The speech was very skillfully written by our current President's speechwriter. ENOUGH!

As a Democrat supporting Democrats downticket and McCain for President, I think the Republicans can breathe a sigh of relief. Sarah Palin did women proud. She will not back down, she will not be destroyed by a pro-Obama media, and she showed how strong women really can be. As a woman, I was proud of her, and I think she will make a fine Vice President. If the DNC doesn't think this woman is going to bring over some moderate and conservative-leaning Hillary supporters, they are living in Fantasy Land. I don't like all her stances, but I like Sarah just fine. McCain-Palin have the support of all the women in my extended Irish-American family.

Sarah is an insult to women. She stand for everything most women are against. She is supposed to be a strong woman, but can't take the media heat and cries sexism. She even has the dems defending her, but choose to tear them apart! She is a divise figure who will never have this woman's vote. McCain picked her because she's a woman, not because she is qualified.

Who is Sarah Palin to criticize Obama's quantity and quality of experience? That is utterly ridiculous. She is the last person who should be making that case. Even Reagan's speechwriter Peggy Noonan said of Palin: "Most qualified? No....It's over."

Sarah is an extremist moujahidine and McCain is an extremist jihadist, this ticket is a very dangerous couple and a very explosive combination. God save America from McSarah.

Argetina had Evita
We've got Sarah!!!!!!!!!

Palin Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Talk about sexist:

1. Harry Reid calling Palin "shrill" is an insult reserved for women.

2. To NMP and everyone else last night who commented that Palin had the help pf a speechwriter: so did everyone else, Clinton's and Biden included.

This speech was a home run. An A+. Pitch perfect.

Palin is the GOP equivalent of the VP nominee that Obama would have made if he hand not lost his nerve and sold out the last vestige of a "change" campaign by naming a 35 year semi-corrupt political hack as his running mate.

Last, trying to wound Palin by any means possible no matter how transparently petty shows just how desperate Team Obama really is. And with good reason. The SS Obama now has a 5’X6’ hole in its hull and is taking on water.

Carrie: You got all that out of that speech last night??

Hippiemom: I totally agree.

I heard on the news this morning she has no knowledge on the War or the Middle East that they are in the process of informing her and teaching her that is is why she said nothing last night in her speech about any of it. Now my question is why would you pick a VP who has no knowledge and admitted she has never followed the war or the middle east??? McCain you lose!

F

Not impressed at all I will vote for the third party

PALIN WORE AN ALASKA FIRST PIN. WHATS WRONG WITH THE AMERICAN FLAG PIN?

If the Obama campaign and their allies in the MSM want to destroy Sarah Palin, they have their work cut out for them. This woman is as strong in her own way as John McCain. She will attract Democratic women like myself who are no longer comfortable with a party that so easily cast aside a woman who received 50% of the vote in the Primary. I am opposed to many of the positions that Sarah Palin holds. However, those positions pale in comparison to my determination to help shatter the highest glass ceiling. As a 72-year old woman who faced discrimation first-hand in the work place, I intend to support this female candidate for Vice President. When the Democratic Party begins to appreciate the women who make up more than half its membership, I may consider returning to the party of my parents and grandparents.

Congratulations Sarah, you just become a member of the good old boys club.

For better part of the last two weeks, we have all heard polished speeches from performing orators on both sides of the political aisle.

Last night's speech by Sarah Palin was quite refreshing and provides the indication that a McCain/Palin administration will not be politics as usual.

As Obama and his campaign have chosen to attempt to attack and demean Sarah and her family since the announcement of her choice, she responded in an appropriate and aggressive manner, yet did so with respect...something that Obama and his minions seem to be unable to accomplish.

In my view, I find it significantly important that Sarah's son is serving our country's military and may soon be deployed to Iraq while one of John's sons is facing a possible second tour of duty with another graduating from Anapolis.

Such would indicate that the McCain and Palin families understand both the importance of service and the reality of sacrifice for country and freedom rather than the encouragement and proliferation of the Obama/Biden welfare state.

Sarah Palin is not a good choice if you'd like to pander to Clinton woman like myself. I tend to be suspicious about Palin kinds of crazy.

However, as a candidate with ethical standards, I love her. Obama soldout to the Chicago powerboys club, he got a great bargain on a house and now he runs a campaign with tonns of lobbyist money. A person like Sarah Palin should definitely worry such a man. A guy too cool for me, and after the primaries I just don't like Obama.

Dems blew it, they broke their own rules, democratic traditions and common decency to have the candidate they wanted - a man undeserving who ran to negative for my taste. He's trying to make up for it now, but you can't change the spots on a leopards. Come November I will have to look closely at McCharacter and Palin.

McCain has really put energy back into the GOP. The last time a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed woman was in the White House, Bill Clinton was President.

Oh, yeah, almost forgot...

Anybody But Obama...

'The Nanny' is not going to tell my daughter that it's okay to have a child at 17, she's nuttier that McNuts...

I can't think of even one issue that McCain will turn to Palin for advice as VP....I think we know why she was chosen! Shame on him...and at the country's expense....so much for country first!

I can't think of even one issue that McCain will turn to Palin for advice as VP....I think we know why she was chosen! Shame on him...and at the country's expense....so much for country first!

Palin is not the problem, McCain is.
The so called religious right blackmailed McCain into taking on Palin. James Dobson, the political figure head of evangelicals, said he was not voting for McCain. So once McCain secured the nomination the campaign went to Dobson to ask what they had to do to get his support. He told them to add someone like Palin. So the old gray mare did what he was told. Now, you'll notice, Dobson has flipped to supporting McCain. And that is why Palin was such a surprise, She was anointed by a very small select group of people.
And that is why even Republicans disapprove of her intrusion. Her appointment has been termed cynical and gimmicky by traditional conservatives.
McCain didn't gamble on his campaign, he gambled on our country. McCain's slogan is Campaign First. That is the problem.

PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere."

THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."

We have heard Barracuda's bashing speech thats OK.

What next!

She is going to be tested as never before. Nothing she has experienced in her home town Wasilla.

There are more to come:

1. News Conferences
2. Interviews
3. Oct. 2 debate with Joe Biden
4. Varieties of questions on Campaign Trails.

Reading a speech from a teleprompter, anyone with a right mind can do it.

From there

PALIN: "There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform _ not even in the state senate."

THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.

Yesterday, I received the monthly newsletter from my union, the BMWED/TEAMSTERS, supporting Obama.

The newsletter contained a two-page pullout and instructions (not a request) to post an Obama poster in a prominent place until November 4, 2008.

As a point of reference, railroad maintenance workers were absorbed the by Teamsters a few years back, a move that resulted in one of the worst contracts I can remember since the early 1970's.

Since then I have witnessed the steady decline of what was once a proud and honorable labor organization.

In the Teamsters, big labor with a history of big corruption is throwing in with the Obama/Biden campaign.

Now, the Teamsters throw big money at Obama and a heavy hand at its members.

And, this is supposed to be "change"?

Anybody But Obama...

PALIN: "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."

THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.
Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.

He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.

FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."

THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.

I saw something else last night. I saw an American people who have had a belly full of Orwellian, biased, left wing media distortion of the news and who stood up a shouted "enough". Obama supporters tend to be ignorant of history and uninformed on world events, which is why, as Rudy noted, Obama did not even know that Russia has a veto on the UN Security Council. Rudy also correctly pointedout that Obama has voted "present" over 130 times because the sniveling little coward is not man enough to vote "yes or no" on controversial legislation until after others have made the decision and it is "safe" to criticize or accept a decison by hindsight. Palin is more of a man that Obama, who, if elected, will not only be America''s first black president..he will be our first yellow president. Perhaps when Russia invades the Ukraine Obama can defend us by building them a school and sending lollipops?

palin has actual experience running something real. even if it isn't much, its more than barak. hippiefreak, you don't speak for most women that i know, and aren't hippies about love, not hate? hippy -crit?

no talk of issues, just remarks to play up the bitterness between GOP and DNC. She mimics very well what shes told to do - but there was nothing substanial there. She is nothing but a parrot - no leadership shown no ability to inspire only bring down.
and she has left a trail of trouble in Alaska behind her that is coming to bring her down- as well as Mcsame

Thanks but no thanks! No more of it.
We saw the maverick with his fresh new hunting dog; quite fierce and dominating; I am sure he would take it for normal walks and all his future hunting expeditions.

Sarah was interesting but exhibited absolute low standards in her attacks on experienced senior politicians. She brought the game to such low repute and set the future standards of the battle much below par by her vituperative attacks on her seasoned opponents. She was ably supported by the flaunting mayor of New York city who I thought was ridiculously arrogant. According to him, she had the most experience compared to both the democratic candidates put together. If it is the 20-month executive experience that he means, I must say she towers over even her mentor and should be projected as the Presidential candidate instead of the VP. While her accomplishments in Alaska are to be credited, the controversies she has tagged along with her are remarkable too, judging by the short span she has been as the governor. That speaks volumes for a potential VP. So now we have two "trigger-happy" candidates working together in tandem to take America and the world to a peaceful co-existence with the rest of the economically growing powers in the world. Is this is a good omen for America or for the anti-American-rest-of-the-world? Only time will tell.

Americans please wake up. Do you want peace or war?

Sarah Palin's economic record is different from the bhrandon planet of understanding:

While Governor of Alaska, Sarah reduced general fund spending (so far) by $124 million.

Sarah's projection for the future spending is to reduce general fund spending by $150 million.

In essence, Sarah Palin believer in free market capitalism rather than closed market socialism that is part of the Obama/Biden plans for expansion of government.

She hit a home run- out of the park.
There's something about Sarah...that is so appealing.

Many women who supported Hillary- many even crossed Party lines to do so- really believed that it was finally time for gender change in the White House.

Many women, when in the voting booth, will vote for Sarah.

oh and lets not forget she was a pot smoking addict

I have had the privalige of voting for twelve Presidents starting with FDR during my lifetime and they have all been Democrats.....After listening to Sarah Palins' speech last night, consider my next vote will be Replubican with a Capital R. I will finally get to see a woman on the Ticket and yes, I believe she is up to the job even as our President.

I was reminded last night that we have a lot of incredibly talented and powerful women leaders in this country. Barack Obama executed a very clever primary campaign and leveraged the caucus system to come out victorious. I'm just concerned that clever is not good enough to be president.

MARKM "Obama supporters tend to be ignorant of history and uninformed on world events."

There may be an opening for you on Palin's staff. Phrase thinking is in vogue. I'll send you transcripts of Tail Gunner Joe's speeches to get you started.

For the benefit of all of you financial geniuses on the left: I am a worker, I put in 60 hours a week. I make good money, and I will be damned if some filthy politician is going to take away my "excess income" that I EARNED BY MY LABOR. How many of you Democrat cretins understand that raising taxes on business causes AN INCREASE IN RETAIL PRICES FOR CONSUMERS!!Business does not pay taxes, CONSUMERS DO. Taxes are passed on to the public through HIGHER RETAIL PRICES. DO YOU GET IT YET? DON'T ANY OF YOU MORONS REMEMBER "STAGFLATION" WHEN CARTER AND THE DEMOCRATS CONTROLLED THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE CONGRESS? DON'T YOU REMEMBER 18% HOME MORTGAGES, 22% INFLATION AND 12% UNEMPLOYMENT? FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!

Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies.

And it's no surprise that, after eight years of George Bush, millions of people have found that by coming together in their local communities they can change the course of history. That promise is what our campaign has been about from the beginning.

It's now clear that John McCain's campaign has decided that desperate lies and personal attacks -- on Barack Obama and on you -- are the only way they can earn a third term for the Bush policies that McCain has supported more than 90 percent of the time.

Did everyone notice how old McCain looked after Palin's speech?

We need a prez ready for the 21st century, not McCain.

Don't have to worry about him reading this though, He can't use a computer.

How tough is that?

She very clearly pointed out (as did others last night) who the Democrat candidate is: StyrObama. Looks good on the outside, nothing substance behind it - just a facade.

The Democratic ticket is upside down. That's why the Democrats are so pissed about the selection of Sarah Palin. Her lack of foreign affairs experience highlights the same lack of foreign affairs experience in Obama. The Republicans want the Democrats to go down that road. They are dying for the Dems to bring up experience in the debates.

The contrast between both Democrats and Republicans is clear. The questions we ask of our candidates are important like theor judgment – Americans have a right to take a close look at McCain's choice of VP who is a heartbeat away from the Presidency.

I can see why people are not inspired by McCain's choice this was McCain running to the right, which left out the rest of America.

What doesn't inspire us is the Republicans are going after the media on this. We are talking about the mainstream media who are asking the questions that are on our minds about the decision making process of McCain.

Carrie,

You are not a Democrat. Palin did not do women proud. She is a mean-spirited simpleton. If you support McCain, stop calling yourself a Democrat. He is opposed to all things the Democrats stand for... go back under your bridge. Troll.

The Democratic ticket is upside down. That's why the Democrats are so pissed about the selection of Sarah Palin. Her lack of foreign affairs experience highlights the same lack of foreign affairs experience in Obama. The Republicans want the Democrats to go down that road. They are dying for the Dems to bring up experience in the debates.

btw, my 93 year old mother can't use a computer either.

Obomites! It's over, your boy is toast.

"Sarah is an extremist moujahidine and McCain is an extremist jihadist, this ticket is a very dangerous couple and a very explosive combination. God save America from McSarah. "
Posted by: BKMC | Sep 4, 2008 9:40:12 AM

BKMC,
I can't believe you really made me laugh this morning. I was just about to leave the site before I read your post. Thanks for the laugh!

A note to Henst: perhaps you would care to receive the writings of Che Guevara? or maybe Neal Kinnock? Please spare me your "wit". Here is a little lesson for you: 1. Disagreeing with a socialist does not make someone a McCarthyite any more than disagreeing with President Bush makes someone a communist...so Henst, try to stay focused,OK? 2. Obama is an avowed marxist and the picture of Che Guevara that was hanging in his Houston Campaign HQ was put there by his staff...not me or some "right wing idealogue". What are we supposed to do Henst, look away? (You Germans are good at looking the other way,like when the ovens are burning, aren't you). Obama is an ambitious little socialist , if not a megalomaniac, who wants the world to "come together over him" . he is a scary little demagogue, and you must not follow another "morgen die welt" leader.

For the folks who can't handle it: Obama won playing by the rules. He competently and intelligently led his campaign. After 8 years of fear and recklessness, do you really want more?

It is totally confounding that so many people are sufficiently swayed by feisty rhetoric that they are ready to elect a person to be Vice-President who:
a)knows almost nothing about the world outside the US (having only been outside it once);
b) has at-best narrow knowledge of the US (having never lived, for example, in a major urban centre);
c) believes that women should be forced to have babies (no choice for abortion if you are raped, even if it was your father or brother who raped you);
d) not only believes that women should not have access to safe abortion under any circumstances (despite all the major reports that show abortion rates do not decline in jurisdictions where boartion is illegal, but deaths to women and fetuses increases), but also believes that young people should not be taught the facts about how their own bodies work (ie. sex education);
e) has no applicable academic or professional experience prior to becoming a city mayor;
f) is under investigation for misuse of power and funds;
and so on and so on.
The Presidency and Vice-Presidency should not be a popularity contest. It should be about competence as a human being who lives in a large, heterogenous, and complex world. If McCain and Palin win the office, I think the United States should be domed so the rest of us can carry on in peace.

As a retired professional women who believes in self responsibility, I will be voting McCain/Palin. Out with the socialists, in with the reformers.

When truth is told about Obama, it is considered an attack. How utterly a childless and ludicrous response.

Let's talk about character or rather the lack thereof.....

Where is Rev Wright?

Where is Rezko?

Where is Ayers?

Where is that nasty white priest who was standing by obamas' side?

Sarah Barracuda was a brilliant political move, one that will bury once and for all the celebrity media creation
that has the balls to question someones experience when the best mr media has done is be "community orginizer"

LOL!! It's over obamites, you can return to your televisions and boring lives.

Exactly, Christopher,

The wholesale expansion of socialist-type government proposed by Obama/Biden cannot be financed solely by additional taxes on the wealthy and big business...Econ 101 would tell you that.

And, any increase in taxes on business will simply result in higher prices for middle and lower class consumers.

If you don't think so, then consider the "fuel cost adjustment" on many of your monthly bills.

Businesses don't pay for increases in expenses or their taxes...YOU DO.

Cuts in spending is the key to economic success in this country.

Such in not in the Obama/Biden move towards a socialist state.

Anybody But Obama...

The only ones who think her speech was a hit are the republicans honest same ole crap writtin by a Bush writter.MCCain shot himself in the foot with tis broad,
Palin will do nothng for this ticket and if the old man dies (If elected)God help us all.

Joe Biden, The American People, The National Enquirer & The People of State Of Alaska will EXPOSE Palin for the Fraud she is !!
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ST. PAUL, Minn: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.

Some Examples:

PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere."
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THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."
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PALIN: "There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform _ not even in the state senate."
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THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.
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PALIN: "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."

THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.
FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."

THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.
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FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: "We need change, all right _ change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington _ throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin."

THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.
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Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.

He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.
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MCCAIN: "She's been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply ... She's responsible for 20 percent of the nation's energy supply. I'm entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America," he said in an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson.
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THE FACTS: McCain's phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she's no more "responsible" for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state _ by population.
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MCCAIN: "She's the commander of the Alaska National Guard. ... She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities," he said on ABC.
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THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under "federal status," which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska's national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.
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FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."

THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.

You go girl! Congratulations Sarah. You really showed 'em! Palin is tough yet graceful and charming at the same time. She is confident and smart. She doesn't fit the liberals' mold of what a politician should be and she's got more balls than Obama and Biden together. The media and the left are scared of this woman because she just doesn't care about media opinion or focus groups. She'll shoot straight with you. She still has the 'common touch'. She reminds everyone of their mother, sister, teacher, friend, you name it! Some Obama supporters may think she was divisive. No, she was appropriately pushing back the bull. You can't really argue with the substance of what she said. A community organizer DOESN'T have actual responsibilities. Obama DOES want to raise taxes that will make it harder for businesses to expand and hire more people. Obama really DOES make excuses to not drill for oil. The media HAS disparaged and diminished Palin's executive experience. The truth hurts.

I don't remember experiencing difficult financial times during Jimmy Carter's administration. The Hostage Crisis I do remember, however. Also, I do remember not being able to get a raise one year (1973) while Nixon was President because of the economy; I do remember my mortgage rate going to 14.5% in 1985 (Ronald Reagan's administration); and I do know we are experiencing some very serious economic problems right now in America (George Bush's administration). So, what exactly is the problem with getting rid of this corrupt, obnoxious, lousy, horrible, war-mongering Republican adminstration this year and getting something different? And don't tell me McSame/Palin will be any different than all Republican administrations. We know they only want to help the rich and businessmen got even more wealthy than they already are. Every year in this country the number of millionaires and billionaires goes up. Yet where is the so-called "trickle down effect" to the middle-class working people? I haven't seen it yet. I do know I was much better off financially during Clinton's administration!!!

In two different focus groups of Clinton-supporting Nevada women -- married and unmarried -- conducted immediately after Gov. Sarah Palin's Wednesday night speech to the Republican National Convention, a few common reactions quickly took shape.
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First, women in both groups were impressed with Palin's speaking ability and poise. But they were hardly convinced that she was qualified to be vice president, or that she truly represented the "change" they were looking for, especially in light of what was deemed an overly harsh "sarcasm" pervading her address.
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The (mostly) anonymous proceedings were webcast live to reporters, who were told in a press release that the Nevada focus groups would include "some former Hillary Clinton supporters who are now undecided or are weak supporters of Barack Obama or John McCain." No party identification was made available, though the approximately two dozen women were reportedly between 30 and 60 years old.
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In the "married" group, when one attendee kicked off the discussion by saying "she's a good speaker, and a crowd pleaser," the rest of the room articulated their agreement. "I didn't expect to be as impressed as I was," said another respondent. But then another woman added: "Once she started mudslinging, I thought, it's the same old crap as other politicians. McCain used her to get the women's vote. And she's using McCain."
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"Thank you," another woman responded. "That really upset me; there was no need for that. It was snippy."
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The unmarried group also voiced similar objections to the harsh, partisan edge of Palin's remarks. "I'm not impressed with her at all as a person," one said, citing her "finger pointing" and general sarcasm after the group had generally agreed that she was a talented public speaker.
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Still not all focus group members thought Palin came off too harsh. "She didn't seem very aggressive to me at all," said one unmarried participant.
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But in both groups, narrow majorities said they held a more negative view of Palin after her speech. "She comes off PRETTY CUT-THROAT," said one.

"..Obama won playing by the rules...."

Weeelllll, first he did, and then he didn't.

Remember Florida, Michigan??

First, according to Obama, it was according to the rules that their delegates not be allowed to vote.

THEN, when it was time for his nomination at the Convention, BY ALL MEANS, let these delegates have their votes, and not just 50% !!!

Who cares about what some hags say about Palin?

They're just jealous.

The difference between Obama and Palin. She is a "I have done that already." He is a "I will, I will, I will, maybe."

She is a doer, he is a dreamer. Big difference.

" I do remember my mortgage rate going to 14.5% in 1985 (Ronald Reagan's administration); "

Bullshit. That was Carters fault and you know it.

The Kool aid is wearing off....you obamites needs to double dose your meds. I know you are in a state of shock, but get used to it. Palin is your new VP.

LOL! I love watching you whiners scream like little children who's ice cream just felloff of the cone and onto the pavement.

Just like obama's chances of winning now.Melted on the hard concrete of reality.

Obama is still under investigation with the south Chicago political machine members. But his campaign wants you to overlook his great friendship with Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers, the terrorist and the crazy pastor who says "God Damn America" and Obama believed them all.

The Republicans had the past 8 years to demonstrate leadership. They had control of the White House, and both houses of Congress. And what did we get?

We got screwed. REPUBLICANS HAVE CREATED MORE DEPT THAN AT ANY TIME IN US HISTORY! And they still want more?

McCain/Bush is responsible for a TRILLION dollar loss as a result fo the debacle in Iraq. And these same irresponsible people want another 4 years? Are you kidding me?????

If you are a millionare oil exec, military supplier, hedge fund manager or pharmaceutical CEO, I understand that voting for McCain is in your best interests. But for the rest of us, it's Obama. Vote Democrat! The a$$ you save may be your own.

Palin delivered a good speech.

Not sure how much of it was true, which I think may be her undoing. For instance, she tried to create a narrative about McCain, being written off a year ago by pundits for his position on Iraq.

As we all remember, he was written off a year ago, albeit prematurely, for financial mismanagement of his campaign.

You ultra liberal Democrats are up early today. Can't take it, can you? As an independent, I see lots of strength in Palin; she is honest, honorable, intelligent, a quick learner, a great speaker. One plus she has is she is not the liar that Obama and Biden are. Oh, by the way, have you hear of Dr. Kralid Adullar Tariz Al Mansour of Texas, a African Amrican Muslim activist who is a close friend of Prince Alwaleed of Saudi? He contacted people on behalf of Hussein Obama before Obama got into Harvard asking them to writer "good boy" letters to Harvard about Obama. Lots more on that.

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Let's talk about character or rather the lack thereof.....

Where is Rev Wright ?
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Ans: Rev. Wright Covered the Entire Government and it's War on other nation Policies. And Rev. Wright Served Honorably, for this Nation as a U.S. Soldier. He's a U.S. Veteran and he can have his Opinion. Its Called "Freedom Speech"

Thats The Freedom to Dissent

Where is Rezko ?
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Ans: Obama Purchased a Home via Rezko and Rezko's Wife bought the Extra Land and sold it, at a PROFIT !!!

It was a Legal Purchase. Obama is not Guilty of anything, otherthan taking a Sweet Deal, nor is Mrs. Rezko GUILTY of ANYTHING !!

Note: Tony Rezko's Donation to Obama's Campaign was in fact Donated to Charity Organizations.
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Where is Ayers?
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Ans: Bill Ayers is a Professor at a University. Ayers is Not On Any Terrorist List and he's Not in Federal Prison, either.

Obama was 7 Yrs old, when Bill and his Cronies did what they did. Obama sat on a Foundation along with Bill Ayers.
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BIG NOTE: John McCain was getting Monies from Arab Americans, which is fine, but when the Press EXPOSED it, he sent it back !!

Michelle Obama...

Monday Night: DNC 22 Million Viewers and a Very Good Approval Rating Afterwards.

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Hillary Clinton

Tuesday Night: DNC 25 Million Viewers

Bill Clinton

Wednesday Night DNC Over 25 Million Viewers
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Barack Obama

DNC Acceptence Speech

DNC Over 38 Million viewers

Over 80,000 in the Denver Stadium

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See the Disparity in Viewing Numbers by the RNP Convention....

Obama-Biden are going to WIN !!!

????Obama making this a socialist state????

Heck, no....he will make it another Muslim nation for all his brothers and The Nation of Islam and for the Saudis.