With Palin, McCain now supports affirmative action/quotas

Roland, I don’t know much about her, but I figured he’d pick a woman and I actually voted on some site that it should be Elizabeth Dole. I know, it would never happen due to her age and his, but she is qualified. Anyway, a woman was a good choice, but it definitely should be a qualified one.

I am completely pissed concerning John McCain’s choice of Palin. This is such a non serious pick and all politics. Choosing a VP is serious business. You are in fact choosing the next president of the United States in your absence. John McCain made two serious mistakes. The first is that you would pick a VP just for the purpose of attempting to make history as Barack. Barack is not running for president to make history. History is being made just because he received the nomination. In other words, making history is a bi-product of his nomination. John McCain on the other hand does not want to be left out so he decides to go out and create history. Secondly, he chooses a women who has NO experience or education to be the second in the command. Her education is stated as a undergraduate degree in broadcasting. Her experience is as a mayor of a small town of 10,000 and the govenor of a state that has a population of 650,000. Most US cities have a larger population than her entire state. She has no idea how to deal with the complex issues that face the lower 48 states. She is so under qualified. This is purely a political move that will be a complete disaster not just for her but the citizens of the United States. We deserve better than what John McCain has offered.

This was certainly a surprise. It would have been more of an out of the park home run if he had picked Condolezza Rice. She scores on three points in my view. She is a woman, and African American woman and is experienced in foreign affairs and she is smart. That would have shown me as an African American woman that John McCain is serious about change and about engaging more African Americans in his campaign to be more “caring”.

I am still skeptical about the Republicans mainly because they “seem” to believe that the best and brightest that American deserves is only found in the “white” gene pool. Just picking a woman because she is a woman is not enough for me to see that they care about women.

If John McCain wants a person who has shown that they are agents of change, then he should have offered Barack Obama, an excellent choice for going against the grain, a proven leader to many and very engaging individual who can motivate entire countries if necessary to move in more positive directions. Of course, being his opponent, he can’t, but I bet he wished he could!

He wanted someone who could “energize” the evangelicals. That is the job for the Holy Spirit not a woman. I agree about Mike Huckabee. I actually thought he fit the bill better.

What the is wrong with democrats? No wonder the repugs laugh at them! With Iraq the focus was going into iraq in the first, but somehow the rupugs get the focus on, “The surge is working”. Like, *?

The point is that the repugs claim to fame is that both nominee and VP nominee are against the party, so vote for us again.

Why don’t Dems make this an obvious talking point???

The Republicans are saying, “vote for OUR candidate, even though we implicitly admit we’ve been a disaster for the last 8 years; these people we are presenting to you are against us, so vote for us!”

TALK ABOUT THE JEDI MIND TRICK!

“Vote for our candidate, because they are against us, they voted against us, so vote for us again: they are good people, because the don’t agree with us”.

Is this not obvious?
They are clearly saying that the repug party is a bad choice, and has had bad policies.

It is a clear admission of guilt, and huge contradiction, but dems don’t take advantage of it, or don’t notice it.

The repugs say, “We admit we have bad policies, we admit we are a bad party when it come to the interest of the American people, so our clear selling point is that our candidate is against us, so vote for *us* again!”

I see this over and over again, and think, WT?!

I don’t think that an AA/quota or even an experience debate is required/ helpful with respect to McCain’s VP selection. He is obviously going for the discontented Hillary voters and thinking that he can please the religious right at the same time. It won’t work.

The fact is that Sarah Palin has nothing in common with Hillary other than gender. And I don’t think that most women want to see that glass ceiling shattered by a rich “supermom” of five who thinks that she’s omniscient enough to tell them what to do with their own bodies to the extent of opposing both abortion AND birth control!!! GMAB!!!!

This woman has led life in a bubble out in the sticks. She is totally out of touch with the challenges that most working women face in trying to take care of their families. THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH HOURS IN THE DAY TO BE A GOOD MOTHER TO FIVE CHILDREN–one of them special needs– AND FUNCTION AS A CAPABLE, HANDS ON, WELL INFORMED EXECUTIVE OF A COMPLEX GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY. It is PHYSICALLY impossible. Anyone who says otherwise is not giving the issue sufficient reflection.

The only way that that can be managed is if someone else steps in to handle the parental responsibilities. I don’t approve… It’s okay to have a career with one or two children in the mix. But, it’s downright neglectful to have all of these children and then be physically or mentally absent for excessive amounts of time. Even if they have their Father, they need their Mother too!!!

Also, Sarah Palin seems to be a very nice person; but she has no idea what she’s getting herself in to, IMO. Can she assume the Presidency if the need arises?? Answer–hers. “Absolutely. Yup. Yup. With a good TEAM around me.”

And, of course, noone could do the job without a good team around them. But one does need to have the gravitas to be able to evaluate the team and to manage it. Sarah Palin does not, sorry. A Bachelor’s degree in journalism and no national or international experience???!!! GMAB!!!

Sarah Palin is Scott McClellan “playing” the number two person rather than just the “mouthpiece”…
If successful, she’ll be sidelined or her young children will be miserable and neglected (by her) and she’ll end up either abandoning her principles or being a very unhappy camper after a while –THEN WHAT???

OFF TOPIC: Sorry I won’t be catching you on CNN any longer. After the way CNN butchered the DNC coverage with republicanease…I’m no longer a viewer.

Thank God for Keith Olberman!!!! And Jack Cafferty, but he doesn’t get enough airtime…evidently, not enough people at CNN can hancle the truth…

Roland,
It amazes me that any commentator worth their weight in salt has not figured out that the pick of Sarah Palin was not just to get the woman vote from disgrunttled Hillaryittes; but it was also an attemp to discredit Obama’s qualifications.

Obama with his BS in international affairs from Columbia, and Harvard law degree is being compare as an equal with Sarah Palin who has a BS from Univ Of Idaho in communications-journalism with a minor in political science. REALLY!! Does Obama community organizer days compare to being a member of the PTA? Better yet the Republicans think Palin can replace Hillary Clinton also a lawyer from Welsley, REALLY. The best yet was Palin compared to Tim Kane also a Harvard law grad and governor of a state that has cities larger in population that the state of Alaska. Give me a brake!!!

The Republicans have just sunk to an all time low; one one fell swoop they have managed to make a mockery of the historical nature of Obama’s candadicy, and at the same time made a national statement that affirmative action is sometimes just a way to fill the minority slot with “what looks like a duck.” The very thing that most disagreers of affirmative action hate about the law is that businesses hire a people to fill the minority mandate with the least qualified person; so they can say it doesn’t work. As a black american I am deepply offended, as a woman I am deeply hurt and dissapointed in Palin for accepting, as an American I am sadden at they way the Rebulicans have acted this campaign. They have made a mockery of the whole political system. And any women who votes for this ticket because of Palin needs to be shot with the very guns that Palin and McCain will make legal for evryone in America to carry. Or nedds to be jailed for the abortion she chose to have in some back alley because McCain over turned Roe vs Wade. No wonder the wrold thinks so little of us.

P.S. I also wish you would get a job on MSNBC instead of CNN, they clearly have lost their unbiased approach with the exception of you Roland and Jack Cafferty.

Most of us was sure McCain would select a woman. He pretty much said it. I thought it would be someone qualified like Ms. Hutchinson from Texas., He picked her bause he knows Joe will be afraid to debate her because she will pull the emotional, scream and cry on him game and then clock him with a “flip” line to make him look silly and her smart. She is not qualified and clearly is being used by men. Did you hear McCain say he got her for his 72nd birthday with a grin?

If I was a republican I would teach McCain and the boys a lesson and vote for Barack. “Women are not one size fits all.”

Well, McCain just got my vote for sure. He truly is the candidate of change. I was a disgruntled Hillary supporter that will vote for McCain in November now after all that was done to Hillary by the DNC, Obama, Brazille, and the media. They’ve lost this vote forever. I’ll now be Republican for the rest of my life.

I completely agree. This was a bad choice on so many levels. My heart goes out to this family who in good conscious should have declined. Most candidates who pursue politics on a national level take a significant amount of time to consider all the pros and cons of how the process will affect not only the candidate, but the entire family.

These kids had less than a weeks notice and they show up at the announcement with the deer in headlight expressions on their faces. I don’t mean any harm, but the baby didn’t even have shoes on. Now would Michelle have Sasha running around the stage barefoot? I think not.

I’m sorry, but this decision just feel wrong to me – as a wife and a mother of five. At the risk of sounding Misogynistic, I’m concerned about a mother who would be willing to sacrifice time with a special needs child who is younger than the age of one. That really bothers me. In fact, pushing these children onto the national stage subjecting them to the onslaught of the media monster is difficult at best for someone who has been prepared for what to expect. There are already terrible things circulating about them and their mother on the internet.

This family and this candidate are just not ready for this and I hate that Gov. Palin didn’t have the common sense to say, Thanks, but no thanks. Instead she put everything on the chopping block, including the kids. I think ambition had gotten the better of this lady and I hope and pray the kids won’t be all screwed up once this is over.

How bad does it have to be when you own mother-in-law tell the press, “I don’t know what she brings to the table.” Her extended family is not even supporting this. On top of all that, I just can’t imagine Palin becoming President. How can she manage a nation when she can’t even manage shoes for the kid?????

Roland:
You do an absolutely FANTASTIC job with your role as cnn contributor! During the primary season, you were unstoppable, and your positions were the most factual, well-rounded of anyone on the panels, including the “senior analysts”. During the week of the DNC, I was very disappointed at CNN, surprised at how even Anderson Cooper was behaving; Candy Crowley has never really been down with Barack, she can’t even fake it, which is I why I wish she had not taken her behind to Hawii when he was on vacation. She is not that objective (she is a “Hillary girl”) and she along with Wolf had almost begun acting like mini versions of Lou Dobbs, only in a different format. Anyway, when McCain handed us the gift of Sarah Palin, I tried all evening and late into the night looking for you to make your panel statement, but you must have gotten only a two minute spot THAT night because I looked one minute and you were not there and five minutes later, anderson was signing you off. and I had missed your comments. I figured, “THEY DO NOT WANT THAT DOG-ON ROLAND UP THERE TEARING THEM UP ON THIS ONE–they must have hurried up and gotten you on and off as quickly as possible, because I KNOW FOR A FACT that you were going to wear it OUT about this ridiculous pick of MCCain’s! And like the previous writer states, Cafferty wears them out too, but they can’t take him.

I TOTALLY agree with the previous writer about sarah Palin and her family. It says a little something about her ego and her person in general that, after recently giving birth to a child with special needs, on top of the other young ones, that she would even consider such an undertaking at this time! She may be doing a fine job as governer, but why be hasty and greedy? It is obvious that both she and McCain,neither of them are truly putting the American people first–she HAS to either neglect her children or her job duties and the chances of Mccain not making it four whole years due to his health and age is quite a reality that should not be taken lightly! In his first important “executive” decision, he has already made a CATASTROPHIC judgement. He took the notion of not getting a “Washington Insider” to ridiculous extremes!! Good freakin grief, the woman should at LEAST finish her term as governor so that she can have four years experience there, then run for SOMETHING like U.S. Senate or even REPRESENTATIVE–SOMETHING that would give her a bird’s eye view of how the ENTIRE COUNTRY operates by being there with all of the lawmakers, etc., that represent the entire country. In congress you are dealing the national and world matters from a perspective that is extremely relevant, and THAT is what president OBAMA brings to the table. So this talk about him not having her type of “Executive” experience is a very weak argument, when in fact, neither does MCcain; he has no “executive” experience either, I don’t care if he has been in congress since the rebirth!

Governor Palin is a token of the worst kind. A candidate chosen simply because she is a woman, notwithstanding her questionable qualifications that undermine her own campaign’s prior arguments of superiority. How do you argue for the last 19 months that Barack Obama isn’t qualified to be president because he’s too young, hasn’t been in Washington long enough, didn’t serve in the military, and doesn’t have this experience or that experience, and then choose Gov. Palin as your running mate? That foolishness does not even make sense when drunk and high on some controlled substance on a hot summer day. How do you even begin to imagine that Hillary-ites will fall for the okie doke when Gov. Palin is everything that Hillary is NOT? Their similarities stop right after they both check “female, mother and wife.” Again, makes no sense. This is true desperation and hillarity. This fool really thinks women are stupid. It’s an insult. Then again, some women might fall for it: particularly the geniuses who considered not voting because Hillary wasn’t on the Democratic ticket and who “really wanted a woman in the White House.” Well ladies, here’s your chance.

Some time ago, Gov. Palin said she didn’t even know what the VP did. Even if she was trying to be modest or self-deprecating at the possibility of being considered for the VP slot, such statements are never a good look. McCain has repeatedly admitted that he doesn’t understand economics and we all know he can’t talk about foreign affairs without the likes of Joe Lieberman whispering the right answer in his ear. Oh Barack, this election is yours to lose!!! I don’t know which African country my enslaved ancestors came from and have nowhere else to go, so please rescue the White House from pure idiocy and tomfoolery!

Gisele, I disagree that Palin’s young children should affect her decision to be VP. Obama has young children, as do McCain and other candidates and presidents throughout history. No one has ever suggested that these MEN think about how their decision to enter the White House would affect their young children. I don’t agree with Palin’s policies or her qualifications, but gone are the days when a woman’s career choices must be limited by the age and presence of her children. Palin is married and will continue doing what she has done while pursuing her political career in the past – rely on the support of her husband, family, and other resources.

Palin is a scandal waiting to happen.

Roland,

If the Palin’s wanted to prove that the new born baby wasn’t her 17 year old daughter’s and in fact, hers, aren’t there THOUSANDS of other ways of showing that… (i.e., A Doctors note, Pictures of Gov. Palin being Pregnant, Birth Certificate, etc.) versus only saying, “MY DAUGTER IS 5 MONTHS PREGNANT, SO THEREFORE IT CAN’T BE HERS”…weak evidence.

(Palin’s 17-Year-Old Daughter is Pregnant)

Weren’t Bill Clinton’s and John Edwards’ affairs personal family matters, too? How convenient now that the tables are turned… Will the Alaskan Governor’s integrity be challenged as well? If Gov. Palin cannot run her household, how can she help run the United States of America? Why is Gov. Palin’s daughter getting married? Is it because she desires to spend the rest of her life with the baby’s father or because she is pregnant?

It is interesting how if the shoe was on the other foot (that being the democratic foot) the ‘right’ wing would call for Biden’s resignation and demonize him for one of his daughters being pregnant. However, they want us to join them in praising a woman (Palin), who goes into school preaching abstinence and her own home is out of order. At a rudimentary level her judgement/management skills failed in her own home. Do you really think that she can manage a multi-dimensional country with all of its’ complexities and simultaneous wars?? Palin criticized corruption, then she tries to use her position to get her sister’s former husband fired and is now under investigation. So, now we know she will give her friends/family the ‘hook up’. Her actions here are neither smart nor ethical. Lastly, the republicans are tauting her foreign government experience and the women only recently got her passport when she left to visit the troops a few months ago. So, she has never been out the country not even on vacation before. If the democrats go after her hard, they will make it a woman issue calling all feminists tor rally. If Hilary can do anything for the democratic party, she should go on the campaign trail and pick Palin’s alleged experience apart. This will foil any efforts for republicans saying that Biden is being disrespectful to women…….. It’s Hillary’s time to address Palin’s credentials on all of the news media. Do you think that she would do it? As a former PTA president and community activists, managing a multimillion dollar budgets, I have had more experience in foreign governments and also going to school in Europe….You think I qualify to be vice president? Oops, forgot, I’m a sistah from the southside supporting Obama…… Wishful thinking.

Yep! He played the gender card. Trying to woo the so called disenchanted Hillary supporters. How low can you go? As a woman, I take this as an insult. He is basically saying that women will fall for anything. He is playing on the emotions of women and is trying to pimp the women voters. It will not work! Sarah Palin need to also realize she has just been pimped!

If the truth be told evangelicals were pimped in 2000 & 2004 by this present adminstration. Most evangelical leaders, pastors, and supporters of this administration will not confess this out of their mouths because of pride, and denial. It was a very deceitful move and decisions made for this country over the past eight years were very hypocritical to whom Bush confess to be, and I voted for the idiot! Not that my trust is in man, but I thought he was the best choice at the time.

I am a christian. I am anti-abortion, anti-same sex marriage, but I am for solutions to social issues that provoke or lead to unwanted pregnancies and same sex marriages, homelessness, poverty, etc. It is time out for church as usual. It’s time to be the church! Don’t only speak truth, but be truth! Conservatives are always saying what they are against, but never ready to offer solid solutions that is inclusive of every human race in this nation. Like Barack said…own up to your failures.”

Roland, you wrote the vision and you have made it plain! His choice of Sarah Palin was to try to appeal to women voters and specifically, Hillary supporters. Affirmative action in motion. Keep bringing the truth.

As for a woman being chosen, it is not necessarily a bad choice, but was this a genuine thought out choice or a last minute desperate and by any means necessary choice? I know McCain want to win, but not at the expense of women. Not this time! Women, don’t get pimped!

Obama’08

McCain is a 72 year old man that meant a young ambitious women once then the next time he meant her he offered her the United States. And being the opportunist she is she said IT A DEAL. Not caring that she had a 4 month old down syndrome baby that she is still NURSING. Now a pregnant 17 year -old daughter. Sarah Palin should have said NO DEAL. Sarah has a power problem. Her first speech, she call for Hillary’s voters. We know some will be a fool and vote for her but the majority will not be used like that. I am thankful that we have a choice to vote for a young BLACK ,intelligent, educated,etc. man. YES WE CAN win because we need a change.

Well as a Bob Barr supporter at the moment I’m curious to learn more about Palin to see how strong she stands on the issues and where exactly she stands on the economy and foreign policy. If Palin is pretty close issue-wise to Ron Paul, and Barr can’t get in any of the debates or higher in the polls, then I might actually vote for McCain/Palin. Well McCain would also have to look like he’s about to drop dead in the first few days of office as well….

Nevermind, I’m voting for Barr.

Are you a Conservative, Martin, or are you voting for Obama?

Did they really understand her background or only her sex. I found this on Mudflats. wordpress, alakans perspective on Palin. Sounds more like the truth than what the media is getting from the GOP..
Another focus of Palin’s introduction today was her reform image. Listen to John McCain and you’ll hear about a maverick reformer who took on big oil, took on corrupt Alaska politicians, and whose ethics are unquestioned.

Alaskans really want to like Sarah Palin. In a state where corruption is the rule, and the same faces keep recycling over and over and over again like a bad dream, a new face, with a promise of reform seemed like a breath of fresh air. Palin defeated incumbent governor Frank Murkowski (father of Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski who he appointed to his own Senate seat when he was elected governor) because he was such an obnoxious, bloviating, downright BAD politician. This staunchly republican state voted with relief, not having to cross over and vote Democratic, but still able to get Murkowski the hell out of office. In the general election Palin swept into office running against a former Democratic governor, Tony Knowles, who was capable but came with baggage. And he represented to Alaskans more of the same, tired old-style politics, and special interests that we have come to loathe.

So, if McCain had made his selection six months ago, the squeaky-clean governor meme would have made a little more sense. But, Sarah Palin is currently under an ethics investigation by the Alaska state legislature. The details of this investigation read like a trashy novel, and I suspect that the players will soon have new found celebrity on the national stage. I’ll try to explain for all you non-Alaskans who suddenly have good reason to want to know more about Sarah Palin. For those of you not interested in trashy novels, feel free to skip ahead. Here it is…what we in Alaska call “TrooperGate”.

Sarah Palin’s sister Molly married a guy named Mike Wooten who is an Alaska State Trooper. Mike and Molly had a rocky marriage. When the marriage broke up, there was a bitter custody fight that is still ongoing. During the custody investigation, all sorts of things were brought up about Wooten including the fact that he had illegally shot a moose (yes folks this is Alaska), driven drunk, and used a taser (on the test setting, he reminds us) on his 11-year old stepson, who supposedly had asked to see what it felt like. While Wooten has turned out to be a less than stellar figure, the fact that Palin’s father accompanied him on the infamous moose hunt, and that many of the dozens of charges brought up by the Palin family happened long before they were ever reported smacked of desperate custody fight. Wooten’s story is that he was basically stalked by the family.

After all this, Wooten was investigated and disciplined on two counts and allowed to kept his position with the troopers. Enter Walt Monegan, Palin’s appointed new chief of the Department of Public Safety and head of the troopers. Monegan was beloved by the troopers, did a bang-up job with minimal funding and suddenly got axed. Palin was out of town and Monegan got “offered another job” (aka fired) with no explanation to Alaskans. Pressure was put on the governor to give details, because rumors started to swirl around the fact that the highly respected Monegan was fired because he refused to fire the aforementioned Mike Wooten. Palin vehemently denied ever talking to Monegan or pressuring Monegan in any way to fire Wooten, or that anyone on her staff did. Over the weeks it has come out that not only was pressure applied, there were literally dozens of conversations in which pressure was applied to fire him. Monegan has testified to this fact, spurring an ongoing investigation by the Alaska state legislature. But, beforethis investigation got underway, Palin sent the Alaska State Attorney General out to do some investigative work of his own so she could find out in advance what the real investigation was going to find. (No, I’m not making this up). The AG interviewed several people, unbeknownst to the actual appointed investigator or the Legislature! Palin’s investigation of herself uncovered a recorded phone call retained by the Alaska State Troopers from Frank Bailey, a Palin underling, putting pressure on a trooper about the Wooten non-firing. Todd Palin (governor’s husband) even talked to Monegan himself in Palin’s office while she was away. Bailey is now on paid administrative leave.

As if this weren’t enough, Monegan’s appointed replacement Chuck Kopp, turns out to have been the center of his own little scandal. He received a letter of reprimand and was reassigned after sexual harassment allegations by a former coworker who didn’t like all the unwanted kissing and hugging in the office. Was he vetted? Obviously not. When he was questioned about all this, his comment was that no one had asked him and he thought they all knew. Kopp, defiant, still claimed to have done nothing wrong and said to the press that there was no way he was stepping down from his new position. Twenty four hours later, he stepped down. Later it was uncovered that he received a $10,000 severance package for his two weeks on the job from Palin. Monegan got nothing.

After extensive news coverage about all this nasty behind-the-scenes scandal, which is definitely NOT squeaky clean, Palin’s approval ratings fell to 67%, still high, but a far cry from the 90% number that’s being thrown around so glibly by the Republicans today. Alaskans are quickly becoming disillusioned once again.

OBAMA AND BIDEN ALL THE WAY. CHECK OUT A VIDEO DEDICATED TO OBAMA. PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT, AND FORWARD. THANKS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIgGoHyQ_NQ

the town was only 5,500 when she was there.
can you believe the non-coverage of the anarchist, could you image if it was a bunch of us there
more pressure for her (Palin), could you image if this was baracks daughter
bush/cheney no show

Roland,
Palin backed ‘the bridge to nowhere’ during her governor’s race in 2006 as investigated and reported by USA today. She also hired Washington lobbyist to secure millions of dollars in pork barrell spending. So, she definitely knows Washington politics that McCain claims that she does not. It’s interested though, how her introduction to the world stage by McCain states that she canned the ‘bridge to no where’ and sold the former governors jet on Ebay…. I have to believe that America is smarter than supporting the republican ticket just because McCain selected a woman. Although there were more experienced women in the republican party for him to chose from, he selected someone with little experience just to go after the so called Hilliary disgruntled followers without really trying to make a difference in their party. Also the very fact that this woman would be a heart beat away from the presidency, I find frightening… Affirmative Action is being abused for personal gain versus in the best interest of the country and to which it stands….. I sincerely want to believe that we have a better country than this….. November will be the test!

I just don’t understand how is it that John McCain and Sarah Palin can earn the title of Mavericks within their party by going against their party while at the same time, if any other American questioned the president or congress reasons for going into Iraq they were considered “unpatriotic.” Tonight I watched the RNC with disgust as they praised a man for one thing and accepted him for another. John McCain is not a maverick, he merely cow tied to the far right with his VP pick. Tonight I tried to watch the RNC with an open mind flipping between CNN and Fox, and heard one of the most absurd comments to date. One of the anchors at Fox had the audacity to say that Sarah Palin has been scrutinized more than Obama because she is a “woman.” I’m so furious that media can be so biased especially after what they have put Barack Obama and his family through. There is no way on earth you can say Sarah Palin can be compared to the lies thrown at Barack Obama. I don’t dare repeat what they are, but it’s sickening that when the tide turns on the right wing they are quick to divert their unmoral or personal discrepancies and blame it on the “liberal media.” They just don’t get it; it is this type of politics that turns people off. It is this type of politics that is uninviting to a younger and diverse American generation. Tonight we didn’t have to take a hard look to see what was lacking in the RNC. The age and cultural gap is clear as day. They spoke of an old way of political thinking to a bunch of old political thinkers. There was nothing in tonight’s speeches that inspired me or young people who are just like me to be proud of. Instead of being optimistic, they looked angry and bitter. So unless you’re a republican, you aren’t allowed to contest conventional thinking, and if you do then you’re unpatriotic and while at the same time they are just putting their “country first.”

JM’s selection of Palin has only proved to me more and more that this man surely suffers from senility. I don’t know how this man could have ever thought that this selection would be one that would profit him in the long run.
Last week, before he announced Palin, I figured that the best strategy would be to select a woman. But that strategy only works when it is a qualified woman…

Furthermoreafter learning more about Palin and her family background, I am left to question this woman’s parenting choices, priorities, and even her character. Instead of this woman gallevanting all over the country campainging on a losing ticket, she should be at home offering love, support, guidance, and protection to her pregnant teenage daughter, as well as her infant son, who is significantly disabled.

Here’s a little something I posted in the comment section at another blog.

Sarah Palin, no matter what a maverick she is, needs to be in a position that she can provide comprehensive care and support to her disabled child. This child needs his mother, not a nanny to assure him, to cradle him, and to nurture him. Likewise, this child needs an advocate, someone that will make sure that medical professionals, school officials, and even other family members are doing what is right for the child. In addition, her son needs someone that will challenge stereotypes and limitations placed on him by doctors and educational diagnosticians, so that he can maximize his abilities and fully develop his innate strengths.

Therefore, in order for Sarah Palin to do that, to do those things, this woman does not need to be on the campaign trail, spending months away from her special needs infant. Being a good mother is not just carrying the baby to term and delivering it. Being a good mother extends far after the birthing process. And I challenge anyone that says that this woman can be a good mother to a special needs infant while she is gallivanting all over the country for a losing race and/or while she is working as the vice president.

If Palin were to become president, would she protect our country when we are in immediate danger?
Or, will she turn over our security to our neighbor, Canada, to watch the situation and call for help if the situation gets physical, BECAUSE she has a meeting to attend.
This is just what she did to her sister and her sister’s children on Feburary 17, 2005 per her statement to Sgt. Wall two months later. You can read the transcript at http://media.adn.com/smedia/2008/07/18/13/071607-palin-monegue-050205-interview-transcript.source.prod_affiliate.7.pdf
adn.com, is the Alaska Daily News.
Her reaction to what she heard and then watched through her sister living room, a raging husband with a gun at his side, the 12 year old nephew holding a baby, and her fear that he would try to defend his mother with another gun in the home, and yet she did NOTHING.
Domestic Violence is an ongoing issue that effects women in every walk of life and I am appalled that this intelligent woman would allow this type of behavior to go on within her own family.
With family like this, who needs enemies.
Don’t they have a Domestic Violence Center in, Alaska?
Family Values, in a pigs eye!

Do you see the perfect plan??

1. Pick a WOMAN, who you know is an easy target for media mayhem, which gets you daily coverage for your extremely sinking campaign.

2. Keep in rotation to a nauseam how the DEMOCRATS are being MEAN and DISRESPECTFUL to this nice, hockey mom WOMAN.

3. Have her drop out of the race because she can’t take how the DEMOCRATS are UNFAIRLY targeting her family causing them too much heartache.

4. Appoint the VP pick that you had selected from the get go!!!

What you’ve accomplished:

You nominated the first woman VP pick to your party to show that you’re pro woman!! Got her to step down because the Democrats and MSM are so mean and biased!! Get sympathy from all of the people that are going to think she was so unfairly treated because you’ll keep that message going strong. And you’ll get to have a good ole boy VP by your side as you always planned without anybody questioning you about it!!

I must say…I probably couldn’t have thought of it myself!! I not a conspiracy theorist, I’m a realist and this is how I see it going down!!

Maybe Sara Palin should read “The myth of the superwoman”, women are not intrested in a anti-abortionist, NRA card carrying member, or “the having it all concept” either so McCain needs to stop pushing her out front as some sort of role model for american women, particulary African American women, we already have far too many young people having children far too soon and not being able to take care of them, yes it ok when you have plenty of help, but most working mothers do not have that sort of network, running the country is not like running your household and holding down a job as President of the local PTA, an she has proven this by allowing her 16 year old to get pregrant, by a young man who clearly stated that he did not want children, so was this entrapment on her part, so force the young man to marry her, now that it is public knowledge ?

What makes the repbulicans think that Palin is ready on day one if something happens to McCain if he is President? I would like for her and McCain to discuss the number one issue in this country today–Economy. The republicans and McCain/Palin must address these issues. I don’t want a discussion on abortion or guns, just the economy. My family is struggling. These two subjects will not pay my bills or put food on the table.

Palin has also opened the door concerning her family. Why was Bristol’s baby’s father at the airport to welcome McCain? Where were his parents? Why did the childern of the McCain’s still have on the same clothes form the night of the convention. You would think with all that money they would change clothes. This may sound ridiculous, but if the shoe was on Obama’s foot–it would be an issue. Yes I do believe the family is off limits put if you put then infront of the country questions will be asked.

Here’s my point. We can go back and forth about issues that are truely not important. What I find interesting is the fact that if Bieden goes after Palin in the debates then they will say he was wrong for that. He should eat her lunch. The Vice-President position is not a on the job training either. If she is such a fighter than let the fights began.

As far as education, the Leave No Child Behind Act was a great idea but on funding. If you propose a plan you should make sure that you have really covered every avenue. Education needs fixing but I have no idea where the republican canidates stand on this issue.

McCain thinks that the American people can’t focus on the big picture. I refuse to submitt myself to such politics. Stay foucused McCain. Stop avoiding the topics and spliting the country. I’m a independent voter and have no true party affiliation. I true don’t like the republican party because they look like a bunch of people who don’t put the country first but themselves only. I just can’t relate to this party at all.

Women should not be offended by McCain’s choice of Palin. In many ways, it was a logical fit. What women should be upset about is that Obama did not pick Clinton. She brought eighteen million votes to the table . . . what could be more logical?

Mcain’s VP pick of Gov. Palin was simply continuing a cruel, heartless and callous past in a sick need to feel young. He was an adulterer and hardly a family man. His insensitivity in the underhanded decision to overlook better candidates for a younger female with a checkered past could only remind Cindy when she met the already married McCain. (article below)

Glenn Greenwald
Friday Aug. 22, 2008 06:41 EDT

The right and men who live off their second wives’ inherited wealth

What’s most notable about John McCain’s confusion over the number of homes he owns isn’t merely that it demonstrates that, after running his campaign based on depicting Barack Obama as an out-of-touch elitist and himself as the all-American Everyman, McCain lives a life that is about as far removed from the Average American as one can get, and has done so for decades. What’s notable is how McCain was able to live that way. McCain himself isn’t actually rich. He just lives off the inherited wealth of his much younger former mistress and now-second-wife — for whom he dumped his older and disfigured first wife — and who then used her family’s money to fund McCain’s political career and keep him living in extreme luxury (after insisting that he sign a prenuptial agreement, which would make McCain the first U.S. President to have one).

The Obama haters are communicating with Greta via back channels and e-mail in an attempt to silent positive comments about Senator Obama
They flood Greta’s inbox with e-mails asking her to block IP address of every one who post any favorable comments about Senator.

Way to Greta we are on to your scam…Do you call your actions to silent Senator Obama Supporters Fair & Balance?

This speaks to McCain’s judgement. This is an obvios pander to the female vote and the extreme right-wing of the republican party. Bottom line is that she lacks the experience to be a hearbeat away from the presidency, given McCain’s age and medical problems. This is obviously putting political ambition ahead of national interest. The republicans whining sexism is a joke. A lot of Palin’s critics are women and men who supported Hillary. And how about all they put Obama through, now was that racist? The American people will see right through this!

Roland,
I had my first child at 16. whom he is 28 now, But the point is I dont think that McCain even knew about her daughter before he picked her, yES HE’S GONNA SAY HE KNEW but if he did why didn’t he bring this out in the start, Im sorry again I was a young mother and I know half of the time my mom wasn’t there and thats how I got a child, but if her own mother didn’t know how or what to do to keep this from happening as my own mother How can this women know what to do for America, I mean she’s 44 with a son thats needs her, and a daughter whom is with child, and 2 other daughters, I think McCain could have picked someone else and all that talk she was doing about Obama sounded like she was trying to acting out a part in a play or something,

Roland,

I think after tonight you can drop the “Way to fill that quota, John”. This woman is clearly not a “quota”. Let the media keep beating on whether she will be a good mother while she picks the rest of the meat off the dems bones.

It appears the race really started tonight.

A calculated move that should be received as disrespectful by women, much the same as black people should be offended when it is assumed that we vote based upon color. McCain may not have properly vetted her but the Dems need to make sure that they “vet” her during the run up to the election by taking her to task. She needs to be challenged and placed under the same pressures as Obama so we can if she has resolve. She is an AA pick and if something happens to McCain and he can’t run the Republicans will move quickly to find someone other than her to head the ticket. Giselle hit the nail on the head by painting her as an out of touch absentee parent. Thanks.

I cannot believe you get paid for spewing this crap. Good job it is quite an achievement. I am sure your answer based on good research….I don’t know maybe you even asked John McCain or even a volunteer from his campaign to ascertain some level of insight into his choice. Or maybe you asked a couple of the other sharp analytical minds at CNN for what they thought and reduced that analysis to the lowest common denominator. Either way, I say job well done.

She’s inexperienced no matter how they try to gloss over it. But then again what should we make of the McCain campand the experience thing they repeatedly hammered against BO. Did they really mean it or was it just a political gimmick? No one really has the experience to be president except one who has been. To me the experience thing doesn’t cut it whats more strong is how decisve and correct one is in his judgements and decisions. That should be the focus.

Being a token who got his position due to quotas, you are the authority on the subject.

Mr Martin,

I am appalled that the Republicans (particularly a new inexperienced woman who no one knows, (Palin) and a man who wasn’t experienced enough to get his name on the nomination for President
(Guilliani) demean the position of a Community Organizer. I do not think they know in all their infinite wisdom, that the American people in low income neighborhoods depends on the Community Organizers. Someone with a voice on the air and TV needs to set them straight and let them know how they offend all Community Organizers who work tirelessly to help our society. They say Community Organizer like it doesn’t mean anything, maybe it does not to them, but to the regular American people it does. Please let them know how they offended everyone that is associated with the community and their programs. Please don’t forget that hypocrite on Fox News- Sean Hannity who started it all.

I agree with you Roland,

I also think that if JM’s plan was to try and nab the Hillary voters it completely backfired on them.

And “It turns out the women of American aren’t finished yet. We can shatter that glass ceiling.” is the line that did it. It was way to direct they needed to kind of sneak it in.
The media picked up on it right away.

Roland, I am so sick of this nonsense with McCain, the right wingers and all of his cronies. I don’t give a flying fart about Sara Palin, one way or the other, but I believe that unless we (African Americans) get off of their butts, we will have John McCain as the next president. I’m not sure if there are 8 million or 18 million african americans that are not registered, but if that’s the truth, that is shameful. What do we do to get these folks out to vote? I am doing my part by going home to NJ to have a cookout and have those that haven’t registered, register. I am really discouraged with African Americans. I know life isn’t always fair and we’ve certainly had our share, but we can’t continue to let past events guide us to make stupid choices. We are in the fight of our lives and I don’t think that a lot of african americans care, one way or the other. I agree with Giselle about CNN and I wish you could go to MSNBC! Other than you, MSNBC is the only station that gives Obama a chance. Every other station seem to detest him because he had the audacity to run for the presidency of the United States.

Wow. I really don’t understand what the fuss is about. Kudos to John McCain and the Republican party doing somtnhing that the Democrats did exactly 10 years ago (Geraldine Ferraro) and the whole world thinks it’s news! Now I really doubt women in general and disgruntled Hillary supporters in particular will fall for such obvious pandering. At least I’m glad that my spouce is not snowed, but outraged that McCain thinks that women will support ANY woman as long as she’s woman. As we know, Black folks have been outraged at this train of thought for 20 years, Condelessa Rice, Clarence Thomas, ect. How many ways can you lose an election.

Inform yourself about community organizers in Chicago:
Alinsky’s Influence
Many important community and labor organizers came from the “Alinsky School,” including Ed Chambers and Tom Gaudette. Fred Ross, who worked for Alinsky, was the principal mentor for Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. Chambers became Executive Director of Industrial Areas Foundation Training Institute, which was formed in 1968. Since its formation, hundreds of professional organizers and thousands of community and labor leaders have attended its workshops.
• Ed Chambers[5]
• Cesar Chavez[6]
• Tom Gaudette
• Michael Gecan
• Andrew Vachss
• Patrick Crowley[7]
• Barrack Obama
• Fred Ross[8]
In his Rules for Radicals, a book that Alinsky ironically dedicated to Lucifer, “the first radical” [2], Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing,
• “There’s another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. To bring on this reformation requires that the organizer work inside the system, among not only the middle class but the 40 per cent of American families – more than seventy million people – whose income range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year [in 1971]. They cannot be dismissed by labeling them blue collar or hard hat. They will not continue to be relatively passive and slightly challenging. If we fail to communicate with them, if we don’t encourage them to form alliances with us, they will move to the right. Maybe they will anyway, but let’s not let it happen by default.
• Alinsky was a critic of a passive and ineffective mainstream liberalism. In Rules for Radicals, he argued that the most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired ends, and that an intermediate end for radicals should be democracy because of its relative ease to work within to achieve other ends of social justice. In 1969, he was awarded the Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award.
• Saul Alinsky shows his dark, mischievous sense of humor in his dedication to his own book, Rules for Radicals: “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”

Why is the blog is sensoring me
what do you mean by Your comment is awaiting moderation.

The desperate left-wing media is at it again! They are so stupid! They should have just backed off from shamelessly attacking Hillary so viciously and allowed the contest between her and Barak to be fair! I am one of those “Angry and disgusted at the media and DNC” voters who will most definitely vote McCain/Palin in November! Why? Because women have fought for change for over 40 years, and by God McCain actually displayed the guts to put a woman in a leadership position right when the 40 something generation of women needed that glimmer of hope!

Get a clue Obama! You’re the one that is out of touch with mainstream America. Perhaps that is because you and your wife are too busy wooing the Holly-weird crowd!

News flash…there are millions of single women in our nation who successfully raise a family while juggling careers. In fact, your very own mother encountered this experience at various intervals of her life. But if you can’t fathom the potential of a strong woman, perhaps it’s because you are a partisan of the “Good ole boys club.”

Obviously you neglected to select Hillary because you were afraid that she would out shine you. Well, Obama, you have just set women back another 40 years with your self-centered, egocentric thinking! The only self-deluded “Audacity of Hope” that you possess is to keep women under your feet.

Thank God McCain is free from that kind of petty egocentric thinking! He is a true leader who epitomizes character and integrity.

McCain/Palin! All the way to the Whitehouse.

Of course when it comes to experience and leading people and accomplishments mccain has proven that obama pales incomparison to his vp choice tell the truth can you look at your self in the morning knowing that you elected someone who disqualified his opponent and never won a real election.tell the truth if obama is for change what has he actually changed so far.

I wonder how Roland Martin felt about Howard dean who was “only a governor”. In fact, I remember the entire democratic left going “ga-ga” over horward dean…at least until his head exploded. Alaska has a population about 50,000 people larger than Vermont.

There are very few people out there With Sarah Palin’s dynamic personality. It is about time these political parties included women in their Presidential races. Most countries have had or do have women as their leaders. The U.S. is one of the few countries that has not. Palin as governor has executive experience and certainly is qualified.

You insult every human with a brain. Well your black and have Obamas dick so far up your ass what can we expect. Try not being a tool for any political party.

I see your dumbass on CNN from time to time so I thought I would “check you out” as you might say. I see you get a LOT of comments on your propaganda (yea right) . As far as your point on Palin, WAKE UP and accept the truth that you have lost this fight already. Psssst, your boy lost on day one to tell you the truth.

Roland,

Thanks for adding a solid political perspective for middle America. I needed to sound off on a few things and I am hoping to here you take it further. So here goes.

It is a shame that the Republicans would consider the troop surge a success. Claiming “success” is a subjective opinion on the situation. It implies that it would be considered better than an alternative.

The surge was announced on January 10th 2007 by President Bush. If we take data from June 2007 (which is when most troops were in place to fully begin operations with the increased troop numbers) until the end of August 2008 we had an additional 572 U.S. casualties. Personally I do not consider that a success. Did the level of violence decrease? Yes. But, with full withdrawal US casualties have been far lower over this period.
So “success” is very subjective and yes it was a success versus the very flawed logic that lead us into Iraq. But, far from a success versus the other options that we could have taken.

Of course this data above doesn’t even consider the financial cost of the war. The Republicans sit back and talk about not increasing taxes yet we are taxed everyday by a their war that should not be going on.

Let’s be honest with America…Nothing can be considered a success in Iraq except withdrawal because the motive for the war was wrong. Our troops have fought with tremendous courage and are deserving of our full support and this includes having the integrity of only putting them in harms way when it is required.

For all that John McCain has done for this country and I would not belittle his contributions, it is a shame that he can use his POW status as a springboard to support further casualties. It would be nice to see the democratic party take more issue with categorizing the “surge” as a success.

We know he is a POW, we know his family has a strong military heritage. But, his ideas for moving this country towards a brighter future are mostly vague an the few that are not mostly help those who don’t need help and are as off base as his continued belief of continuing the war in Iraq.

As for taxes..Democrats will raise taxes, but only on the those making more than $250,000 a year, those under that level will either see no change or a tax cut. John McCain will continue the failed policies of tax breaks for those making over $1,000,000.

Now Sarah Palin has to be respected for her grit and obvious intelligence. I respect that she is so well liked in Alaska. But running a state with a budget surplus is not what is waiting in Washington D.C. We are facing serious economic decisions that are a result of the failed policies of the last eight years. She, like McCain, has no ideas that would indicate she is prepared to help navigate the country out of the rough waters we are in now. As for discussing her family situation when her party runs on a “family values” platform, I don’t see it as out of line. Your own house should be in shape before you advocate instilling those values on a whole nation. Being a mom and a VP– to me it is a fair question to ask “Can she handle it?” because she has painted the hockey mom et cetera picture. If the plan is to have her husband be the main one running the house, that is fine. But to make it seem like she will be in a mini-van running the kids around to hockey games and also keep up with her VP responsibilities is ridiculous. Just let us know. It is clear what Michelle Obama’s role is and is why we don’t ask will Barrack have time. He didn’t announce his candidacy and mention he is a sports dad, that is why he isn’t getting the similar questions. Hello it’s not sexist, it’s just we want clarification on how much time she will spend taking the kids to athletic competition and how much time will be spent on foreign affairs, domestic affairs and other affairs that are of importance to the nation.

I know that the Obama campaign wants to stay on the policy issues that should be the focus of discussion over the next couple months. However, that does not prevent them from calling out McCain and Palin when they make incorrect non-issue statements. Democrats should be more forceful on pointing out when the McCain/Palin ticket tries to use negativity, non-pertinent qualifications, or statements that distract from the true issues that should be discussed.

Greetings, Roland. As usual, you are on target, and the minority f lying fascist right wing neo-con Republican trolls are al screaming 100 different versions of “Ouch, we’ve been schooled”.

Every THINKING person in this nation knows that McCain and the Republicans are insulting women in particula, and Americans as a whole by thinking that women will now flock to him and vote for him even though Liar McCain has OPPOSED equal pay, has OPPOSED a woman’ right to choose, has OPPOSED child care initiatives, opposed women’s health care benefits, in addition to the fact that Liar McCain has given tax cuts to the rich, has flip-flopped on the immigration bill he wrote, tha Liar McCain VOTED AGAINST IN CONGRESS AND OPPOSED IN HIS OWN ARIZONA the MLK Holiday, etc., because he puts a stanuch anti-abortion, anti-gay, pro-gun, pro-book banning, pro-earmark, pro-racial segregation, right wing hate hag as his running mate.

Liar McCain flip-flopped on his own immigration bill, and Liar Palin was for the bridge to nowhere, but opposed it when it became a political albatross. Quoting Sen. Kerry, “Talk about being for it before you’re against it!”

Sadly, there are too many stupid lying people of BOTH sexes, and ALL races, who will vote for Liar McCain-Liar Palin just because they like Palin is anti-gay, they like the fact that Palin is anti-black, etc., but we hope that th THINKING people will outnumber these willing fols on the lying right.

As fernandez said earlier, we as African-Americans need to get going, or we will be cursed with Liar McCain-Liar Palin, and African-Americans will be NEGATVELY affected, since Hate Hag Palin is a right wing racist in a dress, since Hate Hag Palin is pro-segregation AND Palin also favors the reinstatement of Plessy vs. Fergusen, and BOTH McCain and Palin will put pro-segregation/pro-Plessy judges on the Supreme Court and throughout the federal judiciary.

Being a token who got his position due to quotas, Roland is an authority on the subject.

Masters at a correspondence school. Give me a break!

Greetings, my name is Michelle, a white, proud American Democrat.

Sarah Palin was chosen to get Clinton supporters.
Sarah Palin does not have the experience to be President.
Sarah Palin is an Extremist, against everything that women stand for.
Sarah Palin is a hypocrite and under investigation.

John McCain is more of the same. John McCain voted 90% with Bush.
John McCain does not relate to the important issues for most Americans.
John McCain has a TEMPER.
John McCain is too OLD.

November 4, 2008, vote for Barack Obama for President!

Wie headed to Q-school to try to earn LPGA tour card

That’s ONLY because of them WHITE people!!!

They don’t want diversity, Asians or Blacks!!

I am very dissappointed in Barack and the Democratic party for not coming out swinging at Macain’s selection. This selction shows the extent of disrespect that the Republican party has for Americans – their ability to sell Americans anything.

They told us Regan was physically fit when in fact he could not even remember his wife and kids. They packaged George Bush for Americans and we bought him. And after 8 most horrible years in the life of every American, they are at it again trying to sell us Macain along with an ultra-right wing controversial person – and Democrats are just calm as though all is OK.

I am bothered by such silence and do now believe that the Republicans will use skin color to win the election. I am very concerned about those around Barack now. Why?

1. These people around him have made their money and have nothing to loose
2. The speed with which they responded to Senator Clinton has dimished
3. Suddenly there is money crunch – just got a call from the campaign to donate again
4. The media is being manipulated and the campaign is just quiet
5. Republicans have just selected their media choice (ABC) to interview Sarah.
Just wait and see how the interview will go – nicely prepared and pre-scripted
6. Behind the scenes spins the Clinton political machine waiting to say “I told you so”

You all know where I am coming from. I am afraid we are in for another rude awakening – that Republicans will occupy the White house for the next 4 years at the expense of the future of our kids. Do you why? They have more at stake than the Democrats – continue to hide their deeds from Americans for ever. May God help us all.

I am a woman and an avid supporter of Obama. This “lipstick on a pig” thing is absolutely ridiculous. Obama has rightly referred to the McCain Campaign’s complaints about the comment as the campaign’s attempt at playing the “sexism card”. Discussing it any further, and/or apologizing for it gives it the credibility that it does not deserve. Since Palin’s stance on abortion rights, sex education, gun control, etc. does not seem to be enough to keep so many women, particularly Hillary Clinton supporters, from voting for McCain, I suggest that Obama attack McCain’s voting record on a myriad of women’s issues. He has voted at least 19 times against legislation on issues that would benefit women – issues involving equal pay, health concerns, domestic violence programs, sex education, and choice. Voters, particularly women voters, should be continuously reminded not to let McCain’s selection of a woman as his VP candidate overshadow his voting record. Once you know his record, it’s obvious that his selection of a woman is purely a manipulative strategy to get the female vote. Obama and his campaign need to emphasize this over and over and over again.
-E.C. Cephas

Palins daughter had sex with a 17 year old Black kid while she was dating her white boyfriend.The link on the top is the YouTube video.Talk about race card issues!
Thanks bra.
P.S. McCain is a robot.(Manchurian Candidate)

Go to Youtube, type in “father of Bristol Palins baby speaks”.Hes a black kid who had sex with her while she was dating the white boyfriend.Check it out.I know Sarah’s Salty.
P.S. John McCain is a robot.Manchurian Candidate

People are so braindwashed when they want to be right. Facts are facts. Obama/Biden 08!

Well, I mean 10,000 people ok, but chosing as a VP someone who got 9000 votes in a GENERAL ELECTION ? Let’s talk facts then.

Let’s talk about the break of Jeremiah Wright, let’s talk about the fact that Obama has no experience, let’s talk about how he got with average grades in Columbia, Harvard etc(this is taken from Obama revealed on CNN last week), let’s talk about Ayers, let’s talk about Oprah and Moore.

Do these people decide foreign policy now ? Let’s talk about youtube debates where on McCains side you can post whatever you want, on the Obama side everything is moderated.

Let’s talk about having the most liberal wing on a ticket as opposed to an arguably very balanced one on the Republican Side.

Let’s talk about why John McCain doesn’t want to hear from Bush and not what you want people to believe. Let’s talk how Bush DESTROYED McCain’s campaign with false accusations should we ?

Let’s talk about how Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden and the whole Democratic party has spoken about his experience.

Let’s talk about what would have happened if America didn’t intervene in Iraq/Afghanistan ? Let’s talk about the ascension of the Russians in the Islamic Conference and how they are trying to become part of it. It is clearly seen from the fact that what the media calls a “predominantly muslim Kosovo” has been recognized by only 6% of the Islamic Organisation.

Let’s talk about how Iraq/Afghanistan prevented the Russians from striking earlier in Georgia and how if they win in Georgia Europe’s independence is GONE.

Let’s talk about how bad it can be to RAPIDLY go from OIL to new energy sources while leaving the available one which we have no way of knowing how much is left to China and FUEL their economy even more. In the end we will develop the technology and others will get it for free. McCain/Palin is arguing for a smooth transition, for hybrids, drilling at home and preparing the next green-collar workers with PLANNING not revolutions!!!

There are so many things that I wish we had more then 100 days to get to these issues thoroughly, unbiased.

I am so tired of this mess. McBush and Palin are a joke. I have never seen so much bias bull in my life. I am a strong Barack supporter. Do you honestly think that McBush will ever let Palin really run the show if he is elected? I am a woman, I can see right through her mess. Barack keep hitting McBUSH ON THE ISSUES. Palin is nothing. Yeah she might have some of the white working class walmart women. (like black people don’t work or can’t be working class or even go to walmart) She can say all negative stuff about Barack and Barack can’t dish it back. Double standard…just like the law, justice, work, etc. The rules don’t apply to them. Interesting. Be careful Barack, a lot of people think you would be beating up (by words) thier precious lilly white mother of 5 mom with a special needs child and she (palin) will revert back to I am a woman and he’s picking on me mentality. I know I can see racism from a mile long. People rather be living in a shack, can’t by food, can’t get to work because of gas, than to be voting for a black man. They (racist) hate it because he smart and educated. When they have all white candidates (that is the way its been for years) we (african americans) didn’t have a choice, we had to vote for them.
America- home of the free, freedom of choice, but is it really free from racism?
I have a special needs child, and his benefits have been cut down to 29.00 a month. Thanks all you republicans. This is what you like. Thats why I became a nurse and my husband is a professional as well, I don’t get medicaid or foodstamps, I work hard. But, they put white people as working class!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Pathetic

Roland,
I think Sarah is being used like an instrument that after this election she will never be seen again. I am a woman, and as we all know that women have a very “SHARP ” mouth. Sheis being used to distract women in general. But you know what, that’s complete BS. If a women is voting for Palin because she is a woman than they have a rethink, cus they will surely regret and the election can not be reversed. The Republicans know they are going to no Washington, and because of this they are waiting for the Democrats to say something and than capitalize because they only drifting from the ISSUES. We need a change, 8 years is not 8 days, not 8 hours, not 8 minutes nor 8 seconds.
Obama/Bidin & Clinton for a REAL CHANGE.

MR MARTIN, I WONDER WHY NOONE IS DISCUSSING HER EXPERIENCE. SHE SAT UP THERE ON HER PERCH AT THE RNC AND HAD THE AUDACITY TO CALL SENATOR OBAMA INEXPERIENCED. HAS SHE EVER GONE TO SENATE.GOV AND LOOUP HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS. HAVE ANYONE ELSE WHO LISTEN TO SUCH GARBAGE? I BEGAN RESEARCHING SARAH PALIN WHEN HER NAME WAS SUGGESTED. I KNEW THE WEBSITES WOULD START VANISHING IF SHE WAS CHOSEN. MS PALIN IS BUSH/CHENEY IN A DRESS WITH THAT ALL TO FAMILIAR WICKED, CYNICAL PAGEANT SMILE. IN THE SOUTH THERE IS A EXPRESSION YOU CAN DO ANYTHING TO ANYONE AS LONG AS YOU DO IT WITH A SMILE AND END WITH “BLESS YOUR HEART. I’M NOT BUYING HER. SELF CONFESSED PITBULL WITH A SMILE, WANTED AN INDOOR HOCKEY COMPLEX FOR HER KIDS SO SHE BUILT IT ON PRIVATE LAND. EVEN WHEN SHE KNEW IT WAS PRIVATE AND THE OWNER HAD PLANS TO DEVELOP IT SHE REFUSED TO HALT PRODUCTION. THE LINK AND THE STORY IS LISTED BELOW. THIS HAS CAUSED THE SMALL VILLAGE OF 6,500 AN EXHORBITANT DEBT THAT CONTINUES TO RISE. MR LUNDGREN REFUSES TO ACCEPT A SUM LOWER THAN THE VALUE OF THE LAND TO COVER FOR GREEDY, SELFISH PALIN. I COPIED THE ARTICLE SO I WILL LIST THE LINK, BUT THE FUL ARTICLE IS POSTED BELOW:
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WASILLA SEES DEAL NEAR ON SPORTS COMPLEX

COST: Landowner says court-ordered settlement is low and may yet appeal.
By RINDI WHITE
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Published: June 22, 2007
Last Modified: June 29, 2007 at 01:58 AM
WASILLA — After years of legal wrangling, the ground beneath Wasilla’s sports complex may finally belong to the city.
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But it’ll come at a cost — perhaps $1.67 million, if not more.
International real estate developer Gary Lundgren still technically owns the land under the Wasilla Multi-Use Sports Complex. Five years ago, the city filed a lawsuit against Lundgren to gain title to the land.
The convoluted suit wound on until June 1. That’s when a court-appointed real estate consultant ordered the city to pay Lundgren $770,332 for the sports complex site and other related land “takings.”
Now, unless Lundgren chooses to appeal, he and the city are on the brink of a settlement that would give Wasilla clear title to the land, the city attorney said. It would also give Lundgren access to some 73 acres near the sports complex, land he owns but has not been able to develop because of the unresolved lawsuit.
APPEAL STILL POSSIBLE
But Lundgren said the case isn’t settled yet. He hasn’t decided whether to appeal the decision, but said the price seems too low and doesn’t offset what he’s lost by not having access to the adjacent land.
“I think we’ve lost upwards of $2 million, just on the value of the land as a result of this,” Lundgren said. “For five years they’ve kept us in this limbo and they’ve changed the legal description of the property they’re taking. It’s been a moving target. In the meantime we don’t have free title to the property (we own). We can’t develop it. Nor can we sell it.”
An appeal would mean a jury trial and more court costs for the city. If Lundgren decides not to appeal, Wasilla city attorney Tom Klinkner said, the city will pay the value of the land plus about $300,000 in interest accrued while the case proceeded.
As is typical in eminent domain cases, Klinkner said, the city will also pick up the tab for Lundgren’s attorney fees and professional services. Lundgren said that’s about $350,000. Klinkner said Wasilla has paid his firm about $250,000 to handle the case so far.
All together, the bill for the sports complex property could be $1.67 million, according to estimates from Klinkner and Lundgren.
That number could go higher. Lundgren said he has already filed another appeal, this one over the date the city took over his property. Lundgren said the Dec. 2002 date, roughly the time construction on the sports complex began, is too early. A later date would mean a higher appraised land value. If the court decides in Lundgren’s favor, the price the city pays Lundgren for the property could go up by $1.5 million, he said.
BEGINNING OF BATTLE
The land debate began several years ago over property near the city’s municipal airport.
Lundgren planned to build an industrial park there, he said. He is a former Fairbanks resident who owns business parks and mini-storage warehouses in Alaska, Idaho, Washington, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Panama and Colombia.
Lundgren negotiated with the national office of The Nature Conservancy to buy the land. Meanwhile, Wasilla city officials decided they wanted the land too, and began negotiating with the Alaska office of The Nature Conservancy. Offers were extended to both parties. Lundgren closed the deal. Wasilla sued both Lundgren and The Nature Conservancy for title to the land. The case went to a federal appeals court, where Lundgren won rights to the property.
Meanwhile, a city-appointed citizens’ committee studying where to put a new sports complex agreed that the land near the airport was the best place for a city-owned hockey rink and turf court. City voters in 2002 approved a half-percent sales tax hike to pay for the new facility. The appeals court ruling in Lundgren’s favor came after construction was underway, Klinkner said.
Wasilla filed for eminent domain to get the property. That case has sputtered along while Lundgren and the city disagreed over appraisals and other details.
Wasilla City Council met in executive session June 11 to talk about settlement. Afterwards, the council unanimously agreed to pay an unspecified settlement price.
Klinkner said that the council agreed to pay the court-ordered fee of $770,332 plus interest, but that attorney fees remain unresolved.

SARAH PALIN BUILT AN INDOOR HOCKEY ARENA ON PRIVATE LAND WHEN THE OWNER REFUSED TO SELL.THEN RAISED TAXES ON THE PEOPLE OF WASILA TO COVER IT THEN LEFT THEM IN DEBT

Roland,
They are saying “family is to the limit” but I have to ask this question to get it of my chest. Palin has five kids atleast three should be in school by now, are them exempted from school to campaign with their mother, or is this a clear example of their change they are talking about that education like the economy and healthcare etc.,etc is not part of?

I am really confused because I know schools in all the states of America are on session including daycare, or is Alaska not part of the United States of America?
I need help, someone please help me out.

Pat Mejia Says:

September 4th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
The desperate left-wing media is at it again! They are so stupid! They should have just backed off from shamelessly attacking Hillary so viciously and allowed the contest between her and Barak to be fair! I am one of those “Angry and disgusted at the media and DNC” voters who will most definitely vote McCain/Palin in November! Why? Because women have fought for change for over 40 years, and by God McCain actually displayed the guts to put a woman in a leadership position right when the 40 something generation of women needed that glimmer of hope!

http://www.veoh.com/videos/v4095039DmYWxQDY?rank=0&jsonParams=%7B%22numResults%22%3A20%2C%22rlmin%22%3A0%2C%22query%22%3A%22THE+CLINTON+CHRONICLES%22%2C%22rlmax%22%3Anull%2C%22veohOnly%22%3Atrue%2C%22order%22%3A%22default%22%2C%22range%22%3A%22a%22%2C%22sId%22%3A%22569249359648874678%22%7D&searchId=569249359648874678&rank=1

THE LINK ABOVE TAKES YOU TO THE FULL VERSION OF THE CLINTON CHRONICLES.

IN RESPONSE TO PAT MEJIA, YOU WOULDN’T HAVE VOTED FOR OBAMA EVEN IF HE PRAISED HILLARY EVERY SECOND FOR THE LAST 2 YEARS. THIS IS JUST THINLY VEILED BIGOTRY, PERIOD!!OBAMA NEVER ONCE PANDERED TO THE BLACK VOTE, BLACKS HAVE VOTED FOR DEMS FOR DECADES BECAUSE THEY ARE THE BETTER OF TWO EVILS IN REGARD TO MIDDLE CLASS AND THE POOR. I WAS A HILLARY SUPPORTER, BUT THE REPUBLICANS WOULD HAVE CHEWED HER UP WITH ALL THE SCANDALS AND THE PENDING CORRUPTION LAWSUITS AGAINST HER. I LIKE HILLARY SO I WON’T POST THEM HERE. BUT THEY ARE VILE. THEY WERE SUBMITTED TO CONGRESS IN 1994 AN BILL CLINTON HAD HIS ATTORNEY GENERAL BLOCK THE THOUSANDS OF PAGES. THE CONGRESS WAS ONLY ABLE TO PASS AN EDITED VERSION. THERE IS A REPUBLICAN WHTIE HOUSE NOW. THERE WOULD BE NO BLOCK IF HILLARY HAD WON OR BEEN PUT ON THE TICKET THERE ARE SOME VERY VILE A CCUSATIONS INCLUDING OF SOME 35 MURDERS. THERE ARE JUDGES IN ARKANSAS WILLING TO SPEAK ON THE RECORD. THEY CREATED WEBSITES AGAINST OBAM AND HILARY WIH VERY VILE THINS. HILLARY’S WAS WORSE. THERE WAS NO WAY AROUND IT. THEN THERE ARE THE MILDER ONES LIKE TRAVELGATE, ADFAGATE, THE MENA ARKANSAS MURDERS, THE DRUG RUNNIN GIN MENA ARKANSAS WHICH THE PILOTS WHO TRANSPORTED THAT COKE ARE WILLING TO SAY ON AIR. I HAVE THE YOUTUBUE VIDEOS. I HAVE THE CLINTON CHRONICLES. YOU GOOGLE THOSE AND THE MENA ARKANSAS SOUTH AMERICA DRUG RUNNING AND TELL ME IF SHE HAD A CHANCE IN HELL. YOU GUYS ARE BLINDED BY YOUR REPUGNANT BIGOTRY, THAT YOU WOULD PREFER INSTALLING A WOMAN WITH NO CHANCE IN HELL THAN A MAN WITH AN ALMOST CLEAN RECORD. I’M NOT SAYING OBAMA IS A SAINT, BUT HE IS THE CLEANEST POLITICIAN. HILLARY WOULDN’T PASS THE REPUBLICAN VETTING TEST. HILLARY PASSED THE DEMOCRATS BUT IN THE NATIONAL ELECTION REPUBLICANS ARE DIRTY AND THEY HATE THE CLINTONS AND DON’T CARE. MANY PEOPLE THINK THAT THE IMPEACHMENT ATTEMPTS AGAINST BILL CLINTON WAS DUE TO HIS MONICA AFFAIRS. WRONG. IT WAS BEING USED AS A PAW TO BRING UP THE ATROCITIES FROM ARKANSAS. NOT TO MENTION THE MILDER THINGS, LIKE TRAVELGATE, ARKANSAS DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL ASS. (ADFA), WHITEWATER, MONEY LAUNDERING ETC, ETC.

SPEAK THE TRUTH OR STFU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As a women and as a latina women. I was not impressed with Sen. McCains choice for his VP. It does not matter to me what gender he or she is, what matters to me is the change we need in our country.

We need positive results. McCain and Palin are not going to be positive results for many of my brothers and sisters. So, with all do respect Sen. McCain, because you picked a women does not mean I will swing my vote your way.

My prayers go out to Sen. Obama and Sen. Biden and they will get my vote.

God bless America and our future President Obama and Vice President Biden.

Obama proves he is ready to lead. He has successfully succeeded in making McCain adapt to his plans, views and beliefs in change and reform.

Don’t look now McCain but you’re taking orders from Obama.

Wow and it took less than 24 months for McCain to come on board with Obama’s ideas. That’s pretty impressive and shows GREAT political leadership and power for Obama.

Margaret, what facts are you referring to?

Osama, the man with zippo experince and a Marxist father?

Do you feel the USA should follow the disatorous path of the Soviet Union?

Is that how much you hate your country?

Long story short people; let’s focus on the issues between these candidates and not all of this background noise. I want to know what they can do for me, PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!! Things have been bad here in the US for the last 7 years, yet people are excited about Palins glasses, give me a freaking break. We as Americans cannot be serious about this. I heard this poling number that 57% of men thought Palin would be a good President. Lets be serious, they would like to sleep with her, that’s what they are voting for here, yes she is pretty, but so what? McCain is without a doubt a third term for Bush. Everyone, yes, that means you! Look at the issues; put them side by side and which ever candidate has the most yes checks on your list, and vote for that person. Color, looks, age, experience, ECT does not matter any more people. STOP THE MADDNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OUR FUTURE DEPENDS ON IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I read and hear this same repeated rhetoric from those who don’t have a genuine thought of their own. We argue the point of Sarah Palin’s record of leading a governmental principality as if it doesn’t count. This from people who don’t hold office of any kind. When did the black community become so blinded to social standard that we don’t care what moral position a person stands for as long as they are black. We see this from the music industry, when the black community stood by and said nothing about the wretched music that has destroyed the black community’s moral fiber. All because we are making money now. If you challenge Palin”s record to be VP then for sure you can’t vote for Obama to be President of the US. There are far more qualified blacks who could have run. This is not about qualifications, it’s about race! I don’t want a President because he’s black. One that stands for homosexuality. One that will allow laws to be passed that will have long reaching consequences into the next generation. Just like the music industry has left our young generation full of disrespect. Homosexuality will destroy the fiber of the family in this nation. But of course you don’t care.

As of 9/12/08 I have finally figured out what is going on with the Republicans and Sarah Palin. You can’t ask her any tough questions because the interview will be labled sexist. And any questions she does decide to respond to will be answered with the same answer that Barack Obama gave even though it goes against what John McCain said. And everyone keeps saying “They didn’t ask Obama the same tough questions” Why don’t they just ask Obama these same “tough” questions so we can get on with this election? I think they are playing the “sexist” card so the debates won’t be that tough on her. And her answers are similar to Obama’s so that the Democrats won’t be able to question her answer because it was just like like his answer. I think this is a pretty smart move by the Republicans and it is obviously working. I hope you read this and pass it on because it seems as though the Democrats are not aware of this. At least he knows what the Bush Doctrine is.

Roland, lets be real, John McCain did a very smart thing. . . he chose a very popular govenor, from
a party that is not known for pushing inclusiveness! How many blacks hold elective office in the GOP,
please don’t get me wrong, the Republican party is not a racist or gender bias party, only their policies are… McCain saw a weakness in the Democratic party and he took advantage of it. We, the
Clinton Democratic party – now the Obama Democratic party, after a long hard fought primary, be-
gan a family squabble, that we let the fourth estate control… we heard women journalist say, “Hillary
needs her respect”, we had supporters of Sen. Clinton going on and on about the number of voters
the New York Senator got. Never mind the amount of votes and delagates that the actual nominee
got. Democrats get over Sarah, Obama has the best economic plan for the future of this country, we
the Democratic party stand for equal opportunity for all people, IF PEOPLE THAT VOTED FOR OBAMA
JUST REMEMBER THAT WE ARE TRYING TO NOT ONLY EFFECT WHAT HAPPENS IN AMERICA – BUT
WE WANT TO BRING FUNDIMENTAL CHANGE TO THE WORLD – The GOP is 50 years in the past –

So let McCain have his Sarah Palin, we just need to remember
what we have started, and not be side tracked as in 2004!!!!!!

nice job tonight on CNN 7 weeks to go. i always like your arguments and points. in my opinion you give a more independent perspective then even lou dobbs (mcCain supporter). truth be told both mccain and obama are great leaders, would make a nice president are true americans. now when it came to picking running mates obama made the safe choice but not neccecerly the worst pick. joe biden is a great outspoken man that tells it like it is. but john S mccain made a huge mistake and i am not being sexest here, i loved hillary and not because she was a democrat. sara palin is just a smart political move the mccain campaign decided to play. everyone in america should pray that if mccain becomes president he doesn’t die in office becasue it will be the doom of america.

I would like to say that John McCain is the first person that I had ever heard say the phrase ‘lipstick on a pig’. It was directed toward Hillary Clinton, and her proposed Universal Health Care Plan which he was very much against. When Obama said it right behind Palin’s ‘hockeymom/pig’ statement everyone thought that he was talking about Palin. McCain was soooooo upset hoping that no one would remember that he said it, and it seems that most people didn’t. Is his memory leaving him, or is he just showing out. He is stealing speeches right and left from Obama “change”, and Biden..”I’m thinking of the families sitting around the dinning table wandering how they will pay the house payment, for education, etc”. Straight out of Biden’s mouth on his acceptance night.

Palin had better read up on McCain, and Cindy had better watch out for him….he is not playing with his ring finger for nothing! (just a thought)

Anyway, Larry King played the clip with McCain saying this ‘lipstick on a pig’ phrase…the people that he had as guest were still against Obama because he said it. Amanda Carpenter said that “Obama looked tired, and exhausted…and is very scared” now because of Palin. Someone needs to get this out there. I e-mailed Foxnews/oreilly, Hannity Fox, Dobbs/Cnn, and Anderson Cooper/cnn, also, Hampton Roads……..nothing!

I want CNN to expose the real issues facing real middle class women in America. I am a middle class working mom who juggles work and family in America. Sarah Palin may be “energizing” the republican base but she definitely does not speak for me. From CNN episode “Sarah Palin Revealed” she was able to juggle work and family by going to work with a baby crib set up in her governor’s office.
Now I ask how many working moms get to set up cribs at work? Is she living in the same America that real working women like me live? May be this works in Alaska, but it does not fit mainstream America. We do childcare in this part of America. Now that is real. Working moms like me would like to ask McCain/Palin ticket if they have any real plan to make childcare and after school programs affordable other than letting the market fix it. These are real issues that face real working moms in America.

Interesting Blog topic…

The fact to the matter is simple… McCain chose Palin based on the obvious, she is a female, she appeals to the base, someone in his camp thought that she would appeal to Hillary voters, and the most important reason, Someone In His Camp Told Him To!!!

The unfortunate reality for this pick and the repub party is that it has allowed the News Media to Vett her rather than it Vetting her itself.

She and McCain disagree on so many issues its amazing that she even agreed… They differ on Environmental Issues, Abortion Issues, Women’s Issues, Earmarks, Stemcell Research, Gay Rights, and the list goes on…

If the Media ever got its act together rather than chasing the tails of fake and false accusations that the repub party whips up out of fear, and touched on these real topics that not only separate McCain from Obama, but also McCain from his VERY OWN VP Nomination… then Obama would be making more traction because he wouldn’t have to worry about correcting every lie that the repubs throught out to the masses!!!

Palin, simply put, is a tool… The repubs are using her as a tool because McCain can’t deliver so they have to do what they have to do… Put their tool out there to attract, distract and hi-jack the air waves… they have nothing to run on so lies and tool are all that they have…

Afirmative action has become a searous threat to the viability of Black America. Black America needs an economic base.

America has a much more searous problem. From my prespective, none of our political leaders realizes a fundamental reality: Cheap labor= Cheap consumer; In my opinion, labor is the consumer, and those who refuse to adaquately pay their labor force, cannot be our trading partners (ever).

Dave

Dear Roland, I just would like an answer to this: How did Ms.Palin get over to Iraq for her visit with the troops if she didn’t even have a passport? I have to have a passport to travel between the US and Canada/Mexico. No one gives me a free pass and haven’t for many months now. How did she get past the rules of Homeland Security? Thank you, D.B.

Roland, I’ll admit you are right, as soon as you admit you are a racist. You are, we all know it.

WHY HASN’T ANYONE AT CNN RE-RUN THE VIDEO WITH GOV. SARAH PALIN GIVING A SUPPORTIVE SPEECH TO THE ALASKAN INDEPENDENCE PARTY? I SAW IT ONCE ON CNN AND THAT WAS IT. I SEARCHED ON YOUTUBE AND FOUND IT AGAIN. THIS IS A VERY SCARY AND “NEEDS TO BE SHOWN” VIDEO.

I just want to point out that Robert Byrd who you just tied to Mccain and who you claim to be a bigot actually endorsed Obama and is a Democrat. Do some research.

Sarah Palin was chosen only for votes.. and to pick up momentum for the McCain campaign… It bothers me that McCain was so upset about Obama’s celebrity however his VP pick has turned out to be more celebrity than substance. McCain mocked Obama for his experience, yet he picks the most unexperienced female he could find?? A Governor that NO One has heard of.. I would have expected someone like Kay Baily Hutchison maybe. They can’t stay on a consistent message.. And, I can’t believe there are still republican strategists urging the camp to still ‘hit’ Obama hard with all of these associations. I mean, it’s just as Obama says.. what will they call him next??? who will he be associated with tomorrow???? These things do not resonate with voters. I would rather here about the issues..

By the way.. I do not disagree with the fact that Palin has reached out to many people, and a lot of people feel they can relate to her.. but Obama is the same way.. I just don’t think she is fit to be VP with the possibility of being President. A lot of people are rallying for the McCain camp because of Palin but not really rallying for McCain.. It’s more about the #2 on their ticket.

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