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How Can She Run a Country When she Can't Run a Carwash?

voices.washingtonpost.com — The Washington Post reports that in 2007, Alaska's division of corporations filed a "certificate of involuntary dissolution" against Anchorage Car Wash, LLC, in which the Palins between them held a 40% stake.

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BishkekBuddy, on 09/02/2008, -24/+135hmmm... let's see, she was mayor and didn't do the town too much good.... now you're telling me she failed at a business, too? Maybe the list would be shorter if we tried to come up with positive things to say about her. Let me start:

1.

(oiy. I guess it really WOULD be short!)
- twiztidsinz, on 09/03/2008, -2/+271. Shes got a nice, friendly smile?
  - aussieNickuss, on 09/03/2008, -3/+25....with that look of evil lingering in the background.
  - mictester, on 09/03/2008, -2/+7No - that's the effect of Botox!
  - GassyTurd, on 09/03/2008, -0/+5Palin is a political Goatse.
  - didiman, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1at least you liberals are good for one thing...a laugh
- Charun, on 09/03/2008, -2/+302. She sold a plane on eBay once.
  - 80hd, on 09/03/2008, -1/+4Her youngest daughter probably had to help with the listing though ;)
- mcquitty, on 09/03/2008, -33/+7Hmm. Let's see, he was part of the CAC (Chicago Annenberg Challenge) which had over $100 million to help change Chicago schools..
  
  Now, didn't I just read today the schools were staging a absent day to protest the poor school system in Chicago?
  
  Now, if he can't change schools, how can he change Washington?
  
  See how your logic works?
  
  Now, please, tell me how many successful ventures Mr. Obama has had?
  - mcquitty, on 09/03/2008, -22/+4I know this is Mr. Obama central, but would someone, anyone, give me evidence before burying me simply because I used the same logic against the OP?
  - dericko, on 09/03/2008, -2/+15Your logic sucks, it's that simple.
    
    Money isn't necessarily the cure for our school systems, and also, do you believe Obama managed and controlled what that $100 million went too?
    
    No, he was just *part* of CAC.
  - bmullins, on 09/03/2008, -6/+4That logic could put anyone down.
    
    Instead, look at what works against people.... In the school example, you're talking about dozens of corporations (text book suppliers who use outdated information to save a buck on writing a new edition), scores of other politicians, some of which aren't on your side and will vote you down JUST because of that fact, and LOADS of other people who think they should have a say.
    
    Now running your own business.... sure, there's lots of factors to deal with... but you must admit that the tide against you is MUCH weaker than a political machine.
    
    I dugg you up anyways though... I agree with the spirit of your post.
  - mcquitty, on 09/03/2008, -10/+4We was on the board of directors of the CAC. He was brought in by Mr. Ayers to start it.
    
    Now, in the case of Ms. Palin, they owned less than 50% of the company.
  - GassyTurd, on 09/03/2008, -0/+4^^We was a illiterate retarded republican.
- macweirdo42, on 09/03/2008, -1/+51Oh come on, give the lady a break. Dubbya was a horrible businessman, and look how he turned out. Oh... Right... Never mind...
- publiclurker, on 09/03/2008, -0/+14Well, she's way up there in Alaska, that's a positive.
  - buddyfarr, on 09/03/2008, -4/+1yeah but she is hording all that oil....GIVE IT UP!!!!
- johndavidjack, on 09/03/2008, -24/+4How can he run a country if he can't run his district?
  
  Chicago Sun Times:
  http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/353829,CST-NWS- ...
  
  Boston Globe:
  http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06 ...
  
  Here, if you're into music:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBofMELuSMA
  - GassyTurd, on 09/03/2008, -1/+2idiot
- darkciti2, on 09/03/2008, -2/+27Bush was a failed businessman (he was CEO of a failed oil company in Texass) and he was a horrible governor.
  
  He's been a total failure and the American people have witnessed it first hand. Bush's Republican party are re-applying for the most important job in the world.
  
  It's not a competition.
  
  The Republicans need to convince us why they should keep their jobs. Plain and simple.
  
  If the Republicans had to go all the way to Alaska to find a [purportedly] non-corrupt Republican peer, they are CLEARLY, UNFIT for the job.
  - ImIce, on 09/03/2008, -18/+3Clinton cheated on his wife and lied about it. H. Clinton accused the world of a conspiracy instead of acknowledging the obvious. Therefore all Democrats are adulterous liars, made even more true by my use of (purportedly) CAPITAL LETTERS. The Democrats need to convince us that they aren't simultaneously giving every President on the planet a blowjob while lying about it.
    
    Well, my logic is as sound as yours....
  - luseton, on 09/03/2008, -2/+18Well, I would rather have my President get 300,000 blowjobs than start a war based on LIES that killed more than 300,000 women and children, 4,000 of our own troops and injured 20,000 of the troops. Not to mention the toilet economy that we are having because of his stupidity and trillion dollars in debt. I guess he is not as stupid as people who voted for him and keep voting for more of the same.
  - Elranzer, on 09/03/2008, -3/+5But... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... but... CLINTON!!
- mcquitty, on 09/03/2008, -3/+10In addition, I guess having 20% equity (or 40% with her husband) somehow means that she was actually running the company? Or perhaps, was she an investor?
  - rchargel, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1That is a good question. At 40% of a company that's usually the case. Most 'owners' of a company actually own much less than that. The president and founder of my company probably owns between 10-15% of the company, after all the investment capitol comes in. My company before this the head of the company owned less than 2%, granted that was a large multi-national and that made him a multi-millionaire. If she owned 40% she was probably just an investor.
- charliebucketts, on 09/03/2008, -2/+24He's got a doctorate in law. She's got a bachelor's in *****.
  - dseang, on 09/03/2008, -4/+4It was actually her daughter who got a bachelor in ****...
  - charliebucketts, on 09/03/2008, -0/+5@ dseang
    
    Sarah Palin has a bachelor's in "Communication and Journalism"
    
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin
  - GassyTurd, on 09/03/2008, -2/+4She has a PhD in farting out slutty kids.
  - rchargel, on 09/03/2008, -1/+4@GrassyTurd
    
    Look I am leftard, libtard, or whatever liberals are called nowadays. That said, lay off the kids. You don't know the situation there, and unless you were/are a 20 year old virgin, you don't really have the right to talk. Bristol Palin made a mistake that she will have to deal with for the rest of her life. As a new father myself (granted I'm 29, been married for 4 years, and purchased two houses in the past 5 years), I know how difficult and scary a planned child can be. I can't imagine how frightened this girl must be, and she gets a bunch of holier-than-thou jack-asses telling her she's a slut and irresponsible. As far as you know she will make an excellent mother. Heaven knows she will have one hell of a support system.
    
    I'm voting for Obama, but not because some teenage girl in Alaska didn't use birth-control. I actually care about issues.
    
    @charliebucketts
    
    Umm... Bachelor's in Communication is the equivalent of a degree in finger painting. When I was in school Comm was the degree all the athletes did because it was easy and allowed them to focus on sports. The other comm majors were people who had know idea what they wanted to be. That said, I have a degree in Fine Art, which IS a degree in finger painting, so I'm not really one to talk.
  - charliebucketts, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2@r chagel
    
    I know, that's why said earlier she has a "bachelor's in *****".
    
    "He's got a doctorate in law. She's got a bachelor's in *****."
    
    Remember, Palin is a shill for Abstinence only sex education crowd. That's what has people so ready to pounce. We know that ***** is nonsense!
- darkciti2, on 09/03/2008, -14/+1Oh *****, I just had a nauseating thought.
  
  What if McCain somehow courts Hillary to take over for Palin after they dump her from the ticket?!
  
  McCain/Clinton 2008 ?
  - GassyTurd, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3Your comment was nauseating.
  - rchargel, on 09/03/2008, -1/+0Ooooo... Even better: John McCain/Jesus of Nazareth 08
    or : McCain/Ghandi
    or : McCain/Francis of Assissi
    or : McCain/Mother Teresa
    
    get it. It's not going to happen. None of those people were born in the US, and are therefore in-eligible for the VP position.
- EndouOuto, on 09/03/2008, -12/+2What has business has Obama run?
  - GassyTurd, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3*snicker*
- xenuxenuts, on 09/03/2008, -1/+9Sounds like the perfect republican candidate
  - 80hd, on 09/03/2008, -0/+5Sadly :(
    It seems that the #1 prerequisite to any GOP position is total disregard for consideration of facts that you don't like.
    
    These people all seem to think that nature can be fooled with enough dedication to rhetorical games.
    
    Problem solving as a republican:
    1. Deny the situation
    2. Take drastic action. (ulterior motive[s] required)
    3. Line up scapegoats (comprehensive list found @ democrats.org)
    4. Something just terribly awful....
    5. Run for re-election
- luseton, on 09/03/2008, -0/+8At least she was in the PTA in Alaska.
  
  To think of it, I should probably get my grandmother to run on the next election. She was the Knitting Club president.
  - RealHyperX, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1I think we should get the most junior and most liberal senator to run for President!
- mksslagle, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3If your looking for change, could you not hope to find better news? Crack open a cold beer and let's all watch the republicans implode.
- protogenxl, on 09/03/2008, -0/+11. The Carwash Did not Catch On Fire.
Arishia, on 09/02/2008, -18/+229Left Wasilla $22,000,000 in debt, after coming in as mayor to a community with $0 debt.
- Calcularius, on 09/03/2008, -0/+84That sounds ***** familiar.
- tkstock, on 09/03/2008, -8/+24I don't suppose you have a source for that information, do you?
  - elister, on 09/03/2008, -3/+38http://www.adn.com/matsu/story/412434.html
  - johndavidjack, on 09/03/2008, -11/+16From the article:
    
    "Between the existing sports complex payments and other city debt, Wasilla's debt tally is close to the 20 percent maximum allowed by city code. Payments on a $20 million library bond on top of the $7.6 million remaining in Sports Complex debt would exceed that 20-percent ceiling, she said.
    
    "We wouldn't be in trouble, just violating our own code and po1tentially risking the city's good credit rating," Deariso said."
    
    You do realize sometimes you buy things that are more expensive than the amount of money you have, but the added growth with exceed the debt in the future?
    
    The ex-President of my college(who left 2 years ago) must be irresponsible because our college is still in debt right now because we just build 3 new state of the art research centers on our campus, and haven't paid them off yet...
  - miscbs, on 09/03/2008, -4/+14Wrong one story. That's about a bond issue for a new library that Washilla is trying to get together for the voters to vote on.
    
    FTA - "Wasilla residents had a chance to either approve $20 million in bonds for a new library or vote down the whole idea."
    
    Got another source?
  - johndavidjack, on 09/03/2008, -6/+3^^^
    
    Yeah, I didn't see the $22 million there either, but the text was small and I was sick of looking over it 5 times for that figure...
  - darkciti2, on 09/03/2008, -7/+5It's called public record. Do your own homework.
  - charliebucketts, on 09/03/2008, -1/+21Wait no more!
    
    http://www.andrys.com/palin-kilkenny.html
  - bunki8, on 09/03/2008, -0/+9@ charliebucketts Post as a new digg article entirely - there's a lot of really good information in there.
  - HoratioHellpop, on 09/03/2008, -8/+2Listen, retards. Improving city infrastructure costs money. You borrow the money. You go in debt. You pay it off, with the belief that the improvements will cover the debt *AND* bring in extra revenue. This is how towns and cities have been doing this since forever. It's amazing how dumb most diggers are. Or still in high school. Or both.
  - charliebucketts, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3@ bunki8
    
    Already been done!
    
    http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/SHOCKING_new_rev ...
  - rotundo, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2@charliebucketts & bunki8:
    
    http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/SHOCKING_new_rev ...
    
    A very interesting read for sure.
  - charliebucketts, on 09/03/2008, -1/+9@ Horatio
    
    She built a sports "complex" when the town had no sewage system. Stadiums are a LUXURY not INFRASTRUCTURE.
    Do your homework!
  - Elranzer, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2More of that financially-responsible conservatism, eh?
- kcmo08, on 09/03/2008, -0/+30And one of her only accomplishments involved building an athletic complex. Unless we're suddenly short of YMCA's, I don't see how that makes her qualified to be the VP.
  - br0ck, on 09/03/2008, -0/+8You forgot to mention that but it was hastily constructed on questionable land that was legally contested for 7 years, and then failed to produce the promised income.
- Dhalsim007, on 09/03/2008, -17/+3Verification? Or another wackjob claim? Provide links plz
- minoss, on 09/03/2008, -12/+7Well there was a time I had zero debt. Then I went to school. Now I am over $10000 in debt (paid off a bunch). I'd say I'm also much better off now. Now, if you actually want to say why this debt was bad (and I would probably agree with you since I despise government spending) fine. But I would love for you to take the same critical eye at Obama.
  - goes211, on 09/03/2008, -15/+3Don't try logic. It won't work. You are on Digg.
  - NinjaDolemite, on 09/03/2008, -2/+10debt is fine as long as it's an investment. For example, going into debt to pay for college is a good idea USUALLY. As long as you know you'll be making more money after you get the degree.
    
    Selling your family's only cow for magic beans is not a good investment, and it's basically what republicans do. They spent all our money on a war that is ruining us. They destroy public education, and now they want to make it worse with creationism.
    
    Don't fall for it.
  - ssn697, on 09/03/2008, -0/+4She built the debt on a sports complex that didn't pay off. How is that anything like going to school?
    
    I don't think goes211 understands the term "logic" either...
- darkciti2, on 09/03/2008, -4/+38That's directly inline with the current Republican Bush record. When Bush (Oil Co) took office, gasoline was $1.46/gallon, it's now $4.00/gallon
  
  The USA had a $2 trillion dollar surplus when Bush took office. We now have a record deficit greater than all other presidents combined.
  
  If we would have invested $1 trillion in renewable energy here in the US after Sept. 11th, we'd be energy independent, 4,500 of our most dedicated compatriots would still be walking among us, and 30,000+ veterans would have all of their limbs.
  
  The numbers speak for themselves, guys.
  
  Vote accordingly.
  
  If you haven't registered to vote, do so ASAP (you can't register and vote on election day)
  - regeya, on 09/03/2008, -6/+6"The USA had a $2 trillion dollar surplus when Bush took office. We now have a record deficit greater than all other presidents combined."
    
    No...we didn't. I'm not defending Bush, but the "surplus" you and Ross Perot refer to is the difference between what Congress expected to spend and what they really spent. It was still deficit spending, but it was less than they estimated.
    
    Having said that, the national debt does tend to rise a hell of a lot faster with a Neocon on board. How can those idiots call themselves conservatives with a straight face? How screwed would we have been had they been in charge during World War 2? No...no...no need for rationing, no need to do without, we should all expect to have the same level of comfort as our parents if not better, burn as much gasoline as you want, we've got the best military in the world and to "support" them just pray for 'em and salute at ballgames. Yeah...I predict Zeroes would have leveled LA had Bush and Cheney been at the helm....but that ol' Cheney would have made a helluva lot of money off the war effort, I'm sure.
  - ez12a, on 09/03/2008, -10/+2isn't congress in charge of spending?
    
    you can't possibly argue that the rise in gas prices was totally Bush's fault.. for one, there's always inflation, secondly world wide demand has shot up. Gas is even more expensive in Canada and in the UK, so its not just the US that's facing a rise in gas prices..
  - Zarchon, on 09/03/2008, -9/+3I thought the left told me that we went to war for cheap oil?
  - paigeinphilly, on 09/03/2008, -3/+4well said.
  - overridemymind, on 09/03/2008, -1/+10@ Zarchon
    
    "I thought the left told me that we went to war for cheap oil?"
    
    Yeah, and I thought the right told me that we went to war to find WMDs... and then to overthrow Saddam.
    See, your logic works both ways. Not sympathizing with either extreme left or extreme right -- I'm midway between the two myself -- I'm simply attempting to balance the equation.
    
    *walks off mumbling to myself*
    ...so damn tired of this "***** lefties, goddamned righttards" ***** in our country these days.... If we'd work together on the bigger issues in the world, instead of butting heads on how federal government should run citizen's individual lives, we'd be a LOT better nation.... mumble mumble.... grumble grumble...
  - rotundo, on 09/03/2008, -1/+1@Zarchon
    
    We did go to war for cheap oil. It's just that it didn't work out that way because the people who led us into the war were wrong about how it was going to play out.
    
    Hell, even McCain admitted (with a slip) that it was about oil:
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0GWoxbMs1k
    
    And I respect him for admitting it.
  - bluesnowmonkey, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2"That's directly inline with the current Republican Bush record. When Bush (Oil Co) took office, gasoline was $1.46/gallon, it's now $4.00/gallon"
    
    The President can't set the price of gasoline. Not even OPEC sets the price of gasoline. There are a lot of world factors involved besides the US invasion of Iraq.
    
    "The USA had a $2 trillion dollar surplus when Bush took office. We now have a record deficit greater than all other presidents combined."
    
    There are lies, damned lies, and statistics, but that's a damned lie.
    
    http://www.cedarcomm.com/~stevelm1/usdebt.htm
    
    "If we would have invested $1 trillion in renewable energy here in the US after Sept. 11th, we'd be energy independent..."
    
    How do you know? Put down the Al Gore book for a second and tell me how you get technological breakthroughs by throwing money at a problem. Solar power? Wind farms? Nuclear power? These things all have problems. There are real scientific and engineering barriers that no one knows how to cross. It MAY NOT BE POSSIBLE to sustain our civilization without oil. People don't like to talk about it because it doesn't resonate like the whole "green living" mantra. We need oil and most of what's left is under Asian sand.
- dstz, on 09/03/2008, -8/+2So, tell me why the current mayor was in her administration? why didn't people vote for, say, the democrat that ran in the last election?
  - paigeinphilly, on 09/03/2008, -2/+12Ill answer that if you can answer the billion dollar question..
    
    how did bush get 2 terms?
    
    Obama08
  - alex7575, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1What part of Alaska's one of the reddest states didn't make it through to you yet?
  - rchargel, on 09/03/2008, -0/+0Umm.. This is Alaska right? Not exactly a swing state. Those people are just like the people in New Jersey who keep voting for corrupt Democrats and all the while saying, hey why are you corrupt? The fact is if you allow ANY party to stay in power too long, they get complacent and corruption starts to spread like cancer. This is why I love the south-east. Nobody stays in power for very long. First the Dems have a run, then the Republicans. Now it's swinging back to the Democrats again.
- paigeinphilly, on 09/03/2008, -0/+9Hey!...she fits riight in with the bush and mcbush..
  
  you know..getting a country whilst in the black..taking it deep in the red...she fits right in i tell ya!
  
  when i look at all those folks at the GOP convention..grinnin and smug...im like do we all live in the same country?
  
  Obama08
- dn11, on 09/03/2008, -0/+9$22 million in debt? even with the $27 million in earmarks she secured from Washington for her tiny town? sounds like some excellent "executive experience" she's got there
  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/02/politics ...
- FredFredrickson, on 09/03/2008, -1/+2Massive debt? Sounds like she's a Republican to the core.
ImaPwner, on 09/02/2008, -13/+171I'd say with stats like leaving Wasilla $22,000,000 in debt when she left office as mayor DEFINITELY qualifies her to head up the Republican ticket with McCain. But they both have a long way to go to upstage Bush's ability to financially ruin a country.
- johndavidjack, on 09/03/2008, -14/+3You realize we were almost $6 trillion in debt when Clinton left???
  - Cuchanu, on 09/03/2008, -1/+16When people talk about that they are referring to the debt accrued by the individual President. The 6 billion our country was in debt was from Presidents before Bill Clinton. He managed the country's money well and left George Bush with more money than was there to begin with (not including interest I guess). George Bush will be leaving Barack Obama with $500,000,000,000 more debt than when he came into office.
  - superfusion, on 09/03/2008, -1/+14Clinton paid down Reagon-Bush's debt substantially, and balanced the books so that further debt payments could be made after his 8 years of power.
    
    That responsible goal died the day Bush II took office.
  - regeya, on 09/03/2008, -6/+4Good point, Cuchanu, but yeah...people seem to buy that "surplus" line hook, line, and sinker these days. It doesn't matter how many pundits, politicians, and billionaires repeat that line, it's a half-truth. So Congress wasn't as reckless with the credit card during the Clinton years! Whoo, let's throw a TICKER TAPE PARADE because they were SLIGHTLY LESS RECKLESS THAN BEFORE. :->
  - evets616, on 09/03/2008, -1/+2yeah, regeya, that makes perfect sense. Let's mock Congress for spending less money than they brought in through taxes.
    
    Right now, if the budget was balanced, not even at a surplus, the Republicans would be throwing a ticker tape parade and every one of their 'news' programs would remind us every day.
- Cuchanu, on 09/03/2008, -1/+6ImaPwner Wasilla should be thankful she can't borrow from China.
- johndavidjack, on 09/03/2008, -1/+4@cuchanu
  
  Hey, don't assume I don't realize what you said. We are going to be probably close to $12 Trillion in 2009/2010.
  
  But in all fairness, Clinton's regime spent about $2 trillion. I understand spending needs to be done sometimes in order to reap future benefits.
  
  Here's what I was looking at:
  http://www.cedarcomm.com/%7Estevelm1/usdebt.htm
  - Cuchanu, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2Ok I have to admit I'm not an expert on the whole thing and right now after reading that link I am even more confused. It plainly states that the budget was balanced under Clinton, which I knew. Yet the debt went up by maybe 1.6 trillion. I can't imagine that is all from interest so I guess I'm not sure what the distinction is between the country's debt and the president's.
  - cmorriss, on 09/03/2008, -1/+2I have to say, I'm loving all these baseless attacks on Sarah Palin that the left are launching. You're helping to motivate republicans and even independents to get out and vote like nothing they could have done on their own. Again, thank you and keep it coming!
  - bigstinky, on 09/03/2008, -1/+2@cmorris
    
    You seem to be a card carrying Republican, perhaps you can answer this question for me. It seems that all republicans do is yell -ala Fred Thompson's ridiculous cheerleader speech, how the only choice for America are those two simps, McCain and Palin. And that Democrats are not patriotic, nor could they ever bring about the change this country needs without raising taxes, etc., etc...
    
    What will the Republican contingent bring to help the US out of this quagmire that your good 'ol boys put us in.? And prove to me they will.
    
    As well, please name one thing, just one, that BUSHCO did to better the US. You have eight years to go through. Take your time.
    
    After all this country has gone through, after the two failed terms, what can Republicans hang their hats on? I really want to know, where these people get their arrogance. Their blown out hatred for Democrats, and their blind support for a mindset that so obviously does not and has not worked.
    
    Anyone? I really want to be educated here.
  - rotundo, on 09/03/2008, -1/+2cmorriss will be happy when the republicans maintain control of the whitehouse? man, i can hardly imagine the delusional mind it takes to be so on board with an obviously failed policy.
    
    you know, politics is not like sports where you root for your team no matter what. you actually ought to take a step back and see that things are not working and what things aren't. there are actually right and wrong answers to some of these questions.
    
    and the wrong answer to the current question is "keep republicans in the whitehouse" no matter what party you associate yourself with.
  - johndavidjack, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1@Cuchanu
    
    I think that if Clinton-type spending were to continue, that our budget would eventually be balanced, albeit over maybe 10 years, because our increasing "worth as a country" would increase as our spending was flatlining.
    
    That is what I think what people mean by Clinton would've balanced the budget, because by the end of his 2nd term, our national debt did not increase very much, so in the future, by using the same frugality, as well as our economy pumping like it was, we'd have a budget surplus in the near future.
    
    A few problems, our economy stopped going on overdrive, the value of the dollar has decreased, and the spending in Iraq...
  - bigstinky, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2Just like a republican, digg me down, but offer nothing in response.
    
    I guess it's because you have no response. Except of course to vote to continue the mess, just because you are a republican.
    
    That's exactly what got us here when you idiots voted to keep Bushco in place.
    
    Oh wait, that was stolen. They kept themselves in place...Sorry.
- MadKennyP, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3About $3.2 trillion (over one-third) of our $8.9 trillion total national debt was accumulated during the first six years of the Bush Administration.
  
  Over 90% of the total national debt has been accumulated under the past three Republican administrations – Reagan, George Bush Sr., and the current George Bush. As of March 14, 2008, the total debt attributable to those three Republican Presidents is $8.45 trillion.
Arishia, on 09/02/2008, -54/+23Sarah Palin by Wasilla Resident
by jsfox, Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 12:28:03 PM EST
Full name and email address of writer withheld at writers request. However original can be seen in the comments section of this article:
http://www.washingtonindependent.com/367 1/the-reform-candidate
Dear friends,
So many people have asked me about what I know about Sarah Palin in the
last 2 days that I decided to write something up . . .
Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in
common: their gender and their good looks. :)
You have my permission to forward this to your friends/email contacts
with my name and email address attached, but please do not post it on
any websites, as there are too many kooks out there . . .
Thanks,
Anne
ABOUT SARAH PALIN
I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992.
Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a
first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her
father was my child's favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a
first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more
City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the
residents of the city.
She is enormously popular; in every way she's like the most popular
girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and
won't vote for her can't quit smiling when talking about her because
she is a "babe".
It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. She
kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents
for seven months.
She is "pro-life". She recently gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby.
There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby.
She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.
She is savvy. She doesn't take positions; she just "puts things out
there" and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.
Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a
champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin's kind of job is highly
sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his
work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or
so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their
major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything
like that of native Alaskans.
Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters.
She's smart.
Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000
(at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about
670,000 residents.
During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running
this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been
pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had
gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had
given rise to a recall campaign.
Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a "fiscal conservative". During her 6
years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over
33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the
City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation
(1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a
regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she
promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they
benefited residents.
The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration
weren't enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed
money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it
with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage
the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said
she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a
new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a
multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece
of property that the City didn't even have clear title to, that was
still in litigation 7 yrs later--to the delight of the lawyers
involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the
community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it
would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that
could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.
While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office
redecorated more than once.
These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city.
As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus
in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will
make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she
proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.
In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she
recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while
she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today's
surplus, borrow for needs.
She's not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas
or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren't generated by
her or her staff. Ideas weren't evaluated on their merits, but on the
basis of who proposed them.
While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected
City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from
the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents
rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin's
attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew
her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the
Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.
Sarah complained about the "old boy's club" when she first ran for
Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of "old boys". Palin
fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as
Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people,
creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally
grateful and fiercely loyal--loyal to the point of abusing their power
to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the
case of pressuring the State's top cop (see below).
As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla's Police Chief because he "intimidated"
her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska's top
cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure
and she had every legal right to fire him, but it's pretty clear that
an important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn't
fire her sister's ex-husband, a State Trooper. Under investigation
for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen
contacts were made between her staff and family to the person that she
later fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to
replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded
for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew
her support.
She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in
help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town
introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council
became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She
abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn't
like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.
Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything
publicly about her.
When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah got
the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission: one
of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid. She had no
background in oil & gas issues. Within months of scoring this great
job which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in the press about the
high salary. I was told that she hated that job: the commute, the
structured hours, the work. Sarah became aware that a member of this
Commission (who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party)
engaged in unethical behavior on the job. In a gutsy move which some
undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah solved all
her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and
garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics and as a
gutsy fighter against the "old boys' club" when she dramatically quit,
exposing this man's ethics violations (for which he was fined).
As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from
Senator Ted Stevens. Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel
politics and publicly humiliated him. She only opposed the "bridge to
nowhere" after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.
As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget
guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing
projects, calling them pork. Public outcry and further legislative
action restored most of these projects--which had been vetoed simply
because she was not aware of their importance--but with the unobservant
she had gained a reputation as "anti-pork".
She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party
leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated
them. Other members of the party object to her self-description as a
fiscal conservative.
Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah.
They call her "Sarah Barracuda" because of her unbridled ambition and
predatory ruthlessness. Before she became so powerful, very ugly
stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made
point guard on the high school basketball team. When Sarah's
mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and
experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.
As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of package
of legislation known as "AGIA" that forced the oil companies to march
to the beat of her drum.
Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge. She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked to
global warming. She campaigned "as a private citizen" against a state
initiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from
pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the
state (depending on who you listen to). She has pushed the State's
lawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior's decision to list polar
bears as threatened species.
McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be a
heartbeat away from being President.
There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more
knowledgeable and experienced than she.
However, there's a lot of people who have underestimated her and are
regretting it.
CLAIM VS FACT
*"Hockey mom": true for a few years
*"PTA mom": true years ago when her first-born was in elementary
school, not since
*"NRA supporter": absolutely true
*social conservative: mixed. Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a bill
that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships
(said she did this because it was unconsitutional).
*pro-creationism: mixed. Supports it, BUT did nothing as Governor to
promote it.
*"Pro-life": mixed. Knowingly gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby
BUT declined to call a special legislative session on some pro-life
legislation
*"Experienced": Some high schools have more students than Wasilla has
residents. Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska.
No legislative experience other than City Council. Little hands-on
supervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city
administrator to run town of about 5,000.
*political maverick: not at all
*gutsy: absolutely!
*open & transparent: ??? Good at keeping secrets. Not good at
explaining actions.
*has a developed philosophy of public policy: no
*"a Greenie": no. Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores
and disconnected parking lots. Is pro-drilling off-shore and in ANWR.
*fiscal conservative: not by my definition!
*pro-infrastructure: No. Promoted a sports complex and park in a city
without a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system. Built
streets to early 20th century standards.
*pro-tax relief: Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax burden on
residents
*pro-small government: No. Oversaw greatest expansion of city
government in Wasilla's history.
*pro-labor/pro-union. No. Just because her husband works union
doesn't make her pro-labor. I have seen nothing to support any claim
that she is pro-labor/pro-union.
WHY AM I WRITING THIS?
First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed
voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting
programs in the schools. If you google my name (Anne, last name redacted
Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local
government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.
Secondly, I've always operated in the belief that "Bad things happen
when good people stay silent". Few people know as much as I do because
few have gone to as many City Council meetings.
Third, I am just a housewife. I don't have a job she can bump me out
of. I don't belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I am no
fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will
cost me somehow in the future: that's life.
Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 1
- davidg11, on 09/03/2008, -18/+9So a woman scorned by Sarah Palin in a smalltown.
  
  How shocking...not
  
  You can tell she's pissed off all the men in town thought Palin was hot.
  
  That's how she starts this narrative. Women can be SO caddy.
  - twiztidsinz, on 09/03/2008, -0/+6She handled golf clubs?
    oooooohhh you meant caTTy..
  - jerrycurley, on 09/03/2008, -0/+6Rarely are caddies women. Most are young men.
    
    Women ARE catty fairly often though.
  - Calcularius, on 09/03/2008, -0/+6How misogynist! You MUST be republican!
  - CryRightardCry, on 09/03/2008, -2/+8So, a rightard willing to assume the author is a lying bitch without ever having met either people.
    Choosing sides based purely on her political party?
    Or Palin's amazing honesty and integrity?
- kcmo08, on 09/03/2008, -6/+11Buried for making me scroll down too much.
  - GassyTurd, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1SCROLL WHEEL CRAMP!1!!
- noelsusman, on 09/03/2008, -8/+5"Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996"
  Well then I'm sorry I wasted my time reading any of that, because that quote shows me that none of it can be trusted. She just sounds bitter.
  - wafla, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3You win! The 134th sentence of the post has a reason to dismiss the information.
- duggdowncatisad, on 09/03/2008, -3/+2tl;dr
- dstz, on 09/03/2008, -5/+2Doesn't read at all like your usual small town political bickering. Not at all :p
- heystoopid, on 09/03/2008, -3/+4Sewage pond scum does a better clean of an unwanted mess then Crapinator Sarah P as she deliberately craps on everything in her arena by self choice !
  
  Evil does what always does best , oh crap !
  - 6minuteabs, on 09/03/2008, -2/+1Are you 8?
- GassyTurd, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1Check out the retarded comments made in this thread:
  
  http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/How_Can_She_Run_ ...
- Gandalff, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1Seriously, if she or anyone else had started the conversation out with "She" or "this person" has "hated" me since 1996 but what I am about to tell you is the truth do you not think you would have read it a bit differently? A bit more cynical for sure I would hope.
  
  If it was about anyone else, non-political would you still look at this and say, well I take her at her word for sure! She must be telling the truth because the "other woman" hated her not the other way around. She never revealed how she felt about the person she was writing about or does that not matter? Maybe it was clear in the writing. Does that not factor into how the piece would be written? How the person perceives the other? Do you not think a biased opinion one way or the other would shine through or do you think the whole piece as it stands is unbiased and from a factual point only and not from any point of view?
  
  People are too quick to believe anything written and that goes for anything written about anyone from any Party D,R,I,L or just the average person blogging.
IdigObama, on 09/03/2008, -14/+106McCain says she has been throughly vetted and he supports he 100%!

United States is going to hell in a hand basket if these two get elected!

Obama/Biden 08!
- keymanjim2, on 09/03/2008, -38/+13Obama/Biden 08!
  United States is going to hell in a hand basket if these two get elected!
  
  Fixed that for you. You're welcome.
  - Khast, on 09/03/2008, -5/+6Aw...***** it....I don't care who we get, we are going to hell in a hand basket....might as well take Obama. At least Obama can keep his story straight...unlike Mr McCain..who can't even remember what he said 15 minutes ago.
  - cathpah, on 09/03/2008, -2/+12wow. clever!
    (*****.)
  - keymanjim2, on 09/03/2008, -10/+4I know it was clever. And you don't need to sign your posts.
  - DesignNerd, on 09/03/2008, -0/+5When you guys finish your juiceboxes, you can go outside and play for 15 minutes. Then it's nap time.
- Sfenton, on 09/03/2008, -11/+2I remember digg used to be about hating neo-cons, kind of ironic that the person they hate is on the bottom part of the Democratic credit.
- mrshare, on 09/03/2008, -9/+1Barr 08!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Cuchanu, on 09/03/2008, -5/+2You know I really think that as much as I'd like to see Obama win, McCain will be better than Bush. That is unless he manages to start WWIII.
- bjornski, on 09/03/2008, -2/+8@Cucharnu
  
  What do you mean "unless"? It's one of his goals.
  
  "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran...."
  - Cuchanu, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1I said unless because he will be better than Bush unless he bomb bomb boms Iran...
- Sharky35, on 09/03/2008, -4/+1Could tell you are a dumb-o-crat as your public edumacation left you at a 4th grade Engrish level.
  - bjornski, on 09/03/2008, -1/+2Huh huh. dumb--o-crat.
    
    Who has the 4th grade mentality?
supernovanights, on 09/03/2008, -7/+74Did Palin get vetted at ALL?
I almost feel bad for the Republicans.
Almost! :D
- jerrycurley, on 09/03/2008, -19/+2Why? Because some dumb ***** like you think that this hurts her?
  
  Newsflash...this does 't hurt her one bit.
  - stagmire, on 09/03/2008, -0/+5Sure it does. She was picked to woo hillary voters away from Obama, she is failing miserably at that task, and Obama's lead in the polls is at or approaching all time highs since she was named.
    
    I don't know how he pulled it off, but McCain somehow made the Biden pick look like a stroke of absolute genius.
  - GassyTurd, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1Newsflash? Dork.
- DarkShroud, on 09/03/2008, -15/+4They spend months research her back ground and having her fill out a survey. McCain knew everything about the knocked up daughter, her husbands DUI 22 years ago, his citation for blowing a stop sign 16 years ago. He picked her anyway unlike Obama who picked the biggest Washington insider.
  - mcquitty, on 09/03/2008, -6/+2"And Mr. Biden represents the same type of change I would like to bring to Washington!"
    
    Show me a single example of meaningful legislation Mr. Obama has sponsored with bi-partisan support.
    
    Now, isn't this the same thing Mr. Bush claimed before becoming president? In Texas, I worked with both the Republicans and Democrats.
  - DarkShroud, on 09/03/2008, -3/+2Why did you reply to me?
  - lhbaker, on 09/03/2008, -0/+4You're right. In the event McCain dies, what we need in the White House is a failed car wash owner who has zero policy experience in Washington, and little idea what the Vice President does for a living. Do you think she knows what the PRESIDENT does for a living? Do you?
  - nittanylion06, on 09/03/2008, -0/+4umm.. the FBI said that no one had approached them for background files. A librarian of sorts was surprised when a *reporter* showed up to do some background research on Palin, which retained exclusive control over old Alaskan newspapers, as they were the first to inquire. No, they did not vet her. Not at all.
- supernovanights, on 09/03/2008, -0/+8Lol. You Moron's really think that people don't care about this kind of stuff? If they will tout her last 4 years as "executive experience" then I am free, by all means, to question the effectiveness of those experiences.
  
  Furthermore, I DO believe this will hurt her, just as I believe that her saying that building pipelines is a "mission from god" will hurt her. She's got SO many problems, I cannot fathom how they slipped through.
- McHoffa, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1the everyday righties don't care about this... just as the everyday lefties don't care about obama and fisa... the righties LOVE palin, believe me, I have heard some singing her praises already...
  
  she did what mccain really needed, got far righties to support him...
dirtypenguin, on 09/03/2008, -7/+47You might not ever get rich
But let me tell ya it's better that diggin' a ditch.
There ain't no tellin' who ya might meet.
A movie star or may be even a potential Commander in Chief.

(Workin' at the) car wash.
Workin' at the car wash yeah !
Come on and sing it with me car wash.
Get with the feelin' y'all car wash yeah.
niradg, on 09/03/2008, -7/+36executive experience?
- seomike, on 09/03/2008, -15/+4Well being Governor of Alaska I think is more executive experience than being a community organizer. WTF is a community organizer anyways?
  - macsox, on 09/03/2008, -1/+18I'll bite.
    
    It's someone who works to engage the community in advocacy on an issue. In Obama's case, he worked to empower unemployed factory workers to band together and seek support and employment opportunities.
    
    It's grass-roots change-making, unlike a top-down administration. Obama's proven he can do both - in fact, his campaign has proven he can do both.
  - keymanjim2, on 09/03/2008, -14/+2He brought the Lunchables to the rallies.
  - ShadowMerchant, on 09/03/2008, -17/+0"WTF is a community organizer anyways?"
    
    A worthless commie piece of *****.
    
    Just look at his mentors: commie terrorist Bill Ayers, commie preacher Jeremiah Wright, commie theorist Saul Alinsky, commie commie commie Marshall Davis. These are the people who shaped him. Practically nobody else.
    
    Obama is a communist. OBAMA IS A ***** COMMUNIST. The man is a ***** communist termite. He's never done ***** in the private sector that feeds and clothes and houses America. He is a lotus-eating communist parasite like all his mentors.
- zacharytelschow, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1Experience as a community organizer, leaving publicly funded housing with a rating of 11/100 with many places uninhabitable (and candidates for being torn down)?
  
  http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06 ...
- FierceEagle, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2All you or anyone else knows for sure is that she and her husband owned 40% of this business. For all we know they were silent partners and the person or people that owned the other 60% actually ran the day-to-day affairs. Of course, when liberals don't quite have all the information, they tend to fill in the blanks with whatever suits them at the time.
  
  The bottom line is that the woman has much more executive/administrative experience than Obama (some would argue Obama and Biden combined), and she is only running as vice president whereas Obama wants to be president. She has been elected mayor of a city and governor of a state. Obama has not administered anything, unless you include his campaign. I find it just hilarious that you liberals actually have to resort to using his campaign as an example of experience. Citing "campaigning" as experience is akin to putting "job hunting" on a resume. Seeking a particular job doesn't give one experience for said job. Your bias really has no bounds. Pathetic!
  - mindtron, on 09/03/2008, -0/+0by your executive experience argument then she is more qualified to be pres than McCain
lompe, on 09/03/2008, -9/+64But but she was a POW!
Oh... sorry...wrong memo

But but she is a young and fresh woman who will get Hillary's votes
- bangalter, on 09/03/2008, -1/+1The more I hear it, the more I want to think it's not true... But I'm not jumping to any conclusions.
- sodoh, on 09/03/2008, -1/+1no no no... she was picked by a guy who was a POW so it doesn't matter what scandal you find because McCain was a POW!!!
  
  There fixed it for you. :)
- YogiWanKenobi, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2But....9/11!
elisathon, on 09/03/2008, -4/+37FTA:
"A review of Palin's gubernatorial disclosure filings indicates that she failed to report her stake in the company on the form that requires candidates for governor to disclose any interest in a non-publicly traded company.
(Sarah Palin had a 20% stake, her husband also had a 20% stake in the business)

The car wash venture was not entirely smooth sailing. State records show the business ran into trouble with Alaska's division of corporations business and professional licensing after Palin became governor of the state in 2006."

They didn't file a few basic state of Alaska business license paperwork and pay the fees, were notified by the state they were not in compliance, and still didn't manage to file their paperwork for about one year. So the state went further and issued a "certificate of involuntary dissolution" because of the carwash's failure to file its report and pay state licensing fees.
- deadbaby, on 09/03/2008, -6/+5Isn't this, on a smaller scale, the same thing they tried to crucify Hilliary Clinton for with the White Water scandal?
  - ImIce, on 09/03/2008, -3/+3Good call! Except for the cover-up and the dead guy, it's a perfect match.
- ShadowMerchant, on 09/03/2008, -3/+320% each, eh? Sounds like they had a ***** majority partner. Most small businessmen can sympathize.
  - publiclurker, on 09/03/2008, -1/+5Funny, most of the small business owners I know are competent. Even the ones who weren't wouldn't be so lame as to forget to file their paperwork.
- cmorriss, on 09/03/2008, -3/+3Keep up the baseless attacks against Palin! Please! You're just what we needed to energize the Republican vote!
  - freshyill, on 09/03/2008, -1/+2Baseless? Explain your asinine comment.
  - cmorriss, on 09/03/2008, -2/+1@freshyill - So, she can't be an effective vice president because a small car wash that she had a minority stake in didn't make it!!??? The attack has no base. The initial assertion does not imply the intended statement about her ability to be a vice president. Therefore, the attack is baseless. It has no merit.
    
    Digg has turned into a democratic tabloid. "Trig is Bristol's Baby!!! We have PROOF!!" I think there were about twenty stories all making it to the front page following this format. And diggtards fell for it, of course, because it came from the most trusted new source in the entire world. The Daily KOS. The gospel for liberals, feeding them talking points for their daily assault on pretty much whatever it is that The Daily KOS wants them to attack. You're being used. If you don't get your news from multiple sources with known biases on both sides of a debate (EVERY news source has a bias), you're not getting anywhere near an accurate picture.
    
    Now, please explain you're asinine comment.
davidg11, on 09/03/2008, -52/+13Micheal Moore was to Kerry's chance to the presidency

as

Liberal blog rags are to Obama's chance to the presidency

I can not wait until they see how public reaction backfires to all of this.

When the average moderate middle class american sees Palin, they are going to fall in love with her.

Smart, attractive, driven, not preachy, doesn't like govt corruption or govt waste, down to earth, and hunts MOOSE.
- Itsmechuck, on 09/03/2008, -5/+18buried as spam. seen this before in another news thread. fail boat.
- Enderz, on 09/03/2008, -2/+15Those are great traits to run a country. When I apply to NASA, I will say I am smart, attractive, driven, not preachy, and hunts MOOSE. I am a sure in for the job.
  - davidg11, on 09/03/2008, -8/+1Well since NASA sends up schoolteachers, I'm sure they could send up a kick ass Alaskan governor too.
    
    Nice winning a debate with you.
  - bjornski, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3Teachers in space makes sense. You know, it's research. Something that teachers are normally good at. (good ones, anyway)
    
    Sending a Governor into space would be just ***** stupid, and you know it. Stop pulling stuff out of your ass.
  - Elranzer, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1"Republicans" and "kick-ass" do not belong in the same sentence. They're cowards and chicken-hawks, the very antonyms of "kick-ass."
- twiztidsinz, on 09/03/2008, -3/+8dude... can I buy some of what you're smokin?
- sugarazor, on 09/03/2008, -3/+16Smart - Let's see it.
  
  Attractive - so is Jessica Alba, I don't want her to be my president.
  
  Driven - Dick Cheney is also "driven," next!
  
  Not preachy - no proper sex-ed, no contraception, no abortions, bible thumper... etc?
  
  Doesn't like gov't corruption - unless it's taking campaign money from the same group that has led to Ted Stevens indictment?
  
  Gov't waste - was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it.
  
  Down to earth - Compared to who? Ol' seven houses McCain?
  
  hunts moose - wow, she can shoot animals, I'm truly impressed. Clearly a qualification for higher office.
  - bjornski, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2She's still for the bridge. She just doesn't think that Alaskans should be the ones that pay for it.
- licnyc, on 09/03/2008, -1/+3you are living in a fantasy world. This woman is a bad news buffet. She's literally a jerry springer episode. By the way most of the major news stories of recent past has come from blogs, wether its Obama's PA statement, McCains houses or Palins preggo daughter. You have clearly demonstrated you don't know wtf you are talking about.
harrydabassist, on 09/03/2008, -19/+38It could be worse...her daughter could be having a kid with a giant queef who likes to shoot *****...oh wait!!!!!
- 3MM3, on 09/03/2008, -0/+7Leave the kids out of it.
- zacharytelschow, on 09/03/2008, -1/+2This is not an issue. Obama has said its not an issue. It is eerily similar to the way Obama entered the world, if I'm not mistaken.
- harrydabassist, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2You guys make a good point...
- Elranzer, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1She made her kids part of it...
  
  "I have one son in Iraq and I chose not to abort my Down's Syndrome baby."
  
  Yeah, the kids are staying in. It's her own fault, too.
duhurhurrr, on 09/03/2008, -3/+40should've used shamwows
- bangalter, on 09/03/2008, -0/+9"They basically sell themselves."
  - tehjai, on 09/03/2008, -0/+6"Beware of Shamwow imitators.".
- bjornski, on 09/03/2008, -0/+5sham-POW!
EugineMW, on 09/03/2008, -32/+9Ah well, continue to belittle Sarah... I can't wait for the blacklash.
- kcmo08, on 09/03/2008, -5/+14Did you get that for somewhere or come up with it all by yourself?
  
  There's not going to be any "backlash." People aren't just waiting to "lash out" because her dirty laundry is getting aired.
- emeralddragon, on 09/03/2008, -10/+2There's been a backlash for quite some time - thus why Obama and McCain were tied last week and will be tied again next week even though Bush has horrible approval ratings...but Obamabots do not care - they just digg and digg and digg...
  - freshyill, on 09/03/2008, -1/+2Obama has been consistently ahead for quite a while. Don't cherry-pick your polls. Follow the average, jackass: http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/08-us-pres-ge-mvo ...
    
    Oh, and while we're cherry picking, I should note that Obama is cracking 50% in some polls. I'd put my money on the trend continuing.
  - CorneliusStump, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1do we still need all the mudslinging then?
- imakeart4u, on 09/03/2008, -1/+1ha! good luck with that.
jerrycurley, on 09/03/2008, -25/+9Of all the pathetic desperate hit pieces over hter last several days, this is the worst. Yup...the Palins owned a 40% stake in a car wash that went under! That PROVES she is not able to run a business or a country! It is ALWAYS the owners (40% owners) fault when a business fails.
- kufu91, on 09/03/2008, -2/+12well, the business didn't fail because of the customers. the car wash was shut down for not filing the proper paperwork or paying required fees for a year after being notified that they weren't in compliance. If she can't deal with a few pieces of paper and pay off her bills, how is she going to handle massive legislation or pay off our massive deficit?
  - uqdroma, on 09/03/2008, -7/+0Uhm, she'll get the president to do it. That is his job. Don't even bother with the 72 year old *****. Stopped working on me days ago.
- CrimsonBlur, on 09/03/2008, -0/+10"It is ALWAYS the owners (40% owners) fault when a business fails." Uh, yeah, it is. The owners of a business are fully responsible for the way the business is run. If a business goes under, the owners have no one to blame but themselves. If it's some problem with location, it was still their decision to open a business there, so, still their fault. That's a common mistake though and it isn't like anyone would really care about that, unless it happened repeatedly.
  
  If you hold a 40% share in a business and they have not filed any of the necessary paperwork to the state and you still don't know about it after a full year and do something about it, you're a crappy business person. If in that situation you do know about it and did nothing, you're completely unqualified to have any major responsibilities, at all, in anything.
  
  I'm not sure which category they fall under in this, but neither one speaks well for her business sense, and considering all of the other issues that are cropping up concerning her, it's just one more check in a long list of negatives.
  - uqdroma, on 09/03/2008, -4/+0Who owned the other 60? Maybe they told her they filed it.
- publiclurker, on 09/03/2008, -0/+8Actually, she failed because she was to clueless to file the paperwork, which is most certainly her fault a a part owner.
- wendelgee2, on 09/03/2008, -0/+7I seem to remember another president with a history of failed business ventures. (Bush)
- heystoopid, on 09/03/2008, -3/+1Would have been a goer for all the local rednecks if the Crapinator Witch had worn this uniform to work .
  http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/palin.asp
  
  But then again may be not , as I would have turned around and driven to the opposition across the road !
  - uqdroma, on 09/03/2008, -1/+1Buried again for the same reason stated earlier. Are you trying to be funny? Seriously. If so I'll stop.
antonio97b, on 09/03/2008, -9/+13Welcome to the car wash!

Welcome to the car wash, yeah!
- MScrip, on 09/03/2008, -0/+10Workin' at the car wash?
  - pintomp3, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3it's one of the few jobs they can't export overseas.
  - bjornski, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1@pintomp3
    
    Very true. The ones around my neighborhood are all run with imported labor instead. You know, the type of job John says that Americans can't do for $50 an hour, so we should import people to do it for $7 instead.
    
    I don't think I heard a word of English last time I went in there, except "Thank you, come again!"
  - morcheeba, on 09/03/2008, -1/+2Disco Stew says Disco Fail :-(
- morcheeba, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1Come summer the work gets kind a hard
  This ain't no place to be if ya planned on being a star.
  Let me tell you it's always cool
  And the boss don't mind sometimes if ya act a fool.
pe5t1lence, on 09/03/2008, -2/+50Wait, what? How DO you run a car wash in Alaska? The water freezes and there are no immigrants to staff the thing!
- twiztidsinz, on 09/03/2008, -3/+4Duh... Canada is right next door!
  - publiclurker, on 09/03/2008, -0/+12And I've heard they are good hosers.
  - Tssst, on 09/03/2008, -3/+3yeah.. as if Canada is not right next door to the rest of the US.
  - twiztidsinz, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2Are Canadians not allowed to be immigrants to the US?
  - regeya, on 09/03/2008, -1/+1If you don't like the service, take off.
- dougmc, on 09/03/2008, -0/+7Anchorage isn't so cold. Sure, it's below freezing for much of the year, but cars still need washing, and the water doesn't freeze *that* quickly.
  
  As for the immigrants, there's the native Alaskans who tend to get treated the same way up there as hispanics do down in the continental US. (Of course, the native Alaskans are not immigrants -- the white people are the immigrants.)
  - twiztidsinz, on 09/03/2008, -1/+3In that sense... ALL whites are Immigrants.
  - publiclurker, on 09/03/2008, -1/+4If you go back far enough, everyone in the Americas is an immigrant.
- heystoopid, on 09/03/2008, -1/+2Used all the illegal Russians slave labor hired from across the Bering Strait did she ?
- LRE13, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1I think in this case the eskimos would count as immigrants even though they've always been there. Since the Casino market might not be that profitable regular work might be in order.
- Slovenian6474, on 09/03/2008, -0/+4Should've opened a Sled Dog Wash instead.
springerlicious, on 09/03/2008, -30/+7U lefties keep posting your smear articles ... you know that she is a threat to getting your King into the white house. It's ok. You guys have already affirmed you're all a part of the EXTREME left, and show no sign of open-mindedness.

Here's a perfect example of your tactics ... for you who like to talk about how her husband got a DUI 22 years ago ... wasn't this the same time Obama was snorting cocaine and other narcotics? So where's the equality here? Hmmm ... maybe one of you guys could fill me in.
- kcmo08, on 09/03/2008, -3/+14There's no more room for stupid here. Please go back to MichelleMalkin.com or turn on Sean Hannity. K THX BYE.
  - ZBeeblebrox, on 09/03/2008, -6/+2You're how old again? And you still use the whole "K THX BYE" crap and actually 'like' Trogdor/Homestar Runner?
    
    Not to mention you're a guy....
  - uqdroma, on 09/03/2008, -4/+1@kcmo08 -- Yup, shun the people you disagree with, call them dumb. Just like you guys did to Lieberman and Clinton. Ooh, I bet you're regretting it after Lieberman's non-partisan speech to America. Now I remember why I voted for Gore. Too bad Lieberman has to carry that scar. Maybe if Joe wouldn't have backed a devout lying liberal, the Repubs would've let McCain put him on the ticket.
  - goes211, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1If there was no room for stupid here, Digg would not exist!
- deadbaby, on 09/03/2008, -0/+5I would say the primary difference is her husband was driving under the influence and got arrested for it while Obama did not. Personally I don't care either way because it's not important to the issues but that is the difference for some people.
  - springerlicious, on 09/03/2008, -4/+2Sooooo ... doing cocaine is better than getting busted for a DUI? Are you ***** serious? But, you're right, it has nothing to do with the issues.
  - BrainInAJar, on 09/03/2008, -1/+2I dunno... I'd think that doing cocaine is better than being busted for DUI...
    the first one you ***** yourself up, the second one you could ***** other people up and that's much worse
  - ZBeeblebrox, on 09/03/2008, -1/+0Yes, because you can't harm anyone else while under the influence of cocaine
    
    /sarcasm
    
    As far as you know, he did do it... he just didn't get caught.
  - uqdroma, on 09/03/2008, -1/+0"I dunno... I'd think that doing cocaine is better than being busted for DUI...
    the first one you ***** yourself up, the second one you could ***** other people up and that's much worse"
    
    So there has never been an accident because of butterheads? Now I know why Repubs will win.
    
    McCain/Palin '08 Palin/Lieberman '12 (or Lieberman/Palin doesn't matter) These 3 are gonna destroy the establishment. Paving the way for an Indy for 27 years. I think with the reforms they have planned, it might actually happen one day. That should make Nader, Perot, Barr, Paul, and others happy.
    
    Ventura/Paul '16
- Exact0, on 09/03/2008, -1/+2Was he snorting cocaine while operating a deadly weapon? Where's the equality?
  No one gives a ***** about what her husband did 22 years ago.
- aholland, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3"You guys have already affirmed you're all a part of the EXTREME left, and show no sign of open-mindedness."
  
  You got that totally wrong....the liberals are the ones with open-minds to the issues. The conservatives are the ones who are narrow-minded and don't think there are other ways to solve the issues.
  - uqdroma, on 09/03/2008, -2/+0@aholland -- To the contrary. Digg has shown the opposite for weeks. Liberal tolerance is a lie. The very definition of the word agrees with me. Isn't that what freedom without license means. If I disagree I can insult you if I choose. If a woman chooses life for her baby, she's insulted and slandered. Real tolerant buddy.
- imakeart4u, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1i'll fill you in. we are the righties, you are the wrongies, and obama never got arrested unlike the palin hillbilly guy.
kcmo08, on 09/03/2008, -7/+57Former small town beauty queen becomes the mayor of a tiny town, marries a snowmobile racer, and becomes the governor of a state with less people than Fort Worth, TX.

Yep. She's qualified all right.
- nixfu, on 09/03/2008, -8/+9According to the constitution of the US she is PERFECTLY qualified.
  - regeya, on 09/03/2008, -1/+2People forget that; there are remarkably few requirements to hold many offices. Heh, the Presidential requirements, if written today, would probably get dragged through the courts as being age discrimination, as well as discrimination against immigrants. :->
    
    Protect the Constitution! Stand by its principles! Unless we don't like them, then feel free to ignore them!
  - uqdroma, on 09/03/2008, -1/+3"People forget that; there are remarkably few requirements to hold many offices. Heh, the Presidential requirements, if written today, would probably get dragged through the courts as being age discrimination, as well as discrimination against immigrants. :->"
    
    I agree, our Country was founded on the inexperienced. Not trying to excuse, because I believe she has enough. Just pointing out that we're getting away from what makes democracy great -- Even the common folk gets to rule. Read it sometime, you might find out how much a Constitutional Lawyer butchers it's context.
  - pintomp3, on 09/03/2008, -0/+7eligible and qualified are two different things.
  - MadKennyP, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3Meeting the constitutional requirements DOES NOT equal qualified.
- heystoopid, on 09/03/2008, -2/+5Qualified to run the Bushco/Cheney pig feeding trough you mean !
- nittanylion06, on 09/03/2008, -1/+6Qualification for a Fox News Anchor does not amount to VP qualification.
- zacharytelschow, on 09/03/2008, -1/+2Let's see... Community organizer that produces devastatingly poor results, serves in the Senate and later claims he's qualified for president on the basis of having run a presidential campaign. Yep, he's qualified all right.
seomike, on 09/03/2008, -28/+8She's everything the Feminists dreams of being. The bread winner, in charge, can look down her nose at her husband as she sends him off for groceries. But because of that funny little (R) after her name on CNN she's the devil. You liberals are so fail.
- pe5t1lence, on 09/03/2008, -5/+15You forget that her stance on women's rights is archaic.
  - seomike, on 09/03/2008, -12/+5How can you say that when shes the living breathing example of an empowered woman? Or can you only have a stance on women's rights if you have a one of the fem mullets, roll your own tampons and kick start your life partners dildo?
  - ShadowMerchant, on 09/03/2008, -7/+2Her stance on women's rights is closer to the majority of American women than the crazy womyn's horse ***** that gets taught in all our colleges. Of that I can promise you.
  - uqdroma, on 09/03/2008, -6/+0"You forget that her stance on women's rights is archaic."
    
    To you, but you're are not the only US citizen. More proof of liberal intolerance.
    
    The extreme left is laughable, and yes, I'll say it, NOT PATRIOTIC TO OUR EXISTING CONSTITUTION!!
    
    But then again, liberals think that's archaic also.
  - kayala, on 09/03/2008, -0/+4uqdroma, why are you unable to make any coherent statement? Why are you unable to stop blaming the liberals for everything that you dislike? Why do you appear to take such pride in your laziness?
  - uqdroma, on 09/03/2008, -6/+0"uqdroma, why are you unable to make any coherent statement? Why are you unable to stop blaming the liberals for everything that you dislike? Why do you appear to take such pride in your laziness?"
    
    Tell me what's not coherent? What didn't you understand? Why do you take such pride in your lazy mind? I've made plenty of coherent statements. Again liberal elitism, this time baseless.
  - pe5t1lence, on 09/03/2008, -1/+3LOL! I'm Conservative.
  - uqdroma, on 09/03/2008, -4/+0"LOL! I'm Conservative."
    
    Good for you, I'm an American, nice to meet you.
  - Squidwalk, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2uqdroma,
    
    above, you wrote: "To you, but you're are not the only US citizen. More proof of liberal intolerance."
    
    This is incoherent because you used the contraction "you're" followed by "are". The sentence without contractions would be, "To you, but you are are not the the only US citizen."
    
    It's an incoherent argument because pe5t1lence never said that he represent all of the united states. You made up a joke of an argument and pretended you have something meaningful to say. I could write, "You forget that ham sandwiches are delicious," and you could similarly respond to this with, "To you, but you're are not the only US citizen. More proof of liberal intolerance."
    
    Please come back when you have something to say. Your opinions are as valuable as anyone's opinions. But without articulating them in arguments that other people can understand, you are simply making a fool of yourself.
NotYourProdigy, on 09/03/2008, -16/+21They sure are giving it to this bitch. The GOP gambled, and it looks like they're gonna lose.
- seomike, on 09/03/2008, -10/+3Kerry/Ewards up 15 points after the DNC = lost popular vote and election LOL
  Obama/Biden can't even make double digits past McCain in the polls after the DNC.
  
  Hell even Michael Dukakis was up 15 points in the polls in 1988 over Bush and only won one state ROFL @ Massachusetts.
  
  Sorry but Barrack is gonna get his ass handed to him...
  - NotYourProdigy, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3What polls? Who gives a ***** until election day. I don't like to deal in politico-hypotheticals
  - sugarazor, on 09/03/2008, -1/+6"Kerry/Ewards up 15 points after the DNC "
    
    Wrong.
    
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nat ...
  - davidg11, on 09/03/2008, -5/+2Polls dont matter right now.
    
    They matter AFTER the debates.
    
    "Uhhhh...ummmm...well....uhhhhhhhhhhh....uhhhhhh...above my payscale"
    
    "Palin is CLEAN and ARTICULATE for a WOMAN"
    
    Get it?
    
    Thats why McCain and Palin will win. The DEBATES
  - uqdroma, on 09/03/2008, -3/+0"Hell even Michael Dukakis was up 15 points in the polls in 1988 over Bush and only won one state ROFL @ Massachusetts."
    
    Also a Bush that won California. MUWHAAHAAHAA
    
    http://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.ph ...
    
    The liberal media still puts Repub states in blue, that's rich. To be fair, Dukakis won more than one state.
- billymeade, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1"They" = Digg aka Dailykos 2 (Electric Diggaloo?). I don't think the GOP is very worried about a messageboard.
  - NotYourProdigy, on 09/05/2008, -0/+0Don't underestimate people who can freely communicate with each other.
hermizzle, on 09/03/2008, -17/+6This is absolute *****. All of this is made of half truths and probably less than half truths. The Washington Post admits to running 3x more favorable articles for Obama and I'm supposed to take what I read here as objective? All of this is going to cause a huge backlash against Obama sooner or later and then everyone can get ready to Digg articles about how bad a McCain presidency is. And while we are making things up about Sarah Palin, I think we should blame her for the incident at Shadow Moses because I don't think she managed that very well. In fact, Liquid Snake impregnated Bristol Palin and soon she will give birth to another Big Boss so lets just all vote Obama blah blah blah.
- jp83avalanche, on 09/03/2008, -3/+1Hahaha, thats hilarious. You are absolutely correct though
- publiclurker, on 09/03/2008, -1/+3I heard they gave a lot more positive articles about Gandhi than Timothy McVeigh also. Imagine that, giving preference to one of them foreigners over a red blooded American. and he was even a veteran.
- heystoopid, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3Truth hurts does it or is the tainted idol just another run of the mill greedy repuke pig dressed in witches clothing ?
keymanjim2, on 09/03/2008, -11/+12Who had the majority share (the other 60%) and was ultimately responsible for the administrative duties of the business?
- publiclurker, on 09/03/2008, -7/+7So you are tying to claim she's only 40% incompetent? How pathetic.
  - keymanjim2, on 09/03/2008, -3/+1Depending on the business license, she may only be 20% responsible. But the overall responsibility goes to whoever was designated as the officer of record. It was their responsibility to run the administrative aspects of the business and they are the one the government goes after first when or if legal problems arise.
    She successfully ran a fishing business also. In that she had control and there wasn't any problems with that one.
  - Wartyboskfapped, on 09/03/2008, -0/+4... Christ. The issue here is her failure to follow STATE LAW rather than the success or lack thereof of the business.
    
    We are talking about competency, judgement.. the ability to obey the law.
- niradg, on 09/03/2008, -3/+7So it's not her fault that she chose a bad partner to business with? She probably did as good a job vetting her partner as McCain did when he picked her.
  - keymanjim2, on 09/03/2008, -6/+1And who vetted obambi?
    I will lay blame on people like you if he becomes President. Currently, you don't know what kind of a bad choice you're making with him either.
- heystoopid, on 09/03/2008, -2/+5For tax avoidance reasons probably the kids .
- uqdroma, on 09/03/2008, -3/+1@keymanjim2 You didn't really think these children understand how S corps, INC's, or LLC's function did you. That's giving digg way too much credit.
Agger, on 09/03/2008, -3/+17She was the only woman who wanted to run with him I guess.
- publiclurker, on 09/03/2008, -2/+6All of the other trollops wore way too much makeup.
  - keymanjim2, on 09/03/2008, -7/+1I wouldn't talk if I were you.
    There ain't no beauty queens over at the dnc right now.
    http://blogs4conservatives.files.wordpress.com/200 ...
  - bjornski, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3Democrats don't normally vote for a candidate because she's a "babe".
- niradg, on 09/03/2008, -0/+5I think you're exactly right. Why isn't his running mate Kay Bailey Hutchinson or Olympia Snowe? My guess is that they turned him down- nobody wants to be a sacrificial lamb.
deadbaby, on 09/03/2008, -17/+10According to the McCain campaign she's actually been commanding the Alaskan national guard in Iraq so lay off her. Anyone can fail at a small business but commanding troops on the ground in Iraq is a real test and she's proven herself.
- m0laria, on 09/03/2008, -8/+10Yeah, you'd think that when Palin was on the ground in Iraq, all those depleted uranium rounds could have caused her to give birth to a child with down syndrome or something.
  
  Too soon?
- Mattwdj, on 09/03/2008, -0/+4The McCain campaign also said she was the most qualified republican to be VP.
- heystoopid, on 09/03/2008, -0/+5Is that why they are suffering from a supply of cheap crap rifles which fail regularly in dusty conditions and equipment designed for use in northern Alaskan winter conditions but now being used in the desert then ?
- deadbaby, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3It gets cold in the desert at night.
- johnnr2, on 09/03/2008, -0/+5ROFL
jp83avalanche, on 09/03/2008, -15/+6I think it's quite humorous how if this entire scenario had been reversed and it was Obama in this situation and not McCain, everyone would be saying "Give her a chance! Don't judge her by her daughter's screwups!, etc etc".
- niradg, on 09/03/2008, -1/+8Are you ***** kidding? If Malia Obama was 17 yrs old and pregnant, she would be portrayed as a typical black welfare queen. The holier-than-thou right would be all over her.
- davidg11, on 09/03/2008, -6/+3Really?
  
  How many digg stories are we reading about Obama and the american terrorist?
  
  Or Obama in his cocaine sniffing days?
  
  Not many....republicans arent going ***** like the liberal rags are
  - Wartyboskfapped, on 09/03/2008, -0/+7Only because the majority of America aint buying that ***** anymore. People are sick of Bush and anything with his taint, the last 8 years have been a ***** disaster, so I doubt that any of that tack would be popular. What you see is a result of the GOP disaster, so those articles, which do exist, just don't go down well. That's the way it works.
    
    WTF I'm trying to talk sense to a goddam right wing troll.
  - LRE13, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2I find it more likely that the right isn't as sure how this whole internet thing works. Maybe it has to do with Satan in the circuits. Who knows. yea. I only wanna see what people say with this. It makes no real sense. More humorous is the fact that this disclaimer will in no way effect any slanderous comments.
Junior612, on 09/03/2008, -2/+36She wasn't doing it topless; fail from the beginning.
venom8599, on 09/03/2008, -3/+9Not to argue the point of whether she has experience or not (personally I don't think she has enough to be qualified to hold her current job, much less be the Vice President) but this story isn't really such a big deal. Some of our greatest Presidents have had several failed business ventures. That's because business experience isn't the same as government experience.
madfrogurt, on 09/03/2008, -4/+18Because holding a financial stake in a business has nothing to do with managing the country.

There are more important and relevant points to attack her on, instead of this pointless *****. Argue against her positions, not on her financial gaffs. This is coming from a guy voting for Obama in November.
- niradg, on 09/03/2008, -2/+3Don't you think have a business that not only failed, but failed to comply with state regulations, shows poor judgment?
  - BobSconce, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1She was a minority investor in the business. There is no indication that she was running the business or that she was responsible for making sure that it was up to date.
    
    Should all of the Enron stockholders been held responsible for what happened there? You hold the people in control responsible, not those who only put in some money.
    
    Successful entrepreneurs often have a string of failed businesses behind them before they're successful.
springerlicious, on 09/03/2008, -5/+4Hey man, I'm just trying to play it down the middle. It's only fair...
- heystoopid, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2Missing the S word !
- bjornski, on 09/03/2008, -1/+2Play it down the middle?
  
  I've looked at your comment history. That shows otherwise.
macsox, on 09/03/2008, -5/+21The goof are coming faster than critics can keep-up. But soon to be up-to-date:
http://www.theworstcandidate.com/vp/
tkstock, on 09/03/2008, -19/+11Considering 95% of new small businesses fail within the first five years, it's not surprising.

If McCain had picked someone from inside the beltway, y'all would be screaming "same ole politics", now that he's picked a fresh face who is a reformer IN PRACTICE you grasp at straws.

She's the best thing to happen to the Republican ticket.
- jmreid, on 09/03/2008, -2/+13Cocaine is one hell of a drug.

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