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Posted By MyWayOnNow 1 year, 2 months ago in NewsJohn McCain has picked Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. McCain is set to trot out his veep choice before a rally in Ohio
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pastorwadec1 year, 2 months ago
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This was not a good choice for VP. A much stronger choice would have been Colin Powell or Condi Rice. Then the race card could not have been played by either side. This governor adds nothing to an already weak (at best) ticket. If this is an example of McCains judgement, Lord help us!
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memestryker1 year, 2 months ago
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Colin Powell and Condi Rice WERE tentatively picked and declined multiple times for both the #1 and #2 positions. I think this is great news. I was afraid it would be Ridge.
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Paulin has much more experience than many vice presidents and some presidents. And she's smart and innovative. I think it's a really good choice.-
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hyperbola1 year, 2 months ago
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Actually Palin is already under investigation for corrupt influence peddling and lying in in Alaska.
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Legislature may appoint investigator in firing
Palin under fire
Alaska Senate leaders want an investigation of whether Gov. Sarah Palin pressured and then fired the public safety commissioner because he wouldn't get rid of a state trooper who had gone through a bitter divorce with Palin's sister....
http://www.adn.com/front/story/471366.html
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UnusualSuspect1 year, 2 months ago
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Having just read Gov Palin's bio, I have to honestly say I like her for some things she's done in Alaska.
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She certainly wants an honest government, having gone after Democrats and Republicans alike in her state, cracking down on corruption. She might be embroiled in a controversy of her own at the moment, but all indications are that she had little or no involvement with it.
She's a fiscal conservative, which is great. She was able to reduce taxes in the state substantially.
She seems to be independent from big oil but actively promotes development and wise use of natural resources, and is interested in the climate changes of this planet.
I think it's an interesting choice for Obama's opponent, but I'm not certain it was the best choice. I think he'll have a battle on his hands. Conservatives should like the pick...she's a strong pro-life candidate. But I seriously doubt that adding her to the ticket will bring over many supporters who were strong Hillary fans. Hillary's supporters will come around, albeit late, but they'll come around. They might not have gotten the candidate they wanted, but they won't vote for a Republican ticket on it's own, or because a woman was added to the ticket.
That's not going to happen.-
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mesodude1 year, 2 months ago
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The thing is their ticket will, I think, be viewed as the reverse of Obama and Biden. She's only been governor 18 months and before that she was the mayor of a city with population 8000. If people are worried that McCain might not make a full four years (and we know that's a concern of both those on the right and the left) it seems to me that those who say Obama is too green should be even more concerned in this case.
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miklkit1 year, 2 months ago
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But faux noise, the official Ministry of Propaganda, has gone there. And Democrats, good people, are dying! This is a very real issue. I would support Obama over this issue alone. Shucks, I would support Alfred E. Neumann over this issue. Oops! Alfred is already in the White House.
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mivan41 year, 2 months ago
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On Powell, He said he didn't want it and women could still Pull the discrimination card. On Condi, she also said she didn't want it and yes she would have covered both areas so no one could cry discrimination, but again she said she did not want it! Anyway one should not pick a running mate based on race or sex, but on qualifications!
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samarafnp1 year, 2 months ago
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Really! McCain wanted someone who would get the women, and his judgement that it would not matter WHO it was, shows how dumb he really is about the world. She has no experience but he is so cocky he does not think he NEEDS anyone with experience. He wants someone he can boss around. Also, she has a newborn and a lot of other children in Alaska, with Mccain's health, malignant melanoma not with a good prognosis, is this woman going to leave her family and be president??? God help us. He is going to play the "downs syndrome" baby thing. Her pairing with him will lose it for him, not win it.
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bigurn1 year, 2 months ago
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Really:
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Alaska governor since December 2006-2008
Commander-in-Chief, Alaska National Guard, 2006 - 2008
Chairwoman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, 2003-2004; Two terms as Wasilla mayor, 1999 - 2003
Two terms as Wasilla City Council, 1997 - 1999
Note: BY THE TIME OBAMA GAVE HIS SPEECH IN 2002, SARAH PALIN HAD HAD 5 YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE EXPERIENCE. SHE HAS 5 YEARS OF EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE; OBAMA HAS NONE!
EDUCATION: Graduated University of Idaho, 1987, journalism.
FAMILY: Husband, Todd; five children.
BUSINESS: Worked as sports reporter for two Anchorage television stations; owned with her husband a snowmobile, watercraft, ATV business from 1994-97. Husband is a North Slope oil field worker.-
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Georgia501 year, 2 months ago
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What's wrong with being tilted in favor of creationism? Evolutionists don't have all the answers. Turtles appear in the fossil record from nowhere...with no apparent genefic predecessor. At the bottom of the fossil record, we find an explosion of a vast array of life forms.
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Flip a coin. Next. No...I didn't see McCain looking down her blouse. I also didn't see him kiss her on the lips the way Whobama (and Gore) were kissing various women in Denver. GUHROSS.
Outdoorsmen, or for you liberals, outdoorspersons, are the most environmentally responsbile people on the planet. I don't hunt, and only do lazy-boy fishing (charter boats), but I have friends and family who do both and they are extremely responsible when it comes to wildlife and the environment. Oh wait....YOU think being an environmentalist means agreeing with tree huggers all the way down the line. That's YOUR myopia, not Palin's.
Pro-oil? And that is a problem because? Have you checked into the Demcorats in the Senate and House who own oil stocks? Might wanna get on that.
Anti-choice? She made the most incredible choice of any mother: knowing her youngest had development issues, she CHOSE to give birth anyway. OUCH! I DARE you baby killers to attack her on abortion-related issues. PLEASE GOD let the Whobama camp go down that path!!!
What else ya got? Her opposition to corrupt REPUBLICANS ??? Your "bridge to nowhere" went nowhere with this gal. And your*** bridge to nowhere isn't going anywhere with America, either.
McCain today, Palin tomorrow. Get real happy with it.
***Yes, I know the bridge was Sen. Stephens boondoggle. The same Sen. Stephens who said to Hyde RE Clinton impeachment, "I don't care of you have a picture of Clinton raping a woman then getting up and shooting her, you're not going to get 67 votes!" It's that Stephens/Clinton filth we're trying to save the country FROM.
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Bkumm1 year, 2 months ago
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Shocker!!! Senator McCain picks as a VP candidate someone with close (personally close, her husband works for an oil company) ties to BIG OIL. I'm absolutely shocked.
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And how's he going to spin the "experience" card on this one? I can't WAIT until the VP debate. Biden will eat her alive.-
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Endoscopy1 year, 2 months ago
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LOL
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Can a Democrat do anything but blame "Big Oil" for the worlds woes?
You are ignoring the fact that she is one tough lady. She blew the whistle on ethical problem that Republicans had. She cleaned up the Alaska mess that the previous governor left. She has approval levels in the 80's and 90's. When she has made a promise in a campaign she keeps it.-
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Bkumm1 year, 2 months ago
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Read it again, End. I didn't "blame" anything on Big Oil. I simply said that it was a "shocker" that Senator McCain chose someone with close ties to Big Oil.
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And she has no more experience that Senator Obama. It's true that she has more executive experience, if you count being mayor of South Bear Claw, Alaska as experience and she has been a governor for all of a year and a half, but she has less foreign policy and national security experience than Senator Obama.
And if she keeps a campaign promise, that's great. Good for her.-
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amazed1 year, 2 months ago
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Bkumm1 year, 2 months ago
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I'd be happy to do so.
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He has been on the Foreign Relations Committee since 2005. He's on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee as well as the Sub-Committee for European Affairs since early 2007.
As a member of these committees he has made numerous trips to Africa, Central Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
While his experience in this arena is not as extensive as either Senator Biden or Senator McCain it is significantly more than Governor Palin.-
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amazed1 year, 2 months ago
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He may have been on the committees since 2005 (which is when he first stepped foot into the Senate. By early 2006, he was running for President full-time and has been since-- so how much time has he really put into these committees?
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Bkumm1 year, 2 months ago
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Mdiar1 year, 2 months ago
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This part of the conversation isn't on executive experience, this is actually on foreign policy experience. Bkumm's statement was that Obama has put more time into the committees he mentioned then Palin had.
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I think you should probably look at Bkumm's profile before you lecture him on history. You see, he has a degree in this subject. Do you?-
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Bkumm1 year, 2 months ago
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Well, let me help you out, Locky, since you obviously don't get the difference between state level and national level.
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As you stated, she has run a state (that is, a political division of the nation the United States, not an independent nation). As such, she has little, if any, contact with foreign leaders. She also has no impact on foreign policy and little impact on national security.
On the other hand, the United States Senate (that being the upper house of the two houses of the United States Congress) uses committees to impact legislation that either implements foreign policy (which is set by the White House through the State Department) or implements national security measures.
So, as to Gov. Palin's national security and foreign policy credentials, she has none. Senator Obama's are not as impressive as Senator Biden's or Senator McCain's, which I fully grant, but he at least has some. Unlike, of course, the sitting President or President Clinton. -
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amazed1 year, 2 months ago
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Governor Palin is reported to have to deal with Russia on a regular basis regarding fishing disputes. Now I know that doesn't sound as august as the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate European whatever, but if she has to deal with them directly, that blows anyone's committee "experience" right out of the water.
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Have you ever sat on a committee, Bkumm? Have you any idea what an exquisite waste of time and masturbatory experience it most often is?-
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Bkumm1 year, 2 months ago
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She has to deal with the Russian fishing delegation or whatever it is. That isn't "foreign policy" experience and you know it.
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And I have sat on committees and yes, they are generally a colossal waste of time, but that is how our government works. The are where bills come from. So, regardless of what you or I think about the process, that's how it works and that is what counts as foreign policy experience. In fact, that is where Senator McCain is counting all of his foreign policy and national security experience. So, before you discount it, remember that that is where the Republican candidate is claiming his experience comes from.
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miklkit1 year, 2 months ago
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amazed: Obama has spent waay more time in those committees than his opponent, who has spent more time elsewhere than anyone except your hero, Dumbya.
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https://pol.moveon.org/donate/gettowork.html?r=401...-
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amazed1 year, 2 months ago
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You're right, I am sure that Obama has clocked FAR more committee and legislating hours in his three years of senate tenure (two of which have been spent running for President) than McCain could have possibly collected over the -- what? 30 years or so that he's been there.
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Ya got me on that one dude.
And moveon.org is about as reliable a site as the birch john society or the swift boat for truth guys.
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hyperbola1 year, 2 months ago
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Well, she seems to have gained experience in such lapses in a very short period of time! She is now known in Alaska for lying to the voters.
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Sarah Palin -Investigated for Abuse of Power
Palin circles the wagons: Transparency a casualty
Seems like just yesterday, Sarah Palin was on a passionate crusade for open and transparent government. Fighting the Randy Ruedrichs and the Greg Renkes of the world, demanding a government that allowed a clear view for all to see from the outside.
Today it appears time for Palin to write an obituary for that noble crusade.
In a shocking interview with Anchorage Daily News Reporter Lisa Demer on Thursday, Palin's Communication Director Bill McAllister defended the administration's abandonement of their "open and transparent government" promise by saying it didn't really apply to everything.
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