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Oh, this is in regards to CNN.
Sounds superior to the stuff they been saying!!!!!!!!!!!
chimpy would've stayed home.
What if some McManchurian McCandidate tried to get in? Or something.
couldn't handle the lob balls over the plate?
national security?
remember, a repugnican NEVER admits to making the wrong choice.
hands?
it'll be a clear cut choice between sanity and insanity.
This of course will raise the hackles of the media stars - I heard on CNN yesterday questions about how soon they can interview her, acting like they assume they will, but seeming to have a tone that they wonder if they ever will.
The end result of course would be a VP debate in which she is first confronted with tough questions, not before.
However, I think this time the GOP has asked the MSM and the public to swallow too much crap. Palin may fire up the hard right, but the soft middle apparently are not impressed, and he's not going to win this with just the bible-thumpers.
I think the ole boy is scared of questions about Palin right now.
McCain knows he screwed up bigtime.....
i must disagree.
mccain IS dangerous territory.
I'm starting to think putting Palin on the ticket was a scam all along. A month from now, just before the debates, McCain's going to have a press conference where he admits he's lost his "maverickiness." He'll mea culpa that he's been listening to the wrong people as to how to run the campaign, and it clouded his judgment. And it all ends starting now (well, then, when he says it). He'll dump Palin, he'll dump Graham, he'll dump the Rove-bots...don't get me wrong, his campaign will still be a mess, even more so, but at that point, the narrative will be "Wow, look at McCain, he's reinventing himself - AS HE GOES ALONG - ONE MONTH BEFORE ELECTION DAY! What a maverick! What a MAY-YUHN!"
The collected intelliegence of the Obama campaign, the fact that McCain exhibited such poor judgment in the first place that he HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO REINVENT HIMSELF, won't be able to combat the Li'l-Ol'President-That-Could popularity that will be generated by the sight of an aging John McCain standing up to BOTH parties for what's right, gul durn it.
i think they're betting on the fundies again.
A presidential candidate cannot force a VP candidate to withdraw once nominated legally.
Sort of kills this theory.
IMO I think progressives and democrats are getting real paranoid and are thinking this all "must be" an elaborate ruse. No way the GOP could be that much in disarray. Truth is, the GOP has been in a pretty bad way for a pretty long time, it's just that the Dems have been in a worse way for even longer. The one thing Obama brings to the table, as maddening as it is to some who want a more aggressive stance, isa measured and planned campaign that is just rolling along and not really being derailed too much by its appoints (the closest thing, IMO, was Rev Wright).
“When you combine the special-needs infant with the pregnant teen, some voters might wonder why she is pursuing political ambitions at the expense of maternal or family responsibilities,” said Don Sipple, a Republican strategist and past adviser to George W. Bush in Texas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/us/politics/0...
you know what else is different this time? In years past, the GOPers were able to do stealth, under-the-radar shit that no one knew about because of media complicity or stupidity or whatever. But no more. McCain can no longer trot out a nominee like Palin and tell everyone she is a moderate, mainstream, middle of the road, everywoman, who would never lie, cheat or steal for any reason, and you'll just have to take his word for it. As long as the truth about her and the whole screwed up GOP can be put out there, they are sunk.
they can have it both ways then. The don't have to actually investigate anything, they can google something and copy questions from the blogs.
you too can be a "journalist"!!
sorry. no can do.
Leave Brittany..errr Sarah alone....WWWWAAAHHHH!!!
Everyone knows that dinosaurs walked with humans so what's the big deal!!
Leave her alone!!
Everyone knows you use the Governor's power for personal gain!!
Leave her alone!!
He commended her for “not just talking about their pro-life and pro-family values, but living them out even in the midst of trying circumstances.”
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someone should really yank out dobson's forked tongue.
the man just changed EVERYTHING his supposed "values voters" stand for... with a straight face and actually coming across like he believes what he's saying!?!!?!
WTF?!
okay mr. dobson... how about a special-needs baby and an expectant unwed teen needing their mother around, you don't think putting your political career ahead of your family is wrong?
some values.
what a fucktard that man is.
Personally, I want Palin to be nominated. NBC will be forced to bring Tina Fey back to SNL. The first few weeks will be hysterical!
Actually, this campaign has been so entertaining lately, I thought I was watching SNL... especially since no one was laughing.
I think the GOP knew this all the time, used her to rally the base, and when enough heat was in the kitchen, dump her! Now that would really rally the base, that their nominee was crucified by the media and the Democratic Party and forced to get off the ticket, leaving McCain to pick Pawlenty. Romney would not do as he is a Mormon!
You best belive, if Barack was under investigation or Biden they (the press and opposition party) would crucify them also, and rightly so.
That's what we want to see in a President.
Instead of "The buck stops here" we get "the buck waits here while I make a run for it out the fire escape."
that's not change we can believe in, my friends!
ps: love your name!
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But the primary responsibility for street-level security falls to local police agencies. St. Paul received $50 million in federal grant money to pay for additional security.
The St. Paul Police Department estimated it would require $34 million to pay 3,500 extra officers. The remaining money is for training and equipment, the department said.
Numerous federal agencies are helping provide security, including the FBI, Federal Protective Service, Customs and Border Protection, the Coast Guard and the Transportation Security Administration.
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how much was spent in Denver? and did they call it a "national special security event"???
or is that just needed to protect repugs?
CNN just started talking about the AIP!
Just asking beause it seems to me your own misplaced ambition puts at risk your new born son, your unborn grand child and your oldest daughter.
*** excellent quesitons though, i might add....
50/42 our favor.
nice bounce:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/
I can sleep peacefully tonight.
Tha is unless we find out Malia Obama brought a crack pipe to school in her back pack today.
/snark
The cute VP candidate is not ready assume the presidency of the United States....she is simply there to placate the far right, and because she looks good....no one will say it but if she wore a pants suit and looked like hillary clinton, she would not be on the ticket....the hypocrisy is sickening
May we please state the obvious….sara palin is pretty hot…let her hair down, and she’s hot….if she looked like one of hillary’s traveling man pants crew, mc cain would never have ‘touched’ her…ok, that’s pathetic, but its true….the DISASTA FROM ALASKA has less experience than your typical county clerk, considering the 3 counties here in sofla have 5 X the population of Alaska….this is blackest of black humor, problem is; its on us………..
Mc Cain the maverick…not particularly a top gun maverick, he couldn’t keep a plane in the air….shot down 3 times, this maverick lost 3 mulit multi-million dollar aircraft and finally got himself caught by people we were naypalming…
..maverrick / schmavrick….dumb old guy who couldn’t fly, and hot pol chick who breeds like a hamster….not this time
Let us allow mc cain to expire in the loving arm and perfectly enhanced republican breasts of his second wife, at one of their 11 homes, just not our White House.
'So the McCain campaign got Keith Olberman KICKED OFF MSNBC CONVENTION COVERAGE and now they are going after CNN. I hope protesters tear the hell out of that convention.
This is just beyond belief. Cancel CNN because a REPUBLICAN reporter asks questions.
Not since Larry Craig's curious toilet outreach has the family values crowd suffered ideological petards so painfully and laughably hoist
Damn the media and damn liberals hacks and fundies cry with a fervor matched only by their blind exhuberance for a non-entity with exposure barely northern much less other more progressive compass points.
It's sad the Palin's are being trashed because of Johnny's extremely poor, though calculated judgement.
Perhaps Pickles offered Palin some tips on coping with waves of national dislike???
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//...
I love it!
Are these people serious? They are upset that the American people want to know her qualification! They have torn Barack Obama apart since day one and he has risen to the challenge on all counts.
They don't let her answer a question. She has to have tutors in order to debate Joe Biden on foreign policy. She is a deplorable mother. She has a 4 month old baby with Down's syndrome and a 17 year old daughter who is expecting a child and will sacrafice their need of her, ot chase her own political ambition. She believes that the war in Iraq was a directive of God.
John McCain of 2000 would never support John McCain of 2008. He is no more a maverick than George W. Bush was. He is completely run by the super religious zealots of the neo-con right wing. Their desire for power overrides any considerations for the people of this country.
If you thought voting for them would be 4 more years of Bush, then think again. This will make the Bush years look like a walk in the park. God help us if McCain and the beauty queen get into office.
I used to be a republican. But now that there is McWhacky and Polly-nut-case on the republican ticket I think i will stay home.
the link above is the future VP's personal views on church and state that apparently McWhacky did not catch before picking her.
Because she hates Juneau. She hates Southeast Alaska because she did not get a lot of votes in the Southeast. She only cares about the big city like Anchorage because that is where she gets her votes. She has been trying to get the capital to move to Wasilla (her home town) by slowly but surely moving all the high paying and important jobs out of Juneau.
There is a Governor's Mansion in Juneau for her residence and a school for her kids to go to but she pulled out all her kids because the small town of Juneau is not good enough for her.
She promised not to move the capital once elected as Governor but as soon as she became Governor she allowed all the commissioners of the State to not live in Juneau. To those who are not familiar with Alaska, majority of the State Departments and employees are in Juneau and to have the top bosses be living in Anchorage? That is a waste of tax payers money since the Commissioners are keeping two offices (one in Juneau and one in Anchorage) both fully staffed (there used to be just one in Juneau) and the people of Alaska paying for the travel expenses of these commissioners who fly back and forth to do their job when they should just be in Juneau because that is where their employees are.
She terminated all the experienced directors/commissioners that were placed by her advesary and replaced them with incompetent people that are willing to do her every whim.
The woman is drunk with power and I feel sorry for people who are duped by her "hotness"!