[Waiting for McCain announcement of Vice Presidential choice. We'll update as soon as the potentially shocking and historic news is 100% confirmed.
UPDATE: It is Sarah Palin for McCain's VP.
Quick thoughts in one paragraph:
This is a shocking and brilliant choice by McCain. McCain/Palin announce in must-win OHIO. Stomps out the Obama funeral story. If McCain does not run for re-election the 44 year old Palin will be the Republican nominee in 2012. If the Democrats can be bought back to life after they are destroyed in NOvember and in 2010 they will have to nominate a women to run against Palin in 2012. Hillary. Yes, Hillary. Palin will help win women around the country. Palin will help with women in the Philadelphia suburbs. Ohio and Michigan and Pennsylvania will likely go with NRA member and hunter Palin. The Republican Party is now 100% unified and not in a fake way. The Republicans are showing they once again know how to run an election. This is a shocking announcement with not much of a buildup (most thought it would be dull Romney, Pawlenty, or generic white male) which compares brilliantly against the trumpted weeks long hype of the Obama campaign - a big buildup for a dud. Women will savage the Democratic Party and Obama/Dean/Brazile/Pelosi for their sexism and misogyny. Palin, whose political views we do not share, is well-spoken and articulate and tough. Palin is a maverick hated by the Alaska Republican Party because she has challenged them on ethics. Hillary's 18 million voters (many disenfranchised by the Democratic(?) Party) will determine this election and they just have by rejection of Obama/Dean/Brazile/Pelosi. The upcoming hurricane is potentially good news for McCain/Palin and not a problem if they use it to advantage. McCain/Palin can contrast their care by either postponing the Republican convention (which helps with financing a shorter general election season and gaining additional days of Republican control of the news cycles) or they can actually demonstrate they care by going to New Orleans or whereever the hurricane hits. McCain has made a big bold amazing pick which knocks Obama's fake campaign to the dirt - buried.]
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There is really not much to say. The Party’s Over.
Having committed suicide, the unDemocratic Party chose to have a state funeral in Denver. The jut-jawed Barack Obama strutted onto a massive constructed stage which Il Duce would have loved.
Michelle Obama broke out another cocktail dress from her Chicago supply house of cocktail dresses and joined her husband to preside at the unDemocratic funeral in Denver.
Big Media was jubiliant – their tool finally had the nomination. But as we have written repeatedly, Obama will eventually concede – in NOvember.
Real Democrats mourned. President Lyndon Johnson who signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 was ignored. Ignoring LBJ was without doubt a concession to the Kennedy family.
Obama is a quick change artist who yesterday tried to change his guise into Hillary by plagarizing Hillary’s words and speeches. Fortunately for Hillary, Obama ignored tradition and did not bring, as is normal at these events, a flotilla of Democrats on stage with him. The spectacle was all Obama and for once we are thankful.
Last night’s comments section has plenty of analysis. No need to belabor the analysis here.
Last night the Democratic Party held a funeral. Today the Republican Party seizes the day.
The cheek, Obama saying Experience is off the table, she wipes the floor with him on experience.
I OWN MY VOTE!!!
thanks admin….
it’s a “new” day and I’m not crying anymore
Admin,
Thank God this undemocratic is over, never to be heard of again. With the exception of the Clintons, it was the gaudiest spectical of bad taste and idol worshipping I have ever witnessed.
Basil,
Basil,
I have mixed feelings about all of this. Having thought about it though, it is not disrespectful of McCain to choose a woman. What it does is bring out the disrespect the democrats showed to Hillary in spades. It really makes Obama and his thugs, including front and center M.O. look very very small and mean. It also makes them look very stupid. They have underestimated the will of the voters and of the Republicans.
I’ll bet that Hillary and Bill are really enjoying this.
I’m not crying anymore.
Sorry to be catty, but did anyone else think that MO’s dress was inappropriate for last night’s event?
Amazing, CNN goes after Sarah on this firing thing, and last week, not a peep on Bidens shit. Amazing.
I’m laughing, McCain just destroyed Obama’s change Mantra, he picked a total Washington outsider, even more change than Obama.
I’m laughing my head off.
birdgal,
M.O. is sooooooooo not first lady material. And it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that she is AA. It has to do with her downright cruella personality and her absolutely bad taste is fashion.
It’s Sarah!
is=in
I am both thrilled for women in general and laughing my ass off at the STUPID DNC!!!
When the misogny starts (and it will) it will make me both happy and sad to see this woman’s OWN party STAND UP AND FUCKING DEFEND HER.
This would not be possible without Hillary. God I love that woman, and her bravery. She has ALREADY done more for us than we will ever know
birdgal
Not to be catty either, but yeh.
And you should have seen some of the comments on here last night – everything from “put your knees together girl!- to dresses that look that that used to be called ‘housedresses’. LOL
Biden has to be afraid. Can Obama drop him (for someee.. reason)? He was for Biden before he was against him?
The thing about Palin is she can account for EVERY DAY OF HER LIFE. So Americans who she is, who her friends are, where she has been, etc.
The mysterious Obama, whose life goes from grade school in Hawaii to Chicago’s south side with 15 years plus COMPLETELY MISSING is a pill American’s will not swallow. Americans want to KNOW about their elected officials.
Obama is smoke and mirrors.
Palin, a mother of five with a son in Iraq, is a stone.
PMSNBC is having a heart attack!!!
They keep talking about INEXPERIENCE of PALIN…PUHLEASE!!!
OBAMA anyone!!!!
They put andrea BITCHELL to be the ATTACK DAWG and she is pissed and is trying to use the knife on PALIN and playing cliffs of Obama’s speech from last light.
birdgirl…
not in her defense but we scrutinize everthing women wear. the fact that MO is devoid of any fashion sense (or appropriate fashion sense) reinforces our history of attacking women from the outside in.
frankly MO should have worn a toga..it would have been more suitable for the occasion.
Emjay, I did read the comments last night. For someone that has a “war room” at her disposable, one would think, a fashion consultant would be warranted.
When the MSM misogyny starts (and you can BET that it will), McCain need to come out immdediately and decry it!
John McCain…you just won my vote. Congrats.
Its Sarah, and I am sooo glad he picked, obviously he could not pick Hillary, but he showed us by picking Sarah, that he wants us. He wants us, the republican party wants us and we will see if they can get some of our platform on theres.
This can’t be anything but good news. He has chosen a woman and she will be there to run next time around for the top spot. I know we all wanted it to be Hillary, but that doesn’t seen like that will happen, I think we can all honestly look at Sarah and see the stuff she is made of, then we can decide.
LOL…I bet Palin has a legitimate American birth certificate!
Lots of typos in my posts today…sorry. I’m elated.
Palin as VP: Now that is change that I can believe in. Substance. This is change for the Republican party. Hillary shattered the ceiling for this to happen.
I don’t watch anything but Fox, so are the other networks starting their anti-female crap again???
She also sounds like the kind of woman I like, she is totally outside the box.
Obama has been wiped off the TV, his speech is forgotten.
He gave a speech?
As for other channels, MSNBC has some jerk from Biden’s camp saying the only thing Palin has done is raise taxes on a small town in Alaska.
Text message from MCain to Obama:
“U gt SERVD!”
OH LMAO!~
It’s Bill Burton!
The DEMS are FCUKED!! If they go down the sexism and mysoginy road that will bring up what happen to Hillary and turn off more WOMEN and drive them over to McCain/.Palin.
“HAPPY DANCE”
Oh, they are gonna attck her big time.
Slam them on their asses, Sarah!!
It was reported that the State investigation in Alaska in which Palin may be involved was because the cop was beating her sister…
gee….
don’t think that will be a great place to attack her if it’s true
Who would have thought that it would be the Reps who are the party of change, and who support women’s leadership.
I am amazed.
Let me add my two cents about MO’s fashion sense (or lack of it.) It goes beyond that, IMO. It is about telling the country how hip and young they are and how non conforming they are as a couple. She has a great body that she can pull it off and also convey these other messages. She is rejecting the idea of a dowdy, traditional appearance of a politician’s wife — another finger in your eye kind of reaction but works with their latte drinking young supporters. Middle America sees it as a lack of respect and seriousness because she is rejecting their world view. They are not big on trying to have universal appeal, if you have not noticed.
MSNBC will not attack her the way they savaged Hillary however. Why? Because the Republican party elevates women and defends women against mysogymism. That point needs to be driven home at every turn if Palin is the nominee.
If this is what happens it will be hard to for them to argue she has no experience.
NMF…thing is, they USED to be. Maybe THEY are going back to their roots as the DEMS show themselves to be the party of segregation as THEY used to be
The Dems are looking like the biggest idiots right now. They have been taken and thrown on the ground and stomped.
You are totally right, it was Hillary’s blood sweat and tears that put that fist through the glass ceiling for the Alaska governor.
Today, I thank HRC. We wanted it to be you, but the Dems are corrupt.
REP. JIM CLYBURN LIKENS CHOICE OF SARAH PALIN AS MCCAIN VP PICK
TO THAT OF DAN QUAYLE OR GERALDINE FERRARO
SAYS PALIN IS “VERY RISKY”
AND THAT AS A CANDIDATE QUAYLE WAS “SORT OF AN EMBARRASSMENT”
WHILE FERRARO WAS A “DISASTER”
Columbia SC.Democratic Congressman Jim Clyburn of South Carolina pulled no punches on South Carolina ETV Radio Friday when asked to assess John McCain’s selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for vice president.
Without missing a beat, Clyburn told Mark Quinn, host of “The Big Picture on the Radio,” “I do believe that McCain has to do something to reshuffle the cards, shake up the establishment, do something unexpected and Governor Palin.has all the kinds of things that McCain might see as a way to shake things up. I think (her selection) would be something similar to Dan Quayle.Dan Quayle proved to be sort of an embarrassment as a campaigner. Being thrust on a national stage like that could be very tough. Now Mondale tried to shake things up by going with Geraldine Ferraro.she proved to be a disaster as a running mate. And as a campaigner, she was absolutely awful. And so I just think that it is very risky for McCain to do this, but it may be all he has left.”
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Keep talking , your sexist pig JIM CLYBURN !
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/obama_the_mysterious_s.html
August 29, 2008
The Perfect Stranger
By Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama is an immensely talented man whose talents have been largely devoted to crafting, and chronicling, his own life. Not things. Not ideas. Not institutions. But himself.
Exactly the point that we discussed last night a bio where no one vouches for you no friends only himself and his wife.
Just not right
# pm317 Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Let me add my two cents about MO’s fashion sense (or lack of it.) It goes beyond that, IMO. It is about telling the country how hip and young they are and how non conforming they are as a couple. She has a great body that she can pull it off and also convey these other messages. She is rejecting the idea of a dowdy, traditional appearance of a politician’s wife — another finger in your eye kind of reaction but works with their latte drinking young supporters. Middle America sees it as a lack of respect and seriousness because she is rejecting their world view. They are not big on trying to have universal appeal, if you have not noticed.
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I have to add a disclaimer here — I don’t care what she wears and I am all for being non-conformist if you are ready to pay the price.
ADMIN!
You are a poet. Suicide – Death- Rigor Mortis – Funeral.
Bravo!!!!!!
I fucking hope Palin stands up and LOUDLY THANKS HILLARY for making her run possible. I hope the GOP twists the knife, but good, into those fucking DNC spineless woman-haters.
And no, I do not care if it is being done for political gain. If the Democratic Party wanted to throw women under the bus, then they DESERVE to have it thrown back in their face.
What McCain has shown here, even if you want to argue that he really doesn’t care about equal rights, is that he RECOGNIZES that women are a force that must be heard and heeded. And that, my friends, is a start.
These Obama-tankers are SO STUPID! They are all over the place “Will we (Obama) be able to go after her on tough issues?”
What they do not understand is YES, they can, IF they keep the sexism out of it, but they cannot figure out how to attack WITHOUT calling a woman bitch, shrill, etc.
birdgal,
repost.
OMG!!!!
I just got a look at MO’s nomination night dress! (refused to tune in last night).
Is she fashion-challenged or what? She looked like a florists half-dead hospital arrangement assembled from Saturday’s leftovers that the shop-owner was on the verge of tossing when a last-minute order came in.
DNC:
I am Palin in line!
H4T…NOW we need to hold the feet to the fire on BOTH sides of the aisle for WOMEN’S ISSUES. Let’s start with the ERA…whoever bends first deserves consideration.
It was reported that the State investigation in Alaska in which Palin may be involved was because the cop was beating her sister…
and tasered her nephew.
Clyburn is irrelevant. What else is he going to say? I don’t think Palin is a disaster, and the country is more open to a woman VP or President. The race has just become exciting. I don’t care what, they throw at Palin, it cannot compare to Rezko, Wright, Auchi, MO, birth controversy, Chicago machine, etc.
Nice
This trooper also was drunk and the bartenders called the troopers on him. Of course, they didn’t arrest him because he’s a brother. So, she used her power to fire the troopers boss, who was a political appointee…who you can fire at will. Big deal, if she is guilty of using her power against this scumbag– who beat her sister, tased his stepson, was a drunk. MORE POWER TO HER!
McCain/Palin ‘08
LMAO!
I just saw video of Palin aiming an MK-37 (or whatever the number is) and peering through the site hole. She’s a huntress, got rid of the state jet, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars and drove herself around Alaska in her black suburban.
Her nick in the town where she was mayor was BARRACUDA SARAH!!!!
Her husband is a commercial fisherman and is currently a stay-at-home dad raising the 5 kids.
I LOOOOOVVVVVEEEEE it.
OMG!!!!!! I’m dnacing and crying and laughing all at the same time.
PUMA HAKA! PUMA HAKA!
ROOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRR!!!!!
Can you hear us NOW, muthafuckas?????
Please, some respects should be paid. Shall we all take a moment and reflect on the DNC and its passing?
–moment—
Thank you.
Fuck you, DNC, you screwed it up yet again!
pm!!!!
I think MO’s choice in dress has ranged from downright dowdy to totally inappropriate!
Nothing at all ‘hip’ about her wardrobe. The dress she wore yesterday resembled something stored in the back of my grandmother’s closet or a flower arrangement for a funeral! (IMHO)
I’ve just seen the video of Palin out visiting the troops in Iraq, so big points there.
From savagepolitics.com:
by Adam Brickley,
Guest Contributor
Sarah Palin is an anomaly in American politics. It’s not because she’s a woman, not because of her blue-collar background, and not because of her ability to juggle the titles of “governor” and “committed mother of five”. Forget about all of that stuff for a moment; it’s interesting, but if Barack Obama has taught us anything, it’s that a compelling biography is not a qualification for leadership. Instead, Palin is unique because she can claim one of the broadest bases of support of any leader in our country. Other than the lunatic fringes of Alaska’s kleptocratic political establishment, nobody hates her.
Most politicians rise to power because they represent a certain wing of their party, and even some of their own partisans detest them. Mike Huckabee will never resonate with libertarian republicans, social conservatives cannot support Rudy Giuliani, certain evangelicals will always have a problem with Mitt Romney, and frankly I doubt that hard-core conservatives will ever fully embrace John McCain. That doesn’t make them bad candidates; it just means that they face significant opposition within the Republican Party. Sarah Palin does not have that problem.
Okay, GET OFF THE FASHION CRITIC!!!
BARBARA BUSH, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT!!!
She could be nude and I still don’t like MO because she is mean spirited and filled with hate.
I want people in leadership that will uplift me and show humility and respect for the voters and their need…it’s COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY!!!
I know it is easy to be in a party but when the focus is only on the party and not best for “We the People” then this country has problems.
What the DEMOCRATIC? Taliban PARTY did to WOMEN in their HATRED agains HILLARY was PATHETIC and showed they’re not ready to be in the White House. NATIONALIZING the CORRUPTED CHICAGO POLITICAL MACHINE and other ILLS was it for me.
Then that mysoginist Jim Clyburn throwing Geraldine under the bus…NAILED THE COFIN SHUT!!!
I hope some caught that rant and play it over and over again…Clyburn rant will move the other 20% over to McCain alone.
I woke up to read about Palin – and I’m not Holy Shit.
Wow. I am speechless. Well, like anyone she has to be considered on her merits too, but yes, Hillary broke the ceiling. I can sense the sexism and misogyny starting all over again in the media – even Howard Wolfson saying “Gov of Alaska far away from being VP or President” which is code for “she’s a woman, she must not have any merit.”
Please, some respects should be paid. Shall we all take a moment and reflect on the DNC and its passing?
Sure.
::bows head for one nano second::
NOW FUCK YOU!
…and now CNN reporter talking about Palin’s “beauty contest days.” geez, here we go again. But this is an amazing gesture from maverick McCain.
Basil, you may be right. I don’t know much about being hip.
Is she trying to think that is what Jackio O would wear?
Uppity Woman has a rather long bio on Palin
uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/
Well REp Clyburn, we will show you what a fucking disaster it was for Ferrero to be selected as vp. We, the women of American are going to beat the pants of your little butts. WE WILL VOTE FOR MCCAIN!
What a beautiful day! Thank you McCain!
I am crying happy tears today!
i have not seen MO’s dress nor heard ObamaLord’s speech. I was on a plane. Any links for MO’s housecoat?
shenanigans,
You made me spit water!!!!
WOW…MSNBC have tracked down all the folks they can to slam Palin…
McCain’s BAD JUDGMENT is the meme
norma,
those pics are already off abc website replaced by portraits of Palin and mccain.
Politics is a bloody business. If the misogyny starts up, the Republican party will close ranks and speak out against it. Unlike the undemocratic party. Now, Rezko, Wright, and MO can be unleased. How can they talk about experience or being far away from Washington. BO has less experience than Palin, and he is running for President. Give me a f****** break.
I put this in the wrong article:
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By STEVE QUINN, Associated Press Writer 29 minutes ago
JUNEAU, Alaska – In just two short years, Sarah Palin moved from suburban hockey mom and small-town mayor to vice presidential contender. The 44-year-old Republican, Alaska’s first female governor, arrived at the Capitol in 2006 on an ethics reform platform after defeating two former governors in the primary and general elections. On Friday she was ready to leap to the national stage as GOP presidential candidate John McCain’s surprise choice for running mate, according to two senior campaign officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement was pending.
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She already has a national reputation for bucking her party’s establishment and Alaska’s powerful oil industry back home.
With ethics the centerpiece of her campaign, Palin defeated incumbent Gov. Frank Murkowski, who served 22 years in the U.S. Senate before winning the governor’s seat in 2002.
Her task didn’t seem any easier in the general election, but she handily beat Tony Knowles, a popular Democrat who already served two terms as governor.
During her first year in office, Palin distanced herself from the powerful old guard of the state Republican Party, even calling on Sen. Ted Stevens to explain to Alaskans why federal authorities were investigating him.
Since then, their relationship has warmed, and they have appeared together at several events. Stevens even said lawmakers should follow Palin’s lead in her efforts to get a natural gas pipeline built.
Stevens is scheduled to go on trial Sept. 22 in Washington, D.C., on charges he failed to disclose more than $250,000 in home renovations and gifts from executives at oil services contractor VECO Corp. He won the GOP primary on Tuesday with more than 60 percent of the vote. He’s pleaded not guilty.
Palin also asked Alaska’s congressional delegation to be more selective in seeking earmarks after what came to be known as the “Bridge to Nowhere” turned into a national embarrassment and a symbol of piggish pork-barrel spending.
She also successfully took on the oil industry, leading to a tax increase on oil company profits that now has the state’s treasury swelling.
Typically seen walking the Capitol halls in black or red power suits while reading text messages on Blackberry screens in each hand, Palin made a recent appearance in Vogue, the fashion magazine.
And she oversees a state that’s hardly shy about admiring her swept-back hair and celebrated smile. Bumper stickers and blogs have proclaimed Alaska and Palin: “Coldest State, Hottest Governor.”
Palin describes herself as a “hockey mom” and an occasional commercial fisherwoman. She lives in Wasilla, a town of 6,500 about 30 miles north of Anchorage, with her husband, Todd, a blue-collar North Slope oil worker who competes in the Iron Dog, a 1,900-mile snowmobile race. He is part Yup’ik Eskimo.
Her previous political experience consisted of terms as Wasilla’s mayor and councilwoman and a stint as head of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
Palin’s troubles with the GOP began when Murkowski named her chairwoman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. There, Palin exposed current Alaska Republican Party Chairman Randy Ruedrich, who was also an AOGCC commissioner, for ethical violations.
In 2005, Palin co-filed an ethics complaint against Murkowski’s longtime aide and then attorney general, Gregg Renkes, for having a financial interest in a company that stood to gain from an international trade deal he was helping craft.
The Palins have five children: Track, 19; Bristol 17; Willow 14; Piper, 7, and Trig, who was born in April with Down syndrome.
Track enlisted in the Army in 2007 on the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and has been assigned to Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks.
Palin was born Feb. 11, 1964, in Idaho, but her parents moved to Alaska shortly after her birth to teach. She received a bachelor of science degree in communications-journalism from the University of Idaho in 1987.
McCain’s BAD JUDGMENT is the meme
I’d say his judgement is excellent.
ok Carby.
Couldn’t help myself
BTW, Palin’s son is in the military and may be in Iraq. Not sure of that.
What we need to do is get Republican women to turn out to vote in droves.
And I, for one, plan on doing just that.
Thanks Basil
I am sure I will see them, but I agree COMPLETELY, we really need to get off the fashion and beauty queen express . We hated it with Hillary, we will not do it to other women no matter how much we dislike them.
We need to hold BOTH PARTIES AND THE MEDIA TO ACCOUNT and slam them WHENEVER EITHER SIDE engage in this shit. It keeps women in a place of subjective judgment by those less wualified and those who think women are less.
emjay, got a link to that article?
YAHOO!!!!!!!!! SHOUTING: YESTERDAY MAY HAVE BEEN A RED-LETTER DAY FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS, BUT TODAY IS ANOTHER RED-LETTER DAY FOR WOMEN AND FOR THOSE WHO RESPECT THEM.
:doing happy dance:
ps – can we please refrain from criticizing Gov. Palin’s choice of clothing, whatever she wears?
LOL
Palin calls her husband “The First Dude”
LMAO!!!
Bill Clinton, get ready, DUDE!
Norma, I was writing that at the same time as your post. AGREED!
Basil, Palin’s son deploying later in the year.
carbynew Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 11:44 am
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I was not just making a fashion statement. What they choose to wear is a window into who they are and what they bring to the role they have to play. You can’t go wearing shorts to a black tie dinner and say they have to accept me as is — there has to be something exponentially redeeming about you that they will accept you as is. Unfortunately most of us are constrained by the mores of the society we live in.
IU – It IS up to us to keep them in check, and ourselves. We have been conditioned to have that “look at her hair” “look at her dress” thing as part of OUR psyche’s too.
HILLARY CLINTON WE LOVE YOU! We have pushed women front and center and we will reward you for that in 2012. BIG TIME
Go to aol.com polls and vote for Palin as McCain’s choice.
I will never forget Hillary being mad about the harry and louise ads. She got up on a stage with those ads in her hand and said”Meet me in Ohio, Barack Obama”, so it is only fitting that McCain takes this fight at “high noon” to Ohio!! ROTFLMAO!!
Ok Chicago thugs you are on notice!! Go ahead and try to treat Sarah like you all treated Hillary!!
McCain picked another outsider, with a history of taking on her own party over corruption, etc.
McCain is tacking fast back to his maverick roots.
YES, HILLARY DID THIS, SHE PUT WOMEN ON THE FRONT BURNER!!
I agree that TASTE has something to do with your perceptions of self and of protocol and judgment, but the “fat ankles” thing that Hillary got or the “shrill” laugh was what keeps women as sex objects.
Dems are already mocking palin’s beauty pagaent past.
# Illinois Underground Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 11:52 am
ps – can we please refrain from criticizing Gov. Palin’s choice of clothing, whatever she wears?
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from what I have seen of her pictures, she is doing fine in that department, except for those bangs,
Anyone been to the Obamaboards? or DU?
I think McCain’s pick of Palin is risky, but you know what? It won’t keep me from voting for the man. Actually, I think it’s a slap in the office of Obafraud who claims to be the candidate of change, yet goes for a Washington insider/attack dog to make up for his thin resume. He chose to kick Hillary once again, instead of guaranteeing the Democrats victory in November..nice Barry! I know Hillary’s voters will be enticed and tempted to vote for McCain now even more. In all, I think it was a smart move. It not only takes away the spotline from Obambi, but the McCain campaign can also claim to be agents of change by nominating only the second woman ever as VP, and the first female VP candidate for the Republicans…brilliant!
I love her
Palin’s First Shot at Obama
I just LOVE clinging to my guns and my religion!!!!!
Hey Obama!
Take your criticisms of Palin and choke on it!
At least McCain didn’t pick a plagiarist/old washington politics guy!
Janet reno, Condi Rice, even Nasty Pelosi are all criticized for their LOOKS, their hair or their terrible multiple facelifts….
their ACHIEVEMENTS (despite whether you agree with them or not) are always the Sub-head.
It’s TERRIBLE and we need it to stop.
pm,
I agree about appropriate attire. Personally, I can’t stand the sight of professional women traipsing about with a lot of flesh showing. You never see business men with bare arms, exposed skin. It’s always suit and tie with all body parts covered.
That IS the appropriate dress for important occasions. Let’s face it, the sight of women with bare skin conjures centuries old stereotypes and reinforces patriarchal views on women as property. Women who flaunt that in very public very important public settings play into the same old tired patriarchal perspective. Other fashion choices are fine in less formal settings, IMHO.
Moononpluto~! Did she say that?
Another item yhat I posted after admin told us new article was up:
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btw
I heard on PBS last week that Sarah and Randy Ruedrich still don’t speak to each other. She says as The state’s Rep Party Chief, he has nothing to do with the governing of Alaska, so communication w/ him is not necessary anyway.
Ha!
Palin’s First Shot at Obama
I just LOVE clinging to my guns and my religion!!!!!
I LOVE HER ALREADY!!!
Yes, I agree, I don;t want the first lady or the VP or the Speaker of the House looking like a hooker, but we need to really start looking at the ACCOMPLISHMENTS and the convictions and the politics of these folks before whether they have bangs.
Norma,
Agreed but MO sniped at HRC using the same man-against-woman arguments used for centuries, including the scornful, “if she can’t run her own house how can she run the WH.”
If that’s not pandering to repression by intimating that a woman’s most important role is keeping her man ‘happy’ i don’t know what is.
She invited stereotypical comparsons by firing the first shot.
Mr Palin is rather gorgeous.
Norma, we always pick on the looks and dress of politicians. How many hair plug jokes have we made about Biden?
I agree that doing it exclusively or relentlessly to women is wrong. But I don’t think any and all reference to appearance is automatically wrong.
Norma,
MO has no accomplishments unless ‘World’s- Angriest -Woman’ qualifies plus she’s is the first one to really attack HRC on female issues, opening the floodgates and encouraging the media piling on.
MO made that ‘if you can’t run your own house’ statement in February.
c-span is going to show a 30 minute interview they did w/ Palin when she was in Washington for the Guv’s Conference.
oops- they are showing the first part of it now
I think Obama is shitting like a wild boar in a peach orchard. No convention bounce to speak of and now Sara Palin–someone who cleaned up state corruption, as opposed to Obama who revelled in it. Obama drips with stench of corruption–he is like a mackeral in the moonlight–he shines but he stinks.
Wow, Palin!!!
They are speaking about the press attention she will be getting.
I will say, that when we did our Hillary parade in Denver, there we were in the front row, and suddenly, a voice….”Gloria Alred would like to march with you” I turned around, invited Gloria to the front with us, and when I yurned around there mush have been 300 THREE HUNDRED of the world media 30 inches away. They cam from NO WHERE and it was a wall of cameras, video equipment, sound booms and flash bulbs like i have never witnessed personally ANYWHERE. It must be what Madonna goes through daily. They were three deep and three levels hig, and stretched fifty feet from side to side. It was quite overwhelming. And they stayed that way for quite a while. We couldn’t move forward. Then they walked backwards for quite a while while Gloria and Elizabeth were interviewing. It was AMAZING.
sorry about all the typos. I am watching MSNBC’s slamming Palin out of one ear as a I type
Tied in the polls, what does McCain do?
THE HAIL SARA PASS!
moon,
And Palin looks HOT with that AK-47 in her hands. LOL
I was toying with the idea of getting a gun permit now that i live in the country and the sight of Palin nudged me that much closer.
And her hubby IS a hunk! He’s part eskimo.
Informed, I don’t and I too am guilty, but it is what we have been working for for months now with the DNC and the media.
And women do it too. Just look at Mika. She slams women all day long
McCain Talkilng Points on Palin
TALKING POINTS: GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN
Governor Sarah Palin is a tough executive who has demonstrated during her time in office that she is ready to be president. She has brought Republicans and Democrats together within her Administration and has seen approval ratings of over 80 percent.
· She has challenged the influence of the big oil companies while fighting for the development of new energy resources.
· She leads a state that matters to every one of us — Alaska has significant energy resources and she has been a leader in the fight to make America energy independent.
· She has actually used her veto and cut budgetary spending. And she put a stop to the bridge to nowhere that would have cost taxpayers $400 million dollars.
· In Alaska, she challenged a corrupt system and passed a landmark ethics reform bill.
· As the head of Alaska’s National Guard and as the mother of a soldier herself, Governor Palin understands what it takes to lead our nation and she understands the importance of supporting our troops.
Her experience in shaking up the status quo is exactly what is needed in Washington.
In choosing Governor Sarah Palin, John McCain put Washington on notice that he is serious about shaking up the status quo.
What we’re seeing is a maverick who has shaken up Washington picking as his teammate a maverick governor who has shaken up her own state.
What it’s going to take to change Washington is a team of Mavericks who have a record of accomplishment in shaking up the status quo.
wbboei!
You come up with the most VIVID images!
“…a wild boar in a peach orchard”
Norma, that’s one of the many reasons we can’t stand playmate Mika.
Anyone, what’s the song they’re playing?
SLATE EDITOR: “LIKE HILLARY SHE (SARA PALIN) IS ONE TOUGH COOKIE”
All right, now I’m excited. Back in March, I cast my primary vote for John McCain with confidence. His values, his stance on the issues matched mine better than those of any other Republican. His campaign was on a roll, the reports of its death the previous summer having been greatly exaggerated. He seemed to have the best chance of winning. But once he got the nomination, he just seemed … lackluster. Granted, almost no one is going to look charismatic compared with Barack Obama, but when I saw an episode of The Daily Show with McCain talking to the press at a supermarket, standing in front of a large display of Dole orange juice, I knew what the joke was before Jon Stewart could open his mouth. . John McCain = Bob Dole.
But now he’s gone and picked Sarah Palin, the young governor of Alaska for his running mate, and I could not be happier. Aside from her political bona fides, she is one cool woman. She’s married to her high-school sweetheart, an Eskimo fisherman and “champion snowmobiler,” according to her Wikipedia bio. They have five kids, all with slightly hippie-ish names, like Track and Willow. (No Prestons and Whitneys in that bunch.)
She’s bound to appeal to fiscal conservatives, because she’s as far as you can get from her fellow Alaskan Ted Stevens, the GOP senator recently indicted for “false financial disclosures” (read: corruption). She unseated Gov. Frank Murkowski in a primary and has both pushed through ethics reform and trimmed the fat from the state budget. She even killed the infamous “bridge to nowhere” project that brought Congress and Alaska so much ridicule.
Politically, it’s a great move by McCain to appeal to the disgruntled Hillary voters that Obama might not have successfully wooed during the convention this week. Yes, she’s pro-life, but she’s not just talk. Faced with the heartbreaking news that her fifth child would likely have Down syndrome, she continued on with the pregnancy and gave birth to a son while in office, a son she calls “perfect.” And like Hillary, she’s one tough cookie. You don’t take on an entrenched pol like Murkowski and succeed in a rugged state like Alaska if you’re a lightweight.
Notice Big Mac (oooh, I like that) and his fam came up through their supporters. Stood among them for a good long while.
OMG – he’s addressing the folks from AMONG them!!!!
Oh, it’s his BIRTHDAY!
CognitiveDissonance, on August 29th, 2008 at 12:16 pm Said:
OMG, I can’t believe it! I’m laughing my a** off! I’ve been thinking for weeks that if McCain really wanted to cream Obama, he would pick Sarah Palin. She’s an attractive pick on so many levels, and I’m not talking about her face. She may be new to those of you on the East Coast, but she’s pretty well known here on the West Coast. I’ve long admired her, and partly because she’s tough like Hillary. When she played basketball, she was known as Sarah Barracuda. She had an attack dog like Biden when she ran and won, and she tore him a new one in debates. Like Hillary, she does her homework. She may not have been in her current office long, but she’s not going to embarrass McCain.
And I don’t feel insulted at all that McCain is pandering to us. Unlike our own party and Odumby, he realizes that we are a valuable constituency. He’s been out actively courting us ever since Hillary left the race. Why do you think Hillary keeps appearing in his ads? And why he keeps complimenting her? And don’t forget that he really is against corruption, and I doubt it escapes him how his friend Hillary lost this campaign. He may be relieved that he doesn’t have to run against her. But friends care when a friend gets screwed over.
The fact that he made this pick is telling us that he knows how important we are. When was the last time a democrat said that to us? We’ve been hearing all year that we aren’t important, that we should just get over it, that we should shut our mouths. It’s too bad that it’s going to take a republican to show the country that women are important. But the message is important, and I’m glad to see it. McCain has risen in my estimation. And here’s another benefit. We kept hearing that the fauxgressives weren’t against women, just Hillary. They’ve painted themselves into a corner. If they go after Palin, they’ve shown the world what liars they are.
basil9 Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
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Yea, I know. This is not about some frivolous discussion on how women look that completely ignores their accomplishments. (my bangs comment was in jest, it is like saying a man looks better with a different haircut). It is clarity of purpose — why are you here? I can’t go stand in front my 40 male or female students in a short skirt and a low neck blouse — that would take away the seriousness of purpose of teaching them relational algebra. I could try but I am forcing them to accept something that is not widely practiced and is a distraction to my purpose of being there. Men don’t have as many options as we have but still have you ever seen a male professor go in front of his class in something he would wear on the beach or even just plain shorts?
{the lack of seriousness in Obama’s team at the convention is something I saw and they may not even be aware that that is how it is coming across. Running for the leader of the free world is serious business.}
We just updated the article with quick thoughts on Palin. Let us know what you think.
Congratulations Kostner – you pushed for Palin the most. Congratulations to those of you who thought Palin. Brilliant choice.
Go, Kostner! I am SOOOOOO happy (and sad) right now.
YES!!!!!! McCain givng props to women’s suffrage!!!
LMAO!
“She stands up for what’s right, and doesn’t let anyone tell her to SIT DOWN.”
Crowd goes wild.
Guys, I am crying. I know she’s a Republican, but dammit there is a WOMAN on that stage, and I am bawling.
H4T, me too. And, I’m supposed to be working!
Whoa, there Clyburn, Gerry was not a disaster! One of my best memories of that campaign was when she debated Bush, Sr. I sat there thinking, “She’s so good! She’s making him look like a mealy-mouthed weasel!”
We’ve got to stop trivializing women by focusing on what they wear. Leave that to the bimbos on TV. That said, may I add (with a tsk, tsk) that MO is pandering to sexist notions about what women ought to look like because she, like her mate, doesn’t know who she is or what she stands for. Hillary’s attire showed she was “all business.” Hillary is comfortable with who she is.
Holy Shit! Palin hubby is hot!
Look at Big Mac – he’s so proud, he’s ready to bust!
Damn, anywhere I can go to see this?
Is FOX streaming live? Try that, Idunn. I am watching on TV
Hillary is still smashing the glass ceiling. Watching this is very painful.
For Hillary:
wow! she really said good old boys network.
admin, it is very bittersweet for me as well. Hillary did this. SHE made it possible.
http://www.cnn.com/video/live/live.html?stream=stream4
This may be premature but I am in awe. I am listening to her at the Ohio event.
I feel some strongly worded letters to NOW, NARAL and Emily’s list coming on. They’ve completely lost their way over the last decades.
This takes nothing from Hillary — PAlin is chosen for VP, not Pres — HIllary ran for President and did it damned well and won. Palin has broken no new ground, she is the 2nd woman to be chose for VP. Gerry was the first, but Our Hillary is still number one!
She is honoring Hillary BIGTIME now.
I’m crying.
Here it comes! They’d better not boo….
Idunn
Just saw your question:
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cvn_veepstakes_palin
btw Sarah just gave a GREAT and gracious shout-out to Geraldine and our girl!
Clyburn slams Ferraro. Palin praises Ferraro – and Hillary.
@admin: confounding isn’t it?
Dick Morris, sleazebag/political genius, had been saying that if McCain picked a woman, the race is over and he wins easily. I think he’s right, and the more I read about Palin, the more I think, okay, this year is over, McCain is the next president. THEN, the interesting question now becomes, what about 2012?
WOW, SHE IS GOOD BEYOND GOOD Bambi is sooooo fucked.
I’m crying again, with pride and regret that HRC wasn’t the one on stage by Palin hit it out of the park.
She said ALL the things BOMOJO wouldn’t
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She homored women’s suffagists, HRC and Ferraro.
She paid respect to HRC’s accomplishments.
I am thrilled with this ticket and i will vote McCain/Palin without a single regret.
My only criticsim . .
WTH chose that IDIOTIC closing music????!!!!!! Talk about anti-climactic!!!!!!
Executive
Reformer
Sportswoman
Journalist
handsome working family
Mac is one smart and courageous dude! He reminded me why I’ve always liked him (I’m a sucker for reformers). Now, if he just moderates another party plank or two with his leadership, it’s game – set – match.
I’m so sad it’s not Hillary, though.
The bots are furious, you can tell they are shitting themselves.
McCain just won the Whitehouse. Palin was a briiliant pick. Middle america is going to love love love this woman.
Sorry, but that’s the truth. I know voters.
Its sad that it is not Hillary, but McCain/Palin will be honoring Hillary at every corner, something I might add Bambi hasn’t done.
I am just so excited, the headache I have had for 4 days is now gone. Geez, I wonder if it had anything to do with the smacking of Hillary everyday at the convention.
She gave a good speech and gave credit to the women before her.
I hope Brazoid is pissing her pants!
I going to go to a Republican rally…this will be my first time and now that the Democratic? Taliban Party jumped off the clift I can now campaign for McCain.
I love McCain/Palin ticket and she give a great speech, if fact better then Obama, who has to have his speeches written for him.
Obama is TOAST!!!
What a bitter young man and those he surround himself with.
Now this is the Republican party I like…the reform ticket.
Remember, Martin Luther King jr. was a Republican…he never became a Democrat!
Did everyone notice the crowd was shouting USA! USA!
At Obama rallies we get the “Yes we can”
Which slogan wins in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania? We bet USA! is much more popular than Ob-am-a, Ob-am-a.
SHe is kinda like a Ann RIchards, very frank, and a different kind of women!
When you go carbynew, wear your Hillary gear.
Woke up this morning to the news that Palin and her family had been slipped into the Cincinnati airport on a private plane…I still listen to WGN radio overnight-
Thought it might just be a headfake rumor.
They were saying they chose Cincy in order to avoid the media hawks at the Dayton airport.
btw, I got my M.S. at Wright State- a stone’s throw from Wright Patterson AFB.
In fact the land for the University was donated by the Air Force.
I wonder how Emily’s List is reacting.
Still boo-hooing and an hour late for an appointment.
How poignant that today was Johnny’s birthday, Palin’s 20th wedding anniversary and the week of the 88th celebration of women’s suffrage.
And notice how neither she nor Johnny needed a tele-prompter?
BTW – what happened to Cindy’s arm? She has a cast on.
Gotta go but will check in later for more happy dance time.
Emjay, you need to watch her acceptance speech later. The woman was DAMN GOOD. This was no “token”. McCain just won the Whitehouse.
Tell me what she said about HRC and Gerri.
admin Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Hillary is still smashing the glass ceiling. Watching this is very painful.
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I was crying my heart out but also laughing that somebody got back to the shameful DNC and the Obama cabal.
Spokesman Bill Burton:
“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency…
Obama was caught in an uncharacteristic moment of loose language. Referring to working-class voters in old industrial towns decimated by job losses, the presidential hopeful said: “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
His remarks are elitist and out of touch.”
Obama hates small town America. He never learns
admin, I will be wearing my Hillary gear to any McCain functions I attend.
Another thing: McCain could have blown up the unDemocratic convention with this announcement. He didn’t because he knew it would help Hillary. The Republicans wanted to run against loser Obama.
Admin,
That was POWERFUL!!!!!!!!
And notice how LONG the ovation went on when Johnny appeared????????
It does not matter if it came from a rooster or a hen, we are getting a Mac Nugget when we could have had prime grade A.
Did anyone see that sign at the rally that said Hillary Clinton’s supporters for John McCain!!
Now all the republicans need to do is play the whitey tape and Obama, Dean, Pelosi, and Brazilla will be toast!! I love it!!
H4T, I think the race is over. She said the “good old boys network” for God’s sake.
Oh man…is any of this on youtube yet? I’m totally missing out.
I think the US Media never expected McCain would have the balls to pick her.
check rasmussen today — no significant convention bounce for Bambi, is the takeaway! and of course now we’re going to get wall-to-wall Republican party coverage for the next week, so once the conventions are over, McCain/Palin will be sitting pretty
Idunn, paraphrase, but she said she could not accept this honor, in this week honoring women given the right to vote, without giving credit to the women who paved the way. Geralding Ferraro and, of course, Hillary Clinton. HUGE CHEERS.
Said that Hillary put 18 million cracks in that glass ceiling, and thanked her for that. Said she wants to break it, but had to honor those who put those cracks there for her.
It was great.
Southern, I agree “we coulda had a V-8″ – but at least Mac DOES what he CAN do.
McCain camp pushes back: More qualified than Obama
McCain aide Jill Hazelbaker:
It is pretty audacious for the Obama campaign to say that Governor Palin is not qualified to be Vice President. She has a record of accomplishment that Senator Obama simply cannot match. Governor Palin has spent her time in office shaking up government in Alaska and actually achieving results — whether it’s taking on corruption, passing ethics reform or stopping wasteful spending and the ‘bridge to nowhere.’ Senator Obama has spent his time in office running for President.
Idunn, she talked about Hillary leaving 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling and that women are not through yet cracking the glass ceiling. Palin then invited Americans to join McCain/Palin in smashing more of the glass ceiling.
HillaryForTexas, hopefully all will do like you and wear Hillary gear to political rallies – Big Media will interview Hillary wearing voters at Republican rallies and the Obama/Dean/Brazile/Pelosi will always rue the day they snubbed Hillary and us.
PM317, ain’t it grand. Revenge is best served cold.
Well, I know that John McCain could have announced this early, but let us not forget this is a race and you don’t give your opponent a spot. I don’t blame him for wanting to run against the candidate that has a broken big toe!
Oh man…is it wrong that I’m starting to love Sarah?
BerkeleyVox, is Rasmussen out for today? If Obama is not in double digits today…. Suicide, Rigor Mortis, Funeral.
I wonder what is going through HRC’s mind right now.
(sigh) I hope Bambi gets his ass served to him on a fucking platter.
Isn’t it funny how even though McCain’s pick was a thousand times more stunning than the boring Biden pick, and even though the Obama camp had hyped for no end how their announcement would be made by text message, that the Obama pick leaked early and the Palin pick was kept under wraps? lol
Hillary “owns” our hearts – Big Johnny and Sarah are renters.
She has a populist message for a republican (I will have to go back and listen again) and reform and change. Whatever she said sounded very smart and she substantiated it with what she has done in her career — so it did not sound phony. There was an authenticity to what she said that I have not seen before. I am still in awe — she said the good old boys network as a matter of course and got away with it.
Yeah, she sure did mention the “good ole boy network”!! I am LMAO!!
She’s closer to a Ron Paul type than anything else – that will be perfect.
There is a fine line here:
FIRST AND FOREMOST, it is a GREAT DAY in American Politics in every sense. We have a MAJOR WOMAN CANDIDATE, an AA Candidate, and a woman on the ticket as VEEP. THIS IS A GREAT DAY IN AMERICAN POLITICS.
HILLARY HAS BROKEN THE CEILING.
Second: The Republicans have NOT been our friends. Perhaps McCain can say go to hell to the far right base now and work on an agenda that includes all Americans. We need to remember this and hold them to account. Hillary is a died in the wool FDR Democrat, and those ARE the people who we would like to see in office. The FAR LEFT DEAN/Pelosi/Brazile/Obama crowd has done NOTHING for women except throw them under the bus.
And although we as women MUST be respected in Politics, PLEASE, we cannt throw the baby out with the bathwater by going all the way for the Republicans.
Watch, learn, and hold to account. The Republicans have tried for 16 years and longer to destroy Hillary, and although JSM and HRC are FRIENDS, they are still ideological foes.
It will be interesting.
From Fox:
GERALDINE FERRARO: It’s going to be a very interesting campaign. I must say that several months ago I said that it would be great if there was a woman on the ticket, that I felt that John McCain would have to pick someone, especially if Hillary was the nominee, but without Hillary being the nominee it’s really quite equally as important, because people are looking for a historic campaign, and I think this might do it. There are a lot of women who are disaffected by how Hillary was treated by the media, by how she was treated by the Obama campaign, by how she was treated by the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean not speaking up when sexism raised its ugly head in the media. (Inaudible)
dyed…sorry ! LOL
idunn, I bet Hillary is smiling quietly to herself, thinking, well-played, Senator McCain…you just made yourself the next President. And Hillary is so gracious and selfless that I bet that even though she strongly disagrees with Palin’s politics, she is glad to know that America can elect a woman to the vice presidency.
Palin just did what NONE of the Dem leadership could bring themselves to do. She honored Hillary’s achievement in a very heartfelt way.
They had McCain’s rep (on Fox) and this is how they will frame her foreign policy experience (lack there of as Obama people would want to argue) — tying it to energy independence and coherent energy policy and she knows a thing or two about Oil.
First Impression [Kathleen Parker]
Spunky and self-confident. She’ll handle Biden just fine.
08/29 12:48 PM
And here is another thought. If McCain wins, there is a chance that Palin and HRC could be BOTH running in 2012, and THAT would be a FABULOUS THING for the advancement of American Women and women around the world.
Well done McCain.
admin — yes: Obama has just a 3-point lead, which is almost within the margin of error:
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Friday, August 29, 2008
rasmussen.com
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows Barack Obama attracting 46% of the vote nationwide while John McCain earns 43%.
Congratulations John McCain!!
You proved your wisdom and strength.
That Speech has blown me away, she sill bring in blue collar voters and women and union members in spades.
I would not be at all surprised if Hillary and Johnny Mac had a conversation or two over this pick. If so, I would bet our Hillary told him: “Go for it.”
Berkeley – I think you’ve nailed it. Smiling quietly and cheering her colleague for his toughness and creativity – with all her characteristic intelligence, grace, dignity and humor.
It really won’t make much difference who or what they tie her to, because once they play the Whitey tapes and the tape of Obama saying terrible things about American in 06′ while in Africa, that will be all over for the dumocrats!
Yes Admin, good show. The Obama?Dean?Pelosi?Brazile bitter politics Dems have just thrown a winning 16 years away because they COULD NOT HANDLE THE TRUTH
Rush just said the mention of Hillary and Geraldine was GENIUS! Rush says as the Drive-Bys try to destroy her, they will destroy themselves. Barry could have picked a woman but he didn’t. So Joe loves to bloody noses, she knows about getting knocked down and middle America will love her. Rush says she is extremely confident and will inspire other women. Questions for Barry to ask her—Governor is hunting scary? Do you cut your finger on the hook when you fish?
Confloyd, I understand the whitey tapes will only be the tip of the iceburg
Norma, you’re right. This is a temporary euphoria for what the DNC, the media and the Obama campaign did to Hillary and the notion of a viable woman presidential candidate. I see the Republicans as advancing our cause right now which is as you said FDR Democrats in the WH and not Obamacrats.
Full Sarah Palin 30-minute interview now on c-span. They are starting it over from the beginning.
conservatives are thrilled…
h t t p : / / http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070541/posts?q=1&;page=501
Of course the men journalists are bashing her already, you can smell the fear.
The Obama campaign also told CNN Friday the choice of Palin takes the question of experience “off the table.”
“Experience is being taken off the table considering you’re putting someone within a heartbeat of the presidency with the thinnest foreign policy experience in history,” spokesman Bill Burton said.
Update: Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the 4th ranking House Democrat, said in a statement the choice of Palin “shows political panic.”
“Is this really who the Republican Party wants to be one heartbeat away from the Presidency? Given Sarah Palin’s lack of experience on every front and on nearly every issue, this Vice Presidential pick doesn’t show judgment: it shows political panic,” he said.
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
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Are they serious? Pack these pigs off to the farm. Coward and Bradzilla must be having twin cows just about now.
To: riri
I was at a meeting with a client this morning…they are a CPA firm. After the meeting we all walked to the lobby where a TV showed McCain introducing Palin.
The excitement was incredible. Women were very pleased.
It was great to see 25 people standing in front of a TV excited about a Republican for a change.
Let’s hope she doesn’t have to spew McCains populist message too much and can stand on her own…a strong, conservative woman.
After, she loves the caribou…for dinner.
I don’t even think the whitey tapes will be necessary if McCain/Palin adopt somewhat middle of the road message.
Idunn
If you ever want a stream of something like this, or like the convention, go to c-span.
No overtalk, no snarky commentary.
ADMIN: you are the best political analyst I have seen. Once again your posting above captures the significance of the moment and gives us the important clues on what lies around the corner.
Let me suggest one thing more. The coronation of Obama represents the triumph of party over country, whereas the selection of palin (and mccain himself) represents the truimph of country over party.
mj: if you are around, you were right and I was wrong. You did your homework on this one and I did not.
I have a strong emotional attachment to Alaska based on the times I spent there. They have always been a place that was plundered by outside interests and when the boom ended others reaped the rewards. The old boy network always saw to that. It was true of the gold rush, the fishing industry, the timber industry and of course the oil industry. Thus, it is great to see someone like her who fights for the people.
The message to biden is this is not bush 3. It is a new party that puts the people of this country back in charge. And the symbolism of this coming from the frontier state is great. Hope is not a word it is action, and in the new republican party you have action. Now we need to unite and crush rezcko junior, crazy joe and big media whores so the democratic party can be put taken out of the hands of the teddy kennedys and Soros and put back in the hands of the people. Long live Hillay and Bill–they will be needed/
Thanks for the video, admin. I miss our gal, but I am so proud of her, too. I want to see the current DNC leadership go DOWN with Obama, so she can step in in 2012 and rebuild it.
It is giving me great personal joy that it will be a WOMAN who exacts the price for what the DNC did to Hillary. Palin will win this election for McCain, no doubt in my mind.
Anyone else think Sarah Palin could flatten Obama in a one on one fist fight with one hand behind her back.
She’s a mom with 5 kids, no greater experience in security and management.
2 points
Palin as VP addresses a broad range of issues, Biden, national security only
the other, it is absolutely refreshing to see someone in the republican party not afraid to stand up to the status quo and challenge their own party members.
The bot journo’s are furious that their king just got his ass kicked. They are furious that McCain dared to crash Obama’s party.
MCcains new ad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6_1Pw1xm9U
Surprise Surprise Surprise
We have a lot to learn about Palin, and we have a HUGE opportunity to push the McCain platform MORE in OUR direction. I would suggest a big letter-writing campaign to his folks, thanking him for the choice, the nod to women wverywhere then ask, NOW WHAT?
The same old Big Business and Republican corruption will not work on us. MAKE THEM CHANGE.
The bots are all over the place they are insane
Now we have McCains real campaign message
COUNTRY FIRST
REFORM-PROSPERITY-PEACE
http://www.johnmccain.com/Home2.htm
Politico: “Still All About Hillary” is the headline.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Still_all_about_Hillary.html
The choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate, if confirmed, means one thing most of all: That in a sense, this race is still all about Hillary.
The imperative for McCain to pick a woman rests on Obama’s continuing, relative weakness with some of the baby boomer women who supported Clinton. McCain’s campaign spent the week of the convention trying to drive wedge between Clinton’s supporters and Obama, and a female running mate would be an ambassador to those voters.
# marie3548 Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
The bots are all over the place they are insane
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and this is different, how?
Obama and the DEMOCRATIC? Talban PARTY is DOA!!!
Debbie, Hillfriends: Here in the corrupt state of IL, the only existant reformers of the moment are Repubs. Think Peter Fitzgerald. IL’s “two party” system: the Combine and the Reformers. (The reformers are very small in number right now.)
The bots are FREAKING all over the blogs. Total meltdown. The kool-aid ran out, and they are decompensating BADLY. They are shaking and sweating and blathering nonsense like a crack-head who has been cut off by their dealer.
McCains new campaign message is good.
COUNTRY FIRST REFORM-PROSPERITY-PEACE
Boy Admin, you had it right in the last three days of the Obits for the DNC….
What STUPID STUPID people, but this WILL take out the leadership and bring American Politics full circle after Obama aand Co lose, and we will have advanced women in leadership and I HOPE gotten away from the VERY divisive ways of the last 20 years.
Norma, I agree. I perceive our new opportunity is to unite WOMEN of BOTH parties and include our voices in policy, as well as politics.
She is so articulate and a quick thinker; she appeared so natural and sincere when speaking.
thank you john mccain!
I am proud of you for once gain doing the RIGHT thing.
Forget about the “no/little experience” obamabots. You have the right kind of experience over BO any day! and McCain has better than BO.
Biden’s experience does not matter in this equation. He was chosen as the worker for BO!
VP Palin is a quick, smart learner and that is the answer!
They are shaking and sweating and blathering nonsense like a crack-head who has been cut off by their dealer.
ROTFLMAO!!!
Thank you H4T for that brillaint analysis of the bots….hehehehe
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0808/Palin_invokes_Ferraro_and_HRC.html?showall
Noting to yet more cheers that she was honored to accept John McCain’s offer to serve as his running mate on nearly 88 years to the day after women gained suffrage, Palin payed homage to two predecessors: Geraldine Ferraro, Walter Mondale’s running mate in 1984, and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Noting Clinton’s statement earlier this week in Denver that her candidacy had led to “18 million cracks in the glass ceiling” that has kept a woman from the presidency, Palin said: “But it turns out the women of American aren’t finished yet, and we can shatter that glass ceiling.”
The “no foreign policy experience” argument they are spouting is SO laughable it is not funny.
Apparently, we’re supposed to be worried about foreign policy experience in the vice presidency, but not the presidency.
Wow! This election is going to be very exciting. I like Palin, and her directness. She wasn’t afraid or so self-centered, not to give kudos to those women who made this possible. Good for her. This is a shake-up of great magnitude, especially in the Republican party and good ole-boys network. McCain showed a bit of his maverick ways in this choice.
If I go to a McCain rally, I will wear my Hillary gear. McCain listened to Hillary supporters, in addition to realizing there was treasure trove of votes to be had. He went for it.
Obama, Again, Exhibits Zero Class [Update: Unlike Obama, Governor Palin Visited Our Wounded Troops in Germany
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SHe is very articulate and is able to pump up the ticket!!
Let us NEVER forget what the DEmocrats did to Hillary and 2 days ago we all vowed to clean out the party and put it back on track and John McCain just made it a whole lot easier.
BTW, I loved that “from a servants heart”.
a natural speaker, she has barely looked at her speech the whole way through that.
McCain found the one running mate who is human and so grounded, she has the all american family that has been missing here.
Her family is real, not plastic fabricated and that my friends is going to be what wins the WH for McCain. The woman is a real person, a real blue collar not like Biden. She’s a grafter. She’s a mother and a wife and a human.
Noting Clinton’s statement earlier this week in Denver that her candidacy had led to “18 million cracks in the glass ceiling” that has kept a woman from the presidency, Palin said: “But it turns out the women of American aren’t finished yet, and we can shatter that glass ceiling.”
It’s great she acknowledged them, but in a way it takes away from Hillary. I just wanted Hillary to be president.
HillaryforTexas Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
The bots are FREAKING all over the blogs.
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Samples, please?
She also got rid of all the serventrs in the Alaska Gov mansion, and the cooks and stuff, found them jobs too!
While Obama struggles to pay the $10K piano lessons while looking for his wine cellar.
dedfg: I don’t think, it takes anything away from Hillary. Hillary shattered that glass ceiling with 18 million cracks, and Palin recognized it.
FYI from another blog: Ohio is McCain’s
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I need to say something. I love Savage. I come here everyday and you guys brighten up my day. I will also say that I voted for Hillary in Ohio in the primaries. I wasn’t sure who I was going to vote for between McCain and Hillary, but I knew I sure didn’t want Obama. I have been on McCain’s site for a few months and if it is Palin, it was not something that was done overnight and in reaction to Obama’s not picking Hillary. We have been giving input to McCain for months and Palin was always on the short list. So while the speculation is that he picked her because Obama didn’t pick Hillary is going around the news pundits, it isn’t so. We were given the chance to voice our opinions to the McCain campaign and a lot of us have been actively pushing for Palin. Even if it isn’t her, we still had the chance to make our voices heard with McCain. And his campaign kept us updated. I am going to back McCain now no matter who he picks. The thought of Obama as president makes me sick to my stomach. So I just wanted to put that out there that this was not a pick just to off set Obama. He had been looking at Palin for a while. McCain has surrounded himself with alot of powerful women from Meg Whittman, Carly Fiorna (sp) and last but not least, his own wife. Hillary was robbed and treated poorly but I am disappointed in the fact that she went through hell and still supported Obama. She knows he is not presidential material. I would have loved to see Hillary run as an Independent. But she didn’t.
The male Democratic? pundits are so pissed!!!
They have the NERVE to say Palin pick for vp will not draw Hillary Clinton’s supporters….are they kidding themselves.
YES WE CAN vote for a McCain/Palin ticket and I will help sell this ticket with minorities.
birdgal: Can Obama drop out now?
FOLKS, this does not take away from Hillary, she fought for this, it is not her fault the Dumocrats did not realize that women will be the ones to elect the next president, not the AA’s!
On all the puma blogs, the mods are deleting trolls as fast as they can, so I can’t copy. They are not even human any more, just posting stuff like POOPOO KAKA PUMA KAKA, that goes on for an entire page. They are just cutting and pasting the same statement over and over, 100’s of times. I kid you not.
A few have come in with “You stupid old hags! How can you vote for a pro-lifer just because she is a woman! WHAT IS WRONG wITH YOU???!!!!”
Birdgal, I agree…although we will have to wait, probably for Hil in 2012, this IS what Hillary has worked so hard for all her life, and others WILL benefit now and in the future. It is because of HRC and other strong women, Richards, Abzug, Ferraro, Palin can even be Gov of Alaska
My only disappointment is that this complicates Hillary’s 2012 run, slightly. But hey — you fight the battle in front of you. No whining allowed!
McCain accomplished something no other could have. Obama’s campaign cannot push Hillary to campaign for him anymore — it will be a reminder after reminder how she was let go, even for VP.
It also makes it MUCH easier for her to step back in in in 2012 and make her case that the far left Deaniacs were OFF THE MARK and we need a good strong American Values Dem in the white house – not the elitist pick of the upper crust of oblivion Kerry, Kennedy, et al.
WE will elect the next president! Hear us roar!
OK, now back to work.
Berkeley, we can worry about that later. Right we just need a placeholder and McCain is that. But having watched Palin, she is no shrinking violet. But we are behind Clinton in 2012.
I just heard Sarah Palin speak, and she did thank Hillary for putting 18,000,000 cracks in that hard glass ceiling. She knows who she owes her selection to. She spoke brilliantly, named the “Old Boys Network” and who would have thought that a Republican for vice president would have named the Old Boys Network and called it that? A brilliant, brilliant choice.
If we have to give up the Supreme Court and abortion rights for some freakin’ R-E-S-P-E-C-T and crush the Democrats for their misogynistic stupidity, it might be worth it.
H4T: “stupid old hags”?????? Way to build a coalition. The stupidity of this entire Democratic? primary process has been breathtaking.
pm317,
I see the big picture now, the strategy. Clinton in 2012!!
maria, don’t forget that the author of Roe v Wade was a NIXON appointee. The Democratic? Senate will be forced to actually do some work.
Wbboei
Did you send me the work? Havn’t seen anything in the email. If it got bounced back, let me know and I’ll make a second solid contact’
moononpluto Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
a natural speaker, she has barely looked at her speech the whole way through that.
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yep, no teleprompters there.
If we have to give up the Supreme Court and abortion rights for some freakin’ R-E-S-P-E-C-T and crush the Democrats for their misogynistic stupidity, it might be worth it.
NO NO NO
These are lifetime appointments, and the Courts are getting scary already. We must do BOTH, keep women in power, and MAKE the republicans and dems BOTH accountable.
For those who do not know what it took to GET ROE and KEEP ROE, it ISNT ALL ABOUT ABORTION RIGHTS
I think she will galvanize the pro-lifer’s to John and will hence be able to show Obama’s vote on late-term abortions front and center for the right wingers because of her last child that has down’s syndrome.
Regarding the abortion rights…hey when the Democratic? National Convention had an anti-abortion right speech by and Black minister…that should speak loudly what direction the Democratc were moving to.
The more our technology improve in showing life in the womb, the weaker support for abortion get. I still believe in choice but the Democrats were movie to limited it anyway.
Prevention should be the focus.
Abortion rights is a red herring and we should stop acknowledging that sham threat.
Rights to pricacy, rights to our bodies, rights to no be beaten by our husbands.
TOO MANY WOMEN HAVE DIED for this right, and to throw that away is INTOLERABLE especially for revenge. We MUST play smarter
and they McCain was Grandad and a pushover.
I think Obama just got his clock cleaned.
pm…abortion rights AS IT IS BEING USED BY THE DEMS IS a red herring, but the REAL rights conferred are NOT. Lose Roe, lose the first amendment next. Lose title 9. DO YOUR HOMEWORK before you cast aside Roe with a wave of the hand.
Evangelical leaders have just flocked to McCain in an instant, there is elation in Christian households. This is what they wanted.
they are already reacting with elation.
Hill supporters the time has come for all of us to turn the page and start a campaign to have Hillary named the new Senate majority leader.she will maintain her prominence in US politics and keep a lid on any more attempts to destroy our elevtoral process.She could well be even more important and more powerful than any one on either side of the aisle.In fact if by any
stroke of bad luck we get Obama instead of McCain.she will be able to keep him insignificant and thart his attempts to promote his “LEGACY OF RESTITUTION ” campaign promise to his AA
supporters. Let us start some smart moves and give this great Lady a reward for her tough and brave efforts to save this country from going Third World. I will vote for McCain and keep up my efforts to have Hillary as the Senate leader and in 2012
she will be our 45th President.
By ABM90 . If I am able to muster this much energy and
determination at my age then I expect to have some of you youngsters out there to join me and make it happen.
“HILLARY FOR MAJORITY LEADER” Go Girl
I certainly hope the msm begin calling Sarah those unspeakable names as they did Hillary and see what happens, millions and millions of women will revolt!!
Palin is not and has never been a big anti-abortion activist. She is about as weak a pro-lifer as it gets. She is mouthing the words “Roe v Wade overturn” as a sop to the fundamentalists, so as not to scare them off.
Neither she nor McCain have any intention whatsoever of touching Roe. Neither did Bush. Neither do any of them.
Norma, agreed. The US Senate must do it’s work. Don’t forget, HILLARY will be THERE. Maybe she’ll take on the judiciary committee – she would do a better job than Biden’ (his time) aka the only one who didn’t say “no.”
Hillary for President, not majority leader.
YES, ABM90: HILLARY FOR SENATE MAJORITY LEADER! (Perhaps that was the deal?) Negates the SCOTUS argument.
HillaryforTexas,
I completely agree. She also vetoed a discrimination bill against gays by Alaska Supreme court.
dedfg – there’s still a chance in 2008 if BO gets indicted, I suppose. Hillary in 2012, then.
If she becomes majority leader than she cannot run in 2012. If that is the case then no to majority leader.
She said “good old boys network” as a matter of course in a major first appearance on the national scene and demonstrated the courage to pull it off. I just can’t get over that. This is women’s progress. Tell me if I am exaggerating.
Norma agreed. Abortion rights are important. The problem is Democrats think they can wave a red flag and the bulls will charge.
Our 2 points on this issue have been consistent:
1. We don’t trust Obama on anything, including abortion rights and Supreme Court appointments.
2. Democrats in the Senate better do what is necessary to protect choice. If they don’t do that, why vote for them? Democrats will control the Senate and we expect them to do their job and protect choice.
Look Norma,
McCain is not Bush/Cheney!!!
My aunt and uncle were Republicans in the MLK mode and they fought civil and human rights and was pro-life and believed in the Constitution and “we the people” Healthcare and other reforms
But they didn’t believe in welfare without work…most AA’s believe this..they just want equal opportunities to be open to them.
What the Dems did was to take us backwards to the bitterness that lives in the heart and many people of all ethnic groups and manipulated for power and personal ambitions.
Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Howard Dean, Donna Brazile, Jim Clyburn, Harry Reid and the rest of those LOSERS need to be KICKed to the CURB for what they did.
Hillary is a LOYAL DEMOCRAT and a active Democratic Senator from New York she gave it 200% of her all…and I love her but after seeing that travesty of a ROLL CALL the fix was in, she was swift boated by her own Party. They took out the knifes and didn’t even what to give her the respect of showing her true delegate count.
How you run your Campaign and covention tells me how you handle power and how you will Lead.
NObama NOvember!!!!
I have to work for a while folks, can’t be ALL play after Denver!
Back later!
XOXOXO
GO HILLARY!
Norma, we won’t lose Roe.
From another blog:
For those members of the DNC who considered a fair accounting of the votes and unnecessary process, this one is for you.
For those members of the press who out and out eviscerated Hillary Clinton, both for your own amusement and the talking points you worked off of, this one is for you.
For those supers who left Hillary Clinton to sit by the wayside while you rushed to throw your support for the unqualified candidate, this one is for you.
For those who had the voice and the opportunity to quell the viciousness of the MSM via their wholesale misogyny and chose to remain silent, this one is for you.
For the turncoats and Judas’s who betrayed a couple who gave you a start and advance your resumes, this one if for you.
For those black members of congress who promoted and perpetuated the ra*ce charges against the Clinton’s to be able to justify your support of Obama, this one is for you.
For the women and members of the PUMA pac who watched as their voices were muted and their votes denied, this one is for you as well.
For the Clinton’s who found themselves the victims of scurrilous attacks and outright lies, in some small measure this one is for you.
And for every young woman who has ever been told to “wait your turn”, this one is for you.
admin I just watched the Roy Orbison video, damn you just had to make me cry didn’t you.
I think what the democratic party really didn’t understand was how they destroyed “hope” for so many women that have lived the struggle of oppresive and sexist attitudes. they destroyed the chance we had at the freedom to be ourselves in whatever capacity (no matter what we wear) without intimidation, discrimination, misogyny and violence.
I am grateful the republican party noticed this yearning and has addressed it.
I “hope” too they will recognize that the selection of Palin is only a baby step and that they are willing to work toward a platform that is more inclusive of all the American people.
Powerful women are not a threat they are the answer.
Carby
I DO NOT ARGUE ALL YOUR POINTS
But to just waft away roe and the rights it brings as Marie did in her statement above is knifing ourselves.
As I said, this is the opportunity to hole ALL to account.
And to rid the Dem Leadership once and for all of the far left luny fringe like Dean and Pelosi and the Great sOcialist
I’ll be back
I am a working class Dem 51 with no healthcare…..
work calls!
LOL
Off to hunt a moose!
VeepStakes:
So we may yet have “a woman a heartbeat away from the presidency”… it’s just not from the party you’d expect.
MO’s Dress:
The dress: agreed, last night’s thing (I could only stand to watch like 3 minutes in the middle, but I saw photos) did look rather “frock-ish”. I’m no fashionista, but my wife’s exposed me to enough Project Runaway that I can have a slightly educated opinion. The pattern isn’t the issue, but like, there was nothing elegant about it.
Let me guess: “My husband DummyFace doesn’t deserve me to be up here lookin’ fine. This is all he’s gettin’.”
MO’s Mouth:
Not, not the metaphorical mouth, about what she says…It’s that weird, pug nosed, jutting out the jaw thing, and with the lips pursed. It’s like she’s ready to fight at the drop of a hat.
It reminds me of another unlikable fighter type: Edwin Meese, of the Reagan years, always had that same jutting-jaw, let’s-start-fighting face (and attitude).
It’s not so much that she is physically unattractive, she isn’t; she’s ugly on the inside, and that always seeps out as an aura that mixes with the physical. Indeed, there are many people whose inner beauty outshines whatever imperfections they may have, and it just makes them that more interesting/ exotic/ fascinating. Michelle….is not one of them.
Hillary for Majority Leader and then President in 2012.
Maybe the DNC can get that right.
No more using Roe v Wade like it’s a gun pointed at my head in a hostage situation. NO MORE!!!
If this country even THINKS about overturning Roe v Wade, the women of this country will stage a revolt the likes of which they have NEVER seen!
The democratic party doesn’t own me. In fact, they don’t even appear to even want me. So you know what…FUCK ‘EM!!!!!
Illinois Underground and kostner,
Thank you for helping me understand Palin better. I am SOOOO glad that she vetoed a discrimination bill against gays by the Alaska Supreme Court — wait, the Supreme Court? Did you mean the Alaskan legislature, kostner?
Norma Desmond Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Rights to pricacy, rights to our bodies, rights to no be beaten by our husbands.
TOO MANY WOMEN HAVE DIED for this right, and to throw that away is INTOLERABLE especially for revenge. We MUST play smarter
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We are smarter!!!
YES WE CAN vote for McCain/Palin ticket. I respect honesty and I respect a politican who does not pander to me…WE ARE AMERICAN and we have a diverse country.
THE DEMOCRATIC? Taliban PARTY has LOST ALL CREDIBILITY and TRUST with me and I think with a lot of WOMEN. The Democrats is not the end all or be all of good ideas.
The DEMOCRATS choose to jump off the clift and commit suicide with them ARROGANCE HEART by selecting KING Obama to tell us lowly peons what is best for us and turned their backs on our concerns.
Wow
I was absolutely sick to my stomach hearing Arkansas give all of its delegates or at least the majority to waffles and then to watch Senator Clinton stop the roll call. I was angry. I had planned on voting for McCain anyhow and this makes it sooo much easier.
The bots questionning a woman voting simply on the basis of gender. Hmmm? Isn’t that what a lot of AA’s did in the primary and they were not during the campaign victimized by racial attacks.
If the DNC has any sense, they will toss out all the Pelosis and Deans and Brazilles after their HUMILIATING loss, and start working HARD behind the scenes to SET UP 2012 as a run for Hillary. They will praise the Clinton years to high heaven evry chance they get for 4 years. The will make Hill the superstar of the party in preparation for her run.
If they have a brain left in their heads, that is what they will do.
THe DNC when they announced the veep, that also said Hillary would NOT be in the cabinet, so they wanted us to know that they did not want Hillary anywhere near the cabinet and did not need us either, McCain is reaching out to us and I for one will be accepting.
# admin Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Norma agreed. Abortion rights are important. The problem is Democrats think they can wave a red flag and the bulls will charge.
1. We don’t trust Obama on anything, including abortion rights and Supreme Court appointments.
2. Democrats in the Senate better do what is necessary to protect choice. If they don’t do that, why vote for them? Democrats will control the Senate and we expect them to do their job and protect choice.
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Admin, you nailed it!
mariaconz ,
do some google search, I’m not so sure whether it’s legislature or supreme court.
But she is definitely not that sort of wild-eyed wingnut. Yes, she’s pro life, and a social conservative, but she’s more interested in reform/economy etc.
Idunn Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
No more using Roe v Wade like it’s a gun pointed at my head in a hostage situation. NO MORE!!!
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I thought Hill & Bill gave great speeches, while in “hostage situations”. It’s up to the viewer to decipher for possible meanings. They said what they had to, given that the gun was pointed at them by the DNC/Obama captors offstage.
“I feel their pain” (bitin’ my lower lip).
Been tied up with yard work and plumbers today. Just rewound the DVR and caught her speech. Wow.
McCain chose a MILF and
chose a gaffe.
In one fell swoop, Palin just ripped the change mantle from :evil” ’s cold, dead hands. Wow.
And then the fumbled press release attacking experience and employing ageism? Put a fork in it. This turkey is done.
Wonder if the press will report on her out shooting hoops?
YES WE CAN vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin!!!
It will be a pleasure to vote for a Republican for President for the first time in my life.
Kostner- she will play well in middle America demographics. Self-made, does what’s right regardless of party line, hot, obviously likes sex with her hubby (5 kids!), she rough and tumble and smart in a scary gut you kind of way that isn’t elitist or disapproving.
This is another anniversary also
In 1968, Repubs went for an outsider w/ little experience: Gov of Maryland Spiro Agnew.
Dems picked safe, experienced Sen Muskie (good man, btw.
In 1988, Repubs went for an outsider w/ little exp: Dan Quayle.
Dems picked safe, experienced sen Lloyd Bentsen.
In 2008 Repubs went for an outsider w/little exper.:
Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska
Dems picked safe, experienced Sen Joe Biden,
The Republicans won the first two. History is now on their side.
I love the fact that Sarah is bipartisan in a way most Repubs never are — except for McCain. Looks like he means that. Looks like he means reform too. And we have an energy expert.
Advice to Sarah: Learn how a woman can use a mike. It’s not the same as a man and you can take the harsh sound out of it. Hillary did brilliantly. Ask her how.
Nice to know that this opposer of gay marriage also gave gays their civil rights in Alaska (I heard). Put that up against the homophobic concert tour.
She also seemed not have sought any of this. Put that up against the schemer since kindergarten.
And, her husband IS a hunk. He also seems quite happy in the bg, taking care of the kids and being a fisherman/oil worker. Very cool. He’s also a union member. Put that up against “mad Michelle”.
She backs up McC’s argument to stop the out of control spending. And energy independence.
We’ll have to give up a strong pro-choice woman — and gun control — but we’ll still get a lot without having to bow to the messiah.
Henry, I hadn’t thought about the hoops thing, but I bet she could take Mr. Fancy Pants on the hardwood. (teehee I just wrote hardwood in referring to
)
The Obama cultists and Media pinheads are hard at work all over the web calling Palin the most disgusting, sexist, vile names you can imagine. They’re saying she looks like a porn star.. are you freaking kidding me? I am ashamed to have ever belonged to such a hateful party. The democratic party has officially been declared dead today! I will support this McCain/Palin ticket wholeheartedly and know I’m doing it for Hillary and every woman out there who’s been mistreated and demonized unfairly. Bty, I am a 35 year old male, not a female. I just feel the way Hillary, who happened to be the most qualified democratic candidate, was treated by that idiot and the DNC was unforgivable. There is no way he gets by vote…that backstabbing, racist, sexist pig James Clyburn can go screw himself!!!!!!
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sm77, on August 29th, 2008 at 2:13 pm Said:
She’s a basketball athlete & coach.
She likes to hunt.
She likes to fish.
She has a 90% rating in Alaska.
She was mayor of her town before becoming governor.
She KICKED AZZ in the elction.
Environmentalist.
Not pro-abortion but says abortion is a personal CHOICE.
Stood up to corrupt big-buck spenders in her own party.
Tough as nails and loving mom
HER HUSBAND IS A STAY AT HOME DAD
This FEMINIST LIBERAL is very impressed.
Bowyer: How Palin Will Help McCain
It’s a big day for John McCain. It’s a big day for Sarah Palin. And it’s a big day for CNBC and Larry Kudlow of CNBC’s Kudlow & Company. The vast majority of mainstream media hovered like flies around Tim Romnlenty (or is it Mitt Pawmney?). This is about the biggest case of received-wisdom-wrong-again in my memory. A small number of big-time media outlets were talking about Palin, and probably none of them was further out ahead on this one than Kudlow. Guys, take a victory lap. I may take one myself.
Now, what does it mean. It means that drill, drill, drill gets stronger. Sarah knows this stuff inside and out. She can back McCain in the defense of drilling, transporting and refining oil. She puts ANWR back on the map. Who knows it better than the governor of Alaska?
The delegates may have been unified last night, but the party isn’t. Women feel dissed, and why shouldn’t they? They went majority for Hillary. She lost largely because the party threw out the Michigan and Florida votes (until Obama was a foregone conclusion).
Forget this nonsense about how women are natural parts of the democratic party because it supports ‘equal pay’ for ‘comparable’ work. Women have become the emerging center of American entrepreneurship. They start business at twice the rate of men. I should know, I’m married to a brilliant lady entrepreneur (for whom I work). They know about capital gains taxes, and s-corporations. They sweat the details of payroll withholding taxes. They won’t be easy to fool into believing that a hike in the top tax bracket won’t really be a tax hike on entrepreneurs. (For more economic discussion, see video).
H4T, I’m way impressed. Kudos to Idunn.
BTW is it me or does she look a bit like Tina Fey? If she can tell a joke,
should just bow our now.
I so loved her recognizing Gerry and Hillary and the suffrage anniversary.
sotonightthatimightsee Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
The Obama cultists and Media pinheads are hard at work all over the web calling Palin the most disgusting, sexist, vile names you can imagine. They’re saying she looks like a porn star.. are you freaking kidding me? I am ashamed to have ever belonged to such a hateful party. The democratic party has officially been declared dead today! I will support this McCain/Palin ticket wholeheartedly and know I’m doing it for Hillary and every woman out there who’s been mistreated and demonized unfairly. Bty, I am a 35 year old male, not a female. I just feel the way Hillary, who happened to be the most qualified democratic candidate, was treated by that idiot and the DNC was unforgivable. There is no way he gets by vote…that backstabbing, racist, sexist pig James Clyburn can go screw himself!!!!!!
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NOW, EMILY LIST and the rest of those WEAK AZZ women groups better STEP UP!!!
Okie
she plays hockey as well.
McCain just won the presidency, when historians write this story in future, the 2008 election was won on August 29, 2008!!!
A brilliant, bold move. The Democrats are losers. If not for the Clintons they would not have had a 2-time president in 40 years, and even then out of 11 elections, Democrats have won only 3, bunch of losers, I am so MAD. I am so happy with the Palin pick, she even spoke respectfully of Hillary and Ferraro.
Obama is toast. Now I know the reason for McCain’s Ad yesterday when he congratulated Obama. McC is a chess master… CHECK.
McCain / Palin 2008
Hillary 2012 !!! PERIOD.
Hillary warned them, we did also, the Pelosi/Dean/Brazile think they are strategist (not), what a bunch of morons. Today is a bitter sweet day for me, McCain is going to be our next president, I wanted it so badly for my Hillary. But guess what, I can wait 4 more years.
XOXO Ever. Too dangerous for America. He is an egomaniac, I am glad he had his moment in the spotlight yesterday at the Rose garden replica, he will never live in the white house. I own my vote.
Country before race, before gender. Hillary is the better choice, DNC killed all our dreams in 2008. We will pay them back in 2008, and help Hillary win in 2012.
PS: This Obama guy would have had a chance at winning if he chose Hillary, but he blew it. Afterall he is Obamamessiah ask MSNBC and CNN, they will confirm it LOL.
As for the clueless DNC and their Supastar Preznet Shiznit-in-waiting, I suspect at this point they do not know whether “to scratch their watch or wind their butt” (Steel Magnolias).
Donna Brazile can eat sh*t now that she’s told us to stay home. HAHA. This is making me get off my ass and vote McCain/Palin.
The Democrats are the party of women-hating idiots. Oh, and ageists.
and homophobic when it is politically expedient
I DO think that this is a blow to Hillary’s chances. If Obama wins, they’ll say that Palin lost it for McC.
If McC wins, Sarah will have a huge advantage.
There’s a female Obama clod on TV SLAMMING Sarah because “she’s not ready and can’t get ready in 60 days blah blah blah”.
Once again, Obama logic prevails. “It is DANGEROUS to have a VP with little experience.” It is OK however to have a pres with much less.
My advice to Obamans: Never ever say the word ‘experience’ again. Ever. It is not your strong point. Remember “it’s judgment not experience that counts”? Look who you picked. Look at her judgment.
What frosts you is that you can’t link her to Bush and she is now “change we can REALLY believe in”.
sotonightthatimightsee Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
The Obama cultists and Media pinheads are hard at work all over the web calling Palin the most disgusting, sexist, vile names you can imagine. They’re saying she looks like a porn star.. are you freaking kidding me? I am ashamed to have ever belonged to such a hateful party.
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Evidently, the Democratic? party is being run by the Children of the Corn.
Carby, agreed. I repeat my post from above: next steps – strongly worded letters to NOW and Emily’s List. We will not tolerate sexist language about ANY woman. (Even MEchelle, who wholeheartedly participated.)
If Palin were a guy, I’d feel good about this choice, too. It’s not that she shares my gender, it’s she independent in the way most Americans are.
My former party has fucked itself in the ass. It has shown itself to be petty, small-minded and driven by ego-centrist males. Donna Brazile included (did you see that jacket last night???). That funeral last night was an embarrassment. A waste of money for the glorification of one man and it was eerie how much it looked like Nazi Germany.
I want my country back, if I can’t get it through Hillary in ‘08, I won’t mind a couple of babysitters until 2012. At least with McCain and Palin I know they would be good caretakers and wouldn’t sell us down the river.
sotonightthatimightsee Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
The Obama cultists and Media pinheads are hard at work all over the web calling Palin the most disgusting, sexist, vile names you can imagine. They’re saying she looks like a porn star.. are you freaking kidding me? I am ashamed to have ever belonged to such a hateful party. The democratic party has officially been declared dead today!
*****
If they keep doing this, the Obama party is going to cause the Democratic party to lose women for good – even the porn stars.
CountTheVotes Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Donna Brazile can eat sh*t now that she’s told us to stay home. HAHA. This is making me get off my ass and vote McCain/Palin.
The Democrats are the party of women-hating idiots. Oh, and ageists.
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Ditto. Brazile can eat sh**, and so can the rest of the DNC “leadership.” The have taken a democratic year, and given it away to the Republicans, because of their jealousy, spitefulness, and corruption. Yes, McCain/Palin is a conservative ticket, but a democratic congress will help to temper the most conservative issues. I have always been against drilling, but the energy crisis is real, and McCain is interested in alternative energy, as well as drilling.
H4T:
“Supastar Preznet Shiznit-in-waiting” is priceless!
Now let’s pray that Gustav stays away long enough to let us hear the grown-ups talk.
I am so happy about this. I feel 100% comfortable voting for McCain/Palin. Awesome choice by John McCain. Very intelligent and strategic. I think if they try and say this takes inexperience off the table, Sarah should just say, well can I talk about hope and unity and change like your inexperienced candidate for PRESIDENT not VP?
Great news. This makes my day, along with my new job and going home for a visit, this has been an awesome day. This definitely puts Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan, Florida, Virginia, Indiana, Missouri, and so many other states that were close into McCain’s corner for sure
# henry Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
and homophobic when it is politically expedient
*****
Yup. Let me rephrase. the Democratic party is the party of misogynists, ageists and homophobes – politically expedient or not, these are their true colors now.
4 years till President Clinton, don’t worry gals and guys
obama is and always has been dismissive of women, just look at his political history to see that. From his election to the IL senate having Alice thrown off the ballot and the way he treated Hillary during the debates shows he has a problem with women, maybe he blames his mother for daddy dearest heading for the hills.
I can see Obama/Biden making the same mistake that the Dukakis/Benson ticket did, laughing at the selection of Quayle thinking they had it in the bag and getting their asses kicked in November.
So lets see waffles starte out in Iowa with 99 problems but apparently Senator Clinton was not one of them, so how many do you think he has now.
A lot.
I’ve always liked McCain – I remember telling my rabidly Republican mother four and eight years ago that I would consider voting for a Rep if it was, for example, John McCain. McCain is no Bush.
I’m as passionate about fiscal restraint and reform issues as I am about education and civil rights. (I’m actually a woman without party.) Anyway, it will be fun to watch the Dem congress suck it up while McCain gets a few things done that we like and takes authentic ownership of the good government stuff.
Inexperience:
Obama and surrogates ripping at Palin’s “inexperience”. Granted, she’s young, and does not have McCain-like nor Biden-like “seasoning”.
a) Her number of years experience is almost as much as Obama’s (in the Big Leagues), but she’s the veep. Obama’ s the lightweight running for the top spot.
b) Do we have to sit them down and slowly explain that Governor is a bigger better job than Senator? It’s an “executive” position. Her two years as guv give her more executive experience than Obama’s and Biden’s years combined. Heh, heh.
Come to think of, after Obama loses, look for him to start an exploratory committee to run for Gov. of Illinois, so that he could try again in 4 or 8 years. We’ll be waiting for him then, too.
NORMA DESMOND:
I OWN MY VOTE!
you are being little irritating today.
My agenda – as it hs always been from day 1 – national security and economy.
Hillary had both.
John McCain hs nat. security
Obama – none.
There you have it.
Biden has more experience than BO; McCain has more than Palin.
I would vote BIDEN/bo over McCain/Palin.
BUT I WILL NOT VOTE BO/biden over McCain/Palin.
Simple and easy.
The party agenda you are pushing for is irrelevalnt for me; The only thing I needed was courage; john showed it today.
Sarah Palin’s Introduced
29 Aug 2008 12:46 pm
She is a very effective stump speaker, spunky and upbeat, and her first try at a persuasive argument on John McCain’s behalf succeeded. She looks and sounds very different than he does. That’s a plus. On the other hand, she talked about change, not experience. And we live, as John McCain reminds us, in a time of war.
Dems: McCain’s Age Is “Fair Game”
29 Aug 2008 02:11 pm
I get the sense that John McCain’ age is now fair game for Democrats. Democrats feel that McCain’s Palin pick has given them the green light to use phrases like “a heartbeat away” in their press releases and reactions.
McCain’s proximity to death and her proximity to him justify the attention that will be drawn to McCain’s age, in this view.
Watch the number of press releases that mention McCain’s birthday and/or contain “heartbeat”-type phrases in them.
rgb44hrc: perhaps if you talk really S-L-O-W-L-Y they might get the fact that inexperience is not a good argument for them.
Ugh. BO better not run for governor. Anyway, he’ll join a long list of Dem machine pols who are exploring ahead of him: Bill Daley (yes, I know), Lisa Madigan, God knows who else. IL state government is so messed up right now, it’s hard to know what might happen. IL went undivided Blue because their Combine leader went to jail, the rest of the party was taken over by the right-wingnuts, so they have have no sane electable people in the pipeline. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is the primordial ooze from which BO has emerged.
is Palin anti-choice? not that it matters but I’d like to know.
I can’t wait to wear a Palin t-shirt!!!!
Kostner, their circular logic is getting me dizzy.
Palin is too conservative for me. Another freeper, Thatcher-like woman I spoke about a few days ago.
What was wrong with Romney? He was at least moderate on social issues which would encourage people like me to vote for the old man.
outiniowa.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/sarah-palin/
# OkieAtty Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Kostner- she will play well in middle America demographics. Self-made, does what’s right regardless of party line, hot, obviously likes sex with her hubby (5 kids!), she rough and tumble and smart in a scary gut you kind of way that isn’t elitist or disapproving.
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Have you seen the hubby?
With Halloween so close to the GE maybe I’ll put up a tombstone
RIP Democratic Party next to my McCain/Palin sign with likenesses of Brazille/Kerry?kennedy and Pelosi. Do you think that wouild be to scary for the kids?
how can you guys be happy with this selection? she’s a freeper. wanted to take polar bears off endangered list. pro-corporate, pro-drilling; probably denies global warming.
This election is just getting worse and worse.
goddamn GOP women…
Get the popcorn, guys – this is going to be fun!
McCain camp pushes back: More qualified than ObamaMcCain aide Jill Hazelbaker:
It is pretty audacious for the Obama campaign to say that Governor Palin is not qualified to be Vice President. She has a record of accomplishment that Senator Obama simply cannot match. Governor Palin has spent her time in office shaking up government in Alaska and actually achieving results — whether it’s taking on corruption, passing ethics reform or stopping wasteful spending and the ‘bridge to nowhere.’ Senator Obama has spent his time in office running for president.
Nothing in my opinion could be worse than waffles
kostner
I get the sense that John McCain’ age is now fair game for Democrats. Democrats feel that McCain’s Palin pick has given them the green light to use phrases like “a heartbeat away”
I have to respectfully disagree with your comment. If the crazy left-wing nuts who support Obafraud and the thugs over at the DNC want to throw age around, then Biden is only 7 years younger than McCain- so I don’t think that’s gonna fly! If they wanna talk about Palin being too young and inexperience, then they’re gonna have to explain how they can support someone with the same characteristics as in the case of Obambi. You see, they’re damned if they do, damned if they don’t. McCain must have anticipated this and made his move accordingly. John McCan has managed to outsmartand outmaneuver the entire Washington and political establishment…I LOVE IT!
Barbara Boxer on Sarah Palin: A harsh attack
LA Times ^ | 8/29/08 | Barbara Boxer
Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 2:58:50 PM by DallasBiff
The vice president is a heartbeat away from becoming president, so to choose someone with not one hour’s worth of experience on national issues is a dangerous choice.
If John McCain thought that choosing Sarah Palin would attract Hillary Clinton voters, he is badly mistaken.
The only similarity between her and Hillary Clinton is that they are both women. On the issues, they could not be further apart.
Sen. McCain had so many other options if he wanted to put a woman on his ticket, such as Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison or Sen. Olympia Snowe -– they would have been an appropriate choice compared to this dangerous choice.
In addition, Sarah Palin is under investigation by the Alaska state legislature, which makes this more incomprehensible
filbertsf
your comments seem like you are pushing the Obama ticket? are you?
For Halloween I think I will put up a fake tombstone with
RIP the democratic party surrounded by the likeness of brazille/kerry/Pelosi- maybe too scary for the kids?
some of my comments without links are not going through. HMMM?
debbie, god no. but I still have the right to criticize the GOP, McCain, and that idiot Palin.
I will never and can never be a Republican. I’m only voting for McCain b/c I want to leave the door open for Hillary. Trust me, I’m setting aside many of my hardcore political beliefs for HRC. It’s not making a very happy camper.
filbert, GOP women are not monolithic, any more than Dem women are. Palin has some issues I disagree with, but she has done a LOT to combat corruption and the “good old boys club” of her own party.
Is she Hillary? Not by a mile. Not by a MILLION miles. But I am happy with this on 3 levels
1) It’s a woman (yes, it MATTERS to me, and I will not apologize for that
2) She is not part of the good ol Bush machine – she is a TOTAL outsider. That is a strong signal that McCain is returning to his maverick roots of 2000 and before, and trying to pull his party away from the powerbrokers of the last 8 years. That is not as good as a true Democrat, but it is still a GOOD thing for him to do.
3) She is a very smart pick for McCain, which means Bambi is going down. And that is the BIG one for me. HILLARY 2012!!!!!!!!!!
Brilliant push-back by the McCain camp, to point out Palin’s track record as governor vs Obama’s track record as Senator. Palin wins by a mile
I respect that, but don’t share your view of GOP women. My hats off to many of them as they have fought hard to break their own glass ceiling in the republican party.
As far as Palin being an idiot? Compare her to BHO then tell me who the real idiot is.
nevermind. i don’t care anymore.
filbertsf,
country first.
I will be wearing my Hillary button at McCain rally here in Ohio also
Norma Desmond Says:
And here is another thought. If McCain wins, there is a chance that Palin and HRC could be BOTH running in 2012, and THAT would be a FABULOUS THING for the advancement of American Women and women around the world.
Well done McCain.
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Oooh, right, you and admin looking at 2012! Was it Evita who said “I will return, and I will be millions”?
picture of the Palin family on The Confluence:
riverdaughter.wordpress.com/
I love Sarah Palin!!!!
And I love hillary!!!
Go girls!…
She reminds me of President Mac in Commander in Chief, she really does, balls and brassy.
Alright. We all knew this would happen but an atty buddy of mine posted this on the private bar site: http://www.vpilf.com/ .
Its hilarious Bambi and Michelle must have wrecked the tv when they heard the news, he completely wiped out bambi’s convention.
Obama campaign is already flummoxed by the Palin announcement:
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Palin tough target for Obama to hit
By: Lisa Lerer and Tim Grieve
August 29, 2008 03:22 PM EST
politico.com
John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate presents the Obama-Biden campaign with an unwelcome and unexpected challenge: How do you go after a 44-year-old mother of five without once alienating the female voters you’ve just spent the last week trying to win back?
The answer so far: Not very well.
Minutes after the McCain campaign confirmed that Palin would be the Republican’s VP pick, Obama spokesman Bill Burton dismissed the Alasaka governor as a lightweight.
McCain, he said, had put “the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency.”
Almost immediately, the campaign seemed to reconsider its tough-guy approach.
In a statement distributed by the campaign, Barack Obama and Joe Biden said Palin’s selection was “yet another encouraging sign that old barriers are falling in our politics. While we obviously have differences over how best to lead this country forward, Gov. Palin is an admirable person and will add a compelling new voice to this campaign.”
By contrast, EMILY’s List president Ellen Malcolm tried to walk a fine line — making the point that, because a candidate is a woman, it doesn’t necessarily follow that the candidate represents women’s views.
“McCain clearly sees the power of women voters in this election but has just as clearly failed to support any of the issues that they care about,” Malcolm said in a statement. “His choice for vice president only reinforces that failure.”
Throughout the Democratic primary, the Obama campaign and its supporters faced charges of sexism from Clinton’s campaign and some of her supporters. After an early Democratic debate, a Clinton adviser complained to The Washington Post that it was “six guys against her.” The campaign itself complained that the “politics of hope” and been replaced by the “politics of pile-on.”
Many of Clinton’s supporters continue to believe that sexism played a large role in her defeat.
For her part, Palin made an explicit play for Clinton’s supporters at a rally in Dayton on Friday.
“It was rightly noted in Denver this week that Hillary left 18 million cracks in the highest hardest class ceiling in America,” she said. “But it turns out that the women of America aren’t finished yet, and we can shatter that glass ceiling once and for all.”
Then again, Palin hasn’t always viewed Clinton so kindly. At a 2007 forum, she said in response to a question about Clinton’s treatment in the press, “Any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism. … I think, man, that doesn’t do us any good, women in politics, women in general, wanting to progress this country.”
# henry Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
So lets see waffles starte out in Iowa with 99 problems but apparently Senator Clinton was not one of them, so how many do you think he has now.
18 million?
The bots are infesting the blogs with wails of concern for us poor wimmins being taken in by McCain picking a woman. They are saying that the Dem party is the one who just loooooooves women, and how can we not see that? Nevrmind that they have stomped on women for months. Never mind that Obama thinks we should have our heads examined before getting an abortion, to make sure it’s not just because we are feeling blue.
ROTFLMAO!!! I am SO laughing my ass of that now, NOW, FINALLY the Obots are suddenly so very concerned about womens issues. They are dripping sincerity. Just dripping in it.
And they have the audacity to couple their newfound concern for women with telling us that McCain picking Palin is just a cynical political ploy….
Like I can’t recognize that their sudden love of wimmins is THEIR cynical political ploy.
Oh, sweet irony, I am going to piss my old biddy pants….
The Democrats must be thinking why the fuck did we not go with Hillary.
May I politely point out that Gov Palin has probably spent more time talking to Russians than BO has…Alaska is in constant communication with their “close neighbors” re fishing rights, weather emergencies (they rescue each other’s fishermen and women) and shipping/restocking/refueling stops at each other’s ports.
Both Burton and Boxer would be wise to do some more homework before shooting off their mouths. Course that goes for all politicians (and people in general) who react to fear without being prepared.
The Obama campaign just ordered a massive amount of Immodium. Hmmm…
Obama campaign just released a statement saying Obama’s district when he was an Illinois Senator had a larger population than the small town in Alaska that Sarah Palin was Mayor of.
Folks, the Obama campaign is DESPERATE! They are already going negative! LOL! WTF, Obama! You are old news!
Yes but Bambi she made a success of that town, yours froze to death in tenements run by your felon friend Rezko, right back at ya.
Emily’s List will not support Palin b/c I think they only support pro-choice women. Palin might as well be a man.
“Obama campaign just released a statement saying Obama’s district when he was an Illinois Senator had a larger population than the small town in Alaska that Sarah Palin was Mayor of.”
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when you’re already alienating rural swing-state voters in droves, this is NOT the thing to say, lol!
The videos of Palin out with the troops in Iraq are helping enormously.
See Bambi, you visit troops not go for a spa.
Team Obama’s Good-Cop, Bad-Cop Routine:
As usual, Waffles doesn’t get caught saying the nasty undercutting stuff.
Good Cop: “The campaign”, on Waffles’ behalf, puts out:
“We send our congratulations to Gov. Palin and her family…blah blah nicey nice crapola air-kiss”.
Bad Cop: According to AP:
Earlier, Obama spokesman Bill Burton blasted the choice and highlighted Palin’s lack of foreign policy experience. “Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency”.
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Hmmm, compound sentence leads to lack of clarity. Did the town of 9,000 people lack foreign policy experience?
So her lack of foreign policy experience as Veep is certain Doom.
Barky’s lack of foreign policy experience as Prez doesn’t matter???????
Oh, I forgot, he lived in many places, and was born in many countries.
The Palin hubby is pure prime American beef, easy eye candy.
I just read somewhere that as the media and the Obama campaign tries to smear and demean Palin, all the republicans come out and defend her.
Maybe that is what they should have done, instead of cheating her out of her nomination. Let me be clear Hillary Clinton won the popular vote and that means more Americans wanted her than they did him, so in my book she was the winner.
The DNC will be punished from top to bottom for this theft of the nomination. I hope that Hillary tells them to shove it where the sun does not shine if they want her to campaign for him!!
If you ever become weak, just watch her as she is pushed down the aisle to essentially give the fraud the nomination. I would not be surprised if they did not have Chelsea in a room with a gun pointed at her! WE CAN NEVER LET THIS HAPPEN AGAIN!
Was it Evita that said ” I will be back and this time we will be in the millions”, be very afraid Coward!!
Palin is a perfect choice because she cannot be attacked. If the Obama campaign tries to attack her for lack of experience, then all of a sudden, “experience” becomes a big issue in the campaign. The Obama campaign is so idiotic that they don’t even realize this yet, lol
Moon, your hormones are showing again!! LOL!!
Lets face it, who would we rather watch,
1 Palin and that gorgeous husband
2 Huckabee and his frumpy wife.
3 Romney and his wife
I suddenly just got fired up for this election now.
If she weren’t a good pick, they would not be falling all over themselves to go on the attack.
They are scared McCain just picked off a considerable amount of the women’s vote- in fact, I think he has.
Let’s go further. Kos- you still here??? Let’s talk swing states in the Midwest where she’ll play really, really well and
was already struggling…
OH?
PA?
WI?
MI?
MN?
IN?
I’d even toss in TX and FL as the last results in TX were within 10. Palin will play very well with women there and rural men and will cancel out the AA vote from Houston and Dallas. Net result- TX firmly McCain.
FL? I’d agree with it there, too. FL I see McCain by 5-7 points in November.
Berkeley Vox,
BHO camp cannot attack her on experience, cannot attack her on sexism, cannot attack on her outsider.
I am in TX. TX just went McCain by a mile. We LOVE strong gun-toting hunting fishing women in TX.
You guys remember how Al Gore was instrumental with environmental policies? Palin has close ties with oil giants, wonder how that will play out?
am I the only one who has reservations about Palin or is it a consensus here that she’s a good choice?
The more I read, the more I think, god, Obama reallly IS toast. There’s just no way. None of the electoral math adds up for him.
Time for all of us to clear everything off our calendars for 2011/12!
Berkeley Vox Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
“Obama campaign just released a statement saying Obama’s district when he was an Illinois Senator had a larger population than the small town in Alaska that Sarah Palin was Mayor of.”
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Hmmm, let’s compare
being Mayor of 9,000 people, again, executive experience
versus
a much more populous area where he did nothing (voting “present”?) except ready himself to run for higher office.
And as soon as he won his seat as Senatore, he did not, except ready himself to run for higher office.
No Thanks. NObama.
Palin Selection Surprised Her Staff, Too
By Michael D. Shear
Reporters weren’t the only ones surprised by Sen. John McCain’s choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential nominee.
Her press secretary was just as clueless.
Bill McAllster, a veteran political reporter who recently became her spokesman, said his home phone in Alaska starting ringing long before dawn after reporters gave up on his Blackberry, which he had turned off.
“I found out at about 5:20 this morning. I thought maybe they got it wrong,” he said. “But as the messages piled up it looked like it was more serious.”
McAllister said Palin had given some documents to GOP convention officials since she was scheduled to speak at the RNC. But he said he had no idea there was any serious conversations between his boss and McCain.
Palin first met McCain in March, McAllister said, when she was in Washington and requested a meeting with McCain about oil drilling in Alaska. McAllister said Palin later talked to McCain for five minutes by phone last Sunday, while she was at the Alaska state fair.
“She made no mention of the vice presidency at the time,” McAllister said.
McAllister called Palin “the most phenomenal figure” he has ever seen. He explained that she is “the most ordinary and extraordinary” person. As an example, he said that when a local news director for a television station retired, she drove herself and her two-month-old baby to the barbecue going away party with no security team.
“She just showed up,” he said. “She has a real common touch. At the same time … she is made of steel when she has to be tough.”
He said Palin stood up to the oil industry in her state, campaigning in 2006 for a take it or leave it approach to negotiations with oil companies, something that those companies fiercely opposed.
Fil, of course she has ties with oil, she’s the governor of fricken Alaska. However, she has a good enviro record, and raised taxes on the oil companies. i think it’s the absolute best choice for McCain. He’s a republican, not a democrat. Further, Biden has huge ties with the credit card companies, which frankly are making working americans nothing more than indentured servents.
filbert, she took on the oil companies and beat them.
Filbert, I don’t agree with her politics, and I don’t think she’s experienced enough to make a good President if she had to step in suddenly, but she is a reformer and wants to modernize the GOP, as McCain does.
From a purely tactical standpoint, it’s a great pick by McCain. It was a tactical pick. Obama’s pick wasn’t nearly as tactical — he just likes Biden and thinks he’d make a good President if need be, and by the way, he’s got some foreign policy experience and makes a good attack dog.
It will be interesting to see of Palin adopts the usual VP stance, which is to be the lead attacker against the opponent’s Presidential candidate. My hunch is that she’ll be tough, but they won’t use her in that way. The attacks against Obama will come from surrogates and the underground, not McCain nor Palin.
Filbert, do what you want to do. I’ve said it a million times and I damn well mean it:
Hillary in Denver or McCain in November.
This choice just got a lot easier. And for those who bring up Roe, fuck them. In the ass. If women and women’s issues meant so damn much to the Dem party they wouldn’t have gang raped Hillary for the last 19 months.
Women and their issues don’t mean shit to Dems and probably even less to many in the GOP, but there are those in the GOP who are traditional conservatives to whom right wing social conservatism means squat. I think Palin is part of that. Even though she is personally pro-life, I’ve read elsewhere that she believes government should stay out of it- the very essence of the traditional conservative view. I can live with that until 2012. I’ve been patient this damn long.
filbertsf,
I respect your opinion. But for me, as a man, I always admire woman politician with gutsy, intelligence, toughness. That’s the first criteria I want in a president.
I admire Thatcher, and I wound’t support Hillary if I believe she’s just a typical Nancy Pelosi type feminist with no inner toughness. I doubt I will support any of the current democratic women candidates. Most of them are just not tough enough to be commnder in chief.
Sarah Palin is in the same mold of Hillary, character wise… This is the first thing I’d consider …
I think Obama just lost every red state, theres no way he’ll win there now.
Let me explain something about why I hold Obama and the DNC to a higher standard than the Republicans when it comes to womens issues:
See, it’s sort of like when a dog continually lifts his leg and pisses on the corner of the couch, I get upset. But if my boyfriend does it, I get MUCH more upset. I am frankly disgusted and revulsed when he pisses all over my couch.
If it continues happening, then given the choice, I might just keep the dog if there are no real alternatives. But the boyfriend is GONE.
GONE, baby.
OkieAtty, I’m no wobbler when it comes to Hillary 2012. I know what I have to do and that is that.
It’s just 4 years is a long time to have to look at McCain/Palin. Ugh.
I’m just thinking out loud.
I cannot wait until HRC and WJC take over the collasped DNC.
filberts: she has taken the oil companies on, and introduced ethics reform.
Agreed moononpluto. Palin’s Alaska/wild west frontier biography will clinch Montana and Wyoming and Alaska, and all those smaller red states that Obama keeps insisting he can win. And it helps McCain a lot in New Mexico and Nevada, two swing states that are must-wins for Obama.
# filbertsf Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Emily’s List will not support Palin b/c I think they only support pro-choice women. Palin might as well be a man.
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I don’t recall Emily’s List being very effective or vocal on Hillary’s behalf. If I am wrong, please inform me.
I recall NARAL totally selling out (well, headquarters in DC did, without informing the state-based entities.
Might someone know how much NOW was for Hillary?
I just remember there being a strange hollow sound coming from women’s groups during the primary, like there was some secret deal to support Obama, and the savior would make it worth their while.
Yet while the leadership of those groups were acting strange, it was the feet on the ground types who worked hard and were extremely vocal in defending Hillary.
Palin Facts–Her nickname as a member of Wasilla’s high school basketball team was “Sarah Barracuda;” she is known to be deeply competitive.
–She was born in Idaho.
–She and her husband own a float plane.
–Her father taught elementary school.
–She and her father often went rabbit and moose hunting.
–She enjoys mooseburgers.
–She is very athletic (she hunts, fishes, snowmobiles, and runs marathons). As she has said, “I had a great upbringing under Title IX. I can’t imagine where I’d be without the opportunities provided to me in sports. Sports taught me that gender isn’t an issue; in fact, when people talk about me being the first female governor, I’m a little absent from that discussion, because I’ve never thought of gender as an issue. In sports, you learn self-discipline, healthy competition, to be gracious in victory and defeat, and the importance of being part of a team and understanding what part you play on that team. You all work together to reach a goal.”
–She placed third in the women’s 40-49 age group in the 2006 Running with the Bulls 5-K race in Palmer. Of her result, she said, “I was so embarrassed when they posted my time because I knew I was going to get a ribbing from a lot of people.
–She is very adept at juggling work and family. When daughter Piper was born during her Wasilla mayoralty, she returned to the office the following day. A trim runner, she did not announce news of her most recent pregnancy (with Trig, born April 18) until her seventh month. According to Palin, “To any critics who say a woman can’t think and work and carry a baby at the same time, I’d just like to escort that Neanderthal back to the cave.” Her older children are Track, Bristol, and Willow.
–She and husband Todd couple celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary on August 29, the day her veep selection was announced.
HRC might actually have given McCain a run for his money here in TN. With Obama at the top of the ticket, and not even trying to make a play for TN…it’s solidly red no matter what McCain does.
Filbert, one reason I want McCain to win now that the farce that was Denver is over is because I want the DNC leadership upended. I want Howie gone, burned in effigy. I want Brazile exiled to Pluto or some cold as shit planet with no hope to ever return (well not unless Hillary and I both get a personal stock of Kryptonite or something).
If Hillary is going to be successful in 2012 we must clean house first and we can only do so with a devastating Democratic loss.
Sometimes you have to burn the field before you can get a good harvest.
I had a feeling for a long time that if a woman was going to be elected VP or Pres, it was going to be a republican one first, if they had the balls to pick one, strong and confident. When i saw the way Hillary was treated, i knew the Dems were not capable.
It seems the Dems lost their way on this but my god have times changed. McCain just dragged the republicans into the 21st century, it will do them good, they needed this.
filbertsf Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
OkieAtty, I’m no wobbler when it comes to Hillary 2012. I know what I have to do and that is that. It’s just 4 years is a long time to have to look at McCain/Palin. Ugh.
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It will feel a lot longer if BO-biden wins.
And who will stand up to Russia?
I’d elect her just for that quote
“To any critics who say a woman can’t think and work and carry a baby at the same time, I’d just like to escort that Neanderthal back to the cave.”
What a woman
A few years ago, I saw HRC interview with all of the Dem women leaders at the time. At the end of it, they discussed quickly about women and specifically HRC running for President. I felt that the women in that group would not support HRC.
I saw few if any of that group support her in 2008. The women’s group did not support her in 2008. What we saw were these groups being in some cases jealous, and playing the game with the boys.
They lost. If women don’t stick together, they will not get anywhere.
However, I have see people on this site, and other organizations stand up for HRC, and it is those that I salute today.
We helped put the cracks in the ceiling, and it is our rebellion that has placed Gov Sara Palin in a history making position.
Okie’s right. If Obama wins, Pelosi Dean Brazile etc. will be in charge forever, for their eternal wisdom in picking Obama over Hillary.
Hillary will be forced to eat celery in a closet (old Doonesbury joke).
lets get past this idea that she is not ready to step into the shoes of John McCain should something happen
should she need to, as every President has they select people around them that are experts
BHO is weak on national security too he..selected Biden to shore up that weakness…are you guys saying she’s too stupid to do the same…not likely, she is savy she is an executive, I believe she has the smarts to handle the job if need be.
as for her pro life position, “if” the dems maintain control of congress AND THEY DO THEIR JOB don’t expect them to allow any judge get passed them that would overturn Roe v Wade once again IF THEY DO THEIR JOB. Of course there is Biden that voted to approve Clarence Thomas…don’t forget that one!
NMF, we were just there for the ride. Hillary did it. I am sorry she won’t be there this year, but she will be in 2012.
Its weird, its almost as if the republican ticket is acting like the Dem ticket and the Dem ticket is acting like the republican one.
How weird and fucked up is that
Too bad we don’t have a spy in the O camp right now. I would love to be a fly on the wall.
I am also waiting for the next poll.
rgb, tell my hubby I’m right. He’s being an asshole today.
Ok Guys heres the mantra to hit trolls with
Palin started her political career in a small town, Obama from the house of a domestic terrorist. Whats that again? I can’t hear you.
One thing I’m sure of…Republicans won’t let Sarah get trashed the way Democrats let Hillary get trashed.
You can COUNT on that.
Moon, I thought that, too, while watching Palin’s speech. I think it’s bc she’s a reform minded moderate and that appeals to many of us traditional Dems.
moononpluto ,
I agree with you 100%. The first woman president may well come from the Republican party. I think the reason is simple, democratic party is always deemed as weak on defense, weak on everything… I doubt voters will elect a woman from the democratic party to the prediency unless they’re absolutely sure that woman is TOUGHER than men.
Hillary is tougher than men, unfortunately, democratic party is too weak to select a tough woman to anchor their fate. .
I’d pay to see Michelle Obama’s face about now.
I can her scowling “not another bitch to deal with” Her face must be tripping her, the swear level must be high.
We helped put the cracks in the ceiling, and it is our rebellion that has placed Gov Sara Palin in a history making position.
NMF, it is our rebellion and DNC’s shameful stupidity and the SDs cowardice.
As of 2 p.m. today, Gustav has changed in two ways: 1 it will go over more land when it hits Cuba, and 2 is now shifted a little more back to the east, which mean closer to New Orleans, with the north east wall of the hurricane hitting it. This is the strongest side of the hurricane.
O has already said he will party while American’s are in danger.
This is playing out almost like someone higher than us is directing it.
rgb44hrc, Emily’s List was very supportive of Hillary. You can’t take that away from them. She probably won NH b/c of their hard work and lobbying.
mj, you were in NH, am I right?
Has anyone heard Obama’s speech mentioned today, all i’ve heard in pins dropping.
No one can remember anything he said now, i asked some people and they said, “i’ve forgotten, but this Palin woman looks cool”.
Sorry WILL NOT PARTY i SHOULD PROOF BETTER.
i ALSO MEAN MCCAIN SAID HE WOULD NOT PARTY. tHIS IS GETTING BAD. SORRY
Yes, NH. Emily’s List was Hill’s biggest bundler, but they got played by McCaskill. They bankrolled her campaign and then she had the audacity to say she did it all by herself, no help.
# moononpluto Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Its hilarious Bambi and Michelle must have wrecked the tv when they heard the news, he completely wiped out bambi’s convention.
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I agree!!!!
admin, you are amazing. Don’t stop!
I can’t wait to see Monday morning’s daily tracking polls, after the population has absorbed the Dem convention and the Palin announcement. I don’t think Bambi will have much of a lead!
birdgal & others
iirc, on that most painful Saturday, Hillary said “because of YOU, there are 18 million cracks in ….”
She did not say, “because of ME……”
btw, the Friday evening BBC is all over The Palin choice, her demeanor, he words, and the fabulous reception of her….
The Brits may come to like us, once again.
Jack Caverty needs to just come on out with it, he hates women. He needs to get his clock cleaned by women!
I was just talking to a friend:
One of McCain’s strategies will be blunt the force of the Clintons coming out to campaign for the Fraud and the Republicans know that that will be critical…
So, if Palin is VP pick, and if Hillary’s on the trail for BO, people will ask WHY ISN’T HILLARY VP? they will say to themselves, the Fraud can’t even put her in his Cabinet even when she’s got more Presidential credential than him, but he will force her to win the election for him and iron his shirt in the meantime?!!
I think that was another strategic move by McCain that was brilliant with this choice.
What Naral, Now, and Emily’s list forgot was you support women and women’s issues.
They were hood winked, bribed, or bullied into thinking that O would do that, although there is no proof. Women have got to learn to play better in the big world. YOU BELIEVE NOTHING UNLESS YOU HAVE IT IN WRITING, AND YOU CERTAINLY DO NOT ENDORSE A MAN OVER A WOMEN WHO HAS GONE TO CHINA AND SAID HUMAN RIGHTS ARE WOMEN’S WRITE.
These groups truly need to learn how to stand up for women (they absolutely did not do this). This is like a POW camp. You never give up your soul, unless you know where your soul is going.
emjay: you are right. Hillary said, because of YOU….
Showtime in Dayton [Jay Nordlinger]
For those of you who missed Palin’s speech today, you may find it here. And some quick points — rather, pointlets:
She is leaderly. That’s not quite a word, but I have employed it often. (It ought to be a word.) Governor Palin is strong, assured, natural — and leaderly. I’m not sure she is less presidential — to say nothing of vice-presidential — than any of the other three on the national tickets.
Like many Americans, she says “Eye-rack” and “Eye-ran” (for two neighboring countries in the Middle East). Some people mock this, but it is very American. And — speaking of mockery — she also says “nuke-u-lar”: like George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter (who was a nuclear engineer), and Eisenhower.
When she said she was “commander of Alaska’s National Guard,” I somehow sat up straighter!
Just about all my e-mailers have said that McCain hit a home run today, and that his election prospects are helped immeasurably. From their mouths to You-Know-Who’s ear. Some also say that, for the first time, they’re planning to give to McCain — or have even done so already.
When playing veepstakes over the last few months, I have balked at Sarah Palin (for reasons stated earlier in the day). (And those reasons have to do with electoral politics, not substance.) I would be delighted to be proved wrong. And, even on Day One — before any (real) stumping, before any debating, before much hurly-burly — she has inspired confidence in me.
FWIW, as we say in e-mail-ese.
P.S. I still think the “highest, hardest glass ceiling” bit is gross. But for political/polemical/rhetorical purposes — one of course understands.
Newsweek interview back in March…
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Obama Reax to Palin [Andy McCarthy]
The more I think about it, the more stupid that graceless statement by the Obama camp seems. McCain went out of his way last night to congratulate Obama and salute the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Obama, Mr. Post-Partisanship, concluding a week during which his surrogates very publicly thugged it up to try to suppress critics, had a chance to reciprocate and show a little class. Instead, he issues a boorish dig — which looks even worse now that Palin has made a fabulous first impression, complete with a tip of the hat to Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton.
I also loved the “U – S – A” cheers in Dayton. Spontaneous patriotism is a nice contrast after four days of hearing how much the country sucks.
Sarah has just brought the entire republican party back into the collective fold. I’m 100% sure of that.
Bambi just lost all the reagan democrats, the crossover women, the repubs hacked off with McCain and a shitload of women. The independents will cross over in masses.
I have to say, Bambi’s coalition just got a nuke dropped on it.
kostner, I understand your feelings, but I have been in meetings where I was the subject matter expert, and the powers that be, turn to a male engineer and took their advise rather than mine.
Palin and Last Night
St. Paul
Republicans gathering early here in St. Paul are ecstatic about the Palin pick and-–not surprisingly–less than blown away by the Obama speech in Denver last night. I talked to some experienced Republican operatives this morning and they shared thoughts on both topics.
First, on Obama last night, a senior GOP communications consultant said this:
“One of the first rules of communication is ‘Don’t reinforce a negative stereotype.’ For Obama, that stereotype is ‘I’m more of a rock star and a celebrity than a person with the experience necessary to be commander-in-chief.’ I would have given a more sober, serious speech in a less-hyped setting. I think it was over the top from a visual perspective, and I’m not sure your average guy in Ohio shares the enthusiasm that was in the stadium.”
A GOP operative working at the convention in St. Paul said this: “I guess we now know the kind of ‘change’ he has in mind. He wants to bring about a bunch of liberal, redistributive policies. I don’t think that’s the type of change people want.”
Finally, an experienced GOP campaign veteran I talked to worried about younger voter reaction to the speech. “I can see how young people might buy into this whole thing. The hype, the music, the enthusiasm–it’s like nothing they’ve every seen in politics before. The problem is it’s the same old product with just a new salesman. I worry that young voters don’t get that.”
Participants here are still digesting the Palin pick, but early reactions are glowing. Here’s a sampling of immediate reactions from folks here in the Xcel Center:
“It’s a great pick. The team will have broad generational appeal.”
“I’m glad it’s not a Washington insider.”
“I can’t wait to see her debate Joe Biden.”
The selection should also sit well with delegates who worried Senator McCain might pick a pro-choice candidate or even a Democrat. Bottom line: The Palin pick is generating a lot of initial enthusiasm in the convention hall right now–passion the McCain camp hopes will build into next week.
Breaking News from Hillary,
Congrats to Sarah Palin and John McCain. She did not attack Sarah Palin. IT was a very good statement!
I’m loving Lindsay Gramham right now..when he answered Wolfe question about Palin ready to be President. He said ” if she handle Stevens, she can handle Putin.”
ROTFL!!!
Palin 1
There’s also that thing about feeling good about electing a first of anything, Bambi isnt unique any more.
We are either getting the first AA president or first woman vice president.
There will some people who will vote Obama just to see an AA president but equally now, they will be not sure, because they can also elect the first woman. He’s no longer unique and Bambi will hate that.
Palin 2
NewMexicoFan ,
This is the sort of bias and discrimination against women that only TOUGH women themselves will be able to erase.
That’s why I’m absolutely furious the democratic party leadership rejected a tough intelligent woman to help shatter the eventual bias and discrimination against women.
They always prefer stupid loonies such as Pelosi/McCaisile etc.
ABM90 .
“HILLARY FOR MAJORITY LEADER” Go Girl
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Right! This is something all Dems could agree on. Will Bower is working on it at FAcebook.
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The DNC may have undermined 18,000,000 voters…
…but we can do our best to make sure that the DSCC and the Senate
don’t do the same.
Let those Senatorial candidates up for election in November know that,
if they want our votes, that they will pledge to elect Hillary Clinton
our next Senate Majority Leader.
Like LBJ in the late 1950s, Hillary Clinton can lead this country from
that seat of power… and we 18,000,000 will have our voices better
served and respected.
Imo this is a great idea! It gives HIllary power, it shows Pelosi
and Reid they can’t bully her. Also seeing which candidates will sign
the pledge, shows us which downticket Dems to vote for in November!
kostner
amen
How Palin Came to the Top of the List
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ABC’s Jan Crawford Greenburg reports: It wasn’t until Sunday night that John McCain, after meeting with his four top advisers, finally decided he could not tap independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut to be his running mate. One adviser, tasked with taking the temperature of the conservative base, had strongly made the case to McCain that it would be a disaster for the party and that the base would revolt. McCain concluded he could not go that route.
The next day, McCain studied the three men at the top of his shortlist: Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge. All had different strengths and negatives, but McCain was not satisfied. None of them had what McCain believed he needed to do — and would have done — with Lieberman.
McCain wanted to shake up the ticket.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s name was in the mix as an unconventional choice for months, but she had not been considered a front-runner. So, over the next few days, with McCain continuing to believe he needed someone who had more of a maverick streak than his other choices, lawyers reviewed her vetting information. They kept their activities from even some in McCain’s most senior inner circle.
Pawlenty had been the youthful pick advisers believed would represent a fresh direction — and one they could use to argue the Republican VP pick was more experienced than the Democratic presidential nominee. But Pawlenty’s flaw — what cost him the VP — was that he would not have stirred things up. He was safe, and McCain was not inclined to take the safe route.
The campaign secretly flew Palin into Dayton last night. She and McCain met privately for a couple of hours. McCain concluded she would “shake up the system” and was “a maverick,” qualities he believed Lieberman would have brought to the ticket. But she also would appeal to conservatives — which Lieberman most certainly would not have done.
After their meeting, McCain concluded he was comfortable with his choice. He notified Pawlenty this morning that he was going in a different direction
I’m baaaaaack and i’s still smiling!
Berkeley, I agree that HRC is probably lhao at this and I also think she’s a big enough
person to realize the huge boost women all over the world got with JM’s choice transcends
any regret she has over her own situation. I see HRC as a very secure person who is at peace with herself, her life, her choices and her beliefs.
About roe v wade; While it’s a landmark bill and crucial for women’s rights the advances and availability
of birth control methods over the past 20 years has, imho, made the issue a little less urgent.
John McCain chose Sarah Palin because he’s a man who knows how to make a bold decision. Barack Obama chose Joe Biden because Michelle told him not to choose Hillary. Thank you, Michelle!!!!!
Strong video by what appears to be a Republican or right-wing group called “John McCain and Sarah Palin Visit the Troops”. Good song too.
Carby- HA! I Hate Gramm, but that’s funny. I hate to give him some props there for a funny.
obama is blowing it again-doesnt call her guv, says shes froma sm ton, ahs no experience. like mccains folks said today-um he hasnt held a cmte hearing. palin has governed. brilliant play. now experience questions are more open for obama. game changer.
dedfg Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
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Hillary for BOTH! Maj Leader now — President 2012!
Maj Leader gives her more power against Pelosi, Reid, etc. Reid has power because he is Maj Leader. If Hillary is Maj Leader, they can’t threaten her, she can threaten them! That would give her much more power if there is another nomination fight in 2012.
Poolosi may have to sit beside another woman anyway, she sure tried hard to make sure she was the only one up there. Now is will have to sit beside a younger, prettier one. LMAO!!
Why don’t I see Donna out and about??
Women react to McCain’s choice for vice president
November will be an historic election no matter which party takes the White House. John McCain chose Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. McCain announced his surprising decision this morning. Analysts said McCain’s pick is an effort to grab the attention of some of Hillary Clinton supporters.
Sarah Palin is 44-years-old and calls herself an anti-abortion feminist. She’s pro-oil drilling and against gay marriage. The mother of five became Alaska’s youngest governor back in 2006.
McCain made the announcement during a rally in Dayton Ohio Friday just three days before the GOP convention.
“She’s not from these parts and she’s not from Washington. But when you get to know her, you’re gonna be as impressed as I am,” Senator McCain said.
Governor Sarah Palin said, “It was rightly noted in Denver this week that Hillary left 18 million cracks in the highest, hardest glass ceiling in America. But it turns out women of America aren’t finished yet and we can shatter that glass ceiling once and for all.”
Palin is the first female vice-presidential candidate for the Republican Party, but she’s the second in history. Back in 1984 Democrat Geraldine Ferraro became the first female vice-president candidate to be elected by a major party. But will the McCain-Palin ticket by enough come November.
News 10NBC talked with some voters about the impact this pick has on our future.
“Pleased that a woman is at the top of the ticket,” Jan Miller said. “What a great role model for our daughters and granddaughters.”
Jan Miller has had a close eye on the elections. She was a Hillary Clinton supporter. We sat with her Tuesday night as she watched Clinton’s speech at the democratic National Convention. She said she hasn’t made up her mind yet, but she’s glad another woman is making history.
“She seems to be an intelligent self confident woman and it’s been almost 25 years since picked Ferraro, so I’m thrilled he picked a woman,” Miller said.
Sarah Palin is only the second woman ever to be nominated for vice president. Nancy Kleintop is the president of the League of Women Voters. She said this is a symbolic move for U.S. politics and women.
“There’s a real opportunity for women to be motivated to vote, to vote for those things that are really their priority in terms of lives,” Kleintop said.
County Executive Maggie Brooks said Palin represents the views of middle-Americans, especially busy working moms. She said with Hillary Clinton not on a ticket this could sway her Democratic supporters to the Republican Party.
“Let’s face it, the Democrats didn’t even consider Hillary the most powerful political woman in the country as a vice president possibility, so I think Hillary supporters have a place to go in the Republican party supporting a woman as vice president,” Brooks said.
http://www.whec.com/article/stories/S561033.shtml?cat=566
I’ve heard there is major discontent amongst the Democrats tonight, they never saw this coming, they expected McCain to go with “safe” romney or Pawlenty, they had nothing on Sarah Palin, he threw them for a loop.
Now they have a major crisis and don’t know what to do.
I have no problem voting for JM and MS Palin.I regret the fact that Hillary is not in the race but she still has an outside chance
if all Hell breaks loose when his baggage spills out into the public
news domain.BO and MO must never be allowed into our White House that they would desecrate as they paint it black.Folks I think we have a crisis facing this country tatamount to the rise of
Adolph Hitler in Germany and his counterpart in Italy,Benito Mussolini.They both came to their demise by angry citizens.
Adolph died by gunshots and a fiery death while Benito was hung in a public square.I am not suggesting that we apply these
measures to them.Our votes didn;t work so just expose his devious plans to be our American Dictator that would impose hiphop and rap as our new language and anthem.He who constantly boasts of his love for his country has something else in mind other than hope and change.Pardon my comment ” He
has more BS than a Christmas Turkey”.While I am at it I might as
well express my disgust in watching the big kiss that he planted
on Mrs Bidens lips.She seemed in a daze in her reaction to
having liver lips feasting on her.Obama lips are for husband
cheeks are for everyone else.My wife would have given him the
knee treatment then demanded an HIV clearance certificate.
Ah what a team from the DNC as our only choice.Biden and OBama the second coming of AMOS and ANDY.Who were they?
Do some research on the radio favorites in the 20’s and early
30’s They were very popular.In the mean time it is Hillary time for Majority leader and the her hard earned right to thePresidency
in 2012 if not sooner than we might think.
By ABM90 Enjoy your holiday weekend all and think of Bush Cheney Gas Prices imposed by the REPUGS.HAppy Motoring.
I think the media is underestimating her. I really don’t believe Biden is that good a debater.
“Let’s face it, the Democrats didn’t even consider Hillary the most powerful political woman in the country as a vice president possibility, so I think Hillary supporters have a place to go in the Republican party supporting a woman as vice president,” Brooks said.
One think though is the republicans need to be very careful in not trashing Hillary.
Obama “Blames the Staff” again:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Obama_distances_himself_from_hairtrigger_campaign_criticism_.html
At a stop in Monaca, Pa., Barack Obama seemed to distance himself from his campaign’s first, harshly critical response to the Palin pick.
“I think that, uh, you know campaigns start getting these uh, hair triggers and, uh, the statement that Joe and I put out reflects our sentiments,” he said, according to the pool report, apparently criticizing his staff for going overboard, as he did occasionally in the primary.
kostner Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Just about all my e-mailers have said that McCain hit a home run today, and that his election prospects are helped immeasurably. Some also say that, for the first time, they’re planning to give to McCain — or have even done so already.
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I “celebrated” Obama’s speech…by donating to McCain. My wife and I have said for since Obama stole the nomination in early June that McCain was one of the few Republicans we could get behind, and that we would donate. Kept talking about it, and finally, at 10:00pm just before Waffles started pouring on the syrup, we both made our first donations.
Now that Obama has forgone public financing, setting himself back 84 cool ones in the hole, he obviously needs to outraise McCain. Most recent months, BO continues to haul in 50ish mil, McCain 20ish, then 27. So since June, he’s outraised McCain by about 50. But he’s 84 mil back. And he’s tapping out his reserves, and good will, by over soliciting. Plus those that gave might feel that he’s sold out, that the guy they donated to in January turned into Mr. Hyde in June, completely changing his positions on almost every topic.
And if they think the big time Hillary bundlers are going to come to the rescue, it’s already well known that the answer is:
No Money. NObama.
Kostner, when you look at people like Kerry, Kennedy and Obama- all giant egos- do you really think any of them would be okay with playing second fiddle to anyone let alone a woman?
None of them are strong enough to play second to anyone and if that anyone is a woman- it’d be worse for them ego wise.
McCain really is a maverick in his choices. This wouldn’t have even been possible in 2000 let alone without Hillary’s candidacy this cycle.
Hillary is still at the top of my list.
CNN’s John Roberts, after briefly alluding to the issue of Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s experience he called into question earlier on Friday’s “Newsroom” program, asked correspondent Dana Bash about how the Alaska governor’s newborn son with Down’s syndrome might be affected if she were elected: “There’s also this issue that on April 18th, she gave birth to a baby with Down’s Syndrome…. Children with Down’s syndrome require an awful lot of attention. The role of Vice President, it seems to me, would take up an awful lot of her time, and it raises the issue of how much time will she have to dedicate to her newborn child?”
Bash deftly answered this question, which has the implication that Palin could neglect her infant son, and made a possible counter-argument the McCain camp would use, that a question like Roberts’ would be sexist: “That’s a very good question, and I guess — my guess is that, perhaps, the line inside the McCain campaign would be, if it were a man being picked who also had a baby, but — you know, four months ago with Down’s Syndrome, would you ask the same question?”
The CNN correspondent continued by briefly describing the Palin’s family situation and the thinking that may have gone into the situation for both McCain and Palin herself. She concluded by reporting on the Alaska governor’s appeal to social conservatives because she is “very staunchly anti-abortion,” in Bash’s words.
The full transcript of the exchange between John Roberts and Dana Bash, which began 7 minutes into the 11 am Eastern hour of CNN’s “Newsroom” [audio available here]:
also-the sexism msm s doing plays agian for mccain. it rouses the feelings of hill supporters about how she was treated. women rallied for hillay in nh bc of this. we will relive how hillary was treated in some ways. and it will cause more women to vote mccain. my folks like her bc she is froma family of teachers. she and hubby are union. they arent well educated-they are working folks. she will help in wa, ore, maine and the west. also pa. and palin fights like hell. msm thinks she ill be real sweet. but she will bite when needed.
Hillary statement:
We should all be proud of Governor Sarah Palin’s historic nomination, and I congratulate her and Senator McCain. While their policies would take America in the wrong direction, Governor Palin will add an important new voice to the debate.
I didn’t know anything about Sarah Palin nor even heard of her until lately. Interesting to see how this election pans out. I just hope it don’t become another Geraldine F. election. Don’t get me wrong, I like Geraldine for her bold statements she made during the primaries.
But you know there are people who will vote against a woman.
I have no real opinion about her yet. I’ll have to see more of her. But it doesn’t really matter anyone since I was going for McCain. Just don’t know if she will be an asset or a liability for McCain. Looking forward to getting to know her though!
Thanks admin, for the Hillary quote. Classy, as always.
As we wrote, the Republicans are now 100% united and not in a fake DNC way. Even right-wing nut job of nut jobs Dobson is now on board with McCain (and Dobson really hates McCain):
http://townhall.com/columnists/DennisPrager/2008/08/29/dobson_%E2%80%9Ci_would_pull_that_lever%E2%80%9D_for_mccain-palin
Earlier this year Dr. Jim Dobson, President of Focus on the Family made news when he announced on “The Dennis Prager Show” that he “cannot and will not vote for Senator John McCain.” Today, on The Dennis Prager Show, the conservative leader changed course and announced his enthusiastic support on the heels of the announcement by Senator McCain of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate.
Dennis Prager: I have a guest here who’s extremely significant in American life, whether you call it American political, certainly American religious life, one of the best known Christians in America— Dr. James Dobson who is president and founder of Focus on the Family…. The last time you were on was a very serious conversation about your feeling at the time that you just couldn’t vote for John McCain, and where do you stand now?
Dr. James Dobson: Well, Dennis, I shared with a colleague just a few minutes ago exactly what you said about the period of time when Ronald Reagan had broken onto the scene and I was in Washington D.C. the day he was inaugurated. That was one of the most exciting days of my life, because everything that we had hoped for and been working for had come to pass. I feel very much that way today. Maybe that’s an overstatement. Maybe time won’t validate it, but this is a very exciting and encouraging day for conservatives and pro-family activists. I am just very, very pleased.
Prager: In light of that, may I infer that when you enter the voting booth—and I am putting you on the spot. I fully acknowledge, and you’re certainly free to say it’s a secret ballot you don’t want to say, but you’re too public to really get away with that, so what’s the story right now?
Dobson: Well, you know I did a radio program about a month ago with Dr. Albert Mohler, and we talked about what was at stake in this election and our concerns about the policies that Barack Obama would implement. The more I hear the more I learn, the more concerned I am, and so on that program Dr. Mohler and I talked about the fact that John McCain is not the perfect candidate. He’s certainly would not be my choice and, for over a year, I did not feel that I could vote for him. But I said in that radio program that “I can’t say it now”—which was then, because I didn’t know who his vice presidential choice would be, and he if would come up with Lieberman or Tom Ridge or somebody like that, we’d be back in a hole again. But I said for the first time “I might, I might.” And some people call that a flip-flop. If they do, so be it. Campaigns are long. You get information. You find out what the choices are. So I’ve been moving in John McCain’s direction. I don’t know if anybody cares, but for me…
Prager: Plenty, plenty of people care and that’s why I am having you on. I care, many people care and you have a lot of followers. You have earned the right to that respect. So are you prepared to say, “Folks, look, given this pick and all I have learned about what would happen with a Democratic victory we have no choice, but to enthusiastically work for the McCain-Palin ticket?”
Dobson: You know, I have only endorsed one presidential candidate in my life and that was George Bush in the second term after I had watched him for four years. I did not do that in his first term. So I’m very reluctant to do that. You marry a politician you can be a widow pretty quickly.
Prager: That’s right.
Dobson: But I can tell you that if I had to go into the studio, I mean the voting booth today, I would pull that lever.
independent2008,
obviously, it’s a risk choice. But the fundamental difference between Palin and Geraldine is that GOP is deemed as strong, tough whether it’s right or wrong. A GOP woman candidate will have a natural advantage over a Dem woman candidate in terms of being perceived to be tough, which is really the top quality of a president.
Yep, classy and disciplined, as always. Contrast that to the huge freak-out and rabid attacks, instantly lobbied by the Obama camp this morning.
“lobbed” ^
h t t p : / / http://www.slate.com/id/2198949/
Sarah Palin, Web Invention
Turndownobama,
You don’t see Donna because she got played by Carl Rove Ha Ha Ha
Some get it and agree with us on what happened today:
http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2008/08/avoiding_the_mccainpalin_trap.php
I have to admit some significant disagreement with how most Democrats (including the Obama campaign) are reacting to the choice of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running-mate. Many are simply deriding Palin as a lightweight or someone obviously unqualifed to be commander-in-chief–another Dan Quayle. Others watched the event in Dayton and found the whole thing laughable.
To be sure, I’m a poor judge of the visual side of campaign events. But what I saw in Dayton was (1) the “maverick” GOP presidential candidate introducing his “maverick” running mate, even though Palin, even more than McCain, is actually a conservative ideologue whose selection thrilled both cultural and economic factions of the Right; (2) a direct appeal by Palin to HRC supporters to consummate Hillary’s campaign by shattering the splintered “glass ceiling;” (3) a compelling personal story of a woman who (a) has one son with Down’s Syndrome, (b) another who is being deployed to Iraq on September 11; (c) is married to a Native American (at least technically) union worker and athlete; and (d) has bravely defied her party and oil companies in Alaska.
If I’m wrong and other Democrats are right, then Palin’s obvious and laughable lack of gravitas and preparation for the vice presidency under a 72-year-old president will become apparent soon enough. But if I’m right and others are wrong, then focusing criticism of the choice of Palin on her qualifications could be a very large mistake, particularly in terms of women who might otherwise have little reason to support her, but who are sensitive to gender-based double standards. Credentials aside, Palin is very vulnerable because, like McCain, he’s mainly “above party” because she dissents from Republican orthodoxy in Alaska from the Right. Both cultural and economic wingnuts love her passionately. And as I said in my last post, she crucially reinforces McCain’s phony “maverick” image with her own phony maverick image.
Ignoring all that in favor of mocking her for what many Democrats are privately calling her “obvious” lack of credentials for the White House is a big and unnecessary gamble, and quite possibly a trap. We should all take pains to avoid it.
I don’t think Palin’s maverick image is phony. Her actions speak to her being a maverick.
I have raised two women Athletes, and I can tell you they are competitive. They have used this skill in there work place, and it has served them well.
They use to call Gov Palin Sara Barracuda, that must tell you something.
I made this list of my reasons for “living with McCain for 4 yrs” over BO on in late may/june.
I did not post it anywhere because I wanted the DEM convention over. I did send it to some of my freinds. I am happy about point 12 today!!!!! I also donated $250 dollars today to his campaign….more than I thought I would but I feel I am doing something right here. I did thios by aug 31st so he can get max matching campaign dollars
1. Iraq Issue – has/had 2 sons in Iraq fighting; made personal sacrifice.> – no president is a ruler for 100yrs…if he does something stupid, congress would be even more stupider than they are now> – congress can stop it by stopping full funding – PERIOD!> – also McCain voted against Bush tax cuts in 2003 saying that at time of war, tax cuts are not needed
2. Supports stem cell research
3. supports full immigration plan…fair and balanced; he wrote the initial legislation; he withstood against his own party’s wrath during the summer of 2007.
4. A respectable CIC; a know quantity. He will defend the country
5. Fiscal conservative – I happen to like it! Who cares about the others right now.> > 6. Judges/SC…well senate better do their work in approval process; ginsberg and others can stay 4 more yrs…they are not that too old.
7. Abortion…hmm not bothered..worst case it will become a state issue vs. federal issue. we have many moderate pro chocie repubs – like Arnie, Crist, Snows, collins, specter etc
8. AZ gov will have to appoint a DEM senator to replace him! whoopie we have 1 additional DEM senator that way to work with Hillary!
9. Reasonable tax plans…i like them
10. health plan…will give credits ; fine for now…the other plans will take a long time and money to implement anyway..so the senate can start with little steps…children, automate records etc
11. will work with senators and congress as he has always done
12. Please choose a smart VP….. i think he will
13. Strong on national security; I trust him over BO anyday over America’s national security!
14. Not good on economic issuse like clinton but he can and will take advice and listen
15. age…no probelm.; he will be less of a burden for future tax payers money when he retires. how great to know that the stupid baby boomers and the spoilt youngs ones in this country are forced to respect an ELDER for a CHANGE. TIME FOR RESPECT… no age discominatiuon here… IT TAKES A VILLAGE!!!! AND EVERY VILLAGE NEEDS AN ELDER!!!!!
16. supports campaign finance…remember his campaign days when he was broke! He did it cheaply!! He carried his own bags to a commercial, economy priced air plane and stated at volunteeer’s house. He also did not accept protection from the Secret service until a few weeks ago – saved us tax payer a lot of money. He is looking after MY tax money!
17. He will listen to advisors but also be able to make an independent judgement.
18. Cindy McCain has been working for children a long time here and abroad. They adopted a daughter from Bangladesh – a muslim country – from an orphanage run by Mother Teresa. Cindy and John are great HUMANITARIANS!!!!!! they walk the talk!!!!!!!!
19: He recognises climate change and global waarming and will things to help combat it.
20: John Kerry in 2004 thought McCain was a good chocie as his VP…so John Kerry endorsed McCain as someone who can govern this country.
I could never support Obama though.
Whatever way you look at it, No one NADA is talking about Obama.
Zilch, nada, zip, end of story.
McCain did a blinder and basically for all intent and purposes took Obama’s speech, shat on it and tossed it in the bin because right now, everyones forgotten his “historic” speech.
McCain has ensured the Dem convention went out with a wimper and not a bang, they’ll be talking about this all weekend and then the Repub convention on Monday.
How furious on a level of 1 to 10 is Obama right now, i’d say about 100 and his ego will spit out something nasty, you can count on it.
I just have to say Obama, you got taken out to the woodshed and beaten with a rather large 2 x 4.
Seriously today its, Obama who?
Obama is so yesterday. The media are going to be all over the Palin story for weeks.
GO HILLARY! Great statement. She has always been talking about the history that even BO was making as an AA candidate. Hillary is consistent…she is not a pandering idiot like BO who only goes where the political winds blow. Hillary is like McCain in this sense. They’re both brave.
Hillary for Senate Majority Leader!!!!
Could we actually have a country that functions with bi-partisan leadership on both sides of the aisles? Wow, wow.
Consider the last 24 hours:
1) McCain delivers a classy, congratulatory message to Obama
2) Obama gives a ho-hum speech
3) McCain announces Palin
4) Obama campaign freaks out, trashes Palin instantly, mocking her small-town background
5) Hillary releases classy, congratulatory message to McCain and Palin
6) Obama and Biden, realizing they screwed up, quickly copy Hillary and awkwardly try to congratulate Palin, while simultaneously trashing their own staff
Pelosi may have blown that position for another woman for a very long time.
Hillary in 2012.
I’ll be playing the Beatles song “When I’m 64…” and thinking about Hillary all the way. Cannot wait to the get the Hillary 2012 bumper sticker.
Part 1
John McCain picks Alaska Gov for Veep
by Jill Zuckman
Dayton, OHIO – Sen. John McCain has chosen Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, a tough-talking social conservative with sterling credentials as a reformer, to be his running mate, campaign officials confirmed.
McCain, who turns 72 today, is expected to announce his choice at a rally in Dayton at noon today at the Ervin J. Nutter Center where about 12,000 people were waiting. After the rally, the pair plans to take the Straight Talk Express campaign bus to Pittsburgh.
Palin is the first woman governor of Alaska, elected in 2006. She was also the youngest ever elected at the age of 42. She is the mother of five children, the youngest of whom was born in April with Down’s Syndrome. She ran on a clean government platform in ‘06, defeating the incumbent Republican Governor Frank Murkowski.
In a statement, McCain called Palin “a tough executive who has demonstrated during her time in office that she is ready to be president. She has brought Republicans and Democrats together within her administration and has a record of delivering on the change and reform we need in Washington.”
The statement also said Palin has challenged the influence of the big oil companies while fighting for the development of new energy sources. “She leads a state that matters to every one of us – Alaska has significant energy resources and she has been a leader in the fight to make America energy independent,” he said.
McCain reportedly considered Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, among others.
Palin is a social conservative who is strongly opposed to abortion and same sex marriage. In addition, she is pro-gun and wildly popular in Alaska.
As governor, she has raised taxes on the oil industry, pushed ethics legislation amidst corruption investigation of Alaska lawmakers and limited requests for congressional earmarks after Alaska’s “Bridge to Nowhere” made the state a national laughingstock.
“We’ve got to make sure the rest of the United States doesn’t believe the only thing going on in Alaska is FBI probes and corruption trials,” Palin told the Associated Press last year.
In Palin McCain has chosen someone with no experience on the national stage and no foreign policy experience. But she is a reformer, popular with conservatives and is considered tough enough to deal with what may come.
In the Vice Presidential debate, however, she will go up against Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who has personal relationships with heads of state and other world leaders.
With voters concerned about McCain’s age and his history of skin cancer, it remains to be seen whether they will be reassured by a woman with little to no experience on the federal stage who is a heartbeat away from the presidency.
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/08/printer-john_mccain_picks_alaska_gov_s.html
Part 2
Bill Burton, Sen. Barack Obama’s spokesman, derided McCain’s choice.
“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency,” Burton said. “Governor Palin shares John McCain’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush’s failed economic policies – that’s not the change we need, it’s just more of the same.”
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) called McCain’s choice “a hail Mary pass.”
“It is a real role of the dice and shows how John McCain, Karl Rove et al realize what a strong position the Obama-Biden team and Democrats in general are in in this election,” Schumer said. “Certainly the choice of Palin puts to rest any argument about inexperience on the Democratic team and while Palin is a fine person, her lack of experience makes the thought of her assuming the presidency troubling. I particularly look forward to the Biden-Palin debate in Missouri.”
Rep. Jim Clyburn, the House Democratic Whip, told South Carolina ETV Radio that the pick was “risky” and would prove to be as embarrassing to McCain as Dan Quayle was to former President Bush.
“I do believe that McCain has to do something to reshuffle the cards, shake up the establishment, do something unexpected and Governor Palin…has all the kinds of things that McCain might see as a way to shake things up,” Clyburn said. “I think it would be something similar to Dan Quayle…Dan Quayle proved to be sort of an embarrassment as a campaigner. Being thrust on a national stage like that could be very tough.”
Clyburn also compared the choice to Walter Mondale picking Geraldine Ferraro, a member of Congress who became the first woman on a national ticket, which he said was “absolutely awful.”
“And so I just think that it is very risky for McCain to do this, but it may be all he has left,” Clyburn said.
But Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saulius Anuzis said he is excited about the pick.
“She will strengthen Senator McCain’s appeal to Reagan Democrats, and supporters of Senator Hillary Clinton, who are looking for a president who has the experience and temperament to be commander-in-chief,” Anuzis said.
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/08/printer-john_mccain_picks_alaska_gov_s.html
******************************************************I’m very disgusted with the DEMOCRATIC? Taliban PARTY good ole boys networks…demeaning women is a habit and not Hillary hating…those comments says alot about my party.
They never took Hillary Clinton campaign seriously!!!
Yes the Democratic party is a party now of women haters.
It came home to me very dearly today that family means everything. My 88 year old uncle, the last member alive on my mother’s side, passed away.
I will just say that I like that Palin has a large family. I like that McCain’s wife cared enough to go to Georgia to see the refuges. I love that Hillary wanted to take care of health care for everyone.
This is what matters.
refuges=refugees
Keep talking Democratic Party, and I pormise you, McCain/Palin will win this election without ever having to break a sweat.
Geraldine Ferraro: A salutary tale for Republicans
The last female vice-presidential candidate was a disastrous campaigner and the Democratic ticket was defeated in a landslide by Ronald Reagan.
By Alex Spillius in Denver
Last Updated: 8:31PM BST 29 Aug 2008
Geraldine Ferraro: ‘There are a lot of women who are disaffected by how Hillary was treated’ Photo: GETTY IMAGES One of the most enthusiastic welcomes for Sarah Palin’s elevation came from Geraldine Ferraro, who in 1984 was the first woman vice-presidential nominee, running for the Democrats with Walter Mondale.
A disgruntled supporter of Senator Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primary, Mrs Ferraro wrote on Friday: ‘Without Hillary being the nominee it’s really quite equally as important. There are a lot of women who are disaffected by how Hillary was treated by the media, by how she was treated by the Obama campaign … not speaking up when sexism raised its ugly head in the media.”
However amid the enthusiasm among Republicans about the boldness shown by Senator John McCain in choosing Mrs Palin as his running mate, Mrs Ferraro provides a salutary tale.
Her excitable comments, submitted on a Fox News blog, and her claims during the primary that Senator Barack Obama’s popularity was down to his skin colour, showed the ungainliness that marked her campaign 24 years ago.
The initial bounce Mr Mondale received in the polls after selecting Mrs Ferraro, which Mr McCain is likely to get now, did not last, and the Democrats were defeated in a landslide by Ronald Reagan.
Mrs Ferraro was viewed as a gamble, especially when her husband John Zaccaro, a wealthy developer, failed to disclose his tax returns and was reported to be renting warehouse space to a pornographic distribution company.
She received mixed reviews for her vice-presidential debate with George Bush, particularly from Barbara Bush, who when asked what she thought of Mrs Ferraro, responded: “I can’t say it, but it rhymes with rich.”
Jim Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in Congress, recalled her on Friday as “a disaster as a running mate”.
He told ETV Radio in his home state South Carolina: “As a campaigner, she was absolutely awful. And so I just think that it is very risky for McCain to do this, but it may be all he has left.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/2646884/Geraldine-Ferraro-A-salutary-tale-for-Republicans.html
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I see that mysoginist Clyburn remarks are all around the world. What a pig and to find that Nancy Pelosi supported his #3 position tells me how much RESPECT the DEMOCRATIC? Taliban PARTY has for her too and for all WOMEN in this country.
No wonder NO DEMOCRATIC LEADER stood up and spoke out against SEXISM and MYSOGINY…they all hold that view Clyburn spit out…but I Blame all those WOMEN GROUPS parking themselves in the DEMOCRATIC HOUSE and getting NOTHING back from them only rhetoric.
Action matters…words are only words if there is no action supporting it.
You know what stood most to me today about Sarah Palin and its something you don’t often see.
The woman is real, you can tell she means it. She’s totally believable. She looks like one of us and that is the best thing that could have happened.
No wonder she has 90% approval rates, you can tell you get something done when you ask her.
Wow, toe-sucker is an evil genius!!! Money quotes:”Now Obama, who has spent two years preventing a woman from being president, will spend two months preventing one from becoming vice president – and hopes to do so with women votes.”
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« CHALLENGE TO MCCAINSWEET PICK! KUDOS TO MCCAIN FOR CHOOSING SARAH PALIN FOR HIS VP
By Dick Morris 08.29.2008
McCain has reached for the stars and grabbed one. On a recent cruise to Alaska, I had the pleasure of spending an afternoon with Sarah Palin. She is brilliant and articulate and, in Alaska politics, is a breath of fresh air as an alternative to their corruption epitomized by Alaska Republican Senator Ted Stevens. Now Obama, who has spent two years preventing a woman from being president, will spend two months preventing one from becoming vice president – and hopes to do so with women votes. The entire premise of the Democratic convention was the fungibility of Bush and McCain. Now McCain has vividly demonstrated the difference. Sarah Palin is no Dick Cheney!
Jim Clyburn’s remarks went worldwide:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/2646884/Geraldine-Ferraro-A-salutary-tale-for-Republicans.html
What a sexist PIG!
Interesting excerpt from WaPo:
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Jill Hazelbaker, a McCain campaign spokeswoman, said in a statement that Palin “has a record of accomplishment that Senator Obama simply cannot match. Governor Palin has spent her time in office shaking up government in Alaska and actually achieving results — whether it’s taking on corruption, passing ethics reform or stopping wasteful spending and the ‘bridge to nowhere.’ Senator Obama has spent his time in office running for president.”
Howard Wolfson, the former communications director for Clinton, said Palin could peel away some votes from Obama.
“Both campaigns seemed to have decided that Hillary Clinton’s 18 millions voters represent a key swing bloc in this election — both Barack Obama’s speech and John McCain’s pick were at least partially aimed at them,” Wolfson said in an e-mail.
Sarah Palin Runs A State. Barack Obama Runs His Mouth.
Maverick and Barracuda Take On The Status Quo
Posted by: Erick Erickson
Friday, August 29, 2008 at 03:31PM
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I cannot tell you how excited I am about the Palin pick. McCain lived up to his maverick reputation and did well.
It is time to pony up to the campaign. Sure, we’re still going to have to put up with some of McCain’s McCainisms. Let’s just get used to it. But, he’s proven he listens to us. Today he puts us on the trajectory toward victory.
Now let’s deal with some of Obama’s charges. Mr. Hope and Change, who picked a 35+ year veteran of the Senate to cover his own inexperience has the gall to attack Palin for inexperience.
Were I Palin, I’d first point out that balancing the budget of a working family with five kids gives her more experience than Obama in relating to families out there.
I’d also point out that, in addition to being elected for five years before Obama was first elected to any office, Palin has been balancing local and state government budgets while Obama was relying on Tony Rezko to balance his budget.
As for foreign policy experience, Palin’s neighborhood has Russian and Canadians. Barack Obama’s neighborhood has unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers.
I’ll take Palin’s experience. She, by the way, did not run for President on her resume. Obama did.
No Quarter
BREAKING NEWS: David Axelrod Talking Regularly with Bill Ayers?
noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/08/29/breaking-news-david-axelrod-talking-regularly-with-bill-ayers/
I now have two sources confirming that Barack Obama’s Communications Director, David Axelrod has been communicating regularly with unrepentant terrorist and former member of the Weathermen, Bill Ayers, about how to respond to stories trying to report on Obama’s longstanding relationship with Ayers. One of my sources tells me that one person, a TV pundit who wishes to not be named, is talking about this without mentioning Axelrod. This person told my friend:
I predict that the howling and whining we hear from the Obama campaign about Billy Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist who bombed the US. Capitol and has been linked to candidate Obama at least for the last dozen years, will get louder, and more hysterical and more damaging because we will find that not only did Billy Ayers work closely with Barack Obama to fund left wing school schemes in the hands of Maoists (Mike Klonsky) and Neo-Stalinists (Bill Ayers) but also Billy Ayers himself, now, regularly, is talking part in strategy sessions with major Obama advisers as to how to bury the truth about the terrorist and the candidate.”
Another source with direct access to the Obama campaign reports that it is David Axelrod who is fielding these calls. It is astonishing that the Obama team thought they could contain this information. But they will fail. Their fear about Ayers has little to do with his past as a bomber of U.S. Government facilities and more to do with the mismanagement of more than 100 million dollars that was spent by the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC)
it could be possible..that the democrats in the House bump Pelosi off her throne if democrats do not gain across the board.
I’d love nothing more.
If Obama loses, Pelosi is OUT!
Now all McCain has to do is co-opt a couple of Hill’s policy proposals and game over. We will see if he is up to it.
Now McCain has vividly demonstrated the difference. Sarah Palin is no Dick Cheney!
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And she proved she is no John Edwards either.
*jokey-joke*
ROTFL
Clyburn’s sexism is disgusting:
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Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) compared Palin’s choice to George H.W. Bush’s choice in 1988 of Dan Quayle, a GOP senator from Indiana, and Walter Mondale’s decision in 1984 to pick Geraldine Ferraro, then a Democratic member of Congress from New York.
“She proved to be a disaster as a running mate and a campaigner. She was just absolutely awful,” Clyburn told a radio station in his state. “I think it is very risky for McCain to do this, but it may be all he has left.”
Hey Barack, hows that change thing coming on.
Oh yeah, you don’t own it anymore.
Country First.
God, you should hear the things being said about Sarah. Stuff like, “What, did she suck McCains dick to get the job?” and “She should go back home and be in a swimsuit competition” and “McCain picked a breast feeding woman. Brilliant.”
You can’t make this shit up folks.
rgb said: b) Do we have to sit them down and slowly explain that Governor is a bigger better job than Senator? It’s an “executive” position. Her two years as guv give her more executive experience than Obama’s and Biden’s years combined. Heh, heh.
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RIGHT! A governor has 3 am experience. So does a mayor. It’s a different kind of thing from Senator (unless you’re Hllary in 9/11.)
Clyburn is a JERK.
carbynew Says:
August 29th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Now McCain has vividly demonstrated the difference. Sarah Palin is no Dick Cheney!
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And she proved she is no John Edwards either.
Yeah Sarah Palin knows which kids are hers.
Idunn, where are you reading this stuff, there are some sick puppies out there?
And will NOW stand up for Sarah when she is dismissed and trashed in the media? Or does now care only about women who are democrats?
In the words of Stephanie Tubbs Jones, “STEP UP!!”
JanH, sorry for your loss and yes it is true family is everything
how refreshing is this? A true blue collar Mr. Palin…
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Sarah and Todd Palin eloped in 1988, having dated since high school, and reportedly used two residents of a nearby nursing home as witnesses to their nuptials at the Palmer, Alaska, courthouse. Todd, a Yup’ik Eskimo, works as a production operator for British Petroleum on Alaska’s North Slope. He took an unpaid leave of absence when his wife became governor, but returned to BP’s payroll in 2007 amid whispers of possible conflict of interest. “It’s a blue-collar, in-the-field type job, working in a facility as a production operator, separating the oil, the gas and water. It’s not a management position where decisions are being made,” said Gov. Palin, promising that her husband’s job would not affect her own. The “First Dude,” as he is called, is also a four-time winner of the Tesoro Iron Dog, a 2,000-mile snowmobile race. During the summer he works as a fisherman at the Bristol Bay commercial salmon fishery.
Idunn
C-Span now
repeat of this noon’s rally- the only thing you’ll miss is his coming up from the crowd, instead of over them.
Idunn, where are you reading this stuff, there are some sick puppies out there?
Comments on Politico.
Mc Cain on now, getting ready to intro Sarah
Thanks emjay. I already saw it.
CNN sexism and misogyny:
Palin and her husband, Todd, have five children. Their three daughters: Bristol, 17, Willow, 14, and Piper, 7. Their two sons: Track, 19, and infant Trig, born in April; the governor carried him to term knowing he had Down Syndrome. Palin describes herself as a “hockey mom” and has a hard-earned reputation as a dedicated working mother. She returned to work just three days after Trig was born and, when she was mayor of Wasilla, she reportedly brought her infant daughter to the office regularly. The baby slept in a carseat under her desk while Palin worked. The Palins’ eldest son, Track, enlisted in the Army on Sept. 11, 2007, and is preparing to deploy to Iraq.
Well damn…GO FIRST DUDE!
Despite her own brewing ethics scandal — Palin has been accused of abusing her power to try to get her ex-brother-in-law fired as a state trooper — she has built her political career, in part, on ethics reform and whistle blowing. As mayor of Wasilla, she cut her own salary, and was appointed ethics commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. She resigned from the post after complaining that her fellow Commissioner, Republican Randy Ruerich, was raising money for the state party from energy companies he was charged with regulating. He later resigned from the commission and paid a record fine for conflict of interest violations. Palin was elected governor after campaigning as a reformer, and shortly after taking office, she passed a sweeping ethics reform bill regulating lobbyist activities and forcing more disclosure from lawmakers. Palin has enjoyed approval ratings in Alaska as high as 90 percent.
Earlier this month, a legislative panel launched a $100,000 investigation to determine whether Palin abused her influence by attempting to get her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper. The panel is currently questioning whether Palin dismissed the state’s safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, because he refused to fire her ex-brother-in-law, Mike Wooten, whose marriage to Palin’s sister ended in a bitter divorce — and custody battle — in 2005. Palin has denied the charges, and says she did not coordinate the reported dozens of telephone calls placed by her husband and administration to Wooten’s bosses. Before Palin ran for governor, she and her husband accused Wooten of drinking alcohol on the job and illegal hunting. Wooten was briefly suspended over the allegations in 2006, but never dismissed.
Huffpo is now praising Hillary, saying “Palin is no Hillary”. I am furious at that.
There is no way in hell that McCain would have done this if we were “a handful of post-rationals”. It is proof of our power.
And it disgusts me that the likes of Huffpo is now telling us that Hillary is the greatest thing since Jesus, and how we do her a disservice if we accept second-best as women.
FUCK. THEM. Here’s my “Don’t tell me” speech for Bambi and the DNC
DON’T TELL me what my interests are as a woman.
DON’T TELL ME that you alone will protect my right to choice, then spit on me in every other area of life.
DON’T TELL ME that the woman you used as your fucking punching bag is now the reason I should refrain from making you pay for punching her.
DON’T TELL ME what is important to me.
DON’T TELL ME my vote doesn’t count in August, then get fucking morally outraged at me when you can’t have it in November.
DON’T TELL ME that identity politics are bad and harmful while you sit on your 90% AA vote.
DON’T TELL ME that I am too stupid to play strategically for long term gains, and am getting played by the Republicans. I know exactly who and what they are, and can use them for my ends just as well as they can use me.
DON’T TELL ME what to think, how to vote, or what my motivations are for doing it.
DON’T TELL ME that the just and righteous rage I feel in my very soul is a hormonal hissy fit that I need to “get over”.
In 2003, the Alaska Court of Appeals legalized the possession of small amounts — four ounces or less — of marijuana in the home, making it the only state in America to allow it. In 2006, then-governor Frank Murkowski outlawed the ruling; the Superior Court, in turn, struck down some of his restrictions (now Alaskans can possess only one ounce). The battle over marijuana became a minor issue during the 2006 Alaska gubernatorial race (which Palin won), with Murkowski claiming he had never smoked pot and Palin admitting that she had tried it. “I can’t claim a Bill Clinton and say that I never inhaled,” she said at the time.
CNN and PMSNBC are all in the tank for King Obambi so when SEXISM and MYSOGINY rears it ugly head on those networks…it will come back and hurt Obama.
I am soooo happy the republicans are throwing a normal convention without the rock concerts, american idol stages and a Greek theater. They were throwing money around like drunken sailor’s while Americans were having to decide whether to buy groceries or gas. This display does not make me feel like these idiots know how to balance a budget.
Palin was born in Idaho but grew up in Alaska, and her hobbies — moose hunting, ice fishing, hiking — indicate a typical Alaskan upbringing. But it was her performance on the Wasilla High School basketball team that earned her the nickname “Sarah Barracuda”— supposedly because of her fiercely competitive nature. Palin, who played point guard, was the team’s captain her senior year, and scored the final point — a free-throw — of the 1982 state championship game that Wasilla won against Anchorage. Two years later, in 1984, Palin, then 20, entered a local beauty pageant to earn college scholarship money. She was crowned Miss Wasilla — and Miss Congeniality — and went on to compete in the Miss Alaska contest, where she came in second. She graduated from the University of Idaho in 1987 with a degree in journalism, and worked briefly as a TV sportscaster in Anchorage and a commercial fisherman before pursuing a career in politics.
You said it H4T!!
In fact…DON’T TELL ME SHIT!!!
Admin, do you have bash’s response? I heard it was a humdinger.
On August 27, Palin signed a bill to give a Canadian company a license and $500 million in government subsidies to build a pipeline connecting natural gas fields in Alaska’s North Slope with existing infrastructure in Canada and to the continental U.S. Alaskans have been pushing for years for construction of the pipeline, which, according to gas companies, could provide 7 percent of all fuel used in the U.S. Major fuel companies operating in the state — including BP and Conoco Phillips — oppose the plan, however, saying they want to build their own line. Construction could begin as early as next year, but the pipeline wouldn’t be completed until at least 2017 and still faces considerable hurdles — including its massive cost, estimated to be at least $30 billion, which could stymie the plan if fuel prices continue to drop. Palin also supports natural gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — which McCain has opposed — but Palin is not roundly loved by the energy industry. With Democratic support, last fall she raised taxes on oil company profits.
I feel the same way, Hillary for Texas. It’s unbelievably insulting how Obama and the Democratic establishment treat us Hillary supporters. To them, we are nothing but pawns in their little chess game, and they think they can move us around their game boards like little toy soldiers. They never listen to us, they never let us be heard, and it’s got to stop.
The first woman to run on a Republican Presidential ticket (and the second woman, after 1984 Democratic candidate Geraldine Ferraro, to run for Vice President for a major party), John McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin was also the first ever female governor of Alaska — and its youngest when she was sworn in at age 42 in 2006. Born in Idaho, Palin’s family moved her to Alaska as an infant, where she grew up in Wasilla, a small town of fewer than 9,000, located 45 miles north of Anchorage. She first entered politics in 1992, winning a seat on the Wasilla City Council, before going on to become the town’s mayor four years later at age 32. After two terms in office, she earned statewide recognition by pursuing the nomination for lieutenant governor — which she lost by only 2,000 votes. Palin has no national experience and less than two years experience as governor, but she is unabashed about that. “That’s a healthy thing,” she told TIME. “That means my perspective is fresher.”
Kostner, it isnt even a scandal, when you look at it and quite frankly, if someone had tasered my 11 yr old nephew, i’d had bounced his ass also.