois for his political career until 20 years later, when he needed to leave it for his political career; he was against FISA before he voted for it;......i guess obama has to be a great speaker.... you can't support him based on his positions on the issues because you're not sure what they might be tomorrow.....

Last night - History Channel pt 1 (1776-1968)

Tonight - History Channel pt 2 Womens rights and women in politics 1900-present

Tomorrow - History Channel pt 3 - POW Camp

but still still no information of what the GOP will do for America

Palin left the town of Wasilla $20 million in debt. When she became mayor there was no deficit.

Palin may be the symbolic head of the Alaskan National Guard but the actual commander spoke out yesterday saying the Palin has no involvement whatsoever.

Palin was for the "bridge to nowhere" and also managed to lobby for $27 million in earmarks for Wasilla after hiring Ted Stevens' ex-chief of staff as a lobbyist. So she is no reformer or fiscal conservative.

She tried to fire the Wasilla town librarian because she wouldn't ban books that Palin didn't like. So she doesn't understand the Constitution.

obama is no Hillary Clinton, because only Hillary Clinton is capable of being the best President that our children, our troops and America needs right now....

JIM
I DID NOT KNOW GATES IS A POLITITION.
THANKS---WHAT IS HE RUNNING FOR

Obama running while raising two kids will not make news, but it would surely give everyone pause if Obama had five kids, one of whom a new-born baby with special needs and another preparing to be a teenage mother.

It wasn't considered sexist when the McCain campaign pushed Palin's image of a "hockey mom" --- note: nobody has ever called Obama "a basketball pop" --- but it is sexist to put her hockey mom image under the microscope. How strange!

I agree wholeheartedly that we should spare the kids. But it's entirely reasonable for every voter to ask this question: can a candidate handle the VP (which could turn into the top job) job while taking care of such a big family with so many special needs?

I just hope that McCain/Palin will answer all legitimate questions and stop flashing the gender card and the POW card.

Palin should certainly step up and tell her own campaign to stop its collective whining.

The only thing sexist lately has been John McCain's voting record on issues like Equal Pay and Abortion. Republican's can't cry sexism when they've made a living out of it.

Sexism? Like Obama hasn't had to deal with racism?
As Sarah Palin herself said about Hillary, stop the WHINING. Do the Republicans think she looks like a strong VP candidate by complaining she is the victim of sexism because of a perfectly natural media interest in an unknown surprise candidate?
This is the real world-- GROW A SET!!

obama ignored his constituents when they suffered in sub-standard housing owned by his friend/donor rezko during a chicago winter....

The only sexist thing that has happend is John McCain staring at her butt when she was speaking in Dayton. He stared at her butt at least 10 times.

CHRIS

YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN WE HAVE BUSH---AND JUST MAYBE MCBUSH---EXCITING ISNT IT.

rodney, you missed my point. Bill Gates is a CEO. Palin is also a CEO, of a state. The responsibilities have many similarities.

WOW!! THE SEXIST CARD IS OUT IN FULL FORCE..ND NOW IS USE BY THE MCCAIN CAMP , HOW LOW AND PATHETIC.

CHARGING THE MEDIA BECAUSE THEY ACTUALLY ARE DOING THEIR JOBS.

SORRY WE NOT BUYING WHAT YOU TRYING TO STIR UP HERE.

YOUR GIMMICK PICK OF A CANDIDATE HAVE ISSUES AND QUESTIONS AND NOW YOU TRYING TO PLAY THE SEX CARD.

NOT COOL.

even Senator Clinton's supporters had to endure racism....from obama's supporters! http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8762.html

decentAmerican- McCain caved to the right wing of the Republican Party after learning from his aides and Karl Rove less than a week ago that a floor fight would erupt at the covention if he chose Lieberman as his running mate, his # 1 choice. Instead, he pandered to the right and "hoped" to pick up women voters who backed Clinton in the primaries even though Hillary's views on the key issues are diametrically opposite of Palin's. It is a transparent, desperate, last minute move by a man who should have had the courage to pick the right person for the job, particularly given the fact that he is a 72 year old 3 time cancer survivor. Your statement that Palin has "commandered" the National Guard is priceless. Do you also support Cindy McCain's comment that Palin has experience in international issues because Alaska is near Russia?? They can spin it any way you want, but the majority of Americans are smart enough to see pandering at its finest by the GOP. Get real.

OMENTUM-------THIS ONE WILL BLOW UP IN MCCAINS FACE---SHOULD BE INTERESTING.

McBush can Rant and Rave all he
wants.. it will not change the History
of his Actions....... and the choices
he has made... is this a preview
of what it would be like to have him
as President of the United States?
Nightmare on Elm Streets....

their behavior, arrogance and ignorance suggest that obama and his lemmings would be "more of the same" much more than mccain would be.....

Just to get the facts straight. John Edwards had a sexual affair. He didn't father a child out of wedlock.

Stop lying people, and get your facts straight before making yourselves look like asses.

HEY RAM

YOU HAVE TO ADMIT THEY GIVE NEW MEANING TO THE WORD----DUMB DUMB

if obama can't even take the time and energy to even attempt to help his own family (half-brother), how can we trust him to help others when it is not in his political best interest?

i can't imagine how full the schedules of psychotherapists will be after obama's inevitable failure on November 4th....

rodney

he lit the fuse when he picked palin

this is quite amusing seeing the gop spinning themselves dizzy on trying to cover for the bad choices of 'THE MAVERICK'

where's my popcorn.

I say vote Hillary. Obama sucks and McCain sucks. Hillary is still our best choice.

Askig her back ground is not sexism get a clear mind first if you want to sink with her in quick sand that is your choice but we are not going to let our country sink with these two candidats one self centerd selfish who cares about his election and she is lier and hypocrat..

CHRIS

YOU HAVE TO ADMIT THE REPUBS HAVE OUR INTEREST IN MIND---LIKE CHINA GETTING THE OIL BENIFITS FROM IRAQ---

luvguv.....OMG IT'S...A...BABY..AN INNOCENT CHILD...ARE YOU LIBS SO SICK THAT YOU ARE NOW SETTING YOUR TARGETS ON AN INNOCENT CHILD........

The democrats have taken women's vote for granted for far too long. The democrats think they can bash and attack women when it serves to get Obama elected and women will still vote democrat when it's November. I say hell no. I say vote McCain into office and show the democrats the REAL voting power of women. Women can put politicians in office and women can TAKE politicians out of office.

J -----YOU DID NOT INCLUDE PALIN----WHY ?????????????

number of houses mccain own = don't really know

palins experience = zero

bush's approval = priceless

OBAMA BIDEN 08

given the level of their hatred and disgust and vitriol, it is easy to see that obama's lemmings are too emotionally involved with him to realize only Senator Clinton is capable of being the best President for America right now....

Where was their outrage and condemnation when conservative website spread racist smears against Obama? Forgive me if I don't entirely sympathize with their righteousness.

How did you guys like the history channel last night.

OK PALIN---LIKE HILLARY SAID---IF YOU CANNOT STAND THE HEAT GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN--THIS IS HARDBALL POLITICS.

Hey.....we've had white trash in the WH for the last 16 years, why not try out some trailer trash? It ain't about Bristol Palin; it's about a mother who raises her kids this way. Trailer trash, baby, trailer trash.

"Liberal websites are accusing Palin with faking a pregnancy… being a nazi sympathizer...associating with fringe groups......and supermarket tabloids shout about babies, lies and scandal."

WHAT!

Republicans complaining about propaganda being spread on the internet??

NOW THATS FUNNY!!

The Republican Party are the masters of spreading propaganda to smear opponents.

Now that want to cry about it?

WHAAAA WHAAA!! I don't feel the least bit sorry for the Republicans. They are getting what they deserve:

Removal from power.

the rebublicans have the dumbed down electorate fooled by playing the sexism card for every question about Palen

through all this time, all these many months, through the primaries and now through the conventions, 95% of the arguments made by obama's lemmings for his candidacy are littered with attacks, ignorance, arrogance, naivete, racism and sexism against his opponents, leaving very, very few arguments of hope, unity and all the values that obama supposedly stands for and promotes......is this the "CHANGE" that obama will bring to America?

OMENTUM
I MISSED IT-------BUT WOULD PAY TO SEE MCCAINS MILITARY RECORDS UNEDITED---I KNOW WHY AND SO DO A LOT OF OTHERS---THE OLD FOOL THINKS ALL HAVE FORGOT.

Wait a minute here! Didn't Palin call Hillary a whiner for saying that the media treated her with sexism - isn't she playing the same card now. Just another example of flip flopping by the GOP people - when it happens to somebody else they are whinning, but when it happens to me it sexism. Thank you for showing the American people exactly how you think and act - can't hide behind the lie when you said it yourself - whiner!

So let me understand this. Liberal feminists, who made large gains over the past few decades, are criticizing Palin because she "needs to stay at home to attend to her family." And conservative feminists are ecstatic to support a fellow feminist, who is able to juggle a successful career and family life. This is like the Twilight Zone. Liberals are self-destructing inside the space of a week.

McCain/Palin has been releasing ALL this stuff to the media--now you blame the media for passing it on. Are you guys dumb and blind, too?

This is a masterful Rovian manipulation. Unfortunately aimed at the MTV generation. Just what we need to drive out young people's morals further into dogville.

Go GOP--you're on your way to completely trashing this country. A bankruptcy in every house and a bun in every teenage oven!

even those very, very few messages and posts actually arguing FOR obama talk in abstract terms right out of his shallow, but pretty, speeches.....any questions about his plans or policies and you are immediately insulted and told to look them up on his website, because it is apparent that the lemming does not themselves know what he plans on doing if he wins......very sad and very scary. Obama Lemmings = uninformed hatred

Chris says - why did obama subject his daughters to the hateful rants of their pastor, even if they didn't occur everyday?
_____________________________________________________

Why did Palin? Why did she sit in the pews of her church listening to garbage about the Jews bringing on all the terror on themselves because they are not saved.....

the obama lemmings are pure hypocrites, much like their messiah.....palin and her supporters cannot whine about sexism, but if you dare to support anyone other than obama, you must be a racist.....

Annapolis MD:

And you know for a FACT that John Edwards did not father a love child?

Have you personally conducted the paternity test?

If McCain wanted to put a woman on the ticket, why didn't he put somebody like Kay Bailey Hutchison or Olympia Snowe? THAT is the thing that offends most women--he bypassed these great republican senators who are very capable of stepping in for him and instead went for Caribou Barbie. women would l