OlderSarah Palin Gives Punchy RNC Acceptance Speech
Self-described “Hockey Mom” Sarah Palin and her family are featured in an exclusive photo spread in the latest issue of People, on newsstands tomorrow.
Last night, the 44-year-old governor of Alaska accepted the GOP vice presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention and came out throwing punches at her opponent, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
“We’ve all heard his dramatic speeches before devoted followers,” she said. “And there is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform - not even in the state senate.”
Palin continued, “This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word ‘victory’ except when he’s talking about his own campaign. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed … when the roar of the crowd fades away … when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot - what exactly is our opponent’s plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he’s done turning back the waters and healing the planet? The answer is to make government bigger … take more of your money … give you more orders from Washington … and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world. America needs more energy … our opponent is against producing it.”
Watch the full speech below; the full text can be found inside!
Sarah Palin’s RNC Acceptance Speech
Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored to be considered for the nomination for Vice President of the United States…
I accept the call to help our nominee for president to serve and defend America.
I accept the challenge of a tough fight in this election… against confident opponents … at a crucial hour for our country.
And I accept the privilege of serving with a man who has come through much harder missions … and met far graver challenges … and knows how tough fights are won - the next president of the United States, John S. McCain.
It was just a year ago when all the experts in Washington counted out our nominee because he refused to hedge his commitment to the security of the country he loves.
With their usual certitude, they told us that all was lost - there was no hope for this candidate who said that he would rather lose an election than see his country lose a war.
But the pollsters and pundits overlooked just one thing when they wrote him off.
They overlooked the caliber of the man himself - the determination, resolve, and sheer guts of Senator John McCain. The voters knew better.
And maybe that’s because they realize there is a time for politics and a time for leadership … a time to campaign and a time to put our country first.
Our nominee for president is a true profile in courage, and people like that are hard to come by.
He’s a man who wore the uniform of this country for 22 years, and refused to break faith with those troops in Iraq who have now brought victory within sight.
And as the mother of one of those troops, that is exactly the kind of man I want as commander in chief. I’m just one of many moms who’ll say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm’s way.
Our son Track is 19.
And one week from tomorrow - September 11th - he’ll deploy to Iraq with the Army infantry in the service of his country.
My nephew Kasey also enlisted, and serves on a carrier in the Persian Gulf.
My family is proud of both of them and of all the fine men and women serving the country in uniform. Track is the eldest of our five children.
In our family, it’s two boys and three girls in between - my strong and kind-hearted daughters Bristol, Willow, and Piper.
And in April, my husband Todd and I welcomed our littlest one into the world, a perfectly beautiful baby boy named Trig. From the inside, no family ever seems typical.
That’s how it is with us.
Our family has the same ups and downs as any other … the same challenges and the same joys.
Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge.
And children with special needs inspire a special love.
To the families of special-needs children all across this country, I have a message: For years, you sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters.
I pledge to you that if we are elected, you will have a friend and advocate in the White House. Todd is a story all by himself.
He’s a lifelong commercial fisherman … a production operator in the oil fields of Alaska’s North Slope … a proud member of the United Steel Workers’ Union … and world champion snow machine racer.
Throw in his Yup’ik Eskimo ancestry, and it all makes for quite a package.
We met in high school, and two decades and five children later he’s still my guy. My Mom and Dad both worked at the elementary school in our small town.
And among the many things I owe them is one simple lesson: that this is America, and every woman can walk through every door of opportunity.
My parents are here tonight, and I am so proud to be the daughter of Chuck and Sally Heath. Long ago, a young farmer and habber-dasher from Missouri followed an unlikely path to the vice presidency.
A writer observed: “We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty, sincerity, and dignity.” I know just the kind of people that writer had in mind when he praised Harry Truman.
I grew up with those people.
They are the ones who do some of the hardest work in America … who grow our food, run our factories, and fight our wars.
They love their country, in good times and bad, and they’re always proud of America. I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.
I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids’ public education better.
When I ran for city council, I didn’t need focus groups and voter profiles because I knew those voters, and knew their families, too.
Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown.
And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves.
I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities. I might add that in small towns, we don’t quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren’t listening.
We tend to prefer candidates who don’t talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.
As for my running mate, you can be certain that wherever he goes, and whoever is listening, John McCain is the same man. I’m not a member of the permanent political establishment.< br>
And I’ve learned quickly, these past few days, that if you’re not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.
But here’s a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I’m not going to Washington to seek their good opinion - I’m going to Washington to serve the people of this country. Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reasons, and not just to mingle with the right people.
Politics isn’t just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.
The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.
No one expects us to agree on everything.
But we are expected to govern with integrity, good will, clear convictions, and … a servant’s heart.
I pledge to all Americans that I will carry myself in this spirit as vice president of the United States. This was the spirit that brought me to the governor’s office, when I took on the old politics as usual in Juneau … when I stood up to the special interests, the lobbyists, big oil companies, and the good-ol’ boys network.
Sudden and relentless reform never sits well with entrenched interests and power brokers. That’s why true reform is so hard to achieve.
But with the support of the citizens of Alaska, we shook things up.
And in short order we put the government of our state back on the side of the people.
I came to office promising major ethics reform, to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is the law.
While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor’s office that I didn’t believe our citizens should have to pay for.
That luxury jet was over the top. I put it on eBay.
I also drive myself to work.
And I thought we could muddle through without the governor’s personal chef - although I’ve got to admit that sometimes my kids sure miss her. I came to office promising to control spending - by request if possible and by veto if necessary.
Senator McCain also promises to use the power of veto in defense of the public interest - and as a chief executive, I can assure you it works.
Our state budget is under control.
We have a surplus.
And I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending: nearly half a billion dollars in vetoes.
I suspended the state fuel tax, and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress.
I told the Congress “thanks, but no thanks,” for that Bridge to Nowhere.
If our state wanted a bridge, we’d build it ourselves. When oil and gas prices went up dramatically, and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska.
And despite fierce opposition from oil company lobbyists, who kind of liked things the way they were, we broke their monopoly on power and resources.
As governor, I insisted on competition and basic fairness to end their control of our state and return it to the people.
I fought to bring about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history.
And when that deal was struck, we began a nearly forty billion dollar natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence.
That pipeline, when the last section is laid and its valves are opened, will lead America one step farther away from dependence on dangerous foreign powers that do not have our interests at heart.
The stakes for our nation could not be higher.
When a hurricane strikes in the Gulf of Mexico, this country should not be so dependent on imported oil that we are forced to draw from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
And families cannot throw away more and more of their paychecks on gas and heating oil.
With Russia wanting to control a vital pipeline in the Caucasus, and to divide and intimidate our European allies by using energy as a weapon, we cannot leave ourselves at the mercy of foreign suppliers.
To confront the threat that Iran might seek to cut off nearly a fifth of world energy supplies … or that terrorists might strike again at the Abqaiq facility in Saudi Arabia … or that Venezuela might shut off its oil deliveries … we Americans need to produce more of our own oil and gas.
And take it from a gal who knows the North Slope of Alaska: we’ve got lots of both.
Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America’s energy problems - as if we all didn’t know that already.
But the fact that drilling won’t solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.
Starting in January, in a McCain-Palin administration, we’re going to lay more pipelines … build more new-clear plants … create jobs with clean coal … and move forward on solar, wind, geothermal, and other alternative sources.
We need American energy resources, brought to you by American ingenuity, and produced by American workers. I’ve noticed a pattern with our opponent.
Maybe you have, too.
We’ve all heard his dramatic speeches before devoted followers.
And there is much to like and admire about our opponent.
But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform - not even in the state senate.
This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word “victory” except when he’s talking about his own campaign. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed … when the roar of the crowd fades away … when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot - what exactly is our opponent’s plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he’s done turning back the waters and healing the planet? The answer is to make government bigger … take more of your money … give you more orders from Washington … and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world. America needs more energy … our opponent is against producing it.
Victory in Iraq is finally in sight … he wants to forfeit.
Terrorist states are seeking new-clear weapons without delay … he wants to meet them without preconditions.
Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America … he’s worried that someone won’t read them their rights? Government is too big … he wants to grow it.
Congress spends too much … he promises more.
Taxes are too high … he wants to raise them. His tax increases are the fine print in his economic plan, and let me be specific.
The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes … raise payroll taxes … raise investment income taxes … raise the death tax … raise business taxes … and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars. My sister Heather and her husband have just built a service station that’s now opened for business - like millions of others who run small businesses.
How are they going to be any better off if taxes go up? Or maybe you’re trying to keep your job at a plant in Michigan or Ohio … or create jobs with clean coal from Pennsylvania or West Virginia … or keep a small farm in the family right here in Minnesota.
How are you going to be better off if our opponent adds a massive tax burden to the American economy? Here’s how I look at the choice Americans face in this election.
In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers.
And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change.
They’re the ones whose names appear on laws and landmark reforms, not just on buttons and banners, or on self-designed presidential seals.
Among politicians, there is the idealism of high-flown speechmaking, in which crowds are stirringly summoned to support great things.
And then there is the idealism of those leaders, like John McCain, who actually do great things. They’re the ones who are good for more than talk … the ones we have always been able to count on to serve and defend America. Senator McCain’s record of actual achievement and reform helps explain why so many special interests, lobbyists, and comfortable committee chairmen in Congress have fought the prospect of a McCain presidency - from the primary election of 2000 to this very day.
Our nominee doesn’t run with the Washington herd.
He’s a man who’s there to serve his country, and not just his party.
A leader who’s not looking for a fight, but is not afraid of one either. Harry Reid, the Majority Leader of the current do-nothing Senate, not long ago summed up his feelings about our nominee.
He said, quote, “I can’t stand John McCain.” Ladies and gentlemen, perhaps no accolade we hear this week is better proof that we’ve chosen the right man. Clearly what the Majority Leader was driving at is that he can’t stand up to John McCain. That is only one more reason to take the maverick of the Senate and put him in the White House. My fellow citizens, the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of “personal discovery.” This world of threats and dangers is not just a community, and it doesn’t just need an organizer.
And though both Senator Obama and Senator Biden have been going on lately about how they are always, quote, “fighting for you,” let us face the matter squarely.
There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you … in places where winning means survival and defeat means death … and that man is John McCain. In our day, politicians have readily shared much lesser tales of adversity than the nightmare world in which this man, and others equally brave, served and suffered for their country.
It’s a long way from the fear and pain and squalor of a six-by-four cell in Hanoi to the Oval Office.
But if Senator McCain is elected president, that is the journey he will have made.
It’s the journey of an upright and honorable man - the kind of fellow whose name you will find on war memorials in small towns across this country, only he was among those who came home.
To the most powerful office on earth, he would bring the compassion that comes from having once been powerless … the wisdom that comes even to the captives, by the grace of God … the special confidence of those who have seen evil, and seen how evil is overcome. A fellow prisoner of war, a man named Tom Moe of Lancaster, Ohio, recalls looking through a pin-hole in his cell door as Lieutenant Commander John McCain was led down the hallway, by the guards, day after day.
As the story is told, “When McCain shuffled back from torturous interrogations, he would turn toward Moe’s door and flash a grin and thumbs up” - as if to say, “We’re going to pull through this.” My fellow Americans, that is the kind of man America needs to see us through these next four years.
For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words.
For a lifetime, John McCain has inspired with his deeds.
If character is the measure in this election … and hope the theme … and change the goal we share, then I ask you to join our cause. Join our cause and help America elect a great man as the next president of the United States.
Thank you all, and may God bless America.
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ufffff que pesaditos sois los americanos con esto de crear un circo para todo de verdad dais pena. recordar que la politica no es sobre los artistas que apoyan a aboma o a mccain es sobre derechos, argumentos sociales economicos y politicos.leed mas libros anda
Jared, I don’t remember your mentioning how Barack Obama and the Democrats “stretched the truth” in their speeches during their convention last week. Have you ever printed anything negative about Obama? Seems to be okay to print any rumor about Palin; can we explore the rumors about Obama being gay?
“Stretched the truth a bit?” Er, OK…
Stretched the truth? How about out right lied. Not to mention pimping out her baby.
sillyme, I actually haven’t even watched Obama’s speech yet.
And Obama wasn’t on the cover of People last week, either.
Inform yourself of both sides. All of these gossip websites are so liberal, but I have to say you are doing your job. You are reporting on the shallow thoughtless things like magazine covers instead of the actual meaning and truth behind things. I shouldn’t even say “report” because that would refer to actual journalism which you obviously know nothing about.
YES. Sarah Palin 2008. This woman is amazing. She will make Obama cry like a baby.
whateva sarah…you c ant even keep your children in line how can u run a country?
I guess it’s hard for Barack to mention the word ‘victory’ in regards to the Iraq war when there wasn’t one. Maybe he doesn’t see lives and money lost in the name of a war that we had no evidence to back up and no real reason for having as a ‘victory.’ Did we get rid of Saddam? Yes. Was that good? Yes. Was it worth losing all of the men and women we lost and creating an even bigger financial problem? I don’t think so.
It’s the economy stupid. The Republicans had 8 YEARS–EIGHT YEARS to make change. We are deeper in the hole people “WAKE UP.”
i love this woman. you go girl!! tell it like it is!!
This is a woman who calls for help for the disabled children.. But her
own son was passed around like a football to several different people
during her speech.. When will she stop talking about Obama..
A hillbilly from Alaska.. Who not only makes fun of other people …
But announces that her own son is going to the war on Sept 11..
Why hide your other middle daughter.. who is she.. We see her husband pass off their son to their youngest daughter but no mention
of their middle daughter..
For a woman who wants her privacy going on the cover of O.K People
U.S magazine..Tabloid magazines…After what McCain said about
Obama being a celebrity.. How ironic is that ..!!
Thanks, Kate. You are such a positive force on this site.
First off, I am not an Obama supporter, neither am I a Mccain’s but I am a Jared fan and before people start getting on his case about the streatching the truth bit, read this…
Attacks, praise stretch truth at GOP convention
ST. PAUL, Minn. - 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.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_fact_check
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Oh yeah…Jared for President!! :)
the war is over? really…when.
And of course, she’s worried about Obama’s tax plans because he’s wanting to tax the higher income brackets (i.e. the rich or well off) and create lower taxes for the lower income brackets (i.e. the regular people, the ones who are barely surviving, not the republicans) I would be worried too, if Obama was dipping into mine and my rich friends money to try and help those who actually need help.
I frankly did not like the speech but thats me. I thought it started pretty good introducing her family and all and then, it shifted to non stop bashing Obama without any substance and her jokes, oh god! Its just really sad that when in doubt, the Republicans go negative and are praised for it like its some new and fresh tactic. Obama would never have lowered himself to the types of insults like last night. I sure hope community organizers start making themselves heard loud and clear.
She did not read her Teleprompters very well; staged, no passion, nothing to emulate here. By speaking her words of lengthy family introduction, she brought her family into the race. She was like a side show clown, shucking and jiving. Isn’t that what other countries are tired on in US administration; too much side show and not enough intelligent communication? Every time one of candidates talks down to the other candidates they look gross. In a serious situation it is never ok to talk poor about each other; we may do it for fun, and that is snarky of us, but in a serious situation, I want a leadership that is honorable, graceful, inviting, and certainly one that cares about ALL American’s. Her family ever seemed confused about standing on que. They were doign what they were told. Robots. McCain’t wants Alaska and the oil prospects there. Why pick the hardest oil to get to to drill? Why not drill where it is easy to get to; plenty of oil in Texas and who knows were else. When you have a visionary mind and a good heart, you surround yourself with good writers and author bills TOGETHER, with the wellbeing of America in mind. What exactly has McCain’t done that is so Maverick? If these people are so great, where is the evidence of their great deeds? What kind of leader likens themselves to a pitbull? She is just like some sort of McCain’t back-up singer. Can someone make a graphic of McCain’t with Palin as his back-up singer? Kind of like a James Bond add with some babe hanging on him? I was amazed at the low energy and not happy faces in the audience while Palin spoke; as if they were questioning why the heck they were there and what had thy gotten themselves twirled up in. What the heck are we doing that we generate that squad and put them up for the key leadership award of this country. I’m a vibe reader and my gage hit the toilet watching the Republican convention. I would rather vote for someone with hope for the future in my heart than vote for someone out of fear. We bring attacks on ourselves with our deplorable leadership behavior. People hate us for being asses. The whole lot of them has created this mess with us backing them up. I am putting my chips on Obamab and with every ounce of my I want him to do an outstanding job for us. He has shown more true caring than any of these dogs. Back to my knitting.
This woman is amazing. She has such class and grace. Dispite the crazy lies the liberal media has been telling she delieved that speech with pose. Democrats, beware. Everything she said about Obama is true; I know it’s hard to face but the man is a liar and websites like this shouldn’t even be posting this crap. Jared, if your going to post gossip and lies about this woman, at least do the same for Obama. Oh, wait, you won’t do that, because that would actually be fair. Obama got an ivy league education, but yet he is the only one that can identify with everyday people. Right………….He thinks human life is punishment, but yes, he cares for us.
I love, love, LOVE, this woman! You go and show your stuff! Those of us women who aren’t petty, jealous and spiteful, admire you and your amazing ability to do it all!
I loved her speeh tbqh…and you would have to be an idiot to not realize ALL candidates stretch the truth or sugar coat their actions to appeal to the votes.
Barack glossed over almost every “policy” or course of action he plans to make as President, but I don’t recall his speeches being analyzed as much as hers.
The ra ra ra “RNC babe cheerleader” sure can read a teleprompter and deliver a speech full with rhetoric, snide comments, bias and republican flair for conviction and style.
But when it comes to substance it is so very clearly lacking.
It is stretching the truth into believing this woman has genuine leadership experience outside her “executive” one. Okay…LOL
You known in the absence of genuine real leadership in the Republican party they had to reach way across america for anyone even a “hocky mom ex-beauty queen” and call her a leader. Right….LMAO
Her speech was wonderful. Delivered with heart and charisma. I loved it. I think it was the speech of either convention so far. It was also very moving when her family joined her on-stage. McCain & Palin ‘08!
All you silly republican women who are praising this crazy nazi will get yours when she is in power. You can begin to go back 20 years in the past, not getting equal pay as men and not being able to have an abortion if you are raped by some monster!!!! Stop being republican for a second and realize this conservative is NOT right for America!!!
HEY, BETSY…her middle daughter was at the convention. She even stood up when she announced her family. She was sitting with her baby’s daddy.
I think alot of people missed the fact that this was Palin’s “debut” in a manner of speaking. Why wouldn’t she introduce her family or provide a little background to her politics/experience.
HEY AFRICAN GIRL…Where is the detailed breakdown of all of the issues and “facts” Barack represented as fact during his speech. Oh and regards to taxes going higher or lower…no matter what the candidate the taxes will go up. Bet on it.
Before the speech last night, I predicted that middle America will win this election for McCain. I am now more convinced of that than ever. Middle America’s support is quiet but voluminous, and Palin spoke directly to them.
CARING…please know what you are talking about before speaking. They are actually for abortion in the event of Rape, Incest, or to Save the life of the woman. Stop regurgitating liberal rhetoric and form your own opinion.
This conservative fool DID NOT write her speech, it was even reported that she was holed up with speech writers for 4 days!!!! She is just delivering what McCain insists she says. She is just another puppet for the GOP. Obama wrote his speech! She is also a liar, almost all her refernces to Obama were incorrect. You all need to read and research before you jump on the band wagon of the conservative republican party!
Victory in which war? Three more Canadians were KILLED YESTERDAY in Afganistan AND 12 OTHERS WOUNDED IN A TALIBAN ATTACK . If there is victory in Afganhistan tell us, so Canadian troops can come home.
I used to be a speech writer for Government ministers and there was nothing more lovely than a great delivery of a speech I wrote. It’s all smoke and mirrors.
“And children with special needs inspire a special love.”
THAT’S WHY YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE LEFT YOUR DOWN SYNDROME BABY TO GO BACK TO WORK THREE DAYS AFTER DELIVERY. Where is the love?? Don’t you get government- paid maternity leave as Governor?
@Kate: your anger shows frustration…. may be because you know we all saw through the foney beloney from last night!
@Jared: you are doing a great job, please ignore the negative girl… she can’t help it, all Republicans have to be negative and lash out at people. What was up with Guilliani? What an ##shole for being so sarcastic. If you’re sure of your case, your values and principles, there is no need to stab at the opponent. It only makes you look insecure, like Kate.
#27 Daisy….I am afraid you are mistaken not me!! go research before you respond!!!
Jeeez, the way this woman is selling that poor baby for fame…Tried to kill him in the womb by taking unnecessary risks (such as flying after her water broke) now that he is here make use of him for the sympathy vote.
Awesome speech. Palin struck gold and came into the fight roaring for a victory. She has an amazing presence that projects strenght and leadership qualities with no waffling.
Apparently Sarah Palin has made and completed many executive decisions in her political life (decisions with real responsibility and consequences) while to date, Obama has made none.
And Sarah is only running for Vice President while Obama is running for the role of President! I think the gloves are off and Ms. Palin is a real contender! Great for McCain for choosing a candidate with such strength!
She is going to make an excellent VP. She knows what she believes in and is not afraid to stand up for it. No matter how many of Osama… excuse me… Obama’s speeches I listen to, I still cannot figure out what the hell he believes.
welllllllll…Sarah Palin might be good at giving speeches. BUT- I am not convinced. All I know is that we do NOT need another republican for 4-8 years. The USA will be in ruins and more troubled…if we don’t get a democrat back in to clean things up and go forward!
My concern is with those people who are offended at taking care of their own — and their own in this case are the less fortunate citizens in the US. Why is it the ones who have had every oportunity in life - maybe even a big inheritance - or managed to get a high paying job - so adverse to helping those who find themselves without many resourses. Charity begins at home and if we can’t help the elderly or the young to live life with dignity then what good is all the millions we may be amassing in the bank. Don’t you find it strange that all those who have had many “lucky” breaks in life always give themselves the credit for being on top and look down on those that may from no fault of their own find themselves in severe hardship.
PALIN, YOU ROCK! LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!
Kate: “whateva sarah…you c ant even keep your children in line how can u run a country?”
wow, are you serious? so by the way, you messed up here for several reasons: one, she has one daughter that’s pregnant. her other children are fine and “in line” if you want to say it that way. people make mistakes (her daughter) and it’s hardly your place, mine, or anyone elses for that matter, to judge her. people will do what they want, it’s not Sarah Palins fault that her daughter practiced poor judgement at the time.
that’s really your argument against Sarah Palin? you should probably start thinking of something a little better than just copying what the media has to say.
and how about Obama being friends with known and admitted terrorist Bill Ayers? You think someone that has openly admitted to being friends with a terrorist- this man blew up more than 250 federal buildings (including buildings with college students and innocent people) - is a good choice for running the United States of America? Seriously, get your facts straight. It’s scary that uneducated people like you are allowed to vote.
Palin stretched the true as you can see from this info on yahoo. The rest can be found here -
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_fact_check
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 t
ALL YOU LIBERALS…ARE JUST FUC*KIN SCARED NOW…THIS WOMAN HAS MORE EXPERIENCE….THAN JOE BIDEN AND OBAMA COMBINED!…HELL IF SHE WAS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT I’D VOTE FOR HER ! AND TO PEOPLE SAYING SHE’S PIMPING OUT HER BABY, STFU! SHE’S SHOWING SHE’S A FAMILY ORIENTED WOMAN …AND BELIEVES THAT EVERY LIFE HAS A MEANING AT CONCEPTION!!!(UNLIKE OBAMA WHO BELEIVES IN PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTIONS)….THIS WOMAN IS WHAT AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW….I ESPECIALLY LOVE WHEN SHE SAYS ….THAT STATEMENT ABOUT THE STYRAPHOME GREEK COLUMS GOING BACK TO SOME HOLLYWOOD BACKLOT….LOL LOVE THAT BECAUSE ITS SOOO TRUE!!!, AND WHEN HE SAYS OBAMA WATS TO MOVE WATER AND HEAL THE WORLD…..FUNNY ALSO BECAUSE YOU OBAMABOTS BELIEVE HE IS SOME KINDA MESSIAH! LMAO THE TRUTH IS HE HAS NO EXPERIENCE COMPARED TO SARAH , JUST LIKE SARAH SAID….”I GUESS A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER, IS KINDA LIKE BEING A MAYOR, EXCEPT BEING A MYOR YOU ACTUALLY HAVE REAL RESPONSIBILITIES!”
Mccain/palin 08!!!!!!!!!!
I CANT WAIT FOR THE B*TCH TOO FACE THE SAME PUNCHES SHE ATTEMPT LAST NIGHT.
I HOPE SHE DOESN’T COMPLAIN .
that was such a phony act last night–way to deliver a speech without any substance, written entirely for you by your handlers. Just keep hurling insults, cause they’re all you’ve got. Build up your support lady cause you’re going to be needing it when it comes out how the Alaska Independence Party thinks you are one of their best infiltrators–of course the GOP’s probably removed that by their website by now. This woman is a walking scandal. pregnant daughter didn’t look 5 months along when turned to the side–i checked getty images. bristol looks like the one who’s breastfeeding??? the community organizer bash?? that’s code for insulting minorities. she’s dangerous. Alaska Daily News blogger said they her approval rating was down to 53% last time they checked. Plenty of Alaskans think she’s an unqualified joke.
During the republican speech last night I thought it was so cute the way Palins little girl licked her hand and rubbed it on her brothers hair. I can just imagine what Shiloh and Princess Zahara do to the twins. Palin did a very good job speaking.
Obama hasn’t even ran a lemonade stand , let alone the country!
Is that really who you want to lead ….NOT me!
Sarah Palin is the biggest insult to women and the American society.
And Rudy has gone senile, repeatedly giving the “fear monger” speech about 9/11.
McCain lives in his POW past.
Rudy lives in his 9/11 past.
Sarah is their Nazi puppet with no substance.
If Obama becomes president we will all die. DNC never mentioned about protecting our country. Think about it!!
Sarah Palin delievered a fantastic speech last night. Like she said Obama uses Change to promote his career, McCain uses his career to promote Change. McCain/Palin 2008.
Daisy #27
You are wrong about Palin–these are her own words:
I am pro-life. With the exception of a doctor’s determination that the mother’s life would end if the pregnancy continued. I believe that no matter what mistakes we make as a society, we cannot condone ending a life.
McCain is more “liberal:” McCain said he thought Roe v. Wade should be overturned and said he would support exceptions to a ban on abortion in cases of rape, incest, and when the mother’s life is in danger.
Personally if they get in I think Roe vs. Wade is in danger due to the fact (yes fact) that they will fill any supreme court vacancy with someone as conservative as they are. If you are for that conservative view then you are happy. Those of us who are not, don’t want to a conservative supreme court with no balance.
Panic, chaos and despair in democratic camp. The house of cards is falling down. The light of clarity has been directed at the whole sordid affair and the choice for american people is clearer then ever.
SOME OF YOU LIBERALS NEED TO SHUT YOUR PIEHOLES! AND GET OVER THE FACT YOUR MESSIAH THAT YOU ALL BOW DOWN TO (OBAMA) GOT HIS ASS HANDED TO HIM LAST NIGHT ….SARAH IS A HUNDRED TIMES MORE EXPERIENCED THAN THE LIKES OF OBAMA OR BIDEN ….SO KEEP ON SUPPORTING YOUR ROOKIES!
I’M SUPPORTING EXPERIENCE THIS TIME AROUND IN THE VOTING POLES….AND THE ONLY TICKET THAT HAS EXPERIENCE WRITTEN ALL OVER IT ….IS MCCAIN/PILAN!
The media and polls are always pro-DEM. It doesn’t matter. Just look at last two elections, the media and polls were shown DEM was winning. But the result was the opposite. Wait and See, McCain and Palin will win this election. I just love Sarah. She is a hero to All American women.
Thank god, I for one cannot stand Obama & cannot wait for them to kill them in the debates. Obama is hyped up because of the celebrities backing him, he says change but doesnt say how, hes a racist, hes a muslim, hes crazy & I cannot believe ppl are actually ignorant to vote for him. And those of you who say she is “PIMPING” out her baby get over yourselves did you not seee the damn us weekly cover with obama “pimping” out his unpatriotic pscyco devil wife michelle or thier children seriously dont say things you have no idea of, Palin shouldnt be judged on if her 17 yr old daughter is [pregnant you DUMB ***** when millions of parents deal with that everyday it should be abotu how they will make this country better.
Another thing I wanted to point out is diddys rant about her & alaska wow grow the f up diddy your a fool andf nobody cares about what you say,
MCAIN/PALIN 08
Barack HUSSSSSEIN Obama should go join his terrorists
I think all the speeches tonight from Romney, Huckabee, especially Guiliani, and Palin were horrible, disrespectful not only to Obama but to the hard working Americans & less fortunate Americans in this country, demeaning, full of hateful undertones, and just plain same old Republican rhetoric. They brought nothing but pure ugly, condescending attacks on Obama but no solutions to change the mess that their own party has put us in. I was shocked & embarassed by the display that was put on tonight and to me only ignorance can support such vile attacks towards the opposition. Yes, Barack has spoken about the facts on McCain but never, ever has he made downright mean spirited & belittling comments or references about him.
Yet tomorrow Barack will come out and speak about it but I guarantee he will not stoop to the low pig slop slinging that the Republicans did last night.
I just pray that the there are more American voters who are tired of the same old lies and dog & pony Republican shows and vote for change of parties in the WH.
I love how she is being congratulated because she read her speech well. The Republicans are salivating and completely ignoring the fact that no one at the convention has mentioned the economy. She offered not one substantive plan on how to get the economy moving, instead she “bitterly” attacked Obama and was extremely disrespectful. Obama had kind words to say about Palin and even chided his staff and supporters to lay off her family. Two days later she is making veiled insults about his wife and blatant insults directed towards Obama. She is just like **** Cheney, sarcastic and bitterly partisan. They will get nothing done in Washington because they see everyone who doesn’t believe what they do as the enemy. As a nation we have too many problems to be so divided.
ps anne and jesse your my heros i go on here all the time and everyone is so PRO OBAMA I believe if he is our president we will all die as well lol hes a crazy man and i am scared for him to be in charge of our free country because it wont be so free anymore…all your liberal idiots for obamunism our just gonna tear our country down even farther and no republican or democrat will be able to fix it after obama is done with it
She did not even talk about economics!!! None of the republicans have yet.
I mean this is what we are the most interested in right now!
Oh look at that the republican neocon natzis are the one that are scare.
Jesse- did you forget your white sheet? pay attention…it’s just starting.
# 44 jesse @ 09/04/2008 at 12:49 pm
neither has McCain….
please her leadership experience is a joke.
Thank you “African” O love when people actually figure out to do their own research. People should also go to ontheissues.org, factcheck.org, or snopes.com to see what they REALLY stand for.
PALIN was AMAZING last night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She kicked Obama where it hurt!!!!!!!!!!! I too like others was on the fence and wanted to give her a fair shake at speaking and letting me know what she was about (unlike others whom are sadly voting on other elements that have nothing to do with the race. Political race that is) and I was blown away and won over by this women. Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The poster above that said she was making cheap shots at Obama….well his camp has spread some pretty nasty lies about this women and I don’t hear you speaking about that? One sided much?
gee @ 09/04/2008 at 12:52 pm
Panic, chaos and despair in democratic camp. The house of cards is falling down. The light of clarity has been directed at the whole sordid affair and the choice for american people is clearer then ever.
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Democratic is scared to death now. hahahahahhha.
51 uhuh @ 09/04/2008 at 12:58 pm
speak for you natzi self - she doesn’t represent me.
running scared my ass…. we will respond in kind.
4 more years of bubba and now this natzi “rara cheerleader” politics yeah okay..wait for it
Obama/Binden 08 -
Wow Jess… you are sooooo smart! OMG OMG OMG
It’s not insecurity, it’s fact. It’s not being negative, it’s being REALISTIC. In this day and age do you really want a leader who has no experience leading you in a time of crisis? Do your research and learn a bit about McCain and see who you would want to look towards if God forbid another terrorist attack happens. He’s an honorable man who has done more for his country then you could even think about.
This is just one example… but you’re smart so I am sure you’ve done your homework.
God, that baby is ugly.
John McCain is a genius. He chose the best VP ever. I thought John had no chance to win before VP selection. Now the game is totally different. Sarah Palin changes the whole election. This will be the most interesting election in American history. McCain-Palin 2008.
All I heard from the Republicans last night was scare tactics, fear mongering, lies and demeaning rhetoric to not only Obama but to the intelligence of the American voters.
It’s funny how they were talking about making things better when it is their own party who got us in the mess we are in, yet we are to believe they can make a “change”???? Yeah, I don’t buy it and I will not be drinking from the cess pool fountain that their supporters are drinking from.
Enough is enough! How the saying goes “keeping doing what you doing and you’ll keep get what you’re getting”. It’s time to stop doing the same ol’ thing and think outside of the Republican “trillion dollar” box of lies!
AEON: hop of your Obama boat and shut the hell up. Your LEADER is a joke. And I am a black man saying this. It is ridiculous that all black people are voting for this man bc he is our color. Ok and once he gets in??????Then we are all in trouble. I listened to Palins speech last night and I actually thought it was good. She was fierce. She honestly kicked Obama in the nuts. Why is it if a Caucasian votes for McCain they are racist, but every black person in the country is for Obama and its ok?
The people at the RNC were like crackheads trying to invade this planet to pieces. It was a very scary scene…
The reason why the ASSOCIATED PRESS didn’t write a story about how the Democrats didn’t stretch the truth is …. wait for it … because the Democrats TOLD the truth. This Palin woman would sell her daughter (oh wait she did) for the all the attention she’s getting. I don’t see pictures of Obama in a mini skirt and halter top sucking on a brewski before going to the Sadie Hawkins’ dance. This woman is a total joke and now America knows in addition to being a **** and a bad mother, she’s a liar and a pawn of a Repugnicans.
Jared I am for Obama. I am a Liberal Democrat. While I think it is off limits to mess with kids, I think Sarah Palin is an embarrassment and should step down from the ticket. I think McCain is crazy and watching these Republicans spend all their time hating on different groups and being vicious and lying and acting ignorant has convinced me to work harder then ever to make sure they lose. I know why you put this Sarah Palin thread on here. You want hits to your site so you can make money. Period. I’ve always thought you were pretty cool, but I would not even onsider coming here if I thought you were supporting these sicko, religious extremist, anti-environment warmongering, corrupt jerks. These people throw mud but they are laughing all the way to the bank. You could get ten million hits a week and never be as rich or successful as the McCains or the Palins. They are phonies and liars. John McCain always talks about supporting the troops, but he voted against body armor, he voted against better benefits, he voted against the troops every single time it came up. He is disgusting and she is repulsive.
I’m 17 years old, and this will be my first time voting this year. I have been keeping track with both the DNC and the RNC. My family is more on the independent side, but I have to say that the RNC haven’t discuss any of the real issues yet and it’s the last day! It seems like they care more about beating their opponent rather than about what they’re going to do for the American people who are suffering economically. I actually found their views to be quite scary because I feel like my future is at stake, and they don’t care about anyone except for themselves. I was NOT impress with anything they said last night.
whar a cheap shot she took at Obama. Who ever wrote her speach was made for a woman to address it, because that is how women talk, they talk cheap. VERY low class of her to talk abot obama like that. If one wants to degrade her, it will be endless, she has got so much bad going on for her. Very low class of her. Is this who we want tand is this the standard we set to deal with powerful leaders of Russia, China, Iran, Germany, God help us !!!
Sarah Palin speech last night was way better than Joe Biden’s speech. She will kick Joe’s a ss during the VP debate.
Haha AEON…..you are a typical Obama supporter…..aggressive, spewing non sense. Obama couldn’t run this country if he had to. Palin has more experience then Obama and Biden. They are a joke! There is only one reason Obama has so many supporters….and it has nothing to do with the race….oh well the political race…..HAHAH KEEP BEING SCARED AND SPEWING LIES DEMI’s……….PALIN WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh and Obama followers…if you don’t want to sound to ignorant and uneducated…say more then WE NEED CHANGE!!!! THATS ALL I HEAR…THEY DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT CHANGE IS HAJHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
# 68 Jonesp @ 09/04/2008 at 1:16 pm
FU…you are no black.
Based on what, she kicked him with snides and nasty comments because she had no policies or issues in place. where does she stand on the issues please inform us… a well written speech for her. ohay et us see what she really has to say on the issues.
please give me a break with voting because he is black. I was a HRC supporter now I am a Obama/Biden supporter. STFU..you are not black.
I agree with you “shoes4life” # 53
PALIN WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!! She WON my vote last night! I was on the fence but…..SHE WAS FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For a woman who wanted privacy for her children.. The gloves can now
come off.. Anyone can go after her kids.. The press should follow her
son off on Sept 11 to Iraq!! And while he is over there..!!
This is the Year 2008 and not the past.. talk about today issues..
NOT YOUR RESUME SARA !!
Obama’s CHANGE, CHANGE my ass. He just says whatever people want to hear. Once he gets in the office, he won’t change a thing because he doesn’t even know what that CHANGE is. What a ******* joke.
Cindy McCain disagrees with her husband’s running mate on matters of abortion, sex education
ST. PAUL, Minn. - The wife of Republican presidential nominee John McCain doesn’t agree with vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s opposition to abortion in cases of rape and incest.
Cindy McCain also parts ways with her husband’s running mate on sex education.
Palin opposes abortion and rejects the view that pregnancies caused by rape and incest should be exceptions.
Cindy McCain tells ABC’s “Good Morning America” that “I don’t agree with that aspect, but I do respect her for her views.”
Palin has opposed funding sex-education programs in Alaska.
Cindy McCain tells ABC that she advocated abstinence as a part of sex education at her children’s school. “I believe that it’s twofold and I think all of it should be taught.”
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/conventions/27851504.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUnciaec8O7EyUsX
am i the only one who’s NOT convinced at all by this “speech”?? it’s funny how she’s saying such bad things with confidence and hoping all the people wold agree with her. I guess, all stupid Americans will “join her cause”, shall i say most white people?No racism intended. It’s just that all the people crashing down upon Obama call him an islamic Black man who knows nothing. Sarah’s jokes about change that she and her running mate would make better than Obama are not funny at all first and then, i do not believe her one second. She’s acting like she’s super confident and dares to say that her opponent is himself way too confident? wow. her punches do not touch Obama’s politic and followers. Obama is right about the useless wars that are killing your own close relatives and you people of America still support their promoters? i don’t know how you can “stand this man” and when it comes to that joke……my 5 years-old cousin would have found one better than this. Oil,fuel and gas are a huge problem that these Republicans are increasing. I mean, is she really actually saying that Americans should still work like slaves more and more and besides, POLLUTE this “ol’ good” (very very ill) Planet even more? YES. The Americans refused to sign the Kyoto protocol while the United states is the biggest country which destroys the most the atmosphere we need to “survive”(hey, talk about “survival” palin ;D). And now this woman thinks America should produce more?ha! that’s amazing. You know what? i really can understand why in Europe(and well, the rest of the world), Americans are made fun of. Stupidity reigns.but it’s not only that. Americans think they’re kings of the world just because they have technology. not wrong but if only you could remain down-to-earth. Besides, there’s something (no politics at all) funny : Americans loathe British ppl HAHA! maybe you forgot one thing, without England and the old royalty, the united states wouldn’t even have existed. America is funny. let’s come back to politics. pacifism is virtuous. We have all witnessed this with famous non-violent leaders like ghandi or (i smell some won’t appreciate colors..but hey, we’re living in a very colorful world XD) Luther King. These kind of people did CHANGE something. I can’t see what exactly McCain is going to change, except that he will make the human beings living rates go lower if you know what i mean :D. Unfortunately, i can’t vote for you all. You have to. It’s crucial. Let’s hope the real right man will win though. yes, i’m talking about barack obama. i truly hope he will win because maybe the world will finally change with him unlike some others who want to laugh at someone smart and promise unbelievably evil things like war and pollution to take over. This speech was pretty good but TOO BAD it wasn’t even written by herself. Anyway, rock the vote folks!
it’s kinda hilarious too how obama did NOT make PEOPLE’s cover last week. despite my commitment, i already know who will win. its sad. This is a white man’s world :D
i like this woman! shes great. i cant believe people actually wants to see Obama win lol. dont believe into the hype. the only reason he won is because all the black people voted for him. they dont care what his capable of. they just want to see a black man in the white house. but it shouldnt be like that.
it was not a racist statement. i couldn’t actually lol. Just pointing out the facts :D
# 75 ty @ 09/04/2008 at 1:20 pm
You are such an intellectual inspiration yourself (sarcasm). Oh, please educate me on the illustrious experiences and leadership capabilities of Ms. Sarah Palin. Please advise us on her intellectual prowness.
Does she now know what the job of the VP means? Have the RNC educated her enough? How about foregin policy? How about not hockey moms but women living in the urban communities she made fun of? Oh yeah, Mrs. Palin please tell us how and what exactly you want us to teach our kids?
Please tell us ty where does she stands again on the issues. Oh that’s right she is not running for President. McCain is. So his policies are her policies. Silly me….
#65 …ARE YOU FUCKN SERIOUS? YOU THINK HER BABY IS UGLY? WOW ONLY A DEMOCRAT SCUM WOULD SAY THAT….THE BABY TRIG HAS DOWN SYNDROM….LEMME GUESS YOU’D RATHER HAVE HER BE LIKE OBAMA AND HAVE A PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION?! YOU FUCKTARD! YOU NEED SUBSTANCE IN YOUR LIFE ….TO SAY A BABY WITH A DISABILITY IS UGLY….YOUR PROBABLY AN UGLY ASS NIG*GA OBAMA SUPPORTER YOURSELF!
Palin was for the “Bridge to Nowhere” before she was against it and she paid lobbyist to secure 27 millions in earmarks for her town while she was mayor. And she looks and talks like Karl Rove with lipstick!
Nice to know the Republicans are talking about the economy, as Obama said, they just don’t get it!
And I can’t wait for Hillary to lay the smackdown on this VP wannabe!!
@87 - I agree that baby is ugly, and I thought Britney’s kids were homely when they were born!, you racist redneck!
# 87 jesse @ 09/04/2008 at 1:34 pm
Oh jesse everyone can now see for exactly what you are just another white sheet riding redneck. Your true colors are coming out no wonder you support McCain and Plain. I kow you are just itching to get that mob going…you racist pig.
#68
Obama is biracial
that means he is as much white as he is black.
In fact many americans come from multi cultural backgrounds
It has nothing to do with race but rather it has more to do with common sense and reason.
Most voters today vote with thier wallet.
Econmy today is in deep trouble.
Mccain offers no real plan. Sarah Palin offers empty truths and insults .
Not once did she mention her agendas .
The bottom line with a voter is what are you going to do for me?
are you getting my foreclosed home in which I spent my hard earned money working countless hours for?
Will they be able to give College students a chance of attaining thier goalss by offering help in the ever climbing expenses of college tuition?
will they be able to mention how is it this govt spent so much money on this never ending war with minimal results and yet have our enemies become overjoyed at how much money they got from it.?
US- deficit
Enemy-Windfall
Did they address the issues of how the majority of americans go totally bankrupt once there is an illness in the family and how the health cost have a strangle hold on the middle income families who have to choose to feed their family at the cost of letting the health insurance policy go?
Have they addressed wy the american wallets are shrinking and why american iconic companies have been going bankrupt.?
have they acknowledge the domino effect of the present corrupt republican administration?
wel wel wel its the last day of the RNC.. and its been nothing but attacks and not one word on any of the issues.
Use your common sense… let your wallet do the talking.. cause after all it boils down to each individual to take care of thier own. We dont need a big govt to do that for us. But it sure has managed to rob us blind while at the same time managed to make the middle east a very very rich area.
THINK
#65, YOU SICKEN ME!!!
I am sure that Obama is thrilled to have the support of some of the clearly uneducated idiots on this site. You are an embarrassment.
Obama is TOTAL HYPOCRITE and VERY INSINCERE.
McCAIN-PALIN 2008
Honestly Obama can say goodbye to Presidency. Sarah Palin is the WOMAN.
Jessee, Ty and the rest of the racists, neocons are such great examples of the right. Exactly what I expected from the McCain/Plain campaign.
The only thing missing from last night’s Klan Rally was the burning crosses, white robes and hoods. Oh wait, that is for when the cameras are off. She insulted Barack’s work as a “community leader” which was mostly with black people and poor working class people, which of course the Republican party really doesn’t want our community around anyway. She said America’s not doing so bad, yeah rich white America. and we are almost winning the War in Iraq, since when did 4000 service men and women lives lost, and destroyed relationships with are allies winning. But if you looked around the GOP room last night, that was the America Palin, Guiliani, Romney and McCain are referring to when they say we are for America.
When I first heard that McCain picked Sarah Palin for VP ..I reacted the way the majority of his own repbulican party and delegates did
HUH??? WTF????
Honestly. What does he think women are that stupid?
Really out of all the educated.. well proven republican women clearly more qualified to be in that VP position he picks an ex beaty queen with zero forieng experience. What a lahgable joke that is.
It only beings me back to the example of a big corporation giving a big shot promotion to a ditz woman cause shes got great legs while passing up the proven women of the company that have been thier for years pulling in profits for the company.
Women have put up with that crap for years. its called putting a token ditz in a position for mere looks and to meet the quota. But she has no say in anything at all.
Ask Mcaain how many women choices did they have?
How many other republican women did they interview? why was he so secretive?
Why not pick someone with better family values?
teen pregnancy? really?
she picks her job over a special needs child by going back only 3 days after giving birth to this child?
ask the questions..
I dont know about anyone else but she does not in any way represent many woman.
Many single moms that do manage to bring up children that dont need to spawn once their hormones kick in.
Obama and Obama hens will scream at ocean on Nov. 4. cry, cry out loud.
# 95 honestly @ 09/04/2008 at 1:48 pm
keep dreaming…it ain’t over yet.
Obama/Biden 08
mean sarcastic hateful *****
#91 when does obama elaborate on any of his proposalS? He doesn’t say that to pay for all of his sh-t he’s gonna raise our taxes …and make our paychecks smaler and smaller ! Sooooo about not talking about agendas….sounds quite familiar with obama!
But guess what I want expereince in the office this november ….so I’m voting mccain/palin!
I really dislike this women.
aeon @ 09/04/2008 at 1:55 pm
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You are the one living in delusion. Bye Obama.
Republican hypocrisy at it’s best!
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&title=sarah-palin-gender-card
Jared, you need to make this a thread for all the self-righteous, don’t talk about Sarah, leave her family alone, we don’t lie, double standard Republicans.
DON’T MONKEY AROUND THIS NOVEMBER….
VOTE MCCAIN/PALIN!
I am so glad to see Obama’s stinky ass got kicked by a woman not Hillary but Sarah Palin.
VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN ‘08!!!!!!!!i can’t believe she said that about Iraq :
“and he’s worried tat someone won’t read them their rights?!” damn!!!!!!
you racists Mccain/palin followers call her uneducated. but we are certainly smarter and “kind-hearted” than this woman(don’t want to imply her daughters) . You’re all saying we’re all stupid for being for Obama, i’m not feeling aimed at. You guys are dumb for wanting more bush’s policies.Apparently, 8 years were not enough for you! and you loooooove wars. You like losing your family members. Keep being stupid. I won’t. we, intelligent Earth-real-problems-conscious people won’t. Vote.
Obama is the best. Go obama.
OBAMA/BIDEN ‘08!!
I don’t like McCain and Obama. But I love Sarah. So I will vote for McCain/Palin.
To funny!!
http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=184082
I didnt like her speech at all. She says she didnt want to be like the ordinary republicans, but she is one in the end.
Whats really bitchy of her to do was talk **** about Obama, when he defended her to the media.
Just because shes a woman in poltics, doesnt mean she should act rude. I like Hilary because she at least got her sayings out in the end.
Besides the difference between Sarah and Obama is, at least he doesnt need a teller prompt infront of him to say his speech and look fake. whereas they kept showing her reading, so how much of what she said about her kids was true and exaggerated
I just heard about this woman a few days ago an I am already tired of her. She’s in every magazine, I am sick, what’s the big deal w/ her?
She did an excellent job. They said it was a make or break speech for her. I think she made it.
Pinkrose, it’s a fact that half the soldiers have died under 8 years of Bush than 8 years of Clinton. Seven years ago the Taliban, who we are fighting in Afghanistan (though their terrorist attacks are nothing compared to what we faced when we went in seven years ago) killed thousands of American Citizens who were traveling within their own borders and going to work. If three soldiers, who signed up for it knowing the risks, died, that’s sad. Those three soldiers willingly went there because they believed in defending our country, so don’t cite their deaths as a way to say that we shouldn’t even be in AFGHANISTAN because honey, most of the country, probably you too, wanted us in there right after 9/11
And caring, I’m just going to say you’re a moron. When you start saying “nazi” and quoting false “facts” you don’t deserve my respect
I am SO sick of this women too.
the tax issue debate is ridiculous……the problem is always whose taxes will be raised (and they will be raised- you can’t have everything both ways)…let’s look at the Bush tax cuts for instance…he promised tax cuts for Americans, but in reality the people and corporations with the highest income bracket received the bulk of the cut and middle class or working families received little relief or support…the problem with this has to do with widening gap between the wealthiest of the nation and the middle class workers…when your income brackets begin to split by a wide gap, that creates the problems we see today with the economy…so instead of looking at it as a Republican vs. Democrat issue, look at which candidate can help aid the burdening income gap between the upper and lower classes…everyone should know that when your wealthiest keep getting richer and the poorer keep getting poorer that something is not working…
and someone earlier stated that Palin was supportive of abortions in the event of rape or incest…NOT TRUE…she has stated that the only way she would support an abortion is if the mother’s life was in danger…this was even commented on by Cindy McCain who said that she disagreed with Palin’s opposition to abortion and to sex education in school…Palin’s beliefs would leave young girls and women who are victims of crimes with no way out but to carry an unwanted pregnancy full-term…talk about cold hearted and showing no sympathy…so if the rape/incest wasn’t painful enough, let’s add to your distress and trauma by making you carry a baby full-term…is that a pro-women’s right candidate? I don’t think so…
We are getting much too picky on this site about which statements are true/false from the speeches…do you think this is the 1st time a politician has stretched the truth to gain votes? I don’t think so…look back at the previous 4 presidential elections or so and you’ll see it repeated over and over…politicians are brilliant at double-speak…you have to listen closely to pick up the insinuations they are making or the unspoken words…Palin made plenty of them last night…just look at how she described the solution to dependence on oil (which is a whole other issue people seem to not look at the big picture on)…
If you want to pick your candidate listen carefully to the speeches and instead of eating up the dialogue, actually look at any hidden meanings or what the consequences of such policies would be…this should help you pick a candidate that appeals to your beliefs…I am definitely Obama/Biden, but I won’t sit here and criticize those who choose McCain/Palin…but please think about your decision before you commit to either candidate…get past the glamour of prime-time TV and fans screaming to LISTEN to the real issues…
@ 102, 106, Jesse the Grand Wizard, our paychecks under Bush are already smaller, DINGUS!
does anyone here really feel ok about the idea of this woman being a heartbeat away from running this country? she is a fundamentalist christian. she is anti science, anti birth control, anti choice, and while she is entitled to her views, i sure as hell dont want to be putting people in power who are going to try to limit my rights and freedoms, and those of my children, especially because they believe that god wants them to.
this is a free country, and there is no place for radical religious beliefs in our politicsl
Any woman who would find Sarah Palin a good choice for VP is crazy. This woman is against equal pay for women AND freedom of choice-of course she did not mention any of her “family values” last night. Hm…could that have been due to her knocked up teenaged daughter who apparently did not listen to her speech on abstinence? Wow. She came out and threw insults at Obama…what bullies usually do when intimidated by other people.
#115 Thanks for taking your time to let everyone see Reality.
It is not about Republican vs. Democrat, Please everybody look at which candidate is the best for America.
#115 Thanks for taking your time to let everyone see Reality.
It is not about Republican vs. Democrat, Please everybody look at which candidate is the best for America.
#115 Thanks for taking your time to let everyone see Reality.
It is not about Republican vs. Democrat, Please everybody look at which candidate is the best for America.
To the black person on here who blasted those Blacks who are voting for Barack just because of color. I am Black, and I am doing what I have done in each election, I’m voting for someone who might actually represent me, and that sure isn’t Sarah Palin/McCain ticket. Do you honestly think the republicans represent all of America? are you living in a fantasy. The Democratic Party consist of all races, creeds, religions, genders. The GOP stands for “Good ol Party” derived from the term “good ol boy” which is what white men use to describe themselves during segregation and jim crowe. Were the Good Ol Boys, no Ni&^ers allowed. They do not have the interest of all of America in mind only there kind. Sarah Palin has had a request from the NAACP in Alaska (yeah that shocked me also) to meet with them regarding minority issues and she has refused, doesn’t find those issues important. Yeah she fits right in with the GOP. So for all of you who comment on voting, some of us are paying attention, and McCain/Palin can’t do a thing for me but give us another 8yrs of the Bush Administration. At least Barack can try and bring us all together, and not continue to have a devisive party like the Republicans
Yuck.
I don’t get how a written speech impressed you all.
She is impressive because she was locked in a room (true story) all day to read and memorize someone else’s speech?
Obama actually writes his speeches!!!
I’m for sure NOW voting Obama. She was so annoying last night and her accentsounds nasty.
Yuck. Obvious tokenism from the Republican old guard.
OK SO HAVE WE ALL FORGOTEN THAT THE WAR IN IRAQ WAS A VICTORY IN THE FIRST 6 DAYS!!!! BUT SOME JAR HEAD AND OTHERS DECIDED TO STAY!!! IF WE ARE DOING SUCH A GREAT THING FOR IRAQ N THE LOVE US SO MUCH AND ARE SO THANKFUL THEN WHY N THE HELL R THEY GIVING THEIR OIL TO CHINA BECAUSE THEY HATE US WAKE THE HELL UP PEOPLE!!! N DO U PEOPLE REALIZE THAT IF SOMETHING WAS TO HAPPEN TO McCAIN THAT PALIN WOULD BE OUR PRESIDENT YOU GUYS THINK THAT SHE HAS ENOUGH ECPERIANCE THIS LADY DOESN’T KNOW CRAP!!! OBAMA INSPIRES ME I HAVE NEVR BEEN INTO POLITICS AND I COME FROM A REPUBLICAN FAMILY AND THEIR IS NO WAY IN HELL I WOULD VOTE FOR McCAIN. HE THINKS WOMAN ARE SO STUPID AND IS TRYING TO PLAY US FOR FOOLS WOMEN WERE NOT VOTING FOR CLINTON BECAUSE SHE WAS A WOMAN THEY LIKED HER !FOR ME I PERSONALLY DID NOT. WAKE UP OBAMA 08!!!!
#122, what do you think Obama is doing……He is getting all the people that are angry at the republicans becuase they fell as thou this country owe’s them something. People, remember what John F. Kennedy said. I know most of you do not listen to your teachers but history is important. And yes, I am like Obama, half white/ half black. But I could care less about race, it’s about the issues. He claims people use the race card alot, but he is the one ALWAYS bringing it up. The best person to represent you is yourself. Period.
Give me a break, Obama’s speech was written by others not him. He was just reading it. He doesn’t have any idea about anything.
She rocked it last night.
OH REALLY, IT’S OK TO RAISE THE TAXES OF THE RICH AND FEED THE POOR…. LET’S KEEP FEEDING THOSE THAT ARE TOO LAZY AND FAT TO GET OFF THEIR FAT ASSES TO WORK AND CRUCIFY THOSE THAT WORK HARD FOR A LIVING. TALK ABOUT ENCOURAGING COMPLACENCY AND PUNISHING AMBITION AND HARD WORK. THIS IS NOT WHAT AMERICA IS ABOUT AND AS AN AMERICAN I AM SADDENED BY THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO AGREE WITH THIS RHETORIC.
NOBAMAX
McCAIN/ PALIN 2008!!!!
She didn’t even write her own speech. The guys who did write it were talking about what they wanted the VP to say before they even announced her as McCain’s choice. All these stupid jerks who are saying how great she was, how fantastic she was…based on a speech she didn’t even write? She was reading from a script…and doing a poor job of it.
All the Republicans do is pour on the hate and divide people and scare people. I cannot believe people keep falling for that. I think there is only one reason not to vote for Obama. Just admit you are a racist. Because the man is a decent man who has presented a decent platform on the issues and he writes his own speeches so we know what he thinks. If you just can’t make yourself support him because he is Black say so. Don’t be shy. By saying Sarah Palin is fantastic, you are already telling people you are stupid, so why be afraid to admit you are a racist? You won’t look any dumber. LOL!.
Obama’s wife is very ugly.
wooo! mccain pailin 0′8! haaa its true obama has no experience at all, community planner ha what is that??
wooo! mccain pailin 0′8! haaa its true obama has no experience at all, community planner ha what is that??
WATCH HYPOCRISY AT WORK
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/04/jon-stewart-hits-karl-rov_n_123852.html
HOW CAN THEY LIVE WITH THEMSELVES :?:
I did not listen to Sarah Palin’s speech last night, so obviously I am not going to make any such references. However, I cannot believe the number of people on this website who choose to blantantly ignore the downward spiral the Republican Party has put us into during the past eight years. I want a president who can actually write his own speeches and have his own ideas. Barack Obama graduated from the one of the most esteemed colleges in the world and he has the ability to restore this country to its great potential. While Sarah Palin was wearing some vulgar t-shirt that brought woman’s rights to the gutter, Obama was establishing himself as a top ranked student at Harvard! Please don’t give me this nonsense about experience. Many of our past presidents have had as much as Obama. I am truly afraid of what will occur to this country if McCain\ Palin are elected!
ANON- 131
I’m voting for Mccain and I’m half black, my dad who is full black is voting for Mccain. Bottom line Obama is not ready! That’s it! Just like EVERYOTHER politician, someone writes his speeches for him. I know, mind blowing isn’t it. Just like the Rebuplican’s ‘control’ the Democrats are doing the same thing. It’s like my dad said, it’s picking the lesser of two evils. They all lie, they all try and get you to believe them, it’s up to you to decide which one you trust and believe in more. And you should really watch your mouth, because that comment will OFFEND someone. Oh, ya and Obama is HALF BLACK and was raised by a WHITE WOMAN, so clearily if anyone’s been milking the race cow, it’s been Obama. I could care less if the man was Asian or mexican or whatever, what I care about is the issues. I highly suggest you get a fair amount of both sides before you start judging. The man’s own VP said he wasn’t ready…………
carla @ 09/04/2008 at 4:11 pm OH REALLY, IT’S OK TO RAISE THE TAXES OF THE RICH AND FEED THE POOR…. LET’S KEEP FEEDING THOSE THAT ARE TOO LAZY AND FAT TO GET OFF THEIR FAT ASSES TO WORK AND CRUCIFY THOSE THAT WORK HARD FOR A LIVING. TALK ABOUT ENCOURAGING COMPLACENCY AND PUNISHING AMBITION AND HARD WORK. THIS IS NOT WHAT AMERICA IS ABOUT AND AS AN AMERICAN I AM SADDENED BY THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO AGREE WITH THIS RHETORIC.
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I am not sure whose side you are taking here…ever think that maybe the reason some people may not be working is because there are no jobs out there? Look at the unemployment rate in the country…In my local area, there are college grads applying for jobs at Taco Bell (and treating the interview like a job for a huge corporation)…it’s really easy to point fingers with no real understanding of why the unemployment rate is where it is…when the economy turns bad, job opportunities are lacking…so it may not be because people are sitting back, watching TV all day and eating without attempting to find work…there are so many misconceptions about the unemployed in this country…and as to taxing the rich and feeding the poor, do you not believe that the wealthiest people in this country should be able to give back a little bit more than families who are earning minimum wage and feeding a family on a salary of $20,000-40,000 a year (and some lower than $20,000)?…I am not sure what people believe the cost of living is in this nation, but minimum wage in my state does not earn a free ride or comfort in living…have some compassion for those on hard times right now…as a country, we should be supporting each other rather than calling each other names or playing the blame game…
wow what a great speech!! you go girl!!
Gah, I’m so f’cking tired over seeeeing that Sarah and Bristol and all that family in the media. They are so annoying, who the f cares about them!?!?!?!!!!!
Agree with #4
Republicans are hipocrist. They should be ashamed! Ridiculous double standard…. When are the gonna stop.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&title=sarah-palin-gender-card
WOW..right on with the Obama junk..he truly has never done anything of note..if he gets in,it will be Biden &advisors running the country. Obama is nothing but very nice speeches.
#9
holy ****, you took the words right out of my mouth!
he doesnt call it victory because this is not a victory. kill thousands of young men and women, and hundreds of thousands innocent middle easterns-children, men women, the elderly… destroy our economy, the housing market, the morals of this country…
if thats victory, i dont know what to believe anymore.
Jjj#124……Obama doesn’t write his speaches!!!!! Every political figure has a speach writer….what a dumb democraT!!!!!, Obama is soooo stupid and clueless he probably can’t even spell his own name let alon a write speach! Keep on supporting your community organizer ….ill be supporting experience in november and palin has more , wayyyyyy more than obama!
Jjj#124……Obama doesn’t write his speaches!!!!! Every political figure has a speach writer….what a dumb democraT!!!!!, Obama is soooo stupid and clueless he probably can’t even spell his own name let alon a write speach! Keep on supporting your community organizer ….ill be supporting experience in november and palin has more , wayyyyyy more than obama!
This kind of ignorant thinking is why our country needs a president that’s for the people. Obama has a degree in constituional law and was a lawyer, before becoming a state senator, to us senator. He also wrote his own speech for his nomination. Palin has a journalism degree and she was reading from a teleprompter and it was obvious. Not to mention she thinks it’s god’s plan for this war to be going on, check out minglecity.com to see the video fo her. That speech was only a bunch of personal attacks and said nothing of what she would do for the country. She attacked “community organizers”, dumb move, that would include pastors, humanitarian workers, group homes, christian groups, protesters for abortion who organize in front of the clinics that’s she’s so against.
@Kate: “Inform yourself of both sides. All of these gossip websites are so liberal, but I have to say you are doing your job. You are reporting on the shallow thoughtless things like magazine covers instead of the actual meaning and truth behind things. I shouldn’t even say “report” because that would refer to actual journalism which you obviously know nothing about.”
You’re insane. Or you’re a liar. You pick.
it’s usually the crazy-ass rightwingers who are spoiling every thread. Hell, your “arguments” spoil things in general. Right wingers are intellectually dishonest. And they know that the liberals feel compelled to round around and clean up and correct every stupid lie you tell, which leaves them exhausted and you out there burning up all the good will that exists in the world.
How you DO expect to pay for Bush’s war? answer that one before you start patting Palin on the back for her “tough words” about Obama’s supposed tax increases.
If you can’t answer that question, you shouldn’t have any right to move up to the next level.
If you were at all a decent person and had any respect for intellectual HONESTY, you would do just that.
But you won’t. Because you think fighting is the only thing that matters, and playing the spoiler is the only titilation you’ll allow yourselves.
she’s a cockend
giulliani is right, this is not the time for on-the-job-training. ppl, get off the band wagon of media/celebrities and make your own choice. obama has no experience and he will definitely deliver CHANGE for you…A CHANGE FOR THE WORST!
choose the lesser evil.
Girl Power! Sarah kicked some serious Obama ass last night. Her speech said everything the Obama camp feared –THE TRUTH! Hat’s off to Sarah!
Palin gave a great red meat speech and the base loves that. They love her values, they love her fiestiness, and the energy she brings to the party. It played very well with Republicans b/c it wasn’t one of those mushy bi-partisan speeches. However, it’s probably one of those things that won’t play as well among independents. There were plenty of zingers and sarcasm, but that’s not what they wanted to hear.
It’s the economy, stupid.
Nice to see a woman with brains on this site for a change. Posts about bimbos like Katie Holmes are just too frequent here. She is without a doubt one of the dumbest women to be recognized for her nothingness.
Anna Nicole Smith was a genius compared to Katie Ho Ho Holmes.
I think the Cult made JJ an offer he couldn’t refuse!!!
obama/biden 08!!!
I hate how the media and Obama’s campaign are saying that Palin is too inexperienced when Obama is the one who is inexperienced. While Obama has only been a senator, Palin has actually had experience in Executive power because she was a mayor first and then became governor. Obama has never had experience in executive power. And to say that Palin can’t help run a country with five kids (one being special needs) is sexist! I haven’t seen one reporter or other media outlet question Mcain, Obama, or Biden on wether they can run a country while raising their own kids! I didn’t see anyone attackJohn Edwards when it came out that his wife had cancer. No one questioned wether he could raise his two kids and help his wife deal with her cancer and run a country at the same time. Its so unfortunate that their are people out their who are so damn sexist!!!!
sexy specs model only got a passport 2 yrs ago and she is talking global relations. she did not mention one issue about women. its obvious that she takes her job more seriously then her family if she did and took 5 min to talk to her kids about teen pregnancy … her daughter wouldnt be pulling a “angelina” running a lil city in alaska is not running the country you but nuts
Liz the reason being that she is being scrutinized is because she’s the one stating she against sex education and look her 17 yr old daughter is pregnant, a lot of republicans try to play morality police, but their own lives are screwed up. How can she run a country and her own home is not in order???
If a teenager wants to have sex, they are going to go and do it. A parent can’t control that. And anyone who believe’s they can are either a parent in denial or one that has yet to raise a teen. When a teen syas their going to the movie they could easily park the car at the movies and have sex in the backseat. We don’t have any clue as to what conversations she has had with her daughters. That isn’t our business anyway. Everyone is pissed because the Republicans picked a woman before the Democrats because Obama could swallow his pride and get Hillary. If he had, their wouldn’t have even needed to be a point to the RNC because the Democrats would have won. So what if she has five kids, does that make her any less able than a man who was five kids? This is all an attack against her because bottom line, they know it;s going to be a fight all the way to the end.
Ava you is a crab in the barrel!
Ava the country is tired, people are divided, it doesnt matter man or women we just want change. No one said teenagers arent having sex, she stated we shouldnt educate our teens about sex and that they shoukl practice abstinence. You have to lead be example.
Liz: you have to remember that Palin’s experience as a mayor was in a city of about 7800 people or so…not exactly the type of position where you face a lot of difficult issues of governing…as a governor in Alaska, she is already under investigation by an ethics committee for abusing her executive power…her involvement with governing is limited to taxing oil companies and building a line to connect neighboring cities…
In fact, she had never even traveled outside the US until she attended an oil conference this previous year (when she had to go get a passport)…her existence in federal government is near non-existent…she has no experience as a Senator working in D.C. and has not dealt with a lot of issues facing the nation today…so how does she qualify as more experienced than Obama?
Obama graduated from Harvard and worked in the community in Chicago as a community organizer for unemployed workers…as a Senator, he has worked with his own party as well as Republican members on helping pass Legislation…while I refuse to sit here and ignorantly claim Obama is a man whose experience tops McCain or even his running mate, I have to believe that someone who has worked in big cities and in D.C. knows a thing or two more about running government than a former beauty queen and sports reporter…
And as to the sexism, I think the GOP party is using it as a crutch right now…if any media outlet criticizes her beliefs or ability, they are crying foul play simply because she is a woman…wasn’t this part of an attack method they used against Hillary when she was running? So how come it is okay for them to now pick up the defense mechanism since McCain picked a female running mate?
Goodness, people need to read up on their facts before assuming something. Try researching what each candidate is saying before eating up what you hear in a convention. Conventions are propoganda at its best trying to impress belief systems on gullible people who obviously can’t tell the difference between fact and myth…
I am always amazed at the level of ignorance voters take into the booths come election time…maybe that explains why we are currently sitting here with 8 years of a horrible and destructive presidency…obviously playing on ignorance worked then…whose to say it won’t work now??
Her speach was AMAZING!!! LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!! OBAMA IS ALL ABOUT SHOW!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS A CIRCUS AND HE WANTS TO BE THE RING LEADER!!! HE IS TRYING TO USE HIS COLOR TO WIN THIS RACE AND NOTHING ELSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT’S NOT ABOUT THE RIGHT MAN FOR THE JOB!!!! HE WANTS JUST WANTS TO BE THE FIRST BLACK MAN IN HISTORY!!!!!!!!!! DID YOU SEE THE HOLLYWOOD STAGE HE SET UP FOR HIMSELF??? TALK ABOUT SPENDING WASTEFULL MONEY!!!!!!!!! WHAT A SHOW OFF!!!!!!!!!!! GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!!!!!!!! THAT WAS SO DISGUSTING!!!! IT’S NOT ABOUT HIM BEING BLACK THAT I AM NOT VOTING FOR HIM, IT’S ABOUT HIM BEING A SECREAT RACIST MUSLIM THAT I AM NOT VOTING FOR HIM!!! YEAH THAT’S RIGHT VOTE FOR THE MUSLIM TO BE OUR NEXT PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARE YOU PEOPLE WHO ARE VOTING FOR HIM NUTS????????????????? YOU DON’T UNDER ANY CIRCUSTANCES PUT A MULIM IN CHARGE OF OUR COUNTRY!!!!!!! YOU JUST DON’T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE MUSLIMS ARE DANCING IN HIGH SPIRITS OVER THIS!!!!!!! YOU PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MC CAIN HAS NEVER BEEN A SHOW OFF!! PALIN SAID IT RIGHT WHEN SHE SAID THAT HE IS THE SAME PERSON NO MATTER WHERE HE IS OR WHO IS TALKING TO!! LOOK AT THAT SMUG MUSLIM. HIS ARROGANCE AND RACIST REMARKS ABOUT HIS OWN GRANDMOTHER ARE WHY I DON’T WANT HIM RUNNING OUR COUNTRY!! HE IS USING THE COLOR OF HIS SKIN TO TRY AND WIN THIS RACE!!! GIVE ME ANY OTHER BLACK MAN AND I WOULD VOTE FOR THEM IF THEY HAD WHAT IT TOOK TO BE PRESIDENT!! THIS IS NOT ABOUT GETTING A BLACK MAN FOR HTE FIRST TIME IN OUR COUNTRY. IT’S ABOUT PICKING THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!! A PRESIDENT WHO WON’T PUT HIS HAND ON HIS HEART AND BE SWORN IN ON THE BIBLE AS ALL FORMER PRESIDENTS HAVE DONE!!! YES LET’S HAVE HIM SWEAR ON THE QURRAN!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME??????????
Really, ‘you is’, now I am more secure than ever in your itelligence. Don’t write ignortant stupid, untrue things if you don’t want someone to call you out on it. I can’t believe my brother is fighting for ignortant people like you. It makes me sick. As for the sex education issue; I personally believe it is in the hands of the parents to talk to their kids. Teacher’s are there to teach. My parent’s talked to me about it at the age of 13 and I took a vow to wait till marriage. And I have kept it. It’s personal conviction. I knew what I believed in and took pride in that; as well as setting an example for my friends. Teens know right from wrong, and they sure aren’t going to listen to what their teachers says. When my mom was teaching the principal of the school was encouraging kids to ********** and ’self discover’ themselves. That is a conversation that a kid needs to have with their parent’s. It’s like honestly, quit depending on teachers to raise YOUR kids. There is enough already going on in public schools; my mom had a battery thrown at her head, her life threated (the kid was arrested and went to JV), and after she spent HER OWN MONEY buying them all books, over a hundred students, to encourage their writing and what not, on her day off they broke into her class and ripped everything apart. The journals she had spent hours arranging for them; destroyed. I still remember my mom standing in the middle of the room after we had recieved the call, crying her eyes out as she looked at the damage. Public schools are out of control, and it’s because half the parent’s dont give a **** about their kids. Wanting to inform kids of sex ed as young as kidnergarten is outrageous. When a kid has questions of that nature it is of the paren’t responsiblity to talk wiht their kdis and deal with it according to their personal family conviction’s and so on. I hate to say this and sound old, but kids jsut aren’t raised like they once were.
isn’t it ashame how sexist people still are in 2008 against women? How many times in the previous elections have you ever heard about a man having to “cope” with family troubles. Cheny has a gay daughter with a turkey baster baby, or at least turkey baster baby on the mind the last time I checked and that didn’t appear to be such a big deal.
Im no Sarah Palin fan, I do believe that she would better serve her family by doing just that and not making a spectacle of herself like this. It’s a knwn fact that mccain did not pick her, he only met her twice prior to this for a complete time of I think about 20 minutes. This wasn’t his pick, this isn’t Americas choice, she’s a soccer mom. But with that said, nobody is doubting Barack or Biden based on their family. Who’s gonna raise baracks kids.
I was on the fence on who I would vote for but after watching both conventions and learning more about who each man actually was and more on their convictions - There is just no comparison. If we were ever in another 9-11 situation, I personally would want John McCain in the White house. I feel like he has the experience to protect my family better. I didn’t know who Palin was before but I am very impressed - as I am with Biden. I just don’t trust Obama. I don’t believe he could keep us safe.
Her speach was AMAZING!!! LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!! OBAMA IS ALL ABOUT SHOW!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS A CIRCUS AND HE WANTS TO BE THE RING LEADER!!! HE IS TRYING TO USE HIS COLOR TO WIN THIS RACE AND NOTHING ELSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT’S NOT ABOUT THE RIGHT MAN FOR THE JOB!!!! HE WANTS JUST WANTS TO BE THE FIRST BLACK MAN IN HISTORY!!!!!!!!!! DID YOU SEE THE HOLLYWOOD STAGE HE SET UP FOR HIMSELF??? TALK ABOUT SPENDING WASTEFULL MONEY!!!!!!!!! WHAT A SHOW OFF!!!!!!!!!!! GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!!!!!!!! THAT WAS SO DISGUSTING!!!! IT’S NOT ABOUT HIM BEING BLACK THAT I AM NOT VOTING FOR HIM, IT’S ABOUT HIM BEING A SECREAT RACIST MUSLIM THAT I AM NOT VOTING FOR HIM!!! YEAH THAT’S RIGHT VOTE FOR THE MUSLIM TO BE OUR NEXT PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARE YOU PEOPLE WHO ARE VOTING FOR HIM NUTS????????????????? YOU DON’T UNDER ANY CIRCUSTANCES PUT A MULIM IN CHARGE OF OUR COUNTRY!!!!!!! YOU JUST DON’T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE MUSLIMS ARE DANCING IN HIGH SPIRITS OVER THIS!!!!!!! YOU PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MC CAIN HAS NEVER BEEN A SHOW OFF!! PALIN SAID IT RIGHT WHEN SHE SAID THAT HE IS THE SAME PERSON NO MATTER WHERE HE IS OR WHO IS TALKING TO!! LOOK AT THAT SMUG MUSLIM. HIS ARROGANCE AND RACIST REMARKS ABOUT HIS OWN GRANDMOTHER ARE WHY I DON’T WANT HIM RUNNING OUR COUNTRY!! HE IS USING THE COLOR OF HIS SKIN TO TRY AND WIN THIS RACE!!! GIVE ME ANY OTHER BLACK MAN AND I WOULD VOTE FOR THEM IF THEY HAD WHAT IT TOOK TO BE PRESIDENT!! THIS IS NOT ABOUT GETTING A BLACK MAN FOR HTE FIRST TIME IN OUR COUNTRY. IT’S ABOUT PICKING THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!! A PRESIDENT WHO WON’T PUT HIS HAND ON HIS HEART AND BE SWORN IN ON THE BIBLE AS ALL FORMER PRESIDENTS HAVE DONE!!! YES LET’S HAVE HIM SWEAR ON THE QURRAN!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME??????????
wow - what a cute retarded baby!
JOHN MCCAIN …NO OBAMA HUSSEIN
MCCAIN FOR PRESIDENT
AND PALIN FOR VICE PRESIDENT :)
MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA :)
:)
cb STFU, how dare you insult a baby, Obama FANATIC a**H***!!!
Palin is the Alaskan Hillbilly and McCain is Gramps.
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