Sarah Who?

[Towntalk]

Sorry

Joe was at a rally and spotted a state legislator in the front row and called out to him to stand and be recognized before he realized that the man was a paraplegic in a wheelchair ... realizing his mistake he called upon the audience to stand for the man.

[ForumManager]

oe Biden said some dumb remarks... Wait til you hear this!
http://mvred.com/2008/09/10/first-signs-off-democratic-worrying/

Can't follow your link. errors

[ytowner]

Joe Biden said some dumb remarks... Wait til you hear this!

http://mvred.com/2008/09/10/first-signs-off-democratic-worrying/

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For those who do not trust the news media you will find these links helpful in learning about Palin's record as Governor of Alaska.

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/omb/

http://w3.legis.state.ak.us/house/house.php

http://senate.legis.state.ak.us/

http://w3.legis.state.ak.us/media/media.php

http://w3.legis.state.ak.us/pubs/pubs.php

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Democratic outrage at the remarks of a Republican Congressman:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g8eMUng8c9fRJPvGHYOeolqH-uzwD930N50G0

Double Standard?

Hypocracy?

You be the judge.

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Two sources:

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/09/obamas-lipstick-on-a-pig-remar.html

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jb827iv54eCm7wXWPT_5aN4wHbzwD933HUT80

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Obama is a real class guy:

"You know, you can put lipstick on a pig," Obama said, "but it's still a pig."  Reference to Palin.

"You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called 'change,'" Obama continued,
"it's still gonna stink after eight years."

[Towntalk]

Blitzers exact words:

THE SITUATION ROOM
9/8/08

BLITZER: All right. We'll be watching that closely. Randi will have much more later tonight here on CNN.

I don't remember a time when a candidate's pastor -- whether on the Democratic side with Barack Obama, or now with Sarah Palin, on the Republican side -- a pastor has potentially had political impact on what's going on. But maybe you can remind me if that's happened in the past.

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Attack on Palin's religious beliefs:

In 1960 the media of the day was lashing out at JFK because he was a Roman Catholic, the media today is lashing out at Sarah Palin because she is an Evangelical Protestant. What do they want ... an atheist who believes in extreme liberal issues and refuses to have anything to do with religion in any form?

Why not just adopt the same policies that are in place as Saudi Arabia or China?

Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room told a BALD FACED LIE when he said that he couldn't remember ANY TIME THAT A PASTOR HAD ANY EFFECT ON A CAMPAIGN ... what about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Blitzer? What about the Rev. Jerry Falwell Blitzer? What about Pat Robertson Blitzer?

BLITZER did interviews with all these men on the Situation Room and Late Edition regarding their involvement in Presidential campaigns.

[rusty river]

Palin and indicted Alaska senator Ted Stevens were pretty close chums...until he got indicted.
Alaska has asked for over $300 per person in federal funding for pet projects this year. Her first term as governor she asked for over $500. The average state asks for less than $30 per person. Fiscal conservatism at its best. Ironic considering her speech. Funny how Palin didn't mention she supported the "bridge to nowhere" up until the point she found out that her state would end up paying 2/3 of the nearly $400 million project. She kept $30 million that had been earmarked for it anyways...

I'll post citations about these facts later

[ytowner]

Tons of polls out:
Rasmussen: McCain up 1.
Hotline: Tied
USAToday: McCain up +10 [likely] +4 [registered].
CBS: Tied
CNN: Tied
Gallup: McCain up 3 yesterday, new poll to be released any minute.

RCP Polling Average has McCain up 2 points for the first time in this election, an 8pt swing since the DNC.

SARAH PALIN!!!!

[Towntalk]

Sarah Palin and the Press

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/07/AR2008090702646_pf.html

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UPDATE, 3:15 p.m.: CNN Correspondent Dana Bash has confirmed additional details about the upcoming interview: According to a McCain aide, the plan is for Gibson to have time with Palin over two days — Thursday and Friday of this coming week. The interview will be part sit-down, part walk-and-talk at various locations in Alaska.

[ytowner]

Gibson from ABC will be in Alaska later this week for an interview with Palin.

[Towntalk]

In all these debates we keep seeing both sides tossing their dirty laundry into a washing machine full of muddy water hoping that sooner or later they'll come out clean. They keep tossing out the same buzzwords and sweet platitudes yet neither side is dealing with the cold hard specifics and the devil is in the details.

I want the complete bottom line step-by-step details about how they are going to carry out their platform in their own words and not sketches fed to them by their handlers. The platform is what they are running on, and its what they will be judged on.

As to those first time candidates for Congressional seats are concerned remember this, if you were to win, you'd be a freshman and its rare indeed that a Freshman gets anything done, a Freshman gets insignificant committee assignments, and it's the rare Freshman that comes under the wings of senior members. And when it comes to getting anything for their district, they get precious little, and that is what the voters will judge them on, like it or not.

During the campaign they can preach good sermons on the stump, but when they go to Congress they are expected to go with the program, and if they don't they are left out in the cold, with nothing to show for it when they come up for re-election.

They can do their one-minute sound bites, take Special Orders, and have articles inserted into the Congressional Record, but that means squat when it comes to getting anything done for the people of their district.