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McCain Team Interviewed Palin Only Late in the Process
washingtonpost.com — Palin was not subjected to a lengthy in-person background interview with the head of Sen. John McCain's vice presidential vetting team until last Wednesday in Arizona, the day before McCain asked her to be his running mate, and she did not disclose the fact that her 17-year-old daughter was pregnant until that meeting
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- vexingmodstwo, on 09/03/2008, -105/+22The vetting process is none of your business.
She's the pick and she'll be the next VP of the US. Get over it.- rjyanj, on 09/03/2008, -13/+41yeah .. that's the great republican critical thinking that got us into the BS mess in iraq and caused the horrible response to hurricane katrina.
acting before thinking is just stupid, sorry.
it's hard to believe - but mccain might even be a worse president than bush.
i'm just amazed at how completely incompetent and detached john mccain is.
i wasn't that big of an obama fan, but these last 2 weeks have shown that john mccain is completely unfit to be president!- bushfocker, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1john mccain is a lying sack of *****
http://digg.com/celebrity/John_Mccain_lied_about_b ...
- bushfocker, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1john mccain is a lying sack of *****
- ChristPissed, on 09/03/2008, -11/+41The vetting process, and understanding how it did or not function in this obscene choice for the Office of Vice-President, is most certainly all of our business.
We the people, with the help of the press, will continue this process, that the republicans have obviously FAILED to do. - Kizilbash, on 09/03/2008, -10/+27Jesus ***** Christ, you're a joke. Of course it is everybody's business you peabrain. And it's the voters who will decide whether this miserable failure will be the VP and the even more miserable failure who selected her will be president.
- rhabd0mancer, on 09/03/2008, -12/+17I don't believe she'll survive this vetting process. She'll be asked to step aside soon, before Obama's lead becomes insurmountable.
- seraph582, on 09/04/2008, -18/+3what lead? He's trailing.
- soot, on 09/04/2008, -3/+13No he's not.
- 26thMARINES, on 09/04/2008, -11/+2he will be by 20 points in nov! haha
- fuzzybeard, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1Right now, I'm handicapping it at 7:5 and pick 'em.
- BungaloBill, on 09/04/2008, -1/+0Obama is leading, check out http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/. It's based solely on algorithms based on a massive amount of polling data.
As of today, it's 307 to 231 electoral votes (bounces are nullified by subtracting points from polling data if you care).
If the election were today, Obama/Biden would win it handily. Further, the trend is on its way up for Obama, not down. As more info comes out about Palin, we'll see that trend continue. - BungaloBill, on 09/04/2008, -0/+0I get dugg down for posting that? I know, I know, I should have seen that coming, it's difficult for republicans to face the truth without lashing out.
- Scienceisfun, on 09/04/2008, -7/+32You know, I'm starting to think you have way too much time on your hands. Over the past 14 hours, you've posted more than 100 comments on Digg. 100 comments! I can guarantee neither you, nor I, nor anybody, has 100 insightful things to say in a single day. Too many of your comments, and Digg's in general, are just hollow, leftard/rightard insults, with no substance. The emotion just pours out of these forums, and leaves rational, patient thought at the door. Polite, thought out discourse is very hard to find, on the internet in particular, which, ironically, is supposed to be the great disseminator of knowledge. Instead, it sometimes just seems like the web offers little but conjecture and opinion -- too much noise, and not enough signal. You don't change minds with slogans, soundbites and smears -- all they do is tighten up opposing camps, and further the divide between them. So, vexingmodstwo, if you do read this, by all means, continue to support your candidate and your beliefs, but be mindful of the fact that the person you're shouting at is as likely to open their mind to your ideas, as you are to theirs.
- slingr, on 09/04/2008, -0/+8bravo! well said
- Semprini, on 09/04/2008, -24/+15Digg.com, the official website of the pissed off, angry, nasty, out of touch left.
How many times will this article be posted?
BTW, Palin kicked ass.
In your heart, you know I'm right.- ShadowMerchant, on 09/04/2008, -19/+9I know you're right.
Palin ***** YEAH! - Semprini, on 09/04/2008, -18/+7Earlier tonite, we saw the happy left, some clown posted that he thought John and Sarah should be shot.
Yep, that is what has happened to the left in this country.
Mo Udall and Scoop Jackson are spinning in their graves.
(look them up young dems) - videodroner, on 09/04/2008, -14/+3But Obama/Biden are the "cool" ones to vote for!!
/sarcasm (just in case) - sugarazor, on 09/04/2008, -5/+16Only thing angry and nasty was Ms. Palin's speech. The anger towards Obama and the nasty being her exploitation of her children for political gain.
"Off-limits, unless I can pander to families with disabled children or a son or daughter in the military." - seraph582, on 09/04/2008, -12/+2Palin ***** YEAH is right! Quick - get some representation from F.A.G. to back you up!
- 26thMARINES, on 09/04/2008, -8/+3digg.com is just a mirror site for the puffington post, its all liberal troll garbage here... they got their ass whipped tonight, and the only way they can show themselves is to be pissed off.. Palin owned the stage, and obama's speech was crap compared to hers :)
- BungaloBill, on 09/04/2008, -2/+5No doubt Palin energized the conservative base, just look at them. They can barely get out a sentence without blabbering all over themselves and digging for silly name calling. "Puffington post?" Really?
The reaction in the vast pool of the undecideds (the ones that will decide the outcome of the election) hasn't been so positive. Pandering hasn't played well and cheap shots from a complete unknown will backfire. She's coming off as an attack dog, that's not what people want in a VP.
It's your night tonight, conservatives. Enjoy it. McCain shot from his hip and missed.
On the plus side, we'll have a strongly democratic House and Senate to go along with the democratic President so in the next election you won't have to worry about how to get health care for your family. You can thank the Democratic party voters later for that. ;-)
- ShadowMerchant, on 09/04/2008, -19/+9I know you're right.
- phrenzy, on 09/04/2008, -9/+16*****. That's it everybody. Election is over. Might as well pack it up now. Can we forfeit early? I mean, if vexingmodstwo declares that she WILL be the next VP of the US is there really any point in going on with this charade? /s
PS - vexingmodstwo, I hope you get a really cool hat with all the McCain points you've accumulated!- Lythium, on 09/04/2008, -0/+3"I sold my soul to the GOP and all I got was this lousy dunce-cap." =(
- soot, on 09/04/2008, -12/+13In your dreams. It's over for John McCain now.
Last week nobody could have told me who Sarah Palin was or even how to pronounce the name of the town she governed, and now she's the best thing since sliced bread to the McCain supporters.- soot, on 09/04/2008, -1/+11UH OH, looks like the McCain bury brigade is out in full force for their prize points tonight.
- jaxcs, on 09/04/2008, -0/+7So, even an article about the vetting process, that doesn't slam Palin at all except to reveal that she was chosen late, becomes fodder for left right battles. Geez who is even arguing that the GOP has no right to chose their candidate? Everyone deserves to know how the candidates chose their running mates, it's part of the process of choosing a president.
- videodroner, on 09/04/2008, -6/+1Except the article is inaccurate.
- jaxcs, on 09/04/2008, -0/+6Fine, what is inaccurate about it? No one above mentioned anything that even resembles a charge of inaccuracy.
- 26thMARINES, on 09/04/2008, -12/+0I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities
LOL, your obama and biden got 0wn3d tonight liberals :)
And as Rudy said, "the way obama changes his mind, biden, you had better get that VP pick in writing" :)
total ownage tonight!- sugarazor, on 09/04/2008, -1/+7Bashing charity work - real smart move, Republicans. What's next, puppy kicking?
It's amusing that they're going to try the whole flip-flop thing on Obama when McCain has changed his stance on pretty much every issue in the last two years. - ShadowMerchant, on 09/04/2008, -6/+1"Community organizing" is not charity work. It's all about worthless socialist Alinskyites amassing political power bases behind the scenes on the taxpayer's dime, and funneling taxpayer's money to Democrat front groups.
When the full story of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge is known, as I guarantee you it will be in a few short weeks, it will be child's play for the McCain/Palin administration to defund every ***** nickel from the ***** commie termites. We will bankrupt the communist organizers and then we will cut the balls off the trial lawyer scum with tort reform that will bankrupt the legal system, also a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party.
We are the Right and we are going to win and we will crush you left wing filth under our heel. We have not been so energized since Ronald Reagan. - sugarazor, on 09/04/2008, -0/+5Yawn, you bore me.
I mean c'mon, really? Crush us under your heel? Silly child. - FredFredrickson, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1LOL Rudy trying the "flip-flopper" routine? What a tired dance that is.
You're clearly too stupid to be a marine, 26thmarine. - BungaloBill, on 09/04/2008, -0/+0@ShadowMerchant Admit it, you've masturbated to Palin's picture more than once haven't you?
C'mon, don't lie.
- sugarazor, on 09/04/2008, -1/+7Bashing charity work - real smart move, Republicans. What's next, puppy kicking?
- drewmanbda, on 09/04/2008, -2/+1I agree. Palin will be the next VP.
- FredFredrickson, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1This woman is being considered to potentially be the second most powerful person in the country, and you think it's none of the public's business what her credentials were, or how she was selected?
Transparency of government is one of the founding principles of this country, and it's what makes the system work so great.
Honestly, how can you call yourself American? - Observer001, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1Ah, the privacy more, ofttimes shield of the coward and bane of proponents of transparency in government. What won't you protect, magical mystery more?
- rjyanj, on 09/03/2008, -13/+41yeah .. that's the great republican critical thinking that got us into the BS mess in iraq and caused the horrible response to hurricane katrina.
- axel000, on 09/03/2008, -22/+68Actually yes it is our business, the GOP can do the hell it likes but it informs voters on whether or not they can competently manage anything. They certainly can't manage an economy, or retruitment it seems.
- heliox, on 09/04/2008, -24/+12And the dems can?
- seraph582, on 09/04/2008, -16/+11GIBSON: All right. You have, however, said you would favor an increase in the capital gains tax. As a matter of fact, you said on CNBC, and I quote, "I certainly would not go above what existed under Bill Clinton," which was 28 percent. It's now 15 percent. That's almost a doubling, if you went to 28 percent.
But actually, Bill Clinton, in 1997, signed legislation that dropped the capital gains tax to 20 percent.
OBAMA: Right.
GIBSON: And George Bush has taken it down to 15 percent.
OBAMA: Right.
GIBSON: And in each instance, when the rate dropped, revenues from the tax increased; the government took in more money. And in the 1980s, when the tax was increased to 28 percent, the revenues went down.
So why raise it at all, especially given the fact that 100 million people in this country own stock and would be affected?
OBAMA: Well, Charlie, what I've said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness.
We saw an article today which showed that the top 50 hedge fund managers made $29 billion last year -- $29 billion for 50 individuals. And part of what has happened is that those who are able to work the stock market and amass huge fortunes on capital gains are paying a lower tax rate than their secretaries. That's not fair.
And what I want is not oppressive taxation. I want businesses to thrive, and I want people to be rewarded for their success. But what I also want to make sure is that our tax system is fair and that we are able to finance health care for Americans who currently don't have it and that we're able to invest in our infrastructure and invest in our schools.
And you can't do that for free.
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GIBSON: But history shows that when you drop the capital gains tax, the revenues go up.
OBAMA: Well, that might happen, or it might not.
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BRAAAAVO, MR. iOnlyVotePresentWhenItCounts, BRAAAAAVO! That's right people, Obama is basically going to ***** our government's income completely sideways just so he can be "FAIR."
Bravo, guys. Bravo. You've made this retard your goddamned liberal messiah, and he's going to absolutely *skull ****** our economy.
I hope you all die of terminal face-herpes. - MindStalker, on 09/04/2008, -2/+2seraph582:
http://www.cbpp.org/policy-points4-18-08.htm
The Congressional Budget Office did a study on this, apparently when capital gains taxes are lowered there is a boom in people selling off long held capital, this boom will eventually in the long run fall off and in the long run the government will receive less total revenues from capital gains. According to the study this is all a result of short term sell off resulting from the capital gains cuts, and reluctance to sell during periods of higher tax waiting for the eventually lowering of capital gains.
- seraph582, on 09/04/2008, -16/+11GIBSON: All right. You have, however, said you would favor an increase in the capital gains tax. As a matter of fact, you said on CNBC, and I quote, "I certainly would not go above what existed under Bill Clinton," which was 28 percent. It's now 15 percent. That's almost a doubling, if you went to 28 percent.
- modernjazz, on 09/04/2008, -14/+2The GOP was able to include ALL US States and wasn't falling all over itself trying to break the rules and reschedule primaries by being first and more important than other states. SO the phrase "doing whatever the hell it likes," in fact describes the Democrat party during primaries quite well. Choosing Palin just shows class. Just when the Dems were trying to crown their savior, along came McCain Palin talking about representing real people, whether in small towns or not, even people in Florida and Michigan. I'm sure most of DIGGnation was not watching (blinders) but the clarity of the GOP speakers will become evident over time and YouTube, and the disparity of the two tickets will also. This race is far from over. In the end more and more people in middle America are going to realize how much stronger the GOP ticket is in terms of character, experience, and vision. Despite the enormous dollars being spent on Obama by his media mogul backers, many people are smart enough to read, listen, and form opinions for themselves.
- Gemfinder, on 09/04/2008, -0/+6What a crock of *****.
It was the state legislatures — with GOP majorities — that rammed through bills to move up the primaries. - modernjazz, on 09/04/2008, -2/+3Now this is more typical Dem speak. Not quite so eloquent as Sir Obama now are we? The GOP is to blame if there is a problem - THEY're why the Democrats didn't count two of the largest states in the country. You might as well say it. Bush did it.
- theaceoffire, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1^_^ Yet we are 50x as eloquent as Bush or McCain...
And that is sad.
- Gemfinder, on 09/04/2008, -0/+6What a crock of *****.
- Pandatot, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1I am happy to agree with your post but angry to see you not use the reply button! Not that vexing really deserves a reply but you know...
- jabberwolff, on 09/04/2008, -0/+0The only thing you have is trying to tie Mccain to the Bush administration.
That is basically the only argument that the Obamatards have.
Dan Balz is tyhe writer of this article and assumes ( by hearsay) that Arthur B. Culvahouse Jr. is the only interview and only source of Palins history.
This is false, this is lame, this is unaccurate... and a far reach for the left.
This is not journalism and I'm surprised the Washington post allowed this crap
- heliox, on 09/04/2008, -24/+12And the dems can?
- rjyanj, on 09/03/2008, -30/+97you can't even make this ***** up anymore ..
mccain is a horrible choice for president.
he is not up to the job and his advisers apparently aren't very helpful either.
it looks like they've decided to get the religious wackos and gun nuts excited with palin.. thankfully, it's not 1999 anymore and we've been through hell with bush and DO NOT WANT.- jabberwolff, on 09/04/2008, -2/+0You can try and make this up, as they have been.
This wasnt the only interview or phone call. This wasnt the first time they've spoken. This is propaganda because the Obama campaign is scared *****. A hocky mom that's done more for the USA and energy problem then anyone in the campaign.
- jabberwolff, on 09/04/2008, -2/+0You can try and make this up, as they have been.
- netgui68, on 09/03/2008, -24/+42They say this election is about McCain. I say this election is about the American people and the problems they are facing thanks to McCains party of corruption...lets see who is right.
- toetagger, on 09/04/2008, -4/+5http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/09/mc ... McCain manager says election not about issues: "This election is not about issues," said Davis. "This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates."
- Unyoked, on 09/04/2008, -10/+2Thats how Obama has been running his entire campaign.
- toetagger, on 09/04/2008, -4/+5http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/09/mc ... McCain manager says election not about issues: "This election is not about issues," said Davis. "This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates."
- elf202, on 09/03/2008, -22/+59McCain is following the Bush playbook. Remember the lack of due diligence behind the decision to invade Iraq? Remember how the American people were lied to about how the decision process was made?
- jmpzzz, on 09/04/2008, -1/+8Americans even don't know about real situation in South Osetia and Geogia. Geogia invaded South Osetia and in fact declared war to Russia. Just read russian news to realize what happened. McCain is not a president, he is evil.
- DarkShroud, on 09/04/2008, -1/+1South Osetia is part of Georgia. No country in the world recognized South Osetia as it's own country.
- MindStalker, on 09/04/2008, -1/+1You should have heard Mr 9/11's speech last night. He claimed that Russia was evil for attacking Georgia and that Obama was weak for wanting to negotiate with them.
- jmpzzz, on 09/05/2008, -0/+0Do you know that Russia and Nicaragua recognized South Osetia?
Georgia attacked south Osetia! There is no democracy in Georgia.
Do you know the history of this region? During last 20 years Georgian troops 3 times attacked South Osetia!
Make your own opinion, don't listen government representatives.
Main aim of American president is to make warfare near Russia and via this situation control the situation all over the world.
- jabberwolff, on 09/04/2008, -0/+0"Americans even don't know about real situation in South Osetia and Geogia. Geogia invaded South Osetia and in fact declared war to Russia. Just read russian news to realize what happened."
They did no such thing - are all Democrats this retarded to believe crap like this?
Not to mention Russian news isnt quite as free as it used to be. They have been shutting down, firing, or actually killing reporters that dont follow their script. - jmpzzz, on 09/05/2008, -0/+0What are you talking about?
Do you think that American reporters are free?
They write what American president said.
Can you answer the question: What is the reason for arming georgian troops? Is there any need in financial help for georgian civilians from american budget? 2 billion dollars!
Fact: 8 august georgian troops attacked the capital of South Osetia and killed 2000 of civilians. Is it a democratic way of solving problems?
At the beginning of this warfare, one american reporter was injured by georgian troops and was cured by russians.
You even don't know that there is no need for Russia to fight with Georgia. There is nothing in Georgia.
Open your eyes and THINK!
- jmpzzz, on 09/04/2008, -1/+8Americans even don't know about real situation in South Osetia and Geogia. Geogia invaded South Osetia and in fact declared war to Russia. Just read russian news to realize what happened. McCain is not a president, he is evil.
- Kizilbash, on 09/03/2008, -17/+42Heckofajob Brownie, Harriet Miers anyone?
- alleged, on 09/03/2008, -21/+51The irony here is that Sarah Palin is the VP nominee because of a quota - selected over hundreds of more qualified individuals as a cynical attempt to pander to disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters.
The Republican Party - latecomers to affirmative action, but now true believers!- greenkoi, on 09/04/2008, -7/+19Palin = Pander
- heliox, on 09/04/2008, -17/+7I am a conservative. Not really a republican.
Affirmative action is dems way of garnering power.
Repubs and conservative dislike affirmative action because it is essentially telling people, you are too weak to make it. You need help.
As much as liberals hate it, they know Republicans try to help people help themselves. Build thier self esteem. Liberals say it is cruel and it is just Republicans keeping the po' folk down.- chevyorange, on 09/04/2008, -2/+9Generalize much?
- topgigmedia, on 09/04/2008, -0/+5Curious how Republicans have "helped" others. Have you ever known a person who has grown up in extreme poverty (relative to what we call poverty in the US)? Have you ever entertained the incredible, if not almost insurmountable odds they have of even making it in the US (i.e. getting a higher education and making more than the bare minimum to keep the creditors from taking everything, or what very little they have?) I think that if you were able to really take an honest look and see the imbalance in the US, you would argue that some (not all) social programs, if implemented properly actually benefit everyone. The recipient becomes a productive member in society increasing the foundation of the system by re-contributing back. I am not proposing blind handouts... again - I am refering to well thought out programs.
It takes more than some rich (commonly Republican) white guy telling you to pick yourself up by the bootstraps (assuming you even own boots) to enable one to climb out of the hole created by the failings of our economic and social structure in this country.
Your thoughts may work at some "rally" or stump speech attended by people who think the way you do, but in practice, look around - they are completely falling flat on their face. - eRaptor, on 09/04/2008, -0/+3As an independent American, I oppose affirmative action because it is legalized discrimination that achieved it's intended purpose long ago. However, conservatives and Republicans are in NO position to criticize liberals and Democrats in the area of handouts.
How many companies and institutions have American taxpayers bailed out as a result of corruption, greed and incompetence? Are these character flaws examples of conservative/Republican strength? Corporate welfare, tax cuts and bailouts are all forms of a handout and FAR more costly to our society than liberal social programs. - heliox, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1@ top and raptor.
You made my point thanks.
You guys just don't seem to get that the more welfare you spread, you just perpetuate the issue.
If you are going to lend a hand, try to have the outcome of a self-sustaining individual, not some entitlement whore lives from welfare check to welfare check.
- lordbeaker, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1Any supporters of Hillary Clinton that would vote with Palin would be going against what Hillary was all about, so you are off target on that one.
It's a pure and simple case of cinching the religious conservative voters that had trouble with McCain's old moderate views.
- spam2040, on 09/03/2008, -18/+38McCain would be a dangerous.y reckless leader for america. He showed very poor judgement on this decision
- lopla, on 09/04/2008, -14/+3I like to live dangerously.
- chevyorange, on 09/04/2008, -0/+7You probably have no idea what danger is.
- Wartyboskfapped, on 09/04/2008, -0/+5So when are you signing up?
- akamurph, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2Says someone who backs Obama with less experience than Palin, QQ.
- lopla, on 09/04/2008, -14/+3I like to live dangerously.
- esdjco, on 09/04/2008, -46/+28Here we go again...moments after her speech...we get these retards trashing Palin and McCain. I think it's fear that the VP choice of McCain might actually be a better president than King Obama. He needs to go off and snort some coke.
Talk amongst yourselves...- Semprini, on 09/04/2008, -18/+19Again, we see just how nasty the left is.
They are ALL about inclusion, unless its a woman that isn't a dolt like Nancy Pelosi.
The hypocrisy....they are soaking in it.- springerlicious, on 09/04/2008, -7/+8Agreed.
- Semprini, on 09/04/2008, -7/+7Forgot to add "is" after Nancy Pelosi.
Because, she is dumber than stone. - Bologner, on 09/04/2008, -6/+7Pelosi is a ***** hack, and the people on Digg realize this.
- seraph582, on 09/04/2008, -6/+7Pelosi has managed to spearhead a congress with a single digit approval rating.
Bravo, Nancy. Brraaaavvooo. You make Bush look good - and *that's* hard to ***** do!
- esdjco, on 09/04/2008, -16/+10Where are all the liberal feminists coming out for Palin and her family? Oh thats right...they aren't Feminists, they are liberals. Would her ability to manage a family and the country be in question if she had a pecker vs a vaaa JJ?
- Semprini, on 09/04/2008, -14/+6Because the feminists can't walk the talk. They want to be leaders, but God forbid that a woman, have children (without getting an abortion) be happily married (to a man), and have a mind of her own to be conservative.
Its so funny, all of a sudden the militant feminists are concerned about a woman being able to take care of her family. She has a husband who willingly helps, and that really burns them.
It all comes down to this, the left pretends to be pro woman, but only if its a really angry woman, but they are incredibly sexist when it comes to a mother who dares to be conservative.
You've come a long way baby, and look at how hypocritical you have become. Equal Rights for women, just as long as they toe the liberal line. - bwseaver, on 09/04/2008, -7/+8Why would feminists come out for Palin? She's a pro-life candidate running on a ticket that doesn't believe in equal pay, that wants abstinence-only sex ed. in public schools. The Democratic ticket is clearly the better one for women. (And men. And children.)
- soot, on 09/04/2008, -3/+11"You've come a long way baby, and look at how hypocritical you have become. Equal Rights for women, just as long as they toe the liberal line."
Why don't you ask John McCain why he still doesn't support equal wages for equal pay then? Perhaps he'll make sure Palin is paid 20% less than the other VPs. - Semprini, on 09/04/2008, -10/+3Uh, because that myth died many years ago?
I administer salary for my company, women make as much or more as the men, and yes, I do check to make sure.
The left is scared, good. - soot, on 09/04/2008, -3/+8Many years ago? HE OPPOSED AND SKIPPED A SENATE VOTE SEEKING EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN JUST LAST APRIL.
- Semprini, on 09/04/2008, -14/+6Because the feminists can't walk the talk. They want to be leaders, but God forbid that a woman, have children (without getting an abortion) be happily married (to a man), and have a mind of her own to be conservative.
- B1663r, on 09/04/2008, -11/+12Moments after the speech... My snap opinion... I'll admit im biased, but if there was any lingering doubt that McCain would just continue Bush's policies, all that doubt has been removed.
McCain plans to govern exactly like Bush, and the RNC propaganda that he is a maverick is just propaganda.- silversalute, on 09/04/2008, -9/+1I'm glad we have someone to tip the scales to the right. McCain is a little to liberal for me. I just hope he does not undo a lot of the good stuff Bush has done.
- Wartyboskfapped, on 09/04/2008, -0/+6Shorter Right Wing Shills: WAAAAH! we can dish it out but can't take it! WAAAH!
- Semprini, on 09/04/2008, -18/+19Again, we see just how nasty the left is.
- GorfTron, on 09/04/2008, -12/+15He is a real maverick! He buzzed out towers and I spilled my coffee.
- barf1, on 09/04/2008, -12/+1he buzzed out towers, good job moron
- fuzzybeard, on 09/04/2008, -0/+3OK, following through on your train of thought...If McCain is Maverick from Top Gun as you are implying, wouldn't that make Governor Palin "Goose?" If I recall correctly, things didn't turn out very well for Goose.
Nice analogy.- GorfTron, on 09/04/2008, -0/+4Also, McCain is kinda gay, then.
- chadu, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1mcCain is a scientologist? that won't play well with the GOP base.
- jabberwolff, on 09/04/2008, -0/+0TALK TO ME GOOSE!!
- aratika, on 09/04/2008, -18/+6CNN is reporting that Canada has asked to join the US so they can have Sarah Palin as a Vice President. And make "stoopid brownies" for them.
- ParappaDaCrappa, on 09/04/2008, -21/+9Enough with the F****** Palin stories, shes a S*** choice we know!
- 471776, on 09/04/2008, -1/+2Nobody is forcing you to read them.
- soot, on 09/04/2008, -13/+31I'm happy that people are asking questions about Sarah Palin, but what I wish more people would focus on is John McCain and why he chose her of all people, of all options on the short-list. If this is the kind of short-sighted decision making that puts somebody like this at our doorstep and a heartbeat away from the presidency, that says something very bad about him and his judgment as a candidate and as a potential president.
- Semprini, on 09/04/2008, -19/+7Sounds like the left is a-skeered!
You should be, Obama is best friends with racist priests, psycho bomber terrorists and swine like Rezco, and he put up a schlub like Biden (he Joe, any more plagarizing?) Oh, and when it came time for Obama to walk the talk, he voted "Present", what a pussy.
McCain and Palin offer hope, Obama and Biden, just pissed off whining, union goons, and more taxes.
I shall enjoy being downrated by the ignorant Diggers!- soot, on 09/04/2008, -8/+9You're so ***** full of ***** I don't even know where to start.
"McCain and Palin offer hope, Obama and Biden, just pissed off whining, union goons, and more taxes."
You couldn't even have told me who Sarah Palin was last week, and now she's the biggest thing since the wheel.
Union goons? Unions give power to the workers of this country. Clarify what your problem is with unions, I don't know what you mean by "union goons".
"More taxes" is complete ***** and you know it; Obama's plan cuts taxes for 95 percent of the income bracket, so go and familiarize yourself with his proposals instead of rehashing lies. - Semprini, on 09/04/2008, -10/+4Do you deny Obamba and Ayers? Or Reverend Wright, or Tony Rezco?
Or Obama's pussy voting record (Present is not a stand, yes or no is)
Thanks for living up to the stereotype. - soot, on 09/04/2008, -1/+11At least spell his name right if you want to look like you know what you're talking about, its "Rezko".
So what, he served on a board for an education institute with a guy who built explosives in the sixties when he was still probably pissing his bed at night. I don't give a ***** about Reverend Wright either. And he bought a plot of land in his yard from Tony Rezko. Where's the crime? Meanwhile McCain was implicated in the Keating Five scandal.
I don't give a ***** about the politics of association. I don't give a ***** about some old white "terrorist" hippie fart who did something forty years ago. I give a ***** that John McCain wants to make permanent the Bush tax cuts for the rich despite the harm done to our economy, continue wasting ten billion dollars a month in Iraq and do nothing about health care or education for this country, and Barack Obama is on the right side of those issues to me. - seraph582, on 09/04/2008, -9/+2to ^
You couldn't have told us who Obama was before the Dem primaries
/rolleyes
hypocrite - soot, on 09/04/2008, -0/+8"You couldn't have told us who Obama was before the Dem primaries"
At least I've had the past eighteen months to get to know him, as a candidate and as a politician and an individual. I know how sharp he is, and I know how he makes his choices.
People are just meeting Sarah Palin for the first time tonight. This is too late for John McCain to do that. It does not help when many peoples' first impressions of her are as the snarky jerk she made herself out to be in her personal attacks on their opponents tonight.
The dirtiest Barack Obama got in his acceptance speech was with his comment about bin Laden and John McCain not wanting to direct our military from Iraq into Afghanistan to find him, and even still there was policy relevance and truth to it. Mrs. Palin did nothing tonight but snipe at Obama and his supporters, tried to invalidate their reasons for supporting him by calling them "devoted followers" and outright lied about his tax plan, as well as her support for Ted Stevens' Bridge to Nowhere legislation and the ethics reform package that she signed onto only after the democrats in Alaska brought it forward, which she claims she lead on. - ShadowMerchant, on 09/04/2008, -7/+0"It does not help when many peoples' first impressions of her are as the snarky jerk she made herself out to be in her personal attacks on their opponents tonight."
Um, historically it has always been the job of the VP pick to land the hard blows that might be unseemly coming from the top of the ticket. In this, as in everything, Sarah will take a back seat to no man.
You guys must be pissing your hemp underwear about now. As for me, toodle-oo, I am inspired to go donate another $1000 in hard money to the campaign. - Wartyboskfapped, on 09/04/2008, -0/+6I love to see Right Wing retards wasting their money. It keeps them out of trouble.
- soot, on 09/04/2008, -0/+4"I love to see Right Wing retards wasting their money. It keeps them out of trouble."
I love how the only self-identified Republican voters on Digg are the kind of people who can afford to write off a $1,000 check and tell me how they balance the salaries of their employees. - kmom5, on 09/04/2008, -0/+4a-skeered?
You have enough gall to call someone else, anyone else, ignorant after actually using that phrase(even in jest)??
Okay, then...
- soot, on 09/04/2008, -8/+9You're so ***** full of ***** I don't even know where to start.
- lordbeaker, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2He didn't choose her. Karl Rove most likely did.
- DarkShroud, on 09/04/2008, -1/+1Rove doesn't work in the White House anymore idiot. He works for Fox News now.
- awa64, on 09/04/2008, -0/+3And Fox News works for the Bush White House. So Rove's a bit further down the organizational ladder... he's still working for the same people.
- Semprini, on 09/04/2008, -19/+7Sounds like the left is a-skeered!
- alphaterminus, on 09/04/2008, -8/+36Palin gave a good speech and will be a formidable opponent. Do not underestimate her. Leave her daughter alone unless you want her to win.
/Obama '08- phrenzy, on 09/04/2008, -15/+12I may be alone on this but I thought she sounded like a school principle that got stuck in front of a teleprompter. Annoying and awkward. Like the words coming out of her mouth just weren't hers.
- canvashinder, on 09/04/2008, -8/+12You are not alone. I also thought that.
- ShadowMerchant, on 09/04/2008, -7/+2As a matter of fact, her teleprompter got ***** up, and she did it from paper notes and memory.
You lefties are so screwed.
- ferrariman60, on 09/04/2008, -3/+14I thought she was obnoxious- didn't say much of anything about what she brings to the table, but she did make a lot of sarcastic jokes about Obama. And took credit for everything that she's done to take down the establishment as governor of AK- for the last year and a half. And compared herself to a dog, but she's got lipstick! lol.
- sugarazor, on 09/04/2008, -4/+20Why should people leave her daughter alone when she's perfectly comfortable exploiting her two sons? Either families are off-limits or they're not, the Republican party always wants it both ways, not this year.
- toetagger, on 09/04/2008, -4/+8She's fair game. Look what they did to Obama! "He's a commie, a terrorist, a Muslim, anti-American" ***** them, she's going down! (and not just on her husband's partner's dick)
- spider-man, on 09/04/2008, -1/+1And Obama whined and whined and warned people that his wife was off limits.
Double standard. - jabberwolff, on 09/04/2008, -0/+0And Obama even had his family interviews.... but no no, we can't touch his family.
But go after Sarah's kids?
Independents are well aware how the democrats have become, and the stench of their hypocrisy is wreaking across the USA.
- spider-man, on 09/04/2008, -1/+1And Obama whined and whined and warned people that his wife was off limits.
- alphaterminus, on 09/04/2008, -2/+7Listen *****. I'm not offended by you attacking her family, but undecideds will be. ***** morons.
- chuckDontSurf, on 09/04/2008, -0/+3I'm with you alphaterminus. The Dems discount Palin at their own peril. If they're not careful, she could win this election for McCain. Some people don't understand that yeah, sure it's fair play to attack Palin's family, but how that's perceived will totally ***** the Dems.
- ShadowMerchant, on 09/04/2008, -4/+1Even if Obama somehow pulls a rabbit out of the hat this year, this brave and confident and dazzling woman is going to give the Left fits for thirty more years. She will undoubtedly be President.
- Wartyboskfapped, on 09/04/2008, -2/+4LOL
pull a rabbit out of a hat.. dude, he is ahead 6-8 pts in the polls. He has already cinched the electoral college votes. It's McCain who has to produce a miracle.
The only miracle he's produced this week is a chick who has had you lot in damage control for 6 days straight.
Good luck.
- khail250, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2If it wasn't for the "/Obama '08" you would be buried faster than a pro Iraq news report=pro bush
- jabberwolff, on 09/04/2008, -0/+0So its ok for Obama to have his entire family interviewed... but you can't go after them or his wife.
But it's ok to go after Palin's daughter and children?
WHAT??!!!
Keep the hypocrisy up democrats. You will only get people to get ill at the sound of your voices and sight of your articles.
- phrenzy, on 09/04/2008, -15/+12I may be alone on this but I thought she sounded like a school principle that got stuck in front of a teleprompter. Annoying and awkward. Like the words coming out of her mouth just weren't hers.
- Zanzabar33, on 09/04/2008, -32/+25She gave a phenomenal speech
- kesin, on 09/04/2008, -13/+17***** terrible speech written by none other that george bush's speech writer...oh joy
- videodroner, on 09/04/2008, -8/+0Oh noez! A conspiracy!
- toetagger, on 09/04/2008, -4/+12It was sophomoric and she didn't even write it anyway.
- Wartyboskfapped, on 09/04/2008, -3/+6That's funny, Reagan's speechwriter was overheard saying "it's over" - for McCain.
So basically, someone with real experience of speeches is not impressed. - booksnmore4you, on 09/04/2008, -1/+2She delievered a speech written FOR HER by Matthew Scully. That is all. We still have no idea who Palin is until she get's out a controlled environment and has only herself to fall back on.
Contrast this with Obama who write the vast bulk of his own speeches.
- kesin, on 09/04/2008, -13/+17***** terrible speech written by none other that george bush's speech writer...oh joy
- omercyme33, on 09/04/2008, -10/+21This only proves that McCain is just like the rest of us average folk. Just like us, he barely knew who Palin was before she became the VP nominee.
- barf1, on 09/04/2008, -8/+3what does this even mean?
- omercyme33, on 09/04/2008, -1/+4Well, it was sarcasm. Sarcasm, as defined by Wiktionary, is a form of humor that is marked by mocking with irony, sometimes conveyed in speech with vocal over-emphasis.
You see, the McCain campaign spends a lot of time trying to appeal to the average working-class American while attacking Obama for being elitist even though McCain is worth about 40 times more.
The sarcasm thing comes in because we, your average non-millionaire people, didn't really know anything about Palin. So, I'm saying that McCain, like us, didn't really know much about her either even though he probably should have.
Get it? I hope so because I'm really annoyed that your stupidity forced me to completely deflate the joke by explaining it.
- omercyme33, on 09/04/2008, -1/+4Well, it was sarcasm. Sarcasm, as defined by Wiktionary, is a form of humor that is marked by mocking with irony, sometimes conveyed in speech with vocal over-emphasis.
- DutchGuilder, on 09/04/2008, -12/+4Bill Clinton only met Al Gore once before asking him to be vice president.
- videodroner, on 09/04/2008, -6/+3Oh, how quickly the liberals forget Geraldine Ferraro in '84, the first female to be nominated as VP for the democratic party. She was picked without any experience merely because she was a women and they needed the women's vote. Same *****, different party, and she actually turned out to be very competent and impressed everyone with her ongoing relations with politics.
Hypocrites.
- barf1, on 09/04/2008, -8/+3what does this even mean?
- visionaryIX, on 09/04/2008, -16/+34You know what we need more of on digg?
Sarah Palin articles. Preferably ones from the huffington post.- Bologner, on 09/04/2008, -1/+10And more John McCain age jokes.
- chevyorange, on 09/04/2008, -1/+6Obama vs. McCain. YouTube vs. Feeding Tube.
- videodroner, on 09/04/2008, -3/+12OMGz!!1! Did you hear!?? Her daughter is preggo!!
I'm so tired of all these pointless submissions that somehow manage to reach the front page... for the 500th TIME!!! - toetagger, on 09/04/2008, -2/+5Don't you worry your little head, you got it. We are not done with that religious zealot. "Pray for the Oil pipeline"
- elcapitanp, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2This is the Washington Post. Not the Huffington Post. Oh wait, I forgot, every source critical of the Repubs is the "Liberal Media."
- Bologner, on 09/04/2008, -1/+10And more John McCain age jokes.
- Disgod, on 09/04/2008, -12/+28Honestly one has to wonder if McCain is intentionally throwing this election. I'm not trying to be conspiracy theorist about this, but honestly this is exactly the ***** someone would do to intentionally lose, either that or their office motto is "How utterly incompetent can we look. We're going for Bush after Hurricane Katrina bad here folks."
Tragically I really think it is just shear and utter incompetence.- PhoneWhore, on 09/04/2008, -14/+5WTF are you talking about!? Palin was awesome. Too bad she's not the one running for POTUS. Can't wait for 2012...
- toetagger, on 09/04/2008, -1/+7First of all, she's being introduced to the country and those weren't even her words. It was written for her. Secondly, it was only good if you like what she's saying and your simple minded.
- PhoneWhore, on 09/04/2008, -4/+1What is with the "the speech was written for her" crap. Maybe she shoulda stole one like that relic Biden did. Oh, and I'm sure the Obamination writes his own...
Simple minded? pfft! If you want to insult me, at least use a spell checker. Should be "you're simple minded" not "your" - lol!
- pinchduck, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2Have you seen the polls? Most of them are within the margin of error. Obama is usually on top, but the widest margin is by 6 points, the narrowest by 2. A stodgy old white guy from an incredibly unpopular party is running a very competitive campaign when we all thought it would be a blowout, and you think he's incompetent at campaigning? Let me turn it around a bit and ask: Given Obama's huge advantages going in (great speaker, from a somewhat less unpopular party, not associated with the bonehead economic policies of the past 8 years), why isn't he leading by 20 points or more?
- PhoneWhore, on 09/04/2008, -14/+5WTF are you talking about!? Palin was awesome. Too bad she's not the one running for POTUS. Can't wait for 2012...
- DutchGuilder, on 09/04/2008, -20/+1145% of American voters always go right, and 45% always go left, while the 10% in the middle decide who wins elections. Her speech tonight was aimed directly at that 10% and it hit the target. Her line about Obama's "styrofoam pillars" was hilarious.
Did anyone else notice Rudy was actually pretty good tonight?- sugarazor, on 09/04/2008, -4/+11Pretty good at lying and still trying to connect Iraq and al-Qaeda.
- DutchGuilder, on 09/04/2008, -2/+1Yeah, he did that too. He seemed much more affable than during his campaign, but he can't seem to help himself when it comes to mentioning 9/11 or terrorists in a speech. He just seemed like a little less of douche.
- sugarazor, on 09/04/2008, -1/+7What else does Giuliani have to talk about besides 9/11?
And Giuliani being less of a douche is like Dick Cheney being "kinda pleasant."
- uqdroma, on 09/04/2008, -7/+2"Did anyone else notice Rudy was actually pretty good tonight?"
Tonight? You just got a taste of why I voted for him in the FL primary. Also, he never blasted McCain here like Hil and Biden did their candidate.- andersan, on 09/04/2008, -1/+2Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiine..... Eleven.
NNNNNNNNNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEE.
EEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEVVVVVVVEEEEEENNN.
If you missed it:
Nine. Forward Slash. One. One. - uqdroma, on 09/04/2008, -1/+1My vote had nothing to do with 9/11 ass. Isn't it past your bedtime?
- andersan, on 09/04/2008, -1/+2Well, I do usually go to sleep at about 9:11, but I decided to stay up late tonight.
- andersan, on 09/04/2008, -1/+2Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiine..... Eleven.
- sugarazor, on 09/04/2008, -4/+11Pretty good at lying and still trying to connect Iraq and al-Qaeda.
- FaceDog, on 09/04/2008, -18/+67What is Sarah Palin’s problem with community organizers?
Her RNC speech was so offensive. She said:
“I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.”
Community organizers and other community activists are being responsible American Citizens.
How dare she belittle that. There is no greater responsibility then being a responsible citizen and taking care of your fellow citizens. It is also the hardest. It doesn’t come with the fame and fortune of being a politician.
What a snob.- semrocks, on 09/04/2008, -20/+6And this qualifies you to be President how? In one sentence, she showed that Obama is the most unqualified, inexperienced Presidential candidate this country has ever had...
- FaceDog, on 09/04/2008, -3/+15I wasn't talking about Obama or his qualifications. I was offended by her belittling the work of community organizers.
Since you asked, it is something he should be proud of just like John McCain can be proud of his what he did as a POW. That is also something often discussed even though it in no way qualifies him to be president.
How does being a mayor of a town of 9000 qualify you to be president? - bainfu, on 09/04/2008, -9/+5How does it? It's an executive position, you're in charge of budgets and making decisions. Not just showing up and not voting. You have to make tough decisions regardless of your pay grade. Are there more experienced people out there? Maybe, but she's not going to be the President, I can't understand why Obama's camp is attacking her qualifications when on the job executive experience she has more.
If you were going to hire a CEO, who would look better on a resume? A smaller corporation's CEO, or a smooth talking employee? - semrocks, on 09/04/2008, -9/+4Forget a little something? It's called a governorship. And, last time I checked, Palin isn't running for President.
And you're offended by belittling? Let me ask you a question: Do you cling to anything? - whimmel, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1"And, last time I checked, Palin isn't running for President."
Do you believe McCain will survive his first term?
- FaceDog, on 09/04/2008, -3/+15I wasn't talking about Obama or his qualifications. I was offended by her belittling the work of community organizers.
- YEEK, on 09/04/2008, -4/+26The Republicans scream that Americans should be more involved in their communities and not expect the gov't to do it for them, then they have the audacity to ridicule someone who does just that!
Insulting! - DutchGuilder, on 09/04/2008, -12/+4> There is no greater responsibility then being a responsible citizen and taking care of your fellow citizens. It is also the hardest.
What a crock! There are plenty of greater responsibilities: being a parent, caring for an senile parent, caring for an paralyzed child, being a teacher, being a surgeon, being a doctor who decides who gets donated organs, being a head of state, etc.
And there are plenty of things harder: raising a child, running a marathon, building a business from nothing then sellling it for millions, enduring a life sentence as wrongfully convicted criminal, living as a paraplegic, lving in an iron lung, writing books while being blind/deaf/dumb, etc.
There is nothing worse than outrageous hyperbole! (pun intended)- FaceDog, on 09/04/2008, -1/+7What you wrote didn’t even make sense.
“Plenty of greater responsibilities”?
"being a parent, caring for an senile parent, caring for an paralyzed child, being a teacher, being a surgeon, being a doctor who decides who gets donated organs, being a head of state, etc" is being a responsible citizen and taking care of your fellow citizens. I just wrote that there is no greater responsibility than this. So how can this be greater than itself? It just doesn't make sense. That is why arguing with people like you is so hard. You have no need to make sense or use logic.
- FaceDog, on 09/04/2008, -1/+7What you wrote didn’t even make sense.
- morcheeba, on 09/04/2008, -7/+3Facedog: Palin wasn't talking to you - she was using "Community Organizer" as a Republican code word/put down for Obama. That explains semrock's seemingly off-topic response.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070416/moberg- FaceDog, on 09/04/2008, -0/+9I know what she was doing, but she said what she said and meant it. If it was "code" then it should have come with a decoder ring.
One way or the other, she insulted Obama's community organizer experience and doing so insulted the experience of all community organizers and activists. - semrocks, on 09/04/2008, -4/+2Republican code word? LOL! They're going after Palin tooth and nail for her "lack of experience." This coming from the campaign of a community organizer. It's not a code word. It's the truth, something you seem to have a problem dealing with.
Have you ever lived in Chicago? I have. Anyone who lives there knows what a "community organizer" is. Jesse Jackson is a "community organizer." Want him as President?
Hey, if the libs want to dish it out, then be prepared to take it. Hell, I agree with Joe Biden: the presidency doesn't lend itself to on the job training." He hit the nail on the head with that one...
- FaceDog, on 09/04/2008, -0/+9I know what she was doing, but she said what she said and meant it. If it was "code" then it should have come with a decoder ring.
- pinchduck, on 09/04/2008, -1/+2She hurt your feelings? Really? Wow.
- semrocks, on 09/04/2008, -20/+6And this qualifies you to be President how? In one sentence, she showed that Obama is the most unqualified, inexperienced Presidential candidate this country has ever had...
- springerlicious, on 09/04/2008, -32/+16Uh oh. Time for the libs to pick up the attacks after Palin's KNOCK-OUT speech. Don't these reporters ... um, I mean sensationalists, know that the more they attack Palin, the more it hurts their cause?
Oh well. Palin was ***** awesome tonight. And those jabs at Obama? Priceless.- springerlicious, on 09/04/2008, -12/+5Please you *****, keep digging me down. You ultra-lefties know I'm right. I'm gonna laugh my ass-off when McCain + Palin get elected in November.
- ShadowMerchant, on 09/04/2008, -7/+0Me too. We saw history tonight. We saw our first female President. We saw the reincarnation of Ronald Reagan, the happy warrior of blessed memory.
Oh my God, the Left is so ***** ***** ***** for the next sixteen years. Suck it bitches. - andersan, on 09/04/2008, -1/+3I wish I could give you a pass on this homoerotic man crush you all have on Ronald Reagan. Why don't you just dig up his goddamned corpse already, stuff it, and use it as a sex doll? You know you want to. REAGAN SMASH!
You're a great American.
- ShadowMerchant, on 09/04/2008, -7/+0Me too. We saw history tonight. We saw our first female President. We saw the reincarnation of Ronald Reagan, the happy warrior of blessed memory.
- Wartyboskfapped, on 09/04/2008, -1/+4Ha ha ha
You guys are so delusional, this is a laugh riot.
Peggy Noonan: "It's over for McCain"
- springerlicious, on 09/04/2008, -12/+5Please you *****, keep digging me down. You ultra-lefties know I'm right. I'm gonna laugh my ass-off when McCain + Palin get elected in November.
- aratika, on 09/04/2008, -13/+7It's a political convention. People talk smack. Get over it....
- JLSN, on 09/04/2008, -15/+42John 'Yoda' McCain should have vetted the whole family with a black-light.
Caribou Barbie, you make me ashamed of my species that someone as ignorant as you, who thinks the Earth is only 6000 years old could rise above waitress in Wasalia.
A vote for Yoda and Caribou Barbie is a vote against science and the Earth.- PhoneWhore, on 09/04/2008, -17/+7I hate calling other people names but I can't help myself... you're a flipping moron!
- JLSN, on 09/04/2008, -3/+8I note you don't defend your 6000 year crap!
- PhoneWhore, on 09/04/2008, -7/+3Whether the earth is 60 trillion gazillion billion years old or 600, Palin was awesome tonight ;)
- Berkana, on 09/04/2008, -0/+3Insult Master Yoda you have. <(~.~)>
- pinchduck, on 09/04/2008, -0/+4"Caribou Barbie"...that is funny as hell!
- PhoneWhore, on 09/04/2008, -17/+7I hate calling other people names but I can't help myself... you're a flipping moron!
- Sfenton, on 09/04/2008, -28/+18If anybody watched and listened to the speech, you would clearly understand that this women is ready to be vice president.
You must admit, it was a good speech.- PhoneWhore, on 09/04/2008, -16/+7I'd take it a step further, heck she's ready to be president... at least she has more experience than the Obamination!
- toetagger, on 09/04/2008, -3/+9She didn't write it. Next.
- davidg11, on 09/04/2008, -4/+3Obama doesnt write his speeches either.
Next. - Wartyboskfapped, on 09/04/2008, -0/+3Yes, Obama *does* in fact write his own speeches.
- davidg11, on 09/04/2008, -4/+3Obama doesnt write his speeches either.
- MalenfantX, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1If seeing someone read someone else's words convinces you that person is ready to be president, you really shouldn't vote. You dilute the votes of the people who understand what's going on, and harm our country.
- emeralddragon, on 09/04/2008, -27/+13Make fun of her all you like - if you saw that speech you know Obama/Biden are in real trouble.
- Cyberdactyl, on 09/04/2008, -31/+13I think by morning the goofy-ass far left is gonna wish like they've never wished, they left this vibrant women alone.
♫♪ Too bad, so sad ♫♪. . .I say to the nutcase far left. - videodroner, on 09/04/2008, -21/+10This story has been submitted 587 times, all saying the same thing over and over. It's either this or her pregnant daughter.
Why don't you guys actually pick something worthy to debate, such as her actual work and her position on various issues?- JLSN, on 09/04/2008, -2/+5I have been trying to discuss her position that the Earth is only 6000 years old, but it is apperntly not a defendable myth.
- videodroner, on 09/04/2008, -4/+0Ok. Go ahead. I'm listening...
- JLSN, on 09/04/2008, -2/+5I have been trying to discuss her position that the Earth is only 6000 years old, but it is apperntly not a defendable myth.
- semrocks, on 09/04/2008, -24/+14Great speech tonight. "Being a mayor is a lot like being a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities."
I can see why all of the lefties are getting scared. I expect to see a whole crapload of anti-Palin BS on digg's front page for the next several weeks. She's got you running scared...- stagmire, on 09/04/2008, -3/+12Yes, we're terrified that Obama has been able to maintain a 6-8 point edge over McCain since the DNC, and that he hit max popularity immediately after the Palin pick. Troubling times indeed!
- semrocks, on 09/04/2008, -5/+1Depends on which poll you look at. And considering he should be much further ahead in a year when Republicans are polling terribly, you have plenty to be troubled about...
- stagmire, on 09/04/2008, -0/+5"Depends on which poll you look at."
No it doesn't.
"And considering he should be much further ahead in a year when Republicans are polling terribly,"
McCain has always polled better than generic republicans, due to his "maverick" reputation. There isn't a shred of empirical evidence that Palin is cutting into Obama's support among any significant demographic. In fact, Obama's recent surge in support has come primarily from independents who made up their minds after the DNC. It's hard to imagine how a scandal-plagued airhead from Alaska is going to change that equation. You think a few more references to her hubby's snowmobile racing is going to change the minds of people were were persuaded by a 45 minute speech that drew 40 million prime time viewers?
Reality: sorry, republicans.
- sugarazor, on 09/04/2008, -1/+7Except Obama's work as a community organizer managed to register many new voters - actually, 1/5 the population of Alaska registered to vote in Illinois through Obama's charity. That was a REALLY stupid point for her to try to go after.
Funny she failed to mention him being the senior lecturer of Constitutional Law and President of the Harvard Law Review.- semrocks, on 09/04/2008, -3/+1Oooo, that certainly makes him qualified. Maybe when I go to vote, I'll just mark present.
Oh wait... - stagmire, on 09/04/2008, -0/+3"Maybe when I go to vote, I'll just mark present."
Not a bad idea. - sugarazor, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1I think leading a large voting drive twenty years ago is certainly a good starting point for one's career. Sarah Palin mentioned her political beginnings as a member of the PTA, how is that any different? And I definitely think being the senior lecturer of CONSTITUTIONAL LAW definitely lends some merit to the argument of experience.
But hey, Palin lives in a state that's close to Russia, so she definitely has the edge there!!!
Oh Republicans, always love to have it both ways. - stagmire, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1" And I definitely think being the senior lecturer of CONSTITUTIONAL LAW definitely lends some merit to the argument of experience."
Not to mention that this was not at some podunk law school full of pot smoking hippies. UofC law is not only in the same league as Harvard and Yale, it is also consistently rated as the most conservative top law school in the country, the alma mater of John Ashcroft and Elizabeth Cheney among others. I wonder if big ol' Dick had a problem with his lezzie daughter learning con law from a big time lib like Obama.
- semrocks, on 09/04/2008, -3/+1Oooo, that certainly makes him qualified. Maybe when I go to vote, I'll just mark present.
- stagmire, on 09/04/2008, -3/+12Yes, we're terrified that Obama has been able to maintain a 6-8 point edge over McCain since the DNC, and that he hit max popularity immediately after the Palin pick. Troubling times indeed!
- pakiranian, on 09/04/2008, -16/+37palin was sooooo f***ing boring tonight... and giuliani made me sick to my stomach
- Sfenton, on 09/04/2008, -17/+6Did you watch the same speech that I watched?
- springerlicious, on 09/04/2008, -15/+3You probably didn't even watch the debate. Actually, since you probably still live with you parents in their basement, you probably don't have a TV of your own to watch since you can't afford one, as you're only working as bag-boy at the local grocery store as a 30 year old. Ugh.
- kmom5, on 09/04/2008, -0/+3What debate would you be referring to?
- seraph582, on 09/04/2008, -23/+10Get over it already, Obama bots.
I'm glad fundies aren't as bad about spamming digg as liberals are - then we'd have to hear both sides bitching and moaning and carrying on like *****. - Foot56, on 09/04/2008, -12/+37The RNC looks like a KKK clan meeting. I hardly saw one minority in the audience during the 3 hour political coverage I watched on (MSNBC). Just look at this HD shot during her speech. ( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26535527 )
- JLSN, on 09/04/2008, -1/+8That's right. They are the Racist party. Their heros are Strom Thurmond, Trent Lott, David Duke, That McCaca guy and George Bush, the butcher of New Orleans.
They better hope there is no god, because if there is, all republicans will burn in hell.- ogbar, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2You're funny. it was the Republicans that ended slavery. Republicans that Pushed the civil rights act. Democrats As We Speak have an Ex High Ranking CLANSMAN in the Senate (Robert Byrd).
Get your head out of your ass and do a little research. - MalenfantX, on 09/04/2008, -1/+0ogbar: the parties flipped during the civil rights movement. Republicans haven't been on the side of good in many many years.
- ogbar, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2You're funny. it was the Republicans that ended slavery. Republicans that Pushed the civil rights act. Democrats As We Speak have an Ex High Ranking CLANSMAN in the Senate (Robert Byrd).
- uqdroma, on 09/04/2008, -5/+1You seriously didn't see those two hot ass blonde bitches in the audience? They couldn't have been over 22. Not that this has any relevance.
- MrWally, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1Can't be viewed in Google Chrome :(
- compcarp, on 09/04/2008, -2/+0Admit it, you didn't watch the convention. Maybe your news source carefully scanned the audience to give that impression, but there were minority republicans all over the hall. I saw them in every shot when I was flipping channels to see different coverage of the evening.
I love how yesterday Palin stories were filling up DIGG.. today after a POWERFUL speech - crickets. Liberal/leftist DIGGERS are weeping.
- JLSN, on 09/04/2008, -1/+8That's right. They are the Racist party. Their heros are Strom Thurmond, Trent Lott, David Duke, That McCaca guy and George Bush, the butcher of New Orleans.
- aratika, on 09/04/2008, -24/+11What's Obama going to do for the next 4 years back in the Senate? He won't have an office to run for...he'll have to actually do some work. If he doesn't garner some meaningful successes in the Senate, he could be off next election cycle.
- Crabmen, on 09/04/2008, -5/+0Maybe he can take up drinking and join his buddies, Kennedy and Biden, at the bar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmRXH7RkCZQ
- Crabmen, on 09/04/2008, -5/+0Maybe he can take up drinking and join his buddies, Kennedy and Biden, at the bar.
- SaperKain, on 09/04/2008, -10/+27Sarah Palin was throwing red meat left and right at RNC. Republicans in there almost started singing “Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles” at the end.
- Semprini, on 09/04/2008, -8/+3Gosh, how grown up of you, calling an opponent a Nazi.
Do you even have an ounce of an idea of what you just said?
You are revolting.
Grow up and learn a bit.
(but, gee, I bet you felt really cool saying it) - uqdroma, on 09/04/2008, -5/+3Don't you dare. I'm a German American, and you can take that ***** back to whatever 1940's hole you got it from.
NAZI = National SOCIALISTIC Workers Union- ShadowMerchant, on 09/04/2008, -9/+1Agreed. All collectivist scum are of the Left. Hitler and the Nazis included. Dozens and dozens of his programs came right off the socialist wish list.
Take a look at who was behind Planned Parenthood and abortion on demand in the first half of the 1900s-- the most vile eugenicists and racists you can imagine. Exterminating the inferior races before they outbred the noble white man.
Death to the Left!
- ShadowMerchant, on 09/04/2008, -9/+1Agreed. All collectivist scum are of the Left. Hitler and the Nazis included. Dozens and dozens of his programs came right off the socialist wish list.
- Semprini, on 09/04/2008, -8/+3Gosh, how grown up of you, calling an opponent a Nazi.
- alphaterminus, on 09/04/2008, -11/+9WTF is the LGF URL rerouting to Digg tonight?
- DiscoLando, on 09/04/2008, -15/+7Someone needs to remind the Digg community that constantly submitting and digging pro-Obama and/or anti-McCain articles is only preaching to the choir - or those like me who don't care one way or the other.
- YEEK, on 09/04/2008, -8/+42Funny thing how the repubs are always saying that people should take responsibility in their communities, and then they have the audacity in their speeches tonight to ridicule someone who rolls up his sleeves and helps people in need.
Republicans are shameless hypocrites. And, if you're proud of that sort of juvenile thinking, then you too have no shame. - silversalute, on 09/04/2008, -19/+9This only proves that he felt she was the right choice for the ticket that will take them to the White House. I think she hit a home run with her speech tonight. woo hoo!
- scoottie, on 09/04/2008, -12/+7why does it matter if she was first, last, or in the middle? Bush Sr wasnt selected as VP until the RNC was like 2 or 3 days in. I dont see the big deal
- seiga, on 09/04/2008, -13/+5Who gives a ***** about this?? It's like wondering how long prior to the shot someone loaded the shells, while you're falling to the ground with a hole in the head. Move onto substantive things. Dig into the real scandals. You think a voter is gonna care if McCain interviewed Palin one Tuesday or the next? No!
What voters care about is who Palin is and how she'll effect them. Palin said so many disingenuous things in her speech. Grab onto them, dig into the substance. And while you're at it, digg me down like a moron. Jesus. - chenalex, on 09/04/2008, -8/+51I don't understand how the McCain campaign can cry foul over all the media digging into Palin's family (which I believe is perfectly legit) and then have Mitt Romney attack Michelle Obama. How hypocritical is that?
And Palin's and Guiliani's speeches were so hateful and ridiculous. So what if Palin put up the governor's jet on E-bay? Does that mean she'll put Air Force One on E-bay too?
Since when is going to an Ivy League a bad thing? Only someone who had a ***** education would claim that. Since when is not sending troops to Iraq "giving up on America?" Since when is being a community organizer a bad thing that comes with no responsibilities?
Here is a quote from Guiliani's speech:
"For -- for four days in Denver, the Democrats were afraid to use the words "Islamic terrorism." I imagine they believe it is politically incorrect to say it. I think they believe it will insult someone. Please tell me, who are they insulting if they say "Islamic terrorism"? They are insulting terrorists"
What an f'ing racist! The Republican speeches tonight were just hateful. Nowhere in the Democrat's speeches last week did they mock John McCain, nor did they ever diminish any of his accomplishments. The only thing they did was continually point out their policy differences and highlighting the fact that electing McCain would be an extension of the Bush years. And insulting Obama's wife when Barack himself promised that Palin and McCain's families won't be a target of his campaign? Shameful.
I'm a moderate person and I might have voted both ways but the speeches today were just so venomous. It made a mockery out of the American people for sure. And the Republicans themselves are minimizing McCain's experience as a POW by bringing it up so damn much. I think they overuse it! Even when Jay Leno was asking about the number of houses McCain owned, McCain said "well Jay I lived in a house for 5 years without a kitchen or window - as a prisoner!" And then all those stupid conservatives on the internet.. "How dare you accuse a POW of cheating in campaign finances when he's almost given his life for this country?!" My ass. What the hell does that have to do with anything??- YEEK, on 09/04/2008, -1/+16You're right. The speech was full of juvenile insults. They are so smug and low-class. I don't remember one insult in the Democratic convention.
- aratika, on 09/04/2008, -10/+2The Democrat Convention was an insult. I was waiting for Obama to ascend into heaven...
- hangingchad, on 09/04/2008, -1/+11Let's start calling all those wackos that blow up abortion clinics Christian terrorists and see who we offend. Christians are funny in that they support faith based initiatives as long as it's theirs. Watch their heads explode if someone tries to introduce Jewish/Islamic based teachings in schools.
- ryborg, on 09/04/2008, -1/+4Amen!
Republican's Motto: "You're either with us or against us" AND... who can forget their next favorite line when responding to ANYTHING that makes them look bad "that's un-American!"
F' BUSH!
F' McSame!
WAKE UP AMERICA!!! - amightywind, on 09/04/2008, -3/+1I like Palin because she is just as tough on Islamo-terror as McCain. Does the label offend you? Perhaps if worldwide terror was not Muslim based things would be different. Sarah Palin did last night what the Republicans couldn't do in a whole year. She diminished Obama. Country First!
- banderwocky, on 09/04/2008, -1/+1Does she feel the same way about Jews as her church does?
- amightywind, on 09/04/2008, -1/+1Smack!
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/1 ...
Ouch! That must have hurt! - banderwocky, on 09/04/2008, -1/+1So she put a flag on her wall...yesterday or something? Her church that she belongs to has a very controversial view on the Jewish community. Guilt by association right?
- YEEK, on 09/04/2008, -1/+16You're right. The speech was full of juvenile insults. They are so smug and low-class. I don't remember one insult in the Democratic convention.
- SetOverSet, on 09/04/2008, -15/+3Who gives a flying F***? Does this actually matter?
- SSAG, on 09/04/2008, -17/+6Wow, I wasn't going to vote for McCain until I read this.
- uradox, on 09/04/2008, -10/+7What a surprise. Republicans think the speech was a knock-out and democrats think it was badly written.
I’m in the middle. Hardly a fantastic speech but certainly not a bad one either. - EugineMW, on 09/04/2008, -2/+8Where's the Ron Paul fans on digg? He was on CNN saying he actually think Sarah was a great pick! Digg is going to hate Ron Paul now xP.
- davidg11, on 09/04/2008, -1/+4Im a moderate republican type. Socially moderate/liberal, Fiscally conservative. Care far more about the fiscal side vs the social side. Wanted Ron Paul to win...alas he didn't.
I think you'll get a lot of fiscal conservative Ron Paulians for Palin. Reform, cut spending, money back to the people from REAL money (oil) not printing presses.
Just my gut feeling...I don't speak for the rest of Ron Paul folks...
- davidg11, on 09/04/2008, -1/+4Im a moderate republican type. Socially moderate/liberal, Fiscally conservative. Care far more about the fiscal side vs the social side. Wanted Ron Paul to win...alas he didn't.
- Linua, on 09/04/2008, -3/+14What are republicans smoking, and will they share any?
- JLSN, on 09/04/2008, -4/+6Its called the Bible. When you live on a flat planet that is only 6000 years old, and there is a loving god walking with you hand in hand, it gives you that stupid look like your are high on Jebus.
- nsanidy, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1They must be smoking out of Chronicles.
- aratika, on 09/04/2008, -0/+8No - they won't share. But they might sell you some with the price determined based on market forces of supply and demand.
- Codeblew, on 09/04/2008, -0/+0We smoke the same stuff as you! Hey not all of us are pro DEA!
Hell, I am a pro-abortion, pro-environment, pro-weed, anti-religion Republican. I am not against voting for a Democrat, I have done so in the past. I vote on the person.- Berkana, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1Good. 'cause you have an anti-abortion, questionable on the environment, anti-weed, religious extremist Republican on the ticket. Vote on the person, as you said.
When in doubt, choose country over party. - compcarp, on 09/04/2008, -0/+0You are not a Republican. And with that list - I don't know what you are smoking... wait, you said it's weed. I guess that pretty much explains it. I feel sorry for you, but please don't act like you are the 'fair-minded', intelligent republican if you swallow hook-line-and-sinker every democratic/liberal tenant.
Call yourself Indepentant, say Libertarian.. but you are not a Republican by any definition... Just because your voter card says it doesn't make it so. Anymore than the people in the photo that came with the frame you bought, are your family. It's time to face the facts...
- Berkana, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1Good. 'cause you have an anti-abortion, questionable on the environment, anti-weed, religious extremist Republican on the ticket. Vote on the person, as you said.
- JLSN, on 09/04/2008, -4/+6Its called the Bible. When you live on a flat planet that is only 6000 years old, and there is a loving god walking with you hand in hand, it gives you that stupid look like your are high on Jebus.
- aratika, on 09/04/2008, -11/+9Talking heads on Larry King are rebutting Palin's speech with the grace of someone screaming into a paper bag. People can hear the noise...but can't make any sense of it.
- davidg11, on 09/04/2008, -2/+2I was watching it...pretty pathetic spin control..
When you can't spin it...you're in big trouble dems.
- davidg11, on 09/04/2008, -2/+2I was watching it...pretty pathetic spin control..
- paulmer2003, on 09/04/2008, -7/+11"and she did not disclose the fact that her 17-year-old daughter was pregnant until that meeting"
So? Family should be off-limits, as Obama said.- chenalex, on 09/04/2008, -3/+8Too bad the Republicans couldn't do the same thing. Romney made a veiled, but very obvious attack on Michelle Obama.
Besides, all this whining by the Republicans seriously reeks of desperation. If any of the Democratic candidates got into this kind of crap, the media would be all over that too. I mean, look at John Edwards! And he wasn't even a candidate!
I also didn't think the Republicans would pull out the sexist card until the Biden/Palin debate, but apparently, I overestimated their classiness. They brought it up last night. - sugarazor, on 09/04/2008, -3/+9If family is off limits, then why does she keep trotting them around as little trinkets to exploit? Whether it be military/9-11 with one, special needs with the other, or the unwanted pregnancy with another, she sure knows how to use them for political gain.
- FamousAnus, on 09/04/2008, -0/+5Obama's kids were with him too...and I don't see that as being a big deal on either side. They should be able to be present without being a target. That goes for both his AND hers.
- sugarazor, on 09/04/2008, -3/+5Does Obama mention that one of them is going to Iraq on 9/11 (gotta love the emphasis on that) or exploit the other's down's syndrome for votes?
No, Obama's kids just run around and be kids... Palin scores political points by exploiting hers. - DarthVox, on 09/04/2008, -0/+2So are you saying that if Obama DID have kids going to Iraq/has downs syndrome, he wouldn't have mentioned it at all?
- FamousAnus, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1Actually, Obama's kids seem quite nice. I don't claim to know what it's like growing up in his house, but from the outside, they look like the model family. (As for their aspirations: they are too young to be getting involved in anything major at this point in their lives yet. What do you expect?!) Do you think that showing that off doesn't benefit him? Does benefiting from your family count as exploitation?
Please...leave both of their families alone. Have some class. There are plenty of valid issues to bring up with either of them, so that we do NOT need to go there.
- chenalex, on 09/04/2008, -3/+8Too bad the Republicans couldn't do the same thing. Romney made a veiled, but very obvious attack on Michelle Obama.
- davidg11, on 09/04/2008, -16/+9Palin PWNED Obama in her speech today.
Palin just showed herself as a hell of a fighter...a scrapper, if you will....americans will eat that sh$t up!
Lights out Dems! Lights out! - RRJackson, on 09/04/2008, -14/+9When I ran for city council, I didn't need focus groups and voter profiles because I knew those voters, and knew their families, too.
Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown.
And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves.
I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a "community organizer," except that you have actual responsibilities. I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening.
We tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.
As for my running mate, you can be certain that wherever he goes, and whoever is listening, John McCain is the same man. I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment.
And I've learned quickly, these past few days, that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.
But here's a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion - I'm going to Washington to serve the people of this country. Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reasons, and not just to mingle with the right people.
Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.
The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.
No one expects us to agree on everything.
But we are expected to govern with integrity, good will, clear convictions, and ... a servant's heart.
I pledge to all Americans that I will carry myself in this spirit as vice president of the United States. This was the spirit that brought me to the governor's office, when I took on the old politics as usual in Juneau ... when I stood up to the special interests, the lobbyists, big oil companies, and the good-ol' boys network.
Sudden and relentless reform never sits well with entrenched interests and power brokers. That's why true reform is so hard to achieve.
But with the support of the citizens of Alaska, we shook things up.
And in short order we put the government of our state back on the side of the people.
I came to office promising major ethics reform, to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is the law.
While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for.
That luxury jet was over the top. I put it on eBay.
I also drive myself to work.
And I thought we could muddle through without the governor's personal chef - although I've got to admit that sometimes my kids sure miss her. I came to office promising to control spending - by request if possible and by veto if necessary.
Senator McCain also promises to use the power of veto in defense of the public interest - and as a chief executive, I can assure you it works.
Our state budget is under control.
We have a surplus.
And I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending: nearly half a billion dollars in vetoes.
I suspended the state fuel tax, and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress.
I told the Congress "thanks, but no thanks," for that Bridge to Nowhere.
If our state wanted a bridge, we'd build it ourselves. When oil and gas prices went up dramatically, and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska.
And despite fierce opposition from oil company lobbyists, who kind of liked things the way they were, we broke their monopoly on power and resources.
As governor, I insisted on competition and basic fairness to end their control of our state and return it to the people.
I fought to bring about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history.
And when that deal was struck, we began a nearly forty billion dollar natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence.
That pipeline, when the last section is laid and its valves are opened, will lead America one step farther away from dependence on dangerous foreign powers that do not have our interests at heart.
The stakes for our nation could not be higher.
When a hurricane strikes in the Gulf of Mexico, this country should not be so dependent on imported oil that we are forced to draw from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
And families cannot throw away more and more of their paychecks on gas and heating oil.
With Russia wanting to control a vital pipeline in the Caucasus, and to divide and intimidate our European allies by using energy as a weapon, we cannot leave ourselves at the mercy of foreign suppliers.
To confront the threat that Iran might seek to cut off nearly a fifth of world energy supplies ... or that terrorists might strike again at the Abqaiq facility in Saudi Arabia ... or that Venezuela might shut off its oil deliveries ... we Americans need to produce more of our own oil and gas.
And take it from a gal who knows the North Slope of Alaska: we've got lots of both.
Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America's energy problems - as if we all didn't know that already.
But the fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.
Starting in January, in a McCain-Palin administration, we're going to lay more pipelines ... build more new-clear plants ... create jobs with clean coal ... and move forward on solar, wind, geothermal, and other alternative sources.
We need American energy resources, brought to you by American ingenuity, and produced by American workers. I've noticed a pattern with our opponent.
Maybe you have, too.
We've all heard his dramatic speeches before devoted followers.
And there is much to like and admire about our opponent.
But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform - not even in the state senate.
This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word "victory" except when he's talking about his own campaign. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed ... when the roar of the crowd fades away ... when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot - what exactly is our opponent's plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he's done turning back the waters and healing the planet? The answer is to make government bigger ... take more of your money ... give you more orders from Washington ... and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world. America needs more energy ... our opponent is against producing it.
Victory in Iraq is finally in sight ... he wants to forfeit.
Terrorist states are seeking new-clear weapons without delay ... he wants to meet them without preconditions.
Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America ... he's worried that someone won't read them their rights? Government is too big ... he wants to grow it.
Congress spends too much ... he promises more.
Taxes are too high ... he wants to raise them. His tax increases are the fine print in his economic plan, and let me be specific.
The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes ... raise payroll taxes ... raise investment income taxes ... raise the death tax ... raise business taxes ... and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars. My sister Heather and her husband have just built a service station that's now opened for business - like millions of others who run small businesses.
How are they going to be any better off if taxes go up? Or maybe you're trying to keep your job at a plant in Michigan or Ohio ... or create jobs with clean coal from Pennsylvania or West Virginia ... or keep a small farm in the family right here in Minnesota.
How are you going to be better off if our opponent adds a massive tax burden to the American economy? Here's how I look at the choice Americans face in this election.
In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers.
And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change.
They're the ones whose names appear on laws and landmark reforms, not just on buttons and banners, or on self-designed presidential seals.
Among politicians, there is the idealism of high-flown speechmaking, in which crowds are stirringly summoned to support great things.
And then there is the idealism of those leaders, like John McCain, who actually do great things.- JLSN, on 09/04/2008, -8/+7Buried for lies
- RRJackson, on 09/04/2008, -3/+3Someone buried Obama? Please tell me it's not so. If he ends up dead he'll become a national hero overnight and cities around America will have to find another road through their worst neighborhoods to name after another fallen black leader. At the very least I certainly hope he isn't felled by a white guy. Now if OJ or Jesse Jackson kill him there might still be hope. Of course, he'd leave behind the most annoying widow ever. Maybe OJ will kill the entire Obama family...
- YEEK, on 09/04/2008, -6/+4It must be nice to run a state (for 19 months) that gets billions in royalties from oil and over $600 per person in federal subsidies last year (the highest in the nation).
- JenniferInMO, on 09/04/2008, -3/+4If you can tell me what "victory" in iraq would look like, in a rational way so that I can understand it, I won't bury your comment for all of the other ranting, delusional inaccuracies.
- sugarazor, on 09/04/2008, -6/+5The arrogance and lies don't come out as well in print as they did in delivery.
- JenniferInMO, on 09/04/2008, -5/+5I changed my mind. Buried for ranting, delusional inaccuracies.
- cedarbaydave, on 09/04/2008, -1/+1Don't worry, it is ok to lie if it is for the greater good.
- 22catches, on 09/04/2008, -2/+3Is that the actual transcript she was reading from? I like how nuclear is spelt phonetically for her - "new-clear".
Isn't it strange that when running on a Republican ticket for the presidency, you have to do all you can to avoid sounding like the Republican president?
- JLSN, on 09/04/2008, -8/+7Buried for lies
- Unyoked, on 09/04/2008, -7/+6I don't know how many read past the digg article and onto the real article but it seemed to me the washingtonpost article expressed that McCains "circle" had vetted Palin, knew of the issues being raised now before hand, and believed that she was still the best choice. Yes the actual face to face interview was down to the wire but thats a testament of how closely they were looking at all the potential VPs not a lack of vetting... Besides its not like the VPs matter anyway.
Oh and if i hear the phrase "heartbeat away from the presidency one more time"...- JLSN, on 09/04/2008, -6/+5McCains circle is Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Shell and Karl Rove
- aratika, on 09/04/2008, -4/+2Obama's circle is Obama, Obama, Obama and Obama.
- JenniferInMO, on 09/04/2008, -2/+4She's a heartbeat away from the Presidency.
- TheHappyToaster, on 09/04/2008, -1/+3Ordinarily, I'd agree with you. The difference is that McCain is a 75-year-old man who's been through 4 cancer treatments. I'll be the first to say that he's in pretty good shape for a man his age, but unlike most presidents in recent memory, there's a genuine, surprisingly good chance that he will simply keel over and die in the middle of his term.
In this case, the VP is very relevant. Palin's not a heartbeat away from the presidency, but she is a lack of a heartbeat away from being the Deciderer.
- JLSN, on 09/04/2008, -6/+5McCains circle is Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Shell and Karl Rove
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