Yeah, Tubby, a mayor of about 8,000 people. This is going to be nothing but a weekend full of nauseating spin and fluff by the media on the Palin veep pick. Yet, Fox News and other media outlet are not touching on the fact that Miss Congeniality Palin is under investigation. We saw how the media salivated over the Rezko trial when Obama was connected in Tony Rezko’s case. If Biden and/or Obama was being investigated in a criminal act, the media would focus on the criminal act rather than the nomination in this Presidential race.

Keith Says:

How come I keep reading “WAS A SOLDIER” —-but there is no evidence of this. I just read her Wiki page.

i think people are being confused by pictures and video of her hanging out with soldiers in kuwait surfacing all over. there’s nothing in either her pre-scrubbed or her post-scrubbed wiki pages about military service.

let’s say, god forbid, mccain announces next week that due to health reasons, he will not accept the nomination, but he endorses palin. palin then selects Michele Bachmann for a running mate. d’ya think hillary supporters would be tempted to vote for a 2-woman ticket?

Gov. Palin was a soldier. She’s a part of the NRA and loves Jesus. Can you say that about Sen. Biden?
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As satire that is topnotch. As political satire its just sad

No. She is the right pick for VP and will help Sen. McCain swipe the remaining Hillary voters.

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That is delusional. Why would anyone who supported Hillary jump onto the McChimpclone bandwagon because he put a woman on the ticket who is pretty much diametrically opposed to Hillary’s every position? Please tell me you dont think women are that stupid, or that they wont see this for the blatant, pandering, and manipulative attempt to do that VERY THING?

Picking Palin makes sense in the short term if they feel this choice is going to grab women voters, etc (although that’s really an insult to women to begin with because it kind of just reeks of “oh, we’re both women, so I’ll vote her in!”). But in the long term it’s non-sensical. She doesn’t have any of the qualifications that make sense for this position.

So not only do I not know what McCain wants to do since he constantly alters his position, we have a woman here who also apparently just isn’t INTERESTED in anything. Every last comment from her is to that effect and it comes off so poorly to me. I could respect her more if she had strong opinions that I just happened to disagree with, but she just doesn’t seem to care at all.

Meanwhile her Wikipedia entries are all getting cleaned up, things involving points she was previously wishy-washy about are being brought up to speed to the Republican platform, etc.

You know, people used to try to claim that Bush was a puppet for Cheney or whatever else. I’m starting to wonder if McCain is Stage 2 of this. Between him completely altering his standpoints, selling out his veteran experiences and picking this VP… none of it adds up right to me. It’s like they want two spineless people in there that some larger force can easily influence.

They ought to put down straw for their convention, set up three rings and pass out the peanuts. They’ve already got the elephants!

Ringmaster Rove can put on his top hat and amuse us all with his rap routine.

Ralph, you may be on to something. Everyone in McCain’s campaign would have seen through such a hoax, but McCain, operating on his own, may have fallen for it.

Marie, this whole election is a PNAC/AIPAC creation. Whoever gets in, the Likud Party wins. This election is also a TV Special, a Sports Event, a “Love Fest”, “Change”, more war and surveillance, and militarization of the American culture. When Biden says, “I am a Zionist”, Obama runs to AIPAC the day after getting the nomination, William Kristol calling for Palin to be put in as VP, and the simple fact of multiple wars being fought with all the enemies of the NeoCoNaZionist Conglomeration. Before and during WW2, the Zionists and traitors to Jewish people, who most were Jewish themselves, turned in people to the German/Nazis, to escape getting killed themselves. NeoCons do not give two hoots about “Anti-Semitism”. Power is all they want, even to take over the Democrat Party next. They already took over the Republicans.

Of course, McNuts is worse, and Obama will most likely win. The reason for people like myself is to keep starry-eyed individuals like Fred from getting sucked into the Obama Void, and overlook the fact that he will continue perpetual war, albeit in Afghanistan, looking for the already dead Osama Emmanuel Bin Goldstein.

John McCain is 72 years old. He is in denial of this fact. He is in the twilight of his life. His health and looks have deteriotated, his trophy wife is whithering before his very rapidly blinking eyes, his glory days are long gone but St. Johnny doesn’t want to come to grips with this brutal reality.

Soon St. Johnny will be irelevant, he will become a forgotten foot note in American politics as he rides off into the sunset, straight to a retirement home for the elite. This scares him. So he wants to go out in a blaze of glory just like in his Navy pilot days.

He wants to be glorified, applauded, loved, idolized one last time just as he was when he returned from a prison cell in Vietnam in his past. He wants to do it his way. He is a maverick, he chose a female maverick, never mind her inexperience because that didn’t even enter the equation. As I said John is in denial over his age. He doesn’t want to deal with that. So he picks a young, vibrant woman to be at his side during the campaign and there will be cheers and adolation.

This campaign is all about John McCain “the maverick” it’s not about anything or anyone else. Did anyone notice how he remained on the stage during Palins speech. It should have been her spotlight, her time of glory but old St. Johnny wouldn’t have none of that. It’s his time, his glory.

Sadly the old maverick will be out done by his own maverickiness. In Novemeber the disenfranchised Hillary supporters, the swing voters will see a 72 year old man with a 43 year old inexperienced woman as his VP and they will intelligently vote for Obama & Biden.

Then old St. Johnny Of Hanoi will ride off into the sunset, dry up and fade away from our memories with the following epitaph engraved on his tombstone.

“Here lies the maverick whose maverickiness led to his own demise in 2008″

McCain/3rd Wife 2008!

Yeah right! Would you leave a $100 Mil Heiress?

Not even for that tomale!

I love that each time these guys talk people take their words at face value. This is a bad approach to understanding republic party talking points.

Now I don’t suggest listening to the comments backwards – You know the devil would have a message there – but rather inverse the meaning of what they’re saying. The opposite!

E.g.: McCain (for the record, McCain is an interesting case study because he has only recently joined the republic.)

“I always put country first.” “My opponent would rather lose a war to win an election.”

Translation:

“Yes, yes, my precious. Mine, mine. White House all mine!” “Obama has the integrity and grit, the wisdom and judgment that have failed me, I only wish I were as prescient as he; we might not have gotten into this mess if I, a respected longtime member off Congress had the courage and fortitude to stand up and demand accountability for what was clearly a rush to war.”

What an election!!!!????

A slippery AIPAC puppet who lies about the Russian-Georgian conflict and has no problem ripping the 4th Amendment for “political reasons”

His VP who claims “I am a Zionist”, who lies about the Russian-Georgian conflict, stopped Scott Ritter from testifying before Iraq invasion, was advocating invasion of Iraq BEFORE Bush and Cheney, is all for increased surveillance of all AMericans, and wrote the onerous “Rave Act”

A POW who dropped napalm and bombs on innocent villagers, sang like a songbird when tortured, has the memory of Reagen, lies about the Russian-Georgian conflict, and wants to take on Russia itself.

His VP who is a crazed Religious fanatic, lied about the Russian-Georgian conflict, used her power to settle personal score, and has Zero experience in national affairs. William Kristol’s favorite.

Keep looking at that prize, as snakes and jackals keep biting and gnawing at you.
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Fred I am soooooooooo hoping that you are right but I am worried that the aroused brain is telling it as it is . Help….
My obama sign is still in the front yard but it’s very windy here today and I do not believe a third party challenge has any chance of winning this election at present unless it’s the libertarians helping the democrats into office by carving out a new party and splintering the republicans .This wouldn’t be bad for AMerica if the republicans hav a 3rd party to contend with it might be actually possible to challenge the democrats in the next election cycle on the left .
I will vote democrat as far as I can see in this election but fear it is only as the lesser of 2 evils.

unbelievable says:
Speaking of inconsistencies, earlier this month Palin praised Barack Obama’s energy plan (h/t Excelscior1). The original document has been scrubbed sometime during the last day (since Aug. 28).

if that’s the same document i was looking at, i think it was on the official website of the governor’s office. i wonder if scrubbing official documents from that site for personal political gain is an abuse of the gubernatorial power.

You have your opinion now here’s my contrast of the choices. I posted this on another thread but brain has prompted me to duplicate it….sorry

Contrast Obama/Biden with mcccain/palin

Two very intelligent and dedicated leaders with pedigrees to prove it. Not only that, they look and act like leaders. They look like the kind of people I want to represent me and our country.

They look you in the eye and address every issue that they know is bothering us….re fisa and the war were addressed directly by obama in his speech.

Honest and open how refreshing.

mcain/palin on the other hand are just more of the same last 8 years. Clearly mccain cannot distance himself from bush with anyone.

His deceptiveness and different stories depending on who he is talking to are transparent and even those people must be noticing it by now.

He would represent us as a dottering old gw bush. She is as one poster has already noted, just dan quayle in drag. Not very impressive as statesmen, mccain hardly knows what to say unless it is well scripted and the audience is chosen for thier guaranteed acceptance of whatever he says.

Contrast that with all of the democratic speeches at the convention. They all were so intelligent and engaging. Not lecturing and telling us how we have failed them as mccain’s group does…..you know, the imaginary recession and the whining folks who have lost everything after working thier lives to get ahead…