McCain ad: Palin more qualified than Obama
by Kevin Patrick on September 3rd, 2008 at 11:12am
“The McCain campaign will launch a television ad directly comparing Gov. Palin’s executive experience as a governor who oversees 24,000 state employees, 14 statewide cabinet agencies and a $ 10 billion budget to Barack Obama’s experience as a one-term junior senator from Illinois.”The ad is what the campaign calls “a forward-leaning effort to counter the shameless smears that have prevailed during Gov. Palin’s introduction to the American voter.”
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“Gov. Sarah Palin is an exceptional governor with a record of accomplishment that exceeds, by far, the governing accomplishments of Sen. Obama. Her selection came after a six-month long rigorous vetting process where her extraordinary credentials and exceptionalism became clear. This vetting controversy is a faux media scandal designed to destroy the first female Republican nominee for vice president of the United States who has never been a part of the old boys’ network that has come to dominate the news establishment in this country. Sen. McCain picked his governing partner after a long and thorough search. Gov. Palin looks forward to addressing the nation and laying out the fundamental choice this election represents for the American people.
Here is a new ad:
REPORTED FALSEHOODS AND SMEARS AGAINST GOV. PALIN’S FAMILY AND HISTORIC CANDIDACY:
* Liberal Bloggers Questioned Whether Gov. Palin’s Fifth Child Was Actually Bristol Palin’s Child.
* CNN’s John Roberts Questioned Whether Governor Palin Would Be Able To Care For A Child With Down Syndrome As Vice President.
* The Washington Post’s Sally Quinn Questioned Whether A Woman With Five Children And One Having Down Syndrome Would Be Able To Make Her Family A Priority If She Were Vice President.
* MSNBC, Headlines Beneath The Live Coverage Included “SOME WORKING MOTHERS WORRY THAT PALIN IS TAKING ON TOO MUCH” And “SOME VOTERS CONCERNED IF PALIN, A MOTHER OF FIVE, HAS TIME TO BE VP.”
* Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) Said That Gov. Palin Was A Supporter Of Pat Buchanan Who He Called A “Nazi Sympathizer.”
* The Obama Campaign Linked Gov. Palin As A Supporter Of Pat Buchanan Who They Called A “Nazi Sympathizer.”
* James Carville Claimed That Because Gov. Palin Was A Supporter Of Pat Buchanan She Would Not Be Attractive To Democrats.
* James Carville Said That Gov. Palin Would Appeal To “Pat Buchanan Kind Of Republicans.”
* In Toledo, Ohio, Sen. Joe Biden Said One Of The Differences Between Him And Gov. Palin Was “She’s Good-Looking.”
* CNN’s James Carville Said That Gov. Palin Is “Almost Absent Qualifications For The Job.”
* Liberal Radio Host Ed Schultz Said That Gov. Palin Was An “Empty Pantsuit” Who Had Started A “Bimbo Alert.”
* Sherrod Brown Criticized Gov. Palin For Being Mayor Of A Small Town.
* ABC’s Jake Tapper Reported That Gov. Palin Was Once A Member Of The Alaskan Independence Party, Which Wanted To Secede From The United States.
* The Washington Post’s Richard Cohen Said That Gov. Palin Was A “Sitcom” Candidate And Would Be A “Disaster Movie” If She Became President.
* Tom Daschle Attacked Palin As Having “Absolutely No Experience” And Being “Extreme Right Wing.”
Looks like another smackdown is coming!
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September 3rd, 2008 at 11:34 am
You have left out the photoshops of Palin wearing a bikini and carrying a machine gun and the opposition research releasing her home address and social security number as well as Dailykos posters calling her 17 year old daugter a slut.
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:35 am
Well the you should say the same for McCain, who as a Congressman has never had executive authority.
Maybe the ad should also say Palin even has more experience then McCain.
True to form, however, will be the double standard applied to Obama when addressing such things.
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:36 am
You need to add Us Magazine to the list. The publisher, Jann Wenner is a prominent Obama donor.
The McCain campaign and the RNC stated that the DNC and the Obama camp have set the campaign standards and they will respond in kind. Since they want a fight, a fight is coming, beginning today.
Gloves off. This is WAR.
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:46 am
Libermind-
“Well the you should say the same for McCain, who as a Congressman has never had executive authority.”
Glad to see you have conceded that Obama has no executive experience. Hats off to you for finally facing reality. As far as your assertion that McCain also has none, I will refer you to his position as commander in the Navy. Once you admit that indeed McCain was a commander in the navy (an indisputable fact), which is obviously an executive postion, you will be forced to admit that 1 plus one equals 2.
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:53 am
Maybe the ad should also say Palin even has more experience then McCain - liberalmind
Exactly. Palin for President!!!!
Kimberly,
You go girl. This is war and as evidenced by my recent posts, I am fed up with moronic liberals posting hatred and half truths and I have begun to verbally assault them and will not let up until they are all in the fetal position, defeated and marginalized forever.
The war has begun.
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:59 am
To all you dipshits saying Sarah Palin was in the AIP, I would like you to post an apology and admit you were lying or lose the miniscule credibility you have.
“Officials of the AIP said Gov. Palin was once a member, but the McCain campaign — providing what it says is complete voter registration documentation — says Palin has been according to official records a lifelong Republican.
A day after making its assertions, on Tuesday evening, AIP chair Lynette Clark acknowledged she was mistaken and that Gov. Palin was never a member.
(Which to be honest seems more in keeping with the ambitious pol. Republicans have a much better track record than the AIP.)
Gail Fenumiai, director of the Alaska Division of Elections, tells ABC News that “Gov. Sarah Palin first registered to vote in the state in May 1982 as a Republican, and she has not changed her party affiliate with the Division of Elections since that time.”
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Another post allowed on Dailykos.-
Day Six of the fuckers being on the defense. (0+ / 0-)
I need to get me an Obama/Biden/Palin bumper sticker.
That moose fucker is helping us every day she’s on the ticket.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty ::Thomas Jefferson::
by Jeremy10036 on Wed Sep 03, 2008 at 09:03:54 AM PDT
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
neocon: This bashing of Palin’s family is going to bite the Obama camp in the butt. The comments over at Us are 80% against the magazine. 20% are the dailykos kiddies - so obvious because the prose is the same.
The way we fight the war is not only on the blogs, but by donating to the McCain-Palin campaign and volunteering.
I was thrilled to see all the statements made by the Republicans on how bias the media is. I don’t think they were prepared for that!
Unfortunately, ABC, NBC and CBS did not show that part of Fred’s speech - because they had the transcripts of the speech. Wimps. Can’t take the truth, can they?
Rich: You better go take a shower after visiting that site!! :-)
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:33 pm
So you are saying that there is something wrong with looking good???
Quote:In Toledo, Ohio, Sen. Joe Biden Said One Of The Differences Between Him And Gov. Palin Was “She’s Good-Looking.” end quote
Meanwhile the Alaskan Legislature moves forward with the investigation of ethics violations by Palin. Impeachment expected soon.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Liberal, BUT McCain commanded an Navy unit after coming home. He retired as a Captain.
Teddy Roosevelt held equivalent rank.
LBJ, Jimmy Carter, Nixon, Ford, Kennedy, and Trumman all held lesser ranks.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Steve Corbett, a rabid Hillary Clinton stalwart who packs clout as the BIGGEST talk-show host in northeastern PENNSYLVANIA, has abandoned the Democratic Party to shout across the airwaves “Nobama! Nobiden! Nobull!” (emphasis mine)
Corbett, who led what he called “Operation Turndown” in a foiled attempt to deny the nomination to the “unqualified” Barack Obama and award it to Clinton, recently told his radio audience that the way his heroine was “disrespected” at the Democratic convention “put me over the edge.”
“Like Hillary Clinton, I’ve decided to move on. It’s time for a change,” he told listeners on the popular AM station, WILK.
And Corbett is still fuming — especially at the women he contends betrayed Hillary.
“A whole new generation of young women who have no sense of the sacrifice that took place before they were out of diapers have signed on to the anti-Hillary assault as well. Sadly, even some of them sneer at the sexist portrayals of this woman who sacrificed for them and did her best despite harsh odds to bring equity to the workplace, the home and the country.”
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Here’s your real problem: “Three times in recent years, the Arizona senator’s lists of ‘objectionable’ pork spending have included earmarks requested by his new running mate.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/la-na-earmarks3-2008sep03,0,5932587.story
A real vetting would have gotten you out in front of all these stories. Instead you’re running around like headless chickens. McCain really looked out for you.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:58 pm
The experience thing has been blown away, thanks to McCain’s pick of the most inexperienced VP pick in history.
So you just keep that one alive. I guess something has allowed Obama to crack the 50% mark in Gallup and besting McSame in all the other polls.
The US magazine is pretty disgusting, that’s for sure.
I guess it ranks down there with Dan Quayle’s little tirade…
“It doesn’t help matters,” Quayle complained, when Brown, “a character who supposedly epitomizes today’s intelligent, highly paid professional woman” is portrayed as “mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another ‘life-style choice.’”
Yeah, when a Democrat has moral failings it’s a “poverty of values.” When a Republican does the same, it’s a “private family matter.”
Hypocrisy is not a family value…..
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Leave Palin alone you say?
Just the same way Hillary was treated in the Right Wing Media, eh?
Payback is a bitch, in a pantsuit this time fellas…..
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Hoo-hoo, you guys are rich. I can’t even get indignant with your hypocrisy. I’m laughing instead.
For the past decade and a half, you wingnuts have made up more slanderous shit than I could believe is possible. The “Clinton death list” has now been republished as the “Obama death list” (and you idiots didn’t even bother to change some of the names.)
And as far as “family being off-limits”, that was a rule you didn’t observe with Chelsea Clinton. McCain himself insulted her publicly (but the man of great “moral character” did apologize about telling a joke about a 16 year old).
AND NOW — NOW? — you find the moral authority to condemn lies and slander?
You’re the most dishonorable lot I’ve ever seen.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Liberalmind- I will redirect you to your earlier post in this thread and your dodging of mine.
Post 4-
You–
“Well the you should say the same for McCain, who as a Congressman has never had executive authority.”
Me–
Glad to see you have conceded that Obama has no executive experience. Hats off to you for finally facing reality. As far as your assertion that McCain also has none, I will refer you to his position as commander in the Navy. Once you admit that indeed McCain was a commander in the navy (an indisputable fact), which is obviously an executive postion, you will be forced to admit that 1 plus one equals 2.
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You have not answered whether or not McCain was indeed a Navy Commander and Palin is indeed a Governor, both executive postions, nor have you shown us what executive position Obama has held. I am waiting.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:09 pm
And here’s a little quote from your favorite bastard, Karl Rove on nominating inexperienced VP candidates
Ye have reaped what ye have sown, you stupid bastards.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:09 pm
She was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it, that is change you can believe in.
http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=11217
It’s pretty funny that the reps are running on a reform platform, more republicans will fix all these republican screwups!!
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Post 14-
“Leave Palin alone you say?”
No dumbass- leave her seventeen year old daughter alone(like Obama has asked you to). Debate with her all you like, but leave the sexism (can she care for her baby while running),rumor-mongering (its really not her baby) and lies (she was in the AIP)out of it.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
I’m am not going to miss tonight’s VP roll-out, truly great political theater. The place will go WILD, watching the live-on-TV manufacturing of a celebrity. The music will play, there will be tears, the bolloons will fall (hopefully).
And then, some day, sooner or later, they’re going to let her near the press. And she will begin accruing actual experience, the kind we are actually talking about. She be asked to fill in all the blanks in her positions, her domestic and foreign policies, her deep well of knowledge of the issues a president in waiting must command. To inspire the confidence of millions of Americans that she is the best the GOP has to offer.
Then the wheels start coming off…
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Rich:
It is not the military service I question.
It’s the utter hypocrisy I despise.
I mean Fred Thompson said that being a POW does not qualify one to be POTUS.
Wesley Clark said the same thing.
We know how the liberal media handled Clark.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Oh and leave the Obama driven nazi-sympathizer meme out of it also.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:16 pm
From a Democrat:
The Democratic party as people once knew it no longer exist. They have turned into a group of unhinged, unrealistic, delusional political whores for the Obama campaign. In the last 48hrs I have read, watched and became stunned as I saw people begin to act like rabid dogs with a bone as they attempted the 2nd worse smear campaign I have EVER witnessed during this election. But one thing I do know is that the way they have treated women in general is a eye opener. I never would of imagined how far and how low people would go for the Democratic party. From attacking a individual who has only been on the political radar in the last 48hrs. But not only that, they have actually attacked Govenor Palins child as well.
I do not know of one mother who would ever tolerate or condone what I have witnessed. The Democratic party became unglued as they attempt to revert back to the primaries and use the same theme they used on Senator Clinton. This is no longer about party affiliation. This is about the fact that we are getting a first hand glimpse of a possible Obama presidency and its enough to shake anyone into reality. It goes against my moral beliefs to support any group that is willing to attack and degrade children. These last two days erased any doubt or misgivings that lingered over the concept of crossing party lines.
Pictures of a 16 year old girl with arrows pointing to there stomach to prove a point? Good god this is how low they have sunk for the White House? No 16 year old should be subjected to these type of smears. What is wrong with these people?
But after listening to two Democrats make distastful remarks about the hurricane, listening to pundits make accusations in the MSM, reading blogs personally attacking the oppostion instead of attacking there job experience, erased any doubts. The Democratic party has become a embarrassement. You can see this by going to Daily Kos & Taylor Marsh websites. I refuse to even link to that website after reading articles that gave a new meaning to “smear”.
BTW, resident liberals, I am reading similar posts from hundreds of Democrat blogs and sites.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Rich,
So you’ll now rightly condemn John McCain for telling the Janet Reno joke about Chelsea Clinton in 1998?
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:17 pm
This “NEW” Democratic Party is so far removed from the party of Roosevelt, Truman and Clinton that there is nothing recognizable about it.
I have been unable to get to the computor for a few days and couldn’t believe the vile trash that has been posted ever since Sarah Palin was chosen.
The first thing I did after visiting one site was to take out my voter identification card and fill in the back of it changing my affiliation from Democrat to Independent.
This was hard to do since I have been a Democrat for over 40 years but this so-called Democratic Party is not the party I knew (to paraphrase Obama).
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Let’s leave out the following media distortions then shall we, Rich:
Obama is unpatriotic.
Bill Ayers
Reverend Wright
Obama is a Muslim
Michelle Obama hates America
There is a “liberal” media.
Obama is actually not a citizen
Obama’s half brother
Obama is some sort of dimwit celebrity
So you leave out all these smears and I’ll leave your little beauty queen alone.
Deal?
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:24 pm
kimberly4victory
The GOP is so far removed from Lincoln and Eisenhower and more like Nixon.
I doubt you ever had any intention of voting for Obama anyway, who by the said months ago to leave family’s out of it.
The Right Wing Media is keeping the Palin story alive as much as any other media outlet.
I think Drudge ran a few stories on it.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:28 pm
20. jayhay | September 3rd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
You nailed it. Obama though inexperienced defeated the clintion machine and has been in the media spot light for going on a year. He has had over 17 debates with clintion and toughed through a potentially damaging rev. wright issue. Plain is hitting the campaign with only 9 weeks left with about as much experience as what Obama had in Iowa. She’s going to be up against Biden whose experience in the spotlight is comparable to McCain’s. She has well over a year of politcal vetting and experience to get through in a matter of weeks. Not to mention she has 5 kids and a teenage daughter that is pregnant. I can only imagine what her family is going through alone but then you throw all the media spotlight in the mix. Plain has to deliver and deliver huge in the first line of actual questions she is faced with at those ‘town hall’ meetings. It will be interesting to see if McCain continues with those after selecting Plain. The way they are playing it I have doubts. In every sense this was a desperate move that will no doubt spell disaster for McCain. After all, Plain is certainly no Hilary Clinton. Shoot, she’s know Condi either.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Of course, I would never vote for Obama, and never planned on it.
I guess I should point out post #25 was written by a Democrat. I guess that would have been obvious by the “The first thing I did after visiting one site was to take out my voter identification card and fill in the back of it changing my affiliation from Democrat to Independent” statement.
Doah.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:31 pm
We can start with these questions:
She was for the bridge to nowhere before it became politically unpopular and was against it, but took the federal money anyway.
She loved earmarks, some she asked for are even on John McCain’s objectionable earmarks list.
She loved lobbyists and hired one to get the earmarks she wanted.
She fired the guy who wouldn’t fire her ex brother in law.
She tried to ban books.
She cut funding for teen moms.
She raised sales taxes in Wasilla and left the village 20 million in debt.
She attended the conventions of a secessionist party that her husband was a registered member of for nearly 10 years even though its leader expressed hatred for the United States government.
She organized arial hunts of bears and wolves.
she sued to try and keep the polar bear off the endangerded species list.
The issues, baby, it’s all about the issues
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:31 pm
SAR - Thanks for talking about this. I have no gripe with Palin personally, and I appreciate you noticing the difference.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:33 pm
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1161
I will vote for Sarah Palin because I don’t need the Democratic platform’s belated affirmation of motherhood. Thanks, but I already know that motherhood is good, several times over. Moreover, the party’s rediscovery of motherhood seems rather cynical in the current news cycle, while Democratic-friendly bloggers and media types bash Palin about her daughter’s pregnancy and her own busy schedule while bringing up children. How can a real sympathy for motherhood come from the same people who wrote a platform that hardens the party’s addiction to a phony right to kill the unborn?
I will vote for Sarah Palin because she has guts. We’ve never met, but I suspect I know something about her life, and so do a great many other women. I know what it means to have a son with Down syndrome. I know what it means to talk a good line about religious faith and then be asked to prove it. I know what it means to have a daughter pregnant and unmarried.
In fact, while we’re on the subject, I also know what it means to have two grandchildren born out of wedlock, a son struggling with alcohol, two grandchildren with serious disabilities, putting myself through graduate school while simultaneously caring for a husband and children and teaching full time—and a whole lot more. This is the stuff of real human love; this is the raw material of family life. And those who think that Palin’s beliefs and family struggles are funny or worth jeering at, simply reveal the venality of their own hearts.
I will vote for Sarah Palin because she is intelligent, tenacious and talented. Nobody made her rise easy, and no one is making it easy now. And—is it only moms who notice this?—unlike Senator Biden, she does seem to act consistently on her beliefs about the sanctity of life, at considerable personal cost.
I will vote for Sarah Palin because she doesn’t come from Washington or New York or Chicago or anywhere else the political and media aristoi like to hang out. In fact, I especially like the idea that the state she governs actually produces something—like some of the oil that powers the hair dryers and klieg lights at MSNBC.
I will vote for Sarah Palin because Roe v. Wade is bad law, and it needs to fall. I don’t doubt the intelligence and character of men like Doug Kmiec, the younger Bob Casey, and others who sympathize with the Obama campaign. But I do doubt their judgment. At the end of the day, the Democratic party in 2008 has conceded nothing to pro-life Democrats. The fact that Sen. Obama listens respectfully to pro-lifers without calling them reactionary dunces does not constitute progress. Results and behavior are what matter. On both those counts, the party has again failed to show any real sensitivity to pro-life concerns. In that light, high profile Catholics who support Obama are simply rationalizing their surrender on Roe.
Finally, I will vote for Sarah Palin, not because I’ve left the Democratic party of my youth and young adulthood, but because that party has left me. In fact, it no longer exists. And no amount of elegant speaking, exciting choreography, and moral alibis will bring it back.
That’s the real tragedy of this election.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Liberalmind- Still dodging from earlier. I will repost for you a second time.
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You–
“Well the you should say the same for McCain, who as a Congressman has never had executive authority.”
Me–
Glad to see you have conceded that Obama has no executive experience. Hats off to you for finally facing reality. As far as your assertion that McCain also has none, I will refer you to his position as commander in the Navy. Once you admit that indeed McCain was a commander in the navy (an indisputable fact), which is obviously an executive postion, you will be forced to admit that 1 plus one equals 2.
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You have not answered whether or not McCain was indeed a Navy Commander and Palin is indeed a Governor, both executive postions, nor have you shown us what executive position Obama has held. I am waiting.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Rich:
Obama has been the executive in charge of a brilliantly managed campaign.
He has overseen a huge budget and far more people than McSame ever commanded.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Xavier- yes it was a bad joke in very poor taste. A joke over ten years ago does not excuse the attacks today, as I would guess most would agree.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Liberalmind- Seriously this is a softball. Obama has a campaign manager. He does not run his campaign. Even if what you say is true, that running a campaign gives one executive experiece, than McCain would have more as he has run more successful campaigns, and Palin would have just as much as she successfully defeated an incumbant governor. Giving speeches is not executive experience. I’ll ask you again, what executive position has Obama held?
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Liberal Mind - Hillary Clinton is on record saying FOXNews was the MOST objective news organization covering her campaign.
Idiot.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Rich - “Experience” is meaningless without judgment and also an understanding of the candidate’s positions on national issues. You can harp on her running a state with the population of Austin all you want, it doesn’t fly outside the echo chamber. Sorry.
The actual point is can we look at how she has dealt with the issues the president needs to deal with, has she been questioned on those issues, has she defended her point of view, and has she shown the mettle in the glare of that national spotlight for some time. No, and before she’s even met with the press a single time she’s already crying “sexism!” It’s a joke.
Obama, Biden and McCain all have done that time - you can then judge if they earn your vote. She hasn’t - she’s a complete neophyte and McCain has left you all to try to defend this. Nice of him.
That’s the experience we’re talking about.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Looks like Obama has gotten a bump in the polls from the Palin fallout.
I’m happy with McCain’s choice.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Obama has been the executive in charge of a brilliantly managed campaign
Wrong:
He has campaign managers handling the day to day operations.
Everything Obama does is scripted and managed by his handlers. He is not mangaging squat…
If Palin were a liberal, she would be compared to Mother Theresa.
Thier attitude just proves how angry and bitter democrats truelly are.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Obamas presidential campaign is not successful yet. We’re working to keep it that way.
Socialism is not the answer.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Liberals just want to talk about Palin, but what about their VP pick? You gotta love Joe …
At a town hall meeting at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del, ignored pleas from his staff to wrap up, and riffed for an hour and 15 minutes.
The evening was full of Biden-isms, including the inevitable Obama/Osama slip, made when Biden was discussing the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border “where Obama, Osama Bin Laden lives, and Obama wants to go to get him.”…
“I’ve got to tell you, I’m tired,” Biden continued. “Let me tell you. If you’re looking for a very sophisticated, Harvard graduate who went to Columbia undergrad and was president of the Law Review, he’s totally intellectual. Baby, you ain’t seen nothing yet. This guy is steel. This guy is steel, and I assure you that.”
Is he clean steel, Joe? LMAO!!
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/oh-that-joe-n-2.html
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:57 pm
“There was a flutter of attention when McCain campaign manager Rick Davis told a group of Post reporters and editors yesterday that his team was having to rework the vice presidential acceptance speech because the original draft, prepared before Gov. Sarah Palin was chosen, was too “masculine.” While we all wondered to ourselves what might make a speech masculine or feminine, no one batted an eye at the underlying revelation: that the campaign was writing the nominee’s speech before knowing who the nominee would be.”
D’oh…
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Good thing the Republican party didn’t think this way when Abraham Lincoln was running for office!
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Oh the travesty, jayhay! That’s it. I’m voting for Obama, since he claims to write his own speechs, so it MUST be true. LOL!!!
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:11 pm
jayhay, neither do I. I think McCain would have had an decent shot at this election if he had picked Romney or Lieberman. With Plain he pretty much blew his chances. It’s not because she is a woman or mother or her daughter et. al. It’s the simple fact that someone with experience comparable to Obama to be picked at this late stage is simply ridiculous. Yes Obama lacked experience but a year long campaign of constant interviews, attacks, and more specifically confront the race issue head on has given him plenty. Plain has to hit the ground running and at this stage, even the slightest sign of weakness or hesitation will spell disaster.
This is not hatred, it’s not partisanship, it’s not left vs right, it’s reality. She will be attacked as Obama has been, as Kerry was, as McCain has been. It’s simple, the choice is a disaster and it’s too late to back out now.
Interesting enough, McCain has not been mentioned. The focus shifted to Plain and not the issues. However, next week or the one after when all the fuss dies down, the media will be asking where she stands. Asking how she has created reform. Tucker Bounds was made to look like an idiot on CNN by mild pressure from the anchor regarding Plains ‘commander in chief’ of the Alaskan National guard position. At this stage in the game, thats not something you can afford. It’s almost the equivalent of bringing in a rookie kicker with 2 minutes left to kick a 65 yard field goal in a strong head wind.
Tom, who do Obama’s campaign managers answer to? If you want to get technical, the President doesn’t really do anything either, it’s his handlers and secretary’s that do all the work. Good try though.
Sure people would compare Plain the mother Teresa, but then people on the Right already are too. Your double standard is showing, I think it’s high time you drop the trench coat and stop hiding it.
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Dripping with hypocrisy …
The daughter of Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of obstructing a police officer outside a Chicago bar.
Ashley Blazer Biden, 21, of Wilmington, Del., was with a group of people on a North Side street where several bars are located when someone else threw a bottle at an officer, police said.
When police tried to arrest another person, Biden blocked the officer’s path and made intimidating statements, officer JoAnn Taylor said.
Biden was later released and is scheduled to appear in court Sept. 20.
Sen. Biden’s spokeswoman, Margaret Aitken, declined to comment, calling it a private, family matter.
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Not so sure; this woman has been in the crucible before and has not folded. I mean, it must have been intimidating to go up against the Alaskan power structure. These guys were not just Chicago pols or a Chicago machine but rather the governor and senator and the good old boys from the oil companies. We’re talking some serious adversaries here and she did not wilt:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin#Early_political_career
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin#Governor_of_Alaska
I won’t recount the litany of her accomplishments, but were I a disinterested party and apprised of the accomplishments of each, I would have to come down ion Ms Palin’s side and find Obama’s record somewhat specious.
Also, there seems to be a lot of people who see themselves in Ms Palin — a sort of everyman (everyperson?) and truly a Ms. Smith Goes to Washington — and it might not be in the best interests of the shrieking harpies on the left to villify her to such an extent.
In fact, given that John McCain’s staff has sprung a series of traps for the Obabam campaign:
(1) engaging in the smackdown surrounding the
“anywhere, anytime debates”, essentially
calling the Great One’s bluff, and having
him back down. Massive loss of face especially
when one factors the Warren show-up and how
the serial stutterer showed that not only was
the question of life above his pay grade but
also the concept of debate was as well.
http://gazettextra.com/news/2008/jun/22/two-strategic-moves-could-trouble-obama/
(2) The “celebrity” ads on the heels of Obama’s “We
are the World tour”, showing the voters that this
guy had a massive ego and was all hat and no cattle.
Sure, there was a response by Paris Hilton after a
bluster by a stung Obama. The funny thing was that
Paris Hilton’s outline for an energy policy left
The Great One’s plan of “Car tune-up and tire
inflation you can believe in” somewhat wanting.
..and now, McCain has picked a young lady whose track record of performance is at least comparable to Obama’s flailing around as a community organizer and helping with the administration of a program by an unrepentant 60s radical that, essentially, earmarked $100 millions into oblivion. A lady, whose experience is being called into question by her opponents and the inside-the-beltway crowd (”She’s never been on Meet The Press before”). This former group is peeling up everything in sight in an attempt to discredit her. Her husband’s 20-year-old DUI? An expired fishing license? Excuse me, have a little too much time on our hands, do we?
So while the KOS-infants circle in the bloody water, I am wondering if this is really a feeding frenzy or a bunch of sharks swimming around in water that has been some carefully-chummed by the Old Fox himself.
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Most Botched Veep Roll-Out Evah…
This is what the McCain White House would be like: chaotic, defensive, reckless, half-baked.
Man, McC really teed up the last two months of the campaign. All we need to do a play that vid of Palin from a month ago, “Someone tell me, what does the Vice-President DO?!”
McCain has courage, no doubt. Just lousy management skills…
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Rich writes:
Liberalmind- Seriously this is a softball. Obama has a campaign manager. He does not run his campaign. Even if what you say is true, that running a campaign gives one executive experiece, than McCain would have more as he has run more successful campaigns, and Palin would have just as much as she successfully defeated an incumbant governor.
..and, I am not so sure I would want to be someone who claims to blow through $30 million per month.
Claiming as executive experience that one runs their campaign is like applying for a job as a techwriter on the basis of the resume you wrote.
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Meanwhile, Obama’s numbers continue to rise, and McCain’s continue to fall. This is dismal news for Obama!*
At least according to Mark and Matt’s favorite poll.
*In Right Wing World, where up is down.
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:34 pm
yekepyt: You’re a fool. Yesterday, Gallup had Obama at 50 … so I guess he went DOWN a point. LOL!!
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:37 pm
The Republicans really don’t need any help with Sen. Obama showing how inexperienced he really is. Comparing his campaign to the time she was Governor and stating information from when she was a Mayor??? Maybe liberals fall for it.
The response comes…
Well, Obama and Ayers managed to run a couple of public/private funded enterprises into the ground–guess that counts as well.
BTW LM — just about everything you quoted as “questions” in #30 have already been proving completely false by adults. Ask mom for some cookies.
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:41 pm
And the fight continues. Here is a list of advertisers for Us Ragazine:
http://usweeklyboycott.blogspot.com/
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Palin is getting vetted now, the chaotic, messy, Republican way.
Lucky this isn’t the week America is focused on the Republican party! Oh wait…
Nice job, McC.
Dang, being this “desperate” sure is fun.
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Kimberly — take it easy, just follow these simple steps:
1. Click on the link to the Gallup Web Site.
2. See the dark green line moving UP? That’s Obama. See the light green line moving DOWN? That’s McCain. See the gap? It’s widening on both sides.
3. Apology accepted.
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Kimberly — there are a lot of progressive voices on this blog. Posting a list of companies to boycott on here will probably result in a net increase in sales for those companies.
The link is: Companies Kimberly & the GOP Want Us To Boycott. Let’s go shopping!
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:23 pm
jayhay writes:
Most Botched Veep Roll-Out Evah…
…chaotic, defensive, reckless, half-baked.
..so, Jay, how are Barak America and “The Next President of the United States” after that furtive Saturday morning fumble-fest when “plugs” was rolled out?
I got the old popcoprn popping and the butter melting just waiting to watch these two clowns — Obama and Biden — gaffe their way through the campaign.
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:13 pm
http://www.gallup.com/poll/109996/Gallup-Daily-Obama-49-McCain-43.aspx
Yekept- Are you really this much of a dumbass or are you trying to be funny? You make fun of Kimberly for calling you on being wrong on polling, then you link a poll from July. Seriously pathetic. Just so you know, today is September third. Obama is leading 49 to 43, which is six points. Yesterday he led 50 to 42, whixh is 8 points. Which means in this daily tracking poll, Obama is tracking down. Moron.
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Ha! Mike Murphy and Peggy Noonan don’t seem to think Palin is qualified at all. Damn those live mics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrG8w4bb3kg
What say you, Palin supporters?
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Rich is right and I am wrong — and now I have to apologize to Kimberly!
I’m sorry, Kimberly, you were right and I was wrong.
And thanks to Rich for pointing it out, and posting the correct link, which does in fact show exactly the opposite of what I was hoping for!
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Amanda- Seriously, Ill see your Peggy Noonan and raise you a Joe Biden.
“Biden has denounced Barack Obama’s poor foreign policy judgment and has strongly argued in his own words what Americans are quickly realizing - that Barack Obama is not ready to be President.”
http://www.wpbf.com/politics/17262754/detail.html
Now I will double down with a Hillary Clinton quote on Obama’s readiness.
“I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002.” - March 2008 campaign commercial
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:35 pm
LiberalMind,
“The experience thing has been blown away, thanks to McCain’s pick of the most inexperienced VP pick in history.”
Serving 8 years as a Mayor and Governor, both executive postions, is less experience than?:
John Edwards - one term Senator with his entire previous experience as an ambulance-chasing malpractice lawyer.
Sargent Shriver - Never held elective office, yet was the VP candidate under McGovern.
Those are just two, off the top of my head.
I’m still waiting for someone to enlighten me on Senator Obama’s stellar qualifications and experience. Even members of his own party don’t think he has the necessary experience.
“I think he can be ready, but right now I don’t believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training.” - Senator Joe Biden. OOPS, Senator Joe’s now the VP pick for the Donk’s. Better bury that quote really deep.
‘‘I think we need a president with more experience than that (speaking of Senator Obama), someone the rest of the world knows, looks up to and has confidence in.’’ - Senator Hillary Clinton
“I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002,” - Senator Hillary Clinton.
And you know what Senator Obama says is his “…strongest experience I have in foreign relations”..”the fact I spent four years overseas when I was a child in Southeast Asia…’’ 4 years living in Southeast Asia from the ages of 6 until 10? Are you telling me your candidates “strongest foreign relations experience” occurred when he was not even a TEANAGER?!?!?!?! And you want this phoney elected President of my United States of America? You’ve got to be kidding.
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:34 pm
I still haven’t heard anyone justify how Obama deserved to get raked over the coals because he attended a church who’s pastor criticized America, but Palin get’s a free pass for attending the convention of, and being extremely friendly with the AIP, who’s founder had this to say about the USA…
“The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government,”
“And then you get mad. And you say, the hell with them. And you renounce allegiance, and you pledge your efforts, your effects, your honor, your life to Alaska.”
This is a man who is still hailed on AIP’s website, right now.
Why did Palin feel it was acceptable to attend their convention?
Is there nothing wrong with the fact that her husband clearly believes in the principles of the AIP, since he was provably a member from 1995 to 2002.
Obama knows a guy who went to jail for corruption and he’s vilified. Sarah Palin is married to a man who doesn’t want to be a United States Citizen, and that’s perfectly acceptable?
I’ll be waiting with bated breath for this epic spin job.
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Uh, maybe because the convention didn’t last 2O YEARS?
“Not so sure; this woman has been in the crucible before and has not folded. I mean, it must have been intimidating to go up against the Alaskan power structure.”
William of Orange … I agree …
At the end of 2005, a close friend called to say that he begun writing speeches and talking points for a certain gubernatorial candidate.
“Remind me,” I asked. “Who is Sarah Palin?”
I was dismayed at my friend’s choice of political entree. Why was he wasting his time on a relative nobody, trying to beat an incumbent governor (and former three term senator) in the Republican primary? It was utter folly. “Wait until the big money starts coming in for Murkowski,” I said. “Wait until the party machinery goes to work on Palin. They will eat her for lunch.”
Murkowski, for his part, expressed a similar view. “If I decide to,” he said, “I will run and I will win. It’s that simple.”
The folly, of course, turned out to be my own (and Murkowski’s), as Palin slaughtered the incumbent in the primary–posting a 30 point margin of victory–and went on to win the general (over a former Democratic governor) without seeming to break a sweat. She then quickly fulfilled an implicit campaign promise by slapping down ExxonMobil, BP, and ConocoPhillips in negotiations over a proposed Alaska natural gas pipeline, even though they, too, by all accounts, were well prepared to dine on her tender little frame. Not bad for a lightweight.
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Uh, maybe because the convention didn’t last 2O YEARS?
Your right, but her husband was a member for only 8 years. What exactly is the number of years that is the cut off point for outrage? 10 years? 15 years?
I would also suggest that her husband has a direct impact on her daily life, much more so then a minister who you may see once a week. So, therefore Obama was inflenced by an ‘anti-american’ once a week for 20 years vs. Plain, every day for 8 years (and Plain had sex with an ‘anti-american’). Does that make them equal? Do you see how ridiculous the whole 20 years arguement is?
Doesn’t it really suck when the absurd arguments wing nuts used in the past months can be turned around and laid flatly at your feet. So, the Experience arguement is gone, the patriotic arguement is gone and the 20 years arguement is gone all with the selection of Ms. Plain. What an interesting turn of events this has been.
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Can we PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE move to the issues now?
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Faceplant,
Try to keep up. The leader of the AIP has admited that Gov Palin has never been a member of the AIP.
“Obama knows a guy who went to jail for corruption and he’s vilified.”
Let me correct that for you: ” Obama used cocaine, calls an unrepentant terrorist a friend, bought property in a ’sweetheart deal’ from a convicted felon, and he gets off scott-free with the MSM.”
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:11 pm
K4V
Kim
The “new” donkroach party is made up of marxists, anarchists, radical homosexuals, radical atheists, abortionists.
and terrorists such as weather underground, black panthers, and nation of islam.
Remember all the “peoples” parties? (leftists) IE
russia
cambodia
cuba
n.korea
china
etc to nausiem.
The death toll from these left wing regimes in the twentieth century, was over THREE HUNDRED MILLION !
Imagine if the some who post here were really in charge?
Do I hear FIRING SQUADS?
Remember Che, Fidel, Pol, Joe, etc were all the “PEOPLES liberators” Ie all leftists.
PS
I have talked to several friends and a few people I dont know………ALL were like me lukewarm on McCain some were considering not even voting……..ALL now energized by the appointment of Palin.
That is GREAT NEWS !!!! WOO HOO!
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:17 pm
S..A..R,
Yes, the experience arguement is “gone.” It has been dramatically proven that Senator does not have the necessary experience to serve and President, yet alone run for President. To quote a couple of your liberal “friends”:
‘‘I think we need a president with more experience than that, someone the rest of the world knows, looks up to and has confidence in.’’
“I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002,”
“I think he can be ready, but right now I don’t believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training.”
You know who made those quotes? The first two were made by Senator Hillary Clinton. The last was made by Senator Joe Biden.
Gosh, even the VP Candidate doesn’t think the Presidential Candidate is ready to be President. WOW!!!!!! Maybe Senator Biden knows something you don’t.
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:17 pm
A-10
>>>Let me correct that for you: ” Obama used cocaine, calls an unrepentant terrorist a friend, bought property in a ’sweetheart deal’ from a convicted felon, and he gets off scott-free with the MSM.”>>>
AND
has been accused of two or more homosexual liasons.
One with a man who committed suicide,
and, one who give first hand details in a video STILL posted on U tube………Crickets chirping from the MSM.
A republican tapping his toes?…….run him out of town, ruin him!
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:53 pm
“Your right, but her husband was a member for only 8 years. What exactly is the number of years that is the cut off point for outrage? 10 years? 15 years?”
I’m not sure, how long ago was it that Barak Obama SMOKED CRACK?
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Rich, I think it was about the same time and Plain’s husband got that DUI! So say 18 years?
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:35 pm
I see my Vice presidential candidate’s HUSBAND’S dui and I raise you your PRESIDENTIAL candidates admitted previous hobby of smoking crack. Is this the card game you want to play?
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:37 pm
I said that wrong but you get the gist, comparing the vice presidential candidates husband’s shortcomings to a presidential candidates shortcoming is a little retarded.
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Ann Coulter got it right:
“When liberals start acting like they’re opposed to pre-marital sex and mothers having careers, you know McCain’s vice presidential choice has knocked them back on their heels.”
September 4th, 2008 at 11:53 am
LMAO, the point was not comparing their short comings Rich. It was that both occurred many years ago and are not a true representation of their characters to date.
In any event, you said Obama smoked Crack, then after I mention DUI you come back with Obama smoked crack. By that logic, a winning rebutal would be ‘But palin’s a heart-beat away’ considering McCain’s cancer troubles.
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Sherese Hymen
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September 10th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
THE CHICKENS ARE COMING HOME TO ROOST …
Barack is cryin. He always thought this is mine!
I’m Michele’s husband, I’m black, and this is mine!
I just got to step up into the plate … and, then out of nowhere, came ‘Hey, I’m Sarah Palin’ … and he said damn, where did you come from? I’m black, I’m
entitled … there’s a white woman stealing my show
… wah … wah …