Monday, September 29, 2008
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Posted by Pete Kotz on Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:03 PM
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U are such a illitist u doun now that America loves palin cause she is one of us. She dint need to go to harvard to get where she is. Keep talking down to her and U will see America rebel against you liberal dumocrat illitists. McCain Palin!
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Pete, you lowlife maverick-hater. How can you not see the intrinsic brilliance of a line destined to go down in history alongside the Gettysburg address and Kennedy's "Ask not what your country can do for you" speech:
"I'll try to find ya some and I'll bring 'em to ya."
If you DVR'd this, try watching it in slow motion at the moment she talks about sending her trade mission spies to trade mission Putin. That's all I'm going to say about that.
I will add this as a tangent: it seems like a lot of national traffic to NashvilleIsTalking.com on the subject of Palin is usually accompanyed with "retarded baby." It has Down Syndrome, people. Get it straight.
MEDIA BIASED??? WTF? At least she gets her facts straight. . . . Senator Biden says today's leaders should take a lesson from the history books and follow fellow Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt's response to a financial crisis. "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened,'" Senator Obama's running mate told the "CBS Evening News." The problem is that xcept Republican Herbert Hoover was in office when the stock market crashed in October 1929. There also was no television at the time; TV wasn't introduced to the public until a decade later, at the 1939 World's Fair.
Personally I prefer the one where she said the market "needs some shakin’ up and some fixin’!”
Also the one from Bill Hobbs after Palin's acceptance speech: "The new Reagan wears heels." (approximate quote. I don't feel like going into the muck of Hobbs' website to get the exact one)
And honestly, the more I watch and listen to McCain, I'm not sure he's got much on the ball intellectually either. Though by comparison with Our Sarah...
Now excuse me while I type "airplane".... wait... "production"?....what the fuck is going on here??
And at least Palin is a United States Citizen: FactCheck.Org, has made a bombshell admission...Barack Obama was once a citizen of Kenya. You read that right, Obama had Kenyan citizenship until 1982. Here is the startling admission published in Fight the Smears (emphasis mine):
“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.
She's got gumption, but very little experience and appears to have even less knowledge of foreign affairs.
While governor, she was an advocate for abstinence only, with no
other option in sex education in Alaska's state school system, but her unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant; that's very responsible. If something happens, do you really feel comfortable having her as president?
Before all this, she was the local weather girl, spent 4 years on the city council
and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months.
She was a governor of a state with only 650,000 people; so this makes her qualified
to become the country's second highest ranking executive?
Her husband was nicknamed "First Dude", had a DWI conviction, no college education, and didn't register to vote until age
25. He was also a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska
from the USA (now that's really American in Spirit).
She named her kids Willow, Trig and Track. I still don't understand that. Was she some type of hippie pot smoker? :) Then decides to go straight.
She attended 5 different small colleges before graduating.
Sorry, but this was a really bad choice. How can you not be bothered by this? I would have said Chuck Hagel would have been the best pick for VP, but if it was absolutely necessary to choose a woman, then why not pick someone with far more experience such as Jane Swift (former MA Governor) or Kay Granger from Texas.
Palin is what??? This is a STUPID move:
Family Told Obama NOT To Wear Soldier Son's Bracelet... Where is Media?
Barack Obama played the "me too" game during the Friday debates on September 26 after Senator John McCain mentioned that he was wearing a bracelet with the name of Cpl. Matthew Stanley, a resident of New Hampshire and a soldier that lost his life in Iraq in 2006. Obama said that he too had a bracelet. After fumbling and straining to remember the name, he revealed that his had the name of Sergeant Ryan David Jopek of Merrill, Wisconsin.
Shockingly, however, Madison resident Brian Jopek, the father of Ryan Jopek, the young soldier who tragically lost his life to a roadside bomb in 2006, recently said on a Wisconsin Public Radio show that his family had asked Barack Obama to stop wearing the bracelet with his son's name on it. Yet Obama continues to do so despite the wishes of the family.
Attacking Barack doesn't change the fact that Sarah is willfully ignorant regarding the topics she needs to be knowledgeable about in order to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency. I guess Mark and other Palin supporters know they can't defend the indefensible.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The mother of a Wisconsin soldier who died in Iraq says she was "ecstatic" when Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama mentioned during Friday's debate the bracelet she gave him in honor of her son.
Tracy Jopek of Merrill told The Associated Press on Sunday she was honored that Obama remembered Sgt. Ryan David Jopek, who was killed in 2006 by a roadside bomb.
Jopek criticized Internet reports suggesting Obama, D-Ill., exploited her son for political purposes.
"I don't understand how people can take that and turn it into some garbage on the Internet," she said.
Jopek acknowledged e-mailing the Obama campaign in February asking that the presidential candidate not mention her son in speeches or debates. But she said Obama's mention on Friday was appropriate because he was responding after Sen. John McCain, the Republican nominee, said a soldier's mother gave him a bracelet.
"Even in tough budget times, there are lines that cannot be crossed. So I was startled by this tidbit reported recently by The Associated Press: When Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, the small town began billing sexual-assault victims for the cost of rape kits and forensic exams.
Ms. Palin owes voters an explanation. What was the thinking behind cutting the measly few thousand dollars needed to cover the yearly cost of swabs, specimen containers and medical tests? Whose dumb idea was it to make assault victims and their insurance companies pay instead? Unfortunately, her campaign is shielding the candidate from the press, so Americans may still be waiting for answers on Election Day."
At least McCain can remember who's bracelet he has on. . . Obama text from debate: "
Jim, let me just make a point. I've got a bracelet too. From, Sergeant, uh, uh, from the mother of, uh, Sergeant, Ryan David Jopek."
Had a Republican, say Sarah Palin, made this gaffe, who wants to bet that we wouldn't hear this clip repeated endlessly during the post-debate spin shows and in the days ahead? How much would the sincerity of our hypothetical Republican politician be called into question.
In a March 2008 interview on Wisconsin Public Radio
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Brian Jopek: Because of some of the negative feedback she's gotten on the Internet, you know Internet blogs, you know people accusing her of... or accusing Obama of trying to get votes doing it... and that sort of thing.
Radio Host Moberg: Yeah
Jopek: She has turned down any subsequent interviews with the media because she just didn't want it to get turned into something that it wasn't. She had told me in an email that she had asked, actually asked Mr. Obama to not wear the bracelet any more at any of his public appearances. Which I don't think he's...
Moberg: It has been a while since he's brought it up.
Jopek: Right. But, the other night I was watching the news and he was on, uh, speaking somewhere and he was still wearing it on his right wrist. I could see it on his right wrist. So, that's his own choice. I mean that's something Barack Obama, that's a choice that he continues to wear it despite Tracy asking him not to... Because she is a Barack Obama supporter and she didn't want to do anything to sabotage his campaign, so, if he's still wearing the bracelet then, uh, that of course is entirely up to him.
Moberg: Maybe there's a difference between wearing it and making a point to bring it up in your speeches?
"I am a mother, a mother who lost her son. It's hard to know what's right, what's wrong about this war. Very hard," she said. "And I know there are a lot of families who lost loved ones."
So she e-mailed the Obama campaign through its Web site asking that he not mention it during debates or speeches.
She never got a reply but said she didn't hear of him mentioning it after that — until Friday, when Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain appeared in their first debate. In response to a question about Iraq, McCain said a New Hampshire woman asked him to wear a bracelet honoring her fallen son, and asked him to make sure the Iraq mission succeeded so his death would not be in vain.
Mark said "And at least Palin is a United States Citizen:"
Did you know that John McCain was born in Panama? (not the place in Florida)
Um, Mark, I don't know how to break this to you gently, so I will just say it:
Being born in Honolulu, on US soil, automatically made Obama a US citizen, regardless of the citizenship of his father.
Like this author Pete Katz, I also think that Sarah Palin is just plain stupid. She went to 5 different colleges (2 in Hawaii) before finally graduating and I wonder what her grade point average was.
During the debate if Ms. Palin just comes up with coherent sentences about the topics that she's been drilled on during the past few weeks she'll get rave reviews. She'll give very short answers to questions, only stating briefly what she's been able to memorize in her V.P. classes.
Ms. Palin will try to use up as much debate time as she can belittling Barack Obama so that criticism is directed at him rather than her during this debate and they'll have less time to get ask her more questions.
As the author Mr. Katz writes, I can also think of dozens of people that I know who appear to be much more articulate, knowledgable and educated than Ms. Palin and thus would be better able to answer questions on the economy and foreign affairs.
At a rally in New Hampshire, a questioner actually expressed his pleasure that Barack Obama had chosen Biden as his running mate over Hillary Clinton, a sentiment not universally shared among Democrats. Biden, to his credit, wanted to be sure that no one would later say that he had in any way questioned the New York senator's qualifications (as he once did his own running mate's).
"Make no mistake about this," Biden responded. "Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Let's get that straight. She's a truly close personal friend, she is qualified to be president of the United States of America; she's easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America . . ."
Biden questioning the judgment of the would-be president who had placed him on the ticket instead of Hillary. "And quite frankly," Biden concluded, "it might have been a better pick than me."
If he’s going to be pro-choice he should just be pro-choice and proud of it no matter the audience. “The answer is above my pay grade” doesn’t cut it, Senator, especially when we all know your position on abortion.
Is someone sad because Sarah Palin is ALL THAT AND THEN SOME? Hmmmmmmmm
It's okay for you to be you, after all, you were the last picked to play on "pick up games" when you were little. You remember those days, don't ya? Don't worry kids. Having Barrack "Hussein" Obama is a "gift" for the future. This will be the last loser liberal ever elected to be President. Sure, us "Real Americans" can not sit back and enjoy the show. I wonder which of city his muslim buds are gonna hit first. I can't wait for him to fail and just when you thought Jimmy Carter was the worst you'd ever see. Thanks for the entertainment and enjoy the next 4 years...It will be your last 4 years...then we take over F O R E V E R
Biden was able to entertain them once again during the current race for the White House. Thus last year he declared that his then rival, Barack Obama, was "not yet ready for the Presidency", which was not a post suitable for "on-the-job training", but graciously acknowledged: " I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy, I mean, that's a storybook, man."
Reading the comments from other people in Nashville and surround tells me that many people IDENTIFY with stupidity. Yes, GW is stupid and, yes, Sarah Palin is stupid. We have become a country of primitive, narrow minded, myopic people who make choices based on singular issues. My singular issue is that I won't vote for a stupid person. Even McCain graduated near the bottom of his class. Dumb and Dumber.... Thursday night will be another episode of Saturday Night Live. GREAT ENTERTAINMENT yet sad.
How can anyone promote this woman as being intelligent? If she has a clue to what she's talking about, she has no clue as to how to get it across so somebody else could understand it.
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"Oil and coal? Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it's Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It's got to flow into our domestic markets first."
-- Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who "knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America," responding to a question about how oil obtained from offshore drilling can be kept in the country instead of sold on the world market, with an answer CNN's Wolf Blitzer characterized as "not exactly easy to understand"
Fact is this that: Palin is unqualified. She may/may not be stupid but hey, comparing her to Biden or Obama is plain idiotic.
B.A. in journalism? Mayor? Governer of Alaska? She has gotten as far as she could have using her good looks, generalistic talk, aggressive demeanour but that is it. This is as far as anyone could go with a cunning and street-smart mind.
Palin is a joke. As plain and simple. McCain went through POW experience but hey, so did many others. He has been rewarded for that - he has been celebrated by this country and been a senator for quarter of a century and has done well for himself. He may be a good military leader but president? give me a break.
If Palin is qualified, so is that taxi driver in new york who is a graduate in arts and knows enough about what is going on in this world.
Palin is as stupid as that monkey in the zoo.
She is not stupid. She's small town opportunist who is an effective stage character hoping to go to Hollywood, ie, Washington, for the Big Show. She lives in her moment. It relates to our love of personalities: movie, TV, reality shows, sports, religion,politics, etc. We've made our bed but, hopefully, more of us will not want to lie in it. Alaska is a beautiful, wilderness full of people who can't stand rules and don't want to live with the rest of us in the lower 48. Sounds a little like the American Revolution.
Boston Globe Leads With a Lie -- Debunked Palin Rape Kit Story Raised Again
By Warner Todd Huston (Bio | Archive)
October 1, 2008 - 01:27 ET
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I would urge someone close to members of the editorial board of the Boston Globe to let them know that the world is not flat, the moon is not made of green cheese, and Elvis is, indeed, dead. I say this because obviously the Boston Globe is way behind the times in discovering facts that debunk rumors and it's clear they have no capacity to do any research. I mean, they must not be paying attention to reality because in today's editorial, the Globe again raises the thoroughly debunked claim that Sarah Palin charged rape victims for their rape kits when she was mayor of Wasilla. The claim is a straight out lie that has been demolished by many writers (including myself), yet the Globe obviously took no efforts to research the facts before they revealed their incompetence to the world.
It's no surprise that this proven lie against Palin is being whipped up again just before the VP debates by the Obama flacks at the Globe. They want her to be tagged with this lie to distract her from real issues, it is plain. And that isn't just my opinion because they justify the re-raising of this long ago debunked charge as one that should be asked of her during the debate on Thursday
Dobbs: Biden Makes 'Many More Misstatements Than Sarah Palin'
By Noel Sheppard | September 30, 2008 - 10:26
An astounding thing happened on CNN Monday evening: not only did Lou Dobbs say that Democrat Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden makes "many more misstatements than Sarah Palin," but he also chided Wolf Blitzer and the "Situation Room" crew for failing to point it out during their Bash Sarah session.
In preparation for the upcoming vice presidential debate, Blitzer brought on CNN analysts Gloria Borger and Jeffrey Toobin, as well as "The Weekly Standard's" Steve Hayes, to handicap the event.
As you might expect, Palin was the butt of many jokes leading Dobbs to marvelously inject the following during a mid-segment promo for his upcoming program (h/t NB reader Kevin Groenhagen):
