The Republican attack machine was in rare form in St. Paul last night.
A number of speakers, including former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani and veep hopeful Sarah Palin, took to the stage and launched scathing attacks on Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. Giuliani gave perhaps the most nauseating speech we’ve seen this electoral season, and mocked Obama’s work as a “community organizer,” a pursuit Republicans must really loathe, because the crowd went wild with boos and jeers. Palin also seized on Obama’s experience in Chicago.
Palin, the Governor of Alaska and former mayor of her home town, Wasilla, told the mostly white-faced crowd:
…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.
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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.
That line’s a reference, of course, to Obama’s oft-criticized remarks about “bitter” Americans earlier this year.
Palin’s address was the politico’s formal introduction to the nation after becoming John McCain’s running mate last week. The past few days have been a whirlwind of revelations about Palin, including the fact that her 17-year old daughter’s with child. Obviously upset over the media attention, the Governor took some time to blast the media, saying she wasn’t in the game to win friends:
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…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.
Palin’s certainly not making any friends in Obama’s camp. Campaign manager David Plouffe responsed immediately with a mass email taking on Palin and the GOP’s attacks on Obama’s organizational experience:
Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies.
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Throughout our history, ordinary people have made good on America’s promise by organizing for change from the bottom up. Community organizing is the foundation of the civil rights movement, the women’s suffrage movement, labor rights, and the 40-hour workweek. And it’s happening today in church basements and community centers and living rooms across America.
Even if the GOP doesn’t like Obama, surely they can’t argue with the importance of grassroots activism. And, perhaps most importantly, the necessity of civil society for a strong democracy.
Here’s video from Palin’s speech. You may want to wait until after you’ve properly digested your breakfast…
CitizenGeek
Sarah Palin and Rudi Giuliani are complete and utter morons. They demeaned Barack Obama’s admirable record working with troubled Chicago communities, they mocked his two term tenure in the Illinois senate and then they jeered at his time in Washington. It was cowardly and vulgar. Exactly like the Republicans have always been.
Also: Do Republicans know of any other communication technique beyond sarcasm? Watching last night’s speeches, I really doubt it.
Rock
What a fucking bitch.
I would love to see Hillary Clinton whip this bitch’s ass. You know she could!
polobear
talk about pimpin’ her kids out. Hillary would kick her butt as Biden will. It is one thing to throw out insults and jabs but let’s see how she does with specifics ( I bet she is praying real hard)
BB
Sorry everyone, but she made a great speech last night and I’m sure she’ll make a better veep than Biden ever could. I’m afraid the dems won’t be heading to DC!
CitizenGeek
She says that the public should keep out of her personal life, but last night she paraded her family for a large portion of her lie-filled speech last night. Also, Cindy McCain, Bristol Palin and Todd Palin were passing her tiny, Down Syndrome afflicted son around for most of the speech and playing up the cameras big time. You can only have it one way or another, you either want your family in the public eye or you don’t. You can’t have it both ways, you stupid bitch! Hah, I really, really hate Sarah Palin and I can’t wait for Hillary to take her on in a speech or something!
marty
I’ve never hated a politician more than I hate Sarah Palin.
Her bitchy sarcastic tone may work at the RNC, but there’s a fine line between “tough” and “shrill harpy” as she’ll soon find out.
Jason
I heard Joe Biden is dropping out as VP today, because he know’s his credentials will never stand-up to the hockey mom pitbull with lipstick.
Jason
At least she referred to one of Obama’s resume fillers as “Community Organizer”. I call it “Street Agitator”. What is great is that McCain has forced the Obama campaign to compare Obama to the VP candidate. Last I recall he was running for President. I guess he can’t really make an arguement of his experience vs. John’s.
daniel k
Yay! she was able to read the teleprompter! At times I read along with her… She was a journalism major after and proved her tuition was not wasted. This still does not change the facts no matter how they try to spin them..
– she supported the bridge to no where before she was against it, and did NOT return the money received for it.
– when she took office as mayor the town had no debt. when she left the town was in debt to the tune of 20 mil.
– she hired Ted, indicted for bribery, Stephens lobbying firm to get millions of dollars in earmarks for Alaska (our tax money) while giving the citizens of Alaska $1200 (man, woman, and child) dividends from oil revenues.. so much for “building it ourselves”
– under investigation for “troopergate” which McCain & co. are trying to stall.
– appealed putting polar bears on the endangered species list so she can have her pipeline.
These are the facts no speech can erase.
porsha
She needs her adenoids removed!
L
Is community organizing bad because it holds politician’s feet to the fire? Or is it because nothing is scarier to Republicans than blacks organizing? The GOP uses a different word apparently, “lobbyist”. And yet they next claim Obama is an insider, part of the Chicago “machine”. And, my God, how laughable is it that the Republican ticket is taking on the banner of change and reform? What? Eight years of failed policies and voters will produce reform by giving them four more years? They are not making much sense. The illogic is frightening.
Imelda Marcos
Poor Speech…
They’re afraid.
They should be.
CHURCHILL-Y
“You may want to wait until after you’ve properly digested your breakfast…”
Don’t worry this lady has you in need of some imodium anyways.
The sooner some of you let go of your hatred the better off you will be. Like it or not this woman is going to be the next Vice President, why not try to deprogram yourselves an be on her good side? If not for you Queerty for the good of the community you blog for.
Again Obamatrons, the more you spew sh!t about this woman the more people will like her. Don’t you get it? Of course you dont you’re machines.
Gregoire
I can’t wait until the community organizes and sends this nobody back to Alaska.
M&M
As per none-partisan person who is me,
She did a great speech!
Honestly Democrats should have picked Hilary.
Obama is very inexperienced compare to these people. With Hilary, Democrats could have won definetely.Now it is very tough for them.
Jason
On one of my other forums I am on; a Florida Fishing Forum, several of the guys have said that their wives who never had an interest in politics in the past have said this lady will make a difference to them. Several said their wives want to get involved in her campaign as she speaks to issues they understand. I am not touting this as a scientific study but if they are telling the truth I find it interesting.
IDNY
did you see the folks in that room last night?
wow, especially that one lady covered head to tow in red sequence?! oh dear , stupid hicks!
They are scared and on the run, thats why they have shifted focus to the culture wars. The republicans this years cannot win based on platform or ideas. The proof is in the pudding of the last 8 years.
Having said that they have used this tactic the last two elections and it worked on a fearful/uneducated middle America. So we will have to see if America has grown any wiser.
I think this Palin selection will eventually prove to be McCain’s downfall. I think people know the difference between the party that 18 million people nominated a women because she was the best PERSON for the position, period. And the party that chooses a politically weak and inexperienced woman as a cheap gimmick to keep themselves in power. It has nothing to do with progression or the people of America.
Why her and not another women in the republican party? They are many more qualified?
They refuse to answer that and storm out of the room/deny a interview when you ask the question.
So transparent.
AMERICA WAKE UP!
K
Wow this woman has the special something. After hearing some sentences of her speech I really hated her, only few politicans have managed that in such a short period of time. Maybe I had some prejudices because of her strange opinions (i.e. on global warming) or maybe because as an European I can’t imagine that there are really people that vote for such persons.
ChicagoJimmy
I’m still waiting for her to get to the part when she tells us what she and John McCain are going to do for the economy. Wait, I recall, drill for oil. What are they going to do to safeguard our security? Oh right, drill for oil. What is she going to do to expand health care? Oh okay, she did talk about drilling for oil.
RyanInSacto
If you’d like a more scientific perspective on how women are responding to Palin, you can look at this poll done this week for Emily’s List by pollsters Garin-Hart-Yang:
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g10yMHTRWB1ghQ8OLKEKxdHvWiQQ
bobito
We all know how well it worked for Hillary to mock Obama’s abilities to inspire voters.
I wish all the gay McCain voters enough luck to have voted for the losing candidate come November 5, because if they helped that team win an election, they are as fucked as the rest of the GLBT community in America. Unless they’re rich as hell, in which case they’ll manage ok – then they’ll only be just as fucked as the rest of the country. It ain’t gonna be pretty.
Mr C
I think that Sarah Palin did an excellent job delivering her speech, however, that is all she did was deliver her speech.
Between her not so veiled insults at Sen. Obama, and her recollection of what she’s done in the past, she spoke nothing of what she plans on doing in the future.Absolutely nothing!
We heard nothing about her being a ‘maverick’ in the future, or how she plans on using her ‘reformer’ powers. To me her speech was comparable to a sizzler patty…….ground chuck wrapped in steak…..from the outside it looks like steak but when you cut into it you see it’s only an imitation of the real thing. Guess what I don’t need a friend in the White House I need an advocate!!!!
Speaking of which when she says you have a friend in the White House, does that mean she’s going to invite me over for some of her homemade PTA cookies???? Can I put her down on the carpool list???? That’s exactly what it sounded like she was saying in her speech! Thanks but no thanks I have enough friends! We need someone who is going to get things done not play the ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants club!’
I don’t care about who has the best one liners or insults I care about who is going to look out for the American people! According to Romney it won’t be the Republicans because….we need less government! Romney basically said that those Americans who are desperately in need of health care, new job opportunities, and the security of knowing that they will not lose their home are pretty much ON THEIR OWN! Pretty much re-iterating from the horses mouth what Obama said, “oh you’re losing your home, and you have no health care….too bad you’re on your own!!!”
And Bottom line in some places more than others RACE will play a huge part and no one will care about the issues in front of them until it’s TOO LATE. Personally I don’t like the BITCH.
Tonight for the millionth time told me that I made, and am making the right choice supporting Obama/Biden!
Joe Biden shouldn’t lose any sleep behind this speech.
100% OBAMA/BIDEN 2008 All the WAY!!!!!
CHURCHILL-Y
Lots of difference that vote is gonna make in DC you thug. Bravo for you, half clap! Keep calling her names and demeaning her like you did Hillary.
Now your swimming in the open ocean and not in the Democratic primary pond where you got away with all your insults and below the belt punches. There are many Great Whites in these waters boy and if you keep drawing blood……well lets just say you can count your blessing if you get out of it with only one limb but alive. Kisses.
MENSAR
i love it how all fags are selfish, un-educated fucknuckles that they only focus on fag issues, like getting married, AIDS funding and special rights.
lets see here…
1. fag relationships are all doomed. lol @ the idea of fags getting married.
2. AIDS is self inflicted. anyone who gets it, deserves it. smelly ass sex @ ur own risk
and
3. fags cant reproduce. they are automatically third class citizens so they should get third class rights.
MCCAIN/PALIN 08!
ps and yes im gay. just not brainwashed like you lot.
Mr C
Chittyshitty-Y
FAGGOT ASS PUNK BITCH
KISS A RABID DICK AND DIE, OH THEN AGAIN A RABID DICK IS HOW YOU GOT HERE!
TonyLA
Sarah Palin’s incendiary speech accomplished two things. It allowed the press and the Dems to go after her without feeling like they’re beating up on a woman. Her hateful words (delivered with a smug arrogant smile) energized a base alright–The Democrats. By showing tshe’s a “tough cooke” that can stand up to men, let’s see her stand up to the facts instead of running from them as the press continues to do its job and ask questions.
Jaroslaw
Sarah Palin needs to be held accountable for her policies and decisions in Alaska AND what she said last night. No one should shy away from asking tough questions.
But I would be very wary about going after in a mean way, we DON’T want her to get the sympathy vote.
PearlsBeforeSwine
The Sarah Palin nomination certainly is dominating the news, much more than Biden’s nomination did. I wonder what this says about McCain. After all he is where the story is supposed to be.
Palin was smart to go after Obama — too bad Biden didn’t attack McCain. People (voters) are more persuaded by fear than hope. Though everyone professes to hate negative campaigning, it is still effective.
The Republicans were very clever to announce the Palin nomination when they did. This immediately took the focus off of Obama. I wonder how the Democrats can do the same on Friday.
I think the danger is that Sarah Palin will drive the Democrats insane (the same way that Republicans were driven insane by Bill Clinton). It is a good thing that Obama was so conciliatory toward the Clinton camp during the convention. Hillary Clinton is by far the best person to criticize Sarah Palin. And the issue she is most vulnerable on is the abuse of power questions. Do we really want four more years of scandals from people who don’t really understand the law?
Brendan D.
@Gregoire (#14): Don’t wait – Organize!
John
Her styling — the affected eyewear for example — is ripe for Saturday Night Live parody. In fact, I think her speech could be shown on Saturday Night Live as is. Edgy, ironic parody of where our political process has taken us….to her? Good thing we had those interminable primaries.
garynyc
Ah, the sad. sad obama/lib/dems…just what you would expect…MARTY above sums up what a fag lib is He Hates and is proud of it, real class jew boy
rick
Question: What qualified Sarah Palin to be vice president and a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Answer: She has more experience than Obama, she was on the PTA, mayor, and governor of our largest state and it is close to Russia. I would rather have an experienced vp than an inexperienced president.
Lots of people are on the pta, there are 500+ people linked to the sewer system of her town and Alaska is #47 in population. The only thing this woman has in common with our current vice president is that they can both shoot a gun and I will grant you the fact she is probably better at it.
America could not even be bothered to watch her on tv last night. Did they start that new 90210 show last night?
seitan-on-a-stick
Queerty says that The Republican Attack Machine was in rare form” and I ask why is my steak charcoal grilled beyond recognition? The problem is that Republicans (who always lower the bar) Campaign dirtier and Democrats Govern better. This does US no good. We need the Democrats to campaign better. Biden is still on the old script, Obama is trying to take the high road and the rest of the liberal media are just stoking the Right to Energize behind their Bunny.
Barack Obama will not win this election unless he has more swing-state ready ground troops, election watchers and mainsteam news commentators. Sarah Palin is indeed a Pitbull wearing lipstick and we are all kvetching like a basket of chihuahuas. I have never felt a sense of loss as I have in the Liberal blogosphere as McCain can quietly fade to the background while the Dems get caught Woman-bashing again as our Presidential hopes fade. Our win-win ticket is suddenly lose-lose and what have you done today about it?
Blogging is not writing to editorials…
rick
Obama speech: 38 million
Palin speech: 18+ million
The fat lady has sung.
National Enquirer hit news sales records and it wasn’t because of the Shannon Doughtry is a bitch story they had on the cover this week.
Did they play LOVE CHILD or DUALING BANJOS when she came out on stage?
Did anyone else notice that Trig is the spitting image of her son Trick, I mean Track? Wonder where they have the under age girl he knocked up hidden away at.
Everyone should go and read her amazing story of her son Trig’s birth. It is a crock and so is she. And why do they keep upping those kids ages? We already know she was pregnant when she got married.
Jason
Rick,
You are wrong about viewership. And even if you were correct why are you comparing your Presidential candidate to a VP candidate.
Palin Nabs Highest ’08 Broadcast TV Convention Ratings
By Andrew Krukowski
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s speech during Wednesday night’s Republican National Convention bested Democratic speeches from Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and, in some cases, Barack Obama in preliminary ratings.
Speaking last night, along with former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Gov. Palin took in a 5.4 rating/8 share on NBC, according to preliminary overnight household data from Nielsen Media Research, measuring 55 markets across the United States.
In terms of this year’s conventions, the preliminary rating for NBC’s coverage last night is higher than any other night of the convention on the broadcast networks, including Sen. Obama’s nomination acceptance speech on Aug. 28.
http://www.tvweek.com/news/200…0.php
rick
Blogging is not writing to editorials…
honey child, i wrote mine on friday after i did research on her that came from interviews she did and not the gossip sites. it never even dawned on me to check for gossip until after i read that bullshit story about her babies birth. I aint that stupid.
All my letters were accepted first thing tuesday when the offices opened. I wrote 5, and as more comes out will be writing a lot more.
my letter was about how irresponsible she was when she went into labor PREMATURELY and did go to the hospital, but sat arounbd all day, did a speech and then flew 9 plus hours from texas to alaska, then got into a car and drove and hour to some backwards hospital. when you go into labor premature you get your ass to a hospital pronto. i love how the republicans are saying it is no big deal.
no mother in america can honestly vote for that woman unless they are beating their kids. she chose to have trig and her actions could have kild him, if she was in fact pregnant (we are have not seen a picture of her pregnant with trig) but, that girl child sure as hell looks pregnant.
i am going to go radical: i cannot believe that the same people that tell me i am a sinner, immoral, going to hell and do not deserve equal rights and can be denied housing and a job with no venue for complaint think this godly rightous saintly woman who is just wizz bang at doing everything and anything with a BA in journalism (that damn lefty press) to be a T.V. FUCKING SPORTSCASTER is fit to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
i am so sick of these fuck heads telling me she is qualified when she is not. and then to top it off call it sexist when i question anything about her
this little fag boy democrat lefty liberal is not whining, or running scared, or making up what i read and totally wrong because of who i am.
I THINK THE BITCH IS THE FUCKING ANTI CHRIST.! she’s dick cheney in a pant suit but without the brains. and she’s a better aim with a gun.
who are they kidding? after 8 goddamn years of it we KNOW the look.
i am being tired that i am wrong because they claim to have the right to fix this orthodoxy that if you do not agree with what they say you are automatically wrong. they use this for everything. no shades of grey, no compromise, and all the heretics who don’t agree with what they say is the orthodoxy are to be loathed, vilified, demeaned and told they are going to some goddamned hell they can’t even prove to exist.
FOR BEING A GOD DAMN DEMOCRAT. or gay, or have sex out of marriage, or anything they damn well please to choose as their moral failure of the week.
i am tired of being told everything i think do or say is wrong, just because i am doing it thinking or saying it.
if they find one little thing that they don’t like about you and doesn’t fit into their orthodoxy they use it to condemn everything about you across the board and automatically place you in a lesser class and to be ignored.
they keep using the word elite, well, THEY THINK THEY ARE THE ELITE. if we don’t think do or say as these people wish they have the right to publically eviserate you and you have no recourse and do not deserve one for you are you and they are they, and they are right and never wrong.
like billy jean said in the legend of billie jean, FAIR IS FAIR. they are not fair. they say they are fair so they are fair. that in and of itself isn’t fair.
i swear to god i think karl rove orchastrated all of this just so mccain can lose and the right wing talkers will have 4 more years of bashing anyone not religious right republican.
hitler’s propaganda minister is rove’s hero. rove uses nazi stuff all the time but nobody is allowed to say it. if you point it out you are a nazi. rove uses multiple methods, he is very good, i will give him that, he was too cocky and when you get cocky you get sloppy. he got sloppy and went for way too much power for himself. bush isn’t our president and never was, it was rove and cheney. now rove is running mccain and cheney is running the country. rove was our vice president. and they are running mccain into the ground. we see the evil dripping off this woman and they know we can, mccain just doesn’t know it. and nobody is allowed to say a thing about it. if you do you are automatically in the wrong.
but they know homey don’t play that and we will elect obama, and they will spend the next 4 years telling us we are all going to hell.
38 million to 18 million and we didn’t even know who mccains pick was. now we do. we don’t like her already.
rove is laughing his ass off.
please note that i used the word fuck as a noun, adjective and a verb and not in any sexual context.
the right will castigate me but it doesn’t matter they would anyway, no matter what i said so i don’t care. to anyone else, sorry but i am 50 and i am sick and tired of this shit. sometime the use of dirty words is the only way you can accuratly express your true thought. oscar wilde i ain’t.
i will confess to you all that i have aspergers. i cannot read body language or judge tone of voice unless i see them on television. then i can read them like a book. i am not crazy and i am not stupid. i benn to that there college place and actually managed to get through. love to compare palins course load to mine. and her grades. i am always afraid that i will be automatically be discounted if i admit my flaw.
but i must admit it because it is why i have my opinion of her and this situation. but i think it is a valid one. sorry this was like a writing excercise. i can’t help doing asides so sorry for them,.
i ain’t nuts but if you vote for mccain palin you sure as hell are. or a racist, or an anti semite, or so wrapped up into your religion that you have lost all rational thought.
we are unanimous in this.
i want to walk up to that bitch and say, lady i am a fag and i know you are a goddamn liar and probably not fit to be a mother. she isn’t even a good liar. you can tell she would stab you in the back, she has the cheney look.
this paragon of virtue has more skeletons in her closet than there are in the catacombs under rome, paris, and all the other cities with catacombs with skeletons (there are quite a few actually, a lot of churches too).
i am not even sure that baby has downs, it might be fetal alcohol syndrome for all we know. i have seen down babies, my aunt had downs and i grew up with her and that kid don’t look like he has downs to me. i know what pregnant women look like too.
i have known women like her but she is 100 times more toxic than any of them. she is like dick cheney was rosemary woodhouse and got knocked up by satan and had a kid.
i
rick
sorry they changed the figures. we still don’t care.
rick
update: they changed the rating for palin 37,000.000 makes you wonder if people read the enquirer and then just tuned in to get a good look at her. lord knows they have denied us one. i am going to love the gop spin on the numbers.
rick
i stand by what i said.
JIM KUHNHENN
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.
Some examples:
PALIN: “I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending … 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.”
THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that
opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a “bridge to nowhere.”
PALIN: “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.”
THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.
PALIN: “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.”
THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama’s plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain’s plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.
Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.
He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.
MCCAIN: “She’s been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America’s energy supply … She’s responsible for 20 percent of the nation’s energy supply. I’m entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America,” he said in an interview with ABC News’ Charles Gibson.
THE FACTS: McCain’s phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she’s no more “responsible” for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.
MCCAIN: “She’s the commander of the Alaska National Guard. … She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,” he said on ABC.
THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under “federal status,” which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska’s national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.
FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin “got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States.”
THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor’s election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.
FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: “We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin.”
THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.
Jenna's Bush
Since when do facts mean anything to Republicans?
Michael F
something I just read that needs repeating over and over:
“Jesus was a Community Organizer, and Pontias Pilate was a Governor.”
Jaroslaw
Jim Kuhnhenn – And I read somewhere she didn’t return the money for the Bridge to No-where either correct?
CHURCHILL-Y
What has Obama accomplished during his time in the positrons he has occupied – ?
The only thing the community organizer has accomplished is to get himself elected into another position and then another and another till he could arrive at where he’s at now.
Sarah on the other hand has done real work in her community in executive positions first as a Mayor then as a Governor and during her tenure she has actually accomplish improvements for the people of Alaska she has worked for. Obama on the other hand……well just take a look at the South side of Chicago he has represented and in which he has worked as a community organizer.
But since when do facts matter to Obamtrons?
They’re machines, they only act on what they are programmed for, nothing else matters to them.
George W. Bush
Sarah on the other hand has done real work in her community in executive positions first as a Mayor then as a Governor and during her tenure she has actually accomplish improvements for the people of Alaska she has worked for.
Such as? Alaska is the biggest welfare state in the US. Her main “accomplishments” are getting more lower-48 tax money sent to her state.
CHURCHILL-Y
Here you go Obamatron ^, enjoy:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Sarah-Palins-Accomplishments
And I know you wont process these words but try and deprogram yourself. If you do you’ll actually begin to feel you know like a human being!
CHURCHILL-Y
Here that Obamatrons! Can you hear it!
That’s the sound of the Barackapolis on its way back to Mount Obamalympus in the South Side of Chicago. Expect its arrival in November.
Its a win win situation for all Americans, you cultists get a permanent location for your temple where you can worship freely your Messiah.
He’s bound to be more approachable to his loyal servants in his beloved neighborhood than he would’ve in the White House and the rest of
us will have an actual competent and experienced pro American President in John McCain and an overqualified Vice President in Sarah Palin.
McCain ★ Palin ’08
Mr C
I like what Jim had to say better than this Chippyshit-Y troll
Bitch is just angry and hateful. Go get some dick it will make you feel better Chittyshittty-UGH
McInsane/Stalin ’08 the choice for a Dying nation!
JJJJ
With Palin, we might be looking at the first female vice president of the U.S. Maybe the first female president. It’s possible.
Alexa
I had dinner with an old friend last night. He’s a straight white 50+ male, a self described swing voter, a fiscal conservative and social liberal. He voted for Bill Clinton and for Bush senior and still likes both of them. He voted for GWB the first time (and bitterly regrets it now). He was PISSED that Hillary didn’t get the nomination and was seriously considering voting for McCain – until he picked Sarah Palin. He took one look at her record and her beliefs and decided he could not face four more years of rule by the religious right. I don’t know if he’s a typical swing voter, but I was definitely encouraged by his views, and suspect many others will feel the same way, especially once the initial attraction of a charismatic new face wears off.
greybat
Rick(#40)- I so hear you! I would have phrased every word differently, but agree with every one you said.
How very strange to be 50, and to see how little the world has learned, and how much it has forgotten!
Wayne
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