I wonder how many stylists Ms Thang Rodeo Queen Sugarmama AND her new palsy walsy Jeannie C Reilly Palin took with them to make sure said photo-op is good for future campaign shots????
lynchie
· 1 year ago
Ms. Thang is demanding an apology from Obama for his remarks about her wealth and houses. Calls it rude.
brb915
· 1 year ago
I'm sorry, now STFU
rexkc
· 1 year ago
Well, you know he was a POW, so he knows a thing or two about disasters.
profmarcus
· 1 year ago
let 'em go and get their photo op... if they choose to attempt to capitalize on rapidly approaching disaster and make complete and total asses out of themselves, be my guest...!
Very interesting take on the Palin choice...McCain's political euthanasia. I was chatting my bro in law, a big wig in MA GOP, and he says all the trad Repubs are just shaking their heads and saying two words...Bob Dole...let the old lion McCain have this one for the history books because they cannot compete with the rock star...that kind of thinking. He also remarked that the Nixon Southern Strategy has come to an end in that Huckabee, who everyone thought might get this, just looked too doofussy and the party power elite refused to support a Bible Belter Wingy. Nixon's strategy did not take into account that one of the "thumpers" might actually have the audacity to run in a primary season. The thing that puzzles me so much is Rudy. He would have made a better candidate and they just threw him to the dogs....too pro gay rights and pro choice.
Good. The ultimate result of the Bible Belt white trash base courting has resulted in a mediocre, senile, worse than Bush, with a hockey mommy who ran a town the size of East Bumfuck. Unless Diebold is really everywhere (which it is not) it's looking pretty dim for the GOP.
Yippee!!!!!
tjlabs
· 1 year ago
Thanks. I appreciate your sharing those inside the Repubs consternation comments. -tjlabs
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
I say Tagg got it wrong: McCain didn't choose Palin--he wanted his lil' buddy Lieberman. Palin was chosen for him by Rove's boys. He is captive to his handlers.
grandma
· 1 year ago
No brains McCain gets more disgusting every day.
What a pathetic old man.
interlude
· 1 year ago
since the travel of a president or presidential candidate usually shuts down commercial aviation for 3 to 4 hours, this actually interferes with evacuation.
isn't that a crime?
allainjules
· 1 year ago
McCain it is Satan!
It uses the Hurricane to make politicking policy. A true shame.
Irresponsible and shameful. Using peoples misfortunes for political gain.
AdrianBrowne
· 1 year ago
Redstate on Sarah Palin's inexperience:
"One can walk and chew gum at the same time . . . "
That's reassuring!
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
Can you verify that? Do you have a video? I need concrete proof of that. And, it needs to be an extensive video demontration that she can walk and chew gum for more than just a few feet without stumbling or failing to chew gum. For example, will also have to see that during the demonstration, she doesn't pass out forgetting to breath or that she walks into people and telephone poles because she closed her eyes.
BorninUSA
· 1 year ago
Lucky for the people in NO. If this wasn't an election year they would have been forgotten just like 3 years ago. But now bush/mcshame are making sure they are doing everything possible to help these people. Especially getting their pictures taken. That is such a great help. Makes people feel good! This administration is a joke, and every day they prove this over and over.
nicho
· 1 year ago
The GOP never met a tragedy it couldn't exploit for political reasons.
ClintonHater
· 1 year ago
I think what a more pressing concern is: Will this interfere with Cindy McCain's essential duties in bringing peace to Georgia?
Anywho, the McCains don't seem to have any scruples. They'll make a photo op of any crisis. Just goes to show you that John McCain will put politics first and country second whenever he gets the chance.
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
I was really upset when I heard McCain and the bimbo were going to MIssissippi at the invitation of Barber. What the hell do they think they can do other than to show the bimbo one of the lower 48 states, apparently she is not well traveled.
Maybe this is just a first lesson in "on the job training" for Palin---how to look concerned while getting free press!
brb915
· 1 year ago
...................Chief Mo Jones? This is Haley----yeah, look, go on ahead and leave those folks out on the tarmac----give them an 8 car motorcade cappaciono or something.........we need all hands on deck at the celebrity hanger for a VIP arrival and camera check................over and out
flashcard
· 1 year ago
Does this invoke karma?
Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood)
· 1 year ago
My wife is watching McCain being interview on Fox. She says this about Obama and McCain. Do you want to elect someone that will change things with our hope or do you want to elect someone that hopes things will change?
I wish I had read the 'warning' about watching the Sunday morning talk shows............I'm about ready to jump in the creek............George Will actually supported this choice.........
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
Wow, Tom brocaw is slamming Palenty
naschkatzehussein
· 1 year ago
Pawlenty or Palin?
Sage24
· 1 year ago
Why is George Stephanopolous only having one moderate (Sam Donaldson) and three conservatives on his panel today? The Conservatives are acting like Palin is the next savior to this country. She lowered property taxes, she was in the PTA, and she was mayor of a city, and suddenly, she is qualified to step in and become President? The Rethugs really have very low standards, and they simply cannot learn from their mistakes. They are ruining this country, with their ignorance, and inability to vote for leaders with intelligence and stature.
JustAnOldLady
· 1 year ago
Watching these people keep a straight face while extolling ' the maverick' John McCain's choice, I feel like I'm living in some alternate universe........are the Republicans all mad (nuts) or have the American people lost their minds..... poor Sam Donaldson, the only one still making sense, must feel so isolated in his thinking that the choice of Palin is incomprehensible.........
Flower
· 1 year ago
Why is it so wrong for McCain and Palin to go to the Gulf Coast region?
lynchie
· 1 year ago
It took him a year to get there after Katrina. 100 congressmen and 43 senators made the trip before him.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
I guess you didn' t read the post above trolll.
read the post above troll.
Flower
· 1 year ago
Obama had 143 working days as a senator before he decided to run for President.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
McCain picked her because he liked her work on the PTA and because she finally got her first passport last year.
McCain's record on Hurricane Katrina suggests that he was part of the problem, not the solution. McCain was on Face the Nation on August 28, 2005, as Katrina gathered in the Gulf Coast. He said nothing about it. One day later, when Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, McCain was on a tarmac at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, greeting President Bush with a cake in celebration of McCain's 69th birthday. Three days later, with the levees already breached and New Orleans filling with water, McCain's office released a three-sentence statement urging Americans to support the victims of the hurricane.
Though McCain issued a statement the next week calling on Congress to make sacrifices in order to fund recovery efforts, he was quoted in The New Leader on September 1 cautioning against over-spending in support of Katrina's victims. "We also have to be concerned about future generations of Americans," he said. "We're going to end up with the highest deficit, probably, in the history of this country."
That attitude was borne out in McCain's actions and votes. Forty Senators and 100 members of Congress visited New Orleans before he did; he finally got there in March 2006. He voted against establishing a Congressional commission to examine the Federal, State, and local responses to Katrina in med-September 2005. He repeated that vote in 2006. He voted against allowing up to 52 weeks of unemployment benefits to people affected by the hurricane, and in 2006 voted against appropriating $109 billion in supplemental emergency funding, including $28 billion for hurricane relief.
Shortly after the disaster in New Orleans, McCain did introduce a bill that sought to improve communications mechanisms for first-responders and authorities. The bill failed to go anywhere, and McCain later voted against other bills that had similar provisions.
McCain may talk sympathetically about New Orleans' recovery this week, but the record shows that when it mattered most, McCain failed to act. His passion for fiscal conservatism blinded him to a city and a region in need, and his Time for Action is simply too late.
What a joke.
Coke, Will and the other ass wipes think Palin is a wonderful choice. Cokie says the base have not been this excited since Bush earned the nomination. Another ass wipe on the show said that the election is not about the economy, the war or home foreclosures. It is about the key issues of abortion and key issues for evangelicals. How out of touch are they. If that is so they better all hope the mortgage for their churches are solid cause when they don't have jobs the collection plates will get awfully empty.
Flower
· 1 year ago
Do you feel that the tragedy of Katrina was a local or federal failure?
lynchie
· 1 year ago
It was your failure.
houstonray
· 1 year ago
OMG!!! GREAT pic here guys, check this out! I think this might become my new wallpaper on my office computer! LOL!
OMG, just saw a RNC ad on Denver TV. Starts out showing Obama and a woman says he makes great speeches but now it is time to get real, then in bold letters under his picture she voices the words, SHOULD WE ELECT THE MOST INEXPERIENCED PERSON IN HISTORY? Then is switches to a picture of HIllary and says was she right?
I am telling the Dems they better start fighting back on this experience issue and Hillary could get off her ass and say something. Not only is this ad a slam on Obama's experience in favor of Palin BUT it goes after Hillary voters.
Disgusted in Denver
houstonray
· 1 year ago
you know, I was saying on Friday, where is Hillary? I was waiting. Then I read her statement in which she seemed to praise his pick and how great it was for women. I was not impressed. So I'm still waiting, where is HRC and her statement to her supporters about how wrong it would be to equate her base with their base...?? Hello?? Hillary??
brb915
· 1 year ago
I don't think whe was praising the pick.....whe has to tread on delicate ground here. She was a viable candidate who just happened to be female. She doesn't want to speak up fodder for the next Repub commercial. SHe'll hopefully wait and speak a mouthful right after Biden has Pallly for lunch at the first VP debate
BorninUSA
· 1 year ago
I hesitate to be too optimistic about the debate. Remember the Rev. Warren debacle. We were all so sure that Obama would make mcshame look foolish. Who is the moderator at the VP debate? Makes a world of difference who it is. If it is someone enamored of mcshame's choice then Biden could run into another trap. I hope Biden doesn't hold back just because she is a woman; big mistake in my opinion. Rest assured the repugs would play dirty if the tables were reversed.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Gwen Ifill. She should be neutral, given her track record.
Flower
· 1 year ago
Please help me understand why Palin's experience as a Governor and a VP candidate pick is being more scrutinized here than Obama's candidacy for President.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
Then you need to go to FOX NEWS Site and troll there Flower
Flower
· 1 year ago
Why don't you just answer the question about Obama instead of attacking Palin?
lynchie
· 1 year ago
Palin is governor of a state with 670,000 people and over a million cariboo. Palin was mayor of a town of 6,000. She has made only one trip outside the U.S. to Ireland which might be a big threat to the U.S. They found WMD there in the form of a glass of Guiness. As far as Obama---oh never mind what HereinDC said.
Flower
· 1 year ago
Yes, tell me about Obama. That is why I asked the question.
brb915
· 1 year ago
United States Senator Obama from Illinois has been on the National forefront since the last Dem Convention in 04. He is a Constitional Law instructor, has a National Security clearance, has introduced, cosponsored, and passed National law in the nation's interests, has traveled to Iraq, the Middle East, Nations in our NATO structure, our Canadian allies, and has extensive economic understanding on a global scale. Nuff, or can you absorb more?
grandma
· 1 year ago
"If voters had found Obama, his experience, or his policies wanting, they had a chance to reject him. They approved. Only McCain has approved of Palin. "
A. Sullivan
Flower
· 1 year ago
McCain approved of Palin just as Obama approved of Biden. The fact that Obama supporters do NOT feel that his experience is an issue is a concerning point in this election. I don't understand how someone can effect change when they don't have the specifics on how to do it.
grandma
· 1 year ago
The voters did NOT reject Obama...they approved.
Thus far...ONLY McCain has approved of Palin....the voters haven't.
houstonray
· 1 year ago
To me, in all fairness, it just shows a lack of judgement on McCain's part. He knows he is older than any other candidates, he has had 4 bouts of Cancer, and he says he really cares about his country. So his choice to succeed him was someone with stunningly so little experience. He repeats the mantra about us being at war and these are dangerous times, yet he chose someone who only got a passport last year!
When it came time for Obama to make his decision, he chose Biden, someone with an incredible breadth of experience, who can step in at a moment's notice. Obama knows the country would be in good hands.
I feel McCain just made a calculated choice to lure women voters without regard to anything else. If those are the kind of decisions he will be making, then it shows me very poor judgement on his part.
Flower
· 1 year ago
So are you expecting that Obama will not be in the Presidency long and/or that his VP pick will have to be called to action in the near term??
I fully believe he selected Biden for his own edification and not that of the 'general good'. Biden will be Obama's teacher. It scares me to think that our President clearly lining himself up for on the job training.
Obama supporters appear to only want change within certain boundaries. How does one set of youth/inexperience principles apply to one campaign and not the other?
The bigger issue here is selecting a President here who can deliver on what he is promising. We know that there will be fall-outs on both sides related to delivery. However, I have not heard any specifics from Obama that illustrate a road-map of getting from point A to point B.
If you don't have a plan when you hit the well-established infrastructure of Washington, what good are the promises?
JMOHR
· 1 year ago
Frankly, you must be an idiot. The primary season saw Clinton subjecting Obama's experience to incredible scrutiny. The experience issue has been the most hard played issue by the McCain campaign.
However, Obama's academic record is beyond reproach and shows someone who has in depth knowledge and intellect. His time as a professor of law was praised by his students and other professors because of his ability to give equal voice to all sides of an issue. His time as a community organizer gave him a street level view of urban problems and out sourcing of jobs. His time as a legislator representing 210,000 people gave him a grasp of state wide issues. His time in the Senate, twice that as Palin's time as governor, grasp of national and international issues.
Palin had a degree in journalism and minor in poli sci. She was a sportscaster, served on the PTA and village council of a hamlet of 5400. She eventually became mayor of the same hamlet.. She has been the governor of Alaska for 20 months now. Contrary to urban legend, she was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it. She turned against it only after it became a public symbol of Republican misuse of public funds.
I am sorry, but there seems to be little that supports any important public roll for Governor Palin.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
The reason McCain is taking Palin to Mississippi is:
She was able to hide her 16 year old daughters pregnancy by saying it was hers...
so Palin will be able to LIE about anything...and say she is concerned about the people in the South
Flower
· 1 year ago
Please cite the source of your information re: her daughter's presumed pregnancy.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
YOu know it's out there FLower ...DON'T pretend you don't know Flower.... It's all over Alaska.... So don't pretend you don't know.
JMOHR
· 1 year ago
Be careful of this issue. If true, it will come out through one of the tabloids and let it. However, do not flog it. If it does not pan out, there will be hell to pay for the Democrats.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
I just got into a big argument with my partner about what qualifies a person to President.
Has anyone noticed that neither GOP candidate has a law degree?
I have always thought the President should have a degree in law. Part of that degree is coursework in Constitutional law. Look at what Reagan and Dubbya have done to our civil rights without that degree.
Ms Palin has a Barbizon School of TV Sportscaster Modeling degree.
McCain? He has a sugarmama cash reserve.
Obama went to Harvard Law school.
End of discussion.
Flower
· 1 year ago
Does your partner feel that you won the argument with your statement? I know lots of people with law degrees who are not able to clearly articulate thoughts or make decisive, effective decisions in situations of time sensitivity.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Neither of us win this argument...he is Dallas trailer trash and I just don't take much to heart in his political beliefs...LOL
I am speaking only of the Constitutional aspect of a law degree. I am sure there are idiot lawyers. But in terms of things like FISA and the future of this internet freedom we are enjoying, I would prefer to have a lawyer running things.
JMOHR
· 1 year ago
Being a lawyer would help but is not necessary. Just think, Yoo could be president.
Being a historian would help as well. Being a Wes Clark or Ike Eisenhower would help.
However, it really just takes a brain, common sense and the ability to listen and evaluate issues. Something we will never see from the form over substance Republicans in which image is everything and substance is nothing,
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Perhaps the law degree would HELP...however every law school in America requires a course on Constitutional law. And because of this, few lawyers/Presidents would dare to pull the shit that BushCo pulled these 8 years. That was my point. I certainly don't want someone who graduated at the bottom of their class at either Yale OR Annapolis. How did that work out?
brb915
· 1 year ago
BQD.................poetry man, poetry
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Why thank you brb915....that truly made my day. I am just one old homo who LOVES to poke fun at people like Ms Thang and Ms Sarah bad eyewear choices
brb915
· 1 year ago
And lil Flow Flow from up post
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
Pailn had never been out of the United States till 2007
And the righties are making fun of Obama going to Hawaii
LOL
brb915
· 1 year ago
Yeah, she needs a hurried through security clearance just to get to Misissippi
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
Mccain has written books Obama has written books Bieden has written books
Palin has them on her nightstand.
JMOHR
· 1 year ago
McCain has had ghost writers write books.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
Obama graduated from HArvard McCain graduated 5th from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy
grandma
· 1 year ago
Palin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism from the University of Idaho
Biden graduated from Archmere Academy in Claymont, Delaware[3] and, in 1965, from the University of Delaware in Newark,[5] where he double-majored in history and political science.[3] He went on to receive his J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law in 1968, and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1969
Time for some brains in the White House..... Obama/Biden '08 !!!
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
A BS in Journalism from Idaho????? Then I am better qualified. BA, 2 MA's and an ABD
grandma
· 1 year ago
Yep you are....lol
Oh and a minor in politcal science.....not too impressive Mrs Pain....errrr...Palin
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
well grandma if I am better qualified, then this nation is truly fucked
DCinDC
· 1 year ago
What is Palin's educational background?
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
1. Barbizon Modeling School 2. Learned how to do sportscasting. (they have teams in Alaska?) 3. Hockey Mom 4. Mayor of North Bumfuck, Alaska 5. Read the Bible 6. Went to Elizabeth Arden seminar on eyewear
houstonray
· 1 year ago
THAT is the funniest thing I've read yet today. Thanks for that!!
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Thanks Ray....oh mary it takes a fairy to put this into real perspective!
gumbygirl
· 1 year ago
#5-Misread the Bible!
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Well anyone who reads the Bible in anything but Hebrew, Aramaic, Classical Greek, and fifteen other ancient languages is not reading the word of God anyway. Modern bible translations are all full of mistakes and politically charged terms, fitting the meanings to the local customs of what the religious movement wants to say. Missy Mayor of North Bumfuck probably read one of those post-RSV versions that are published on kitchen tables in places like Tupelo, MS. Prayz Jeezuz!
lilyannerose
· 1 year ago
I think she read "Queen Bees and Wannabes" in order to establish her creds as the enforcer for the patriarchal fundies. She's all set to be the bitch that will keep the other bitches down.
lynchie
· 1 year ago
Let's not forget McCain didn't give a shit during Katrina, he got a big store bought cake from President Fuckwit and played the guitar. This time well he needs to show his false concern and more importantly show Palin that there is water in the Gulf of Mexico.
brb915
· 1 year ago
Someone better brief her that Gulf of MEXICO doesn't mean she needs her one time stamped passport
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
Dan Quayle thought New Mexico was a foreign country and Bush didn't want to visit New Mexico because he didn't trust dirty Mexican cooking. Now Palin is eager to collect a Gulf of Mexico stamp in her passport? Sheeze!
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
The cake was left laying on the tarmac no a single bite taken out of it
Flower
· 1 year ago
Where was Ray Nagen's concern when the residents of his own city did not have public transportation to leave the city before disaster struck? Where were the police, where were the shelters outside of a city that sits below sea level??
brb915
· 1 year ago
They were busy on security detail at the "good job Browny" Bush photo op
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
Si I've NEVER Seen Maria Bartoloma of CNBC on Meet The Press and today of all days she gets to talk for almost 10 minutes about Oil and Energy
DUH!
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
She's dirty looking...like they just hose her and her drip dry poly outfit down with disinfectant.
mgardener
· 1 year ago
Then you really have to ask, who is more loyal to our country? Is it Barack who has a VP that can govern in case anything should happen to him? Or John McCain who picked someone with NO experience in case something happened to him?
The evangelicals must not really care about and really want us to fail as a country and want the Rapture sooner then later if they are willing to sacrifice this country in order to call it Christian.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
AMEN!
2 years ago she was mayor of a town of 8,000.
there are community colleges with more people
grandma
· 1 year ago
Most of the evangelicals cannot think for themselves....if the GOP says it they believe it.....
AdrianBrowne
· 1 year ago
Palin has had the best of educations, she's learned corruption and lying from the master, Ted Stevens.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
She SCRUBBED his endorsement from her WEB SITE
houstonray
· 1 year ago
Typical Republican tactic, erase all evidence of it and then deny all knowledge of it and hope it goes away...
grandma
· 1 year ago
The Palin pick says much more about McCain than it does about Palin (all it says about her is that she didn't have the good sense to turn it down). What it says about McCain is that he is more interested in politics than policy, more interested in campaigning than governing, tactical when he should be strategic, and reckless when he should be considered.
He is as big a gamble as president as Palin is as vice-president. This decision was about gut, about politics, about cynicism, and about vanity. It's Bushism metastasized.
The Biden pick says a lot about Obama, too. It implies that Obama is concerned about the white male vote just as McCain is concerned about the female vote.
lynchie
· 1 year ago
do you think it might be that Biden has a proven track record. maybe not. go back to the limpnuts and come back with some talking points
Flower
· 1 year ago
And that is another reason why Biden was picked, because of experience - exactly because of experience.
lynchie
· 1 year ago
what the fuck is your point
Flower
· 1 year ago
And that is another reason why Biden was picked, because of experience - exactly because of experience.
lynchie
· 1 year ago
So you agree that having a VP who has experience and is prepared should the inevitable happen to McCain is important. Now we are getting through to you.
grandma
· 1 year ago
The Biden pick shows Obama put the good of the country first.
McBrainless' pick shows he puts politics over the good of the country.
blackwolf
· 1 year ago
Great point grandma. Obama chose the best candidate, with the best credentials.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Yeah...say buh bye pretty lady to your political career.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
1--The irony of praying for rain during Obama's acceptance and having their convention obliterated by a hurricane (in Minneapolis yet) is so delicious everyone will take a bite. 2--McCain's southward hustle highlights the massive Republican failure of stewardship during Katrina. 3--Yet to be seen if a straight-talking Gulf resident provides McCain a "go fuck yourself" moment like Cheney had. 4--Networks will be mighty pissed if their large cash investment in the convention comes to nothing.
Also--John Kerry did a terrific job on This Week with Stephie, really terrific (I'm liking you again JK) and George Will did a grudging acknowledgement that his trophy wife is helping Cindy McCain with her fashion calamity convention speech.
Flower
· 1 year ago
On the topic of education, George W. Bush graduated from Yale and Harvard.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
C Student Bush C- Student
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
Flower what was Obamas standing in College?
Flower
· 1 year ago
I will let you tell me - I know you are dying to!!!
lynchie
· 1 year ago
Daddie Bush bought the degree.
brb915
· 1 year ago
Just like MCain, just barely and with a "Thank G-d he's outta here" from the Provost
grandma
· 1 year ago
We're talking about the '08 election.
Please keep up.
Flower
· 1 year ago
Yes, and you were talking about the importance of ivy league educations when correlated to positions of leadership.
lynchie
· 1 year ago
No we are talking about education in the context of your trying to compare Obama and Palin. There is no comparison.
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
Do you honestly think that Bush honestly earned those degrees from Harvard and Yale? Don't answer. I know what you will say. "Bought and paid for in honest cold hard cash."
lynchie
· 1 year ago
Lindsay Graham just told Stephanopolus that Palin was more qualifed to be Commander in Chief than Obama. These fuckers will say anything. He feels her experience as governor is everything she needs to know to be one of the best VP's in history.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Miss Lindsey couldn't really spin her previously videotaped VP comment but her slicked down Sunday school hairdo is lookin like horsehair...Call the guy who makes bald Cindy's cotton candy falls.
Flower
· 1 year ago
You are saying many things yourself. Including the implication that a Senator with 143 days experience is more qualifying for the role of President than the governor of a state is to be a VP.
lynchie
· 1 year ago
You are correct. I am saying Obama is more qualified. Thank you for finally understanding what I mean. It only took you two hours. It must have been important to continue to check your talking points with Rush.
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
What we are saying is that Obama's qualifications are honesty, integrity, character, intelligence, the ability to communicate clearly, as well as academic qualifications, and above all he loves this nation and it's people unlike Republicans who regard the nation and the people was cons, marks, gulls, pigeons to be gutted, plucked and tossed into a pot for stew.
Flower
· 1 year ago
First of all, you are making sweeping generalizations that are not supported in this message.
Your assessment is opinion. Like many other things Obama has STATED, I don't see actions that back up his words. He has attended church headed by a contraversial preacher and completed little in the way of actual accomplishments (again, back to my point on his days of service as a Senator).
How do you PROVE love of country? I ask you what has Obama DONE, Lead, effected, changed to display this love. Give me some solid examples like legislation - I want to hear it!
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
Your assessment is opinion.
As is yours. Asside from 5 1/2 years in Hotel Hanoi, has McCain accomplished anything to demonstrate he regards the country and people as anything other than as I said, "cons, marks, gulls, pigeons to be gutted, plucked and tossed into a pot for stew." The wreckage, devastation and desolation of our nation by 8 years of the Bush administration demonstrates exactly why we cannot afford, cannot survive another Republican administration. To say nothing of the insanity demonstrated by Bush, McCain and now Palin.
lilyannerose
· 1 year ago
I hope Sarah realizes that you can't shoot the eye out of a hurricane!
Outside of her ability to shoot moose, what can she offer to the Gulf Coast?
Flower
· 1 year ago
She can offer the same support that Obama would if he arrived on the scene right now. The first responders in a situation like Katrina exist at the local level.
lynchie
· 1 year ago
Obama admitted he would just be in the way and did a teleconference with Barbour. Multiple people on the phone at the same time is a concept McCriminal doesn't quite grasp. Just as his understanding of the tubes on the Internet. This is a photo op at least admit that much troll.
grandma
· 1 year ago
Obama has class and integrity.....
Mc Cain just doesn't 'get it'.
grandma
· 1 year ago
OMG
Reading your comments here this morning.....no wonder this country is in the mess it's in.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
Even the YOUTUBE clips of her are coming out already...
Let's just say....she loves her morning talk shows....and blathering.....
laughing when a DJ called a woman a bitch.
CLaSSY lady there Palin
Wonder what she'll say at the PHOTO OP today
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
I think its clear she has Mad Moose (Alces Spongiform Encephalopathy) Disease...
Sarah Palin = George Bush without the money and the pedigree.
An_American_Karol
· 1 year ago
With the choices and decisions McCain has made since becoming the Republican nominee, he has shown he is no longer the Maverick but a Gelding.
grandma
· 1 year ago
Yep....Obama said it all in a nutshell.
McCain just doesn't "get it".
bumpkis
· 1 year ago
I logged on to see over 100 comments in about an hour and thought...WTF...
Now I see...there is a troll that has hijacked the thread....
lynchie
· 1 year ago
there is no hijacking. There is an idiot who thinks that Palin is the second coming of Jesus.
AdrianBrowne
· 1 year ago
The New MesSARAH will save the GOP!
houstonray
· 1 year ago
Flower, don't let us try to explain how bad his VP pick was, let Karl Rove explain it for you:
"Karl Rove on CBS' Face the Nation talking about rumors Obama was going to pick Kaine as his VP - Aug 10, 2008:
"With all due respect, again, to Governor Kaine, he's been a governor for three years. He's been able, but undistinguished. I don't think people could really name a big, important thing that he's done. He was mayor of the 105th-largest city in America. And, again, with all due respect to Richmond, Virginia, it's smaller than Chula Vista, California, Aurora, Colorado, Mesa or Gilbert, Arizona, North Las Vegas, or Henderson, Nevada. It's not a big town. If he were to pick Governor Kaine, it would be an intensely political choice, where he's said, 'You know what? I'm really not first and foremost concerned with, is this person capable of being president of the United States? What I'm concerned about is, can he bring me the electoral votes of the state of Virginia, the 13 electoral votes in Virginia?'"
'Nuff said....and by none other than Bush's brain himself....
Now that it's been answered, any other questions??
grandma
· 1 year ago
Chris Dodd CT Just now on CNN.
McCain's choice was for Dobson, Robertson and Limbaugh. That's what his choice was all about.
An_American_Karol
· 1 year ago
That's right, grandma. McCain doesn't give three figs for the country. This race is about him.
mmedefarge
· 1 year ago
where are all the buses that have been evacuating the poor and elderly going? These are the folks too poor to have cars, and too frail to get out on their own, the same people stuck in the football stadia the last time. I haven't heard anything about where the buses are taking them.
An_American_Karol
· 1 year ago
mmedefarge, the buses are taking people to airplanes flying them to different places around the country. That's my understanding.
mmedefarge
· 1 year ago
what kinds of places---these aren't the kind of people who whip out the credit cards to pay for hotel rooms.
JMOHR
· 1 year ago
Well, it is still a lot better than the last disaster. The real test will come with how well these improved levies will stand up. I seem to remember that one of the contractors used newspaper to stuff the expansion joints between sections. Typical quality.
Cindy McCain: Palin knows foreign policy because ‘Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia.’
BorninUSA
· 1 year ago
If I recall one of the FOX talking heads said the same thing. Of course this is one of the repugs talking points so they all will be saying this.
houstonray
· 1 year ago
Wow, just plain wow. Can you IMAGINE, the hell storm of fire from the Right if we had used that kind of argument?
Did you notice how she stuttered and struggled to say something before the "Alaska is close to Russia" comment? Abso-freakin-lutely hysterical.
I shake my head in utter amazement...
lynchie
· 1 year ago
she heard that on Fox and Friends. Ducey made the point that Russia was close to Alaska. Just like his lips are close to Bush's ass.
dad
· 1 year ago
what? no fly-over?
OleHippieChick
· 1 year ago
Annnnnnd now, with 150,000 McStooge posting points, it's Flower! qualifying for either the giant comb, the teensy harmonica, or the plastic happy face cup, her choice!!! Flower, come on down!!!
Wesinoregon
· 1 year ago
I think they are more concerned about their OIL RIGS out in the gulf. That is where their interests are. Not any people.
calman
· 1 year ago
Sarah, Gustav is the sign that God tell you to go home taking care of your 4 month baby with special need. You chose to receive this gift and can't run away from your duty caring for him. He's crying now for mother! If you don't accept your God's call anymore then you and people voted for you already know what will happen. In the end, you're going home anyway in defeat and suffering. PS: Please relay this message to Sarah. She seems very busy now doing something else and not hearing her baby cries.
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I wonder how many stylists Ms Thang Rodeo Queen Sugarmama AND her new palsy walsy Jeannie C Reilly Palin took with them to make sure said photo-op is good for future campaign shots????
http://takeitpersonally.blogspot.com/
Good. The ultimate result of the Bible Belt white trash base courting has resulted in a mediocre, senile, worse than Bush, with a hockey mommy who ran a town the size of East Bumfuck. Unless Diebold is really everywhere (which it is not) it's looking pretty dim for the GOP.
Yippee!!!!!
-tjlabs
What a pathetic old man.
isn't that a crime?
It uses the Hurricane to make politicking policy. A true shame.
http://allainjulesblog.blogspot.com/
"One can walk and chew gum at the same time . . . "
That's reassuring!
Anywho, the McCains don't seem to have any scruples. They'll make a photo op of any crisis. Just goes to show you that John McCain will put politics first and country second whenever he gets the chance.
Maybe this is just a first lesson in "on the job training" for Palin---how to look concerned while getting free press!
Do you want to elect someone that will change things with our hope or do you want to elect someone that hopes things will change?
read the post above troll.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/20...
McCain's record on Hurricane Katrina suggests that he was part of the problem, not the solution. McCain was on Face the Nation on August 28, 2005, as Katrina gathered in the Gulf Coast. He said nothing about it. One day later, when Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, McCain was on a tarmac at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, greeting President Bush with a cake in celebration of McCain's 69th birthday. Three days later, with the levees already breached and New Orleans filling with water, McCain's office released a three-sentence statement urging Americans to support the victims of the hurricane.
Though McCain issued a statement the next week calling on Congress to make sacrifices in order to fund recovery efforts, he was quoted in The New Leader on September 1 cautioning against over-spending in support of Katrina's victims. "We also have to be concerned about future generations of Americans," he said. "We're going to end up with the highest deficit, probably, in the history of this country."
That attitude was borne out in McCain's actions and votes. Forty Senators and 100 members of Congress visited New Orleans before he did; he finally got there in March 2006. He voted against establishing a Congressional commission to examine the Federal, State, and local responses to Katrina in med-September 2005. He repeated that vote in 2006. He voted against allowing up to 52 weeks of unemployment benefits to people affected by the hurricane, and in 2006 voted against appropriating $109 billion in supplemental emergency funding, including $28 billion for hurricane relief.
Shortly after the disaster in New Orleans, McCain did introduce a bill that sought to improve communications mechanisms for first-responders and authorities. The bill failed to go anywhere, and McCain later voted against other bills that had similar provisions.
McCain may talk sympathetically about New Orleans' recovery this week, but the record shows that when it mattered most, McCain failed to act. His passion for fiscal conservatism blinded him to a city and a region in need, and his Time for Action is simply too late.
What a joke.
Coke, Will and the other ass wipes think Palin is a wonderful choice. Cokie says the base have not been this excited since Bush earned the nomination. Another ass wipe on the show said that the election is not about the economy, the war or home foreclosures. It is about the key issues of abortion and key issues for evangelicals. How out of touch are they. If that is so they better all hope the mortgage for their churches are solid cause when they don't have jobs the collection plates will get awfully empty.
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/sarahpalin/i...
OMG, just saw a RNC ad on Denver TV. Starts out showing Obama and a woman says he makes great speeches but now it is time to get real, then in bold letters under his picture she voices the words, SHOULD WE ELECT THE MOST INEXPERIENCED PERSON IN HISTORY? Then is switches to a picture of HIllary and says was she right?
I am telling the Dems they better start fighting back on this experience issue and Hillary could get off her ass and say something. Not only is this ad a slam on Obama's experience in favor of Palin BUT it goes after Hillary voters.
Disgusted in Denver
A. Sullivan
Thus far...ONLY McCain has approved of Palin....the voters haven't.
When it came time for Obama to make his decision, he chose Biden, someone with an incredible breadth of experience, who can step in at a moment's notice. Obama knows the country would be in good hands.
I feel McCain just made a calculated choice to lure women voters without regard to anything else. If those are the kind of decisions he will be making, then it shows me very poor judgement on his part.
I fully believe he selected Biden for his own edification and not that of the 'general good'. Biden will be Obama's teacher. It scares me to think that our President clearly lining himself up for on the job training.
Obama supporters appear to only want change within certain boundaries. How does one set of youth/inexperience principles apply to one campaign and not the other?
The bigger issue here is selecting a President here who can deliver on what he is promising. We know that there will be fall-outs on both sides related to delivery. However, I have not heard any specifics from Obama that illustrate a road-map of getting from point A to point B.
If you don't have a plan when you hit the well-established infrastructure of Washington, what good are the promises?
However, Obama's academic record is beyond reproach and shows someone who has in depth knowledge and intellect. His time as a professor of law was praised by his students and other professors because of his ability to give equal voice to all sides of an issue. His time as a community organizer gave him a street level view of urban problems and out sourcing of jobs. His time as a legislator representing 210,000 people gave him a grasp of state wide issues. His time in the Senate, twice that as Palin's time as governor, grasp of national and international issues.
Palin had a degree in journalism and minor in poli sci. She was a sportscaster, served on the PTA and village council of a hamlet of 5400. She eventually became mayor of the same hamlet.. She has been the governor of Alaska for 20 months now. Contrary to urban legend, she was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it. She turned against it only after it became a public symbol of Republican misuse of public funds.
I am sorry, but there seems to be little that supports any important public roll for Governor Palin.
She was able to hide her 16 year old daughters pregnancy by saying it was hers...
so Palin will be able to LIE about anything...and say she is concerned about the people in the South
It's all over Alaska....
So don't pretend you don't know.
Has anyone noticed that neither GOP candidate has a law degree?
I have always thought the President should have a degree in law. Part of that degree is coursework in Constitutional law. Look at what Reagan and Dubbya have done to our civil rights without that degree.
Ms Palin has a Barbizon School of TV Sportscaster Modeling degree.
McCain? He has a sugarmama cash reserve.
Obama went to Harvard Law school.
End of discussion.
don't take much to heart in his political beliefs...LOL
I am speaking only of the Constitutional aspect of a law degree. I am sure
there are idiot lawyers. But in terms of things like FISA and the future of
this internet freedom we are enjoying, I would prefer to have a lawyer
running things.
Being a historian would help as well. Being a Wes Clark or Ike Eisenhower would help.
However, it really just takes a brain, common sense and the ability to listen and evaluate issues. Something we will never see from the form over substance Republicans in which image is everything and substance is nothing,
requires a course on Constitutional law. And because of this, few
lawyers/Presidents would dare to pull the shit that BushCo pulled these 8
years. That was my point. I certainly don't want someone who graduated at
the bottom of their class at either Yale OR Annapolis. How did that work
out?
LOVES to poke fun at people like Ms Thang and Ms Sarah bad eyewear choices
And the righties are making fun of Obama going to Hawaii
LOL
Obama has written books
Bieden has written books
Palin has them on her nightstand.
McCain graduated 5th from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy
Biden graduated from Archmere Academy in Claymont, Delaware[3] and, in 1965, from the University of Delaware in Newark,[5] where he double-majored in history and political science.[3] He went on to receive his J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law in 1968, and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1969
Time for some brains in the White House.....
Obama/Biden '08 !!!
Oh and a minor in politcal science.....not too impressive Mrs Pain....errrr...Palin
2. Learned how to do sportscasting. (they have teams in Alaska?)
3. Hockey Mom
4. Mayor of North Bumfuck, Alaska
5. Read the Bible
6. Went to Elizabeth Arden seminar on eyewear
DUH!
Is it Barack who has a VP that can govern in case anything should happen to him?
Or John McCain who picked someone with NO experience in case something happened to him?
The evangelicals must not really care about and really want us to fail as a country and want the Rapture sooner then later if they are willing to sacrifice this country in order to call it Christian.
2 years ago she was mayor of a town of 8,000.
there are community colleges with more people
He is as big a gamble as president as Palin is as vice-president. This decision was about gut, about politics, about cynicism, and about vanity. It's Bushism metastasized.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...
McBrainless' pick shows he puts politics over the good of the country.
2--McCain's southward hustle highlights the massive Republican failure of stewardship during Katrina.
3--Yet to be seen if a straight-talking Gulf resident provides McCain a "go fuck yourself" moment like Cheney had.
4--Networks will be mighty pissed if their large cash investment in the convention comes to nothing.
Also--John Kerry did a terrific job on This Week with Stephie, really terrific (I'm liking you again JK) and George Will did a grudging acknowledgement that his trophy wife is helping Cindy McCain with her fashion calamity convention speech.
Bush C- Student
Please keep up.
Your assessment is opinion. Like many other things Obama has STATED, I don't see actions that back up his words. He has attended church headed by a contraversial preacher and completed little in the way of actual accomplishments (again, back to my point on his days of service as a Senator).
How do you PROVE love of country? I ask you what has Obama DONE, Lead, effected, changed to display this love. Give me some solid examples like legislation - I want to hear it!
As is yours. Asside from 5 1/2 years in Hotel Hanoi, has McCain accomplished anything to demonstrate he regards the country and people as anything other than as I said, "cons, marks, gulls, pigeons to be gutted, plucked and tossed into a pot for stew." The wreckage, devastation and desolation of our nation by 8 years of the Bush administration demonstrates exactly why we cannot afford, cannot survive another Republican administration. To say nothing of the insanity demonstrated by Bush, McCain and now Palin.
Outside of her ability to shoot moose, what can she offer to the Gulf Coast?
Mc Cain just doesn't 'get it'.
Reading your comments here this morning.....no wonder this country is in the mess it's in.
Let's just say....she loves her morning talk shows....and blathering.....
laughing when a DJ called a woman a bitch.
CLaSSY lady there Palin
Wonder what she'll say at the PHOTO OP today
McCain just doesn't "get it".
Now I see...there is a troll that has hijacked the thread....
"Karl Rove on CBS' Face the Nation talking about rumors Obama was going to pick Kaine as his VP - Aug 10, 2008:
"With all due respect, again, to Governor Kaine, he's been a governor for three years. He's been able, but undistinguished. I don't think people could really name a big, important thing that he's done. He was mayor of the 105th-largest city in America. And, again, with all due respect to Richmond, Virginia, it's smaller than Chula Vista, California, Aurora, Colorado, Mesa or Gilbert, Arizona, North Las Vegas, or Henderson, Nevada. It's not a big town. If he were to pick Governor Kaine, it would be an intensely political choice, where he's said, 'You know what? I'm really not first and foremost concerned with, is this person capable of being president of the United States? What I'm concerned about is, can he bring me the electoral votes of the state of Virginia, the 13 electoral votes in Virginia?'"
'Nuff said....and by none other than Bush's brain himself....
Now that it's been answered, any other questions??
McCain's choice was for Dobson, Robertson and Limbaugh. That's what his choice was all about.
She REALLY REALLY did say it !!
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/31/cindy-palin...
Cindy McCain:
Palin knows foreign policy because ‘Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia.’
Did you notice how she stuttered and struggled to say something before the "Alaska is close to Russia" comment? Abso-freakin-lutely hysterical.
I shake my head in utter amazement...
Gustav is the sign that God tell you to go home taking care of your 4 month baby with special need. You chose to receive this gift and can't run away from your duty caring for him. He's crying now for mother!
If you don't accept your God's call anymore then you and people voted for you already know what will happen. In the end, you're going home anyway in defeat and suffering.
PS: Please relay this message to Sarah. She seems very busy now doing something else and not hearing her baby cries.