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Posted By berkeley 1 year, 3 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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UnusualSuspect1 year, 3 months ago
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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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quackpot1 year, 3 months ago
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She and McCain said nothing about the important issues at the convention, what makes you think that they will say anything more to the press?
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It is looking like the only platform that they have is to make up more stories and throw more mud.
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berkeley1 year, 3 months ago
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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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sally23441 year, 3 months ago
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/anything we get with Palin and McCain will be better than a Muslum with terrorist connections. He has a brother in Kenya that makes one dollar a week and he has never shared one penny with him. REad Michelle O. princeton thesis if you want to know a Black Supremist for sure!
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dearlizzie1 year, 3 months ago
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Who is a muslim in this race? There are only three Christians (Obama, Biden, & McCain and a holy-roller cultist quasi-Chirstian(Palin) who smiles when her preacher says that israel is destined to endure wars and terrorism as God's judgment for not accepting Jesus.
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I know that Cindy McCain stiffed her half-siblings whom she knew and had spent time with throughout her childhood. Mr. Hensley's children got absolutely not one cent from a particularly spiteful Cindy who with her husband has lived high on the hog with $100 million for quite a while. The Hensley sibs had the added pain of having been left by their father for Cindy's mother and they fruitlessly beseeched their unfeeling half-sister for the meager support their dad had afforded them in his lifetime.
Obama has eight years to catch up to Cindy's level of sib-neglect. I will be watching to see if Obama, who could have become aware of his half-sibling's plight only a few weeks ago, does offer to do something for the children of the man who left his mother when Barrack was two and whom he only saw once again in his life before the father was killed in a motorcycle accident. That would indeed be an endorsement of his generosity and kindness and in keeping with the character he projects.. -
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sinophil491 year, 3 months ago
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sally - Whoa!!! Another female knuckle dragging troglodyte. With Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, DeLay, Hastert, et al, and the guy in the GEICO commercial, I thought all Homo neanderthalensis nowadays were only males. Now in 1 week, we find Sara Palin and you!!!
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What you wrote would be comical if it weren't so sad and scary at the same time. What you think and believe is just a jumble of preconceptions and misinformation.
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berkeley1 year, 3 months ago
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http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/pa...
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now they're even fudging on the two weeks...-
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berkeley1 year, 3 months ago
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another link:
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/214375.php
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spkguy1 year, 3 months ago
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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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spkguy1 year, 3 months ago
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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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spkguy1 year, 3 months ago
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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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miklkit1 year, 3 months ago
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And now, a breath of fresh air.
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“No … I have voted against curtailing the right — criminalizing abortion,” Biden replied. “I have voted against telling everyone else in the country that they have to accept my religiously based view that it’s a moment of conception."-
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HateKoolAid1 year, 3 months ago
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"And it came to pass,that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon and all the firstborn of cattle. And Pharaoh rose up in the night,he, and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt,for there was not a house where there was not one dead"...Exodus 12:29-30
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sinophil491 year, 3 months ago
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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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ind061 year, 3 months ago
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miklkit1 year, 3 months ago
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Or maybe Palin is just practicing for how it will be if they win.
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dumbya has taken more time off than any other president.
McSame has taken more time off than any other senator.
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sinophil491 year, 3 months ago
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Mea - Her present job is to campaign and this job only runs for 8 weeks. She already needs a vacation?
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Be honest. She really is unprepared for the national and international scene. She is undergoing an intense, compressed course on national issues like taxes, energy, FEMA, crime, health, etc and on international issues like Iraq, Iran, China, No Korea, Russia, global warming, etc.
She already has admitted that she did not "follow" the Iraq war - a euphemism for "I don't know anything about the Iraq War."
The entire state of Alaska has a population one-fourth that of Chicago. What sort of executive experience" is that? She is just political arm-candy for McCain to make himself look good.-
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MeaJen301 year, 3 months ago
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Actually her present job is Governor of Alaska...she is campaigning to get another job...campaigning is NOT a job....just like Obama's job is SENATOR, although, I guess not votings doesn't really count as doing his job, but regardless, his JOB is senator, and he is campaigning for another job as well...
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Wow, so if you have family that is fighting in a war, and they are able to come home, you won't spend ANY time with them? I do not begrudge her one minute she can spend with her family, especially her son who is fighting for his country...Wow, how harsh and sad your life must be that you cannot give a mother some time with her soldier son...
I did not say she was on vacation, I merely pointed out that Obama has had NUMEROUS vacations since he decided to run for president, of course this was after telling us on numerous occassions that he had no plans on running and was going to finish out his senate term.
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gwhiddon1 year, 3 months ago
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Two weeks? It's been just over a week.
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http://news.aol.com/elections/article/palin-agrees...-
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HateKoolAid1 year, 3 months ago
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She's busy taking a crash course in geo-political issues affecting the security of the U.S. I don't think she is up yet on who our allies are and who are enemies. Hopefully her tutors are better than the ones following McSame around cleaning up his gaffes. Hard to believe that he thought that Afghanistan shared a border with Iraq??
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bluebirdwatcher11 year, 3 months ago
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Why would Governor Palin want to talk to the left wing liberal media? They are not interested in what she knows just like some of those who comments on this thread. You just come here to run her down. She will eat Putin alive. Don't under estimate this gal.
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vidman041 year, 3 months ago
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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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sinophil491 year, 3 months ago
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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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pcknowledge1 year, 3 months ago
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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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lbrtyordeath1 year, 3 months ago
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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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