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- seltaeb4, on 09/04/2008, -55/+678Let's give Sarah Palin some foreign policy credit.
She was a beauty pageant contestant, before becoming a part-time sportscaster on regional Alaska television. Then, she was a mayor of a town of under 10,000 people, and has been (for less than two years) Governor of a state with a population less than that of Austin, TX. She has never served in the military, nor until very recently has she ever even left the United States.
I see now how she's worthy to be Commander-in-Chief, first in line after a septuagenarian who has had (to date) four cancer surgeries. Should a crisis strike, I'll feel very comfortable with her having the sole responsibility over America's nuclear arsenal, and the power to incinerate all life on Earth, with the Pentagon and the Joint Chiefs of Staff waiting on her every command. She *is* ready. - g8summit, on 09/04/2008, -63/+478Fantastic article. I completely agree. I find it sad that candidates always try to blame the media for the downfalls. Even when it was Hillary Clinton blaming the media for criticizing her and treating Obama like a superstar I felt like slapping her in the face and telling her to get over it.
The media gets curious for certain reasons. Here it's because Sarah Palin seems like a weird chose to compliment McCain. It almost feels he chose her for physical differences (her being a younger, attractive female), but not to compliment McCain in other areas like foreign policy. I just had to laugh when I saw that interview with Cindy McCain, and they ask her what experience Palin has with foreign policy, and Cindy replies that Sarah Palin was the Governor of Alaska which is the closest North American point to Russia. WTF does that have to do with foreign policy!!!!
Anyways, don't always trust the candidates or anyone when they make the media out to be evil spin doctors trying to destroy everything they do. It's just not true. Most of the media asks legitimate questions that need answers for American voters to make a proper choice in the upcoming convention. Well other than Fox news (and especially O'Reilley). - WomenObama, on 09/04/2008, -21/+226Tim Russert, would ask the media and the journalist to vet Sarah Palin, Tim Russert would never give Sarah Palin a free pass....in the name of Tim Russert, I hope the journalists and the media never forget that they have a duty to the American People to find the truth.............
- hood1, on 09/04/2008, -42/+227Forgive me for I am stupid…
I am a stupid poor white old man; my leaders (Senate/House) say I am not smart enough after 60 years on this planet to make my own decisions. So let me see if I have this correct? If Palin feels marijuana users should be put in jail and she is an admitted marijuana user, should she not be put in jail? If a bank robber publicly admitted to robbing a bank you can bet the FEDs would lock that person up! I don’t think Palin meant SHE should go to jail, she meant we should have the same old double standard. If you are a rich person on Oxycodine (An opium derivative very strong and addictive) its ok LEGAL. But if you are poor or black and smoke (a harmless doctor prescribed) weed in a state where people have voted it legal, you go to jail ILLEGAL. If you are running for VP you have no laws you are above the law. Too bad we still have to live with the laws you are above! I hope one of your kids gets caught with 28.5 grams and is sent to federal prison for the Federal Mandatory 20 years to be raped and scarred for life. Just because your dealer gave you 1/2 gram extra in seeds (28 grams 5 years over 28 grams you are a dealer 20 years). That might give you some compassion. But we know that will never happen someone would get paid off, big time. I hear what you are saying Palin. You are saying let my only son spend the 20 years in jail to insure your PAC check is covered?
So the message you are sending our children is if you have money and power you can get away with anything. If you are poor or black or both you go to jail to feed the machine. The machine our so-called leaders (Senate/House) built using racism in the 30's and still maintain it today. The Machine that now consumes 100 billion dollars a year of our money and puts 2 million non-violent good Americans in jail, to you they are disposable (this number goes up every day including one in three blacks)! Just because we are poor or black or both we are still Americans. Humans with feelings and rights just like you and by the way we are not stupid! We hear you Palin.. Another Bible thumping hypocrite!
How long do you think we (75%) are going to put up with this double standard? My opinion is not much longer!
A stupid old man fighting this War on Us every day!! - NewsBJD, on 09/04/2008, -33/+180This week, we have seen what a McCain administration will be like, and it looks worse than that of George W. Bush. McCain has shown he acts impulsively, with little or no information. He and his people lie, cover up, and react by aggressively attacking the press that dares to question them. And, some of us think the press has not questioned him nearly enough. How will a McCain administration handle international crises? How will he make decisions about war vs. diplomacy? I think we have the answer.
- Echota, on 01/05/2009, -22/+122FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: "We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin."
THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_el_pr/cv ... - Jhiaxuz, on 09/04/2008, -4/+95She probably even visits websites which are hosted outside of the US too.
- HurricaneDitka1, on 09/04/2008, -5/+88"I just had to laugh when I saw that interview with Cindy McCain, and they ask her what experience Palin has with foreign policy, and Cindy replies that Sarah Palin was the Governor of Alaska which is the closest North American point to Russia."
I literally did a facepalm when I read about that. - lsumed, on 09/04/2008, -13/+93Expect them to keep a tight leash on Palin. So far, she's only been interviewed by People Magazine.
- inactive, on 09/04/2008, -9/+82The press is Totally uninvited from McCain's Barbecue next year.
- zyklon, on 09/04/2008, -7/+80Let me grab my knife and cut off a slab of your sarcasm so we can all have some too.
Well said, sir. - wheresjim, on 09/04/2008, -25/+92Can you address the topic directly instead of attempting to redirect? Yeah, I didn't think so.
- MadKennyP, on 09/04/2008, -18/+74Here you go. I know you Republicans don't understand technology, but try using The Google sometime.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8630.htm ...
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9730.htm ...
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Ax_on_ ...
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/The_An ... - TotalHalibut, on 09/04/2008, -1/+53No no, you pay international dialing rates for that.
- EnviroChem, on 05/22/2009, -3/+54Amen to that. Journalists and the media have a duty to dig for, find and report the truth no matter how inconvenient. The probing and reporting on Palin aren't sexist attacks, the media is doing the vetting that McCain failed to do.
- bettieanderson, on 09/04/2008, -25/+75I applaud this article. It is time for the media to force MCCain and his running mate to stick to the issues. This is not a campaign to see who can do the best character assassination, but rather a campaign to explain to the American people what one plans to do to address the serious problems we are all facing. MCCain can not hide behind the old Republican tricks of misleading ads & innuendos - they will not work any more!!! The American public is too smart to fall for this kind of thing. We are fortunate that Obama and his running mate are not allowing themselves to be distracted, but instead they stick to the issues and don't get involved in this childlike game of "attack the person" politics hoping that the American people will forget their bread and butter issues.
- xtothepowerofx, on 09/04/2008, -2/+49thanks... i managed to miss that half of the article
- inactive, on 09/04/2008, -23/+69Could I get a link to Free Republic, Little Green Freaks, or Michelle Malkin where they've researched any dirt about Palin?
- ousthouse, on 09/04/2008, -16/+62I agree with this guy - but can we go ahead and admit that we went a little too far when analyzing family photos for 'bumps'?
- ErikB, on 09/04/2008, -15/+61Like it or not, the media represents us. If McCain's campaign refuses to answer their questions, gives non-answers, or refuses to talk - he's doing those same things to us. Sounds the same as Bush in this regard too.
- mlvassallo, on 09/04/2008, -3/+48Look, everybody knows the Russians make frequent trips to Alaska to steal their pic-a-nick baskets.
- absurdist, on 09/04/2008, -1/+41Not under federal law, skippy. Or are you another Alaskan secessionist?
- trogdor282, on 09/04/2008, -2/+39Ehh, I dunno, if my theory is correct that McCain is a vampire, then we don't need to worry about his mortality.
- publiclurker, on 09/04/2008, -2/+39No it does not. If he were to be busted right now for using cocaine, while rallying against it, he would be. That's why so many of the republicans are lambasted. It's not bad to be gay, but spewing homophobic venom while hooking up in the local bathrooms is.
- raybury, on 09/04/2008, -8/+45Um, yes, asking questions is what the media is supposed to do. They should try it sometime.
Especially as shouting out unfounded smears doesn't seem to be working. - nhansen, on 09/04/2008, -0/+36unfair? Since when has politics ever been about "fairness?" What's not surprising is the GOPs insistence that we're not able to question their decisions - no, that would be, what do they call it? oh yes, "un-American." pfft.
- johnhummel, on 09/04/2008, -4/+39You mean like the ethics investigation about her firing former public safety commissioner, Walter Monegan because, allegedly, he didn't fire her former brother-in-law Mike Wooten?
No, because that actually exists:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic ...
Maybe you're talking about the oddities of Palin's own pregnancy (like flying for 14 hours back to Alaska at the age of 44 when her water broke) with speculation that her pregnant looking daughter might be the true mother. Turns out the latter wasn't true - only because she's *currently* pregnant. And for a politician who is pro-choice (to the point of not including rape and incest exceptions, and who stated that her daughter - at the age of 14 when Palin was asked - would bear a child if she got pregnant even if it was from rape, a politician who has line item vetoed support for pregnant teens in her state, and who only wants abstinence education with no contraception discussion in sexual education - then for her *own daughter* to wind up teen pregnant, that's a valid question of "Hey, maybe your technique doesn't work for preventing teen pregnancy."
Or perhaps we're talking about the "smear" that she and the McCain campaign claims to have "rejected the bridge to nowhere" when she actively supported the earmark - then after it became a national joke *kept the money anyway*?
http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed7/id ...
Or perhaps you're talking about the "smear" of people asking about her foreign policy experience, when she never left the country until 2006 and so far, the best description is "Well, she's in the state next to Russia"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zP8uFPWxaA
Or the "smear" that she started her mayorship with a balanced budget, and left it with a $20 million deficit? Maybe she's just trying to emulate George W. Bush.
http://www.ickypeople.com/2008/09/palin-bombshells ...
So what smears are you talking about? Asking questions about her qualifications isn't a smear. Yes, some folks are smearing her, the same way Obama was smeared, and Bush was smeared in 2004, and Kerry smeared in 2008. But to say "the media" is doing it is *****. "The media" as a whole is asking questions that any candidate should be asked.
Yesterday, I watched as two Republican congressmen made the claim of the "sexist" attacks on Palin by the media. Chris Matthews kept asking "From who? Name a name and the attack." All they could come up with was "Well, some blogs." Oh. My goodness. Roll over - *some people* are saying bad things about her.
But McCain could cancel an appearnace on Larry King because of the audacity of CNN to ask questions about her qualifications and when she was vetted. Oh, lord - the smears called "journalists doing their ***** jobs." - gmanolatos, on 09/04/2008, -0/+33You obviously did not read the article. The headline is being sarcastic.
- Sardonic2U, on 09/04/2008, -38/+70Endorse and support THIS!
- hugolp, on 09/04/2008, -5/+37Yes, actually I spoke to the Palin's daughter and she told me that she got pregnant to make the media happy. She didnt want to even have sex (cause we all know sex is bad) but she had to. America should be thankfull for such an efort, and vote for her mother.
- richbleak, on 09/04/2008, -8/+40What a ***** tool. Demands someone else does his research for him and 15 minutes later claims the lack of a response as proof of his point. The best part is when people further down in the thread swoop in and own the ***** out of him. Vexing: you are terrible at this.
- FredFredrickson, on 09/04/2008, -2/+32Vexing, if you can't have a talk about McCain and Palin without bringing up Obama, then you can't have a talk about them. If McCain / Palin do something wrong, pointing out what Obama has done wrong does not make the situation any better. That's a logical fallacy that really stupid people often make.
Hear about what McCain / Palin did. Parse that information, discuss it if possible. Then worry about what Obama / Biden did in a separate context. Try being dealing with the issue at hand for once, instead of trying to oppose what you hear by spurting out the first anti-Obama talking point you can remember. - inactive, on 09/04/2008, -10/+39You're a very boring poster now. Can you please work on your schtick? You were doing better a few weeks ago. I'll post examples if you like.
- twiztidsinz, on 09/04/2008, -4/+33Please, don't encourage the troll.
- jeremyduffy, on 09/04/2008, -9/+35"Sarah Palin thinks that one is good for her campaign and one is not, and that the media should report only on what is good for her campaign. That is our job, and that is our duty. If that is not actually in the Constitution, it should be. (And someday may be.)"
Ah... Sarcasm. Nothing like a good admonishment of stupidity. - beakerwimp, on 09/04/2008, -0/+26MadKennyP: Ouch. I've come to associate vexingmodstwo's name in a thread with hilarity that is about to ensue. The "points" raised by vexingmodstwo are just broken to pieces and factually disgraced in practically every case. It is just mind-boggling. I don't know whether to laugh or to marvel at the dogged persistence with which he/she presents a tattered, inconsistent and literally inaccurate case. It is almost unbelievable. I truly in my heart of hearts hope that it is a fun-and-games kind of trolling. The alternative is just too brutal to contemplate.
- inactive, on 09/04/2008, -6/+32Yeah, I didn't think so
- Gerz1219, on 09/04/2008, -2/+28If Sarah Palin's fragile emotions can be shattered by national media attention, no matter how vicious, how will she stand up to Putin?
On the other hand, if Palin can handle it, then so can her supporters. She received one vote for vice president, 60 days before the election. She must go directly into the frying pan. We don't have time to sensitively, lovingly explore her many failings. - IphtashuFitz, on 09/04/2008, -4/+29Bull ***** yourself. Those are valid legitimate questions that the media has been asking. They are simply doing their job.
Palin supported the Bridge to Nowhere during her gubernatorial campaign before she was against it. Where's the speculation in that? I wouldn't have known that unless the media reported on it.
Palin is vehemently anti-abortion, even in cases of rape. She only supports teaching abstinence, not true sex education. And yet she allowed her daughter to make the decision as to whether or not have an abortion, something that Palin doesn't want anybody else in Alaska (and likely the entire US) to have. Where's the speculation and "made up" stuff in that?
Palin claims to be opposed to higher taxes and earmarks, but she hired a lobbyist while mayor who went to Washington and obtained millions in earmarks for her town. She also buried that town in millions of dollars in debt when it had none at the start of her term. How is any of that speculation?
I could go on and on, but the bottom line is that the media has reported on a number of pretty significant discrepancies between what Palin says and what she has done. Those are pretty important and worthy of reporting. They are NOT speculation or "made up" stuff. - johnhummel, on 09/04/2008, -2/+27Let's take a hypothetical. Suppose you are talking to someone who is against the use of vaccines. Then, they're kids get the measles. Would your reply be "Well, that's a private family matter, we shouldn't judge them", or would you say "Huh. Maybe they should rethink their position on vaccines."
Now, we have a woman who has stated she doesn't want to provide any sexual education except for education, vetoes funding for teenage mother support, and states that abortion should be illegal even in cases of rape and incest. Then, when her own daughter turns up teen pregnant, we're suppose to say "Oh, well, that's a private affair."
Or I look at my own daughter and say "Yeah. I think I'll try something else, because the Palin plan obviously doesn't work in preventing teen pregnancy."
That's the issue. It's not about the scandal, it's that Palin supports a position that *obviously doesn't work*, and continues to support a failed philosophy. - AnarkeIncarnate, on 09/04/2008, -1/+25So has the night manager at Cluck-U chicken. That doesn't mean he's capable to lead a nation.
- twiztidsinz, on 09/04/2008, -9/+33Hey Vexingtrolltwo, here ya go!
Here's the relationship between Bill Ayers and Barack Obama EXPOSED!!!
Academic career
Ayers is currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Education. His interests include teaching for social justice, urban educational reform, narrative and interpretive research, children in trouble with the law, and related issues.[29]
He began his career in primary education while an undergraduate, teaching at the Children’s Community School (CCS), a project founded by a group of students and based on the Summerhill method of education.[30] After leaving the underground, he earned an M.Ed from Bank Street College in Early Childhood Education (1984), an M.Ed from Teachers College, Columbia University in Early Childhood Education (1987) and an Ed.D from Columbia University in Curriculum and Instruction (1987).[29]
He has edited and written many books and articles on education theory, policy and practice, and has appeared on many panels and symposia.
Civic and political life
Main article: Woods Fund of Chicago
Main article: Controversy over an Obama–Ayers connection
Ayers was tapped by Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley to help found the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a school reform program.[31] Since 1999 he has served on the nine-member[32] board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago, an anti-poverty, philanthropic foundation established in 1941. Ayers' contacts with the 2008 Democratic Nominee for President of the United States, Barack Obama became controversial in the 2008 United States presidential election. The two served together on the Woods Fund Board from 1999 until Obama left in 2002. Ayers had other contact with Obama as a resident of Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood, hosting Obama's first fund raising reception in his first Illinois state Senate campaign in 1995, appearing on education panels together, and donating $200 to Obama's campaign in April 2001[33].[34] [35].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#Academic_c ... - frankidadio, on 09/04/2008, -1/+23I've always wondered why the media "elite" don't revolt against this right wing bull. They have become so complicit in the "Liberal Media" myth, that If anything there is now a right wing bias.
- richbleak, on 09/04/2008, -2/+23"Family is off limits, media." Interesting that this mind set wasn't followed when the media and the Republicans were accusing Michelle Obama of being anti-American, portraying her as an angry black woman at every turn. I'm sure if Obama's daughters weren't so young and actually did something news-worthy there would be mountains of articles about them.
- falstaff, on 09/04/2008, -4/+25GWB is a Republican, but he sure as ***** is not a conservative.
- inactive, on 09/04/2008, -5/+26whoopse, looks like vexingmodstwo can't get his facts straight.
- SpinningHead, on 09/04/2008, -1/+22Palin also said her daughter made the choice to keep the baby...a choice she wants to take away from everyone else. She also supports abstinence only sex-ed. Her daughter is a good model of how well that works.
- ElJif, on 09/04/2008, -2/+23Yeah, it's not what they said. It's how they said it. Good one.
- Rhendal, on 09/04/2008, -1/+21WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!
- gwaggy12, on 09/04/2008, -2/+22you are absolutely correct.
FYI, bloggers are not journalists. At best, they write opinion editorials. If you get all of your news from blogs that you tend to agree with, you are no better than the Republican who only watches Fox News.
Unfortunately, these days that holds true for Digg as well. -
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