Few of the people with so much to say about Sarah Palin know anything about her. Mike Doogan does, as a Democrat in the Alaska House. He wrote in the Washington Post that she’s likable but not qualified to be vice president: “Palin’s time as governor has been a mixed bag. She deserves high marks for moving the possibility of a gas pipeline forward. But most of the work on oil taxes was done by the legislature. Ditto with ethics reform. And her role in killing the ballyhooed ‘Bridge to Nowhere’? Turns out that she was for it before she was against it, and that, well, she kept the money anyway.
“Add to this a growing sense that the state government isn’t running all that well: commissioners and key staffers jumping or being pushed. The operating budget growing 10 percent a year. Policy problems such as high energy costs being papered over with cash giveaways. The governor and her aides being investigated by the legislature. You can see why it’s not clear she’s a competent governor of Alaska, let alone qualified to take over the reins of the national government.”
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Wasilla, a town with a balanced budget, then Palin takes office. At the end of her term the town is $20 million in debt, or $3,000 per resident.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12987.html
Wasilla couldn’t afford this “fiscal conservative,” neither can America.
ABC expose on Troopergate.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=lOBWZ7Jocc8
No surprise, Palin wasn’t exactly honest (but if you believe her maybe she can sell you a bridge).
No Governor operates in a vacuum … they have to contend with pesky legislators and judges in extreme cases. Government is an exercise in compromise and learning. I suspect Sarah Palin has tried to meld her basically conservative populist background with the realities of life in oil rich Alaska.
Who Vetted Obama?
The Washington Post reported that John McCain’s vetting process for picking Governor Sarah Palin included an FBI background check. Other reports dispute this. But when did the FBI investigate Obama? Who vetted him? We are living witnesses to an incredible media double standard, whereby a Republican vice-presidential candidate’s personal life is being torn apart, while the Democratic presidential candidate continues to get a free ride. Obama has a 30-year history of associating with unsavory characters, beginning with communist Frank Marshall Davis and continuing with Jeremiah Wright and communist terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, which should disqualify him from getting a security clearance in the government that he wants to run.
But the media would rather talk about Republicans and sex. The leftist DailyKos website started digging into Palin’s past and claimed that her fifth child wasn’t really hers. The charge fell apart when pictures surfaced of the governor pregnant with the child. Nevertheless, the media, which have been so quick to ignore questions about Obama’s background, joined in the inquiry into Palin’s private family matters and forced the governor to disclose that one of their daughters is pregnant out of wedlock. This is what passes for investigative reporting these days.
A daughter’s pregnancy, of course, has nothing to do with whether Palin is fit for the job of vice-president or even president and is entitled to a security clearance. But one’s associations with communists who hate the United States might emerge as a cause for concern.
It is worth noting that the DailyKos site is the same site that a liberal blogger named Lee Stranahan says banned his comments about Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards needing to answer reports that he had had an extramarital affair. Those reports, which came from the “tabloid” National Enquirer and not from any “respectable” major media outlet, turned out to be true.
It also turns out that the DailyKos got the leak from the Obama campaign of the candidate’s alleged birth certificate, an announcement intended to put to rest all of the questions about whether Obama is a natural-born citizen and passes the basic constitutional requirement to be president. Is the document real? I have not seen any investigative reporters from the major media assigned to this story. Instead, they’re sniffing around Palin’s family, which is something they had no desire to do while John Edwards was cheating on his cancer-stricken wife.
In contrast to the Palin story, which will probably continue for weeks, the Obama birth certificate controversy has been left alone by the major media. They have simply assumed?because they favor his candidacy?that Obama, with a history of being moved from country to country under different names, is a legitimate U.S. citizen. A lawsuit has been filed challenging Obama’s qualifications to be president and some bloggers say the birth certificate is a fraud. But it’s not an issue for the major media. They would rather examine photos of Bristol Palin’s tummy.
An FBI investigation of Obama might get at the truth about the Democratic candidate. But an FBI background check is something that the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party has not been forced to undergo. How many people even know that? But whether the FBI investigated Palin is now becoming a controversy.
In contrast to the focus on Palin and her family, the Post on August 24 ran a 10,000-word piece about Barack Obama’s growing-up years in Hawaii that completely ignored the role of his acknowledged mentor, communist Frank Marshall Davis. There was not one word devoted to an identified communist, who also stands accused of drug use, alcohol abuse, and child molesting, being in intimate contact with the Democratic presidential nominee for about nine years of his young life.
The author of that Post story, David Maraniss, told us that he didn’t think Frank Marshall Davis was worth even one mention in that 10,000-word story. He even said that Obama’s own book was incorrect in ascribing a significant role to Davis in mentoring the candidate. As the facts show, Davis became Obama’s father-figure when his real father abandoned the family. The mystery is why Obama only referred to Davis as “Frank” in his book and concealed his true identity. But the Post doesn’t want its readers to know anything about it. But we do have a right to know that Bristol Palin is pregnant.
It will be coming out that Obama’s mentor, Davis, was the subject of an FBI investigation for 19 years and that his FBI file is 600 pages long. Davis was included in the FBI’s “security index,” meaning that he could be arrested and detained in the event of a national security emergency. But the young person he sent off to college, who would admittedly attend socialist conferences and pick Marxist professors as his friends, doesn’t have to undergo an FBI background check and will run the FBI should he become president.
In contrast to the coverage of Palin, the major media have not highlighted that, for all of his “experience” in foreign affairs, Senator Joseph Biden, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, is an exposed and admitted plagiarist. I have watched countless hours of coverage of the campaign on the cable and broadcast networks and haven’t seen one detailed story about Biden’s history of plagiarism. But can you imagine the outcry if it came out that Palin, who graduated from college in journalism and became a sportscaster, had been caught plagiarizing?
Meanwhile, the Obama campaign is already claiming to have found a skeleton in Palin’s closet. An Obama spokesman, Mark Bubriski, charged that Palin once supported Pat Buchanan for president because she was spotted years ago wearing a Pat Buchanan button. And since Buchanan has been charged by some with being a “Nazi sympathizer,” that means that Palin is tainted and has to explain herself. Buchanan, a commentator on MSNBC and columnist, has exposed this as nonsense. But he is not the main target, of course. It is Palin and McCain. It is a campaign dirty trick designed to smear the Republican ticket and hurt its chances with Jewish voters. Assuming that this is a legitimate topic, when will Obama explain his association with a Moscow-line Communist for nine years of his life? And his failure to come clean about that relationship in his 1995 book, Dreams From My Father? This seems to be more serious than wearing a button.
For the record, it is reported that Palin actually supported Steve Forbes and wore the Buchanan button as a courtesy to the candidate when he visited Alaska. In a related development, pro-Israel bloggers claim to have seen photos and video of an Israeli flag on Palin’s left lapel and an Israeli flag in her office. So it would appear that she is a supporter of Israel, the exact opposite of what the Obama campaign was trying to imply. Now that this is out of the way, how will Obama explain Davis? Or will he ever be asked to?
For its part, the Washington Post has assigned at least two reporters to dig up dirt on Palin. One controversy is that Palin is under investigation for trying to fire a state trooper who threatened members of her family. On two straight days, August 30 and 31, Post reporters James V. Grimaldi and Kimberly Kindy authored articles about whether this trooper should have been fired or not, and what role Palin played in the controversy.
Since trying to fire a trooper who threatened your family doesn’t strike most people as improper or illegal, the Post now seems to be taking a new direction. The Tuesday paper carries a page one story about how, when Palin was mayor of a town in Alaska, she sought federal grants. Tomorrow it will be something else.
McCain has a blogger, Michael Goldfarb, who is supposed to be an attack dog when it comes to media misdeeds. He calls a report by Elisabeth Bumiller of the Times “fiction” and offers her a link to the McCain press line. This is said to be tough stuff from the McCain campaign. They obviously don’t understand what they’re up against.
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/who-vetted-obama/
You need to take up yoga, “JWink.” The contortions are easier.
The key to all this stuff coming out about the Moose-Dresser is that John S (for Senile) McCain the Third (for Shrub’s 3rd term) didn’t know any of this stuff when he made decided she was the second-best person in America to Lead the Free World.
I mean, gender had nothing to do with her selection, right?
And her thin resume doesn’t matter, right?
And the McCain campaign “thoroughly vetted” her bona fides, right? So they know all about their Trophy Veep candidate and nothing that comes out about her record could possibly taint her ability to address the critical issues facing America and the world over the next four years, right? She’s ready to face open press conferences, “Meet the Press,” Jon Stewart, Keith Ohlberman, and Rachel Maddow from Day One, right?
Right?
Hello?
“HLP” asks –
“Who Vetted Obama?”
For more than six years Obama has been vetted, interviewed, attacked, debated, questioned, cross-examined, analyzed, reviewed, VOTED for (and against), second-guessed, analyzed, criticized, praised, panned, denigrated, second-guessed, inspected, detected and, ultimately, elected.
The “Moose-Dressser” was merely selected. By a grumpy old Fred Mertz look-alike who could’ve really hit one outta the park maverick-wise by taking control of his campaign and choosing his BFF Joe Lieberman as his running mate. Who he really wanted except Karl Rove over-ruled him.
John S (for Senile) McCain the Third (for Shrub’s 3rd term) met the SnowBilly twice, and after their second meeting on a Wednesday he determined on Thursday she is the second-best person on the planet to lead the Free World.
Experience isn’t a virtue if you’re consistently wrong.
“Mike Doogan does, as a Democrat in the Alaska House. He wrote in the Washington Post that she’s likable but not qualified to be vice president”
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What? So the MSM is quoting a friggin’ Democrat legislator in the Alaska House as the authority on how Sarah Palin is doing as governor.
Unbelievable.
I should become a journalist. But to fit in, I’d have to lose my common sense and halve my IQ.
MonkeyHawk,
I can almost smell the democrat fear!
Obama supporters cannot answer basic questions about his past ‘experience’.
In every resume of his he flaunts his work as a community organizer.
What community organization did he work for? Who paid his salary? What were his major accomplishments as a community organizer? Where did the organization he worked for get its money? What were their stated goals?
The lack of real information on Obama is stunning. His experience consists of mainly promising us what he’s going to do!
“She’s ready to face open press conferences, “Meet the Press,” Jon Stewart, Keith Ohlberman, and Rachel Maddow from Day One, right?”
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Your point is, Monkeyhawk?
It took Obama 2 years to work up the guts to face Bill O’Reilly, and he has been running for president since law school.
Of course there is going to be a learning curve. It would be stupid to just throw her out there to face the leftist wacko “journalists” intent on nothing more than destroying her.
Cuzin’ Maggot calls what happens in Wasilla, Alaska debt.
The truth of the matter is, that all cities in the U.S. have debt,they call it municipal bonds. Bonds are used to fund projects for construction and renovation.
It’s the same wordsmith game that Democrats play with who is rich and who isn’t. Democrats call the owner of an appliance store that makes of profit of $250,000/year and employs half a dozen people as rich. Of course, the truth is, after paying employee benefits, building maintenance and inventory, there isn’t much to be rich about.
Weasel words as usual, from the Democraps.
Hank,
Still fighting the old Red Menace, eh? You remind me of those white-haired, starving Japanese soldiers who used to emerge from Asian or South Pacific jungles from time to time, not knowing their war had been over for decades.
Marxism’s death certificate was officially filed almost 20 years ago in Berlin, and the truth of the matter was that it had been dead for quite some time before that. The phrase “Better Dead Than Red” means something entirely different these days!
Now this is a man and woman I will vote for:
http://www.johnmccain.com/about/governorpalin.htm
McCain Palin 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reggie,
If said furniture store makes $250K in PROFIT, then the employees and overhead have already been paid out of gross income. Gee, no wonder you never made any money!
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Jed
Posted September 6, 2008 at 8:25 am | Permalink
Reggie,
If said furniture store makes $250K in PROFIT, then the employees and overhead have already been paid out of gross income. Gee, no wonder you never made any money!
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Never heard of re-investment and collateral?
Or, would you rather I just place the business owner at a profit of 50,000 a year, with no hope of improving their business without going into debt by getting loans?
Reggie,
Reinvestment and collateral used to mean something besides the red Ferarri in the CEO’s parking stall, they meant a future for the company. But with the Rapture coming and all, you gotta get it all spent first!
Palin is a decoy; a smoke screen. As long as everybody is going after her, McCain doesn’t have to explain exactly what it is he proposes to do. Take the economy for example. Didn’t hear much about that at the RNC.
Hank, a question. Who vetted McCain? I mean, we know he calls his wife “C*nt” and that he did a little propaganda for the North Vietnamese. He also knows how to throw a BBQ on the deck of an aircraft carrier.
But who vetted him?
Name me one presidential candidate who was ever “vetted”.
I say “BS”.
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Jed
Posted September 6, 2008 at 8:43 am | Permalink
Reggie,
Reinvestment and collateral used to mean something besides the red Ferarri in the CEO’s parking stall, they meant a future for the company. But with the Rapture coming and all, you gotta get it all spent first!
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One of the reasons to be in independent business is to accumulate wealth. I don’t know about ferrari’s, I see just one of those about every twenty years or so and probably at a car show.
If you don’t give business people incentive to excel, they simply won’t do it. You know and I know exactly what is going to happen when their taxes will be raised. They will chop off overhead, including employees and benefits.
The reward to being in independent business is personal wealth. Remove that incentive and there will be less for everyone. Economics does really trickle down.
Tax the independent business and you will see prices climb and fewer employees. That’s a guarantee and the collateral tax of broken incentive will dominate America.
FYI:
Obama’s resume
Undergraduate
Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
Undergraduate, 1981-1983
Columbia University
B.A. Political Science with specialization in international relations
Thesis topic: Soviet nuclear disarmament
Graduate
Harvard Law School
J.D. magna cum laude 1988-1991
President, Harvard Law Review
Organizing and other work experience
1983-1984 Writer/Researcher for Business International Corporation. Helped companies understand overseas markets in the “Financing Foreign Operations” service and wrote for the “Business International Money Report”
1984-1985 Community Organizer for New York Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), promoting personal, community, and government reform at City College in Harlem.
1985-1988 Director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland on Chicago’s South Side. While director grew the DCP staff from 1 to 13 and their budget from $70,000 to $400,000.
1992 Led Chicago’s Project Vote! push. This effort resulted in a record number of voter registrations, over 600,000 in Chicago. 1)
Teaching
1993-2004 Visiting Law and Government Fellow, then Senior Lecturer, in Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Taught courses on the due process and equal protection areas of constitutional law, on voting rights, and on racism and law. Helped develop a casebook on voting rights.
Law Practice
1993-2002 Worked as an associate attorney with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Represented non-profits and private individuals in urban development projects, voting rights cases, and wrongful firings. Filed major suit that forced the state of Illinois to enforce the Motor Voter Law and successfully argued a wrongful firing case before the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Illinois Senate 1996-2004
chairman, Health and Human Services Committee
Spearheaded a successful bipartisan effort in Illinois to pass the broadest ethics-reform legislation by any state in 25 years, and also gained bipartisan support for his successful bills reforming death penalty interrogations and ending racial profiling by police. Worked with the Republican-led effort to reform welfare
Also sponsored successful bills expanding tax credits and child-care subsidies for low-income working families, protecting overtime pay for workers, expanding health care for children, and providing job skills training for juveniles
United States Senate 2004-present
Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs
Member, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Member, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Member, Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs
Shares responsibility for the bipartisan Coburn-Obama Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, requiring full online disclosure of all entities receiving federal funds, and the bipartisan Lugar-Obama Cooperative Proliferation Detection, Interdiction Assistance, and Conventional Threat Reduction Act of 2006, deepening non-proliferation work with WMD and including surface-to-air missiles, land mines, and other weapons that may be used by terrorists
Bills / Amendments Passed
Barack Obama has introduced nearly 300 bills during his time in the U.S. Senate, and cosponsored close to 1,000 others. If you would like a full look at his legislative efforts, search the 109th Congress at http://thomas.loc.gov/bss/d109query.html and 110th Congress at http://thomas.loc.gov/bss/d110query.html
S.AMDT.1041 to S.1082 To improve the safety and efficacy of genetic tests.
S.AMDT.3073 to H.R.1585 To provide for transparency and accountability in military and security contracting.
S.AMDT.3078 to H.R.1585 Relating to administrative separations of members of the Armed Forces for personality disorder.
S.AMDT.41 to S.1 To require lobbyists to disclose the candidates, leadership PACs, or political parties for whom they collect or arrange contributions, and the aggregate amount of the contributions collected or arranged.
S.AMDT.524 to S.CON.RES.21 To provide $100 million for the Summer Term Education Program supporting summer learning opportunities for low-income students in the early grades to lessen summer learning losses that contribute to the achievement gaps separating low-income students from their middle-class peers.
S.AMDT.599 to S.CON.RES.21 To add $200 million for Function 270 (Energy) for the demonstration and monitoring of carbon capture and sequestration technology by the Department of Energy.
S.AMDT.905 to S.761 To require the Director of Mathematics, Science, and Engineering Education to establish a program to recruit and provide mentors for women and underrepresented minorities who are interested in careers in mathematics, science, and engineering.
S.AMDT.923 to S.761 To expand the pipeline of individuals entering the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields to support United States innovation and competitiveness.
S.AMDT.924 to S.761 To establish summer term education programs.
S.AMDT.2519 to H.R.2638 To provide that one of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract in an amount greater than $5 million or to award a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective contractor or grantee certifies in writing to the agency awarding the contract or grant that the contractor or grantee owes no past due Federal tax liability.
S.AMDT.2588 to H.R.976 To provide certain employment protections for family members who are caring for members of the Armed Forces recovering from illnesses and injuries incurred on active duty.
S.AMDT.2658 to H.R.2642 To provide that none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract in an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to award a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective contractor or grantee makes certain certifications regarding Federal tax liability.
S.AMDT.2692 to H.R.2764 To require a comprehensive nuclear threat reduction and security plan.
S.AMDT.2799 to H.R.3074 To provide that none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract in an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to award a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective contractor or grantee makes certain certifications regarding Federal tax liability.
S.AMDT.3137 to H.R.3222 To provide that none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract in an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to award a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective contractor or grantee makes certain certifications regarding Federal tax liability.
S.AMDT.3234 to H.R.3093 To provide that none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract in an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to award a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective contractor or grantee makes certain certifications regarding Federal tax liability.
S.AMDT.3331 to H.R.3043 To provide that none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract in an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to award a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective contractor or grantee makes certain certifications regarding Federal tax liability.
Senate Resolutions Passed:
S.RES.133 : A resolution celebrating the life of Bishop Gilbert Earl Patterson.
S.RES.268 : A resolution designating July 12, 2007, as “National Summer Learning Day”.
Other Bills Introduced
S.J.RES.23: A joint resolution clarifying that the use of force against Iran is not authorized by the Authorization for the Use of Military Force Against Iraq, any resolution previously adopted, or any other provision of law.
S. 453: Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act of 2007. The Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act of 2007 (H.R.1281), (S.453), would establish criminal penalties for acts of voter deception. Those who knowingly disseminate false information with the intention of keeping others from voting would face up to five years in prison under the legislation. The Act was sponsored by Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) and 60 cosponsors in the House, and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and 15 cosponsors in the Senate. (20 Cosponsors)
S. 2030: A bill to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require reporting relating to bundled contributions made by persons other than registered lobbyists. (1 Cosponsor)
S. 2111: Positive Behavior for Effective Schools Act. A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow State educational agencies, local educational agencies, and schools to increase implementation of early intervention services, particularly school-wide positive behavior supports. (3 Cosponsors)
S. 2066: Back to School: Improving Standards for Nutrition and Physical Education in Schools Act of 2007. A bill to establish nutrition and physical education standards for schools.
S. Con. Res. 46: A concurrent resolution supporting the goals and ideals of Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month
S. 2044: Independent Contractor Proper Classification Act of 2007. A bill to provide procedures for the proper classification of employees and independent contractors, and for other purposes. (6 Cosponsors)
S. 2519: Contracting and Tax Accountability Act of 2007. A bill to prohibit the awarding of a contract or grant in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold unless the prospective contractor or grantee certifies in writing to the agency awarding the contract or grant that the contractor or grantee has no seriously delinquent tax debts, and for other purposes.
S. 2433: Global Poverty Act of 2007. A bill to require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day. (9 Cosponsors)
S. 2330: Veterans Homelessness Prevention Act. A bill to authorize a pilot program within the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development with the goal of preventing at-risk veterans and veteran families from falling into homelessness, and for other purposes. (1 Cosponsor)
Which one of those bills to Obama author?
The answer is none. He was a tag along sponsor.
Reggie,
I’m old enough to remember when there were independent businesses, back before Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Denny’s ran them off. Pretty much gone the way of the Dodo!
Seven, count em, SEVEN threads about Palin since Sept 3rd. One of them was positive. Is this paper terrified of the GOP vice president candidate or is that just a ‘coincidence’?
But, how many times we have been told there is ‘no’ media bias? Riiiight.
Good morning XXX!
Are you serious?
‘We’ don’t know that McCain calls his wife derogatory names. I haven’t seen much evidence of it anywhere.
As far as being ‘vetted’ is concerned, McCain’s life is an open book. Palin’s life is an open book.
Obama, not so much. Big holes in his biography. Attacking his opponents really doesn’t make us any wiser about him.
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Jed
Posted September 6, 2008 at 9:03 am | Permalink
Reggie,
I’m old enough to remember when there were independent businesses, back before Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Denny’s ran them off. Pretty much gone the way of the Dodo!
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I’m old enough too. There was no such thing as a Walmart when I was growing up.
I’m not talking about multi-national companies like Walmart or Home Depot.
I’m talking about companies like the town’s big appliance store or the town’s smaller department department specialty stores (not chain stores.)
Talking about the service garages that specialize. Talking about businesses like Big Dog Motorcycles.
These are not corporate giants, these are businesses built from the ground up by their owners. They invested and re-invested, planned and saved, sacrificed.
Start taxing them and the costs roll down hill to the consumer, probably resulting in less sales. There will be fewer employees and less incentive to re-invest in their company.
Taxing the business person, classified as rich at $250,000 is a sure-fire way to kill the economy.
“Regular” whines –
“Which one of those bills to Obama author?”
Like the immigration bill that John S (for Senile) McCain the Third (for Shrub’s 3rd term) authored then voted against?
And “outlander” –
“Of course there is going to be a learning curve.”
So she’s not ready on “Day One?” How many days do you think we should give her, specifically?
I noticed in the resume you posted, Mary, there wasn’t one mention of any ‘leadership’ roles or ‘administrative’ roles.
I also notice there is no mention of his five years on the board of directors for the Annenberg Challenge in Chicago. A position that he shared with his friend, neighbor, mentor Bill Ayers.
So. . .Mary, if you had to point to only one, oh hell I’ll give you two, items in your posted resume that demonstrated that little Barry was qualified for president, what would they be?
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HLP
Posted September 6, 2008 at 9:06 am | Permalink
Good morning XXX!
Are you serious?
As far as being ‘vetted’ is concerned, McCain’s life is an open book. Palin’s life is an open book.
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Good morning Hank! How’s the healing process coming? Are you back to your old ornery self yet?
My point is, presidential candidates don’t get “vetted”. Why is there suddenly this concern that Obama be vetted? As Mary demonstrates above, Obama’s life is an open book, too.
“Good morning Hank! How’s the healing process coming? Are you back to your old ornery self yet?”
Yep, pretty much. I’m about 98% of the 82% I was before my gravity attack. I’m left with yet another weather predictor!
My left arm is actually a lot better than it was. The bone spur I chipped off the elbow has given me more range of motion! Now if it just goes away and doesn’g migrate around. . .
How you doing! Ya ready to come out and unleash your hand cannon again?
“My point is, presidential candidates don’t get “vetted”. ”
Very true.
My point is that there has never been a presidential candidate like Obama with so much to hide and a biased press corp with so little curiosity about it.
“My point is, presidential candidates don’t get “vetted”. ”
And, so,
Why give a shit about vetting Palin? How much do you know about the son of Biden and his lobbiest activities?
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HLP
Posted September 6, 2008 at 9:38 am | Permalink
How you doing! Ya ready to come out and unleash your hand cannon again?
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You bet! Name a time and I’ll be there.
Mixed bag?
More like a grab bag!
Which truth will out first? Did Palin sleep with her husband’s best friend? Will she be fighting an indictment in Alaska while campaigning for VP?
Will she ever be let out to talk to the press?
Her selection would be a joke if she were not so truly dangerous.
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HLP
Posted September 6, 2008 at 9:43 am | Permalink
How much do you know about the son of Biden and his lobbiest activities?
To be honest, nothing. But he’s not running for office, is he?
Did you see the speech he gave at the DNC? That was one of the most touching things I’ve heard in a while. His speech made Mrs. XXX cry.
Keep in mind, Hank used as a source for his “nobody vetted Obama” nonsense Accuracy in Media, founded by a man who once called Walter Conkrite a Soviet Dupe.
Conservative whines about “liberal bias” are old and predictable. It is the perfect excuse really. When reality belies their politics, their claims, and their most precious beliefs, and when they lose, then it’s the liberal “msm’s” fault. As evidence, the righties always point to surveys of reporters where it turned out most of them were Democrats with relatively liberal views. Of course, what they overlook is that similar surveys of owners of media and pundits and editorialists reveal something very different. And the fact is, in this wide open world of cable news, talk radio, and the internet, one can find the media that matches their own biases.
It is also important to remember that to righties like Hank, okobserver, and outlander (who has been (who has been particularly loud in his whines about msm recently) MOST people and media are to the left of their coalition conservative views. They are vulnerable to the fallacy of equivalence, where “not us” equals “opposed to us”. Therefore, CNN equals in left wing bias something like Worldnut Daily. I have to wonder in this case if the really loud whines about liberal media in relationship to Palin (notice how the righties here have whined about the number of Palin threads, never mind the fact that some of them, particularly from Rhonda, have been POSITIVE, and never mind the apparent reason why there are so many threads on her, the number of comments that they elicit-these threads are evidence of the Eagle’s being out to get her!). I have to wonder if this is an attempt to poison the well before news organizations start to uncover electoral warts (in fact, the pre-emptive charge of liberal bias is a classic poisoning the well strategy).
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HLP
Posted September 6, 2008 at 9:40 am | Permalink
My point is that there has never been a presidential candidate like Obama with so much to hide and a biased press corp with so little curiosity about it.
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I’ll give you the point that there’s never been a candidate like Obama. As for him having anything to hide, that’s your opinion. You know as well as I that if there are any skeletons, they’re going to come out. Some of the things republicans get so cranked up about when it comes to Obama aren’t worth a puddle of spit IMHO. His pastor is racist? Gee, a black that doesn’t appreciate whites. I know whites who don’t like blacks.
He knows communists? I know a few of those myself.
Hell, I’ve even been known to call republicans friend.
How much lower can you get than that, LOL!
I’ll check and see if the range is open tomorrow, my only chance for a while.
I’ll be in Salina next weekend, Carleston after that, Oklahoma after that. Then busy with Woofstock again.
I’m looking forward to the media meeting Sarah Palin’s pastor.
Like they spent so much time doing on Obama?
I’d also like to know more about this movement in Alaska to secede from the union and more about Sarah Palin’s and her husband’s part in it.
BlueJay
Posted September 6, 2008 at 9:48 am | Permalink
Which truth will out first? Did Palin sleep with her husband’s best friend?
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BJ, my first reaction was to light you up on this comment. But I did a little search and it seems there are some questions.
” NATIONAL ENQUIRER PROMISES MORE ON THE ALLEGED SARAH PALIN AFFAIR! Oh baby: The National Enquirer is digging in on the “Sarah Palin affair” story it published today. And with the McCain campaign threatening to sue, the Enquirer isn’t even blinking.”
Before we start raging that the Enqirer is just a supermarket tabloid, keep in mind that they’re the ones who outed Edwards.
Maybe Palin has something to hide after all.
Obama’s been applying for the job for 19 months, Palin less than a week. Obama’s accessible to the media, palin’s not taking questions. Who’s trying to hide?
Coming soon, media’s sexist about affairs, if she was a man, she’d be getting high fives etc, etc.
X I hope you know I wouldn’t allude to something if there were not rumbles about it. And rumbles and allusion are all we have as long as Sarah Palin hides or is hidden from the press.
The main concern here is not so much Sarah Palin as the possibility of John McCain making a rash and uninformed choice in selecting her as his running mate. We’ve had eight years of rash and uniformed already.
BlueJay
Posted September 6, 2008 at 10:18 am | Permalink
X I hope you know I wouldn’t allude to something if there were not rumbles about it.
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Yeah, you’re right, but this is just too “juicy”.
Wouldn’t that just tear it to find out that the GOP nominee for VP was a harlot.
I think it speaks loudly to the judgment of both McCain and Palin. It yells, “My ambition is more important than anything! More important than two young teenagers who now ALSO face the world knowing, more important than America’s national security, more important than our country’s economy, more important than ensuring American freedoms …”
Neither McCain nor Palin can be trusted to make decisions good for anyone but themselves.
This obviously bitter little democrat is whining but the numbers tell another story. Unlike our own democrat led 110th congress who are the most despised congress in recorded history Governor Palin has a high 80% rating when ranked by her constituents.
Those bitter dems just can’t accept the truth but they can’t change the facts.
XXX
Posted September 6, 2008 at 10:32 am | Permalink
BlueJay
Posted September 6, 2008 at 10:18 am | Permalink
X I hope you know I wouldn’t allude to something if there were not rumbles about it.
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Yeah, you’re right, but this is just too “juicy”.
Wouldn’t that just tear it to find out that the GOP nominee for VP was a harlot.
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BJ you are to pathetic to even be funny anymore. The party of Bill Clinton talking about Palins unproven affairs.
It really is to early in the day for the stench of desperation coming off the dems today.
Eagle
An honest question:
IF Kathleen Sebelius had been chosen, by Obama, would the Eagle, or very many other liberal newspapers, run a letter from a REPUBLICAN Kansas Legislator bashing Sebelius?
Hypothetical question, to be sure, but — Not at all hard to answer.
Maggot
Then, I take it, you will be against all school bond and highway bond issues, since you are totally against government debt?
I’m glad my mentioning it got you to do your own looking X. I hope all voters are doing their own looking. Keeping in mind of course that everything on the internet should be taken with a grain of salt and a good healthy dose of double checking.
Well the Enquirer certainly seems to think they have something. They were right about Edwards though.
And there are strange things going on up there in the land of the midnight sun. Todd Palin seems to be at odds with his former best friend and business partner. Said friend is going to great lengths to keep the court process of his own divorce out of the public eye.
Sarah Palin fed a hungry crowd what they wanted to eat. Now she is being trotted around the country leashed to McCain doing much the same thing. It seems as if McCain did not vet her very well. It also seems Sarah Palin does not want or is not being allowed contact with the press. SO what we have left is better knowing the candidate on our own.
Maggot
I would add, moron, that a “balanced budget” has to do with the OPERATING BUDGET and not with capital expenses like new construction.
Sarah Palin left the City with a BALANCED BUDGET, regardless of any bond issues.
You are mixing apples and oranges, and you are not even smart enough to realize your screw ups.
From Huffington:
‘from more buttoned-down media in the wake of its reporting on John Edwards’s affair with a campaign staffer”
See any bias?
Has she came out and categorically denied the affair. Did the divorce and business liquidate at about the same time frame?
Enquiring minds want to know!
And it boils down to McCains campaign manager telling telling the truth that this election can’t be about issues. On the issues, McCain plans to continue bush’s failed economic policies and start a war or two or three of his own. He has nothing but more of the same and increased warmongering.
okobserver posts;
“It really is to early in the day for the stench of desperation coming off the dems today.”
Matthew 7:16-20, “You will know them by their fruits….Therefore by their fruits you will know them.”
‘obobserver’, they bear no good fruit, only a rotting stench comes from of them is right.
It’s really quite sad, except they choose to wallow in their own stench.
Okobserver sings…
“Ive got you, under my skin….”
I hope if she had an affair in her past, she would’ve protected her family better than by running for v.p.
Would call into question her judgement, and ambition above family.Not to mention Mccain’s judgement.
I always thought mccain had a weird marriage setup, with him livin in Washington, and occassionally hooking up with cindy, enquirere may need to do some digging there.
I’m sure she’d have had ample temptation.
I’ve got people wanting to be better informed about those who would be our leaders?
And to okobserver and Boxlock that is desperation?
That is more telling of them than of me.
Mary
From your OWN post, Obama helped “OUTSOURCE” American jobs!
What do you think “financing foreign operations” means?
Many of those bills posted above were authored by Obama himself, Hank. He’s a born leader who has has good experience organizing, motivating, and working with others…good traits for a president. He has the right attitude and has the common sense and intelligence to do a decent job
I don’t trust someone a heartbeat away from the presidency who doesn’t believe in sex education, who would outlaw abortion for any reason (including rape, incest, or to save the life of a mother), who thinks creationism should be taught in public schools, who is against gay rights, who believes that the Iraq war was ordained by God (notice how they’ve pulled THAT video of her saying that from You-Tube?), who doesn’t have the common sense or intelligence not to get pregnant at the age of 43, and who is so shallow that she’d actually compete in a beauty contest.
Like one of her collegues said of her “I was impressed with her until I realized that she was a mile wide and an inch deep”.
She’s a mile high (star), and skin deep!
Interpet how you like, Frank…I like his idea about throwing out the tax cuts and loopholes for companies that take their manufacturing overseas and giving the breaks to those who stay here. Also renegotiating NAFTA…what is McCain’s plan to keep jobs here?
Linda
Once again, to the uninformed zombie liberal:
David Axelrod, Obama’s campaign manager, is FAMOUS for “Astroturff” advertising.
This is a type of advertising where you “invent” grass roots appeal, for any cause or candidate.
Axelrod is completely against running on the issues.
The McCain camp is ONLY responding to Axelrod and Obama.
Obama beat Hillary on star power and media smarts, and racial division.
The McCain camp realizes that fact, and has responded in kind.
Get it now?
Study Axelrod before you come back again, with naive posts about issues, would you please?
Mary
Obama’s “promise” on “throwing out the tax cuts for companies that take jobs overseas” fails on several points.
First, in Obama’s past, he clearly BRAGS about sending jobs overseas.
Next, there is NO WAY that the United States can dis-allow business expenses when calculating profits.
Treaty obligations bind us.
Finally, there is NO specific law that grants any benefits or favors to companies that move overseas.
Labor Union problem? High Taxation? Heavy Regulation? Yes, these things can encourage a company to leave the United States — but these are things that Democrats want!
Lofty rhetoric works with the uninformed.
“First, in Obama’s past, he clearly BRAGS about sending jobs overseas”
Wow for someone, who hasn’t done anything…now you say he derailed the economy single handedly.
Please provide proof where he’s “bragging” about sending jobs overseas.
“Treaty obligations bind us.
Finally, there is NO specific law that grants any benefits or favors to companies that move overseas.”
Read my post, stupid…he wants to renegoiate NAFTA, and CUT tak breaks to companies that move overseas…the same tax breaks that all businesses get now.
So now you think labor unions and regualtions are a bad idea, Frank? Where do you work? How about we throw out all the regulations that enable a safe working environment, fair pay, nondiscrimination, and safe consumer products. Afterall, it’s bad for business.
Odd?
From wsj.
“Mr. Palin also takes fishing seriously. He once left his wife onshore to tend to some fingers she broke on the boat so he could get right back out, according to the 2008 book.
“Mr. Palin also takes fishing seriously. He once left his wife onshore to tend to some fingers she broke on the boat so he could get right back out, according to the 2008 book.”
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Phantom, a man has to have priorities. ;)
Really, you found a Democrat who doesn’t think Palin should be VP?
Wow, glad to see you putting those journalistic skills to full use.
Read that in Alaska, Todd Palin is referred to as the Shadow Governor, will he also be the Shadow V.P.?
Surely sweet Sarah isn’t trying to wiggle out of the Troopergate investigation.
Team McCain and the Trooper
Nominee’s ally moves to curb probe of Palin
http://www.newsweek.com/id/157439
I can imagine the treatment I’d receive if I were to do that to my wife, not that I ever would.
After you strip away all the snarking and sarcasm of the speakers at the RNC, especially the Queen of Mean, what have you got left?
More of the same.
Well, I’m off for a busy day of destroying right-wing Republicanism and everything it stands for.
Keep those fingers glued to your keyboards, wing-nuts. We’re outworking you on every front this time around . . .
I’m outta here, too. My beautiful grandkids are on their way to spend the weekend. Y’all have a good one!
Maverick Mccain trying to shut down an investigation, tell me it ain’t so!
Palin is tasked with helping McCain be elected, supporting him and his policies — and THAT is where the mixed bag comes in! I’m sure she will begin that task as soon as he figures out what he is, who he is, what his policies are, which direction he intends to lead and how. All he knows at this point is that he is a POW! Oh, and “change” is working for that other guy so let’s give that a try!
Meantime, he is using bush’s policies (Rove said it’s OK!). Yeah, change.
American posted September 6, 2008 at 8:20 am
“Now this is a man and woman I will vote for:”
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‘Johnny-come-lying
McCain’s 10 energy lies top Palin’s four‘
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/9/5/82721/82943
‘Lies, damned lies, and energy politics
In her big speech, Palin repeats the GOP’s big energy lie — plus three other energy lies‘
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/9/4/122931/0114
Funny, the Benedict Arnold, John Kerry, made his entire convention about Vietnam, when Kerry never even spent one night in the hospital, and when Kerry came home quickly, and perfectly healthy, only to start bashing other Veterans.
John McCain is a true hero.
Would turnabout be fair play, if the dems. see to it that when Palin or her husband are deposed, they are asked whethere the gov. had an affair?
Just wonderin.
Think I’m out of here for a while, this blogging is becoming compulsive!
Libs
This will all backfire.
Count on it.
The more you pick on Palin, the more people will rally to Palin.
Just speaking for myself, but if my wife (or I) were accused in the media of having an affair, we’d both be front and center denying the false allegation, and be filing a lawsuit. And, we’re not even running for anything!
I suppose most folks never supported little league or minor hockey, but I never saw a pit bull hockey Mom. I’m an ex rink-rat, and what I saw was people who got their kids to a rink on very cold(and in Alaska dark) winter mornings which takes a lot of dedication not bad tempered folks. The only comment I could make about lipstick and hockey Moms, is that it was on the rim of the paper coffee cups they clutched trying to keep warm. If anyone in the media were minor league hockey supporters, the punch line would have never stuck.
It is not possible for a “public figure” to win a libel or slander lawsuit unless that public figure can prove “malice” — which is almost impossible.
A public figure must prove that the defendant KNEW the statement was false at the time that it was made.
The only thing that the Democrats have, in their “bag” is discarded American Flags:
“Republican Recycling
by David Harsanyi on September 6, 2008
This morning, Republicans tell me that a worker at Invesco Field in Denver saved thousands of unused flags from the Democratic National Convention that were headed for the garbage. Guerrilla campaigning. They will use these flags at their own event today in Colorado Springs with John McCain and Sarah Palin.
Before McCain speaks today, veterans will haul these garbage bags filled with flags out onto the stage — with dramatic effect, no doubt — and tell the story.
“What you see in the picture I sent you is less than half of total flags,” a Republican official emailed. “We estimate the total number to be around 12,000 small flags and one full size 3×5 flag.”
http://blogs.denverpost.com/opinion/2008/09/06/republican-recycling/
Sic ‘em, Sarah…
Various theories were flying as to the main impetus for the choice of Palin. Was it intended to help draw a few disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters over from the Democrats? Was it to gain the support of the evangelical right, who would approve of her strong anti-abortion, pro-gun, pro-creationism stance?
One thing is sure. The selection of Palin is a measure of the McCain campaign’s belief that short of a major shift in the election, they are bound to lose, and lose big, and that a major game-changing move was required. As commentator Charles Krauthammer noted, by selecting Palin, the McCain campaign had thrown its unique selling point — high-level political experience — out the window.
Palin’s speech, with its stinging attacks not only on Obama, but on the whole attitude and way of life he represented, marked a return of the Republicans to a strategy of culture war. Yet what is most curious about the Palin candidacy and the resulting strategy is how much the clear message — that selfish liberal values were destroying social life — has had to be contorted to fit the distinctive person that Sarah Palin is.
For right-wing culture warriors, one of the key contributions to the undermining of social life had been the rise of liberal feminism, with its insistence on the right of women to work, and its assumption that children are not disadvantaged by women working substantial hours.
The tenor of conservative attacks was that this was the epitome of narcissistic liberalism, which did not recognise that grounded biological differences between men and women ordained different life paths and roles — and most importantly would not acknowledge that children’s development could be harmed by the absence of a full-time mother.
Bizarrely, these positions have now been reversed, in the short-term political skirmishing. For the right, stray questions about whether the mother of three children under 14, one a baby with Down syndrome, would have the pure focus necessary to the office of President of the United States, should McCain slip off the perch, were “sexist”, “outrageous” and so on. Yet if President of the United States was not a job that made effective parenting impossible, then what job was?
If this was a turnaround, it was nothing compared to the sudden equanimity the right displayed towards teen pregnancy.
For 20 years the right had insisted that there was one cause for unmarried motherhood: poor parenting. Here’s Fox News supremo Bill O’Reilly in 2007: “On the pinhead front, 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant … here the blame falls primarily on the parents of the girl, who obviously have little control over her.”
The ironies are almost too great to catalogue here. The right has insisted that teen pregnancy has nothing to do with ignorance or lack of opportunity, and everything to do with virtue and good parenting. For this reason they, including Palin, had voted for abstinence-only education, a course of action that doesn’t tend to survive six tequila shooters on prom night.
Yet suddenly teen pregnancy was a morally neutral act, and everything politicised in the past 20 years, was a matter of privacy. Hilariously, family values conservatives suddenly morphed into choice freaks. The desperation for a symbol of an imaginary Middle America meant that everything else could be thrown overboard.
Palin’s undoubted pizazz will get some middle-ground voters. But her total opposition to abortion, and her support of creationism, are contrary to the beliefs of the majority of Americans, whose consistent support for a liberal social order is usually drowned out by the vocal evangelical minority, who forced her on McCain. Believing otherwise is a measure of the self-defeating cynicism of the right that has so effectively boxed them into a corner here and in the US.
And three weeks before the election, the commission inquiring into “Alaska troopergate” will deliver its findings. Palin was an audacious choice. She may yet prove to be a disastrous one.
But there’s no doubt that the election itself has been sent spinning.
http://tinyurl.com/58dqhp
Get real!
Sarah Palin is MORE experienced than Obama.
If EXPERIENCE is the issue, McCain-Palin wins!
Early 1960s style red-baiting. How gauche. I knew communists. Communists are friends of mine. Senator Obama is no communist. LOL.
I stated this warning a couple of days ago, but to attack Palin’s experience is a downfall.
If her lack of experience is an issue for her to be Vice President and means she should not be.
Obama’s lack of experience while he is running for President is also an issue that means he should not be.
I am not sure exactly the big deal is about Palin, certainly not anything that would inspire the love affair that seem to be following her? I have not seen anything that should exclude her from being Vice President.
The threat that she would become President is a concern and it maybe a way to get a R.R. in the office through the back door. I am not willing to bet on Obama being the next President or McCain losing.
Dawg, you are (as usual) perceptive, and correct. The race for POTUS is between Obama and McCain.
I think the interest in Palin is because of the surprise. Most people, no matter the political persuasion, admit their first response was, “Who?” And there had to be an answer to that question. Now, we know much more and she either is or isn’t someone who would or wouldn’t influence our vote. It looks to me that for each person who may be influenced to vote for McCain because of Palin there is another person influenced not to vote for McCain because of Palin.
She has absolutely excited the “social” conservatives and they are now looking forward to voting whereby they were considering sitting this one out. But most independents find her “social” beliefs not mainstream enough to please them.
I think it’s a wash. We’ll all find out Nov. 4th with any luck. Our country sure doesn’t need another election where the results can’t be determined without court involvement. I don’t think any one of us wants that kind of “victory.”
WOW think our local downtown arena is a boondoggle?
And WE had to pay for it. But Sarah Palin seems to be skilled in using Federal funds for expensive projects for her little town of 6,000 or so people.
From Daily Kos…
“by Gorette
Wed Sep 03, 2008 at 08:52:35 AM PDT
[Issue diary on Sarah Palin's hatred of earmarks.]
What did she do for her little town? (In New England we called places the size of Wasilla small towns, not “cities.” Give me a break, you could get elected mayor with 600 votes in a “city”?)
What did she do to fight corruption?
She got $27 million in federal funds (earmarks) for that little town including one that intrigued me since reading about it a few days ago: $15 million for a “railway” project. I assumed that it must be a connection to Anchorage since that was the only thing that made sense.
Wrong! She collaborates with Senator Ted Stevens, the indicted Alaskan Senator. Bingo, tiny Girdwood gets rail service from Wasilla.
* Gorette’s diary :: ::
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Today’s editorial in the New York Times reveals the purpose of the railway earmark for Wasilla.
Now some earmarks, lots of them are okay. What Republicans do not seem to realize is that this is the way most federal dollars come back to staes for worthy projects, like mental health centers. Alaska reputedly gets the most in earmark money.
Yet. When you claim to be above earmarks, against earmarks, and rabidly so, it must mean that you would never ask for them yourself, right?
Wrong!
Railroad to Ted……..
Mr. McCain, Mr. Graham and others also claim that Ms. Palin is a fearless reformer who is committed to fighting waste, fraud and earmarks. Ms. Palin did show courage taking on some of the Alaska Republican Party’s most sleazy politicians. But she also was an eager recipient of earmarked money as a mayor and governor.
Mayor Palin gathered up $27 million in subsidies from Washington, $15 million of it for a railroad from her town to the ski resort hometown of Senator Ted Stevens, now under indictment for failing to report gifts.
The Republicans are presenting Ms. Palin as a crusader against Mr. Stevens’s infamous “Bridge to Nowhere.” The record says otherwise; she initially supported Mr. Stevens’s boondoggle, diverting the money to other projects when the bridge became a political disaster. In her speech to the Wasilla Assembly of God in June, Ms. Palin said it was “God’s will” that the federal government contribute to a $30 billion gas pipeline she wants built in Alaska.
Don’t know about you, but federal funds for a railway to a ski resort in Girdwood, Ted Stevens hometown,seems like one of those earmarks a lot of Republicans would certainly be against. But maybe that’s just after they were for them? Didn’t the Republican Congress after produce and approve the most earmarks of any Congress ever? Did I get that wrong or something? Wasn’t it the Democrats who actually cut earmarks?”
Thank you Linda LOL the joke maybe on them if John McCain lives for the next 20 years!
Yes the Social conservatives do seem to feel that she is the best buy though as I point out she is the second banana and not the main bunch. Neither excite me as a fiscal conservative though, McCain’s stand is in some respects very liberal and a bit silly to some degree. He supports a fund to be set up where if you lose a high paying job and have to take a low paying job this fund will make up the difference. The fund of course will be paid for through more withholding from your income! SO since you are making a good income the Government will take some of it in case you don’t?
BlueJay,
LOL! That’s a good find. . . a link to it.
‘Train to nowhere. Palin’s Choo choo to Ted Steven’s resort town.‘
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/3/10470/38203/246/584531
You know who pays for all those Alaskan earmarks, don’t you? ALL the rest of the states! Yep, there’s little question why Palin is popular! I’ll bet any state’s ciizens would love to be in Alaskans shoes.
If McCain gets elected he won’t need to pander to the “social” conservatives any longer.
Flags. You don’t throw them away. Contact any VFW post and they will come and get them and dispose of them correctly.
If they are good still the local VFW or American Legion would be glad to use them to decorate graves on Memorial day or put them to some other good use.
Throw them way? How sad.
Thanks cosmos. And thanks for linking it.
I can take credit only for bringing it here. As long as Sarah Palin will not ….meet the press it will be up to the information age to vet her.
BlueJay
Posted September 6, 2008 at 4:32 pm | Permalink
Thanks cosmos. And thanks for linking it.
I can take credit only for bringing it here. As long as Sarah Palin will not ….meet the press it will be up to the information age to vet her.
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So is that all the MSM does anymore? Interview and editorialize? No investigative reporting?
:lol:
The flag imbroglio has “College Republicans” and Bush/Cheney written all over it.
I think the GOP is going to rue attempting to run this up the ‘ol flagpole (sorry). ‘Course that won’t stop ‘em!
If this doesn’t give voters deja vu for 2004, if this doesn’t set in concrete for independent voters that McCain don’t just represent Bush’s third term, but his campaign even represents Rove’s third campaign then nothing will.
The Dems couldn’t cause the GOP to shed thinking voters at this rate if their leaders were to buy their votes on a market. :D
Hence these kinds of College Republicans’ shenanigans are just ways to fire up the base. From that standpoint, then, these kinds of “reeking of desperation,” “Dems are TRAITORS!!!,” repeats of Bush/Cheney ‘04 should give the Dems some satisfaction. My guess is that there are multiple polls out there, including baseline polls, showing that McCain is in very big trouble.
Poor guy. He’s apparently willing to discount the extremely pertinent fact the the nation has been through these kinds of GOP attacks before, and all we got to show for ‘em was Augustus Stupidus.
I have a lot of faith in Americans. We ain’t stupid, and we won’t reward such electoral stoopidity with the very rich prize of POTUS again!
But Linda if McCain did that people would start referring to him as… as… as … Bush 3!
Economic policy, foreign policy and then ignoring the social conservatives as soon as he is elected.
Sounds like a Bush 3 to me!
But seriously as to the earmarks while the major of a small town I can see. They do not have the tax base to depend on but still have the duties to provide the service for the town. If you can get extra money why not to help the town. Now as Governor of AK that would be a different matter, larger tax base and revenue from the oil companies.
Wow just caught that “major” should have been “mayor” sorry for that.
Palin’s pastor says God damns America. No doubt Paul will go batcrap crazy and repeat this over and over again (nope, the pastor is White, he’ll keep him mouth shut).
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/9/5/21314/90204/Front_Page/Palin_s_Pastor_God_quot_Is_Gonna_Strike_Out_His_Hand_Against_America
What more do you expect from a church who prays for the destruction of America so the church can get more people to move to Alaska and attend the church?
The Barracuda Biiiaaatch has lived in Alaska her hole life. Alaska, as anyone knows, is like, really, really close to Russia, a known communist country. As such, she has been turned by them commie heathens, and, along with McCain, who was turned by commies in Hanoi, will sell out this country to the commies in a country yet to be determined.
. . . and so it goes, using bazzaro Wango logic, all things are possible.
http://groups.google.com/group/talk.politics.misc/browse_thread/thread/b8e5905d2c466c7a
Read here about Sarah Palin’s major accomplishment as mayor of a town of 6,000.
She raised taxes to build an indoor sports arena. Problem is? She didn’t close the deal on the land it is built on. The matter has already cost the city more than a million dollars in litigation because Sarah Palin built a community facility on land the city didn’t legally own.
Oops Junior!
You forgot this very important sentence for your accusation to be true.
After Ms. Palin left office, the city decided to take 80 acres of Mr. Lundgren’s property through eminent domain. An Alaska court confirmed the city’s right to do so and ordered that an arbitrator determine the appropriate price.
That’s what the contention was about and Lundgren sued and won in litigation determined by the arbitrator.
It had nothing to do with Palin, she had already left office.
idiot
The sports arena project also speaks to Palin’s record on the environment.
One of the two aggrieved parties in the land dispute is the Nature Conservancy. This is a wonderful group that uses member donations to buy and hold environmentally sensitive land.
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BlueJay
Posted September 6, 2008 at 6:12 pm | Permalink
The sports arena project also speaks to Palin’s record on the environment.
One of the two aggrieved parties in the land dispute is the Nature Conservancy. This is a wonderful group that uses member donations to buy and hold environmentally sensitive land.
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The Nature Conservancy are the ones who sold the land.
idiot!
“Regular” –
She already built the arena.
Before the city owned the land.
Regular
I will let readers read the link and make their own determination.
It certainly looks like very sloppy community planning to me.
From my link.
Which goes to the Wall Street Journal by the way.
“The only catch was that the city began building roads and installing
utilities for the project before it had unchallenged title to the land.
The misstep led to years of litigation and at least $1.3 million in
extra costs for a small municipality with a small budget. What was to be
Ms. Palin’s legacy has turned into a financial mess that continues to
plague Wasilla.
“It’s too bad that the city of Wasilla didn’t do their homework and
secure the land before they began construction,” said Kathy Wells, a
longtime activist here. “She was not your ceremonial mayor; she was in
charge of running the city. So it was her job to make sure things were
done correctly.”
Rank incompetence.
Later that year, Ms. Palin’s final one as mayor, the federal judge reversed his own decision and ruled that the property rightfully
belonged to Mr. Lundgren. Wasilla had never signed the proper papers, the court ruled.
[In Wasilla, Alaska, the construction of an indoor sports facility (shown above), initiated during Sarah Palin's term as mayor, has led to
years of litigation over property rights and at least $1.3 million in extra costs for the town.]
It was whoever does land in the City of Wasilla that screwed up. Palin was Mayor, not their mommy. If City officials screwed up the paper work and it resulted in a lawsuit after Palin left office, it’s the City of Wasilla’s responsibility.
This would be like hold Mayor Brewer accountable for land purchased for Cowtown by the city and the paper work wasn’t signed properly by the City Engineers and City Real Estate manager. It wouldn’t be Brewer’s screw up, but some incompetent people.
idiots
“The buck stops here.”
Oh yeah, Harry Truman was a Democrat. Not an incomptent, negligent Republican like Sarah Palin.
I said, what about the bomb?
Are you sorry that you did it?
He said, pass me that bottle
and mind your own bidness
City officials screwed up the paper work
And haven’t we seen that the majority of Wasilla’s City officials were put into place by none other than Sarah Palin?
Still doesn’t look so good for the Mayor, Reg. They worked at the direction of the Mayor. Let’s not forget that there were, what? 60-some people working under Sarah, and most were hand-picked by her?
As more than one poster has pointed out (including Pre), with respect to governing style (by the under-informed, if not outright ill-informed gut):
Sarah Palin = George W Bush
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Predestined
Posted September 6, 2008 at 6:39 pm | Permalink
City officials screwed up the paper work
And haven’t we seen that the majority of Wasilla’s City officials were put into place by none other than Sarah Palin?
Still doesn’t look so good for the Mayor, Reg. They worked at the direction of the Mayor. Let’s not forget that there were, what? 60-some people working under Sarah, and most were hand-picked by her?
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No, it doesn’t.
However, assign incompetence where it is supposed to be assigned. It’s like blaming Bush for everything under the sun and everyone knows it’s not true. There are no master ‘puppet strings’ from the White House for the entire governmental affairs of the nation nor are there master ‘puppet strings’ for the City of Wasilla to control each and every individual.
Palin left the Mayor’s office in October 2002, before the facility had even been built completely.
I once had a house that was situated on land where I didn’t own the mineral rights. Years later, a company was suing the city and the state for the rights to drill oil where me and my neighbors lived. They did not prevail.
The land used to belong to the county who had purchased the land from the Oil company and they didn’t properly transfer the mineral rights to the Realtor who purchased the land.
Who is at fault? Or, are a whole group of people at fault?
Is the County commissioner at fault, the Realtor who sold the land to builders. Was my Realtor at fault?
And, in case you’re curious, the Oil Company wasn’t allowed to drill because it was within city limits and the city wouldn’t agree to a permit for drilling in a residential area.
Let’s see. So far, according to the liberal blogosphere, Sarah Palin is power mad, an incompetent, a spendthrift, a liar, a racist, an adulteress, a war monger, and (horrors) a person of faith. Did I miss anything?
Makes you wonder how this wicked woman lives with herself. She probably is also a witch who cast a spell on the 85% Alaskan voters who approve of her.
Yes I know, libs are so ridiculous and worried that they have become cartoonish.
Can you spell b-a-c-k-l-a-s-h?
Maybe someone would have pointed out the error of building utilities and infrastructure into land the city did not have legal title to.
Maybe they were afraid to mention it to pit bull Sarah for fear of getting fired.
She DID make that reputation for herself.
No way out of this one. Sarah Palin was guilty of gross incompetence perhaps made worse by her own bad management of personnel.
This woman is not qualified or competent to run a convenience store let alone a state.
Regular
Posted September 6, 2008 at 6:48 pm | Permalink
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:lol:
Hell, McCain/Palin ain’t even elected yet, and you know who’s more than willing to keep on lowering the already lower’n whalesh*t Bush standards for POTUS even lower, just as long as Sarah Palin can become prez.
1. Bush’s appointees screw up? GOP: it ain’t Bush’s fault!
2. Palin’s appointees screw up? It ain’t Palin’s fault!
Not one iota of blame falls on Bush, or Palin, when their choices result in taxpayer pain.
GOP ca 2008: come one, come all, even the lowliest dogcatcher can be US Prez-R because we deny your seein’ stinkin’ trends in our GOP-preferred governin’ style (the style approved for all GOP candidates!)!
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Pedant
Posted September 6, 2008 at 6:57 pm | Permalink
Regular
Posted September 6, 2008 at 6:48 pm | Permalink
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:lol:
Hell, McCain/Palin ain’t even elected yet, and you know who’s more than willing to keep on lowering the already lower’n whalesh*t Bush standards for POTUS even lower, just as long as Sarah Palin can become prez.
1. Bush’s appointees screw up? GOP: it ain’t Bush’s fault!
2. Palin’s appointees screw up? It ain’t Palin’s fault!
Not one iota of blame falls on Bush, or Palin, when their choices result in taxpayer pain.
GOP ca 2008: come one, come all, even the lowliest dogcatcher can be US Prez-R because we deny your seein’ stinkin’ trends in our GOP-preferred governin’ style (the style approved for all GOP candidates!)!
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There are no terrorists in Palin’s background like Obama. Obama hangs around people like pardoned terrorist (the Clintons) and gives to terrorist organizations (the PLO) and hangs around class acts like the criminal Rezco.
You Democraps have nothing, but hot air on Palin.
Every single incident of accustation has been shot down in flames.
“She probably is also a witch who cast a spell on the 85% Alaskan voters who approve of her. ”
No not a spell outlander.
But Sarah Palin DID send everybody in Alaska a nice fat check. They are just getting those checks right now.
Hell I bet I could get 85% approval if I sent people money.
outlander,
You left out that Palin very incorrectly claimed that only a “little 2,000 acre plot of land” would be needed for oil exploration in the Arctic Refuge.
http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/09/sebelius-takes-on-hurricane-sarah/#comment-418386
Regular
Posted September 6, 2008 at 7:02 pm | Permalink
Every single incident of accustation has been shot down in flames.
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False.
For example, shoot this one down (and good luck). When it comes to governing styles (by the gut):
Sarah Palin = George W Bush
That’s rock solid, son.
Obama rebukes Palin on earmarks
“Don’t be fooled,” Obama told the crowd surrounding him in a large barn. “John McCain’s party, with the help of John McCain, has been in charge” for nearly eight years.
“I know the governor of Alaska has been saying she’s change, and that’s great,” Obama said. “She’s a skillful politician. But, you know, when you’ve been taking all these earmarks when it’s convenient, and then suddenly you’re the champion anti-earmark person, that’s not change. Come on! I mean, words mean something, you can’t just make stuff up.”
“And suddenly he’s the change agent? Ha.
“I mean, come on, they must think you’re stupid,” Obama said as the crowd laughed and cheered.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g-UQSWkkXyD_Javq_3RKXGziFB4gD931GBA00
Hey, CONs!
The Fox Noise Channel just started airing a one-hour “news” special: “Sarah Palin — An American Woman.”
We all know it will be a hard-hitting, no-holds-barred investigative piece revealing the Moose-Dresser who John S (for Senile) McCain the Third (for Shrub’s 3rd term) has determined is the second-best person in America to lead the Free World.
And “Franklin” is the Queen of Romania.
The smell of desperation? Hell, even Faux News isn’t even trying anymore to appear “fair and balanced.”
Hee Hee Hee.
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Pedant
Posted September 6, 2008 at 7:06 pm | Permalink
Regular
Posted September 6, 2008 at 7:02 pm | Permalink
Every single incident of accustation has been shot down in flames.
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False.
For example, shoot this one down (and good luck). When it comes to governing styles (by the gut):
Sarah Palin = George W Bush
That’s rock solid, son.
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Just because you write something, doesn’t make it so.
Sarah Palin is not George Bush
- Not the same age
- Not the same sex
- Not the same upbringing
- Didn’t live in the same state
- Palin is a mom, George Bush is not.
- Palin and Bush were Governors, yes
- George W. Bush was never on a ticket for Vice President
Of course, I know you’ll do you’re usual nonsense reply. It’s like your afraid of doing any worthwhile research.
““Sarah Palin — An American Woman.”
I am not sure Sarah Palin’s husband Todd will be comfortable with that title.
Todd is an Alaskan first and has belonged to a movement that would secede Alaska from the United States and make it its own nation. He probably considers his wife an Alaskan first too…
Libs
Trust me.
You do NOT want to talk about band land deals.
Plenty of that to come, with Rezco and Obama.
‘Sarah Palin and Wasilla Sports Complex land deal’
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/29/1223/87119/35/578632
linda
Care to check out Obama’s earmarks, for the dirty Chicago machine?
BJ
Obama was very friendly with the Hawaii independence movement.
Again, you are shooting blanks.
Multi-nic’d Regular posted September 6, 2008 at 7:02 pm
“You Democraps have nothing, but hot air on Palin.
Every single incident of accustation has been shot down in flames.”
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LOL!!!
Palin, multi-nic’d Regular’s heroine, very incorrectly claimed that only a “little 2,000 acre plot of land” would be needed for oil exploration in the Arctic Refuge.
http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/09/sebelius-takes-on-hurricane-sarah/#comment-418386
Obama’s corrupt earmarks:
” Here’s the story, in short, about Michelle Obama: “In 2006, the Chicago Tribune reported that Mrs. Obama’s compensation at the University of Chicago Hospital, where she is a vice president for community affairs, jumped from $121,910 in 2004, just before her husband was elected to the Senate, to $316,962 in 2005, just after he took office.”
And what did the hospital get back?
Dan Riehl notes, via Amanda Carpenter, that in the list of earmarks he requested, $1 Million was requested for the construction of a new hospital pavilion at the University Of Chicago. The request was put in in 2006.
The Obama fundraiser: “Obama’s Illinois finance chairman, James S. Crown, serves” on General Dynamics’ board of directors “and his family holds a sizable stake in the company.” Aside from that, the Crowns are major fundraisers for Obama. They “have raised more than $200,000 for the Obama campaign, according to a list of fundraisers posted on Obama’s campaign website.”
As if that’s not enough, James’ wife, Paula Crown, is also a member of Obama’s National Finance Committee.
General Dynamics oversaw the so-called “High Explosive Air Burst Technology Program.”
The result of their work for Obama:
Obama Requested $8 Million And Helped Secure $1.3 Million For The High Explosive Air Burst Technology Program. In 2006, Obama requested $8 million and helped secure $1.3 million for High Explosive Air Burst Technology funding. Through General Dynamics, this project supported the 25mm Bushmaster cannon, the primary weapon on the Army Bradley Fighting Vehicle (BFV) and the US Marines’ Light Armor Vehicle (LAV). Under contract for System Design and Demonstration (SDD), GD-OTS is developing a Family of Ammunition for the Army’s Future Combat System (FCS) to include a High Explosive Air Burst (HEAB) round. This program will upgrade the capability of the current forces BFV and LAV. Additional funding for the 25mm HEAB for the SFV and LAV will ensure this program will run effectively during its planned service until 2051. [House Report 109-676 (109th Congress); Obama Request Letter To The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, 2006]
http://poligazette.com/2008/03/14/obamas-earmarks/
Friendly with? That’s a bit different from “part of”.
I was friendly with outlander when I met him. It does not mean I have anything at all in common with him. Nor he with me.
Palin is not nor has ever been a member of the Alaskan Independence Party
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/members-of-frin.html
Todd Palin’s politics is his own and he’s not running for Vice President
This afternoon, the director of Division of Elections in Alaska, Gail Fenumiai, told TPMmuckraker that Todd Palin registered in October 1995 to the Alaska Independence Party, a radical group that advocates for Alaskan secession from the United States.
Besides a short period of a few months in 2000 when he changed his registration to undeclared, Todd Palin remained a registered member of AIP until July 2002 when he registered again as an undeclared voter.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/todd_palin_was_registered_memb.php
‘Train to nowhere. Palin’s Choo choo to Ted Steven’s resort town.‘
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/3/10470/38203/246/584531
Regular
Posted September 6, 2008 at 7:13 pm | Permalink
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Pedant
Posted September 6, 2008 at 7:06 pm | Permalink
Regular
Posted September 6, 2008 at 7:02 pm | Permalink
Every single incident of accustation has been shot down in flames.
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False.
For example, shoot this one down (and good luck). When it comes to governing styles (by the gut):
Sarah Palin = George W Bush
That’s rock solid, son.
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Just because you write something, doesn’t make it so.
Sarah Palin is not George Bush
- Not the same age
- Not the same sex
- Not the same upbringing
- Didn’t live in the same state
- Palin is a mom, George Bush is not.
- Palin and Bush were Governors, yes
- George W. Bush was never on a ticket for Vice President
Of course, I know you’ll do you’re usual nonsense reply. It’s like your afraid of doing any worthwhile research.
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While I admit I’m a terrible teacher, I will just say this.
Reading comprehension, dipshit, look into it.
‘Nuff said.
BJ
Show me where any member of the Palin family every supported violence in the cause of Alaskan Indepenence, would you?
You can’t!
However, many of Obama’s close associates advocated, and even carried out, violence against the United States.
When it comes to governing styles (by the gut):
Sarah Palin = George W Bush
That’s rock solid, son.
Okay Pedant,
You or your fellow Libs, do not want to have a serious discussion.
That’s fine, talk to yourselves.
When you make statements like:
Sarah Palin = George Bush
You really show what a mindless dweeb that you are.
with respect to governing styles
by the gut
nitwit
Get your facts straight:
http://www.akip.org/
“Contrary to initial reports, Vice-President candidate Governor Sarah Palin was never a member of our party. We stand corrected. We issued a press release today. It is posted here to those members of the media who did not recieve it.
Todd Palin was registered as a member but never participated in any party activities aside from attending a convention in 1994.
We had several hundred people attend that convention and nothing of noteworthy status took place outside of nominating the most conservative candidate up to that date to ever run for Governor of Alaska. That candidate was the sitting Lt. Governor, Jack Coghill. This man was one of the authors and signers of the Constitution of the State of Alaska.”
BTW, you should rejoice in your promotion, from dipshit to nitwit.
:D
There’s another one of those vague terms again. “Close associates”
There are people on this blog I “associate” with every day including YOU Franklinpaulie.
It does not mean I have anything in common with them.
I always know you are getting desperate when you start in with the “would yous?”
One more time, for those with a major reading comprehension problem, like multi-nic’d Regular.
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When it comes to governing styles (by the gut):
Sarah Palin = George W Bush
That’s rock solid, son.
Governing style of Barak Obama
Obama = 0
Obama has no governing experience
Obama has no executive experience
Obama has never lead anything
obama worked for terrorist William Ayers.
That is a pretty close association!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=talF7A-7MyM
We do not know Obama’s management style, do we?
Obama has never managed anything —
Except for a left wing “foundation” that terrorist William Ayers put Obama in charge of!
“You or your fellow Libs, do not want to have a serious discussion.”
With YOU Regular?
I should go get the excuse you made for Sarah Palin threatening to fire the town librarian when she refused to ban books from the library.
Something about an out of control, ogre on the community of a librarian or something? I think I’ll go get that. It proves your capacity for reasoned discussion.
:lol:
Sweet, the GOP activist and the dipshit (demotion) dodge the assertion, and thereby turn it into unassailable truth:
When it comes to governing styles,
Sarah Palin = George W Bush
Like I said, rock solid. :wink:
George W. Bush has gotten nearly everything he wanted, out of the Democrats in Congress.
That sounds like pretty good management, to me!
So you agree, Franklin, that Sarah Palin would represent an extension of George W. Bush’s governing style?
:twisted:
Not exactly.
Palin often fights with her own party.
Bush does not, so often.
Still, Bush has run circles around you Democrats.
As has been mentioned here, yall Democrats:
Use it or lose it.
Not only can they not plausibly deny it, but if pressed they’ll make the link even stronger.
When it comes to governing styles:
Sarah Palin = George W Bush
Discuss! (if you can, that is! :wink: )
BlueJay
Posted September 6, 2008 at 7:43 pm | Permalink
“You or your fellow Libs, do not want to have a serious discussion.”
With YOU Regular?
I should go get the excuse you made for Sarah Palin threatening to fire the town librarian when she refused to ban books from the library.
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Already been proven incorrect.
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Forget it Franklin.
The Libs have nothing and just antagonizing.
Let them make fools of themselves.
Regular
Posted September 6, 2008 at 7:51 pm | Permalink
Forget it Franklin.
The Libs have nothing and just antagonizing.
Let them make fools of themselves.
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TRANSLATION: Our battleships are going down like Linda Lovelace on a banana plantation! Retreat! Retreat! REGROUP!!!
:lol: :lol: :lol:
When third parties are making the denials, it’s time to worry!
It should be noted that Rezco was still cutting campaign contribution checks, to Obama, and that Obama was still representing slum lord Rezco, at the same time that Rezco’s tenants were going without heat!
Obama is dirty.
Everyone around Obama is dirty.
Ties to Barack Obama
In 1990, after Obama was elected president of the Harvard Law Review, Rezmar Corp. offered him a job, which Obama turned down. Obama did end up taking a job with law firm Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland,[26] which primarily worked civil rights cases, but also represented Rezmar and helped the company get more than $43 million in government funding and whose former senior partner, Allison S. Davis, later went into business with Rezko and, in 2003, was appointed to Illinois State Board of Investment by Governor Blagojevich at Rezko’s request.[7][27] On July 31, 1995 the first ever political contributions to Obama were $300 from a lawyer, a $5,000 loan from a car dealer, and $2,000 from two food companies owned by Rezko.[28] Starting in 2003, Rezko was one of the people on Obama’s U.S. Senate campaign finance committee, which raised more than $14 million.[7] Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama, which Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was instrumental in providing Obama with seed money for his U.S. Senate race.[1] Obama has since identified over $250,000 in campaign contributions to various Obama campaigns as coming from Rezko or close associates, and has claimed to have donated almost two thirds of that amount to charity.[29][30]
Also, in 2005 Obama purchased a new home in the Kenwood District of Chicago for $1.65 million (which was $300,000 below the asking price but represented the highest offer on the property) on the same day that Rezko’s wife, Rita Rezko, purchased the adjoining empty lot from the same sellers for the full asking price.[31] Obama acknowledged bringing his interest in the property to Rezko’s attention,[32] but denied any coordination of offers. According to Obama, while the properties had originally been a single property, the previous owners decided to sell the land as two separate lots, but made it a condition of the sales that they be closed on the same date. Obama also claimed that the properties had been on the market for months, that his offer was the best of two bids, and that Ms. Rezko’s bid was matched by another offer, also of $625,000, so that she could not have purchased the property for less.[33] Obama’s description of the purchase was later confirmed by the previous owner of the house.[34]
After it had been reported in 2006 that Rezko was under federal investigation for influence-peddling, Obama purchased a 10 foot (3.0 m) wide strip of Ms. Rezko’s property for $104,500, $60,000 above the assessed value.[31][7] According to Chicago Sun-Times columnist, Mark Brown, “Rezko definitely did Obama a favor by selling him the 10-foot strip of land, making his own parcel less attractive for development.”[35] Obama acknowledges that the exchange may have created the appearance of impropriety, and stated “I consider this a mistake on my part and I regret it.”[33]
The London Times reported that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born billionaire loaned Rezko $3.5 million three weeks before Obama’s new home was purchased.[36] In April 2004, Auchi attended a party in his honor at the home of Rezko. Obama also attended the party and is alleged to have toasted Auchi, according to one guest.[37]
On December 28, 2006, Ms. Rezko sold the property to a company owned by her husband’s former business attorney. That sale of $575,000, combined with the earlier $104,500 sale to the Obamas, amounted to a net profit of $54,500 over her original purchase, less $14,000 for a fence along the property line and other expenses.[38][39] In October 2007, the new owners put the still vacant land up for sale again, this time for $1.5 million.[40]
In June 2007, the Sun-Times published a story about letters Obama had written in 1997 to city and state officials in support of a low-income senior citizen development project headed by Rezko and partner Allison Davis. The project received more than $14 million in taxpayer funds, including $885,000 in development fees for Rezko and Davis. Of Obama’s letters in support of the Cottage View Terrace apartments development, Obama spokesman Bill Burton said, “This wasn’t done as a favor for anyone, it was done in the interests of the people in the community who have benefited from the project. I don’t know that anyone specifically asked him to write this letter nine years ago. There was a consensus in the community about the positive impact the project would make and Obama supported it because it was going to help people in his district.” Rezko’s attorney responded that “Mr. Rezko never spoke with, nor sought a letter from, Senator Obama in connection with that project.[41]”
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoin_Rezko
Rezco’s buildings are all boarded up.
Rezco used Obama to obtain government financing and tax breaks. Rezco financed Obama’s campaigns.
Then Rezco screwed let his buildings fall apart and go without heat in the winter!
I’ll have to find that one later.
Sarah Palin threatened to fire the town librarian because she refused to agree if Palin chose to remove books from the library.
Crazy old Regular had a post that gave me an image of this Amazon librarian terrorizing the citizens of Wasilla with books!
Heh!
“Todd Palin’s politics is his own and he’s not running for Vice President
”
Might be true, but he’s currently referred to in Alaska as the Shadow Governor, he’d be the Shadow V.P., with his radical ideas.
Heh
“You’re gonna read the Pokey little Puppy or it’s too bad for you!”
Heh
BJ
Obama has tried to get adverstisers to drop advertising on a radio show.
What’s the difference?
Well, for one, Palin is rightly concerned about what Children are reading, and Palin is rightly concerned about the use of government funds.
On the other hand?
Obama is trying to intimidate an independent business because of the political content of its broadcasts!
What Obama did is much much worse!
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/08/obama_campaign_confronts_wgn_r.html
“Well, for one, Palin is rightly concerned about what Children are reading, and Palin is rightly concerned about the use of government funds.”
Do you have a link for that?
BJ
Libraries are government institutions.
The government buys most of the books, found in a library.
Do you need a link for such basic concepts?
You’re trying to turn sh*7 into Shinola Franklin paulie.
You are assigning Sarah Palin a reasonable motive that she has not claimed.
She did not ask about the children’s books. She did not inquire as to the library budget.
She asked the librarian if she would be comfortable removing books from the library. When the librarian told her in no uncertain terms that there was no way she would condone that, Sarah Palin threatened to fire her.
“When it comes to governing styles:
Sarah Palin = George W Bush”
Worse. Sarah Palin is much WORSE than bush.
Excellent points, BlueJay.
Anybody else think that this is just like straight out of the Bush/GOP playbook?
Can anyone else plausibly imagine the DoJ under George W Bush making a version of the same kind of ridiculous claim (DoJ under Bush: we need records of X checking out book Y to make the “homeland” safe?!?)
This all sounds oh so familiar…
:D
Familiar and scary.
In her capacity as Mayor of Wasilla and Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin acted more like a monarch than a public servant.
On a more light hearted note. I gotta wonder amongst all there is we are learning about Sarah Palin…
Did she lift Tina Fey’s look?
It works better in Tina. She’s more petite and pretty. She’s also a lot more clever and witty.
When it comes to governing styles:
Sarah Palin = George W Bush
I have to disagree. Does Dubya have a governing style? Does Dubya actually do anything, other than those cute little signing statements and vetoing anything remotely connected to Democrats? I honestly haven’t seen anything barracuda-ish about him.
Saracuda, on the other hand, strikes me as a woman who likes control. How’s that gonna work for McCain? And how long will it take before they’re at odds? If they aren’t already, that is.
Predestined
Posted September 6, 2008 at 8:43 pm | Permalink
When it comes to governing styles:
Sarah Palin = George W Bush
I have to disagree. Does Dubya have a governing style?
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Yes. His style is to govern by his gut instincts. That is Sarah Palin’s style as well.
There is nothing wrong with this governing style, btw, IF one condition in particular is met. What’s required for such a leader, a person who prefers to make decisions by gut instinct, is this:
1. A world class education is held.
2. The candidate is unconditionally curious.
3. The candidate reads, and reads critically.
Neither George W Bush nor Sarah Palin meet these 3 conditions. Nevertheless, both prefer to govern by gut instincts.
This is fatal to American leadership, as displayed clearly in the “leadership” of Augustus Stupidus.
Make that 3 conditions, sorry. (see above)
To further my point:
For Obama/Biden, to govern by gut instinct is effecient, and given their backgrounds it’s also likely to be extremely effective. Effectiveness will be enhanced by their ability to work and read profusely (both), their native curiosity helping keep minds open to all possible solutions. Obama in particular has a world class education.
For McCain/Palin, to govern by gut instinct is by definition efficient. Effectiveness, though, is controlled by the 3 conditions listed above.
Certainly if Sarah Palin were to become POTUS, sans a change in governing style, it is EXTREMELY LIKELY that we as Americans would be subject to the same kind of corruption, poor decision making and poor personnel hiring, and overall mistakes that we’ve seen made by George W Bush since 2001.
Pendant I now have faith that civilization has been saved. The One and Biden will rule by gut instinct and the clouds will clear away, the waters will part the angels will sing and all will be right with the world.
Thank you for this important message to the world. We can now rest in peace.
You dems have it all figured out!!
That is, they can work tons of hours AND find the time to read, to process their reading.
No way in double eightch double hockey sticks McCain and Palin, especially, can do that.
Just as Bush/Cheney could NEVER to hope to accomplish working tons of hours AND still finding a way of processing new information (ie, IQ or sheer brainpower).
That is very important to success. Just ask any American CEO who is successful.
You’re welcome, granny!
You just feel free to let me know when you’re in need of learnin’, ok observer?
:wink:
Er. Eightch Eee double hockey sticks.
Ahem.
You know those big check each man woman and child in Alaska receives? Here is some perspective:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/cartoons/09_02_08_inktank?pg=3
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Franklin
Posted September 6, 2008 at 7:16 pm | Permalink
Libs
Trust me.
You do NOT want to talk about band land deals.
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Would that be, like, THE band? Or just some Saturday night juke-joint band. I know– band– like in band of brothers, right? No? Well, dude, you’re going to have to educate me on that one. Band land deals, Whoda thunk. I’m afraid I’ll never get this Wango sh*t.
JM
Land deals.
You do not want to talk about LAND deals.
Gosh, you caught me in another typo.
Put that on your secretarial resume.
When it comes to governing styles (ie, governing by gut instinct),
Sarah Palin = George W Bush
Are you happy with the overall direction of the USA under the leadership of George W Bush? If so, then you’ll LOVE Sarah Palin!
Sarah baracuda’s going to bleed the old man out of any interest in seeing him on a solo campaign. He’ll be forced to travel with her to keep from embarassing himself.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080907/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_palin_21
Sarah will turn the whole U.S. into a bunch of dependent socialist!
I think someone like Kathy Ireland, or one of the Desperate Housewives would’ve been a better pick, than Sarah, she just has too much baggage!
Best not to lift the hood on Palin’s Special Needs Advocacy, might not find much there.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/us/politics/07needs.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&em
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/us/politics/06church.html?pagewanted=1
Looks like the MSM is finally getting a little interest in Palin’s church. Everything from bringing Jews to Jesus, to healing homosexuals.
Thoroughly vetted, Or NOT!
The Times’s Elisabeth Bumiller reports that the team assigned to check into her background did not arrive in Alaska until last Thursday, just a day before her official unveiling as the V.P. candidate and that Mr. McCain had actually hoped to choose Mr. Lieberman to join the ticket.
In addition to her daughter’s pregnancy, other details about Ms. Palin’s background have emerged on the national scene in the last 24 hours: “Among other less attention-grabbing news of the day: it was learned that Ms. Palin now has a private lawyer in a legislative ethics investigation in Alaska into whether she abused her power in dismissing the state’s public safety commissioner; that she was a member for two years in the 1990s of the Alaska Independence Party, which has at times sought a vote on whether the state should secede; and that Mr. Palin was arrested 22 years ago on a drunken-driving charge,” Ms. Bumiller writes.
Just a couple of things about the Republican VP candidate, one which might have been mentioned before.
-Mayor Sarah Palin hired a city manager to run Wasilla.
-Mayor Sarah Palin was almost recalled as Mayor. Seems there were quite a few people who weren’t satisfied with the job she was doing. Maybe like hiring a city manager to do her job?
People in Wasilla don’t often reveal their true feelings about Sarah Palin. The long arm of the governorship has been known to wield a heavy hammer on those who don’t follow in lockstep.
“Predestined” notes –
“People in Wasilla don’t often reveal their true feelings about Sarah Palin. The long arm of the governorship has been known to wield a heavy hammer on those who don’t follow in lockstep.”
The more you learn about Alaska politics the more you’ll understand how the Republic Party operates. Up there (”closest to Russia!!”) out of the general scope of journalistic scrutiny, the Republic Party has a little fiefdom going, sucking money from Washington, handing out annual “Oil Money” government checks to every man, woman, and drunk in the state, buying and selling votes and sweetheart deals… and in the dark half the year.
“…sucking money from Washington, handing out annual “Oil Money” government checks to every man, woman, and drunk in the state, buying and selling votes and sweetheart deals…”
Hey you Monkeybehind….that is exactly what the DemLibs want to turn the entire country into with the Obama/Biden ticket.
Well of course it is!!!
This was kind of funny.
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2008/09/mommy_and_me.html
Who could’ve predicted it (me me me),
Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) — Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin isn’t giving interviews to the news media and won’t until “the campaign is ready,” campaign manager Rick Davis said today. Palin will answer questions from reporters “when we think it’s time and when she feels comfortable doing it,” Davis told “Fox News Sunday.” Palin, the governor of Alaska, was picked by Republican presidential nominee John McCain on Aug. 29 to be his running mate. Palin gave a speech at the Republican National Convention and has
Palin Avoids Free Media
Most candidates love getting free television time, especially long interviews where they can make their points at length and have the voters get to know them better. The Sunday talk shows are a favorite. Today John McCain will get a full half hour on CBS’ Face the Nation, Barack Obama goes on ABC’s This Week, and Joe Biden takes the hot seat at NBC’s Meet the Press. Sarah Palin is avoiding free media when every network would love to have her. All it would take is one phone call to CNN, for example, and she’d be on there for half an hour, for free. This behavior gives the impressesion that the McCain campaign is afraid to have her interviewed in depth by experienced reporters for fear of what she might say. The problem is not gaffes–Biden makes them from time to time, but will still be grilled. The real problem is she might say something intentionally that she really and truly believes (like victims of rape should be forced to bear their rapist’s child) and this will shock the viewers. It will be interesting to see how long Palin can avoid giving interviews and whether the media starts to point out this behavior.
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
They have to protect the Palin Personna and can not jeopardize it by having people hear what she really thinks from her own lips. Assuming ofcourse she would say what she really thinks.
Maybe she’ll grant an interview for her adoring public, after the elections?
“Boxlock” reverts to name-calling (again) –
““…sucking money from Washington, handing out annual “Oil Money” government checks to every man, woman, and drunk in the state, buying and selling votes and sweetheart deals…””
Hey you Monkeybehind….that is exactly what the DemLibs want to turn the entire country into with the Obama/Biden ticket.
Well of course it is!!!
So…
You’re for wealth redistribution schemes if it’s the Moose-Dresser’s idea, but against if you imagine the “DemLibs” would do it.
That’s about as irrational a position you’ve ever posted on this forum, “Boxlock.” It’s Thomas Frank’s “What’s the Matter with Kansas” paradox.
You hope you can live off of money borrowed from your children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren so long as you don’t have to pay for what you’re getting today.
You’re willing to pay your tax dollars to give Alaskans more than 3-grand a year for nothing, just because the governor is a Republic Party hockey mom and Moose-Dresser.
And, of course, on the specifics of the issue and my post, you’re wrong. But we’re used to that.
They’ll keep Sarah Palin on a REAL short leash.
I think the only reason the cons can stand her absolutely awful voice is that what she says makes them wet their pants. For anybody else her voice is off putting enough they wouldn’t listen to her very long.
Probably in a few weeks she’ll do right wing rant radio. But I very much doubt an open press conference, town hall, or interview are in her near future if they are in store for her at all.
Another premonition coming on, Sarah Palin will grant an interview to FOX (carefully scripted of course) the cons. will go nuts saying she knocked it out of the park!
They have to protect Brand Palin, it’s their only shot.
If the pit bull wants to run with the big dogs, she needs to learn how to bark, not just snarl!
It seems a safe bet that Faux or Rush or someone of that ilk will be awarded this “scoop.” And the faithful will bow down…
Luckily, increasing the majorities in the states McCain would have taken without Palin on the ticket doesn’t gt him any additional electoral votes. ;-)
None other than Charles Gibson will interview her, so count on a substance free interview.
What I consider being interviewed is more like, taking reporters questions, or something like meet the press. I bet the questions are submitted before hand.
None other than Charles Gibson will interview her, so count on a substance free interview.
This is, unfortunately, quite correct.
My prediction: he will focus on all the things that matter least: her “narrative,” the pregnant daughter, the disabled kid, the Hillary factor (ha!). There will be no questions about her record as mayor or governor, except in the most cursory, generalized terms.
Why not? Detailed questions take work. You actually have to have people on the ground, interviewing people, going thru the archives the Frontierman, the Juneau Empire, the Alaska Daily News, the TV stations and so on. Research takes work, costs money, and adds nothing to the corporate bottom line.
So expect a shallow tabloid interview that will tell us little or nothing how she would govern. Maybe a sharp question or two about the youtube vids.
It’ll play more like a ‘human interest’ story, than an interview about her political beliefs, other than what she keeps repeating since the convention. Hey, if it works, keep doing it!