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Occasionally, even politics is rational.

Her selection by McCain was an insult to the electorate.
But its bloody funny to watch.

“McCain now boarding plane at DCA with Cindy, Salter, Rudy Giuliani, wife Judith, and other aides plus pool.
Heading to Memphis, 1:50 minute flight, then motorcade to site
General atmosphere is utter confusion.”
http://thepage.time.com/mccain-pool-report-5

Obama has LESS experience than Palin in executive positions. You keep plugging this crap ad nauseum!

Obama is the biggest liar ever to go for President and the the most incompetent by actual experience. A man who doesn’t know the difference between a breathalyser in inhaler for an athsmatic.

A man who his own VP pick said wasn’t experienced enough to be President and that it wasn’t a time for ‘on-the-job. training.

Of COURSE people attack Palin because she is the factor that charges McCain’s campaign. We intellectuals can make arguments that Joe Public won’t understand. All the understand is she is attractive and business-like. She’s ONLY going for VP whereas as Obama is going for president.

I really didn’t think that barrel had any more left to scrape but you keep finding it.

McCain’s call to Washington was a master stroke! Obama now hasn’t had time to practice for the debate whereas McCain doesn’t need to. Brilliant!

More?

Is there anyway of watching the debates live in the UK? I know More 4 have them but that is with a 24hr delay

Its on Sky, and BBC News 24.

Steve Benen has more on Camp McCain’s disarray.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_09/014900.php

Oh….More 4 say “As the race for the White House hots up, More4 is the only British channel showing the presidential and vice-presidential debates in full.”

Obama has LESS experience than Palin in executive positions. You keep plugging this crap ad nauseum!

McCain’s call to Washington was a master stroke! Obama now hasn’t had time to practice for the debate whereas McCain doesn’t need to. Brilliant!

Obama is the biggest liar ever to go for President and the the most incompetent by actual experience. A man who doesn’t know the difference between a breathalyser in inhaler for an athsmatic.

A man who his own VP pick said wasn’t experienced enough to be President and that it wasn’t a time for ‘on-the-job. training.

Of COURSE people attack Palin because she is the factor that charges McCain’s campaign. We intellectuals can make arguments that Joe Public won’t understand. All the understand is she is attractive and business-like. She’s ONLY going for VP whereas as Obama is going for president.

I really didn’t think that barrel had any more left to scrape but you keep finding it.

“We intellectuals”

Arf

watch this Maven.
And tell me this candidate is any more than an X Factor candidate that you can barely watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj6KviFGzng

Is it even possible to change the ticket now?

McCain’s acrobatics are costing him in the daily trackers.
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/obamas_lead_nearly_doubles_in.php

Possible but: To change the ticket this far along would be a concession that he made a poor judgment. He’d lose the deep red base that never liked him.

Latest on Bail Out Meeting: From USA Radio, Obama was fed strategy briefing that said “Attack the Republican Plan”. In the meeting Pelosi and Reid passed their response to Obama who was supposed to come out as the person who ran the meeting and get the bill passed ie act Presidential. However, he fluffed his lines and caused a big argument that even Bush couldn’t call to order. Democrats ran from the meeting.

Obama acting as if nothing happened and you can’t ask Obama if he is FOR or AGAINST the plan. He won’t say!

So, if you are going to concentrate on Palin for number 2 position then I am going to compare her with the nearest comparison with the Democrats – Obama.

Say what you like about Palin but you don’t read how the majority popular vote feels about her. You just look down on her from some position of intellectual superiority. You haven’t got a vote. Joe Public in small town America does!

How is it possible? Palin, like McCain, Obama and Biden, was nominated by a convention. Does McCain just send a letter to each of the States instructing them to change their ballots? And what about those people who have already voted? (Insanely, early voting is that out of control.)

Why is it that when I write more than 30 words my posts don’t appear first time?

Then I have to change the order of words to get them thru!!!!

What’s going on?

Latest on Bail Out Meeting: From USA Radio, Obama was fed strategy briefing that said “Attack the Republican Plan”. In the meeting Pelosi and Reid passed their response to Obama who was supposed to come out as the person who ran the meeting and get the bill passed ie act Presidential. However, he fluffed his lines and caused a big argument that even Bush couldn’t call to order. Democrats ran from the meeting.

Obama acting as if nothing happened and you can’t ask Obama if he is FOR or AGAINST the plan. He won’t say!

So, if you are going to concentrate on Palin for number 2 position then I am going to compare her with the nearest comparison with the Democrats – Obama.

Say what you like about Palin but you don’t read how the majority popular vote feels about her. You just look down on her from some position of intellectual superiority. You haven’t got a vote. Joe Public in small town America does!

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I’ll try again!

Latest on Bail Out Meeting: From USA Radio, Obama was fed strategy briefing that said “Attack the Republican Plan”. In the meeting Pelosi and Reid passed their response to Obama who was supposed to come out as the person who ran the meeting and get the bill passed ie act Presidential. However, he fluffed his lines and caused a big argument that even Bush couldn’t call to order. Democrats ran from the meeting.

Obama acting as if nothing happened and you can’t ask Obama if he is FOR or AGAINST the plan. He won’t say!

So, if you are going to concentrate on Palin for number 2 position then I am going to compare her with the nearest comparison with the Democrats – Obama.

Say what you like about Palin but you don’t read how the majority popular vote feels about her. You just look down on her from some position of intellectual superiority. You haven’t got a vote. Joe Public in small town America does!

My guess. The Repub national committee is empowered to make the substitution.

“Obama has LESS experience than Palin in executive positions.”

Apparently matters not at all. Apparently doesn’t help her one bit when it comes to giving straight answers to straight questions about matters she had damned well better know about.

“You keep plugging this crap ad nauseum!”

What “you” do you mean? This is Kathleen Parker “plugging” this. She supported Sarah Palin. She is a well-known conservative commentator. Google her. And she is the one “plugging” this now.

“Obama is the biggest liar ever to go for President…”

Unless you compare him to McCain, who oh by the way is a Naval Officer – you know “I will not lie, cheat or steal or tolerate anyone who does.” – running on his military experience. When the Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Boorda, discovered he was erroneously wearing a combat decoriation, which he considered a breach of integrity, he did the honorable thing and killed himself. We’re waiting, John.

“Of COURSE people attack Palin because she is the factor that charges McCain’s campaign. ”

You’ve read their minds have you, and you know why they’re opposing her? Couldn’t be any, any other reason other than the way she has changed the campaign? really, how has she changed the campaign in any fundamental way, other than speeding it up as it circles the drain?

“We intellectuals can make arguments that Joe Public won’t understand.”

‘Cause dey all bone stupid livestock, ‘course. Or how about this: maybe they do understand, maybe they just think all those intellectual arguments are transparent bullshit.

“All the understand is she is attractive and business-like.”

She’s so business-like that she answers questions about her foreign policy qualifications as if she were a beauty contestant – still. It don’t get no more business-like’n nat, do it? See, even us livestock can see through the bullshit.

“She’s ONLY going for VP whereas as Obama is going for president.”

If only! But since she’s dead-man-walking McCain’s VP – 72 years old, four bouts of cancer – it amounts to running for President.

Oh, and:

“McCain’s call to Washington was a master stroke!”

“McCain’s call to Washington was a masterbation!” Fixed that for you.

“Obama now hasn’t had time to practice for the debate whereas McCain doesn’t need to. Brilliant!”

Whatever,dude

Yes it looks like the hapless VP candidate is going to have to be replaced by someone less gaffe prone:

“Biden ‘to be replaced by Hillary’ on Obama ticket“

If only! But since she’s dead-man-walking McCain’s VP – 72 years old, four bouts of cancer – it amounts to running for President.

I can tell you are a Kool Aid drinker. How sick to be wishing for the death of McCain by a revisit of cancer, Let me ’sick’ back. It only takes a high velocity piece of lead and Biden would be VP. You know Biden who asks wheelchair bound people to stand up – forgetting that its only the Messiah Obama who can do that! “Hey stand up Chuck and let everyone see you. Oh Lord Bless you Chuck (because his friends Chuck in a wheelchair).

Do you think Biden is looking for an out?

BTW – people like you …… Oh never mind!

Maven, stop embarassing yourself with your posting incompetence and your eccentric opinions!

Picking Sarah Palin was a risk for McCain that at first seemed to pay off – but as all the recent polls show it was just a blip. The momentum is back with Obama. McCain’s attempt to have the debate delayed was another attention-seeking stunt. Only this time it has been almost instantly unsuccessful.

‘“McCain’s call to Washington was a masterbation!” Fixed that for you.”

After tonight, all will know that McCain is a master debater.

Maven – you mentioned Kool Aid and as if by magic I appeared

The 61-year-old had surgery ten ago years for two brain aneurysms and could leave the race after the vice presidential debates take place on 2 October, leaving the position open for Mrs Clinton to step up.

Pundits say the huge media interest surrounding John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin has prompted a rethink in the Democratic camp.

If Palin is so inept then how come the Dems are spooked?

Picking Sarah Palin was a risk for McCain that at first seemed to pay off – but as all the recent polls show it was just a blip.

Which recent poll? Do you mean that McCain’s lead after Palin is now back to level?

“I can tell you are a Kool Aid drinker. How sick to be wishing for the death of McCain by a revisit of cancer, Let me ’sick’ back.”

More of your bullshit mind-reading. Admit it – you have no idea what I meant by that remark. But it couldn’t possibly be a simple acknowledgement of medical likelihood, could it? No, of course not; that wouldn’t support your point.

“It only takes a high velocity piece of lead and Biden would be VP.”

That’s some sick shit there. But since I know you are just posing it as an anlogy, no tip to the Secret Service. word to the wise – that is exactly the kind of thing they follow up on, espcecially because there is at least one white-ass nutjob out there waiting to do it, and they know it. So watch your ass. Be a little more careful, OK? Because we care, we all care.

“Pundits say the huge media interest surrounding John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin has prompted a rethink in the Democratic camp.
If Palin is so inept then how come the Dems are spooked?’

OK, I’m going to let you get by on the racist connotations of “spooked” and the Democrats because you clearly would have no clue on that, much less any intent. But what leads you to translate “rethink’ to “spooked”? Anyway, who are you quoting and how do they have this mole-like insight into the mental state of the Obama campaign’s emotional state?

Pakistan’s new President Asif Ali Zardari said he thought Palin was “very nice” and that she was “quite knowledgeable” about the threat of terror posed by Islamic extremists along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan. “She is obviously a hunting lady,” he said, suggesting it was a useful qualification for understanding Pakistan’s security complex challenges.

Nope. Still like her.

“No one hates saying that more than I do. Like so many women, I’ve been pulling for Palin, wishing her the best, hoping she will perform brilliantly. I’ve also noticed that I watch her interviews with the held breath of an anxious parent, my finger poised over the mute button in case it gets too painful. Unfortunately, it often does. My cringe reflex is exhausted.”

Never expect women to give themselves, or any other woman, a fighting chance.

There’s nothing racist abouit being spooked. Long before spook became a synonym for a black person, it meant — and still means — a ghost, and if someone spooked, it means they are frightened, as in, by a ghost. You have to see racism behind every rock and tree to think that “spooked” in that context is racist. Every heard of “spooky, the tough little ghost?”

Nisht (a) maven:

you really are an idiot aren’t u. you make wild opinionated statements and make out like they are facts (obama the biggest liar ever, where did you get that one from)? You refuse to see that these articles are about REPUBLICANS/CONSERVATIVES deserting Palin, not democrats or — horrors — liberals. You infer “sick” intentions (McCain’s death from cancer) when nothing like that was said…. you really are a piece of work, or as they say, a shtickle schoire.

I also like the “we intellectuals” bit. no false modesty there.

oh by the way. the dem’s aren’t “spooked,” but judging by the volume of posts, you sure seem to be. Obama has this in the bag now, sorry buddy.
once again, nisht(a)maven.

“There’s nothing racist abouit being spooked.”

hehe

“Every heard of “spooky, the tough little ghost?”

Ever heard of “taking the piss” as you call it? The point was to fuck with someone pontificating on the American election campaigns who would use a term that shows how completley disconnected he is from the culture and society he is commenting on. Of course it’s not racist the way he used and intended it, but it still has baggage, so it’s still bad form over here, and will be for a generation or two.

“Never expect women to give themselves, or any other woman, a fighting chance.”

Hmmmmmmmm. It was mostly if not only women who gave Hillary her fighting chance there at the end.

I’m canadian, we don’t “take the piss,” and using the term spooked doesn’t show how disconnected he is. however, everything else he writes does show that, so i actually agree with you. cheers.

Palin is like a roe deer frozen in the headlights of a speeding truck.

Sarah Palin is extraordinarily vacuous and clearly knows very little about very little, I must confess, I was routing for her.

But Obama, though more articulate, is hardly any less cringe inspiring to watch.

The financial crisis is a well-timed gift for the Dems; they should be doing better than they are.

Re Palin:
1) HA. Yip. Dat, kids, is what winning LOOKS LIKE.

2)yuMMineSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSYAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYHOORAHYAYYYYYYYYYY

MOREYaYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Just yummy yummy yummy gloatingness right here.
whatever you may think, that “common” women fm “nowhere” will win the US presid. elections. HOLY CRAP – and – YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

you really are an idiot aren’t u

Dribbled by an idiot who can’t even write basic English.

Say what you like about Palin but you don’t read how the majority popular vote feels about her. You just look down on her from some position of intellectual superiority. You haven’t got a vote. Joe Public in small town America does!

You’re correct because it’s middle America Palin appeals to and not east coast snobs with useless university degrees.

It should also be said that a certain section of the Republican party is against her as well.

And they oppose her because she ’s told large oil companies to take a hike when they approached her about obtaining an “essential” 4 billion subsidy for the construction of a pipeline.

I know of no other american politician that has stood up to large and powerful oil interests.

Palion is a small ‘c’ conservative and has no patience for wealthy ‘entrepreneurial’ parasites looking to live off the public teat, and can confidently stare them down.

She is an enemey of crony capitalists ( about the only kind we have these dasy) and is like the wicked witch to the poor innocent Dorothy of cultural marxists.

She would make an excelent vice-president.

Wow.

(Sorry – that “Wow” was to the Zardari quote about Palin above)

Maven, stop embarassing yourself with your posting incompetence and your eccentric opinions!

Yeah, mate, how dare you think for yourself? You should be following the dead sheep who call themselves ‘progressive left’, and allow your great and glorious leaders to do the thinking for you. That way, your opinions will be pre-approved as the correct ones to have.

Jim

Ever seen the ‘Human Stain’ where Anthony Hopkins place an Ivy League academic and veteran affirmative action pioneer destroyed by censorious language police for his use of the term?

recommended viewing.

Margaret Wente, the entertaining, conservative columnist for the Globe and Mail, reported this about Palin in her Saturday column:

“Just tune in to her disastrous interview with Katie Couric and watch her try to answer non-trick questions about Russia and the financial crisis. ‘She made George Bush look like Cicero,’ said one horrified former Palin fan.”

:))

incidentally, Wente does note that Democrats share SOME of the blame for the financial meltdown (I had previously strenuously argued they did not, and i still don’t, but i respect her opinion). She says:
“In fact no-one wants to level with the people. IF they did, they’d have to explain that everybody had a hand in creating the credit crisis — even Democrats. In fact, it was the Republicans who pushed for tighter regulations on Fannie and Freddie, the government mortgage lenders, and the Democrats who opposed them….
“Both the Republicans and Democrats enthusiastically endorsed the idea of using government power to expand home ownershipo to pele who had been shut out of the market. But laissez-faire capitalism made the problem much worse. Reckless lenders, operating completely free of oversight, began pushing mortgages at people who got in way over their heads. Not surprisingly, nobody on Main Street complained…”

It’s a great column, and anybody who is fixed in their ideological approach to this issue should read it.

But I just love the Palin-Bush-Cicero quote.

hey hardly oxfordian, why don’t you address my points instead of being insulting… or is your expertise limited to finding typos in quickly tossed off blog comments… :)

Aside from the fact that ABC and Charles Gibson edited the interview to create a misleading image of Palin?

“Both the Republicans and Democrats enthusiastically endorsed the idea of using GOVERNMENT POWER to expand home ownershipo to pele who had been shut out of the market. But LAISSEZ-FAIRE CAPITALISM made the problem much worse. Reckless lenders, operating completely free of oversight, began pushing mortgages at people who got in way over their heads. Not surprisingly, nobody on Main Street complained…”

(emphasis mine)
Do you people think at all????