Sarah Palin was conspicuously absent from the Sunday talk shows, the only no-show of the morning among the four nominees across both tickets. At least the campaign has booked her first interview as John McCain’s running mate for later this week with ABC News’ Charles Gibson. On Sunday, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis acted like interviews would only be done with strings attached, if at all, asking: “Why would we want to throw Sarah Palin into a cycle of piranhas called the news media that have nothing better to ask questions about than her personal life and her children? So until at which point in time we feel like the news media is going to treat her with some level of respect and deference, I think it would be foolhardy to put her out into that kind of environment.” Media bashing plays well with Republicans, but it’s not too much to expect a would-be vice president to take questions, hard and soft, from reporters.
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Thank heavens!
Finally we get another negative Palin thread! I was beginning to worry about the well being of the editors!
Saw a rerun, on Saturday Night Live.
The one where SNL pokes fun at the media, for being so PRO-OBAMA! It is really funny.
The media IS biased. Repubicans SHOULD control the media access and availability.
There is no good reason to let the leftist, biased media control events.
The public understands this, perfectly.
BTW, as far as the “fairness doctrine” is concerned? How about Palin going on Oprah?
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/oprah-says-no-to-palin-and-gets-an-earful/?scp=2&sq=oprah&st=cse
The Moose-Dresser: The Gaffe that Keeps on Giving
Gov. Sarah Palin made her first potentially major gaffe during her time on the national scene while discussing the developments of the perilous housing market this past weekend.
Speaking before voters in Colorado Springs, the Republican vice presidential nominee claimed that lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had “gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers.” The companies, as McClatchy reported, “aren’t taxpayer funded but operate as private companies. The takeover may result in a taxpayer bailout during reorganization.”
“Why would we want to throw Sarah Palin into a cycle of piranhas called the news media that have nothing better to ask questions about than her personal life and her children? So until at which point in time we feel like the news media is going to treat her with some level of respect and deference, I think it would be foolhardy to put her out into that kind of environment.”
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Well said. Well reasoned. There is no reason to expose Ms. Palin to the leftist “journalists” who are bent only on bringing her down. Sorry, she is the story and the media reaps what it sows, in this case suspicion and mistrust.
“outlander” reveals the CONs’ motivation –
“…suspicion and mistrust.”
It’s all ya got.
Bwhak bwak bwaaaak bwaak.
Chicken livered.
But even though her RepubliCON handlers threw a blanket over her, she still managed to show that she didn’t know the first thing about Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
“Sprout eating Liberals”
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ANTI
Posted September 8, 2008 at 1:47 pm | Permalink
“Sprout eating Liberals”
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Don’t forget the cheese-eating and the quiche brigades. Not to mention the surrender monkey aspect of imbibing vast quantities of liberal Pravda-flavored koolaid.
Don’t forget the cheese-eating and the quiche brigades. Not to mention the surrender monkey aspect of imbibing vast quantities of liberal Pravda-flavored koolaid.
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Point taken.
What’s really funny, is Mccain is going to be forced to travel with her, thus cutting the number of stops by half.
He can’t draw the crowds or enthusiasm flying solo, so is dependent on his co-pilot (getting harder and harder to tell which one is the pilot, though).
Capn you are an example of the competence of the liberal media. Who cares about her qualifications about national security, the economy, plans to help special needs children, education, health care – no we need her to take a DNA test, dish the dirt about her husbands 22 year old DUI, who all has she had an affair with, was baby Trig actually her baby, why didn’t a 43 year old woman know how to not get pregnant, why didn’t she abort this ‘damaged’ fetus, can a woman with 5 children actually handle the VP job especially if she is a ‘conservative’, should her daughter have an abortion, will she marry before the baby is born, and last but not least has she hung from the chandeliers, played with snakes or spoke in tongues in her house of worship. You know the REALLY important questions.
Way to go McCain. Unless the press learns how to treat a woman who is a candidate for VP of the US I agree they shouldn’t be allowed in.
It’s impossible to have a positive thread about someone you know so little about. You all loved it when the dems. were having their personal lives dissected by the media, and there was nothing more important to know than that.
This is really rich: We got the governor of Alaska, a state known for its rugged people; a woman who was known as barracuda during her school days; a mother of five, one of which has downs syndrome; a mother handling her seventeen year old daughter’s pregnancy quite admirably; a woman who hunts moose, and her “handlers” think she can’t handle the press?
Give me a break. If they think she can’t handle something as necessary as the press, just what exactly, do they think she can handle? She’s on tap for the Vice-President of the United States. Just what do the handlers think she’s made of, and/or what are they afraid of? That she’s made of Swiss cheese, that she’ll start crying on stage?
This whole Palin selection smacks of a weird side-show. And I doubt a side-show can run this country. The bush administration proved that in their eight years of mismanagement.
If the Democrats lose this election, it’s because they’re too stupid to take advantage of this situation.
Palin’s family and personal “problems” make for a good excuse to avoid more gaffes. Look for a demand for seeing the questions beforehand where the ABC/Charlie interview is concerned. The answers will be formulated and memorized. This way there can be NO gaffes.
And you call Palin a VP candidate?
I guess we’ll see just how gullible the American public is.
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Phantom
Posted September 8, 2008 at 1:59 pm | Permalink
It’s impossible to have a positive thread about someone you know so little about. You all loved it when the dems. were having their personal lives dissected by the media, and there was nothing more important to know than that.
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With the exception of a few Dem posters, it’s impossible for Libs to take the high ground on any issue.
They are just too busy accusing others, making up rumors and generally creating chaos.
Sorry, I just can’t see spending my entire life making unfounded mean-spirited comments like the Libs on this blog and elsewhere do.
At some point, they’ll turn on each other.
Wait, H. Clinton…never mind.
I say let the media and the Dems treat Palin the same way Hillary Clinton was and is treated.
All’s fair in love and, um, politics?
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ANTI
Posted September 8, 2008 at 1:47 pm | Permalink
“Sprout eating Liberals”
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Regular
Posted September 8, 2008 at 1:49 pm | Permalink
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ANTI
Posted September 8, 2008 at 1:47 pm | Permalink
“Sprout eating Liberals”
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Don’t forget the cheese-eating and the quiche brigades. Not to mention the surrender monkey aspect of imbibing vast quantities of liberal Pravda-flavored koolaid.
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ANTI
Posted September 8, 2008 at 1:51 pm | Permalink
Don’t forget the cheese-eating and the quiche brigades. Not to mention the surrender monkey aspect of imbibing vast quantities of liberal Pravda-flavored koolaid.
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Point taken.
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I see the Neo-Conservative blog a**holes are continuing to add Neo-conservative substance to the thread. If that’s all they got, no wonder they don’t want Palin out in the open.
mean-spirited comments like the Libs on this blog and elsewhere do.
And, of course, “Her Thighness” doesn’t count as mean-spirited. Not in CON world, anyway.
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Predestined
Posted September 8, 2008 at 2:07 pm | Permalink
mean-spirited comments like the Libs on this blog and elsewhere do.
And, of course, “Her Thighness” doesn’t count as mean-spirited. Not in CON world, anyway.
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It’s parody, or do Libs like yourself not get it?
(chortles)
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Predestined
Posted September 8, 2008 at 2:05 pm | Permalink
I say let the media and the Dems treat Palin the same way Hillary Clinton was and is treated.
All’s fair in love and, um, politics?
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Of course ,what you imply is that the media is in the tank for Obama. Agreed.
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JMWalker
Posted September 8, 2008 at 2:06 pm | Permalink
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I see the Neo-Conservative blog a**holes are continuing to add Neo-conservative substance to the thread. If that’s all they got, no wonder they don’t want Palin out in the open.
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Eat more fiber old man, you sound constipated.
Liberal Media???? oh like fox news or Rush? The Repub/Neocons are just setting the naive american public up for a non-debating Veep candidate. They and most Neocons don’t want her to talk and expose her ignorance on issues. Biden will chew her up in a debate and the Neocon media will say “What a mean old man Joe Biden is picking on this hockey mom”
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cwoodman
Posted September 8, 2008 at 2:17 pm | Permalink
Liberal Media???? oh like fox news or Rush? The Repub/Neocons are just setting the naive american public up for a non-debating Veep candidate. They and most Neocons don’t want her to talk and expose her ignorance on issues. Biden will chew her up in a debate and the Neocon media will say “What a mean old man Joe Biden is picking on this hockey mom”
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You mean Joe Biden the plagiarizer?
Joe Biden the liar about his law school academics?
Joe Biden the Senator who has either flip flopped and been wrong on almost every foreign policy decision?
That Joe Biden?
Capn
Actually, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac WERE “quasi-governmental” even before this bail out.
Everyone with any sense or knowledge of the situation knows that.
These lenders got LOTS of government breaks, and were protected by Democrats in Congress.
What’s that say when the ‘baricuda’ has to be protected from the pirhanas?
Biden says this would be a different kind of person to debate, because he doesn’t know what her policies are.
The liberal news media can’t handle this Sarah Palin. She is for everything they are against. Don’t you think with a 80% plus approval rating in her home state; she can’t handle the boys. My wife can chew me up and throw me away big time. I know the dems are wanting her to lay over and play dead, ain’t going to happen. She is not like Obama who can’t answer questions without a teleprompter and when he does, has to back and re-think his answers.
Throughout history, commanders have protected their calvalry, or their tanks.
Sarah has her pupose, her role to play, and she does it very well.
We will use her profound talents when needed.
Sarah Palin does not seek the good opinion of the media.
She seeks the high opinion of the voters, and she has it!
Biden
Change you can Xerox!
If Palin is elected VP it will be the biggest farce in American politics since GWB’s war in Iraq.
I can’t believe anyone would have the audacity to suggest that a VP candidate, or any candidate for any office, should go unscathed. If you really believe in your candidate, let her answer the hardest, most difficult questions. If she’s as good as you say she is, she’ll win the debate and will be the convincing choice. As it is, she’s being kept in secrecy and that is a very dangerous thing we all ought to be concerned about.
But we won’t be. We’ve got other things to worry about including telling everyone else how to live their life.
The people of this country have been voting against their own self-interest since the 1980s and look at where it’s gotten us. The moral issues mean nothing if we’re broke, unemployed, hungry and homeless.
And with the way the price of everything is going up and up and up right now, that day isn’t too far off.
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mcs7584
Posted September 8, 2008 at 2:35 pm | Permalink
If Palin is elected VP it will be the biggest farce in American politics since GWB’s war in Iraq.
I can’t believe anyone would have the audacity to suggest that a VP candidate, or any candidate for any office, should go unscathed. If you really believe in your candidate, let her answer the hardest, most difficult questions. If she’s as good as you say she is, she’ll win the debate and will be the convincing choice. As it is, she’s being kept in secrecy and that is a very dangerous thing we all ought to be concerned about.
But we won’t be. We’ve got other things to worry about including telling everyone else how to live their life.
The people of this country have been voting against their own self-interest since the 1980s and look at where it’s gotten us. The moral issues mean nothing if we’re broke, unemployed, hungry and homeless.
And with the way the price of everything is going up and up and up right now, that day isn’t too far off.
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Palin has less than two weeks on the campaign trail.
There are about 54 more days for the media to take their shots and question her.
Patience.
Rhonda
Did it ever bother you that candidate Hillary Clinton never gave an interview without preconditions, like being given the questions she would be asked ahead of time?
Clinton’ Senate campaign and presidential campaign were run the same way. Carefully orchestrated “public” events and all kinds of pre-conditions on interviews.
It only bothers you when it’s a Republican.
Go change your pants lefties, it stinks of fear in here. Democrap fear.
The Moose-Dresser is John McCain’s choice to be the second-most powerful person on the planet. But she can’t face the news media.
Obama and Biden were on the Sunday morning shows yesterday. (without a teleprompter) They spoke in specifics and they spoke at length about the issues facing America.
Barack Obama faced Bill O’Reilly, knowing full well that his answers would be edited and truncated by the Faux Noise Channel. Joe Biden did a half-hour with Tom Brokaw parroting every lie and slur the Republic Party convention spewed, and Biden quashed ‘em like political cockroaches they are.
The handlers of John S (for Senile) McCain the Third (for Shrub’s 3rd term) are so terrified of The Gaffe that Keeps on Giving, when they fart only dogs can hear.
The Alaskan baby-farmer can’t face Rachel Maddow but she’s up to go eye-to-eye and toe-to-toe with Vladimir Putin?
Don’t you CONs have a clue about how absurd your fetish for the Earmark Whore of the North is sounding?
“Did it ever bother you that candidate Hillary Clinton never gave an interview without preconditions, like being given the questions she would be asked ahead of time? ”
Google Barbara Walter interview with Hillary, no ground rules.
The, find an instance of a dem. interview where preconditions and ground rules were set in advance.
What’s really perplexing is having loyalty to a candidate they know virtually nothing about. Except for the R .
She’s nothing more than a photogenic mascot.
Phantom
Babwa Wawa??? Your schitting me right? Hillary’s lucky BaWa didnt jump in her lap and suck on her face. Please.
I for one am not interested in most of what goes on
in Palins’ personal life. The exception being how her religious beliefs enter into her policy making. I would like to know about why she needs $95,000 for
attorney fees for her part in a state firing. We need to see this woman out in the open talking about the issues not in hiding like Cheney.
Why should we ask Palin about the issues- its not like any of you are going to vote on the issues. Flip cock a doodle said the iron pan.
We own it on the issues. That is clear. We have to show the normal thinking people *the moderate, non neocon types* that McSame Palin is a bigger disaster in the making than Bush.
Dear Repukes,
So, this is the woman you claim is able “on day one” to step into the Presidency?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/08/palin-makes-her-first-gaf_n_124792.html
What’s great is the “what the f*ck” look on McCain’s face when Stalin–sorry, Palin–claims that the Fed is taking over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac because they’ve “gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers.” It’s all McCain can do to keep himself from hitting her.
As good as the gaffe, though, is Sarah Palin’s forced delivery on the “we feel your pain!” part of the stump speech. After detailing the litany of pressures and obstacles facing the middle class, he pivots and says “and that’s why John McCain has been calling, for years, to…reform things, to cut bureacracy.”
Bottom line, Repukes: you want to foist THIS trainwreck of a ticket on the American public? Sorry. No. Enjoy your convention bounce: if this is what we can expect of the A-game from Stalin–sorry, PALIN–it’s all downhill from here.
A bon mot: also funny to see you Repukes cluck over your continued victimization at the hands of what is, in reality, a Republican engineered Pravda media. Tell me again Repukes–WHO did the McCain campaign manage to get relieved of their convention reporting duties? Wasn’t that…Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews?
pmom
So?
You think that America supports:
Surrender?
Racial Division?
Massive Socialism?
Massive Taxation?
Ok, bring those issues on!
Monkeyhawk
“Obama and Biden were on the Sunday morning shows yesterday. (without a teleprompter) They spoke in specifics and they spoke at length about the issues facing America.”
What conservitive news outlet did Obama of the Muslim faith discuss specifics with?
ABC CBS NBC CNN MSNBC NY Times USA Today do not count. They are like being interviewed by Mike Moore.
Palin for President. Man we are excited.
CF2K
Posted September 8, 2008 at 3:02 pm
A bon mot: also funny to see you Repukes cluck over your continued victimization at the hands of what is, in reality, a Republican engineered Pravda media. Tell me again Repukes–WHO did the McCain campaign manage to get relieved of their convention reporting duties? Wasn’t that…Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews?
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Mousy Tongue, CF2K – whines at the loss of Matthews and Obermann in a Convention that is already over.
cry
kandisue,
The Kool Aid (I almost misspelled it “Kook Aid”, which probably is more appropriate for you) seems to be getting to you, Ma’am: Barack Obama WAS on the “O’Reilly Factor,” was he not?
I figured a lying, race-baiter like you, KandiSue, would have had it on the TiVo.
And incredibly, even though AP’s Nedra Pickler and Ron Fournier have been in the tank for McCain, AP calls out Stalin–sorry, PALIN–and McCain for LYING about Barack Obama’s record.
“LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. – John McCain and Sarah Palin criticized Democrat Barack Obama over the amount of money he has requested for his home state of Illinois, even though Alaska under Palin’s leadership has asked Washington for 10 times more money per citizen for pet projects.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080908/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_palin;_ylt=ApNKaALGM0GuBsxna_io3a1p24cA
When media actually reports facts, Repukes whine “bias!”
There’s little difference between Sarah Palin and an empty chair. If she will not be available to reporters, they should put her name on a chair and interview it.
I don’t think she’s a barracuda at all, more like a fragile ‘angel fish’ and requires special handling!
Maybe they could use a blow up doll!
BlueJay
Posted September 8, 2008 at 3:18 pm | Permalink
There’s little difference between Sarah Palin and an empty chair. If she will not be available to reporters, they should put her name on a chair and interview it.
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Perhaps they can hang the “empty suit” Obama on the empty chair. A two for one.
Franklin whines, You think that America supports:
Massive Socialism?
You mean like this: September 8, 2008
In Rescue to Stabilize Lending, U.S. Takes Over Mortgage Finance Titans
By STEPHEN LABATON and EDMUND L. ANDREWS
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration seized control of the nation’s two largest mortgage finance companies on Sunday, seeking to shrink drastically their outsize influence on Wall Street and on Capitol Hill while at the same time counting on them to pull the nation out of its worst housing crisis in decades.
The bailout plan for the companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a seismic event in a year of repeated financial crises followed by aggressive federal intervention, places the companies in a government conservatorship, much like a bankruptcy reorganization. The plan also replaces the management of the companies.
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Taxpayer funded relief for the investor class.
Everyone else must learn from “marketplace discipline.”
Franklin is right–it is socialism, but socialism to benefit the rich.
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Kandisue
Posted September 8, 2008 at 3:05 pm | Permalink
Monkeyhawk
“Obama and Biden were on the Sunday morning shows yesterday. (without a teleprompter) They spoke in specifics and they spoke at length about the issues facing America.”
What conservitive news outlet did Obama of the Muslim faith discuss specifics with?
ABC CBS NBC CNN MSNBC NY Times USA Today do not count. They are like being interviewed by Mike Moore.
Palin for President. Man we are excited.
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Well, as usual, the rupugs are doing nothing but casting aspersions on people who aren’t afraid to face the press. Unlike the disney world selection of this rugged hockey mom with five kids, a big gun, and a barracuda moniker, whom her handlers have seemed to labeled too wimpy to face the same press.
Hiding the VP pick smacks of royal stupidity:
“I’m the governor of Alaska, waaaaaa, I hunt moose, waaaaaaa, they called me Barracuda in school, waaaaaa . . . Please elect my superior and me or I’ll cry, waaaaaaa……. (filmed in a secret location somewhere in ANWAR.)
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What conservitive news outlet did Obama of the Muslim faith discuss specifics with?
ABC CBS NBC CNN MSNBC NY Times USA Today do not count. They are like being interviewed by Mike Moore.
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Oh, gee . . . let me think: Like, maybe, Bill O’Rielly? The same guy was was agin’ a sixteen year old girl getting pregnant, blaming it on the parents, but ‘fer a seventeen year old girl, praising her parents? That Bill?
Kandisue, or whatever you are, spreading bs is a typical con trick, which says volumes as to what you are: a street corner trick. Fifty cents max, and I’ll pass: I like real women.
This is so stupid. What has it been, about 10 days since she was picked as VP candidate? She was the governor of friggin’ Alaska. McCain picked her for personal qualities not for her knowledge of national issues.
But she is obviously a very bright lady and will be up to speed soon on all the national issues and ready to clean the left’s clock. I look forward to it.
Until then, they will just have to wait.
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ANTI
Posted September 8, 2008 at 3:23 pm | Permalink
BlueJay
Posted September 8, 2008 at 3:18 pm | Permalink
There’s little difference between Sarah Palin and an empty chair. If she will not be available to reporters, they should put her name on a chair and interview it.
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Perhaps they can hang the “empty suit” Obama on the empty chair. A two for one.
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No need: he’ll show up, unlike procrastinator Palin.
Monkeyboy- Obama and Biden were on the Sunday morning shows yesterday. (without a teleprompter) They spoke in specifics and they spoke at length about the issues facing America.
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I heard the One say he would continue the “bush tax cuts”
I heard Biden say life begins at conception.
The only time they mentioned “the issues” was to say…
The republicans aren’t talking about the issues, we are very specific in our plans, (oh crap, not the “I have a plan” strategy) the republicans aren’t talking about the issues, they aren’t talking about healthcare or social security. We are. (see, I just said, “social security” AND “healthcare” in the SAME sentence! VOTE FOR ME!!!!)
Let’s see if this works:
Wrong all along: McCain in his own words
McCain Iraq
Nope . . . oh well . . .
Heh, well, looks like I got it right on Friday (not that it took any great insight to predict).
“She’ll be dutifully trotted out when necessary, and kept under wraps the rest of the time.”
http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/09/sebelius-takes-on-hurricane-sarah/#comment-418046
Palin helps McCain so long as she’s not allowed to ad-lib. She goes off without a script, and I bet there’s gonna be trouble!
Not because she’s stupid (we underestimate her at our peril), but because she’s unapolegetically extremist, mean-spirited, stubborn, and has a temper that easily rivals John McCain. I’d love to see her “go off” on Tom Brokaw!
Palin?
Let Obama sit for the Piranhas.
Let Obama splain:
–What exactly did you DO as a Community Organizer? Help people sign-up for Welfare? A Secretary can do that.
–What was your salary as a Community Organizer and Who paid it?
–Splain your Rezko relationship for a Change.
–How is that again that you are MORE qualified then Palin to be President?
–Why Obama, do you keep attacking Palin’s experience instead of McCains?
What’s great is the “what the f*ck” look on McCain’s face when Stalin–sorry, Palin–claims that the Fed is taking over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac because they’ve “gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers.” It’s all McCain can do to keep himself from hitting her.
In light of this statement, I revise my assesment of her intelligence down a few notches.
Rags- Palin helps McCain so long as she’s not allowed to ad-lib. She goes off without a script, and I bet there’s gonna be trouble!
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yeah, in the Ones camp……..
she goes off without a script, maybe ANOTHER 9 pt. bounce…….
hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What exactly did you DO as a Community Organizer?
I realize you’ve never taken any interest in the facts of what did (which are readily available), so why start now?
From CF2K’s link:
“You would like to think that someone who is going to be vice president and conceivable president would know what Fannie and Freddie do,” said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. “These are huge institutions and they are absolutely central to our country’s mortgage debt. To not have a clue what they do doesn’t speak well for her, I’d say.”
Added Andrew Jakabovics, an economic analysts for the progressive think tank, Center for American Progress: “It is somewhat nonsensical because up until yesterday there was sort of no public funding there. Even today they haven’t drawn down any of the credit line they have given to Treasury. ‘Gotten too big and too expensive’ are two separate things. The too big has been a conservative mantra for a while and there is something to be said of that in that they hold about half of the mortgage guarantees that are out there. And in the last year they have been responsible for roughly 80 percent out there. The ‘too expensive to tax payers,’ I don’t know where that comes from.”
Even conservative analysts acknowledged that the statement simply did not hold true.
“Heretofore, if the treasury had a balance sheet there would have been a liability but there was never a taxpayer payment before [the bailout],” said Gerald P. O’Driscoll, an economist with the Cato Institute. “[Fannie and Freddie] were not taxpayer funded. They had taxpayer guarantee, which is worth something, especially in the stock market…”
The Palin misstatement comes as Fannie and Freddie are set to be placed under control of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, created by President Bush in late July to help regulate the two housing giants. Both presidential candidates have been critical of Fannie and Freddie but neither is opposed to the government’s plans for the companies. The treasury is hoping that the government’s role will help stabilize credit markets and incentive more mortgage lending.
“With the takeover they will be taxpayer funded,” said O’Driscoll. “As I understand it they get to withdraw funds with permission going forward.”
How politically significant a “gaffe” it is remains to be seen. The major concern about Palin’s position on the ticket is that she lacks the economic and foreign policy wherewithal to serve as vice president. This certainly doesn’t help on that front. At the same time, the remark went almost entirely unnoticed over the weekend and discussions on the developments of the housing market can be difficult to process for even the most attuned voter.
There are varying explanations that could be offered for Palin’s defense. As O’Driscoll noted, both Fannie and Freddie “were hybrid institutions because they had private ownership but… an implicit government guarantee which people thought at the end of the day was explicit.” Meanwhile, as Baker noted, as of July the two lenders were being offered low market interest rates by the fed again, theoretically, at the taxpayer’s expense. But, he added, “I kind of doubt she had any sense of that.”
Ready from day one?
Rags- In light of this statement, I revise my assesment of her intelligence down a few notches.
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How many states in “the Ones” world?
Maybe he thought berlin was a state…..
Rags- But, he added, “I kind of doubt she had any sense of that.”
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I certainly hope for the sake of YOUR arguement that your “progressive” (read: liberal pukes) think tank boys don’t “mis-under-estimate” her……
okobserver
Posted September 8, 2008 at 1:57 pm | Permalink
Way to go McCain. Unless the press learns how to treat a woman who is a candidate for VP of the US I agree they shouldn’t be allowed in.
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Sarah Palin referred to herself as a pitbull with lipstick so why is so timid and dainty now?
BTW, how is Palin going to respond to the threats of China, Russia, Iran or North Korea if she winds up being president? Is she going to say ‘but boys I am only a woman – so you can’t be mean to me’?
I think this whole media circus is designed to keep the voters’ minds off the real issues in this election. And wasn’t that what McCain’s campaign manager said – this election is not about the issues?
Obama in his interview with liberal Sephy(Clinton)
“My Muslim Faith”.
Yep been saying it all along he’s a Muslim just like Osama and all the other anti-American traitors.
No wonder his former preacher whose Masters degree was in the study of Islam was spewing US of KKA hate.
I can’t help but wonder how many of you liberal American haters are actually moles for Iran or Saudi.
Yep I wonder.
Note: When Palin made that unbelievably stupid statement about the mortgage giants, they were in Colorado Springs, home of Focus on the Family, Politicalized Apocalypse Central.
So it’s unsurprising that the comments were met with cheers. Too bad the rest of the world gets to see.
Palin for President.
I wonder if Obama loses will he move to Iran?
Where’s the story about Obama’s brotherly love.
What’s he done for his POOR down and out brother?
Anybody have any links to the picture of his brother in front of his shack?
Cheers
Will Palin continue pushing her obvious falsehoods/lies about the Arctic Refuge?
The 2,000-acre “limit” in the legislation does NOT refer to one contiguous area.
From the U.S. Congress:
“SEC. 7. COASTAL PLAIN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.
(3) ensure that the maximum surface acreage covered in connection with the leasing program by production and support facilities, including airstrips and any areas covered by gravel berms or piers for support of pipelines, does not exceed 2,000 acres on the Coastal Plain.”
Gravel roads and gravel mines are not included in the “maximum surface acreage covered”.
‘Bartiromo Talks with Sarah Palin’
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/aug2008/db20080829_272692.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_news+%2B+analysis
When you talk about ANWR and the area that needs to be unlocked so that we can explore more and develop these billions of barrels of oil, it’s a swath of land that’s about 2,000 acres in size—and that’s out of a 20 million-acre plain that has been set aside. So 2,000 acres, that’s like a postage stamp on a football field.”
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“swath” = the width covered with one cut of a scythe or other mowing device
The [coastal] “plain” is about 1.5 milion acres, not “20 million-acre”.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/427xjuoj.asp
“One of the pieces of a solution is allowing exploration on that little 2,000 acre plot of land out of the 20 million acres up there in the coastal plain.”
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“plot” = an area (contiguous, singular)
Let’s drill the shit out of it!!
I think they’re afraid to let her talk. She might show just how awful she really is.
I want her to talk.
Drill HERE!
Drill NOW!
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And doesn’t that really say a lot about those who have already decided to vote for her? She gives one written speech, her abysmal tiny record is all we have to go on…and yet they’ve already decided she’s the one!
Hate America Much? Why not just stick a preacher up there.
Well heck Capn, when you say “But even though her RepubliCON handlers threw a blanket over her, she still managed to show that she didn’t know the first thing about Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.”
There are a bunch of DimLibs on this blog that don’t know or understand anything about that either.
I have explained several times what the Feds stepping in means and what that does to common stockholders and preferred stockholders as well as bond holders, and I still don’t think they get it.
Political_mama why do you hate strong women that don’t need a man to make them successful?
ANTI posted September 8, 2008 at 4:32 pm
“Let’s drill the shit out of it!!”
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Like we did at the Badami field?
It’s 1/2 way between Prudhoe Bay and the western edge of the Refuge, and has NOT produced as expected.
It was shutdown a few years ago, before oil prices rose, restarted when prices rose, and still is a low producer.
‘BP and Savant looking at Badami restart’
http://www.petroleumnews.com/pntruncate/610780426.shtml
“Major and independent would drill two wells over the next two years to avoid losing lands at the unit, hopefully restart field.”
“her abysmal tiny record is all we have to go on”
Ha…her ‘record’ makes Obama’s look like a held back for another year preschooler.
MaxGrobnik
“Drill HERE!
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Would you say that the people who disagree with this Hate America or just love our enemies?
MaxGrobnik
“Drill HERE!
Drill NOW!
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Would you say that the people who disagree with this Hate America or just love our enemies?
KandiSue,
You may want to go wash, dear: the desperation regarding your self-destructing GOP ticket is a bit, well, stinky.
Oh oh oh, wouldn’t it be great if they asked her questions she was totally unprepared to answer?
Now that would be must see tv! Afterall, her debate in Alaska in 2006- she answered 5 questions with the exact same words because she could’nt deviate from the vague answer.
“Let Palin sit for the ‘piranhas’”
Be careful what you ask for……
Palin was nominated to be VP just 10 days ago. 10 days ago nobody outside of Alaska even knew her name.
She had the anouncement speech in Dayton and then the big speech at the RNC last Thursday. She will be interviewed in due time. Every word of hers will be carefully scrutinzed and maligned by the left.
But she is undeniable a smart, accomplished, articulate successful female who many Americans can admire for just that.
No amount of “piranhic” press treatment can hide that in fact it will only serve to embellish it.
She is not a polished politician that has years of experience dealing with pressure packed press confererences, debates and savvy reporters. But the people have a pretty low approval ratings for the current crop of politicians who are hardened with many years of national campaigning. She will be something new and fresh and different and a ratings boost for any network.
Her interview this week is her next test. If she passes with poise, the gap between McCain and Obama gets wider.
The whole country will be watching to see if she can take it. She will do just fine, IMO but it will take some careful preparation to get used to being under so much scrutiny.
It’s all a part of Politics and makes for a very interesting story.
Political_mama
Posted September 8, 2008 at 4:41 pm | Permalink
I think they’re afraid to let her talk. She might show just how awful she really is.
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Like when Pmama talks….
Maybe they’re afraid she’ll start talking in tongues! Oh now that would be priceless.
Political_mama why do you hate strong women that don’t need a man to make them successful??
You mean she can’t speak the truth RFL? We know.
Political_mama
Posted September 8, 2008 at 4:47 pm | Permalink
Maybe they’re afraid she’ll start talking in tongues! Oh now that would be priceless.
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I am SURE that will happen….retard.
Well she was sure unknown till McSame picked her up.
But if you call that ‘alone’ then..
Kandisue
Posted September 8, 2008 at 4:45 pm | Permalink
MaxGrobnik
“Drill HERE!
Drill NOW!
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Would you say that the people who disagree with this Hate America or just love our enemies?
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Those who oppose drilling in America are the same ones who btich the loudest about $4/gal gasoline.
They just live in Fantasyland, and think Obama waiving a magic wand will create energy outta think air (in 10 years!)and we will drive cars that fart clean fairydust.
Yeah isn’t that interesting how those religious people only talk in tongues when its convenient.
Here’s the problem.
Biden is a liberal
Obama is an radical American hating liberal.
McCain is a luke warm liberal.
Palin is a conservative.
If I recall correctly and I’m sure I do the Democrats would not participate in a debate on a network that was not 100% liberal.
I really hope that Palin will not talk to any media that doesn’t have at least a 50% slant towards conservatives.
This leaves only talk radio.
Fox is at best 40% conservative.
Palin for President.
think = thin
Your use of the ‘r’ word Anti- says far more about you than it does me.
Political_mama
Posted September 8, 2008 at 4:50 pm | Permalink
Yeah isn’t that interesting how those religious people only talk in tongues when its convenient.
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What the fuk are you talking about…KOOK.
I’d favor a Thompson/Palin ticket.
RFL
Posted September 8, 2008 at 4:46 pm | Permalink
She is not a polished politician that has years of experience dealing with pressure packed press confererences, debates and savvy reporters. But the people have a pretty low approval ratings for the current crop of politicians who are hardened with many years of national campaigning. She will be something new and fresh and different and a ratings boost for any network.
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Gee, that sounds a little like……Change?
Wait, she won’t let me kill babies?
Screw her. She’s a liar. Inexperienced. A terrible Mother. And the list goes on………..
Lying liars KandiSue Paul freakshow.
Political_mama
Posted September 8, 2008 at 4:51 pm | Permalink
Your use of the ‘r’ word Anti- says far more about you than it does me.
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It was in reference to your mental ability and believe anything(Left) attitude.
Actually “let” isn’t the proper term. “Support” is better.
CF2K
KandiSue,
“You may want to go wash, dear: the desperation regarding your self-destructing GOP ticket is a bit, well, stinky.”
And yet the polls have the non Muslim ticket ahead.
Are you based out of Iran or Saudi?
Oh oh oh, wouldn’t it be great if they asked her questions she was totally unprepared to answer?
How much you wanna bet she’ll be spending marathon session with Dick Lugar, Richard Shelby, etc–just to try to get reasonably up to speed for the debate?
“Maybe they’re afraid she’ll start talking in tongues! Oh now that would be priceless.”
Nice to have a REAL holy rollin’ nut job on the ticket aint it?
Of course if she DOESN’T ever lapse into tongues, well maybe she isn’t on program with her own faith.
But if she does?
“Governor Palin people are asking questions about your qualifications to be President.”
“Well Bill, wikki hooonog huzmana chiminey jujublob zwifig gubor! I feel the spirit!”
Yup Sarah Palin. The christian Taliban.
“Here’s the problem.
Biden is a liberal
Obama is an radical American hating liberal.
McCain is a luke warm liberal.
Palin is a conservative.
If I recall correctly and I’m sure I do the Democrats would not participate in a debate on a network that was not 100% liberal.
I really hope that Palin will not talk to any media that doesn’t have at least a 50% slant towards conservatives.
This leaves only talk radio.
Fox is at best 40% conservative.
Palin for President.” — Another wefu
So that’s your plan for the country?
Are you based out of Iran or Saudi?
Ask Bush. His family has been friends with the House of Saud for years.
One Thing Obama did in Chicago:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/?page=full
As a state senator, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee coauthored an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax credits for developers. As a US senator, he pressed for increased federal subsidies. And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year.
But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies – including several hundred in Obama’s former district – deteriorated so completely that they were no longer habitable.
Grove Parc and several other prominent failures were developed and managed by Obama’s close friends and political supporters. Those people profited from the subsidies even as many of Obama’s constituents suffered.
Tenants lost their homes; surrounding neighborhoods were blighted.
Some of the residents of Grove Parc say they are angry that Obama did not notice their plight. The development straddles the boundary of Obama’s state Senate district. Many of the tenants have been his constituents for more than a decade.
“No one should have to live like this, and no one did anything about it,” said Cynthia Ashley, who has lived at Grove Parc since 1994.
DRILL IN DETROIT! NOW!
DRILL IN DETROIT! NOW!
DRILL IN DETROIT! NOW!
DRILL IN DETROIT! NOW!
‘Drilling in Detroit ‘
Tapping Automaker Ingenuity to Build Safe and Efficient Automobiles
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_vehicles/solutions/cleaner_cars_pickups_and_suvs/drilling-in-detroit.html
Political_mama
Yeah isn’t that interesting how those religious people only talk in tongues when its convenient
What do religious people believe that happens to non religious people when they die?
Biden is a liberal – one of the most polarizing figures in politics in this country. The bias in the media is obvious when this is not brought up in a campaign whose entire platform is “change.”
Obama is an radical American hating liberal. – I don’t buy into American hating. Demcracy hating quite possibly. Sincere in his beliefs, though I find them slightly to the right of Marxism.
McCain is a luke warm liberal. – Hasn’t toe’d the party line his entire life in Washington. That’s appealing.
Palin is a conservative. – A conservative not in Washington’s pocket. The best kind.
Palin is a kook.
Political_mama
Posted September 8, 2008 at 4:50 pm | Permalink
Yeah isn’t that interesting how those religious people only talk in tongues when its convenient.
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Pmom you were raised as a JW (Jehovah’s Witness) isn’t that right?
Every Evangelical I know considers JW to be a cult. Do not compare your experience with our faith.
Obama in his interview with liberal Sephy(Clinton)
“My Muslim Faith”.
As usual, let’s take quotes out of context. Typical Puke strategy, even here.
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Kandisue
Posted September 8, 2008 at 4:58 pm | Permalink
Political_mama
Yeah isn’t that interesting how those religious people only talk in tongues when its convenient
What do religious people believe that happens to non religious people when they die?
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Who cares.
Drill HERE!
Drill NOW!”
Would you say that the people who disagree with this Hate America or just love our enemies?
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Those who oppose drilling in America are the same ones who btich the loudest about $4/gal gasoline.
They just live in Fantasyland, and think Obama waiving a magic wand will create energy outta think air (in 10 years!)and we will drive cars that fart clean fairydust.
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Actually, our enemies (OPEC, et al) would love for the U.S. to do more domestic drilling.
It would have no significant impact on world oil prices — and if it did OPEC could easily countermand it by cutting their production.
So oil prices stay high, and OPEC gets richer. The U.S. depletes our small reserves, and we become more dependent on imported oil.
Our only viable solutions are higher energy efficiency and alternatives.
MaxGrobnik
Posted September 8, 2008 at 4:57 pm | Permalink
One Thing Obama did in Chicago:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/?page=full
As a state senator, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee coauthored an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax credits for developers. As a US senator, he pressed for increased federal subsidies. And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year.
But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies – including several hundred in Obama’s former district – deteriorated so completely that they were no longer habitable.
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First, I thought you conpukes had Obama down for NO experience. Now you want to blame him for projects built before he ever got into politics.
Maxgrobnik: your brain on drugs.
What don’t you understand about a barrel of oil from United States soil vs. a barrel of oil from an OPEC nation?
If she’s a pitbull she must be a glass pitbull.
BJ
You are a hateful, ignorant bigot.
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Mr_Kia
Posted September 8, 2008 at 5:32 pm | Permalink
What don’t you understand about a barrel of oil from United States soil vs. a barrel of oil from an OPEC nation?
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When compared to the most wasteful country on the planet, it really doesn’t mean much. When CONSERVATION is added to the equation, it means something.
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JMWalker
Posted September 8, 2008 at 6:06 pm | Permalink
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Mr_Kia
Posted September 8, 2008 at 5:32 pm | Permalink
What don’t you understand about a barrel of oil from United States soil vs. a barrel of oil from an OPEC nation?
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When compared to the most wasteful country on the planet, it really doesn’t mean much. When CONSERVATION is added to the equation, it means something.
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Conservation is all well and good, but won’t get you to work in the morning.
Predestined
Posted September 8, 2008 at 5:07 pm | Permalink
Obama in his interview with liberal Sephy(Clinton)
“My Muslim Faith”.
“As usual, let’s take quotes out of context. Typical Puke strategy, even here.”
If you mean dead on ACCURATE then we agree.
I am sure that Charles Manson has a low opinion of Sarah Palin, as well.
BJ’s is not alone in his opinion, all the time, it seems.
No Franklinpaulie, Palin is a hateful ignorant bigot.
What it makes me for being prejudiced against radical con christian kooks like her I don’t know.
Hey, LET her hide out. If she won’t speak for herself?
We’ll be GLAD to speak for her!
Right now? At every checkout counter in this country the headlines blare about the affair she had with her husband’s best friend.
I’m not hearing her deny it.
JMWalker
Posted September 8, 2008 at 6:06 pm | Permalink
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Mr_Kia
Posted September 8, 2008 at 5:32 pm | Permalink
What don’t you understand about a barrel of oil from United States soil vs. a barrel of oil from an OPEC nation?
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When compared to the most wasteful country on the planet, it really doesn’t mean much. When CONSERVATION is added to the equation, it means something.
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If you are bleeding to death what do you do?
Take measures to stop the bleeding.
Then treat the wound.
bj is accusing someone of being hateful? Now that is a perfect example of the pot calling the kettle black!
BJ
Keep it up.
The polls indicate that the American people soundly reject the attacks on Palin.
You are helping the Conservative cause.
You base your current attacks on the National Enquirer and US magazine? LOL
Ya, right. BOTH of those rags are run by liberals. Nobody but a sick jerk like you believes any of that trash.
Mr_Kia
“What don’t you understand about a barrel of oil from United States soil vs. a barrel of oil from an OPEC nation?”
One the American money goes to our enemies.
The other way American money stays here to make us less dependent on our enemies.
Unlike you Mr_Kia I believe there are a lot of people here who would like to see America destroyed. It’s sad but I believe it.
BJ is a social misfit, with obvious psychological problems.
BJ wanted to blow up Mexicans, on the border, with land mines, yet he calls someone else “hateful”
He is nuts. Even the liberal posters know that BJ is nuts, they just don’t want to make him mad.
Me? I don’t care. He represents the kook fringe of the Democrat Party, and he does Democrats great harm, when he goes off like this.
The harm he does?
BJ exposes other Dems on this Blog as COWARDS, since none of the other Democrats ever tell BJ he is out of line.
Lots of people read these Blogs, without ever posting on them.
BJ hurts the Democrat Party. He is so selfish that he doesnt care if he hurts his own Party. HE MUST HAVE HIS OWN WAY wah wah wah!
Franklin paulie?
I don’t have to go very far to find you cheering the National Enquirer when they caught John Edwards in an affair.
And I think I can stand being called a sick jerk by a serial liar and bigot like you Franklin.
FOX News Blogs » FOX Forum
September 8, 2008 2:44 PM
You Can’t Fake Authenticity
Cal Thomas
What is it about Sarah Palin that has gotten the liberal media’s knickers in a twist? Why are they criticizing, even mocking, everything from her hair to her faith?
She is exactly what the feminists claim to want and admire in women: strong, self-assured, a working mom, a political leader. But wait, she is a conservative Republican and because of that they hate her for displaying all of the aforementioned characteristics.
They are appalled that she would keep a Down Syndrome child when she could have aborted him. They are outraged when she speaks of God as if she knows Him, when their only acquaintance with the name is as a curse word, followed by “damn.” They are even disgusted that she has five children, as they think one (or two if you are Obama) is enough.
Sarah Palin is to the left what sunlight is to a vampire. Her high heels have knocked them back on the heels of their comfortable shoes.
Keep Reading …
September 8, 2008 11:25 AM
Feminists Flip Out Over Palin
By Betsy Newmark
High School Government and History Teacher/Blogger
Michelle Cottle has an essay in the New Republic that is really a cri de coeur about the failures of feminism. First she views the Hillary Clinton campaign, which was supposed to be such a high water mark for feminism degenerate into the same sort of complaints of the Obama campaign and media being unfair to the girl:
Then, amid the snows of Iowa, it all fell apart. To be fair, New Hampshire may be more to blame. Iowa was where Hillary’s inevitability narrative unraveled, but New Hampshire was where she got the idea that redemption lay in the legions of gals who rallied ’round when the (mostly male) political establishment and punditocracy began salivating at the thought of her imminent demise. That much of the animus toward Hillary had more to do with her last name than her chromosomes did not matter; women objected to seeing one of their own kicked to the curb with such haste. Hillary’s now famous moment of teary-eyed vulnerability fueled their fury. Sisterhood is what resurrected Hillary in New Hampshire.
The nomination fight degenerated into which candidate would become the tradition-busting first in our history: an African-American or a woman? And the woman lost.
Now the feminists have to deal with Sarah Palin.
JMWalker
“When compared to the most wasteful country on the planet, it really doesn’t mean much. When CONSERVATION is added to the equation, it means something.”
Obama lied I aired my tires up and the price of gas continued up.
Anybody still driving around on tires with low air pressure?
Obama what did I expect from a man who says “His Mulsim Faith”?
It’ll be good during her interview when she gets to categorically deny the vicious rumor about an affair.
I’ll let my credibility here and elsewhere stand against yours any day there Franklin.
I seem to have gotten under your skin.
I can handle that.
Have you been recruited again lately to beat up people in parks, as you bragged about before?
Ah I don’t wanna do me and you.
I’d rather have at the lunatic John McCain made his running mate.
Right now? At every checkout counter in this country the headlines blare about the affair she had with her husband’s best friend.
I’m not hearing her deny it.
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Is that before or after the story on the space alien baby that Britney Spears had when she was fat?
Sarah Pain is too smart to respond to lies from incredible sources.
And as she stays way above the stupidity of the left, her stature grows.
Palin for President
Obama, McCain Camps Fight for Women Voters
McCain Campaign Says Their ‘Women for McCain’ Volunteers Have ‘Doubled’ Since Sarah Palin Pick
By JENNIFER PARKER
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 2008
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RSS With 57 days left until Election Day, the campaigns of both Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are sprinting through key battleground states this week, vying for women voters who widely supported Sen. Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primaries.
(ABC News Photo Illustration)Clinton — who won 54 percent of women voters in the primaries — campaigned for Obama today in Florida, a key battleground state. The Obama campaign plans to send Democratic women governors and senators, such as Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, to other battleground states.
Obama held a campaign rally on the economy in Flint, Mich., while Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden toured Wisconsin and Iowa.
McCain and his vice presidential nominee, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, campaigned today in suburban Kansas City, Mo., where 5,000 people showed up at a campaign rally to see the running mates — 3,000 more than could fit inside the hall where the event was held.
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Palin Power? Veep Pick Drives McCain BoostWATCH: Political Throw DownPalin Power? Convention Bounce for McCainMcCain is keeping Palin with him on the campaign trail for the first part of this week, clearly enjoying the larger-than-usual crowds energized by Palin’s conservative credentials and fiery speech at the Republican convention last week.
With Palin’s pick, the McCain campaign is hoping to peel away independents and women voters who identify with her “hockey mom” appeal.
Both the Obama and McCain campaigns argue they have been targeting women voters since the beginning.
However, the McCain campaign says Palin’s pick has given a “shot in the arm” to their effort to recruit women volunteers — doubling their “Women for McCain” grassroots volunteer lists since her acceptance speech.
“She’s a daring and exciting pick that has really rejuvenated support and respect for Sen. McCain,” McCain spokeswoman Crystal Benton said. “When she said she’d ’stand up to the ol’ boys network in Washington,’ that really inspired a lot of women.”
Now, the McCain campaign will begin holding “Mondays for McCain,” when women surrogates and women volunteers in battleground states call women voters, urging them to support McCain.
I want to see an ad where Sarah Palin is FOR the “bridge to nowhere” and then against it as she is now.
Flip
Flop
Flailin’ Palin.
Maybe she will give us an idea of the books she wanted pulled from her town library. I’d like to know just what books it is she would rather keep people from reading.
And since she won’t tell us? Best to air on the side of protecting literature from a marauding, self righteous school marm.
Kandi- er- whoever you are. You aint no lady.
McCluer’s new name?
Who is the one who kept nic switching awhile back?
Do you think Palin just didn’t know when she gave her speech toady, or was deliberately misleading, when she said Obama doesn’t want to talk about earmarks, he shouldn’t want to go there, then went on about how she cut out half a bil.?
The facts:
“Obama hasn’t asked for any earmarks this year. Last year, he asked for $311 million worth, about $25 for every Illinois resident. Alaska asked this year for earmarks totaling $198 million, about $295 for every Alaska citizen
How about you outlander, Franklin, or Kandisue.
What books would you pull from the library?
Science books maybe? Political discourse that differs from your own?
Since your candy date won’t speak for herself, maybe you can give us a glimpse into the like mind?
She’s denying it through third party, seen that one before.
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Political_mama
Posted September 8, 2008 at 6:34 pm | Permalink
Kandi- er- whoever you are. You aint no lady.
McCluer’s new name?
Who is the one who kept nic switching awhile back?
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Wrong again.
Of course, I wouldn’t expect less from someone who believes everyone and everything is out to get them.
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Kandisue
Posted September 8, 2008 at 6:25 pm | Permalink
JMWalker
“When compared to the most wasteful country on the planet, it really doesn’t mean much. When CONSERVATION is added to the equation, it means something.”
Obama lied I aired my tires up and the price of gas continued up.
Anybody still driving around on tires with low air pressure?
Obama what did I expect from a man who says “His Mulsim Faith”?
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You really gotta be about the dumbest he/she on the blog. Careful, you’ll eventually overtake Wangoboy, you keep this up. Wango logic is very addictive to semi-sentients.
Let me ask you this: Did you do a mileage check both before and after inflating your tires, or did you just inflate your useless ego instead. If your tires were low, and you increased to manufactures specs, you gained in MPG. Simple. Kinda like your brain, or what there is of it.
BJ
National Enquirer went after Edwards to help Hillary Clinton.
The MSM didn’t pick up on the story soon enough, how ever.
Kandisue
Posted September 8, 2008 at 6:25 pm | Permalink
Obama what did I expect from a man who says “His Mulsim Faith”?
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Real link?
I bragged about nothing.
I told you that I was not a “gay basher” and that I had turned real gay bashers into the cops.
You asked for details.
I gave them to you.
I stood up to those thugs, just like I stand up to you.
You are a thug, no better than any other thug.
Yes Franklin we know.
“Everything I post is true because I believe it to be true.”
Isn’t that what you have repeatedly posted?
We are interested here in the truth as to Sarah Palin.
Not the truth according to Franklin.
Franklin bullsh*ts: “Saw a rerun, on Saturday Night Live.
“The one where SNL pokes fun at the media, for being so PRO-OBAMA! It is really funny.”
And then there’s reality.
http://www.cmpa.com/Studies/Election08/election%20news%207_29_08.htm
“The media IS biased. Repubicans SHOULD control the media access and availability.”
So much for the market place of ideas, huh? Franklin, you bullsh*t so freely you don’t even seem to know what you are saying.
“There is no good reason to let the leftist, biased media control events.”
Once again, let’s be clear about this. The right wing whines about “liberal bias” is used to pre-emptively poison the well as to any potential criticism of the vice presidential candidate. And of course, they use the media to whine about “liberally biased media”.
Sarah Palin never sought to have any books removed from any library.
Now outlander?
You USED to be better than that.
“Sarah Palin never sought to have any books removed from any library.”
Yes, that is true. Acrobatic as hell, but true.
Sarah Palin DID ask the town librarian if she would have a problem with certain books being removed from the library. When the librarian said she would not allow that? Sarah Palin threatened to fire her.
That’s actually MORE disquieting than if she had named a list of books.
Did Sarah Palin want ongoing up or down on what the community read? Would each new addition to the library have had to meet with HER approval?
If it wasn’t so pathetic, I’d say ya gotta love it. The libs are in a panic. They are beside themselves with and destroy this fine upstanding women who is about to turn their world upside-down.
They just assumed the White House belonged to them, by default I guess. So much that they recklessly nominated an unqualified candidate.
And it’s biting them in the butt.
BlueJay
“How about you outlander, Franklin, or Kandisue.
What books would you pull from the library?”
Pornography from liberal perverts. Makes you mad when a child can’t see these doesn’t it?
You on the other hand will pull the Bible.
Please do not presume to speak for me Kandisue and I’ll afford you the same courtesy.
Just from what we’ve seen that you post here?
I would not be comfortable with YOU being the deciderer on what is “pornography from liberal perverts”. There probably would be nothing in your library EXCEPT the bible.
Gerard Baker writes:
“The best line I heard about Sarah Palin during the frenzied orgy of chauvinist condescension and gutter-crawling journalistic intrusion that greeted her nomination for vice-president a week ago came from a correspondent who knows a thing or two about Alaska.”
“What’s the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?”
“One is a well turned-out, good-looking, and let’s be honest, pretty sexy piece of eye-candy.
“The other kills her own food.”
I simply love it, we’ve finially got a Real American spirit for a high office.
Snopes on the alleged book ban.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/bannedbooks.asp
For the safety and prosperity of America- republicons should be nowhere near the White House for the next century.
Thank you ‘outlander’ for the snopes post on the lies the left attack jackals use to destroy.
She didn’t ask for that specific list of books to be banned, but the article itself does say she questioned it numerous times- and they did not address the firing- but I assume from Sarah’s own admission later that she looked into firing the librarian.
Note what is missing from that email list? Why would any lib lie about the facts of the case….I’m telling you- republicans are directly putting this stuff out there leaving out the parts that ARE true, just so they can ’say’ they are rebuked.
Its a tactic my ex husband used to use when he’d call the police on himself. SO the police would’nt respond as quickly when he really was doing something wrong.
Hmmm Can’t cut and pasted from Snopes.
By all means, click outlander’s link. It says pretty much what I have.
Sarah Palin wanted personal say so on what books ought to be removed from the library. The librarian had a problem with that. As any good librarian should. Sarah Palin threatened to fire the librarian.
The Librarian never got fired. Let the Libs howl at the moon, they’re out for fresh garbage and tipping over all the trash cans, diving into the filth to get satisfied with “unsourced” regurgitated products.
No the librarian didn’t get fired because then Sarah would have a civil rights case on her hands.
I’m sure her advisers made her aware of that.
You know even when the left is shown the lie of their claims they still insist they must have been something to it because she did ask the librarian about removing some books.
Pmom ask why any lib would lie about the facts of the case – I would guess because the truth wasn’t inflammatory and so they had to make something up.
You leftists are completely delusional.
-Emails never appear in snopes Mom
-Read the last paragraph
When your hate is so obvious you lose crediability.
BlueJay
Posted September 8, 2008 at 6:59 pm | Permalink
Now outlander?
You USED to be better than that.
“Sarah Palin never sought to have any books removed from any library.”
Yes, that is true. Acrobatic as hell, but true.
Sarah Palin DID ask the town librarian if she would have a problem with certain books being removed from the library. When the librarian said she would not allow that? Sarah Palin threatened to fire her.
That’s actually MORE disquieting than if she had named a list of books.
Did Sarah Palin want ongoing up or down on what the community read? Would each new addition to the library have had to meet with HER approval?
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Garbage BJ just some more of your hateful lies. The left loves to call me a liar because they lie so much they just assume everyone does.
Asking about the method used to remove books from the library is ‘more disquieting that if she had named a book’. You are truly a moron with delusions of grandeur.
nitwit.
“understanding and following administration agendas”
From outlander’s link?
Well that sounds rather chilling.
Since Sarah Palin won’t speak for herself? Let me see if I get what was implied to the librarian.
President of the Alaska library foundation no less.
“If I decide I want some books out of the library, do you have a problem with that?”
Good for the librarian for standing up to such tyranny.
Research. Facts. What a concept.
Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.
Crawl back under your rocks or admit what you are.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/157986/page/1
Pmom how did that work? He called and said I beat my wife tonight. Then called the next night and said the same thing. Then he really beat you on the third night and when he called the police to report himself they didn’t believe him.
Mr_Kia posted September 8, 2008 at 5:32 pm
“What don’t you understand about a barrel of oil from United States soil vs. a barrel of oil from an OPEC nation?”
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What don’t you understand about,
* Oil is basically fungible, and trades on a global market. We can’t reduce exports only from a specific country or region.
* We have only a tiny 2 to 3% of the worlds oil reserves, and have already depleted much of our lower-cost oil.
* We can impact world oil demand (and prices) many times more with higher energy efficiency than with more domestic drilling.
* “Producing” oil with higher energy efficiency is much cheaper than buying oil.
http://www.oilendgame.com/ReadTheBook.html
Double the efficiency of using oil. The U.S. today wrings twice as much work from each barrel of oil as it did in 1975; with the latest proven efficiency technologies, it can double oil efficiency all over again.
The investments needed to save each barrel of oil will cost only $12 (in 2000 $)…”
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* Unlike very risky drilling, higher energy efficiency is guaranteed to reduce oil demand.
Bj why don’t you write movie scripts. There might be money in that for you. But you can’t put words in real peoples mouths. Life doesn’t work that way.
Fiction is a good field for you to go into. Stay away from anything to do with truth.
Calling me names does not make your power mad candy date look any better okobserver.
This is a fundamental look into the early makings of a politician. It seems Sarah Palin rules with an iron fist. Cross her and ya get the axe.
NOT Presidential timber.
Double the efficiency of using oil. The U.S. today wrings twice as much work from each barrel of oil as it did in 1975; with the latest proven efficiency technologies, it can double oil efficiency all over again.
The investments needed to save each barrel of oil will cost only $12 (in 2000 $)…”
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Yeah, prices in 1975 was about a buck-fifty.
So efficiency technologies did exactly what concerning oil prices?
Moron
Mr_Kia, thanks again for the very informative information.
It bares repeated posting of the link:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/157986/page/1
Kandisue
Posted September 8, 2008 at 6:25 pm | Permalink
Obama what did I expect from a man who says “His Mulsim Faith”?
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Real link?????? Or will you now claim “Mulsim” is not really a faith after all.
(Chortle)
Palin was a new public servant getting her feet wet over 12 years ago. She was asking rhetorical questions of the librarian. No books were banned. It is of no significance today.
I meant to say “hypothetical questions’…
BJ because you say something doesn’t make it reality. That world you live is in another demension. I have always wondered why you were so hateful and I think I have figured you out.
So just keep spouting your lies and we will just keep putting in the real info to disprove your allegations. The old ‘if the left says it three times it is true’ rule doesn’t work anymore.
“Palin was a new public servant getting her feet wet over 12 years ago. ”
I think that’s what I said.
This is just me, but if I’M asking the librarian if she would allow me to remove books from the library? I WANT the librarian to have a problem with that. I might even think her unqualified for her position if she didn’t defend literature.
She graduated from tyrannical management of city government to greater things like using her office to settle personal family scores.
Oh and okie? Outlander is the guy from another world. He told me so in person.
Do ya think this will shut up the left’s yappy little dogs? Nah, me neither.
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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will speak at her son’s Army deployment ceremony on 9/11 and spend two days with ABC News crews later this week as part of a McCain campaign plan to increase Americans’ comfort with her as a leader.
Campaign and network officials had said on Sunday that her first television interview would be a sit-down with Charles Gibson of ABC’s “World News.”
But it turns out that she is spending much of Thursday and Friday with Gibson — at the ceremony in Fairbanks, Alaska, and at her home in Wasilla, Alaska.
Campaign aides said the anchorman will get extensive, repeated access to Palin throughout her first trip home since becoming the nominee.
“ABC News will have plenty of time to question her and examine her and spend time with her,” a campaign official said. “They’ll do multiple interviews over two days. No topics are off-limits – there are no ground rules. There’s tons of time to talk to her about every topic.”
The remarkable rollout reflects new confidence in Palin by her handlers, who initially had suggested it would be a while before she did interviews. Now, there will be several.
Until now, Palin has been “sequestered,” as Sen. Joseph Biden (Del.), her Democratic counterpart, put it on NBC’s “Meet the Press” — delivering rousing speeches, but not giving interviews or holding news conferences or answering questions on the fly. She was the only one of the four national candidates not to appear on a Sunday show this weekend.
“Once you start, you don’t stop,” a Republican official said with a chuckle. “That doesn’t mean you run the faucet on high. But once you turn it on, you don’t really ever turn it off.”
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The strategy carries risk. ABC is war-gaming tough questions – not gotchas, but some requiring policy knowledge — with the thoroughness that a network prepares for a debate.
The remarkable offer to ABC, made last Friday, is part of an ambitious project to sell Palin well beyond the right — to a broad swath of women and independent voters, including former supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).
“I see women right at the forefront of that, but not exclusively,” a campaign adviser said.
The official said Gibson will have the chance to “speak to her on 9/11 about her ideas for keeping America safe in the future; to speak to her as she goes back to Wasilla, where she grew up, about her life and her views and her vision for the country.”
Two interviews with Gibson are planned for Thursday, including a conversation about her support for a natural-gas pipeline – a key applause line in her convention speech. Then on Friday, Palin will spend “as much time as both parties need” in Wasilla and Anchorage, the official said. She will fly into Anchorage and then drive to Wasilla.
Palin riveted last week’s Republican National Convention with a witty, rousing speech, and has injected huge excitement into the party’s ticket in the 10 days since Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) named her as his surprise pick for running mate.
“People don’t understand how to cover women politicians in a way that is completely fair and enlightened yet,” the official said. “And somehow, she has managed to transcend that.”
Christian conservatives were immediately thrilled by McCain’s choice, and his events took on new electricity.
Asked to describe her appeal, one official said: “I think she is accessible. I think she is honest. I think she is real, and I think she is fearless. In Alaska, she has been such a target because she has always fought for the interests of her constituents, because they’re her neighbors.”
The campaign adviser said: “She’s just this real, identifiable, approachable, funny, smart woman.”
Officials wouldn’t say how the ABC anchor was chosen. “There were lots of tremendous and credible and fair journalists to choose from,” an aide said. “Somebody had to go first.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13264.html
Boxlock
Posted September 8, 2008 at 8:15 pm | Permalink
Mr_Kia, thanks again for the very informative information.
It bares repeated posting of the link:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/157986/page/1
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Which begs the question, if everything said so far regarding Governor Palin are blatantly false (with the exception of a pregnant daughter) what are liberals afraid of? That possibly she’s the Real Deal and your coronation isn’t the slam dunk you thought it was?
BlueJay
Posted September 8, 2008 at 8:40 pm | Permalink
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This is just me, but if I’M asking the librarian if she would allow me to remove books from the library? I WANT the librarian to have a problem with that. I might even think her unqualified for her position if she didn’t defend literature.
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I believe if you look at the facts of this story, that’s exactly what you will find Palin did as well.
okobserver
Posted September 8, 2008 at 8:28 pm | Permalink
BJ because you say something doesn’t make it reality. That world you live is in another demension. I have always wondered why you were so hateful and I think I have figured you out.
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I’ve thought BJ’s home planet would be Bizarro World. Google it.
I wonder if Junior has his drool bib on tonight. He sure is spraying a lot.
“I believe if you look at the facts of this story, that’s exactly what you will find Palin did as well.”
Uh no, she threatened to fire the librarian.
Prove it.
I wonder if they will sit Sarah in front of a monitor and have her explain her little performance in her church.
She thinks she can pray gay away or some such?
Better yet, I’ll help you out. Cause that’s the kinda guy I am. In fact, she FIRED the librarian….only to re-hire her the next day. Not an unusual move in the business world in a transition of power.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/157986/page/1
“Moreover, although Palin fired Emmons as part of a “loyalty” purge, she rehired Emmons the next day, and Emmons remained at her job for two-and-a-half more years. Actually, Palin initially requested Emmons’ resignation in October 1996, four days before the public discussion of censorship. That was at the same time she requested that all four of Wasilla’s department heads resign. Palin described the requests as a loyalty test and allowed all four department heads to retain their positions. But on Jan. 30, 1997, three months after the censorship discussion, Palin informed Emmons and Wasilla’s police chief, Irv Stambaugh, that they would be fired. According to the Chicago Tribune, Palin did not list censorship as a reason for Emmons’ firing. Palin rehired Emmons the following day. Emmons continued to serve as librarian until August 1999, when the Chicago Tribune reports that she resigned.”
Do your own research Kia.
I’ll post it again on my own time. It’s not going to change YOUR mind anyway.
At the latter event, Palin and Alaska LT Governor Scott Parnell were publicly blessed, onstage before an estimated crowd of 6,000, through the “laying on of hands” by Wasilla Assembly of God’s Head Pastor Ed Kalnins whose sermons espouse such theological concepts as the possession of geographic territories by demonic spirits and the inter-generational transmission of family “curses”. Palin has also been blessed, or “anointed,” by an African cleric, prominent in the Third Wave movement, who has repeatedly visited the Wasilla Assembly of God and claims to have effected positive, dramatic social change in a Kenyan town by driving out a “spirit of witchcraft.”
The Wasilla Assembly of God church is deeply involved with both Third Wave activities and theology. Their Master’s Commission program is part of an three year post-high school international training program with studies in prophecy, intercessory prayer, Biblical exegesis, authority and leadership. The pastor, Ed Kalnins, and Masters Commission students have traveled to South Carolina to participate in a “prophetic conference” at Morningstar Ministries, one of the major ministries of the Third Wave movement. Becky Fischer was a pastor at Morningstar prior to being featured in the movie “Jesus Camp.” The head of prophecy at Morningstar, Steve Thompson, is currently scheduled to do a prophecy seminar at the Wasilla Assembly of God. Other major leaders in the movement have also traveled to Wasilla to visit and speak at the church.
The Third Wave is a revival of the theology of the Latter Rain tent revivals of the 1950s and 1960s led by William Branham and others. It is based on the idea that in the end times there will be an outpouring of supernatural powers on a group of Christians that will take authority over the existing church and the world. The believing Christians of the world will be reorganized under the Fivefold Ministry and the church restructured under the authority of Prophets and Apostles and others anointed by God. The young generation will form “Joel’s Army” to rise up and battle evil and retake the earth for God.
Let’s see I’m defeated. So I guess I’ll just pull out my gay-hater anti-infant holocaust trump card……
Damn a reputable news source in newsweek too.
Freedom of the press is a bitch.
““Moreover, although Palin fired Emmons as part of a “loyalty” purge,”
Loyalty purge?
Haven’t we seen enough bad examples of that in the current administration?
“Not an unusual move in the business world in a transition of power.”
Government is not business.
Government is not business.
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You mean there is no accountability?
Maybe that’s the problem.
Saw tonight on Chan. 25, they’re doing a little background on palin. Played her church tapes and talked to her pastors.
I think her bloom will start fading fast. Her interviewer will just about be forced to question her about it.
Going to build into a feeding frenzy!
Learned that Focus on the Family sponsors her church’s healing of gays through prayer.
“You mean there is no accountability?”
We call that elections.
Can’t be as bad as this…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hPR5jnjtLo
BlueJay
Posted September 8, 2008 at 9:21 pm | Permalink
“You mean there is no accountability?”
We call that elections.
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Leaders are elected.
Librarians and such are hired and fired by those leaders.
Phantom
Posted September 8, 2008 at 9:21 pm | Permalink
Learned that Focus on the Family sponsors her church’s healing of gays through prayer.
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Good. Back to a Christian hating debate. You’ll win the little WEBlog battle on that one but lose the war.
My work here is done.
Hey BlueJay, when your or P.M. aren’t nose deep in Barry’s arse, tell him I want my Koran back. Fuker’s had it for 20 years!
your=you or
JMWalker
Posted September 8, 2008 at 5:22 pm | Permalink
First, I thought you conpukes had Obama down for NO experience. Now you want to blame him for projects built before he ever got into politics.
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As COMMUNITY ORGANIZER and the all-powerful position of Illinois STATE SENATOR, BHO had many dealings with the slum land lords of Chicago, in case you were as IGNORANT of that fact as JMWalker.
WTF else did the Community Organizer DO?
From bottom to top, Chas, P.M., BlueJay-
http://www.onestarwatt.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/turtle-toad-spider.jpg
JMWalker
Posted September 8, 2008 at 5:11 pm | Permalink
What do religious people believe that happens to non religious people when they die?
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Who cares.
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Just ANOTHER CARING Lib SOB.
Who cares if he goes to hell?
Regular
Posted September 8, 2008 at 6:07 pm | Permalink
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JMWalker
Posted September 8, 2008 at 6:06 pm | Permalink
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Mr_Kia
Posted September 8, 2008 at 5:32 pm | Permalink
What don’t you understand about a barrel of oil from United States soil vs. a barrel of oil from an OPEC nation?
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When compared to the most wasteful country on the planet, it really doesn’t mean much. When CONSERVATION is added to the equation, it means something.
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Conservation is all well and good, but won’t get you to work in the morning.
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I wonder how much Walker has CONSERVED this year?
Not a damn thing, I bet.
Walker wants SOMEONE ELSE to conserve.
Bet Gibson will get some 9/11 deployment ceremony footage as well, not that palin would ever politicize such a personal family moment!
BlueJay
Posted September 8, 2008 at 6:13 pm | Permalink
Right now? At every checkout counter in this country the headlines blare about the affair she had with her husband’s best friend.
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Yeah, right below the story about the Alien Abduction of an unemployed SOB who doesn’t care enough to stop blogging to work for healthcare for his own son.
The aliens thru the SOB back after he couldn’t get it up and kept blaming the Aliens for his failure to perform.
Oh, and I didn’t hear Blue Jay deny that story about his limp dick and the Aliens laughing at him.
It MUST be true.
Check out counter headlines…..damn you idiots are…well idiots! No wonder you have to make up excuses why you lose elections!
Its the honest to god truth- and I only found out because his friend got tired of it and told me about it. When I confronted him he admitted it.
I kept wondering why the cops were coming by on phoney domestic dispute calls- *oh there were plenty of real ones too* . First the ex would blame the cops for stalking him, and then he’d blame me just to start a fight.
There is a reason why he’s the ex. God if you only knew.
I have SOME idea.
No- grm, he’d go up to the store a block away, call in anonymously that someone was getting beaten at my house. Then of course he’d slip back in the back door- and act like nothing happened. THe cops show up- I’m like…uh…no, everything is fine. And he’d get irate.
He did this for about three months, every so often…I believe in order to put enough doubt in the police’s mind to slow down their response times for when he really DID do it.
Why were 10,000 women in Kansas beaten last year?
I tell you, some of the neocons on this board, remind me of his exact way of twisting everything around.
Love? Forget it.
Never was there.
Just someone wanting a free economic ride and the other wanting a free ride.
Piranhas?
Try some nasty Liberal Cats, if the fish won’t bite.
No coincidence Pmom.
1 year of listening to your posts.
None Pmom.
I have never hit a woman, never felt the need.
Why do I not believe you.
You see that one Anti?
1 year of listening to your posts!
LOL!
I crack meself up!
Or have you flown over the cuckoo’s nest?
I beat eggs for breakfast when I want an omelet or scrambled, does that count?
Why do you think I’m lying Max. Because you can’t fathom that someone would pull that? Yeah I couldn’t either.
I also couldn’t fathom that someone who professed to love me and need me would hit me with a car-shove glass into my arm after throwing me through a glass door- sent me to the hospital 3 times- threatened to throw my daughter off the balcony- twist my foot backwards with the door- knock me down porch stairs- and kick me so hard with steeltoed boots that he spraigned his ankle- and then expected ME to feel sorry for him. THe first beating was the worst though- he only kept me out of work for two weeks while I healed for that one.
But yeah you can think that I’m the psycho one.
I’m not using it as an excuse. I’m saying that I can absolutely get that someone would be this kind of devious to send emails in order to say they came from the ‘other side’.
Can’t always count on the cops and the justice system, can you?
Lots of legal activity going on up there in Alaska.
Seems the former best friend of Todd Palin keeps trying to get the records of his divorce case quashed.
I wonder if that’s because he may have been sleeping with Sarah Palin?
Well I’m not a victim of domestic abuse anymore. But I hear the same psychotic bs coming from you asses every day.
No it wasn’t a shotgun wedding. I was trying to be responsible for my daughter and provide a family life. THat’s another reason why I’m pro-divorce on demand. And a reason why I cannot STAND alcoholics.
Cheating is emotional abuse- yes- but I don’t know their marriage- for all I know she could have condoned it. It was up to them to work it out and they did.
Too serious here.
Time to lighten up:
A scientific survey in 2002 attempted to find the funniest joke in the world. Thousands of people from dozens of countries voted on thousands of jokes. Each country had a different favorite. Overall, the number one and number two funniest jokes in the world, based on votes, are:
The funniest joke in the world:
A couple of New Jersey hunters are out in the woods when one of them falls to the ground. He doesn’t seem to be breathing, his eyes are rolled back in his head.
The other guy whips out his cell phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps to the operator: “My friend is dead! What can I do?”
The operator, in a calm, soothing voice, says: “Just take it easy. I can help. First, let’s make sure he’s dead.”
There is a silence, then a shot is heard. The guy’s voice comes back on the line. He says: “Okay, now what?”
The Second Funniest Joke ever:
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson goes on a camping trip. After a good dinner and a bottle of wine, they retire for the night, and go to sleep. Some hours later, Holmes wakes up and nudges his faithful friend.
‘Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see.”
I see millions and millions of stars, Holmes,” replies Watson.
“And what do you deduce from that?”
Watson ponders for a minute.
“Well, astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo. Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three.
“Meteorologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. Theologically, I can see that God is all powerful and that we are a small and insignificant part of the universe. What does it tell you, Holmes?”
Holmes is silent for a moment. ‘Watson, you idiot!” he says. “Someone has stolen our tent!”
The Funniest Joke in England and the United Kingdom:
A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says: “That’s the ugliest baby that I’ve ever seen. Ugh!” The woman goes to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: “The driver just insulted me!” The man says: “You go right up there and tell him off – go ahead, I’ll hold your monkey for you.”
A man and a friend are playing golf one day at their local golf course. One of the guys is about to chip onto the green when he sees a long funeral procession on the road next to the course. He stops in mid-swing, takes off his golf cap, closes his eyes, and bows down in prayer. His friend says: “Wow, that is the most thoughtful and touching thing I have ever seen. You truly are a kind man.” The man then replies: “Yeah, well we were married 35 years.”
What is with this ‘loyalty check’ b.s.? Who toys with their subordinates and their livlihoods by firing and rehiring the next day. Doesn’t sound like a pit bull, but rather a bitch.
Over the weekend, MSNBC replaced Olbermann and Chris Matthews as co-anchors of political night coverage after the cable channel finished last in the Nielsen rankings during the two political conventions. David Gregory will take over the political desk; Olbermann and Matthews will remain as analysts.
Phil Griffin, MSNBC’s president, denied that his network has an ideology. “I think ideology means we think one way, and we don’t,” he told The New York Times.
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TELL ME IT NOT TRUE!
Hmmm… Almost interesting group psychotherapy, maybe.
far better than emotional rodeo.
How long have I been pointing out your perpetual “victim-ness”?
4 yrs? 5?
And you continually support my claim.
Good for a laugh. From Andy Borowitz, satirist.
Pitbull Owners Blast Palin
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who famously compared herself to a pitbull in her vice-presidential acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, appears to have antagonized a key voting bloc in the upcoming election, the nation’s pitbull owners.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/pitbull-owners-blast-pali_b_124692.htm
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MaxGrobnik
Posted September 8, 2008 at 9:26 pm | Permalink
JMWalker
Posted September 8, 2008 at 5:22 pm | Permalink
First, I thought you conpukes had Obama down for NO experience. Now you want to blame him for projects built before he ever got into politics.
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As COMMUNITY ORGANIZER and the all-powerful position of Illinois STATE SENATOR, BHO had many dealings with the slum land lords of Chicago, in case you were as IGNORANT of that fact as JMWalker.
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Link it, alpha beyaatch.
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MaxGrobnik
Posted September 8, 2008 at 9:28 pm | Permalink
JMWalker
Posted September 8, 2008 at 5:11 pm | Permalink
What do religious people believe that happens to non religious people when they die?
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Who cares.
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Just ANOTHER CARING Lib SOB.
Who cares if he goes to hell?
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It was in reference to kandibrain’s ridiculous comment, but if you want to chime in, it’s nice to know we have a typical neo-con making judgement day predictions. See you there, alpha beyaatch.
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MaxGrobnik
Posted September 8, 2008 at 9:30 pm | Permalink
Regular
Posted September 8, 2008 at 6:07 pm | Permalink
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JMWalker
Posted September 8, 2008 at 6:06 pm | Permalink
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Mr_Kia
Posted September 8, 2008 at 5:32 pm | Permalink
What don’t you understand about a barrel of oil from United States soil vs. a barrel of oil from an OPEC nation?
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When compared to the most wasteful country on the planet, it really doesn’t mean much. When CONSERVATION is added to the equation, it means something.
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Conservation is all well and good, but won’t get you to work in the morning.
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I wonder how much Walker has CONSERVED this year?
Not a damn thing, I bet.
Walker wants SOMEONE ELSE to conserve.
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Let’s see: I keep my tires inflated to spec, changed out my thermostat to a seven day set-back, keep my car tuned properly, and blog on the computer, thus using no trees.
Max conserves . . . well not brain cells: he has none.
Pmom,
Good for you. Not many are able to break the cycle that has them trapped.
PeePee_Mom-
Just a sucker for man with a six-pack and a box of hotpockets, standin’ on the trailer porch at 3 in the morning……
I thought Palin was the piranha? No professional courtesy with the press?
BlueJay
“Seems the former best friend of Todd Palin keeps trying to get the records of his divorce case quashed.
I wonder if that’s because he may have been sleeping with Sarah Palin?”
Who has Obama been sleeping with besides Michele?
How many babies has Michele killed?
Palin for President.
JMWalker
Posted September 8, 2008 at 8:15 pm | Permalink
Kandisue
Obama what did I expect from a man who says “His Mulsim Faith”?
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“Or will you now claim “Mulsim” is not really a faith after all.”
Why would I assume that Muslim Faith is not really a faith?
What I said was that Obama who I have been calling a Muslim all along now has been quote as saying “My Muslim Faith”.
Just proving what I said all along Osama is a Muslim and Obama is a Muslim.
Many Muslims kill Americans in the name of their religion.
Political_mama
“Trust me, I’m the epitome of the strong woman. Palin aint got nothing on me.”
Are you kidding? Palin is not in favor of killing innocent babies.
You as a pro baby killer are not even in her league.
Palin for President.
According to Google, it took Gov. Palin 5 different colleges in 6 years to get her degree. I don’t understand how someone with that well rounded an education can’t meet with the press without a Karl Rove approved script in her hands?