Chuck Todd: McCain's canned response shows he "might as well be speechless"
By SilentPatriot Thursday Aug 28, 2008 11:00am
The McCain campaign's pathetic response to Obama's amazing speech tells you one thing: they have no idea how to respond. Tom Brokaw mocks the response and Chuck Todd wonders how the GOP is going to top the Democratic Convention and how McCain is possibly going to top Obama.
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"The McCain campaign, their response seemed to be that they might has well have been speechless. They didn't know how to react to this speech. They could have written that response before the speech even started. They don't know how to react to this speech. Maybe they were focus-grouping at the time and it focus grouped very well. Whatever the response was, they don't know how to react to this just yet. One more point: The 2 conventions, normally you want to go second, but this is the first time we had back to back conventions like this and I tell ya, I don't know if the Republican Party really is looking forward to having to follow this show. because as a political show, this is gonna be hard to top, not just next week, but four or eight years from now."
McCain's response:
“Tonight, Americans witnessed a misleading speech that was so fundamentally at odds with the meager record of Barack Obama,” spokesman Tucker Bounds said. “When the temple comes down, the fireworks end, and the words are over, the facts remain: Senator Obama still has no record of bipartisanship, still opposes offshore drilling, still voted to raise taxes on those making just $42,000 per year, and still voted against funds for American troops in harm’s way. The fact remains: Barack Obama is still not ready to be President.”
Of course the McCain campaign doesn't know how to respond. All they know how to do is attack attack attack. Barack Obama's speech wasn't just well-delivered and well-written; It was a generational call to arms. It was a bio wrapped in an attack ad wrapped in a policy speech wrapped in a vision for America's future. He spoke to the concerns of average Americans and how he plans to address them. He painted McCain as the chief enabler of the Bush legacy and status quo of Washington, while offerring a genuinely different path for the country.
Obama just elevated the debate. The question remains whether or not McCain will rise to the occassion or continue the Karl Rove politics of old. My bet is on the latter. St Paul is gonna be a blast.
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His response is to change the story by announcing his running mate.
Interesting choice too.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/29/palin.republican.vp.candidate...
People of America "ENOUGH !!!!!!!!!!!!"
...And he continues his cluelessness by "picking" another Big Oil queen. Johnny Monsta Mack, pimping for Big Oil.
Let's see, where have we seen an oil tool VP before?
HERE IS MCCAINS RESPONSE
More recently, she has come under the scrutiny of an investigation by the Republican-controlled legislature into the possibility that she ordered the dismissal of Alaska's public safety commissioner because he would not fire her former brother-in-law as a state trooper.
I will enjoy watching McSame VP get ripped apart.
Then the Palin shoe fell and the fat lady took her place behind the mike.
She has a lovely voice, don't you think?
No article about McCains oil queen/milf pick for a running mate?
Another bad response
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Palin interview with Larry Kudlow, in which she responds to a question (around 2:50) about the number two slot by saying she'd like to know "what is it exactly that the Vice President does every day."
She adds that she'd like to ensure that the position is "fruitful," especially for Alaska.
He might as well be Veep-less.
All I have is two words for McSame VP. Joe Biden.........................
I cannot wait for the debates. Obama will shred McCain. Although Kerry shredded Bush and no one seemed to care. George was "plain spoken" and that seemed to be the #1 quality for president in 2000 and 2004.
Also interesting her father is younger than McCain himself!
Grandpa McCain 08
outtheoffice @ 5:
You mean by the pundits? Because IMO, Palin gives a lot of idiots the reason they've been waiting for not to vote for Obama.
We already knew that Obama was going to clean McCain's clock during the debates, but is it even a fair fight to have Biden versus Palin? It sort of undercuts the premise of "experience," when your VP choice is 3 years Obama's junior and whose claim to fame is governor of a state that is the home base of "Deadliest Catch." Honestly, that show is about the only thing most other Americans keep up with that has anything to do with Alaska. No offense to Alaska or its citizens, but you guys are just in another world up there and the press in our areas don't run much news on what goes on. Why do you think that a lot of Americans don't care about drilling up there? Because they've never been there, won't go there, have never seen it, won't ever see it, don't know anyone who lives there, and treat it like it only exists as an extra star on our flag. This is going to be fun.
The choice of Palin shows McCain's speechless and it showcases McCain's spectacularly bad judgment. Palin? I guess she'll get about 2 votes from unconvinced PUMAs. And scare the crap out of independents.
Wow. Katrina Redux. Palin. One more thing and he'll have hit the trifecta.
Looks like nobama is old news now! Palin is a genius pick for the conservative right!
The fact remains: Barack Obama is still not ready to be President.
But a Governor with 20 months experience as Governer of Alaska is ready to take over for a 72 year old cancer survivor and be leader of the free world. Rigggghhhhht.
Whatever Palin's troubles at home, I still can't help but pity her for McCain's choice--this is surefire political suicide. Given, she's on the hot seat in Juneau, but I fear teh increased scrutiny for going national is gonna dig up *every* skeleton in her closet, and she might as well jump off Sen. young's Bridge to Nowhere.....
Johnnie picked her because he heard her screaming "Drill here, drill now!" and he misunderstood.
the repubs have thrown in the towel. this is like the #1 team in the nation playing a division 2 team and the div. 2 team plays their backup players so as to not injure their starters.
Well looks like McCain got his orders from big oil again; go for drill drill drill Palin......
Also loved Obamas camp response: A person with no foreign experience whos a heartbeat away from being president!
Priceless
After his attacks on Obama's readiness for the job, it'll be amusing to hear a 71-year-old with a history of health problems justify this decision.
She is literally good be President day on
Chuck U @ 17:
xenophon @ 13:
I'm sorry, but you're a desperate troll or thinking-impaired. Or maybe you're right. The public has been itching for a big oil queen creationist rightwinger who was mayor of a town of 6,000 two years ago and now is shall we say an ethically challenged governor tied into the most corrupt state Republican party in the US.
Yeah right McCain, and the sexy Hockey Mom YOU PICKED to be VP is ready to be president? Are you out of your freaking hypocritical mind? Obama/Biden has you scared out of your skull! Too funny.
*She is literally going to be President day one
For once the MSM has something respecful to say about Obama.
Palin is the perfect polarizing choice to prove to Hillary supporters that they should vote for Obama.
I think the VP pick on McCains part isnt going to help him at all. Hes got a difficult reality to face in that he is AS OF TODAY SEVENTY THREE YEARS OLD . It is statistical FACT (according the CDC) that Palin is likely to assume the office of President during his first term. I hope he lives to be 110 years old but in the USA 75.2yrs i average male life expectancy. With McCain as President the readiness of the VP is NOT AN ACADEMIC ONE. Now, McCain and Palin have to prove that they are both more qualified to be President than Barack Obama. McCain made an opportunistic choice, hoping to catch some disgruntled Hillary supporters, but Palin cant just be lipstick on pig (so to speak). The Quayle option doesn't fly under these circumstances.
Looks like the GOP found a way to dodge the hurricane!
The temple's coming down in January 2009 when the imperial presidency comes to an end and King George slithers out of the White House!
Sera Pulon? She's forty four years old and has spent forty of them in the dark. How long before she becomes "Miss Buffalo Chip?
Chuck U @ 17:
Hey now don't forget that she was a mayor as well, of a town with less people than some apartment buildings!
Good God, does McCain have Dementia? Senility? ...Alzheimer's?
He just completely and utterly threw in the trash his biggest argument against Obama: INEXPERIENCE
There is truly nothing left of this old soldier. Time to retire John.
As of late both David Brooks and Maureen Dowd both seem to be channeling Art Buchwald.
Badly.
Here's Brooks pathetic dissection of Obama's speech from last night, but that's not the real story, be sure to check out the comments, they're scathing. It got so bad with people ridiculing him the Times cut it off after 150+ posts.
Tres cool to watch 'em flame out like this, inn't?
~Nyc
I find it so funny when reporters talk about Obama's failure to define his vision of change. I can understand the average, uninformed American not knowing Obama's policies in different areas of politics. But for a reporter to not know Obama's platform, that is just plain laziness. It takes about 5 minutes of web crawling to find numerous policy papers put out by the Obama campaign. He has been defining "Change" for quite some time. I guess it just needed to be delivered in a gift wrapped package so that the Beltway Media could comprehend it.
Brady @ 36:
Yeah. Ya can't win with these asshats. Define it in too much detail, and you're "boringly wonk-ish."
He just completely and utterly threw in the trash his biggest argument against Obama: INEXPERIENCE
Yeah, but Obama can't use it against Palin, can he?
B
sarah palin governor of alaska since dec '06
bs in journalism
governor of a state 99%owned by feds.
state basically lives off gas/oil
life time member NRA
probably squeaky clean
so mcoldfart picks milf as running mate
anyone got pics of her from one of her old beauty contests?
John F A @ 19:
5 kids? Drill her.
And her husband is an exec with BP. Hmmm.... big oil wanting one of its own as VP. It sounds vaguely familiar.
Palin was Miss Alaska runner up a few years back, so it is only fitting that she ride shotgun to McSame.
Max H @ 29:
He's 72 today
Five kids.....She's got my vote......School board.....PTA.........City Counsel..........Miss Buffalo Chips........
maleman @ 40:
constituent @ 38:
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I'm John McSame, and I approved this message.
xenophon @ 13:
Why, because they'll still be laughing their @sses off, as I am right now -- and will be for a long time? I hope I can get over it and remember to vote for Obama on election day.
On an unrelated note. With regard to the convention coverage, right up to the current news with Sarah Palin; MSNBC totally blows as of late. From the childish bickering between hosts (Olbermann with Tweety, Scar, Murphy -- Scarborough with his condescending treatment of his guests and co workers), to the poor commentary by their talent. Yikes.
Especially Andrea Mitchell. Quite possibly the worst interviewer/mush mouth amongst the high profile talent that is out there. She was so awful today, that I had to turn to CNN. She had at least one 10 second pause today due to her inability to find the right word/phrase. It was embarrassing. Norah O'Donnell and her horrible laugh. Showing standing shots of Chuck Todd next to anyone (I did not know that he was so puny- cause he sure does like to talk tough).
They really need to tighten things up.
McCain doesn't have a chance of topping the elegance or finesse that Barack Obama showed last night - and he's behind the media 8-ball with this announcement as well, following on the heels of Obama's speech as most of the country prepares to enjoy a holiday weekend.
It's going to pretty much fall into the Friday 'news hole' - the same way the Bush Administration buries sliders they want to have ignored. And then they'll have to re-introduce Palin to us during the convention.
Do you think McCain wanted a hot sex queen to hang out with on the McCain Bus? McCain cheated on Cindy with a reporter back in 2000. Who knows what this old fool really wants from his Vice President. McCain sure picked a young hottie! LOL
The choice is obvious. The gender card has been played! Another scary right-wing bible thumper... Lord knows it was a predictable move by the party of desperation.
Wait a minute, McCain and Republicans go on and on and on on and on on and on and on and on and on about Obama's lack of experience to be President and then pick someone with even less experience who could be President? ARE THEY OUT OF THEIR FREAKING MINDS?!
john j @ 8:
I love it. McCain picks a supreme airhead as his V.P.
Here's my analysis of this choice: The Republican Party is in it's death throes after what Bush/Cheney (and admittedly with the help of Democrats) have done to our economy, the Constitution and by leading us into the illegal and immoral war against the people of Iraq.
McCain and the Republican heirarchy have made a conscious choice to choose someone who can be thrown under the bus with McCain in November. Why pick a solid Republican with true bonifides??
They know they're going to lose in November, especially after Joe Biden finishes with her at the Vice Presidential debate. Unless they have her secretly mic'd, he'll leave her either stuttering, in tears or both. I guarantee you, the Vice Presidential debate will be a zinger.
And as to Palin's character? She had her fifth baby who has Down's syndrome and went back to work when he was 3 days old. So much for bonding and having the common sense to take proper care of herself. Good God.
McIdiot and McStupid 2008!! ("What does a Vice President do?? Icky-Wicky just doesn't get it!")
Here she comes now to speak! Hey! At least she has a cool bee-hive hairdo!
I read it on another response somewhere, but it's too good to not bring along to C&L.
"A woman voting for Sarah Palin is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders!"
I have said this before - many times:
Young people speak of the future, because they have no past. Old people speak of the past, because they have no future.
This should sum up the 2008 campaign
I'm loving the pictures we'll see of McCain standing next to his running mate. Can't really think of a better way to make him look old.
fiver @ 56:
"Get off my lawn!!!"
fruit @ 52:
Yes.
I think it's funny how Obama mentioned nothings changed regarding oil dependence in the 27 years McCain's been in the senate. Biden’s been in the senate for over 30 years…
Hey this is the same group that, even though they were criticized, continue to use McCain's POW jailing as a response to "How many houses do you have."
After the campaign, then McCain twice, the campaign again and then finally McCain on Leno repeated the same canned response, you know there's a problem.
FINALLY some good news for the Democrats.
I can't wait for McCain and the Republicans trying to fend off the hurricane next week.
Hey John.......Give her some space! Her 20th anniversary and his 92nd birthday. This is funny....Her husband....he's a snow machine racer......OH MY GOD! This is painful to watch......
thepoetryman @ 42:
Hmmmm . . I can almost image her responses in a VP debate now.
st. paul is already a blast and the republicans aren't even there yet -- the announcement of palin as repub vp candidate literally knocked me laughing out of bed. i kept looking for the clown car for mccain to climb into and drive away from the press conference.
p.s. it looks like mccain took the advice and had his staff apply some skin bronzer to his pasty complexion.
W Obrien @ 60:
Weren't the wingnuts praying for God to show his will through the weather?
If the press is honest, they will be speechless after this fiasco.
fiver @ 41:
The yahoo news story has her husband as a blue collar oil worker. Better check those facts.
How's the GOP gonna top this?
War in the Caucasus--this year's October Surprise--should do it, doncha think?
Obama is promising change through policy, not simply through the circumstances of his birth.
The McCain campaign thinks his appeal is simply visual and demographic, and therefore something they can exploit.
Peter G @ 66:
Corrected. Thank you.
McCain just jumped the shark!
Dwight H @ 16:
Or what remains of them.22% if I remember correctly.
Manbearpig @ 59:
yeah i caught that also........good thing biden isn't the nominee
Surging Blue Lensman @ 62:
Ha!!!! I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts that TINA FEY is already doing the research on Palin in order to do her on Saturday Night Live! Ha!!!
Bush and Marie Antoinette McCain ate cake while New Orleans drowned. http://davidnyc.dailykos.com/ How will the very senior senator and Bush celebrate McCain's birthday this year as Gustav approaches?
Energy independence through more oil and gas??? And just how long will that last?
And the great state of Louisiana would like to welcome Hurricane Gustav to the Convention...since Katrina couldn't make it, nor her victims.
she didn't say happy birthday .........yet anyways.
after the kerry biden speeches, i turned to fox for shits and giggles. truly, some of the most satisfying msm moments i have ever witnessed. fred barns and bill krystal were bumbling, mumbling and incoherent. barn's faux "personal attack, no fair!" outrage was hysterical.
don't they know mccain was a POW!
very bad for democrats, very, very bad.
This is so pathetic, it is scary.
fiver @ 69:
Not that it wouldn't have been nice and usable. Oh well. Did you see the bit about her firing the public safety commissioner because he wouldn't fire her ex brother-in-law (a state trooper). Now that's Republican.
#36
As Orally and Hannity prove every day:
Listening is not their strong point. It doesn't even register in the top 10. Thy have somehow come to the conclusion that they can learn more by talking - faster, stroger, higher, louder.
so wait, little off topic but are there vice presidential debates?
Obama and sports metaphors
Golf - dead solid perfect
Baseball - Knocked it out of the park
Football - Through the uprights
Basketball - Nothing but net
Soccer - In the upper V
NASCAR - (Got nothing here)
Hockey - Great body check
Feel free to add your sports metaphor here. Maybe help with the NASCAR thing. Never did understahd the 2,000 left turs event. BUT I' won't be too rude, Don't want to insult our southern friends.
Nucular Weapons. HA HA HA
Chuck U @ 17:
This is the kind of discussion we need to reframe - ready HOW? Ready to lead us in two mismanaged wars, with two more (Iran and Russia) being fronted? That's what McCain wants us to buy into, that this is about readiness in war - because the economy, that's just whining. Oil dependency, that's all psychological, but we can drill a little and give people the illusion that things will be better until conquer the Middle East.
Ready is not about 3AM phone calls, as Hillary tried to tell us - because the true crises in life always come when you're NOT ready, and NOT expecting it.
Ready is not about flag-waving and lamenting the five years you spent in a POW camp without a kitchen table.
Ready IS about securing relationships with our allies, and being in a position where even our enemies respect our word and fear our might. (Right now, they're doing neither.)
Ready is not proposing doomsday scenarios and asking how someone will LEAD - because any answer is potentially the wrong one. We're not talking about the plots of Hollywood blockbusters, we're talking real life - where you don't get to play the lone hero and tackle terrorists on Air Force One, or run covert operations. In a crisis, as in times of peace, we look for the people who have the knowledge and the vision to get the job done.
Joe Pasetto @ 48:
DemocracyNow.org is two hours long all week. Its all archived for podcast.
There is no reason to rely on these blithereing idiots and their soap-opera horse races.
(Btw Amy Goodman got hassled on air while interviewing John Lewis ... she told the rent-a cop "this is a great man, do you know who he is"?
McCain strateegery for the next three months:
"Obama is a poopyhead and he farted!"
And of course it will still work on the 23%ers.
Lisact @ 28:
And how is that?
By being 180 degrees from what Hillary stands for? Riiiiight!
Who's in charge of "vetting" over there? If a Democrat picked someone 10 times more qualified, "my friends" they would scream amateur hour from the mountaintops! BTW' the crowd sounds much larger than it is, I can only spectaculate why... and such heroic sterile "Bank Commercial" music. Where's John Wayne and the Great Western S+L when you need them? Oh thats right, they went down with Lincoln S+L.
ROTFLMAO... palin is another dimbulb who can't pronounce nuclear properly... please, america... do the right thing and mock that travesty that is the repuglican party...
Move on people, nothing to see here. @ 82:
NASCAR - Turned left perfectly for four hours.
batty @ 70:
Palin-McCain will have all the photo-op appeal of an Anna Nichole Smith marriage, LOL.
And, "Get off my lawn!!!"
Dwight H @ 16:
Brought to you from the geniuses that thought the Titanic was unsinkable and men would never land on the moon.
She's a lightweight. She is there to carry Johnny Macs water and pander to the Hillary crowd.
Dwight H @ 16:
McCranky picked the female version of Dan Quayle and you think that's genius? Hahaha!
JM @ 54:
Hooooo Aggghhh!
Ruthless People @ 95:
She's Clarence Thomas in whiteface.
Sam are I @ 43:
lmab @ 94:
McOld would never make a vice presidential pick based purely on political considerations, he would do it soley on their qualifications!
This is really beneath me but, I wonder if Mrs. McCain is worried the elder Senator will throw her under the bus like the first Mrs. McCain was?
gov. Palin married to a BP oil exec, LMAO
Drill here, drill now. LMAO
Sorry, I really am!
The VP debate will be a bit odd. How can Biden answer without appearing a bully? He will have to take it easy to not appear pompus. I don't mean to appear rude, but this woman will not show well. McCain dodged a great number of better qualified republican women in his own party with his argument that he needed someone consistent with his view. POW and Alaskan hockey Mom, LOTS in common there. Who's music was that at the end and when will they file suit to make him stop using it?
Here we go:
Sarah Palin on Abortion
Pro-life. (Nov 2006)
Sarah Palin on Budget & Economy
Aim to reduce general fund spending by $150 million. (Jan 2007)
Sarah Palin on Civil Rights
Marriage only be between and man and a woman. (Nov 2006)
Sarah Palin on Corporations
No issue stance yet recorded by OnTheIssues.org.
Sarah Palin on Crime
If legislature passed death penalty law, I would sign it. (Nov 2006)
Sarah Palin on Drugs
No issue stance yet recorded by OnTheIssues.org.
Sarah Palin on Education
Fully fund K-12 and support early funding of education. (Jan 2007)
Sarah Palin on Energy & Oil
Stranded Gas Development Act no longer applies. (Nov 2006)
Get ANWR open. (Nov 2006)
Sarah Palin on Environment
Provide stability in regulations for developers. (Jan 2007) Convince the rest of the nation to open ANWR. (Jan 2007)
Sarah Palin on Families & Children
No issue stance yet recorded by OnTheIssues.org.
Sarah Palin on Foreign Policy
No issue stance yet recorded by OnTheIssues.org.
Sarah Palin on Free Trade
No issue stance yet recorded by OnTheIssues.org.
Sarah Palin on Government Reform
No issue stance yet recorded by OnTheIssues.org.
Sarah Palin on Gun Control
Supports Constitutional right to bear arms. (Nov 2006)
Sarah Palin on Health Care
Flexibility in government regulations to allow competition. (Nov 2006)
Sarah Palin on Homeland Security
Promote from within, in Alaska's National Guard. (Nov 2006)
Sarah Palin on Immigration
No issue stance yet recorded by OnTheIssues.org.
Sarah Palin on Jobs
No issue stance yet recorded by OnTheIssues.org.
Sarah Palin on Local Issues
No issue stance yet recorded by OnTheIssues.org.
Sarah Palin on Principles & Values
No issue stance yet recorded by OnTheIssues.org.
Sarah Palin on Social Security
Fund the Seniors Longevity Bonus Program. (Nov 2006)
Sarah Palin on Tax Reform
Repeal "nuisance taxes" including the tire tax. (Jan 2007)
Sarah Palin on Technology
No issue stance yet recorded by OnTheIssues.org.
Sarah Palin on War & Peace
No issue stance yet recorded by OnTheIssues.org.
Sarah Palin on Welfare & Poverty
No issue stance yet recorded by OnTheIssues.org.
thepoetryman @ 58:
McBush is obviously confident that his 72 year body and mind that has suffered an additional 5 years in POW camp beyond the regular ravages of time is going to last four years. He chooses a VP that has less experience than O and what we are supposed to consider this good judgment.
Surging Blue Lensman @ 62:
I think she's smarter than that... I certainly hope so for McCain's sake and I hope not for the country's sake.
Tina Fey IS Sarah Palin!!:
http://l.yimg.com/img.tv.yahoo.com/tv/us/img/site/13/18/0000041318_20070...
No? How about: sucked in that lead? I confess NASCAR's charm has always eluded me as well.
c-span ran the mccain "congratulations" "ad" after the speech. i wanted to hurl a brick though the teevee.
There's something fishy about this crowd that has gathered for the McCain/Palin roll out. Lots of voices that sound like college or high school boys. They are cheering like crazy at just about every word McCain and Palin have uttered. When you listen to the crowd it sounds like a cheering squad rather than a political gathering. Way more strangely enthusiastic than most of McCain's crowds. I'm wondering if a local high school or local college was invited to attend if they would cheer loud and long. The other unusual thing is so many in the audience are wearing yellow t-shirts and there are no close shots of anyone in the audience except those right behind McCain. No panning shots of the audience. Who are those people who are going bat shit crazy about this?
Palin's son joined the military on 9-11 last year and this year on 9-11 he will be deployed to Iraq. That's according to what she said today.
To address the actual subject of the thread (rather than Palin).. Maybe I'm just being self-serving here.. but could the talk of postponing the GOP convention due to Gustav have something to do with the Dem convention being 'difficult to top'?
I could, after all, see why they'd want to give this performance some time to fade from public memory before they haul out the old geezer.
JUDGE NAUGHT @ 88:
I was wondering about that myself. Music carries its own message, and I didn't recognize anything played behind this event.
On the other hand, the stirring music behind Obama & Biden last night was the 'Titans March' from 'Remember The Titans' - and even if people don't consciously recognize it, it may elicit a positive emotional response.
McCain's response was appalling , however his choice for VP was equally disgraceful , passing over his elderly mother for VP , for some pretty vixen from Alaska . The elderly should be outraged , as well as everyone for McCain to leave his mother at HOME ALONE trotting around the country , with some hot to trot cabin girl from Alaska . SHAME on you McCain .
Your mother deserves better .
There is something superficial about McSame.
Wasn't his first wife some kind of beauty queen or model? The his second wife too? Now this Palin thing, a model also?
Did wife #1 have money when they married? I know wife #2 does, and this one has oil reserves in her state.
What qualities doe McSame look for in people?
BobbyG @ 97:
Good analogy. Like Thomas who seeks to undo affirmative action laws that he benefited from she'll seek undo women's rights she's benefited from.
Check out Tina Fey as Sarah Palin:
http://l.yimg.com/img.tv.yahoo.com/tv/us/img/site/13/18/0000041318_20070...
tx @ 102:
Dan Quayle in a dress.
she fits perfect for alaska........that makes so much money from oil and gas they don't know what to do with it.her position is not that much of a challenge in alaska.
there is NO way she could possibly ready to serve as president if mccain had to step down. maybe i am mistaken......the (R) are really going after the hillary vote i guess. palin nothing close to clinton experience wise and brain power........i just don't see it.
the pick will be for culture and social voters.
omg, I just heard McCain's new running mate speak. He picked the sheriff from the Coen Brother's "FARGO!"
pissed off patricia @ 107:
O - M - G
Is there nothing these people won't use?
Ben @ 23:
karen @ 34:
It worked for Reagan.
Jgrant @ 116:
that's perfect
pissed off patricia @ 107:
I was watching the feed before McCain entered, and there was a cheerleading squad doing 'Johnnnnnnnn McCain!' and lame crowd whip-ups as everyone waited for McCain to arrive. I think they miked the cheerleaders or near their group, and that explains the youthful sound.
Wow.... it's not my birthday, it's not Christmas, I don't think I won the Lottery yet.....look at the presents we got over the past 24 hours.
The greatest political speech of the past 50yrs from a true statesman
AND
Sarah Palin
For what we have received may we truly be grateful AND work our freakin' butts off to get this country on track to fulfill our true potential.
fiver @ 117:
Not only patriotic but smart. By delaying his enlistment and hence deployment to 9-11 he's managed to avoid the worst of the violence.
This isn't even funny. I was hoping for Liberman or Romney so that we could make fun of them but this is a NIGHTMARISHLY BAD choice for McCain. Do they REALLY think having a female VP nominee 25 years after the Dems makes them look progressive? She'a RABID pro-choice lunatic, she's a Creationist fundie nutjob and the worst type of NRA no gun regulation idiot imaginable.
She's only been Govenor for a year and a half, before that she was the Mayor of a town with a population of 10,000 and before even that she only had a BS in journalism. McCain joust totally destroyed his own argument about Obama's experience.
She's also in the middle of a scadal involving ethic's violations while being joined at the hip to Ted Steven's who's knee deep in corruption. She is also DEEEEEEEEEP into the pockets of Big Oil.
To top it all off she has a four month old baby with Down's and is ready to leave that child to go campange with McCain?!?\
There is just nothing to make fun of here. It's like they tried to find the worst right wing extreamist holding the highest office.
Hey...she's got more "Executive Experience" than Obama, Biden and McCain combined.
Guess that means she's most qualified to be the president!
richard @ 98:
lmab @ 61:
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING?!?!?!
hey guys...she has a son who is going to iraq
at least she aint a chickenhawk
Peter G @ 123:
I have no problem with what the kid did. If fact, I greatly admire it. Yet, somehow, I doubt the timing was unaffected by mom's political considerations.
Gozer @ 127:
Nope....he's a WORLD CLASS snow machine racer. You can't write this stuff......nobody would take you seriously.
Peter G @ 123:
he enlisted when he turned 18
question is....why did it take a full year for deployment?
has he been getting special training? cuz most guys are going straight to iraq of afghanistan immediatly after basic
how can you be v.p. of the united states and raise 5 children. she is going to debate joe biden about
pakistan and georgia......i could be wrong i personally
would believe she knows next to nothing about these regions/governments of the world.
Am I the only person who notices the dichotomy of a Man like Obama and a Twirp like Brokaw or Todd?
Why are they juxtaposed?
Oh I forgot,
THEY don't get it.
Uncle Joe Mccarthy @ 128:
Not now he won't. It would take too many of our troops to protect him there. Maybe in small corner of the colony, I mean country, and for a very short time.
fiver @ 129:
I agree. I doubt if the kid did the political calculation.
richard @ 98:
Uncle Joe Mccarthy @ 128:
Not now he won't. It will take too many of our troops to protect him. Maybe in some small corner of the colony, I mean country guarding the beer supplies, but for a very short time.
Gozer @ 127:
it's true... bwahahahaha... i'm finding it painfully hilarious... ;-)
Now that it's news, I think I will tune into the RNC just to see what's going to happen. It'd fascinating to watch the entire party implode within itself with this horrible pick and MCCain trying to justify his choice to those hard-core conservatives who want to go back to the fifties.
Btw, Lieberman must really feel like a total fool right now for kissing up to McCain all these months.
Is the affair over?
After all, it must dawn on him that the RNC has thrown him into the gutter after being passed over for a former Miss Alaska.
Although you cannot help but laugh and point, I cannot help to think how sad this entire situation it is for the RNC and how good it is for us.
Let's hope Obama can keep his wits about him and lead the charge to get the soul of our country back from those rightist crooks.
Chicken "Hussein" Little - Not! @ 130:
Not only did we have a fucking mindblowing DNC but we are given this beautiful gift. Being a WORLD CLASS snow machine racer is like being the fastest retard, even if you win you're still retarded HAHAHAHA!!!
I wonder why he went into snow machine racing? Maybe he didn't have the build for potato racing HAHAHAHAHA!!!
The sad thing is that these same people whom have been beating the drums for McCain all along, only now openly admit to what is going to be a right wing disaster.
john j @ 12:
you forgot to say...by crackeee!!
Gozer @ 140:
That's like the equivalent of lawn mower racing.
"Hey! Look at the job I did modding out this snow blower!"
The other thing I'll add is that this pick will send Cindy back to the plastic surgeon.
Wanna bet on it?
It just keeps getting better. There's a guy on the Thom Hartmann show from Alaska who says that Palin is a helicopter wolf hunter. She shoots wolves from freakin' helicopters. Damn, that's worse than the freaks that hunt deer and bear from pickups and ATVs. I've hunted since I was a kid and we have NO respect for any of these morons.
She kills wolves from helicopters. Un freakin' believable. Let the games begin!!
No, the RNC took a calculated strategy that a majority of Americans, particularly Republicans, will not have watched or heard much (if any) of the DNC speeches. In their bubble of public ignorance, they will feel validated that they didn't miss anything when they hear the RNC response. Clear as day.
And, believe it or not, I would bet money that an attractive VP will get votes just on looks alone. Such is our woefully ignorant Jerry Springer/Bad Boy culture.
Unless the MSM decides to point these facts out, I guess a lot of people will consider the RNC bs as truthful and never hear the other side.
i'm not seeing any birthday coverage.......
The Very Bitter Ceci Hussein @ 144:
LOL! Exactly!!
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