All style and absolutely zero substance ; it has been the calling card of the garbage GOP for the last 3 decades............

Ridiculous.

I just cannot fathom the idea of a candidate for major office that is so off limits. Why aren't more people seeing through this charade.

CNN needs to back this up with more coverage regarding how this piece of turd pie was offered to them....All the news organizations have to be very, very public about why they did not take the bait on this outrageously blatant bit of propaganda...

Damn....

people thinking that the debates will suffice are wrong.
she needs to answer random/ad lib questioning. they're
shielding her from being asked questions regarding
important issues.they're also avoiding issues that aren't necessarily important to some like the political organizaton 'todd' belonged to...the 'troopergate' and
her church in wasilla.

We get the leaders we deserve.

Well, well, well.. MSM is being shunned by the star they created. Is this poetic justice or what? Watch the MSM bite back, then again, maybe not.

Wow... Kudos to CNN that decided to pull the plug. It's incredible that the McCain camps still see her being interviewed as a liability. You've got to wonder how bad she is, considering they are willing to take the risk of making her look just like a pretty face.

MCMetal @ 11:

gempei @ 7:

MCMetal @ 2:

All style and absolutely zero substance ; it has been the calling card of the garbage GOP for the last 3 decades............

And not a lot of style here, if this is anything to go by.

And what elected office am I running for , and when did I ever claim to have foreign policy experience based upon proximity to a neighboring foreign nation , gooppile , or whatever your moronic name is ?

Talking about her, not you. :)

Shared Humanity @ 10:

We get the leaders we deserve.

Actually I disagree....

Didn't vote for Bush....since the inception of the war in Iraq I was against it...not part of this mortgage meltdown....

Probably would consider people like me victims when it comes to the choice of leader we were forced to deal with....

here's Palin taking a question from a 'friendly' audience
NOW remember mccain said she is a leading expert
regarding energy. short video

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/18/palin-energy-nonsense/

Somebody's cameras were there, the photo-op will still be on the networks.

That said, CNN were right to pull the plug. Now if they'd pull that McCain '08 buttplug out of Dana Bash's arse.

So, when Ahmadinijhad speaks before the U.N. we can expect video coverage, but when Palin visits for the first time it's a closed door policy? Got it.

As a member of a group that's vocally expressed abject contempt for the United Nations, she's awfully quick to appear accommodating of them now.

I can't wait for Joe Biden to destroy her in the 1 debate they are going to have.

Well, she's gettin right into that ol Dick Cheney spirit ain't she....
pretty face, black heart.... very republican... Ya know, except for the pretty face and the lack of a bum ticker... it's almost like shotgun Dick deja vu all over again..... Only this time with lipstick..... JD

Who cares anymore? The retarded American electorate could be shown authentic photos of McCain and Palin raping puppies anally and it wouldn't make one bit of difference to them. Afterall, Palin's glasses are so damned cute she and McCain must be qualified to lead our country.

Well, it seems like EVERYONE is tired of the same old GOP bullshit.

Hmmm...

The result of protests from the press, a TV producer was eventually permitted into the first meeting, but no print reporter. At the two subsequent meetings, there will be both TV and print pool reporters on hand.

[UPDATE]

Pool Report: 29 seconds with Palin and Karzai

After Sarah Palin's traveling press corps protested a decision not to allow a pool reporter into the Governor's meetings today with world leaders, the campaign relented, and a CNN producer was on hand.

In the room for only 29 seconds with Sarah Palin and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, CNN's Peter Hamby wrote the following pool report, obtained by Politico. It's all after the jump

PALIN POOL REPORT #1

Sept. 23, 2008

New York, NY

KARZAI MEETING
NOTE: CNN producer was the only editorial member allowed in and graciously offered the play-by-play featured below.

Logistics: Your pooler was blocked by the campaign from attending the Karzai pool spray, along with other wires and print outlets. The only media representatives were a TV crew, producer and still four photographers. Several hours of pleas from different outlets were unsuccessful. Palin spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt gave this statement to the AP, Reuters and your pooler: “The decision was made for this to be a photo spray with still cameras and video cameras only.”

The decision was then reversed and your pool will be allowed in for the remaining two meetings. More on all of this below.

Now for the news:

Gov. Sarah Palin emerged from the Millennium Broadway hotel at 11:35am EST in a beige SUV headed for the InterContinental at 111 E. 48th St. Senior policy advisers Randy Scheunemann and Steve Biegun were outside the hotel waiting for her. Palin was wearing all black. No sign of Todd or the kids (your pooler did not see them, but has not confirmed they were not there).

Your pooler then ran into the hotel lobby and was restrained from boarding the crowded gold elevator, despite her shouting on behalf of the pool. The group of cameras returned via another elevator just a few moments later. When asked for an on-the-record statement, Schmitt offered up the above explanation.

***From CNN’s Peter Hamby, who was the only editorial representative allowed in:

The press pool (still and TV cameras only, plus this producer) entered into Karzai’s sizeable suite at the Intercontinental shortly after noon. One handler, who did not appear to be with the campaign but rather with Karzais’ entourage, repeatedly said “No writers,” and he tried to keep this pooler from entering the room when he saw my notebook. However, Chris Edwards, Palin’s deputy chief of staff, allowed me to pass.

Palin was seated in a large chair a few feet from Karzai, with a table in between them. From the view of the pool cameras, Palin sat on the left, and Karzai to the right.

Seated slightly behind Palin were foreign policy advisers Steve Biegun and Randy Scheunemann, who are accompanying the governor in her motorcade today.

As the pool entered, the Afghan president appeared to be telling Palin about his young son, who was born in January 2007.

Palin, her legs crossed and at one point patting her heart, was leaning in eagerly and smiling. Karzai, wearing his traditional clothes but without his trademark karakul hat, was also grinning while discussing the child. His remarks were unintelligible as the noise from the clicking cameras drowned them out.

This was the only exchange that was heard:

“What is his name?,” Palin asked.

“Mirwais,” Karzai responded. “Mirwais, which means, ‘The Light of the House.’”

“Oh nice,” Palin responded.

“He is the only one we have,” remarked Karzai.
At this point, the pool was hustled out the room and down to the hotel lobby. Pool was in the room for a grand total of 29 seconds.***

Other notes: Wallace informed your pooler after the spray that the AP, Reuters and your pooler will be allowed in the photo spray before the Uribe and Kissinger meetings. Schmitt then returned to the van and said there had been a “mix up, a miscommunication among staff” and confirmed that we would be allowed in.

Note: there will be a *background* pen-and-pad briefing after the meetings with Biegun at 3:15pm at the Millennium hotel. No word yet on whether it is pooled or open press.

that picture, above, with this thread:
it is so obvious that ms.palin has poor ol' john wrapped around her little finger...
such a flirt... those kind have few women friends but really know how to wrangle the boys...
we all know their ways...

gempei @ 7:

MCMetal @ 2:

All style and absolutely zero substance ; it has been the calling card of the garbage GOP for the last 3 decades............

And not a lot of style here, if this is anything to go by.

LOL. Yeah...ya want style visit Little Green Footballs...or perhaps put on the intellectual Rush Limbaugh, or perhaps the journalistic skills of Hannity or perhaps the legal hackery and historical re-writing of Mark Levin.

37 Floridiot Says: A Dick with lipstick? never had that happen before, don’t want it again.
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It tickles.

PLEASE NOTE: The Palin/McCain camp has bowed under the pressure of not having TV exposure for their Tea Party stunt. CNN's producer was admitted and CNN showed up with their cameras. But they still weren't allowed to ask any questions. So the Palin Stonewalling continues.

The Palin Watch

Is Palin going to make an appeal to Amnesty International, claiming she is a political prisoner?

So, Palin's a pig in a poke? We're not allowed to know anything about her?

As gifts, Palin gave Karzai a hockey stick and a freshly baked moose pie and was overheard saying "...yes, we have a lot in common...both our countries begin with the letter 'A'!"

Wait a minute...

If palin's meeting with world leaders

Doesn't that make the mcgramp's campaign

In violation of the Logan Act?

48 theWalrus Says: As gifts, Palin gave Karzai a hockey stick and a freshly baked moose pie and was overheard saying “…yes, we have a lot in common…both our countries begin with the letter ‘A’!”

Was it chocolate moose?

***********BREAKING NEWS***************

When asked about the Wall Street Financial Bail-out , Ms Caribou Barbie replied :

"They made a sequel to the 1st Wall Street movie with Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen????"

I shudder at the thought of palin the unready being introduced to the world political community. One can only imagine what their impressions of her will be. But then they’ve had to suffer the chimp for the last 8 years. Could she be much worse than that?

Well, we know that Cheney was/is running the show at the WH. We know that Palin won't be running the show, having been chosen strictly as eye candy for Gramps. The question is, if god-forbid, they win just who will be running the show?

if the new's organizations really wanted to show some balls they should just stop covering her until she starts answering questions. if she wants to be "shielded" from the press, then grant her wish, ignore her completely.

Shane @ 55:

How about the media don't even show up for the debate?

That would only benefit everyone's ears to not have to listen to Caribou Barbie's moronic Alaskan whiney voice .............

Aw gee. And I was so looking forward to another round of stump the candidate. So far the interrogators are batting a thousand.

McCain/Palin is fast becoming the joke of the day. The things that this campaign thinks that they can get away with is INCREDIBLE.

The press just needs to stop covering anything concerning the McCain/Palin campaign, and start making them PAY $$$ FOR ANY AND ALL FURTHER COVERAGE. PERIOD. THE END.

People seriously need to vote to sit John McCain down and to keep Sarah Palin's a** in ALASKA. There is NO WAY that we need another administration that thinks they can run this country in extreme secret.

jimmysaus @ 26:

I can't wait for Joe Biden to destroy her in the 1 debate they are going to have.

You may be waiting for a long time. Joe has already pre-announced that he will not be attacking the lovely Sarah Palin and this make me very nervous that he will miss a golden opportunity to really destroy her.

ysbaddaden @ 3:

Palin Bans Reporters From UN Meetings, CNN Pulls The Plug

She uses butt-plugs?

Otherwise, her brain falls out.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez23-2008sep23,0,5598058.column

A (funny if if weren't true) visual of Wasilla.

Send Sarah Palin back to Alaska. McCain could not have chosen a worst person to be his running mate. One of the comments described her as ‘Nobody-with-Know-it-All-Attitude’. She is an intellectually-challenged, arrogant, dishonest, and hateful person. Maybe she will keep her dirty mouth shut from now on? It is time to throw the McCain/Palin ticket into a history trash basket.

jimmysaus @ 26:

I can't wait for Joe Biden to destroy her in the 1 debate they are going to have.

The only questions she will field will be moose recipies, bridges to nowhere, and how far into Russia she can see on a clear day. All thanks to the McCain campaign whining about how unfair it is allowing Palin to debate.

Doesn't the fact that she's afraid to face even a frankly friendly press corps means she's blinking like a strobe light.

If I were a reporter I would switch tactics to ambush mode... as she gets out of the car you yell "Any truth to the rumors you like to club baby harp seals?"... "Is it true that you denied rape victims rape kits because they contain emergency contraception?"... then you show her "no comment" or stupid expression on the news every night until she agrees to be interviewed.

cobsjo @ 34:

[UPDATE]

Pool Report: 29 seconds with Palin and Karzai

After Sarah Palin's traveling press corps protested a decision not to allow a pool reporter into the Governor's meetings today with world leaders, the campaign relented, and a CNN producer was on hand.

In the room for only 29 seconds with Sarah Palin and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, CNN's Peter Hamby wrote the following pool report, obtained by Politico. It's all after the jump

PALIN POOL REPORT #1

Sept. 23, 2008

New York, NY

KARZAI MEETING
NOTE: CNN producer was the only editorial member allowed in and graciously offered the play-by-play featured below.

Logistics: Your pooler was blocked by the campaign from attending the Karzai pool spray, along with other wires and print outlets. The only media representatives were a TV crew, producer and still four photographers. Several hours of pleas from different outlets were unsuccessful. Palin spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt gave this statement to the AP, Reuters and your pooler: “The decision was made for this to be a photo spray with still cameras and video cameras only.”

The decision was then reversed and your pool will be allowed in for the remaining two meetings. More on all of this below.

Now for the news:

Gov. Sarah Palin emerged from the Millennium Broadway hotel at 11:35am EST in a beige SUV headed for the InterContinental at 111 E. 48th St. Senior policy advisers Randy Scheunemann and Steve Biegun were outside the hotel waiting for her. Palin was wearing all black. No sign of Todd or the kids (your pooler did not see them, but has not confirmed they were not there).

Your pooler then ran into the hotel lobby and was restrained from boarding the crowded gold elevator, despite her shouting on behalf of the pool. The group of cameras returned via another elevator just a few moments later. When asked for an on-the-record statement, Schmitt offered up the above explanation.

***From CNN’s Peter Hamby, who was the only editorial representative allowed in:

The press pool (still and TV cameras only, plus this producer) entered into Karzai’s sizeable suite at the Intercontinental shortly after noon. One handler, who did not appear to be with the campaign but rather with Karzais’ entourage, repeatedly said “No writers,” and he tried to keep this pooler from entering the room when he saw my notebook. However, Chris Edwards, Palin’s deputy chief of staff, allowed me to pass.

Palin was seated in a large chair a few feet from Karzai, with a table in between them. From the view of the pool cameras, Palin sat on the left, and Karzai to the right.

Seated slightly behind Palin were foreign policy advisers Steve Biegun and Randy Scheunemann, who are accompanying the governor in her motorcade today.

As the pool entered, the Afghan president appeared to be telling Palin about his young son, who was born in January 2007.

Palin, her legs crossed and at one point patting her heart, was leaning in eagerly and smiling. Karzai, wearing his traditional clothes but without his trademark karakul hat, was also grinning while discussing the child. His remarks were unintelligible as the noise from the clicking cameras drowned them out.

This was the only exchange that was heard:

“What is his name?,” Palin asked.

“Mirwais,” Karzai responded. “Mirwais, which means, ‘The Light of the House.’”

“Oh nice,” Palin responded.

“He is the only one we have,” remarked Karzai.
At this point, the pool was hustled out the room and down to the hotel lobby. Pool was in the room for a grand total of 29 seconds.***

Other notes: Wallace informed your pooler after the spray that the AP, Reuters and your pooler will be allowed in the photo spray before the Uribe and Kissinger meetings. Schmitt then returned to the van and said there had been a “mix up, a miscommunication among staff” and confirmed that we would be allowed in.

Note: there will be a *background* pen-and-pad briefing after the meetings with Biegun at 3:15pm at the Millennium hotel. No word yet on whether it is pooled or open press.

WOW, is this all we get?

Palin has be come a Pin-Up girl, you know, the ones where they just stand there and look pretty. While they pray that she dosen't talk or will figure out she an idiot.

God bless this country and pray she's not in office.

Palin is a joke. There's more activity going on in the Pope's underwear than between that woman's ears.

Bloody idiot.

jimmysaus @ 26:

I can't wait for Joe Biden to destroy her in the 1 debate they are going to have.

You do know that the McCain campaign has very publicly put the fix in on the VP debates, yes? They had the VP part restructured due to Palin's "lack of debate experience". No joke.

It's gonna be a total dog and pony show.

McCain Hasn't Held a Press Conference in 40 Days
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/22/the_media_blackout...

I wish we could get a photo of Palin and Sarkozy's wife together. Now SHE is easy on the eyes.

Dale @ 87:

I wish we could get a photo of Palin and Sarkozy's wife together. Now SHE is easy on the eyes.

And Sarkozy's wife is running for what office and has what effect on the US , outside of your masturbatory fantasies ?

John J @ 79:

cobsjo @ 34:

[UPDATE]

Pool Report: 29 seconds with Palin and Karzai

After Sarah Palin's traveling press corps protested a decision not to allow a pool reporter into the Governor's meetings today with world leaders, the campaign relented, and a CNN producer was on hand.

In the room for only 29 seconds with Sarah Palin and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, CNN's Peter Hamby wrote the following pool report, obtained by Politico. It's all after the jump

PALIN POOL REPORT #1

Sept. 23, 2008

New York, NY

KARZAI MEETING
NOTE: CNN producer was the only editorial member allowed in and graciously offered the play-by-play featured below.

Logistics: Your pooler was blocked by the campaign from attending the Karzai pool spray, along with other wires and print outlets. The only media representatives were a TV crew, producer and still four photographers. Several hours of pleas from different outlets were unsuccessful. Palin spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt gave this statement to the AP, Reuters and your pooler: “The decision was made for this to be a photo spray with still cameras and video cameras only.”

The decision was then reversed and your pool will be allowed in for the remaining two meetings. More on all of this below.

Now for the news:

Gov. Sarah Palin emerged from the Millennium Broadway hotel at 11:35am EST in a beige SUV headed for the InterContinental at 111 E. 48th St. Senior policy advisers Randy Scheunemann and Steve Biegun were outside the hotel waiting for her. Palin was wearing all black. No sign of Todd or the kids (your pooler did not see them, but has not confirmed they were not there).

Your pooler then ran into the hotel lobby and was restrained from boarding the crowded gold elevator, despite her shouting on behalf of the pool. The group of cameras returned via another elevator just a few moments later. When asked for an on-the-record statement, Schmitt offered up the above explanation.

***From CNN’s Peter Hamby, who was the only editorial representative allowed in:

The press pool (still and TV cameras only, plus this producer) entered into Karzai’s sizeable suite at the Intercontinental shortly after noon. One handler, who did not appear to be with the campaign but rather with Karzais’ entourage, repeatedly said “No writers,” and he tried to keep this pooler from entering the room when he saw my notebook. However, Chris Edwards, Palin’s deputy chief of staff, allowed me to pass.

Palin was seated in a large chair a few feet from Karzai, with a table in between them. From the view of the pool cameras, Palin sat on the left, and Karzai to the right.

Seated slightly behind Palin were foreign policy advisers Steve Biegun and Randy Scheunemann, who are accompanying the governor in her motorcade today.

As the pool entered, the Afghan president appeared to be telling Palin about his young son, who was born in January 2007.

Palin, her legs crossed and at one point patting her heart, was leaning in eagerly and smiling. Karzai, wearing his traditional clothes but without his trademark karakul hat, was also grinning while discussing the child. His remarks were unintelligible as the noise from the clicking cameras drowned them out.

This was the only exchange that was heard:

“What is his name?,” Palin asked.

“Mirwais,” Karzai responded. “Mirwais, which means, ‘The Light of the House.’”

“Oh nice,” Palin responded.

“He is the only one we have,” remarked Karzai.
At this point, the pool was hustled out the room and down to the hotel lobby. Pool was in the room for a grand total of 29 seconds.***

Other notes: Wallace informed your pooler after the spray that the AP, Reuters and your pooler will be allowed in the photo spray before the Uribe and Kissinger meetings. Schmitt then returned to the van and said there had been a “mix up, a miscommunication among staff” and confirmed that we would be allowed in.

Note: there will be a *background* pen-and-pad briefing after the meetings with Biegun at 3:15pm at the Millennium hotel. No word yet on whether it is pooled or open press.

WOW, is this all we get?

Palin has be come a Pin-Up girl, you know, the ones where they just stand there and look pretty. While they pray that she dosen't talk or will figure out she an idiot.

God bless this country and pray she's not in office.

She is an evangelical dominionist in the cult of masculinity. This is her role. Why do you think Todd (the first dude) Palin is her sidekick in the Governor's office. She does what she's told; she plays the part; she keeps her mouth shut.

81 Van Says: Palin is a joke. There’s more activity going on in the Pope’s underwear than between that woman’s ears.

Bloody idiot.
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Italian cooking will do that

It's all the garlic.

theWalrus @ 80:

I predict that Palin wil back out of the VP debate. I mean, how can they let this woman debate anyone? I expect a family emergency, food poisoning, the flu, or some other crisis to appear.

You forgot McCain's secret weapon. He'll use Tina Fey in the debates. He'll need the brains and we'll never know!!!!

Hagan @ 4:

Ridiculous.

I just cannot fathom the idea of a candidate for major office that is so off limits. Why aren't more people seeing through this charade.

GOP Response -- It's the Librul Media's fault for viciously attacking Sarah and her family.

She sure is purdy to look at though ain't she?

GOP polls will start tanking any time soon ... I *hope*.

John J @ 79:

cobsjo @ 34:

Palin has be come a Pin-Up girl, you know, the ones where they just stand there and look pretty. While they pray that she dosen't talk or will figure out she an idiot.

dosen't?

figure out she an idiot?

Oh the thick, delicious irony.

God almighty. Is there no end to the stupidity of this white trash pig? The press should get a goddamn spine and shove a microphone in her snout.

I have several female friends that are offended by the presence of this woman on the GOP ticket.

It goes beyond pandering. They really feel that she just creating an atmosphere where it will be a long time before another woman will ever get nominated.

Dale @ 96:

MCMetal @ 89:

Dale @ 87:

I wish we could get a photo of Palin and Sarkozy's wife together. Now SHE is easy on the eyes.

And Sarkozy's wife is running for what office and has what effect on the US , outside of your masturbatory fantasies ?

Sarkozy's wife is not running for any office. Also, she has little or no effect on the U.S.

Do you have any other questions? I'm happy to help if you do.

As is readily deduced by the relevant and compelling post about Sarkozy's wife that you made............

theWalrus @ 80:

I predict that Palin wil back out of the VP debate. I mean, how can they let this woman debate anyone? I expect a family emergency, food poisoning, the flu, or some other crisis to appear.

Mainly because it's not a debate. It's a question-pre-packaged answer session. At least that's my take.

I saw a photo of Moosegirl actually sitting on a dead bear. Cruel, gross, insensitive ...

She is, to put it bluntly, a cunning, vindictive bitch. Among other things ...

Here's Salon's take on Caribou Barbie:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/23/palin/

And explain how hiding for the media is like a pitbull?

PUT ON YER FUCKING DRESS LIKE A WOMAN AND FACE THE BRIGHT LIGHTS YOU TWO BIT COWARD! ... DAMNIT

Tom Piltoff @ 99:

John J @ 79:

cobsjo @ 34:

Palin has be come a Pin-Up girl, you know, the ones where they just stand there and look pretty. While they pray that she dosen't talk or will figure out she an idiot.

dosen't?

figure out she an idiot?

Oh the thick, delicious irony.

Typing too fast

CNN, which was providing the television coverage for news organizations, decided to pull its TV crew, effectively denying Palin the high visibility she had sought.

NYAH NYAH! LOL :)

Fanon @ 118:

Maybe we need to hire some papparazzi? They seem willing to get in people's faces and shout questions at them. They also seem to find people no matter where they are. Let's get those guys who follow britnyparislohan all over the place. Maybe tmz can be the new cnn.

Perhaps if Sarah forgets her panties...

MCMetal @ 116:

Dale @ 112:

MCMetal @ 105:

Dale @ 96:

As is readily deduced by the relevant and compelling post about Sarkozy's wife that you made............

So compelling that it was ignored by everyone.

Except you.

Yeah

Because monumental stupidity should be acknowledged once ............

Now your time's up.

Monumental stupidity. Wow.

xoites defends Constitution @ 119:

Fanon @ 118:

Maybe we need to hire some papparazzi? They seem willing to get in people's faces and shout questions at them. They also seem to find people no matter where they are. Let's get those guys who follow britnyparislohan all over the place. Maybe tmz can be the new cnn.

Perhaps if Sarah forgets her panties...

You know, I was trying to eat lunch!! I think I just through up a little in my mouth.

I guess I am just irritated that the press core so willingly leave. Why not just stand there and continue to take pictures? No one has a digital recorder in their pocket?

Dale @ 87:

I wish we could get a photo of Palin and Sarkozy's wife together. Now SHE is easy on the eyes.

This is the internet.

If you want porn go to a porn site. If you want to say something relevant here i suggest a few years in high school would be a good place to start.

We all need to read something buzzflash.com has posted: Naomi Wolf, The Battle Plan II: Sarah "Evita" Palin, the Muse of the Coming Police State

Naomi Wolf writes:

Please understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah "Evita" Palin. You are looking at the designated muse of the coming American police state.

You have to understand how things work in a closing society in order to understand "Palin Power." A gang or cabal seizes power, usually with an affable, weak figurehead at the fore. Then they will hold elections -- but they will make sure that the election will be corrupted and that the next affable, weak figurehead is entirely in their control. Remember, Russia has Presidents; Russia holds elections. Dictators and gangs of thugs all over the world hold elections. It means nothing. When a cabal has seized power you can have elections and even presidents, but you have freedom.

I realized early on with horror what I was seeing in Governor Palin: the continuation of the Rove-Cheney cabal, but this time without restraints. I heard her echo Bush 2000 soundbites ("the heart of America is on display") and realized Bush's speechwriters were writing her -- not McCain's -- speeches. I heard her tell George Bush's lies -- not McCain's -- to the American people, linking 9/11 to Iraq. I heard her make fun of Barack Obama for wanting to prevent the torture of prisoners -- this is Rove-Cheney's enthusiastic S and M, not McCain's, who, though he shamefully colluded in the 2006 Military Tribunals Act, is also a former prisoner of war and wrote an eloquent Newsweek piece in 2005 opposing torture. I saw that she was even styled by the same skillful stylist (neutral lipstick, matte makeup, dark colors) who turned Katharine Harris from a mall rat into a stateswoman and who styles all the women in the Bush orbit --but who does not bother to style Cindy McCain.

Then I saw and heard more. Palin is embracing lawlessness in defying Alaskan Legislature subpoenas --this is what Rove-Cheney, and not McCain, believe in doing. She uses mafia tactics against critics, like the police commissioner who was railroaded for opposing handguns in Alaskan battered women's shelters -- Rove's style, not McCain's. I realized what I was seeing.

Reports confirmed my suspicions: Palin, not McCain, is the FrankenBarbie of the Rove-Cheney cabal. The strategy became clear. Time magazine reported that Rove is "dialed in" to the McCain campaign. Rove's protégé Steve Schmidt is now campaign manager. And Politico reported that Rove was heavily involved in McCain's vice presidential selection. Finally a new report shows that there are dozens of Bush and Rove operatives surrounding Sarah Palin and orchestrating her every move.

What's the plan? It is this. McCain doesn't matter. Reputable dermatologists are discussing the fact that in simply actuarial terms, John McCain has a virulent and life-threatening form of skin cancer. It is the elephant in the room, but we must discuss the health of the candidates: doctors put survival rates for someone his age at two to four years. I believe the Rove-Cheney cabal is using Sarah Palin as a stalking horse, an Evita figure, to put a popular, populist face on the coming police state and be the talk show hostess for the end of elections as we know them. If McCain-Palin get in, this will be the last true American election. She will be working for Halliburton, KBR, Rove and Cheney into the foreseeable future -- for a decade perhaps -- a puppet "president" for the same people who have plundered our treasure, are now holding the US economy hostage and who murdered four thousand brave young men and women in a way of choice and lies.

How, you may ask, can I assert this? How can I argue, as I now do, that there is actually a war being ramped up against US citizens and our democracy and that Sarah Palin is the figurehead and muse for that war?

Look at the RNC. This is supposed to be McCain's America. But you see the unmistakable theatre of Rove's S and M imagery -- and you see stages eight, nine and ten of the steps to a dictatorship as I outlined them in The End of America. Preemptive arrest? Abusive arrest? "Newly released footage, which was buried to avoid confiscation, shows riot cops arresting and abusing a giant group of people for nothing."

Journalists were arrested -- for reporting. Amy Goodman and ABC producers were arrested. Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake and others were forced to lie face down as armed agents tied their hands behind their backs. The riot police wore the black S&M gear of the Rovian fantasy life and carried the four foot batons cops carry in North Korea. All this is not John McCain's imagery or strategy: it is Karl Rove's.

In McCain-Palin's America, citizens who are protesting are being charged as terrorists. This means that a violent war had been declared on American citizens. A well known reporter leaked to me on background that St Paul police had dressed as protesters and, dressed in Black -- shades of the Blackshirts of 1920 -- infiltrated protest groups. There were also phalanxes of men in black wearing balaclavas, linking arms and behaving menacingly -- alleged "anarchists." Let me tell you, I have been on the left for thirty years and you can't get three lefties to wear the same t-shirt to a rally, let alone link arms and wear identical face masks: these are not our guys. Agent Provocateurs framing protesters and calling protest "terrorism" constitutes step ten of a police state:

"In what appears to be the first use of criminal charges under the 2002 Minnesota version of the Federal Patriot Act, Ramsey County Prosecutors have formally charged 8 alleged leaders of the RNC Welcoming Committee with Conspiracy to Riot in Furtherance of Terrorism... [they] 7 1/2 years in prison under the terrorism enhancement charge which allows for a 50% increase in the maximum penalty."

"Paid, confidential informants... infiltrated the RNCWC on behalf of law enforcement. They allege that members of the group sought to kidnap delegates to the RNC, assault police officers with firebombs and explosives, and sabotage airports in St. Paul. Evidence released to date does not corroborate these allegations with physical evidence or provide any other evidence for these allegations than the claims of the informants. Based on past abuses of such informants by law enforcement, the National Lawyers Guild is concerned that such police informants have incentives to lie and exaggerate threats of violence and to also act as provocateurs in raising and urging support for acts of violence."

Under the Palin-Rove police state, you will see escalating infringements on your access to a free internet:

"Sarah Palin was baptized at Wasilla Assembly of God...Last Sunday our research team released a video, a ten-minute mini-documentary, focusing on the Wasilla Assemblies of God and the video seemed on the verge of a massive "viral" breakthrough when YouTube pulled it down, citing 'inappropriate content'. At the point the video was censored by YouTube it had been viewed by almost 160,000 people. The short of it is that YouTube has censored a video documentary that appeared to be close to having an effect on a hard fought and contentious American presidential election..."

Under the coming Palin-Rove police state, you will witness the plans now underway to bring Iraqi troops to patrol the streets of our nation. This is not McCain's fantasy: it is Rove's and Cheney's.

Under the Palin-Rove police state, there will be no further true elections. Mark Crispin Miller has done sensational and under-reported investigating t o establish that -- as I warned -- indeed the GOP staffers on the US Senate Judiciary Committee have been .

The evidence is also buried on the Website of the Majority House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

WASHINGTON -- Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing on copies to the media, Senate officials told The Globe. >From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003, members of the GOP committee staff exploited a computer glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic communications witho ut a password. Trolling through hundreds of memos, they were able to read talking points and accounts of private meetings discussing which judicial nominees Democrats would fight -- and with what tactics.

-- "Senate panel's GOP staff spied on Democrats" By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | January 22, 2004

Do you think that spying like this will ever end under a Palin-Rove regime? Dream on. If she and McCain are elected, then every single strategy memo and speech and debate prep note from every opposition candidate from now and on into forever will be read by the regime in power while it is still in the computers of the challengers.

Under the Palin-Rove police state, citizens will be targeted with state cyberterrorism. Bruce Fein of the American Freedom Agenda, a former Reagan official, warned me three years ago that the Bush team went after a Republican who had crossed them through cyberstalking: they messed with his email, messed with his phones and I believe messed with his bank account -- he became a cyber-pariah, unemployable and haunted. With modern technology, there really is less place to hide from the state than there was in East Germany in the Cold War era. I remember feeling a chill: of course. That is the wave of the future once we breach the protections around citizens of FISA and the fourth amendment. That way lies the abyss for us all.

Am I trying to scare you? I am. I am trying to scare you to death and ask you to scare your Republican and independent friends most of all. How do you know when it is war on citizens? When there are mass arrests, journalists are jailed, the opposition is infiltrated, rights are stripped and leaders start to ignore the rule of law.

Almost everyone I work with on projects related to this campaign for liberty has been experiencing computer harassment: emails are stripped, messages disappear. That's not all: people's bank accounts are being tampered with: wire transfers to banks vanish in midair. I personally keep opening bank accounts that are quickly corrupted by fraud. Money vanishes. Coworkers of mine have to keep opening new email accounts as old ones become infected. And most disturbingly to me personally is the mail tampering I have both heard of and experienced firsthand. My tax returns vanished from my mailbox. All my larger envelopes arrive ripped straight open apparently by hand. When I show the postman, he says "That's impossible." Horrifyingly to me is the impact on my family. My childrens' report cards are returned again and again though perfectly addressed; their invitations are turned back; and my daughters many letters from camp? Vanished. All of them. Not one arrived. Try explaining that to a smart thirteen year old. Try explaining it in a way that still makes her feel secure and comfortable.

I am not telling you this because it's about my life. I am telling you this because it is about your life -- whoever you are, Conservative or Liberal, independent or evangelical. Your politics will not protect you in a police state. History shows that nothing portects you in a police state. This is not about my fear and anxiety: it is about what awaits you and everyone you love unless you see this for what it is:

Scharansky divided nations into "fear societies" and "free societies." Make no mistake: Sarah "Evita" Palin is Rove and Cheney's cosmetic rebranding of their fascist push: she will help to establish a true and irreversible "fear society" in this once free once proud nation. For God's sake, do not let her; do not let them.

Palin is meeting with Bono today. Seriously, I really hate that guy, first meeting with Bush, now with Palin and aligning himself with Pat Robertson in the ONE organization. It just sickens me.

It amazes me they haven't pulled the plug sooner. Let's face it. She has had nothing to say since the RNC convention and repeating the same old tired lies and half truths isn't exactly news-worthy. And consider.. this will be as good as it gets, because you'll never get the truth from these veterans of nonsensical logic. The only folks who "get it" are sniffing the same glue.

MCMetal @ 126:

Dale @ 121:

MCMetal @ 116:

Dale @ 112:

Yeah

Because monumental stupidity should be acknowledged once ............

Now your time's up.

Monumental stupidity. Wow.

Should I just claim run-of-the-mill moronicism or everyday idiocy on your part , based upon your below-average existence and intelligence ?

"moronicism"

You're pretty quick with a dictionary.

"Hello President Karzai.
Did you know I can see Russia from my house?
Oh, you can't... well, we can't all have my vast foreign policy experience."

theres a canadian election happening right now... and i can't help but appreciate my politicians after seeing the kind of crap american ones pull.

xoites defends Constitution @ 134:

Dale @ 132:

xoites defends Constitution @ 125:

Dale @ 87:

This is the internet.

If you want porn go to a porn site. If you want to say something relevant here i suggest a few years in high school would be a good place to start.

Maybe my comment, shallow as it was, has been misunderstood. I do not want a photo of Palin and Sarkozy's wife together, as in having lesbian sex, or mud wrestling or some other nudity-related fashion.

I simply meant STANDING next to each other. So much is made of how cute, pretty and sexy Palin is. But when you put her up next to someone like Sarkozy's wife (wish I knew her name), Palin looks simple and homely.

You can't tell me that the McCain campaign didn't pick Palin at least somewhat because of her appearance. And the press, and many, many others have jumped right on to the "Sarah's so sexy" bandwagon.

Having explained what you meant i now have an idea, but your original post did not even hint at that.

Agreed. Sorry.

Sterling Bennett @ 127:

We all need to read something buzzflash.com has posted: Naomi Wolf, The Battle Plan II: Sarah "Evita" Palin, the Muse of the Coming Police State

Naomi Wolf writes:

Please understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah "Evita" Palin. You are looking at the designated muse of the coming American police state.

You have to understand how things work in a closing society in order to understand "Palin Power." A gang or cabal seizes power, usually with an affable, weak figurehead at the fore. Then they will hold elections -- but they will make sure that the election will be corrupted and that the next affable, weak figurehead is entirely in their control. Remember, Russia has Presidents; Russia holds elections. Dictators and gangs of thugs all over the world hold elections. It means nothing. When a cabal has seized power you can have elections and even presidents, but you have freedom.

I realized early on with horror what I was seeing in Governor Palin: the continuation of the Rove-Cheney cabal, but this time without restraints. I heard her echo Bush 2000 soundbites ("the heart of America is on display") and realized Bush's speechwriters were writing her -- not McCain's -- speeches. I heard her tell George Bush's lies -- not McCain's -- to the American people, linking 9/11 to Iraq. I heard her make fun of Barack Obama for wanting to prevent the torture of prisoners -- this is Rove-Cheney's enthusiastic S and M, not McCain's, who, though he shamefully colluded in the 2006 Military Tribunals Act, is also a former prisoner of war and wrote an eloquent Newsweek piece in 2005 opposing torture. I saw that she was even styled by the same skillful stylist (neutral lipstick, matte makeup, dark colors) who turned Katharine Harris from a mall rat into a stateswoman and who styles all the women in the Bush orbit --but who does not bother to style Cindy McCain.

Then I saw and heard more. Palin is embracing lawlessness in defying Alaskan Legislature subpoenas --this is what Rove-Cheney, and not McCain, believe in doing. She uses mafia tactics against critics, like the police commissioner who was railroaded for opposing handguns in Alaskan battered women's shelters -- Rove's style, not McCain's. I realized what I was seeing.

Reports confirmed my suspicions: Palin, not McCain, is the FrankenBarbie of the Rove-Cheney cabal. The strategy became clear. Time magazine reported that Rove is "dialed in" to the McCain campaign. Rove's protégé Steve Schmidt is now campaign manager. And Politico reported that Rove was heavily involved in McCain's vice presidential selection. Finally a new report shows that there are dozens of Bush and Rove operatives surrounding Sarah Palin and orchestrating her every move.

What's the plan? It is this. McCain doesn't matter. Reputable dermatologists are discussing the fact that in simply actuarial terms, John McCain has a virulent and life-threatening form of skin cancer. It is the elephant in the room, but we must discuss the health of the candidates: doctors put survival rates for someone his age at two to four years. I believe the Rove-Cheney cabal is using Sarah Palin as a stalking horse, an Evita figure, to put a popular, populist face on the coming police state and be the talk show hostess for the end of elections as we know them. If McCain-Palin get in, this will be the last true American election. She will be working for Halliburton, KBR, Rove and Cheney into the foreseeable future -- for a decade perhaps -- a puppet "president" for the same people who have plundered our treasure, are now holding the US economy hostage and who murdered four thousand brave young men and women in a way of choice and lies.

How, you may ask, can I assert this? How can I argue, as I now do, that there is actually a war being ramped up against US citizens and our democracy and that Sarah Palin is the figurehead and muse for that war?

Look at the RNC. This is supposed to be McCain's America. But you see the unmistakable theatre of Rove's S and M imagery -- and you see stages eight, nine and ten of the steps to a dictatorship as I outlined them in The End of America. Preemptive arrest? Abusive arrest? "Newly released footage, which was buried to avoid confiscation, shows riot cops arresting and abusing a giant group of people for nothing."

Journalists were arrested -- for reporting. Amy Goodman and ABC producers were arrested. Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake and others were forced to lie face down as armed agents tied their hands behind their backs. The riot police wore the black S&M gear of the Rovian fantasy life and carried the four foot batons cops carry in North Korea. All this is not John McCain's imagery or strategy: it is Karl Rove's.

In McCain-Palin's America, citizens who are protesting are being charged as terrorists. This means that a violent war had been declared on American citizens. A well known reporter leaked to me on background that St Paul police had dressed as protesters and, dressed in Black -- shades of the Blackshirts of 1920 -- infiltrated protest groups. There were also phalanxes of men in black wearing balaclavas, linking arms and behaving menacingly -- alleged "anarchists." Let me tell you, I have been on the left for thirty years and you can't get three lefties to wear the same t-shirt to a rally, let alone link arms and wear identical face masks: these are not our guys. Agent Provocateurs framing protesters and calling protest "terrorism" constitutes step ten of a police state:

"In what appears to be the first use of criminal charges under the 2002 Minnesota version of the Federal Patriot Act, Ramsey County Prosecutors have formally charged 8 alleged leaders of the RNC Welcoming Committee with Conspiracy to Riot in Furtherance of Terrorism... [they] 7 1/2 years in prison under the terrorism enhancement charge which allows for a 50% increase in the maximum penalty."

"Paid, confidential informants... infiltrated the RNCWC on behalf of law enforcement. They allege that members of the group sought to kidnap delegates to the RNC, assault police officers with firebombs and explosives, and sabotage airports in St. Paul. Evidence released to date does not corroborate these allegations with physical evidence or provide any other evidence for these allegations than the claims of the informants. Based on past abuses of such informants by law enforcement, the National Lawyers Guild is concerned that such police informants have incentives to lie and exaggerate threats of violence and to also act as provocateurs in raising and urging support for acts of violence."

Under the Palin-Rove police state, you will see escalating infringements on your access to a free internet:

"Sarah Palin was baptized at Wasilla Assembly of God...Last Sunday our research team released a video, a ten-minute mini-documentary, focusing on the Wasilla Assemblies of God and the video seemed on the verge of a massive "viral" breakthrough when YouTube pulled it down, citing 'inappropriate content'. At the point the video was censored by YouTube it had been viewed by almost 160,000 people. The short of it is that YouTube has censored a video documentary that appeared to be close to having an effect on a hard fought and contentious American presidential election..."

Under the coming Palin-Rove police state, you will witness the plans now underway to bring Iraqi troops to patrol the streets of our nation. This is not McCain's fantasy: it is Rove's and Cheney's.

Under the Palin-Rove police state, there will be no further true elections. Mark Crispin Miller has done sensational and under-reported investigating t o establish that -- as I warned -- indeed the GOP staffers on the US Senate Judiciary Committee have been .

The evidence is also buried on the Website of the Majority House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

WASHINGTON -- Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing on copies to the media, Senate officials told The Globe. >From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003, members of the GOP committee staff exploited a computer glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic communications witho ut a password. Trolling through hundreds of memos, they were able to read talking points and accounts of private meetings discussing which judicial nominees Democrats would fight -- and with what tactics.

-- "Senate panel's GOP staff spied on Democrats" By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | January 22, 2004

Do you think that spying like this will ever end under a Palin-Rove regime? Dream on. If she and McCain are elected, then every single strategy memo and speech and debate prep note from every opposition candidate from now and on into forever will be read by the regime in power while it is still in the computers of the challengers.

Under the Palin-Rove police state, citizens will be targeted with state cyberterrorism. Bruce Fein of the American Freedom Agenda, a former Reagan official, warned me three years ago that the Bush team went after a Republican who had crossed them through cyberstalking: they messed with his email, messed with his phones and I believe messed with his bank account -- he became a cyber-pariah, unemployable and haunted. With modern technology, there really is less place to hide from the state than there was in East Germany in the Cold War era. I remember feeling a chill: of course. That is the wave of the future once we breach the protections around citizens of FISA and the fourth amendment. That way lies the abyss for us all.

Am I trying to scare you? I am. I am trying to scare you to death and ask you to scare your Republican and independent friends most of all. How do you know when it is war on citizens? When there are mass arrests, journalists are jailed, the opposition is infiltrated, rights are stripped and leaders start to ignore the rule of law.

Almost everyone I work with on projects related to this campaign for liberty has been experiencing computer harassment: emails are stripped, messages disappear. That's not all: people's bank accounts are being tampered with: wire transfers to banks vanish in midair. I personally keep opening bank accounts that are quickly corrupted by fraud. Money vanishes. Coworkers of mine have to keep opening new email accounts as old ones become infected. And most disturbingly to me personally is the mail tampering I have both heard of and experienced firsthand. My tax returns vanished from my mailbox. All my larger envelopes arrive ripped straight open apparently by hand. When I show the postman, he says "That's impossible." Horrifyingly to me is the impact on my family. My childrens' report cards are returned again and again though perfectly addressed; their invitations are turned back; and my daughters many letters from camp? Vanished. All of them. Not one arrived. Try explaining that to a smart thirteen year old. Try explaining it in a way that still makes her feel secure and comfortable.

I am not telling you this because it's about my life. I am telling you this because it is about your life -- whoever you are, Conservative or Liberal, independent or evangelical. Your politics will not protect you in a police state. History shows that nothing portects you in a police state. This is not about my fear and anxiety: it is about what awaits you and everyone you love unless you see this for what it is:

Scharansky divided nations into "fear societies" and "free societies." Make no mistake: Sarah "Evita" Palin is Rove and Cheney's cosmetic rebranding of their fascist push: she will help to establish a true and irreversible "fear society" in this once free once proud nation. For God's sake, do not let her; do not let them.

Everyone should read this.

Karzai is a bigger puppet of the US gov than Sarah is.

He'll play along and pretend to talk to her about important policy stuff.

e.c. @ 58:

if the new's organizations really wanted to show some balls they should just stop covering her until she starts answering questions. if she wants to be "shielded" from the press, then grant her wish, ignore her completely.

Yes! If only they had the cojones to do just that!

StirFry @ 128:

Hahahaha! Oh man, they're hiding her because she's an idiot.
This is Coen Brothers material:

“What is his name?,” Palin asked.

“Mirwais,” Karzai responded. “Mirwais, which means, ‘The Light of the House.’”

“Oh nice,” Palin responded.

“He is the only one we have,” remarked Karzai.

And the media got kicked out before Palin could tell him what her kids' names are. Laughter was heard through the door.

Dale @ 144:

MCMetal @ 138:

Dale @ 132:

xoites defends Constitution @ 125:

Maybe my comment, shallow as it was, has been misunderstood. I do not want a photo of Palin and Sarkozy's wife together, as in having lesbian sex, or mud wrestling or some other nudity-related fashion.

I simply meant STANDING next to each other. So much is made of how cute, pretty and sexy Palin is. But when you put her up next to someone like Sarkozy's wife (wish I knew her name), Palin looks simple and homely.

You can't tell me that the McCain campaign didn't pick Palin at least somewhat because of her appearance. And the press, and many, many others have jumped right on to the "Sarah's so sexy" bandwagon.

Who in the media is talking about Palin's supposed 'attractiveness' ?

And Palin's "looks" , regardless of how they're viewed , means nothing compared to her glaring lack of qualifications ..........

A number of talking heads on CNN, ABC, FOX (of course) have said Sarah Palin is "hot," "sexy" and "pretty."

Yes, she's as qualified as a shoe.

Like whom ?

Glenn Speck ? Talk about less credibility than even this garbage administration has .....................