Well this was fun while it lasted. I hope he doesn't pick LIEberman next. We had Florida in the bag with this one.
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
I have been saying that since he picked her. His judgment is seriously flawed in picking someone who doesn't even have a clue what a VP does.
Remember that 3AM phone call ad of Clinton's, well try putting Pulin in that ad answering that 3AM phone.
But the Republican spin machine being what it is already has convinced many people that Palin has waaaaaaaaay more experience than Obama. So even if it was a reckless disregard for the second highest office in the USA, the Republicans will push forward with massive ads negatinf Obama. And the worse part of this is that the man who approved this fiasco was John McCain with a serious flaw in judgment.
ydthin
· 1 year ago
Well...her home state is next to Russia, she's been to Ireland, and she's down in New Orleans near that furrin-named hurricane, so she's got this job in the bag.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
I saw Bob Barr on CNN earlier this evening. He said pretty much said that he could tell she wasn't vetted...he even seemed to have that knowledge that she wasn't vetted...he said it was McCain vetted and not a bigger sourse. i can't remember who the host was...but the host was sort-of -kind-of shocked. The host told Barr that he would like to talk to him again...
Do you think McCain gave the big finger to the GOP?
ydthin
· 1 year ago
interesting thought, I'd assumed it was the other way around and the GOP picked her. This smells so Rovian to me. She's from nowhere so maybe they think there is no one up there to 'make scandal' with? Who knows. I just get the feeling that McCain had to kiss some serious butt to get the nom in the first place. And he promised to toe the line.
DeppFan
· 1 year ago
Especially if she turns out to be Trig Palin's grandma instead of mom, as DailyKos is reporting.
An_American_Karol
· 1 year ago
I hope the National Enquirer hurries up and investigates Palin so the media can pick it up and go with it. We all know MSM has forgotten how to do its own investigations.
hawkseye
· 1 year ago
Yes, N.Enq. will do the honors. Bill Maher says the baby looks like John Edwards.
hauksdottir
· 1 year ago
I hope the insurance company orders DNA tests all around. With Down Syndrome being genetic, they have a right to do this before paying for a lifetime of care. It would be major-league fraud to force ratepayers and perhaps taxpayers to care for her daughter's out-of-wedlock child for the rest of his life.
Follow the money... especially with Republicans and most especially with Alaskan Republicans.
grandma
· 1 year ago
"And it speaks very poorly of John McCain's first significant decision as our potentially future commander in chief."
Yes it does. And he has put politics before the good of the country.....just like Bush.
Country first???....Bullsh_t
Just read the following at Digby: UPDATE:
GOP, citing Gustav, makes case for McCain
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL - Republicans are already citing Hurricane Gustav as a major reason why voters should pick Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) this fall.
Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) made the case Sunday that McCain is best equipped to lead the country -- whether it's acts of terrorism or acts of God.
Appearing on Fox News, Coleman repeatedly cited the campaign theme of "country first" when describing efforts to prepare the Gulf Coast for Hurricane Gustav.
Seems to me the only ones who 'approve' of Palin are the evangelical nutsos.
An_American_Karol
· 1 year ago
And a few "supposed" Hillary supporters. I personally think there are Republican plants trying to stir trouble in the Democratic Party.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
I just overheard sound of Johnny pretending to be President and talking about his hurricane briefing with dark whifs of global terrorism...Johnny's sounding tired and America's had her fill of gut-based surprises no matter how theatrically weather-related or fundie pandered.
houstonray
· 1 year ago
You know, I've said it before and I'll say it again. It just gets better hour by hour.
However, was just talking to my partner and we were wondering if at some point, she might be forced out by the 'powers that be', of course stepping aside to care for "her" disabled child or something that sounds good, and then God forbid, he picks someone like Kay Bailey or Condi. If that happened, I'd prefer taking my chances with Romney or Lieberman or Pawlenty, but a strong GOOD female would really make me nervous.
hawkseye
· 1 year ago
I am enjoying it too. I also hope she isn't forced out, but McSame is so stubborn, I think she's there to stay.
dad
· 1 year ago
this could get interesting
ClintonHater
· 1 year ago
Not to mention her "son" is actually her daughter son.
What we don't need in a VP is another lying sneak.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Cheney's bunkers would be great for storing moose meat...
Will_In_Midtown
· 1 year ago
Again, all I can think is "That crazy bitch accepted." Surely she is intelligent enough to realize how unqualified she is. And yet, she accepted.
Question: Is there precedent in American politics of a Presidential candidate changing his running mate after their parties nomination?
hawkseye
· 1 year ago
Yes, McGovern replaced Tom Eagleton with Sargent Shriver. Press discovered Eagleton had been treated for depression, I think with electric shock therapy. Big stink ensued.
That is a really bad photo shop, that doesn't even pass the smell test. It is a fake.
mirth
· 1 year ago
A couple of people here on the threads who work with photoshop say the opposite.
AngelaChanning
· 1 year ago
That photo was linked in fark comments on a thread that announced her appointment. Figuring it was fark, I figured it was photoshopped. But given the number of photoshopped Obama pics out there, I say let er rip. That really is an Ann Coulter look isn't it? LOL.
hauksdottir
· 1 year ago
Look at her legs... they match the legs of her basketball pictures. Look at the way her shirt is left unbuttoned, revealing an undershirt. It matches the way her jacket is left unbuttoned revealing her undershirt at the announcement in Ohio.
Not a Photoshop job.
Skank.
Designated soul-mate to an old fart-faced philanderer who reels from one beauty-queen to another.
If you look at the college dorm picture where she is wearing a hot pink t-shirt that says "I may be broke, but I'm not flat-busted" while spraddled on the bed... you can gather that this isn't exactly a classy lady, but somebody who'll dangle provocative sex to get what she wants.
So she reeled in McCain? What do you expect with bait like that!
okojo
· 1 year ago
The light in her face doesn't match the light in the rest of the picture. If there is another picture of Sarah Palin wearing those type of platform shoes, I would be more willing the photo is genuine, but it looks obviously a fake, much like the fake vogue cover.
The photo is a bad fake.
MNUSA
· 1 year ago
Just like a roll of the dice. Can anyone predict what he would do as President? Now he scares me to death. I'm totally sick of hearing people say, "Well I voted for Bush, but I wouldn't vote for him again." Don't vote for McCain then, and expect that things will get any better.
Coming Undone
· 1 year ago
Match VP.com- Where you can find your VP soul-mate.
bish8
· 1 year ago
She has to be an egomaniac to accept the second most important office in the country. Something really stinks about this whole situation.
AngelaChanning
· 1 year ago
What cracks me up is that the Republicans have insisted Gov. Palin has more experience than Senator Obama because she was a small town mayor and had less than two years as Governor. The experience they offer up is laughable. Meanwhile Senator Obama went through a grueling 50 state primary process. He has been pretty well vetted now for over 18 months. The Clintons obviously threw their best dirt at him and he won. If he manages government half as well as his campaign, we will be in great shape.
So imagine if the Mayor of Baltimore, Sheila Dixon, who has executive experience and governs nearly the same number of people in Alaska was plucked from obscurity and made the VP choice for the Democrats. Could you imagine the ridicule and howls of protest from the Republicans?
My mother has a phrase about spending a lot of time making a choice and being really picky....It sort of applies here...."He picked, he picked, he picked...and what did he do? He picked shit anyway." Thank you for listening.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Yes, but she was a Communications Major from U of Idaho while Obama was only President of Harvard Law Review.
burro
· 1 year ago
John McCain simply wung it......
Wung? Wung is not a word. He wanged it.
hawkseye
· 1 year ago
I kind of liked wung, and wanged is fun, but maybe he should try winged it.
ydthin
· 1 year ago
you know, they say the internet is a waste of time but I learned on "overheard in new york" the other day why they always say a person was "hanged". So there you go.
burro
· 1 year ago
Wang hanged Doodle. Wung hung Low. Did McBush vet Palin? No-No-No.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
McCain is worse than Bush.
I didn't think that was possible.
But this guy is a total idiot.
ydthin
· 1 year ago
It is to laugh. :)
I guess from her shotgun wedding to the current scandal about who da momma, there may be lots and lots of unvetted fun for everyone.
hauksdottir
· 1 year ago
I've been amused at the way somebody on her staff has tried to edit Wikipedia. It is a tug-of-war. The scrubbing of the official Alaskan links is interesting. Pictures keep vanishing.
But even in a house of mirrors, with fractured shards all over the floor, the original exists somewhere.
Now, we get word that this isn't Ms Palin's first attempt at editing, sifting, and contaminating digital evidence. She is an experienced hacker.
WASILLA -- Sarah Palin never thought of herself as an investigator.
Yet there she was, hacking uncomfortably into Randy Ruedrich's computer, looking for evidence that the state Republican Party boss had broken the state ethics law while a member of the Alaska Oil & Gas Conservation Commission.
Ruedrich had resigned on Nov. 8 -- so suddenly that when Palin, the commission's chairwoman, caught the news at the end of a television newscast, she didn't know whether he had quit the commission or quit the party to resolve his conflicts of interest. When she learned it was the commission, Palin wasn't surprised that she'd heard it first from the media, given her difficulty in getting any word from the governor's office about Ruedrich, who played a major role in Gov. Frank Murkowski's election.
The next week, when Palin went back to work at the AOGCC, she noticed that Ruedrich had removed his pictures from the walls and the personal effects from his desk. But as she and an AOGCC technician worked their way around his computer password at the behest of an assistant attorney general in Fairbanks, they found his cleanup had not extended to his electronic files.
The technician "said it looked like he tried to delete this, but she knew a way to go around and get some of the deleted stuff," Palin said in an interview. "I didn't know what I was looking for, but I was there."
The article is great in describing her rifling through the primary evidence... minimizing that her husband was working for BP at the time... and both of them were probably hip deep in the oil company's records as well as the politics. She is portraying herself as a innocent neophyte, while gleefully dumpster delving for dirt. My Bullsh!t Meter is on overload. How ethical is it to hack into somebody's computer and select evidence? What she covered may be more vital than what she uncovered. So even if the writer is favorable to her, it still stinks of corruption.
Maldoror
· 1 year ago
She sounds like Stewart's mom on MadTV.
TxDeb
· 1 year ago
What does it say about Palin's judgment by accepting a job she knew she wasn't qualified for?
missmarple
· 1 year ago
YDTHIN : "She's been to Ireland" This was a 30 minute stopover at Shannon Airport for refueling. A bit of a stretch as far as Foreign Policy is concerned.
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Remember that 3AM phone call ad of Clinton's, well try putting Pulin in that ad answering that 3AM phone.
But the Republican spin machine being what it is already has convinced many people that Palin has waaaaaaaaay more experience than Obama. So even if it was a reckless disregard for the second highest office in the USA, the Republicans will push forward with massive ads negatinf Obama. And the worse part of this is that the man who approved this fiasco was John McCain with a serious flaw in judgment.
He said pretty much said that he could tell she wasn't vetted...he even seemed to have that knowledge that she wasn't vetted...he said it was McCain vetted and not a bigger sourse.
i can't remember who the host was...but the host was sort-of -kind-of shocked.
The host told Barr that he would like to talk to him again...
Do you think McCain gave the big finger to the GOP?
Bill Maher says the baby looks like John Edwards.
http://www.boomantribune.com/comments/2008/8/30...
Follow the money... especially with Republicans and most especially with Alaskan Republicans.
Yes it does. And he has put politics before the good of the country.....just like Bush.
Country first???....Bullsh_t
Just read the following at Digby:
UPDATE:
GOP, citing Gustav, makes case for McCain
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL - Republicans are already citing Hurricane Gustav as a major reason why voters should pick Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) this fall.
Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) made the case Sunday that McCain is best equipped to lead the country -- whether it's acts of terrorism or acts of God.
Appearing on Fox News, Coleman repeatedly cited the campaign theme of "country first" when describing efforts to prepare the Gulf Coast for Hurricane Gustav.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/in-eye-o...
However, was just talking to my partner and we were wondering if at some point, she might be forced out by the 'powers that be', of course stepping aside to care for "her" disabled child or something that sounds good, and then God forbid, he picks someone like Kay Bailey or Condi. If that happened, I'd prefer taking my chances with Romney or Lieberman or Pawlenty, but a strong GOOD female would really make me nervous.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/30/121...
Question: Is there precedent in American politics of a Presidential candidate changing his running mate after their parties nomination?
Not a Photoshop job.
Skank.
Designated soul-mate to an old fart-faced philanderer who reels from one beauty-queen to another.
If you look at the college dorm picture where she is wearing a hot pink t-shirt that says "I may be broke, but I'm not flat-busted" while spraddled on the bed... you can gather that this isn't exactly a classy lady, but somebody who'll dangle provocative sex to get what she wants.
So she reeled in McCain? What do you expect with bait like that!
The photo is a bad fake.
So imagine if the Mayor of Baltimore, Sheila Dixon, who has executive experience and governs nearly the same number of people in Alaska was plucked from obscurity and made the VP choice for the Democrats. Could you imagine the ridicule and howls of protest from the Republicans?
My mother has a phrase about spending a lot of time making a choice and being really picky....It sort of applies here...."He picked, he picked, he picked...and what did he do? He picked shit anyway." Thank you for listening.
Wung? Wung is not a word. He wanged it.
Wung hung Low.
Did McBush vet Palin?
No-No-No.
I didn't think that was possible.
But this guy is a total idiot.
I guess from her shotgun wedding to the current scandal about who da momma, there may be lots and lots of unvetted fun for everyone.
But even in a house of mirrors, with fractured shards all over the floor, the original exists somewhere.
Now, we get word that this isn't Ms Palin's first attempt at editing, sifting, and contaminating digital evidence. She is an experienced hacker.
http://dwb.adn.com/front/story/5572779p-5504444...
The article is great in describing her rifling through the primary evidence... minimizing that her husband was working for BP at the time... and both of them were probably hip deep in the oil company's records as well as the politics. She is portraying herself as a innocent neophyte, while gleefully dumpster delving for dirt. My Bullsh!t Meter is on overload. How ethical is it to hack into somebody's computer and select evidence? What she covered may be more vital than what she uncovered. So even if the writer is favorable to her, it still stinks of corruption.
This was a 30 minute stopover at Shannon Airport for refueling. A bit of a stretch as far as Foreign Policy is concerned.