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September 14th, 2008
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I can’t wait to hear Jay’s spin on this one. “She was over the Kuwaiti/Iraqi border before she wasn’t”?
Lies. Lies. Lies.
I’m no fan of the MSM, but their little love-fest for Palin is over. There’ll be nothing but vetting, questions, and fact-checking for the next two months. I expect her to stay hidden but for the random FOX news or Rush interview.
What a joke.
I hope the kid glove handling of the MSM of Palin is over. It should never have happened to begin with.
She thinks her sh*t don’t stink and she’s good enough to be vp and a breath away from the presidency, then she’d better be fecking vetted because KKKarl Rove doesn’t want that at all.
“…KKKarl Rove…”
C’mon, Karl Rove is many things, many of them negative, but there’s no evidence that he is a racist.
I don’t know if these are spitballs or BB’s you guys keep throwing at The Miracle on Ice, but on a scale of 1-10, these barely get even a 1.
Right now, you need 15’s.
Best line yet from the Obama camp:
“Is there anything the McCain campaign isn’t lying about?”
Dennis: the Miracle on Ice is about to take a spill.
Stop trying to co-opt somebody else’s accomplishments. Miracle on ice was a hockey game. Sarah Palin is a politician.
“Jesus was a community organizer”
Can you say “petty”? Sure you can…
This daily dose of ” … and another thing about that Palin” is not disguising the fact that no one has anything to say about McCain, Biden, or er … um … what’s his name again?
Obama! The ONE!
It’s pretty much a down news cycle until the debates. The candidates are out more or less repeating their agendas in different locales and trying to catch the other side up in saying something stupid, are they not?
So having the wherewithal and gumption to factcheck whether this trip actually occurred is far from petty, IMHO.
I don’t know if these are spitballs or BB’s you guys keep throwing at The Miracle on Ice, but on a scale of 1-10, these barely get even a 1.
Right now, you need 15’s … because I don’t care if my chosen candidate is a liar who’ll say anything to be president
What more would we expect from the Fibber McCain and Golly ticket? He can’t keep his story straight, and she has no actual information or policy positions.
Stop trying to co-opt somebody else’s accomplishments. Miracle on ice was a hockey game. Sarah Palin is a politician.
midderpidge
No way was I calling Sarah Palin’s accomplishments as being similar to the actual Miracle on Ice hockey game.
I choose my words very carefully and words do matter, and I may not have an Ivy League education, but nevertheless, any correlation between my use of that term in relation to Sarah Palin, is, quite frankly, stretching the bounds of what I would call……..spin.
Petty is the attempts to cover up Palin’s non-existent national security credentials with lies and ridiculous equivalencies. You can see Russia from some Alaskan island! She’s been to Iraq! She was commander-in-chief of the Alaskan National Guard!
When interviewed her actual understanding can be summed up thusly: “Whuu???!!!???”.
midderpidge-
Why so microscopically focused on the Rep’s VP pick? Who’s talking about Biden?
No one cares- he’s not running for President. He told a man in a wheelchair to stand up, told the world Obama bungled his pick for VP, and revealed he’s a miser of Ebeneezer Scrooge proportions. And that’s just in the last 3 days. No one is rally talking about it for a reason. He doesn’t matter. Believe me, if the strategy was to take this man down, there is plenty of ammunition. The better strategy is to ignore the gasbag- his experience only makes Obama’s look inadequate in comparison, as does the arrival of Palin.
Your undying obsession with this woman only makes her more popular. You will have only yourselves to blame for fanning the flames of her rise in popularity. Sure, you guys will hate her more and you will take great comfort in that, but it’s just sad to see you guys not being able to get out of your own way.
Biden was vetted. He’s a known quantity. Palin is virtually unknown. She was unvetted. Right now she is being defined in the media and by talk at the water cooler. So let’s talk about her. Without the ridiculous and dishonest attempts to bolster credentials and knowledge she doesn’t have. In a couple of weeks we can go back to focusing on the two main candidates with Palin being little more than a vivid example of McCain’s bad and hurried judgment and his campaign’s willingness to lie to win.
“Why so microscopically focused on the Rep’s VP pick?”
Perhaps because she’s an unknown on the national stage and people don’t know anything about her? It really isn’t that hard to figure out.
At the same time, it doesn’t seem to bother you in the slightest that McCain and Palin have lied repeatedly about her record.
You go on to suggest that more Dems focus on McCain’s blatant lying about Palin’s record, the more people will support the Republican ticket.
If you want to concern troll, perhaps, you should do it on a rightwing blog where you could argue that maybe telling the truth might be a good thing and supporting liars for president, isn’t. Just a thought.
Why so microscopically focused on the Rep’s VP pick? Who’s talking about Biden?
The amount of media attention focused on a VP pick seems more-or-less inversely proportional to their previous national exposure, perhaps throwing in a variable for cosmetic factors (moose hunting, disabilities mother, etc., etc.) that people like to read about in US weekly.
Plus there’s the fact that McCain MIGHT DIE SOON. Leaving Gov. Hockeymomchurchlady as leader of the free world.
Especially since, once McCain, god forbid, is elected, he has nothing to live for. Because he just wants to get elected. He has no program other than the same old trickledown bullshit. He doesn’t want to actually achieve anything in office. Just getting there will be enough for him. Then he can die happy.
And screw the rest of us.
” … there’s the fact that McCain MIGHT DIE SOON.
” once McCain … is elected, he has nothing to live for … ”
[emphasis added - fd]
Where do you get your information?
“Are you saying you think Americans are better than other nations?” –Judy Woodruff, 09-11-08
OMG! They’re back. I no sooner reported The Democratic National Committee consigned to the dumper, than it popped up again at the 9-11 Forum On Public Service & Civic Engagement. Held at Columbia University, “impartial moderators” Richard Stengel, managing editor of TIME along with PBS NewsHour Senior Correspondent and Political Editor Judy Woodruff, moderated the forum staged by Service Nation, “a new nationwide coalition.” While no relation to journalist Bob Woodruff, Judy is married to Al Hunt executive editor of The Bloomberg News, DC, bureau. Bloomberg also reported that, “she [Sarah Palin] was arrested 22 years ago on a drunken-driving charge.” The next day, Judy Woodruff reflected on the experience with NewsHour’s Steve Goldbloom. Judy, who espouses a civilian counterpart to the military conceded that while 9-11 might not have been the most auspicious date, the candidates stayed true to the service mission, as if John McCain were somehow onboard with a civilian mission with military authority. Anyway, The DNC reemerged as The [International] Provisional People’s Collective Party, or PCP. And, guess what the PCP has in store for America: Political Officers, Commissars. The title Commissar refers to either a People’s Commissar (government), or a Political Commissar (military). In the Soviet Union, the Institute of Political Commissars was established to control the military. The state security organizations, KGB, etc., and or People’s Commissars also controlled the Soviet Army, together with the entire Soviet State. Compulsory Public Service is the future. All men will be judged politically; anti-Marxist sentiment shall be crushed. But we first require a state organ with which to train the political functionaries who will hold coequal rank and authority. And although they never mention it at the forum, welcome comrade to Hillary’s National Public Service Academy: http://theseedsof9-11.com
He told a man in a wheelchair to stand up,
So did Bush. He also told a blind man to take off his shades. So what?
Settle down, Peggy.
Frank, it’s called an “opinion.” See, this here is what you call a “blog comment section” where people post “comments.” Some of these “comments” are simply “opinions”, while others, like Peggy’s, are lunatic paranoid conspiracy theories backed up by “links” to nutjob websites.
So I have this “opinion” that McCain just wants to BE president, not DO anything AS president. Just as you have this “opinion” that you and only you understand Joe Six Pack.
And whether he intends to live out his term or not, he MIGHT DIE SOON. Ask any actuary.
It’s [another] honest mistake on the part of the McBush/Lipstick campaign. They meant to say ‘Tulsa’.
16287 days and counting!
http://pabloonpolitics.com/palin_iraq_clock.htm
When will she visit the Troops!
Mr Henry: The fact that he might die soon is the same as saying anyone might die, as any actuary might tell you (since no one can predict the date of anyone’s death)
I think it is a fair question to ask you where you got the information that Sen McCain doesn’t really want to BE President; he just wants to win an election. As reasonable as that may sound to you, it seemed quite unlikely to me.
My “opinion” concerning Joe Six Pack was based on what I read in these threads, where many people attribute opinions and perspectives to the average guy that paid, seasoned commentators do not. In fact, often, these very same paid, seasoned commentators attribute quite different opinions and perspectives to Mr. Six Pack, whether they are liberals or conservatives.
I never said no one but myself has the finger on the pulse of Joe Six Pack. In fact, when I proffered the opinion that most liberals are unacquainted with real life, I quoted from a Stanford economist who I believe through his knowledge of demographics and consumer economics is a veritable font of knowledge about Mr. Six Pack.
Not only are most of my opinions informed, but I can tell you where they came from, and when and how they were formed.
Maybe I got the opinion from the fact that he has NO PROGRAM other than more of the same. Or, if he has one, he’s kept it pretty well hidden from me and the rest of the Six Pack family. All I ever hear him say is how bad the other guy is. Oh, and the POW thing.
So, you tell me. What are three major ways his presidency will differ from Bush’s? And attacking Iran doesn’t count, because Bush would do that too if he could. And having a neophyte for VP instead of a Dark Genius doesn’t count either.
And as any actuary can tell you, the chance that a 72-year-old might die soon is greater than the chance than a 47-year-old might die soon. You don’t even NEED an actuary to tell you that.
Well, durn, Frank. Your “participation on this thread” must be “at an end.”