Hockey Mom Sarah Palin Comes Out Swinging
Very aggressive speech by Sarah Palin. Perhaps because it was written for her by the McCain campaign before she was even chosen (or vetted, for that matter.)
Putting Words in Palin's Mouth
There was a flutter of attention when McCain campaign manager Rick Davis told a group of Post reporters and editors yesterday that his team was having to rework the vice presidential acceptance speech because the original draft, prepared before Gov. Sarah Palin was chosen, was too "masculine." While we all wondered to ourselves what might make a speech masculine or feminine, no one batted an eye at the underlying revelation: that the campaign was writing the nominee's speech before knowing who the nominee would be.
Interesting choice on her part to repeat rank falsehoods that have already been debunked ten times over. A sample:
I suspended the state fuel tax, and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. Strike One.I told the Congress "thanks, but no thanks," for that Bridge to Nowhere. Strike Two.
If our state wanted a bridge, we'd build it ourselves. When oil and gas prices went up dramatically, and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska. Strike Three.
Obama Campaign Spokesman Bill Burton responds:
“The speech that Governor Palin was well delivered, but it was written by George Bush’s speechwriter and sounds exactly like the same divisive, partisan attacks we’ve heard from George Bush for the last eight years. If Governor Palin and John McCain want to define ‘change’ as voting with George Bush 90% of the time, that’s their choice, but we don’t think the American people are ready to take a 10% chance on change.”
Full transcript below the fold:
Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored to be considered for the nomination for Vice President of the United States...
I accept the call to help our nominee for president to serve and defend America.
I accept the challenge of a tough fight in this election... against confident opponents ... at a crucial hour for our country.
And I accept the privilege of serving with a man who has come through much harder missions ... and met far graver challenges ... and knows how tough fights are won - the next president of the United States, John S. McCain.
It was just a year ago when all the experts in Washington counted out our nominee because he refused to hedge his commitment to the security of the country he loves.
With their usual certitude, they told us that all was lost - there was no hope for this candidate who said that he would rather lose an election than see his country lose a war.
But the pollsters and pundits overlooked just one thing when they wrote him off.
They overlooked the caliber of the man himself - the determination, resolve, and sheer guts of Senator John McCain. The voters knew better.
And maybe that's because they realize there is a time for politics and a time for leadership ... a time to campaign and a time to put our country first.
Our nominee for president is a true profile in courage, and people like that are hard to come by.
He's a man who wore the uniform of this country for 22 years, and refused to break faith with those troops in Iraq who have now brought victory within sight.
And as the mother of one of those troops, that is exactly the kind of man I want as commander in chief. I'm just one of many moms who'll say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way.
Our son Track is 19.
And one week from tomorrow - September 11th - he'll deploy to Iraq with the Army infantry in the service of his country.
My nephew Kasey also enlisted, and serves on a carrier in the Persian Gulf.
My family is proud of both of them and of all the fine men and women serving the country in uniform. Track is the eldest of our five children.
In our family, it's two boys and three girls in between - my strong and kind-hearted daughters Bristol, Willow, and Piper.
And in April, my husband Todd and I welcomed our littlest one into the world, a perfectly beautiful baby boy named Trig. From the inside, no family ever seems typical.
That's how it is with us.
Our family has the same ups and downs as any other ... the same challenges and the same joys.
Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge.
And children with special needs inspire a special love.
To the families of special-needs children all across this country, I have a message: For years, you sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters.
I pledge to you that if we are elected, you will have a friend and advocate in the White House. Todd is a story all by himself.
He's a lifelong commercial fisherman ... a production operator in the oil fields of Alaska's North Slope ... a proud member of the United Steel Workers' Union ... and world champion snow machine racer.
Throw in his Yup'ik Eskimo ancestry, and it all makes for quite a package.
We met in high school, and two decades and five children later he's still my guy. My Mom and Dad both worked at the elementary school in our small town.
And among the many things I owe them is one simple lesson: that this is America, and every woman can walk through every door of opportunity.
My parents are here tonight, and I am so proud to be the daughter of Chuck and Sally Heath. Long ago, a young farmer and habber-dasher from Missouri followed an unlikely path to the vice presidency.
A writer observed: "We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty, sincerity, and dignity." I know just the kind of people that writer had in mind when he praised Harry Truman.
I grew up with those people.
They are the ones who do some of the hardest work in America ... who grow our food, run our factories, and fight our wars.
They love their country, in good times and bad, and they're always proud of America. I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.
I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids' public education better.
When I ran for city council, I didn't need focus groups and voter profiles because I knew those voters, and knew their families, too.
Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown.
And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves.
I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a "community organizer," except that you have actual responsibilities. I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening.
We tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.
As for my running mate, you can be certain that wherever he goes, and whoever is listening, John McCain is the same man. I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment.< br>
And I've learned quickly, these past few days, that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.
But here's a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion - I'm going to Washington to serve the people of this country. Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reasons, and not just to mingle with the right people.
Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.
The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.
No one expects us to agree on everything.
But we are expected to govern with integrity, good will, clear convictions, and ... a servant's heart.
I pledge to all Americans that I will carry myself in this spirit as vice president of the United States. This was the spirit that brought me to the governor's office, when I took on the old politics as usual in Juneau ... when I stood up to the special interests, the lobbyists, big oil companies, and the good-ol' boys network.
Sudden and relentless reform never sits well with entrenched interests and power brokers. That's why true reform is so hard to achieve.
But with the support of the citizens of Alaska, we shook things up.
And in short order we put the government of our state back on the side of the people.
I came to office promising major ethics reform, to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is the law.
While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for.
That luxury jet was over the top. I put it on eBay.
I also drive myself to work.
And I thought we could muddle through without the governor's personal chef - although I've got to admit that sometimes my kids sure miss her. I came to office promising to control spending - by request if possible and by veto if necessary.
Senator McCain also promises to use the power of veto in defense of the public interest - and as a chief executive, I can assure you it works.
Our state budget is under control.
We have a surplus.
And I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending: nearly half a billion dollars in vetoes.
I suspended the state fuel tax, and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress.
I told the Congress "thanks, but no thanks," for that Bridge to Nowhere.
If our state wanted a bridge, we'd build it ourselves. When oil and gas prices went up dramatically, and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska.
And despite fierce opposition from oil company lobbyists, who kind of liked things the way they were, we broke their monopoly on power and resources.
As governor, I insisted on competition and basic fairness to end their control of our state and return it to the people.
I fought to bring about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history.
And when that deal was struck, we began a nearly forty billion dollar natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence.
That pipeline, when the last section is laid and its valves are opened, will lead America one step farther away from dependence on dangerous foreign powers that do not have our interests at heart.
The stakes for our nation could not be higher.
When a hurricane strikes in the Gulf of Mexico, this country should not be so dependent on imported oil that we are forced to draw from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
And families cannot throw away more and more of their paychecks on gas and heating oil.
With Russia wanting to control a vital pipeline in the Caucasus, and to divide and intimidate our European allies by using energy as a weapon, we cannot leave ourselves at the mercy of foreign suppliers.
To confront the threat that Iran might seek to cut off nearly a fifth of world energy supplies ... or that terrorists might strike again at the Abqaiq facility in Saudi Arabia ... or that Venezuela might shut off its oil deliveries ... we Americans need to produce more of our own oil and gas.
And take it from a gal who knows the North Slope of Alaska: we've got lots of both.
Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America's energy problems - as if we all didn't know that already.
But the fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.
Starting in January, in a McCain-Palin administration, we're going to lay more pipelines ... build more new-clear plants ... create jobs with clean coal ... and move forward on solar, wind, geothermal, and other alternative sources.
We need American energy resources, brought to you by American ingenuity, and produced by American workers. I've noticed a pattern with our opponent.
Maybe you have, too.
We've all heard his dramatic speeches before devoted followers.
And there is much to like and admire about our opponent.
But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform - not even in the state senate.
This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word "victory" except when he's talking about his own campaign. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed ... when the roar of the crowd fades away ... when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot - what exactly is our opponent's plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he's done turning back the waters and healing the planet? The answer is to make government bigger ... take more of your money ... give you more orders from Washington ... and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world. America needs more energy ... our opponent is against producing it.
Victory in Iraq is finally in sight ... he wants to forfeit.
Terrorist states are seeking new-clear weapons without delay ... he wants to meet them without preconditions.
Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America ... he's worried that someone won't read them their rights? Government is too big ... he wants to grow it.
Congress spends too much ... he promises more.
Taxes are too high ... he wants to raise them. His tax increases are the fine print in his economic plan, and let me be specific.
The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes ... raise payroll taxes ... raise investment income taxes ... raise the death tax ... raise business taxes ... and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars. My sister Heather and her husband have just built a service station that's now opened for business - like millions of others who run small businesses.
How are they going to be any better off if taxes go up? Or maybe you're trying to keep your job at a plant in Michigan or Ohio ... or create jobs with clean coal from Pennsylvania or West Virginia ... or keep a small farm in the family right here in Minnesota.
How are you going to be better off if our opponent adds a massive tax burden to the American economy? Here's how I look at the choice Americans face in this election.
In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers.
And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change.
They're the ones whose names appear on laws and landmark reforms, not just on buttons and banners, or on self-designed presidential seals.
Among politicians, there is the idealism of high-flown speechmaking, in which crowds are stirringly summoned to support great things.
And then there is the idealism of those leaders, like John McCain, who actually do great things. They're the ones who are good for more than talk ... the ones we have always been able to count on to serve and defend America. Senator McCain's record of actual achievement and reform helps explain why so many special interests, lobbyists, and comfortable committee chairmen in Congress have fought the prospect of a McCain presidency - from the primary election of 2000 to this very day.
Our nominee doesn't run with the Washington herd.
He's a man who's there to serve his country, and not just his party.
A leader who's not looking for a fight, but is not afraid of one either. Harry Reid, the Majority Leader of the current do-nothing Senate, not long ago summed up his feelings about our nominee.
He said, quote, "I can't stand John McCain." Ladies and gentlemen, perhaps no accolade we hear this week is better proof that we've chosen the right man. Clearly what the Majority Leader was driving at is that he can't stand up to John McCain. That is only one more reason to take the maverick of the Senate and put him in the White House. My fellow citizens, the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of "personal discovery." This world of threats and dangers is not just a community, and it doesn't just need an organizer.
And though both Senator Obama and Senator Biden have been going on lately about how they are always, quote, "fighting for you," let us face the matter squarely.
There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you ... in places where winning means survival and defeat means death ... and that man is John McCain. In our day, politicians have readily shared much lesser tales of adversity than the nightmare world in which this man, and others equally brave, served and suffered for their country.
It's a long way from the fear and pain and squalor of a six-by-four cell in Hanoi to the Oval Office.
But if Senator McCain is elected president, that is the journey he will have made.
It's the journey of an upright and honorable man - the kind of fellow whose name you will find on war memorials in small towns across this country, only he was among those who came home.
To the most powerful office on earth, he would bring the compassion that comes from having once been powerless ... the wisdom that comes even to the captives, by the grace of God ... the special confidence of those who have seen evil, and seen how evil is overcome. A fellow prisoner of war, a man named Tom Moe of Lancaster, Ohio, recalls looking through a pin-hole in his cell door as Lieutenant Commander John McCain was led down the hallway, by the guards, day after day.
As the story is told, "When McCain shuffled back from torturous interrogations, he would turn toward Moe's door and flash a grin and thumbs up" - as if to say, "We're going to pull through this." My fellow Americans, that is the kind of man America needs to see us through these next four years.
For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words.
For a lifetime, John McCain has inspired with his deeds.
If character is the measure in this election ... and hope the theme ... and change the goal we share, then I ask you to join our cause. Join our cause and help America elect a great man as the next president of the United States.
Thank you all, and may God bless America.
A leader who’s not looking for a fight, but is not afraid of one either. Harry Reid, the Majority Leader of the current do-nothing Senate, not long ago summed up his feelings about our nominee.
That's not what she said. She missed "Leader" and "do-nothing" if my ears didn't fool me.
CRAP!
How many empty seats in that arena anyways??
Well America, here's your new Dubya...since it took you more than 6 years to figure out the last one!
Go to Youtube to hear how Gov. Palin really speaks:
"I was like..."
What worthless speech. I will say again that I think she is in way over her head with this whole VP thing.
That speech made me sad for America. Sad because people will buy into it.
why would she bring up the lie about the bridge? and the lies about obama? she's going to get hammered in the next couple months over that.
Aren't there Republicans in this "do nothing Senate?" Palin will be a "Hockey Grandma" in a few months.
BTW!!! my husbands business partner banged the S*** out of me
So, her campaign platform consists entirely of mocking Barack Obama, claiming that being the mayor of a podunk town qualifies her to be VP, more mocking Obama, reminding us that John McCain was pilot and a POW (who knew!) and a little extra dose of mocking Obama. The Republicans, as always, take the low road and offer nothing.
I like the response to it... It's a nice thing when a long ass speech by someone at the RNC can pretty much be handled with a couple of sentences lol.
It's been amusing. A lot of double standards. There's not enough experience in the world if you're Obama, but if you're Palin everything under the Sun qualifies you: being a mom, driving your kids to practice, living closer to Russia than people in Illinois do, etc.
They have me convinced! Too bad there's not a mega rolleyes smily face on this site lol.
It's going to be a tight race people. She has gained the confidence of the republican base and the admiration of American women. It is now up to the issues only...the way it should be.
Will Palin be allowed to speak to the media tomorrow? Why have they kept her hidden since last Friday?
If Palin isn't ready to face the media and answer questions, how can she be ready to lead?
Oh yeah, that's right - she's pro-life. That's all that matters.
I appreciate Burton's response but shouldn't Obama give a swift and full response to all the lies and mean-spirited acrimony in that speech?
"Comes out swinging..."
Sure...Swinging from the trees. EVERY pundit across the dial is falling all over themselves praising this speech. Now I may be excessively partisan, but I can't see anything in it that was "brilliant" or "genius." It was the same old style political speech bashing your opponent.
America's Barack
John McCain NOPE
Well folks it's on! ... this speech will be a testament to who good each side's spin rooms are.
She is a great speech reader ... it was chock full of lies... and most certainly not her speech! But, could be very effective ...
Sarah came out swinging all right. She appeared to be a cynical, sarcastic smug overacting twit. All of the theatrics should be reserved for auditioning to host a pageant and not appropriate for the seriousness of the political office. She made a assclown of herself in my estimation and she will further alienate intelligent women all over the country with her overdone theatrics. Her attempt to sarcastically hit Barack Obama is characteristic of her lack of overall finesse and intelligence. One day she will look back at this speech and realize that she's totally turned off middle america with it.
Obama looks like a prince in asking the people to go easy on the Palins; Palin looks like a tough, ignorant, smug little bitch. This was a sad speech and certainly she did not receive the best advice from the McCain camp on it. Women don't related to a gun-totin', bouffant coiffeured sarcastic little bitch, that's for sure. She's driven the women's movement back 50 years in 45 minutes.
Her whining voice and ridiculous overacting was downright hilarious. She needs to audition for a soap opera instead of running for Veep. That became painfully obvious tonight. She's doesn't have enough sense to come in out of the rain or to realize when she's being given horrible advice by handlers. She's totally blown it with everyone other than her evangelical extremist base. They love the smut when it's directed at Barack Obama but can't stand the heat when their little gal sal is being ridiculed by the press or her corrupt activities in her political career come to the fore.
typical rethugs - they can dish it out but they can't take a dose of their own medicine.
Palin will be a non entity by the end of next week.
Moral Compass @ 8:
yeah did they forget that McCain is a do-nothing too?
I hope you guys are going to compiles all the lies that were told tonight. Though you may have to sell it as a book.
Missing...
No info on her.
No talk about the horrible economy.
No discussion of real hope for the future.
No recognition that W destroyed this country.
No apologies for the GOP running up record deficits.
No talk about the middle class being a top priority.
No talk about genuine health care reform in America.
In other words, no talk about anything other than more of the McSame.
What a joke.
*Pandering the baby*
Palin: Children with special needs inspire a very special kind of love. And to the parents of special needs children across the country, I have a message for you. For years you sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters. And I pledge to you that if we are elected, you will have a friend and advocate in the White House.
A note, though: John McCain does not support the Community Choice Act, which would expand funding for care for the disabled.
Palin's just a typical stinky, nasty bitch and this came out in full tonight. Can you just imagine how ruthlessly she went after the trooper when he crossed her? Or the Police Chief? Or the Librarian? Now we're seeing the vindictive and sarcastic nastiness of this woman.
It's a new reality show:
"Who Wants To Be A Vice President?"
Sweet Jebus, we are in trouble. Yes, both her and Johnny are disgustingly dishonest.
But there are more than enough morons in this country to give them a win in November.
theWalrus @ 14:
Oh i'm sure he will. As well as plenty of other independent groups out there, and probably even some people in the media... although most of them will probably be on MSNBC.
Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin
How's by you? How's by you?
How's by you, the drama?
How's the "Baby Mama?"
She's nice, too
She's nice, too
How is Bristol's baby?
Know the father, maybe
How's your hubby's mommy?
Voting for Obam-my
She's nice, too
She's nice, too
Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin
Screw you, too, screw you, too
MILF, you truly suck, now
Guess you're outta luck, now
Speech did really blow, now
Down you're gonna go, now
Toodle-oo, toodle-oo
Tooooooo...dle-oo!
(to the tune of "Frere Jacques" and Allan Sherman's "Sarah Jackman")
I almost fell out of my chair when Rudy tried to play the feminist card before she took the stage!
Yeah....it's easy to devote time to your kids and work full time--when you're the governor of Alaska and can bring your baby to the office every day!! Having a nanny like Palin does helps a lot, too.
What horseshit.
It should be "St. Obama" ....to even talk about healing and working together with a party that sends out this unqualified PTA leader to mock and speak condescendingly to any and all on the other side is going to be a pride swallowing effort. What a pile of crap. I felt like I was watching an MTV roast, not a vice presidential candidates speech.....unbecoming of anyone, much less someone trying to attain such a high office. Pathetic.
Now this is funny... They actually had to phonetically spell it so she wouldn't pull a Bush...
Terrorist states are seeking new-clear weapons without delay…
mudshark @ 75:
:<[) rotflmbbao!!!!!!
Chuck @ 23:
...with a little help from Diebold.
Great. Elect McCain and we'll get the Beverly Hillbillies.
Frybread @ 5:
*More of the SAME*
The pathetic thing about sarah palin as evidenced by this snide speech tonight is that she has no insight or clue that she's being perceived negatively. Evidently, she's in such delusion about herself that she thinks what she's done to women everywhere tonight is effective or cute. She belongs on "The View" instead of running for Vice President. This woman has illustrated tonight the qualities which make Hillary Clinton great - the qualities that make Hillary Clinton a class act - the qualities that make Hillary more qualified than Palin will ever be! Tonight we were able to separate the wheat from the chaff - Hillary is the wheat/Palin is the chaff. It's over for Palin.
theWalrus @ 29:
*shudder*
One scary chick.
As much as I oppose her, I give her an "A" for flawless delivery of all those platitudes, half-truths, and outright lies. A low-information voter's dream.
Fucking creationist.
this election cycle started out as a 3 ring circus and has ended up one hell of a side show, operation chaos?
what a freakshow its become. i cant wait to see what the october suprise brings.
what if "the octobe(r) suprise" was a candy bar that came in a patriotic themed wrapper
with an elephant on it and the promise of a tasty morsel inside, except that wheen you crack it open instead of finding a delicious candy treat you instead find a bar of shit.
wouldn't that be a suprise? :->
palin's attack of michelle obama on her patriotism is highly hypocritical coming from a woman who flirted with a secessionist party and whose husband WAS a member of the party for 8 years.
Troll Booth.
If McCain flop in the debate with Obama be prepare for a martial law to take place.
i wish i could edit that error.
Bad news: Palin gave an outstanding speech, showing that Biden wasn't the only VP attack dog and both attacking Obama for the conservatives but doing it with a smile for the moderates.
Good news: There is no way McCain can match up with Palin, Huckabee, Rudy, or even Thompson and McCain.
Once again, Dems are falling into the trap of comparing Obama/Biden to Palin. If you want to win, compare Obama/Biden to McCain and Bush. Praise Palin's speech, and praise it so truthfully and rightfully that McCain can't stand up to it.
Compared to Obama's brilliant, policy driven, tough, but compassionate acceptance speech, (and especially compared to Palin's energetic, savage, charismatic speech tonight) Mac doesn't have a chance.
reaction to Palin's speech succeeded at boosting donations to Obama's campaign by video-game forum members to total sum of $1500 who got motivated to donate more to Obama in reaction.
Palin effected continues to be felt
If basement liberal eat cheetos, what do tree top secret fort republican eat?
Don't take our word for it trolls... Here is Ben Stein's assement:
Palin needs a baby sitter now... for her!!!
Video Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OevzQ9XGd7Q
No wonder Sarah Palin is in favor of drilling in Alaska, Theres already plenty of DRILLING going on in Palin's household.
Palin will electrify the Republican base. What's left of it. Unfortunately for McCain, she will also electrify the Democratic base because she is so reminiscent of George Bush. Attached to oil, lies, doesn't really care about thinking too much, appeals to fear and negativity, directly contradicts herself within the same speech without batting an eyelash...
And if they are going to try to use her to get women voters, she has got to stop using the word "man" so damn much in her speeches.
Anyway, as an Obama supporter, I am so excited about Sarah Palin. She is going to rally so many of us to vote against her. I really can't wait to see those posers go down in November.
How long did she theatrically soak in the applause before the speech? Half the people looked like they were going to pass out from their choreographed zealotry. Two thirds of them hadn't heard of her before last week.
I love how they applaud her for not wanting to read the rights of people in Guantanamo. You know, the POWs over there? Haha. What a joke. She is being used and she just doesn't care (or know).
I am coming late to the party tonight so I dont know if these lines have been asked or followed up on.
Palin hates big city America and I think that it is just her code words for non-white, non evanglical christian, and non republican. The venom that oozed from her pores when she talked about the problems that face America were not the fault of the "people that grow our food and work in our factories" was stunning.
Palin semms to think that the problems that have been going on in Washington have all been done by the "do nothing congress", just who does she think was in power to cause all those problems, the Whigs?
Palin oratory made me feel like I was at a PTA meeting discussing the need for a new jungle gym for the elementry school. No fire, just a principal talking down to the rowdy kids that wouldn't listen to anything she said the first ten times. Mediocre at best is what I thought of the speach.
Just how many lies did she tell in this speach, I just stopped counting at ten, but I know that there were more than that.
Harry H @ 89:
Take a lesson from history, folks. There is no such thing as a sure thing. We have GOT to get the people out there and voting!!! LET'S TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY, DAMMIT!!!
Jonesy @ 304:
The logical dissonance of your post is deafening, I have to turn up my stereo now.
Whoosh! Ben Stein badmouthing a fellow Republican? now I have seen everything!
"Snide, smug, sarcastic, and the GOP wanted to portray her as a victim... well she's a target now and lets start with some fact checking...."
Jeffery Toobin on Sarah Palin's speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v24ULd4yT94
E&P on AP on Palin:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_con...
EZ, do you realize how stupid you sound?
Of course not. You're a Repug.
Tommy Gunn @ 369:
It is sad to see so many posters with such low standards.
Note to some Americans: Being able to properly enunciate and punctuate should not be considered an achievement for a person who is running for the second highest office in the land, and whose first language happens to be English. It should be the least of expectations!
Seriously, it is fucking sad: "Oh my god, she can read, Oh NOES... the election is lost!"
WTF is wrong with some of you?
oncall @ 270:
I despise the religious right, republican theocracy, and pseudo-conservatism which is all apart of the modern GOP. I'm a realist who has learned not to underestimate the cynicism of the republican agenda. Christian conservatives would sell their own souls to the devil for a republican leader. I can sit here and name-call wingnuts all day long, but it's more constructive to get ready for a tough heated battle against the republican hypocrites' smoke screens and their relentless attempts to win over female Hillary supporters and Independents in the days to come. As much as I hate to admit it, McCain's VP pick was far from impulsive, it was brilliant. It's time to give Barack all the support we can muster. OBAMA/BIDEN '08!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
masha @ 365:
Yeh, and when will the media run loops questioning her patriotism and love of country?
Oops, only those black people must prove that.
This nation is sick!!
Joyce @ 349:
Looked for any fact checking done by any MSM outlet and can't find anything, except a bunch of glowing reports about the "hockey mom" who energized the crowd with tales of her (fictional) accomplishments and down-home family values. Maybe a good night's sleep will refresh their critical thinking skills so they can compare what Sarah says she did to what Sarah actually did.
So what's the worst that can happen? A veep with a snarling smirk who's arrogant, vengeful, cruel, in the pocket of big oil and out of touch with middle America? We've lived with that for eight years already. We could probably survive a few more.
MsJoanne @ 359:
Indeed, especially the ones claiming what a "fantastic" speech she delivered. It is the republican MO to a T: "Believe what I pull out of my arse and not your lying ears."
JGR @ 383:
Oh yes, I guess my definition of "brilliant" is different. Selecting an idiot with little experience and more skeletons in her closet than Drakula's castle is many things, "brilliant" however it is not one of them.
For such a "liberal" you sure do accept the GOP narrative in all its glory.
You know, what amazes me is that everyone's forgetting that not only is Alaska near Russia, it's also physically attached to Canada! That's TWO countries! C'mon people, how can you possibly argue against that much foreign policy experience?
Tyler Durden @ 387:
The New York Times Gave Palin an A+ in her speech. Is the NYT pushing the GOP agenda like me? REALITY CHECK!!!!!
JGR @ 12:
She hasn't gained the confidence of this American woman. Caribou Barbie didn't impress me at all. It was a speech full of lies, petty putdowns, Republicans talking points, and pointless platitudes. It was well delivered only in the sense that she didn't make the same sort of gaffes that Bush would - no mispronunciations or grammatical errors - and it will definitely appeal to the Fundies and listeners of Dr. Laura. Intelligent women won't fall for this BS.
I actually used to think of myself as an independent. Vote for the person not the party, that was my motto. Admittedly, I have always leaned left. Still I was open to voting for Republicans. I'm ashamed to say that I actually would have seriously considered voting for McCain had he won the nomination back in 2000. (I will use youth as an excuse for my stupidity that time around and assure you I ended up supporting Gore not the Shrub.) No more, though. I'd never again even consider voting for a Republican. They are morally bankrupt and incompetent.
Did she even once mention any of the real issues tonight? Maybe I missed it, but I didn't hear Sarah say anything about a McCain/Palin plan to improve the economy, healthcare, the environment or anything else. Nothing, not a word, not a syllable - all she could manage to drone on about was Obama raising taxes on dead people (the "death tax") and snidely insinuating that Obama wasn't fit to lead and that he had never done anything in his life. Who is she kidding! This man is the son of a poor teenage mom from Kansas who manages to attend Harvard Law and graduated cum laude! She then claimed he’d never authored an important piece of legislation while in office. Hello, he co-sponsored the Lugar-Obama Nonproliferation Legislation! I realize it only helps secure nukes, not like that matters or anything. Then she insinuates that he’s not like “ordinary” Americans. She’s darn right he's not ordinary - he's extraordinary. Personally, I prefer my leaders to be drawn from the very best and brightest among us, and Obama fits the bill. Sarah's comments about Community Organizers where just plain nasty and ignorant. To suggest that she did more as mayor of some tiny town than community organizers in big cities like Chicago do is absurd and offensive and yet she has the nerve to criticize Obama for supposedly talking down to others.
Words can't begin to convey the contempt I feel for this woman after her speech. Before this speech I saw her as a rather unfortunate and humorous bumpkin who was out of her depth. Now I realize she's just another Neocon. It was a mediocre speech given by a woman who can read well off a teleprompter. I imagine her past work as a sportscaster helps in that respect. I wasn't awed or threatened by her supposed speaking abilities, but I was deeply offended by her snarky tone. It has made me only that much more determined to get Obama elected. I agree it will be a tight race. However, think this speech could backfire big time for the Republicans. Yes, it will rally the base, but I firmly believe that it will also rally Democrats and Independents against McCain. Especially, once they learn more about her background. I also believe that her attacks on Obama and Biden will mean that Biden now has a free pass to rip her to bits in the debates without facing too much flack for attacking the McCain's cute sidekick.
So...she can pronounce English words like it was her native language and she isn't a drooling, incoherent imbecile...
This'll never wash with 'The Base' (tm).
(Interesting to note that Republicans are forever appealing to 'the base'. And what does Al-Qaeda mean? 'The Base'!! Coincidence? Ha!)
"Hockey Mom Sarah Palin Comes Out Swinging"
Maybe after the National Enquirer expose that'll have to be reworded:
"Comes Out Hockey Mom Sarah Palin Swinging"
What a hateful twat. And am I wrong in observing there wasn't a black face in the crowd? Or asian, or hispanic...I see this for what it is. It's about white power on the right wing extremity. All I see in this broad is hypocrisy, lies, deception, and big corporate oil interests. She's going to love having McCain keeping her son in Iraq for the next 100 years. I wonder how she'll feel when he gets deep 6'ed by Iraqi freedom fighters...
She should have married Jack Abramof. They were made for each other.
Aurora @ 391:
Don't forget about the Appalachian inbreds and their ilk. Not all democrats are as well-read as yourself. These are the people McShame and Ms. theocrat are going after.
rico @ 394:
WHat are you nuts? You want a see black, white, asian, hispanic, and whatever people in the same place go get yourself of to a Democrat Convention or an airport or a city or something.
Sheeesh!
Her speech was... cute. But the fact is, the bar was set so low for this ghastly VP pick, that she could have taken the stage and sung Old Mcdonald, and the GOP partisans would still be praising her from the rooftops.
This baseless praise from the right is extraordinarily short on substance, and reeks of desperation. Palin was, to borrow Rove's jargon, a political choice, and she is an affront to every woman voter in the country. If someone like Palin were, God forbid, elected as VP, it would set back the woman's movement another decade.
I'm an independent, and while I feel like Biden was a poor choice for Obama, he is lightyears beyond Palin in qualification. For a campaign boasting experience, McCain has discredited his main point of appeal, and brought an embarrassing family circus into an election cycle that was already heavy on crap.
What has happened to American politics? Somehow Republicans have made being unremarkable a key qualification, while being outstanding is "elitist" and "unamerican." And here come John and Mary GOP, eating it up, because, God knows, they see a little of themselves in her.
What a joke.
Look in the transcript. It actually says new-clear instead of nuclear.
sophya @ 32:
You don't live in America, do you?
The speech was a big yawn, after the first three minutes I was on this blog rather than paying attention to that nonsense.
You have to be stupid to believe in the America she represents. Why did they not find that offensive? Anybody with common decency would have been sitting in that hall with their mouth hanging open in disbelief. She lied. She point blank lied. She lied to the American people.
The imbeciles will elect McSame. This country is fucked!
Those dumb stupid bastards will never understand, until their family is dying before their eyes, and Bush/McSame and the GOP laugh at them and tell them its they're own fault, because everything is great!
Even then, I think half of them are so fucking clueless, they would say; "the repukes are really good guys, its them damned librul's what da problem."
Chuck @ 33:
I just watched "Uncounted" the other night.
"double shudder*
bullwinkleshit!
bull-hockey mom
The choice of Palin being a heartbeat away from the most powerful position in the world gives hope to the garbage men, waiters, janitors, dog catchers and millons of Americans everywhere. No longer do you have to be qualified to be Vice President. If you are a mayor of a small town, or ever attended a PTA meeting, or fired a gun, you could be the Vice President of the U.S.
Van @ 26:
Exactly!
The very same freaks oppose ANYTHING that would benefit working men and women.
All bullshit from the right wing!
I am so sick of hearing that Obama has no accomplishments.
HERE are Obama's Senate Accomplishments.
Please read up and spread the word (and link).
Honestly, STFU you lying sacks of Republican shit.
Was she auditioning for America's Next Top Blowhard? Poor, Shallow Sarah.
I think what we need to remember is that this is merely a speech. It, and Mac's speech tomorrow, will at best give them a three-to-four point bounce in the polls that won't last. Let's see how they do in the debates, when confronted with facts and having to defend Bush's policies which they accept. And let's see how long that "maverick" status lasts.
Especially with all the skeletons discovered in the closet of Ms. Palin.
But that being said, don't underestimate the enemy. We've just seen the reasons why McSaime picked Palin - she's an attack dog - a trait that served her well in Alaskan politics. And she will ensure that McSaime will get a large share of the evangelical vote, as well as make it more challenging for Obama to get the Deep South. And they can both play the outsider, "maverick" image to the hilt.
This speech is a reminder to the Dems, again, not to take this election for granted. We will need to work our kiesters off to win this - McCain and the repubs have the advantage in that they are the party of Big Business, and the press.
Indy @ 398:
Agreed. And I think that a major factor in choosing Palin is precisely for the same reason that Bush won two terms - by lowering expectations, he was not required to "win" every debate or come across well, as the Dems are expected to be - all Palin has to do is "not blow it".
Obama and Biden will need to confront this lowering of standards head-on.
rb @ 66:
Actually, Obama writes most of his own speeches. Even Pat Buchanan admitted that on air last week when discussing Obama's speech at the convention.
Horse Hockey Mom
Caribou Barbie
Eva Braun
Take your pick.
JGR @ 396:
Don't forget about the Appalachian inbreds and their ilk. Not all democrats are as well-read as yourself. These are the people McShame and Ms. theocrat are going after.
Oh, I don't forget them. I have a proud ditto-head for an uncle (by marriage not birth thankfully). A man who is proud of his own ignorance, like all ditto-heads, he boasts of it. As for me, I'm actually quite average. Reasonably intelligent, I hope, but average. I'm not an Ivy League grad, but I have the brains to realize that it's best to have the most intelligent, qualified person in charge, not some bumpkin I'd "like to have a beer with." It's so sad that Neocons are so intimidated by intelligence and competence that they run straight into the arms of fools they think are just like them. Frankly, all this "I'm just like you" nonsense is giving me flashbacks of Linda Tripp.
I couldn't sit through her entire speech because I cannot even stomach looking at her or any of the Repuke mob.
did catch the quip about Obama and his styrofoam columns - which showed the real inner ugliness she possesses.
whereas obama, clinton, biden delivered emotional heartfelt passionate and positive speeches to over 80,000 screaming, sobbing, optimistic people - she delivered a nasty nasty attack at the democrats and offered absolutely nothing positive for her country!
what upsets me even more was the lapping up by the predominantly white country club crowd that attended. well i guess all those empty seats were reserved for the blacks, hispanics and asians???
I take it back - there WERE many blacks, hispanics and asians there - they were the ones serving the drinks, parking the limousines and polishing the massah's boots!
And please forgive me lord - cos I had hateful thoughts while watching a bit of this sewerfest - I wished the roof had come down on them all. These people spread evil and hatred everywhere they go. Very nasty nasty nasty.
And BTW - as long as she parades her unwed stupid pregnant daughter around with her baby Trig (WTF is with these names?), then her family are fair game and they should be prepared to cop it sweet.
A TRUE conservative believer in no sex before marriage should be denouncing Pailing and her daughter - and NOT praising her!
I truly believe if it was one of Obama's daughters pregnant and unmarried - Karl Rove and his henchmen will not only condut a smear campaign - but most surely would demand the girl be buried alive or hung from a tree (just like in the good ol days right?).
What in hell was all this hoopla about tonight?
McCain said that the two responsibilities of a VP are to cast tie-breaking votes in the Senate - I don't think there were any in the last 7 years, and to check on the president's health daily.
With all the qualifications of Palin, isn't she too much overqualified?
The AP factcheck of GOP convention statements, including Palin's:
Attacks, Praise Stretch Truth at GOP Convention
good article.
What's Pailing's view of moose stew?
Does one shoot a moose, gut it, smear it's blood on your kids faces and then chop it up for the pot?
or does one just buy it from the local Wal-Mart pre-packed by the many minimum wage young black pregnant unmarried workers?
don't worry repukes - I understand it is a condition of employment at Wal-mart to vote Republican! OR ELSE!
last time i heard of people being bullied to vote a certain way - A dictator called Mugabe won!
same much?
" There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you "
Gov Palin
" He fought for me how as an original Keating 5 "
Robt.
Or did he fight to stay out of prison......But it did take sheer guts to return to congress and run for re election after that.
sophya @ 17:
Best damn summary of the speech I've read yet. Spot fucking on. Palin is a smarmy. Very smarmy.
Do you think McCain will tell you the POW story one more time?
and beat Rudy record of telling the 9/11 story?
meth lab busts spike up to 42 under Sarah Palin's watch as mayor of Wasilla!
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories...050308002.shtml
The impression I get is that there weren't more busts because cops were rootin' em out and stompin' em down fer once and fer all... the impression I get is that there were more busts becauuuse... there was more meth activity.
Um - so one chronological question - isn't this about the time that Palin was voting against finding safe homes for pregnant teen moms who were choosing to keep their baby instead of aborting it but were about to be homeless... isn't this about the time she was voting against using public funds to put those kind of girls in safe housing?
Also - meth is a predominantly Mexican/Latino thing. Those dudes have beat down a lot of the motorcycle gangs of yesteryear. There's still biker gangs, and they still take care of business so to speak but - the realities of the statistics show that meth is pretty much run by Mexican/Latino gangs. ALL up and down the Americas. And - anybody who knows downass Mexican homies knows they send families in to oversee and monitor things. Even in small towns.
So.... - it calls into question, was there a spike in illegal immigrants building meth labs in Wasilla Alaska while Sarah Palin was mayor... and she didn't do anything to fix it??
****
meth decreases as soon as she leaves... but its replaced by heroin... helluva legacy
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-32486775_ITM
incidentally - meth is a locally distributed drug ring, heroin is international. so... well... helluva legacy...
This is all too easy: referring to rb's post (204)
You posted this:
“Palin’s first veto was used to block legislation that would have barred the state from granting benefits to the partners of gay state employees. In effect, her veto granted State of Alaska benefits to same-sex couples. The veto occurred after Palin consulted with Alaska’s attorney general on the constitutionality of the legislation.”
and yet in your own same post three points above it says:
“Palin complied with an Alaskan state Supreme Court order and signed an implementation of same-sex benefits into law under protest, stating that legal options to avoid doing so had run out.”
Did you even read your own (obviously copy and paste post)? She only vetoed it because the Alaskan Supreme Court told her that she had no choice and not signing it was illegal.
More context below.
All of this stems from a lengthy series of court cases responding to a 1999 suit that was filed by the ACLU and nine state employees in 1999. After several circuits through the judicial system, the state and the municipality of Anchorage had been given a January 1, 2007 deadline to begin offering the benefits. Anchorage complied and now offers benefits to same-sex partners of city employees.
The state tried to block benefits despite some stern words from the courts that had first mandated the benefits in 2005. The legislature went into an expensive special session late last year to address the issue. They authorized the advisory ballot and also passed a law specifically denying the benefits. That law was deemed unconstitutional, however, by the state's attorney general and was reluctantly vetoed by the state's new governor, Republican Sarah Palin. That allowed benefits to be offered.
JGR @ 12:
Don't bet on it. A lot of women are insulted by this VP pick. It's an insult to their intelligence.
Also:
“Palin objected to … list polar bears as an endangered species.”
How is this a good thing?
It is difficult to estimate a global population of polar bears as much of the range has been poorly studied, however biologists use a working estimate of about 20,000-25,000 polar bears worldwide.
This is not a lot. Whether or not you believe in global warming, it is a fact that the polar ice they live on is currently melting and that is making life more difficult for them.
Palin is a powerful speaker; do not underestimate her. As well, she is young and relatively inexperienced, so she could be perceived as clean and maverickry.
Attack upon her could be perceived poorly by a lot of people, so dealing with her will be difficult.
Her advantage is that the only thing the American people have to judge her by (except for facts) is her speech. That she twisted facts, in the end, will be meaningless to some (see video).
Stick with the issues. Tell Biden to cool his too often hot headed speech. Obama needs to shorten his verbiosity at least once in a great speech.
Good luck
post 413 also referring to rb 204
Wait.....they did show a COUPLE of blacks in the crowd, but they didnt look too happy
rico @ 394:
I'm sure this pleased the Republican crowd, but it was a total strategy blunder. Not that I want candidates to always be about tactics,... but really, she should have established reasons to vote for her. The Republicans can't win with just Republicans -- and they seem to be the only ones who believe that Iraq is doing great and so is the economy.
Much as they enjoyed their punches at Obama and not being hampered by the truth, I'm sure that fence sitters didn't think; "My, what a sweet lady." She LOOKS like she is together, and sweet, but she SOUNDS like Karl Rove.
So as the media went into a feeding frenzy over her background, and the right painted that as LIBERAL media, McCain started attacking the press.
They may have just pissed off the press enough that they are going to change their mind about that "Maverick" label. OK, one can hope at least.
As the glow of joy from feasting on the flesh of others fades from the Republican convention, and they are done sermonizing while they call Obama a pretender to god-hood (wow, they believe this crap, too), they are going to be haunted by the metric ass load of bull shit that Palin dumped on the stage. She definitely has the brains and demeanor to have made herself more friendly -- but now her image as a harpy will be set. She has all the maverick status and gravitas of Alberto Gonzales in a dress.
So, I have to admit, I find this whole Palin thing hilarious. It's such an obvious stunt-turned-tabloid feeding frenzy, and yet we all buy into it. I know I'm guilty. Honestly? If this Bible-thumping, book-burning wingnut from the lunatic fringe is the best they can muster, then it truly takes a deluded idiot to not understand Obama's recent surge in the polls.
The kicker, though, is the whole unwed pregnant teenage daughter bit. I must disagree with Senator Obama's stance that this is a private issue. Granted, yes, by all means, it reeks of moral outrage to subject these kids to worldwide media scrutiny, but guess what? If you're going to make a platform out of shoving your idea of "family values" down other people's throats by preaching "abstinence only" -- an approach proven time and again to be ineffective -- you have already made your own family subject to such scrutiny. When your family exists as living proof that such practices of disinformation are prone to utter and miserable failure, yet you push for them to be taught in public schools, you sentence YOURSELF to the inevitable tidal wave of ridicule. Madam Governor, congratulations: you are a hypocrite, a failure as a parent, and soon, after you taste bitter defeat come November, you shall be forever branded by the GOP as anathema, and you will be an utter failure as a politician. I am sure the tabloids will eat up every last second of it.
Maybe I'm just an insensitive prick, but it seems to me that the whole debacle proves that the Palins are of the "do what I say, not what I do" school of Protestant Christianity. I guess that's all it takes to "electrify" the base, eh? And how the hell much are they paying these AP guys for good reviews? I about puked when I saw the "Star-Turning Performance" headline plastered on Yahoo.
That said, please: I implore anyone who reads this... Ignore the smokescreen. This is all a distraction. They know they cannot win, and they are flailing.
...but god damn, it's an entertaining spiral-into-oblivion to watch.
I was kind of worried that Palin would be actually a nice lady. It doesn't mean that every nice person should be VP,... but it makes it tough with the "image party" if there is some core of integrity and decency, and they can paper over the massive amounts of stupid it takes to remain Republican with a heart. You don't want to beat up on a good person.
But Palin is quickly proving to be duplicitous and having morals that rationalize actions that benefit her.
Kreskin @ 344:
I agree 100%. When I say what you said, Republican zombies always retort, "why do you hate America?" or "if you don't like it, leave." My response is now, "I don't hate America, I hate you," and "I don't like you so if you leave, we can make this work."
Most Republicans (not all) have a common characteristic about them - they are mean and hateful. That's why they are so quick to point it out in others.
I can't wait for the clip from the Daily Show,... Stewart skewers the right wing pundits with their own words. Particularly priceless was Bill O'Reilly's umbrage on the "privacy of her daughter's pregnancy." Then Stewart shows a clip where he talks about Brittany' sister who was pregnant at the same age, and calls her a public menace, and mentioned how this revealed how awful the parents were.
And who is the mother with the pregnant daughter in this election?
Damn, these guys are putting the foot in their own mouths. But the did a lot of demonization of women already, so all their defensiveness comes off as arbitrary and partisan crap. Which time are they lying? When they said all these things were wrong, or when they talk about personal privacy?
This woman showed us today that she is simply not qualified to hold the office of Vice President of the United States, and if she would have had enough common sense, she would have declined the offer., but no, like all of these greedy disgusting people on the right, she will take the job and just finish screwing this country up.
Everyday we are finding out all of the dirt and filthy baggage this silly bitch is carrying and the latest among all, yet the worst is that we now learn she is screwing her husbands friend and I guess next will be who might the real dad of her sick child be.
Obama, may not say it but dammit if I wont, and every dame living sole in this country aught to be screaming and hollering and slamming the holey hell out of these stupid ass people.
I did think that at least, with the only degree this stupid bitch has, that she would have at the very least been able to put a decent speech together, but I’ll be dammed, if she can’t even do that
She spent her entire speech trying and failing to bash Obama, which she knows she or McCain cannot hold a candle stick to, but we wont get that from this right wing, owned operated and controlled media. They are falling in line already.
It is a dame shame that she is dragging that sick child all over the country with her, when she needs to take her ass home and be the responsible mother she claims to be.
This is not to say that she cannot be a career woman. She can, but the duties and responsibilities, she will have to be accountable for when Bush leaves, will be tremendous.
Through the course of just a weeks time this woman has shown us that she is a disgusting liar of the worst kind and she will most definitely spend the remainder of her time running against the most talented and brilliant team ever to run for office, in Obama and Biden
This new and sick game the national media is now playing to get out of blasting this stupid bitch, is that they are doing the so called same thing to her as they did to Hillary and playing the sexism game, to stop them from doing what they already don't want to do and drill her ass. No matter she is running for the second highest office in this country, she is not supposed to be vented and questioned.
The truth of this matter is that they know this bitch is stupid and incompetent, that is the reason they want her. It is becoming so clear with these people on the right, is that the more ignorant you are is the most likely you will be appointed to a high office.
How dame dare these sick bastards.
I'd like to see Hilary Clinton challenge her to a debate on the status of women in America.
JGR @ 12:
::cough:: Shouldn't that be some American women?
She delivered it well, I suppose, but it reeked of disingenuousness. I found the content very offensive (in both senses of the word), and coming right after Giuliani, well....
Randy Brown @ 52:
OK, have been laughing already, but that topped it all! So very true, and a numb one at that. Not sure if it's from the cold in her home state, or the mind-numbing BS she was spewing finally traveled south.
Pericles @ 423:
This would be priceless, just to here Gov. Palin's rebuttals, which would likely start with something along the lines of, "Y'know, I was all like..."
I look forward to seeing her debate against Sen. Biden. The word "eviscerate" comes to mind for some reason.
I saw some clip replays of that high schoolish CONvention by the republiCONs, and all I can say is ...
Sarah for vice president!
Sarah for student council Vice President!
SARAH PALIN FOR STUDENT COUNCIL VICE PRESIDENT!
Anyone else see the Family Guy where Lois ran for Mayor?
Yeah, this was like watching that, except even worse because it's real.
I had to hold back vomit about every other sentence she spoke.
So, it was basically a bunch of lies, and they knew it. The nomination of Palin and subsequent acceptance by the sycophantic Republicans shows what little respect these people have for the function of government. It's consistent with the Bush administration's habit of appointing grossly unqualified people to fill vital positions.
Great. To follow up the numskull Bush and Darth Vader, the G.O.P has the gall to propose the most intellectually underwhelming ticket in the history the United States of America - Caligula and Maude Flanders.
Our sons "Track" and "Trig"? Like... wtf?
BobbyG @ 103:
I said the same thing in '04 -no way we can be so stupid to reelect W to POTUS against an obviously better, more intelligent and reflective candidate.. but as history shows, this country is full of dipshits. What is scarier is that it is just not the fat cats watching out for their own wallets that buy it, but the ill-informed and under-educated who are the ones getting screwed hardest. Then when they can't afford health insurance or a place of their own they blame the liberals. We are screwed! I can see a reverse emmigation to Europe for many of us with half a brain in the very near future.
Tigerwong @ 24:
Like McCain doesn't have a network in the tank for his old ass...does FOX ring a bell?
Filipe Brás Almeida @ 430:
Yeah, if it had been Obama and he had introduced his children "Looqueesha", "Chavanda", and "Lemodta" - the right wing would have gone ape shit. But she gets a pass. Yep, def. L wing bias there picking on her family with her soon to be grandchild from her underage daughter. My head is about to explode!
Evangelicals Applaud Palin Family’s Ability To ‘Be Fruitful and Multiply’
theWalrus @ 29:
and lots of help from the MSM.
they got their marching orders today: No truthtelling! and no damned fact-checking, ya hear?
Taking it one step further with "dumb and dumber" or as the case may be "womanizer and harlot" (by the end of the week we'll get the full monty on her alleged affair) may actually be a far more demented and dangerous duo than Bush and Cheney and that's quite a stretch. They're downright frightening. Both liars. Both phones. Both bad actors - she's pointing fingers and arching her eyebrows while making silly sarcastic infantile remarks while McPappy says something irrelevant and inane and then slaps that ridiculous fake grin on and blinks his eyes.
Wow! What a duo we have here. What bad actors. What duplicate frauds!
McCain and Biden need do nothing. The way this is playing itself out, american will be grossed out and turned off simultaneously by this duo. The more the Actress and the Gambler move about the country, the more their charade will out itself. No one is going to fall for such phoney bullshit any more.
MsJoanne @ 45:
In other words Sarah Palan LIED.
John J @ 20:
I keep coming back to your third point. I not the "hope" mantra is old but sarah and the repugs offered absolutely nothing positive for the future. Hate and fear is all they have to offer.
sophya @ 17:
Are you SURE you spelled the last word of that sentence properly?
theWalrus @ 14:
I anxiously await what the O Team 08 has in store for the repigs.
You have to be stupid to believe in the America she represents
There were a lot of stupid people who believed in the Germany that Adolph Hitler represented. Look at the untold misery that caused.
It can happen here.
* know that *
time for bed..
This is it?
THIS is the sarcastic, juvenile McCain would leave to stand for the United States against Vladamir Putin? Achmed Ackmajinidad? Kim Jong Il? (Spelling, I know.) The real leaders and enemies of the world will eat this lightweight for breakfast, and be hungry before lunch. If you mistake aggression for strength, she was strong, but she was utterly negative, name-calling and viscious, desperately covering for an utter lack of substance as the republicans have for eight falied years.
ldzppln @ 13:
That's why these ideologically challenged morons didn't choose Kay Bailey Hutchinson, who is pro choice and is far more credible and much better qualified. They will pay for their rigid adherence to their pro life theology which they are absolutely convinced appeals to a majority of voters.
Does John McCain have any executive experience on his own accord?
i know obama or biden don't and palin has 1.5 yrs. of executive
experience
MsJoanne @ 45:
and the MSM is the republican bullhorn!
JGR @ 12:
Um, no. This woman is disgusted with her.
This speech is for the base and the base only. It does nothing to help the American people. It does nothing to solve any issues.
She so far she has eliminated most doubts in the republican party about her strengths. She has made democrats realize that she isn't a pushover or a terrible choice for McSame. We have a lot of work to do. OBAMA/BIDEN '08!!
theWalrus @ 54:
Yep. Wal-Mart, American Idol... lotta mindless Dollar-Daze voters out there in this country.
All those cheering for her tonight will be thrilled when they read the National Enquirer in the next week or so.
If they did their job as well as they did for John Edwards it's going to bye bye Palin
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 41:
And not with her as Veep. She's already brought a mountain of corruption our way, ties to Abramoff and Big Oil, a family scandal, a possible affair of her own, politically motivating firing of people who crossed her but the thing that takes the cake is that this assclown actually filed papers against herself yesterday on ethics charges - simply to circumvent the investigation, change the venue and place herself before three cronies whom she appointed. Now that takes the cake in terms of immediate obstruction of justice and political cronyism all rolled into one. And she's only been on te national stage for less than a week!
Blue Lensman @ 51:
This just pisses me off even more. Could there have been anything more negative about that speech? And that bit about the Democrats wanting to raise taxes.
ON THE RICH who can live off their dividends.
A Brief Review of Presidential Fads
-Jimmy Carter's beer-swilling brother Billy makes chugging a brew a pop sensation in the late 70's
-Ronald Reagan's fondness for jelly beans spawns countless gourmet jelly bean shops around the nation
-George H.W. Bush's dislike of broccoli sends broccoli sales plummeting; boosts status of junk foods everywhere
-Bill Clinton's cigar lust makes cigar bars a hot 90's hangout
-George W. Bush helps popularize faux Christianity, revives anti-Islam and anti-Arab racism, and makes ignorance a quality people take pride in
So what can the nation expect from s McCain presidency, given his choice of Sarah Palin? Answer: a nationwide epidemic of teenage pregnancies.
She failed to explain her role as commander of national guard of Alaska
She did bring up many lies, but unfortunate the public will have the wools over there eyes.
I think overall her appearance was dazzling and handle herself well, but I am afraid that the people will not recognize the snake oil salesman.
I do think Guillani is wrong about that nobody will tell a man that he needs to focus more on his family, and particularly Rudy's family. He has the audacity to tell us that nobody tells a man, the same man who neglected his wife and kids and sacrifice them in order to win an election. He might have won those election if he had demonstrated his priority on family values. It's not just for women to raise a family, and stay home in the kitchen. Men can do it to, and real men do share the responsibility!
Jeanne @ 50:
She lied about everything! Brian Williams called her out on the lie about taxes, the bridge to nowhere, and others. I think it might have been the Obama response, but still, it got out there.
And worse, she didn't just rebute Obama or Biden on what they have done, she MOCKED them. And that is an awful thing in political discourse.
I think she pissed off the media. They are taking the Bridge thing right now on MSNBC.
I hope the whole community organizer thing comes to bit them in the ass. Nothing like mocking people doing things for their own communities and the people who live in them.
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 48:
That's right or the Politboro's KGB will crack your head like they did Amy Goodman.
WOW!
That was quite a collection of vapid, mostly white, middle class and Up Amerikans!
When you add them to Jethro's like this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/26517301#26529174
normal Americans, and the rest of us on this mudball, are likely FUKT.
The fact that McFlop isn't near single digits, and the fact that people are there CHEERING, sums it sadly the hell up.....
rb @ 66:
BWAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.......funny...NOT!
dosido @ 148:
lets see how friendly she will really be...as she cut funding to programs for single teen mothers
and again, a repug only being able to relate when they have experienced it
there is the dif between the wingnuts and the progressives
Spicegal @ 429:
Maybe this is the gop's way of finally killing govt. to only the most vestigial trace - make the public so disgusted with it that we no longer want anyone. Just let corps. and the land barrons of today run wild, as the govt. is a worse alternative.
BobbyG @ 163:
I read your response out loud and my Mrs. spit out her cigarette! Damn Funny! Or is it Pathetic? I think it's Both.
StCyrlyMe2 @ 422:
is the enquirer gonna print the stuff about the alleged affair? that would be cool
thing is...she may be hot, but my penis shrinks everytime she opens her mouth
for a short period of time, i dated a girl from minnesota....sweet and beautiful, but she had the same exact accent and it drove me nuts
sorry...im a shallow bastard
ScottnRKE @ 431:
my sentiments exactly.
Last week, I reported the reactions to Obama's speech as posted on the BBC website by people from "around the world" ans how surprised I was that so many were negative. This is a website that hates Bush & "Bliar".
They're not buying Palin either but the responses were more precise and pretty much what we all saw and heard.
1- A good prepared speech reader.
2- Frighteningly primitive and stupid.
3-BORING
4-arrogant and condescending
5-SCARY!
6-Mrs. Palin? It makes me laughing of today's US politics.
Sarah Palin's remarks demostrated to me that she advocates division and would rather bash her opponent instead of detailing a plan about moving America forward.
7-The face of US Militarism, Neo-Conservatism and the Christian Right wrapped in the stars and stripes. A good reason for the need of a multi-polar World to counter US hegemony and its threat to Peace and Justice.
McCain's biggest mistake was the rush job in this whole matter. The DECEIT required to pull something like this off is too obvious. Smoke & Mirrors.
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