Palin In Hiding For Two Weeks?! »
Posted By berkeley 10 months ago in NewsThis is incredible, totally incredible. A vice presidential candidate isn't going to be available to the press for two weeks? Two weeks ? In September. We have this total unknown who could be president of the United States next January. And she's in hiding for two weeks. Chris Matthews on this clip says that this is fine. Has he lost his mind? She needs to be in front of the press now. The United States and the world cannot have this total unknown foisted on the presidency without any serious vetting and without any press interaction. This is absolutely third world. Since when is the governor of a state given two weeks in hiding?
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UnusualSuspect10 months ago
I heard that after her son goes to Iraq, she'll be back before us next weekend, maybe as early as this coming Friday.
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We need answers to a lot of questions...and I don't mean the alleged affair, either...we need the answers to how she worked as city council member, mayor, and governor.
Without information in those key areas, she and Obama's opponent will suffer a big loss come November...
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berkeley10 months ago
expecting any sort of common sense from mccain or his advisors is now proved to be ridiculous.
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if the voters put them in office, even if diebold helps, they will make bush/cheney look like the good old days.
a friend of mine said to me during a dark political moment some years ago: "what if, 20 years from now, this will seem like the good old days?" and we laughed. little did we know... -
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berkeley10 months ago
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/pa...
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spkguy10 months ago
Wow!
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How a person who is running for office go out and say the things like " I put it on Ebay"
RIGHT???? NO.... Not exactly...
"After going unsold for months, the jet was put into the hands of Turbo North Aviation, an Anchorage aircraft broker, which put an asking price of $2.45 million on the nearly $2.7 million jet. It quickly sold to Alaska businessman Larry Reynolds for $2.1 million ($31,000 of which went to Turbo Aviation). Today the Westwind II jet spends its days ushering wealthy hunters around Alaska and Russia"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/05/sarah-pal...
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spkguy10 months ago
Palin: "I told the Congress "thanks, but no thanks," for that Bridge to Nowhere. If our state wanted a bridge, we'd build it ourselves."
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Palin "bridge to nowhere" line angers many Alaskans
http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed7/id...
When in fact: THE LIE TO SOMEWHERE! Sarah Palin “told Congress” nothing. Today, she tells voters a lie:
http://dailyhowler.com/dh090108.shtml
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spkguy10 months ago
Or when she said at the RNC convention "Barack Obama "is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform -- not even in the state senate,"
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Without noting that Obama has played key roles in the passage of reform legislation at both the federal and state levels. For example, Sen. John McCain, a co-sponsor of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, thanked Obama for his work on the bill.
Or the fact that when Palin was mayor of Wassila, she loved getting pork from Washington!
(Newser) – Requests from Sarah Palin made it onto John McCain's "pork list" of objectionable spending three times while Palin was mayor of Wasilla, the Los Angeles Times reports. McCain's lists came as part of his long campaign against the earmarking system in which members of Congress can chuck cash at pet projects with little or no scrutiny.
The Palin projects targeted by McCain included a $1 million emergency communications center for Wasilla that local law enforcement officials say is redundant. A McCain spokesman said that small-town dependence on federal earmarks was a major factor in forming Palin's reform-minded views. According to public records however, Wasilla only began receiving earmarked funds after Palin became mayor and launched an aggressive campaign to snare federal cash.
http://www.newser.com/story/36493/palin-projects-h...
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sinophil4910 months ago
miklkit - I just saw an interview w/ Biden on CNN where he essentially said what you wrote above. He is a Catholic and BELIEVES that human life begins at conception. However, he does impose his belief on others. He took pains to say that he does oppose federal funding to pay for abortions because then that would be allowing others to impose their beliefs on him.
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I find this to be a fair, balanced, and nuanced view that acknowledges both sides of the issue and allows every woman to decide for herself her beliefs about the fetus, yet not burden anyone else by using tax dollars for what others may not believe in.
I find the all-or-nothing or bull-in-the-china-shop approach of Sarah Palin and other neoconservatives to be crude, obnoxious, and totally inappropriate for a national politician.
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tchef10 months ago
Unless something unfortunate happens to McCain, then she's president and that's scary.
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gwhiddon10 months ago
Two weeks? It's been just over a week.
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nostalgia10 months ago
From the ABC News site: Palin to Sit Down With ABC News' Charlie Gibson
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You know Charles Gibson - that bully who was so mean to Obama during the Democratic primary debate -
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IneedIwantIgottahave10 months ago
As little as she probably knows about the world, if the neocons win then i can't wait to
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vidman0410 months ago
Agreed, why would anyone want to talk to the media? They are so far up Nobama's butt it's not even funny. They would twist and spin any thing she said. This thread is just full of the same old same old Bush bashers and haters now McCain and Palin bashers and haters....
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sinophil4910 months ago
bluebird - Your Pollyanna/John Wayne attitude would be so cute and heart-warming if it weren't so false and scary. Every neocon believed it when John Wayne shot off all those blanks and all the hired extras fell down. John Wayne never served a day of real military duty in his life.
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There are thousands of very shrewd, manipulative, well connected, and well informed world leaders and politicians out there. Many of them have commanded murderers and thugs and mercenaries. Most of them are not cowed even by a hero like McCain, let alone a sheltered, inexperienced, somewhat naive politician who has commanded only the National Guard for less than 20 months.
Putin was head of the KGB. Do you think he will kowtow to McCain, let alone Palin?
If McCain and Palin win the election and approach foreign politicians w/ your attitude, they will be humbled mightily and quickly.
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dstern110 months ago
She is not talking to the press because the campaign has not yet found a way to soft sell her extreme views like "contraception is the same thing as abortion" or that abortion should be denied to rape victims.
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pcknowledge10 months ago
Well why would Palin not want to talk with the Media now? She has talked before. When I post the websites I took the quotes from, propeller removes my post as SPAM. But, they are out there all over many news media:
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"In a recent BusinessWeek interview, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) admitted that she believes the Iraq war was fought because of oil. We are a nation at war and in many [ways] the reasons for war are fights over energy sources, which is nonsensical when you consider that domestically we have the supplies ready to go."
"I am pleased to see Senator Obama acknowledge the huge potential Alaska’s natural gas reserves represent in terms of clean energy and sound jobs,” Governor Palin said. “The steps taken by the Alaska State Legislature this past week demonstrate that we are ready, willing and able to supply the energy our nation needs.”
"In June, Palin told Glenn Beck, "The average Alaskan says again we recognize these reserves being ready to be tapped. … We're ready to contribute more to the U.S. in terms of resources that can lead to a safer nation; and I say this while our nation is at war, while we're fighting, in some sense, over energy supplies." -
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lbrtyordeath10 months ago
Palin is obviously getting a crash course in, well, EVERY issue there is, since she knows nothing about any of them, other than allocating funding to the soccer team or the hockey team or whatever.
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DEMOCRATS!!! Get MOVING!! Don't sit on your thumbs like Kerry did! This election is YOURS, you just have to reach out and GRAB IT!
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