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Posted By Karlyc 1 year, 4 months ago in NewsRumors have been swirling through the media about whether Sarah Palin's teleprompter broke for her speech at the Republican National Convention. The fact check is, yes.
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Karlyc1 year, 4 months ago
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It makes her speech all the more amazing in that she was speaking without a script for at least a portion of it. That is unheard of. Have you ever noticed how much more eloquent Barack appears with a teleprompter than he does in interviews?
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mompro1 year, 4 months ago
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I'm not sure many can give a speech so fluently in front of millions, without a teleprompter, but I understand the meaning behind what you're saying.
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I'm more concerned about the fact that anyone can give a speech. I'm in no way qualified, as I said on another story, to lead this country in the head job or the runner up, but I could make you believe I am. Therefore I want each individual in this country not to be swayed by a speech or quick answer to a question, without thinking about the question first.
Someone's conduct in their professional and personal life, as an adult over 25, is going to tell me what I want to know. Job performance in all their jobs and legal entanglements, and what side they came out on those entanglements. We have to look to these issues of character and what they are telling us to our face, not through a well written, well practiced speech.
Quit looking to eloquent speech givers for all of your leads. I could read a speech, or make one up on the spot, and you would believe me. But I should not be the President or Vice President, which are two of the highest positions of power on our planet. GET REAL PEOPLE!-
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mesodude1 year, 4 months ago
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Thank you for writing about an issue that was on my mind when I woke up today. I would say that I'm astonished by right wingers' sudden interest in and emphasis on stellar public speaking skills but, considering how conveniently they flipflop on just about ANY issue when it serves their interests, the fact is I'm absolutely not surprised at all.
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We listened to George Bush destroy the English language (as we watched him and Republicans do the their damnedest to destroy our Constitution, our government, our economy, our military, our standing worldwide, and our planet as a whole), and did we hear cons dissecting and critiquing Bush's every public speaking engagement? Did we hear Bush supporters discussing in great detail how powerful and moving and articulate and energizing and wonderful he was wrt to his public speaking skills? NO. We did not hear ANY of that.
What we heard were lies about how cool it was that the fake cowboy was speaking like someone with the IQ of a farm animal. We heard more con flipflopping. We heard rationalizing and we heard EXCUSE after EXCUSE about why this didn't matter. Even NOW cons can't make up their minds. When Obama speaks and electrifies hundreds of thousands, cons regurgitate Rush and Hannity: "Duuuhh...His speech is purty but a purty speech don't mean nuthin...Duhhh...I'm votin' for the COMMON man. That Barack is an uhh-leeetisssst"! But we don't hear anything like that when McCain and Palin speak "without a telepromter" (allegedly). "Whoooooo--SAY-RAH is our Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-RO. We know McCain is a lying weasel who doesn't represent our values but SAY-RAH will saaaaaaave our paaaaaaarty!" LMAO Lying cons are out of freaking control.
Suddenly we're not supposed to care that the cons are worshipping a woman with NO EXPERIENCE and whose teenage daughter is knocked up and on track to get married before she's graduated from HIGH SCHOOL! Cons?! Seriously? I don't want to HEAR a con talking about public speaking again because you people didn't care SQUAT about public speaking, (OR fiscal responsibility, OR personal responsibility,OR being hired by the Justice Dept based on talent, hard work, and educational achievement, OR uniting and and not dividing, OR what the rest of the world thought of your President, OR...etc, etc, etc) the last 8 years and so what you think about these things NOW is absolutely, positively IRRELEVANT. Your opinions on these matters DO NOT MATTER, cons!
I don't believe you people have any thoughtful, rational, sane approach to decision making and you've demonstrated this time and time again over the years. You will switch gears to nominate someone you despise, and you'll then switch gears to support a RUSHed, opportunistic VP selection and you cannot be trusted when you lie with such enthusiasm on a routine basis. Your lies will NOT take you to the White House this time, cons. Dream on, 'cause it ain't gonna happen. ;-(
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injest1 year, 4 months ago
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“Cons - Obama doesn't have to practice?? He just reads the teleprompter. I'd like to see how he would do with the teleprompter turned off!”
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You already have.
It is easy to tell, when he is using a teleprompter his speech is clear, precise, good cadence.
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CRYMTYPHON1 year, 4 months ago
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It is one of the more tedious falsehoods on the rights's talking point-list, that Obama is not eloquent without a teleprompter.
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He was on the O'reilly show recently. Did wonderfuly well; no teleprompter.
Well, Bill might have been using one but that hardly counts.
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GLee1 year, 4 months ago
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FSU92grad1 year, 4 months ago
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Sure....
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McCain does much better with a mike in his hand walking through the audience....In fact, he's most uncomfortable in a "staged" type sitting....But this is where Osama is MOST comfortable, staged, prompted, and canned....He's an excellent speaker, but I don't want an excellent speaker to be my president....I want someone with the experience, the know-how, and the character to be Commander-In-Chief and Osama just doesn't fit that bill....
Osama would lose it as we've all seen it before....You take away his speech and teleprompter, he's just another empty shell with no substance ....
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UnusualSuspect1 year, 4 months ago
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With Bush you got your wish, Brad....a non-speaker, whether in front of teleprompters, large settings, small settings, and I'm sure even in front of a mirror in his own bedroom...
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Anyone see Obama's opponent last night? He didn't look at his audience at all...his eyes didn't move from those teleprompters...they were glued to them...I'm sure he's thanking God his teleprompter worked...LOL...
So...come the debates...what's Obama's opponent going to do? No teleprompter...he won't be walking around with a mic...he'll be there...alone...saying "my friends" a lot...and seeing how much of his POW experience he can get in to each answer, whether it's the war in Iraq, healthcare, or buying groceries to feed a family of four...
I have to give him credit, tho...getting Palin on the ticket was a very good move...I even think she's beginning to overshadow him!
So we'll see...too bad he won't be able to have Palin at his side at the debates...I'm sure she could help him with some of the answers...LOL...-
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CRYMTYPHON1 year, 4 months ago
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Ear mike?
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That your 'loop-hole' to when he wins the debate?
Sort of like Wolfie saying the 2 best sellers were too well written, so he couldn't have written them.
Klarissa, does Obama's forehead seem kind of low to you?
Does he seem to have too many teeth in his grin?
Are you, down deep, convinced he got through harvard with some sort of minority charity pass?
Obama can't really talk; can't really think; he isn't a 'real' leader; that isn't real experience, not 'real' patriotism.
Did it ever occurr to you, that maybe your view of Obama, - isn't real ?
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mesodude1 year, 4 months ago
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As I said elsewhere, no one believes you truly care about anyone's public speaking skills, FSU. George Bush is still in the White House, remember? We KNOW what cons did last summer and we haven't forgotten that you had nothing but lies and excuses in defense of the fake cowboy so give it a rest. Your garbage about tele-prompters and speaking off the cuff or whatever? NO ONE BELIEVES YOU. LMAO. This is an amateurishly obvious con red herring which you people need to stop trying to peddle. You've lied too many times to be trusted with running our country again. Sorry. Someone has to say it. ;-(
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Spinward1 year, 4 months ago
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You're absolutely right, FSU.
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Without his teleprompter, Osama completely loses it. That's because he either 1) has no core values or 2) doesn't want to tell us his core values.
I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, that's not a good thing. If he were a Republican, the Dems would be having a field day talking about the "community organizer President" who can't talk without a writer!
McCain & Palin have taken away Obama's prime weapon that McCain is another Bush term.
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CRYMTYPHON1 year, 4 months ago
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Cheney is a rabidly vicious anti-intelectual, who likes to kill things.
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Palin is a rabidly vicious anti-intelectual, who likes to kill things.
Bush is a flag-draped chicken-hawk devoid of a single success in his life not handed him by others.
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a flag-draped hero, with many successes he earned himself.
Darn. If McCain was not running to validate Bush's war, and Bush's economy, and Bush's view of how handy a flag is to cover things you would actualy have been right, spinward.
Who'da thunk it?
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joey-evans1 year, 4 months ago
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"...but I don't want an excellent speaker to be my president."-FU Grad
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So, what you are saying is you want more of the same? Bush is your perfect president....much like you, the ass couldn't string two words together if his life depended on it.
JOEY EVANS
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nostalgia1 year, 4 months ago
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According to the NYT:
Jon Favreau - chief speechwriter to Senator Barack Obama
Favreau leads a team of two other young speechwriters: 26-year-old Adam Frankel and Ben Rhodes
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vor1 year, 4 months ago
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These convention speeches should all but be ignored. They turn politicians into carnival barkers trying to draw in a crowd. Perhaps some of the inaccuracies in Palin's speech resulted from a broken teleprompter but she knew the basic mantra to chant.
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My vote was solidified by an interview I saw with Obama conducted by Fareed Zakaria on his 360 GPS show on CNN. His grasp of the world was nearly as good as Fareed's which is a very high compliment. These are not simple minded men. Certainly Obama is no light thinker as he is portrayed by the likes of Rush Limbaugh. His ideas and beliefs instead were shaped by actual experiences. He articulates these very well. I have also seen McCain in a similar interview. He is an experienced politician but it is his recent record I examine and as Obama correctly pointed out, that record does not indicate "change is coming". In fact quite the opposite.
But just as GW eschewed overseas travel so has Sarah Palin. That is a huge strike in my book. One of the reasons Bush has such a poor grasp of foreign affairs. I knew nothing of foreign cultures before I began traveling. Sure, you read books but you only get a glimpse of the culture. Executive experience is learned on the job and largely shaped by advisors. Personal experience is quite different. A specific reason I will not consider voting for a ticket with Palin on board. -
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spkguy1 year, 4 months ago
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How about checking the facts of the quotes contained in her speech!
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FACT CHECK: Sarah Palin’s Speech
PALIN: “Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America’s energy problems – as if we all didn’t know that already. But the fact that drilling won’t solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.”
REALITY: PALIN SAID SHE WOULD BEG TO DISAGREE WITH ANY CANDIDATE WHO SAID WE CAN’T DRILL OUR WAY OUT OF OUR PROBLEM
Palin Said She Would Beg to Disagree With Candidate Who Said We Can’t Drill Our Way Out of Our Problem. Asked by Invester’s Business Daily “Some politicians and presidential candidates say we can’t drill our way out of our energy problem and that drilling in ANWR will have no effect. What’s your best guess of the impact on prices?” Palin responded, “I beg to disagree with any candidate who would say we can’t drill our way out of our problem or that more supply won’t ultimately affect prices. Of course it will affect prices. Energy being a global market, it’s impossible to venture a guess on (specific) prices.” [Investor’s Business Daily, 7/11/08]
Oh, and theres alot more!
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Dionys1 year, 4 months ago
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"Energy being a global market, it’s impossible to venture a guess on (specific) prices."
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Well the US government reports on drilling offshore and in ANWR didn't venture a guess, but stated outright that drilling ANWR and offshore would, in full production, have the specific price impact of saving the American public between 3 and 5 cents per gallon. -
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nostalgia1 year, 4 months ago
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Why did Pelosi and Obama want to release oil from the strategic reserve to lower prices if an increased supply won't have much of an effect?
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Karlyc1 year, 4 months ago
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Actually, you get oil by drilling. No drilling, no oil. I think you really are saying you disagree with oil for other reasons, whether global warming theories or dislike of big oil companies. That is a political opinion held by some people. But her facts as to the options for sources of energy for the United States were correct.
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miklkit1 year, 4 months ago
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It costs a lot of money to extract oil from Alaska. That oil is low grade oil too, so none of it will come here. Then there is the costs of cleaning up the inevitable spills. We would actually be losing money as a country if we do this. It's a bad business decision. But what do you expect from a c- student?
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nikkibabe1 year, 4 months ago
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After her speech, Obama campaign has raised $10 million from thousands of donors who are eager to see him elected.
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. I doubt if any black or latino will vote for McCain / Palin.
. Community crime watch volunteers. You know them? According to Palin & Guiliani they are nothing but a bunch of laughing stock..
. School PTA members, volunteers who spend their time in schools during lunch breaks helping kids, well according to Palin & Guiliani, they are a bunch of laughing stock.
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hyperbola1 year, 4 months ago
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Well yes, the secretive cabal that forced McCain to accept Palin now has to pay up. Pretty clear that the GOP no longer represents the American people. The real question is whether Americans want a group with a record of killing 300,000 christians for political reasons to choose their president.
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Secretive Right-Wing Group Forced McCain to take Palin
The Council for National Policy , an ultra-secretive cabal that networks wealthy right-wing donors together with top conservative operatives to plan long-term movement strategy forced McCain to choose Palin as the VP candidate.
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Klarissa1 year, 4 months ago
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hyper Why in the world did Obama choose this person as his VP? He will just be a pawn.
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JOE BIDEN: PATHOLOGICAL LIAR AND FRAUD: It was also discovered that, while at Syracuse Law School, Biden had plagiarized a law review article in a class paper he wrote.
Biden said the act was inadvertent due to his not knowing the proper rules of citation, and Biden was permitted to retake the course after receiving a grade of F in the course.
Biden also released at the same time the record of his grades as an undergraduate which were C's and D's and an F in ROTC during his first three semesters.
Further, when questioned by a New Hampshire resident about his grades in law school Biden had claimed falsely to have graduated in the "top half" of his class, (when he actually graduated 76th in a class of 85-
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nostalgia1 year, 4 months ago
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"Stay tuned for more insults, middle class"
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I see the middle class being insulted everyday - right here on Propeller by users on the left
"I doubt if any black or latino will vote for McCain / Palin"
You must have missed this story:
Fiorina presser: Democrats for McCain
Earlier today, I attended a press conference held by Carly Fiorina to introduce the Citizens for McCain Coalition, a group of Democrats and independents who plan to vote for John McCain in November. Six prominent Democrats joined Fiorina for the conference, including a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, two elected Democrats, and a former Clinton-era ambassador to OPEC.
Included in the event was Silver Salazar, Hispanic community leader in Colorado
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/02/fiorina-pres...
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buggzmum1 year, 4 months ago
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"After her speech, Obama campaign has raised $10 million from thousands of donors who are eager to see him elected."
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Probably because once they saw what they were up against with McCain and Palin, they were extremely concerned. I think you worded that wrong in order for us to take you seriously..... money doesn't buy everything....
"Community crime watch volunteers. You know them? According to Palin & Guiliani they are nothing but a bunch of laughing stock.. "
You totally missed the point on that one. They aren't laughing at community crime watch volunteers or organizers. They are amazed at the fact that a person who has that kind of history believes he can lead this country. The decisions to be made as President of this country are a whole lot different than decisions made by a community organizer. Also, I don't believe the issue was brought up until the Democrats started knocking Palin around for not having experience.
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mbruny1 year, 4 months ago
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americans should be afraid of obama..with a socialist agenda, tax the haves to death and give to the dont wanna work people..it sounds great, that is till you realize what it would create...lets see who else came up with this idea, free healthcare for everyone, tax the rich and take away their stuff, promise free housing and free schooling for everyone, a society where everyone had the same....oh thats right it was fidel castro...and you have cuba..just check it out if you dont believe it. the government controls everything and just like obamas mother who was a socialist, her son has the same ideas...GUESS WHAT YOU OBAMA MORONS, IT DOSNT WORK!!!!!!!
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CRYMTYPHON1 year, 4 months ago
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I guess - nothing.
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I will work with - what I know .
I know is a harvard lawyer with a fortune he made by his own work.
I know he wants to restore competion to America by restoring its promise as a place where if you work hard, you can achieve.
Sounds like capitalism to me.
And don't call peple names.
It makes you sound like Palin.
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RCHIII1 year, 4 months ago
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This whole thing is amusing. Someone none of us had ever heard about gets picked for VP and within minutes the republicans act like their savior has come. It's as if the head of their ticket has become an afterthought. What did she do to earn this adulation? She gave a good speech. The very same thing republicans have been using as a negative against Obama.
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Face it people, she was chosen for no other reason than her sex. A transparent political ploy to get angry Hillary supporters. Obama had to fight his way to the nomination, Palin was appointed because she has a vagina. Time will tell how she does when things heat up.
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markmawn21 year, 4 months ago
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I don't believe it was for the Hillary mob. They are too protective of their reproductive rights to want Palin. Nope, they are the dogs lickin' up the split milk of the disenfranchised base, AKA Fundi's, as Palin is a Pentacostal. Google that for more explanation.
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Spinward1 year, 4 months ago
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Abortion rights are not a presidential decision!
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Woman are free to kill fetuses and have them sucked out in pieces.
It would take a challenge to the supreme court decision Roe v Wade to outlaw the murder of the unborn babies, so what are you worried about?
Obama favors abortion up to the date of delivery. That's sick.
The only way to preserve abortion rights to the degree Obama wants them would be to allow only athiests to serve on the Supreme Court. Would that be good?
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Ratskii1 year, 4 months ago
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I love the way some people like to define themselves into a winning position. If the other party is highly critical of the republican nominees that means they are frightened and that the republicans were winning. If they were not attacking the republican nominees that would mean that there was nothing to attack and therefore that they would be winning.
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VMan1 year, 4 months ago
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Fact check this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/04/ap-attack...
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Klarissa1 year, 4 months ago
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vman, I have yet to see a real tax comparison.
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A real comparison would include the expenditures vs the taxes.
For example, the poverty"Millenium" bill, the energy bill employing the steelworkers, and the money required to support the "20 promise" neighborhoods should be included.
I think that on the surface it looks like Obama's tax plan would benefit most people on here. Obama has, in addition to the above, promised paybacks to people who don't pay taxes.
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nostalgia1 year, 4 months ago
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MSNBC reported that there were teleprompter issues for Sarah Palin.
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There were also reports of problems with the same teleprompter for Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City. Rudy Giuliani delivered a fantastic and rousing speech that was well received by the partisan crowd. There are varying reports that the teleprompter was not set up correctly.
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Georgia501 year, 4 months ago
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I'm over the initial Palin euphoria. Good pick, and it'll be a tight race. If she gets to the White House--I think she will--she'll have plenty of successes and failures, struggles and learning curves. I'm not so naive that I think she'll change the way Washington does business, but I think overall she has the potential to leave a positive footprint. As VP, she won't have the option to override McCain's moderate-to-liberal perspectives. Her job will be to support and implement his initiatives, not hers. If she doesn't get that, she's doomed to a relatively quick resignation "for personal reasons."
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If Obama gets in, he won't be the horror show we conservatives suspect. The same Washington glacial flow that moderates conservatives also moderates liberals. He'll be more liberal than we want, less liberal than we fear. And if Iran goes nuke, he's going to be faced with choices that, if not made by him, will be made for him.
As for Russia, here I'm a bit more liberal than my friends. I believe it's ill-conceived to shove NATO down Putin's throat in the former Soviet states. EU? Sure. Euro? No problem. But a definitely military alliance on Russia's borders? Russia has historically wanted its buffer, a need developed over the centuries in response to invading armies. Our history is 200 years old. Back then, Napoleon was marching on Moscow, and centuries before, the Mongols burnt Moscow to the ground. I believe we should let the former Soviet states moderate, trade, grow, prosper, and all the rest. But we have no need of a military alliance with them. There's no upside. If Russia was to use its oil and gas pipelines as weapons against the West, I might have a change of heart. For now, we need Russia as an ally against international terrorism, as an economic and technological counterbalance to China, and to help keep nuclear materials secure. The former Soviet satellite states, however, should be free to align with either Russia or the West as they prefer, and to whatever degree they wish.-
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hbbuyze1 year, 4 months ago
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Anyone who has used a telepromter or notes and is a public speaker, they will tell you that they just use them just to keep their thoughts straight.
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Once you have become famillurise with your materials that you are speaking on, It is not a problem for an accomplish speaker to continue speaking. on without them
In fact they can make a better speach if they are not tied to there notes. Obama is a very good speaker because he has those qualities. He does not read his speaches. he speaks from the heart.
On the other hand, McCain has to use the telepromter because he cannot keep his thoughts straight. with out it. This really show a lack of beleif in what he is saying.
He has flip flopped so mnay times it is pitiful.
And if you look at George Bush when he speaks, he has a telepromter, and becuse he has lied so much, he still stumble and mumble his speaches. He can't even read the speaches that are wrote for him. .
He stumbles in his speaches so much he looks like hs's on drugs most of the time.
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Klarissa1 year, 4 months ago
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hhbuy - welll, how about having your boy checked??
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On pate 93 of his book, Obama Obama confesses to getting high in order to "push questions of who I was out of my mind."
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Klarissa1 year, 4 months ago
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hbby, he also said: "I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory."
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"Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, tho.
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Harbeas1 year, 4 months ago
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All politicians play to the audience in front of them. So it doesn't matter who writes their speeches. You just listen to the speaker(whoever it is) and say ok let's see what this person does once elected. Most speeches are given in generalities anyway.
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HateKoolAid1 year, 4 months ago
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You cons really seem to be scraping for anything you think is a positive for Palin. Hey her teleprompter broke down in the middle of her speech AND she kept right on speaking....Is that not amazing or what folks?? Is there any doubt about her ability to lead the country now!!! Come on people how many people can possibly do that?? The way I look at it is that HItler didn't have a teleprompter either and he fired up his base with his speeches too.
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injest1 year, 4 months ago
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About fact checking
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Obama the other day said “My understanding is that Gov. Palin’s town, Wassilla, has I think 50 employees. We've got 2500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe 12 million dollars a year – we have a budget of about three times that just for the month,”
Perhaps this is why Obama NEEDS a prepared script when he speaks. And if this was a Prepared Script his staff is full of idiots.
He left out the fact that she IS the Gov of Alaska, I wonder why (not).
Lets see For “executive experience” Obama has a staff of 2500 and a budget of 48 million per month.
The SOLE purpose of his staff is to get Obama “elected”.
That what Obama “claims” as his executive experience.
Palin as gov of Alaska has X number of state employees and a budget of 35 billion?
And their purpose is to serve the People of Alaska.
So let recap okay?
Obama’s executive experience is to serve Him and Him ONLY.
Palin executive experience is serving the people who elected her over the last 16 years
Would it be fair to say that Obama’s experience is to serve
“Himself”
And
Palin’s experience is to serve “The People”
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CRYMTYPHON1 year, 4 months ago
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Lets re-cap that recap.
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Obama is a Senator.
The Senator serves the people.
The Senator bosses his senate staff.
The Senator bosses them to serve the people.
Ergo, Obama has years of experience being in charge of lots of people, to get things done for people.
And more people have voted for Obama during his years of service, than even live in Alaska.
And we want him to serve everybody .
And why are you called 'injest' when you never say anything intentionaly funny?
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injest1 year, 4 months ago
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About fact checking
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Obama the other day said “My understanding is that Gov. Palin’s town, Wassilla, has I think 50 employees. We've got 2500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe 12 million dollars a year – we have a budget of about three times that just for the month,”
Perhaps this is why Obama NEEDS a prepared script when he speaks. And if this was a Prepared Script his staff is full of idiots.
He left out the fact that she IS the Gov of Alaska, I wonder why (not).
Lets see For “executive experience” Obama has a staff of 2500 and a budget of 48 million per month.
The SOLE purpose of his staff is to get Obama “elected”.
That what Obama “claims” as his executive experience.
Palin as gov of Alaska has X number of state employees and a budget of 35 billion?
And their purpose is to serve the People of Alaska.
So let recap okay?
Obama’s executive experience is to serve Him and Him ONLY.
Palin executive experience is serving the people who elected her over the last 16 years
Would it be fair to say that Obama’s experience is to serve
“Himself”
And
Palin’s experience is to serve “The People”
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HateKoolAid1 year, 4 months ago
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Elected her over the last i6 years ??? She's been governor for about two years and if you insist on counting her stint as council member and mayor of a village of 6000 that still only comes out to about 12 years. Where did you find the other 4 years of 'elected office'??
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retiredmr1 year, 4 months ago
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After listening to the post mortem of both speeches, I am more solidified than ever in voting for Obama/Biden. Not only did McCain not give any specifics about how he was going to change us other than he will, he dwelled too long on the VietNam War which was 50 years ago. While his service was admirable and his courage beyond the pale, isnt that the chance you take when you sign up. VietNam is over and so is the Civil War. In both cases the South lost and we lost as a country.
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While I agree that Palin's personal life is personal and neither her family nor Obama,s family should be grounds for open hunting season,, her views want the government involved in mine. If peoples personal lives are just that, then the government should stay out of my uterus and out of our bedrooms. Her positions on abortion and same sex issues are asking to the government to be involved in peoples personal lives. Can't have it both ways. You dont want the government involved in yours, stay out of mine.
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