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Posted: Sat Sep 20th, 2008 10:37 pm |
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The views in both directions are very exagerated. In other words what he has done is not so tremendous and she not so lacking.
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I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....
* If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're
'exotic, different.'
* Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American
story.
* If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
* Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.
* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well
grounded.
* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become
the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter
registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12
years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State
Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become
chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee,
spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a
state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving
on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's
Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city
council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000
people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000
people, then you're qualified to become the country's second
highest ranking executive.
* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while
raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches,
you're not a real Christian.
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left
your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're
a Christian.
* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education,
including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the
fiber of society.
* If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with
no other option in sex education in your state's school system
while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you're very
responsible.
* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position
in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner
city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's
values don't represent America's.
* If you're husband is nicknamed 'First Dude', with at least one
DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to
vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated
the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely
admirable.
OK, much clearer now.
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Lots of "Creepy" stuff on line!!
Try googling "Comparing Barak Obama to Jesus"
I believe it was only about a month ago someone in this blog compared him to Jesus!
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(from War Room blog ... creepy!)
Sarah Palin, anointed by God
If you need a good reason to vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin in November, here it is: "Sarah is that standard God has raised up to stop the flood. She has the anointing ... Back in the 1980s, I sensed that Israel's little-known Benjamin Netanyahu was chosen by God for an important end-time role. I still believe that. I now have that same sense about Sarah Palin."
That's a quote from an e-mail that's now circulating in the evangelical community; a friend passed it on to me. As best as I can tell, the text of the e-mail was originally written by Jim Bramlett, an author and former vice president with the Christian Broadcasting Network. (You can read more about him in this WorldNetDaily article about his claim that he's obtained recordings of angels singing.)
This e-mail isn't the only instance of Palin being seen this way. Sarah Posner, who has an interesting article about Palin's time as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, in Salon today, previously wrote about this phenomenon on TAPPED: "Many evangelicals are talking about Palin being like the biblical Queen Esther, who saved the Jews from the genocidal Haman, and believe that Palin has come, like Esther did, 'for a time such as this.' (The same narrative built around George W. Bush when he was running.)"
Further excerpts from the e-mail are below. Dear friends: Barack Hussein Obama has taken the nation by storm. From obscurity, with zero executive experience, or much of any kind, he has vaulted into the position of Presidential frontrunner. It is stunning. On the surface, it appears attributable only to his eloquent oratory and his race. But an invisible factor may be a strong spiritual force behind him, causing some people to actually swoon in his presence...
Last week at Obama's acceptance speech, that spirit exalted itself in front of a Greek temple-like stage, and to a huge audience like in a Roman arena. Obama was portrayed as god-like. His voice thundered as a god's voice.
At the end, Democratic sympathizer Pastor Joel Hunter gave the benediction and shockingly invited everyone to close the prayer to their own (false) gods. This was surely an abomination, but it was compatible with Obama's expressed theology, and Hunter's leftist leanings.
God was not pleased...
Enter Governor Sarah Palin. With incredible timing, the very next day, Sarah Palin also appeared out of nowhere...
We quickly learned that Sarah is a born-again, Spirit-filled Christian, attends church, and has been a ministry worker.
Sarah is that standard God has raised up to stop the flood. She has the anointing. You can tell by how the dogs are already viciously attacking her. But they will not be successful. She knows the One she serves and will not be intimidated.
Back in the 1980s, I sensed that Israel's little-known Benjamin Netanyahu was chosen by God for an important end-time role. I still believe that. I now have that same sense about Sarah Palin...
Only God knows the future and how she may be used by Him, but may this noble woman serve to bring renewal in the land, and inspiration.
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4Godncountry wrote: pineknot wrote: But was fortuate to have good schooling.
Who paid for Obama's Schooling?
Here's an interesting read
http://dontbeagooddemocrat.com/000054.html
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4Godncountry wrote: pineknot wrote: Gordy wrote: CC thank you so much. That was powerful and you can pass the offering plate my way because I would contribute to him and his church. AWSOME !
CRIMECRUNCHER wrote: http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=U4-TZspqlOs&rel=1&eurl=&iurl=http%
Do you guys really believe everything you see on youtube. Do you have any idea how bocus some of that stuff is, Totally fake stuff. I could dress up as Sarah Palin and do a video in my back yard about how great Alaska was and send it to youtube,
you guys would believe it.
Please that preacher could have been some" want to be actor preacher" Feed a script of some sort. He will speak.Do not listen to most youtube stuff.
What ever Obama's up bringing was that is a long time ago. So what. He is who he is today.
Actually, Manning has been around awhile. If you check out his website, you will see his church in Harlem. He has done many other Videos as well, some political, some about other ministers..etc...
http://atlah.org/about/pastormanning.html
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Posted: Thu Sep 18th, 2008 03:02 pm |
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From a speech in '08:
"Unfortunately, another thing that Michelle and I have in common is that we left school with a mountain of debt," he said. "Michelle I know had at least $60,000. I had at least $60,000, so when we got together we had a lot of loans to pay. In fact, we did not finish paying them off until probably we'd been married for at least eight years, maybe nine. And like a lot of families, we were still dealing with the cost of our own education when we had to start thinking about saving for our children."
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Posted: Thu Sep 18th, 2008 05:00 am |
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pineknot wrote: But was fortuate to have good schooling.
Who paid for Obama's Schooling?
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The target was the liberal media and he named them. DUH !
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4Godncountry wrote: I think that the point he is trying to make is that The Palins are just like any other average family. They have issues and problems that arise, regardless of teaching. It is just that the Obama Camp seems to want to point out the fact of this pregnancy as if it is Sarah Palins fault, and affects her credibility to govern.While Obama himself lives in a glass house, They should not be throwing stones. I am not saying I agree with all of the terminology of the Video, but the premise is correct.
Hold on here. Obama said right away that this child (Palin daughter) should not be political and he would not comment on it and get involved with saying anything about her.
Plus he admits he does not live in a glass house. He had a shi**y upbring. But was fortuate to have good schooling.
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Posted: Thu Sep 18th, 2008 04:37 am |
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4Godncountry wrote: It is just that the Obama Camp seems to want to point out the fact of this pregnancy as if it is Sarah Palins fault, and affects her credibility to govern.
I don't recall Obama's campaign saying anything negative about a Palin pregnancy.
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I think that the point he is trying to make is that The Palins are just like any other average family. They have issues and problems that arise, regardless of teaching. It is just that the Obama Camp seems to want to point out the fact of this pregnancy as if it is Sarah Palins fault, and affects her credibility to govern.While Obama himself lives in a glass house, They should not be throwing stones. I am not saying I agree with all of the terminology of the Video, but the premise is correct.
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Posted: Thu Sep 18th, 2008 04:24 am |
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Gordy wrote: And the entire video was saying just that.
Not quite Gordy, He was putting down and labasting Obama's mother and father's as low life. Because Obama was born from this low life white women. and black man.
Obama rose up from that.
What is the point Gordy you are trying to make?
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Sarah Brady is not happy about Sarah Palin so she's using her as a fundraising issue.
Frankly, if Sarah Brady doesn't like Sarah Palin, that's just one more reason for me to like Sarah Palin.
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Posted: Thu Sep 18th, 2008 04:20 am |
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| Can I repeat a funny joke I read about Palin's daughter, or is that too sensitive for you?
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Posted: Thu Sep 18th, 2008 04:15 am |
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And the entire video was saying just that.
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Posted: Thu Sep 18th, 2008 04:14 am |
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Gordy wrote: And Palin's daughter is beside the point too.
Actually the daughter should not be talked about. That is a family situation and not political at all. Except for the fact that a women should be able to chose as should her daughter. She chose to have the baby. Fine, that's her choice.
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Posted: Thu Sep 18th, 2008 04:09 am |
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And Palin's daughter is beside the point too.
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Gordy wrote: PK, Other than you just not liking it what in it is not true????????
Who ever this preacher was, maybe a paid actor to slam Obama's mother and father is pretty low. Both are dead, and to trash them is pretty low. What ever they did and who they were it's besides the point.
Their son has risen beyond that upbring and it has made him a stronger person..
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Posted: Thu Sep 18th, 2008 03:52 am |
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pineknot wrote: Gordy wrote: CC thank you so much. That was powerful and you can pass the offering plate my way because I would contribute to him and his church. AWSOME !
CRIMECRUNCHER wrote: http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=U4-TZspqlOs&rel=1&eurl=&iurl=http%
Do you guys really believe everything you see on youtube. Do you have any idea how bocus some of that stuff is, Totally fake stuff. I could dress up as Sarah Palin and do a video in my back yard about how great Alaska was and send it to youtube,
you guys would believe it.
Please that preacher could have been some" want to be actor preacher" Feed a script of some sort. He will speak.Do not listen to most youtube stuff.
What ever Obama's up bringing was that is a long time ago. So what. He is who he is today.
Actually, Manning has been around awhile. If you check out his website, you will see his church in Harlem. He has done many other Videos as well, some political, some about other ministers..etc...
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Posted: Thu Sep 18th, 2008 03:39 am |
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PK, Other than you just not liking it what in it is not true????????
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Gordy wrote: CC thank you so much. That was powerful and you can pass the offering plate my way because I would contribute to him and his church. AWSOME !
CRIMECRUNCHER wrote: http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=U4-TZspqlOs&rel=1&eurl=&iurl=http%
Do you guys really believe everything you see on youtube. Do you have any idea how bocus some of that stuff is, Totally fake stuff. I could dress up as Sarah Palin and do a video in my back yard about how great Alaska was and send it to youtube,
you guys would believe it.
Please that preacher could have been some" want to be actor preacher" Feed a script of some sort. He will speak.Do not listen to most youtube stuff.
What ever Obama's up bringing was that is a long time ago. So what. He is who he is today.
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Imagine I do totally agree with you but what he said totally made sense. I don't like the mudslinging either but the video was a little voice of equality. Most of all this was a little video on YOUTUBE not the news.
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I think this is lower than the what the media has been doing. This is disgraceful. I am probably voting for McCain/Palin but I think this is TRASH. Give me break. He has lowered himself beneath the liberal media.
Why is it that people can run an honest campaign anymore? Why does everything have to be slanderous. Let's focus on issues instead of slander. Who cares how many homes McCain has. Who cares that Obama's father was a drunk.
I know that some of you are going to rip me a new one because I don't share YOUR beliefs. I want to see (once - just once in my lifetime) a political campaign that isn't negative. I don't care what the other person isn't doing - I care what the person CAN do. If it's not the canidates that are mudslinging it's their followers.
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CC thank you so much. That was powerful and you can pass the offering plate my way because I would contribute to him and his church. AWSOME !
CRIMECRUNCHER wrote: http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=U4-TZspqlOs&rel=1&eurl=&iurl=http%
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Of course he entertains. But those clips of McCain answering the same question on three different interviews with an irrelevant "I was in a prison for five years" are real, not concocted by Colbert.
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Colbert is a comedian who gets paid to make you laugh. Nothing more, nothing less. I gotta admit, he is a funny guy. Through modern technology, film and sound editing, he can make you believe anything. (Kind of like most news agencies) Of course, for the right paycheck, he'd switch networks (and proclaimed party affiliation) and start bashing the liberals.
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| Try to contain yourself there dude.
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she is hot....would love to see her take off the glasses and let her hair down!  Last edited on Wed Sep 17th, 2008 03:52 pm by Adude
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McCain's 6% National Lead, With NJ and OH
http://www.usaelectionpolls.com/
McCain opens up his largest electoral vote lead since May. He is 28 EV ahead.
McCain 266 vs. Obama 238
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SueCarol wrote: Really, people I have talked to and things I have read point to her still being very popular.
The lady is very sharp. I like her a lot.
Don't forget - she's hot too!!!
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I knew you would sue carol!!!!!
read this.... http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/17/1409425.aspx
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Really, people I have talked to and things I have read point to her still being very popular.
The lady is very sharp. I like her a lot.
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| can't remember if I just thought it or actually wrote it on this forum, but much as I expected,the excitement over McCain's VP pick is wearing off, and Obama is again starting to take over the polls....
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Sounds like a neat lady. I thought this was fantastic on last night's Colbert.
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/184928/september-15-2008/the-word---how-dare-you-
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scrapple wrote: meinmd wrote: I am Teddy Roosevelt in 1900. Hmmm so Sarah Palin is not
qualified but Obama is?
Hmmm... Teddy Roosevelt was also the first president to call for universal health care, and a staunch preservationist (unlike Palin). Sure this is an apt comparison?
Unlike Palin, he was an intellectual, an historian and an author -- all before he was chosen as V.P. He was also Harvard-educated and attended Columbia Law School until he had the chance to join the New York assembly, where he became influential in state politics. (At this stage of his career, sounding more like Obama than Palin; not that that's even an apt comparison, but more than the one you made).
Campaigned for Harrison, appointed twice to U.S. Civil Service Commission. Became board president of New York City Police Commissioners, where he radically reformed one of the most corrupt departments in America at the time.
... and then appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Then fought in Spanish-American war. And then, finally, elected governor of New York -- even then a vastly more populated state than Alaska.
There is no comparison to Palin whatsoever and he'd probably spin in his grave at the suggestion.
All politics aside- anyone ever read Teddy Roosevelt's daughters biography? Talk about a wild child!! Her mother died at an early age and Teddy remarried and had more children. She talked her younger siblings into bringing the pony inside the White House along with lots of other interesting pranks- As a young single woman, she smoked in public and didn't give a hoot about what anyone thought about her.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth did grow up to become one of Washington's most elite and I believe died in her 90's. She called JFK while he was POTUS and told him to come for tea and he did.
She was quoted as saying "If you don't have anything nice to say about someone - come sit here next to me!!
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| Soccer mom, lol. God, we are in such deep trouble.
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meinmd wrote: I am Teddy Roosevelt in 1900. Hmmm so Sarah Palin is not
qualified but Obama is?
Hmmm... Teddy Roosevelt was also the first president to call for universal health care, and a staunch preservationist (unlike Palin). Sure this is an apt comparison?
Unlike Palin, he was an intellectual, an historian and an author -- all before he was chosen as V.P. He was also Harvard-educated and attended Columbia Law School until he had the chance to join the New York assembly, where he became influential in state politics. (At this stage of his career, sounding more like Obama than Palin; not that that's even an apt comparison, but more than the one you made).
Campaigned for Harrison, appointed twice to U.S. Civil Service Commission. Became board president of New York City Police Commissioners, where he radically reformed one of the most corrupt departments in America at the time.
... and then appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Then fought in Spanish-American war. And then, finally, elected governor of New York -- even then a vastly more populated state than Alaska.
There is no comparison to Palin whatsoever and he'd probably spin in his grave at the suggestion.
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| Considering that she is running for VP, her experience is at least equal to BHO's. He is the one with less experience running for the top spot. Whether on not the GOP can be cast as reformers is not at the top of my priority list. I made up my mind well before the dems picked their ticket that I didn't like any of the candidates. I decided then to vote GOP again no matter who won the nomination.
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She is not a reformer.
C.C. look at the comparisons below. I find it hard to claim Palin's experience is greater than Obama's. Nor is she very educated. She did have the opportunity to run for governor when the state was so full of corruption they leaped at any unknown, though.
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This is something that just came to my boss' email.
I am under 45 years old,
I love the outdoors,
I hunt,
I am a Republican reformer,
I have taken on the Republican Party establishment,
I have many children,
I have a spot on the national ticket as vice president with less
than two years in the governor's office.
Did you guess?
I am Teddy Roosevelt in 1900. Hmmm so Sarah Palin is not
qualified but Obama is?
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| If Gov Palin is not ready, unqualified, not experienced enough to be VP, then the dems guy is unready unqualified and not experienced enough to be POTUS. His resuem is much thinner than hers.
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Posted: Mon Sep 15th, 2008 06:57 pm |
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scrapple wrote: I liked this funny comparison I found somewhere:
"1. If you become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review; spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor; spend eight years as a state senator representing a district with over 750,000 people; become Chairman of the State Senates Health and Human Services Committee; spend four years in the U.S Senate representing a state of 13 million people, sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affair and Veterans Affairs Committees -- you don't have any real leadership experience whatsoever.
2. If your total resume is: five colleges in six years; a local weather-watch girl and beauty contestant; four years on the city council and six years as the mayor of a town with 6,000 people; 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, experience in Foreign Affairs gathered regularly at the Fairbanks International House of Pancakes every Sunday; and you fully understand and know all about Russia just because its your neighbor -- then you're qualified to become the country's second highest-ranking executive."
BTW, this is a funny parody (but I'll warn you, parts are a tad vulgar): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-QevraCQUc
I don't think I have heard anyone say that exactly before now...?
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Posted: Mon Sep 15th, 2008 06:49 pm |
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I liked this funny comparison I found somewhere:
"1. If you become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review; spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor; spend eight years as a state senator representing a district with over 750,000 people; become Chairman of the State Senates Health and Human Services Committee; spend four years in the U.S Senate representing a state of 13 million people, sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affair and Veterans Affairs Committees -- you don't have any real leadership experience whatsoever.
2. If your total resume is: five colleges in six years; a local weather-watch girl and beauty contestant; four years on the city council and six years as the mayor of a town with 6,000 people; 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, experience in Foreign Affairs gathered regularly at the Fairbanks International House of Pancakes every Sunday; and you fully understand and know all about Russia just because its your neighbor -- then you're qualified to become the country's second highest-ranking executive."
BTW, this is a funny parody (but I'll warn you, parts are a tad vulgar): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-QevraCQUc
Last edited on Mon Sep 15th, 2008 06:56 pm by scrapple
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Posted: Mon Sep 15th, 2008 06:15 pm |
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We have really dumbed-down our idea of presidents if you'd like to vote for Palin as one. Hey, my friend went to four colleges in six years -- that's one fewer than she did. Maybe he can be a supreme court justice. Actually though, despite his questionable scholastic resume, he has been to many countries ...
The problem with Palin is that, while she is useful to McCain as a symbol, she is not who she says she is on nearly every claim. Earmarks? Tons of them. "Bridge to Nowhere?" Supported it heavily. They market her with opposite claims; even the small detail of her going into Iraq wasn't true. She was in Kuwait, near the border on her one and only trip outside North America. (Her claim that few V.P. candidates could claim to have met foreign leaders is false, as well. Nearly every single one has).
Some of these are smaller fabrications -- I care much less that she wasn't technically in Iraq than the larger mammoth that she hasn't seen or learned much about the world outside the U.S. and is running for the No. 2 pick on what is a quite global position in a quite global economic era. But the trend indicates they're trying to create a "brand" in Palin, one that isn't based on her record but more the one they want to associate her with.
Without countering with "what about Obama, etc." (we all know you're Republican and will vote that way), what is it you admire in her as a V.P. candidate? I mean, you surely voted George H.W. Bush back in '88, but you couldn't have respected Quayle...
I supported the Democrats in 2004 after four abyssmal years of Bush, but I certainly didn't many nice things to say about John Kerry ... And in 2000, I thought nothing was worse than Gore's choice of Lieberman (one of the most repugnant politicians around).
Last edited on Tue Sep 16th, 2008 01:52 am by scrapple
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Posted: Mon Sep 15th, 2008 05:56 pm |
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"She was put on this earth to do two things: kill caribou and kick butt. She's all out of caribou."
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Posted: Mon Sep 15th, 2008 05:55 pm |
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| I seem to like her, you will always find fault somewhere with anyone and everyone. No one is perfect. No one is going to make choices that suites everyone and that would be impossible anyways. And that goes for Paline, McCain or Obama for that fact. I personally feel she does have more exec. experience over Obama/Biden. It seems to me though, it is more like Obama vs Palin instead of Obama vs. McCain. Mostly what I see is all about her. Sure she probably has faults we all do, but I think she is a better candidate. As for the next election if McCain does not rerun for a second term I believe you will see Sarah Palin as a presidental candidate.
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Posted: Mon Sep 15th, 2008 04:16 pm |
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My kind of lady
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/the_real_american_idol/article1687959.ece
In 8 yrs I hope to vote for her for POTUS
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