The GOP continues to dumb down politics...and her name is Sarah Palin.
batch that kind of spin may work on GOPs like you who have a persecution complex, but rational people know that there was no need to announce Bristol's pregnancy in response to the Trig rumors. The McCain campaign could have simply said "That's garbage that we won't respond to" and that would have been that.
bobg1812, "Come on I trust those two to do what is right by me and mine like another unproven unheard of canidate from our past Arkansa's former governor w.j. Clinton. I don't trust the media or hollywood to tell me the truth." "face it you lefties are unhappy with anything the current admin has done." Have you been on some remote island for the past 7 1/2 years? Please let us know what exactly you ARE happy with what the current administration has done.
bobg, thanks for your rambnling post, completely devoid of fact. Do us all a favor and compare economic growth under Clinton vs that under Bush. Then check job growth. Then check the deficit. Then the value of the dollar. And your accusation abotu Congress is laughable. The Dems took a slim majority in 2006, not even enough to override a presidential veto. From 1996-20006, the republicans held the majority. Thanks for coming out.
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Oh please will you bleeding hearts ever get over the whole Gore thing
or do believe everything you read in the newspaper or see on tv is fact. Does it matter that Billary and Gore and Kerry are wealthier than Mcain will ever be, bother you! Has Senator Obama really ever been proven or tested please not in this lifetime then we have his running mate "brain tumor Joe" Come on I trust those two to do what is right by me and mine like another unproven unheard of canidate from our past Arkansa's former governor w.j. Clinton. I don't trust the media or hollywood to tell me the truth. I will not except a canidate that is favored by either ever!!!!! face it you lefties are unhappy with anything the current admin has done. even though you own the senate and congress and basically have the run of the government. your party is so fragmented MCAIN/PALIN has a good chance of beating you fair and square!!!! even if you can't deal with it and or agree with most of America.
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ED, I hear alot of criticism about the republicans complaining about the media. For years it was considered laughable for anyone to question their motivation. That has changed. Today, the majority of America believes the media slants left, and campaign contributions have proven it. If we as republicans don't speak out against media bias, we deserve what they do to us. Just let us vent.
Obama is finished.Phil Jackson will destroy him in his re-election bid in 2010.
Boo hoo hoo. Poor wittle wepublicans. The media is being mean to them. How are they going to face the terrorists if they can't even face the reporters without crying?
She didn't mention this: http://www.obamacrimes.com/
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And remember, families arte off limits, unless its a right wing website pushing rumors that Michelle Obama said "whitey" once. Bet you still believe that one.
Speaking of Duds.... will can speak to that quite well.
B.atk, real simple show me where Will slanders her, or makes accusations that Trig is Bristol's daughter. You can't, cause it only happened in your paranoid lil mind. And if you think Palin had any chance of hiding the fact that her daughter was 5 mos pregnant in the midst of a campaign, I've got a bridge to sell you. Her whole community knew it. Its no big deal.
Unlike Biden, who is a dud, Palin is a very likeable person, both physically and the other stuff. America is going to pull behind her. Especially, if they feel she is getting picked on. Believe, all the negative, irrelevant, and sometimes fabricated stuff will backfire.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin said Monday that her 17-year-old unmarried daughter is pregnant.
RG, you're criticizing Palin for using a teleprompter??? Nobama is the Beethoven of the teleprompter. He can't burp without reading it off the teleprompter.... And I suppose you also believe that Nobama writes his own speeches. ROTFLMAO.
All this phony indignation is designed to distract NORMAL thinking people from the abyssmal job the rethugs have done and Johnny Macs fealty to the Duhcider.
"That's right RG. It was McCain's people who 'spilled the beans' that Governor Palin was NOT the mother of her 5th child" No, b.atk, it was McCain's camp who announced the daughter was pregnant on Monday. Remember, bon was talking about HER privacy and thats what I responded to. Try to stay on point now, ok?
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damgoodbodies, I wonder if sailor knows that PMI is patially owned by a prominent repub backer, Brian Tierney
Ran a well organized, grassroots+web savvy primary campaign to defeat a a member of an influential political family who started off with more support and money than he did. Sponsored an ethics and healthcare bill in the IL senate. Worked with both sides and the police to lead IL to become the first state to videotape interrogations. Worked with Lugar on proliferation of convetional weapons, and with Coburn on a transparency act that discloses who recieves federal funds. Member of the Foreign Relations and Veterans affairs committess. Now tell me one thing that John McCain has done in his 26 years in Congress that has affected you?
Talk about empty suits you have a full convention of them right befor your eyes
As RG said earlier it's very obvious who the real ELITISTS are.
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Yeah batty, people confuse Obama with Sharpton all the time.
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The media has every right to investigate and report on Palin's past. The complaint against the media is they have been unwilling to do the same to Barack Obama. Investigate them both, not just the Republican.
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SailAway, you do realize that the Inquirer and Daily News workers are all AMERICANS don't you. You are actually wishing that a building full of your neighbors, many of whom probably have families should be out of work?
One Question What Has Barack Obama ever accomplished..name one thing!!
Very funny speech who was her comedy staff Rove&Guilliani lets belittle our opponents first then talk about losing more jobs aka. free trade. If they're so worried about terrorist then secure all of our borders now! Lets take care of home first "Country First".
I Love my Country God Bless America
the leftwing activism is one thing I'm not going to miss when the DN and Inquirer burn into the ground. A week ago I read how the Philly newspapers are going to potentially face massive layoffs or at least major pay cuts. DO YOU KNOW WHY? Your left-wing activism is pi--ing the world off. I have actively (albeit silently) boycotted all advertisers.
damgoodbodies, it gets even more humorous when they try to reconcile that with charges that Obama is elitist.
All you knuckle draggers who called Hillary Clinton everything but a child of God are indulging in your whiny hypocrisy once again. Of course anyone who identifies himself with the swift boat liars is not to be taken seiously.
its about time for Willy to opine on the Phillies struggles in DC, post about Ants and Blood, and throw another bone to his gym buddy Obama.
"Someone held a gun to their head and made them invade the privacy of a young girl and her future husband." The McCain camp spilled the beans on Monday, bon. Keep trying and you'll get a fact right sooner or later.
Posted by SBVFT Contributor 11:36 PM, 09/03/2008
“I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities.” (insert Batman exclamation clowd here)
I love how the right makes fun of Obama's experience as a community organizer. You do realize that the people he was trying to help during this time were actual AMERICANS who needed help and needed a voice when they felt that they had none. I guess because these AMERICANS lived in urban areas they don't really matter. That's strange seeing that we all live in an urban city ourselves.
Yes, Will, the media is innocent victims. Someone held a gun to their head and made them invade the privacy of a young girl and her future husband. They were so very helpless. (Also, someone made the NYT print three stories about it, above the fold, on one paper. Oh, and it made them print an outright fabrication that they were forced to retract. Oh, woe, is the New York Times.)
After a speech like that, I wonder what family member the left and their media minions will feel the need to smear next? Watch out Piper, here come the Kos Krazies.
This must be the dump site for all rhe brain-dead right wing kool-aid drinkers. Palin is a fringe extremist with outward appeal.
ZERO! ZERO! ZERO! ZERO! ZERO! ZERO!
She read a teleprompter and threw in some personal anecdotes, including the misrepresentation about the bridge. Somehow, I don't remember the substantive parts. "An initial version of the address, which speechwriter Matthew Scully started crafting a week ago for an unnamed male vice presidential pick, included plenty of attacks aimed at Democratic nominee Barack Obama along with ample praise for McCain, aides said. But they said Palin's speech will focus more on substantive matters."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090301176.html
“This is a man who has authored two memoirs, but not a single legislative reform.” This is a man who never uses the word victory, except when he’s talking about his own campaign. When the cloud of rhetoric has passed…when those styrofoam Greek columns go back to some studio lot…what exactly is our opponent’s plan?” .....styrofoam Greek columns. heh.
Pitbull in LipStick. The PUMAs are also energized, Will. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Hillary's people(Wolfson for one) are already starting to lean to McCain/Palin.
RG... She made fun of Global Warming. Do you think that is smart? How can you argue with Scientists? She wants to Drill in Alaska and use Clean Coal. Clean Coal is an oxymoron.
“I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities.” (insert Batman exclamation clowd here)
Glad to see all of you commenting on the content of her speech since you are all about "issues". Instead we get guesses of what is in Will and Chris Matthews pants, name calling, and poor baseball analogies.
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SBVFT makes a great point.
Will's posts -- strike outs looking, never gets good wood on the ball, never makes contact, pitchers know how to work him over... really doesnt belong on the 25man active roster... better suited to AA ball.
I wonder if there's a thrill going up Chris Matthews's leg. After that speech, there's prolly something stinky running down his leg.
I especially liked the part about the bridge to nowhere. Except she forgot to mention she kept the federal funds. Or about her $27 mil in earmarks for a town of 6k. Or how she cut real estate tax but raised sales tax there. But she did bring out those scary words like "media", "Washington elite", and "terrorism". If it weren't so sad, it would be funny, but its become clear that McCain is now trying to run on a platform of change.
Home run. (Not Will's post. Palin's speech.)
wow, rudy just killed and now Sarah is on a roll....bunch and the media are like jealous school children, they have no idea how to respond so they just throw stones and try to bring them down...sorry folks, we couldnt care less about what you think
My goodness, you cry more than Trig Palin.
GOP = Russia. Media = Poor little Georgia. Will = Scared wannabe journalist.
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