Now this nut is promoting change, But how are you promoting change when you voted with Bush over 95% of the time!!!! He is one of Bushs’ puppets! !!

McCai n’ s policies will be the same, the economy will be the same, We will still be in this war and probably be in war with another country., The rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer, There is no real change with McCain,& #8230;.

Obama -Biden 08

I like Obama,He made a mistake not taking Hill.
Now he has got to go to Hill and ask for her help.
I know Bill has a BIG smile on his face. However,
no way is Hill letting Sarah into the White house before Hill. After thought we don’t know if Obama ooffered Hill the Vice position on the down low and she turned him down. We will never know.

LAQUANDA IS SELLING FRIED CHICKEN ON THE BLACK FOLK STANDS AT THE GOP CONFERENCE.!!!. THATS HER ON THE RIGHT COVERING HER EYES AND BOWNING HER HEAD COS HER BOSS MAN IS COMING . RUSS LIMBAUGH SAID TO TELL YOU TO SHINE HIS SHOES WHEN YOU ARE DONE TENDING TO THE WHITE FOLKS AND MAKE SURE YOU BURP PALINS BABY FOR HER AS SHE HASNT GOT THE TIME TO DO IT HERSELF… BONGO BONGO.. QUICK QUICK…!!!

McCain’s way of change we can do without. He’s talking loud and saying nothing!!!

Will someone please tell me why these WHITE WOMEN, NEED TO BE PRESIDENT, as well as VICE PRESIDENT? And what would it have looked like if barack had chosen hillary as his running mate, now if barack become’s president, that would mean that BILL CLINTON THE EX PRESIDENT, would have posession of the WHITE HOUSE ONCE AGAIN, now can someone please tell me if that makes SENSE!

SARAH PALIN IS BEING USED AS A PLOY, did you see her on stage with her family, after she was sent to ASSIST IN LYNCHING BARACK OBAMA, those people were’nt cheering for SARAH PALIN, they were so glad that someone was attacking BARACK OBAMA, and let’s not forget THEIR WERE AFRICAN AMERICAN, THAT WERE IN THE CROWD CHEERING MISS ANNE ON AS WELL, AND THEY HAD SMILE’S ON THEIR FACE’S, NOW THAT’S DEEP! this go’s beyond SELF HATRED.

My prayer is that WHITE AMERICA WILL NOT FALL FOR THIS HOAX, THIS PLOY, THIS TRICK, and i can go on and on, white PEOPLE WILL FALL FOR ANYTHING, and trust me the REPUBLICAN PARTY KNOW’S HOW TO get to white america, “why do you think we are in a WAR! did anyone notice how that poor little baby was being passed around on THURSDAY NIGHT? and did anyone notice how SARAH PALIN, MADE IT A POINT TO TURN HER BABY’S FACE TO THE CAMERA, SO THE WORLD could see? PEOPLE THEIR IS SOMETHING VERY, VERY FISHY GOING ON HERE!

Double Standards: BET and TV One apparently decided that with Obama already pulling 90-95% of the black vote, they needn’t bother turning any precious airtime over to McCain. In fact, all four nights of the Democratic convention aired on both networks. The GOP convention didn’t air at all. Yet, with less coverage, McCain set a new ratings record.

dogycbaker,

Cause people with a brain don’t give a F U C K about the GOP!

codycbaker:

Cause people with a brain don’t give a F U C K about the GOP.

why sara palin do not have to explain her pastors teaching,s the way obama had to do, her pastor is saying som hateful things,

The Republicans blew one out of the park with the convention.

The Obamacrats are very worried about Sarah Palin and that is why they are attacking her so hard.

Last week, Obama had nine networks covering his speech and attracted 38 million viewers.

However, Palin had only five networks covering her speech and attracted 40 million viewers.

Obama crats, be scared!!! Be very very scared!! !

McCai n-Palin 2008!!!

Country First!!!

McCain is no candidate for change; he’s desperate for power! The masses are hurting and not a bunch of whiners. Our economic woes are very real to the average citizens. This nation cannot stand another four years of the same policies and problems. If country is first, why does he not support our veterans? Hurricane Katrina and Rita devastated many parts of the gulf and Katrina is one of the most destructive storms in US history. Again, if country is first and the people matter, why did he vote against the Hurricane Katrina Recovery Fund?

Palin may be a bit of a bulldog but I don’t think she is ready for the pit-bull arena. Like McBush though she can read a Rove script. I would not vote for her, especially when you consider her past views on wanting Alaska to withdraw from the union. That’s completely ignorant. The GOP campaign scrambled to remove the website links showing her ties Alaska Senator Ted Stevens. It looks like just more of the same old crap!

prophetess,

Palin attacking Obama was not a lynching. Her job is to attach Obama just like Obama attacked McCain. Chill out and enjoy the good fight. This is the most enjoyable run for the presidency that I have ever seen in my life.

the pictures of sarah palin in a mini skirt and high heels is terrible. i donot see these pictures on the news. i see why they want to elect her. if it was michele obama it would have been on every minute of the day. palin is a woman from moose town with no ideas.

I watched Mc Cain speech on tv not because i like him,just because i never heard him speak. It was a mess. It was like watching silient films. Very old material. We dont want to see nothing about a war in a time before I was born. We need to know about the problems of today.

Republican Convention: The whole Republican convention went by without offering a single idea about how to improve the lives of ordinary Americans. ~~~~~~~~

John McCain and the Republicans had all week to make their case — and they didn’t do it. ~~~~~~~~~~

The whole Republican convention went by without offering a single idea about how to improve the lives of ordinary Americans. ~~~~~~~~

Senator Obama clearly speaks out about exactly what we didn’t hear at the Republican convention. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

John McCain believes that the fundamentals of our economy are “strong.”
The media has reported this week that unemployment jumped to its highest rate in five years, and our economy lost 605,000 jobs this year alone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~

All of you should know; the economy is a bust ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~

Most Americans cannot afford gas ~~~~~

Americans Jobs going, going, gone ~~~~~~~

American Veterans Benefits has been cut, etc ~~~~~

McCain wants to continue the war ~~~~~~~~~

We have a war is going on ~~~~~~~~ ~

Presi dent Bush misused our tax dollars in Iraq ~~~~~~~~~~

John McCain lies, he does not want change! ~~~~ McCain voted with George W. Bush more than 90 percent of the time, and he thinks Americans are falling for his lies. ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~

Ameri cans are making the right choice and will in November vote for Obama-Biden Ticket. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This is not 2000 or 2004! ~~ Republicans like Palin, Giuliani, and Romney can engage in red-meat partisan vitriol all they want, right out of the Karl Rove playbook. ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~

Ameri cans now have seen the full impact of GOP policies on their pocketbook. ~~~~~~~~~~~

Obama for President and Obama for Vice President!

EVERYONE THIS IS A MUST READ! IT’S GOSPEL!

http://www.thatminoritything.com/?p=53193

The Democrates motto, ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for you.
We black people have lost our values and integrity, Obama wants to give us things instead of us doing for ourselves, turning blacks into an entitlement people always looking for a hand out. The blacks who sacificed for us to have a better life are dead or dieing and we are putting our faith in the first black con man we see.

every one this is a must see. how sarah palin just loves killing moose, bears and wolves.please go to this web site episcove g.weblog ger.com/ tag/sara h-palin

The BIG difference is that Obama is getting party support. Something that the 2000 and 2004 Democratic nominees did NOT have.

Obama/Biden 08!

The media has repeated how important it is to get the “uneducated” voters. They talk about how Obama was not doing good in that realm..but the Republicans have that advantage over him. What the media does not tell you, is that, in their case, “uneducated” does not simply mean someone who does not have a degree…it is a coded word to mean the “ignorant” voter, normally backwards, backwoods minded voter. But, the media can not openly offend the American public.

Now there are very wealthy people who may have “education” that vote Republican, but the Republicans normally know how to “dupe” the uneducated by using fear of the liberal to do it…fear of the “u nknown&# 8221; 230;fear of someone who is different. The one’s who are most likely to fly the confederate flag type of voters, the religious people who are not exactly following the heart of Christ but are on the extremist side of religion masking it as Christian (hint: Jim Jones and David Koresh style of false Christianity)…those are the voters Republicans attract..and yes, that group even includes black people who support them. It is fine to support pro-life and issues similar…but you have to be brain dead to think that the Republican party really, in general, have displayed the type of care for the poorer people and the type of responsible behavior that many pretend that they have done. Democratic Party have their sins too…but hypocrisy belongs to the Republicans…and so does the failure of the past 8 years. Sarah Palin has shown her great ignorance and hate when she tried to tear down Obama…and she was lying when she did try to do it. At least Obama would try to get some facts before he start to go after his opponents..and he even tries not to attack character..but, McCain and Palin, showing their ignorance attacks the person…but they have nothing else to say.

I believe in black people, my people, have the freedom to choose their presidential candidate..but in this special case and the case of when Bush was elected, if you are black and you favored these candidates, then you are turning a blind eye to the what MLK has fought so hard for us to be…not just to have the freedom to choose, but for us to honor and truly recognize those who do not only serve ourselves but others. Yes, John McCain was a POW for a war that most know and confirmed was not a legitimate war (Vietnam)…there was no need to “fight for our country’s freedom” in Vietnam, that was confirmed by those involved in the decision making of the war….there was no great danger for America’s freedom from Vietnam…therefore, many fought for a cause that was not made legitimate by the government. It is the same for the Iraq war. Plus…i believe in the “what have you done for me lately&# 8221; 230;McCa in was a POW.but has he done to help the less fortunate lately? What you did a long time ago was what you did a long time ago…and the war was not even one that we should have been fighting. So, Barack, on the other hand, has been in the gut of helping the poor for much of his life..on the front lines of helping those who need it the most right in our own backyard..that is real patriotism. Experience does not mean that you are wise…there are many stupid experienced people.

I really don’t get it,how is it that someone,that have been in office,over 24-26 yrs.Has went along with the program,and since they didn’t have a theam,for themself,they had to use someone else,My God,i know we are a big k
laughing stock in the world.But I do know this,that when one is old,they usely have old ideas.Because they can’t forget the old days.And this is why the word CHANGE,should not be use,when they can only think about the past.I myself would like to see a limit on the age of person to run for office.This whold thing is a mess.This is a setup,from within.Why was it the Vise Preasident,didn’t speak,and they try to talk about the Dems are divided.Now that they have Ms. Pailin,on the ticket,God help us if Mc Cain was to become Preasident.Then Ms. Pailin would become Preasident.Is this what the US Of A Really wants.When we have to deal with the overseas Deals.Because the overseas,don’t like dealing, with women.And to tell you the truth,I myself don’t like dealing with womens,and I’m a woman myself.

This is senseless propaganda, the Republicans obliviously were overshadowed by Senator Obama’s
historical nomination. Within the next day, Sarah Palin was chosen VP for the Republican ticket. How dare the GOP manipulate the American peoples’ vote.
Furthermore, What justification can they offer by picking such a inexperience candidate. As a African American woman Sarah Palin definitely cannot relate to my struggles economically. “Yes” sure she a wife with some kids and so are other African American women who have kid yet are without husbands.
I really feel sorry for her, if she actually becomes VP in November(which she will not)
Her title will read “Political Prostitute and John McCain the Pimp”.

The men in black have flashed their memory stick and they have forgotten the past 8 years and who got us into this mess. This republican convention was told to leave their hoods at home. Strictly white, conservatives. Ronald Reagan said he didn’t know there was a race problem and the republicans love him. These republican people don’t know anything about not making a mortgage/rent payment. McCain is married to a filthy rich beer dealer which he had to sign a prenuptial before he married her. McCain will say or do anything to get what he wants and he has wanted this pre sidency for a long time. She had on a $300,000 outfit at the convention. McCain walks like he doesn’t have a neck because it is eaten by Cancer. Do we want Palin for acting president? No, and Lynn Swann I can’t understand where you are coming from. Being a republican isn’t a status.

Hi there,
From the MOTHER LAND.if all you brothers and sister vote for Mc cain! we shall disowen all your.
We want a brother in the white house.it’s about that time ,it has been for a while.
So please got out there and register and make us all proude.
With thanks
Daglous

is she !!! i saw her photos on a tall celeb site,seems named :” http://Tallmingle.com “,you know?

Patrick
You must be delusional too say McCain/Palin blew it out of park. They did is BLEW IT.Preaching to the choir will not convert independents when Niether McCain or Palin made no mention of what they intend too do.All they did is preach the same mantra that you preach.The republcan will not aloow Palin too be interviewed as of yet;Why not?

jfffnn,

Because they know she has know foreign policy experience, she does not even have a passport, has never been out of the country, and she has unmoral behavior going on in her house, and they wanna make sure she knows how to address them and cover them up, but the skeletons are coming out, !!!!

Clint
It scares me too think Gov.Palin would have too sit down and talk to Prime Minister Putin regardless of the fact Alalska is next to Russia

That Palin woman is a joke. Doesn’t she see that the republican party (which she has fought in the past) is playing her for a fool. She’s just a token; much like Cindy McCain.

The RNC was soooooo boring that I started counting liver spots on all the OLD RACIST just to say awake. I stopped at 3,450,961.

jfffnn,

it scares me to think that this woman will be talking to anyone outside of the U.S. to be quite frank.,,,,,You know what jfffnn, I wonder what will these same Palin supporters be saying when her other daughter ends up pregnant., and now mind you I think she’s only 12, And you know they have no supervision, and she is going to try to compete with her big sister….

Clint
I just read on another board that there is serious doubt that the baby might not be Gov.Palins coupled with the fact nobody remembers her being pregnant and no Doctor says that he/she delivered the baby.The Gov. says she started having labor pains at the Gov. conference which was in Philly,Pa. and got on a plane to fly home where the water broke,nobody recalls that either.Now there is a report that she doesn’t understand domestic fiscal policy;It’s no wonder the Republicans will not allow the press too interview her alone.

Why is it okay that Sarah Palin is considered a “rock star”? Remember 3 weeks ago when the right ripped Obama calling him the same? Palin gave an arrogant speech (again written by others), she NEVER sold the plane on e-bay by the way, it was sold by a broker to Larry Reynolds of Valdez, AK. for 2.1 mil. ($300,000 below it’s value) Mr. Reynold’s was also a huge campaign contributor to Mrs. Palin. Funny that he got such a good deal; makes you wonder why the “liberal” media hasn’t covered that one (probably because there is no liberal media). Americans should wake up and smell what’s being shoveled. You are being force fed advertising slogans by the right (catchy, but with no real substance) and you are eating it up. The fact remains that if McCain and Palin get into the white house, we won’t even recognize this country in 4 years, I’ll be in New Zealand, a place where people make up there own minds, and don’t allow others to tell them what’s best….

McCain and Palin are both power freaks! I mean people COME ON NOW! Are we really this dumb to be told the same things over and over and over again! I mean the same things they are saying now is what was promised to us by the Republicans!

In the RNC last week a member said that US shouldn’t apoogize for anything! THIS IS BULL CRAP! If we are right then we are right and when we are wrong we should admit it! This is why we dont have any friends now!

How can you admit that the republicans did us wrong McCain when you still vote with Bush 95% of the time?

Plus Palin is very disturbing too becuase she has only been on the scene for approx. 2 weeks an she has no real agenda! her current standing is that she was chosen and only spoken too acouple of time before she chosen.

If you watch her she is saying the same speech verbatim from the RNC word for word! Thats how unprepared she is!

I can’t wait til those vicious reports eats her up and put an end to all the celebrity crap that once again she called Obama!

People in the country are so crazy! Well some of them are….to think just becuase a man is Black that this is reason enough to not vote for him! To those biggets and ingorant individuals may god bless you!

McCain preached at the RNC that this is the ladn of the free and equality for all! When we are not at all! They don’t even wanna offer the same right to our gay brothers and sisters!

Come on People!!!

ELECT AND VOTE DEMOCRATIC!

When I look at the ticket of McCain-Palin, I see a old guy who was a playboy, who left his first wife after she stood by him, raising his children, until his release as a POW. I see a VP pick who gave birth a mere eight months after eloping, whose husband has had trouble with the concept of a designated driver, and whose pregnant 17-year-old daughter is unmarried.
But what really irritates me is not this explicit hypocrisy. It is that the Christian Right is positively jubilant over the fact that Sarah Palin’s daughter intends to keep the baby and get married, yet conservatives have helped to ensure that few young people have that as a viable option.

The life prospects of a teenage couple with a child and only high school degrees have collapsed in this modern economy. Things that might have prevented this deterioration — such as support for unionism, fair trade policies, a minimum wage that constitutes a living wage and universal health care — have all been anathema to the Republican Party.

Bristol Palin will do fine, of course, with Mom’s stature and money. Others are not so lucky.

I saw that girl’s profile and photos on SEXY&WEALTHY dating site http://BillionaireRomance.com last week. It seems she is seeking true love now.

I heard the brother’s in the “Nation” say,”When the white man finally gets to that point in time where they feel they are losing control of the World, they will ‘he’ will finally use his white woman as a pawn to tempt the people to allow him to remain in control”. I am not saying That McCain is the alleged white man that they were referring to, but it sure looks like a desperate attempt to blind the people to their condition in America, and their status amongst other nations as a world leader in anything besides war making. I believe that once the physical attraction is over between Palin and the people, they will see her as the wicked old witch from the North west, and McCain as the emperor from Star Wars.

there are white republicans coming to this web site pretending they’re black, how low would you go.

McCain choose Palin only after he waited to see whom Obama choose for a VP.Now after that choice he hurried to get Palin on the ticket.That is someone that has no real concern about what needs to be done to help the country with the many problems we face today because of people making rash decisions like he McCain made in choosing her,shows that he will not be able to make clear and decisive decisions on his own.He choose someone he knew for a short time,someone he knew little about but becaues she was gov.of Alaska.The media has been walking very lightly when it comes to criticizing her.While she had all the will to stand up and berate Obama for being a volunteer she only shows how elitist she and the republicans are.That was as if she was saying look I’m far better than you.
She has attended six colleges lied about her bridge to nowhere and we’ll find out I’m sure more.Her being a gov. for two years is far less that Obama’s time in the sen.and he has actually gotten bills passed but unfortunately few care to really read his accomplishments.they are willing to bash him and don’t know anything about him.Is it because of his race I’m sure part of it is but I hope that when it comes time to cast the vote that people will vote for someone that is willing to get us back on track in this country and throughout the world.Someone that has the judgement to not get us into a war and not have any adea of how they are going to end it.The republicans are now going about using the ideas Obama has been suggesting be done in alot situations now,so this to me shows he has the better judgement all of all.

The publics infatuation with that Palin female will end as soon as she starts answering the real questions. She running a popularity contest right now. All fluff no substance. She’s a celebrity now (something Obama was criticized for). Pretenders don’t perform well without a written script. She’s got so much junk in her trunk that she should be ashamed as a “Christian” to stand in front of America and repeat those REPUBLICAN LIES. Any woman who jumps on the McCain/Palin band wagon is in for a bumpy ride straight to HELL!

ABOUT SARAH PALIN- PLEASE WAKE UP AMERICA. RESEARCH, READ ASK QUESTIONS!!!
Dear Friends,
So many people have asked me about what I know about Sarah Palin in the last 2 days that I decided to write something up . . .
Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in common: their gender and their good looks.
You have my permission to forward this to your friends/email contacts with my name and email address attached, but please do not post it on any websites, as there are too many kooks out there . . .
Thanks,
Anne
ABOUT SARAH PALIN
I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992. Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her father was my child’s favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the residents of the city.
She is enormously popular; in every way she’s like the most popular girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and won’t vote for her can’t quit smiling when talking about her because she is a ‘babe’.
It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. She kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents for seven months.
She is ‘pro-life’. She recently gave birth to a Down’s syndrome baby. There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby.
She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.
She is savvy. She doesn’t take positions; she just ‘puts things out there’ and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.
Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin’s kind of job is highly sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything like that of native Alaskans.
Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters.
She’s smart.
Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000 (at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about 670,000 residents.
During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had given rise to a recall campaign.
Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a ‘fiscal conservative’. During her 6 years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over 33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation (1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they benefited residents.
The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration weren’t enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece of property that the City didn’t even have clear title to, that was still in litigation 7 yrs later–to the delight of the lawyers involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.
While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office redecorated more than once.
These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city.
As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.
In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today’s surplus, borrow for needs.
She’s not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren’t generated by her or her staff. Ideas weren’t evaluated on their merits, but on the basis of who proposed them.
While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin’s attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.
Sarah complained about the ‘old boy’s club’ when she first ran for Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of ‘old boys’. Palin fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people, creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally grateful and fiercely loyal–loyal to the point of abusing their power to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the case of pressuring the State’s top cop (see below).
As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla’s Police Chief because he ‘intimidated’ her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska’s top cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure and she had every legal right to fire him, but it’s pretty clear that an important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn’t fire her sister’s ex-husband, a State Trooper. Under investigation for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen contacts were made between her staff and family to the person that she later fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew her support.
She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn’t like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.
Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything publicly about her.
When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah got the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission: one of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid. She had no background in oil &gas issues. Within months of scoring this great job which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in the press about the high salary. I was told that she hated that job: the commute, the structured hours, the work. Sarah became aware that a member of this Commission (who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party) engaged in unethical behavior on the job. In a gutsy move which some undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah solved all her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics and as a gutsy fighter against the ‘old boys’ club’ when she dramatically quit, exposing this man’s ethics violations (for which he was fined).
As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from Senator Ted Stevens. Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel politics and publicly humiliated him. She only opposed the ‘bridge to nowhere’ after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.
As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing projects, calling them pork. Public outcry and further legislative action restored most of these projects–which had been vetoed simply because she was not aware of their importance–but with the unobservant she had gained a reputation as ‘anti-pork’.
She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated them. Other members of the party object to her self-description as a fiscal conservative.
Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah. They call her ‘Sarah Barracuda’ because of her unbridled ambition and predatory ruthlessness. Before she became so powerful, very ugly stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made point guard on the high school basketball team. When Sarah’s mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.
As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of package of legislation known as ‘AGIA’ that forced the oil companies to march to the beat of her drum.
Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked to global warming. She campaigned ‘as a private citizen’ against a state initiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the state (depending on who you listen to). She has pushed the State’s lawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior’s decision to list polar bears as threatened species.
McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be a heartbeat away from being President.
There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more knowledgeable and experienced than she.
However, there’s a lot of people who have underestimated her and are regretting it.
CLAIM VS FACT
* ‘Hockey mom’: true for a few years
* ‘PTA mom’: true years ago when her first-born was in elementary school, not since
* ‘NRA supporter’: absolutely true
* social conservative: mixed. Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a bill that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships (said she did this because it was unconsitutional).
* pro-creationism: mixed. Supports it, BUT did nothing as Governor to promote it.
* ‘Pro-life’: mixed. Knowingly gave birth to a Down’s syndrome baby BUT declined to call a special legislative session on some pro-life legislation
* ‘Experienced’: Some high schools have more students than Wasilla has residents. Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska. No legislative experience other than City Council. Little hands-on supervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city administrator to run town of about 5,000.
* political maverick: not at all
* gutsy: absolutely!
* open &transparent: ??? Good at keeping secrets. Not good at explaining actions.
* has a developed philosophy of public policy: no
* ‘a Greenie’: no. Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores and disconnected parking lots. Is pro-drilling off-shore and in ANWR.
* fiscal conservative: not by my definition!
* pro-infrastructure: No. Promoted a sports complex and park in a city without a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system. Built streets to early 20th century standards.
* pro-tax relief: Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax burden on residents
* pro-small government: No. Oversaw greatest expansion of city government in Wasilla’s history.
* pro-labor/pro-union. No. Just because her husband works union doesn’t make her pro-labor. I have seen nothing to support any claim that she is pro-labor/pro-union.
WHY AM I WRITING THIS?
First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting programs in the schools. If you google my name (Anne Kilkenny Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.
Secondly, I’ve always operated in the belief that ‘Bad things happen when good people stay silent’. Few people know as much as I do because few have gone to as many City Council meetings.
Third, I am just a housewife. I don’t have a job she can bump me out of. I don’t belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I am no fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will cost me somehow in the future: that’s life.
Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100 or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah’s attempt at censorship.
Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to say anything because they were somehow vulnerable.
CAVEATS
I am not a statistician. I developed the numbers for the increase in spending &taxation 2 years ago (when Palin was running for Governor) from information supplied to me by the Finance Director of the City of Wasilla, and I can’t recall exactly what I adjusted for: did I adjust for inflation? for population increases? Right now, it is impossible for a private person to get any info out of City Hall — they are swamped. So I can’t verify my numbers.
You may have noticed that there are various numbers circulating for the population of Wasilla, ranging from my ‘about 5,000?, up to 9,000. The day Palin’s selection was announced a city official told me that the current population is about 7,000. The official 2000 census count was 5,460. I have used about 5,000 because Palin was Mayor from 1996 to 2002, and the city was growing rapidly in the mid-90’s.
Anne Kilkenny
annekilkenny@hotmail.com
August 31, 2008

I knew that byotch was real foul!

MACEDONIA IS IN GREECE.

Palin looks like a stripper I got a lap dance from back in Detroit about 7 years ago. I wonder if her stage name is Vanilla Puddin?

I am a female, registered as an Independent voter, and do not identify with Sarah Palin politically in any way. I did identify with Clinton politically in a number of ways. And this is about political and legislative issues, not about switching from normal blue jeans to high waisters, suffering through a bad haircut or dye job, changing diapers, or creating a career while balancing mommy duty at home. Friends, colleagues, and professional women’s associations are for support in those areas of Private Life. This election is about Political and Legislative dominance of the country.

BECAUSE Clinton’s stand on issues related to women and on some other issues are what I believe is important and should be protected and promoted, I supported Clinton. I did not support her because she was a woman but because she was a woman who spent her career in politics defending things that I believe in as important and vital to our freedoms and our equality. BECAUSE Sarah Palin’s stand on these issues IS what HRC gave her energy to fighting against, I do not support Palin.

Supporters of HRC who decide to support the McCain-Palin ticket because Palin is a woman and neither Biden nor Obama are women, never truly supported HRC for her intellect and her work, the place where she put her energy, the things that HRC values about herself, they never really supported her and their decision reflects not only the sexism that Clinton spent her life fighting -judging someone’s ability based on gender, but they switch their support to someone who seeks to undo what HRC worked her life to help create and defend.

If those issues were not important to you in the first place, why were you supporting Clinton because by doing so, you were voting against your belief system about how the country should be structured and so against your own self-interest.

HRC is concerned about a whole lot more than pantsuits and hairdos. So is Palin. They both have goals and agendas for which they work. That is why they are doing what they do. If you believed HRC’s were in your best interest and in the best interest of the country and in the best interest of women then you have no choice but to believe that Palin’s are not because they are as different as a green pantsuit with a hibiscus design is from a basic black one.

What are you concerned about? Gender identification OR the rules that govern this country that affect gender based freedoms and equality? I’ll wear a pantsuit probably in the not too distant future and identify with women who do, but I want to wear it in an environment that supports me rights to move freely, be paid equally, and make my own choices about my own body.

The dem ticket carries the torch for the things that HRC continues to work for and to promote. They will have my support. Because they represent what I believe in. HRC has asked those who supported her to support the Dem. ticket and not just because of party affiliation but because it supports what she supports and it is important to her. Supporters of her who shift support to Palin are essentially issuing a major slap in the face to Clinton….bigger than the one they think she received from the party when she conceded. That was one personal and singular. Theirs is about something bigger than a person, and HRC’s history shows that her values are about somthing beigger than herself.

You want solidarity within the gender, you supported HRC, then you continue to support the things she values. You don’t, then you were never there for the reasons should would have had you there in the first place and you become a part of what she fights - and she fights it for You as well as herself.

If Palin were a man, and you cared about the issues HRC represented, you would find her ideas about how You should live to be poison. HRC does and it’s part of the cause that she gives her life to, as have countless women (and men) over the past 50 years. My friend, a bright and well respected professional woman in her mid 40’s, who I know supports many of the same issues HRC does, said this weekend that she was thinking to vote McC-Palin because of Palin. I asked her how she would feel if some of the these things were lost. She said that the presidential administration can’t make those decisions. I said, the Supreme Court does and the president appoints Supreme Court judges. She asked me how the supreme court works and how many judges are on it.

Enough said.

Its funny to watch all the dummies out try and down play Obama’s accomplishments! And we wonder why other countries hate our racist butts!! This KKKountry hasn’t changed one lick from its racist past! Instead of Hooded Sheets you all now where SUITS and you think we should forget about everything racist that this country has done!! REMEMBER HURRICANE KATRINA!!! RACISM IS ALIVE AND WELL IN THE KKKOUNTRY!! And you better believe we havent forgotten!
Obama-
Occidental College - two years.
Columbia University - B.A. political science with a specialization in international relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna ~%? laude
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BIDEN-University of Delaware - B.A. in history and B.A. in political science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)

Versu s

McCai n-
United States Naval Academy - class rank 894 of 899
PALIN-
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in journalism
And she became Governor??!!
MY TURN!!!

You all seem so full of hate and blind faith of Obama - I’m more a middle of the roader - I like Obama on pro-choice and don’t think we should be spending all the $$ on the war, but I do like the GOP as far as less government is better government - none of us really want the government to tell us what to do! What I don’t understand, though, is how the comments here, especially on Palin, who you have to admit is an interesting figure (right or wrong, by viewpoint). The diatribe I hear make me want to run in the oposite direction - none of you is talking about the issues - all I hear is Obama is black - OK - so? If you’ve ever visited a ‘right wing’ site people are talking about I think we should do this (or that) this way or (that way). I may not agree with all their decisions, but at least they’re talking about it - nobody is saying ‘we need another white in the white house’ - PREDICTION: The first black pres won’t be Obama - it’ll be a black conservative - one how will rally the GOP Base and benefit from the black inclination to vote for a black.

PS - I just can’t resist - the bottom 38% of the taxpayers in fact pay no tax at all - they get money from earned income credit, etc. If 38% of the people pay no taxes, how can 95% get a tax cut?

John Sweeney:

I don’t get money from earned income credit and none of my family does. Thank you very much. Interesting that ALL you could see in all of these comments is RACE! We are discussing more than race on this blog and if you paid attention you would see that but you have chosen to only see the race thing. Gee I wonder why?

I believe that McCain just doesn’t know what he is doing. He tells people that he is for us that’s all a lie. He is just for himself and how dare he get a young woman like Sarah Palin to become Vice Presiden tthat’s just insane. He keeps talking about him being in war, who cares that does not have nothing to do with the changes that the people want to have for this year. He says that he would make a chance for us yea right now he won’t because i believe that he is all on bush’s side and if their for each other and their won’t be no differnce made when it’s all said and done. He surely isn’t making me conviced about what he wants to do his only thinking about the war and himself. Sarah Palin won’t even be prepared to be a Vice president because she doesn’t know what she know what she is getting herself into even if she may think she does. She is so young she’s not experinced enough to say anything and at that she has a daughter who is 17 who is about to have a baby while they is telling her business all on t.v. as if she doesn’t mind. I believe that Obama will do well as a president people need to start thinking about what we want and not about who we think will do something we want someone who is going to keep their word about the speech that they make to the people who they want to vote for them.

I believe that McCain just doesn’t know what he is doing. He tells people that he is for us that’s all a lie. He is just for himself and how dare he get a young woman like Sarah Palin to become Vice President that’s just insane. He keeps mentioning about the time of him being in the war and how his all for them but that’s wonderful and all but this situation is about him making a differnce for the people. For him to bring Sarah Palin in to this compaighn it is a bad idea she has her own issues if she doesn’t realize that her 17 year old daughter is having a baby and she thinks that she can be a good Vice President I don’t think so. I do know one thang I believe that Obama would be right for our president because he wants to make alot of differnce for his people. The one thang that we need is a president who is going to keep their word and do what they say to give us a good reason to vote for them.

Sarah:

Look above at oddysey - typical - ‘would do well for his people’ - further I didn’t attack Obama - I agree on some issues with him - as stated - that doesn’t mean I call him a liar on other issues like you all are doing on McCain/Palin - did I say anything about his wife/kid/VP (though I’m certainly not crazy about Biden - he should have stuck with HRC). You may not be on EIC, but many are - it is a fact the bottom 38% already pay no tax - so how are 95% supposed to get a tax cut? You’ll also note I DIDN’T say what race I am - read the majority of blogs, though - ‘our people’ or ‘his people’ or ‘whitey McCain’? As a site, it’s not a shining example of political discourse!

John Sweeney,

This is a black website owned by white but black issues dominate nevertheless. That is the point of this site. Of course there will be a semblence of racial solidarity displayed by a lot of the posters. If that bothers you find another site that isn’t geared towards blacks. Additionally, you need to review Obama’s website regarding his tax plan for the level of detail that you need. I am not an expert at explaining that. I personally don’t frequent websites that I find offensive.

McCain is insane in the membrane just like Keith says on MSNBC - if he thinks he can claim “Change” it a joke the only people buying it are the republicans and they’re cult follower s…

McCai n needs to go pick up a websters dictionary and read what change really mean. He is a joke and an imposter. Sarah Palin is being used it’s really sad when women allow themselves to be a whoremon ger̷ 0;..McCa in is the oldest pimp and so many media coverage is soaking this up like its the lastest NEWS…..what a circus the media is a puppet on a string that Mccain is pulling& #8230;

Some people can’t realized a fake when they see one. Sarah is so phony…..some people are stupid they rather settle for 4 more years of President Bushe’s policies than vote for a intelligent African American Man who has the sense to and heart to lead this country regardless if he’s talked about slander, misunderstood, smeared and threaten.

Senator Obama keep your head up victory is coming…Change is coming…don’t give up and don’t give in..Senator Biden.. be encouraged not discoura ge… ;.

Obama /Biden -08

If Sarah Palin has a degree in journalism then why does she need GOP training before she can speak publicly to America about the issues. Without McCain hand holding and all that annoying clapping.

ENGLISH IS HER NATIVE TONGUE ISN’T IT!!

Come on you all, let’s be honest with ourselves. If Barack & Michelle Obama had a 17 year old daughter who was pregnant and down syndrome child while running for office the Christians and Republicans would have taken them to the shed…It’s not fair and I am not being racist or sexist…It’s just the truth, when it comes to Republicans and most Christians, right and wrong is in the eye of the beholder…Palin should have said to McCain, not now, I have a family to take care of.

chris,

You talking like you got some sense!!!!! great post!!1

Why is Palin playing around with this INVESTIGATION??? Innocent people want this over and done with. First she wants to postpone it until after the election…then she wants to claim that the investigators (democrats, independents and repubs) are biased!!!

WHAT IS SARAH PALIN HIDING???
AND DON’T THE AMERICAN VOTERS DESERVE TO KNOW THE OUTCOME OF THIS INVESTIGATION BEFORE THE ELECTION?????????

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