Oh my God, John McCain has no executive experience.
This calls for a family intervention from the Christian Fundamentalists.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
The whole "executive experience" thing is WAY overrated. Bush had it, supposedly, and look how THAT turned out. How about this as experience: not showing up on TV with bad hair? I am a big believer in politicians who show up on TV without bad hair (I'll make an exception for Biden, I guess...)
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Yeah, I know.
The entire economy was wrecked by MBAs, and we're supposed to look up to them?
(Not that Sarah even achieved that level of mediocrity.)
bluestockton
· 1 year ago
Where's Lloyd Bentsen when you need him? OK, I'll say it: Sarah, you're no Jack Kennedy.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
And who here has ever worked for an "executive" who WASN'T an asshole?
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Call Jerry Springer!
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
Springer was mayor of Cincinnati, a far larger city than whatever Alaska where they count sled dogs as voting members of the population. In addition, Springer's 'classy' TV career is hugely successful running for almost 2 decades.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
I lived in Cincinnati back when Springer was the mayor. He was a very good mayor but after he wrote that check to a prostitute for services rendered and the newspaper got ahold of it, his judgment was called into question. How foolish is he? was the general feeling at the time. But that was a long time ago . . .
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
Hmm. Wasn't it yesterday that McCain himself told Brian Williams that Obama has never run a business or had executive control of a city or a state.
And John McCain's background is not the same?
Duh.
lynchie
· 1 year ago
Hey! He ran a prison camp.
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
How dare you compare McCain's experience of 5 1/2 years in the Hanoi Hilton with Barack Obamas lack of executive experience? You have to be a liberal, Commie, Pinko, fag, enemy of the state, who hates America.
An_American_Karol
· 1 year ago
I am embarrassed for poor Sarah Heath of Channel 2. She seems to be stuck in a 1980s time warp.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
mushin', mushin', mushin'
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
And people say Communications Degrees are worthless.
shrrrr
· 1 year ago
CNN's 'Wolf' is really diving into this stuff. It's snowballing. smiles.
I just peeked at the "convention" on C-span. lord what a boring old white man party that is. nothing against old white men. but all those bloated bastards looked like Pat Buchanon. and sounded like him. anyway, I had to turn the channel before my I completely lost my soul.
MommaKat
· 1 year ago
Don't ya know, that's the real reason McShame is 'cancelling' the RNC festivities. He knows the GOPers can't hold a candle to the DNC, and is greatful for any excuse to say they can't hold the full convention.
brb915
· 1 year ago
All except for Beohner from OH---he needs to burn all his tanning bed coupons and run to McCain's dermatologist as fast as he can say MELANOMA
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
watch yourself. and be sure and take an extra long shower tonight!
akonuche
· 1 year ago
This is insanity. They must stop trying to justify this pick and just go ahead and and choose a different person as VP. Just admit that you made a big oops!
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
McCain won't.
He's more stubborn than Bush.
We just have to keep digging and piling this stuff up.
Then, the party will just walk away from McCain and leave him to face his hellish election night alone.
nicho
· 1 year ago
Executive experience? Yeah, she left a tiny town $20 million in debt and governs by firing anyone who doesn't kiss her ass.
I'll pass on that one thanks.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
The George Bush Management Model.
SouthernYankee
· 1 year ago
Is that how she got all those kids?
Cjeffery
· 1 year ago
From what I have read the littler exprinice she as is not the exprinice we want more abuse or power lies and just staright up stupidy. I'm sorry Mrs.Palin you are no JFK or Clinton.
bdhp
· 1 year ago
It gets better! She is a member of a political party that wants to secede from the United States! That is treason. http://www.akip.org/faqs.html
Canada my ass, it's Alaska's Gas!"
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Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
She and her husband were members.
She apparently quit when she decided to run for mayor and destroy her hometown--her husband likely quit at the same time, but didn't join the Repubs like she did (which is why he's currently unaffiliated).
However, she does apparently still addresses the group and is sympatico with its members.
She should have done this months ago. And she certainly should have been lawyered to the hilt when she sacked Monegan. She has already made numerous self-incriminating and dissembling statements, which any good lawyer would have prevented. But: Valley Trash is as Valley Trash does.
grandma
· 1 year ago
Ezra Klein:
In this election, Joe Biden is proving the low-key, stable, drama-free vice presidential candidate who basically does his job and stays out of the news.
I want to see Hillary take this 'miss thang' on. Palin evoked the name of Hillary Clinton within her first five minutes of fame (remember?) Hillary needs to put this whole ball-of-wax in perspective. What fun!!
foolme1ns
· 1 year ago
We should be extremely grateful for Sarah Palin. In just a few short hours at the very beginning of the RNC she has turned those fundie hypocrites on their ears.
With the announcement that her daughter is pregnant, she has changed the entire RNC into PRO CHOICE and PRO PRIVACY advocates. Including republican surrogate reporters like Dana Bash and Andrea Mitchell.
All of a sudden we are told to mind our own business. That this is a matter for the family and they deserve PRIVACY. We are also told that Bristol Palin made the right CHOICE!!!
So there you have it. REPUBLICANS=PRO CHOICE AND PRO PRIVACY!!!! At least for Bristol Palin.
lynchie
· 1 year ago
It sure didn't stop the GOP and McCain from going after Obama's wife. The crawled up every orifice of his ass to see what they could find. Now the choose a complete neophyte and are crying foul. Well in the words of your own current VP Mr. Dickless Cheney----Fuck Off!
Wouldn't McCain have a perfectly good reason to see the results of an extensive physical for the person he's going to nominate to be VP? Isn't that BASIC standard operating procedure?
How could it have been worse than Katrina?... Oh, much smaller storm, maybe.
maggiemael
· 1 year ago
McCain says Palin has lots of executive experience. Last night on Brian Williams' newscast he had an interview with McCain. At 4 min into the interview he asks McCain about Palin's qualifications. McCain lists her executive accomplishments including PTA. Here's the link to the interview.
You know, the story we should really be investigating (and by we, I mean you and the FireDogLake guys and Josh M) is the Alaska Independence Party stuff, because Palin's association with that group bring in a story we really need to tell for our country's long-term health -- which is how "mainstream" Republicanism is tied in with the mega-whacko right-wing fringe.
Joe_Bourgeois
· 1 year ago
McCain/Palin: (Alaska Should be a Separate) Country First
Chris From Maine
· 1 year ago
you buried the headline.
Palin spokesman : Palin is more qualified then John McCain.
SouthernYankee
· 1 year ago
I was 13 when I was watching TV to hear JFK speech Ask Not What You can Do for Your Country. I can't stand to listen to her voice. Am a woman. Just can't stand it. My niece that lives in Alaska said that she isn't her cup of tea either. My niece loves hunting and fishing. But she is a democratic. She said Palin come from the red part of Alaska.
brb915
· 1 year ago
SY, she was born and raised in Sandpoint, Idaho before moving to Alaska. People does that ring a bell???????????? I'm talking White Supremacy, Extremists, Militia Compounds here. McCain must ave had a ministroke just as he made hs announcement-----this, AIP membership, extreme right wing beliefs-----you cannot make this stuff up..................................
SouthernYankee
· 1 year ago
Wow, I didnt know that. Thanks for the information.
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
I honestly thought that post was meant to be a joke. HER spokesman says she is more qualified that ANY other on the ticket??? Just who the hell does this woman think she is.. She sure as hell is no Hillary Clinton NOR is she anywhere near JFK.
You know I go from laughing to angry back and forth all day. I WANT to be the VP, I've raised children, know how to manage a checkbook, been a member of the PTA, a Scout den mother. Granted my budgets were not as big as Palin's BUT by McCain's standards I qualify.
brb915
· 1 year ago
Me too----I'm just like you, and I just got my passport RENEWED......I've even been to the Middle East. And I don't mean Western Kentucky
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
WKRP in Alaska...
Asterix
· 1 year ago
Let's see here--JFK was a war hero, Pulitzer-prize-winning author (okay, I know about Sorenson, but JFK did at least supervise production of the book), US Senator, and scion of a well-connected family. And Palin is...well, none of these.
I surprised that McAllister didn't choke on his own vomit as he was mouthing this nonsense.
Sometimes ya gotta wonder if we're really being presented with the nation's best and brightest for this election.
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
Notice how when the Republicans need heroes to compare to, they try steal Democratic presidents, as heroes to compare their current president to. Of course. They couldn't very well hold up Richard Nixon or the current Bush as a great American presidential hero.
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
Hey! I was president of my Latin class for 3 semesters and of the Latin Club for a year. That makes me as qualified as Palin. Given these were very unruly high school students I think my experience far, far exceeds hers as an executive.
MNUSA
· 1 year ago
Foreign policy experience: Her state is closest to Russia. It also abuts up against Canada, but that would also make Pawlenty and Romney qualified. Military experience: Commander in chief of the...... ........: Tah dah: .Alaska National Guard. Those rascally Repubs - always the jokesters.
MC_Haiku
· 1 year ago
Everything Philip K. Dick ever wrote is coming true. Allen Ginsberg was right: we ARE living in science fiction. My head is going to explode if I read any more remarks like "She is the only one with executive experience."
woodroad34
· 1 year ago
Obama weighs in on the more-executive-than-thou blather:
"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...Our ability to manage large systems and to execute I think has been made clear over the past couple of years and certainly in terms of the legislation I’ve passed in the past couple of years, post-Katrina."
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This calls for a family intervention from the Christian Fundamentalists.
The entire economy was wrecked by MBAs, and we're supposed to look up to them?
(Not that Sarah even achieved that level of mediocrity.)
And John McCain's background is not the same?
Duh.
I bet the GOPer convention give Obama an even bigger bounce!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/01/opini...
He's more stubborn than Bush.
We just have to keep digging and piling this stuff up.
Then, the party will just walk away from McCain and leave him to face his hellish election night alone.
I'll pass on that one thanks.
http://www.akip.org/faqs.html
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT ALASKAN INDEPENDENCE
Q: What is the Alaskan Independence Party?
A: An Alaskan political party whose members advocate a range of solutions to the conflicts between federal and local authority; from advocacy for state's rights, through a return to territorial status, all the way to complete independence and nationhood status for Alaska.
Q: Aren't most Alaskan Independence Party members a bunch of radicals and Kooks?
A: The party has its share of individualists, in the grand Alaskan tradition. No longer a fringe party, the A.I.P. is a viable third party with a serious mission and qualified candidates for elected offices.
Q: If Alaska became independent, wouldn't we lose a lot of federal money?
A: No. If Alaska returned to territorial status, most federal money would still be available. If Alaska were to attain complete independence, its revenues from oil and other natural resources would far exceed the amounts currently received from the federal government, at our current level of resource utilization.
Q: If Alaska were independent, what would happen to my social security check, federal pension, or military retirement?
A: People receive these checks around the world, regardless of their place of residence. In most cases eligibility for such checks would not be effected by Alaskan independence.
Q: If Alaska became independent, would U.S. military bases leave?
A: The strategic location of Alaska would indicate that it would serve U.S. interests to maintain a presence in Alaska. The military are good neighbors. There would be no compelling reason for the military to leave Alaska.
Q: Didn't we vote for statehood already?
A: The vote for statehood was invalid because the people were not presented with the range of options available to them. Further, the federal government has since breached the contract for statehood on numerous occasions in over a dozen serious and substantial instances.
Q: Under independence, what would happen to all the federal controls and regulations?
A: We believe that controls should be exerted by the lowest possible governmental unit. The people of Alaska can better decide what controls need to be in place than can bureaucrats in Washington. Specific local regulation might be either more or less restrictive than current federal regulation. The point is that it will be our regulation, not Washington's.
Q: Would I lose my U.S. citizenship?
A: Depending on the form of independence, several forms of citizenship would be possible, including the retention of U.S. citizenship or dual citizenship. However, considering the moral, educational, and economic decay of the U.S., Alaskans' who hold themselves to a higher standard might very well decide to at least maintain an arm's length distance from a country in decline.
Q: What will happen to major U.S. stores such as Sears, Safeway, and McDonald's?
A: Any company which found it profitable to sell in Alaska would remain. Without the constraints of the deteriorating U.S. economy, and with the enormous wealth of Alaska, international as well as local companies will prosper.
She apparently quit when she decided to run for mayor and destroy her hometown--her husband likely quit at the same time, but didn't join the Repubs like she did (which is why he's currently unaffiliated).
However, she does apparently still addresses the group and is sympatico with its members.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/1/4231...
Oh my God.
Sarah just hired herself a lawyer.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/1/1727...
Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha !!!!!!!!!!!!
In this election, Joe Biden is proving the low-key, stable, drama-free vice presidential candidate who basically does his job and stays out of the news.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/31/ad-bid...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/palin-...
With the announcement that her daughter is pregnant, she has changed the entire RNC into PRO CHOICE and PRO PRIVACY advocates. Including republican surrogate reporters like Dana Bash and Andrea Mitchell.
All of a sudden we are told to mind our own business. That this is a matter for the family and they deserve PRIVACY. We are also told that Bristol Palin made the right CHOICE!!!
So there you have it. REPUBLICANS=PRO CHOICE AND PRO PRIVACY!!!! At least for Bristol Palin.
Wouldn't McCain have a perfectly good reason to see the results of an extensive physical for the person he's going to nominate to be VP? Isn't that BASIC standard operating procedure?
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-B...
How could it have been worse than Katrina?... Oh, much smaller storm, maybe.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#26486142
Palin spokesman : Palin is more qualified then John McCain.
You know I go from laughing to angry back and forth all day. I WANT to be the VP, I've raised children, know how to manage a checkbook, been a member of the PTA, a Scout den mother. Granted my budgets were not as big as Palin's BUT by McCain's standards I qualify.
I surprised that McAllister didn't choke on his own vomit as he was mouthing this nonsense.
Sometimes ya gotta wonder if we're really being presented with the nation's best and brightest for this election.
"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...Our ability to manage large systems and to execute I think has been made clear over the past couple of years and certainly in terms of the legislation I’ve passed in the past couple of years, post-Katrina."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/01...
Although, as Karen Walker would say, "Honey, we talked about this".